Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-03-24

it's every part is all one can write
about in a few sentences. Enter |
business Office which is considered
small and unimportant and we find |
clerical force of 25. Enter the public
library and we find in one reading
room 1000 people, and there are
many other rooms. Probably the
ton and Orleans might be found in the
various rooms and depar tments of that
one building on an ordinary day. There
is no use to try and describe the enor-
nous railroad terminals. Hundreds of
trains arrive and depart every day.
The little matter of barber shop in
one station employs 25 BARRIERS. It is
said you can buy anything to eat, drink
or wear without going outside the
Grand Central terminal
But l am in Virginia and only few
miles from Washington. | must tell
you something more about things here.
The trolley from this town into Wash
ington takes you past the Arlington
national cemetery and Fort Myer. The
cars run within a few rods of the
great Arlington wireless station of the
government. This is the mostspower-
full wireless station in the world and
from here messages to and from Paris
and other foreign points are transmitted
and received
l must mention the negro. There
are plenty of them here Like white
folks. there are good, bad and indiffer-
ent negroes, perhaps too many indi fer
ent ones. On cold morning 10 or Is
above) you see many of the poorer
negroes going about with bran sacks
and rags tied onto their feet to keep
them warm. Many Of them live in
very lily constructed and slightly pro-
tected shanties and really suffer from
the cold. The railroad stations here
are labelled "White,'' and "Colored"
instead of Ladies'" and Gentlemen
The negroes sit in the back end of the
car or have a special compartment.
But in Washington it is different. The
negro has equal rights with the white
man, that is, according to law. But
precedent forbids him from eating in
the same restaurant, being entertained
at the same hotel. being shaved in the
, same shop or eating ice cream at the
same place. To one unaccustomed to
these things they are very noticeable.
J Washington, as everyone admits, is
different" city. It's many govern
ment buildings, its unique layout. its
: broad tree lined Streets. it's thousands of
government employees and it's strange
5 government, all lend peculiar charm
: to the place. The thirteen colonies
rebeled from Great Britain because
we were taxed without representation,
2 yet people within the District of
Columbia today are taxed but not
4 represented. Congress governs the
2 city of Washington and the little
' District of Columbia but the District
a has no representative in that body.
4 Congress determines what expendi-
D lures shall be made. pays half the bills
I and tells the people of the District to
"dig down" and pay the other half.
f. You can see all there is to see in the
National House of Representatives in
s few minutes and the same is true OF
c the Senate. Unless something OF
: special Importance happens to be ur
] only third of the seats viii! be occu-
Nod moan bobird tho CANVAS &c
, more interesting Members are mostly
Z busy in their committee rooms anC
+ with routine work. AT the speaker
e desk is push button. In each Con
CHEESEMAN'S office and in the committee
o rooms, dining rooms and all places where
h Congressman congregate in the myriad
+ departments of the Capitol building
>. and annexes. are bells connected with
:, the push button at the speakers desk
= When a roll call is about to be taken,
f the signal is sent out by means CT the
y push button. Those gentlemen whose
- names come early in the alphabet
G hustle to the floor Of the house, an.
4 swer to their names when called anc
9 long before the Wrights and Youngs
are called are back at their work OF
r, may be halfway through lunch.
t 1t takes As minutes to call the roll
: Of course the Congressman enjoying
S names beginning with letters late il
q the alphabet, pay no attention to the
e signal until some half-hour later, wher
= they appear upon the floor of the house
" and answer to their names, possibly
remaining five minutes A series O.
It number of different happenings abou
IS to take place on the floor of the house
e 1t is not at all uncommon to Sc,
il senators (for about the same system