The Washington times., 1911-09-08

mary was going on across the river
yesterday.
A good deal of food is being con-
demned in grocery stores which have
not observed sanitary regulations.
Cleanliness is next to economy.
Pref. l.. A. Robinson believes that it
Is as true now as it was when it was
first written that ''alI work and no play
makes Ja:k very dull toy"
It is things like his establishing a.
home for aged fishermen on the GIou-
cester coast which make us glad to cali
John Hays Hammond a felIow-citizsn.
With ]. Pierpont Morgan heading the
list of stockholders in the new Airing
ton Hotel Company there can be no
further doubt of the early realization of
that project.
Far protectors TO prevent deafness
among sailors from gun fire will prove
an excellent institution. They will also
protect them from the saiIcr slang of
one another.
II economy is to be the watchword
in the Government departments this
year. II should be remembered that this
VIII be no excuse for further DELAYING
an Increase in salaries to the employees
of the classified service.
The members Of the Washington
Lodge of E1ks are preparing TO have
q genuine Rhode Island clam bake at
Chesapeake Beach, served after the
recipe OF an expert and a day of
great enjoyment is expected on Sun
day.
The Board Of Educators estimates
Tor q site for an Eastern High School
should be approved both by the Commits
sioners and Congress. The northeast
and southeast have grown to too large
proportions longer to be denied this
educational facility.
John Walpole, the agent of the Wash
fngton. Baltimore, aud Annapolis rail-
road, at Annapolis Junction, who has
just fallen heir to $4,000, is receiving
the congratulations of his friends, who
unite in the opinion that he deserves
his good fortune.
Lieut. John Rodgers, in his record
breaking fight from Annapolis, gave us
something more than a foretaste OF
Tennyson's ''airy navies graphing in
the central blue" 1t is getting to be
q very ordinary occurrence for our
netghbors to fly into town.
How many Of the Washington BUSH
ness and professional men whom the
Commissioners have appointed delegates
to the Municipal Congress and the Deep
Waterways convention in Chicago arc
really going to take their appointments
seriously?
The Departmental League of baseball
teams Is looking up. When the team
from the War Department enters the
lists next year there should be some
very snapDy games. The games be-
tween the Democrats and the Republic
cans viii still be the center of interest,
however.
Capt. Cleveland C. Lansing, who has
jast been formally appointed military
attache to the American embassy at
Madrid. Is a Virginia appointee, and has
a large number OF friends in the Dis.
trict. His temporary service at the
post to which he has been permanently
appointed was highly acceptable.
The announcement is made that the
State Of Washington leads all the
States OF the Union in the matter of
healthfulness, but be 1t understood
there Is another Washington, the same
being In the District Of Columbia, which
has a record In the matter of mortality
OF which 1t may very well be proud.
Washington steps ahead of many
cities in having a jury of business men
for her Juvenile Court, and Judge De
Lacy, by intrusting the welfare of his
youthful delinquents into the hands of
such men as w. F. GUIDE, W. ". Cox,
and the othor members of that jury,
has given guarantee Of two things
certainty and safety.
After serving at the White House
since the FIRST Administration Of Presi-
dent Lincoln. w. A. Lewis was strick-
"a with paralysis at his desk in the