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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1915. Established 1891.
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SOME IXTERESTIXG HAPPEXIXGS
IX VARIOUS SECTIOXS.
V Xews Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Clear Pond Clippings.
Clear Fond, August 31.?Mrs. it.
F. McMillan is at home from a visit
to her mother at Ehrhardt.
Miss Clara Mae Grimes, of Lee's,
is visiting Miss Maggie Padgett.
; Mrs. Avis Steedly and children
have returned from a visit to relak
tives at Ulmers and Allendale.
| Miss Inez Morris, of Lodge, is the
* - charming guest of the Misses Goodwin.
Miss Nettie Mitdhell, of Bamberg,
visited her sister, Mrs. J. H. Pearson
last week.
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Miss Vonetta Crider, of Denmark,
- spent Saturday night and Sunday
with Miss Wilhelmina Folk.
Mrs. Edward Steedly, Mr. Henry
Hutson and sister, Inez, of Ehrhardt,
' . visited the home of Mr. G. w. Foik
Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Mayme Morris was the guest
of Miss Dorris Folk Saturday and
I ' Sunday.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Folk visited at
^ Lodge last week.
- Messrs. Oren Drawdy and Clayton
Jolley, of Embree, visited in this
section Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Folk attendv
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ed the revival meeting at Hilda last
week.
Mrs. G. W. Folk is visiting her sis.
ter, Mrs. Neb. Crider, near Denmark.
Mr. James Johnson, of Denmark,
was a visitor in this community Sat.
urday and Sunday.,
Miss Mayme Morris entertained a
i * number of her friends Monday eve?
ning. AMICUS.
Spring Branch Sprigs.
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Spring Branch, Aug. 30.?On Saturday
afternoon, September 4th, at
5 o'clock, there will be an ice cream
festival at the home of Mr. J. P.
O'Quinn. After the festival the remaining
part of the afternoon will
be spent as a birthday party in honor
of Miss Eula O'Quinn. The public
\ is cordially invited to attend.
On Saturday, September 18th,
there will be a picnic at Spring
Branch given by the Ladies Missionary
society. The public is cordially
invited to come, and bring well filled
baskets.
We are having some very nice
weather for cotton picking.
The Barnwell and Bamberg Sunday-school
convention will be held
at the Colston church thfe coming
week and there are quite a number
of the Spring Branch folks expecting
to attend. We wish them a very
- pleasant trip.
Last Tuesday, August 24, was a
very pleasant day at Glendale
| Springs for both the young and the
r ; qld folks of Spring Branch and Sassafras
sections.
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Mrs. Kistler Rentz, of Oak Grove,
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has been on a visit for several days
to her> brothers, Messrs. Martin and
William Hughes, of our midst.
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Ayer, of Bamberg,
spent Sunday with their brother,
Mr. W. F. Hughes.
Mrs. L. E. Holder, of Augusta, Ga.,
is visiting relatives in tnis ana otner
vicinities.
Mrs. L. Hill, of Bamberg,, is at
her son's for several days.
A heavy hail and rain storm visited
U6 Tuesday morning, with much
electricity. It rained in torrents for
about thirty-six minutes. Cotton
* gathering will be much delayed as
everything is soaked.
Miss Georgie Emma Jordan is attending
the S. S. convention at Colston
this week.
Miss Grace Hill is real sick. Hope
she will soon be better.
Notice in these columns has already
been made of a neighborhood
picnic held at Glendale Springs last
Tuesday, but must speak something
of the beauty and idealism of the
place and surroundings. The property,
as owned by Mr. Jno. F. Folk,
has been somewhat improved b., a
cement fount, and this, with the
great bubble of the spring as it boils
itself upward and rushes onward to
the mighty sea is a very attractive
source for all nature lovers. iae
writer's pen has very little, we fear,
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of poetry in it, but the merry, joyful
sound of this beautiful spring
carries nature's children back to
childhood and especially a longing
. to wade as in childhood, in the clear,
bfeautiful water, as it rushes wastingly
over the pure white sand in thef''
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LIST SHOWS RESULTS OF RAIDS.
216 Have Paid This Year Against
507 Last Year.
Columbia, August 25.?Indications
of the results which it is believed
are due to the raiding by constables
sent to Charleston by Governor Manning
to enforce the liquor laws are
shown significantly by the great fallinor
nff in tVlo nnmhop f\f norCftTI? flnd
1115 1U HiVy UUU1MVA V. A. %?M?
firms paying the revenue liquor tax
of the United States government for
this year as compared with last year.
