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HA0AlpE BUREAU
c@2zE7-THE HOTEL OF EKK5

wearing a hard-boiled face. garnishsi
with side whiskers. He taps bell One
Of those shrinking wind flowers that rich
men love to surround themselves with
opens the door a quarter of an inch and
oozes through. trembling slightly. Largo
capitalists with defective livers always
seem to prefer secretaries that are tall
and slender and have pale yellow COM
plexions like sprig OF Michigan celery.
I suppose II takes a few of the umlauts
of of an inverted disposition to be able
to have somebody around tina. will CULVER
violently and turn light green color
when spoken 10.
Our fnancier barks at his servtor once
or twice just to hear his teeth chatter.
and then says. Send In Mr. Pulps' The
human lizard departs. crawling on his
stomach in noiseless manner. and in
comes Wood Pulps. the reformed space
grabber. When he was a regular reporter
he sometimes made one shirt do the wo-k
of two. and he was often careless about
his hair but now he's all dressed up like
Vanderbilt's cook. 'Pulps, says his en-
ployer it's my intention to smear on
about eighty millions. endowing a few
hospitals and colleges and things. Do
you think you could induce the papers to
print few lines about it, And Pups.
knowing that he has story which any
city editor would give both his legs for.
vinks interior wink TO himself and
says it'll he a hard job, but he'll try
The press agents for mllionaires have
the easiest time of all, s'pose,' said the
House Detective.
Don't you think it, said the Hotel
Clerk. "A rich man spends fifty years
growing a pair of horns for himself. and
then expects his press agent to trade EN-
off for halo over night
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fall through unless he happened to be
person that was fond of fishing and
frog legs. But now the realty comp ~
gets an ex-sporting editor or something
like that to turn out a line of attractive
literature dealing with the joys of having
villa within sound of the romping BILL
lows, and the line of those desiring TO own
little swamp land stretches for two
blocks.
ITO modern hotel u press agent is just
as necessary as feathers are to hen.
You take one of those summer hotels
that charges corka"e on hot-water bot
ties and has a veranda where there's not
room for the guests after dark owing to
the dense crowds of mosquitoes that have
arrived early and taken all the best
seats. although sometimes preferring
ankles But the blithe little press agent
slides few bright paragraphs into the
Sunday society columns stating that Sena-
tor Bunkham and his charming family,
and Mrs. Putnam Asunder, the fascinating
society widow, and the minister from Bull
garia are among the recent arrivals at
the Hotel Skinmere. and by Wednes-
day of the following week all the lead
ing families from the interior are re-
serving front rooms by wire for the en-
tire season.
IF it's city hotel the need for brisk
young publicity promoter is that much
greater. Suppose there's a wedding in the
red parlor with very romantic features,
such as the groom being in the wholesale
hardware business at East Liverpool.
Ohio. and having met his fair bride at A
normal school commencement in Michi-
gan City. There's nothing like having Il
lad around the shop who can slip over the
unique details on all the city editors in
town and get the name of the hotel in the
top headlines.
"Or suppose it's a case when Slim
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INVITATIONS have been issued within
the past few days to memorial
meeting of the American Institute Of
III Architects which is to be held in the
Corcoran Gallery of Art on the even
ing of December 10 in appreciation OF
Augustus Saint Gaudens. At this meeting
short addresses are to be made by the
Secretary OF State. the Italian ambasSa-
dor the amba ssador of the French re-
public the Brazilian ambassador, the
British amba ssador, the japanese ambas-
Sador and the charge analres or Mexico,
each, in the name of his country, paying
tribute to the genius of the man whose
service to art was not bounded by ma
tionality. Letters will also be read from
art societies in France. Great Britain
Germany and Italy testifying TO the high
rank the great sculptor attained. and the
esteem in which his memory is held not
merely in America. but in all lands by
contemporary artists. Never before has
such a thing been done: to none other has
such tribute been paid Rarely would 1t
be fitting. Augustus Saint GaudeIs stood
however In the front rank of the world s
great sculptors. His works are found
worthy not merely as compared TO those
OF the present era, but of ali time, and
through them he has made generous con-
trtbution to the art of the world II
seems. therefore, most appropriate that he
should be held in grateful remembrance
by all people and that this International
tribute should be paid here at the capital
OF his own country which he himself nom
ored.
