New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

dustrial centre measures its activity in Off 1
space. Other booming Pittsburghs and b
iainghams reckon the.r prosperity by tonps.
output. Washington, the industrial prodg
measures its output in printing The gol
ernmert printing bureau, already the orI
large industry in the capital has now all bd
doubled its activities. And it works nights
What do these ordnance bureaus, thsa
transportation bureaus. these food admnh
trations, these departments. divisions, cor.
mittees. sections, secretarial factories, pro
duce, both IN peace and IN war? Telegsn
messages, telephone messages, letters, pan
phlets, posters, bulletins and reports
Speaking, writing and printing are shI
Washlngton's three great industries. An]
now it is articulate. eloquent, dictatoral
irresistible in its stentorian tones
Colonel "Marse" Henry Watterson, de
nanding the continuance of the capital
strict injunction against factories penalizY
by anti-smolsc ordinances, once said:
''W ashington is the drawing room Of th
country; keep the smoke of the Kitchen out
Nor is there any visible smoke bat light.s
than-air products in plenty and much wisdor
Certainly the Administration has throxt
up the nccdful administrative facilities VIII
effective rapidity. One is only regrctful thd
the Administration has not thought to thru
up few dormitories as effectively as i. hia
the G. A. Fuller Company pitch the Count
OF National Defence structure Oh Eighteenth
Street into being al cost of S225,Ooo, on
cost-plus profit bass.
Comfortable Offices
The Food Building adjoining and the Fv'
Building scattered over No Mans Land,
rented acreage remote from strectcars, s'
also good examples of rapid. economical sri
adequate building. They are the most con-
Portable Office buildings in Washington len
porary or permanent. The Food Building c's'
s2e5,O6O and contains three hundred ohees
where probably one thousand people work an'
worry and plan and direct and exhort i0'
Uncle Sam. The new War Trade Board neal
by VIII be ready for occupancy IN April sTTs.
viii house the dozen scattered sections O. t"'
important and extensive arm of tic war ST.
ministraton
The ordnance department is gathering u
self up in its new staff and bristol boar
buildings at Sixth and G. streets The lost NJ
tlon IN the ordnance, food and war ifsS
departments, because Of these scattered hou'
ing discomforts. has been considerable, y.
the government moving van Will preseas'
take recded rest. Some ordnance ONCE
have complained that their Offices have been
the moving van. In illustration CT the NV
ing day and camping-out life led by war =
dustry in Washington, the war insurance "
partment is in part housed in the Nation
Museum with the rest of the departed.
Washington. ALWAYS a city of anomais'
now exhibits some of them painfully way
ington people are voteless There IS cs'
certed movement on to cnfranchise the W
trlcts inhabitants. who. though they are n@
permanent in character than are the feoe'
appointed members OF its parental mun's'F
board, arc indicted by the ultra -conse'''
tiVes as being uitlanders whose real wsl'sI
and kopjes are in the several states r'''
home"
Washington is especially conscious OF !,
dltraachisement at this moment because ;
vast clerical world feels the pinch OF Wal
rood prices have gone no % per cent s,A
1914 Rents have in many eases doun'
"oolen clothes cost twice as much as be'0'
as any one who by chance wears socks ~
discover. But the 'pampered" gogerams
employe in the capital hasn't had his wss
u thousand pardons salary rrscd -
chronouslv