Figures obtained from the records in
the office of United States Revenue
Collector Heyward, by this correspondent,
show that 507 paid the
revenue tax in Charleston last year,
while so far only 216 have paid the
tax for this year, a falling off of 291,
or about 60 per cent.
The number of persons and firms
in Charleston county which paid the
United States revenue liquor license
tax for the year ending July, 1915,
was 507. Those who have paid this
tax for the ensuing year, that is, up
to August 10, number 216 in Charleston,
a falling off of 291. The year
runs from July to July and the revenue
liquor tax must be paid in ad
vance.
The total number in the whole
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State for the year ending July, 1915,
that paid the liquor license tax to the
federal government was 1,137, divided
as follows: Retail liquor dealers,
956; wholesale liquor dealers, 18;
retail malt liquor dealers, 152;
wholesale malt liquor dealers, 11.
Included in the wholesale liquor
dealers were the wholesale county
dispensaries.
From this is will be evident that
one-half of those paying the tax required
by the United States govern-!
ment for wholesale and retail liquor;
dealers for the past year lived in
Charleston, and with the same percentage
in decrease shown throughout
(the State, the figures tell elo-1
quently the results of law enforce-1
ment, as it was put here today by :
one high in authority in State official i
life.
A Sensitive Soul.
A minister must be very careful in
choosing his words if he is to give
no offense to any of his flock.
In a certain congregation there
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ers and who had a beautiful garden.
Every Sunday it was her bouquet
that adorned the pulpit. She was
especially fond of sweet peas, andi
she once brought them for. several
Sundays in succession. Suddenly
other flowers appeared. The minister
noticed the change, and after the
service, asked the old lady why she
brought no more sweet peas.
She smiled sadly and answered.
"You don't like them. Last .Sunday
you pointed right at my sweet peas
and said, "God loves even the meanest
flower that grows.' "
To Correspondents.
The Herald wants the news
from every section of Bamberg I
county. If the news of your com- j
munity does not appear regularly j
in The Herald, make it a point
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and newrs is always welcomed
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lar correspondent in every neigh- !
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frpfi tn anvone who will use it.
Get your news letters in by
Tuesday morning at latest. Write
only on one side of the paper, and
be sure to sign your letter with
your name. We will not print
your name, buf we must know
who writes the letters; otherwise
we have no means of knowing
whether they are genuine or not.
If you write a letter to The Herald
and do not sign your' name to it,
do not be surprised if it is not
printed.,
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This particular day we spent there
in true picnic style was seemingly
a short one, as the voice of the
spring kept singing melody unlike!
any other. Pushing aside the curtain
of the future, in our imagination
we see Glendale a health resort
of modern style yet of Mother!
Nature's soothing peace and quietude,.
connected with the outer
world by the tele?phone, graph and
the other tell?a woman?as we
look and in Rip Van Winkle style,
see the spring property improved by
handsome buildings, drives and a
resort in general, that will elevate
the morals, health, mental capacities,
and last, but not least, BamoniinK
qc a nnn-malaria 1 nlac.P
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SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
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Stat? News Boiled Down for Quick
Heading.?Paragraphs About
Men ana Happenings.
W. R. Scott has been elected
i mayor of Kingstree. He was re!
elected mayor over P. S. Courtney.
Five thousand gallons of gasoline
was lost when a tank car on the A.
C. L. railway was wrecked near Florence
on Friday last.
John Edwards shot Jake Peu in a
public road in Saluda county Sunday
night. Both men had been drinking.
Edwards surrendered to the sheriff
the following day.
Walter I. Herbert, of Newberry,
recently sold 43 bushels of beans in
three days. The beans were raised
by Mr. Herbert, and brought good
prices on the local market.
The Southern railway's big coal
handling plant on the Cooper river
at Charleston is about completed and
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will UtJ pill 111 IU SCI vice >>11.111X1 a ouui I,
tme. The plant cost $600,000.
Letters have been received in this
State calling for a meeting of the
Farmers union to be held in Atlanta
j on September 21, for the purpose of
! fixing a minimum price for cotton.
G. D. Boland, a farmer living in
Newberry county, killed a snake last
week which measured seven feet
three inches in length and three
inches through the largest part of
its body. v
Two colored men employed by
Melvin Rhodes, near Stokes, killed
a rattlesnake near G. Albert Beach's
gate last Wednesday which measured
10 inches around and was six
feet and four inches long.
Bill Bolin, of Blacksburg, is lying
' at the point of death and Coke Dun;
can, chief of police, is seriously cut
| as a result of a fracas between the
two men at Blacksburg on Sunday.
