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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03

the Brown office considerably. and had
difficulty in getting all their parapher-
MALTA past gates. into elevators. through
doors. etc. but they persisted. Their
persistence won the day. for they found
Mr.. Brown.
Then they made speech after speech
and if1plored him to Join their cause.
And at the end of all the trouble Mr..
Why. ladies. I have always been IN
favor of suffrage"
So there was nothing to do but go
home. Yet it is a hard matter to
your arms full of poles and banners.
They ran into brokers, messengers and
the variegated hurrying crowd that
PUSHES about in Wall street and the ad-
jacent thoroughfares. Billowing skirts.
flying streamers and swaying banners
attracted an enormous following, but
the streets were nothing compared with
the subways, where the votes-for-
women stage effects were nearly torn
to pieces in the rush hour crowd. In
order to be really democratic the suns
had eschewed automobiles and had
planned to use the marlborough cars
and canvass the passengers en- route.
These plans met sad fate, as the
knees refused to look up from their
evening papers, and a large proper
ton Of the girls on the train giggled
at the suffragists' efforts.
It was rather Ufmcult TO De QlSnlne0
in a swaying subway train. and when
1t came to making a speech to a tired
business man with the cars roaring
and rushing-well, it just can't be done.
Gertrude, 1t can't be done.
~
1t is high noon in the island republic.
the highest noon ever held on that
pleasant little islet. Only four revolu-
lions have been started since daybreak.
and but thfee presidents have been
dragged, willy nilly. from the seat Of
power. It is a quiet day.
From a grove of trees on the left one
could see the smoke of Gen. Pistaohe de
Cremo's army, as 1t prepares its noon
DAY meal. Food will be served to every
one: for once the twenty-five officers
and the three enlisted men will have
regular food all at once. Gen. Rocco,
once cook in a 7th avenue all-night
lunchroom, is at the head of the COM
missary, his badge Of office being fry
ing pan in which eggs are sizzling. He
is wearing epaulets. So is Gen. de
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03
A Careful Witness.
From Judge

From Judge.
BE careful, sir-be Very careful!
And remember that you iare on OATH
ominously said the pinfeathery young
attorney, whose brow bulged like the
back of a swapping turtle. addressing
witness Now, tell US. sir. was every
pane of glass in the west window bro
.They were on the outside" was the
cautious reply II didn't enter the
house to see whether they were also
borken on the inside"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03
Something Like Foundries.

From Judge.
What air them kitchenettes / hear
tell of In the cities~ asked Deacon
Hyperbole Medders. the somewhat hon.
est agriculturist.
They're the .places. Uncle Hy." ex-
planned Epson Downs, his city nephew,
in which are nodded or cast or some
how produced q nat dwelier's daily
refund ct uealettes"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03
Street Car Manners of Ladies
AS Observed by Mir. Reginald Sap

ing the brilliant band and treating 1t
in a way to give the impression that it
was two-for-a- quarter kind of cigar.
have. with my most ingratiating
makes a man look silIy-said: Ladies',
have I your permission to smokes? or
Ladies. may I be permitted to indulge
my fondness for cigar? or Ladies.
may I have your Indulgence while
crafty my only weakness or :. some thae
kind.
1.-THE answer has always been, Ger
tainly. Mr. Sap; always enjoy the odor
Of a good cigar or, If it will give you
pleasure. Mr.. Sap, will enjoy seeing
you smoke Often the lady who says
she really enjoys the odor of a good
cigar has a husband who sits out on
the front doorstep in his shirt sleeves
and smokes pipe.
But I came near forgetting what I
started out to say about ladies' bad
more space than she pays for and the
manner in which she makes room
when she has to-that a lady's street
car manners shine Respondent. There
will be half as many ladies sitting on
one side Of a car as could be conven-
inetly accommodated there. and an
other woman enters. Do they prompt
ly move up, or slide along to make
room? Never. in my observation.
They are immovable.
They may turn their heads to glare
at the interloper, but they do not bulge
an inch until the strange woman be-
gins to sit down, and then in self-de-
tense they make room and look peeved
about it. II the strange woman has a
market basket the other women will
not move until she Is about to sit on
them. But II pale-faced clerk with
pimples. sloping shoulders, white fan
mel pantaloons and a cane gets on, the
ladies all move at the. same time, ex-
cepting that the older they are the
quicker they move.
mo woman will stand in a car while
man has seat. He cannot save him.
self behind his newspaper. The lady
will stand in front of him and walk
on his feet until he gives up and gets
up. Then she may-mind you. she may
pert her lips and say, Thank you so
much! with about the same degree of
expression and emotion that a man
says Dark beer And then when the
lady takes the seat-and she often has
on tennis shoes end sweater-she
opens a magazine 1t an article headed
Equal Rights for the Sexes or 'Su-
premacy of Woman"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03

