The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-08-06


United States Government, feeling
itself particularly oblig a ed to
Georgetown citizens for conspicuous
aid given the nation, and being UNI
able to make any pecuniary repara-
ton, invited the people of George
town to go down to the Navy Yard
and help themselves to anything they
could find in the scrap heap there.
Georgetown citizens went and some
body collected a stack of old muskets
and made fence out of them. They
are to be seen at Twenty eighth and
p streets, topped with cast iron
lions heads. The old scrap heap is
also the answer to the question, "How
does it come that the coat of arms
of the United States is to be seen on
so many residences in Georgetown"
The musket fence is quite novel;
ty,-much in the same class as a
fence once saw at Livingston,
Montana, which was made entirely
out of elk horns, presumably picked
up on the ranges when elk were not
as scare as they are now.
Washington seems to be a prosper
Gus city in spite Of the fact that your
humble correspondent has to be sat-
isfied with the mere necessities of
living. The Census Bureau gives out
the information that the capital city
of the United States is ninth in pro-
perty valuation whereas it is but
fourteenth in rank in population.
Washington recently went into the
throes of a taxicab rate war and
fares went tumbling down to as low
as ten cents a ride, for one or car
full. When it is considered that
street car fare is ten cents in this
city, it may readily be understood
that this tariff of a dime across town
in a specially conveyed machine, is
cheap indeed. However, the war had
not been under way long before COM
plants began to reach the police de-
partment that the low fares made it
necessary for drivers to hurry
through with their trips so that they
might get enough passengers in day
to make it worth while for them
selves and for their company.
BY the way, cab driver here is
not called a cabby. No, instead he
is called hacker, relic of the old
days when people were taken about
in the slow horse-drawn hack.
Old citizens of Washington of pre-
Volstead days, felt a pull at their
heart-strings recently when the build
ing at No. 1928 Pennsylvania Avenue
was RACED to make way for improve
ments which the government is plan
ming in that particular part of the
capitol city. The reason for the ach-
ing hearts was this: No. 1928 was
for many years known as Hancock's
Tavern and it was one of the popular
places for the great and near great
of Washington. Such men as Henry
Clay, John C. Calhoun and Bob Inger-
soil were frequenters of the place
which was celebrated far and wide
for its mixed drinks. 1t was some
what of a rival to Shoemaker's on the
other side of the Avenue and both
were noted for their relics of other
days, including old hand bills and
Autographs. Both were low and
gloomy within doors, but they had
atmosphere" and because of that
they constantly draw big patronage.
was in the back room of Hancock's
once about twenty years ago, and at
that time / was shown table at
which it was said Grant used to sit
in silent dignity of an occasion when
he wished to get away from the
White House for little cheer. The
very chair in which he sat was also
pointed out to me and / was given
the privilege of being seated III the
chair at the table at which the great
general used to find enjoyment.
Well, things are always changing,
and people too. 1t used to be that
police officials supported the law.
Now apparently some of them do
otherwise. Last week Washington
was startled to learn that the police
chief of Alexandria, Virginia, a city
cross the Potamac, had been arrest
ed for alleged theft Of three dollars
worth of groceries from store.
/ have sometimes been asked to
name some of the types of govern
ment positions which are open from
time to time to applicants throughout
the country. Here is a partial list:
department clerks, stenographers,
craftsmen, ch e m lists, physicists,
teachers, dietitians, physicians, COM
puters, plant quarantine inspectors,
mechanics, bookbinders, electroptyp-
er-fnishers, plate printers, plate
cleaners, bakers, wheelwrights, dairy
men, carpenters, gardeners, machin-
lists, millers, plumbers tailors, wire-