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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-19

And to give outlet to his emotions he
murmurs between sips of fragrant coffee
that European catchword. The city of
the dreadful height" forming a mental
picture Of New York at night as tower
ing sky line shot full of yellow glare,
where electric lights shine through in
Vulnerable tiers of windows, losing them
selves in the shadowy blue and extin-
gushing the stars.
Figures are piled up that stun his
Imagination. The Singer building con-
tains So, DOB square feet Of glass, and 1877
tons of paint were used in It's finishing.
1t has lighting system of 27S.sO0 candle
power, sufficient for small city; boilers
that yield 15O.OOO0OO pounds of steam,
consuming 100000 gallons Of water and
500 tons of coal each day. 1t has ele-
vators capable of making 800 feet min
ute, travelling about 400 miles daily, or a
distance equal to about four times around
the world each year.
Most imposing of the worlds Office build
ings, just at present, is the Woolworth
building in New York. 7s5 feet high. and
the tallest structure builded by man. with
the exception of the Eiftel tower, which
is little over 9S4 feet in height. The
foundations of this building rest upon bed
rock 40 feet below the sidewalk level.
1t contains 1900 tons of structural steel,
100000 bricks. 800 tons of terra Gotta.
10000 square feet of floor tiles. 100000
square feet of partition tiles. and cost
more than .s12 900 GOO 1t houses small
city full of toilers. and embodies a formi-
dable transportation problem.
When such buildings line the narrow
city street and daily absorb and disgorge
their hundreds OF thousands into street
space that tens of thousands congest. and
into street cars, subways, elevated trains
and cabs that thousands overcrowd. a
transportation problem of appalling mag
nitude and perplexity must be solved
How will it be made physically possible
to deliver and take away these armies OF
workers each day?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-19
Need of Trained Men.

Fortunately. now these services have
more permanent nature. The questions
pending and unsettled of a diplomatic ma
ture between ourselves and other coun-
tries are certainly of Il sufficiently grave
and complicated nature to show the ne
cessity for men with a very considerable
personal and professional qualifications
for our diplomatic positions
The consular service in particular IS
growing and broadening in its duties, and
is already so wide reaching that the ne
cessty of special training has become
evident to the most superficial observer.
The entrance requirements should be high
and the permanence of tenure should
continue to be certain. The mercantile
and commercial interests of our country
are SO much concerned that they have
added to the demand for high order of
men in this service
The maximum number of students in
the university during the year was 1,341.
distributed as follows: School of graduate
studies 81: Columbian College. 35;i: Col
iege of Engineering and Mechanic Arts.
1876; College of Political Sciences. Sc:
Teachers College, 81: department of
law, 312; department Of medicine, ln3:
department of dentistry. 30; National Col
lege of Pharmacy, 81, and College of Vet
Urinary Medicine. SO.
Speaking of new buildings for the uni
versity and other changes President
Stockton saws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-19

sectarian university in the District of
Columbia appeals to all classes OF
students.
Buildings are needed for the better
housing and development of the univer-
sity. These needs include science hall
for the chemical and other laboratories.
an auditorium with classrooms, IL
brary building. besides requirements
mentioned elsewhere. Buildings ana
grounds, however. though necessary as
shelter. are secondary. especially with
costly architectural effects, to the need
of an adequate and competent teaching
staff. properly compensated for ther
work I. therefore, urge upon the friends
and alumni of the university, as directly
conducive to this end, the need OF the
completion of the fund now being raised
for general needs of the university. also
that for the endowment of professor
ships. as well as an increase in the gen
eral endowment funds of the university.
1.-The current year has opened with a
greatly increased registration. and the
favorable outlook should stir the frlends
of the university to increased enorts IN
behalf of an institution providing an
education, professional and general, for
those who, by their industry and capac-
ity. by their sacrifices and even by their
privations. richly deserve to reach that
attainment which is not only of service
to them personally, but to the country
of which they are citizens and rulers.
Renders Important Service.
Appended to the report of the president
are those Of the deans of the various
departments and colleges. OF particular
interest is the following extract from
the report of Dean William Allen Wnour
Of Columbian College:
THE facts with respect to Columbian
College registration and graduation en-
rendered to the District of Columbia
Practically half of our incoming stu
dents bring certificates from the CITY
high schools. In addition, many VINO
bring certificates from elsewhere nave
become permanent residents of WASH
ington. The larger part of the Washing
ton young people who study with us anu
receive college degrees would be nnah-
cially unable to leave Washington for d
college education. The absence or OPP
portunities for undergraduate higher
education in Washington would mean the
withdrawal from public service OF ali
that class that at present is quahhed ps
undergraduate university STUDY ln!s
would be a loss of considerable maSii-
tude in the civil service and in the CON-
mun!ty life of Washington. The 33o
students registered in Columbian COZ
lege during the year 1928. and inc
thirty-six students who graduated iroiii
Columbian College during the year. cor
stitute mute appeal against the aiiiluai
plan for a National University, coupieo
with hostility to this institution and no
provision for undergraduate educatioh:
columbian College is doing a service Oh
great Importance to the DISTRICT Oh ~
lumbia. An increase OF us resources
would permit this service to be rendered
to a much larger number at present
without the opportunities of higher edu-
cation. There is no other provision lor
the service we render. The Importance
Of mis- service to the individual and TO
the community is SO great that it dtsm-
fies all the college work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-19
[. G. HINE GRAvELY I'LL.
Daughter Hastens to Bedside Of the
Former Commissioner.