Madge-So you feel better since you
gave up dancing and devoted yourself
to Red Cross work?
Marjorie--Indeed 1 do. dear. I've had
my name in the papers nine times
London Opinion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03

EE007 oMENs manners on street
WV cars are not impeccab1e,"
w said Reginald Sap, a veteran
street car patron to Star man.
Sometimes I think women have the
worst street car manners in the world,
but am not going to make that state
ment. because 1t would provoke dis
cussion and cause certain and divers
ladies to make a number Of rude re-
marks at my expense. A man Is justi-
fed in making almost any concession
to avoid q dispute or discussion with
a lady. because she can think of more
impolite remarks in a minute or half a
minute than a man can think of in a
month.
when it comes to making remarks.
or speaking her mind a lady will not
fight fair. She has the controversial
tactics Of a savage, uses poisoned words
and will commit any sort Of verbal
atrocity. II a man has a blossom on
his nose she will refer to 1t. and II he
has anything on his breath she will not
fail to mention 1t. and will even exag-
gerate the volume Of the perfume.
while no man who has a glimmer of
gallantry will remind lady that the
rose DIueh OF her cheek is paint, ana
that her teeth are false.
so. In order to avoid a discussion of
the matter. am going to be very con-
sentative in my remarks. l am not
going to say that ladies have the worst
street car manners in Washington, but
am going to content myself with say
ing that the street car manners of
bad. But, before giving the ladies
their just due. let me say that in some
ways men go even little farther than
ladies in rude ways; but generally the
rudeness Of men Is unprecedented.
1T is not cold. calculating and DELHI
crate. like lady's rudeness.~ Men are
rude. as a rule. because they do not
know any better. and the only, way to
ners would be to stop the car and
knock 'em of or knock 'em of without
going through the forma1ity Of stopping
the car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03
HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THERE.
By Earl Goodwin.

the chagrined courier.
mot even that" Is the answer Of the
sarcastic Rocco.
Then I will return to my commander
and tell him. and he will Join forces
with the enemy.
do not let him escape" cried Gen.
de Spieso. but the alert courier had
mounted his steed and was soon wad-
ding into the forest. A rain Of bullets
followed him. Bullets were shot east.
north. south and west by half dozens.
any thirty Of which would have In.
fiicted a painful wound had they all
landed at once.
And ga SO 1t was that Gen. Cerise
column of Gen. de Creme. but seised
the railroad instead. and put pile OF
cobblestones on the track. So II was
that by this marvellous stroke of genius
he commanded the entire situation. so
that Gen. Rodoco could get no more
ham and eggs for his column of epau-
leteers He became the hero OF the hour.
the Toussaint fOuverture for the day.
Cacos came to him in droves. and by
the next morning he had an army Of
almost 400 hardened mflitarists. All
shoeless, and none afraid to die X he
could but get meal first.
Meantime the railroad was effectually
blocked. The engine had drawn its
train as far as the cobblestones. and
the engineer had gene to sleep until
the revolution should come to an end.
Meantime the army OF Gen. Cerise
stacked arms showing the grandese
collection of ex-rifies seen since the
days of Bunker Hill.
But what is this stir just over the
hill? There is the sound of hring from
the outposts, and soon voice 10 heard
to say in rapid English:
stop that nonsense; you'll hurt
somebody"
The army huddles. As It crouches be-
hind it's barricade Of salmon cans,
three large. brutal looking men in
khaki appear. They walk straight up
to Gen. Cerise. and one can see that
rine Corps:
Get them stones on that track there
and send this gang home. You're In
terfering too much around here. II
you want to have a revolution, 60 on
over to the other side Of the island
and play. Here. Take this chew Of to-
bacco and beat It,"
And SO one more revolution 10
sQuashed.
Along with the announcement that
Mr.. and Mrs. Money have celebrated
their silver anniversary (no 16-to-1
stun now comes Larry Linthicum with
the information that there IL q freight
boat on the Potomac with q captain
named Tonnage.
In the Navy Department there 10 q
register which 10 signed daily by all
naval officers passing through the city.
The register Is opposite the pressroom
at the department, and CONSERVATION
reigned among the young gentlemen
OF the press one day last week whom
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03

