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of the Association.

men were Wm Chauncey Eangdon, then
lay member of Trinity Episcopal Church,
and now minister of that denomination
in Connecticut; VIM. j. Rhees. since chief
clerk of the Smithsonian Institution for
many years. but then clerk in the United
States census office, and a member of the
Presbyterian Church, and Thomas H. Dun
can, now an Episcopal minister at Earle
vile, Md.
The idea of forming an association on
the lines of the London organization was
discussed by these young men. They met
often, ana gradually the notion began to
take a tangible shape. Others Of their ac-
quaintances were interested, until at last,
in June. 1852, the enterprise was ready to
launch, and a call was issued by the three
founders and a few others for meeting at
the Central Academy, which was then one
of the most prominent meeting places in
the city. 1t was located in building that
still stands at the northeast corner of 10th
and E streets, and which has been the
home of very many organizations and in
stitutions. 1t was then place of general
meetings, although 1t was the home of the
academy, which under the direction of
Rev James Nourse. This building, which
should be noted in passing as the real
place where the association was born. was
later the home of the Masonic fraternity
of the city, and then was used by the pub
lie schools of the second district. Later 1t
passed into commercial hands, and is now
used as a storehouse.
This first meeting was well attended. and
a committee was appointed from each re-
ligious denomination represented to pre-
pare a constitution and bylaws. The
churches represented at this first meeting
were as follows: E Street Baptist, First
Baptist Trinity, Ascension and Grace
Episcopal, McKendree Methodist, Methodist
Protestant, Methodist Episcopal South and
the First, Second, Fourth and F Street
Presbyterian.
June 30 there was a second meeting held
at the same place, and the nstitution
and bylaws reported by the committee
were adopted. This constitution was sign
ed by ninety-one members, including some
OF the most famous of Washington's later
citizens. OF these men less than q score
are now living, but it is remarkable that
such large number of the originators and
aders of the association have taken an
interest in its affairs throughout their
lives. Those whose faces are shown with
this article represent a few of the men
whose efforts have been beneficially direct
ed toward the building up of the associa-
ton. and all of them are now ready al all
times to lend a helping hand. 1t is said
that few cities can boast of such a showing
as this.
Matters were now in good shape, and the
organization was proceeded with rapidly
July the organization was completed and
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the summer resort regions Of the east and
northeast


The Southern Literary Messenger Is the
latest addition to the long catalogue Of
magazines that have gone out 10 the world
from this city. Years ago--in 1s34-1the
original magazine OF the same name was
published in Richmond, and there 1t con-
unued to be published until 1863, when It's
offices were removed to this city. A little
while later it suspended. Among those
who edited the old Messenger were it's
founder-a Mr.. White-Edgar Allan Poe,
Or. Mtnneeerode Mr.. Minor Mathew
Fountaine Maury and DR.. George w, Bag
by. The present editor and proprietor is
Mrs. A. Truehart Buck. who In No. 1 Of
the revived Messenger gives evidence Of
editorial ability.
The Health, Sanitation and Climatology
OF the Southern States is a quarterly jour-
raj devoted to the advancement of sani-
tary science, material resources ard medi-
cal climatology, with especial reference
to the mineral springs, health resorts and
sanitariuns of the states south 5f Mason
and DiXon's line. Edited by DIR. Walter c.
Murphy of this city and published at a32
K street northwest II is largely a local
venture. Each number has in It a great
quantity of professionally and generally
interesting reading matter, fllumlned by
artistic illustrations.
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A Blind Novelist.