The affair resulted when Duncan attempted
the arrest of Bolin.
Sam J. Nicholls, of Spartanburg,
recently nominated for congress, is
a grandson of the late Sam Jones,
of Columbia, a Methodist minister.
His maternal grandmother . was a
Miss Fishburne, of Walterboro, and
Mr. Nicholls has a large family con
nection in the lower part of the
[ State.
Phillip Watts, a machinist, 23
years of age, was electrocuted in Columbia
Tuesday night while inspecting
an elevator in a department store
in that city. Watts was examining
the motor which drives the elevator
when his hand in some manlier came
in contact with the current. He lived
only a few minutes after the accident.
KEEPS THE BABIES WtlLL.
Flies7 and Heat May Make Baby Sick
This Season.
During the months of May and
June the baby death rate begins to
climb, reaching its height in July and
August. It should not be forgotten
that this is the season when babies
should be given the greatest care and
attention in order to keep them well.
There are two causes demanding
this: heat and flies. Heat is depressing.
It increases every danger that
j baby is disposed to. If there is lack
| of cleanliness about the baby or baby's
things, heat increases it and
makes it harder to bear; if baby lives
in stuffy air, heat makes it sickening
and unendurable; if its food is not
I handled with greatest cleanliness and
! care, heat makes greater its infection j
and therefore increases its danger to
baby's health and life. '
Then there are flies. Flies are baby's
greatest enemy. They should
| never be allowed to come in contact
! with baby itself, or its food, or any
! of its playthings. They carry numerous
diseases but are the main carriers
of diarrhoeal diseases commonly
known as "baby summer complaints."
The baby death rate from this disease
climbs especially high during
(these months. And strange as it may
seem to some mothers this is a preventable
disease. It is mainly a flyborne
disease, thought it may sometimes
be carried in impure water and
milk. The mother therefore would
be safe in giving her child only pasteurized
milk and an abundance of \
cooled boiled water, and in keeping
it from flies and fly-infected food. To
keep the baby well will be worth all
the pains and more.?North Carolina
State Board of Health.
About five-sevenths of the Bulgarians
are engaged in agriculture, most
of them being small proprietors, holding
from one to six acres.
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UNITED STATES FINANCES. .
Uncle Sam Not in Urgent Need o!
Funds, Declares McAdoo.
Washington, August 31.?The
United States treasury is in excellent
condition, and there is no preseni
prospect that the government will
issue bonds or short term notes to
fill its coffers, according to a statement
by Secretary McAdoo today on
his return to Washington from a
month's vacation in Maine.
"It's too soon to talk about revenue
legislation," said Mr. McAdoo,
"I don't know what the estimates
will be, and consequently cannot talk
about revenues." He added, however,
that congress probably would
be asked to extend the period ol
operation of the emergency tax beyond
December 31, its present limit.
No consideration had been given, he
declared to the advisability of replacing
the duty on sugar, lowering
the exemption limit of the income
tax, or other plans suggested
to increase revenues.
"But," said the secretary, "I have
never considered a bond issue. The
treasury is in excellent condition,
and there is no country on the globe
more able to pay more taxes than
the United States if our expenditures
are to be increased. I'm not
worrying about the situation, and 1
guess I should be the first man tc
wTorry."
FIRE IN SCHOOL BUILDING.
Damage is Estimated at Between $2,500
and $3,000.
Columbia, August 25.?The Blossom
street school, at Blossom and
Lincoln streets, was partly burned
this morning. The alarm was rung
in at S: 50 o'clock from Box 51. The
fire was of peculiar origin, seemingly
to have been burning under the roof
and the floor at the same time, leading
to the theory that the flames
started in the lower part of the building
and spread upward through the
walls. The building was closed tightly
and the fire had evidently been
burning for some time, breaking
through the roof and the walls at
about the same time. The employees
of the Gibbes plant, in an adjoining
block, ran a section of hose
to the school and rendered "first
aid," until the regulars arrived from
the up-town stations. Even after the
firemen had entered the building the
fire broke through the walls and ceiling.
The damage is estimated at
$2,500, or $3,000.
The Longest Trolley Trip.
"Come on, let's take a trolley
ride."
"Where to?"
"Oh, let's go to Chicago."
Two men boarded a trolley car at
Little Falls, N. Y., and made the entire
trip to Chicago by trolley. And,
were they so minded, they could have
gone on to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, tc
Bay City, Michigan, to Louisville,
Kentucky and almost to St. Louis.
