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Evening star., 1923-06-04
Government Printing Of
fee

The government printing Office is
the largest and best-equipped print
ing establishment in the world. 1t
has floor space of fifteen acres.
There is a splendid cafeteria. assem-
bly, hall. recreation rooms and roof
garden.
y school for apprentices has also
been re-established after thirty-five
years abolishment, and now twenty
five young men are being given
thorough training in various branches
of the printing trades.
The mechanical equipment of the
government printing Office is unsur-
passed. 1t has the largest battery of
typesetting machines in the world.
including 81 linotypes, 100 monotype
keyboards and 125 casting machines.
They set enough type in year to
make $4,000 columns of ordinary
newspaper matter. The Office also
has 160 printing presses. ranging
from small platen presses to the big
presses which print the well-known
Congressional Record. The postal
card presses produce 100000 cards
a day. or more than a billion and
quarter a year. Other presses turn
out money-order blanks, census cards,
and incometax forms by the hun
dreds of millions. The office is like
wise well equipped with bindeTy and
plate-making machinery. The public
printer is preparing to add much
hcSuSu Piio'o-Si : q ~ , Pioh' ~ 1o
plete the work of the government
printing office.
The public printer has to buy more
than 100000 pounds of paper a
year. If laid fiat, in sheets. this
amount of paper would cover an
area three times as large as Pitts
burgh. Pa, and if made up into oc-
tavo books. it would form a pile 400
miles high.
The government printing office en-
ploys proximately 1000 persons the
year round and the pay roll for these
workers is close to S6,000.000 annu-
ally. All appointments in the gov
ernment printing Office are made un-
Ter the civil-service law.
The plant produces printing and
binding to the value of fully $13,-
O00,0 600, year for all of which the
public printer is reimbursed by Con-
Eress and the departments on an
actual cost basis. One years work
includes more than $4,000 separate
and distinct jobs of printing and
binding In addition to the work
incident to the printing and binding
of millions of publications., the govern
ment printing office makes nearly all
of its own printing inks. press rollers,
CLUES. carbon paper, type and type
metal. 1t has it's own carpenter,
electrical, machine and blacksmith
shops and even operates a laundry
which washes and irons a million
ployes. So that, all in all, the gov
ernment printing office is the most
complete institution of its kind dn
all the world
Special hours for Shrine week, 81
to 80 pm. Special guides provided.
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+The National Bureau of
Standards

This bureau of the Department of
Commerce was created in 1901 and its
work covers almost the whole field
of Standardization.
In order to carry out the extremely
varied work with which the bureau
deals, its laboratory equipment is un-
usually complete. The various in
struments and machines installed in
the fourteen permanent buildings in
clude balances sufficiently sensitive to
determine difference in weight of
1 part in 00,000,000 and testing
machine capable of pressing down
ward on full-sized building column
with force of 5000 tons. Open 9 to
4.30
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The Naval Radio Station

The naval radio station, over on the
Virginia hills at Arlington, is the best
equipped wireless station in the
world. The three towers are plainly
visible from the city. Communica-
ton is had with Mare Island, CAL;
Key West, Fla. Colon. Guantanamo,
San Juan and other government sta
tions. The sea range with ships of
the Navy is 5000 miles. Arlington
has even had communication with the
Eiffel Tower in Paris.
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bureau of Engraving and
Printing

The bureau of engraving and print
ing, at 14th and B streets southwest,
is considered one of the finest manu-
featuring plants in the world. II
cost So, S69. 900 and here is where all
your money is made, and the process
is such that it is we'll worth a visit.
Open from 8 to II am. and from to
2:30 pm.
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4Old General Land Office

This building, occupying the square
bounded by E and F, 7th and Sth
streets, was designed by Robert Mills.
1t was built of marble from New
York state in 1890 In it Samuel B.
Morse worked over his original tele-
graph instruments. 1t was built at
a cost of $2,000,000 and was used for
many years as the Post once De-
partment, after the land office was
moved into the patent Office building.
1t was usedn during the late war by
various Offices of the War Depart
ment and is now occupied by minor
government offices. Open from 10 am.
10 > pm.
Evening star., 1923-06-04

