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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

parkiets that have not been properly sur
veyed. tiny scattered bits here and there
which put together might make . re-
spectacle building site for one new de-
partment home Just how these frag-
+ments are to be assembled passes under
standing. and it would probably be diff
cult to arrange trades and deals to yield
the government space for its construction
work.
II Chairman Clark intends that hence
forth the government shall buy no more
land, but shall use the parks for build
ing purposes. an emphatic protest must
be raised against the policy. Already
too much park invasion has occurred,
through mistaken policy OF economy
1t is even now proposed to put the new
State Department building on the Mall.
without restoring corresponding park
area. Things have come TO such pass
that the people of Washington. recog-
nizing the urgent need of more puohc
structures. dread 10 see project OF
construction advanced. lest it mean the
further spoliation of the precious reser-
vations which are the chief glory of the
capital and which contribute so materi-
ally to the health of it's inhabitants.
The proper business course for the gov
eminent to pursue is to provide at one
stroke for all it's conceivable future
building needs. by taking as whole the
entire Mall-Avenue triangle, so eminentiy
suitable in every respect for this pur-
pose This land is already in measure
condemned for public building construc-
ton 1t lies most suitably for such use. 1t
has lain virtually unimproved for many
years in the expectation that 1t would
be ultimately taken for government con-
struction needs. In it's present condition,
blighted by this prospect of eventual
purchase by the United States it is
discredit to the capital, rendering Penn
sylvania avenue. Washington's main
thoroughfare and virtually its official
avenue, an unsightly stretch of checked
growth through the greater part of its
extent The passage by both Houses of
the bill which has already more than
once passed the Senate. providing for
the wholesale acquisition of this land for
public building purposes, would give the
United States abundant building sites for
all time to come. without destroying park
lands, and at far more reasonable rate
than the government must ultimately pay
for its land, no matter what may be
found as regards the present ownership
of scattered pieces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
William H. Taft.

His brethren of the American bar. re-
CARELESS of party. warmed to Mr.. Taft
at the meeting at Montreal He was a
toast. and was elected by reclamation
president of the bar association
The honor was well bestowed Proba-
bly,, too. it was most highly appreciated
by the recipient. If he were the sort of
man needing balm it would serve that
purpose coming so soon after the politi-
cal defeat of last year.
But Mr. Taft takes fortune philosophi-
cally. Good fortune does not elate him,
nor does bad fortune cast him down. He
entered politics with reluctance-going
from the bench to the Philippines-and
he quilted politics last March without
a groan or reproach.
Mr.. Taft is well described in the phrase
"a born lawyer He inherited his taste
for the law. His father was one OF the
foremost lawyers of his day: and this
son of all the children was most like him.
AS a consequence. the son was carefully
trained for the bar. and early made his
mark in the courthouse.
Some of Mr. Taft's closest friends have
always regretted that he was turned from
his profession. He preferred it to politics,
and had reasonable hopes of reaching the
United States Supreme bench. 1t might
be said that he was in line for the pro-
motion when Mr.. Mckinley found use
for him in another quarter.
An even then sit was not thought that
his judicial ambition would be more than
postponed. There was expectation-Which
he himself may have shared-that, after
establishing the new government In the
Philippines. he would be transferred to
the bench here with life tenure.
But, lawyer as he was, with the Judicial
taste and Temperament, he yet succeeded
50 well in politics he became for time
a fixture in that field. and passed as a
reward for successful services from the
governor generalship Of the Philippines to
the secretaryship of war, and thence to
the presidency Of the United States.
He is now back among his brethren Of
the bar and most welcome. He Is legal
fellow well met. He likes his company.
and his company likes him. Everything
Is his without contest.
The future? Mr.. Taft probably is not
worrying about that. AS lecturer on
the law at leading university he has
opportunities for great usefulness. As
president of the American Bar Associa-
ton he will enjoy a distinction highly
valued in the profession. He has much
to satisfy ambition; and II there should
be no other call for him. his days may be
happy, as everybody hopes they may be
long, in the land of his birth and his
heart.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
CANADA'S UNWELCOME GUEST.

