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WORK ONTHE CANAL
Great Progress Being Made on
Famous Waterway.
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COMPLETION IS IN SIGHT
Probably Will Be Finished, as Predicted,
in September, 1913.
HYING OF THE EMPLOYES
Government Has Built Homes and
Supplied Families With All
Necessary Comforts.
COL/ON. I'anama, October 14.?Magnift
cant is the word which might fittingly describe
the progress made on the construction
of the Panama canal. The statement
of Col. George \\". Goethals, chief
engineer of the canal, that the canal
would be finished in September, 1913. or
over one year before the date previously
announced for its inauguration, was at
first received with some hesitation. Now.
however, an examination of the colossal
work that is being rushed to completion
in Miraflores, Pedro Miguel and Gatun.
and th esurprising way the Culebra cut
is advanced has convinced the most incredulous
that Col. Goethals' estimate of
completion in 1913 will be borne out.
The point which seems to offer the greatest
difficulties throughout the whole canal
is the cut in the Culebra hill, and this,
not on account of engineering problems,
but because of the many slides occurring
from the loose earth. These slides confuse
estimates as to the number of cubic
yards to be ultimately extavated. The
engineers, however, in charge of the work
are confident that these difficulties are by
no means insuperable and will in no way
reiard the date set for opening the canal.
Even before disembarking the stranger
to the isthmus on arriving at Colon, the
Atlantic terminus of the canal, will be
struck by the unusual activity visible in i
every direction in the harbor. His atten- j
tion will first be directed to the long trestle
alreadv stretching seaward for over
one and a halt' miles in a northeast direction
from Toro lighthouse point across1 >
the harbor. All along this trestle rock
and stones are being dumped to form a
breakwater whose ultimate length from
shore will be about two miles. The estimated
cost of this breakwater is five and 1
a half million dollars. It is being built to
reduce to a minimum the silt that may
be washed into the channel of the canal,
and also to protect the inner basin of the
harbor, which leads to the entrance to
the canal, from the northery gales which
usually obtain here from October to January.
Big Piers Being Built.
The eye following the coast line will
oon be attracted toward the massive
piers. These piers will be roomy enough
to permit several large liners to dock
simultaneously. The activity will be seen
to be greater when Gatun is reached. It
is here the canal ceases to be sea level
and reaches the three giant locks which <
will lift all ships eighty-five feet and enable
them to uas? into the Gatun lake.
artificially formed by a monster dam
which impounds the waters of the River
Chagres and its tributaries.
The steam shovels, of which there are
several types and s zes, are eating away
, the dirt from the mountain slopes or digging
deep down into the earth with a
regularity that suggests the swing of a
pendulum or the beat of a pulse. Large
buckets filled with concrete are passing
noiselessly overhead along the steel ]
cables and depositing their contents at
th* des red spot.
What applies to Gatun applies also to
the other various sections along the
canal, all tending to convince the observer
that the possibility of opening the
canal before the date officially fixed is no
empty boast.
What the sanitary department of the
canal commission has accomplished in
cleansing the Canal Zone of yellow fever
and other disease is well known. The
progressive wonders that have been attained
in housing, feeding and provid ng
amusement and instruction to the army
of 40.UUP workmen is less well known.
Homes for Employes.
Throughout the whole length of the
canal clean, comfortable houses have
been built for the married employes and
their families. Kighteen b'g hotels were
also erected for the bachelors, besides
numerous barracks, messes and kitchens
for the laborers. In these buildings there
are under the commission's care not
fewer than (?>.4)00 people.
The white canal and railroad employes
are furnished with free houses, e eetrk
light, coal and water, and ali laborers
and employes have commissary rights
which eriabie them to purchase in the
government stores at practically cost
nrin^M rlothpu fnoil unr! nfhnr roppgear'oc
which permits them to live well and inexpensively
and save a considerable part
of their salaries.
