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1.-THE FENCING GIRL"
And "the Girl With the Angel
Face"

ST WO romances, eliminating at al
most the same time, have just
sent into wedlock 1.-The Fencing
II Girl'' and the Girl With the
Angel Face"
Miss Blanche Mecredy is the former, Miss
Violet Blossom Conrad the latter.
Roy Atwell, leading man in the Marie
Cahll company, has led the Fencing Grip
TO the altar, while Charles Ridgely Ellicott
has given his name to the girl with the
angelic features.
All over the United States the beauty of
these two girls is known. The picture of
nattily attired fencing girl, seated in the
corner of fencing room, with one knee
gracefully crossed over the other, on her
shapely breast the red mark which indicates
TO her opponent the heart, his vital mark,
is one of the most popular pictures of the
last ten years. 1t has gone into thousands
of American homes and clubs.
Miss Conrad is a bit less known to the
general public, perhaps but among artists
her fame is still greater.
The very forefront of our painters and
sculptors. such men as Blashfield, Alphonse
Mucha, Daniel French Anderson and Chris
tie, have called on Miss Conrad when they
desired to get model for angels. In a
dozen notable works Of art the serenely
beautiful features of Miss Conrad have
gone.
Neither of the ladies needed to pose. In
each instance it was only the persuasion of
friends that made them permit the use OF
their faces and figures. Both had fathers
whose means put them beyond need Of
earning a living. The Fencing Girls
father is Robert C. Mecredy, former Phil
adelphia councilman. Miss Conrad is a
daughter of the late Maj. Caspar H. Con-
rad of the United States infantry.
~
Miss Mecredy is an expert swordswoman.
1t was quite by accident that the famous
picture suggested itself. She had been
fencing and was resting, when one OF her
friends remarked what an artistic and en-
trancing figure she presented. Then 1t was
proposed that she have her picture taken
in the costume. She did SO, and the pic
ture in hundred different forms, from a
cheap kind, selling for ten cents, to one
that was worth that many dollars, went
from one end of the United States to the
other.
The popularity of the picture had the eff
feet of carrying Miss Mecredy on the stage.
Under the name of Blanche West she
joined the Marie Cahill company.
Here she met Roy Atwell, who made a
hit by his willie Drnkwater' in one of
Miss Cahills performances
How much your face reminds me of
some one l have seen before" said Mr.. At
well after the presentation.
Easily explained" responded Miss Me-
credy, who had frequently been through the
experience. Il posed for the Fencing Girl "
Did you?" he replied. How curious;
have a copy of it in my den. l have long
thought it one of the most graceful and
artistic pictures l ever saw
Naturally with such a start as that, the
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Progress" which Is now in the state
house at Des Moines, Iowa, Violet Conrad
appears as a triplicity of angels, or per-
haps those onward-foating figures repre-
sent higher order of heaven and are prin-
cipalities and powers, symboliZing justice,
peace, plenty. Again the artist has used
his model for the central figure in the COM
position and fleeing glimpses of her are
noticeable in the faces of two other SYM
bolic figures.
Daniel French put her in marble on the
facade of the new customs building in New
York.
Miss Conrad's father, who was a hero of
Santiago and Ell Caney, has been dead for
eight years and Miss Conrad lived with her
mother in New York.
Recently that estimable lady thought it
would be a delightful surprise for her
daughter to give her party on her TWEEN
tythird birthday. Taking into her conf
dence a number of friends of 1.-The girl
fair for hotel.
Strictest confidence was enjoned on every
one invited, but unfortunately the list Of
guests included Mr. Elicott who, without
| the knowledge of any one else, had been
engaged to Miss Conrad for long time.
Lets give them a real SURPRISE" sug-
gested Mr.. Ellicott to Miss Conrad, when
he told her in confidence of the proposed
affair. "Why not turn the surprise party
into a wedding ceremony
Miss Conrad warmed up to the humor
of the idea. and assisted in the plans.
On the night. of the party she was sum-
moned to the hotel and ushered into a
banquet room, where all her friends We're
seated. On the table was big birthday
cake.
Miss Conrad pretended great surprise, but
joined heartily in the merrymaking.
Late in the evening she was called on to
respond to a toast. Then she unloosened
her surprise.
MY friends she said, 81 can't tell you
how grateful l am, but knowing that it is
better to give than to receive, 1, too, have
planned a little surprise. 1 want you all
to meet Mr. Ellicott, who in a few min
utes will be my husband
Almost before the startled guests could
decide whether or not a joke was being
played the Rev. DR.. Warren had united
the pair in wedlock and an orchestra con-
cealed behind screens was playing the we'd
| ding march from "Lohengrin."
Then the birthday cake had to do duty
for wedding cake.
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converted to its new uses. house that was
built by Mr.. Moffatt, stood near the corner,
a narrow three-storied brick house which
had been used as boarding house by John
Mount. There were on the other parts of
the property the house of John Simon and