From the New York Evening Sun.
Harry Thaw considers that taking him
hack over the international boundary
would really be overstepping the line!
From the Omaha World Herald
Probably Thaw would have had less
trouble had he gone to Mexico.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
Canada hasn't had SO much excitement
since the reciprocity campaign.
From the Detroit Times.
In the matter of Thaw and Canada,
something tells us that one of these days
the latter is likely to regret that IL didn't
swat. :,
From the Baltimore Star.
The Canadian authorities fear a riot TX
Thaw is sent back TO the United States.
And yet some people say spending money
on Broadway doesn't pay.
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Public Building Sites.

Chairman Clark of the House commit
lee on public buildings and grounds de-
Iares that so far as he is concerned
he government will not buy any more
land for public building purposes in this
city until it is ascertained whether there
is not already in government title enough
pace for all. future construction pur-
poses of the United States. This is
highly laudable purpose. but It may be
QUILTED whether 1t will serve the needs
of the government very well to determine
strictly to hold to the policy of putting
new structures, urgently needed for ad-
minstration. upon land already owned
by the United States. A witness has
told the House committee that undoubt-
eddy there is much land here and there In
the city. supposedly Of private owner
ship. which actually belongs to the gov
eminent. This is interesting. but not
necessarily helpful in the direction Of
providing the government with building
sites without cost. Most of this stray
land. perhaps rightfully the property OF
the United States, is in the form of old
alleys that -have been absorbed. little
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
Mr.. Bryan and the Campaigns.

Mr.. Bryan it is stated. will stump New
Jersey for the democratic state ticket. 1t
is assumed that the Presidents choice,
Gov Fielder. will head it. He has oppo-
sition in the primary. but is expected to
win through the presidential influence.
Whatever criticism may lie against Mr..
Bryan's chautauqua work, none can be
justly urged against his work as stump
err He properly holds himself at his
party's call. He stands at the head of its
stumping procession. when other help
ers fail and comforts hee," he sometimes
saves the day.
This announcement, too. is another evil
dence of Mr. Bryan's loyalty to his chief.
New Jersey is Mr. Wilson's home state.
and it is important that 1t go democratic
this year. A reverse would be not only
personally Notifying. but politically en-
barrassing. If on the first appeal after
taking Office here Mr.. Wilson were re-
fused Endorsement at home, he would
lose prestige throughout the country.
Mr.. Wilson's old enemies have not been
placated. The two "Jims'-Smith and Nu-
gent-are still in opposition. But 1t Is
likely that after the primary result has
been declared they will bow to it and go
to work for the party. They bowed to the
Baltimore result? Why not again?
But suppose Mr. Bryan is invited while
in New Jersey to cross the river and say
word for John Purroy stitched, the
Presidents candidate for mayor of New
York, will he go? Will 1t consist vita
his notion Of things to canvas in one
state for the regular party candidate and
In another state for an Independent candi-
date running against the regular candi-
date?
In New York Tammany represents the
democratic party. 1t is regular. and its
candidate for mayor, Mr.. Mccall, has
been regularly nominated. Mr.. Bryan, 1t
is true slammed Tammany at Baltimore
last year. but he did not drive it out of
the party. 1t bowed to the slam, went
home and carried New York for Mr..
Wilson.
The President wants Mr.. Mitchell elect
ed. It is with his knowledge and con-
sent that the collectorship of the port is
an asset in Mr. Mitchel's mayoralty cam
paign. And the asset has great value. In
OeeO, were MT mitchell u resign Ills leu
eral office he would injure his mayoralty
campaign.
There has been talk that Secretaries
McAdoo and Redf1eld. both New Workers.
would aid Mr.. Mitchell, but their appear
ance on the stump would be as nothing
by comparison with Mr.. Bryan's The
Secretary of State canvassing against
Tammany at the request OF the President
would create a sensation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
Moving Day.

Upon the step the house dog sits.
The cat Is sinking to and fro
AS up and down the stairway fits
A gang of men they do not know.
The gold fish on the sidewalk lie:
Smashed is their domicile 30 gay.
And everywhere you hear the sigh,
ITS moving day! It's moving day.
The parrot voices its despair
In tones which bring q grewsome thrill
The clock that stood beside the stair
Chimes on, with frenzy never still.
The cut glass and the kitchen ware
Together rattle in dismay
And father signs, while shudderins there
Its moving day! Its moving day!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
The Home-Comers.

