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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15

Aires: Alexandra Bonnin, ingenieur des
arts ct manufactures, Paris; Ihei Yama-
motto, Japanese Tea Traders Association,
Toxic; Etsuzo Yamamura, sugar expert
Ravailoi, attache Commercial rAmbas-
SADIE de l.. NJ. de Roi d'Ita'ia; c. du
Plessis Chiappini. trades commissioner.
Cape of Good Hope; John Salary, agri-
culturist Kiskoros. Hungary; Isaburo
Matsumura. tobacco monopoly bureau.
Japan; Miss Kate Manley. Yorkshire la
dies council of education. Leeds, Eng
landi HI. L. Altenroxel manager Tanned
government estate, Transvaal; b. MOuto,
department of agriculture and commerce,
Osaka, Japan Issa Tanimura. commits
sioner OF live stock for the Japanese gov
eminent; Alexander D. Muchin, director
OF experiment stations. Russia; Eugene
Loizeau. ingenieur attache AUX Etudes
Peter A. Kozmin. professor of Techno-
lohical Institute. Tomask Russia
DO you hold conversations with all
these gentlemen" asked The Star man.
Well, with those who speak English
1 endeavor to make out what they say,
and those who speak the barbarous and
musical languages. such as French, Ger
man. Spanish. Italian and Russian, We get
along with all right because We have many
bilingual. trilingdal and more so en-
ployes in this Office. The dashing blonde
with the fine teeth speaks several Ian
guages, and that petite brunette with the
roguish brown eyes Is something Of a
lingust. She can say many things just
with her eyes. Have some more cards"
and The Star man read Albert Won Julin,
mining engineer. Finland; A. G. Morzer
Bruyns. The Hague; c. Tihotsky, re-
frigerating company, st. Petersburg;
Jose M. Castro, Conception, Chile; Moritz
SchanZ. SaXony; G. J. NJ. Simons
Amsterdam; q. Hatred Won Kock
Stockholm; X. Oku, chemist of the
bureau of fisheries, Toxic; Otto Helm
rich Grunfelder. Saaz; Paul Staes,
Liege: A Games Crama, s. Paula,
Brazil; y. Iwata, the Osaka Daily News,
Japan; Swami Bhumanand. India, etc,
etc, etc.
Enough" cried the Rambler.
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Tree Was Homesick.

THE symmetrical pine tree which was
brought from the grounds of the
Blue Ridge Rod and Gun Club on the
Loudoun bluffs above the Potomac near
Harpers Ferry to grace the gardens OF
the Treasury is dead All the skill of
dendrologists. landscape architects. plain
gardeners and the like was spent in vain.
Professional skill availed not. The tree,
fresh. green. fragrant, balsamic and res
inously pungent. languished. Its green
needles withered, turned yellow, then
crisp and dropped to. the turf of the
Treasury yard.
1T pinned away said r. o. Bailey, as
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publications, Department Of Agriculture.
Joseph A. Arnold. When the drawer
would be opened the cards would bulge up
and several popping out, would fiutter to
the floor
collecting cards, eh?" said The Star
man. pic king up handful of les cartes.
las tarjetas. die visiten karten. etc, and
reading the names, Salvador CastrillO,
envoy extraordinary and minister pien-
potentiary of Nicaragua; Prudencio de
Murguiondo, consul general of the re-
public of Uruguay: Fernando Ferrar
Perez, jefe de la comision exploradoro
de la flora y de la fauna naclonales,
Tacubaya. Mexico; Vicomte de Cham
brun, secretaire de rasmassade de
France; LIE Prince Henri de Croy. Haniel
Won Haimhausen. German charge DAT
fairies; Dietrich Hillebrand. deg1erungs-
manchester, Hanover, Germany, ana r.
R Freiherr Won Herman. Landwlr,scn'
Sachverstandiger der Kaiserlichen Bots
chaft, Wittenburg, Germany.
You have some callers said the SYM
pathetic Star man, strongly accentlng
some"
YES, SIR" said the department editor.
putting emphatic stress on the sir and
making that word three times longer than
the YES"
x x
"They come here from all parts of the
world to make inquiries about agricul-
tural matters and the methods of this de-
partment for promoting the basic indus
try Of the human race. Look over those
cards and note the names of men and the
industries concerned directly, or allied
with, food production, which they repre-
sent" And The Star man read: Alexis
f. Lubchenco, Agricultural Institute Of
Moscow; Andrew Gyorgy, agricultural
commissioner of the royal Hungarian
government, London; ]. F. Blackshaw,
principal Agricultural and Dairy College,
Kingston, England; S. MashimO, vice
president of the Usui Sha, Japan; r..
Sato. president Of the Shimonitasha (re-
reeled raw silk workers). Joshiu, Japan;
G. N Blackshaw, government chemist.
southern Rhodesia; D. Roodzinski, d.
rector Of selection station Of the Agri-
cultural Institute. Moscow: Byramyee
Cowasjee, the Imperial Dairy Company,
Bombay. India: Enrique NJ. Nelson. Ar
gentine government commission, Buenos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15
The Critical Poet.

