Show u CONSOLIDATE TaE BUREAUS Long Wants But One Depatment For Construction d Repairs New york Nov 25A special dispatch ork speca patch to the Herald tram Washington says There Is reason to believe that Secretary Long will recommend In hIs annual report that legsla on be enacted en-acted autwrzln tHe consolidation of the bureaus of construction and re I pall se1 engnertg ana equipment In place of these three bureaus accordIng ac-cordIng to the secretarys plans thee will he one departm nt which will pas upon the various questions which arIse In connection ith the various construction con-struction and repair of shIps I Is no secret that the seretars consider tons In this nter are the direet rc suit ot friction constantly occurring In the relatIOns between the bureaus named growing out of the effort on the rtcf one to extend Its authorIty In the domain of the other The secretary beiievs thathe interest of the retary hele6 thathe Intest o te service demands harmony In the conduct con-duct of < the work on better business principles Before incorporating the recommenI I daton In his report the secretary directed dI-rected the chles pr the bureaus concerned con-cerned to submit their vIews a to the advisability of consolidation Rear Admiral Hichborn chief constructor favore4thp frltposiJon to some etet but Rrr Admiral relviC and Rear Admiral Bradford opposed the former suggesting a board of control rather than a single department It Is understood that friends of the three offlcitls have interested them the omclfls hae selves in the matter and it Is unlikely that anylegisiation on the subject will get thrught cong s Working to Rhythm Ke Orleans Times Deocrt One ot the fellows In my gang said a foreman whoas ben suprJntendlng a section of conduit work J8 a strapping big negro unmedPete black a the ace of spades perfectly god ntured and incorrigibly In-corrigibly lazy Ills one accomplishment was In singing those queer droning songs that all darkies set up instinctively when n they aJ anything together nC delf that partIcular Unel must admit he sas slug ularly gifted lie would start out with any old thing for Instnce I My hone lvesin loooble and keepon Improvlsn al day long In a voice ha loud as a feehorn Thlshow I ever was < all 1 Over tected him doing and as I had no te to pay out In money for professIonal musicians a dirtstingiug gang Lgc hIm the grand bounce iext day the wok lagged In amos ext tle most unaccountable and mysterious mos I coldnt put mYfnge on any outandut shirking but the men seemed lfeles hnddislllrittd and We fell short of our aver t9Y a good many cubic yards I wnste same the net ilay and the netand1 was getting desperate des-perate when ray assistant who Is a pretty pret-ty shrewd young ch psugste that we take back old Pete The back rascal wont work he sId but he certain hearteas up the men with his singing hearten I was willing to do anything about then so I wllng xperimcnt and the result i as magIcal Jria t been on half an hour befor0b0 began to bellow out one of hi captafl chantes aad all hands instantly joined In thechors and struck their old gait Sincle then Petehas been farla jistSIl gang and is cheap at the moneY What reminded nO ot the incident was a paragraph I saw In a technla1 journal t other day saying that thccontrctorQn the SoutlenRt engagebne herpist and one flute way tnggeone rlst ad one fute player toevery fortylaborers ti would I have laughed at tbntstatementa month t ago but now InTtobelieve it |