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The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
BUILDERS EXCHANGE EXHIBIT BUILDING.
HAS NOVEL DISPLAY.
National Electrical Supply Company
Window Decoration Unique.

Some OF the members of the Builders
and Manufacturers Exchange are versa-
tile enough to adapt their business, or
certain phases of their business, to the
requirements of the season The cleo
trtcal supply men especially have this
faculty, and II is we'll illustrated by the
Christmas display OF the National Elec-
trlcal Supply Company.
Two Of their big show windows are
devoted exclusively this week to a dis
play of electrical appliances for the
Christmas tree. Santa Claus this year
will get a gentle and pleasant Shock
when he visits homes where the yule
trees are equipped with electric lighting
devices suCn s are shown in this COM
pany's display. Instead of the Old-time
taper of colOred wax and dangerous pro-
clivity, there is the cOlOred electric light
fashioned in many odd and Grotesq lie
shapes such as birds. fruit, and NINA
ture Santas. Unlike the taper. they nave
the quality OF safety. +. c. Graham,
president OF the company, reports that
there IS a great demand for this sort
Of Christmas tree decoration this year.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
Filling Large Lumber Orders.

w. T. Galliher 6 Bro. are furnishing
the lumber for row OF eight houses
at Twentieth street and Park road. They
have contracts also for the lumber in a
house being built by Brashear Brothers
in Mckinley street, Chevy Chase; a house
by NJ. II. Bray in Jenifer street, Chevy
Chase; three houses being erected by H.
D. Fulmer at Seventh and streets
northeast; n row OF houses being built by
the Sloan Construction Company at Sew
enteenth street and Kalorama road, and
a house w. r. Wilson Is erecting in Har-
ward street, between Sixth and Seventh
streets northwest.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19

r. r. McClasky, local manager Of o.
W. Ketcham, manufacturer OF burned
clay products. reports that he has fur
nished colonial face brick for the Dick
son Home, at Fourteenth and Farragut
streets; salt glazed brick for the new
Normal School building. at Eleventh and
Harvard streets; ornamental terra Gotta
in the Victor and McLachlen buildings.
He has also furnished hollow tile floors.
partitions, ar Turing for the latter
building Arthur 3. Heaton. Snowden
Ashford, a. P. Clark. jr., and ]. II. de
Sibour are. respectively. the architects
Of these buildings.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
PRAISE PLUMBING.
Trade Paper Comments on Elaborate
Work at White House.

The plumbing. heating, and gasfitting
in the new residence of Ambassador
Henry White. now building at 1925 Bel
mont road northwest, is OF such an elab-
crate and interesting character that it
is the subject Of a four-paGe descrip-
tive article in n recent issue Of the
Plumbers Trade Journal and Steam and
Hot Water Filters Review.
The plumbing installation was done by
James Nolan &; Sons. Of this city. and
another Washington concern, the Stand
ard Engineering Company. has installed
the heating system. The house is TO be
one Of the most elaborate in the city,
and was designed by John Russell Pope
Of New York. The description sets out
in detail the interesting equipment Of
this large residence
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
LOCAL BUILDINGS SHOWN.
American Architect Describes Six
tecnth Street Apartments.

a recent special issue Of the American
Architect New York, is devoted almost
exclusively to descriptions, plans, and en-
cravings Of apartment houses in every
section of the country. Washington comes
in for a share Of the treatment.
Among the local apartment buildings
illustrated and described are the seven
story apartment in upper Sixteenth street
designed by AverIIl & Adams, and the
Woodward apartments. overlooking the
Connecticut Avenue Bridge, designed by
Harding & Upman. Both structures are
treated in detail.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19

NJ. ]. Mccarthy has been awarded a
contract for plumbing in two two-story
fat buildings at 324-326 Twenty-second
street northwest for the Samuel ]. Pres
colt Company.
Mr.. Mccarthy has also been awarded
a contract for remodeling the plumbing
in the residence Of Mrs. NJ. c. Pefferman,
1865 o street northwest, Of which C. A.
Langley Is architect.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19

Thomas W. Smith is furnishing the
millwork for the Armstrong Manual
Training School, a pontoon shed at the
Barracks. a four-story store
and office building at go F street north
west a building at "a Pennsylvania ave-
nue. northwest, Gonzaga College, the ad-
dition to Corby's bakery at 2S01 Seventh
street northwest, and for five stores in
street, between Pennsylvania
avenue and H street northwest.
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To Install Iron ventIIator..

