The Washington times., 1911-05-22

Washington seemed so good to our
leading Chamber members that even a
visit to Mayor Gaynor could not hold
them in New York over night.
If the Japanese baseball players from
Keio University come over here and de-
feat a few more university teams 1t
will be impossible to hold the jingos on
the ground.
The waiter at the Arion Club who
was entrapped among the cooling bev-
erages of the ice chest finds 1t impos-
sible to elicit the sympathy his peril
really deserves.
Honors awarded at the Georgetown
Manual Training School in the bread
baking contest were decided on the old
reliable basis that the proof Of the
pudding Is in the eating"
The mortgages on one of the leading
churches of the city were burned yes
terday with impressive. ceremonies. 1t
was not exactly sufficient to lay them
out in the sun and go away.
II the rest of Presbyterianism Is as
full OF Inaccuracies as the report on
Sunday in Washington, there are going
10 be a good many followers of that
faith disappointed on judgment day.
Representative Sulzer told the men,
bers of the Y. NJ. c. A. that he would
rather be able TO play a fiddle than to
possess any other accomplishment. We
presume he meant a first" fiddle. not
a second"
An Alexandria citizen has just received
a cinnamon bear by express and doesn't
know what to- do with him. He prob
ably reflects, that bears is bears" and
wants to solve this question as quickly
az possible.
Two people were bitten by a supposed
ly mad dog in Washington yesterday,
and as the hot weather approaches,
other incidents of that character may
be anticipated. How about that muz-
zling order? A year ago the District
Health Officer decreed that all dogs
should wear muzzles for one year. That
the regulation is openly violated is ap-
parent to any one who has occasion to
walk about the city. sSIsn't 1t time the
order was enforced again?
No wonder the President isn't worry
ing over how long Congress may elect
to remain in extra session with the Their
mometer bubbling about the hundred
mark, for he is actually sitting over a
ton Of ice each day. Arrangement of
the White House is such that the Ex-
. ecutive offices are located above the re-
frigerating plant, and not only this but
electric fans pump the cold air in upon
the President. He has Representative
Fftzgerald's imagination-co cooling device
beaten to an icicle.
Every lover Of poetry in Washington
and there are thousands of such-will
heartily commend the proposal that the
cabin home of Joaquin Miller in the Dis
trict of Columbia be preserved. The
California Society has come forward
with a patriotic. offer to buy the cabin
and present it to the city IL the city
will furnish a site for it Such recogni-
ton of the work of the poet of the
Sierras' would be little enough when
considered side by side with the legacy
which he will leave mankind when he
makes his way-perhaps in only little
while-to the land beyond the peaks
Of snow"
That was a well-deserved tribute
. which the Y. NJ. c. A. received from the
President of the United States yester-
day. In declaring the institution one of
the foremost in rnolding the character
Of young men to uprightness and de-
cency, Mr.. Taft gave expression to
sentiment shared by every one who
knows anything at all of the work of
the organization 1t is gratifying to
realize that in no city in the country
does the Y. NJ. C. A. more nearly APP
proximate the work it is supposed to do
than in Washington. Reliable evidence
that this is true is offered by the fact
that nearly all the $4,000 needed by the
colored Y. NJ. c. A. to enable it to OBJ
tain The Rosenwald bonus Of $4,000 has
been raised.
Announcement that special trainload
Of boosters from Minneapolis is COM
ing here to try to influence the Presi-