Evening star., 1935-04-21

region, however. is the tower of tn
old Post Office Building, just acros
from The Evening Star Building.
Looking directly southeast, tn
highest edif1ce is. Of course, the Cap
itol dome. Ironically enough, righ
now you see more smoke in tina
general region than in the entire
business section. Yes, there must be
25 streamers of smoke shifting abou
between the Old Post Office Building
and the Capitol dome. But it's al
the legitimate variety, Mr.. Malone
hastens to point out. In color, 1t
mostly muddy white or dirty gray
with maybe three or four wisps
pale black.
Down around Union Station 70;
see eight or nine rings of rathe
dense smoke. 1t is moving about il
such frisky way that you wonde
just where it is coming from. Nj
Malone explains that this is engin
smoke from the freight yard
Though, strictly speaking, it's stear
and not smoke proper.
Gazing due south, you notice NJ
a single sign Of smoke. Which j
quite understandable because ther
are practically no laundries, hote!
and semi-industrial plants over there
However. you do spot couple o.
thin wisps, dull white in color, issuing
from the new Central Heating Plan
Of the Government, located just bac,
1 nf tho noY1a ~ nf ArYv;nYIlfYrr
main building.
NOW you've been uD here 20 mir
utes. Pretty soon the alert Mr.. Ma
lone locates another violation, onl
300 yards east of the other one, in
small apartment house chimney. TIL
thick, dense smoke lasts barely ha
minute.
A FTER an hour up here only O.
more violation is spotted and tn.
lasts mere quarter of minute. An,
now, shivering from two hours pun
ishment from a cutting April vino
you gratefully descend to Mother
Earth and call it a day. Results
-Four minor violations and not on
worth writing home to your dea'
sympathetic Aunt Emma about.
On the second day of your inspec
tion tour-thiS time of the section
the District east of Fourteenth street
your guide and counselor is Inspector
Frank Dowd. He could very easil;
pass for Mr.. MaloneS twin brother
They are about the same age, height
build, disposition and even talk alike
About the only outstanding difference
is that Dowd's thick black hair doesn't
hold any recognizable gray strands
This time you don't do quite as
much walking as with the energetic
Mr.. Malone. You take a street car
first of all, to Union Station, and in
stead of riding an elevator to a root
top you simply walk up on the station
plaza. This informal observation poin,
is frequently used by the inspectors
Mr.. Dowd says. The reason is obvious
enough. From here you gain splen-
did view Of some % good-sized chin
neys, mostly of apartment houses ant
hotels, besides one of the city'S larg-
est bakeries. You remain here ha
an hour but observe not single vic
lation.
The next observation post, and b.
the way, it is one Of Mr. Dowd'
favorites, is on the roof Of the Ouray
Building, an eight-story structure a
Eighth and G streets northwest. From
this single vantage point the alerI
observer can identify close to 300
smokestacks In the immediate ares
alone you note "a sizable buildings. Th'
plants that first strike the eye art
the Navy Yard, the United State.
Capitol Power Plant, New Jersey
avenue and B streets southeast, anc
the Buzzard Point plant of the Poto.
mac Electric Power Co. at First anc
E streets southeast: st. Elizabeth's
Hospital, on the east side of tn,
Potomac, is clearly visible.
Yes. long-distance sky sleuthing /:
easily achieved from here. Looking
due north, you can make out thI
smokestack of a laundry a way ur
on Lamont street. Large establish
ments as remote as Mount Pleasant
are surprisingly simple to identify.
This fellow Dowd must be some
thing Of q magician. Without sec.
ond's hesitation he locates for your
edification such widely separated
structures as Freedman's Hospital
Sixth and Bryant streets northwest
the District of Columbia trash incin'
orator establishment, First and c
streets southeast; Garfield Hospital
Tenth and Florida avenue, and a bak'
ing company at 1901 Georgia avenue
Right now all their Snlokestacks arr
behaving very nicely. thank you. Not {
single violation does he spot in thi!
entire section, not note is necessary
to jot down in his official pad.
The third and last observation towel
visited is the New York Avenue Bridg'
over the railroad tracks. Every mo
torist knows the place. The B. & o
goes one way, the Pennsy another
while the metropolitan branch Of th'
B. & o. also passes under the bridge
The observer takes official station ir
the approximate center Of the struc'
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