This meeting will be attended not mere
~ by the architects, diplomats and state
officials. but by men of distinction art
collectors. writers, painters. sculptors and
financiers-from all parts of the United
States. and a more brilliant assemblage it
will be hard to imagine than that which
will congregate at this time. The recefv-
ing party will consist Of Nine. Jusserand,
tire wife of the French amba ssador: Mrs.
James Bryce. the wife Of the British am
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SAINT GAUDENS MEMORIAL MEETING AND EXHIBITION

Thomas Church, the latter IN conJunc-
ton with John LaFarge. These he exc
cuted in Paris. where in the Salon OF 1871
the Farragut was first shown. At the
by Mr.. LaFarge, Mr.. Saint Gaudens be-
gan modelling portraits in low relief, a
work for which his cameo cutting had
prepared him and in which beyond All
others he has eXcelled. With the compIe-
ton of the Farragut Saint Gaudens re-
turned to New York. and to stay. open
ing a studio in that city and receiving. In
quick succession. order after order-the
Shaw memorial, the Chicago Lincoln. the
Deacon Chaplin. the Adams memorial III
Rock Creek cemetery.
The last years were spent AT CORNISH
NJ H., and were neither idle nor alto-
gether sad. There he completed MS sher-
man. second Lincoln. BROOKS ana the
Caryatids COR the Albright Gallery In But
talo, and such lesser commissions as the
Hay bust. the MacVeagh, Gray and Mat
thews, relief portraits, several OF which
were begun in an improvised studio IN
this city His relief OF Mrs. Saint Gaudens
was his last work, and upon TINS ne mod
eied after he was unable to walk or leave
his chair-it was. however, never finished.
First and last he was tremendous
worker, one who thought no effort
wasted that in the end availed. Mr..
Glenn Brown. in an appreciatlve tribute,
has said, His thorough equipment sin
cerity CT purpose, grasp OF composition,
knowledge of detail. understanding of
mass. natural genius, brilliant tmagina-
ton and poetic nature. combined with IN
finite patience. untring energy and ef-
facement of self, have produced the great
est sculpture of the age
The committee OF arrangements for this
exhibition and memorial meeting consists
of Mr. Cass Gilbert. chairman; Mr.. Glenn
Brown, secretary: Mr. Robert Bacon. Mr.
F. D. Millet. Mr.. D. C.. French, Mr..
Homer Saint Gaudens. Mr.. A. J. Parsons,
Mr.. F. B. Mcclure, Mr.. James e. Fraser.
Mr.. J. r. Marshall, Mr.. Henry Bacon and
Mr.. Henry Herring.
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Mrs. Alice c. Barney and leased by Rep
resentative 7 Va V CHI en- Olcoft.
wealthy congressman from New YORK.
The plan of the house conforms to no
particular form of architecture, the lines
being bold, with large openings and SIM
pie treatment of design. The frontage
of fifty feet runs back to depth OF
eighty-five and the dwelling is four
ed of limestone. the other three stories
of stucco and the roof of green thing.
The interior is spacious and well adap cd
for entertainment. The drawing rooms
are in italian style of decorations WIN
heavy carvings and rich hansings. while
the dining room is of Gothic style, with
heavy timbered ceilings and side walls
of limestone blocks. There is gallery
the walls of which are finished in lattice
work effect, and the entire second floor
has parquetry floors.
One of the most pleasing houses in the
Sheridan Circle neighborhood is the one
at 1858 Sheridan Circle. which was built
a wear ago for Gen. Charles l.. Fitzhugh.
formerly of Pittsburg. and now occupied
by him. 1t was erected from designs by
Wood Dunn & Deming, and is d square.
comfortable mansion of Italian renais-
sance type And across the circle is the
recently completed home of George CABOT
Lodge of Massachusetts.
At the corner of 23d and r streets,
fronting the circle, is another elegant
home completed year ago at cost of
over S65. 900, for Mr.. r. A. Keep OF Chi
cago. who has extensive lumber interests
in the west and now makes Washington
his headquarters.