The public schools of the Zone are very
good. The teachers are American and
native. The gardens established in many
of them have been such a success that
the Panama government is adopting the
same method in its provincial schoo's.
Under the management of the Y. M.
C. A. there are clubhouses ir. the principal
Zone towns where.n employes, after
a hard day's toil, may go in reading and
billiard rooms, tennis courts, bowling alleys
or gymnasiums.
What ultimate economic effect the completion
of the canal will have on the republic
of Panama is discussed here from
different standpoints, and it is general y
believed that greater prosperity is In stort
for the republic if developments, alon?
the line of agriculture, mining and manufactures,
are seriously studied.
TROOPS TO CROSS LINE.
President Taft Orders That Mexico's
Request Be Granted.
Permission has been granted, through
the Stat? Department, to the Mexican
government to transport troops through
Xmerican territory from Juarez to a
point opposite Xogaies in Arizona.
The request came from Mexico City, ,
and was laid before President Taft yes- (
terday at Sacramento, Cal. The President
directed that the privilege be exTended.
telegraphing the instruction to !
the State Department.
Tne permission is not regarded at the i
State Department as anything out of
the ordinary routine of international I
courtesy. The privilege is one extended
usually upon request. The request is
ligured as similar to a man knocking
at the door and being admitted, making
it no less a courtesy for him to knock
at the door the next time he seeks admission.
Lack of railroad facilities across Mexico
and the desire to get soldiers into
Slnaloa at once to enforce the election
laws; ascribed as reasons for the
request. The str.ke now on in Nogales,
it Is suspected, may have some bearing
on the necessity for troops at Nogales.
Gen. Oroxco and 400 men, picked
soldiers of the Maderlsta army, will
make the trip. They are due to arrive
.tt Juarez Monday, according to press
dlspatchea coming from Chihuahua, and
will cross Into El Paso, under escort,
and take train for the west, disarmed
during their presence in the United
States- One hundred men from the
Juarez garrison, under command of Col.
A- Estrada, may accompany Gen. Oroxco.
The Substitute.
From the Pathfinder.
Small Billy (at seashore)?Can't I have
a ride on a donkey?
Mother? No, darling, father says not.
Small Billy?Why can't I have a ride on
a donkey, mother?
Mother (to father)?Oh, for goodness
. sake. David, give hint a ride on your back
to keep him quiet. i
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CARE OF BAD BOYS
I
"Parental School" May Be
Established in This City.
NEW ORDER OF EDUCATION
Walter B. Patterson to Make
Report to Snpt. Davidson.
RESULTS ALONG OTHER LINES
Ungraded and Atypical Schools Accomplish
Much for Backward
Pupils.
WALTER B. PATTERSON.
A "parental school," something hitherto
unheard of to the public in Washington,
will be asked for by Walter B.
Patterson, supervising principal of the
fourth division of the public schools and
also in charge of the ungraded and atypical
schools. It is the nearest thing to a
reform school ever dared in a public
school system, but has features entirely
different from the recognised popular
Idea of a reform school. It will be intended
to reform on the "big brother"
plan rather than by any other plan, and
if the scheme becomes operative it may
be run the year round.
The parental school will be thoroughly
explained in a report which Mr. Patterson
is making up for Mr. Davidson. If
the superintendent of schools approves
it is probable tile request for its establishment
will go to the Commissioners.
"The parental schoolt" said Mr. Patterson
in explaination of nts idea, "will
be a place where we can take boys that
simply cannot get along in the regular
schools- They will stay there all the time,
day and night. It is not to be a prison.
It is a place where a bad boy, an unfortunate
boy, or a boy who does not
have a chance to see things in the right
way can be taken. He will stay there at
night, and Saturdays and Sundays.
Sometimes Among Bad Influence.
"Every now and then we run across a
bad case in a boy who has to go to one
of our ungraded schools because he simply
cannot get along with his teacher. At
the ungraded school he learns the lesson
they teach there. He learns that, after
ail, there is some good In going to school.
