The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-07-24
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'The development Of ne Concord graps
in this country was 90 to the efforts
OK Ephraim Wales Bu, who lived AZ
concord. Mass. with Is family n the
year 1896" sai6 Horace S. Wheeler oe
Boston, Mass, at the NV Willard. last
night
Bull purchased a u-ace farm ana de-
cided to settle on #. Thee was a native
vine. named Wits labrusa. growing IN
one corner Of his farm. which he watched
| carefully. The habits Of tbs vine pleased
him and so he felt greatly ,ncouraeed 10
use this grape FOR the experiment. IA
wished to make Mr.. Bu continued
planting seed each year fam his new
vine. until the original WI habit was
completely broken Up, and firm the origi-
nal stock. as black as ntht, grapes
were obtained. delicate OF te3ure and Of
the most agreeable flavor.
During all these years NJ Bull bad
kept up his business OF gold-batin0 in q
small shop near his cottage. N had De-
voted the larger part OF his the ~ he
vines. he mad heretofore founchis trade
more profitable than farming; but now
that he had produced what he f.nnIv he
heved 70 be the best hardy Rano Fo-
New England, he set about deve,nIne n
and getting Il ready 20 dlsseninte IN
the summer OF 1853. having worka IN
large stock Of vines. he placed thewholA
IN the hands Of a firm which advrtised
II extensively In 1854 the vines we've
sold FOR s. each and for go a dom IN
the trade. Dir. Bull was awarded su-
yer medal In 1876 for the Concord sana
Dy the Massachusetts Horticultural ocf-
ely, also the gold medal OF the Focatv
Tor the best hardy seeding Concrd
which was proved after a thoro1b
trial"
George W WILDER. OF New York. VIZ
Is at the Raleigh. said last night Tho
Washington's automobiles were tie nois
lest OF any he had ever heard.
would not Ike 70 live IN Washing
ton" said Mr. Wnber. "for the sin,nIa
reason that the automobiles which ara al
lowed 70 operate IN this city are The
noislest' the smeIllest machines I aver
saw. Either the chaufeurs do not know
how 70 run a machine. or the,, do nor
care now they run them There is ar
so!ately no necessity for the smell and
the noise OF both Of these nuisances I
mink the noisy automobile is the worst
ana II seems 90 me that your Washington
s-uIoI'loDiIe crlvers take dendlsh delight
IN making as much noise as possible az
nights, when they 90 through The streets
OF the city waking up the whole neigh
borhood with their pistol-like reno-ts
their snorting. putting. and rasDi7r r,o-
chimes. The police ought 70 arrest every
chauffeur who makes noise az night vyitb
his machine.
Another nuisance IS the drlpping OF
OF on the Streets and there IS no neces-
slty TOR that. not any more than there Is
Ior the emission Of volumes OF ll-smeUine
smoke and sickening odor. II Is b.g6
time for the police department IN Wash
iugton 20 abolish these automobile nuis-
ances."
Plenty OF folks have got the idea that
the army went bad Just because the can
teen was shut down." said William s.
Collins, OF Brooklyn, at the National
last night Mr.. Collins served a number
OF terms as an enlisted soldier In r-nc,a
Sans army. and is now engaged IN busi-
ness IN Brooklyn.
That's mistake. The breaking I'd OF
the eanteen was bad enough" continued
the ex-sOldier, and busted discipline. hrt
there were a whole lot OF other things
The filthy and excessive fatigue duty was
one Of the main things. and after rba+
came those practice marches.
There always was plenty OF drill-r,ora
than plenty. and I'm not one OF thesa
bunk soldiers. either. But when tbev
started this practice march scheme going.
that Just about set the match 10 the ba+--
sack An average OF three fifteeu-rnile
hikes there and back IN al kinds az
"ino ana weather every week, generally
N heavy marching order. and then q
90 or 90 mile overland hike from post 20
post about that fsr removed from each
o1nsr IN hot weather - the old-tir-
ers. even among the officers. had TO rub
their eyes when that kind OF unnecessary
stun was fastened upon the army. The
oid-timers among the enlisted men didu't
buck, but the newer men IN the outfits
took II piEen hard. and they bucloed and
are still buckng. by companies. troops-
and battalions, not 70 say regiments.
The mean little monthly pay that IS
being dished out 70 the enlisted men is
another one Of the objectionable things
The pay Of the American soldier was
fixed about fifty years ago. when a dollar
was dollars worth and would buy
something The pay OF the enlisted man
gets him hardly anything these days. ex-
cept his tobacco and his washing-and
even the laundreSses, when II comes TO
that have about doubled their rates for
swabbing soldier clothes Of late years.
on the ground that they couldn't live or
the money that they used 70 ask for do
ing the soldiers washing"
'"The state OF oregon has a unique
game law" said DR.. Ernest S. Gnmsr,
OF Salem. Greg. at the National last night.
in fact, no one seemed 70 know OF Us
existence until not long ago, when sew
e.al ranchers were fined heavily for al
lowing their dogs to run deer.
The ranchers commenced kicking
about their heavy fines, and then some
antiquarian discovered that the last leg
islature passed an act making Il q mis-
deneanOr for a hunter TO kin q deer
that was being chased by dogs, but ar
the same time put in a proviso that pre-
vents the ranchers from killing the
oo6s thaL chase the deer.
In other words. you cannot kill deer
that are being chased. nor shoot the dogs
that are doing the chasing. II may seem
queer that any one would think OF killing
hounds, but out in the Pacific Northwest
there Is always a fcud between CIV
sportsmen who invade the country with
hounds. on one hand, and resident ranch
ers on the other
Oregon passed this law because OF the
ravages OF wild animals upon domestic
animals. Il Is claimed that hounds pro-