Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-12-07
CHORUS CTRL's vISTT.
To Naval Academy-He Birthplace
Pleased With What She Sees.

70 hear little Vapadis Roubanoff.
auburn haired and blue eyed. the life
and vim Of the s.I-ouisiana Lou COM
pany playing 81 Ford's. Baltimore. this
week, speak Of her memories Of Anna
polls Of years ago one would think she
was some ancient. AS a matter Of fact
Mabel for her stage name is Mabel
Belmont. could scarcely qualify as q
voter in a suffragette community.
Maybe she is nineteen years Of age,
bat that's the limit and anybody knows
that her memories can not be very an
cient.
The dramatic critic Of the Baltimore
Sun. in an interview with the interest
ing little young lady. quoted her as
stating that her father had been an
instructor al the Naval Academy and
that she had left Annapolis when eight
years of age. Some Annapolis readers
of the interview were SO uncharltable
as to state that Nanacis was qualified
for membership in Roosevelt's club of
Munchausen practistiouers but Nanaois
seems TO be provided with portion OF
the goods that would exempt her from
participation in that particular club.
She visited Annapolis yesterday, to
renew the memories Of her childhood
days, and, incidentally, to give herself
an opportunity of enjoying the sight OF
mechanical objects of all sorts, in
which she is greatly interested. Last
June she started from New York on
coast To coast and return trip and
while in California took ride on the
famous Key Route electric trains.
This is one of the two high speed pan
tograph electric lines in the west and
is known for the speed and generally
good service provided. There she met
Mr. X. l.. Hyland, of that road, who,
when she mentioned an intended trip
TO Annapolis advised her to take the
Annapolis Short Line which is known
far and near as high speed panto-
graph electric road in the state OF
Maryland.
Yesterday Miss Roubanoff. accom-
panied bY friend. came TO Annapolis
on the Short Line train leaving Cam
den station, Baltimore, at o'clock.
She expressed great satisfaction at the
easy running of the cars and the good
time made, the trip consuming but the
fty minutes called for by the schedule.
By request she was shown about the
city and Naval Academy by i. r.
Gould, special agent of the Annapolis
Short Line. She stated that her faith
er was a warrant engineer in the Navy
and that when she was a little girl.
there being a shortage of Navy and
civilian instructors competent to in
struct the midshipmeu. her father was
detailed as instructor in the steam en-
department and remaineS
there for number of years.
Miss RoubanoH has, apparently, inn
bibed some of her fathers mechanical
lsanings for she was able to identify
and classify many Of the various pieces
of machinery in the steam engineering
department and, in very short time,
through the medium of the aforemen-
toned blue eyes, was being shown the
of the various models under
air pressure. She was greatly sur
prised at the many changes that had
been made in the grounds and stated
that everything had been changed since
she was a little girl.
When she caught sight Of the Tri-
poll monument she hailed il as an old
friend. She said she had been born
and raised in the Naval Academy.
At Sunset she stood at attention as
the colors were being lowered and
stated that she remembered doing
that when a little girl, the tom boy of /
the neighborhood. She left for Balti-
more on the clock train over the
Short Line. She expressed herself as
greatly pleased with her ride on the |
ine, the polite conductors. and the |
wide and easy car seats and expressed
pleasure at the visit t. the Naval
Academy.