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HANDBOOK COUPON.

Present this Coupon with two others and
as cents at the ONCE OF The Nev-York
Tribune. on the ground floor. and receive
"Harp.r's Household Handbook bound 10
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ALMOND AND CELERY SOUP.-Cut
in small pieces bunch Of celery. using
tho leaves and root after IL has been
carefully scraped. Add six peppercorns'
two bay leaves, tablespoonful Of onion
iuice A thin slice OF lemon. teaspoontui
Of salt and a stick Of cinnamon: cover
with a quart Of water and cook one hour
strain il and reheat il. stirring In
Gun 81 cream. teaspoonful each or
eo,r and butter blended together and
one-ouarter OF cupful or blanched
almonds that have been pounded TO
rasto Allow IL 10 boil for a moment or
two after the nuts are added. serve NeIy'
hot. with cheese crackers.
MOCK OYSTER sOUP.-Cut into thin
slices two medium sized oyster plants and
nlace in A granite saucepan. Cover with
a mart of liquid composed OF hau MIX,
hals water. and cook for about an hour. vi
until perfectly tender. remove from the
are and pass through PURGE sieve. re-
heat IN in a double boiler, add gradually
mint OF rich milk and hair pint Oh
cream. stir In, when boiling NOT, Two
Of butter cut into DTS, hall
a teaspoonful of black pepper. a teaspoon
ful OF salt and a pinch each or celery salt
and powdered mace. Serve with uny
oyster crackers.
BLACK BEAN SOUP.-Soak pint OF
beans In cold water over night: next
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Provisional Stamps.

THE Rambler recently wrote on the
subject Of United States postage and
revenue stamps bearing a portrait of
George Washington and made incidental
reference to "postmasters PROFESSIONALS"
stamps printed under the authority of va
rious city postmasters and affixed to let
tiers as a certificate that the postage had
been prepaid.
These stamps were employed when the
advantages of postage prepayment were
generally recognized and admitted, but
before Congress had authorized the adop-
ton Of the system-then called the Eng
lish system. The Rambler noted that
Washington portrait stamps had been is
sued in 1S45 by the postmasters at New
York city and at Millbury. Mass.
A philatelist has written to the
Rambler that postmasters PROFESSIONALS
were also issued by the postmasters at
Alexandra, Va: Annapolis and Balti-
more. Md: Boscawen, n. H.: Brattleboro,
Vt; Lockport, n. Y: New Haven. Conn.
and Providence, r. l.. and that they
were probably issued by the postmasters
at Philadelphia, Pittsfield, Mass, and
Washington, u. c.
Postmaster Merritt was consulted in the
matter of the probability of the issue
of a Washington city provisional stamp
between 1S4o-47 and he sent to the Ram
bier the following letter:
"Dr. William Jones was postmaster of
this city from July TO- 1S41, to March 81.
1S45, and was succeeded by Col. Charles
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White House Lily Pond.

THERE are larger and more fanciful
fountains in Washington. but proba-
bly, none calls halt to so many passers-
by and perhaps there is none whose COM
mand is more generally obeyed than the
foundtan in the semi-circular stone-p paved
and iron-railed plaza at the east end OF
the White House extension just over the
way from the west entrance of the Treas
ury. The charm of this fountain lies not
so much in the water on the water.
Six full jets gush up. bend over fall, and
splash back into the fountain basin with
a pleasant sounding patter and splatter.
At the base of the fountain numerous
small sprays contribute to the volume OF
water and sound.
But the fountain basin with its goodly
depth of green water is more than a
mere circular pond. 1t is a lake of lilies.
Big fiat, round leaves float over nearly
all the water while some clusters of large
leaves stand rather high above the sur
face. Blossoms of brilliant red and yell
low and blue and some creamy white with
golden centers grow there. These are the
exhibits which people mostly stop to see
1t is a popular show of pond lilies.
1t has been the custom of the Office OF
public buildings and grounds TO make
this fountain basin year after year a
pond lily show and about every species
nearly every variety OF the family
numphaeacea-if that is spelled right
that grows has been shown in this little
pond.
In other years descriptive labels could
be found there. but this season the specta-
tor has to 20 il alone and unaded. II Is
a spectacle that is worth the short walk
necessary to visit it. To those persons
interested in marine flowers or aqueous
blossoms 1t is worth a long, long walk.
THE RAMBLER.
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ships with a certain degree Of regularity
that the working force may be MAIN
tained This fall there will be four bat
tleships in those navy yards So are
twelve ships of the Atlantic fleet elimi-
mated from the Mediterranean cruise.
There remain nine great vessels that
are at liberty to go.
1t was at first thought that some TWEEN
ty destroyers would cross the Atlantic.
These little. high-speed ships, the dare
devils of the service. do not take the
waves OF. the mighty main with the same
degree of ease as to the dreadnoughts.
