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Evening star., 1912-10-06
shipping Asphalt From the West Indies to Washington


by the gravity system, whence it is
finally deposited in the yard of the Wash
ington company, which congresses 1t
into bricks for paving purposes.
In connection with the routine aboard
ship and on shore at Trinidad. Larsen
had very little to relate.
In the daytime we have plenty of
work to do on board with putting in the
cargo and making all shipshape for the
return trip" he said. Sometimes at
night we play cards in the captains
ca bin for an hour or two, then again
perhaps wen take the little steamer that
runs from Briton to San Fernando,
good sized town just a few miles down
the coast. When we get there we go to
a show. and then there Is nothing left
to do but take the little steamer back
again."
During the past year the Uller has
cruised $4,000 miles. In September OF
1911 she discharged a cargo Of asphalt
at this city. Since then she has been
plying between the West Indies and At
lantic ports, bearing miscellaneous car
goes of various commodities, such as
sugar smoked meats. flour and other
foodstuffs. On her trip up from Trini-
dad she carried asphalt to the amount Of
$500 tons, half Of which is now lying in
the yard at the foot Of South Capitol
street. She left Washington, bound for
Philadelphia, where the remainder of her
cargo is consigned. Upon leaving Phila-
delphia she sails for Sweden, whence
she halls.
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get fresh with Editor Leonard IL he takes
a decided stand and pans something that
he doesn't like. Assuming that the per-
son panned doesn't know Leonard (al-
though this is a silly assumption because
all the Eastern High School pupils do) he
will head for the editorial sanctum with a
hatchet in his hand. expecting to find
conventional thin-faced. eNcitable editor
When he arrives Leonard will unwind
from his chair, arise HOSPITALITY and ask
what's wanted.
Il want to see the editor, the indiVlo-
ual panned will rasp.
my name is Leonard. and / am the
editor" Leonard will reply.
The hatchet will fall from nerveless
hands.
mot the foot ball player!' the panned
person will sob.
''The same" Leonard will reply po-
litely.
Not the man who's trying for the
colonelcy?'
Leonard will nod and again ask what s
wanted. -,
Nothing the injured person VIII
stammer. Il just w-w-anted to renew my
subscription
Whereupon Leonard. who is the soul or
good nature, will explain that he should
see Bruce Baker, the business manager:
and the person will head in that genera
direction without waiting for his hat.
They have a good and altogether mover
scheme at Eastern of electing their edltor
and business manager by popular vote
Evening star., 1912-10-06
Politics Interested Him,
But Lunch Made Him Fiqht

TT was shortly after 6 o'clock in the
morning and the eth street car was
crowded with workmen on their way to
their places of employment Up at one
end Of the car several laborers were en-
gagged in a political discussion that won
the smiling interest of the other passen-
gers. The only vacant seating space in
the car happened to be next to where
the laborers were sitting. and one of
them had there deposited his MONDAY
lunch, neatly done up in paper, on the
empty seat at his side.
The car stopped at G street and a young
woman dressed I'm the height of fashion
and leading a bulldog by chain got on.
She noticed the vacant seat next to tho
laborer and sank into 1t. The laborer
sitting next to her edged over a bit To
give her room. but his lunch still lay
where he had placed 1t. The car hadn't
Travelled block before the dog began
to behave in a peculiar manner. His
head shot up and he began to sniff the
air with all the pleasant anticipation
deep in their discussion Of politics. and
the girl. engaged with her magazine. paid
no attention to the strange antics Of
the animal.
At the Avenue the laborers rose to
leave the car and one of them reached
for his LUNCH. The sight that greeted
his eyes caused him to give vent to
howl Of rage. The dog was calmly en-
gagged in finishing off a choice chop.
With a yell the laborer made for him.
The young woman came to life and when
she saw the laborer banging at her pet
with tin bucket she got into the fray.
She began to tug on the laborers coat
tails. Aroused from his nap on the back
platform, the conductor entered the car
in time to get a choice section Of an egg
sandwich right in the eye. He gave yell
of anger and made for the laborer. II
took the crossing policeman and the mo-
torman finally to restore peace.
The young woman left the car with her
head held high. and the dog followed
after her. still licking his chops. The
motorman assisted the conductor in re-
moving the egg from his eye.
''I tell you. Teddy's going to be elect
ed" declared one of the laborers. as they
stood waiting for an Avenue car.
'.I don't care IL they elect Gyp the
Blood!' growled the man who had lost
his lunch
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around little if it isn't just right, will
you?"
The editor manfully fought off apoplexy.
Didn't they change your stun III
school?' he asked.
Not very much replied the young
man.
well, don't worry" said the editor in
a voice of honey. but with steely gilt
ter in his eye, III see that it's edited for
YOU?
And he lived up to his word.
Two wears from now when. perhaps,
that young man has attained the dignity
of d police badge and has learned to call
the fire marshal by his front name. he
will arise and bemoan the hlighted igno-
rance of any copy editor who dares touch
Il comma in his stuff.
Starting with the Central High School
Review, the dean of all amateur journals
here The Star man learned many things.
Around this paper more than any other
of the high school organs is wealth OF
tradition extending back to the good old
days of Gideon Lyon (who must nave
been a regular Horace Greeley from all
accounts to the present editor, William
Mes, who is considered second DE-.
johnson by his classmates and is re-
Evening star., 1912-10-06
Gay Life.

