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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-24
PERRY BELMONI"S HONE.

rupied by John Wanamaker, when Post
master General
Al the beginning of each social season
there now comes fiCcking to the capital a
fresh coterie of civilian TnilNonaires ali of
which, of course, means that by a grad
ual evolution Washington is becoming the
social capital of the nation. The most note
worthy of this years newcomers Of this
category is Perry Belmont multI-milion-
aire traction magnate of the metropolis,
ex-representatiVe. eX-minster to Spain
and all-around society swell. He has
leased the D. P Morgan house on Scott
circle, which is said to bring higher
rental than any of the furnished mansions
of the city. This figure must be some
where in the neighborhood of $3.50
year, as Senator Depew, 1t is pretty well
understood, paid $1,000 month for the
Corcoran house, which he has just vacated.
Mr.. Belmonts new mansion was oc-
cupied for three months last spring by
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. who therein gave
series of dinners and afternoon receptions
about which Washington has not yet
ceased talking. OF all mansions of the
capital It Is one of the best adapted for
large entertainments. 1t was originally
built by Senator Don Cameron OF Penn
sylvania who occupied it for but a few
years. Entering under the porte cochere
the visitor passes into a main hallway.
lofty and spacious, and from which opens
a series of magnificent apartments with
carved woodwork and most artistic deco
rations. All of the rooms of the second
floor open upon large gallery. Perry
Belmont in 1899 married Miss Jessie Rob
bins. They have no children, but doubt
less some of their nieces and nephews will
add to the gayeties of the mansion this
winter Mr. Belmonts brother August is
q widower with three children. His brother
Oliver H. P, who created sensa-
ton by marrying Mrs. William K. Wander
bilt Immediately after her divorce, has one
infant daughter His sister is the wife of
S. S. Rowland.
Aroen-. .-0 York millionaire who viii
open new establishment in Washington
for the season is Thomas F. Ryan Of Con-
solidated Gas and Equitable fame He has
bought for about 100000 the handsome CO.
ton!al residence at 18th and streets, occu-
pied for many years by Mrs. Harriet Lane
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SECTY ROOTS NEW HOUSE

stately houses reflect back the low southern
sun. Thus we behold the famous ''Shep-
herds row. built by Alexander Shepherd,
once governor of the District Of Columbia,
and maker of the new Washington; later
deposed Boss Shepherd exiled to Mexi-
CO, but more recently modern Monte Girls
to-" welcomed back by reDentant popu-
lace. The easternTnost Of these three man
sions our tall, lanky Vice President now
opens to us, all spick and span. We are
amazed at the tremendous dining room add
ed to the north end by Stanford. the great
multi-nillionaire Senator from California,
when he dwelt there some fifteen years and
more ago. Next door abides Charles c.
Glover, wealthy banker, whose daughter
recently welded to. the Dutch minis
ter, Jonkheei. R. de Maress van Swinderem.
At the western end of the row Is the house
wherein Admiral Dewey married the
daughter of Washington Mclean, but
where now dwells within tapestlried walls
Gen. Draper, late representative from Mas
sachusetts and ambassador to Rome.
Our new Secretary Of State, too, we find
all freshly set up In what will vie with all
others as the show house Of the town.
Passing from Mr.. Fairbanks out K street
and turning into 10th at Mrs. Deweys
tall corner house. where Secretary Hitch
cock dweils, we proceed northward for four
squares land find Mr.. Root all spick and
span in the four-story mansion of brick
by the acquisition of which Representative
Bourke Cochran of New York last year
stirred up rife rumor that he was to take
unto himself wife. Secretary Root has
had 1t newly repaired and remodeled in
side and out and had made numerous ad-
dftions to add to It's righteousness. There
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whereby equilibrium is destroyed; the heav-
Ter water than sinks and currents are set
In motion, and not least because the heavier
waters are also warm. And yet once more
shell fish, ssrnuch as they seerete the
solid matter which the sea holds In SOU
riit-, and thereby promote the energy and
action of the ocean currents. And thus says
the poet-scientist:~ God speaks through
sea shells to the ocean.
As was remarked at the beginning of this
article the whole subject is involved In
o5,scurfsy, as from the nature OF the case 1t
Is bound to be, but perhaps enough mas
been said to incline the mind TO peneVe Una.
..tha romance of the sea bottom Is second
TO none that the powers OF man may read.