They are entirely seaworthy. but I'm
stormy weather they roll and plunge
and infiict great hardship upon men and
officers. AS the Atlantic is to be crossed
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world The recruiting officers have not
merely told them that they would see
the ports OF this nation and the Carib-
bean. but the charm of foreign lands
also has been held out an inducement
for enlistments.
And now the department proposes to
make good on these claims. Every effort
is being made 10 increase the facilities
for learning trades in the navy Life
aboard snip is being made healthful
stimulating and attractive. But navy
programs of late have included little
cruising abroad. The sailor man has
known little except Newport, Norfolk
and Guantanamo and touch of Vera
Cruz or Panama.
So II was determined that trip to the
Mediterranean should be made this fall
Pledges of recruiting campaigns should
be redeemed. Secretary Daniels holds
that men OF the navy are better sailors
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Old CAPITOL Gateposts.
WALKING down 18th street, and a

WALKING down 18th street, and after
" crossing Ohio avenue, you pass big
stacks of yellow lumber piled along both
sides of the street. Behind these stacks
are broad and deep red-brick buildings
where lumber mill work in many of its
branches IS carried on. When you come
to B street you stand on the line of the
canal that for generations ran through
Washington from Easby's point on the
Potomac to the Eastern branch at a
place now occupied by the sewage pump
ing plant, and these lumber yards and
woodworking mills are survivors of an
industry that thrived along the bank of
the canal
At B street a wide expanse of rough
granite block pavement stretches east
and west. but the smooth asphalt paving
Of 18th street continues southwardly on
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LOADING CREWS AT PRACTICE.

sailormen who struck out for the
west. from which come these great
ships. But a little to the other side is
Monaco where great Monte Carlo lis
tens 10 the seductive whirl OF the
roulette wheel. The ga me, it is figured.
will be little stiff for the modest
saiIornlan or for bis superior officer
OF the wardroom. who has to- figure
closely for two new uniforms year
Villefranche is a tawn of hI1 100 pco-
pie It IS thousand years old: its ever
nook and Granny breathes forth history
and the atmosphere of other days. 1t
boasts a stately bridge that was con-
structed in the thirteenth century. Its
gabled houses are of a construction of
the same period, and the Notre Dame
Cathedral began building in 1890. 1t is
the home OF the best of old France. and
a wonderland for men of the west who
know only the new. And the people of
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over washington. Crowds surged around
the wharves in the steamboat section
Of the river front There was intense
confusion in obtaining details of the dis
aster. and the story fills columns of the
newspapers for days after the monster
tragedy The Star was full of stories of
survivors, accounts given by ofncers ana
crew stories of the search Tor victims.
stories OF persons missing accounts OF
the official investigation and all the
grueSome appendages and accompani-
ments OF horror tale.
Before midnight of Friday. August $.
a rumor spread in Washington that the
Wawasset had been lost. That rumor
came, none seemed to know how or
whence. This is sometimes the way
with, rumors of great accidents. While
the excitement in Washington was grow
ing a confirmatory dispatch came from
Fredericksburg. The Star of August .,
1873. carried six columns on its first page
Of "The Wawasset Horror" an ac-
count that was accurate, except in the
matter Of the number of lives lost. which
was then put at fifty, but was later
known to have been much heavier, lden-
LITIGATION of the dead went on slowly
and in many many cases was impos-
Sible. 1T Is sorrowfully interesting TO re-
read the opening paragraphs of The
Stars first story of the tragedy. IT ran:
Last night about half-past IL o'clock
great excitement was produced by the
report that the well known Potomac
steamer Wawasset had been burned
down the river. and that most OF the
passengers on board had perished. As
the news flew from point to point the
excitement INCREASED and many fastened
to the foot of eth street to ascertain the
particulars The report was subsequent
" confirmed by an Associated Press dis
patch from Fredericksburg, stating that
the Wawasset took fire about IL O'Clock
yesterday morning at Chatterton land
ing and was entirely destroyed.
1.-THE dispatch also stated that she had
about $50 passengers on board. and that
between forty and fifty lives are lost
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and through the grounds OF the Depart.
ment of Agriculture.
The entrance to the Agricultural grounds
il marked by four tall, square. gray piers
of brick and mortar ornamental tops "a
description OF which Is not needed here.
A stout iron fence extends east and west
along the south side or the south flag
stone sidewalk OF + street You have
seen this fence many times as You haNS
passed the north fronts OF the smith
sonan and Agricultural Department.
grounds You have probably noticed that
duplicates Of the tall. square. gray piers
also stand n the southwest and southeast
corners Of the White Lot at 18th and l1tn
streets hut that they stand alone. un-
connected with any fencing.