Ernest Gichner has been awarded the
contract for the installation of iron ven
tilating ducts in the Scott building and
annex, the Sherman and Sheridan build
ings, and at the United States Soldiers
Home.
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Gets Two Large Contracts.

Two large contracts for freproofing
work have been secured by the National
Fireproofing Company. One is that for
the large addition to the bakery plant
of Corby Brothers. for which James L.
Parsons is contractor. The other is for
the Madison School, in Richmond. Va, of
which c. NJ. Robinson is architect and
A. NJ. walkup general contractor.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
New Station at FrederIck.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will
erect a new passenger station at Fred
erick, Md. Tentative plans are being
prepared under the supervision OF F. l.
Stuart, chief engineer, whose Offices are
In the main building at Baltimore.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
peIiyerinE Big Brick Order.

The Hydraulic Press Brick Company
is now delivering a large quantity of
light-face brick for the wilkins Office
building. and in a few days will COM
mence the delivery of $4,000 light-face
brick for the new Riggs Office and the
alter building.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
Remodel Munsey Building.

Another large piece of reconstruction
is to be commenced soon on the Munsey
Building. The entire front above the
fourth story is to be torn out and a
marble facade of different design substi-
tuted. The interior changes also are to
be extensive and an additional story is
to be put on the building. The interior
changes include the addition OF fourth
elevator shaft and an entirely new set
OF elevators. Plans have been completed
by McKim, Mead & White.
A new four-story building is to be erect
ed by Duparquet, Hout & Moneuse on
the site purchased by them on the south
side of II street, between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets. and on the north side
of New York avenue between the same
streets, a new three-story building for the
Southern Dental Supply Company is to be
erected upon the site of the building at
lbs New York avenue. This is only a
part Of the new work Immediately in
prospect.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
Start Marble Work at Garfield.

William Seely Hutchinson has COM
menced the installation OF the interior
marble and tile work in Garfield Hos
pital. The contract includes monolith
floors throughout the building. Modern
hospitals are now being equipped with
this sort of flooring as the most sanitary.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
no Furnish An Hardware.

The large contract of furnishing all
the hardware for the new Washington
city post-ofice has been awarded to the
Rudolph & West Company.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
John MitcheII Incorporate.

John Mitchell jr., has Incorporated his
business under the style Of John Mitchell.
Jr.. Inc. Mr.. Mitchell is president and
James A. Messer vice president and gen.
eral manager.
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plans Completed.

Plans for the Confederate Memorial In
stitute at Richmond. Va, and a large
post-ofiice to be built at Miami, Fla,
have been completed.
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To Reconstruct Buildings.

Two pieces of reconstruction work in
street are TO be undertaken soon. These
are the remodeling of the Gloucester
apartment house. between Fifteenth and
Sixteenth streets, into stores and offices.
The building was recently purchased by
John z. Story, jr., and Z. c. Brainerd,
for this purpose. The other I street Job
is to be the Army and Navy Club build
ing, at the corner of Connecticut avenue
AS soon as the new club building is oc-
cupied the work of making the old club
house a combined store and bachelor
apartment will be undertaken. 1t was
purchased last week by Frank Walter,
through Story & Cobb, with this pur-
pose in view.
A new piece of building in I street, be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets,
will be the Franklin Square Theater
Bates Warren has taken title to the
property and II is understood the plans
for the work are well in hand
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
OUTLOOK
SHOWS A CHANGE
Department Stores Plan New
Structures for Spring.
OTHER CHANGES TO BE MADE
Hecht, Woodward & LOthrOP, and
GoIdenberE VIII All Make Adj
short Time-Munsey Building
Is to BE Remodeled.