Ten years later the dow Of money
through his hands had increased to
$241. osS.ooo. By 1904 the amount had
grown to $ss7,o2s. 600. Another decade
registered an equally surprising IN
through the nations cashroom. They
passed the billion mark in 1913, during
which year Maj. ouaiffe. In his little
cubbyhole. directed the course OF 81
o41. 100000. This IL the measure OF the
growth in the use Of currency in the
United States in thirty years.
It Is withal considerable business
that Uncle Sam does in transacting the
affairs Of the nation. He has $500 dis
bursting officers who are authorised to
issue checks against this his central
bank. These orders are is:sled against
the treasure house at the rate OF 10000
a day..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03
In the matter Of pensions alone. $780,
100000 a year is paid to old soldiers
sc a tt q r
Over Billion in Gold about the
81. country, all
0LVICV In Oue 1VVA. of 1t coming

Over Billion in Gold about the
Stored in One Room. Of it coming
from this little cashroom- For the
multitudinous task Of distributing the
mails of the nation there are 900
checks a year issued In payment
against this the bank Of the United
States.
There is in circulation among the peo-
pie of the United States today $1.142.-
o00.00 in gold certificates. The public
to its paper money to know which are
gold certificates, which are silver cer-
'tificates ;sld which are United States
notes. But there are out among the
gold certificates. for which there is
deposited in the Treasury the actual
gold money for their redemption.
Then there is out among the people
silver dollars are held here for their
$685.. 100000 of United States notes; This
paper was issued during the civil war
and had nothing back of 1t but the gov
ernment's promise to pay. AS there
seemed no reason for not doing SO, the
government has continued for ATTY
years to use this extension OF Its ctrcu-
lating medium. But In order tnat tn y
currency might be placed on basis OF
ago put aside $50. 100000 in gold to
guarantee 1t.
These three classes of paper money.
with that which national and reserve
banks are allowed to issue under their
own names. make up the total OF paper
money in circulation.
| With the exception Of the notes issued
by the banks, all these come through
| the Treasury cashroom. Not only this,
but when bills get soiled or worn they
may be sent to the Treasury and new
money will be issued In their stead.
This new money, issued in lieu OF old.
masses through the cashroom and con-
| tributes to the constant stream OF
wealth that flows through 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03
III CIIe
Three Millions Daily Maj.
Handled by One Man. 49, q II

every year than will Carnegie and
Rockefeller in all their lives. More
than 100000 a day passes through
his hands. This does not mean that he
merely has supervision over a system
of bookkeeping through which :a.000.-
900 in figures passes each day, but that
he actually handles it in cash.
Maj. Quaiffe. as very young man,
served three years in the army during
the civil war. When he was mustered
out he came to Washington and got a
job under Francis E. Spinner. then
treasurer Of the United States. He was
later President Cleveland asked Conrad
Jordan, another treasurer, II he could
not advance Quaiffe. The treasurer OBJ
tanned through Congress a new post
for him. that of vault clerk. He has
held it for thirty years. He has I'M
doubtedly handled more actual money
than any other man who ever lived.
Mai. -Quaiffe took charge of the
money vaults, where he now presides.
in 1854. He stands at high table in
literally surrounded by millions.
The paper money is received from the
bureau of engraving and printing in
packages the size Of eight-inch cubes.
There are 1000 bills in each package.
The values of packages depend on the
denominations of the bills they con-
tain. If they are 81 bills a package of
them is worth $4,000, while II they are
$50 bills it is worth $4,000. There is
one prize package which is made up of
$4,000 bills, and therefore worth
sac, 900, 900. A few people who have
influence at court may get into vault
No ~. may hold this twelve-pound
package in their hands and attempt to
think in the terms of the wealth 1t rep
resents.
st aiilt ha tUa decara tians
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03
FRENCH TOWN OF LENS
HASEVENTFULH|STORY
It's Grounds frequently Fought Over
in Wars Of Fifteenth, Sixteenth
and Seventeenth Centuries.

