Evening star., 1923-04-29

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OF our growing city is the reconstruc-
ton and expansion "f
Fire Alarm our fire alarm system"
c4 says The Star of April
9JStem. 90, 1873. Most OF the
Alarm boxes now in use are the old
isnperfect crank boxes, the results Of
the first experiments in fire teleg-
raphy. and are continually misleading
the ffremen: the wires. which have
been in use for many years. are near
ly worn out and need constant re-
pairs, and the system. with all its de-
fects, does not sufficiently protect
many sections. including the northern
portion OF the city, which is rapidly
filling up with some Of our best resi-
dences. Georgetown, too, has only five
alarm boxes, when there ought to be
at least double that number. Mr..
Miles, superintendent of the fire alarm
telegraph, sets forth these and other
important facts bearing on the Ques-
ton in his annual report The eA-
pense Of a new and extended system
with the latest improvements will be
considerable, but II must be borne i'll
mind that q failure to do this neccS-
sary work may be more expensive.
One fire, improperly signaled. or not
signaled at all, may at any hour re-
suit in loss of property equivalcm'
to many times the cost of the pr
posed extension"
Scarcely had L. S. Grant taken his
second oath OF office as President be
fore the ad-
James G. Blaine and mirers of James
the Presidency. TO boom him
for the succession. In The Star of
April %. 1873, is the following re
garding this movement:
Recent enthusiastic mention Of
Speaker Blaine's name for the presi-
dency at some dinner table sitting of
few gentlemen of some political
prominence seems to have caused
quite ferment in various quarters,
and the protectionists Of Pennsyl
vania, it is limited, are disposed to
make warfare upon the proposed
nomination, on the ground that Mr
Blaine is not sound the tariff
QueStfon-that is to say, though not a
rree trader, he is supposed to favor d
reduction OF high tariff rates where
reduction is just and practicable. Nj
Blaine is too aStute a politician not
to see that this early mention of his
name for the presidency is calculated
TO do him more harm than good, and
so we are safe in assuming that the
present talk about him in that con-
nection has been without his instr
cation or consent. But If the Penn
sylvania protestionists really go on III
this blundering way of declaring op-
position to him in advance they viii
put the free traders up to considering
the question of his eligibility as a
candidate on their platform, and il is
likely that the free traders will haNe
quite as much TO say with regard To
the question who shall be our ne:.t
President as the protectionists, es-
pecially should the former be rein
forced, as seems probable, by the for
midable organization of producers
known as the Patrons of Husbandry.
The high tariff men had better not be
too vociferous in proclaiming who
they will or won't have for President"
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Washington wanted a zoo fifty
years ago, but like many other things
it wanted it had to wait
500" Park good many years after
pronosed the following was print
oPoae3' ed in The Star of April I
26, 1873, before one was established.
"Philadelphia is going to have
geological garden. The citizens have
subscribed $4,000 within few days,
and the ease with which that sum
was collected induces the belief that
the remaining $4,000 will soon be
forthcoming. bill to establish 4
similar garden in the District of Co
lumbia was introduced in the last
Congress and was, we believe. favor
ably considered in committee, butt
rallied to pass for want OF time. An
establishment of this kind in connec-
tion with a grand national park will
be a desirable and attractive feature
ut the capital"
1t was a good many years later when
Washington acquired a ZOO" through
the sending OF small head of buffalo
to the Smithsonian Institution. These
animals were first coralled back of the
Smithsonian. Then other living speci-
mems We're presented and finally the
collection was removed to the southern
section Of Rock Creek PARK. set aside
as a geological garden.