Evening star., 1937-01-02
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
ISOLATED.


A N OPERATIVE who sought to
~ interview the man who sits in
~ the switch tower at Seventh
= and Pennsylvania avenue
comes back, not with an interview,
but with a report Of the splendid
isolation which the tower occupant
enjoys.
May I come up?" our man asked
from his perch on the ladder.
"No," said the man. mo one
can come up. I'm sitting on the door.
Investigation disclosed that he was
absolutely right. Only one person
can be in the tower at a time. Once
that chap Is inside, he closes a trap
door and sits on it. There's no room
for another.
EXPLAINED.
Cynics doUn around the Cdpitol
can tell you ,ohy you see so n,any
Roosevelt" signs on automobiles
at this late date.
On many OF those parked in
that Dicinity, they will tell you,
the signs represent the hopes of
job-seekers that fidelity to the
cause toill be noticed-and re-
iDdrded.
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SIGN.
JUST as you get of the elevator on
the sixth floor of the new House
Office Building there is a storeroom
numbered simply "16."
Above the door of the storeroom is
a sign which says "storeroom." And
thereby hangs q tale.
At the last session of Congress
there wasn't any sign. And as a re.
suit many constituents of Represen.
tative j. H. Peterson of Florida
waited long periods of time outside
the storeroom door waiting the open.
ing Of what they believed was Rep.
resentative Peterson's Office. For Mr.
Peterson's Office number is 1916 and
Storeroom "l6" confused visitors
House Office Building officials who got
tired making explanations put the
sign up.
CANDIDATE.
IF J. EDGAR HOOVER, director O,
the Federal Bureau of Investiga,
ton, wants to increase his staff o1
G-men he knows where he can get a,
least one ambitious "manhunter.
A job hunter wrote Hoover as fol-
lows:
II have always had an ambition tt
become something on the order O.
manhunter. I notice you have &
reward for several in your post Office
To my estimation these (gunmen) ar,
not hard people to find.
Put me on the trail Of some o.
these fellows who seem to be hard tx
catch. Possibly there is no man hv
ing who has the same ideas catchinl
| people as 1 have. Just name YOU
man and give me the authority to gel
him and I'll bring him in, bar none.
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REX.
Neu Orleans people-as any one
pho has been there and caught
the spirit of the carnirdl knous-
are Justly proud OF the old city's
Mdrdi Gras. That they beliepe
the spectacle OF the Rer parade is
Just about unsurpassed is shoun by
the tollowin0:: A New Orleans
mother recently uas in Washing
ton, visiting her daughter, Uho
UoTks in Government agency.
Daughter sought to persuade
Mother to remain for the inauou-
raj. Mother, although a good
Democrat, shifted. Il, uho hare
seen Rer, stay here to see Roose-
pelt-humph"
DINNER.
ONG enough ago for the sting tt
have gone out Of it, one of the
towns grander hostesses went to hel
favorite marketman for a very specia
food which we shall call wild duck.
Before the cook got fairly unde,
way with the dinner. however, she wa.
forced to report to the lady Of ths
house that the duck were more strons
than wild. She had the evidence righ1
there in the kitchen to support he,
1 point.
Next day, the lady and the duck.
went back to the marketman; thu
| former to tell him what she thought
the latter to prove how right she was
The aarketman stuck to his guns, OF
his ducks. insisting that the customer
for once, was wrong.
why I know a woman who serve,
as fine food as any in this town. Shell
take them," he said.
You're crazy" the customer said
in effect.
But she was wrong. The othej
woman did take them and-believe i
or not-served them at the yer,
| dinner to which the first woman hae
been invited.
She did not eat her meat that night
however.
| GRATEFUL.
lCHIVALRY does not always 20 un.
rewarded, it seems.
A Justice Department elevator
crowded with men paused to take OF
a lady passenger the other day. Spac,
was more than limited and 1t was onl,
with considerable shifting and nudg.
ing that the men, scowling bit at tn,
inconvenience, managed to doff thei,
hats. The young lady was not, how
ever. without gratitude for, putting OF
her best smile. she cooed:
Thank yuh-all"
Even the scowlers. clutching thei
hats gingerly, beamed.
BARBER HELD IN DEATH
Carolinian to Face Grand Jury 4
Connection With Wife's Death.