Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-12-06
DIR. QUITS TRAVELS.
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determination to sweep from the
earth pestilence more deadly than
modern warfare.
Filthy Lucre
Is an expression we have often
heard and doubtless it must have
originated in the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing. A newly married
lady in our party said, Il thought.
this was clean place, but it is the
dirtiest place I ever saw" In going
through this department each bunch
of visitors are provided with guide
land the punches are numerous) and
one must in . tenth of second
make mental picture of her or you
are lost. Here one needs that keen
perception at description thst only
awomsn has. We apologetically
asked the newly married lady to
watch the guide, to which she re-
piled II have her picture, you OBJ
serve the Grecian figure, the red
beads and the stick PIN"
The work is all done by hand.
Each pressman has a lady to lay
and move the sheets from the
press-each sheet makes four bills.
There are possibly 500 or 600 peo-
pie working in here and it is all
work too. The average country boy
wouldn't work here for love nor
money. They print everything from
one cent stamp to 100000
bill. Every bill must go through
the hands of about thirty people
before it gets into circulation.
When you are informed that the
government is manufacturing four
millions of dollars every day in the
year except Sunday one must won
der why money is not more plenti-
full.
If the grafters could only get
such swing in here as they had in
our state dispensary, Rockefeller
and Carnegie would soon be small
potatoes.
Washington Monument
Would make sky scraper some
fifty or sixty stories high, giving
four small rooms to each floor or
more than 200 rooms in all Thou
sands of visitors frequent this place
all the time and the elevator, if
charges were made, would do bet
ter business than GER line. With E
load of thirty-odd people the pull [
is made slow and steady and the
five or seven minutes to the top
see.as long time.
To The White House
We made straight shoot down
the slope from the monument,
across an unpaved street, thence
across the presidents grounds, sn
open field Of Eve Or ten acres sod
ded with grass ons which the presi1
dents COW was tethered. This is
magnificent piece of land. Bob
Smith or Bill Walton would give
100000 an acre for it. AS we
crossed the grounds we OBJ
served thst the wild onions were
growing just as nicely as they grow
mp and down Rocky Greek. The
presidents cow didn't impress US
IS being one in keeping with the
dignity of the exalted Office of Mr..
Taft. We saw but little in the
White House, few pictures on
the walls of a hallway, some old
china, two or three reception rooms,
and guard at the end of a hall |
way who told US there was nothing
farther On except the kitchen, and |
right then we were all the more in
terested in that department than
anything in the world.
The president lost the opportu-
nifty of life time of ingraciating
himself into the hearts of our party
by not sending out sandwiches and
coffee. The old fat rascal" as Tom
Watson would say, is not as gener-
GUS as was Dives, for Dives did al
low Lazarus the crumbs from his
table.
In concluding this letter, which
is much too long and which may
worry the patience of the printer
and the reader, we want to sug-
gest to the boys and the girls to
save up their little noney-work
to that end-and visit Washington
in a party. 1t doesn't cost much,
and the trip would be educational.
We hope every parent who reads
this will plan for some of their chill
dren to 60 to Washington in Au-
gust. One week judiciously spent
there would be worth three months
at school. W. d. o.