Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1930, Page 12

"A-—12 ENGINEER REPORT WEIGHS 5 POUNDS Volume Contains 2,198 Pages and Can Be Read in 94 Hours. BY WILLIAM HARD. A merry and crisp little bit of holiday has been provided to the national public by the chief of engineers of the United States Army in his annual report, which is never sufficiently reviewed by the which Federal officials have their being.| avenue, to be bought from Elizabeth high-brow literary reviewers. This year the contribution of the|now spent $1,558,870,849.10 on the Fed- | to be bought from Fannie Melnicov for | chief of engineers to the belles lettres | eral amelioration of our rivers and har- | $8.875. and 329 C street, from Louis A. of the United States is 93 inches long. 53 inches broad and 3l inches thick, and weighs 5 pound and 412 ounces in one continuous narrative and calcula- tion, inclosed in one volume. We all ought to read more about our Government, and the chief of engineers thinks s0. This new little work of his, which he has just recently tossed off, | PEUSCHL Tt has phat Sime effect upor contains 2,198 Pages, devoted Partly 0| Feteral works going forward: o Sy words and partly to figures. The total number of words and figures in it, by a long and arduous process of approxi- mate estimate, has been found by local mathematicians to be in the neighbor- hood of 1,133,845. Devoted to Improvements. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. son breakwater, about 3.402 feet lanl."whm the Pederal Government has nd'l completed in 1926, protects here an area |spent $94,850 taking out snags and so of about 270 acres from north and on, and where the total commerce this t seas. (See U. 5. Lake Sur- last year was of the value of $12,840 vey Chart No. 754.)" o: a channel : tree‘t fleepd—u:-henev;: there is a freshet—for a nce 1 More Eloguent Example. };mll’y 42 miles up to a bridge wonder- More eloquent, however, and more re- | fully called ' Bridge. l vealing of the inward intricacies and| When thrown out of a 10-story win- beauties of the life of the Federal Gov- dow this plece of literature makes a ernment, which labors while we scoff, hole 23, inches deep in the concrete is the following from page 1463: pavement below. “The act of June 25, 1910, provided (Copyright, 1930.) for the outer harbor and the mainte- & rélnncc }l‘)l !;\lel ;nneeort ;nlrbor ch;dnnel (H. K 'D ., No. 3 Cong., Sess.) ; b3 the act of March 4, 1913, originally pro- THREE PURCHASES 0.K. vided for the breakwaters (H. Doc., No. T g‘n, ;‘-’dz C;;l;t'zv. 2d lBesaded.) ’ tl:; lf‘t‘ ):)‘n District Governing Body Author- arc] N , Vi for e - { house crib, dredging the breakwater en- | izes Municipal Center Additions. trance, and for the present lengths and alignments of Dreskwaters (& & 15| The District Commissioners yesterday Com. Doc., No. 6, 65th Cong., 2d Sess.)” | authorized the purchase of the follow= Language such as this will indicate | ing three pieces of property as addi- to the citizen more clearly than could | tons to the municipal center site: any other experience the atmosphere in| No. 347, 351 and 353 Pennsylvania The citizen will also learn that we have | Berene for $63,000; 304 Indiana avenue, bors, and the like, and that we now | Ludwig, for $13952. | have ahead of us for the completion of | |our task only the expenditure of a fur- ther $508.104,210. Carefully perused, this work will con- vince any skeptical citizen that the | Pederal Government is busy. Even un- perused, it has that same effect upon o Medical Glasses Fitted Eves Examined DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist ] Phone Na () 409-410 McLachlen Bide. 10th and G Sts. N.W. | fully on the Mississippi and the Mis- souri. It also exhibits the condition of | | Contentines Creek, North Carolina, ' C.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1930, e PALAIS ROYAL G Street at Eleventh Telephone District 4400 C!earance! Women’s & Misses’ Fine Coats and Dresses offers important savings to thri fty shoppers In each of the Apparel Sections we have made drastic reductions on merchandise already in stock, and also supplemented assort- ments with new and special purchases which offer worthwhile savings at their usual prices. The whole work is devoted to odes | and ballads in engineering prose on the | various improvements to which the | Another A Special Group! rivers and canals and waterways and | ‘water courses and harbors and inlets and creeks of the United States are being subjected by the Corps of Engi- neers of the United States Army in obedience to various acts of Congress. total number of such rivers, canals, ‘wa . water courses, harbors, inlets and canals thus obtaining improvements at Federal cost will be found by any | diligent and surviving reader to be 693.! In order to find this out, reading at the rate of 200 words and figures to the minute, which is a good, rapid rate, and persevering through the 1,135,845 words and figures which this report contains, the reader will have spent 94 hours upon the task. Assuming that the reading| citizen has two hours every evening to spare for reading this one Federal lit- erary work alone will suffice him for the next 47 evenings of his life. The Government Printing Office, this writer learns, will send this work to any citizen for $1.75. Considering that the work weighs 5 pounds and 4% ounces, it is manifest that the thrifty buyer will in this way obtain reading matter of a highly authentic variety at & cost of less than 34 cents a pound. From beginning to end the writing in this volume is composed of snappy }":dem observations, such as, on page 62: “A mnortherly rubble-mound break- water, about 3,700 feet long, completed in 1922, and an easterly concrete-cais- Featuring This Week 60 Bea Karpen at a fraction of their worth Smartly upholstered Karpen Living Room Suites—artistic designs with all the style and comfort for which one could ask, and marked for i real value. These suites are all good values at regular prices, but the sharp reductions add even more delight to your purchase now. | Year and may you find it a bright twelve-month We thank our many friends and patrons for a gratifying volume of business in 1929. 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