The Washington times., 1911-03-22

cited the envy Of Willow Tree alley.
Fort NIyer is one of the places whei a
q horse really stands an equal chance
with 4 new bonnet in the horse show.
Inquiries are anxousIy made IL Major
Sylvesters revised traffic regulations
will have a paragraph referring to
water wagons
OF course there's always room at the
top. but it is interesting TO learn that
there are now a few vacancies in the
Bureau of Mines.
Out Of the twenty nine newest citizens
who came into Washington on Tuesday
by the stork line. eleven were Presi-
Dental possibilities.
They are going to get a little light
on things in the State. War. and Navy
building. contracts having Just been
signed for the installation OF $4,000
electric lights.
Washington is now turning out a brand
Of biplane which carries so many pas
sengers that, if business grows much
more, the traffic will have to be placed
under the Interstate Commerce Com
mission
nr. II. r. Fleming snubbed two or the
grand divisions of the continent when
he said that the South and the West
were producing the ideal types of Amer
lean beauty He is still lodging as he
walks down the Avenue.
The tearing down of the old British
legation suggests the fact that If all
the places in which King Edward was
entertained were destroyed at once, this
country would look like the building m
spectOrs had run amuck.
If the gasOlene engines in those war
aeroplanes drip oil as carelessly as
some automobiles that run through the
Washington streets, the Mexican army
will have to be sent to the laundry
every time the flyers make an observa-
ton trip.
While Congress was refusing to
pass any legislation regulating the
loan shark business in Washington
the departments were being honey
combed with 230 per cent loans and
hitherto honest men led to protect
themselves by dishonest methods.
Mr. Claude n. Benefits recent lee
ture before the Brooklyn Institute,
where it is an honor for any man to
be invited to speak. is conceded to have
been one of the very best in the course.
Within a few weeks he will deliver q
series of thirty lectures on the Pacific
slope, with the Panama canal as his
subject.
When the addition to the Mckinley
Manual Training School is completed.
il will contain one OF the best equipped
pure food school lunchrooms in the coun-
try. 1t will be leased TO a private indi-
vidual, who will be charged a very low
rental so that his prices will attract
even children of parents of the most
moderate means.
Now that the District Commission
ers have ruled that employees wishing
10 absent themselves on sick leave
must take an oath that their illness
is genuine it probably will be but
another step to an order compelling
the office boy to have his grand
mothers funeral cortege drive down
past the District building every time
Ty Cobb comes to town.
The bank officials of the District OF
Columbia are among the ablest finan-
Ciers in the country. They are also the
most genial of hosts. 1t may be de-
pended upon that the arrangements to
be made by the special committee dele
gated from among their number for the
entertainment of the National Monetary
Commission will be worthy of the distin-
guished gathering which is to assemble
here.
As a general rule public ownership
and operation OF an institution that rem
GERS public service produces better re-
suits than subsidization of an impecun-
ious private institution that renders the
same service. The principle is particu-