Just beyond the circle, at the northeast
corner of oath street and Massachusetts
avenue is the stone palace erected by
Christian Hague late minister from Nor
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and no matter in what direct on the pill
grim may approach the grim old ruin.
with it's gaunt spike of a tower, rises
out of the landscape like u sentinel guard
ing the sacred memories OF the pas
Once this vanishing abbey was a place
of pious pilgrimage to tens of thousands
of men and women from all England, who
saints and martyrs, kings and queens,
long dead but while the monks remained,
unforgotten.
But the passing of the age of romance
has ended the trains of plumed knights
going to do honor to ST. JOSEPH o.
Arimethea. ST. Patrick and st. Duns an
King Arthur and his lovely queen, Guine-
we're
The history of GLASTONBURY Abbey is
stepped deeply in tradition and in legend.
He who seeks to trace the events that
must ever find himself oppressed by the
difficulty in determining that which is
fact and that which is fiction.
William of Malmesbury thu ancient his
torian. Arst told to the world the many
glories Of Glastonbury. Those who hava
come since have seen fit to discredit his
wonderful story of how ii was to this spo
that Joseph OF Arimethea led the dis /
piles, or of how here st. Patrick first or-
ganized the scattered hermts of Avalon
into a semblance of order. or of how the
found here buried together in one grave.
For one thousand years many men
have believed all this story Of marvels
to be fact, and ten centuries of soothing
have never awaited to tear down the be
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known as kalOrama. where the leading
people of a century ago were entertained
as the guests of Barlow and later by the
Baldwins and Col. Bomford. who was
the army. Robert Fulton was a guest
there while experimenting with his steam
boat Rock creek. skirting both kalorama
and Sheridan Circle on the west, aHordlns
him convenient Facilities for the trials.
The old mansion butt by Barlow Is a
fine specimen Of the architecture of It's
day On the hill was the tomb In which
the remains of Stephen Decatur. after
his death result of the due! with
Commodore Barron at Bladensburg. rest
ed for many years prior to their removal
to Philadelphia, nearly forty years ago.
The HenniHg Jennings home, winch is
one Of the most prominent abutr1ng the
circle, represents an outlay OF over Sloo,-
600, not including the decorations, many
of which come from abroad and have
been designed by the most skillful OF
foreign artists. 1t stands on the north
side of Massachusetts avenue at Its In
tersection with the circle and next to
the home of f. \. Keep, on the east side
Mr. Henning Jennings is a multimil-
lionaire South African gold mining engl-
neer He is not a newcomer In WASH
ington having spent several seasons here
before the completion of his mansion. He
and his wife came TO this city during
the winter of 1900 and both became
prominent socially at once. He is PROB
ABLY the best known of the Americans.
aside from John Hays Hammond. who
have won fame and fortune in the gold
fie.ds of South Africa. Mr. Jennings
came originally from the south. For
numbe. of years he has been one of the
foremost operating engineers in the gold
fields of the Transvaal. While he has
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Lefty or head it off. Ye: l distinctly
remember when there We're only three
regularly ordained and recognized press
agents in the United States: Maj. john
Burke was one and Tody Hamilton was
the other two. There were a few itinerant
knights errant in fancy vests and white
fedoras wandering around the country
two weeks ahead of Rice's 'Evangelinn'
and Lady Audley's Secret paying their
hotel bills with orders on the treasurer
of the troupe. and rawarding chamber
maids and the dining room help with
passes to the gallery for the opening per-
Torrance, but they didn't really belong.
The major and Tody constituted the men,
bership of the order.
Maj Burke would blow into country
Office wearing his wild western hair done
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judge any day look TO see employ
nent agencies springing up soon that will
make a speciality of providing press agents
by the day. week or job, and correspond
ence schools that will teach press agency
in all its branches in twenty easy lessons,
by mail. Even our best little murderers
have press agents on the staff these days,
if there's any class to them. A chivalric
gent takes an automatic gun and shoots
some other gent so full of holes that he
looks like Swiss cheese. Then he gets
a LAWYER, and the lawyer gets a press
agent. and the press agent gets busy.
