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great court, with front az large as
that of the White House. and with a
wall three times as long. and after that
came the ordnance building. on VT-
ginia avenue. This has a front larger
than that of the national Treasury, and
IL covers more ground than the great
granite structure which houses the oe-
partments of the State. War and Navy.
Nevertheless, 1t is nothing In comparl-
son with the demands OF the bureau, py
accommodate the overflow are now al
most completed.
The buildings have described are all
west of the White House on ground
that was once a part Of Davy Burns
farm, the old homestead of which was
still standing when i came to Washing
ton several decades ago. In addition,
new buildings are going up in all parts
of the city, and the greatest office
building ever created IN the United
States will have been completed by the
time you are reading this letter. 1t
was built in less than four months, and
that Notwithstanding its ground floor Is
so large that you could put the ma
tional Capitol building. the national
Library building and the State, War
and Navy building upon the same space
and have something to spare. The
building covers ten acres and it has in
the neighborhood of thirty acres of
floor space. 1t is made in three great
units, with a heating plant in the CEN
ter which fills the steam pipes running
back and forth through this thirty
acres and making every cubic inch of it
warm. All of these buildings are of
frame with walls of metal lathing nail
ed on to studding with building paper
on each side, The slathinx is covered
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National Capital. The amount will be
100000. and that single unit will
have more than one mile of piers and
bulkheads. The structures will cover
more than two hundred acres. There
will be $50 of them, and they will
range in size from mere sheds to great
warehouses
We are building also special storage
places for munitions and other war
supplies. These are being erected near
the great plants where the munitions
are made. One unit. required to store
high explosives. will cost eight millions
of dollars.
Another great branch of building
construction is in connection with the
housing problem. The Industrial de-
mands of the war are enormous. and in
order to get the right kind of expert
help for the shipyards and other in
dustrial plants we must have comfort
able homes for the workmen. No mat
ter how high the wages. the best men
will not leave their homes to live in
chicken coops and pig pens, as they
have mad do in the suburbs of
Bridgeport and others of the big NUM-
not go where there are SO few beds
that they have to be rented in shifts
and the mattresses never get cold. This
has been the case at one of the great
manufacturing ,centers. The truth is
there Is no shortage of labor in the
United States. but there is a great
shortage of housing facilities in the
Industrial centers where the war work
is done. This has to be remedied and
Uncle Sam will soon have under way q
large number of Industrial cities. One
OF these already arranged for will cost
$35.000.e00- 1t will be built for the
emergency shipping OF Hog Island near
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effective. This means armed interven-
ton and collision with Germany.
Nominally, Finland since the break
up of the cars empire has been indie
pendent, and there is still the frame
work of an independent government.
If this government would ask aid from
Sweden. refusal would be difficult. The
Swedish statesmen who thus far have
opposed Intervention have done It on
the ground that the government of the
Firms Will be able to overcome the red
guards, and that therefore Sweden is
not called on to take active measures.
But their Judgment may prove wrong,
and then the crisis must be met.
Finland sent ENJOYS to the United
States to obtain food. but it is not
known that any practical measures
have been found for granting their re-
quest without taking the chance of
Germany getting hold OF the food sup
lies. Sweden has no, food to spare for
provisions from this country, when the
war trade board has been fully satisfied
that equal quantities would not be
shipped out to Germany, but this has
left her no surplus.
Sweden has 1imped through the winter
on half rations and most likely will
have to continue to do that through
undoubtedly would be willing to use
Sweden as a base for supplying provi-
sions to Finland. or rather would be
willing to supply Sweden with a guam
tity equal to what she may furnish
Finland. but the chaotic condition in
Finland makes difficult such measures
Nevertheless, it is apparent from
Swedish advices that the popular senti-
ment is growing very strong that
Sweden. in spite Of her own embarrass-
ments, must do something for Fin
land.
This would not mean that any politi-
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their sympathy with President VIII
sons war aims, but these outgtvtngs
are fooling no one. The Stockholm
conference was failure as German
peace intrigue. because everybody knew
it for what it was
Recently an effort has been made to
call another socialist conferences at
Stockholm. An invitation has been sent
out to international socialists by the
executive committee of the socialist
party lust what socialist party 10
meant does not appear. There is, or
was. an international socialist bureau
which included membership from Bel
GUM and Holland as well as from the
Scandinavian countries. French So
cialists declare that the whole thing 10
made in Germany, and that it originate
ed with Scheidenann, whose speeches
in the reichstag in defiance of the war
autocracy have been bold enough, but
whose deeds have shown him to be
merely a tool of that German autoc-
racy.