Al the recent meeting in Washington
of the American Federation of Sex
Hygiene Dr. Raymond G. Trumbauer OF
Duluth said:
AT this meeting we especially oppose
gay life-gay life that costs America over
six billions a year.
Gay life turns all good things to
wrong use Even the telephone
DR.. Trumbauer smiled and continued:
THE telephone girl at my hotel told
me this morning that, at dawn, there had
come a call over the house exchange.
Hello said a mans voice from room
o13 lis this the Hotel Blanc?
No the puzzled girl replied. This is
the Hotel.
New York or Washington?
Why she replied. Washington, OF
course
Thanks the male voice answered.
Just woke up and didn't know where
was
Evening star., 1912-10-06

discharging the cargo. The Jumps, as
separated from the original mass, were
so completely filled with small holes as
to present a honeycombed appearance.
Larsen explained that when the asphalt
was first put on board these holes con-
tanned a great deal of water, which later
on, by devious means, contrlved to es-
cape into the hold. where it sloshed from
side to side as the steamer rolled. This
water, he said. must be pumped out after
getting under way.
Before being allowed to dock at Wash
ington the Uller was delayed long
enough to undergo the customary fuml-
CATION which is imposed upon all vessels
entering American ports from the west
Indies Then she proceeded under her
own steam to her berth in this city,
where the work Of discharg1ng her cargo
was at once begun.
1t was necessary in taking out the
pitch to literally mine it with picks for
bv the time the ship had made the long
trjp from Trinidad to the States the mass
of raw material in the hold had hard
ened. AS the CONCEALED asphalt was
broken up it was shoveled into steel
buckets. which operate by means OF
steam derrick of which the Cller mas
two-one fore and one aft. FROM the
buckets the pitch is dumped into small
dummy car, run on an overhead TRACK
Evening star., 1912-10-06

Certainly it paralyzed the writer. Yet
the members of the staff say it will be
easy, and that enough happens in and
around the building to get out daily II
they only had the time to get it out.
The members of the Hand and Mind
staff for 1912-13 are. Editor-in-chfef, r.
F. Nesbit; associate editors, Mae Sanborn,
l.. F.. I>rehbiel. f.. X. Rammling; busi-
ness manager. Leslie Teller; advertising
manager, F. NJ Shoemaker: circulation
manager. r. w Wells; art editor. r. N
Jex: athletic editor, f. r. McLaughlin;
regimentaI editor. F. Dodson: exchange
editor, Miss Whitney; class notes editor.
c. A. Adler: special writer's and reporto-
rial staff, Everett Bradley, Paul Wood
ward, Miss Wright, Miss Judd
The projected bi-weekly bulletin viii
have a separate staff, although published
under the auspices of the Hand and Mind
This staff however. has not been defl-
nitely selected as yet.
An. interesting feature about the East
erner this year is apt to be Samuel
Leonard the editor. He was elected to
his office, with Bruce Baker as the busl-
ness manager because he is an individual
of strong opinions and because he is
husky. Nobody. apparently, is going to
Evening star., 1912-10-06

