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FR0CK COATS co
At THE WALDORF,
BUT NOT THER RITZ
Experience Of Commissioner
Edwards Brings UP Question
Of Evening Dress on Sunday.
VANDERBILT FOR FROCK
Manager of Ritz Carlton Says
His Patrons Make Evening
Suit Rule.
VANDERBILT FOR FROCK

Again arise phases Of tho question OF
the dinsr-his dress and the restaurant
rule. Must he be barred entirely from
the eating places OF tho high-sounding
names and priccA that ring with boiler
shop noise because he 10 not In evening
dress, And II 90. what II evening dress
on sundayf Mus, q churchgoer who
Wishes 20 dine before tho evening SER
vics 70 10 . restaurant with an open
face suit. hurry through his meal. then
dash madiy back 10 his home and do q
lightning change artist stunt In order TO
"a into conventional church attirc7
The sartorial dead line about evening
dress has given the New Yorker not u
little chagrin. To he wavcd back po-
MteIy as though not worthy OF cntrnn"c
TO y prom's~i land hn- brought HIM
lets OF food for reflection II not tho sub
stant!ai kind he MAJ after. Gradually
he came ~ tho custom Of London and
the Continent Hut he let go Of his old
10 apparently unbelievable way of
wearing . froch coat In a restaurant m
Sunday evening with reluctance. lie
wanted 90 know n n frock coat was not
conventional and proper drcss for sun
day evening what was.
DIG BILL EDWARDS LATEST VIC.
TIM OF THE RULE.
This last angle was Viewed las, eve
ming by william II. Edwards. Street
Cleaning Commissioner. big mn"
wen, up AGAINST The barrier ut tho Ritz.
Carlton. He vas rovcr one % the Kind
- Q 2 for barriers in the old days at
Pranoston. when nothing delighted him
more han tearing big holes trough
fAfs formidable line. hut his form.
which II not now fylph-likc. was hurled
back last night.
VI BIZ" and his close friend Wal.
ter Booth. now u lawyer but one. n
Princeton football star. w"nt 10 tho
Rita last niHht for dinner. They wor,
frock coats. Approaching the main
dining room. they asked for q table
They were told IN tho most diplomatic
wsy Imaginable that Il would he we'll
for them 60 70 to the Oak Room down
stairs. a.. only folks In evening dress
were served In the room they wished
to cpscr
Not for mine said Edwards. and
sway they went. On the way out they
encountered Commissioner Waldo. who
lives IN the Ritz. The CommissIoncr Of
Police invited the Commissioner who
cleans tho streets mp 70 his apartments.
Mr.. Waldo entertained his collcagu.
and his friend for a while. and then
Commissioner Edwards went some
where else 10 rat.
MANAGER KELLER SAYS the
GUESTS MAKE THE RULE.
Manager Keller OF tho Rita was seen
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Women's Underwear Reduced

Stock-taking in the Women's Underwear
Section brings these interesting small lots to
light, which must depart at much below their
customary prices:
At 96c q Suit, regularly $3.50
Mercerized Isle thread Union Suits, with wing sleeve,
in knee length.
At $2.26 . Suit, regularly %
unshrnkable. high neck, long or short sleeves; or low
neck. sleeveless. Ankle length.
At 75c Each, regularly 81 and $1.26
Imported Swiss Merino Tights, In knee or ankle
length. and vests high neck with long or short sleeves.
At 76c Each, regularly 81 and Sl.26
Vests. Drawers or Tights Of natural or white bs,vv
merino; broken range of regular and extra sizes.
Main Floor
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rainy weather will prevail except
whe bulletins have predicted dry for
April
Rainfall will be less than usual in
the Southern states, except in south
ern Florida and near the coast of the
Gulf of Mexico. Also less than usual
rain in the sections drained by the
upper valleys of the Arkansas, the
Kaw, the Platte, the Missouri and the
Mississippi, about the great lakes and
in eastern Canada. Dry in the Sacra-
mento valley. Generally wet from
Kansas City to Albany, N. Y.
But nearly all sections have an
abundance of moisture and all condi-
lions appear to be favorable to splen-
did crop weather conditions at end of
April. These good conditions will
probably tend to lower all prices OF
farm and plantation products, and
therefore dealers in those products
should expect prices to weaken.
II natural conditions are permitted
to control our financial affairs there Is
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FOSTER sWEATHER BULLETIN

