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@A the Comforts of Home" i'm @TEr@e-iOm@" Apartment

pended from the roof like sailors ham
mock.
These "one-room suites" occupying "o'
square feet of floor space, equipped with
patent furniture. offer the following con-
NenienceS for each suite:
\ living room. dining room n bed
room. a buffet kitchen. "A large ventilated
clothes closet. an entrance hall and a
bathroom.
The fitting and furnishings are: \ com
bination writing desk and bookcase when
used as a living room and out of the way
when used "A bedroom, a sideboard m
the room when used AS "A dining room
and out when used bedroom.
\ dresser in the room when bedroom.
and out of the room when a living or in
ing room; dressing room in the clothes
closet sufficiently large for use: a teie-
phone, wall vault for jewelry, silver
and valuabies. wardrobe couch set OF
genuine IIavlland china of dainty pat
ter. fun set Of silver. a dozen linen nap
kins. towels and tablecloths. a dining
room radiator in each apartment to keep
dishes ana food hot; a bed with double
deck springs containing 2Jo coils tine
curled mattress. sheets. p!lIowcasc blan-
lcts. electric curling iron. gas or electric
stove. a fun set Of aluminium cooking
washtub. clothes dryer and "A wire bas-
,let in which all dirty dishes are placed
and sent on dumb-waiter to the ma n
kitchen, where the basket with the dishes
is passed through caldrons filled with
boiling water, rinsed in spray Of clean
hot water. steriliZed in a jet of steam.
returned hot and dry To the pantry In
very short time without being touched by
hand.
Besides the above telephone girl viii
save guests much annoyance by receiv-
ing and delivering messages and by get
ting the party the other end of the
line And a maid thoroughly cleans the
apartment each week. The future APT
ments large or small, will be furnished
equipped. heated. lighted aud ready for
the family To- move in with only their
wearing apparel, trinkets and keepsakes,
and move out. taking with them no part
of the furnishings. The family renting in
the modern apartment building will enter
and leave the same as the traveller now
enters and leaves our leading hotels.
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from France: Admiral Shubrick, Judge
Bancroft Davis, George Bancroft, Com
modore Stephen Decatur Henry Clay,
Martin Van Buren. Edward Livingston,
President Jackson's Secretary of State;
Vice President George NJ. Dallas. Senator
judah p. Benjamin, Attorney General.
Secretary of War and Secretary of State
Of the Confederate states: Levi Wood
bury of Van Burens cabinet: John {.
Spencer of JNlers ca Dnet; Vice Fresi-
dent Colfax, Gen. SicilleS Commodore
Morris. grandson of Robert Morris. tinau-
cier of the American revolution. Mai.
Rathhone. who sat with -thra lam Lin
coin on the night of the assassination:
James Madison. Dolly Madison. Admiral
Wilkes. Col. Robert g. Inacrs"l. ADMIRAL
Paudine, son of John FauldinG. captor
of Mai. Andre; Oglc Taylor. Senator Don
Cameron, John G. Calhoun, Secretary
Seward and James q. Blaine
TYSON CORNERS is at the crossing of
the Leesburs and Alexandria turn
pike and the road from L.winsville to
Vienna. Tyson Corners comprises a store
embellishcd with legends assuring al
who read that the tobacco. starch, soap.
bluing. horse iiniment and poultry feed
advertised by those signs is the best on
EARTH Next to the store is the store
Keepers dwelling. The buildings were
owned and occupied during the civil war
by a family named Tyson Prior to and
during the war this junction of the roads
was called Peach Grove. Tyson Corners
is not far from Great Fails, and Il good
many auto and cycle tourists out of
Washington trave! to the Falls that way
Hence Tyson Corners is of local interest
In the northwest angle formed by the
IL.
Il lhiekly wooded hill which is within
two three feet of being th- highest
bit of land IN Fairfax county. the highest
point being at Ccntcrvinc. Authority for
this information is the Tyson Corners
storckeep"r. ON the crest of this hill
j. the rotiiilg .uu Of Il Union s..l,.tl
tower and surrounding stocliade. known
half Il century az" AZ the Peach Grove
stuciiadc.
some of the stockade posts are still
have disappeared Part of the signal
tower or watch tower remains. but not
in its original height. These signal
towers according tn Photographic views
of them published in the atlas of the
Records of the War of the Rebellion. We're
built in the fashion of the supcrstructure
of an oil we'll. They Were lofty and in
numerous cases We're of five stories with
a ladder reaching from platform To plat
form. Information bN signal could be
uassed quickly from tower to tower over
long distances and as Il means of OBJ
serving the country ana giving iniorma-
tou of the movements of an enemy tHeY
were of great use. This road junction
was an important point in the neiShbor-
hood OF Washington. 1T WAS country
in whicn operated the troops or the Sucr-
ri las of M"scby and White.
