The Washington times., 1935-08-06

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trick!
Have you seen the scaffold'
ing surrounding the Governors
Mansion at Annapolis?
The scaffolding is there for
the workmen who are turning
the old house into new house
which will make it an older
house than it ever was. You
don't understand?
The best of Annapolis Is its
prerevoluti onary atmosphere.
Its splendid Georgian Colonial
houses. Its visible tradition of
early Maryland culture and ele-
gance.
The Governors Mansion is
not a relic of the capitals hey
dey. It was built in 1866. 1t
has the bulgeS and the stodgl-
ness of VictorianlSm.
At least it had until recently.
Immediately after his Inaugural.
ton, Gov. Harry w. Nice said
that Albert C. Ritchie had lived
in a. misfit house for IS years.
He said the Governors man.
sion should be made to look like
the other choice old Annapolis
buildings.
So he ordered the legislature
to give him a nice sum OF
money. Then promptly set
architects and jubilant anti
QuarianS to work.
When the work IS done and
the scaffolding removed, the
mansion will have changed its
figure. Deep-hipped roofs, dor
mer windows, a certain lean
dignity will have taken the
place of the overfed physique
of recent memory.
Chronologically the house will
seem to be a cousin of st. Johns
College, the Hammond-Harwood
House and the Chase House, the
old State House, the. Brice man
sion and other famous survlvalS.
The u. s. owes Donald Rich"
berg q big expense account
Has owed it since last October.
Mr., Richberg used up a lot Of
his own money travelling
around the country for the
Government.
The mosquito committee OF
one of our island possessions is
complaining about the tight
listed Mr.. McCarl. The commit
tee says that Mr.. McCarl won't
give them money to kill the
malaria mosquitoes - part OF
their islands rehabilitation
work-because the committee
can't tell Mr.. McCarl exactly
where the mosquitoes spend
their time.
Mr.. McCarl says that if the
committee gets the money, it
will have to assure him that the
mosquitoes make their homes
on government territory. He
cannot supply money to kill
mosquitoes that are buZzing on
other than U. S. land. It must
be pretty difficult to limit the
scene of action of roaming
mosquito. The CCC kills one
wherever it finds him.
The vacationing Postmaster
General and Mrs. Farley will
soon be having their pictures
taken with Hawaiian leiS Qarge
size) around their necks.
M a n while, Representative
Charles Albert Plumley, Yer
mont'S one member of the
House, is wondering if there
isn't some sort of post office
conspiracy against Vermonters
who reach the presidency of
the United States.
Mr.. Plumley, when he offered
that joint congressional resolu-
ton authorizing the issuance of
q special stamp in honor of the
late Calvin Coolidge, wrote to
Postmaster Farley and said in
this beautiful language:
at is well worth noting, that
Of the now deceased ex-PreSi-
dents of the United States who
have held that pre-eminent Of
flee since 1869, only two have
been neglected insofar as the
hOnOring Of their memory
through issuance of q United
States postage stamp, either
general issue or memorial issue,
Is concerned. These two PreSi.
dents, strangely enough, were
both Vermont born, being Ches.
ter A. Arthur, the other Calvin
Coolidge"