some small mprovements-coach and other
shops. These shops were removed and sheds
erected for the cars, and in the house at the
corner was the ticket Office. This was sur
mounted by small belfry, from which the
ringing of a small bell ten minutes be-ore
the departure of trains gave notice of the
fact to the public. The business was easily
transacted and for few years all depart
ments of the road-passenger, baggage and
freight-were managed by NJ. John Stit-
tinius. the agent
The st. Charles Hotel.
1t was in the rites that the west end
of the square, facing Sd street, was greatly
improved. Gen. Walter Jones had acquired
lot ID and his son, Charles Lee Jones, erect
ed what has been and yet is ST. Charles
Hotel This was opened about 1916 by Bur-
lin Brown, and from its convenient location
near the Capitol and depot it soon gained a
good share of patronage, continuing under
the management of j. NJ. Gilbert, who came
from the Exchange Hotel, on C street, and
others, who followed. When a new house
there were Senator Spright of Mississippi
and Representative La Sere Of Louisiana,
with other members as guests. Later three
other senators and members tarred there,
and when the late Senator German was an
employe he and some Of his companions at
the Capitol made it their stopping place.
President Johnson when senator was
also partial to this house.
Gen Jones and Mai. Jones had their law
offices at Sd and streets, and A. J..
Schwartz a drug store at Sd street and the
avenue. There were also John Donovan's
and John Turner's taverns, w. Brashear's,
w. Donovan's and H. Holmead's grocery
stores; Mrs. e. Brawner's, Francis Coyle's
and Mrs. Mixon's boarding houses; Watts,
| merchant tailor; the Philadelphia clothing
house, E. Sayre, manager; R. Nixon, jew
eler; F. A. Dunn, tobacconist; p. Crerar,
| fancy goods; H. Barnes. confectioner;
Smith & McClelland, engravers; r. Pa.cen
& Son, mathematical instrument makers,
and Col. Jos. Shillington, then agent of the
Baltimore Sun, and Mr.. Brashears on the
avenue. More than one of the patrons at
the bars were accustomed to sweeting their
whisky at the taverns in this nefghborhood,
! where a bowl of brown sugar with a spoon
could always be found
| Mrs. Brawner had a congressional colony
at her house. Among them were Robert
Toombs of Georgia, confederate general
and Caleb B. Smith of Indiana, afterward
Mr.. Lincoln's Secretary of the Interior;
| Samuel F. Vinton and A. Harper of Ohio,
Garrett Davis Of Kentucky, ]. H. Crozier
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Illinois. and Representatives Burch, Dun
lap and Lea Of Tennessee. Lyon of Ken
lucky, Carr of Indiana, Casey and Slade
of Illinois, being among them. Gates &
Mc1ntire, in the lottery and exchange bust
ness, and Edward Simms, a grocer, from
the navy yard section. bought in lot II and
fine brick house was built upon it. In
1928 John Purdy, then in the painting
business, bought lot 10 and improved it
by erecting dwelling house. D. d. Arden,
lottery and exchange broker, the same
year bought the lot at the west end of the
square, No. 13, the site of the st. Charles
Hotel, and this was shortly afterward i'm
proved by two three-story brick houses,
and he had his office here for a time. At
the east end of this square Mr.. H. M. Moi
fit, in 1880, had a three-storied brick house
on the lot and on the next lot, O. John
Simon had a house, and H. v. Hill had a
lease on ground near Mr.. Motifs house
on which he had coach shop.
The Avenue During the Thirties.
There were in the thrties on the avenue,
in addition to those before named, B. s..
Bailey, grocer; B. F. Hall, dentist; John
Mount, boarding house at I'd street; ]. P.
Dunn & Son, cabinet makers; David Stew
art, coach maker; Mrs. Windham, Mrs
Nelson's boarding house. and at the corner
of the avenue and Sd street was Charles
McCormicks apothecary store; Mr.. L. Mid
dleton lived on Sd street. On the B street
front, G. p. Maxwell, G. p. Schooley, ]. s.
Clarke. James Owner, c. F. Wilstach and
NJ. LETTERS were the lot owners and some
improvements had been listed. In the early
thirties the valuation of the ground was
80 to 30 cents on the avenue, down to II
cents in other sections, and the improve
ments were valued as follows: Lot 1, H. M.
Moffatt, 5000; 2, 8. Burch, 500, and 8,
800; 10, J. Purdy, $500; IL, E. Simms,
$1,000; II, James Owner, S., 800; 10, D. D.
Arden, $500: on the avenue, IA, J. p.
Schooley, 81, 600; 10, L. B. Hamilton, 800;
and on street, c. F. Wilstach, s., 500.
There lived on B street, south side, James
Owner. ]. G. Robinson. Nancy Thomas and
Margaret Wallace.
In November 1885, lots / and 2, fronting
on the avenue, and part of 16, lot II, the
east end of the square, were bought by the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company as
the site for the Washington branch depot
and in a little time this became a most
interesting point for the public. On the ar
rival and departure of trains for some
months crowds were drawn by curiosity
and 1t was not rare that men and women
walked from distant parts of the district
just to see the steam cars. The trains, but
two per day, had been running a few
months before this, since July, landing and
taking passengers at a temporary platform
and shed, short distance north, but the
property, having been secured. soon was
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An Early Advertising Dodge.

