Evening star., 1923-01-28
Capital Sidelights
By WILL r. KENNEDY.

fy!er rage, clerk OF the House. This
shop has been In operation since May
10. 1919. since when 1t has salvaged
and put into use furniture that would
have cost upwards Of 100000. From
that date to the end Of the fiscal year.
June 30. 1922 this shop cost .$45. .S0S.3o,
representing repairs to 5.085 pieces Of
equipment. ranging from a Brentwood
chair to remodelling the huge COM
mittee table OF the committee on ways
and means from 16 to 25 feet in length
and feet in width. The stuffed
couches and arm chairs and daven-
ports in the House lobby and lounging
rooms were in a dilapidated condition,
put were torn down to the frames and
entirely rebuilt. Mr.. Page testified
at hearing that the upholsterar
cabinetmaker and flnisher are the best
craftsmen Of their line in the National
The furniture shop was established
at time when new furniture was
badly needed. but prices were ppo-
nlpitive. War prices also prevailed
on rugs and carpets, and those bought
iaded easily because Of the inferior
dyes: To overcome this situation and
70 erect some saving in cleaning a
carpet-cleaning establishment was
estaDlfshed as an adjunct to the fur
piture shop. Already more than co.
goo yards Of carpet have been cleaned
by process which removes dirt and
When Representative Allen T.
Treadway of Massachusetts, now an
active majority member of the House
ways and means committee, first went
70 Amherst College an upper-class-
,sv,A Av,A
physician in New York. asked what
the ''T stood for. Treadway replied
that 1t was a family name-Towner-
ana thereafter throughout his associa-
tions as q student and alumnus of
Amherst he has been known as Tow
ser" Treadway. Last week a man
came to his Office in the House office
building asking for "Towser." 1t
turned out to be an Amherst class
mate, Harry Perine, now a prominent
business man in Seattle.
When Uncle Joe" Fordney. chair
man or the ways and means commit
tee. whose name adorns the recent
tarln act, quits Congress at the end
OF the present session after a quarter
luxe will cease to exist. Not one Of
the thousands of tourists who climb
the marble stairs on the east front
or the House end of the Capitol, going
to the galleries. realizes that in an
alcove on his office and running under
those stairs, Mr.. Fordney has a pri-
vate lunchroom. His chef Is Harry
Parker. who has been messenger and
doorman for the ways and means
committee for thirty-five years There
is an electric percolator to make cof-
fee and an electric toaster. As lunch
con companions daily Mr.. Fordney has
his secretary, Miss Carrie Rody, who
has been with him twelve years, and
Miss Grace Greenwood, another assist
ant. Mr.. Fordney also has a personal
baroer, James II. Neale, who has
shaved him, in his office. for eight
years.
There are forty-two pages on duty
on the floor Of the House and at the
entrances to the hall of the House.
their pay amounted to s12,39o and
during the long session. which begins
the 1st OF December. this will have to
be increased to s22,155.
1t cost s71s,os5 to publish the Con-
proceedings of Congress. including
debate. while both Houses are in
session, during the year 1922.
Representative Nicholas Longworth
OF Ohio. who some years ago came into
fame by marrying Miss Alice Roose-
welt. and who is now considered as the
most likely man to become floor lead
er in the next Congress. is reputed to
be the best dressed man in Con-
9ress." He is also considered IAN aris-
eocrat" by many who do not know
how democratic he really is. The
other day Gus Karger, veteran WASH
irgton correspondent, who has as
sumed the role Of press-mentor for
Nick" as he has for years served
FToF IL
met Longworth and said facetiously:
Mick. you mustn't be so fastidious
in your habilimenfs If you want to
get the support OF the proletariat." :"
And Longwortfl replied: 'T've been
wearing this old brown suit for a
And Longworth h'isted the tail OF his
coat disclosing a good sized patch
on the seat of his trousers.)
The Library of Congress expects to
have printed during the coming year
two more volumes of the journal Of
the Continental Congress. DR.. Her
bert Putnam, the librarian, explains
that twenty three volumes have
been published and eight more
would complete the set. American
historians are now using the origi-
mails, which DR.. Putnam feels should
not be allowed. The distribution Of
an edition of 1000 sets was started
many years ago and the library is
ing. 1t will cost s225,o00 to print the
proposed two volumes during the
next year.
There are 1000 employees in the
government printing ONCE and the
space.
Flash yourself a mental "close-u
OF Representative Samuel Winslow of
Massachusetts,, chairman OF the House
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce, who is the largest man in
the House. carrying around three hun
dred pounds Of avoirdupois. Can you
imagine Winslow, with protruding
rotundity at the place where his
box sticking out in front Of his his . corn o
porosity, held in place by strap
around his neck, and said tin box
laden with sticks Of molasses candy.
That's a real picture Of Sam Wins
low, aged nine. walking about the
ter. Mass. Joshed the other day by
some Of his colleagues, winslow de.
MED that he was ever anything like
a prodigy. He said he never had much
wit at school or seemed to make much
OF success at anything else. so when
nine he thought he'd better make a
start to be a merchant prince.
So he Joined a small army of "kid
peddlers' who vended the molasses
candy wares for one weli-known
Mother Love-" His tin box contained
four dozen gobs of this confection,
and the process of vending was to
open the lid and let boys or girls or
occasionally grown folks help them
selves to a few cents worth-as
much as they could pay for.
Winslow's commission was four
cents a dozen on his sales and he had
to turn in the money every night. He
worked away faithfully afternoons