A good volume of new building and re-
modelling of business structures is in
contemplation for this winter and the
early spring The department stores are
to contribute no small share OF this bus
ness.
Hechts recent purchase of the property
adjoining their building on the north, a
three-story structure, one-third OF the
size of their store, prefaCes good-sized
piece Of work. The old building is to be
entirely remodeled or reconstructed to
make it a part Of the present building.
Plans as yet have not been drawn, but
the proprietors have announced their in
tention OF undertaking the work in the
near future.
Plan New Addition.
Architect F. B. Pyle has prepared plans
for the reconstruction of the old Equi-
table Cooperative Building Association
structure at 1903 F street. and Will sub
nit them to Woodward & LOthrop i'm
mediately after Christmas for their con-
sideration. 1t is expected that these Will
be approved and ready for bids early
in the year. The work contemplated an
eight-story building. similar in character
to the new portion of Woodward e
Lothrop's establishment.
NJ. Goldenberg recently has added largely
to his holdings in the square in which his
department store is situated, and al
though no plans have been given out
with reference to building, it is assumed
that the purchases have not been made
purely as investments or speculation.
An important new piece Of work is to
be undertaken in the reconstruction of the
old Elsmere Hotel. in H street, between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets north
west. Secretary OF the Navy Meyer in
tends making over the building so as TO
have II form a part of his Maryland Of
flee building. which adjoins the Elsmere,
recently purchased.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-20
INSTANTANEOUS sTOPPAGE
OF Ocean Liners When i'm Danger Of
Disastrous Collisions

Paris, April 20-A French inventor
NJ. Lacour, has patented an arrange
ment for stopping a ship at full speed
within her own length, or of turning
her completely around in the same dis
lance. The device would be of ire
mendous service on ocean liners and
prevent, almost entirely, collisions in
fogs or crowded harbors.
large plates hinged to the ships sides,
These plates, when released, open out
ward like huge ears, and when at a
perpendicular with the side of the
ship, at which point the resistance
against the water is at it's maximum
they stop. These plates can be open
ed on both sides instanteously or one
side at a time. Thus, if only one side
is released the ship turns about very
quickly. If both sides are released the
ship retains her direction but stops
very abruptly.
The necessity for such an arrange
ment has long been admitted NJ
Jacob, another Frenchnan, invented
an apparatus which worked under the
ship, but owing to it's position was
constantly out of order and repair
was impossible save in dry dock. La
cour was his cO-Worker and, when
Jacob died, carried on the work
The side plate system is regarded
by ship-line officials as being exceed
ingly simple and effective. Expert
ments on a 100 ton vessel have been
going on for some time at Poissy, near
Paris, and the arrangement is now
said to be perfected.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-20
VERY STRANGE SALE
Unclaimed "Estates' of De-
ceased Persons to be Sold
at Auction
Many Valuable Packages
Among Them-Diamonds,
Watches, Money, Bonds,
Notes etc. = All For
warded by U. S. Consuls.

Washington, April 20-Secretary of
the Treasury MacVeagh has, just Or
dered what will probably be the most
unusual auction sale ever held in the
United States. The general public will
be invited to bid on a. room-full of
valuables, the unclaimed property of
Americans who died abroad alone and
so far as known, friendless.
The property came from every quar-
ter of the globe, whence U. S. Con-
suls forwarded it to the State De-
partment. The government has been
unable to find the heirs, and SO, the
unclaimed personal estates, some Of
them worth thousands of dollars,
have for years lain in a huge vault
in the Office Of the Auditor of the
State and Other Departmental
Almost every variety of small ar
ticle is represented in the heteroge-
neous lot which is to be auctioned off.
There are pen-knives with broken
blades, and cavalry sabers. There
are cheap brass rings, and there are
rings set with diamonds and rubies,
bracelets studded with gems. and dia-
nlond solitaire earrings. One little
package contains a watch the case Of
which is made of iron. Another con-
tainS two watches with solid gold
cases, and works Of the finest make
There are also many packages OF
money from every known country
One of the packages to be sold con-
tains five 500 Government bonds. An
other contains nine confederate ten
dollar bills, and $1,000 bond issued
by the government of "Jeff'' Davis
Any number of packages contain prop.
erty deeds and negotiable, interest
bearing notes, long overdue, but which
the Government in it's self-constituted
capacity Of custodian has had no pow
err to collect
All these estates will go, package
by package, to the highest bidders,
and those who have no squeamishes
about buying dead mems things"
may pick up some rare bargains
The government has long hesitated
to sell it's rather grewsome collection
but has finally been forced to, because
according to Treasury official. 'tThe
stuff is piling up too fast, and we
need the ROOM"
The proceeds of the strange sale will
be deposited in the Treasury to await
claimants which are never expected to
appear.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-20
AN EXPENSIVE JOKE. :"

