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veloped by Supt. Woods nut il has not
Yet been sanctioned by the House itself.
Within q year. however, the members VIII
probably be cooling off in the summer
by riding back and forth in their own
tunnel
The proposed changes in the House
chamber, to make ii better hall for dc
ia ties. and to provide room for the new
members who will come in under the en-
largement of the body from 3gl to 10,
will not be made for some time The
money has been appropriated. and New
York architects have completed an ella
borate plan for the reconstruction of the
hall on the most improved lines Of in
terror architecture: but Congress is slow
to give the authority to start the work
of tearing ont the old hall. and com
petely rema king it. Officials Of the
House express the belief that in the end
there will be a reseating of the present
hall. substituting benches for the present
desks; instead of complete remodeling
of the chamber. AT the House end il has
been necessary to build a new barber
shop. move two or three document rooms.
and change the House kitchen and its
serving arrangements.
To hasten the transportation of docu-
ments from the, Capitol to the House
Office building. big pneumatic carrier
has been installed, which makes the long
run in few seconds. To make room
for the enlarged kitchens at the House
end Of the Capitol the document rooms
chamber have been transferred to the
Office building; and business will be ex-
pedited by the pneumatic carrier
Both the House and Senate restaurants
have been remodeled and enlarged, to
meet the demands of members for more
privacy in their dining rooms.
!. x
Not small part of the work of prepa-
ration about the building is to see that
all sanitary arrangements are of the
best. There are passageways under
nearly all the floors of the buildings, and
air ducts leading from the outside. These
have been scrubbed and whitewashed. and
the air has been tested thoroughly to see
that it is not contaminated.
These matters. undertaken for the
health of members of the House and
Senate, seldom reach the attention of
these bodies, and it is not often that Supt.
Woods steps out of his cloak of modesty
and refers to them. There is also a sys-
tenn of elevator inspection at the Capitol
that has few equals. Each elevator in
the building is inspected regularly every
morning that it is in operation, by an
engineer who goes over its machinery
and makes sure there will be no accidents
to those who travel in it.
The task of keeping up the main Capitol
building is one of great responsibility, re-
qufring an expert acquaintance with every
foot of the structure, and with the con-
slant changes that are occurring in it.
Much of the old portion of the building
is over 100 years old. 1t was built of
Virginia sandstone, and. like the large
pillars of the United States Treasury, re-
placed two years ago when their crum-
bling tfreateneda serious disaster, the sur
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were no fixed types. This led to many
difficulties in the matter of trading in
cotton. and finally as result of con-
siderable agitation Il law was enacted by
Congress which directed the Secretary
of Agriculture to establish nine grades
of cotton The number of grades We're
fixed in order to make the matter def
mite and final. The bureau of plant in
dustry was charged with the carrying
out OF this act. After considerable
thought We decided the best way to get
at the facts was to invite some of the
leading cotton men in the country to at
tend a conference here at Washington
These men were selected to represent all
phases OF cotton trading and of cotton
handling. The conference was held
about two y\irs ago, and cotton samples
from all over the country were placed
before these men. After two days con-
sideration this committee determined the
types selected should be the official
grades.
Nathaniel NJ Thayer Of Boston,
Mass. was chairman OF this committee
Of cotton experts. with eight members.
The members were Joseph \. Airey of
New Orleans. La. c. p. Parker of
Boston. Mass: John Martin Of Paris.
Texas; Lewis NJ. Parker Greenville, S.
c.; James Akers. Atlanta, Ca; +. n.
Crump, Memphis, Tenn. George w.
Neville, New York, and Charles A. Vedder
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legislative halls and dry air will be TAX
ing the place of the humid atmosphere
that makes a summer session in Wash
ingtOn an event to be dreaded.
Two other promised changes, the re-
modelling Of the House chamber and the
construction of a small railway line
through the subway from the House Of
flee building to the Capitol, are also
lacking. The latter will be keen dis
appointment to the captious members
of the House. Although their office build
ing was completed and occupied before
that of the Senate, the senators had the
pleasure of trying out the first under
ground transportation system.