the crew with picks and shovels to put
some of the stuff back where it belongs.
Sometimes this Will happen three or four
times in one trip. especially if the sea is
neavy.
Yes. it is very troublesome cargo.
would rather carry almost anything
else. except live stock. Then there are
other things to watch out for in taking
ON the pitch. For instance, it is the
mates duty to see that TOO much is not
put into the vessel. OF course, too much
to landsman would appear to be an
amount too great for the ship to hold
at Trinidad, or wherever she might be
loading. but as a matter OF fact TOO
much at Trinidad is more than too much
at Washington, or any fresh-water port.
This is because when we make port in
salt water the ship does not draw as
much as she does in fresh. SO that II
our cargo of asphalt is bound for a fresh
water port the vessel must not be loaded
as deep as though the whole cruise were
to be made in salt water Therefore. l
have put a mark on the side of the ship
beyond which l must not let the water
rise when we load up
The asphalt as it lay in the hold of the
Ulier had the appearance of dirty black
mud. except where it had been loosened
by the picks Of the laborers engaged In
Evening star., 1912-10-06

literature, including. of course, a great
variety of papers on subjects mechan-
ical.
This paper in the past has always held
the reputation of being able to bring out
the best in the school for whatever is
wanted. 1t is one of the great forces
that has enabled the Technical High
School to compete with Central High
School on the track. Centrals track
teams have always been her stronghold,
and but for paper with lots of back
bone it is not improbable that interest in
this among the Technical Schools STU
dents would flag. The paper has brought
out the freshmen for foot ball whose
names were afterward enrolled with the
lists of heroes.
This year the editorial staff of Hand
and Mind has attempted something nov
ell in the way of bi-weelly paper devot-
ed to school news which will be run off
on a multigraph and furnished to all SUBJ
scribers of the Hand and Mind.
The idea of going through high school
and digging up a sufficient budget of
news with which to get out a paper would
probably paralyZe the average reporter
Evening star., 1912-10-06

schools. and. withal, paper more gener-
Gus to other school institutions. than the
Balance Sheet of Business High school.
The Star man took one look at the way
that paper was rum and then confded to
a friend: 1.-The boss of that sheet ism
cut out for an editor-he ought to be
philanthropist.'
This bustling little paper has yanked
freshmen out by it's ripping editorials and
sent them into the Cadet Corps. 1t has
given the year book of the school more
than one helping hand, and when the
school bank was started-and complete in
everything except capital, as other banks
have been from time to time-the Balance
Sheet offered its advertising pages to the
financial institution, and thereby saved
a panic compared to which the mild fuore
of 1907 was as a zephyr in summer. The
scheme of the brave little paper was sim
pie 1t merely went to the bank employees
and told them to go out and get so many
pages of advertising.
You can have those pages Sgd the
officials of the paper, 'and put the pro-
ceeds in your bank as working cap
ital.'
Splendid support accorded it by the
school makes the Balance Sheet a thor
oughly self-paying proposition, as is evi-
Evening star., 1912-10-06

will. no doubt, be done thoroughly. The
business manager, Kenneth p. Littauer.
an energetic young man with lots of
"school spirit has been sailing into as
tonished business men since early in the
season and has given indications that
financially he will make the paper sue
cess.
Like nearly all of the high school pa
pers the Review is sold for less than the
actual cost of publication. Though the
material for fiction and fact is furnished
free, the cost of reproducing photographs,
covers in color, Illustrations, etc, is very
heavy.
The staff of the Review includes. Editor
in-chfef, William II. Mes: literary editor.
Mary f. Lineback assistant literary ed
itors, J. p. Terrell and 4. l.. Yates: ca
dets John Tunstall; debate. Edgar Hoov-
er; dramatics, Mae Sherman; athletics,
Sylvan King: girls athletics, Theodosia
Seibold; jokes, Esper Crner: literary So
ciety. Miss Belt; exchange. Ruth Hudson.
Business staff: X. p. Littauer, manager;
James Newman, assistant manager.
There is not a more thoroughly edited
nor a more "newsy" paper in the high
Evening star., 1912-10-06
Modern Progress.