On it's surface the call for the con-
ference was made to appear anti-Ger-
man. since the fear was expressed that
the Russo-German discussions at Brest-
Litvosk should only lead to a separate
peace This utterance might also be
construed as antagonistic to the bolshe-
wiki. This apparent antagonism was
another ground of suspicion. for it was
known that if Lenine and ,Trotzky re-
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years to make the road necessary to
bring the stones from the quarry. Uncle
Sam has made hundreds of miles Of
concrete road in the forty or fifty mill
tary cities / have referred to, ana
within a few months in Henry Park,
halfway between the Capitol and the
White House, he has just about COM
pleted in less than 100 days a great
office building. which has a floor space
more than twice as great as the ground
upon which the mighty pyramid of
Cheops is built
You have all read something of the
building of the misunderstanding
two great cities with living and work
ing accommodations for more than
1000. 600 men. That work was gigantic
and it was all done between June and
September. / shall write more of it
further on in this letter. But first 1
want to say a word about the big con-
of Washington. When the war began
the government service was running
along at plow-horse speed. There
were thirty or forty thousad employees
who had been trained in the idilatory,
red-tape methods of peace, and Uncle
of new cost efficiency experts and
speed the old service up to the war.
Billions of money were appropriated
by Congress ard gigantic plans were
soon under way. The government sent
out its requirements and hundreds of
our best business men volunteered and
came here from all parts of the Union,
some Of them accepted salaries which
= are less than cents per week: Many
brought their assistants. and. in addi-
demanded. They came by the train
load. Within a few weeks the great
department structures were over
crowded. the vacant buildings of Wash.
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timore to overlook the fitting out of
the fleet of ice-breaking tugs. the Sam
son, under Capt. John Masingo; the
Hercules, under Capt. Charles Filing
haus; the Emma, under Capt. Charles
J. Larsen, and other big tugs. Vulcan,
Templar and Harlow. The waterfront
reporter who came around with the
fleet introduced his long detailed &C
count of the ice trip as follows:
The fleet which is to rescue Washington from
the possibility OF a flood is in port. The flag
ship of the squadron, the Samson. arrived at
the dock of the Washington Steamboat Company
at 10 O'Clock. The Vulcan came up an hour
later, and at O'Clock the Emma Templar and
Harlow made Washington in a bunch. The
officers and crews of the home boats and the
officials of the local companies lent hand
in the landing. great crowd of unofficial
watchers was also present. Acting Harbor-
master ]. j. Perry greeted the fleet Justify and
Engineer Davis made the Joe Blackburn whistle
blasts of welcome.
The breaking of the ice in the two
harbors began soon after. and as near
ly everybody in Washington went to
the river to see the ice spectacle this
winter. so, in 1893, nearly everybody
went to see the big tugboats at their
strange work of cracking the ice. In
the descriptive article by The Stars
marine reporter was this paragraph:
The operation of ice breaking has been
watched with interest by thousands. The Aque-
duct bridge has been the point of vantage most
in request. Great crowds have congregated
there. Men of business, gentlemen of leisure.
women OF fashion, they of rolled trousers and
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tanned their insecure power the only
socialists who would go from Russia
would be Russo-German agents.
Germany showed no fear of the boil
sheyIk proletarian program corrupt
ing any German socialists who might
attend the conference. The majority
French socialists. from whom some
thing apparently was expected by the
so-called executive committee, through
their leaders and their newspapers. have
insisted that the conference is only to
be looked upon as a part of the Ger
man propaganda. They have declared
that they will not embarrass their gov
eminent by asking passports as was
done by one group when the nrse
Stockholm conference was held. Wheth-
er the French minority socialists will
take the same course is not yet deter
mined. but if they do not they will be
looked upon as seeking to play the
game of German Imperialism.
While nothing has been given out
from London or Paris regarding the at
titude of the British and the French
governments. they will undoubtedly re-
fuse passports to a second Stockholm
conference just as they did. to the nrst
one. There also are intimations that
the allies may find it desirable to make
diplomatic inquiries as to the attitude
of the Swedish government toward this
proposed second conference.
Stockholm is a convenient place geo.
graphically for a European conferences
and politically also. since Sweden 10 .
neutral The Swedish government may
therefore. with entire diplomatic pro-
priety disclaim responsibility and the
allies may accept this disclaimer nonlt-
nalIy, but this will not change their
Sweden IN the future to blot out the
record that she has been overhospitabi4
to German intrigues under the guise Ok
international socialistic conferences
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registrar: W. H. Grimes, assessor;
Amanda MacMurray, Gertrude; Doiile
Young, Jeanne: Lillian Lewis, Manette,
and Blanche NEWELL. Luzanna- Among
Cushman, Saddle Dingman. Edna Ellis.
