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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-10

Z LOWERS are planted in many recep-
tacles In Washington. but there Is
no use in trying to enumerate them. You
will see many varieties of flower boxes
and flower urns and flower tubs as you
pass along the residence streets.
In front of No. 15+5 | street A sheet
iron cylinder has been converted into
flower box or flower tank. The cyiin-
der was one of those which may be seen
by the side of a furnace, and its normal
function is to hold water hct or cold.
That is probably what this cylinder was
used for before its dedication to Flora.
The name of the foundry or the maker
may be seen on the west end OF the
cylinder.
The tank was cut away on one side
and set horizontally with the open side
up supported by a truss made OF iron
pipes crossed like the legs of saw
horse. 1t was filled with good earth and
pretty flowers are blooming in IL now.
This very prosaic piece of junk was in
geniously put to a poetic use.
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animals. the bear den and cage. the homo
OF the sealions. the parks of the wolves.
American bison, foxes and elk. the place
where the beavers work and the flying
cage.
Surrounding the map is collection of
excellent photographs. One picture shows
the flag staff Hill closely covered by
crowd, mostly of children. and the in
scription under the picture is THE Crowd
at the Geological Park Easter Monday.
1910" There is picture of the bear
yards. showing one of the furry beasts
posing for the camera, one of the flying
cage with its busy winged tenants: one OF
the yard of the foxes and wolves with
the sly and hungry dwellers there: por-
traits of tho Alaskan brown bear. the
male moose the frightful looking harry
eagle, the polar bears in their white
robes. the yak standing comfortably in
deep snow, California condors in their
youthful and downy plumage. the SLOW
going Galapagos tortoise. the zebra and
his fancy markings. the elephant taking
a bath, and a bull snake coiled gracefully
around a cluster of her eggs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-10
Zoo Topography.

THE Smithsonian Institution presents
to visitors within its grim brown
walls and quiet halls an attractive Zoo
logical Park exhibit Many spectators.
hat In hand, gather to study the pictures
OF wild life in the Zoo which are dis
played here. In the central aisle of the
main hall to the right on entering Is
large topographic plaster cast. the legend
on which reads: Modelled under the
direction Of Mr.. s.. p Langley. secretary
Of the Smithsonian Institution 1t Is n
number of years old. but always a thing
of freshness and interest to the streams
Of strangers that pass the portals of the
building.
On the topographic model Rock creek
is represented by strip of mirror, and
the curving. winding line is as bright and
shimmering as the waters OF the creek in
their happiest mood. The hills and wales
and lawns and the shady groves and
woodland stretches are all shown. In a
big glass case on the right hand of the
entrance there hangs q fine map of the
Geological Park. indicating many OF the
familiar things in that popular. educa-
tional resort. You can easily locate the
ONCE, the lion house, the antelope house,
the monkey house, the house for small
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-10
A Sidewalk Garden.
THE garden instinct is SO ST.

THE garden instinct is so strong in
some people that stone streets, hard
sidewalks, solid rows Of brick houses
abutting on the building line and the
haste. noise and traffic OF city thor
oughfare will not discourage 1t.
Fifth street between e and F streets Is
solidly built up on the west side with
brick houses. Residences once lined that
square and dwelling or SO remains. but
the houses are mostly dedicated to trade.
There is no parking between the house
fronts and the sidewalk. II there ever
was one 1t was long ago covered with
cement. The east side Of the street
runs along the grounds Of judiciary
Square, and to the southeast are the
white walls of the city hall and the
court buildings. and through the trees to
the northeast show the red brick walls Of
the pension building. At the southwest
corner of 9Th and F streets is an old
gray-painted brick with narrow strip
of grass within a stone coping along the
east side. A furnished gllt-lettered sign
On the east side Of the street. despite
the hard businesslike environment, a
green little garden lives. About midway
the square is an old fiat-fronted red brick
house with narrow balcony across Its
face at a height Of one story above the
street. It Is one Of those old-fashioned
city balconies supported by wall brack-
cts and having an iron railing at its outer
edge. From 1t are suspended baskets IN
which ferns are growing. BY the door
side IL q small space, the outer edged part
circular where the concrete of the side
walk seems to have been torn up 1t may
be that a little bit of some old park
ing was spared when the sidewalk was
put down.
In this very small plot golden privet.
arborvitae. ferns and ivy are flourish
ing, no doubt because Of persistent care.
Out Of the green mass a tall tree fern
waves It's plumes. This garden grew
along the sidewalk without the protection
Of rail or wicket or coping. Pedestrians
that way may brush the fronds of the
ferns with their feet as they walk by.
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locked up unless opened to explo1ta-
ton under the general mining laws ap-
plicable to and intended for metali1fer-
Gus minerals or placer deposits" Sec
rotary Fisher declared "the enlarged
application of the leasing principle to
the public domain generally would
more effectively promote development
and protect the public interests than
the present system"
This, in general. is the conservation
lists view.
Western states assert that the lock
ing up" of which Secretary Fisher COM
planned has suspended development It
is charged by the legislatures and pub
lie bodies Of those states that the gov
eminent delay is artihcially checking
the natural growth and expansion of
the region and the use of its re-
sources and. further, that by retain
ing such large areas of public land in
federal ownership the government Is
keeping this property off the state tax
rolls at the very time when a demand
for increasing state government ac-
tivities requires an expansion of reve-
nue..
In some quarters a demand has arisen
that the remaining public domain be
turned over to the states in which 1t
lies it being asserted that the history
OF federal government administration
has been one originally OF prodfgal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-10