The Library of Congress. east of
the Capitol and facing it, Is the larg-
est and most elaborate library build
ing in the world. 1t occupies three
and -fourths acres Of site of
nearly ten acres: has cubic contents
of 10,725,920 feet: contains 43O,255
sduare feet, or over nine and one
half acres Of floor space, and 102
miles of shelving.
The library was established in 1900
in the Capitol building. In 1914.
numbering a little over 800 volumes,
It was destroyed by the burning or
the Capitol by the British. 1t was re
established In 1915. at cost of $23.-
$50, by the purchase, under an act of
Congress, of the private collection of
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+The Army Medical
Museum

The Army Medical Museum, 7th and
B streets southwest, is of the greatest
interest and value to the medical and
surgical profession and contains some
$4,000 specimens. The exhibits illus
trates the means and methods of mill
tary surgery and all the diseases and
casualties of war, making a gruesome
exhibit of preserved flesh and bones
which fill one with horror and dismay.
There are 1900 skeletons of American
mammals.
Omen frnnn Q a m tn 4 n M
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*The L. S Post Office De.
Dartment

The main Post Office Department
building. at l1th street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue. was completed in 1899
a [ A cost Of s2.55S. $50. 1t is built of
gray granite; is l2T feet high, with "A
tower of 315 feet. The building is goo
feet wide by 900 feet long. 1t is
occupied by the Postmaster General,
assistant posmasters general and the
executive forces. This force directs
the entire postal system of the United
States. numbering. roughly speaking.
about $40, 900 employees.
In the court within the building
hangs the largest American flag
made. It is 90 feet 4 inches by 81
feet. The clock in the tower of the
building is Is feet from rim to rim
and the minute and hour hands, which
are made of pine wood. measure 7l2
and ) feet. respectively. The height
of the numerals is feet.
Open TO visitors from 9 am. to 4:30
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THE American Red Cross
Ruildino

The American Red Cross building, on
south 18th street is a Impress
i've structure of white marble. Con-
gress provided the site and paid for
part of the cost, the rest being given
by Capt. James A. Scrymser Mrs.
Russell Sage. Mrs. E. Fl. Hartman
and the Rockefeller Foundation. The
Red Cross moved into this new home
just as America entered the world
war The interior of the building is
in keeping with the dignity and SIM
nlicitY of the exterior.
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*State, War and Navy
Building

The State. War and Navy building
is the largest building in the world
constructed entirely of granite. II
was designed by A. B. Mullett. former
supervising architect OF the Treasury
Department 1t was originally in
tended to be five different buildings.
a unique feature Is the cantileVer
construction of it's stairways, and 1t
is difficult to conceive the method of
their support. The cost of the build
ing was $10,03S, ,4S2.42.
Only a few of the War and Navy
Offices are now located in this build
ing. but 1t does house the State De-
partment in it's entirety.
Open from 10 am. until 2 pm.
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boiling Field

The present aviation site known as
Boiling Field was named for the
late Col. Raynal c. Boiling. who was
killed in France during the world
war. 1t consists of 800 acres of land
situated in the southeast part of the
city, in the section known as Anacos-
tia, on reclaimed land along the Ana
costa river. extending from its mouth
up to the Anacostia bridge. The site
Is the property of the United States
and the expenses of reclamation have
been paid in equal proportions from
the United States Treasury and from
the revenues of the District of Colum-
bia The personnel at the naval air
station comprises fourteen officers and
90 enlisted men.
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THE Pension Office

The Pension Office, IN Judiciary
square on F and G streets, between
4th and 5th streets. is said to be fire.
proof an assertion that led Gen.
Sheridan TO exclaim What pity.
The cases on file exceed a million;
about that number of beneficaries
are carried on the rolls and the out
lay of the bureau is now about
S15n. 600 900 a year.
Open from am. until 4:30 pm.
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*The Navy Yard

The Navy Yard has little to reward
the visitor. outside of the gunshop.
the museum and n few trophies. 1t
stands on the bank OF the Anacostia
river. at Sth street southeast.
Open from am. to IL noon and
<xem to pm.
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pen from . am. to AGO pm.
+The Memorial Continen-
tai Hall

The Memorial Continental Hall, on
18th street. which was erected by the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tfon, cost approximately 100000. II
was designed by Edward Pearce
Casey and is built of white marble.
An official guide will take visitors
through the building
omen from 9 a m. to pm.
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IThe Patent Office