Marie Fox, Nellie Friebus. Cora Har-
rington, Jennie Hurst, Bessie johnson,
Florence Mortimer. Matte Saxton,
williams, Lizzie Williams, Miss A. E.
Bentley. Mrs. Frank Curtis, Mrs. The
odore Friebus, Mrs. George McManus,
Miss M. I. Snowden and Miss s. h. +.
Wilson. Among the gay young chorus
men of that happy time were VIII
Domer, Gilbert Clark, George French.
Hunter Jones, Roland johnson, John
Johnston, Will Kimball, Will Ronsa-
Vile, Jake Scharf, George Scharf, Phi
weisner and odell Whipple. and the
G. Armor, E. o. Asmussen. r. D. Hard
ner, M Lee Roy Cough. G. D. Mitchell,
H. A. Mayse, B. F. Meyers, N. U. Pom
eroy, DR.. D. H. Riggs and H. o. Simons.
Metzerott Music Hall. Joseph Kaspar
led the Georgetown Orchestra. and
Herndon Morsell, Kitty Thompson
Berry. Ruth Thompson, Nellie Wilson
Shir-Clin and Hattie Meads sang. Her
man Rakemann played the violin. John
Porter Lawrence the piano and VIII
Harley the flute. Will Waldecker was
the accompanist. There were numbers
by the Philharmon Quartet-Missss
Meads, Sheperd, Stidham and McCul-
loch; the st. Cecilia Quartet, Mrs. Shir-
Cliff, Miss Thompson, Mrs. True and
Miss Worley; the Philharmonic Club.
John Lawrence. Herman Rakemann
and Ernest Lent. The Franz Abt Club
also took part, and the musicians were
Messrs. Buchanan. Knoop, Holmes.
Bird, Abbott, Kaiser. Hancock and
Yeatman.
*
The Philharmonic Club was giving
it's periodical concerts at the Uni
versalist Church. John Lawrence play
ing the piano. Herman Rakemann the
violin. and Ernest Lent the violoncello.
Harry Xander used to play the piano
beautifully at those concerts, but the
Rambler. believes he was In Europe
during the ice winter Of 'sS. and jolly
old Paul Miersch, who used to play
the cello, had gone away from Wash
ington to cast his fortune with the
Boston Symphony. Will Compton lDr.
William Compton,, tenor OF the Uni
versalist Church. used to sing at those
manager. Sam Fabian had come to
Washington just about that time. and
Sol Minister was drawing good music
from the strings. Dr. Bischoff. the
Church. was one of the leading mu-
sicians of the town, and Anton Gloetz-
ner was making children run scales
and practice etudes until they had no
bones in their. fingers. Eva Mills, the
singer, was now and then heard. and
Lottie Mills, the pianist, had just come
back from years of practice at Leipzig
or some other Hun city. Norman DAILY
was the local Josef Hoffman,. and the
De Witt girls, Winifred and Josie, were
playing. Amy Leayitt was giving re-
citals and Janet Richards was reading
even then.
No well ordered concert could go on
unless poor old jovial Hans Ely was
behind the scenes to fix up the piano If
it broke downfall is, if the piano
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Copyright. 1918. by Frank C. Carpenter.)
= Uncle SAM huilderI

Copyright. 1918, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
q q NCLE SAM. builder!
III His plans are beyond the wild
III ii est dreams of the Arabian Nights.
~ and his achievements make Alad
and his achievements make Alad-
din look like piker. There has been Moth
ing TO compare with him since 1000 years
before Christ. when King Solomon brought
King Hiram of Tyre into his construc-
ton gang and built the great temple.
or even since King Kufu started the
mighty pyramid of Ghizeh. in Egypt.
some thirty-seven centuries before King
Davids wife, the widow Uriah. gave
little Solomon his first play-blocks to
build with. Aladdin rubbed his lamp,
and his palace was built in a night.