In volume tWrntH-ninc Of the first series
Of the Records of the Rebellion is Il not,
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erect AN apartment building. in which
the new ''three-in-onc' Will be used eX-
cluSiVely.
Reversible and convertible furniture.
which swings on strong pivots set per-
peHdiculariy into the walls, il the secret
of the ''thrce-in-ont." Simply by relcaS-
ing lock and swinging a section of the
wall. one may convert the apartment
from Il beautiful dining room to coy
living room or library. Another turn of
another section viii add the charm Of
music room, with piano and music
cases, TO the library
Yet another swinging Of the wall
Sections viii conceal all traces of { l.
ing room. living room. music room
and library. and convert the apartment
into bedroom. Any number of COM
bnations is possible with the equip
ment. y physician or other profession
al man, for instance. may occupy a room
as his office during the day and convert il
into living room by evening and Il
bedroom by night without distuihn=
the arrangement of his Office in the
least.
Like all modern apartments. the
transformation one-room suite mas a
bath and kitchen. 10th in reality a."
the mere division of floor space is con
ccrned. They are separated from each
other. however, not only by partitions.
but by a hall anordiHs access to the
general public hall. The bath iS com
rlete in every detail and the kitchen
has a gas stove. sink, refrigerator and
all manner of hooks ana cabinets for
utensils. dishes and other things neces-
sary in the kitchen. Access to bath and
kitchen is afforded by separate doors
opening directly from the main room.
Where buildings devoted exclusively to
the new one-roum suite lave been built
the owners and operating company will
furnish everything necessary for house
keeping if tenants 50 desire. This in
cludcS not only furniture. but such items
as cut glass. SiiVerHarc and decorative
details of HE home. There il also gen
tr.lI kitchen ana laundry i'll the basement.
with which communication il maintained
through speaking tubes, telephones and
Il dumb waiter.
The general kitchen is presided over hy
Il chef employed by the owning company,
and is equipped with facilities Tor sup
plying all wants OF the tenants. II the
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AT TER HAE IARTNQuAKE

through the gutter to the site of car
negie's great building which was to teacn
peace to these Central American repub-
lies The scenes about it are now peace
ful enough. but they are the peace OF
deso,at:on | will not say of despair Tor
| understand that Mr. Carnegie has OF
fered 10 give an extra hundred thousand
dollars to erect a new building, and that
this will shortly he put up at the capital
San Jose, which is about five hours walk
away
AS to the first structure, it lies where
it was stricken down by the stony hand
of old Mother Earth. The walls and the
roof have been reduced to pile of stones
and the foundations only remain to show
the beautiful structure that the palace
must have been. These foundations are
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Lafayette Square History.
THE demolition of the Arlington II,

THE demolition of the Arlington Hotel
recalls the booklet. "A Historic Cor
n"r of Historic CITY which the I,fe
fheOphiluS T.. koessle. who with his fa-
thcr. Theop!iIus Roesslc. opened the Ar
liu@ton in 1870. caused 10 he published in
1N.n'. This work has been frcuuenrIy
drawn on. and du" credit las not I'M
every ease been given to Mr. Rnessle,
The little booh was dcSi@ned as an ad-
.ertiscmcut of the Arlington ANA as =
toiuncIDuratiuu of the compIrtiuu of the
brow II~jonc extension Of the hotel ON Yer
mont avenue and Mr.. RoeSsl. with TIA,
aid of friends compiled = good deal OF
Lafayette Square history and compress sed
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Three years ago there was 80 rretier
Nttlc city in Latin tmerica than this
tawn of Cartaco Lying aS Il does !
nest in the volcanic moun;aii-s. amid ElSn
peaks covered with green nd crowned
with heecy white clouds and with -ie
ing through its concrete cutters. ii was
az our canal Zone. The town was no d
for is De ighttul climate and the va
cation place for crirlayes on the canal.
They came here by the hundreds. and
there was a large hotel run by Amer
team named Weldon. as we'll numerous
boarding houses which supplied them
With qUarterS
Tho place was especially attractive be-
cause OF It's qt:aintneSs. Ii is one of the
oil cities of Central Nmcrica an1 had
been built in Central .NGe-itan style. Its
hop-c~ which We're several thousand in
nt;al},er ran along well made streets with
n rrDv SidnV .tlkS ut fla-Stpne. The
'rtssrS Wcr. of on" story made of stone
.sd mud With walls several feet thick.