He begins to get a little ambition, and
then Saturday and Sunday he stays home
with an influence which is so bad it
knocks down all the school has built up
in five days.
"There are a lot of boys who would
grow up decent, useful citizens if they
only had a chance like that. Get a man
at the head of such a school who would
throw himself into the life of theeie boys
and you would see the worst boys in the
public school system simply striving their
best to get up to his level and to please
him.
"There is a school of that sort in Baltimore,
and it is working wonders. We
have accomplished fine things In the
atypical and ungraded schools, but this
parental school is needed, I believe."
The atypical and ungraded schools of
which Mr. Patterson speaks have reached
their stride for the first half of the school
year and are beginning to fill up with pupils.
These are odd little schoo.s tucked
here and there throughout the big school
system, and take care of pupils who cannot
be taught In the regular schools.
Sometimes a child does not learn fast
enough to keep up with other children,
in the days of Charles Dickens, when
Smike and Dotheboys Hall were the rule,
these children had a poor time of life.
However, with the introduction of atypical
schools, the children who are not exactly
iike others, subnormal or abnormal, have
places provided especially for them. They
learn to learn. They learn to control
their fingers so that if their brains are not
active their hands will be. and in that
way they absorb a manual training which
s tasio mine ueupiiimi 10 mem man
trying to learn the regular things in the
regular schools.
Example of One Boy.
There was a boy last year whose parents
said he never would learn. They
sent him to a school where it was fpund
ha was a fifth or sixth grade boy in a
lass of babies of the first grade caliber.
Out he was taken and placed in an
atypical school. The teacher there did
not try to teach him to read. She taught
him to be interested In school, and had
his in ecstaeies over a chair caning Job.
tie got to be an expert chair caner, and
went into the basket weaving with such 4
avidity that he can make waste baskets
now which any millionaire wouid be
,-roud to own.
Thus by a graded process of stimulating
the boy's interest his teacher woke him
up. He is still in one of these schools,
but he is going to be a useful citlsen,
ironi ail accounts.
Backward children are backward for
many and many a reason.. To hear a psychologist
recite the retarding influences
would make the nervous layman shudder.
There are so many reasons why the
atypical ch ldren are not learning rapidly
that each single child gets almost individual
Instruction. Sometimes children
suffer from malnutrition. They do not
get the right things to eat. That doesn't ~
mean they eat too much chocolate cake
and fudge sundae. Malnutrition never ?
"strikes in" where there are any such pi
luxuries. In the ungraded schools, which B
. nstitutions are what a brutal public st
might call "semi-incorribigle" schools, it w
is marvelous to see the chance in the ai
boys who have been called baa, after a t<
week of feeding. "l
Few people know it? but in these un- w
graded schools the hot lunch is a part tl
of the course. They're not half so trouble- T
some when they are well fed. And by w
chance if any parent takes except'on to
that lunch, the boy's teacher would soon oi
explain it. No one in the schools is trying fi
to pauperise the child by "feeding him ly
free " It is merely a part of the new, di
painstaking careful, expensive process h!
of giving every one a f a r chance In the e^
schools. There was no alternative at one H
time, except the alternative of dropping c<
out of school altogether. Now the child w
who cannot "keep up" In one class is in
given a special teacher, and yet many a ei
parent is insulted at the thought. ai
Teachers Learn New Things. tl
An idea of what these teachers will do
for their pupils is Illustrated in the fact gl
that many of them, perhaps all of them,
learned to be master carpenters at night,
so they could teach their boys to be useful
in that linp Th#?
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women, each one of whom has the char* ol
actertstic patient face of a peraon who al
can plant a slow growing seed and wait *
for ages to watch it grow the least little
mite. lx
Kach one of them seeks to rule her ?1
school by her individuality. In some of ol
\nil The President's Cottage,
Beverly, Mass.
I August 24, jgu.
I Frederic J. Has kin, Esq.,
I Washington, D. C.