The patent office is one of the goFE
ernment ACTIVITIES that makes mcneE
IT has issued about 100000 patents
and it's earnings have been far in ex
cess of the cost of buildings and ex
penses since its origin.
The patent office is bounded by
and g streets and by eth and 9Th
streets.
Open from . am. to 4:3o pm.
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THE National Museum

The new National Museum has a
library which contains the most COM
plete collection of medical and surgi-
cal literature in the world, surpass-
ing even that of the British Museum.
Visitors are admitted from 9 am. to
pm daily. except Sunday.
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4The Naval Observatory

The Naval Observatory. on Wiscon
sin avenue, is open to visitors when
the skies are clear, on Thursday even
ings from to 10 o'clock, for a view
of the heavens through the twelve
inch telescope. Applications should
be made to the superintendent
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TELEGRAPH and Cable

"Postal Telegraph and Cable Conn
pany. Evans building, 1420'New York
avenue. Main $500.
4Western Union Telegraph Com
pahy. 7oS 14th street. Franklin Zoo.
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fThe' Weather Bureau

The weather bureau, at Gath and
NJ streets. contains delicate instru-
ments by which changes of meteoro-
logical conditions are accorded. Here
one can see the method of forecasting
the weather for the next forty eli ght
hours.
Open 10 am. to pm.
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*The Fish Commission

The United States Fish Commission
occupies the old ante-bellum arsenal
at 9Th and B streets southwest. 1t is
a place every fisherman and sea food
dealer should visit.
Open from 10 am. to pm
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*The Department of JUS
tice Building

The new Department of Justice
building at Vermont avenue and K
street. houses the attorney general
and his legal staff.
Open from 9 am. until pm.
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CAR LINE INDEX.

CAR LINE INDEX.
To reach places of public interest
use car lines as indicated by mark
before name of place:
4Dark-green cars Washington
Railway and Electric Company.
Eight t-green cars-Capital Traction
Company.
IBoth lines.
All places are northwest unless
otherwise specified.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-15

AERIAL VIEW OF THE GREATEST GAS CRATER" EVER
KNOWN
This artificial volcano,
when oil well drers in the Smackover Field Arkansas
big pocket For four months and fame
the hole 40 1000 cubic of hurting
mud and sand hundreds Sparks
codng would ignite the mida
countryside would be Illuminated then the sand mud would
choke off the flames for wh
all the driers have show
diameter at the surface and $50 feet deep.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-15

RECONCILED! ARM IN ARM THE EX-KAISER AND HIS
WIFE STROLL THE WOODS
Just prove they really good friends again. Mr.
Mrs Wilhelm Hohenzoern sningy face the they STROLL
like young lovers the
House. their after walk the village of Doom
meeting that Wilhelm showed wfee every attention
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-15

MEET A NEW CHAMPION
Virginia Wagner. of Des Moines,
Ia, twenty-one-year- old senior at
Drake University, who recently
won the intercollegiate champion
ship of America for the 100 yard
dash Miss Wagner negotiated the
century dash in the remarkable
time of IL $40 seconds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-15

THE SEASON OF THE MERMAID HAS ARRIVED
bathing evnced by charm
ing fashions being displayed Here three bathing suits but
in which be done; the other
enough attention while beach strong These
the feature of the fashion beach of the Westcheste
Bltnore Club Rye New York.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-15

CORNELL CO-EDS LEARN TO OPERATE MACHINE GUN
Fair coed Cornell University being trained in military
tactics Just their fellow students Of the other The advanced
womes rifle team here shown demonstrating their ability aiming
to take Up gun
81 far al
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1923-11-23
Not the Course.

A good many years ago a steamer
was sailing down a certain river, with
a shrewd old Yankee captain in COM
mapd. Suddenly the engines stopped,
and the steamer remained motlonless
for several minutes. The passengers
began to talk among themselves, and
one Of them, portly, pompous per
son, advanced to the captain.
what seems to be the trouble, cap
tainf" he inquired. "Why have we
stoppedT
"Too much fog" answered the cap
tain CURLY.
But l can see the stars overhead
quite plainly" argued the persistent
individual.
"Mebbe ye can" admitted the cap
tain grimly. "But unless the oilers
bust, we amt goin' that wayi"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1923-11-23
MANY BARGAINS.