Washington, April 6.-(Copyrighted,
1912, by w. T. Foster)-Last bulletin
gave forecasts of disturbance to cross
continent April to IL, warm wave
7th to 18th, cool wave 10th to 18th.
This will close out the backward
spring weather. the cold. disagreeable
and long period Of hard winter. Pre-
cipitation is expected to be above nor
NAL, in districts where rains have
been predicted, for the five-day period
centering on the warm wave that will
cross continent April to II.
Next disturbance will reach Pacific
coast about April IL, cross Pacific
slope by close of 18th, great central
valleys 14th to 10th, eastern sections
18th. Warm wave will cross Pacific
slope about April IL, great central val
leys 18th, eastern sections 18th. Cool
wave will cross Pacific slope about
April Is, great central valleys 18th,
eastern sections 10Th.
This disturbance will inaugurate a
long period of warm weather and for
most places splendid crop weather. AS
the cool wave comes in cloudy and
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nothing in sight that promises hard
times or less prosperity for the people
than existed last year. The public, and
particularly the producers, should not
be disturbed by the seeming instead
mess in government matters; those
fiurries will pass and prosperity will
continue.
Great weather events on many parts
of the earth are expected during the
week centering on May 81. About
June or great disturbances are ex-
pected on the sun, both storm center
and anti-cyclone. The storm centers
on the sun are bright spots, called
faculae, and the anti-cyclones are
called sun spots and are same as our
cold waves. These spots will appear
little west Ito the right of suns
center, the bright spots will be little
south of suns center, and the dark
spots farther south.
expect an electric disturbance on
this, continent last days of May and
not far from that time tornadoes are
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WITH THE CHURCHES
tsJst Baptist chruch.

Services ut the First Baptist church
Sunday as follows:
sunday school at 9:45 a. M; Prof
=. y. Bullock, superintendent.
preaching at IL a. m. by the pastor
Sunbeams and Junior B. Y. p. u. al
4 p M; Mrs. Fielder, leader.
senior b. Y. p. U. at GAS p. M; Mr..
u. J. Fountain, Jr.. president.
NO night Service on account of the
welcome service at the Presbyterian
church.
The Lords supper will be observed
at morning service.
Every member is urged to be pres
ent tomorrow, as our revival begins
tuesday night. The public is cordially
invited.
NJ. E. Weaver, Pastor.
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expected. Severe storms from middle
Of May to June 10.
Scientists who are in the employ Of
nearly all governments believe that
the sun, from some unknown cause,
changes periodically the amount of
force it sends out, and they are trying
to find the length of those periods in
order that they may be able to fore
cast our weather.
| believe the cause lies in the
changing relations of the planets and
that they affect our earth on the same
principles that one magnet affects an
other.
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First Methodist Church.

Sunday school at GAS a. M; C. M
Bethany, superintendent. Tomorrow is
Missionary Sunday" Let all classes
remember their pledge for the Hendey
organ fund.
Preaching at II a. m. by the pastor,
followed by the communion service.
The choir will render special music.
AT 3 p. m. there will be an Easter
service for the children, at which the
pastor will preach.
Senior League meets at Z p. m.
There will be no evening service on
account of the recognition service at
the First Presbyterian church.
Glenn Finn, Pastor.
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Strength in seIf.Assurance.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of
our failures. In the assurance of
strength there is strength, and they
are the weakest, however strong, who
have no faith in themselves or their
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Christian Church.

There will be the usual morning
services tomorrow. Sunday school at
9:45 and preaching at II o'clock. The
subject for the sermon will be 1.-THE
Impossible Captive" There will be no
night service, but we will join with
the other churches and give the new
Presbyterian pastor the usual welcome.
The official board will meet at 4
O'Clock. A full attendance is desirable
for important business.
James N. Thomas, Pastor.
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Service the session will meet for the
reception of any who may be DESTROYS
of uniting with the church. /
Evening service at 7:45 o'clock. At
this service the ministers OF the city
will take part and all are invited to
attend.
J. r. Finley, Minister.
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Presbyterian Church.

Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
Morning service at IL o'clock. Sub
Ject; Christ: The Resurrection an,
the Life" Just before the mornil
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First Free Baptist Church.

The services at the First Free Bap.
fist church tomorrow will be aB fol.
lows:
Sunday school at 10 a. m.
Preaching at II a. m.
Christian Endeavor meeting at 6:45
p. m. Leader: Walter Holmes. Sub
ject: "Our Life"
There will be no evening service.
All are expected to attend the union
service at the Presbyterian church.
]. j. Tatum. Pastor.
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st. Andrews Church.

st. Andrews Church.
yesterday services.
Eucharist a. m.
Eucharist 9:45 a. m.
Eucharist IL a. m.
w. w. Daup, Rector.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-24
UNDER The GATUl LAKE. q
THIS LAND COVERED WITH WATER

Gatun dam so that it's level will be
eighty-five feet above that of the Carib-
bean and the Pacific ocean at either end
of the waterway. How high is eighty
five feet? 1t is about the height of a
seven-story fiat, or less than one-sixth
the height of the Washington Monument
Let us make the reduction even more
concrete Take some man that every
one knows. You have al, seen Champ
of Representatives. The Speaker is six
feet tall. If fourteen men of the height
of Champ Clark stood one on the head of
the other and the last should play the
part of Atlas by raising his hands he
could just support the world on the level
of this canal at its highest point above
the ocean.
forty-one feet. Lean out Of your fourth
story window and drop a plumb line to
the ground. You might be. in a canoe
sounding the depth of the Panama canal
But all this is only preliminary!
shall describe the canal in detail as / go
over it In a nutshell it is fifty miles
long from deep water in the Pacific to
deep water in the Atlantic From shore
line to shore line the length is forty
miles. In going through it the vessels
enter Limon bay. a magnificent harbor.
and steam thence through the first At
lantic stretch. which is over seven miles
long, to Gatun. The ship is still on the
level of the Caribbean when it gets to
Gatun, but there it meets the great locks
which, filed by the Chagres, lift it eigh-
ty-fiNe feet into Gatun lake. ] will tell
you later how it goes through these locks
and what the locks are like.
In the lake Itself the steamer may
pass at full speed to the entrance to the
Culebra cut, and the same level is main
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-24

Many of you have pictures of it in your
minds. You see a ragged excavation of
dry rock and earth, cut here and there
by waterways and running across the
isthmus from one side to the other, with
some elevation at the hills. You may
imagine the sides walled with stone. and
may even imagine you can see the great
machinery as it is working in the Culebra
cut. You probably conceive big locks Of
concrete here and there and imagine
something Of the great dam at Gatun
All this is haZy, but you think you know
are mistaken. The eyes of your brain
are, metaDhorically speaking, thousand
miles out OF the way. If you could look
at the Zone as do the wild ducks which
fly over it you would be greatly disap-
pointed. The most of the canal does not
cannot realize that more than enough
earth to make a wall nine feet high and
three feet wide clear around the world
has been moved. You are told that up
ward Of a quarter of billion of money
has been spent and you look in vain for
the marks of the dollars. You will under
stand all better later on when l take you
through the canal.
Let me tell you in simple words how
the undertaking struck me as l came in
today. AS we approached Colon / saw
no sign of canal. There was a break
water away off to the right, but no evil
dence of any interior waterway. In fact
all my ideas were turned upside down
| thought / was looking toward the west,
and steamer was really facing the
Pacific ocean. which lay beyond a range
of low mountains only fifty miles Off
But 10, the sun rose there right in our
faces and out of the Pacific. and it
squinted at me over this the lowest range
of the Andes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-24