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ana large portions OF earth's great basins
are formed.
moreover 1t Is a mausoleum where a cold
and even temperature preyails-an isother-
mai floor. To romance about the covering
OF this floor with wreckage and gold is to
draw bow at a venture If the cold
stratum of the sea prevails there. as is the
belief of modern science, II may wen he
that the holy dead are preserved as no
mummifed body ever was. To think of them
lying IN their berths gr< embalmed beneath
the mosaic CT microcosms in a state of
wholesome soundness Is pleasing indeed.
Treasure trove some day to generations un-
born to whom The sea bottom shall be
opened up with antiquarian history inscrib-
ed on each well-preserved item of it all.
From the sea bottom of the Coral Sea
In the North Pacific, at depth of some
1900 feet. specimens were obtained by
Lieut. Brooke which included members of
most of the great groups of microscopic or
ganisms usually found in marine sediments.
The grea1cr number were of silicious
snicuies sponges-long and spindle
shaped, i.n-headed, three-spined and so
forth Ve-y few foraminifera were found
such as cover the bottom of the Atlantic
they were silictous rather than calca reous
on submarine banks or shelves various
molluses, such as the oyster abound
1t Is interesting in conclusion to remark
the dynamic force of salts and shells In
their influence over circulation. As Maury
well puts 1t: THE brine of the ocean is
the ley of the earth. From 1t the sea de-
raves It's power and the currents their chief
strength. 1t Is the, salts of the sea that
assist the rays Of the sun to penetrate its
BOSOM and that invest the waters with
adaptations which 1t could not possess If
they were fresh.s In a word, precisely as
ny a a. m s. nlenaing OF the gases OF
SO by q similar process, to which the salti-
ness contributes, the waters of the Pacific
Ocean are found by analysis to be pre-
cisely the same as those of the Atlantic.
Saline substances are borne down the
mountain side. conveyed into the sea and
are utilized for tbs upbuiIding of shell and
insect life. Evaporation Is factor no
doubt. which as it takes UP vapor which
is freshv leaves behind = more salty liquid
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Explanatory Notes
On "Sir Nigel "

The following notes explanatory of this
weeks installment of ''Sir Nigel in the
Sunday magazine section may serve to aid
and interest the reader who happens not to
have access to a good reference library.
Hereafter they will appear in the magazine
in more condensed form at the end of each
instaiment.
The term hundred" as applied to a col
lection of individuals, is of ancient origin
Blackstone explains it thus: LAS ten fam
lilies of freeholders made up town or
tithing. so ten fittings composed superior
division called a hundred, as consisting of
ten times ten families
Rape is from an old Morse word meaning
share or allotment. Sussex. England. is
divided into six rapes or districts interme
date between the ancient hundred and a
shire
Pardieu. an expletive which appears fire.
quently in ''SIr Nigel is minced oath
which was as common, or commoner. In
olden days as Dieu is in French today.
Meaning literally by iGod," it was not used
with the intensified meaning which those
two words have in English today.
A la oonne heure is literally "at the good
hour" that is. OPPORTUNITY The French
word for happiness Is a simplifcation of
this phrase into ''bonfleur."
Quarterings. implements. lozenges and
approximations are heraldic terms denoting
the mal.shaling or disposal of two or more
eseutchsons In one. in order to denote the
several alliances of one family with the
heiresses of others, or, as in the case OF
''augmeiita ton" an additional charge to
coat arnor granted a mark of honor.