A NOTED English parliamentarian
n tossed back his thick white name oi
hair, stroked his white beard and saio III
broad Scotch accent to New YORK re-
porter:
..The rise in world wages has peeh
great, but the rise in world prices mas
been greater. We have had progress, out
it has been progress in the wrong oi-
rection.
"A tourist was travelling in your far
west. AS he inspected an INDIAN en-
camnment he said to his cowboy guide:
And are these Indians, progressing
".Betcher life,' the cowboy answered.
taking fresh chew of tobacco 'Betcher
life they're progressing. All their medi.
cine men are patent medicine men now. y
Evening star., 1912-10-06

after the faculty has placed the various
names of the eligibles in nomination.
Under this fiourishing plan they have
always had sound and popular editors
at Eastern, which goes to show that the
masses usually pick a good man If nobody
bothers them There are five issues or
the Fastener published each school year.
with a final number that takes the place
of the year book. Current events are dis
cussed in each issue. Advertising is good
and the paper has always paid for itself
The staff of the Fastener includes:
Editor-in-chief. Samuel Leonard: assist
ant editor, Reed West: girls debating.
Elizabeth Wilson; boys debating. Wat
son Davis; athletics, Thomas Fisher;
locals, Florence Little and Lawrence
Pape; exchanges, Andrew Bieserud, and
assistant editor, Chester Eakle.
The Western publishes eight issues
of it's paper a year, three more than the
Eastern High School paper, and its last
issue serves as the year book. This
years editor, Henry Leetch. and the
business manager. Allison Scott, have in
augurated a monthly business meeting
Evening star., 1912-10-06
ALONG THE TOWPATEH OF THE CANAL

seeing. Now and then l miss a trip be.
cause I want especially to go to some
dance or lawn party or church sociable
"Beaux? oh. dear. yes! The girls
the canal have sweethearts-that is, not
more than one at a time. Sometimes
he works on another boat. and then the
girl can tell that boat as far away "a
she can see it. There is a great deal of
waving of handkerchefs or aprons or
hats when those boats pass Most often
though, the girls sweetheart lives pack
in the home town, or perhaps he has
moved away to some town far off the
canal. and then a lot of letter writing
goes on Some of the canal men are
good fellows, while some OF them smell
OF mule.
Mosquitoes are pretty bad along the
canal but We protect ourselves against
them with netting. Have a glass OF
water. If pa We're on board he could
produce something better?"
Evening star., 1912-10-06
In Dry Towns.

A DVOCATING prohibition, conductor
\ of a temperance organization, said
to Worcester reporter:
And there is nothing like total absti
nence for encouraging thrift for making
people get on.
She smiled and added:
Its in dry towns. you know. that peo-
pie prepare most diligently for rainy
day."
Evening star., 1912-10-06
A Rare Vice.

= EORGE w. PERKINS, at a dinner in
~ Chicago, said of laziness:
"Laziness Is the rarest of the Amer
lean business mans vices Few, indeed,
are the American business men who re-
semble Bob Need.
Bob Need kept a grocery store in my
native Chicago. A little girl came in one
day and said:
Gimme ) cents worth of flour,
please
bob laid down the weekly, paper, rose
and snarled. as he shuffied toward the
flour barrel:
''Ah, amt there nobody what sells
-four in this here town but me?'"
Evening star., 1912-10-06
Concerning
Well-knoWn PEOPLE.
None Sold.