r A. DAILY, whose poem won the two
hundred-a and fifty-dollar prize in a
competition, Ia. like all good versifers, a
severe critic Of bad verse.
At a dinner in Philadelphia a young
lady Of q humorous turn asked Mr.. Daily
q conundrum.
when Is a poet not a poet?" she said.
about ninety-nine times out OF q hum
dred," was the grim reply.
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terry Kingsbury lived a family named
Hoyle. The Hoyle house has disappeared.
Land to the northeast Of Battery Smeade
was owned by Charles Bradley. To the
north on both sides Of Rock Creek a large
acreage was owned by the heirs of D.
Clagett.
The report of the commission appointed
by the Secretary of War October %, 1862
the present forts and the suft1ciency OF
the present system of defenses of the
city," contains the following with refer
ence to Fort De Russy:
Fort De Russy occupies very com
manding point overlooking the deep val
ley of Rock Creek and throwing cross
fire upon the approaches to Fort Massa-
chusetts 0ater Fort Stevens). and. to-
Sether with Fort Kearny, controlling the
country roads between the Rockville turn
pike and Rock creek
The relation of Fort De Russy to the
topography of the country to the north
may be better understood by making ref
erence to that part of the commission s
report treating of Fort Kearny. 1t says
Fort Kearny. recently built. and oc-
cupying an excellent position, is a neces-
sary connecting link between Forts Penn
sylvania Cater Fort RenO) and Fort De
Russy. 1t sees well the upper valley OF
Broad branch and crosses it's fire with
that of Forts Pennsylvania and De
Russy and intermediate batteries. upon
the dangerous heights in front
In the report of the commission may be
found this interesting paragraph:
Thus from a few isolated works COW
ering bridges or commanding few es-
pecially important points. was developed
a connected system Of fOrtifcation by
which every prominent point. at inter-
walls of 500 or 1000 yards, was occupied
by an inclOsed field fort, every important
approach or depression of ground unseen
from the forts, swept by battery OF
field guns, and the whole connected by
rifle trenches which were. in fact, lines
of infantry parapet, furnishing emplace-
ment for two ranks Of men and affOrding
covered communication along the line,
while roads were opened wherever neces-
sary so that troops and artillery could be
moved rapidly from one point of the i'm
mense periphery to another, or under
cover from point to point along the line. -
Gen. ]. G. Barnard, chief engineer OF
the defenses of Washington. in an official
report had this to say of the region
commanded and covered by Forts Kearny
and De Russy:
The country between Forts Reno and
De Russy was rugged and generally
wooded. A tributary of Rock creek
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No Paste.

(oSMO HAMILTON, the English satirs
~ list, praised In New York our democ.
racy.
Here" he said. "a parlormaid may be-
come q society leader. Here q railsplit-
ter may become q President
1T isn't 90 In England. The Engiishs
man, alas, Is like the billposter-he knowa
his place, and there he sticks"
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Christmas look like a huge toy store,
with drums. steam cars. wagons. Indian
suits, skates and everything the childish
heart could wish. ana storage company
has again kindly volunteered to deliver
all these gifts Christmas eve.
The practical person may be thinking
that necessities should be provided rather
than toys. but the substantial side is a so
looked after by this organization. Each
child is visited personally by a member
Of the committee, and the family neces-
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On M0deSty.

CMEON FORD of New York said the
- other day of modesty:
Few Of US can ever hope to stand on
pedestals. Indeed, in these days OK
scorching automobiles, crank mono
planes and reckless railroading he 10
lucky who has a plain pair OF legs to
stand on"
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A Triumph.

zen. NELSON A MILES was discuss
" ing. with the aid Of a map, the Tur-
kish war.
THAT last engagement, general re-
porter asked-''would you say that Last
engagement was a triumph for the Tur-
kish arms?'
Rather say a triumph for the Turkish
legs" Gen. Miles replied.
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rs THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY CHRISTMAS