Back they are trooping, the home
corners. from their summer vacations.
They are Drowned and healthy and
strong. refreshed by their outings given
wider views, instructed perhaps in many
new matters. with better concept of the
geography Of the country in some cases,
doubtless poorer in pocket, but richer in
experience. They have done well to go
away for time, though there has been
little need to flee from Washington on
the score of the heat this season. Most
OF them have perhaps endured worse
weather than the stay-at-homes have ex-
perienced. Yet whatever the climate it
is good for people to shift their bases
now and then, and the summer is the
appointed time for the. majority to leave
their routines of fife and go elsewhere.
Houses that have been closed during the
heated term are being reopened, fam
lilies are reunited, domestic pets return
once more to regular diet, premises are
spruced up, and the city begins to look
natural. There is a hearty welcome for
these returning travellers, some of whom
have been as far as the Blue Ridge,
others even as remote. as Maine Some
have fished and have wondrous tales to
tell. Others have suffered from mos
quitoes and other plaques and have sad
experiences to relate. All are glad to get
back to regular living in familiar con-
ditions. Home beds are best, after all,
and home cooking pleases most of us
better than the compulsory fare of coun-
try boarding houses and resort hotels.
And the memories of these weeks of sum-
mer outing will endure through the au-
tumn and winter, and give zest to life
and establish means of comparisons
which will make Washington seem like
the best place on earth in which to live
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
THE new HAVEN WRECK.

boast that they do things better over
there"
From the New York Evening Telegram.
Investigation Of the New Haven system
seems to result in a process of lodges:
Now the blame IL to be put on the Pull
man company, the engineer and fagman.
Go in a little deeper!
From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Wall street Is still using blood instead
of oil to drench the right-of-way Of the
New Haven railroad system.
From the Boston Transcript.
Mr.. Elliott will not be discouraged. for
he knew before he assumed his new re-
sponsibilities that his was to be mans
size job.
From the Providence Journal.
Was 1t the signal or the engineer this
time? The latest New Haven wreck
seems to raise once more the familiar
controversy t--t- -
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From the Syracuse Post-Standard.
AS Mr.. Meifen reads the papers this
morning he realizes that there are COM
pensations in retirement.
From the Albany Evening Journal.
Some Of the railroads may have had
full crews" yesterday, but there was
great scarcity of cars.
From the Pittsburgh Gazctte-Times.
An engineer who will run forty-five
miles an hour in a dense fog on rail-
road with old-fashioned signals also has
something to answer for.
From the Chicago Record Herald.
II they will tear up the tracks and de-
stroy the rolling stock they may be able
to make the New Haven road compare
lively safe.
From the Pittsburgh Chronicle, Telegraph.
That English railroad wreck. in which
fifteen persons were killed and thirty in
jured, puts big negative on the frequent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
new YORK CONFUSION.
From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.

From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
While Mayor Gaynor admits having
trouble from the injuries inflicted in the
attempt at his assassination, it is evil
dent that there is nothing wrong with
Murphy's nerves of any kind.
From the Utica Observer.
New York city, with fusion knocked all
to flinders and with all sorts of nomi-
nees for mayor. isn't going to have any
thing on Utica this year.
From the Charleston News and Courier.
Although the Gaynor home is called
Deepwell, it begins to look as il New
York's mayor isn't In such a hole. after
all.
From the Knoxville Journal and Tribune
The main feature of fusion i'm tine mu-
nicipal campaign in New York appears
to be webbing on the gudgeon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
of large percentage of the younger gem

Of large percentage Of the younger gen
Grafton.
We work hard. as a people. so hard
that we relax into lightness that is at
the same time not comparable to the
lfghtness Of the Latin temperament. We
do not enjoy music for diversion. as the
Germans do. We have not acquired the
community sense of folk play, or pos
sibly we have grown away from it in
our intense individualism. 1t is almost
impossible to present a large-scale festi-
val spectacle to the people of this coun-
try without evoking ridicule among a
large number. There is no general rev.
erence for serious things.
Take the matter Of spoliteness among
children. 1t is conspicuously absent, in
the larger cities Of this country. Few
small boys touch their hats to ladies.
They have not been trained to do it, for
their parents, possibly. believe that it is
not matter Of moment to instruct the
youngster in detail OF this character.
Girls acquire giggles long before they
achieve grace and department. The lit
tie folks pick up the jeering attitude of
their elders.
Is this phase of national development,
through which we as people must pass
before we acquire a dignity of bearing
and eliminate the careless manner that
is so noticeable in the eyes Of foreigners?
We are a young people, in point Of ma
tional history, but we come from very
old stock. There is no excuse for us in
our sources, but possibly our wonderful
development the richness of our re-
sources. the width Of our narsnncfiyos
have affected us. Nobody hopes to see
the American type become grave and
serious. unrelaxing and prosaic, but
that there is room for improvement, in
the direction of a broader mental range
and more wholesome mode Of diversion,
is unmistakable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
FOREVER.

