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VOL XVI.
WHOSE ITS FATHER?
Anguished Men Disagree as
0 Originator Conservation.
jBCLE JOE ADMITS MISTAKES.
;peaker Cannon and Gifford Pinchot
Wide Apart on the Question of the
Chief Promoter of the Conservation
Movement Pinchot's Party.
Kansas City, Special. Gifford Pin-
LW :mii SDeaker Jos. G. Cannon en-
Wed in an extemporaneous debate
iDDii the subject of conservation be-
ore the ivnite ana lorix aiud in mis
TTViilnv nio-Vifr and wbila each
... - : i ..:..n.o. I
moTi cave eiures&ioii to me aiucon i
ersonal regard for the other and
hoth agreed that conservation of the
nation's natural resources should be
Ucouraged, they difEered on the
I bole as to who was the f ather of
innervation.
Mr. Cannon said that J. vv.
Powell, at one time- directly oi the
government geological survey, deserv
ed the honor, but Mr. Pinchot assert;
d that Theodore Roosevelt was the
a'ther of conservation.
Turning to Mr. Pinchot, Mr. Can-
non said :
"I have. the greatest personal re-
bird for you, but I understand that
you are now engaged in '-conservation
work for the organization of a new
party. ; '
'T tell you, sir, that a party cannoi
tand. on a single issue, although our
arty did stand on a single issue once
in tual greiu cuuuict uuvn ecu sci v
and free labor."
Speaking of his record as a public
official, Mr. Cannon said:
"I admit I have made mistakes.
if! rear Cod, I have been mistaken a
eore ct' times in the last 35 years.
Hie re ara other fellows m Congress
vbo have been wrong just as often,
hut thev are not honest enough to
1 "Theodore Roosevelt' was the fath
er o etraservat ion in this eountry, ' '
pr. Pinchct said, "the national con
Ker.variou association is continuing the
pork he started. The last session of
iCcazress did CTeat work and our as-
i:. ire withdrawal Dili as it passea
was due. largely to the efforts of the
association. .
4,We now intend that the people
reus: te compensated lor wnat tue
private. interests, get. The old prac
tir e cf giving perpetual grants to pri-
ate nurrests now is impossible and
ita future is now safe against the
PFre.?sien of monopoly.
I believe a new school of politics
is coining in the United States. This
'c.v' . () wiH decide whether the
ountry shall be governed by money
or yi:M or by men for human wel
arc." Winn -Times' in Tennessee.
'Memphis. Tenn., Special. In even
owii and villa'ro and countv in Ten
co. the State's serious politica1
situation has aroused the most intense
Hp..:. Regular Democrats and in-
urgpr.t Democrats and Republican?
pro h-nng up their" forces for the
fllUil ' I'HUR'S, 111 August.
F'iPM the Stnfo indir-iVirv and conntv
flerrtir.ns.-are held. No candidate .to
f'Ppcw Governor M. R: Patterson ha?
jecn announced.
jAdju-t Rates on Hardwood Lumber.
Washington, -Special. That, Louis-
'lip. Ky'., be made-a reconsignmeut
xmt for hard wood lumber shipped
rom. the Southern States to points
a tlifr.Xortli and. West, and that' rates':
adjusted accordinzlv is ? request
font abed .in a petition received bv
e Interst'fltp Cnmmprpfi rJomTnipinn.
Monorail-Accident First Trip.
ev. York, " Special. Twenty ; per-
Urt, in the first commercial trip Sat-,
rday of the new smpnorail service
Ptween City Island and Bartow, in
TTrtTT-oyrl
-11. kj.J vX t V XJ 1U11A. )T Ui U
Unis. the inventor, who was motor-
an. broke a rib. and one nasseno-er
mo n W
trainmen and Colored Man Fight. '
A!)any, Ga., Special. Coot Tay
5r, a negro man, was shot to -death
fn,i 15aggagemaster Edgar furmen
fas slightly, injured in a battle be-
een the crew of a special train on
Atlantic Coast Line railroad and
ne -h.egrb late' Friday nieht. The ne
rlo wna 4; x i -11 it
.. - o - -
i nviii- iv Kin rurmen ana l
fa(i shot at him flirAo foo nr,.
Uctor W. D. Bullard thpn tnnV
h. -i
rn(,.-m the fib-lif. outing
krce killing -him ' instantlv.
