"PAPA" SPINNER.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 387, 8 October 1903, Page 6

"PAPA" SPINNER.

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The> Vault* -of th* treasury house >a j I Itatue of the late F. E. Spinner, trea's-; arer of the United States during the■'. civil war. It was intended that the monument should be erected in some prominent part of the city, and congress was asked to provide a pedestal ; for it. The statue had been' piir- ' chafed largely through ' the effort* and by the contributions of women, who thus intended to perpetuate the memory of the man who first introduced female clerics'into the govern- ' ment service, says the Washington Evening Times. The project Was going along very well when a question arose as to the propriety of raising a statue to a subordinate officer of a department of the government, when it had not been considered necessary to erect one to any secretary of the treasury or to any other cabinet officer. From some stories of Spinner heard in the treasury it is safe to conclude that he would not have approved of the proposed statue. In his will, it is said, Mr. Spinner showed that he was proud of his sig- ! nature, thsrt queer scroll which for many years appeared on the paper •money of the United States. He directed that it be reproduced upon his monument. That request was re- j garded. * There is a portrait Si Mr. Spinner in the room of the tre*iß*y, and those who knew him when lie held office shy that it exaggerate* bis roughness of appearance,- making him look ' a bit too gruff ana math too florid. ' Underneath the portrait, painted on the frame, is the que** signature as ! it appeared on the paper money.

When the monument Is erected it is expected that the signature wid be upon the pedestal, mprodueed in I raised letters. When Mr. Spinner was ; treasurer, and visitor* desired to ' carry av*4sjr'aome characteristic souvenir of CMr call at Ma office, 1 he ] would give his sutogiaph',/'writing K in the.center of a braid sheet of . thiek paper, emggestin* the preservation oi it in a frams.,»

Wlalow Paul That Diffuse Llgrbt. The increase in the number of tall buildings has resulted in a larger use j of ribbed and prismatic glass for win- j dows, as well as in the production of! Improved varieties of such glass. The { illumination of dingy rooms, shut in by lofty walls, is increased by the re- f flection, from the many" facets of the j glass, of light which would otherwise; pass the windows without penetrating the interior of the rooms. The employment of diffusing glass is regarded as introducing '."-a new era in in -j ierior lighting.**