I Dear Sir:
I I have read your interI
esting account of the
J Presidency. It is accu
I rate in respect of all the 1
I details coming under my I
I observation in two years I
I and a halfs incumbency I
I in the office. I
I Sincerely yours, I
(Signed) Wm. H. Taft. R
Won pablicarten the aereral chapters mf
"The Amman Gaerr?eut," by Fra
Hulcia, ware nd ni appeared bp the (
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2. TkoDoputaoatofSMo
Appeared by Phllaadar C. Kaaz
Sooitarr at Stat*
9. Tba Traaeaey PepaetaaeiU
Apprarad^by FmUh MacVeafi
Apprarad by lbj.-Gta. I eeaard
Otafaf Staff
S. Tba Narr
Appeared by Rear Adbl I. We
Aid far Oaafatiaaa
I. The Paatal Service
Appeared by Fraab H. HMcbead
P**tamter Gcaml
7. Tka Interior Department
^ Appeared by Carwi^A. Tbaaepa*
" *** Edwaed B. Mapea
9. Tka Gaalasiaal Sarray
Appeared by Hairy C. Rfaar
in. Tk. ^ AmI?*i?w '
AffrwWIy Jhj?M W3*w
11. Tbo Weetkee Bereea
Approved by Willis L Hhti
CMtf of tbo Waotter Bum
12. Tbo Deportment of Commerce ud L
A^TalwrfCMiMra^Uki
IS. HWCMMBomr
Approved by E. Dsn Dvul
Director W tte Cam
14. Th*Bw?M?fStiad(rdi
Approved by S. W. Strattoa
Director
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Approved by^Dr. Horvey W. Wil
Approved by Dr. Walter Wysuo
Serxeee Geeerol of Uto NMk 1
Merino Heepitel Service
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I The Speaker's Room, I
I House of 1
I P*t>r*jc*ntatives. It
Washington, D. C.
August 14, 1911Mr.
Frederic J. Haskin,
Washington D. C.
Dear Mr. Haskin:
Your chapter on the
House of Representatives
for your book on
"The American Government"
is an excellent and
succinct statement of tke
subject.
Your friend,
(Signed) Champ Clark.
M
ie ungraded schools there is strict discline.
In others there Is little or none,
at there is a great atmosphere ot moral
lasion. The schoolrooms look more like
orkshops than academic institutions,
id fifteen boys may be working at flfsen
HlffTPTit Ihlntt hill thftv'rA all
retting there," while in the old school,
here they hated their teachers and called
tem "Old Lady This" or "Old Man
hat," they couldn't get through the day
lthout winning an ungranted licking.
A Star reporter who went through some
P these schools with Mr. Patterson made
lends with a little fellow who was busi
making a mat on which to place hot
lahes. He was very much Interested in
Is task, and said he cou'd make one
rery day "if he started early enough."
;? was as enthusiastic a boy as ever one
>u!d And, but he came from a school
here he was classed as a bad boy, an
icorrigible, a non-learner and a "bad
tg" In general. Without telling the toll
nd labor and care and heartaches his
acher in the ungraded school went
trough to clean him up and make a
ttle man out of him, it can be safely
ated that he Is at present a pretty
sod little cltisen.
Experience of Filipino Boys.
There a couple of Filipino boys in one
P the ungraded schools. They are just
Isle to speak a few words of English,
bey were sent to the public schools and
it into the first grade. Each being about
re feet eight, their presence in a school
P six-year-old children was dlsconcertt
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* own Government, an<
t.... The 135 years since then a
brie J. Americans then are 90,000
Ufewiag kingdoms.
Is all this an accident?
Would we be the nation w
That cause is the American
fathers, and whose destinies
1 That Government, the prod
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antf fiatiAM ?nH tl ta vaism
uj irauviif auu ii jvui9i
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fewrigk Haven't you often wished f<
an accurate, unprejudiced, i
The
Marvelous Picture of <
ous Governmet
lfc*r That picture is now for the
r before the American people.