We beg to call your attention to few
of our many bargains at this store. We
receive new goods every week and always
have full stock to select from. Our goods
must please.
One lot of 32-inch dress einghams to
close at 19c.
Good line of figured and dotted voiles.
29c 10 Csc.
l0-yard pieces of nainsook for $3.50.
Ladies new sleeveless sweaters, ESQ
to $3.50.
Ladies new wolfe dresses at S2.25
Ladies new bingham street dresses, So.
$3.50 and $3.75.
jackson, College Girl and Memo corsets.
Bathing suits, 59c to $3.50.
Natural color pongee, Sic, 75c and 81. so
per yard.
Collar and cuff sets at 59c to $t5O.
kayser short and long silk gloves.
Ladies and children's white pumps and
oxfords. $l50 to $3.50.
Boys 3-piece suits. $3.50 up. Mems
suits, $3.50.
Ladies plated all-wool skirts at S5.9S.
Simmons good grade bed and springs
for SIS.
All size mattresses. SIS and up.
Crex rugs, 9x6. Sxl0. 9xl2. sic. so I'D.
Matches, cheaper than wholesale prices
per gross $3.50.
Rabbits 1875 and Star Naptha wash.
ing powders. 7 for Csc.
Sopura shredded soap. made from pure
South American oils. 15c
Remember we deliver your bulky pack
ages-rugs, beds, mattresses, oil stoves.
etc.-to out. of-town points.
w. HICKS,
july 27-u Rockville. Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1923-11-23
EUROPE FARMS LACK PHONES
Rural Wire Service In lie Infancy
In the Old World, Says French
Engineer.

Rural telephone service is in its
infancy In the large European coun-
tries such as England and France"
writes Monsieur N. g. valensi, noted
French telegraph engineer, in a recent
artcle in the Annales des Postes,
Telegraphes ct Telephones.
Qne-third Of the French telephone
subscribers are concentrated In Paris,
the writer points out. 1t is the same
for London, which in 1921 contained
$4,000 subscribers, while Great Brit.
alp as a whole possessed only
9s1,se4.
IN contrast to this situation, NJ
Yalensi points out that in the United
States more than 100000 farms pos
sess the telephone. In that country"
he ADDS, there exist almost 10000
small rural cooperative telephone
COMPANIES, made up Of farmers who
combine to construct line leading to
a point connecting with a telephone
central"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1923-11-23
ROUGH ON THE PASSENGERS
English Railway Rules Seem Framed
on Principle That They Are
All Criminals

The unsuccessful prosecution Of a
railway passenger at Glasgow for
travelling with ticket given to him
by another person is a striking Illus
tration of the extraordinary powers
claimed by railway companies.
Railway lawson, rather. railway
bylaws, which are not quite the same
thing-bristle with penalties for the
hapleSS passenger. They seem to be
framed on the principle that every
traveller is a potential criminal, 70
marks writer in London Tit-Bits.
If he fails TO produce his ticket when
II is asked for it is, In railway law,
''prima facie evidence that he has no
ticket" Fine. 40 shillings. If he really
has no ticket IT is prima facie evidence
of fraud. Another 40 shiIlings-even
though he intended to buy a ticket,
but. being late for his train. failed to
do so.
If the passenger has taken a ticket
for a particular station and allghts at
40 intermediate station the railway
can claim payment Of the fare between
the points of starting and aliehting, al
though it has already been paid once
for the original ticket. II he fefuses to
pay-40 shillings.
If he travels first class with Q third
class ticket on any part OF a line the
railway has power to demand payment
OF the whole fare from the point at
which the train started.
The passenger is also Liable to pay.
ment twice over If he uses the return
half of his ticket the day after Its cur
rency expired.
Most of these bylaws are as farci-
cal in practice as that stiIl u force
which imposes penalty Qf 70 sAill.
ihgs on passenger who enters Com
partment which is already full.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1923-11-23
FATHER OF THE VAUDEVILLE
Farmers Son Invented Name to Re-
place variety Show" Also the
Continuous Performance.