Lens, toward which the French re-
Gently made a tremendous drive on
their way northeastward in the direc-
ton of Lille, forms the subject of a
primer on war geography issued by
the National Geographic Society.
Lens is strong iron and steel CEN
ter. Its great iron foundries supplied
considerable part of the French
trade in peace times, and its engineer
ing works ranked high among similar
Industries. There is also a large fac
tory for the production of steel cables
among it's establishments.
1.-The place is not upon the tourists
map of France, however, for 1t is a
strictly modern business town. and.
and beyond it,. was full of restless en-
ergy, of the unlovely noise and CRIME
of factories and of the unattractive
commonplaces of labor and commerce.
Region an Industrial One.
1.-THE region all around is an indus
trial one. Through this district of the
department of Pas de Calais run large
coal fields.
Lens is, one of the centers of coal
mining. The town is situated thirteen
miles north-northeast of Arras, around
which latter place the French and
Germans have been fighting with IN
creasing bitterness for months.
1T is connected by branch line rail-
ways with Arras and st. Pol and Be-
with Lille, twenty-five miles to the
northeast. Lille is a railway center
and a manufacturing town of first i'm
portance.
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Cashroom Once Used
for Inaugural Ball.

one of his inaugural balls.
Inside are plain iron gratings, a bit
rusty looking, separating the tellers
and clerks, some desks and high stools.
There is not a piece of mahogany. nor
a cushioned chair in the Bank of the
United States. Thirty clerks handle the
flow of the nations money and direct
the channels into which it shall pass.
Then there is Maj. Alfred r. Quaiffe.
the vault clerk, who occupies the high
desk at the end of the room. but spends
much of his time in the cash vaults
just beyond. AS a matter of fact, there
is network of vaults surrounding this
simple cashroom. There are the great
reserve vaults, for instance into which
the new money is put when 1t is first
printed, and allowed to stand while the
ink on it dries and hardens. Into this
vault has gone every piece Of United
States paper currency that the people
of this generation have stuffed into
their pockets. There Is the cash vault.
where the current funds for the daily
business of the government are kept
and the $42O,0O0,00O held in reserve.
Then there are the underground storage
vaults where lies $157.000,000 in silver
coin, stacked up like sacks of wheat in
a long, dark granary. Here labors
Jansen, a big Swede, who has devel-
oped a peculiar skill in stacking coin
sacks. which are treacherous and prone
to slide and tumble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03

The register contained the name q
Admiral Won TtYpitE.
one of them discovered the register
contained the name of admiral Won
Tfrpitz commander of the German SUBJ
marine fleet" and the further informa-
ton that the admiral was here to see
the President.
The humorist who wrote this name on
the register has escaped without detee-
ton 30 far.
+ 4
That aggregation OF full-o-peps that
left Washington two weeks ago for a
tour of the neighboring
towns for the purpose Of boosting
Washington Is not in II with the staid
old veteran of the civil war who is
boosting himself out in Indiana this
very minute. This old boy has designed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03
Only Bill of Its Kind
Seen in Cashroom.

is to show the curious just how these
biggest denominations look, as few
people are ever likely to see, let alone
possess, one of them. One of these
$4,000 bills is curiosity because it is
a greenback no longer made. This is
the only place in the world where one
of this issue may be seen.
The other decoration hanging on the
door jamb is statement of the amount
of money Maj. Quaiffe has handled dur
ing the various years of his service.
In his first year as vault clerk he
handled sl65, 900. That was in 1884.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03
THE NATIONS CLASSROOM
By Frederic J. Haskin.

