Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-05
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| Star reporter today. 1.-THE people who went
| TO Colon. Colombia, fifty years ago called
| that place Aspinwall, and the railroad COM
| pany and the steamship lines touching
| there took I'D the name in an official way.
until twenty years ago the place was uni
| versally known as AspinwaH. After the
/ canal company started to work the Co
lombian government undertook the task OF
| dfscarding the new name and resumng the
general use of Colon Colon was the
| name placed on all official papers, but the
| world had got accustomed to calling the
| town 'Aspinwan, and nearly every letter
| that came there was addressed to Aspin-
wall After few years had passed by the
Colombians determined to take heroic meas
ures to carry their contention The post
master at Colon was notified that as no
such place as Aspinwall was known in Co
lombia all letters so addressed should be re-
turned to their senders. This order Great
ed endless complaint and annoying and
costly delays. but it operated like a charm
on people who had occasion to send their
correspondence to the Isthmus of Panama.
The eastern terminus of the canal and rail-
road at Panama is today everywhere
known as Colon"
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IF you wish to know why Senator Hanna
is a success watch his feet This remark
was made the other day by an astute re-
publican politician, who has learned to
study men from many "standpoints Just
why the feet should be the index to the man
perhaps is not apparent at once. he con-
tinued, but here is what you will see if
you will take the trouble to watch Senator
Hanna's feet:
He will be standing during an evening in
the best hotel In the city in which he hap
pens to be stopping. He will never be given
an opportunity for idleness. A gentleman
and lady will step UP and introduce
friend, others viii follow, and for half an
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stand shaking hands with a procession of
people. exchanging pleasantries with old
friends. and making new acquaintance.
During this time the pedal extremities of
the buckeye statesman-and these extremi
ties are in themselves cause of admira-
ton because of their shapeliness and neat
ness of dreSS-Will never move from where
they have been planted, not much as
hairs breadth
Now think what this means. 1t means
that Senator Hanna has learned one of the
most difficult feats of sef-control. He
wastes not the slightest particle of energy
in movements that are unnecessary. If he
has mastered this art with reference to the
members of his body. he has also mastered
Il with reference to his mind. This means
that his mind rests exactly on an even keel,
SO to speak; that it grasps without the
slightest confusion from surroundings the
real subject in hand. whether that subject
be Legislative proposition or a political
problem infused with the influence of per-
sonality
Senator Hanna's feet show that Senator
Hanna has perfect mastery of himself
1T Is not generally known remarked
an old resident Of the District, that If the
Hygeia Hotel at Fortress Monroe is torn
down next January, as 1t will be II the
order of the department is not changed,
that it will be the second time a hotel
structure has been ordered to be removed
from that reservation. The first structure
might be termed the original Hygeia If it
occupied the same site as the building
now standing, but that Is not the case.
More than forty years ago 1 remember
staying at the old place, which was
roomy structure with plenty of broad We
randas. 1t was located to the left Of the
present steamboat wharf. but some dis
lance from the water edge and near the
moat that surrounded the fort, As is we'll
known, the HySeia is built out over the
water and alongside of the wharf The
other building was erected back In 1928
A. the time of my visit, which was just
prior to the war. it was under the man
agement of Mr.. G.. c. Willard, our we'll
known townsman who conducted with so
much success for a number OF years the
Ebbitt. and which he still owns, not to
speak of his extensive realty holdings in
that valuable business section in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the Ebbitt.
Il believe Mr.. Willard came to Fortress
Monroe in 1854 and started as clerk in
the hotel of which he afterward became
the owner. He was running the business
and naking a popular resort when the
civil war broke out. Then 1t was con-
cluded by the army authorities that the
government needed all the ground, and Mr..
Willard. who was, of course occupying
government land with permission. was di-
rected to have the hotel removed. He was
obliged to comply and that was the end
of the hotel business with him at Fortress
Monroe. Mr.. Willard was not compen-
stated for the loss which he sustained. The
present Hygeia Hotel building was erected
In 1863