The Rambler has previously written &c
the small stone houses at the northeast
corner Of 18th and + streets and at tho
northwest corner If 18th and b streets,
and has told that these had been erected
as gatehouS,s nj the western entrance
to the Capitol grounds when Bulliinch
was architect Of the capitol and that
they had been removed To their present
sites by col Babcocb, superintendent Of
public buildings and grounds. upon the
enlargement and read1ustment OF the
Capitol grounds in 1873.
The ornamentation OF the tall square
gray piers and the decorations of the old
stone houses are similar. This fact
arouses thought, and if YOU should eN-
anime into the subject you would find
that the stout iron fence had once en-
conpassed the Capitol grounds before
their enlargement. and that the tall
square stone piers had been the gate
posts at the various entrances to tho
Capitol grounds
The Rambler. looking into this subject.
found The following news paragraph
when was published in the Evening
Star November 3, 1873:
The old coping wall and iron fence
has been removed from around the Capt
toll grounds and deposited on the line OF
the new street formed by filling tho
canal. and extends from 9TH TO 18th
streets. Workmen under Gen Babcock
are employed in setting il up. dividing
that street from the Smithsonian and
Agricultural grounds. There will be
gates placed at 10th and 18th streets AMI
at each corner of the streets where tho
line of fencing crosses Is to be erected
one of the stone posts used formerly for
gate posts.
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and better citizens when they go back
into private life because of these trips
abroad. Likewise is the popularity OF
the navy increased, and this makes it
possible to fill the service with better
and better men all the time.
When the trip to the Mediterranean
was first planned it was proposed that
the entire Atlantic fleet should go. Then
conditions became so unsettled in Mexico
that four battleshlps were assigned to
those waters. The Navy Department
contemplates the relief OF those four
ships by four others by November 1.
This eliminates eight battleships. Then
there is the regular work in the navy
yards which calls for the overhauling Of
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quarters and food always ready when
purses are empty. No man need have
a care in the world. for his own ship
lies ready 10 bear him back to America
in time for a Christmas at home when
his money is spent
This cruise Of the great men-of-war
IS made TO redeem campaign pledges as
u were. Agents of the Navy Depart
ment have been going forth throughout
the land and asking Young MEN to en-
list for service at sea. They have told
these young men OF the opportunities
10 learn trades in the navy. of the sport
that Is TO be had in maneuvers at New
port and Guantanamo, OF the opportuni-
ties that the service offers TO see the
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arrangement Is more conducive OF a
good time than paying short visits to
q number of places. This latter ar
rangement causes the loss of a lot of
time from pleasure-seeking, for the ar
rangement and distribution of leave,
the getting settled into a roadbed. the
getting under way Tor the next port.
and the operation of the ship on these
trips breaks materially into the sched-
ule Of the vacation.
The assignment of vessels is most in
teresting from the standpoint of the
pleasureseeker. The Vermont and the
Ohio go to Marseille, France. Sailing
in past Fort st. Jean on the one hand
and Fort St. Nicolas on the other. these
battleships will anchor in the historic
Gulf OF Lion. soon the Rue Cannariere
will be thronged with hluejackets. and
from the southern gateway of France
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The flagship Wyoming will visit Malta
that island In the mid Mediterranean
which Britain has converted into fort
ress, and where a colony of Phoenecians
has been the prey of the Romans. the
Carthaginians. as we'll as the various
nations of modern times. Through all
the yicissitudes of these oWnershfps the
colony of the old east has preserved its
identity and Is to date as of old-of the
nature of its forebears. In addition IL has
developed most aristocratic race OF
Rear Admiral Badger on the flagship
will visit various points rather than fol-
low the program of the other vessels. A
call will be made at Naples and Mar
seille and at Eillefranche. An eye will
be kept on the various units of the ex-
petition TO gather them together for
the dash for home in time for Christmas.
OF course, il is expected that the
trOntinued on Ninth Page)
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which will sail from Hampton roads Oc-
tober % next, will be the Wyoming. flag
ship; the Vermont. the Ohio, the Arkan-
sas, the Florida. the Utah, the Delaware
and two as yet not named.
With these battleships will go three
new golfers, the Orion, the Jason and
the Cyclops. The bunkers Of the battle
ships will be full of coal when they
leave Hampton roads. With the three
new coal ships blowing in its wake, the
fleet of dreadnoughts will demonstrate
its ability to subsist for a three-month
cruise without calling in any outside
source of supply whatever. No ship
will take on coal other thar from the
accompanying Golfers from the time it
leaves Hampton roads until It's return. q
period of nearly three months.
The same is true with reference to sup
plies for the $500 men who are making
the cruise. The larder of all the ships
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X. Gardner, who served from April 1.
1915, to June s, 1S49.