Haskin, in his book, "The A
ernment." has set forth the ston
workings of the great Govern ro
in a manner at once so skillful
as to win the commendation c
, statesmen. Republican and D
and which will quicken the [
i American who reads it.
?The lid of the White Hw
lifted off that you may see your
% though you lived with them, v
what they do, how they live.
The impenetrable dignity of
Court is removed as if by m
may see die inner workings
powerful tribunal on earth.
You are carried to the ports
of the world to see the thorn
. tentacles of your Department
sorbing political and commercii
often without your knowledge
for your benefit.
You are shown how the W
is pulling down the secrfcts of
to aid the shippers of merchar
guard those who travel on the
give the farmers warning and
n care of their crops.
E9 You are shown how the
Uncle Sam*s health officials
proved die conditions of living
States that during ten years
American life has been proloni
k per cent?to be exact, your fw
I postponed 4 years, 1 month an
| HOW
Dealrinn to renuer a great t
PBUr'lT TO ITSELF, the exclu
nttve faaaea of The Star and P'
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bound in an attractive, durable
SAVE SEVEN COUPONS OF
VANIA AVENUE.
Ing. So they were sent to an ungraded E
school, where a patient teacher is get- 1
ting them ready to speak English by the ?
tiAelaat pniitn tvhiok <o that rtf nrflfflnn 1 .1
DIIWI icm *vuvv, ?'??"? ? ??wv?.v?. X]
and necessitous object lessons. They have u
had six foreign tongues in one ungraded y
school at once. Syrian. Oreek, Italian. j>
Filipino, Spanish and French boys have g
clamored, each in his own language, until
Babel Itself was but an amateur Unguis- f(
tic performance. Yet these teachers, who e
are specially trained, have cared for them t,
all. u
There is a Greek girl now In one of the 0
atyp'cal schools. She is there because
there are other girls of her age in the
school, and she is not atypical, but
bright She has to learn English and go
to school, else the immigration authori- tl
ties will deport her. When she landed In h
New York the mmlgration officials told ~
her guardian she would have to go to *
school, and put him under bond to see 11
that she did. Mr. Patterson now makes h
a monthly report on her progress to the tl
officials and also to the bonding com- a
pany, which Is standing responsible for fl
her education, in a way. In the same li
school with this Greek girl is a bright o
looking little girl- One would wonder a
wherein she is backward, for she ap- a
pears even brighter than the average n
school child. Her teacher will tell you
that the child Is totally unable to remem- ti
ber anything at all. It is a task to teach a
her, but she is plodding along, happy and n
cheerful, where she would be miserable g
in a class where forty other children tl
outstripped her weekly t!
At this same school they have an ii
enormous doll named Billy. The girls use b
^hlv?j
?w tile old and grizzled nations loot
1 named itself "The United States
re the most marvelous years of Jei
1,000 to-day. The 13 states then
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are now subject to your will at tta
uct of five generations of America!
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Mlly in their domestic science work,
'hey make dresses for him, which
omes in handy In teaching them to sew
n a machine. They use Billy as a palent
when tliey are learning to do a few
seful sickroom th ngs, and altogether
Mlly is a useful member of the faculty,
'requent lessons in laundry work are
iven to some of the older girls, and there
i not one of them that does not look
orward to it with eagerness. In fact,
aperoess to learn seems to be a characerlstlc
of these children, who couldn't
rarn as well as others in the regular
chools.
Novelties Are Introduced.
Every year a novelty is introduced into
he courses. This year Mr. Patterson
as decided to make pottery a specialty.
*he boys and girls are starting to do a
ttle clay modeling already, and a kiln
as been purchased, so the good work
(ley do can be made into real pottery
nd taken home. One boy has made a
ne looking cracker jar with a cover. He
i a boy that teachers despaired of in
ther schools. Tet he's on his way to
omething, whatever it may be, for his
mbition to please his teacher is reisrkable.