She treated him as II he had
Been some unworthy thing;
1t seemed, indeed, to make her glad
To see him worrying.
She seemed to study how to make
His moments doubly sad;
She seemed to want his heart to break,
His sorrow made her glad.
At last, believing her to be
Unworthy and unkind;
He ceased his pleading, sensibly
Declining to be blind.
The moment that he turned away
And seemed to cease to care
She humbly called to him to stay,
And wilted In despair.
He tenderly forgave her when
Her tears began to flow:
For 90 II Is with maids and men
1t always will be so.
IS. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record aersld1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Worth the Trouble.

You go hunting every year,"
Yes"
What kind of game do you prefer?"
"Oh, 1 never shoot anything But it's
kind Of pleasant to come home and have
my family make a fuss over me because
got back alive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
Extreme Measures.

There's no use Of trying to deny that
women are sometimes little unreason-
able" said the mild-mannered man.
My wife made me do my best to ex-
plain all about a writ Of habeas corpus
to her.
Did you make 1t clear?"
I'm afraid not. She went around to a
lawyer next day and tried to obtain one
that would get me away from the ball
game in time for dinner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

There are men learned in the law as
we'll the science of chance who would
doubtless be willing to come to Mr..
Jerome's side with expert testimony
that penny ante is neither poker nor
gambling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

UIn order TO avoid DELAYS on account Of
personal absence. letters to THE STAR should
not be addressed to any individual connected
with The office. but simply TO THE STAR. or to
the Editorial Business Department. according
TO tenor purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

Unfavorable reports on the friedman
turtle cure continue to be made. The
simple and easily observed rules for the
prevention of tuberculosis. however, con-
tinue to be reliable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

Theosophists have colony on the Pa
cific coast whose idea is to create oy re-
incarnation a new race of rulers. This
places eugenics on basis of eternity
instead OF time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

1t is complained that the public does
not encourage efforts to elevate the
stage. The wisdom of the plain people
is not as reliable in the drama as 1t is
in public affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
Sad Mistake.

uncomfortable. What Is the trouble?'
Same old story, replied Senator
Sorghum. He insisted on crowding the
spotlight SO close that he got singed."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

There is an evident determination on
the part of Tammany to make an ex-
ample Of Sulzer. He is probably regard
ed as a ''squealer' who must be dis
ciplined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

In order to stimulate interest in her
trip through the United States. Mrs.
Pankhurst might be persuaded to an
nounce 1t as a farewell tour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
Expectations Of Sport.

And still there comes a sultry glow
That bids your whiting collar cling
And makes you VOW that shoveling
snow
OF outdoor sports will be the king
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

It is to be expected that the president
Of the New Haven railway will place
the blame as far as possible on the
previous administration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

\ life on the ocean wave cannot be
any more tempestuous than the life Of a
candidate for mayor of New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

The current news would be entirely
different IL the provision Of the will
leaving Harry Thaw $4,000 a year had
been carried out strictly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

The announcement that he Is planning
new steamship enterprises conveys the
assurance that C. w. Morse is still TAX
ing nourishment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

Some rather exciting experiences in the
past do not prevent Col. Roosevelt from
continuing to take a lively interest In
New York politics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

The world of pugiism is inclined to re-
gard Jack Johnson as a cloud on the
championship title.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
A Sleep Inducer.

That speaker is over-demonstratiye.
He lacks repose.'
We'll. he has to do something to pre-
vent his audience from taking too much
repose"
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Mexico should be convinced that man
who depends on d manana policy is not
likely To develop nations best interests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

Experience does not seem to have been
a reliable teacher In conducting the af-
fairs of the New Haven railway.
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