80 tulildin@E "a We're nf enc story fac
iu- tU. streets with tat rooms running
sro md patic~ IN Viii n wee orange trees,
lennon trees dul many tropical flowers.
Tlc doors and Wi 2duW> Werc large and
III CZrs FROM the mountains blew
through from al sides. The roofs We're
of red tiles and We're laii on thick raft
ets. AltOGcther the town seemed sub
Stantilliy Irilt and no one would have
supposed that 4 single great shock could
hstve reduced il to ruins. as its low houses
We're considered eirthIrake proof.
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that II was her home and ultimately Out
may that ultimately be a long way off,
She was going To give it away for the
benefit of crippled children.
The wide central hall showed big rooms
on the right and left Ia was
large circle of chairs FOR little children.
The walls We're emheiished with things
attractive to children.
This is my kindergarten room," said
the ady.
Another large room had handsome read
Ing tables. BOOKCASES. piano. phonoGraph
and examples from most of Washington
well known water coioriStS. The Appoint
ments Of the room We're III exquisite taste.
This is the young mems room: the gym
is downstairs. said the lady. Entering d
smaller but eXceilenty outftted room she
said And this is our office. On the
wall in that room hangs an oil portrait
of the Rev. kcmpcr Bocock, who died i'll
Philadelphia eight wears ago. and who at
ono time WAS rector of Grace Church,
Georgetown. And the building is me-
mortal to him.
A noble philanthropy" said The Star
man.
1T is not philanthropy and am not
a phiianthropist. This is my pleasure.
This i my home and ] entertain my
friends. When | lived on Dupont circle
my friends would entertain their friends
with dances. dinners receptions and the
like. live here and entertain my
friends. You should come when the
house is full and gay"
May / ask your name?
Mrs. Lee"
Her manner forbade more questions
hut there is ii beautiful story to he writ
ten about this Bocock memorial con
Quoted by Mrs. Lee
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eight men severely wounded and seven
taken prisoners. One of the enemy WA
known to have been killed.
An old military map of the Peacn
Grove or Tyson Corners neighborhood
gives these as the names of the familie,
living there: MOrey. Carter. Tyson. a
Head Perkins, Foster. Mrs. MerrN.
Widow Chiids. Gen. GoraW and shef-
wood.
1t is an interesting trip to struES g
through those woods and visit the ruined
tower and stockade. The view is no"
cut off by the trees. but from that hill.
were il cleared, ones eye would sweep a
broad and beautiful Virginia landscape.
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of the churches have entirely disap-
peared.
Walking through the streets one sees
the despair of the inhabitants in the
buildings which have been erected to take
the places of the substantial houses of
the past. There are shackS everywhere
made up of pieces of galvanized iron roof
ing, boards from dry goods boxes and
the SCRAPS of old lumber which fell with
the quake. The town now r3Tl-il"S one Of
Nairobi i'll Africa, which is contemptuous
~ called the tin town. The houses are
made up of all sorts Of makeshifts. The
roofs and walls are of galvanized iron
half iron and half tile. In the several
houses ! saw the sheets of iron laid on
the walls with the tiles around the edges
of the sheets to keep the rain from run
ming through the cracks.
The market now consists of d LARGE
number of sheds made of debris ami
rooted with iron and tin. Today is Sun
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lay and the people from all parts OF the

day and the people from all parts or the
country about have come into the mar
ket. There were a thousand or more
there when visited it a few hours ago.
Many of the market women sat on the
ground with oranges. bananas. potatoes
and onions piled about them. The butch
ers stooo, inside their tin s!lacihs and used
sheets Of galvanized iron counters,
upon which they cut up the meat for the
customers. There We're tailor shops and
shoe shops in StOre-boX like sheds, ana
| saw women sewing at machines out in
the sun. In many cases the merchants
sold their goods out in the Open sitting
on the ground as they did so. At the
present time about two blocks away. "A
new market is building. This is build
ing of steel with a galvanized iron roof.
1t must cover several acres, and it is
rapidly approaching completion.
| walked down the street following
stream of mountain water which flowed
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Grove November T. 1StI;. but that No
circumstantial reports are Oh file. In
the Rebellion Records is report of an
affair there with guerrilas in 1850
1t is the report of Col. William Gamble
Sth Illinois Cavalry. commanding the lSt
Separate Brigade. Department of Wash
inStOn:
''FailfaX Court House. Va.
