Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-18
HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THERE
By Earl Goodwin.

the long-winded essays in the world he
| boosted the cub and knocked the knock
er. There's one scientist who sees some
thing outside the range Of his microscope
Talk is cheap-when it comes to being
| witness before the select committee
of the House which investigated the
GioVer-Slms episode and which made nat
| interesting report on the battle of Farra-
gut Square. Talk is cheap. 1 reiterate.
! were suopoenaed to appear before the
committee and who were furnished with
| vouchers for witness fees have never
| been able to collect their money.
Clerk Speight of the judiciary commit
/ tee acted as clerk to that special com
| mittee as an accommodation to John w
Davis of West Virginia. chairman of the
| select committee. and as usual he made
i out vouchers for the men who We're
called to testify. One of the first vouch-
| ers made was for that historic character
who was pruning the limbs of one of
Farragut Squares finest trees, and who
| saw the battle from the viewpoint of a
birding on bow. His testimony is GER
| tainly worth 50 of any governments
money. Other witnesses were of such
! finely grained quality as j. Fred Essary.
correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, and
| Frederick Steckman of the Washington
Post. There was another Witness who
has scared me out of mentioning his
name, but his testimony was quite worth
s. He told the committee it had sub
, poenaed him by mistake, but where's
my $2?'
When these witnesses went to cash i'm
| their vouchers they We're told at the
clerks office the House had not author
| lied the select committee to spend any
money. A resolution will have to be
adopted to unleash this large amount
| So, | think it is. In the meantime the
witness who has scared me out Of using
| his name says:
Amt it enough to make fellow turn
anarchist to think those fellows on the
hill get such good money for such easy
work, while us downtrOdden witnesses
! have to starve? If the government doesn't
pay me am going to see Mr. Glover.
| Eaid chap in the office of the House
| dsbursing officer - cents to swear to
| my voucher, SO / am a quarter behind
the game
| George O'Connor was in t he Lambs
| Club in New York once. Or maybe more
| than once. Anyhow, this story deals
| with only once.
| He was doing a stunt for the edification
! of some of those WORKOUT players who
! seek the unique in art. George was only
| there for the evening. and he was enter
! tanning in grand style.
| Along came Wilton Lackaye:
You fellows think you're a fine lot of
actors. don't your" he said, as he patted
deOTSle OH the Hedu, Out mere Is dA
! actor who is playing New York a one
night stand
And Willie Collier, John Drew Guy
Standing. George NJ Conan and a gang
of Broadway favorites all had to admit
that Washington's favOrite songster had
it on all of them.
A man in The Stars composing room
| says that there is young fellow in this
| city who recently met a girl. She was
a very pretty girl, and the young man
fell into the dreamy rhapsodical state
of one about to abandon himsen to COM
plete worship. Evidently he believed
| himself the only man in the world as far
as the girl goes.
F.! They went walking one afternoon. 1t
was cool and and pleasant and their way
led through Rock Creek Park. Now 1t
seems this young fellow is hard work
ing chap who'll be rich some day. per-
hapS, but at present he Is not possessed
of as much wealth as he would like. lie
laid aside all cares of the world, though,
and he and the girl chatted pleasantly on
a variety of subjects The girl expressed
herself as delighted with some Of the
/ tootpaths.
You do not seem to be acquainted with
Rock Creek Park" he said; have you
never been here before?'
"Oh, yes" replied the pretty girl Il
have driven through here and motored
through very often, but l have never
| walked through before"
After that the conyerS ton Jagged