\ telegram was received last night re-
porting the serious illness of ex-Con-
missioner l.. G. Hine. who for the past
two months has been a patient at the
Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan.
His daughter. Mrs Frederick a. Fen
ming, left at once for Battle Creek. and
later his son-in-law, Edward +. Mertz.
also started for that place.
Mr. Bine is about eighty years old and
has been In poor health for year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-19
Autoist Forfeits SIS Collateral,

Henry w Zah forfeited 50 collateral
in the Police Court today on n charge
of speeding. Policeman Collins. VIII"
arrested him. charged that Mir Zch
was operating his automobile on 18th
street northwest at a greater rate OF
speed than twelve miles an hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-19
CITY PLANNING.
III.-0ffice Buildings.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

AS ruined castles and cathedra!s rise In
the minds eye when one thinks architec-
turally of Europe, SO one calls to mfnd
the Office building in like thoughts upon
America. The Greek temple, the Gothic
cathedral and the crag-perched baronial
castle stand as splendid types of the
builders ideals, while none the less splen-
did or distinct as a type is the American
skyscraper. With the evolution of ma
jestic, many-storied piles for the housing
of the citys business, America has taken
its place among nations which have ere
ated things original and pre-eminent in
art
Catching his first glimpse Of this coun-
try from the deck of steamship forging
slowly toward the Statue of Liberty, the
skeptical foreigner sweeps the skyline of
New York city with bis glass. and. held
fascinated by the sight of the groups of
wonderful buildings that lift themselves
as stately sentinels over the lower city,
he is startled into admission that the
imprint of her genius upon the gray-old
art of architecture.
In the grapple of more than half a
>HNAN-
among them those of congestion and ar
tificially enhanced land values, the ma
tons business men have solved their
part of the problem first and have
brought the skyscraper into being. leav-
ing the lawmaker and the toiler still
graphing for their respective solu-
lions, though apparently, now. with
bright promise of success. Nor is il
strange that the difficulty of office hous-
ing should have been worked out first II
a country whose genius has been the
worlds most direct business methods.
While the American skyscraper has
been the subject of much scathing rebuke
and lively apprehension, native critics ant
Europeans alike have Joined in reluctant
recognition of its impressive beauty
Competent authorities on both sides OF
the Atlantic have hailed in these chastel3
modelled, vast-proportioned structures g
new type of art whose glory is destined tt
live and vie on equal terms with that OF
the Gothic cathedral. the Roman bath
the Grecian temple and the Egyptian
tomb
There are many, however. who fear thai
the skyscraper has brought grave prob
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-19
Success With Architecture.

The division of architecture, which was
added to the College of Engineering. was
carried on successfully during the aca-
dernic year. and the guarantee fund
raised by those interested in the instruc-
ton In architecture was not required to
be drawn upon by the university. l
trust that architecture will remain a
permanent and successful feature in the
curriculum of the university.
Because of the cessation of annual
subscriptions for the special purpose and
a considerable reduction in the numbers
in attendance In the college, it was de-
cided by the board of trustees to merge
the College of the Political Sciences with
the Columbia College, and thus save the
administrative and other expenditure
arising from the separate organizations
This has been successfully done, the
Columbian College now offering the
courses III political science, history, in
ternatonal law and commercial geography
previously offered by the College Of the
Political Sciences. which bear upon CON
sular and diplomatic career. 1t is CON
silered that the courses now offered by
Columbian College will meet the require
ments for the examinations for entrance
into both the consular and the diplomatic
services.
Although the space assigned for the
library OF the department of arts and
sciences is better suited for library pur-
poses than any hitherto used. it is never->
theiess craniped and gives an inadequate
idea of the resources Of this library. \
separate frepropf library building is one
# the needs of the university. The space
now occupied by the library is desirab e
for classrooms, and could the library he
moved into building of its OWE, two
great wants would thus be met
Financial Condition Improved.
The report of the treasurer of the
university shows an improved financial
condition over the previous year, al
though we acquired the university build
ing and nurses home. besides erectins
the mechanical laboratory, with conse-
,luent purchase of additional ground.
The university, properly conducted.
has. first of all. large constituency for
its afternoon hours, composed of mature,
Intelligent men and women employed in
private and public pursuits. From this
body all departments of the university
receive the larger portion of their
students except that of medicine, which
latter department has adopted standards
compelling fuil-time attendance through
out the day thus ruling out persons
employed during part of the time. With
this exception a student capital is al
ways at hand giving us an unusually
stimulating and stable personnel to
build upon in the undergraduate, gradu-
ate and professional schools.
To these students can be added others
Young men and women graduates of
the excellent high schools of the pub
lie school system of the District of
Columbia. and still others resident in
Washington and the vicinity. The fact
that the George Washington University
Is the only existing non-partisan, non
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-19
Thief Steals "Griff's" Jewelry.