A. Hunter was a character in this neigh
Eborhood, dealer in books, and was distin-
guished for wearing head of bushy hair.
Notice had been given in the Senate that
Senator r. NJ. Hunter Of Virginia was to
make great speech.
One Sunday morning immense placards,
asking Who heard Hunter speak, We're
found plentifuly displayed. The next week
it was What did Hunter say?" and the
public wanted to know what 1t meant, for
Senator Hunter had not made his speech
and everybody was talking of 1t. Then
came the answer: Hunter says he mas the
finest assortment of books, etc.
"Why is the iron-front building near the
depot like Eve?" was the conundrum of
the day early in the fifties, as it brought
numbers to view the structure when they
found that it was being erected for Adams
Express Company. This company was es-
tablished on the avenue. near AZ street,
sometime before and they were nearly fifty
years in the iron-front building.
In the three-storied brick dwelling erected
by Dr. Wilstach on the south side of B
street between I'd and Sd streets shortly
after the establishment of the depot, B.
Shadd opened a tavern, in which, until the
ffties, when the depot was moved to New
Jersey avenue and c street, it was an insti-
tuition Of the neighborhood. Mr.. Shadd then
took the house at t. the hes a eGrne
the house which after his death became
Mades Hotel. His old stand is now within
the site of the Lafayette HOTEL
Only Frame Building Standing.
Mades' Hotel building is now the only
frame structure on the avenue between
the Capitol and treasury building. DR..
Robert Mayo Of Richmond, we'll known in
the political and literary world, and James
Riordan, a general agent, afterward in the
State Department, lived on the south side of
B street.
The reservation north between B, c, LIST
and I'd streets, being much larger than that
above described, was laid off into twenty
six lots about 1921 to on B street, 6 to
IA on Sd street, IA to 20 on c street and 20
to 26 on I'd street. The corporation books
show that in 1924 Thomas Courtney had a
500 carpenter shop and Bridget Cation a
$3.50 house on Sd street, though some sales
had been made two years before. The first
deed was recorded in 1925 by ]. r. Burdick
for lot Z on Sd street; in 1884 by Bridget
Cation Joseph Follansbee, E. Ingle, corner
of 3D. street; J.. d. Smith, lease on corner
| of I'd; J. A. Wilson, Joseph Watson, N. B.
HasweIl, T. Jackson, and Hezekiah Langley
owned the street front; 8. Philips, r.
Keyworth, J. A. Terrell and Birth & Cook
were on Sd street; DR.. Thomas Sewall.
George Cover, j. Dement,, o. Wilson, s.
Burch and ]. A. Wilson on street. and
l.. Eminent and L. Picketts on I'd street.
At that time 1884, the improvements on
B street were listed: Lot 1, J. D. Smith
| and ]. o. Wilson. $500; 4, H. Langley
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Tolstoy Watches Russia.