From the London News.
Miss Alice King, the popular novelist,
who was wholly blind from the age of
seven, became a fearless horsewoman, and
would gallop over hills and alonS rough
moorland paths that would have been i'm
passable to any but the most proficient
rider. Miss King, who was educated at
home, gained more less proficiency in
seven languages besides her own, namely,
French, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin,
Greek and Hebrew. All her literary work
was done with a typewriter, and with its
aid she could write quickly as a person
with sight ordinarily writes with a pen.
these literary labcrs was occupied in
teaching and influencing the workingmen
and lads in her fathers parish: and by her
own efforts this unwearying, blind girl es-
tablished for them a reading room, cricket
club band and other Institutions.
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Langdon was chosen
president. The third
convention was held
in Montreal, and the
Washing gtor d e e =
g a t e S We're w. c.
Langdon. w. j.
Rhees, D. H. Wood,
]. D. Easter, Joseph
H. Bradley, jr., VIM
@. Force, John Van
Santvoord, Samue.
w. Grubb and w.
Lindsey. Mr.. Rhees
was made secretary
and Mr.. LanSdon
was appointed a dele
gate from the Amer
lean Association TO
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1409 New York avenue, this building being
Formerly famous as club house and a
restaurant.
The association got into considerable
financial difficulty as a result of the enter
prise that led to the erection of Lincoln
Hall and 1t has never quite recovered from
the debt thus incurred. The proposition
was made by citizen to erect building
for the organization, and bargain was all
but closed that would have given the as
sociation at a small cost very valuable
property at the southeast corner CT 10th
and F streets. But other counsels pre-
vailed, and building was finally put up
at the corner of 9th and D streets, where
the Academy of Music now stands.
This home of the association was de-
stroyed by fire some years after the as
sociation had ceased to occupy 1t. 1t was
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failed of considara-
ton in the House
Through lack Of
time. In 1855 a COM
mittee was appointed
to consider the estab-
lishment of a night
school and q reading
class for mechanics
ard others during the
winter. The same
year the experiment
of providing tea. cof-
fee and light refresh
ments in the rooms
was tried. after the
London plan. In Oc-
tober, 1886, the first
. s. ra,,r~ t'ttv, 4 -
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as a delegate to rep
resent it at the ami
versary of the Y. NJ.
c. A. in London. On
his return he pre-
santed many valuable
suggestions for the
Improvement Of the
W o r k. The corre-
spending secretary,
VIM. Chauncey Lang
don, was from the
, irst a most untiring,
devoted and intelli-
gent worker. He not
only stimulated the
home association, but
he was the first to
s9a tho ifonnrfan a nca
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over Parksr's store,
on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. opposite the
Metropolitan Hotel.
Then the aSsocia-
tion went from pillar
to post, always
growing and always
flourishing, until it
had covered the fol-
] 10 wing itinerary:
Northeast rner
Sth and II streets,
with the Christian
Commission; over
Topham's harness
store, now Kneessi's,
on 1th street; in the
MetZerott building.
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officers Were chosen.
Mr.. Alexander H.
Lawrence was elect
ed president and Mr..
Langdon and Mr..
RheeS We're made
corresponding and re-
cording secretaries,
respec lively. Mr.Law-
renee, however, did
not serve long, and
soon afterward Mr..
Zalmon Richards, one
of Washington's old
est and best-beloved
citizens, who is still
alive, was made pres
ident in his stead,
and Is nOW generallv
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w. y. sIaHVuOHs Illelioiidi haii, W ~
cared for by the Y. NJ. C. A, but the pro-
ject failed When, therefore. the hall at
the corner of 9th and ID streets was put up
IL was called Lincoln Hall as SUBSTITUTE
for the Ford TEeater hall.
Mr. Rhees, who at various times hlied
all the offices in the association, but VINO
has been obliged through Ill health, to
late years. has recently gone through the
minutes of the first ten years of the asso-
citation ) existence and has found number
of interesting facts connected with ITS
early history that he has kindly furnished
to The Star. The first course of lectures IN
1852 was given by Senator charlton, ReV.
DR. w S Plumer Rev. DR.. II. ID. V. johns,
Rev. ]. p Durbin, Prof. A. Guyot, Prof.
Joseph Henry and Rev. DR.. n. Murray.
Mission Sunday schools were estabished
in 1850 at 500 o street and at the corner OF
Massachusetts, avenue and I'd street, and
in 1856 at the corner of 18th and b streets
southwest and at the corner of Pennsyi-
varia avenue and 10th street. There were
committees appointed on lectures and SER
mons meetings, ways and means, library,
statistics rooms, periodicals, printing and
publication Bible classes mission Sunday
schools visiting the sick, city prisons,
asyluu, employment and boarding houses.
Each ward of the city was assigned TO
certain members of the association, whose
duty 1t was to report any field or oppor-
tunity to do good work which might legiu-
mateiy be occupied by the association.
The policy in selecting fields of labor for
the mission schools was TO reach the really
destitute portions of the city, and when
ever this region was provided for by any
church organization another neld was Sc
lected.
The first Bible class was led by Mr.
Thomas v Walter, the eminent architect
whose great ability as a teacher and ex-
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FOUNDER impaired a
rare interest and
value to the exer-
cises. In November,
1853. the Bible class
was formally estab-
lished, under the di-
rection of q commit
tee of ministers of
the five leading de-
nominations, as fol-
lows: Rev. DR.. c.. NJ.
p u t | e T. Episcopal;
Rev. DIR. G.. w. Sam
son, Baptist; Rev.
DIR. Jesse T. Peck,
Methodist; Rev. DIR.
b yro n Sunderland,
Pre- b yteriaD. and
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The 0ntonagon Boulder and Its Dra-
matte ! History
FROM LAKE SUPERIOR TO WASHINGTON
A Singular Journey and Many Com
ii
plications.
ITS SAVAGE PROPRIETORS
Written for The Evening Star.