Fire-powder is plainly gunpowder. 1t may
surprise the reader that gunpowder was in
use at so early an age, but Sir Conan Doyle
Is corroborated by nearly all the autrori-
ties The Century Dictionary says 1.-THE
Invention OF gunpowder in Europe has been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-24

or blush bells of the Jelly fishes float
through this charmed world. Here the
cleaning violet and gold-green Isabelle and
the flaming yellow, black and vermillion-
striped coquette chase their prey. Then
come the fabulous cutie fishes decked in
ali the ColUrs OF the rainbow-appearin
ana disappearing, intercrossing. joining
company and parting again in most fam
tasttc ways Whatever is beautiful Won
drous or uncommon in the great classes of
hsh and echinoderms, jelly fishes and
polypes and the mOlluseS of all kinds IS
crowded into the warm waters of the tropi-
cal ocean-rests in the white sand, clothes
the rough cliffs. CT swims through the shall
lows and depths
Al thousand points the World of Waters
might be invaded, and at each would dis
close a panorama of surprising beauty
Both in their contour and contents the
marvellous IS ever present, and in their re-
lation to the shores they lar, and support
1t was Humboldt who direeted attention
to the; depths of the Pacific Ocean and to
the heights of the Himalayas OH the Asiatic
continent. remarking upon their undoubt-
edly close relation In the vast economy of
nature. A kindly balance OF relations is
seen in the fact that the coolest shores of
continents are embraced by the warmest
sides of the oceans; for example, the waters
on the shores of Brazil are several de-
side OF the same sea. Again, the coast-line
OF Brazil plays an important part in the
well-being of Europe causing the hot waters
to flow northward and ultimately TO mod
crate the winter climate of western Europe
Yet once more. as evidence of the fact
that snore answers to shore and acts and
reacts one upon another, with results that
reach the depth of the sea. the coast-lInes
OF equatorial America and OF Africa COM
prehend as Ii were vast cisterns of hot
water, which again nightly affect the cii-
mate far and wide.
When we reflect upon the complex and
seemingly contrary currents of the ocean,
the thought occurs of the similar currents
in air which have been POLITICALLY described
as blowing where they list Evidently the
ocean currents are largely constant. even
when with,n limits they pursue fantastic
courses. OF the gulf stream much has yet
to be learned. though Its rotatory motion
within the Gulf OF Mexico and its obliQue
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and to German monk named schwarz
(about 1920, but It was probably intro
duced into Europe through the medium of
the Moors early In the fourteenth century
It's common use in warfare dates from the
sixteenth century"
Vern.cle is the same as veronica. or,
rather veronicula and the yernicuIe az
worn by pilgrims was a copy of the hand
kerchief of St. Veronica, which was rnfrac-
ulously impressed with the features OF oar
Lord The vernicle of St. Thomas has ref
erenGe to SINH ar emblems carried by the
pilgrims to the shrine of Thomas a Beckett
Archbishop of Canterbury, who was bar
barously murdered In the great cathedral
at the feet of the altar of St. Bened ct De-
cember % ITO. Two years later he was
canonized by the pope, and in 1920 his
bones were removed to Trinity Chapel,
where for several centuries they were the
object of pilgrimages from all parts OF
Chrlstendom, and as many as 100000 pill
grims were registered at 6 time In Canter-
bury. The Pilgrims Way was the great
highway leading to this shrine, and as the
author states elsewhere. this highway ig-
nored London, the great Mecca OF the
modern and more commercial pilgrim.
Ampullae were in ancient Rome bottles
Win ndTTOH ISChS liutt W ltS1 SiObG-
lar bodies. Those of the middle ages were
small TASKS of glass, lead or pewter. II
was the custom at st. Thomas shrine, as
at others to give or sell 10 the pilgrims
small objects as evidences of Their visit.
Sometimes 1t was a medal, anpulla or a
shell bearing the name OF monastery
church or shrine. A scallop or eockle-shei
was an emblem that the bearer had visited
the Holy Land, and one of the scailops is
known as st. James shell from this cir
Gums lance. Even in modern times the pit
grim's shell is a carved pearl shell such as
are brought by travellers from the Holy
Land.
The ale-stake was a stake having gar
land or bush of twigs at the top OF H. set
up as sign before an ale house.
Ruth is here used in the sense of compass
sion, pity or mercy, and as such Is cousin
to our modern word rue" which. though
differing IN meaning comes from the same
Angio-saxen and middle English root.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-24
The Romance OF
the Sea Bottom
BY JOHN TRIsT

~ the World Waters the study
n has just begun, study full Of
romance as any the mind can de-
sire whether viewed in itself or
as part of the greater world with
which It is IN constant accord. Teeming
with n greater wealth OF life than that Of
either earth or air, It comprises Kingdom
10 which none other can compare alike for
the secrecy. facility and charm of its opera
lions. 1t Is world awaiting conqueror,
whose zeal shall be rewarded with an i'm
mortal crown. 1t Is a worLi that has a
personnel as Individual as that of the
earth. albeit enshrinIng the same genius a
world differentiated from all others yet
bearing family likeness, a world that en-
Tolds countless other worlds in its en-
brace. each of which borrows from II
radiance which IS as generously acknowl-
edged. on the principle of that sublime tn
quoque' which Is creations law
Time was when the World of Waters was
peopled with the deformed imaglnings Of
men who from lack Of opportunity or ability
were oblivious of the meffable drama that
modest realism rehearsed: incongruIties
such as the mermaid and other wild crea-
tons, impoverished the intellect that should
have grown rich visions which neither
pen nor brush ca but family describe
@hNo NAaS L4tIoAu CITY Slol OF the
oceans we dive" says one OF the priests
OF the marine temple. 'and II opens to us
the most woEdrous entertainments, remind
ing as Of fairy tales in ch!ldhood's dreams :"
OF the Madrepores he descants like lover,
telling OF the vivid green that alternates
with brown or yellow, OF Nuilipores too
rosy yellow, or peach-colored, ''inserwoven
with the pearl-colored plates OF the Reti-
pores" like delicate ivory carvings.