Ln tinff oceured between Thbm
rvuie an iuit, i
FIVE MANGLED TO DEATH
Balloon Bnrst3. High in Air and
Aviators Crash to. Earth in Shud
dering Death Sunshine Expanded
the Gas. t
Leichlingen, Rhenish 'Prussia, By
Cable. Oscar Erbsioch, the German
aeronaut, who won the international'
balloon-race at St. Louis in 1907 and
four companions were killed' Wednes
day when the dirigible balloon Eros
loeh burst at . a height of several' hun
dred feet and dropped to the earth a
crumpled mass.
The craft wa? of the non-rigid type,
176 feet in length and 33 feetf
diameter. The motors were of
125
horsenower and' drove the airshiD at
. -
a speed of 28 miles an hour.
The War Department recently pur
chased one of Erbsloeh's .balloons'.
The cause of the accident is a mat
ter of conjecture but it is believed
that the-bursting of the bag "was. due
to the expansipn of gas by the warm
sunshine '
The wreckage fell so heavily that
the gondolajwas broken into bits and
the motor buried in the ground. The
victims wers frightfully torn.
Everything Covered in This Policy.
New York, Special. In addition to
life, accident-, health, fire, burglary, j
tornado, automobile and yacht insur- branches of the Standard Oil Com
ance policies, Russell F. Hopkins, a pany the Deutsche Vacuum Oil
young millionaire of Irvingion-on- j Company has just been brought to
the-IIudson, who formerly lived in a victorious, end for the Americans
Atlanta. Ga., has taken out a $5,000 involved. '
policy against assassin ation, of which A well known Hamburg newspaper
$2,000 is to go to first informant and for months printed such a series of
$1,000 each to the th others who attacks on the "American graft meth
may supply information regarding ods" alleged to have been practiced
the deed. ( by the vacuum company in the con-
Hopkins first came to New York duct of its German business that the
as consul for the republic of Panama public prosecutor, of Hamburg felt
and ia 1903 married Miss Vera constrained to-.'make". an official inves-
Siegrist, a niece of Dr. J. J. JLaw
rence,a patent medicine proprietor of
St. Louis. He built a magnificent
country place overlooking the Hud
son, adjoining the pla-ee of Miss Helen
Gould, -and installed upon it a mena
gerie iopn' to the public.
Roosevelt Friend to All Parties.
Oyster Bay, N. Y., Special Theo
dore Roosevelt said with emphasis
Wednesday that he has taken no
stand as yet in favor of either the in-
surg-ents or the regulars in the Repub
licanarty and he desires to correct '
any impression.' that he is showing
favoritism. Of the situation within
tho party in New York State he said
he saw only harmony ahead.'
"I'want .you to make it clear," he
said to. interviewers, ''that I am pee
ing both sides. I . wish, you would
rnake that- emphatic My main in
terest i$ in the State,' but no national
issues. I want to see both . regulars
and insurgents,? party .emen ' and in
dependents. I want to see Democrats
a3 well as Republicans.4' "j 8
"But you dbn't -want to see Dem
ocrats win ?'' he was asked.
"Not if the Republican's "do", the
right thing," he replied.
Aeroplanes "Could , Wreck' Warships.
Atlantic City, N. J.r, jSpeeial.
Glenn H. Curtis tossed oraiiges arid"
mimic bombs within three feet o ther
Wks of the yacht John E. Meheve it;,
used in place of a battleship during
the sham battle' arranged to demon
strate the utility of Aeroplanes in
coast defense. The mock bombs were
dropped from a height of ajiout -300
feet and Curtiss 'purposely failed to
strike the deck of the yacht 'for fear
of injury to the officials and passehr
gers gathered oh her decks. " ,
' Experts agreed that a fleet of aero-
planes armed with bombs of high ex
plosives could .wreck any warship be
fore guns could ? be trained oh them.
:J Millionaire Killed" by Fall:
London; .By Cable. Hon. Charles
Stewart Rolls, one of the foremost
English aviators,, a millionaire and
a member of the gentry, who recently
flew from Dover to France and re
turn ; in a'.Wright hiplane, was killed
Tuesday by a fall from his aero p We
at the Bournemouth aviation meeting.'-
.'.-; ,
Dying Boy Calls for Dead Mother,
New " Orleans, Special. With the
realization that death was approach
ing, Clarence Desforges,. a 15-year-old
boy, began to call for' his mother
to comfort him as he lay on a cot in
the charity ' hospital Monday. . .
