The Washington times., 1911-05-20

ABOUT thlrQ DaSe IN baseball cap are
calculated to be misleading for lack Of
further details.
1t is hoped that the Chamber Of Com
merce excursionists escaped all the
perils Of those who go down to the sea
in ships and that they may be equally
fortunate with the land sharks.
More than 1000 Red Men are expected
to attend the picturesque memorial ser
vice for those members who have gone
to the Happy Hunting Ground which
is to be held by the Great Council OF
the District tomorrow evening.
Some one has stolen the postcard box
in the lobby of the Postoffice, which
also serves as a bank, the proceeds
TO be devoted to support the Home for
the Blind. Mere physical loss of sight
is not to be compared with the de-
plorable condition of one who must be
so morally blind as to commit such a
theft.
The members of the Senate committee
on Interstate Commerce spent yester-
day afternoon at Benning, where J. T.
Andrews, of Montgomery, Ala, was
demonstrating an apparatus for pre-
venting the spreading OF rails and for
avoiding wrecks. Mr.. Andrews appears
to have a device which will work a rev.
olution in the railroad world
The members of Columbia Typograph-
ical Union. No 1Ol. have shown their
usual good judgment in the selection OF
a president for the ensuing year. F. c.
Roberts, who has just been reelected,
is one Of the most progressive members
of this progressive organization. He
gave the union a good administration
last year, and can be depended upon 10
repeat the performance.
Washingtonians have a forceful DEM
onstration of the great strides made by
the automobile industry in the last few
years in their new motor fire-engine. As
late as ten years ago the man who pro-
posed such a vehicle would have been
put down as visionary. Today the mon-
ster truck. an "epic in STEEL" stands be-
fore US as a splendid fact. It is capable
of making forty miles an hour with its
1Oo-horsepower engines and will spout
500 gallons of water a minute.
Sometimes 1t doesn't pay to win a
reputation for having the finest garden
in town, since it excites the cupidity Of
others who would rather help them
selves to the product of another's. care
full work than go to the bother of rails
ing flowers for themselves. This is ex-
emplified in the case of Frank Lind
sey, of Anacostia. who received first
prize for fine lawns and gardens last
summer, but who has this year been
forced to appeal to the police for pro-
lection against garden vandals.
Old timers in Congress are likely to
smile at Mr.. Berger's suggestion that
the Speakers automobile, which Mr..
Clark declines to use, be turned over to
the House District Committee for use by
members in exploration Of the District
of Columbia. As a matter of fact, the
suggestion is full of meat. How can a
member of the District Committee act
intelligently on District bills unless he
knows what they are about, and how
can he better find out what they are
about than by seeing for himself? II 1t
is possible for the District committeeman
TO use the Speakers automobile without
infringing the appropriation act au-
thorizing its purchase. it would pay the
House to let them do it.
In Mr.. Ben Greets--or anybody
else's-production of "A Midsummer
Nights Dream" Titania, asleep on a
bank. is invisible to the other per-
sons of the play. Bully Bottom rests
upon the same bank with her. and
is yet unconscious of her presence.
At the play last night a mother was
explaining the plot to her uninformed
but intensely interested young daugh-
ter. You see. he doesn't see her."
the mother explained. But he is sit
ting on her." the little maid pro-
tested MY dear child" said the