Robbers yesterday visited the residence
of Clark c. Griffith. manager of the
Washington base BAH club of the Ameri-
can League, 1921 Ordway street north
west, and stole about $50 worth of jew
elry. Entrance was gained by removing
a cold storage box from rear window.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-19
Grave Problems Come
With the Skyscraper.

the complexity of the housing question
territory, known as the loop, in Chicago,
there is contained daily working popu-
lation of more than half million people
Only the skyscraper has made it posi-
BILE to crowd SO many living beings into
so small a space. and the critics, with
seeming justice, charge that in necessi-
tatlng this daily conveyance of multi
tudes. the skyscraper has made the al
ready veXing problem of adequate city
transportation more involved. In like
manner they say it has added to the diff
ficulty of rightly housing the thousands
of workers who fill its halls throughout
the day. :.
1t has been estimated that the popula-
ito of the world could easily be contained
in the state Of Delaware. if it were con-
sested as are the people of New York
city each day in eleven blocks where tow
ering office buildings house them at their
work. And the critics maintain that this
overcrowding evilly affects the health,
education, transportation, home life and
government of the city*s 1t causes street
population to be large out of all proper
ton to the street. 1t shuts off light, air
and sunlight from Cavcrnous pavements
and from those toilers who work in the
lower stories. in the maws of the man.
moth buildings.
The city of the dreadful height was
a European coinage, free adaptation
from kipling to give vent to those
mingled feelings with which they pore
over photographs of New Yor1's twenty,
thirty. forty and fifty story buildings.
The European regards his occasional
eight-story building with suspicion. Ii
fact. in most of his cities there are laws
limiting building heights we'll under any
even modest pretenSions to skyscraping.
So the average European reads descrip-
tons of skyscra pers--cities within cities
with the same relish that he takes in
tales of Aladdin's garden of unlimited
treasure. Ills journals tell him that the
Singer building contains 1856 miles of met
al pipe: that its telephones. electric lights,
elevators. fans and clocks require about
1926 miles of wire. or enough to reach
the top of the Eiffel tower, in Paris. with
300 miles to spare. He learns that the
steel used in the construction of this
building made into three-duarter-inch ca
Bile would stretch 100 miles: that the
structure contains 5.0i', see bricks. which,
placed end to end. would reach more than
zoo miles or pave broad path more
than 100 miles in length that il contains
10l tons of sheet copper. j.3f1 tons of
mortar 2J6.fG1 square feet of metal lath.
10000 bolts a number of acres of terra
Gotta floor blocks, and he forms the con-
viction that. given a skyscraper or two.
he could construct a credible modern city
out of their materials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-19
Building Meets Requirements.

The building, 2023 G. street north
west, acquired by the university, has
now been satisfactorily arranged for
the needs of the department of arts and
sciences and from the steadily increas-
ing registration in that department it
Is evidently in Il situation sufficiently
accessible to students from the various
parts of the city. The payment of the
begun, and it is hoped in due time to
free the building and its adjoining
grounds from all mortgage ob1iga-
tions.
1T was found that the space in the
rear of this building was not sufficient
for the proper establishment of the
mechanical laboratory for the College
of Engineering. Additional property
was purchased and the building Of the
laboratory begun during the past sum-
mer. a special fund having been raised
Gen. Maxwell Van Zandt Woodruff. one
of the trustees of the university. The
building. when completed. will have,
it is expected, the necessary machinery
installed in time for use during the
second semester of the current year.
This erection, with its contents, VIII
give much needed addition and
restoration for the mechanical work of
the College of Engineering.
The want of a nurses home for the
hospital has been obvious for some time,
and as the building rented was wanted
for other purposes by its owners. a suit
able building was purchased for that
purpose at the southwest corner of 18th
and l. streets. This gives us the same
amount of room as the rented building
and is capable of extension.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-19

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-19
c. v. j. PR0SPERS,
PRESIDENT REPORTS
Admiral Stockton Tells of Work
During the Past AGA
demic Year.
MEETS IMPORTANT NEED
OF GOVERNMENT SERVICE
Growing Demand for Specially
Trained Men for Diplomatic
and Consular Posts.