He gradually lapsed into uncon
sciousnessand died late in the after-
noon.
Death' was due to a bullet
;
fired by his father five days ago. In
a jealous , rage, the i elder Desforges,
fatally wounded his son, killed ' his
wife, and then himself.
: The boy died without the know
ledge that both parents were in the
grave. ;
COLTJMBTJS, POLK COUNTY; N.,C., TH URS.D AT, JULY SI, 1910.
DATES AND PLACES FAIRS
Announcement I Made Tor the Holding
f Fair3 in the Great Virginla-
Carolinas-Georgia Circuit Hand
some Prizas Offered For Races. -
Richmond, Special. -The" following
are' the places 'and dates cf fairs in
the great Viginia-Carolina-Georgia'
associations r Gal air, Ya., August. 39r
F31,- September 1, 2 'Radford, V a.',
September 6r 7, 8, 9; Tazewell, Va.,
September 13, !l4, 15; Roanoke," Va.,
September 20, 21, 22, 23t Lynchburg,
Va., September 27, 28, 29, 30;.AVin-ston-Salem,
N. C, October 4, 5, 6, 7;
Greensboro, N. C, Octobey 11, 12, ,13
14), Raleteh, C. October 17, 18; 19,'
20, 21, 2rl) Charlotte,, N, C, October'
25, 26, 27, 28;' Columbians. rC, ; Oc-;
tober 21; "November 1, h- 3, 4, .5; Au
gusta, Ga., November 7, ,8,; 9, . 10, 11,',
12; Eatonton, Ga., November 15, 16,
17;' 18. Te total purses offered by
thee combined Fair Associations on
horse races, amounts to $20,000 or
over. The entry books were closed
on June 1st. 1
AMERICAN VICTORY
: MANY.
IN GER-
Prosecutor Finds Oil Company Has
Committed No. , Wrong.
Berlin, By Cable. The long and
venomous campaign waged by Ger
man newspapers and rival industrial
interests against one of the German
tigation with , a .;vi;(w. to eventual in
dictments. The prosecutor has now
concluded his investigation, especially
of the work of E. L. Quarles, Ameri
can manager cf the German com
pany's sales I department, and an
nounces that no necessity exists for
pursuing the inquiry further.
No evidence of anything warrant
ing prosecution.-was sfound against
I Mr. Quarles, and the costs of the en-f
; tire inquiry will be borne by the
! Rlafn !
ULOLC. i I
The result of the investigation con-
ftitutes anotable triumphDfor Amer
ican interests m Germany.
. It is not the first time that Ger-
mans finding themselves unable to
compete with Americans on ordinary
terms have -resorted to slander."
Uncla Sam, "Leave -It Alone."
; Pensacola, Fla., STpecial". Judge W.
B. ' Sheppard diS the Federal, courts
Friday .denied the .application of -the
Southern -Express, Company for a
permanent injunction restraining the'
State Railroad Commission from;--enforcing,
an order reducing interstate
rates' ahout 17 per cent.' li, rendering
his decision Judge Sheppard stated
that only- in extreme cases, should a
Federal -court: interefere R wjth : STatV
officers " who are endeavoring to " en
force laVs passed "by the Legislature-
s J-' tJapt. Lyon. Not v(riiilty. ;
;v New York, ! Special1 Captain' Sam- J
,uel Ki.-fi.yon, of the 25th infantry, U.
S. A., reccntiy tried at Vort Myer.
Va., for irregularities growing Out
of- the Brownsville, - Teas,' ' matter, '
Iwas. found not guilty and. honorably
acquitted by the court General Wal
ter Howe,., commander 'of the departr
ment'of the east, howerver, 'acting as
reviewing authority, passed upon the
case and disapproved the "finding of
the court. "
Big Tobacco Xoss in Kentncky. '
; Henderson, Ky., Special. Reports
reaching here! Saturday from Hender
son Union and Webster counties in
dicate that damage approximating
$2,000,000 was done by a cloudburst
Friday night. It is estimated thaT
50,000 acres j of - pooled tobacco in
Henderson county alone have been
destroyed and one tobacco plantation
of '200- acres! is a total loss.
GasoleneKing at Elks' Reunion.
