Show f uncle sam cam makes fine reputation as architect W washington t when whon tho the average citizen beholds the beautiful lines 0 of t ho tho modern federal buildings in moat most of tho the principal cities of tho the united JS taree bo he probably does not realize that in addition to his many other vocations and professions undo uncle sam Is also an architect represented at present by oscar supervising architect of tho the treasury yet undo uncle sam Is to making a wonderful reputation for himself in this capacity not only Is to he doing good work but he Is being widely copied and thode who are acquainted with tho the facts realize that he Is doing more to sot tho the fash ion and elevate tho the standard of architecture in this country than any other agency for tho the first 76 75 years of our national existence the public buildings were put up in a sort of haphazard way COMMISS IDris appointed by the scar tary of tho the treasury selected tho the architect of a building and attended to all aitho details of its construction tho the result was that no fixed idea was carried out and our earlier public buildings had no uniformity of design at all today it Is different undo uncle sara sam has be become corne on an architect on hie his own nc account count and ho he Is designing hie ills own building buildings tho the result Is that one may now recognize the now federal buildings of tho the country on sight by their uniformity of ot stylo style thoro thera Is lust just enough diversity in detail to prevent too knuch similarity in times past the government roamed the aholo world over to find new ideas in architecture and in tho the older federal buildings one may sea everything from the gothic down don to the Itoman romanesque esquer nut but after trying them all tao classic stylo style based on the best french and english influence ne ra illustrated by bv the senate office building in this city has been decided upon as embody ang tho the best that there Is to in beauty and utility in architecture i eleventh hour stories of the vice president ICE president IDENT has a habit of telling a funny story at the VICE V eleventh hour in fact ho lie usually waits until the eleventh hour and about efty fifty alve minutes the consequence Is to that when ho he enters the senate chamber to convene that body of solemn toilers ho lie Is in apt to have a halt half suppressed ev smile on bis his face and the M A rev forest J prettyman the senate chaplain has oven even more difficulty in 1410 m maintaining the serious countenance counte nanco 4 of a man about to lead in prayer here Is the way the thing works out along about 1130 marshall shifts from his office in the senate office building to his bin room in the ch capital pitol A few minutes before noon the chaplain comes to be in readiness to accompany the vice president into the chamber chamer now for some unaccountable lesson teason the presence of fhe the chaplain makes marshall think of a funny tunny story at about five minutes prior to tho hour of opening tho the senate bo he starts to tell this story with calm deliberation the goden moments speed on their way and by the time marshall has the basic part of ot his story outlined it lacks only two minutes or less until twelve badock all hands begin to grow nervous and the sergeant at arms comes to the door watch in hand to mako make certain that the vice president la Is boing to reach his seat in due season marshal bf arsha al gets up from bla his desk and proceeds across the corridor still working toward the point to his story and by a burst of speed gets out the climax just os as he pushes open the door into the senate chamber chaplain prettyman has his choice then of not laughing at the story which would perhaps be impolite on hie his part or of laughing and then pulling his face back into shape ready to offer prayer while calking the few steps from the door to the rostrum sightseeing indians amused at boys warfare T TWO WO indiana indians were sightseeing up capitol hill way both were civilized to the extent of cheap clothes that fit and ao aa small concessions to a tribal past each wore a single auhl in his gray sombrero also one wore gold hoop earrings and tho the other displayed on an his breast a catholic medal and cross they shuffled along listlessly until as 03 they came to the library each stopped with nith sudden alertness to watch ano two tiny boys playing on tho the brass grass each small chap had on an indian suit of bron brown n cambric with u ith a N war ar bonnet of ot turkey quills and each waved aed a tinsel steel tomahawk and danced exactly as real indiana indians dont do and never did and when one boy aut bis hatchet between his teeth and crawled oer the grass to attack a portly black nurse who made believe eho sho know what was as coming to h her er the t two 0 u who ho were N ere the real thing looked at each other and chuckled and inside the library there are doubtless many books beautifully bound and illustrated to prove that the red man Is a stole who nho has neer nener been known to emilo smile 41 small boy finds red flag nearly wrecks train A TWELVE YEAR OLD boy came near causing a disastrous rear end col elision on tho metropolitan branch of tho the baltimore and ohio railroad near the scene of the T ara cotta wreck the other morning when he flagged the frederick locel due hero liero from Pre frederick derick md bid at 8 As usual the t train aln was crowded qa as was the hagerstown Hagers town train following it the engineer of the Fre frederick dorick local jammed on his emergency brakes when ho he saw robert shipley who lives at stotts St otte near tho the district line nna frantically waving a red sag flag on the track ahead not tar far from the stott station quick work was necessary to flag and halt the hagerstown Hagers town train booming down the line behind A rear end colli collision was narrowly averted through the agility of the flagman who put sufficient apace between himself and the frederick TYe derick train to give the second engineer s opping bopping room in the meantime the engineer conductor ind many passengers piled out and surrounded young shipley demanding to know the danger unabashed the boy explained that he had found a red flag on the track ana and m wanted anted to return it IL he ile was questioned closely but to no further effect tho the conductor took the flag and trainmen unanimously admitted that do bey they bad had encountered a remarkable case of an honest boy they added th pome show of ot bitterness however that there are times when too much hon blon ity Is not the best beat policy t h |