The National tribune., 1907-07-18
SMALL BUT SUFFICIENT,
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been in controversy lately because some
| time in 1862 JEFF Daviss name was CHS
eled off the commemorative stone.
| The dimensions of Cabin John Bridge
are as follows:
Length of bridge, including
| abutmentS .-.... 4oO 1ee'
| Hight above bottom of ra-
| vine ....... .-........ 1O5 feel
Length of span .......-... 20 feet
RlSe OF span Si-Zo Iee'
Wldtn Oh span. IVA lee'
There are 1874 cubic yards of ma
sonry IN the structure, and its entire
cost was $254,000.
Maryland s.3luc LAWS"
A year or two ago Maryland passed
some strict laws governing the speed Of
automobiles, the selling of liquor and
how various kinds of gambling games
should be conducted. Glen Echo at
first paid no attention to these laws, but
OffenSeS became SO fragrant that the
State authorities took up the matter.
Then the little hamlet elected boy
Mayor. Boy officials are always prodi-
gies, and Boy Mayor Garrett proceeded
to enforce the Maryland laws. He en-
forced them so effectually that he killed
the Cabin John concessions, and broke
the place up in business. which was
largely drinking and gambling. Then
he began on Glen Echo malefactors.
The town was soon SO dry that Ii
took an affidavit to get drink of aqua
pura. Then the Boy Mayor appointed
a Town Marshal" and since then Glen
Echo has been very much in the public
eye. 1t has figured in several cas.,s
celebrc. and has been mighty near Il
casus beIli on several occasions, as well
as the wedge to international complica-
tions.
The Boy Marshal is small, thin.
freckled-faced, and would weigh q pos
sible 100 pounds in his cap. blue clothes,
badge and official dignity, but if he
weighed two tons he couldn't make any
more disturbance. The Boy Marshal
believes that laws were made to be en-
forced, and that he was appointed to
enforce them. and ne does: that's all.
This nice. smooth white Conduit road
is the eye of the trouble. 1t is a we'll
known fact that the foreigners who are
immune from arrest and Imprisonment.
fines and all that sort of thing bank on
this immunity and will do the most
scandalous things and then plead the
taby act to get off The Boy Mayor
and the Boy Marshal of Glen Echo
can't see it that way. The laws OF
Maryland. sub, are just as sacred as the
laws of any blarsted Britisher or Italian
that ever lived in the eyes of these two
Maryland officials. and no right-minde'l
person will quarrel with them on that
point but the foreigners do.
Arrest Of the Italian Embassador.
Among the very first that the Boy
Marshal .'pinched" was the Italian En-
basSador, who was taking some foreign
friends automobiling and was hitting
the grit at a 50-mile clip, when the
rules of Maryland are IL miles thru
AZ I'll Il...l tl,xI IL
bassador to stop, and he didn't do it.
Then the Boy Marshal made a getaway
on his wheel, and following alongside
of the speeding auto he iHred1two shots.
Mr.. Collins told this story LATTER this
fashion: q" -
What did the ambassador say?" he
was asked. -
Well" replied the Marshal, "he
didn't rightly say nothing, but you
could just see him think. But that man
Reddywitz (RadiwitZ)-he came right
out with it. He's the man who wouldn't
stop till / got cut my guns and shot Il
couple of times. He says 1 tried to hit
his tires, but / didn't. l was riding
right alongside his car at the time, and
if | wanted. But l just hit the ground
and the car stopped so sudden 1 nearly
went thru the back of il.
You scared him, didn't you, Mr.. Col
lins 2" 7a- r@i.;
No" replied the Marshal thought
fully. 1T was the chowfer I scared.
Reddywitz he kept right on talking. and
he warmed up as he went along. Some
times he got going so fast that he had
to switch to foreign talk. but in min
ute he'd get back in English and keep
improving. His language was awful
says TO him, Here, / treated you like
one gent should treat another and YOU
ain't doing the same But he didn't
pay no attention. | could have took
him to Rockville for that language, but
when he said he was an AttachShe /
left him go. And he jumped on the
chowfer, too, but the chowfer come
right back at him. He says, 'Ecuse me-
Mr.. Rcddywits, but I've got n wife and
two Kids at home, and this job don't
pay me enough to make it worth while
this man Collins mad And
then they went off down the road still
arguing. That chowfers had sense"
This holdup of the Italian Embassa-
dor was made the cause of a letter of
inquiry from the Italian Government
but just the same the ambassador had
to pay the fine. and the Boy Mayor has
1t now. How long he will be able to
keep it is another question-and the
question is, who will have the last
guess at the law"
Then along among the numerous ar
rests for fast autoing came that of the
rich Miss Mabel Boardman, who with
some guest; was skimming thru Glen
Echo at an unlawful gait, so the Mar
shall says. Miss Boardman never let the
grass grow under her rubber tires. but
speeded back to Washington to make
complaint-but she paid her fine. She
had to. She never would have gotten
away with her automobile if she hadn't.
for the Boy Marshal is clear grit, and
has demonstrated that he can Lick
his weight in Wildcats any old day.
When the Duke de AbruZZi was here
he got held up just the same as tho
he was common clay. and again there
was breeze. Finally the automobil-
lists Joined forces against Collins and
Mayor Garrett, pooled their funds, an !
applied TO the Secretary of War, and he
put the matter in the hands of the
Mr.. Ronaparte, and
he has come to the rescue of the break
ers of the laws of Maryland, his own
State.
BECOMES n Cabinet Question.
AS has been stated, the Government
has paid very little attention to the
travel on the Conduit road, and after
Glen Echo's Mayor got a move on him
and began to arrest speeders on the
white trail, II accepted complacently ali
the fininS and buster. until foreign
arose over the filming OF
members of the Embassies, and Lega-
tions, as well as of society folk Then
the President interested himself APP
peals We're made to him the parties
that they had been ins,lted