. ' Detroit, Mich, sSpeeial.-T-FiVe mil
lion dollars' , worth of autos rolled
through !.the city in an unbroken line
of -twenty-five miles Friday afternoon.
There were 2,500 cars in this monster
procession, which took two and a
half hours to -pass. . Truly gasolene
was king at the Elks' reunion.
While this trenraendous automobile
pageant; was I wending its way through
the streets the Wright 1 brothers' air
ship was "soaring-arid-wheeling above
the earth t the State; Fair Grounds
in successful speed flights, and on the
river jspecd . launches were . cutting
the river at express train ' speed. ? ; ;
pE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD
The Heart of Happenings Carrel
From the Whole Country. s j
Direct exchange of postal money
brders , between . . this qountry and
Uruguay will be possible after . Oc
tober X next, the. amounts in both
directions to. be expressed in, United!
States money. . . 8 I
.The tide of emigration' -of - honie
seekers to Canada hits " turned", in the
opinion of, officials4' of the. Reclama
tion Service. Thousands- liave ' ' re
turned and a great , many .more are
expected, back soon. - " "
The elaborate, funeral given King
Edward ost. f he! English nation $202,-
L 500 as is' shown 'in the supplementary
nnanciai estimate issuer.
; . Nearly; 75 vears old, but hale and
hearty, Ross Magnus rode horseback
all the way from West Virginia to
buy a farm in Colorado. It was his
first trip from home and he says it
was great and worth all the trouble.
While playfully tossing her 6-wonths-old
son, at Morgantonj W.
Va., Mrs. Plummer Pride allowed the
child to slip over her shoulder and
fall to the floor. Jhe boy's neck was
broken and death was instantaneous.
The mother is overcome with grief.
William S. Kenyon, assistant to
the attorney general, is in Chicago,
assisting the officials of the district
attorney's office there in the pre
sentation to the grand jury of evi
dence in the so-caled beef trust and
oleomargarine fraud esses.
' Organized labor has not been fair-i
ly dealt with by the present admin
istration, and its enemies are in the
majority in Congress, according to
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor.
The naval yacht Hornet, a steel
vessel of 423 tons, built for Henry
M. Flagler and purchased by the
Government for $117,500 at the out
set of the Spanish war, will be sold
io NatbamS. Stern, of New Orleans
for $5,1 00. v , i
Contracts have been signed bythe
navy department for the construction
of a steel fuel oil storage tank and
a gasoline storage tank at each of
the following naval' stations: Brad
ford, R. I.; Norfolk, Va.; Charleston,
S. C.; Key West, Fla.; Guantanamo,
Cuba, and San Juan; P. R.
The United Kingdom sobered up
.$54,000,000 worth in the year 1909,
acrording to figures furnished this
government by Consul-General John
L. 'Griffiths, of London, who reported
a marked falling off in the consump
tion of intoxicating liquors in the
British realm during 1909. In 'that
year the: amourit expended for in
toxicating liquors was 730,000,000,
a decrease of $54000,000 from 1908.
Sixty thousand crates of peaches,
constituting , a large portion of "the
Elberta crop, are rotting in' -Fort
Valley, Ga., on account of the fafture
of the refrigerator car companies to
supply iced cars for Wednesday and,
Thursday's harvest. ' '!
President"' Taft withdrew' "more
millions t of : acres of coal lands in
different States .of the. AVest," bringing
the,' total of; coal lands withdrawn
1 1 1 ' . ,1 . !
maae ov mm up to tne enormous-
tptal ot l,olS,a38 acres. Something
like half-of this aiflount'is new with
drawals. ; r- . - '
Applications are pouring in from
i banks-. throughout the "country whose
orrimis. are anxious that their insti
tutions .be .."made depositories under
the postal. jsavings:bahk- law. -
Mr. and'mrs..f.'Barbeji; of Pensa
cola, Fla.,, received, from Governor
pilchrist .a handsome spoon bearing
the seal of he -State- of Florid..
Married 19 years .ago the wife is,
liaw onlyythirty-seven years old, but
Mri .and ."Mrs.v Barberi are the . par
ents of 13 'children. : Six of the chil
dren are "twins.. Governor Gilchrist
suggested that the Legislature pass
an act allowing the parents. apension.
discovery of the existence of a new
counterfeit ? $10 gotd certificate has
Ijeen announced. by Chief 'Wilkie. The
certificate is represented to be of the
act of July 12, ,1882, series of 1901;
aid bears "the check letter "D,"
plate No. 150, the signature-of W. T.
ernonRegister of the Treasury ; Lee
McClung, Treasurer of the United
States and- the portrait of Hilligas
The note is from a photographic plate
printed 'on, bond paper.
