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Special to Dm Franklin Times
Washington, D. C., September 11.
? With the wont of the hot weather
over, tourist* are be (Inning to flock
Into Washington In larger numbers
than at any other time since last
spring. There have not been so
many of them here this past sum
mer as usual. Fewer people have
had the leisure and the money with
which to take vacation trips. But
there are never less than a million
outside visitors to Washington an
nually, and some years the number
hag run to nearly double that fig
ure.
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One experience which every
stranger visiting Washington always
enjoys is to go to the top of the"
Washington Monument. Five hun
dred and fifty-five feet from It* base
to Its solid aluminum tip. the Wash
ington Monument Is still the highest
spot In the city, and from It the vis
itor gets a bird's-eye view of the en
tire District of Columbia and the ad
jacent hills of Maryland and Vir
ginia.
The Monument stands exactly on
the meridian of Washington which
is exactly 77 degrees, 8 minutes and
57 seconds west of Greenwich, Eng
land, which is the point from which
longitude Is c41culated. It Is as
nearly as possible the exact geo
graphic center of the tract, ten miles
square, which was laid out as the
Federal District in George Washing
ton's time. A line drawn north and
south through the monument would
pass through the middle of the
White House, and up Sixteenth
Street, the upper end of which 1s
known as Meridian Hill.
The monument Is no longer the
center of the District, however, be
cause in the 1840's the part lying on
the Virginia side of the Potomac
River was given back to that state,
so that the District of Columbia now,
instead of containing one hundred
square miles, is only about sixty
four square miles in area.
That High Water Mark
This monument t0 George Wash
ington was begun about 1830 by an
association which got contributions
from the public, but ran out of
funds when the structure had reach
ed the height of about 150 feet. It
stood theke unfinished ifor forty
years, a blot on the landscape of the
capital city, until Congress appro
priated money for its completion.
It was finished in 1885, with stone
from the same quarry from which
the lower part had been built. In
the meantime, so much other stone
had been taken out of that quarry
that the new stone does not match
the old, and the very distinct line,
about a third of the way up the
monument, where the darker stone
ends and the lighter stone begins,
is a perpetual reminder of the for
ty years' delay in its completion.
In the spring of 1889 floating Ice
In the river Jammed against the
railroad bridge, forming a dam
which diverted all of the water of
the river into the city and men and
boys rowed up and down Pennsyl
vania Avenue in boats from the
Treasury to the Capitol grounds for
two or three days.
Occasionally, an old Washington
Ian, when asked by a stranger how
to account for the line across the
Washington Monument where the
stone changes color, replies that
that is the high mark of the flood
nf 1889!
Next to the Washington Mom l
ment, the principal point of attrac
tion for visitors is the Capitol Build
ing. It Is possible for those who
are sufficiently active to climb up
a narrow winding iron stairway,
concealed between the castiron
dome and the celling of the retunda,
and stand at the very foot of the
Statue of Liberty. Host visitors,
however content themselves with re
maining on the main floor, viewing
the the historical paintings around
the walls and on the great celling of
the circular rotunda, which is 150
feet across, and strolling through
the wings on either side to the halls
in which the Senate and the House
of Representatives hold their ses
sions.
These two" wings are much young
er than the main building. The
Senate, In the early days of the na
tion used to meet In the compara
tively small room In which the Sur,
preme Court has held Its sessions
for the last hundred years, while the
House of Representatives sat for
half a century or more In what is
now Statuary Hall which has one
of the most famous whispering gal
leries In the world.
\ There is a certain point at which
the visitor can stand on oile side
of Statuary Hall and speak in a
whisper which can be distinctly
heard by anyone standing In a cor
responding position, at the other
side, more than one hundred feet
Guarded Craftsmen
Almost every Washington visitor
wants to see "the place where they
make the money." The Bureau of
Engraving and Printing is the larg
est plant In the world devoted to
printing by what Is known as the
steel engraving process. The plates
from which money, postage stamps
and government bonds are printed
are engraved on steal, which Is then
hardened until It cannot be cut even
by a diamond, and from these plate*
money Is printed on hand presses,
requiring extremely skillful opera
tors. ?
Visitors are admitted to a close
ly gnkrded gallery from which they
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can look through hear? bars and
watch the money printer* at work.
