The Washington Bee Newspaper, January 4, 1908, Page 2

THE LIGHTS OF ROME STREET LAMPS LONG IN COMING TO HISTORIC CITY. | | ee {Thieves and Footpads Swarmed te Place and Operated Under Cover { of Darkness—Gas Introduced } in Year 1846, | Rome.—Ronie until the of the ni h cer worst lighted city in th yet, says an old c! needed to be we'll 1 s0 much as home sh celebrated vagabonds of | gregated | It is true that ms and fireworks w of Irrence ia the FE nal City—ambassadors, cardinals and princes never missed an occasion to ! t torches and bonfires; but these isolated patches of light, only served to bring out the contrast of the darkness in the surrounding squares and streets, which was rarely . broken save by some feeble flickering flame burning before a shrine. The carriages of the cardinals and nobles were preceded by armed serv: ants carrying lanterns, but the poor pedestrian who ventured out at night ran the risk of being robbed by foot pads, who lay in wait on the steps and under the porticos of churches, privileged places where the arm of ‘the law could not reach. They stole not only valuables but also articles of apparel. Cloaks were greatly sought after by thieves in those days, as they cost a considerable sum, and they were made to last for a couple of gen erations. In 1706 the state of darkness in which the streets were left almost provoked a revolution. The king of Spain sought recruits for his army in Rome and ordered his agents to avail themselves of the darkness in the streets and press into service all the ( young men they could lay their hands on. The inhabitants rebelled, and, led by the people of Trastevere, attacked the two palaces and set free all the prisoners, who carried their chains in triumph to the Madonna of Ara Coeli. In 1785 a half-hearted attempt was made to light the streets with the Iron of Prince Barberini. Lantern of Urbano profits from the sale of tickets in the Tuscan Jottery. Two years later Rom was still in the dark, the lottery profi being evidently otherwise employed. Prince Sciarra, having lost patience waiting for the government to illum. | imate the streets, placed at his ex | pense two ianterns, “large and of beautiful workmanship,’ ef his palace, where two gas lamps now stand, and had them night. Prince Don Urbano Barberinj/ fetlowed the example, “to the great advantage of the public,” and had a} socalled Fiaccola inglese (English | flambeau), which gave the light of 14} erdinary oil lamps, placed in a lantern ef iron, the work of the architect Giu H seppe Scaturzi, on one of the corne of his palace In 1798, when the French took the ty, sent away Pope Pius VI. and es | tablished the republic, they realized] that it was indispensable for them to] have the streets well lighted, the, people of Trastevere had developed} the bad habit of stabbing in the back} every French soldier they met in the dark. Gen. Marchand accordingly is sued a proclamation ordering the citi gens to set up lights on their houses With the fall of the Roman republic Rome was again plunged into dark mess, and it was only as late as 1813 that the municipality granted the sum} ef 20,000 scudi to provide for the cost] ef a hundred oi! lamps to be placed} in the most frequented parts of the | eity and for their upkeep. When the papal government was restored in 1814 Gerdinal Rivarola ordered the revolu tionary lamps to be pulled down, but the secretary of state, Cardinal Con: salvi, opposed this measure and left the lamps in place Gas was introduced in Rome in the year 1846, but only Piazza Venezia; and the Cafe Ruspoli were then illum fmated, the former on the initiative of} Prince Luciano Bonaparte, who owned a palace in that square. In the year {1854 gas illumination was extended tc all the stre of Rome. Electric light was introduced after 1870, but St. Peter’s square was illum imated by electricity only three year; 4ago. on the front as | mity TAKES PLACE OF BAILEY. Culberson Elected Minority Leader of the Senate. i Washington.—Senator Culberson, of: Texas, was elected minority leader of the senate at the Democratic caucus the other day. Culberson stands well with Bryan, who is understood to have intimated that if Culberson makes a success of the minority leadership he will be selected as chairman of the na- tional committee in the next cam-} paign. 3 A year ago Senator Bailey’s great ability made him the overshadowing Senator Culberson. figure on the Democratic side, and if an election had been held then no name but his would have been heard But since then Bailey has fallen so far and so fast that the recent elec- tion makes only one more station on the way down hill, though to him it is the bitterest blow of all. The minor- ity leadership was the object of his immediate ambition. His humiliation by his own colleague and former fol- lowers in the senate, for it is nothing less, hurts him more than anything else. The final drop in Bailey's cup is that not only has he been cast aside, but his bitterest enemy has been chosen for the place he coveted. Culberson and Bailey are sworn foes. The en- between them originated with Culberson. Bailey, who is the proud- est and most unyielding