Senator Judson put it very mildly
when he told the senators that there
Is no excuse for the continued exist
ence II the Criminal Common Pleas
court OF Fairfield county. There
never was much for the court to do,
and il soon became, as Senator JUDD
son has asserted, a mere clearing
ihouse for liquor cases, most of which
are settled by agreement between the
prosecutor and counsel for the &C
-cused persons. The legislation under
which the court was created was re-
xarded in its inception as q. piece of
lpolitical jobbery. having for its pur-
pose the creation of places for the re-
ward of specific individuals. AS US
!ual Fairfield county got the short
lend Of the deal. In New London and
New Haven counties the judge of the
| Civil Common Pleas court was made
! also the judge of the Criminal court,
kbut for Fairfield county the new Of
flee OF Judge Of the Criminal Common
pleas court was created. The judges
of the court have been notoriously
political" judges and its prosecutors
have ever been stepped in partisan
politics. The court is as useless as
AN extra hump on a dromedary 1t
Is what it is called by the lawyers of
Fairfield county, a joke. and a very
expensive joke.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-20
TURKEY IN TROUBLE
AIbanians i'm Revolt and Montenegrins
Likely to Join Them

Constantinople, April 2o-Gen. Tur-
gut Pasha, in command of the Tur-
kish troops in the field against the
Albian rebels, is understood to have
reported confdentially to War Minis
ter Chefket Pasha that the govern
ment has a long, hard campaign ahead
OF it and that he will need a much
larger force than at present to restore
order
The whole of northern Albania is
already in arms and most of the
fighting thus far has gone in the reb-
els favor. When, after his last years
campaign in the same district, Turgut
undertook to disarm the population
he admits that he allowed himself to
be cheated into accepting huge heaps
of worthless junk, while the rebel
1ious Albanians kept their serviecable
weapons safely hidden. Now, there
fore, they are as formidably armed as
ever.
1t is reported that Turgut, says, too,
that, despite it's pledges of neutrality
Montenegro is undoubtedly secretly
helping the rebels, and the general i'm
preston here is that things will ul-
timately wind up in hostilities between
the Turks and the "black mountains
eers.''
At present, between the rebellions
in the Yemen and in Albania, more
than one-third of the entire Turkish
army is on active service.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-20
RUSSIAN PREMIER sTOLYPIN
Abandons Attempt to Garry Anti Cor
ruption Prosecutions Up to the
Grand Dukes

st. Petersburg, April 20.-Russia is
still trying to make up it's mind
whether Premier StoIypin's victory
over the Council of Empire or Musco-
vite Senate, was a victory for reac-
ton or reform
AS Russian statesmen go, NJ. Stoly-
pin is a progressive. Nevertheless,
he violated the Russian constitution in
suspending the Duma and resorting,
during the suspension, to an imperial
ukase to put through his plan for the
classification of the Polish provinces
His plan is also unjust to the Cars
Polish subjects-so much SO that the
few radicals in the Council of EN-
pire, Joined the reactionaries in vot-
ing against it.
The various reactionary groups COM
bined against the Premier because
they considered him dangerously lib
eral and their defeat appears to have
been a liberal triumph, but M Stoly-
pin only accomplished it by abandon
ment of his intention to carry his
governmental AUTHORIZATION prosecu-
tons up to the men primarily respon-
Sible for them-the Grand Dukes
The outcome will probably depend
on how the Premier uses his power.
If he becomes infatuated with it's ex-
ercise the constitution Is not much
longer for this world and there is an
end of parliamentary government in
Russia. If he only did, for just once,
what it seemed to him necessary to
do to defeat the reactionary plot
against him, his assertion of author
ity may make for ultimate improve
ment by frightening the reactionaries
into quiescense.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-20
CONGRESSIONAL GOSSIP
sold Guard Lane One Member
CIassed at Half Democrat and
Half-Republican

