Evening star., 1912-09-29

recommend that the garrison shoe be not
Issued any longer and that the dress shoe
be given up. This will leave but the one
shoe for all purposes in the army. II is
argued that tan has proven itself much
cooler and better than black and that
there is no reason why it should not he
generally used. The black as a dress
shoe with the blue uniform, il is argued.
may be readily displaced by the tans
without detracting from the appearance
OF the soldier, for his belt and other
straps are tan.
The board holds that il is desirable that
given man should wear shoes of a given
last steadily, that the foot may deyeloD
and strengthen itself for services when
in the given shoe. Every soldier must
now continuously have three pairs of
shoes-the marching shoes the garrison
tan and the dress shoe. The commission
would do away with all but the MARCHING,
shoe and consider the service benefited
and every mans foot in better condition
Tor actual service at any given time In
cldentally there would be many hundreds
OF thousands of dollars saved every year
The government development and
proof Of the best sort of socks is also
important. 1t is far from a matter of
general information that wooden sock
is vastly easier on the feet than a cot
ton one 1t absorbs moisture and is
never sticky. 1t is soft to the foot There
are many old soldiers who insist on heavy
wooden socks even in midsummer.
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Since it has become known that this
governmental authority was in search oe
the best possible shoe and was going
after it in the proper scientific way there
has been great scramble from the coun-
try over to learn of the findings. Such
organizations as the police departments
of great cities have unlimited trouble
with the problem of comfortable shoes
for men who must remain constantly on
their feet. These anxious to get the
government shoes. From civilian life
there is the universal complaint for com-
Portable shoes from all classes that are
forced to remain long on their feets
The shoe of the laborer is anything but
comfortable. Even the office man finds
that fashions change so constantly that
he but learns how to fit himself in one
last until another shape appears. Shoes
are a matter of universal concern and
dissatisfaction. Even the manufacturers
are waking up and asking Uncle Sam
how to build the model shoe.
The War Department believes that 10
has carried a more extensive investi-
cation of shoes and feet than could have
been carried on by any other agency. It
holds that it has developed the best shoe
in the world This shoe it is having man
ufactured for S2.Io out of the best OF
leather.
The same last could be used for the
manufacture of a lighter shoe for lighter
service. AS the department has forced
dealers to introduce better plumbing and
better appliances of many sorts into
many industries by writing the spectica-
tions for them, and as the public has ulti-
mately benefited by the introduction of
that material, so it expects that the whole
people will ultimately benefit from it's
development of a model shoe.
Copyright, 1872 by w. A. Du Puy.)
house, cher name was Susan EvansD,
which stood on the National Guard rife
range. 1t was a fine mansion. 1t was
torn down early in the war by Col. Nc
Carthy of a New York regiment for the
lumber that was in ii. Other landholders
around here We're Charles j. rhlmann
who owned a vineyard where the Didericn
greenhouses are now. and Moses Kelly.
There was big farm south of here
called the kosciusko farm. owned by
Hungarian nobleman named WaikcrwitZ.
and other land owners in Prince Georges
county just over the District line wcrs
Col. j. III. Wheeler Benedict Haven, Mrs.
A. J. Brown, Ridgeway, Charles V. Cor
don. DR.. J. II. Bayne. t. f. MarburN,
Mrs. c. Edelin,. Il. Kirby, l.. Kirby ami
Charles Rozier
There were just two or three houses
along Hamilton road during the war ono
was the house in which Mary ana Oscar
Digges live now. Mary was the daugh-
ter of Mary Addison. my mothers colored
housemaid- Then close To where the
Hebrew cemetery is Were two log cabins.
In one lived old Aunt Jeannie Forest and
in the other a colored woman name
Maggie Tisley and her children.