N0 - - - -
corner of the Nation
al Museum a boulder
of native copper,
weighing. perhaps,
three tons, rests on
a plain wooden base.
No inscription bears
record as to the cri-
gin or the history of
this copper fragment,
the size of which
would alone make it
notable. Reposing in
that American Pan
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tee was appointed,
representing all parts
of the city. consist
Ing of Messrs. Lang
don, Moore, Young,
Grayson and Rhees
of the Y. NJ. C. A.,
ard Messrs. Jones,
Clarke, Walsh, Du-
hamel and Laws of
the ether organiza-
ton. Christian unity
was thus exemplified
in the most practical
and impressive man
ner. Cooperation
was also shown by
allowing any member
OF a young mems lit
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The Engineers Salute.

From the Chicago Times Herald.
Nearly every engine on roads running
Into Chicago blows Its whistle in a differ
ent way upon entering or leaving the city.
A good many members of the crew have
wives or sweothearts within hearing dis
tance of these whistles and the signals an
nounce to them the arrival or departure Of
the train,
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known as Lincoln
Hall. largely from
the fact that 1t was
erected soon after
the assassination of
the President, in
1865, and also from
the additional fact
that the association
had vainly endeav-
ored to secure pos
session OF the build
ing on 10th street
known as the Ford
Theater, where Mr..
Lincoln was shot.
The plan was to
make of this a great
a,nriol h.1I tn he
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then knoWn as The Iron Hail. recently de-
molished on Pennsylvania avenue between
9th and 10th streets: the Lincoln Hall
building, built for the association and oc-
cupied by it for number of years; then
rooms We're secured in building near the
corner of 9th and E streets, and finally the
association moved into its present home,
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for gymnasium was made. About the
same time class in vocal music vas Or
gantzed under DR.. Munson.
In 1857 the ladies of the f Street Presby-
terian Church made President James Buch-
anan a life member of the association.
While Mr.. Rhees was president an arrange
ment was made by him for cooperation
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Inc pTeSlUentS OF
the association from
1852 to 1853 were
Alex. H. Lawrence,
Calmon Richards,
Otis c. Wight, VIM.
]. RI ees. Thos. J.
MagrGder, Rich. T.
Morseil, Jno. H.
Bradley, jr.
Among the vice
presidents were VIM.
Ballantyne, A. NJ.
Zevely, VINO. Force.
p. a. Keller. S. H.
Latimer, Jas. N. Da-
Wis, Thos. j. john
ston, Rev. ]. G. But
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erary or debating society to nave the priv
leges of the library, &c, at one-half the
regular rates, provided there were ten
from any one society.
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with the Young Catholics Friend Society
for the relief of the DOOR. and a commits
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People who want to go away from home
during the summer time and who are in
doubt as to where to go and how to get
there Will find material assistance in the
book of summer excursion routes. just is
sued by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany-a copy of which has been forwarded
The Star by Mr.. Colin Studs, the south
eastern passenger agent. A vast quantity
of interesting facts, embellished with SUI
perior illustrations, is to be found within
the decorated covers OF a railroad guide
that gives its readers a very fair impress
sion as to the amount of money needed
to defray the expenses of excursions into
Evening star., 1895-06-08