Leo Tolstoy, In Paris Courier Europeen.
do not read the papers. but by conver-
sations with friends and from letters which
receive / am au courant of what Is pass
ing In Russia The only way In which men
can be delivered from these horrors Is for
the government to relinQuish power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-03

Ell PASO. Texas. February 2.-Eduardo
Arnold, mayor of Cananea. Mexico. his
brother and forty Americans have been
placed in jail by the project of Hermosillo
for gambling and permitting gambling in
Cananea after Gov. Ysabel had ordered 1t
closed. The mayors brother was operating
gambling house, 1t Is charged.
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of Tennessee, E. w. McGaughey of In
diana and John Rank of New York. f. G.
Mcconnell of Alabama stopped at Mrs.
Nj -onS
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Going to the Dogs.

From the Boston Glote.
The newest feminine occupation is that
Of a young woman who thoroughly under
stands dogs. and advertises her willingness
TO take few valuable dogs for exercise one
hour each day at fifty cents an hour.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-01
STREET CAR
IS HELLO Up
BY BANDITS
Rob Conductor and
Motorman
Man and Woman Who Were the only
Passengers Run When Car Is
Stopped-SmaIl Amount
Is Secured

Street car No. 166 on the Santa Fe
avenue line was held up by two masked
highwaymen in front of Wright's sa-
loon at Thirty-sixth street and Santa
Fe avenue at 1856 last night. Motor
man II. L. Smith was robbed of a gold
watch and So in money, while ]. Sans
trum, the conductor, lost $3.50.
There were two passengers, a man
and woman, on the car at the time
of the holdup. Both ran when the mo-
torman stopped the car. and the police
have been unable to locate them.
OFFICERS were detailed on the case
at once and detectives were on
the scene within half an hour.
Patrolmen from the University sub
station were also sent to the scene, but
were unable to gain any clew to the
identity of the robbers.
The two men were described by the
conductor as being short, dressed in
dark clothing and of dark compilations.
Each wore heavy handkerchief over
his face.
Looks Into Revolver
we were on our in trip when the
holdup occurred" said Conductor
Sanstrum shortly after the robbery.
Motorman Smith saw two men stand
ing on the corner by Wright's saloon
ana slackened speed so they could get
On. one OF them mounted by the front
platform and the second by the rear,
Whprn I cf
tlon to him until the car gave a sud-
den start and then stopped with
Jerk. At the same moment I heard a
woman scream, and looking into the
car saw the two passengers rising frim
their seats as If frightened. I turned
to see what the trouble was and found
myself looking into the muzzle of a
large revolver. The man who was be-
mind 1t was the fellow who had got on
a moment before. A heavy handker-
chler was over the lower part of his
race. All he said to me was Throw ur
your hands, which did. He then went
through my pockets and then shouted
TO his companion. Both men then
sprang from the car and disappeared
In the darkness. We continued on orr
trip and I notified the police from the
station where we stop at Fourteenth
and Santa Fe avenue
Inc TWO passengers had got off the
car while the robber was going through
my pockets. He made no effort to stop
them"
The motorman had about the same
story to tell as the conductor.
According to his tale the highway
man who robbed him simply felt in his
coat and vest pockets and took the
money without saying a word, but all
the time kept the muzzle of a revolver
pointed at him.
Neither of the carmen were able to
give a very accurate description of the
robbers.
The line on which the car travels
runs from Fourteenth street to Hunt
ington park. 1t is through a sparsely
settled district and is an ideal spot
for a holdup
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-01
REV|vAL|ST HAS
THIRTEEN WIVES
Preacher Pleads Guilty to Charge of
Bigamy-Says He Married Every
Time the Spirit Moved
Him
BY Associated Press

By Associated Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-A dispatch to
the Record Herald from Toledo, Ohio,
says
Charged with bigamy and credited
with having thirteen wives by the
court officers, Rev. Albert Holden, re-
ported to have two sons also under in
dictment for bigamy. pleaded guilty
yesterday and was sentenced to serve
six years in the penitentiary.
Holden married every time the spirit
moved him. His courtships always
took place during one of his revivals
and his victims were always one of
those whom he had taken into the
church.
Just before sentence was passed
Holden said to the judge that he had
been the victim of brain trouble and
blamed his many marriages to this af-
Fiction.
He said that he had struggled
against the sin of bigamy but that all
of his prayers availed him nothing.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-01
BANK ROBBERS
ARE IN CUSTODY
Police Say They Have Confessions
That Clear Up Mystery of Loot
ina of Small Banks and
Postoffices