Every sheet of paper haa to be ac
counted for at the beginning and
end of each day's work, and the em
ployees who actually handle the pa
per and printed money are not al
lowed to wear the same clothes in
thq workroom that they wear to and
from work.
The Secret Service Museum In the
Treasury Department, In which
specimens of counterfeit money and
plates and presses captured by the
Secret Service men are kept, Is no
longer open to the public. The most
lifeenlow counterfeiter, although
not the moat dangerous, has been
dead tor a great many years, but
the Secret Service still has many
specimens of his work. He did not
use plates or presses at all, but
would bleach out a dollar bill, and
with pen and Ink draw a hundred
dollar bill on the bleached-out paper
so perfectly that he had no trouble
In passing them on banks all over
the country. He never could earn
more than $100 a week at this trade.
If the Secret 8ervice men had ever
been able to catch him there was a
Job waiting for him In the Treasury
Department at a higher salary than
that, so expert was he In drawing
the intricate designs which make
American money diScult to counter
feit.
BRUNSWICK STEW
M lanes Elizabeth Southall, Annie
Lee Nelms and Messrs. Stanley Neal
and Thurston Gilliam feted quite
a number ot their friends to a
"brunswlck stew" at Southall'a barn
Wednesday night, September Tth.
Since it was somewhat - cool a
large h&rn fire was built, aroand
which everybody gathered and had
a nice time laughing, talking, eat
ing bi'unswlck stew and drinking
iced tea.
Those present included: Misses
Mary Neal, Mildred Gilliam, Otelia
Glasgow, Ollle and Magdallhe Wes
ter, Catherine, Nettie and Mildred
Gupton, Mildred Cone, Mildred Bob
bitt, Annie Lee and Louise Nelms,
Elizabeth and Ruth Southall and
Mrs. Irene Mathews; Messrs. Ben
and Joel Wester, Frank and Ronda
Guptort, William Sofuthall, Walter
Pleasants, Essie Tharrlngton, May
nard Baker, Wayne Joyner, Willie
Boyett Hinton, Willie A vent, Thur
ston and Willard Gilliam and Stan
ley Neal.
Farmers in Alamance County have
ordered 490 pounds of Austrian
Winter Peas to be used for soil im
provement this fall.
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That Is Indeed good newa that the
Army and Navy have agreed to re
lume competition In all branches
of aport tor the next three rears.
Football teams representing the two
Institutions will meet on Franklin
Fleiq, Philadelphia, December 3. !
The Army-Nary game la one of the
sports spectacles of the year.
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Here Is the brief story of a base
ball player who batted out a ball
during a game In Philadelphia and j
It went to New York. Ike Straab,
catcher for the St. Anne's team, hit !
a foul bell In a game with the Co- 1
lumbla Turners the other day. A
brakeman, riding atop a boxcar of
a fast freight train, caught the ball '
on the fly, wared It In the air and
then pocketed It as the train passed I
out of sight. The train was bound
for New York.
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And here Is a yarn about a man |
who batted out a six-base bit and
yet didn't score. Charley Chalfonte, I
of the Church Baseball League, of.
Unlontown, Pa., knocked a ball away I
out in far center. Panting across j
home plate he heard someone shout: '
"Hey, you didn't touch first." 80 .
Charley started around again. He |
tell Into second ahead of the ball
and was called safe. The next bat
ter ended the inning.
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In 1904 when the Boston Red Sox
won the pennant in the American
League, the Sox challenged the New
York team, winners of the National
League flag. The Gianta refused to
play on the ground that the Ameri
can League was not a major league.
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Every game of the five-game
series of 1905 between Philadelphia
of the American League and New
York of the National League,, ended
in a shut-out victory.
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Babe Ruth has played in nine
world series.
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In June, 1928, W. R. Selkirk
while fishing off Hermanus Cape,
Province of South Africa, caught a
shark 13 feet, three Inches long1
weighing 127 pounds. That's a rec- 1
After Lo?t LaureU ~j
Max Schmeling, German hea vy
weight and former world chaanioiL
?? ??* U. S. lor a battlTwiS
Mickey Walker, hn first Itart sioc*
losrtg the title to Jack Sharlcey of
^?*ton- Mlx think* h* can regain hit,
crown.
ord for sharks.
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Handball dates back to the tenth
century. It's of Irish origin.
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When a man shows that he la honest and capable and
keepa his word In every transact ton, people soon have faith
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