Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-28
Tribute to Washington City by
Senator MARITIME.
PLEDGE FOR DEvEL 0PMENT
Addresses Last Night ct Banquet Of
Six O'Clock Club.
MAJ. JUDS0N TALKS HARMONY
DR.. j. Brown Scott Discusses Uni
versal Peace-other Speakers
and Their Themes.


and Their Themes.
II will aid with voice and vote all
| reasonable steps to make Washington
! the most splendid city in the world,
| and to be the glory Of tho entire ma
ton. will not be q prohigate to
| spend the nations money unwisely. but
honestly and probably to promote the
| development Of the National Capital"
| Senator James E MARITIME OF New
Jersey in these words. declared his
sense Of the proprietorship Of the en-
| tire United States in Washington, and
his desire to advance projects TO make
| 1t the city beautiful. He was one Of
! the orators at the annual banquet OF
| the Six O'Clock Club last night, at the
| Arlington Hotel
| THE citizens of Washington and the
board of Commissioners said Maj. w.
V. Judson- Z. s. A., Engineer Commis-
| sioner of the District of Columbia. ARE
getting into harmony to what is In
| harmonious in Washington. To live in
| great capital where there is no great
system OF public parks as in other great
| capitals Is one of these things regarding
which citizens and Commissioners are in
| accord in pronouncing inharmonious."
Discusses Peace Movements.
DR.. j. Brown Scott. director Of the Car
negie Foundation, outlined the interest OF
Intelligent minds and the movements for
international peace throughout the past
| from the earliest times. and described the
plans OF the Carnegie endowment to COR
! relate and coordinate all existing peace
movements in one united movement ior
the spread Of the propaganda, and the
| creation of 1.-The habit of appealing to
arbitration rather than to arms in the
settlement Of difficulties between ma
tiOns."
| The value of character as an asset in
building UP a community was the theme
of William Knowles Cooper. general Sec
| rotary of he Y. M. c. A. He paid q COM
pliment to the citizenship of Washington,
as averaging high in respect to the quail
| ties of manhood.
| Col. Thomas s. Hopkins spoke to the
| toast. "comradship.' Theodore w. Noyes.
editor of The Washington Star. called to
his feet by the demand of the club and
its guests, expressed in cheers and calls
explained briefly that he was not to be
enticed into speechmaking at the eleventh
Nour. as his oratory. by the traditic-- Of
| his vocation. was confined to the pen, and
he was under promise to the club and
the club to him not to make or to be
made to make speech.
Charles B. Hanford, the actor; Rev.
Charles l.. Neibel and II. l.. Snyder,
| newspaper man of West Virginia. en-
| tertained with Rotations. Mr. Neibel
also sang a dialect song. George H.
lie O'Clock Orchestra" under the di-
rection of John B. Bovello. presented a
| concert program of orchestral music.
Not a dull moment" was the motto
adopted for the occasion. The action was
highly accelerated by the Hymns.
copies provided. in which the diners were
| induced to join in the earlier moments
of the evening. The addresses were all
short, and were full Of interest," az shown
| by the hearty applause Of the auditors.
Col. McElroy Talks Club.
James F. Oyster, as chairman, present
ed the president OF the club, Col. John
McElroy, when the time for speechmak-
| ing had arrived. Col. McElroy devoted
| his remarks to a discussion of the ac-
tvities and successes Of the Six O'Clock
Club. past and present.
The club, he asserted, as secret, d.
vulged for the first time, was respon-
| sible for the great uplift that had raised
washington from q mudhole IN the ann
| of city magnificent as well as of mag
nificent distances.
In it's palmy days. attesting the great
antiquity Of the organization, the club. he
an arbiter Of great problems involving the
interests of the District Of Columbia
Commenting on the prominence of some
of its former members, some. he said,
had been elected to Congress and some
had secured election into the penitenttary:
some had found their way into the White
House and some into the poorhouse This
| indicated the uncertainty of human af-
| fairs, and the club had profited by the
knowledge OF these varied experiences OF
L fva f%c S1r0 nd FNrA
| Tor any emergency.
The days of horse cars. "a time
which most Of you believe is contem-
porary with the building of the pyra-
mids." Col McElroy claimed to remem-
Der we'll He said the club was to be
given credit for three-cent fares, in
augurated in Washington long before
Tom Johnson preached cheap rates for
application In his home town.
The one-horse car took up three
cent fare while the two-horse car re-
quired a fve-cent fare. Col McElroy
said that waiting on the corner, where
these one-horse and two-horse cars al
ternated in passing on the same route
he had often speculated whether 1t
was quicker to pay 3 or . cents Tor
the ride to the Capitol
Claims to Prominence.
Brainard H. Warner, introduced as
toastmaster, reviewed the claims to promi-
nence Of the principal guests Of the club
and the prospective orators OF the even
ing. The warrior qualifications Of Capt.
Oyster, Col. Judson. Col. McElroy and
others he contrasted with the pacificatory
interests of DR.. Scott. He referred to
Editor Moves as the recognized friend Of
ali present and Of the National Capital.
| and to Senator MARITIME as a farmer.
| Letters from President Taft and from
Senator Gallinger, regretting inability to
be present, were read by Mr.. Warner
He announced that ex-senator ]. A. Hem
enway had been detained and that Sena-
tor Robert l. Taylor had been pre-
vented by illness from attending the BAN
Quet
Friendship was the toast to which
Senator MARITIME responded. Finding that
the census of washington accorded 1t q
population of about $4,000 people, he
| asked why all of them could not DO his
friends, inasmuch as he was ready to de-
clare his friendship for every one of
| them.
His Admiration for Washington.
Much as love New Jersey, am
warm in my love and admiration for
/ Washington he declared. 1T is not
your Washington, nor is it my Washing
ton, but the Washington Of all the nation.