As has been said these schools are
ncked away In odd corners. Like many
new th'tig the appropriators overlook
iany of the needs of these schools, and
lve kbut $13,000 a year to them, when
hose in charge could make use of twice
hat amount. They are in rented buildigs
to a great extent, but some day will
e in regular school buildings. The Cur
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of America." Europe called it "The
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the names of the men fidence of Presic
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SN CENTS EXTRA FOR POSITAGE.
tis and Gales have ungraded schools now, r
and the third ungraded school is in the g
house at 605 P street. 0
Atypical schools are at 810 6th street
northwest, 1322 Maryland avenue north- P
east, 25 5th street southeast, 625 Q street t
northwest and 3232 M street northwest, c
This last named school will be moved n
shortly, as the lease has experied, and Mr. C
Patterson is looking for new quarters. a
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I ANACOSTIA. I a
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John A. Logan Post, Grand Army of li
the Republ'c, of Anacostia has announced 3
a public flag raising at the Episcopal P
Motne for Ch Idren. Hilibrlght. Anacostia,
Washington's birthday of next year. It n
was the Indention tof the post to have c
this public affair September 30, when a w
flag pole was raised in Logan Park, but n
this was not possible. jCapt.
Lloyd Smith, MedicaL Corps, \
United States Army, who was assigned A
to observe mental diseases at the Government
Hospital for the Insane, has R
gone abroad, accompanied by Dr. Bernard r
Glueck of the medical staff. They will ij
spend several months in the study of the c
methods used in foreign countries in
treating insane persons. h
Whether the universal transfers will be E
an actual fact or not, residents of Anacostia
are interested in the proposition 1
advanced by Maurice Otterback of the s
Anacostia Citizens* Association to the
effect that the two railroad companies be tl
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in is is a newspaper cones- M Th9
special articles on current
social economy, travel and
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the United States in recent
urse of his investigations he zs. Th?
r the great newspapers into
world, and he has had the ^
atried and extensive observahas
invariably been notable
ing facts, and for rare skill *?It
has won him the contents,
statesmen, diplomats,
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i erican Government ^
to be Written "1
scrap-books are stored with I
tides, and he has received I
of letters calling for infor- I
; to the Government. It 1
:ad interest, and the belief 1
e rendering a great educa- I
t inspired Mr. Haskin with I
staking the enormous task I
leted. I
Vast Read It I
d one points of information, I
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he American Government** I
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F better citizenship; read it f/D]
tter understand what is go- \gji
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I STREET AND PEWNSYLI
equeated to issue reciprocal transfers at
th and G streets southeast to patrons
>f these lines at that point. It is ex>lained
by Mr. Otterback that in going
o the Union station, if a Center Market
ar passes, a wait of several minutes is
ecesaary, whereas if one could board the
ienter Market car and transfer at 8th
nd G streets, no time would be lost. It
rould also enable residents of .anacostia
o get to the northeastern section of
he city without the necessity of going
8 far as 9th and F streets northwestAnnouncement
has been made that the
ext Parent-Teachers' Association meetig
w 11 be held the evening of November
, in the parish hall of Emmanuel Ep'scoal
Church on V street. Dr. Davidson,
uperintendent of schools, has been Invitd
to address the meeting. The entertainlent
committee, Mrs. Frank C. Haines,
hairman, is preparing a program which
rill include several vocal and instrumental
selectionsMrs.
J. K. Davison and Miss 8. A.
iavlson of Anacostia. together with Mrs.
V. R. Davison of Sterling, Va? are at
.tlantlc City for a visit.
Rev. Hubert Bunyea, pastor of the
landie Highlands Baptist Church, will
ssume his duties in that church today.
[e recently returned from a trip to Bucks
ounty. Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. James Alford of W street
ave visiting them their daughter, Mrs.
luth Potts of Waynesboro, Pa.