The rapidity with which the new Cor
coran Art Gallery building has assumed
shape during the past few months has
proven source of deep satisfaction to
those In charge Of the Corcoran Art
School and the present gallery, the former
being in pressing need of more commodious
quarters, and the latter having long since
felt the want Of better and more modern
facilities and accommodations. It is expect
ed that within another year the building
will be completed
Evening star., 1895-06-08
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

PERSONAL "REMINISCENCES AND RECOLLEC-
lions OF FpRTY-SIN YEARS MEMBERSHIP
IN THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE DIS
TR!Cr OF COLUMBIA AND RESIDENCE IN
THIS CITY, with Biographical Sketches of Many
OF the Deceased Members. BY Samuel c. Busey
Md, LID, President of the Medical Society
OF the District of Cnlumhia ISL 1891 and 1saS
Evening star., 1895-06-08

L. F. Andrews left this morning for
New York, and On Tuesday will sail for
Europe, going direct to London for tha
purpose of visiting the Royal Academy.
ana then to Berlin, for the exhibitions
mere, atter which he will spend the sum-
itins familiar places of historic and mic.
tcrial interest P0
Evening star., 1895-06-08

Although still undecided as to his plans
Tor the summer. U. s. j. Dunbar expects
to go to st. Paul early in July in order
to deliver number of commissions exc
cuted LOT the state capitol and to put the
finishing touches to Others thar raon,re
personal sittings before being completed.
Evening star., 1895-06-08

E. c. Messer, accompanied by his fam
sly and large class of students, will
leave the city on Tuesday for a several
months sketching tour among the noun
tains of Virginia.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-06
ESoONDIDO REJOIoEs.

| The people of Escondido are rejoicing
and rightly so. Indeed the cause of their
rejoicing is such that the whole State may
rejoice with them, for as it is the fulfill
ment of well considered plans and the out
come of well directed energy, it gives en-
enlargement to all enterprising men and
affords reason for believing that many
another California community by equal
perseverance may achieve as good cause
for a similar rejoicing.
We cannot make better statement of
what the rejoicing is about than to quote
the exultant language of the Escondido
Adv0c0te:
"One thousand inches of water from
San Luis Rey River roared and tumbled
down through the new irrigation ditch of
the Escondido district Monday night,
wound around Rodriguez Mountatain past
Bee Canyon and Horsethief Canyon across
Washout Gulch, swirled around the horse
shoe bend at Hellhole, dashed through the
tunnels near Bear Valley, and finally
rested behind the massive wall of the dam
in Won Seggern Canyon. The foaming adj
vance line of the flood reached the dam at
10 o'clock and that hour marked the new
era for Escondido."
The free-howing rhythm and sonorous
ring of the words of the AdUocate are none
too exultant for the occasion. Irrigation
on an ordinary scale has become a COM
monplace in California, but such extensive
irrigation as is provided for by the great
accom- plishment at Escondido is by no
means common. The system includes
conduit twenty-five miles long, in which
there are three miles of fume. It passes
through two tunnels, one of 356 feet and
the other of $50 feet, both cut through solid
granite. From the great reservoir twenty
one miles of pipe will run out over the dis
trict affording irrigation for 1900 acres
and providing for the building up of an
other of those localities whose bloom and
verdure are full of prophecies of the COM
ing glory of our arid lands.
1t is satisfaction to record the accom-
plishment of such enterprises as this, and
no matter in what section of the State they
occur, every Californian must find high
degree of qualification in reading of them.
Success in any locality or in any under
taking stimulates energy everywhere. All
California tends to advance when any Sec
ton of it actually advances. From the
successes of the southern part of the State
the press in the northern counties are
drawing the strongest arguments to en-
courage progressive men there, and as a
consequence the achievement at Escondido
may be largely instrumental in leading to
the undertaking of not less important en-
terprises elsewhere.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-06
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Boston people report that DR.. Parkhurst has
the politicians gift of remembering faces seen
but once and names known long ago.
W. r. Smith, superintendent of the Botanic
Gardens in Washington, has held the place for
forty-three years and knows all about gardens.
A. ]. Blackwell. the rich and cratic Indian
who owns the cities of Blackwell and David in
the Indian Territory, announces that he will
build $500, zoe temple at David City, O. T.,
for the perpetuation of Indian religions.
Marietta Holly, who is known as Josiah
Aliens Wife," resides in the ancestral house
where five generations Of Hollys have lived.
The house is in Jefferson County, N. Y, close
TO Lake Ontario. 1t is here that "Josiah Aliens
Wife" does all the writing that has made her
so famous.
Nine. Csrnot has decorated an oratory in her
house with inscribed ribbons taken from the
wreaths sent to Paris on the occasion of her
husbands funeral. In the same room are pre-
served all similar trophies of an artistic nature,
the most remarkable of which is a splendid
crown, the gift of Admiral Aveland on behalf
of the Russian feet.
Lieutenant Louis NJ. Stoddar who was an
officer on board the Monitor at the time of her
historic fight with the Merrimac, is we'll
preserved man of about IS years. Only three
of the officers of that gallant craft are living
her commander, Admiral Worden, l.. NJ. Stod-
dar and Samuel Howard, and as the three live
in Washington they get together now and then
and indulge in "reminiscences.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-06
METROPOLITAN WEEKLIEs.