Uncle Sam raises his hand, and two
score military cities spring into being
King Solomon spent years in building
the Temple at Jerusalem. Here in
Washington Uncle Sam has created sim
gle buildings with a ground floor nine
times as great within less than a
month. King Kufu kept 100000 men at
work twenty years in constructing the
great pyramid. and it took him ten
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they of overalls, chronic sensation seekers and
loungers have been there to watch the progress
of the work. The tugs and their people have
been stimulated by many encouraging words.
often, as tug would buck into the solid ice,
stick fast, back OF, forge ahead with a snort
and crash through, the multitude would vent its
enthusiasm in cheers. Ladies sometimes waved
men would touch their hats in reply.
day OF two later The Star published
this:
The food scare and the ice blockade his
tory. Some Of the shoals still under ice,
but there is scarcely enough of that article in
the navigation courses for a julep. The old
Potomac is itself again. 1t laughs against the
docks in rhythmic ripples and then rolls seward
in its calm and quiet way Bellies and beaux
can now think of boating and bathing, of the
green lawns of Marshall Hall and Of the para
chute drops at River View without, shiver.
Harbormaster Sutton said today: 1.-The Potomac
is unlocked and there will be no regatta on
Pennsylvania avenue this year"
4
During the ice period of 1893 life in
Washington went on as usual. Some Of
the younger musical set put on THE
Chimes of Normandy" at the National
for a local charity. Bertha Lincoln
was Serpolette: Alice Johnson. Ger
maine; Herndon Morseu, Grenicheaux;
Theodore Friebus. the marquis; Oliver
Hine. Gaspard; S. c. Elliott. the baille;
Will Conley. notary; H. B. Hoover, the
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was of a certain make. II the piano
was-of another make, Johnny" Hall,
with his genial red hair, was there to
or the pianist kicked leg on the In
strument or bit off some of the keys.
II Hall was at another concert, why
dear old Reichenbach, whose father
kept a music store on 18th street. op-
posite the present Star building. for
many years, was on hand to mend the
machine, and IL Reichenbach WAS not
there BILLY" Gibbs was. OF the tuners
mentioned. only BILLY" Gibbs is still
Anita C1uss,s young and thin, with big
black eyes and curly raven hair. was in
the springtime of her fame as a harp
list, and during the ice-week of 1893 the
Rambler recalls that she gave a recital.
assisted by Nellie Shir Cliff and Hern-
don Morsell, who sang song written
by d. G. Pfeiffer. Then there was the
Washington Philharmonic Club. which
was always getting itself confused with
the PHILHARMONIC Club of Rakemann,
Lawrence, Lent. Harry Nander and PAIL
Miersch. During the ice-week it gave a
concert at Willard Hall. Fred Ruckert
played the violin, Blanche and Gertrude
Ruckert the piano. Carl Fisher the
cello and Grace Fox the organ.
About this time Elsie Bond. Cora
Boyd, Dorothy Byrd Rogers: Nine.
Mama Blanche Mattfngly. Suzanne
Oldberg, Melville Hensey, Charlie Rob-
erts, Dushane Coward, Will Mcfarland,
the tenor: Frank Byram and Frank
Myers were singing. and some of them
still are. while Amy Law. Bessie Driver.
Myrtle Dexter, Salcme Wingate and
Mary Ellen Howe were just coming on
the stage. Angelo Fronani and Mrs.
Frank Byram were playing the piano:
Frank Gebest was playing the organ.
Elphonso Youngs. jr.. the cornet, and
Walter Holt. the banjo. etc. Prof.
music world. and there were two prom
inent local pianists. whose Christian
names slip the Rambler's memory for
the moment. but who were known to
hundreds of our people as Prof. Hart
and Prof. Murray.
Med" Hay was acting in amateur
theatricafss and making speeches. Guy
Collins was playing Shakespeare and
Alonzo Tweedale was reading. Alice
Judson. who went OFF with 'Sousa's
Band. was singing; May Blossom Boley
who later went on the stage, was
dancing; Fannie York AtLee. the So
prano. was singing and is now a
school teacher; John York Alice was
whistling, Joe Cullen. Will Collins
Steve Clements and Maurice Hale were
playing the banjo; Carl Stodder was
playing the mandolin, Bob Lowe and
J. Barton Miller were giving Shaae-
Pertaining US and Percy Foster was, as
he continues to be popular impre-
sario. Lizzie Macnichol was singing
charmingly, George Iseman was play
ing everything that List wrote OF
transcribed. Ed. Stone was playing the
flute and helping to manage the
Georgetown Orchestra, David Bangs
was reciting, George O'Connor had be-
gun to make US laugh and DR.. Ernest
Among the other Washington enter
tanners whom the Rambler recalls were
those good singers, Mollie Byrne
Eulalie Domer, Isabelle Smith. Fannie
Rodier, Minnie EVAN, Tom Sipe, DEM!