OF the storm, but this chimney has never
stood up within the memory Of old in
habitants. 1t has been leaning Chin
ney for many years, but In view Of the
tenacity and persistence with which 1t
leans one would hesitate to call 1t a
docrepit chimney.
This old chimney leans rs much as It
did when 10th street was only 18th street
and no more, when the section over
which II leans was generally called Merid-
ian Hill neighborhood, and before rich
men began to build residences IN that
section.
Friends Of the crooked chimney felt
that In the late storm the end Of 1t had
come. They felt that its bricks and
mortar and its topping tile would be
scattered on the ground. But the Chin
ney never lost a brick. The picture was
made last Sunday.
On the west side of 10th street, at the
intersection Of Columbia road and Mount
Pleasant street, is a row Of small frame
houses They sit rather far back from
the street, for the line Of 18th street and
its grade were slightly changed when 1t
was made into q great way. The CHM
ney leans over the roof of the northern
most of these old houses.
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west, one sees through and above the
iron pickets OF the wall the familiar
outlines of the Walsh Mclean house.
fronting on Massachusetts avenue and
having a carriage entrance on 21st
street between Massachusetts avenue
and street. From Massachusetts
avenue one looks across the private
hedge into a large garden in front and
on the east side of the big house. There
is fair expanse of fine lawn. Cement
urns, benches and flower vases stand
out whitish-gray against the green.
All along the east and back lines of
the lot evergreens are massed. but
above these evergreens at the south
east end Of the lot you see the picket
topped brick walk This helps inclose
the plot of ground, which is guarded
by the wall and fence which you see
as you pass along street.
A policeman told the Rambler that
within this tall. fence-topped brick
wall is the playground Of the young
son of the McLeans-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-10

the brick and on this you will read:
Mount Carmel Baptist Church. Erected
1882"
This church building is now a junkshop.
The front yard. or parking. which mlght
be grassy. is bare. and stacked around
are bales of rags and waste paper. Ine
dim interior of the old church is clut-
tered with junk and around tine iront
door on week days stand nan q oo]en
pushcarts.
If after passing east along Is street 10
Sd you will turn south, you VIII meet
with another cupid astrlde a ooipnin, put
in this instance the cupid is panied req;
On the west side of Sd street between
and II you will come to fine gray stone
church building and up among the mui,
lioned stained glass windows you WIN
read this: Second Baptist church, Or
ganized 1S4S, Erected 1894" Next door
to the church is a small two-story orick
with a brown-painted wooden bay win
dow In the little front yard there Is
not much grass, for children play there.
In the middle of the yard is one OF those
been designed as fountains, but which
never may have played a fountains part.
On a big upright red cylinder, q root In
diameter and two feet high, Is an iron
basin about four feet in diameter. The
child's figure is without clothing. He Is
either riding bucking dolphin or stran-
Cling sea serpent. Decision waivers as
to whether this is cupid or young
Hercules. but IL is probably a cupid en-
gagged in more vigorous exercise than
practicing archery on hearts.
If you continue down Sd to III and look
around the corner into the shady yard
of house No. OPT III you will see another
OF these dry fountains, in the basin OF
which little child is wrestling with a
dolphin 1t is an old-fashioned frame
house, with an old-time garden. A circle
Of flowers grows around the base OF the
basin-child and dolphin and old trees
throw their shadows there.
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waste succeeded by one Of hampering
Indifference.
The western view. as presented by
resolutions Of various legislative
bodies. is opposed to any federal leas-
ing system. They assert that such
leasing would deprive the state of its
legitimate sources of revenue and of
it's regulative authority, placing mat
tiers of purely domestic concern in the
hands of bureau in far-distant Wash
ington.
Advocates of the leasing system, on
the other hand, charge that such argu-
selfish aggregations of capital that
covet the resources and think they
could get them easier from the state
than from the nation. It is also urged
that the lands and resources are the
property of all the people and must
be used for the greatest national, not
state. good.
To this the states reply that popula :
ton and development in the final
analysis are Of greater benefit to the
not used, taking the position that gov
eminent control and leasing would be
SO cumbersome and expensive and
hampering that a minimum of use and
development would ensue under gov
eminent leasing.
And there the problem lies.
1t is the big one which Secretary
Lane has on his hands.
-
Here are some questions that were
asked him the other day:
do you favor a federal leasing sys-
tenn? Or do you favor a revision of
the laws bringing them in accord with
modern conditions, but retaining the
sale feature. giving absolute title to
the property"
That" said he smiling. in response
to each. lis what am not going to
tell you now. See me in six months
and maybe then 1 can tell you moro
about what my policy will be. I am
learning now"
He is a sturdy, happylooking man.
face. clean shaven, that can break into
an expansive smile one moment and
drop the next into grave lines that en-
phasize q rugged jaw. Lighting the
dance with humor or become piercing
steel points as the occasion requires.
His voice is that of the born orator.
rich. musical, attractive. sympathetic.
'"This job of mine," he went on. rs an
administrative Job more than ANYTHING
else just now. am making this desk q
bureau Of complaints. / assemble about
it the men who are at the head OF the
several bureaus-really sort of cabinet
and I take up the complaints affecting
their bureaus and try to get at the rea-
sons. / want to know what justice there
is in the complaints
Then, too. considerable Of my time has
been taken UP seeing senators and repre-
sentatives In regard to matters of patron
age. I have enjoyed this. for like to
meet people. They are the most interest
ing things in the world. And these SEN
ators and representatives in coming to
see me about appointments for their con-
stituents are but doing their duty. 1t is
rfRhf that thew should come.
II ask each II the man he recommends r
one he himself would appoint were -
the appointing of1cer. Most of them de-
clare they would. and give me reasons.
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gcretv of INTERIOR Looking $50O00 $4,000 Jobs