Two electric automobiles hustle the dig
nfied senators back and forth through
the passage between the Capitol and
their Office building, but members OF the
House are compelled to walk the two
blocks. When fiilibustering leaders are
demanding roll calls every half hour
member who wants to do some work IN
his distant office spends much of his time
hurrying back and forth through the tun-
mel.
Several schemes have been proposed
for the House tunnel ranging from NOV
ing sidewalks to regular electric tram
ways. A tentative scheme has been de-
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of Galveston. Texas. This com,ni ttee
was assisted by expert cotton classifers,
W. +. Barbot of the Kew York Cutr.p X
change. Jules MaZerat of the New Or
leans Cotton Exchange and J. R. Taylor
of Dallas, Texas. The committee Has
unanimous in it's recommendation of the
standard United States grades adopted
by the governm mt
DR.. \. A. Cobb. assistant chief of the
bureau of plant industry, is the man
who had immediate charge OF all the eX-
periments in cotton growing and manu-
facture. How he perfected his apparatus
for the measuring of cotton fiberS and
other work in connection with tie in
vestigation of the cotton industry is an
interesting story.
This is the first time in the history of
the world that any nation has ever I'M
dertaken the Standardization of an or
ganic product. Various private assoc
Citations have attempted to standariiZe
or classify fruit, liquors and many other
things, but these attempts have neces-
sarily been more or less local in char
acter. and have always been in the
hands of private enterprises. 1t is
generally known how coin and other
metals have been standardized by the
nations of the world, but it is doubt
full if there be found any record
Of any nation ever attempting to clas-
sify or standardize an organic product.
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while that body is in session, and that
the keys and control of the stairways
should be kept by the Speaker. There
they have remained. notwithstanding the
fact that Congress gives to the superin-
tendent of the Capitol control OF practi-
cally every other part of the building.
This year the work done by Supt.
Woods and his force has ranged all the
way from Installing new dishwashing
and refrigerating machines in the House
and Senate kitchens to redecOrating the
Supreme Court and refinishing the Sem
ate chamber. 1t has been a season of I'M
usual activity: for the aging Capitol was
tired out from an almost continuous ses-
sion of Congress of nine months, and 1t
has to be cleaned and refurbished from
cellar to garnet
Congress comes back tomorrow to find
three of its ambitions still unfulflled de-
spite the immense amount of work that
has been done in preparation for the SEES
sion. The long-promised refrigerating
system that is to cool the House and
Senate chambers has not been completed.
The start has been made and Supt.
Woods has worked out a plan for the
Senate chamber. 1t is promised that be-
fore the hot days of summer come cool
breeZes will be playing about the two
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tendent of. the Capitol buildings and
grounds. He is in many respects the
most Indispensable man about the ma
tons home of representative government.
Though he seldom figures in the pro-
ceedings of Congress, he is always figur-
ing how to make those proceedings run
more smoothly, and how to contribute in
the greatest degree to the comfort and
convenience of the members Mr.. Woods
is the master of nearly all trades, and has
developed a permanent organization in
the Capitol that varies from a nucleus of
fifty men in winter to $50 when the re-
pair season is at its height.
The underground region of the Capitol
is hive of industry and peculiar trades.
Under the big dome. out of sight of the
world in general, there are blacksmith
shops. machine shops, kitchens. cabinet
makers shops. tilerooms. plumbing shops,
model rooms, storehouses of all kinds and
headquarters for art experts. gardeners
electricians, carpenters and all sorts Of
wOrkmen.
Through these lower corridors this
force moves constantly, repairing por-
tons of the building. watching the struc-
ture for signs of decay. replacing bits
of flooring that break. keeping tunnels
and air ducts open and clean and getting
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will rub off the rough corners and clean
mp the debris up to the hour when the
House and Senate begin their winters
Eork, but most of the hustle and hustle
Of preparation was over before the ad-
vance hosts of Congress appeared on the
scene
This has been the last week OF the
grand rush preparatory to the opening of
the national legislature The business of
congress will draw the attention of the
country, but the business of getting ready
FOR Congress passes with slight notice
None of the thanksgivngs offered last
Meek was more heartfelt than those of
Elliott Woods and his assistants in charge
Of the thirty-five- miliion-doilar Capitol
property when definite order began to
appear out of the confusion and rush of
he preceding months.