March II 1s.,, 60 y. m.
''tuioficl: The patrol of one officer. one
sergeant and twenty men, 18th New York
Cavalry. was attacked by cuerrillaS at
r. m. about two miles beyond Vienna. this
side Of Peach Grove stockade. licui.
Cuylcr was with the party, and reports
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by signal from Vienna two men killed
five wounded six horses killed and one
wounded. The balance of the patrol
came into Vienna. \ detailed report will
be sent soon as received. l have or
dered Il squadron from Prospect Hill TO
march through the woods one mile west
on the flank Of the daily patrol until the
cavalry now out returns. when the coun-
try in front Will he swept by the whole
cavalry force at night and every house
examined from here to Bull Run noun
tain at the same time. where Guc:TillaS
stop at night. w. Gamble, Colonel. Com
mandinG Brigade.
This report was sent tn Lieut.. COL j. H.
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CATACOrDS S<
In THE CErIETEw

intact for perhaps. eight or zen feet
above the ground Everything else has
.aiien far AZ tht. floor of the great
central court. climbed up the sters
and walked over the patio. This is in
tact. but weeds and grass CROWN:
Il the corners where the fountains Were
10 have been located, and there is "A wide
hedge OF weeds running around il. cover
ing the hail which separates the pati,
from the ruins of the rooms which face Il
upon Ii.
next visited the cemetery. which :
situated about three blocks away. T. -
Institution formerly the pride Of Gar
tago. 1t covers six or eight acres. ar
was filled with monuments and beautif
vaults amid semi-tropical trees. II
shut off from the street by "A wall Of cata-
combs. in the center OF which is the en-
trance. The wall of catacomhs is about
ten feet thick. TWENTY-FIVE feet high and
over 900 feet long From each end OF
shorter walls of catacombs extended
back into the cemetery. forming n great
set of pigeonholes. each of which con-
tanned coffin. and the whole formed like
the head of letter T. This wall al
coffins was broken in two by the earth-
quake at about ten feet from the ground,
and the upper portion moved inward sew
eral inches.
Ii must have been tilted over. and THIS
threw out the slabs which held in the
I'm which each coffin lay. / counted the
pigeonholes in the main wall. There
were over 600 of them. and, with those in
the walls at the ends, there must hav"
been fully a thousand cofins with the
dead i'm them at the time the earthquake
occurred. The wall at one end was re-
duced to a debris of bricks and mortar.
of broken wood and bones and aesh. In
the central wall many of the coffins wers
thrown out and the skulls and bones roll
ed about everywhere.
1t was the same in the family vaults
of the cemetery. These were made very
similar to the catacombs at the ends
each vault being little fiat-roofed house
made up of these pigeonholes. Some OF
the vaults are still in ruins, and on some
of these are flowers and Wreaths hung up
in memory of the disturbed departed y.
the time that the dead were eXhumed
there were so many that ii was found
necessary to burn most of them to pre-
vent disease. Others were put back III
the vaults but. alas. without the quota
ZION. After lifes fitfu fever he sleeps
we'll. fRANh u. tAiS1 b-> Ihs.
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y VI in the Pompeii
cf Central America
Here on the high
lands of the Andes,
about half way be-
tween the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans,
and almost a mile
a bovc the sea. is
situated a little city
which from time
i m m @ III orial has
been rock ed by the
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A GOOD many years ago sons
~ writer evolved popular ballad.
the refrain of which contained
the line Its Just Il Small Room, but
its Home" That writer was some
thing of a prophet without being
aware of the fact. one-room homes
containing living room bedroom. bath,
kitchen and clothes closet. are the latest
deyclnnment in concentrated apartments
tabloid residences, as it were-and there
is every prospect that Washingtonians
Will be given the opportunity OF living III
them before "A great many months.
Rujlders of the new style of compressed
living quarters claim for the plan that
it will practically eliminate houseWork,
thus giving those who occupy the
, ..uartments' the same liberties they
would enjoy in a hish-priced hotel. and at
The same time leave them .'all the COM
forts of home. to be obtained simply by
rrassiny buttons and performing Il few
fpats of modern IeSfrdtmaln.
,ll,t nf the. modern demand for comreu-
,t.rion and efficiency iii condensation has
come, his new wonder, which, for want
of , better name. is known at prcScn; as
,I ..tnrr,.-iis-uut ap.trtmcnt,' or the one
room suite.