Besides. there were fan-like gorgonias
gigantic blooms OF the cactus sea-
anemones and sea-urchins and star fishes
in form and color past telling. Softly like
spirits Of the deep. the delicate milk-white
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-24

- HRLsTMAs day marks the begin
ming Of the glittering social sea-
son of the national capital. The
~ holiday week is given over to the
children and juveniles OF the smart
set Children's fancy dress balls, childrens
parties occupy the afternoons and scores
OF cadets from Annapolis and West Point,
home 20 spend the holidays with their
papas of the army and navy are deluged
with the invitations of young misses not
yet out Of their teens and into society.
With New Year Day, however, comes in
the season of the older coterie, and thence
the gaieties extend until Lent, without ces-
sation. This month past every mansion
has been Babel Of confused upholsterers'
decorators painters. paperhangers' and
cabinet makers tongues-a Bedlam of ham
mers. saws, chIsels and planes. Pater ia
mllias. mater familias, son and daughter,
sister and cousin and aunt have been busily
busting without on errands TO tailor and
modiste, confectioner and caterer dancing
maSter. coSs@meE and what not.
New show houses by the score are being
opened to the gaze of the admirng throng,
Here we have our Vice President fiingIng
outward the portals of a more sumptuous
mansion than he has hired hhherto-one
for which he must eXpend all Of his official
salary, that meager s.. 900 per annum. We
swing out OF the White House. through La
fayette Square. past St. Johns Church. and
up Connecticut avenue to F'arragut Park,
from across whose northern edge three
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on one hand and the banks OF Newfound-
land on the other are well understood,
we'll as the benefits 1t confers. That the
ocean currents have a decided Influence
over the entire world of waters is plain.
From the polar seas a drift bearing a
ield of ice computed to cover an area of
10000 square miles found egress through
Davis Straits, with the good ship '2eSolute
which was locked in It's tolls. For LOCO
miles It IS supposed to have Travelled, its
weight being totaled up in billions of tons.
AS for the bed of the ocean, it Is to be
thought OF as series of continuous valleys
of an average depth of three or four
miles, with shelving or precipitous sides as
the character OF the subsoil determines.
With something more than poetic license
ocean meadows" are named, and 20 these
may be added most of the other features
ocean meadows" are vast stretches of
fucus or sea weed or sea grass
or the coral-animalcules and their 1abors,
ancient beliefs have been corrected as OBJ
servation extended It's domain. Not from
the deeps or bottom of the ocean do they
raise their reef, but only in waters whose
depth varies from score or two of fathoms
to perhaps ten or twelve score; at any rate
healthy specimens of the little builder have
been raised from depth of 236 fathoms in
Greenland waters At the bottom of the
sea ~ tropical climates. too. there are
lagoons-islands with coral reefs inclosed
which rave probably subsidized through vol
canic or other natural force Very inter-
esting to the commercial mind Is the So
called "telegraphlc plateau" remarkable
steppe at the bottom of the Atlantic be-
tween Newfoundland and Ireland where
early attempts were made TO lay an ocean
cable. In more senses than one the depths
OF the sea constitute graveyard, first and
foremost, for teening millions OF organisms
that once sported their little day at or near
the surface of the waters. A nursery, a
sphere OF longer or shorter activity on q
lowly plane. and a cemetery at the bottom
of the deep blue sea, such appears from
the scroll of the ages to Se the record of
minute marine existence. And a variable
Gods acre 1t appears 10 he. clean. weli-pre-
served and quiet. a spot where IL never be-
fore the nfnished creatures remain undls.
turbed. or such foraminifera that lie IN
the sea bottom. nint wells and mxlri beds
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In no other capital of the world is the
diplomat so pampered and petted as here.
