The Washington bee., 1911-03-25

people are now taking him at face
VdIue, and not at a premium. The
cnap is a bright one though, and
when 1t comes TO architecture he's in
a class all by his lonesome. He can
| draw plans for a temple or edihce
thdt VIII make the one-exit abortion
there at the corner of You and
$ IWelfth look like a Navajo Indians
nut alongside the Municipal build
/ ing. saw his design for the Lin
coin Memorial building, and it IS lust
prime, and then some more. OF
/ course, tor year or two after he
came TO Washington he was ouite
yerdant, but now that the rough
| edges have worn away, and the al
talta seeds have disappeared from his
| clothes, It won't be long until he dis
| cards those neCkties loud enough tn
! silence the guns on a Dreadnaught
| Sidney likes to entertain, and when
| the weather permits, he delights 10
have a few gOrmandizers come ont
| to his Skibo Castle and sample his
Plymouth Rock fries. He's a capital
fellow, and is bound to make a name
as an architect, since he cut out the
gaseous idea that he was elected to
lead the whole Dam family" | guess
[ know the boy better than most of
you, and several times have |
stretched my feet under his diner and
satiated my appetite from his larder.
Pittman knows architecture like an
originator, and now that he's confin-
ing himself exclusively to blue prints
Just keep your eye on him, and watch
him soar.
On looking at my almanac. and
consulting my chart, l discover that
Charley Hall /. the next victim for
vlVIsectlOn. Had not Billy Lorrimer
sent Hopkins into eclipse, Charley
might have been the Director of Cen
SuS now. oh, quit your laughingl
II there Is one man on the map of
the district who can Conjure up more
schemes than Charley, | will be un-
DER debt OF everlasting gratitude if
you Will show me his photo A few
years ago Charley evolved a scheme
that would have given him a ninety
nlne year lease on the Recorder of
Deeds office, but somehow the whole
crew went down when the ship stuck
Teddy reef. Then he dug down.
about One-slXteenth of an inch, into
his gray matter, and brought up a
scheme to buy all the land up in Wis
consin, divide it up into farms, and
sell them 10 hOrny-handed sons of
liam. For some reason he overlook
ed taking either Rockefeller or Pier
pOnt Morgan into the scheme, so it
evaporated in talk Then Charley
igured that he could land a Juicy plum
somewhere in the Agricultural De
partment He conhded his plans.
specifications and estimates to DR.
Vernon, so he says, but before he had
even a chance to enjoy the antiCipa-
ton OF getting it a fellow out near
Kansas somewhere landed in the
place with both feet Then Charley
went over to St. Augustine, SAID mass.
after which he felt licensed to say
acid things in all languages. Every
lime Charley gets a scaffold built
some one comes along and knocks
the blocks from under 1t. have
often wondered why his ability was
not properly recognized in the Cen
sus Office. He has easily got it on
nlne-tenths of the limitations for abil-
ity. Really, the boy deserves some
thing better. There is no reason why
he should be forced to hide his light
under bushel basket just large
enough to hold 200 simoleons a year.
Why don't they clear away the debris
and give the dapper young man a
chance to emerge? He's dapper all
right Not a sliCker, neater looking
heiJ-apparent on the town. Fine look
ing fellow. Why, you could dress
Charley up in $3.o8 hand-me-down,
start him down Connecticut avenue
Easter Sunday afternoon, and you
| never would be able to pick him out
from an attache of the French Lega-
| ton. Some day Charley Hall will be
handed a dish of terrapin and a cold
bottle. One thing that has made
Charley's plans go wrong is that he
| never uses smOkeless powder. 1t
doesn't pay to use gun cotton explo-
5iyes, whose detonation can be heard
around the world, when you go out
hunting for one measly rabbit IN a
| ifty-aCre field. No charge for this
suggestion, Charley.