. Book of the Royal blue . boilers forwar vessels. With an investment of $125,000, thefirm has steadily grown until the present investmentapproximates $r,ooo,ooo. About <)00 men are em-ployed, with an approximate annual pay-roll of$500,000. During the past year this plant haspractically been rebuilt. Its otiicers are L. , president; C. A. Bumpus, vice-presidentand general manager, and Chas. Stratmen, generalsuperintendent. Washington Electric Light and PowerCompany tias recemly installed one of the largestand most powerlul jilants in the country. It fur-nishes the electric lights and
. Book of the Royal blue . boilers forwar vessels. With an investment of $125,000, thefirm has steadily grown until the present investmentapproximates $r,ooo,ooo. About <)00 men are em-ployed, with an approximate annual pay-roll of$500,000. During the past year this plant haspractically been rebuilt. Its otiicers are L. , president; C. A. Bumpus, vice-presidentand general manager, and Chas. Stratmen, generalsuperintendent. Washington Electric Light and PowerCompany tias recemly installed one of the largestand most powerlul jilants in the country. It fur-nishes the electric lights and the power used inWashington and vicinity, also supplies the town ofCannonsburg, seven miles away. The company atpresent maintains a system of incandescent lights onall the streets, and is also the proprietor of a steam-heating system, which supplies many of the publicbuildings and homes of the town. This Company furnishes electric power to manu-facturers at a \ery attractive rate. A Scrap from the Record of a First Family. hapiien—all the consequences that wouMfollow such a fathering^ of his coun-try—would he have accepted the posi-tion? Assuredly, the prospect, coulhe have viewed it all along down throughthe years, would have heen such as mightwell have give him pause. Either hisheart would have swelled—and. but letus say it not irreverently, perhaps hishead also—with fatherly joy andpride, or. on the other hand, utterly daz-zled and dismayed by such a glimpse intothe future, he might have taken a mostsober second thought liefore assumingsuch a multitudinous and miscellaneousparental responsibility, so to descriiie he been permitted to look adi)\the vista of the coming years and to be-hold the future of the country he wasabout to father, and thus to gaze, awe-struck, upon the tremendous and ever-increasing flock of \\ashingt<)ns. big andlittle. with all the possible—and somemighty nearly impossible—combination-of prefixes and affixes, intended toso
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