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Show Retort That Appealed to Roosevelt's Humor The agitation about the useless noises of a big cit reminds a certain cer-tain eighty-three-year-old Washington Washing-ton contractor of a time when his company was filling in the land that Is now Potomac park. There was a battery of dredges at work there, and their puffing, snorting, and scraping so disturbed the repose of the members of the White House family that a certain Colonel Haines was sent to register a complaint by none other than the nation's Chief Executive. "You tell the President," said the chief of the contracting gang, "that I'm sorry I can't grind out symphonies." sym-phonies." And when he received the answer, Theodore Roosevelt laughed long and loud and the work of the dredgers dredg-ers continued. |