Because her mother doubted hex,
word and sent "her-to her roomv as
punishment, 10-year-old Alice Dunn,
at Meadville,' Pa.j drank carbolic
acid and died, an hour later. j
. Owing to the fact that some let
ters mailed to Mrs. Frances F. Cleve
land, widow of . President Cleveland,
have, been charged with postage due
addressed, the Postmaster General has
at the postoffice to which they wefe
issued an order calling attention
of
postmasters to the -bill passed at the
last' session of Congress whereby
Mra Cleveland's letters, like those of
Mrs. Mary Lord Harrison, widow, of
President I Harrison, are . entitled? to
free transmission.1 ' . -." ...
OFFICERS ARE REBUKED.
" . ' - "4 .
ITavy Department Censures Superior
Oflicers in the Marine Corps Jeal-
IE -
' ousiss and Personal Strife;
. Washington, Special. The person
al strife among the oflicers of the
United States marine corps Friday
reached a climax when the Navy De
partment, as a result of a court of
inquiry,, sent letters of censure to
nearly all the officers concerned. No
further judicial proceedings are con
templated.. The censured officers are Major
General George F. Elliott, command
ant of the corps; Col. Charles H.
Launchhelmer, adjutant andv inspec
tor; Col. Frank L. Denny, the j quar
termaster at Washington; Colonel
Charles A. Doyen, commanding the
marine barracks at the naval academy
at Annapolis; Lieutenant Colonel
Thomas C. Prince, assistant quarter
master at Washington; Lieutenant
Colonel Henry C. Haines, assistant
adjutant, and inspector at Washing
ton, -and Majcrs Louis J. Magill and
David I). Prrler, assistant adjutants
and inspertors at Philadelphia' and
Washington respectively.
The court held that General Elliott
had been profane, irritable and ir
ascible at times, indulging moderately
in intoxicating liquors, but never in
toxicated pn duty and sometimes
failed to treat subordinates with cour
tesy, but was usually polite, generous,
truthful;, and a "plain blunt soldier,
open and frank." !
At the bottom of. the dissension in
the corps is said to have been the
question of the successorship to Gen
eral Eliott .when he retires in Octo
ber, th6' fight "being' between" officer
of the line and of the staff.
Stamps by the Billion, j
Washington, Special. Ten billion
postage stamps, worth almost $200,
000,000 will be used by the people
of the United States in the fiscal year
which began July 1, 1910, and will
be ended June 30, 1911. These be
wildering figures are set down! in the
requisition which the Postoffice De
partment has forwarded to the Sec
retary of the Treasury, by whose or
der the stamps will be engraved-and
delivered by the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing. The total of stamps
asked for is 9,864,220,000, but that
number 'will not suffice, it is known,
the requisition being made for "the
sake of economy," smaller than the
probable needs. Last year's first
supply, of $170,746,800 worth; failed
and more had to be ordered. The
face .value of the first reouisition this
year' is $7,036,200 greater than last
year's. -
. Must Call for Registry Receipt.
, Washington, Special. An interest
ing change in regulations affecting
registration of postal matter is 'noted
in-an order just issued by the Postmaster-General.
Whenever request
is' made by the sender of registered
mail matter, receipt showing person
to whom and time when the matter
was delivered will be taken by post
master; at point of delivery and re
turned' to sender. "Receipt desired"
must be inscribed, however, on the
'registered matter from which the
sender wishes such a receipt. For the
present the Postmaster-General in
structs; postmasters to ask if return
receipts is desired and, where indicat
ed, to indorse mail for patrons of the
office.
Distressing to Georgia Frnif Growers.
Fort! Valley, Ga., Special. It was
stated here 'Friday that thirty car
loads" of peaches (Elbertas) will be
dumped into- tlie Flint driver, eight
miles from here, Saturday; as a re
sult of .the failure to .move the crop
quickly, - Eighty thousand crates
were awaiting-cars here Friday, and
it is feared will be a dead loss. , Al
ready growers here, have lost $100,
000 because of lack of iced cars. The
situation is said to be the worst in the
history of the industry in this section.
