Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-21
Around the City

Capt Kidd is in the spotlight again.
And not as a pirate. either.
He now presents himself to Washing
tons inspection in the guise Of giver
of gifts: his present being displayed
at the new museum for all the town to
see ~.
The glass case shows only a scarf,
striped in primitive colors and sprin-
killed. with furnished gilt, but from the
silky stuff and its explanatory card one
may build up, Cuvier-like, manner OF
man who could do other things than
scuttle ships and bury chests of stolen
treasure beyond the greed of honest
landsmen.
No token is given TO the PERSONAL
" Of the Miss Elizabeth Gardiner OF
GARDENERS Island" 10 whom the sea
! wolf paid tribute, but that she cher
ished the scarf is evidenced by the IN
formation that il has been handed
down in succession TO the Elizabeths
of eight generations. and is now owned
by resident of this city who bears
the family name.
Perhaps Miss Elizabeth" was some
lovely maid of high degree whose
image Kidd carried in his heart-"as
he sailed, as he sailed.
kindly deed that the world never heard
of and OF which the pirate himself may
have forgotten until IL was recalled to
him in judgment along with his evll
doings And. maybe, il helped.
| There's no telling what romance or
/ tragedy or sacrifice or merriment may
be forever hidden under the ancie I
scarf sprinkled with furnished gilt
which Capt. Kidd gave TO Miss Eliza
beth Gardiner of GARDENERS Island be-
fore he sailed from Long Island 10 be
hanged in London town.
4 man was watering tie = ass around
the pension Office building
The grass was already dl"nched from
| "A rainy night with more IAN showering
| down. but the man with the nose paid no
| attention. He was watering he grass.
As the clerks Of the department crowd
\ ed up the winding paths there were
| chuckles and calculations under hundreds
| OF bobbing umbrellas. But the man with
/ the hose paid no attention. He was wa
/ terlng the grass.
/ one clerk was curious enough TO pause
/ and inquire To the reason for watering
grass on rainy day. He got his infor-
| nation
I'm paid by The government TO water
| this grass" said the msa with the hose,
\ and I'm doing my duty.
4 Which seems TO show THAI Casabianca
\ wasn't the only young mar I'm MS Grass.
Il
4 OF bleached hair that showed gray-brown
| at the roots Her baby blue null prin-
cess was twenty years too young for her.
and in her puffy ears blazed diamond
solitaires as big as grains OF corn.
/ Her companion was less asserfive in
| dark foulard with yoke OF black me-
dallions on net that. from the rear OF
the car. had the effect of lace reaches
crawling up her back. She also flashed
solitaires literally backed by sunburst
\ that In some younger and probably bet
ter day had showed UP as "the gift OF
4 the groom"
4 And as the car whizzed along in wat
| would have been midnight blackness c.
| cept for It's electric bulbs. the blue null
and the black lace reaches giggled and
\ gabbed and turned srnirking eyes at A
prosperous man passenger just behind.
who, incidentally. paid no attention And
| at every turn the solitaires biazed out
like white searchlights, and the sunburst
was an aurora borealis OF every color un-
der the sun.
There was another man. shabby and
| unshaved, with a pallid gauntness or race
Il that probably came from starvation ana
with furtive intentness in his eyes that