The affairs of George Washington Uni
versity have prospered during the last
year. according to the report of Rear
Admiral c. II. Stockton. its president
just made public. The report covers the
academic year. ended last September.
The number of students enrolled and
the general activities of the institution
showed an improvement over the pre-
vious year.
President Stockton called particular at
tention to the courses for candidates for
the diplomatic and consular services or
the government. saying that sit is hoped
that the university will continue to play
a leading part as a source of supply for
these services.
There is no employment under the
government" he says, that requires TO
a greater extent educated men of high
character, supplemented by special tram
ing and knowledge. 1t has been refiec-
ton upon the past policy of the govern
ment that the greater the capacity and
success of a member of either the con-
sular or diplomatic service, duly followed
by his promotion. has by this very pro-
motion led to the greater possibility OIL
his summary removal to make place for
unqualified persons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-19

There are many, however, who fear that
the skyscraper has brought grave prob
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-19

lens with it,
that instead
of solving it
has inrraoSnI
The Holly chieftain., 1914-08-21
HAD LEARNED LESSON.

One hundred years ago the first
French parliament, after the restora-
tion of the Bourbons, was opened by
King Louis XVIII. At the same
time the constitutional charter was
promulgated. Considering the con-
ditions and sentiments of the times,
the new charter was of an extremely
liberal character. The king, while
maintaining the principle of his SOW
ereignty and free will, accepted all
the guarantees of liberty claimed by
the representatives of the people.
The charter provided for a continu-
ance of the representative govern
ment, consisting of two bodies, the
senate and chamber of deputies. The
freedom of the press and the liberty
Of religious worship were guaranteed
and, in conclusion, the charter de-
clared that no person need be anxious
on account of his opinions or his
votes.
The Holly chieftain., 1914-08-21
SHOCK FOR WEARY WILLIE
Man to Whom He Offered Advice Was
Distinctly Not Member Of
the Hobo Craft.

The superintendent of Michi-
gan railway was in Pennsylvania,
and one day he was looking with in
terest at some rails that had been
laid by machine on the Pennsylvania
track. He had been travelling. was
dusty and unshaven, and his hands
were deep in his pockets, as if trying
to hunt a nickel.
Suddenly he was startled to find
a tramp by his side, who said, ge-
nially: 81 wouldn't try this line,
pard. They're very stiff on de
Pennsy. Ever try 'em? Last time
| did was chucked off on my head.
Let's hoof it over here a bit, where
we can ketch de Erie. They's dead
easy"
The superintendent smiled and
said: 81 appreciate your kindly offers
OF advice and assistance, my friend,
but | happen to be railroad super
lntendent, and don't have to walk.
Whenever you're up my way I'll give
The Holly chieftain., 1914-08-21
PORK FOR THE DUKE.

Among the stories told by Lieuten-
ant Colonel Newnham-Davis in his
new book, 'oThe Gourmet's Guide"
is one concerning the late duke of
Cambridge. 1t is said that he, like
his father before him, had liking
for pork, and at one time word went
round the British army that at in
spection lunches it was wise to give
his royal highness pork chops.
Of course, the British army over
did it, and the old duke had SO many
pork chops put before him in the
course of year that at last their
presence on the menu was far more
likely to assist in the securing Of an
unfavorable report on a regiment
.L.c uaa their absence.
The Holly chieftain., 1914-08-21
AND PRESUMABLY 1T ROLLED
schoolboy's Full Permission
to Do So.

A few years ago in a small log
schoolhouse in one of our southern
states an entertainment was being
given at the close of the three
months school term. Many of the
patrons of the school were present to
see how their children would acquit
themselves. All the children had
given recitation save one large,
overgrown boy, who had been placed
at the end of the program for rea-
sons obvious to the teacher. He had
spent the greater part of two weeks
preparing his recitation. When his
turn came he marched boldly to the
front and in a manner which would
have been credit to present-day
political speaker began:
"Roll on, thou dark and deep blue
ocean, roll" here he came to a sud
den pause unable to proceed further.
After moments hesitation, during
which his face took on several differ
ent colors, he got this out:
"Roll on, blame you. roll on"
Then he sat down amidst the sur
prised glances of his friends and
classmates.-National Monthly.
The Holly chieftain., 1914-08-21

you trip over our road. Here's my
card and something to get a meal"
The hobo stuck the card inside the
band of his hat, and shuffied away,
evidently too amazed to speak.