From the time the last departing repre-
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he past two years, but IL was not uhtl
recently d system was found that would
!" the work with absolute mechanical
accuracy. With the new system the
exact grade of cotton may be determined
according To the length OF fiber. with
all the haphaZ3rG .ue=STCT< iminaJe>i.
The new method will benefit both the
grower in the south and the spinner
In the north. and they are the people
who will receive the direct benefit of
the new idea In the end the ultimate
consumer Will also get his.
The system, explained IN Few SorcS.
is to take "a sample of cotton, smooth
out fifty OF hundred tibers in the
usual manner. and then take these fibers
and separate them under a microscope,
place the individual fbers between two
pieces of glass, which IN turn are fas-
tened together. and this glass is then
placed in a solar camera The electric
light is turned on and the camera mag
nif1es each individual fiber twenty times
and reproduces ii on large glass screen
directly In front OF the camera The
operator simply takes an ordinary map
measure and measures each fiber. The
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ready for season when Congress is
on vacation.
Out of the hundreds of passageways
and corners Of the Capitol there are but
few that are not under the direct con-
troll of the superintendent of the building.
One peculiar arrangement exists at the
House end. where the keys to all stair
ways leading up over the House chamber
are kept by the Speaker of the House,
and all doorkeepers for these entrances
are appointed by him.
The reason for this singular arrangement
had long been a mystery, and was the
subject Of a small investigation when
the democratic Congress began to parcel
out the appointive jobs last spring. 1t
was found that when former President
Garfield was chairman of the appropr.a-
tons committee of the House some
wOrkmen were one day repairing sky
light over that body when the House
was in session
A workman stumbled, fell through the
skylight and dropped to- the House floor
below, narrowly missing a member of
that body. and injuring himself seri-
ousiy. The matter became the subject of
consideration by the House. and rigid
order was finally made that no work
should be done over the House chamber
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CAPITOL BLAcK SMITH, AN IMPoRTANT AIDE.
OF SUPERINTENDENT WOODS

face shows signs Of disintegration whore
il has suffered from the ravages OF the
weather
Every three wears the older portion ~
the building is given a heavy coat 80
paint. and the protection thus given to
the surface has done much To preserve
the structure. Architects estimate that
to keep large building i'm repair and In
good permanent condition. il * necessary
each year to spend AT least II. per cent
OF the original cost of the building in
repairs and maintenance work. Tho
Capitol cost approximately Sl5.ooooos.
but much less than | per cent of this -
spent annually for repair and main
tenance. The highly trained organiza-
ton that is maintained In the Capitol
and the development of experts within
the ranks of these workmer have done
much to keen down this cost.
#%
The corner stone of the capitol was laid
in 1898 by George Washington Work
was restricted at first TO what Were de-
signed to be the House and senate wings.
but which have now become the supreme
Court chamber statuary hall and the
passageways leading to the present Sem
ate and House wings
The old Senate wing was completed in
1900 and the House wing in 1911. They
We're first connected by wooden passage
way, where the present dome and ro-
tunda rest. The British captured Wash
ington in 1914, and burned the building
rendering it uninhabtabe for several
years. In 1878 Congress again moved
into ii. The present Senate and House
wings We're begun in 1851. to provide
room for the rapidly growing legislative
business of the government. and were
constructed OF a white Massachusetts
marble. which withstands the elements
better than sandstone. and submits to an
annual bath from fire hose instead OF
the triennial bath of white paint
These newer portions of the building
Were completed in 1866. and at the same
time the new dome of iron and glass.
taking the place of the small, dome that
had covered the old building. was COM
pleted The Capitol building covers three
and one-half acres, and the terraces that
adjoin it on the north. south and west,
under which are many offices and work.
shops. cover additional two and two
thirds acres.