tanned until you reach the other end OF
that cut at Pedro Miguel. There the yes
sci enters a lock and drops about the
height of a three-story house into a
small lake which is about fifty-five
feet above sea level. That lake is
yet to be made, but it will be mile
and half long and fiftytive feet above
there are two more locks, one above the
other, which successfully drop it down
from the height of a five-Story fiat to
the channel and on the level of the Pacific
ocean. Our ship is now only eight and
a half miles from the ocean itself and
is ready to steam off to China, Japan,
Australia, or anywhere else in the Pacific.
shell, but it is one which many do not
understand. During the coming cam
paign we shall have stump speeches
where the orators will speak of bringing
the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans together They do not come to-
gether here at Panama, and If they did
they would have to flow uphill to a
height of eighty-five feet The salt
waters have but little to do with NOV
ing the ships from ocean to ocean. 1t is
the fresh water of the Chagres river that
does that work.
Nevertheless. some supposedly we'll in
formed men cannot appreciate this. one
of the chief officials of the Island of ia
maica visited the canal the other day.
He was made much of and was taken
over it from one side to the other. At
the close he said to Col Cocktails:
1T is a wonderful undertaking, but 1T
seems to some of our people in England
a dangerous one. for they fear that it
may affect the current of the Gulf stream
and defect it"
L am assured that this story is true,
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/ had to stop and think moment be-
fore ! knew why this was. The isthmus
here runs east and west instead of north
and south, and the canal itself runs north
and south instead OF east and west. L
have room facing the east at Uncle
Sans big hotel here at Panama and
see the sun actually rise out of the Pa
cific ocean every morning. This part OF
the isthmus is the only place [ know OF
where, standing on our hemisphere, you
can note this geographical fact.
The entrance to the canal at Colon Is
now invisible from the steamers. L look
ed in vain for dredgeS and eXcavating
material. There were no piles of dirt and
rock. Everything is of the greeneSt OF
green. The shore is fringed with cocoa
nut trees, and the green grass grows all
around.
The steamers land you at Colon, a
ragged shabby town of low two-Story
frame houses with galleries running
along the first stories and shading the
streets The town is bordered at one
side with cocoanut trees, and standing on
the steamer a the right you see great
cocoanut grove in which lies Christobal.
ColonS big American sister. This has
some of the canal administration build
ings and the homes of many employees.
They are all yelled in wire netting and
there are no ditch banks or dirt to be
seen.
Crossing the isthmus on the railroad.
along the line of the canal. is for the
most part like riding through "A botanical
garden. You first pass Monkey Hill
cemetery, that horror of the Panama
of the past, but now a beautiful
park. and then come into a country
where nature runs riot in the luxu-
rance of its tropical vegetation There
are palm trees of an hundred varieties.
wild bananas and strange trees in which
are to be seen air plants and orchids
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-24

Not long ago, While cleaning one of the
offices in the building. a charwoman
found a ten-dollar bill on the floor. 1t
had apparently been dropped there with
out any one being the wiser and 1T must
certainly have been a temptation for her
to follow the old adage that finding is
keeping. She turned it in to the office
of the custodian, however, and when the
loss was reported next morning received
a reward for her honesty.
Some little time ago a diamond ring
was left carelessly lying on one of the
desks, but was Immediately turned in at
the office by one of the charwomen. DC
caSionaly reports and speeches are placed
in a wastebasket for convenience sake
and if by mistake the contents are thrown
into the trash confusion follows. A lit
tie thought is. thus necessary in cleaning
the offices as we'll as physical endurance.
!: +
Any one who has lost his way in the
labyrinth of corridors in the Capitol can
we'll appreciate what housekeeping in
that great building means Some sixteen
laborers are employed in cleaning the
central portion of the building. Each of
the men is allotted certain corridor or
stairway, and every few weeks all OF
them are put to work cleaning the stat
uary and the interior decorations Of the
UullulUS aDOul twenty 1--WE men are en-
ployed in cleaning the Senate wing, while
almost forty are busy keeping tidy the
House wing. 1t is most likely that a
larger number of people are passing to
and fro in the latter portion of the build
ing. thus creating the necessity of
greater cleaning force than that of the
former.
About 5000 pounds of soap powder are
used every year in cleaning the corri-
nd -to irxx-p Of fhn off nta
building. AT about $50 in the morning
busily engaged in scrubbing the floors
and stairways and generally cleaning the
building for the business that is to be
carried on there during the day. The
whole burden of the cleaning, however.
does not fall upon the charwomen, for
there are some thirty-five laborers, work
ing eight hours each day, who care for the
exterior of the building, the elevators,
the windows and such work as is not
carried on by the women. All of the
men and women employed in keeping
house in the post office are under the civil
service and must pass a specially pro-
vided examination.
The house cleaning in the State, War
and Navy building is done by piece work
and by gangs. A certain number of char
women are assigned to each wing of the
building, while the pavementS, the court
yard. the ENTRANCES and the Subba sement
are kept in good condition by laborers
employed for that purpose Twenty-Five
charwomen are assigned to clean the east
wing and the same number to the west.
In the north wing seventeen chairwomen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-24