In the early 1ss0s variety entertain
ment in America was pariah of the
arts. Respectable women were seldom
seen in the audience, and we fear sell
dom on the stage. Even in the East
the performers life was q precarious
one: he worked where he could,
dressed in dirty holes, and the farther
west he went Ghe worse conditions
became. The western honkey-tonks
were combination dance halls, saloons
and variety theaters, frequented by
drunken cowboys, miners and loose
women. A respectable actor would no
more have considered going into the
varieties than he would have con-
sidered becoming a burglar.
Such was the condition even In
Boston when, in 1888, Benjamin
Franklin Keith, a farmers son from
Hillsboro, Mass, who had drifted into
the circus business, arrived in Boston
with a few dollars in his pocket and
decided to become a Snowman on his
own hook, says Walter Priehard Eaton
in McClures Magazine. he rented a
vacant store for which he paid 81 a
day. got pail and mop and scrubbed
It with his own hands, and then
opened 1t as a museum" with Baby
Alice, weight one and one-half pounds,
and a Barnum mermaid, as attrac-
tons He prospered IN small way,
took a man named Batcheller in as
silent partner, added a second room
with o stage, on which performances
could be given.
In 1884 Keith chyistsned his per
formances vaudeville" to get away
from the stigma attached to variety
show" and made every effort to keep
his little museum clean and decent
In 1885 he originated the idea of q
continuous performance, from ten to
ten, in order to get more people.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1923-11-23
FRENCH WRITER'S HAVE Fun
-Four ColIaborate on Novel, Each Gre
atIng Difficult Problems Tor
Others to Solve.


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t.oinon ueS 0uatre' "nteu haS .uS'
appeared III raris, Inc nYel torows
.ne inouel estsDilsned ny He OrolA us
Derby "iiicm appeared many Years
ago Inc coiiaporators nave written
turn Dy turn ana the mover becomes q
series Oh letters Dy oinerent napos'
Inc most distinguished Of the au-
thors OF lie Croix de Berry" was
Theophlle Gautier, who was assisted
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1923-11-23
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
Frederick Templeman. Plaintiff,
Bessie Templeman. Defendant.

In the Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
as Court of Equity. No. Ass Equity.
The object Of this suit is to procure an
absolute divorce for the plaintiff from the
defendant.
The bill alleges in substance as follows:
That the plaintiff is a resident Of Mont
eomery county, Maryland. and resides at
Silver Spring, in said county and State,
and has been a resident of such place for
more than two years Immediately proceed
ing the filing Of this suit and that the de-
fendant is nonresident of this State and
county and resides at Colonial Beach, in
the State of Virginia.
That the PLAINTIFF and defendant were
lawfully married by a minister of the
gospel of the city of Washington, in
the District of Columbia. on the 18th day
of September, A. D. 1918.
That the plaintiff and defendant there
after lived together as man and wife at
the city of Washington. in the District of
Columbia. and at Colonial Beach. in the
State of Virginia. as well as at Central
Avenue. Chester. Pennsylvania. where the
parties were living together as husband
and wife until on or about the 9th day Of
March. A. d. 1918. when the defendant
without any just cause or reason abandon
ed and deserted the plaintiff
That the said separation is deliberate
and final and has been continuous and
uninterrupted for more than three years
and there are no reasonable expectations
Of reconciliation.
There were no children born as a result
Of said marriage.
That the plaintiff was always a kind
and dutiful husband, doing everything
within his power to make the home Of
himself and defendant happy. comfortable
and agreeable and said separation was
not caused upon any fault through his
part.
1t is thereupon this 18th day of October,
A. D. 1928. ordered by the Circuit Court for
Montgomery county. that the plaintiff.
by causing copy of this order to be in
serted in some newspaper printed and pub
llshed in Montgomery county. Maryland.
once in each of four successive weeks be-
fore the 26th day of November, A. d.
1928, giving notice to the defendant OF
the object and substance of this bill, warn
ing her to appear in this Court in person
or by solicitor. on or before the 18th day
Of December. A. D. 1928. to show cause
If any she has, why decree ought not
to be passed as prayed.
PRESTON B. RAY, Clerk
Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
True copy-Test:
PRESTON B. RAY.
Clerk.
JOHN A. GARRETT,
Solicitor for plaintiff.
oct 26-td