While the accused is In his coy cell, eat
ing the toilet soap and putting hay in his
hair and cultivating that CLASSY. maniacal
stare out of the eyes, and tuning up his
knee ref1eXes for the aiienists ana other
wise developing a typical case OF the
variety of insanity which appears to be so
catching in a country Jail. the press agent
is darling htther and yon, passing out the
private correspondence of the lady in the
case and picking the last remaining
basting threads out of her reputation and
molding public opinion until the moldy
odor is noticeable for long distance. A.
the trial the press agent is just as in
dispensable as he would be to Duncan
Clark's lady MINISTRIES on tour.
=
1T used to be hard sometimes to el!
the homeseeker one of those choice sea-
side residential sites where you can gather
clans when the tides out and bluefish
when It's in. If the prospective purchaser
insisted on seeing the property before
signing The papers there was danger that
lie might choose the wrong hour for visit
ing the place and find his desirable lot at
the corner of Oceanview Heights and
Homedale Terrace could only be viewed
by going out some distance in a rowboat
and finishing the trip in n diving sui..
which was calculated to cause the deal 10
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Founded by King Ina IN the eighth
century. the picturesque ruins have been
sadly neglected in the last three hun
dred years. and today cattle browse in
the very aisles Of the sanctuary.
On the very spot where the bodies
of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere are
said to have been found. cattle from
the adjoining farms have been permitted
to wander. and the scandal of the desc
Grafton has finally aroused England to
the duty of action.
Glastonbury lies far away from the rush
and hustle OF modern life. 1t is in the
seauestered hills of Somerset. Nobody
ever stumbles over 1t by accident. 1t
is only by a special journey that one
can come to the old place which is rich
in variety of historical incident.
II is from the cathedral city of Wells
that the visitor must make the journey,
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up on the top OF his head and a wide ex
panse of white shirt front, with a ieWcled
cluster in the center that looked like the
roof off of a dollhouse, and suggest the adj
visibility of slipping in a few words in
reference to the Bill show. And Tody
Hamilton would arrive in the spring of
the year exuding passes and thirty-cent
cigars from every pore, and he'd hand In
few stanzas of natural history stuff
about lions and tigers, from which. try
as he might, he could not keep the names
of two friends of his named Mr.. BaTnum
and Mr.. Bailey from occasionally creep
ing in.
But now there's press agents every
where. You see them on every hand.
Some of the leading theatrical stars can
get along without one, but no large con-
Germ can that's liable to be fined twenty
nine million dollars by careless Chicago
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D better example of
"Why are exclusive
n G i G h borhoods? p
exists in Washing
ton today than that
presented by the
d e We o p ment OF
Sheridan Circ q.
now adorned by
the heroic eques-
TITAN statue of the
Z a m o u S cavalry
leader. Three years
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MEXICAN wealth is
being offered to
aid in the purchase
of one of the noted
ruins standing in
the world today.
j. Pierpont Nor
gan has contribut-
ed 81 $50 to the
fund that is now
being raised In
England to pur-
chase Glastonbury
Abbey.
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press a-ent OF some enormously wealthy
man said the Hotel Clerk. Its
grand trade 1t used to be. Larry. that
Journalism was like virtue: 1t was its own
reward When a reporter wore out his
legs or his imagination, or both. he be-
came an editor. which is an awful come
down for reporter. so I'm told, and after
that nothing was heard of him by the
general public until his death AZ the ripe
age of eighty-seven. when, after holding
down the exchange desk for twenty-four
years with rank somewhere between the
head office boy and the man who does the
questions and answers department, he
passed away leaving an estate consisting
OF a pair OF shears and two shares Of
stock in a building and loan company that
went out of business in 1884.
But nowadays. If he's been sagacious
enough To plant his pipes right he is re-
tanned at large annual salary to get
things into print for prominent persons
and corporations, or TO keep things out of
print for them, both of which he fire.
Guently does neither"
II take it that this thing of bein a
press agent must be a CROWN business"
said the House Detective.