Almost every titled bachelor of the corps.
and many devoid of titles. rnarage to win
rich wives in Washington. Perpetu&Ify
idling about the capltal--ogling The women
passers-by in the streets or lettering in the
clubs-is a large coterie of under secre-
taries or attaches who are so much In So
cial demand that they rarely. If ever, have
TO pay for a dinner while domiciied here.
In fact, one of these splendid fellows late
ly made II a boast that he had not lined
unlimited since his first or second day in
Washington Some of those young men
who are attached to embassies OF the great
European powers have legitimate claims TO
stle and excellent prospects for promotion.
but in the eighteen diplomatic establish
Inents Of Latin-America there is a large
group OF un6erlings whose compilations
show unmistakable evidences of the tar
brush, and whose salaries are not sIfficie-7.
to pay their just debts. They are Pam
pered and petted along with the rest. how
ever, simply because they are Diplomats
JOHN EiFR-cTH WATKINS.
Copyright. 1865, by John Ei1re.A wasEinsl =:
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his Invitation to the White House levee;
The negro member of the diplomatic corps
must, along with his feliow-dlp lomats an
nualIy sit at the state banquet board with
the President. But invitation to the fuuc-
lions of the wealthy ''aristocracy'' OF the
capital is quite a different matter.
There Is one stripe Of mediocrity, how
ever, which manages to become woven into
the otherwise rich and eytrayagant fabric
Of Wash!Rgton's smart set" This Ia the
poor and humble bachelor clerk or private
secretary He may sh in and win where
his sister fears-indeed. would not dare-to
tread. With a modest 500 per month rom
the government, or perhaps a law or real
estate office. he Is enabled TO hang out in
the hall bedroom OF some cheap boarding
house, ana yet have enough left over to
keep on hand and in repair one fun dress
suit, one evening jacket, one inverness coat
and crush opera hat. enc sack suit and one
afternoon outfit, for winter wear.
During his noon recess he swings cut =
street, keeping sharp lookout for ladies'
of quality who may be shopping. At
4.30 ne hurriedly returns to his hall bed
room and fairly leaps Into his smart after
noon toys, slams his silk tile upon his
bump of sef-esteem. and proudly struts
Into Connecticut avenue in time to tlke I'm
a series of pink teas before the dinner
hour. The latter he is probably invited 10
spend a some table OF the nouyeaU richie.
There he learns that papa has a box for
the theater that evening. and although
this guest is not regarded by his host as an
eligible" young man, he is valuable as
"filler," as we put II In journalistic par
lance. Indeed, eligible young men are sad
~ scarce in Washington society. The cap
ital being the most unlikely place for tle
millionaire officials son 20 start in a great
corporate enterprise, almost all OF the
young men of the smart set are dispatched
to some distant place as soon as leaving
college. The small clerk, the young army
or naval officer detailed at Washington or
the bachelor diplomat has to be relied upon.
The youths OF the brass buttons are
snapped up by maidens of the smart set
as fast as they receive their commissions
no matter II they have been appointed 70
the academy from the humblest dHgouts
of the prairies
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and large portions OF earths great basins
are formed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-19
NEW YORK IS GLAD
The STRIKE IS OVER
Situation Handled Admirably by
Interborough Company
YOUNG A NEW MILLIONAIRE
Made His Money in Amusement En-
terprlses-"6Iowng the Burn
ers" Is the New Drug
Habit.
YOUNG A NEW MILLIONAIRE
BY JOHN MARTHoL.

New York, March 1s.-New Workers are
heartily glad that the strike on the sub
way and IL system is over. They were
Inconvenience for a few days, but they
took 1t good-naturedly and made the best
of it. for they felt confident of the ability
of the Interborough company to take care
of itself and handle the situation prompt
~. And the company did not disappoint
this confidence. There never was at any
time a complete tie-up of the system and
service was maintained at all times.
The strikers walked out and their places
were filled at once by competent men.
The slow schedules were caused by unfa-
miliarity of the routes and 1t was only
a few days before the men grew familiar
with the stations, curves and complica-
lions of the system. II the strikers ex-
pected any sympathy from the public
they were disappointed, for the people
have LEANED to depend on these great
public utilities and they resent any in
reference that affects their comfort or
their business.