With only a couple of breaks in
New York State, it is entirely possible
for one to travel all the way from
New Tork city to a point near St.
Louis by trolley car. The fares will
cost about $20, and the hotel bills en
route will be about $12 extra. The
trip will require about four days and
it is needless to say that the route is
through the most picturesque scenery
in eastern America. From New York
city, the trolley lines extend up the
Hudson valley to Albany and thence
up the Mohawk valley via Schenectady
and Amsterdam. Nearly all the
important cities are connected by
trolley lines after leaving Syracuse.
He was sarcastic.
A man in the English veteran reserves
was called up recently. Aftei
a week at his new quarters he was
brought up before the officer commanding
for not cleaning his rifle
one day. Said the officer commanding:
"Hem, you're an old soldier re-enlisted,
I see. I suppose it will be
many years ago since you were reprimanded?
What was your last offense?
Can you remember what it
was?"
The old soldier, with irony on account
of the repeated assertions to
his age, replied, "For not cleanin' my
bow an' arrow, sir!"
In the Usual Way.
"How are you going to spend the
summer?"
"U'lViHnpr ahnnt. the climate and the
food, as usual," replied Mr. Growcher,
"although I have not decided
what place I'll go to."?Washington
Star.
Read the The Herald, $1.50 per year.
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C0ITON CONDITION 30.7
PLANT HAS DETERIORATED
SINCE LAST REPORT.
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Storm Set Crop Hack in Texas.?Year
Ago Condition Was 77.6
i Per Cent.
1 New York, August 29.?The con'
dition of cotton has deteriorated con-1
siderably since the last special report
of the. Journal of Commerce.
' Condition on the average date of
' these reports, August 24, is 70.7 per
cent., against 77.3 per cent, a month
ago, or a loss of 6.6 points. This is
' largely due to continued drought followed
by excessive rains, causing
much shedding. A year ago the condition
was 77.6; in 1913 it was 71.4,
and in 1912 it was 75.4 per cent.
The ten-year average is 73.4 per
cent.
States of greatest deterioration
were: Georgia, losing 7.7 points;
Alabama. 9.5 Doints: Mississippi. 8.1
1 points; Louisiana, 9.5 points; Texas,
! 7.4 points, and Arkansas and Ten'
nessee, 6.3 and 6 points, respective!
ly. Oklahoma gained 0.4 points.
L The hurricane was largely accountable
for the loss in Texas.
Percentage condition by States
with comparisons follow:
1 . ?1915?
Sept. Aug 1914
N, Carolina 75.8 78.5 82.0
S. Carolina 72.0 75.5 76.0
. Georgia 69.8 77.5 80.9
Florida 69.3 79.0 82.0
Alabama 67.0 76.5 74.0
Mississippi 70.7 78.8 71.X)
Louisiana 69.5 79.0 72.4
Texas 69.6 77.0 79.0
Arkansas 74.7 81.0 76.8;
Tennessee 78.0 84.0 80.0
Missiouri 78.2 80.0 73.0
Oklahoma 72.4 72.0 80.1
Average 70.7 77.3 77.6
Better Times Coming.
Indications point to better things
in business this fall in the South.
This is good new^ from the federal
reserve board about financing the
cotton crop; there is available money
to finance the entire crop of cotton.
No farmer large or small will be
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forced to rush his cotton to market,
he can borrow on it and hold it off?
and when all the farmers do that, or
any considerable portion of them, the
price is going up.
The mills in this country are manufacturing
more cotton than ever be-j
fore, and foreign countries are want-!
ing as much as ever, for they need itj
now not only for clothing but forj
. making gunpowder also.
The allies have put an embargo on |
cotton, and the Germans are sinking |
all the ships they can that are going
to England, and many that are going
to neutrals; but some way will be
found for all European countries
| needing cotton to get it.
At any rate, there is no use in exaggerating
the effects of the war on
the cotton crop; the main thing and
the important thing is that our own
' government will see to it that the cotton
grower will not have to sacrifice
his cotton.
When we come to foodstuffs, the
South has a larger supply on hand
than it has had in many years. The
cost of living has gone dowm, and is
still going down. Farmers are better
prepared for living at home than
they have been for a half century.
The dark cloud upon the business
horizon is the danger of war;-not
only the wTar in Europe, but that our
own country may be drawn into it
also. Let us all hope that some hon-J
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orable means may De iouna 10 avert
war, so that our people may enter
upon the long-postponed "good
times" that they have been looking
and longing for.?Newberry Observ-i
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Mr. Orange Peel.