Famous Veteran Passes. '
Lynchburg, Va., Special. Colonel
Auguste Forsberg, who commanded
the Forty-Second Virginia Regiment
in the civil warj died here Friday af
ter a llong sickness. He was 79 years
old and a native of Sweden. He was
city engineer for a long time here.
At the breaking out of , the civil war,
he was engaged at Columbia, S. C", as
an architect.
NO. 10.
CAPITAL FACTS.
- . .
Interesting News Gathered in
the District of Columbia.
THE AMERICAN CONGRESS.
Personal Incidents and Important
Happenings of National Import
Published for the Pleasure and In
formation of Newspaper Readers.
Only 13 Confederates Left.
The death of .Senator Danel, of
Virginia, and Senator McEnery, 6
Louisiana, leaves but 13 former Con.
federate soldiers in Congress.. The
are Senators Bankhead and Johnston,
of Alabama; Senator Bacon, o'f Geor
gia;; Senator Money, of Mississippi,
and Representatives Talb'ott, of Mary
land; Richardson and Taylor, of
Alabama ; Rucker, ,jof -Colorado ; Liv
ingston, of Georgia;. Spight, of Missis
sippi; Gordon, of Tennessee, audi
Lamb, of Virginia. Senator Talia
ferro, of Florida,- who has been de
feated for re-election; was also fn
the Confederate service. Senator Till
man; quit school in July, 1864, to join
the Confederate Army, but was strick-,
en with illness which caused the losa
of his eye and kept him an invalid
for two years.
Higher in Cost, But
4 ' The congressional committee on
the cost of living recently detailed
fifteen reasons for the high cost of
.living, and jet one of the most im-;
portant reasons for high prices waa
left out of their report," says Solic
itor! McCabe, of the Department of
Agriculture. "The execution of the
V.J rfA 1 A n. Vine tin Ja.iUaJI.. l'.J.
important effect upon prices;-For-
merly resort was had to adulteration "
and j misbranding to reduce the price ;
of alleged articles. Now people buy
raspberry jam, for instance, and pay
more for it, but they get what they
payj for. So it is with many other
articles -in common use. This in-
r.rJLfiA in rn'p af nnre in nnV
apparent, but it impresses the people
who make purchases as real."
m ,
Lightning Reds cn White House.
Lightning rods are being raised
over the White House. 1 It is by Gov-
ernment decree that the executive
mansion s is being equipped with apr
paratus to protect it from electrie
6nslaught, and during the absence of
President Taf from Washington, the
equipment is being installed.'
The rods are placed on each of the .
12 'chimneys above the mansard roof i
and points to arrest the lightning will
be placed at intervals'-of five feet
along a cable, which runs around the
parapet. No lightning rods, however,
are to be raised over the executive
offices adjoining the mansion.
Bids For War Vessels by Oct. 1.
. Plans and specifications for 1;he
two new battleships authorized; by
congress must be ready according to
a decision by Secretary of the Navy
Mayer, in time to receive bids by
October 1 for the one to be built by
contract. The. other will be con
structed in the New York navy yard.
It was decided also -that bids on
the- six new (wstrojers authorized
should be in by September 6.
No ; Postal Bank Till January 1.
Postmaster-General Hitchcock .ex
presses the opinion ' that no postal .
savings bank can be established ' be
fore January 1, 1911. He made, this
statement in a conversation with
Postmaster Campbell, f .Chicago,
who requested that one of the first
banks be placed in operation there.
Acreage and Condition of Crops.
The July crop" report of the De
partment of Agriculture shows the
following estimates of acreage and
condition on July 1st:
'' Cora, area planted is- 114,083,000
acres, an increase of 5,312,000 acres
or 4.9 per cent as compared with last
year's final estimate.
The average condition corn was
85.4 as compared with 85.1, the ten
year average. ' v ,
New Engraving Building.
Plana have been completed by the
supervising architect of the Treasury
for the new building for the. Bureau
of Engraving and Printing which is
to cost $1,750,000. The plans have
been examined by the Commission of
Fine Arts, created by Congress, of
which D. H.Burnham, of Chicago,
is' the chairman. Its "functions are
largely advisory.' The building i3" to
be 850 feet long, four stories" in
height, classic in style of architecture
and is to be constructed on the site
! of . the present . building, which will
oe aosorDea as ine wora: progresses.