of men, at first so far abandoned his usual scorn- ful attitude in such cases as to make overtures to Culberson They were rejected, and from that time the war between them was relentless. Culberson’s friends warned him against making a fight on the dominat- ing Democrat of Washington and urged him to accept the olive branch; but Culberson’s thin lips only whitened as he listened—a trick of theirs, which his friends know weli—and he made no answer. So the war went on which ended in triumph for Culberson. It will be the more bitter for Bailey if Culberson becomes chairman of the national committee There is a sus- | picion that Bryan realizes this. Bailey is no friend of Bryan's CAVALRYMAN’S QUEER STEED. German Officers in East Africa Ride Zebras. colonizers in arning the British ng to the customs of the New York rman Afri E Zebra Used as Substitute for a Horse. country military offi s going so far as to adopt the zebra as a substitute for the horse. German East Africa covers 400,000 square miles and Ger- man Southwest Africa square miles. It w only in Germany became interested in Africa, where her ions have given her reat deal of trouble and cost her much money is posses Not Good. Bacon—W ould you call him a good talker? Egbert— “How him talk? “Only once.” “And when was that?” “When he was trying to open a car ( window!"—Yonkers Statesman. No, I would not times have you heard ONCE A COW PUNCHER much prefers the black, soft slouch hat. “Don’t introduce me as a gov- ernor,’ he says to his friends, “cut | that sort of th He likes to and get in| BRYANT BUTLER BROOKS NOW GOVERNOR OF WYOMING. Has Succeeded Through His Own Ef- forts and Now Owns a 100,000 Acre Ranch—ls Native of Massachusetts. | 3oston.—OCf Massachu- setts-born public life in western states the latest to rise to the | eminence of executive of a state is| Bryant Butler governor of Wyoming Gov. Brooks was born in Bernards-| ton, Mass., and his early schooling | was obtained in that little town of 1,000 souls in the central part of the state. When he was ten years old his par- ents removed to Chicago, and there the lad grew up in the restless life of the rapidly developing middle west. As a young man he knocked sg | as all self-made men must, working as a farm hand and as a cow puncher, and by way of diversion putting in a} winter as a trapper and hunter in| Wyoming. | He is now one of the wealthiest men | in the state, besides being its gov-| | | many leade of Breoks i ernor. He is interested in many com- mercial ventures, and lives on a ranch | of 100,000 acres—a little state in itself | —where he has 30,000 sheep, thou- sands of horned cattle, and several hundred horses. His “hired men” on his farm number 50 | Gov. Brooks is interested in coal | mining and in banking in Wyoming, in lumbering in Mexico, and in ship- ping in Maine. | Gov. Brooks is one of the sons of the late Silas Newton Brooks and Malissa Minerva Burrows Brooks, both of the best of New England stock. The fa- ther was clerk and treasurer of Ber-| nardston for about 20 years. He} served in the house and senate. Gov. Brooks’ life has been one of | ceaseless activity since he left home at the age of 18. He was 19 when he pulled freight in Nebraska and went to Wyoming as a cow puncher. An exciting incident of those days was when he was sent with 26 other men to Idaho te round up and bring | to Wyoming 2,000 head of cattle. The party had literally to fight Indians | GOV. BRDAM BULLE LOGS and cow thieves on their way back for | the several hundred miles. A little later young Brooks worked as a cow | puncher for Maj. Wolcott, who con- | trolled the * R.” outfit A little later he spent a winter liv- ing alone in the section where the Brooks ranch now is, trapping beaver and killing elk and other game. spring he to furs. | In the; went with his Chicago There he told his brother John of | what a wonderful country Wyoming was destined to be, and the brother | advanced money to make a start. John | Brooks was then a traveling salesman on the road for a dry Boston house. | Bryant went back to Wyoming and | under the homestead act settled on! 160 acres of government land. The first purchase of cattle was 68 heife The future governor built a log cabin, and grew up with the country amaz- ingly fast. The cabin still served on the ranch. Now, as a por. tion of the assets of half a million dol lars, the Brooks’ ranch has one of the finest ranch houses in the state artificially lighted with gas, and fine- ly equipped in every way. Even when roughing it Mr. Brooks | read much and added to his store of | general information. He was first elected to the Wyoming legislature in 1892. Four years later he was a delegate to the national Re- publican convention at St. Louis, and | stumped Wyoming for McKinley. Mr. Brooks was first elected gov- ernor in 1904. His administration was very successful. Out in Wyoming the | women vote as well as the men, and Gov. Brooks is popular with both sexes. y ahead of his ticket when he was elected the second time. He is entirely without frills, He does not take kindly to a silk hat and goods jobbing is pre touch with plain people. “I am one of that