EVERETT SIIINN, the painter and wit
Il of New York, scored off an enemy at
tea in this fashion.
To this enemy. himself a painter of
the Bouguereau school, Mr.. Shinn said:
How many pictures have you paint ID
in the course of your long and honorable
career?"
Il haven't the least idea" was the
reply.
Mr.. Shinn laughed maliciouSly.
Some day, then, he said. III come
round to your studio and count them.''
Evening star., 1912-10-06

CENATOR LA TOILETTE pointed out.
- in an interview in Madison. the re-
stricted future that confronts the young
man of today, thanks to the trusts.
Barred out Of everything by these all
powerful combinations he said, THE
Young man of today is in as pathetic a
position as the young seal that asked its
mother:
".Mamma, when I grow up, what do you
think I'll be-a sacque, q boa, O mum. Or
a box of humble ear-tabs?"
Evening star., 1912-10-06

Cd that somewhere about each school he
would find a perspiratory young man III
tho demigod class who didn't wear
coat and generally behaved like typlcai
city editor when sending his sueordl-
mates on assignments.
Rnt what a blow the reality was-what
a blow, There was no persplratlon! NOR
do these high school editors order their
reporters TO do things lhdeed' theS
scarcely ask them to. Instead they rely
on that patent factor in all high schooi
activities school spirit.
The reporters report for the pure
sweet joy of reporting, for the sake oi
the .'old school, in the same spirit that
makes more spectacular young men set
themselves mashed up on foot ball heids
when they might just as we'll be at
home.
This quintet of youthful publications
wields a tremendous power for Sood-or
cvil-in the schools. The principals aa-
nit it, The athletic managers ADMIT IT.
The cadet officers admit it. They are the
biggest single influence in the schools
when the editor and his staH are men
who have brains and know now To use
them Aside from their general nflu-
ence they do as much toward the attain
ment of good English. Frequently the
faculty advisers do little edltins aller
the editor has looked over the material.
Conseuuently the boy or girl who gets
his ..story' past both of them and into
print has reason TO feel proud.
Another advantage of the papers lies
in the fact that those who are employed
on the staffs regularly get Il training
which aids them materially IL later theS
elect to go into the writing game Two
business managers of high school pubnca-
tions in past years have attained hlgh
positions on newspapers in this city III
addition a corps of writer's of fact and
fiction has been developed III the his"
schools.
These main advantages and host OF
less important ones do not alter the fact
that the young men on washington
amateur publications get ideas when
seem strange and wild to the professional.
unsentimental newspaperman. They nave
been trained to work as hard as they can
from motives of pure patrlotSm Inc
thought of barking like lost wolf for an
increase in salary does not occur Ihe
idea. of laying OUT the assignments so
as to minimize work is not in their minds.
One young high school editor not long
ago walked into the office OF newspaper
and picked out an editor who has a repu-
tation of being a regular Capt. Kidd with
young writers-in other words a man who
isn't happy until he has drawn pencil
marks through the best part OF the Ell
fusionS of cub reporters.
After talking with this slaughterer of
English for few minutes, the young
high school editor was given permission
to write up'' certain story. Turning
his innocent eyes upon the editor he
asked. hopefully:
..Since I'm new at this regular news
paper work. you'll edit some of my article
il it isn't just right. won't you?
The editor, who wouldn't have let his
own grandmother write two-line SEN
tence for the paper without changing 1t,
almost fell out of his chair:
.'Wha-a-a-at?" he gasped.
II say" said the young man placidly,
You won't mind changing my stuff
Evening star., 1912-10-06

HEN The Star man
set out to discover
thingsabout Wash
ington's five high
school papers-the
Review of Central,
Hand and Mind of
Technical. the Bal
ance Sheet of Busi-
ness, the Western
of Western and
the Fastener of
Eastern-he expect
Evening star., 1912-10-06

The task of removing the pitch from
the lake to the pier is accomplished by
unique methods. some of the details of
which the mate of the Uller set forth.
Extending from the weighing plant to the
pier and back is an overhead endless steel
cable. This cable is kept continually re-
volving over a series of pulleys, fastened
at intervals to a line of poles. which are
stationed by the road running to the
shore. On the cables are suspended large
steel tubs. which serve to carry the as
phalt. These tubs are SO hung that their
rims as they swing into position at the
weighing plant, pass on a level with the
top of the scales. AS each tub arrives
for a load the cable Is stopped. the ma
teriaI on the platform is piled into 1t and
Off IL goes on its two-mile trip to the
Evening star., 1912-10-06

4 FLEET of barSes i'll the canal
N between the Aqueduct bridge
and that part of the canal op-
posite FoXhall hill is one of
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- RESH from the tropical isiand oi
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rather large for this port-ieit