Washington, April 2o-Rep. collie
James. Dem, Ky.), still retains the
proud distinction of being the biggest
man, physically, in the House. Rep.
DENLY, Rep. Mich.), who was his
formidable competitor in the 61st Con-
gress, was among those who did not
return to the 62nd.
The west corridor of the second
floor of the House office building has
been dubbed ''Old Guard Lane"
Ranged in succession along this hall
are the offices of Reps. Payne, Rep.,
n. ", Dalzell, Rep., Pa), and Nc
Call (Rep., Mass. a trio of stand
patters McCalPs advocacy of Cana
dian Reciprocity isn't particularly particularly
friends.
Although "Uncle Joe" Cannon ism
q minority leader, and hasn't any claim
to special favoritism at the hands of
the new majority, the Democrats have
considerably allow him the rare IA
vor of an office within only few
steps Of the House floor. The ex-
Speaker is lodged in the quarters for
merly occupied by the Committee on
Pensions Minority Leader Mann who
could have had the place. gracefully
withdrew in favor of Cannon, and took
a room on the floor below.
Rep. Hamilton, Rep., Mich.) who
tee on Territories during the last ses-
sion, and reported the enabling acts
to admit Arizona and New Mexico,
will shortly ask to be relieved from
further work on the committee, where
he was placed by Minority Leader
Mann. Hamilton says he feels that
he has done his share of the work on
the Territories Committee.
Hope has been practically abandoned
for any changes in. the hall of the
House. For six or seven years I'M
provements have been planned with
the idea of making the chamber small
er and the acoustics better. At the
beginning of the 61st Congress, It
committee had architects draw up
plans which contemplated sweeping
changes and the expenditure of nearly
million dollars to effect these
changes. Now that the Democrats
are in power and the retrenchment
program on, it is said there will be
no expenditure for this purpose.
Theron r. Akin, a Republican who
was elected by Democrats from the
25th New York district, is recognized
neither by the Republicans nor the
Democrats He did not attend the
caucuses of either party. Members
are commenting on the fact that since
Akin is half-democrat and half-re-
publican. he is well seated in his
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-20

and receives factory room, heat, light
and water free of charge. In the
Connecticut law there was formerly
a provision calling for bids for such
labor, but the provision was drop
ped in 1902. The Charter Oak
state less than 40 cents a day for the
use of the convicts in Wethersfield
and gets power, heat, light and the
use of a factory building free. 1t ap-
pears that there are business con-
Germs approaching the magnitude Of
trusts which make q business of deal
ing in prison labor, the largest IF
which is known in trade circles as
1.-The Prison Labor Trust" One great
organization dealing in convict labor
is headed by a notorious Republican
leader whose home is in Cincinnati,
and numbers at least one judge in its
directorate.
The conclusion drawn is that con-
victs should be employed by the state
direct and not be handed over as
chattels to lessees. But if state in
sists on selling them to private cor
porations, whose only interest is 20
obtain the last cent of profit from
their labor; then the state should OBJ
tain the highest market price, which
perhaps can be obtained only
through publicity in letting the con-
tract Certainly the competition of
convict with free labor should be
made as slight as possible.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-20
WHERE HARTFORD LEADS

Hartford may not be the second
CITY in the state, but those who live
there have some compansations. as IS
indicated by the recent message of
Mayor Smith. Hartford owns its wa
ter works and enjoys excellent street
car service, receiving moreover from
the company a payment of some $780,
600 annually, which helps. The wa
ter works is not only self-supporting,
but earns a large revenue and has
created an enormously valuable prop
erty Moreover the rates to private
consumers are much lower than the
rates in this city or in New Haven
where the water companies are IN
private hands.