Secretary Lane has an idea that In
formation and common sense are the
chief requisites in the conduct or an eN-
ecutive position: information to secure the
proper stating of the problem. common
sense to be exercised in solving ii.
Common sense has been the chief char
acteristic of his brilliant service on the
interstate commerce commission. 1t was
in 1906 that be was called by President
Roosevelt to Washington from his San
Francisco home to be member of the
interstate commerce commission. The
President wanted man from the Pacific
coast for the position. One day he ask
ed Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president OF
the University of California, If there
wasn't the sort of a man he wanted out
there. The President wanted some one not
affiliated with any railroad interests,
who was aggressive, fearless. intelligent.
neither a wild-eyed radical, nor A hind
bound conservative.
Frank Lane is such "A man. he is a
democrat" said the university professor.
grinning.
Mr.. Lane was appointed.
Soon after he came. to Washington he
began to be figure in the big news.
He leaped into prominence as wonder
full cross-examiner I'm the great hearings
then being conducted. He il Was who
extracted from +. III. Hartman the
ID.
Mr.. Hartman admitted that he would
like to acquire the ownership and control
OF all the railroads i'm the country, and
that he would start right i'm getting them
II the Interstate commerce commission
would let him.
How could We help it," asked Mr.
Lane.
How could you help it, repeated Mr.
Hartman. II think you would bring out
your power to enforce the conditions on
the Sherman antitrust act pretty quick.
II you will let us. | will go and take the
Santa Fe tomorrow
AS A result of this investigation and the
report which Mr.. Lane wrote. the gov
eminent instituted the suit for the disco
luton of the merger of the Union Pa
cific and Southern Pacific.
Railroad rate regulation is rather q
dull subject unless one finds himself di-
rectiy affected by the charges made by
the companies. But TO those who are in
terested Ii is intensely alive. II means
often the difference between poverty and
comfort; between the ruin of ones bust
ness. be that business merchandising or
manufacturing, fruit growing or farm
ing, and its success. Naturally, contro-
versies on the subject are fierce and bit
ter.
1t Is to the credit of Mr.. Lane that he
has the respect and admiration OF both
shippers and carriers for his long line OF :
crisply written, closely thought-out deci-
sions, in whieh the animating principle is
the good Of the whole public. He has not
regarded merely the individual interests
of the litigants before the commission for
more Is involved i'm all these rate ques-
tions than that. but has taken the public
view
Newspaper men who cover the in
terstate commerce commission are among
his great admirers. He while serving on
the commission. had the faculty of hu-
manizing the news. He clothed his de-
cisions and statements I'm terse,- clear
English, cutting away all extraneous and
legal phraseology, and making the promi-
CONTINUED on Ninth Page)
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A High Wall.

