The Washington times., 1917-11-04
HEARD AND SEEN
By EARL GOODWIN.

dropped In to pay his respects. IA
said he was great friend Of orinoco
del de Joco Of Juan de Torto. which
Is a suburb Of Popocatapetl. DID
Captain Hopkins know him? OF
course Captain Hopkins knew him;
and every one else In the tropics.
Why. he used to spend the winters
with de Joco.
Said the stranger:
Il thought you would be well ae-
quainted with him, for he told ne
about you and advised me to drop fn
whenever / was In Washington. He
said you would hx anything for me.
therefore thought ! would call on
you, as / am momentarily short Of
funds and expect a draft tomorrow"
| So Captain Hopkins gave him IS
An hour later the elevator man ap-
preached the captain and asked II An
anaole stranger had been In.
! You know. he Is the fellow who
makes a speciality Of hunting up the
name OF some one In evsrybody's
town, and using that name as .
means Of making touch"
r. NJ. C. writes that his .laundress
has put up the price Of the weekly
wash, attributing the increase to the
rise In the cost Of postage stamps.
, She says she writes daily to her son
In camp. -,
Coming down on a Fourteenth
street car last night saw Fred Ir-
land. one OF the greatest Of all short
hand reporters, reading red yof-
ume. It was the gospel Of. St. Luke
in Greek. Fred reads Greek like q
breeze. He can recite to you AL Of
Horace, all Of Homer, and most Of
the gospel. He had forty different
editions Of Horace. He recited
whole lot Of ST. Luke to me, just to
pass the time away. If ~
Capt Frederick Fenning has been
out In nomination for a directorship
In the Board Of Trade. Ne for him.
Handsome Herbert Shannon, elect
ed vice president Of the Real Estate
Brokers Association, has one Of tAS
pleasantest smiles any real estate
man could wish.
Only one case today OF alleged IN
toxication." says newspaper head
line Couldn't expect any other sort
Of intoxication now could you!
Vice. President. Marshall does NOT
like to see the new moon over his
right shoulder. Or 10 It his leftf I
forget
Here is something for Judge Au-
kan:
The last time 1 paid a visit to the
Juvenile Court saw q room Wherein
Juvenile delinQuents sat while await
ing their trial. In that room was 2
book. Its name was Facing Death.
Some Of the chapters were:
EVIL Tidings."
"In Deadly Peril"
"a Critical Moment"
The Arm Of the Law" -
"a Heavy Loss"
Must have been an optimistic chiIa
prisoner who could bear up under IL
erature like that-With the judge
waiting for him IN the next room
The last thing Ed Wolfe said 70
me before leaving the District Ne
tional Bank to become assistant
cashier of the National City Bank
in New York was this:
Keep up the campaign to smooth
out the bump in Newark Street Hill,
in front Of Commissioners GardinerS
House"
But Harry Brown says It ID not
exactly in front Of the Commission
er's house; just little TO the east.
Mr.. Brown has discovered . hollow
place in the same road. Viii. Com
missioner Gardiner please shave on
the bump and use the material %
fill up the hollow?
I have received q letter from>a
Hoosier who wants to know II he can
receive a pension due him because
of the death of the man who gubstt-
tuted for him In the civil war.
Why not have q traffic policeman
at 10th and F streets in the rush
hours?
Robert Nash, the eminent automo-
bile expert, has been threatening for
two weeks to write me letter tell
ing what should be done about the
traffic problems. If he doesn't hurry
the problems will be settled.
Sen. Robinson of Arkansas has .
yearning to learn to play polo.
F. ]. Brunner, the superintendent
of the Bathing Beach, reports that
159, ,0S9 persons attended the beach
this year. He's wrong There were
tkat many in the pool on the one