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of them are in the hands of his descend
ants at williamsburg and l have no
doubt but that they will in time come to
the library. Lyon G. Tyler. the presi-
dent of William and Mary College, has
charge of them, and he has promised to
give them to us
What other collections of presidential
papers have your
1--WE have scattering papers of William
Henry Harrison. Zach Taylor and Willard
Fillmore, but we have collections of
these presidents. The Fillmore papers
are in the custody of the Buffalo Histori-
cal Society and they will probably be
sent here after while. They are not
very important, but Fillmore himself was
not important. He was not nearly as
strong as Tyler. John Tyler was per-
sonality. Fillmore was in many respects
monentity. AS to the papers of Zachary
Taylor after his death they remained in
the hands of his son on the old Taylor
plantation in Louisiana. Then the house
was burned down and all the papers de-
stroyed. The papers of William Henry
Harrison were lost in the same way at
the time his house was burned. and so
there are collections of neither Taylor
nor Harrison.
* ::
We have the papers of Franklin
Pierce, such as they are. They are not
many and they do not amount to much.
President Pierce was q charming man,
and ! do not think full justice has been
done him. By the way, there is an in
teresting story told about him in con-
necton with Buchanans Inauguration.
This comes from a Mr. Gamble. who was
a boy at the time. Young Gamble and
his father had gone to the Inauguration
and after the parade We're walking home
They had come about half way from the
CAPITOL when a gentleman came up be-
hind them and asked permission to walk
along with them. They turned around
and discovered it was Franklin Pierce
going home on foot from the Inauguration
of his successor to the presidency. AS to
Buchanan, his papers are in the hands
of the Pennsylvania Historical Society
and are now in Philadelphia They ought
10 be here.
In looking over the papers of the Presi-
dents Mr.. Hunt showed me some inter-
esting letters. | saw papers of Andrew
Jackson relating TO his duels and as to
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manufactured especially for the purpose.
The writing is like copper plate and as
the papers are chronologically arranged
any period is easily accessible. These
beautifully bound and so made that they
will last forever.
Mr.. Hunt tells me that the collection
from the British archives is practically
complete. Similar work is going on in
Paris, where the copyists are collecting
everything up to the time of the Louisiana
purchase. in 1903. and similar copies will
be made of the archives of Mexico up to
the year 1Si1, when Texas and other
states became American. The work in
Florida was bought. so that the collection
will form complete transcript of all the
important documents pertaining to the
American colonies now hidden away in
the archives of foreign governments. As
1t is now the man who wants to write
about colonial America has to go to Eu-
rope for a part of his material. Within
a very short time copy of everything
in Europe will be accessible in the ma
tional Library.
x
1 asked Mr. Hunt if all this work had
to be copied by hand. He replied:
THE manuscripts which have come
from the British archives have all been
made in that way. and the arrangement
for the French archives is the same. The
Mexican papers will be copied in type
writer, and a great many of the other
archives have been photographed and sent
on in fac-simile. There is considerable
doubt as to the ACCESSIBILITY of using pho
Biography. Many of the documents are
bound and photography does not give
complete reproductions. Another danger
is that-the photographs may fade in time,
u-h
copying will last indefinitely. Another
objection to photography is that the paper
must necessarily be thicker than writing
paper and several hundred thousand
photographs would be very nnwieldy.'
1 looked over some of the volumes
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records were totally destroyed. The Sec
ond came thirty years later, sweep
ing away most of the Office equipment
and files Since then there have been
scores of smaller blazes which have not
done very much damage.
.'Secondarily. we lack proper accommo-
dations. Many of the rooms are too
dark to be used as offices, and Yet we
are forced to put clerks into them. The
employees are literally herded into many
of the rooms. and this condition directly
affects the efficiency of the office. Again.
portions of the building are damp ana
insanitary Yet because We lack space
they must be used.
when these conditions are considered
against the fact that the patent office
is the one bureau under the government
absolutely self-supporting and operated
at a profit which would look well on the
books of any corporation. it seems
pity that. up to this time. the govern
ment has failed to recognize the neces-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-26
THOMAS EWING, JR.,
Commissioner Of Patents.
photo by Campbell Studios.l

and to unifying the practices in the fifty
three different divisions of the Office; to
improving the personnel and the esprit du
corps necessary to the development of
genuine pride in the work which the
Office is doing, and to increasing the ia
ciiities for attorneys who use the library
and classified patents of the office in max
ing examinations for clients.