Miss Louise Coomes is visiting the
Usees Walthan at their home on V
treet.
That the designation of the freight staon
in Anacostia will probably be <
BMHk
The Vice-President's UEJ
Chamber,
Washington. I
August 21, ign. I
Mr. Frederic J Has kin, I
Washington, D. C. I
Dear Sir: I
/ hare read rrxth care I
your chapter on legisla- I
ftve procedure in the I
l uited States Senate, jor I
book on "The I
American Government." I
It appears to be an un- I
colored statement of ex- I
is ting conditions and %s I
certainly interesting. I
Very truly yours. I
(Signed) J. S. Sherman.
I
Mkatioa the terertl chapters of the heek
aaerican GsTtnaest," by Frederic J.
rere read aad approved by the following
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Approved by Richard Rathbaa
Acting Secretary
Panama Canal
Approved by Col. George W. Goethals
Ckainaan aad Chief Engineer
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Approved by Jodsoo C. Clemeots
Approved bp Brig. -Geo. C. R. Edward*
Cbiaf ef tbe hm. ef Iasalar Affairs
r Conereea Legislates
Approved bp Senator Tbonaa S. Martia
CWimu Dwirralic CsWtraacf
Ho? of Representatives
Approved bp Cbawp Clark
Soaker ?
Approved bp Jaar* S. Sherman
Vice-Presides! of the United State*
Library of Cony?a
Approved bp Herbert Pataaa
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Government Printin* Office
Approved bp Samel B. DoooeOp
Public Printer
Civil Service
Approved bp Joba C. Black
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Sop?a Court
Approved bp Jaatt H. McKennep
Clerk ef the Snpreme Coert of tbe U. S. "
w Federal Courts
Approved bp Wilbur S. Hirnaaa
Depotr CUrk ef tbe U. S. Csmra Ceert
Department of Justice
Approved bp George W. Wickersbaai
Attorney Geeerei
Pen American Union
Approved bp Joba Barrett
Natio?I Capital
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Washington. LKfl
August 14, 1911.
Frederic J. Haskin, Esq., I
Washington, D. C. I.
My dear Mr. Haskin: I
In response to the re- I
quest which you were I
good enough to make, / I
have caused an examina- I
tion to be made of the I
manuscript of the chap- I
ter on the Department of I
State for your book I
"The American Govern- I
rnent." I greatly appre- I
date your desire for ac- I
curacy which will add I
so greatly to the value I
of the work and am I
/iZ/i/V t s\ f ^ m/ta< I
(/tuu 4 U UJJU' r J L/W ?rtu? |
no inaccuracy whatevr I
/wj noted. I
(Signed) P. C. Knox. B
Raff
changed from Uniontown. D. C., to Anacostia,
D. C., Is the Information contained
in a letter received by the secretary of
the Anacostia Citizens' Association from
the chief freight agent of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company. This is expected
to facilitate the de ivery of freight
in the Anacostia section.
Lester C. Johnston of U street, Anacopfla,
is traveling in California.
The recommendation of the captain
commandinc the eleventh police precinct
and the refusal of the assessor to ls?ue
a license to William S." Thrall to conduct
a poolroom at 12411 Good Hope road. Anacostia,
has been sustained by the Commissioners.
The Congress Heights Citizens' Association
is pushing its efTort to have the
electric railway extended from Its present
terminus on Nichols avenue to the
Firth-Stirdne 8teel Company's plant at
Gieaboro. and has recent'y held several
conferences with the officials of the railroad
company. It has been shown that
more than 500 men are employed by this
company, most of whom are now residents
of Alexandria, but who would move
to Congress Heights If a car line would
carry them to their work. At present
they are brought over the river In *
boatWhile
George Nelson, a llnerMn of the
Bell Telephone Com pan >, was stretching
a wire from one pole to another at Port
Norfolk it fell across a wire of the Virginia
Railway and Power Company. As
fhe wires came together Nelson toppled
over and died.