Orange Peel " is the name of the
. dairyman of the Utah food and dairy
i commissioner's department.
"I have had more difficulty persuading
people that I am not fooling,
, and all but taken an oath that my
name is the same as the rind of the
famous fruit, than you could ever
i imagine," said Mr. Peel. "At school
a fellow called me lemon peel after
he heard my last name was Peel. He
thought he was joking. But I went
him one better when I explained to
him my full Christian name. Then
' he looked on me as a sort of hero,
and ceased joking."
Mr. Peel says his parents called
him Orange because he was a sweet
child.?Washington Star.
Glendale springs water for sale at
Herndon's Grocery Store and Mack's
Drug Store.?adv.
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KJKiKFIELI) COFFEE PLANTER.
S. Z. Sei?ler Believes Industry Can
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lie Revelo|ied in South Carolina.
Edgefield, August 25.?There is on
exhibition at the office of the Edgefield
Chronicle a coffee plant grown
bv S. Z. Seigler. of the Cleora sec
tion of the county. It is five feet
high, with seven well developed pods
about a foot and a half long, filled ,
with coffee beans. While traveling
in the State of Georgia last spring
Mr. Seigler remained over night with
a friend, and on going into his farm
was attracted by a half here field on
which was growing a plant unfamiliar
to him, and upon inquiry found
it to be the coffee plant. He procured
some seed and experimented
with it this year, and is now thoroughly
convinced that coffee can l*e*
grown, in this State, and he claims
with success. He has about six *ows
twenty-five yards long and expects to
gather a number of pounds of coffee.
He says his friend has grown it successfully
for several years. ^ /|
"Of course," said Mr. Seigler,
"people will naturally be very incredulous
about the matter, and will
hoot at the idea of growing coffee
in South Carolina, but if we can
grow tea why not its companion
plant, coffee?"
Mr. Seigler not only has faith""in
the growing of coffee here, but he is
enthusiastic about it, and wants
others to make the trial. Before
leaving he remarked that "just because
we have never done so in the
past cannot be accepted as absolute
proof that the thing can't be done."
NEW YORK CRIME RECORD.
45,000 Were Jail Cases.?Intoxication
is Most Common Offense.
With 80,698 convictions in New
York in the- last year, the largest" .. >M
number recorded in the history of
the State, the question suggests itself:
What is actually being done
to keep down crime?
Francis M. Hugo, secretary of
| State, furnishes the figures, for it is
! one of his duties to compile an anI
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llllcU rcpui l Uil Uliuiuai oiaucuvo,
but it is none of his business to an-w
swer foolish questions, says an Albany
special. Were he to comment
on the increase in crime he might
offer as an explanation New York's
all-around bigness. M
A leader in philanthropies, topping
all other States in population,
! with yio good second in the race, it
is not strange New York also should
have a heavy crime list. But after
! all, the great bulk of the crimes that
' figure in Secretary Hugo's list are
| not heinous crimes; many thousands
! of them are so trivial as not to call
for a jail penalty.
There were only 4,782 female convictions,
all the rest of the lawbreak- . \|
ing being the work of the lawmaking
portion of the population.
Secretary Hugo's report shows the
interesting fact that the great majority
of the offenders were natives
of the United States, could read and
write and had received religious instruction.
The court records from
which the; statistics are compiled also
set down the great majority of
the offenders as "temperate in their
habits." Intoxication, however, was
?--i. fA/4 oiriflrl/i nf
Hie IiJUSl illilllCX UUSljr U1I.CU otugig wifense.
Between 20 and 50 would seem to . ,
be the "bad man" age in this State,
leaving room to hope the lawbreakers
will grow into staid citizens in
their maturer years.
Of all the convictions only about
45,000 were jail cases, the number
of persons actually committed to jail
being smaller than in 1913. The
growing custom among magistrates
of suspending" sentence in unimpor- v
tant cases accounted for the difference.
Many Motor Speeders.
The automobile speed violator
helped materially to swell the total
of convictions, and, incidentally, the
revenues of the State. Few such
convictions carried jail sentences.
The State executive during the
year issued three pardons, commuted
nineteen sentences, restored nine.
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ty-four former convicts to citizenship
and granted eight respites in capital
cases. Por the preceding year the
figures were eleven pardons, thirtyone
commuted sentences, sixty-seven
persons restored to citizenship and
four respites of condemned murderers.
The municipal building, New York,
is the largest structure under the
jurisdiction of the bureau of public
buildings and offices. It contains
about 3,000 offices and has about 10,000
visitors daily. It is the world's
largest building of its kind.