The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-20
WASHINGTON
By Roy K. Moulton
A Grccnhorn in washington.
washington. Februnjry !

Washington, February 1s.
Dear Editor:
Nooody seems to DO in a hurry in
washington. There 10 tho Senate
restaurant, for instance. There Is q
Legend to the effect that one of the
walters took an order there once from
senator. was arrested on his way to
tho Kitchen. and spent nlno years in
JAN. He returned to the restaurant at
inc expiration of his torn. got his old
!oo naok, served to order to the
senator. and was given an extra tip
Tor his promptitude. There was
another Senator who went there for
| dinner one noon and by the time he got
back to tho Senate chamber his term
OF ofI'co had expired and tho Legisla-
lure mad sent new man to take his
place. 1t Is suspected that the noted
Charlio Ross, who disappeared some
forty years ago, lie somewhere in tho
/ senate restaurant waiting for nm order
to DO served.
They take things easily In Washing
ton oven your money. They begin to
tn nix of getting down to business in
the morning about l o'clock in the af-
terhoon and OF O'clock they begin to
thihk about going homo. Some OF tho
stores are not open more than fifteen
minutes day, and some OF the restau-
rants remain open so briefly that they
WI servo only short order cooking
Even tho elevators arc slow. BY the
,ime get up to the third floor after
iuncheon 1t Is time to start down again
TO dinner. Tho elevator boy tells me
ne mas made seven round trips during
u ms ne and hopes to equal the record
! OF ms rather. who made thirteen round
trips, but hts father lived to be very
old man.
IL isn't easy to get In to sec tho
/ PRESIDENT One is Obliged to submit to
me scrutiny of two policemen on the
sidewalk In front of the executive Of
noes Then there are two policemen
at the door and four or five secretaries
ana clerks to get by. The two police
men at the door look for bullying
! pockets and packages. 1t doesn't pay
| 10 try and see the President when you
have a package.
Also, never carry the plug of tobacco
In the right hip pocket, for any pro-
: tuoerance In that locality Will keep
you at a safe distance from the execu-
/ tive Office. They don't exactly search
! you. understand, excepting with the
eyes and it pays to have the outlines
OF your manly form show clearly
4 bSn walk In with your hands in your
pockets. There is the only place in
Washington where it Is not desired
that you should put your hands IN
PoShets. AL all other places In
i washington you are expected to nut
your hands in your pockets about
every three minutes
/ have had the good fortune to be
able TO purchase at n very small con-
sheraton of SALTS the identical bullet
II which killed General Mcpherson.
! know Vt Is the Identical bullet for tho
man in the next room TO me has one
and mine is exactly like his.
] have also purchased a cellulo,d
collar once worn by Washington. Az
ter purchased 1t happened to think
that celluloid collars were not invent
cd until about fifteen years ago, and
went to the colored man purchased IT
from TO get my money back. claiming
i mat he had sold me the cclluloid col
:; lar under false pretenses. He said
That he had told the truth and that
I me collar had been Worn by Washing
ton-Booker Washington.
have just been through the Cor
coran Art gallery, but perhaps the
least said about that tho better. II Is
no place for the deacon of church
ana l VIII touch the subject but light
i ~. All the old girls are there-Vcnuu
psyche and all the rest-and they
ought TO be ashamed of themselves I,
| Is good thing for them that ,be
! winters here are not SO severe and
that the building Is heated by stean,
l Will tell You more about tho Cor
cofah Art Gallery privately when / sea
| you.