$50, you see. there is little of the pyro-
technic about my plans. It is the prosaic
work of bringing to an accurate balance.
or of tuning up, SO to- speak, one of the
greatest and most important bureaus.
from the standpoint of public and COM
mercial utility, that the government pos
sesSes.
Among the things which desire to
see accomplished during my administra-
tion Is the erection of q new building for
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patents stamped with the warning that
the validity of the patent and novelty OF
the device is not guaranteed by the gov
eminent. Many of the South American
countries, too, have no examination sys-
tenn.
1.-THE examination system constitutes
the thorough search of previously grant
ed patents and previously issued publica-
tons OF all nations, to determine the
novelty and usefulness. upon which pat
entability depends, of the device shown
in each new application
THE operations of the patent offices in
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sity of fostering the profitable business
which it already has by giving to II
adequate quarters.
To-day more than seven millions OF
profits show on the books of the United
States treasurer to the credit of the
patent office.
Il believe the time to be ripe. however,
when Congress will admit that the con-
struction of a new patent office involves
far more than an outlay of public money
without return.
When Congress assemblies I'm a bust
ness session I will urge legislation to
provide a modern structure. ] have al
ready taken steps to procure plans of the
offices in England and Germany. Last
session Congress went so far as to en-
power the commissioner of patents the
supervising architect and the Secretary
of the Interior, comm sslon, 10 draft
tentative plans for a new building. ana
the work will not he allowed to lag.
ASHMUN BROWN.
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a ND now the automobile, sport of the
n gay millionaire. reckless Jusger-
naut of the joy-rider and general
menace to the limb and life of the good
pedestrian-from the viewpoint of the fei-
low who doesn't own one-comes chug-
ging gayly up and takes its position In
the spotlight as the latest material factor
in the cause of temperance. The much-ma-
ligned 'fuss-buggy,' "devil-wagon." or
whatever uncouth and unsavory name Its
detractors may designate 1t by. has just
received the encomiums OF one who knows
whereof he speaks in this regard; for he
is no less a person than an official very
near the head of the customs bureau in
the United States Treasury-an official so
high that he declined to be quoted save
under the modest name of Smith" lest
readers might think him attempting a
jest in his conclusions that the automo-
bile had been doing good work for the
temperance cause.
Mr.. Smith does not own an automobile
himself and has the non-owners dislike OF
the honking horn that sends him skipping
to the curb. But he thus speaks of the
good work of the motor car:
IAN examination of the statistics show
ing the importations of all kinds of
liquors into the United States for the last
ten years reveals some surprising facts
During that time the country has grown
phenomenally richer. as Is known to every
one Now, while in the case of the
cheaper grades of liquors, such as beer.
ale. claret and the cheap and light Rhine
wines. the importation has kept pace with
the growing wealth, growing population
and vastly growing immigration. there has
been no such commensurate increase In
the Importation of champaynes and other
costly wines. Indeed. while some years
have shown a small increase, some OF
them have shown a positive decrease I'm
such articles. OF course. just before the
passage of the Aldrich tarih biz: there
was a marked increase of importation of
all articles that were marked for an in
crease in tariff, and these costly wines
were among them. But. apart from this.
the importation of these high grades has
been steadily declining.
THE decline has been SO marked within
the last year that my attention was called
to the fact Now, with the increase OF
wealth and prosperity one expects to ind
q greater expenditure for such articles
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-26
A Montess0ri Failure.

MFRS. RENO MARGULIES. head Of
IVA the new Montessori School In new
York. was talking about a woman who
had failed as a Montessori teacher.
THE milk of human kindness is above
all things essential TO success In Mon
tessori work. Mrs. Margulies said As
for the woman who failed-well. she, poor
thing has all the characteristics Of =
poker except its occasional warmth"
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of the question for the government to
ever publish them air.