kind,” he says. He is an enthu siastic Mason and has taken 33 de In Cheyenne there is a fine Masonie temple, in which he takes much pride. ) nip» a = THE COMING ELECTION, How the District Will Be Divided. The District of Columbia will be di- vided into twenty-two districts, as fol- lows: First District—Ali that part of the | conuty of Washington, outside the lim- its of the- cities of Washington and Georgetown, lying east of Lincoln ave- nue and Bunker Hill road. Second District—All that part of the county of Washington, outside the citieS of Washington and Georgetown, lying west of Lincoln avenue and Bunker Hill road. Third District—Al] that part of the city of Georgetown lying west of High street. Fourth District—All the part of the city of Georgetown lying east of High street. Fifth District—All that part of the city of Washington lying west of twen- ty-first street west. Sixth District—All that part of the city of Washington lying south of K street north, between Fifteenth street west and Twenty-first street west. Seventh District—All that part of the city of Washington lying between K street north and N street north, and Fi teenth street west and Twenty-first street west, and north of N, between Four- teenth street west and Twenty-first street west. Eighth District—All that part of the city of Washington lying north of N street north, between Seventh street west and Fourteenth street west. Ninth District—All that part of the ity of Washington lying between G | street north and N street north, and be- Eleventh teenth street west. Tenth District—All that part of the city of Washington lying between G street north and the canal, and between Eleventh and Fifteenth streets west. Eleventh District—All that part of the city of Washington south of canal and east of Eighth street west. Twelfth District—All that part of the city of Washington lying between Sev- enth street west and Eleventh street west and between G street north and the ca- nal. Thirteenth District—All that part of the city of Washington lying between Seventh street west and Eleventh street and between G street north and N street north. Fourteenth District—All that part of K street nortm, between North Capitol street and Seventh street west. Fifteenth District—All that part of the city of Washington lying between D street north and K street north, and be- tween North Capitol street and Seventh street west. Sixteenth District — All that part of the city of Washington lying between North and South Capitol streets and Seventh. street west, and between D street north and the canal, enteenth District—All that part of the city of Washington lying between G street south and the canal, and between South Capitol and Eighth streets west Eighteenth District—All that part of f tween street west and Fif- west, ‘the city of Washington lying south o G street and Eighth street west. Nineteenth District—All that part the city of Washington lying north of E street north, between North Capitol street and Fifteenth street east. Twentieth District—All that part of the city of Washington south of E street north, between North and South Capitol streets and Fourth street east. Twenty-first District—All that part of the ci Fc north of Washington lying east of rth street east, and between E street and E street south. ['wenty-second District—All that part of the city of Washington lying south of E street south east of Fourth street east. and Dampening Clothes. Use hot water to dampen the clothes that are to be ironed and you will find it a great deal more satisfactory than cold It dampens the clothes more evenly and makes them easier to iron. If the water is too hot to put the hands fn use a whisk broom to sprinkle it with. Many laundresses prefer the | whisk broom, as they claim that it is less likely to make the clothes too wet. The clothes may be ironed two hours later with good results. Pubber for the Umbrella Jar. Cut @ piece of your old rubber mat, and place it in the bottom ef the um- bre i elas and canes are freque reans of breaking these receptacles when dropped into them without proper care, and the rubber will help to nt this. If you have not a piece 1 old rubber mat to use, procure a piece of soft sheet rubber, such as is used for pack- ing by steam fitters and plumbers Sweet Potatoes, Mexican Style. Boil them until tender, peel and cut in halves longw Put one table- spoonful of butter and two of minced onion into a saucepan and brown. Add one heaping tablespoonful each of green and red peppers, minced, two tablespoonfuls of tomato catsup, one of vinegar, and a teaspoonful of brown sugar. Stir well and pour over the potatoes.—Vogue. Sauce for Duck. Extract the juice from a quantity of sorrel leaves, add a glass of sherry, some mashed gooseberries, a little sugar. Two tablespoons butter. Boil es ence and serve. Wm. Cannon, 1225 and,’1227%7th:Street, N. W. OLE DISTRIBUTER OF OLD PUR SIM WHISKEY -~-e 2K AND ACCIDENT INSUR “&WCE UP TO $25.00 PER WEEK. WHOLE LiFE IZ2"24NCE & FNP s MRAZ TREME .@ PAYABLE ONE HOUS Aarne JEATE. AMERICAN HOME LIBE INSURANCE CO.. r=¥TH and G Streets N. W. Washingtor, D. 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