Relative to the issue Of postmasters
PROFESSIONALS, you are Informed that the
Alexandria and Baltimore post offices is
sued provisional postage stamps. but
know of no such issue by the Washington
post office, and in the standard postage
stamp catalogue it is not listed.
Mr.. j. NJ. Bartels of New York, an
authority on postage stamp matters, was
asked in regard to this. stamp and he
stated that j. \. Luff's Hand Book on
United States postage stamps mentions a
provisional stamp as having been an
nounced in the newspaper press of about
the year 1915. but that no copy has ever
come to notice and that grave doubt eN-
lists as to whether such a stamp was
ever issued"
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will be full when the cruise is begun
The great cold storage compartments
will be stocked with frozen meat. and
throughout the trip the men will have as
good food as when in a home port. The
supply ship Celtic, which is the last
word in the way of an up-to-date refrig-
Grafton plant afloat, will accompany the
fleet. and from it's stores the dread
noughts will draw men necessary. al
though it is figured that the three-month
cruise could be made even without the
supply ship.
This self-dependence Of the fleet is in
tended as a demonstration of the posi-
bilities in time OF need. The fleet
wants to. show that 1t can go forth and
give an account of itself for three
months without the necessity Of return
ing to the home port There are few
campaigns at sea that would require
more than three months. Conflicts at
sea that would make world history could
be initiated and brought to a conclusion
world could be reached from our supply
bases and the force OF the whole navy
hurled against it without any occasion
to worry about food and fuel.
When nine of the great dreadnoughts
Of the Atlantic fleet steam out OF Hamp-
ton roads a force will have been set in
motion that is almost beyond conception
Each Of these nine vessels will represent
a weight of 10000 tons. The nine, to-
gether with the Golfers and supply ship.
would weigh more than 100000 tons. To
carry the weight here represented would
REQUIRE $500 freight cars, which, strung
out on the tracks. would make a line
thirty miles long. When steam is up and
these ships are moving at the rate of
twenty knots an hour. there is force
in motion that comes near being ire
Sistible.
On each of these great ships there are
about 200 seamen and petty officers, and
fifty OF those especially trained tech
ncians that are turned out by the Naval
Academy at Annapolis. In all there are
about s, 500 of these men of the fleet, eX-
perts in the arts of war by sea- full
blooded young Americans ever ready for
a fight or frolic. There are as many
able-bodied men in this expedition as
would be found in the average city Of
40 600 people,
Every man of them has passed ex-
aminations for physical and mental and
moral fitness. Every man has at heart
the spirit of adventure, the wanderlust,
the love of fight. Every man lives under
conditions that are ideally healthful, eats
three square meals of wholesome food
every day, does some six hours of work.
1t is thoroughgoing American mission
that should cause the pulses of thorough
going Americans who meet it plunging
through the vast deep. or see it's repre-
sentatives overrunning and awakening
those quiet European ports to which it is
assigned, to pound along for a spell on
the high speed.
The outing is in reality for the enlisted
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the seamen may have to leave and take
excursions that will reach to Paris it
self. and that will unfold all the pleas
ures Of the most pleasure loving of ma
tions.
The twin battleships Utah and Della
ware will take up their headquarters
at Nillefranche. that quaintest Of all
ports. located in France near the
boundary OF Italy Next door is Genoa.
whence came Columbus the first of the
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at the season when gales are frequent,
it was thought advisable to leave the de-
stroyers at home.
But all those ships that are not allow
ed to make the present cruise are to be
given later opportunity for cruising in
foreign waters. and some Of them are to
have the privilege of first passing
through the Panama canal an event
that will transpre before the new year.
They will go abroad at other times. A
trip to Scandinavian waters is being
talked of for next summer. The torpedo
fiotilla will likewise De given it's chance
for a pleasure jaunt that will be as good
as the best.
So 1t comes to pass that the ships
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port, Sandy point, smiths point and
other wharves not now touched at by
river steamers and the very location of
which IL Is difficult to determine by pres
ent maps.
Many Of the passengers lost We're
Neutrality-suspicious.. Many of them had
boarded the steamer at landings between
Washington and the last wharf she ever
touched. The loss of women and chill
dren was large and out of proportion to
The number of men lost. White and color
cd passengers persisted some by fire, but
more by drowning after jumping from the
blazing boat.
There was grief and excitement al
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Washington at 80 Saturday morning
bringing ten bodies-nye women and five
children.
A large number of the dead were buried
on the river shore and later disinterred,
and those not identifiable were Reinforced
in a little plot of land on the bank above
the river close to the spot where the
Wawasset burned. Whether the spot Is
marked the Rambler does not know.
The Wawasset was built at Wilmington,
Dell in 1853, for service on the Delaware
river She was chartered by the govern
ment for use as troop transport and
was brought around to the Potomac. In
1864 she was bought by the Potomac