The Capitol grounds cover a total Of
sixty acres and contain one Of the rar-
est and most complete collections of trees
known. 1t is no small part of the task
of Supt- Woods and his experts to keep
these trees and the shrubbery in the big
park free from disease or injury
The present value Of the Capitol build
ings and grounds is roughly classified as
follows:
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I Asst of the Ladders and
II Scaffolds Have Been
Taken Down-The Work of
Elliott Woods and His As
sistants = Subterranean Bur
rows Under the Capitol
Occupants of Statuary Hall
Have Been Scrubbed and
Misunderstanding for the
Health of Members of Con-
gress-Elevator Service and
Underground Railway.
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period of two and half years, and il
has been found the standards can be
stored III high vacuum where there wal
be absolutely no possibility of any ma
terial change in appearance in 100 or
even Loo years.
The first experiments were made on
d small scale. As they proved promising
they were extended with the object of
finding out whether vacuum tubes Of
commercial scale. The results of these
experiments We're also successful, and
vacuum tubes are now being ranufac-
tured of extremely large size arT tha
standards are daily being put into these
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tubes and stored away III a permanent
way, to be broken from time to time in
the future. to insure the absolute
consistency of the American official
grades. No other grades IN the word
have ever been prepared. and put away
in this scientifically worned-oat method
of insuring their permanency.
Although there is not the slightest scrap
of evidence to show that cotton will
change lis character in vacuum stOrs ge.
it has been considered best not to neglect
any means of checking this matter Ac-
cordingly the samples as they are put
into vacuum tubes are tested for colo.
and three records made by three different
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HE workmen who
have been setting
the stage for the
opening of Con-
greSS [ o m orr ow
pulled out the last
Of their ladders and
scaffoldS last week,
and skunk away to
[ n e SubteFranean
Sageway of the
G a p i I o |. 4 few
scattering or @ W 8
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NEW system has
been devised by
I d G government
that will prac-
tically revolution
iZe the buying and
SELL az & t
ton throughout the
world. ncIe sam,
through his ex-
pertS in Wa Sh-
ington. has been
experime nting for
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A. NEW AIR CHUTE To CAREY Docur1ENT rs

sentative hurried away to catch a train
last August Supt Woods and his big
crew have been at work day and night,
doing the annual housekeeping and fur
bishng up that is necessary to keep the
Capitol and its surrounding buildings in
condition, and to make the work of Con-
gress comfortable expeditions and health
full.
Down in the subterranean passa geways
of the great building, where visitors sell
dom penetrate, and whose very existence
Is unknown to most of the public, there is
Il large and highly organized force that
waits with Impotence for the end of a
session. Its pickets prOwl about the Cap
itol every day looking for signs of trouble
the building or it's intricate equipment
marking things that will need rebuilding
repair when Congress is gone, planning
the groundwork for the work that must
be rushed through in the short interval
between the end of one session and the
beginning of another.
Out of these subterranean burrows.
when Congress adjourns pour ladders,
scaffolds. plumbing tools paint buckets
and all the implements of the important
trades of house building and repair Noise
and hustle such as Congress never hears
began the day that Speaker CLARK and
Vice President sherman announced adj
journment last August. and with the
opening Of a new session it disappears
for another year. leaving behind clean
house, in good repair
The century old Capitol has been washed
and polished inside and out; the marble
office buildings thanking it have been
scrubbed until they shine Statuary hall
has been renovated and it's marble Occu-
pants scrubbed and manicured. The Sen
ate chamber has been done over in the
prevailing mode. and each senator's desk
refinishtd by expert cabinet makers.
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length of each fiber is tabulated on an
adding machine until the len tins of i5j.
and sornet lines 2,0. f5ers are aSc"r taiued
and a total is then obtained Of these
fberS and the AVERAGES computed. This
will give the average length of fibers in
that sample of cotton with absolute
exactness "a a cost of 81 per sample.