Tell me something about the papers
Of James Madison?"
Our Madison collection came from
two separate purchases Madison prepar-
ed certain of his papers for publication
before he died. and Congress bought
some of these shortly after his
death. Later on he bought the re-
mainder. Then some of the papers
fell into the hands of his step
son. Payne Todd, who deposited them
with James c. Mcguire of Washington.
He had loaned Todd money and Todd
had given him the papers as security.
and when the debt was not paid they
fell into his hands. Later on the Nc
CURE collection was sold to the Chicago
Historical Society, and it was only a
year or so ago that l persuaded that
society to sell them to us. The heads of
the society were business men. They
thought that the Madison collection
rightly belonged to the National Lii
what it cost them. These Madison papers
comprised ITO volumes, and the items in
our Madison documents altogether are
In the neighborhood of $4,000"
and some which were bought from the
descendants OF John Quincy Adams
Many of these have not been bound as
yet. We have a large collection of
documents relating to Andrew Jackson
The chief collection left by Jackson was
given by Gen Jacksons adopted son to
his friend Francis P. Blair, and Blair S
descendants turned them all over to the
government about five years ago In adj
dition to this collection, there were a
large number of Jackson's letters and
papers in the hands of his adopted sons
widow. / bought those manuscripts
from her about two years ago, SO that
altogether we Shave now a remarkably
complete COLLECTION of the Jackson pa
pers. They number about 10000 docu-
ments or items. They begin with Jack
sons early youth and run on down to
his DEATH
How about your collections of Van
Buren,, Tyler and POLK"
Van Buren, did not leave great
many papers, said NJ. Hunt. He was
very cautious man and he destroyed
many of his letters. Still we have a
large collection which was presented to
the library about six years ago by his
descendants. We have very many papers
of James X Polk which the government
bought from his descendants. Polk was
careful and methodical. He saved letters
and papers. and we have altogether thirty
or forty thousands of his documents.
Among these is his diary, which we
ciety AS to the Tyler papers. the most
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Home, Sweet Home.

a WELL known lawyer was talking
"A about a brilliant but unsuccessful
disciple Of Blackstone.
His ha bits are to blame for his fail
ure" said he '.One of his remarks
illustrates his habits we'll. He said
to me in the Union Club:
"'Theres no place like home-espe-
cially at or am. when you've eX-
hausted the pleasures of all the other
places. and you're tired, and every
thing shut up anyway"
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and in the field of search required. For
example the number of United States pat
ents which must be searched before new
patents are granted has grown by about
100000 and the foreign patents have pro-
portionately increased.
Under this enormous burden. the dim
culties in the way of proper service to
the public have become SO great that
nothing but the most strenuous effort on
the part of the entire force can cope with
them.
Therefore, 1 shall devote my efforts
to simplifying the methods of procedure
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how he raced horses. There is one memo
randum made by Andrew Jackson as a
boy which gives full details of how
to feed a cock before you fight it, This
says that you should give the chicken
some picked beef cut fine, three times
day, and let him have sweet milk instead
of water to drink. Give him dry Indian
corn and little white bread soaked in
sweet milk. Feed him as much as he can
eat for eight days, and he will then be
ready to fight l saw also receipts sign
ed by Jackson showing that he was
good churchgoer while he was Presi-
churches and probably took the whole
family with him. Mr.. Hunt tells me.
however, that Andrew Jackson did not
stop racing horses when he became Presi-
dent. He merely raced them under an
other name. The last thing he did as
President was to make bet about Van
Buren's election. He never composed a
single state paper that went out under
his own name. Such things were written
for him by Edward Livingston. Amos
Kendall, James X Polk and others. They
wrote more strongly than they would
have written for themselves, but Jackson
was never afraid to take the responsible
ity. Mr. Hunt says that Jackson believed
in the duel and that he tried when pos
sible to be the challenged party. He
usually selected pistols and chose the
distance of from six to nine PAGES. Such
a distance he said put both men. on equal
terms the good shot having no advan-
tage over the bad one.
X
The Library of Congress has under way
a most important undertaking in collect
ing the material for our colonial history.
