Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-20

| guam, has sung his high regard Tor
| his fellow members of the House thus:
THE LADS OF CoNGREssTowN.
Here's to the lads of Congresstown.
| Big hearted. brave and true
Ny feelings swell. I wouldn't sell
| The years I've spent with you.
| OF laughter DER the fields.
| Despite the slurs of all the ours
| Who bark at Congress heels.
There's not q wag beneath the flag.
| There's not critic true
Can find a brand in all the land
! or bigger men than you.
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During the closing days of the Six
ty-ninth Congress. when the press gal
lery of the House was visited by lead
ing newspaper men from all over the
country, and number from foreign
| lands, considerable interest was taken
in the portrait gallery, where are
hung the leading publishers of the
country in an elder day, including the
following: Melville f.. Stone general
manager Associated Press, Moses (.
Handy philadelphia News, J. NJ. Es-
tel Savannah News, Murat Halstead
| Cincinnati Commercial Gazette), Or.
Morrison Munford kansas city
, Times, r. M. Johnson CHouston Postl,
Joseph Medill Chicago Tribune). VIII
NJ
| Whitelaw Reid New York Tribune).
| Col. H. A. Blethen Seattle Times),
John C. New indianapolis JournaD. IL.
| w. Grady ATLANTA Journal, Charles
| Fl. Jones (St. Louis Republic), James
E. Scripps Detroit News, Henry wat
terson louisville Courier-JournaD, Or
lando J. Smith american Press Asso-
ciation), David Jones (old Associated
Press, Elliott F. Sheppard New York
Maid, Crosby Moves washington
| STAR, William Henry Smith (Associ-
ated Press, A. S. Abel FOUNDER Bal
| timore Sum, Wilbur F. Storey Chi
| cago Times), William Rockhill Nelson
| kansas City starr. Charles A. Dana,
| Edward Rosewater Omaha Bee),
Frank Hatton washington POST, Gen.
Felix Agnus Baltimore Americana
| Charles p. Taft Cincinnati Times
STAR, William v. Mexican Philadel-
phia LEDGER, William Singerly Phila-
delphia Record), George w. Childs
| philadelphia Ledger, Joseph Pulitzer
| (New York World James Scott (Chi-
cago Herald). NJ. H. De Young (San
Francisco Chronicle). Walter P. Phil
/ lips Omitted Press. S. HI. Kaufman
| washington STAR, John r. Mclean
| washington POST.
| An autographed portrait Of Perry
Belmont has just been hung in the
committee room of the House commit
tee on foreign affairs, of which he
was chairman during the Forty-n1nth
and Fiftieth Congresses, having pre-
viously served four years as an active
member Of the committee.
Representative Roy G. Fitzgerald of
Ohio, chairman of the House commit
| tee on revision of the laws. has
writer's cramp as result of spending
| several hours day autographing FOR
his friends and their friends copies OF
the big new law book containing all
| the Federal statutes.
| This book has resulted from more
than 80 years Of persistent and often
defeated efforts to bring together In a
single volume and in orderly arrange
ment the general and permanent laws
Of the United States scattered through
| 25 large books. For the first time
since the 1878 edition of the Revised
Statutes of 1874, the Federal laws are
accessible In a practical way.
| This code is compiled under so titles
and has 2 .465 pages. The edition COM
prises 2S,25O copies, 22A tons of type
were required, the stereotype plates
weighed 90 tons, there were required
141k tons of binder board, 1000 yards
| of buckram, 1,73S miles of thread, 10
miles of tape. miles of merceriZed
headband, So, 721 900 printed pages and
| 176 tons of paper. There are 5,212,416
words in the volume. and there were
| Ii, 808, 900 ems Of type in the compost
| ton.
With the drive being made by Gen.
Anton Stephan, commandment OF the
| District National Guard, with the co
operation of the Washington Board or
\ Trade, to secure the historic Pension
Building as an armory when 1t has
been vacated by the force OF the Con-
/ troller General. there Is renewed in
terest in that Largest brick building
| in the world"
The Pension ONCE Building was
constructed as memorial to the sol
diers and sailors who had served then
country, and particularly those en-
gagged in the great Civil War, and also
| to serve as a workshop for the en-
ployes engaged in the Pension Bureau.
Like other modern public buildings.
II was intended to be useful, but at
the same time to present some aspects
| in which il would be beautiful and at
tractive. The building was first occu-
pied in May, 1885. 1t was designed
and constructed under the personal
supervision of Gen. Meigs, u. s. A,
| at n cost of S902. 569.48. It covers
e.1O acres, or so, 900 square feet, and
| IL. 500 900 bricks were used in its con-
struction. 1t is four stories in height,
NOT including basement. Outside meas
urement is 400x200 feet and 1511a rect
i'm height. Floor area Is 1928 square
feet. divided into ITS rooms. court and
| rrL~ IF tho court ND
Galleries contain 59,339 square feet
and were tiled at a cost OF $40 .000.34.
Manv novel and unique ideas enter
| trto the construction IT this building
In the court are eight large columns
| which were originally intended by the
| architect as support for dome.
These columns are rs feet in height,
with a diameter of feet at the base
and 61h feet at the top: there are
| 55. 700 bricks in each column and 16l
square yards Of plaster on each. the
Columns are marbled or colored to
initiate Sienna marble. and many odd
nictures may be traced in the mar
hing Among them are Indians.
lakes. vessels, Grand Army and Ma
sonic emblems, flags and "the little
red schoolhouse," also the portraits
of Gems. Washington and Lafayette
and of Queen Victoria and many 9TH
ers of prominence.
one of the most interesting features
In q decorative way is the sculptured
fr;eze extending around the outside
of the building, showing the marching
hosts of the boys in blue. Infantry.
| cavalry. artillery and sailors, full OF
swing and martial spirit, tell an elo-
| ouent story of the Army OF the six
ties An inaugural ball was held In
This building March 4. 1885. under
tarnnorary roof. Other inaugural
halls have since been held there.
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