0NE of the high brick garden walls
~ OF Washington is that which a
passerby sees on the north side Of p
street after turning west from Dupont
Circle. II Is not only tall. red brick
wall. but 1t is topped with an iron
picket fence. each panel in the form
Of an arc. This fence would in itself
be generally considered as high enough
to give protection to a garden, but on
top Of the brick wall the impression
which the combination gives an outsid-
er is that he is not wanted within.
The wall 10 pierced in the middle oy
a narrow gateway. closed by q thick
and heavy wooden door. but which does
not appear to be forbiddingly strong.
The wall and fence are being grace,
fully draped with trumpet Mne' ana
despite its inhospitable air this wall
begins to present q picturesque face:
Obliquely to the left, or to the north
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Gilt Horse on Weather Vane.

THE gilded horse that once trotted,
galloped, pranced and dazzled on
the weather vanes above many Of the
stables OF Washington has become
rare. but he is not extinct. He may be
furnished. but he still holds up his
head and tail. He is not so forlorn
Joking as most Of his brother and sis
ter horses in the streets. The Rambler
early in the spring wrote an honorable
mention of a gilt horse on a weather
vane on a stable converted into a
garage on Columbia road near 18th
street That horse IL still there and
he still seems unconscious that his
neighing. nickering and champing
mates below have gone and that a
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house three stories high and four win
dows wide. and its number 1OO6 III street
Brownstone steps lead to the doorway
from the herringbone brick sidewalk On
one side Of the step II n bit OF grass that
Grows behind an iron fence. the dog u
stretched on the brick pavement close
I'D to the iron fence on the east side
Of tho entrance. He looks toward tho
west.
In front of the iron fence and grassy
strip on tho west side Of the entrance
presumably where the companion. dog
was wont to rest. is q green slat bench.
where jewellers In that house rest In
the cool % the evening, when II Is cool.
or the heat Of tho evening when 1t Is
not cool.
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tie taken away. Now the department.
is made up OF the following: Genera
land Office. Office OF Indian anaass, pen
sion office. patent office. geological
survey, bureau of education, reclama-
ton service. bureau Of mines. super
vision OF the territories Of Alaska ano
Hawaii, national parks. the preservs-
ton Of American antiquities. Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane. Freed
mems Hospital, Howard University the
Columbia Institution for the Dear ana
Dumb and some minor duties IN re-
gard to governmental properly IN 'no
District Of Columbia
SO far as the difficulties OF the sec
retary's position are concerned the gen
eral land office bulks biggest. IL q
popular belief that there isn't mucn OF
the public domain left, our our pu Weli
all gone. This isn't true. The latest
statistics show that there are remain
ing. unreserved and unappropriateu;
something more than seven hundred
million acres This is an area more
than five times as great as the total
area. Of the German Empire in Europe.
Three hundred and sixty eight millions
Of this is in Alaska, but the remainder
is scattered widely; For example. there here
lie domain in Alabama that no one
has taken up.
Then, too, one must consider the reser-
vations. Uncle Sam has some sixty-six
million acres of oil land held in reserya-
tons. about five million acres in oil land
Withdrawals, seventeen millions in coal
land Withdrawals, more than three mil
lions in phosphate land Withdrawals and
two millions in power-site Withdrawals. All
Of this is under the direction of the Sec
rotary Of the Interior. Primarily. Con-
gress is responsible for the method OF its
handling. but it is the duty Of the Secre-
tary to execute the laws on the subject
enacted by the law-making body. In
national forests there are some one hum
dred and sixty-six million acres, but they
are under the Department Of Agriculture.
In the years past Congress has been
liberal with public lands. For example.
it gave eighty million acres to the rail-
roads OF the country to encourage them
to build. The Northern Pacific got the
biggest individual slice Of this-thirty-
three million acres. Forty million acres
days to help them build wagon roads.
Seventy million acres have been given to
the states for common school purposes,
and thirty millions more for agricultural
college and other purposes. About one
hundred and fifty million acres only have
gone to hOmesteaders
Indian reservations have not been taken
into account in the above recapitulation.
InOuBn tncy are unOer the JURISDICTION
Of the Secretary of the Interior, they are
held as q trust for the Indians
1t will be seen that there are upward
Of seven hundred and ninety-three million
acres of public lands Of the United States
in the hands Of the Secretary Of the In
terror. leaving out Of consideration the
national forest and the Indian lands.
What do all these lands contain of
valuef While the work of classifying
them has been going on several wears.
after q fashion, there IL no comprehen-
siye scheme Of such classification author
ICED, although the last two Secretaries
OF the Interior have urged such q law.
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HE hardest job in

HE hardest job in
the United States.
L h a t i $ W h a I
Franklin X. Lane,
Secretary of the
Interior in the
cabinet of Presi-
dent Wilson, calls
his position.
NJ o n Z h s a & o,
when the person
mel of the cabinet
was in doubt, some
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STREET between
4th and 9Th is a
broad way with
many styles of
architecture lining
it's sides. Down
the middle of the
street is an as
phalt strip and on
either side, extend
ing to the curb,
the street is paved
with brick. On