II should say it Is said the Hotel
Clerk. It's growing faster than any
thing I know of except the republican
vote. the membership In the Floradora
Sextet Alumni Association and the
number of old gentlemen who were child
hood companions of Abraham Lincoln and
saved his life that time he almost got
drowned while in swimming as small
hoy. Everybody that is anybody. or hopes
TO be, has a press bureau to secure pub
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ago barren WaSte-today the nome OF
colony OF mill onaires. at le2st three OF
whom drew their dollars from the go d
and diamond producing soil of South Al
RIGA.
Should an old Wash ngtonian who had
been away from the city for many years
be set down near the intersection of 23d
street and Massachusetts avenue today.
though he might be familiar with the
haunts OF the rich, he would be amazed
at the sight presented there. for nearly
dozen fine structures are either erected or
under construction there. And all or TINS
is ON the edge of the woods surrounding
Rock Creek Park, with a background OF
green fields.
In fact the development of Sheridan
Circle is much the same as that OF dupont
Circle. VIII ch, when Senator stewart
bought there Years ago and erected
stewards Castle" or. some of the
realty cyuics called it, stewards 70 ~
did not even promise the he ght 10 when
its values have risen Now senator stew
arts former home is marked Out by
great gaping hole in tie ground. Tor II has
been d smantled ard will be the site OF
magnificent ed fce TO be erected by w A.
Clark. the mill .onaire copper king out
every adjoining foot of ground Is bringing
or has brought almost fabulous prices.
And sim lar to this rush to Dupont Cir
Gle was the simultaneous decision OF sew
eral mi lonaires that Sheridan Circle was
10 be desired above all others for resi-
dence sites and they immed ately. for the
rid .culous price i'll the light OF property
valuation in that section today. obtained
property there for from 81 to 50 a foot.
And today the constructive activ ~ Is
greater perhaps around Sheridan Circle
than in any other residential! part OF the
CITY The erection of these homes repre-
expenditure OF millions OF DOL
lars.
Among the men who have bought
sites and commenced or completed the
construction OF residences are HennIng
Jennings, Gardner T. Williams and John
Hays Hammond. the South African MIL
tIonaires: Gen. Charles l.. Fitzhush.
George cabot Lodge, son OF the senior
senator from Massachusetts; +. y. Keep
nf Chicago Christian Hague, Represen-
tat!ve FRANK .. Lowden of Illinois who is
;he sou-iu-iaw Of Mrs. George Pullman
of Chicago. widow OF the founder OF me
Pullman Car Company; Assistant se tS
yary of the Treasury Louis a. Coologe
Joseph Beale a retired offcer OF the
United States Navy; Mrs. Alice c. Bar
ney Mrs " r. Shaler. Mrs. f. c. Hal
liday. Miss Martha G. Goldman OF Boston
and James C. Hooe.
A LITTLE further away from the circle
members of the diplomatic corps. inc!ud-
ing the German ambassador and the min
lister from Sweden. are building.
These lots have an aggregate frontage
of over 100 feet on Massachusetts, avenue
and about 300 feet on California avenue
So rapid has the construction of these
paIaces been that when President Rocs Sc
welt and the dignitaries of this and other
governments sat in the spacious stand
surrounding rhe Sheridan statue when It
was unveiled they marveled at the arcni-
tectural display which completely sur
rounds the circle at the present time.
With Sheridan Circle as nucleus. the
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lief. Much Of the money now being given
by those who want to see the place pre-
served comes from those who believe that
the Abbey of Glastonbury is holy ground,
where profa nation should not be permit
ted and whose future care should not
be left to chance.
Until the time of Henry VIII none dis
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puted the coming of the disciples here.
led by Joseph of Arimethea and st.
Philip the Apostle Even those who do
not credit the story that to this spot came
weary pilgrims bearing the Holy Grail.
do not deny that there is every reason
to believe that the abbey was the site
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home of the Benedictine monks, the old
est and most famous monaStic order
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7 ;vEKYb0DY Thai
OMETIMES 7 wish

! WISH
I'd started life as
one of those cub
reporters, said the
Hotel Clerk of the
ST. Reckless.
Gr " h v?
asked the House
Detective.
SOS | could
grow up to be thu