The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-05-31
IN WASHINGTON, D. c.
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| OF our four representatives aud two
senators, Colorado has just one Re-
publican in Congress, This is Mr..
Charles b. Timberlake of the End dis
, trict. He lives at Sterling, Colo,
: and is very pleasant gentleman and
an able man. They speak very well
of him down here. He introduced me
!, around to some of the Republican
+, leaders in the House.
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One night Gov. Leslie NJ. Shaw had
meet some of his friends he was en-
| tertaining. Unc,e Joe Cannon and
Mr.. James r. Mann were among the
| guests. The after dinner talk opened
up some very interesting reminiscent
ces of the Mckinley administration
| of Spanish war days. Altho 81 years
of age Uncle Joe Cannon is as young
as Capt. Rockafellow. After dinner
when some one started up the music
| he took young lady and waltzed
around like young man. He wanted
i to learn the one-step and he picked
1t up a good deal quicker than l could,
am sure. Mr.. Cannon is serving in
| his goth term in congress. covering
| period of over 40 years and he was
Speaker of the House for four terms.
Mr.. Mann is serving in his 10th term.
G. U. H.
] am glad to see the h. C. of |. has
come down in Washington. / saw a
sign in a restaurant window today,
Hot Cakes and Real Syrup. 7c." The
prices at the uptown hotels haven't
had any marked reduction. 1t costs
about twice as much to live at the
! good hotels in Washington as it does
at the Albany or Brown in Denver.
| was out to lunch with a friend the
other day at popular hotel. We had
a very simple lunch-roast beef, baked
potatoes. coffee and apple roll, and
his bill was $3.50. You can imagine
what it might have been If we had
had a square meal.
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The signs in a strange city are
some times interesting. l noticed
one on Pennsylvania avenue today.
John W. Oyster, Dealer in Produce
| and Fresh Vegetables" And it isn't
the oyster season either. A jitney
service here carries the name.
"Squeeze-In Jitney Co." Two prin-
cipal buildings in Washington are
called Colorado Building and Ouray
Building They were built by Mr..
Thos Walsh of Colorado.
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4 l went into the Patent Office to-
day and saw Bernie J. Craig OF Can
on City. He has fine Job and is
looking well. The Patent Office is a
great building and an interesting
place. There are about 1900 EN-
ployes in the building and 100000
documents at the disposal Of the pub
lie. All OF these are indexed and can
be located easily. Mr.. Craig asked
me if ! would like to see a copy OF
any Ddltut. VI any
Then it occurred to me that when
was a small boy my father took out
! a patent on a farm gate. He asked
me my fathers name. And in less
| than two minutes ne found a copy of
the patent, and showed me drawing
out Il years ago. Surely quick work
| for such ancient history.
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All public buildings here are heav-
| lily guarded and visitors not on off,
cial business are kept out. You usual
ly have to make good talk to get
by these guards. II took more talk
for me to get by the guards at the
patent office to see Mr.. Craig than it
did to see Secretary Daniels.
One day l went to the War, State
and Navy Building to see friend
The guard wouldn't let me by. So
! sent a letter up to the Navy Depart,
ment. Soon an orderly asked for me.
He showed me upstairs. A distin-
guished old gentleman met me and
asked. We'll Sir. what can l do for
your" j told him who i wanted to
see. He said there was no such per-
son there. After some argument we
found my letter had been taken to
the wrong place and had been admit
ted to the War Department instead
of the Navy. The old gent was in
clined to be grouchy about it at first
l said, Excuse mel couldn't help it
these fellows in uniform chased