The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-07

H ECENTLY a jury in Washing D ton, D. C., had to be quartered four In a room in hotel be-
 cause of the influx of visitors to the nations capital. The spring lure of the city brings thousands of travellers who swell the ranks of the normal transient population.
 Washington always has been pop ular convention city. Indeed, conven- tions here never cease. This or that national group seems always in session. The year around one sees crowds of men and women wearing badges, carry ing banners. following bands, touring Che city in big busses which Haunt streamers telling who the pilgrims are and where they came from.
 In vacation time school children by the hundreds of thousands flock here from all over the Union, remndful of that children's crusade of ancient days They crowd the city's more than 70 hotels, its 6OO eating places. and miles of rooming houses Some visitors bring tents or come by automobile and roost on the commons beside the Potomac. known as the Tourist Camp grounds.
 More than 800 national associations have offices here. representing every in terest, from the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and the American Federation of Labor to the Gamers and Dyers and Cleaners.
 Today private cars crowd the curb like pigs fighting for nose room in a trough. From every direction paved -oads radiate into Washington and streams of traffic flow in from dawn to dusk.
 But huge motor travel is nothing compared with the crowds that come by rail All counted. at least five mil lion visitors year see the capital. And 10,950,OOO travellers use the Union station annually, more than three times as many as all the whites in the Unit ed States when the city was laid out.
 National Museum Is Immense.
 Nobody has seen everything in the national museum. Nobody could. There is too much. To see It's 13.0OO,OOO diff ferent specimens-at the rate of one thing a minute. working eight hours a day-would take more than "A years
 This museum preserves all collec. tions of objects in science, history, in lustry, and art belonging to our gov ernment. It Is the storehouse for spe- cimens that range in size from the tini' est of shells and insects to airplanes automobiles. and huge skeletons of fos Sil animals. The whole has been val Ied at more than S120,000.oO0. Be cause of its host of odd objects that are the only ones of their kind in ex- istence, the collection could not be du plicated at any price.
 Because nobody could see all, only some of the most interesting things are set out for public exhibition. These include fine examples of different kinds of animals. well known historical ob jects, pictures, weapons. inventions vehicles, and series of specimens of va rious kinds that have interest and al traction.
 Natural History Exhibits.
 In the Natural History hall, the groups of large animals collected by the Roosevelt African expedition are the most popular exhibit. Lions, water buffalo, zebras, and others. arranged ir li.'eIke manner, with the vegetation oi the,r native haunts as background show the types of mammals met or that historic hunt. Thousands of oth CT specimens, large and small, iron this same expedition repuse in moth proof storage cabinets in the museum laboratories, where they are the basis of scientific research.
 In the fossil halls is the skeleton ol huge dinosaur, an extinct reptile Of the Cretaceous period specimen S. feet long, and so arranged that visitors may walk beneath it, and so gain { clearer idea of its vast size. Such skel etons are found embedded in stone, s. that the bones need to be chiseled out careful.y by hand. With this great beast appear many other fossils of bi zarre and unusual iype. Footprints fossliZed in stone and many millions of year; old give indication of life and movement by creatures otherwise known only from homes
 One hall shows only minerals. Here is the original nugget that staried tn,