The cotton industry is valued at more
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Supreme Court. House chamber. COM
mittee rooms. corridors and public rooms
have been painted. cleaned and renovated,
famous frescOes have been touched up.
expert art workers have gone over the
more important paintings. repairing signs
Of decay or discoloration. and in the
lower regions of the Capitol kitchens
have been overhauied. miles of air and
heat ducts painted and cleaned and thou
sands of dollars worth of important ma
chinery and apparatus put in condition
for the winter
This is the annual task of the superin-
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-08
CHEROKEE STRIP ABOL IsHED
Senators In New Congress Seated on
sas FL Party Lines. ia$ Il II.

Senator'S IN New Congress Seated on
Party Lines. u.
Washington, March s. Dead mems
shoes" have been distributed among
survival Of the fittest senators. This
occurs every two years, when an av.
srage Of fifteen senators leave the
upper branch
Mr.. Burton of Ohio was assigned
the footgear formerly worn by Sena-
tor Aldrich, the titular and tactical
leader of the senate. Mr.. Burton Aled
on this specific desk the minute he
heard the first rumor that Mr.. Aldrich
contemplated retirement to private
life.
Mr.. Root will hereafter occupy the
place formerly filled by Senator Hale
He filed his claim when things began
to look stormy up in Maine.
Because of the November landslide
there will be no further use for the
Cherokee Strip in the immediate fu-
ture. With but fifty Republicans and
forty-two Democrats there will be
efficient seats on each side to accom-
modate all corners and preserve the
party lines intact. -. e.. "
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The Mans Mistake,

Out Of loyalty to his own sex tho
manager Of the woman's suit depart
ment, discharged his young woman
stenographer and hired a man. The
first batch of letters dictated to the
man were written to about hundred
old customers, whom he invited to ex-
anime privately lot of exclusive gar
ments before they were placed on sale.
The day after the letters were mailed
the women sfocked into the store, but
the fire that burned in their eyes was
the fire of the avenger rather than Of
the bargain hunter. One word which
each woman had underlined in her
letter explained their wrath. The gar
ments, so the manager had meant to
say, had been designed for women Of
stock figure, such as they possessed,
but the male. stenographer had drawn
on the alphabet and had written 1t
"stocky."
mo woman on earth would have
been guilty of such a mistake"
growled the manager
The next week the girl stenographer
had her job back.-Philadelph Led
ger.
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You may be assured that. all Of
your transactions with the Northern
National Bank will be kept strictly
confidential.
O. Gravelle Of Red Lake was in
Bemidji today.
Sam Simpson, the Bena logger, was
in Bemidi today.
NJ. Hogan.of Bagley was Be-
midi visitor today.
J. F. Mogan of Northome was in
Bemldji yesterday. - "
+ A J. Swanberg was Cass Lake
visitor in Bemidji yesterday.
A tip to you, use Marks Lung
Balsam for coughs and colds.
A. R. Button of Big Falls was in
Bemidji today on business matters.
r. NJ. Cassler, formerly of this city
but now of Big Falls, is visiting
friends in Bemidji today. '.#
Mrs. Harry Koors and little son
of Duluth arrived in Bemidji yester.
day to make their home here. ~
Boys High Grade Hose. Special
linen knee. Best Csc quality at this
sale 1Sc. Hetland & Fallon.
Don't forget that Tubbs Bilious
Mans Friend cures those tired feel
ings. For sale at City Drug Store.
J. J. Grove of Thief River Falls,
who is connected with the Thief
River Falls Lumber company, spent
the day in Bemidji on business con-
nected with his company.
Fred Langdon and wife will leave
within a day or two for Bemidji,
where Mr.. Langdon will take charg e
Of the branch house operated by
Hamm's Brewing company. Mr..
Langdon has Represented Hamm's
in this section of the country for the
past several years and has many
warm friends throughout the territory
whose good wishes for his future
success will 60 with him to his new
location. Adolph Ebbighausen will
take Mr.. Langdon's place on the
road with headquarters here.-
Crookston Times.
Tubbs White Liniment for aches
and pains. City Drug Store.