Vigilant guards shield the U.S. Treasury Building at night
An illustrated portrait of the Treasury Building in Washington as a fortress of security. The night watch consists of seventy-nine men under a captain and lieutenants, patrolling corridors, posts like No Man's Land, and a cat-guarded, almost desolate interior. The article details posts, routines, cat companions, locked vaults, alarm systems, and a humorous anecdote with Secretary Foster.
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Washington
United States Treasury Building
Fifteenth Street
Pennsylania Avenue
Wittes
Winder Building
Marine Hospital
Treasury Lailding
Fen
Watch
Urre
Shere
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Itebs
Waster
Foster
the ‘Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Lin
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Treasury
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Watchmen Guard Treasury Cats In Monotonous Night Shift
Charwomen spark most complaints about the Treasury cats. Watchmen, after cleaning, inspect rooms for hidden cats, lock doors, fetch keys, then eat supper. The night drudgery lasts four and a half hours with little incident, as they guard the world’s most important storehouse.
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Murreindered
Treasury
Gettysburg
Fort Pillow
Recollections of Edwin Booth by Ames McCloskey
Ames McCloskey recalls decades with Edwin Booth from early San Francisco days to Booth’s rise in New York. He recalls Booth’s charm, perseverance, and practical jokes, and describes their travels, a key Marble Heart run, and Booth’s determination that built his fame despite setbacks.
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Ames J. M'Closkey
Equity Cerk
City Court of New York
American Dramatist Club
Erwin Booth
Waller
McCloskey
Aulek
Edwin Booth
Jenny Lind
Theater of
San Francisco
Julian Heath
Wan
Jago
Wher
Marysville
Horne
Rouigh Road
Edwin
Australia
Charles Tuerag
Thorne
Tnion Hquere ‘Theater
Sydney
Melbourne
Ballarat
Laura Keeoa
America
Lady of Lyons
Claude Mel
Theater Royal
Tyne
Frank Howson
Lyceum Theater
Howson
Jim
Old Frisco
Cape Town
New York
California
Booth
Sedley
Miss Sinclair
Edwin Forrest
Heath
Volage
Raphael
Bonti
Ray
Bachel
Ben Baker
Metropolitan ‘Theater
New Yorke
Winter Garden
Queer Pets of Queer People From the Ansconda Standard
A Butte reader recalls deer and wild cats from California redwoods and describes trapping a wildcat in a cabin chimney. The anecdote ends with the narrator relaying the cat’s fury and the loss of venison, noting a lingering hankering for wild animal pets.
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Ansconda Standard
Butte
Tom
Redwoods
California
Cain
Tyre
Raton
Robert J Wynne A Newspaper Man Of The Cabinet
A long tribute profiles Robert J Wynne born in New York 1850s who rose from telegraph operator to Washington journalist to Postmaster General and now consul general in London. It praises his rise from poverty, his role in the press gallery, and his example inspiring poor boys to strive.
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Kitchen Cabinet
Fackwon
Hrankfort
Orman
Kentucky
Hickory
Amos Rere Fall
Washington
Privy
Washington Union
Democratic Party of the Nation
Francis P. Hiair
Kendall
Gen. Jackson
van Buren
Union
Lincoln
Ritchie
Forsyth
Yancey
Forney
Greeley
Taywond
Prentice
Watterson
Dean Swift
Stella
Haswell
Johnson
Horace Walpole
Gossins
William Pitts
Hume Campbell
Walpole
Hervey
George Ilag
Thackeray
Henry Esmond
Defoe
Lad Wynne
Philadelphia
Arch Street
Young Wynne
E. W. Boynton
Gen. Boynton
Cincinnatii Gazette
Whitelaw Reid
Court of St. James
Gazette
Tribune
Wynne
Wyre
Robert J. Wynne
New York
Jago James Gordon Bennett
Horace Mann
Courier and Enquirer of
New York Herald
Hemisphere
James Watson Webb
Daff Green
Webb
The
Courier and Enquirer
National Capitol
Tom Marshall
Jonathan Citey
Green
Stanly
James Gordon Bennett
Horace Greeley
Iman
Congress
Bennett
Jetters
National Capital
Joseph B. Meouliogly
Donn Pratt
H. Redfield
A. C. Buell
H. J. Ramsdell
la Washington
Gingon
Su White
Watts
Press Gallery Daily
Prega
Charles Foster
Treasury
Harrigan
Qarnisle
Thomas B. Reed
William Iu. Wison
Asidr
Spain
Philippines
Repubican
Antipodes
Theodore
Roosevelt
Earth
London
Famous Art Expert Arrives to Lead Metropolitan Museum
Roger E Fry, renowned English art critic, arrived on the Baltic to become curator of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, succeeding George H Story under Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke. A Cambridge graduate, Fry has long been a leading figure in art journalism and criticism, planning to focus on acquiring new paintings and expanding the collection. He traveled alone amid preparations for his new post.
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New York Sun
Roger E. Fry
George H. Story
Caspar Purdon Clarke
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fry
King’s College
Cambridge
Francis Bates
Fox
Athenseum
Burlington
New York
Stu
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