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Recalls Interesting Events of THE Ice Winter of 1899

Prall, Neil Belt, w. Z. Morgan. Psu1
Hickox, John Pugh. Ham Adams. LouiB
Seibold. H. A. Kohr, Sam Ycungs
Young. John Young, Al Fennell. Jim
Pagan, Fred Jones, George Wheatley,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hoeke. Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald Mcleod, John, James and
Marguerite Nolan. Josephine Esputa DAILY.
Mike Maher and Frank Reeside. Mrs. Nor
beck-Burbage was popular pianist
and there was pretty girl who played
the organ. usually at St. Patrtcks
Church. whose name is gone from the
Rambler, but the trace that is left ON
memory's page" suggests that surname
''Glennan" and just before the surname
the Rambler thinks he sees the name
Jennie"
Then there was another local singer
whose first name the Rambler recalls a.
'.Zaidie" and her surname was hyphen-
ated The name was Zaide Smith
Jones. or something like that. Also. one
must not FORGET Ed Townsend-Nr. Ed
ward c. Townsend-who. with Ed Hay
or Ned" rag and Jimmy Bangs. was
one of the readers who was always get
not pretend to recall in this oh-hand
manner all those dear people who were
giving their talents TO make w asnins
ton the happ:est city in the worio.
mentioned here The names the Ram
bler has written have come into nis
mind as he clicks the typewriter, ana
with the eve of memory he is LOOKING
into the faces of many loved men anu
women who are now in heaven
Thomas Nelson Page and FHopkin.
SON Smith gave readings at MetzerotS
Hall: Anne Besant lectured on 1nSos
ophy at the Academy OF Music. ee srsI1
wenka played and Merwin Marie Sne,a
lectured on religion at Metzerott HAL
sam Jones was denouncing vice At tns
Metropolitan u. E. Church, or at ie1ss
at the Metropolitan Churen ne ~
to get out of that grammatical tan
gle. Sam Jones was lambasting tns
devil. Fanciulli and the Marine Bsno
gave an 'ice week" concert, assisted ~
Marpo Hanway and Hattie Meads. So
nranos. and Mariana Mama, baritone.
During this period the Bostonians
were singing robin Hood" at the ma
tional, with Barnabee. Karl. Mac-
donald, George Frothingham, Eugene
Cowles, Rowland. Edwin Hon, Jessie
Bartlett Davis and Camilla d'Arville IN
the principal roles: Wilson Barrett
played the new Hamlet Ell. uSsn lves
s h5hsi and Ben My Chree" at the
National: Minna Gale Haynes, sup
ported by Eben Plympton. was playing
"Romeo and Juliet" The Hunchback
AS You Like It. ,. Lady OF Lyon lyons snc
ieska was playing "Rosalind." in -As
GU Like IT.; katherine" in Henry
VIII; Lady Macbeth" and Schillers
MARY Stuart" at. Albaugh's; W. H.
Powers played "Glen-da-lough" at Al.
baugh's, introducing the popular young
comedian and superb vocalist, J. x.
Murray: Charles Bowser played Little
Tippett" at Albaugh's; E. A. Sothern
appeared as Captain Letterblair" IT
the National: Thomas Q. Seabrooke, In
The Isle of Champagne; Neil Bur-
CESS. in The County Fair" and john
stone Bennett. in Jane" came to the
Academy of Music.
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THE WATER FRONT AT STOCKHOLM.

a stable government being established.
So Sweden is called on to meet this sit
uation. possibly. by landing troops. and
this means Intervention. It hardly can
as intarN ening III the AFFAIR CT a ma
ton by armed force, undsf 4 terra uonal
law, since there is no .2D.'.s.en SOW
ereign power, whose sovereignty would
be interfered with.
Sweden's difficulties are NOW further
increased by the International socialist
intrigue. There is a socialist party in
Sweden which is represented in The
ridsddg. or parliament, :.nt the swedish
socialists as a body have not Shown
much sympathy with the industrial So
cialism or decentralization. of the boil
shevik brand. s'asN p,e:e divided on
the Stockholm conference months ago,
into which it was sought to entrap the
socialists of England and France and
others of the allied countries.
**
How far the Swedish government en-
couraged that conference is guesswork,
but since the affair was the mask Tor
a German peace intrigue. and since Ger
many had been able to influence the
for the transmission of its
messages to neutral and other coun-
tries, there was ground for believing
that its wishes were carried out in this
matter also.
The conference was failure. Both
the British and French governments
refused to allow representatives of
British and French labor organizations
to attend. The German socialists who
went to stockholm, and who met with
few socialists from other countries.
were said to be antagonfstfc to the Ger
man war lords. Statements were given
out. and are still finding publication. OF