A confession in which they admitted
having had hand in several of the
recent bank and postoffice robberles
is said by the police to have been op-
tained from John Griffith, Carl Won
Hohenthal, alias c. Smith, and John
Martin. the three men who have been
held by the police for several days.
Early yesterday afternoon Martin,
who is said to be the leader of the
crowd, was taken to the room formerly
occupied by the trio at 337 Bauchet
street. While he was absent from the
police station Griffith and Won Hohen-
thai were taken to Captain Flammer' 8
office and there closely questioned by
the detectives. The men at first main
tained silince and refused to answer
any of the officers questions, but at
last Griffith is said to have announced
that he would tell of several jobs In
which they participated.
He is said to have gone into details
and made statements which Justified
the police in the suspicious they have
held for several days.
Third Accomplice Confesses
When Martin returned to the police
station he is said to have been told of
the confessions which had been made
by his companions, and at once in
formed the officers that if his COM
panions had anything to tell he would
do the same. He is said to have then
made a still more complete confession
than the one made by Griffith and Won
Hohenthal.
Griffith and Won Hohenthal were ar
rested Sunday night by Patrolman
Curtin at Sixteenth, near Georgia
street. At that time the officer saw
three men acting in suspicious man
ner. He approached them and asked
what they were doing. They refused
to answer him and he insisted on
searching them. One of them he
grabbed, but turned suddenly to find
himself looking into the muzzle of a
revolver The officer then released his
hold on his prisoner and drew his gun.
The man who held the weapon dropped
his arm and surrendered the revolver.
While Curtin was taking 1t the man
he was searching SUDDENLY sprang be-
hind a fence and ran away, Martin
has since been identified by the officer
as the third man. Curtin arrested
Griffith and Won Hohenthal and a few
days later arrested Martin. He was
led to the latter's room by Griffith.
The police suspected the men of be-
ing safe blowers at once. They are all
well dressed and of refined appearance.
About $400 was found In their pock-
cts.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-01
GOTHAM WARS ON
DEADLY COCAINE
Health Board Prohibits Sale of Drug
Except on Physicians Pre-
scriptions-Urges Clean
Milk Cans
Ry Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-The board of
health at a meeting yesterday added a
section to the sanitary code prohibiting
the sale OF cocaine alone or in combn-
alton with other substances at retail
by any person in the city of New York,
except on prescription of physician.
Another section added by the board
to the code requires all persons hav-
ing in thei. possession receptacles con-
tanning milk or cream which are used
in the delivery of those articles of food
ing emptied. Offenders will be liable to
punishment for misdemeanor. DIR. Dar-
lington, commissioner of health, had
urged the adoption of these two sec
tions.
He said of the latter section that
housewives should help to make 1t eff
fectual.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-01
MOTHER AND CHILD
ARE FOULLY SLAIN
Unidentified AssaiIant outrages and
Murders Woman and Little Daugh-
ter--Mob Tries to Lynch
Suspected Negro
By Associated Press.

BY ASSOCldleu fEeSS.
GLOBE. Ariz., Jan. 31.-Mrs. Harvey
Morris and her 4-year-od daughter were
foully murdered by an unidentified man
a short distance from her ranch home,
two miles from Roosevelt, this after
noon.
The bodies were terribly cut and
slashed and the woman had probably
been outraged before murdered.
All men in Roosevelt are searching
for the murderer and if he is captured
a lynching is expected, although Sher-
iff Thompson left this afternoon to as
sist the posse and prevent a lynching If
possible.
William Baldwin, a negro arrested
for the double murder is being guarded
tonight at the government hospital by
Ranger Holmes and AL Sieber, famous
scouts in Indian campaigns.
Baldwin tells conflicting stories, but
sticks to the statement that two Mex
leans committed the crimes and that
they tried to kill him.
A telephone message from Fish creek,
between Roosevelt and Mesa, tonight
stated that two Mexicans answering
the description given by the negro,
passed there and officers are now In
pursuit.
Talk of lynching Baldwin has sub
sided, according to a telephone message
from Roosevelt late tonight. Baldwin
has been working on government recla-
nation work.
The crimes occurred at II this morn
ing. An inquest will be held tomorrow
afternoon, the county officers leaving
Globe in tho morning.
The murdered woman is a daughter
of the late William Gordon, a pioneer
of Arizona and one of the first white
settlers in the county.
Mrs. Morris was born on the ranch,
a few miles from where she was killed
TODAY