ON what is apparently the best of foun-
dationS. the inventors assert the new
,uarImrut VIII reduce houseworll TO the
absolute minimum, lower rents and save
space all Without crowding, without any
sacrifice of privacy and under the best of
sanitary conditions. In the new apart
ment there will be no more cooking. dish
washing. sweeping. dusting or wrestling
with the servant girl prob, There will
he nothing. III shOTtN except the ocCupa
lion of making home life attractiV"
as il can POSSIBLY be made. unless. of
course the housewife. voluntarily chooses
10 assume lIh1rS which might well be
DISPOSED of by mechanical means.
The word apartment * misnomer
since, the nrW style of home can he in
stalled in cottage. bungalow. tlat or
r,.~idtnct--in amy place at all where there
* one room Of average size. The term
is employed here however. for the rca-
son that company has been formed to
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other parts of the cemetery Family vaults
filled with dead crumhled to the earth.
The loss of life terrible. Almost
one-tenth of the city perlshed III the
ruins. Including the neighhoring town o.
Paraiso the dead were fully 1000. and in
addition to this many were wounded
The people rushed from the buildings AT
the first great tremor of the earth, but
the shock came quickly that many
We're crushed before they could get out
One of the citizens tells me of how he and
his family crawled under a heavy wood
table and thus escaped destruction. The
streets rose and fell so that people run
ming along them Were sometimes thrown
against the buildings while falling and
thus crushed.
DIR. Alfred Pirie. a rich Canadian coffee
and banana phnter, who lost something
like 100000 in the earthquake. told me
today of some curious instances which re-
minds one of Pompeii. When the ruins
We're excavated many people We're found
just they appeared in the acts of their
ordinary work when killed by this mighty
catastrophe.
.In one house" said he "a shoemaker
sat amid the ruins with a shoe on his
knee and his hammer raised in the act of
striking the sole. We found women sit
ting at their sewing machines, their
hands still holding the cloth and their
heads bowed over their work In one
case the wife of a Central America. dip
lomat was giving her baby bath when
the house fell and crushed both her and
the child.
Tell me your own experience, Mr..
Pirie.' said /.
Myself and my family were uninjured."
was the reply, but nevertheless the
shock was a terrible one and We had
a narrow escape. Ny house has walls
over three feet in thickness and it was
so built that only the interior of it was
destroyed. ] had several Canadian girls
visiting ME at the time the earthquake
occurred. We had just sat down to dim
ncr. 1t was already dark and the electric
lights were turned on. We had been talk
ing about earthquakes. and one of the
girls had said she had felt a slight tremor
that afternoon. We had warned her that
there was little danger. but just at that
moment the floors rose and the inside
walls began to fall in We were all
thrown from our chairs to the floor. The
table was overturned. At the same time
the light went out The screen was
thrown against the door. shutting it tight.
and we had a great scramble trying to
get out We would rise and be again
thrown to knees. AS soon as we
could gain our feet We rushed through
the house for the children who We're in
different rooms. Two of my little ones
We're in the hands of the nurse taking a
bath and third was in bed with fever.
We carried them out irto the streets and
finally made our way out of the ruins
Il cannot describe the scenes at that
time" continued DR.. Pirie. The walls
were everywhere falling. and the noise
was like the cannonadng of a battle.
The people seemed to be crazy. They
We're shrieking and crying, and many
were on their knees praying. The air
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HOT LID YOU turn
: O u I h ro m NJ
street III George
to " II and pass
alorg Jefferson,
v hiCh leads off
the main way near
w q : h i n z I on $
l. 9 a d q u a + teTS,
YOU may notice ON
the east side a
ii Il u d : % m g and
substantial bri 9 K
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n addition 10 its resid n-cS Carriage
had some Hne business buildings. There
were many StuI.s scattered here and
there and also a great market. which was
filed with stalls and crowded ON eacA
market day by the thousands who came
81 from the surrounding country to buy
and sell. There were thirteen Cathohc
churches ana great cathedral was build
ing Some of the churches were OF large
size There We're schools for boys and
schools for girls and last. just then ap-
r,roachiuo complete and ready to be
dedicated. Mas peace palace built by An-
drew Carnegie To- be the homo of Cen
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shocks Of earthquakes. Like the Pompeh
~ the foot of Vesuvius. it has been par
tially destroyed several times. and. hke
IL it has finally met with CONFUSION o.
I'D Mother Earth which has reduced 1t
10 ruins