In these days when the talk Of the
world is national and international
finance, it may be interesting to make
a pilgrimage to the holy of financial
holes, the marble cashroom in the
national treasury. Here is the very
heart of the actual bank of the United
States, where all the currency of the
federal government is issued. and new
bills are given out for old ones that
have been sent in for destruction. Here
is the headquarters for the payment
of vouchers issued by all Of the dis
bursting officers of Uncle Sam.
The Treasury Department Is COM
plicated organization, having to do with
the administration of many govern
ment bureaus, with mints and sub
treasures throughout the country, with
the collection of taxes, the direction of
policies. But this cashroom is the
source Of its very life blood. It is the
Treasury in it's simplest form, for here
is the source Of the payment of all
government obligations. This one room
bears the label, Treasury of the United
States"
This bank is the richest in the world
for back of it is the robust nation Of
the west, to which the whole world
looks in a crisis such as the present.
One enters this financial valhalla by
a commonplace side door leading from
a gloomy corridor. There are clerks
in black alpaca coats working at an
cient desks. You approach high, iron
gate which unlatches from the inside.
If you have a right to admittance the
door swings slowly on it's massive
hinges.
The cashroom itself has more am
bilious appearance. This part OF the
Treasury building was put up in the
five years that followed the close of the
civil war The cashroom was erected
for the purpose it serves. 1t is the
most ambitious room in all the great
building-high vaulted. lined with the
finest of marbles, rich in interior deco
ration and fringed with bronze gal
lery from which visitors may look
down upon its operations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03

Along with the announcement that
Mr.. and Mrs. Money have celebrated
their silver anniversary (no 16-to-1
stun now) comes Larry Linthicum with
the information that there IL q freight
boat on the Potomac with q captain
named Tonnage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03
War Deadly to All.

But all this J., speculation. The fact.
obvious to those who look below the
surface. Is that every belligerent power
is carrying on a war deadly to itself;
that bankruptcy looms ahead; that in
dustrial revolt threatens, not at the
moment, that in a none too distant flu
ture: that racial stocks are being ir-
reparably depleted.
There is every reason to believe that
a vigorous initiative by representatives
of the neutral powers of the world
could at this moment begin move
toward negotiations and lead the way
to settlement which shall be step
tiward a nobler and more intelligent
civilization than we have yet enjoyed"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03

In the Navy Department there 10 q
register which 10 signed daily by all
naval officers passing through the city.
at the department, and conformation
reigned among the young gentlemen
OF the press one day last week whom
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03

Altogether, this is an atmosphere of
such as Is breathed by few men
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03

1t is a two-story room, some seventy
feet long and thirty wide, not over
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03

The cash vault has two decorations.
One of them Is a little frame which
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-01-29
DARKEY CARRIED
A SACK OF JUNK

Isaac McCaslxilI, colored, was sent
to the police station at $3.50 o'clock
yesterday afternoon as a dangerous
and suspicious character, having been
found on East Garden street by OFF,
Ger Donelson carrying a sack well
filed with copper wire and junk of
various kinds, the possession of which
he could offer no satisfactorily ac-
count. He was locked up and very
soon a warrant was issued from the
county courts, charging him with lar
ceny. Who made this charge, how
ever, was not known to the police, as
no claimant for the alleged stolen
goods had showed up to identify the
articles at the police station.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-01-29
WESLEY HOUSE DOING
FINE WORK.

The following has been sent to this
department with request for publica-
ton. It is taken from 1.-THE Mission
ary:"
The San Antonio Wesley House is
located in Mexican community of
$4,000 people. Recently the West
Texas Conference Secretary and the
Home Secretary OF the Council had
the privilege of spending a day with
the workers at San Antonio. The kim
dergarten was most active, though the
day was cold. Forty little Mexican
children were present, and their greet
ing in English, learned through the
plays of the school, was most cordial.
The Camp Fire Girls are being used
for the betterment Of this community
In a large way. The library is fur
nishing a point of contact with many
young men. The relief work done by
the deaconesses is most helpful just
now, owing to the fact that thousands
of Mexicans have come to the United
States during this recent war. They
have been able to conserve much of
the fruits of the Wesley House work
at the Mexican church, two blocks
away