A question of journalism interesting to
the press and not altogether uninteresting
to the general public has arisen in New
York between the Herald and the Tribune
with respect to the true scope ofth e weekly
edition of a metropolitan daily.
The Herald has recently consolidated the
weekly with the Sunday paper and pro-
poses to concentrate all the energies hith-
erto employed on the weekly in making
the Sunday issue as attractive to rural
readers as to city people. 1t has made the
change upon the ground that the news
features of metropolitan weekly are not
needed in these days, and says: "The
legitimate field of weekly news is filled to
the satisfaction of local readers by country
and town papers that now stud the various
States like stars in the sky"
The Tribune while wishing the Herald
success in the new departure, denies that
there is anything to justify it, and claims
that the wide circulation Of its own weekly
all over the country is proof of the exist
ence of popular demand and therefore of
public need of a weekly summary of
news issued by a metropolitan daily.
California is too far removed from the
East for rs to undertake to enter into the
dispute between these two great papers,
each of which is supposed to have a clear
understanding of Eastern conditions. 1t
is certain, however, that in California
there is a demand for a metropolitan
weekly newspaper, Notwithstanding that
the rural press of the Coast is even more
progressive and expansive than that of the
East. The best local papers are those
which give most attention to local affairs,
and the farmer who wishes TO keep posted
on all the events of the world needs, in
addition to his local paper, weekly sum-
mary of the news from a metropolitan
daily.
Another advantage of the news features
of metropolitan weekly is that the
weekly can serve in this way to supply
the people of other parts of the continent
with information that is not telegraphed
from the section in which it is published
Few people in California would care to
read daily published in Boston and few
in Massachusetts, would care to read a
daily published in San Francisco. The
news of the day and the comment on it
are old before the daily can cross the con-
tinent and are therefore uninteresting. A
good weekly, however, like that of the
CALL, contains great deal of information
on the industries, resources and affairs
generally of the State, that are interesting
to intelligent men in all parts of the coun-
try even though the paper should be a
week or a month old This continental
demand will justify the publication of a
weekly by metropolitan daily for long
time to come, and the growing subscrip-
ton for the WEEKLY CALL is an evidence
that the local need is also active.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-06

counted the remaining measures-there were
three more bars, two-only one, but just as the
prelude ended the poem of cloves Old, Sweet
Song flashed back into my momory as instan-
taneously as it had been blotted out of it,
Isuppose most singers have found out, at
some time or other, what strange tricks mem
DRY plays them. The only similar experience
l ever had was in Chicago. "Old Madrid" had
just been published and was to sing it for the
first time in the halls there.
The song was quite unknown to the public,
and the management expected to make hit
with it, but when the time came to begin, 1
found, just as did the other night, that my
mind was a blank as far as the words were
concerned, and the worst of it was that no
mental coaxing would bring them back.
When the prelude ended there was nothing
to do but plunge into medley that in
vented as went along. Oh! those words were
awful Sometimes there was rhyme and
sometimes the lines ended in jagged sort of
way, for all I could force myself to do was to
follow the music and think of the sentiment of
the story-it was no time for making elaborate
verses.
Well, when my own version of 'In Old
Madrid" was over, expected cold and frosty
silence. but, strange to say, there was raptuous
applause.
1t may have been the extra expression that
was the result of mental agony, but certainly
l made the success Of my life that night.
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