This is the having copied everything in
the European archives which pertains to
the American colonies. For some years
men have been at work in the govern
ment archives OF Great Britain, France.
Spain and Mexico. They are copying
government documents, letters and papers
of all kinds relating to the story of Amer
lea and to the American colonies. The
most of the English transcripts have al
ready been made. They begin with the
discovery of America and extend to the
peace of 17S3- They number more than
100000 folios and the copying has been
all done by hand on handmade paper
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TIA Il oil Cddy tolo
YOU something OF
the wonderful col
lection of manu-
scripts relating to
American history
which are now be-
ing gathered to-
gether i'm the man
uscript division OF
the Library of Con-
gress at Washing
ton. This collection
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How One third of
the Washington Papers
Were Burned - The
Madison Collection and
the 10000 Documents
Relating to Jackson
Stories of Franklin
Pierce and James Bu-
chanan-Andrew Jack
sons Duels = Collect
ing Raw Material for
Colonial History-The
Oldest Documents in
Existence Something
About the Vatican Col
lection and the Private
Papers of Calico and
Dante.
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len Secretary Lane
of the Department
of the Interior was
new in his position
he said one day
that the greatest
task before him
was to ind fifty
I a D u S q n d-doliar
men Tor .ive-thou-
-, .,'-tC n rs
chiefs of bureaus
nee then. in
the new commits
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Thomas Ewing, ir. the new comnhs-
sioner Of patents, he has found one. Mr.
Ewing is one of the richest men in the
government service. A successful New
York lawyer. he has amassed great
fortune. Accepting a government posi-
ton entailed a marked financial loss to
him.
But he is content. For years a leader
of the patent law bar of the United
States, he Is whole-heartedly devoted to
the profession. Now he has reached a
stage OF life where the future has no
financial terrors for him, and he has a
desire TO serve III position where his
learning and his training can be, as he
sees It. of the largest p:hlic rslue
Hence. In midsummer, he gave up his
promised vacation at his beautiful sum-
mer home on the coast OF Maine. aban-
doced further thought OF that shooting
trip upon which he had half promised TO
take his Oldest son this autumn. and
came down to swel,ering Washington to
20 TO work.
patent were awaiting him. August 10 he
stBned the first oEc of those. Oddly In
Keeping with the prevailing weather ut
that time. 1t Was for "muttied roasting
furnace
Mr. Ewing is what an undergraduate
would term shark on patents and
patent law. All his adult life has been
devoted to these subjects. Last year
when Congress was considering the Old
field bill. amending materially certain i'm
poytant provisions of existing patent
statutes, Mr.. Ewing was summoned be-
FORE the committee to give his views
and advice.
Perhaps Il is an exaggeration to say
that he has devoted all his adult life tc
the one thing. for he has other and wide
interests aside from his profession. One
10 municipal government. and the better
ment Of conditions of life In cities and
towns. He is not professional reformer
but IN earnest student of social problems.
who Is willing to do more than academ-
ic2liy consider them.
For example, In his home town OF
Yonkers. n. Y. he has been active In
municipal affairs ever since he took up
his residence there Twice in 1897 and
sUain In 1899. he was the democratic can
didate Tor mayor of the town. For six
years. from 1897 to 1903. he was mem.
Der OF the Yonkers school board and
from 1905 to 1907 he served on the police
board. Since 1910 he has been presiden,
Of the Yonkers tuberculosis Hospital
commission.
Another keen interest Mr.. Ewing has
aside from his profession Is outdoor ath-
lstics- He Is a golfer and a devotee OF
oluat1c sports.
Literature, also. is one of his loves.
Iook In Poet Lore and you will find nu-
merous metrical translations of the Hora-
t1an odes by Thomas Ewing. jr.." this
oame master of that dryest of all sub
5ects-to the layman-and one most op-
posed to poeticai fancy. patent law
Eleven years ago he went still farther in
lettsss and wrote a tragedy called iona
than"
vo1 some years past he has been presi-
deaf Of the corporation which publishes
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copyrighted, 1913. by Frank G. Carpenter.'
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Former President Taft Made Hon
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~. Cameron Forbes. the present Gov
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