although at first I could hardly believe
it, The man referred to is the COM
mander of the British forces in the
West Indies, stationed at Jamaica.
A story somewhat similar was floating
upon this imaginative Caribbean air when
L was here in 1898, now fourteen years
ago. The latter related to a Yankee sea
captain and a clustering son of John
Bull. The Britisher was boasting of the
power of his government, and saying
how it would wipe out the United states
in case of war between the two coun-
tries. Thereupon the Yankee tar re-
piled:
Indeed. man, it makes me laugh to
hear you Britishers blow. Why, if Uncle
Sam wanted to clean out your tight lit
tie island all he need do is to dig ditcn
through the Isthmus of Panama and turn
the Gulf stream into the Pacific. The
as cold as Labrador and you Britishers
would turn into Eskimos.
Many of the tourists, and even some
of the writer's about the canal who come
here show an ignorance WhicnslS colossal.
The other day a lady correspondent from
the middle west was sent down to spend
a week and write a dozen newspaper
letters She interviewed every one. in
Guiding the secretary of the commission,
who, during the talk, happened to men
ton De Lesseps.
DE Iesseps?' said the girl. "Who was
De Lesseps anyhow? Every one is talk
ing about De Lesseps. oh, | remember
now He was the man who discovered
the Isthmus of Panama"
But let us return to the canal proper.
The great ditch, as it looks today, is far
different from anything one can imagine.
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Fear Conjurer's Presents.

ttTUST once at every performance I re-
J greet my skill a magician" said
the conjurer THAT is when the little
folk 1 call up on the stage to assist me
in a certain turn are afraid to accept
the bona fide presents 1 offer them for
fear they will go Off
lat a certain point in the performance
I request a girl and a boy Of ten or
thereabout to step up. After an inter-
change of confidence, in which they tell
me their first names and tell them mine,
we get along swimmingly together until
they leave the stage, when 1 present
each with an appropriate present Their
gingerly way of handling them tweaks
my heart strings painfully
at would please me to possess those
youngsters trust and confidence. but my
success as magician precludes that
With books and candy held at arm S
length they tiptoe down the aisle. and
no doubt, every chocolate is nibbled and
every page turned in constant terror lest
some new trick be sprung on them.
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do the housekeeping and sixteen in the
south. At o'clock in the morning they
begin their work and by $50 it is finished
and inspected. About 4 O'Clock in the
morning, however, those women who have
been assigned to stairway or to clean
certain offices arrive at the building and
fall to work. often before the sun rises.
All of the corridors in this building are
not scrubbed every day, but are swept
and spotted, a process which consists or
clea ming with plain water any noticea BILE
spots ma de during the previous day. The
basement and first and second floors, how
ever are swept and scrubbed daily: the
third floor four times a week, the fourth
floor twice a week and the fifth floor only
once An idea of the area of corridors
and stairs covered either by Scrubbing or
spotting may be gathered from a memo
vandum made at the superintendent
office.
In the basement there are 1868 square
feet of floor space and this must De
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A Rockefeller Fake.

<<TT'S a Rockefeller fake said Phila-
delphia broker-"one of those innu-
merable Rockefeller fakes that float
around the country; but, fake or not, III
tell it to you.
John D., SO the fake runs, got very
suspicious-looking cake by mail the other
day. He wrapped it up in a newspaper
and took il to a chemists.
Us this apt to be poisoned? he asked
ut certainly looks like a poisoned
cake to me- said the chemist. Leave it
here And he smelled of it, then he
tasted it and spat out a very tiny cur
rant Leave it here. Mr.. Rockefeller.
I'll analyze it for you
How much will the analysis cost?'
Ten dollars, sir.
John d. bundled up the cake in the
newspaper again.
''Humph.' he said, as he tucked il un-
der his arm. It'll be cheaper to try il on
Archbold's cat