the society. Perhaps no woman whose
baby's wardrobe is furnished with every
thing that loving ingenuity can devise
can understand the joy that these pre-
cious bundles of clothing-about two
dozen pieces-bring to the destitute
mother. who if it We're not for this would
have nothing with which to clOthe her
child
member of the society relates that a
grateful recipient of one of these layettes,
upon discovering the number Of garments
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the fine bronze statues standing in the
old Hall of Representatives. The his
tory of this statue was obscure until the
closing day of the last session of Con-
gress, when 1t was revealed as an incident
in the controversy as to whether Month
cello. the home and burial place OF
Thomas Jefferson should or should not
continue in private ownership.
There is in the Library Of Congress q
guide book of Washington city publish
ed by William @. Force of Washington In
1S45. John Morrison, who knows every
book in the library. turned this relic over
tainment. and on one Of the yellow pages
was this:
I'm front of the Presidents House.
northern garden, elevated on pedestal,
is bronze statue of Jefferson, the same
that formerly occupied the center of the
rotunda of the Capitol.
In his left hand jefferson holds a
scroll of the Declaration of Independence
as though he had just finished draughtine
that memorable instrument and were re-
fleeing upon the results that would fol.
low-the terror it would strike among the
foes Of freedom-the strength with which
it would nerve the patriots heart-the
bitter opposition it would meet from some
the joy with which it would be hailed
by more-and if adopted, the high des-
TIMES which awaited young America"
The Rambler undertook to trace the
statue and quickly found that it and the
are the same.
In 1884 Uriah p. Levy. a lieutenant
in the United States Navy, expressed
his desire and intention of presenting
this statue. through Congress, to the
American people, and wrote the fol-
lowing letter:
Washington D. c.. March IS, 1884
To the House of Representatives Of the United
States:
beg leave to present through you to my
feilow-citizens OF the United States the colossal
bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson, author Of the
Declaration of Independence. This statue was
executed under my eye. In Paris. by the cele-
brated David and Honore GenOn and much ad-
mired for its likeness to the great original, as
well for the plain republican simplicity Of the
whole design.
1t is with pride and satisfaction I am en-
abled to offer this tribute of my regard to the
people of the United States, through their repre-
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ak north along
the west corridor
of the Library OF
Congress and at
the northwest cor
ner of the building,
on the main floor.
you will come to
heavy double doors.
swinging open dur
ing the day, and In
the hallway at the
rig h t of these
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sites asceftained, so that while the N
dividual members answer the letters. the
relief committee provides them with
needs.
Aside from the Christmas feature the
work for which the society is best known
and that seems to appeal most strongly
to the public is the making and dis
tributing of infants. layettes. Not one ap-
peal to clothe a destitute babe has ever
been refused since the organization Of
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other agencies. in some of which there
is barely enough to feed hungry mouths,
and little feet. even in this bitter weather
still unshod. Each child in such a
home is told to write TO the Christ Child
asking for a gift. and though 1.4oo of
these letters have been received this
year. none will go unanswered
Girls generally ask for doll. and one
writes for "a doll with curly hair and
blue eyes" Another writes: Dear Christ
Child, please send me some shoes and
God will reward you," and still another:
please send me a doll. / never had a
doll in my life A boy writes: Dear
Christ Child. please send me a pair of
shoes and the grace of Cod and
another says: my name is Jacob. and
while a little girl tells of her homeless
ness by writing: Dear Christ Child,
please give me a doll and please send il
to Sarah Browns. cause l have no ad-
dress. I just lives round
A pathetic case OF the last years
Christmas work was that of a forlOrn
little boy. sick and a cripple, but trying
courageously TO help himself by going
was always late and 1t worried him. so
ne wrote to the Christ Child. begging that
he be given a 1saoh. $50 he could get
there on time.
Wdtcn Is rather IlOTc THAN IuoSt VI
the members are expected to give. but a
generous-hearted woman took the letter
and "a real watch that goes was sent by
special messenger to the little lad on
Christmas eve. When they called him
Christmas morning his brave little spirit
had passed from time to eternity.
Another. a little girl a victim of tuber-
culos.s. wrote for a doll. and after Christ
mas when a visitor from the society cali
ed, said she loved the doll SO. cause it
could sleep with her and was the only
one not afraid OF her." Cases could be
multiplied indefinitely, but 1t is such as
these which bring the members into close
personal touch with the little ones of the
poor, and cannot but sound an answering
note in the hearts OF all lovers of little
children.
One benevolent-minded bachelor donates
each year 100 dolls to be distributed.
These are dressed by the Junior Guild of
the society, and sometimes by the oder
girls in the sewing classes. The headquar-
tiers Of the society the week before
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quest was made smiled as
ne answered. Indeed l VIII.
It's not the first tag of the kind l have
had this Christmas"
And on the tag was printed:
From the Christ Child Society, head
quarters, 24o5 Pennsylvania avenue north
west"
The purchaser was stylish young
woman. evidently a member of the So
ciety in which the pledge necessary for
membership is the promise to make one
child of poverty happy Christmas day.
she had made her purchase with the
greatest care. and the willing clerk had
spared no pains in hauling out numerous
express wagons. for the best was none
too good for the. little petitioner whose
letter to the Christ Child it was her privi-
lege to answer.
The generous thought of a young girl
to make one little infant comfortable and
happy with set of warm clothing and
q toy in honor of the Christ Child and in
His name was the modest beginning of
this society. which, though still holding
that as sine qua non of membership.
has gradually extended its labors along
the lines of relief and settlement work
until now IL reaches all the needs of child
life.
Twenty years ago Miss Mary Merrick.
president of the organization. then still
o child, undertook to make glad the
Christmas of an unfortunate neighbOr
by making and presenting a complete in
fant's outfit for the baby Gratifed by
her success in Frightening the day for
one mother and perceiving how pleasant
had been the work Miss Merrtck deter
mined to interest her playmates by form
ing a club to relieve suffering among the
poor. Thus she formed the nucleus of the
present Christ Child Society, which to-
day has organizations In twelve other
cities and in Washington alone has nearly
loo members. who look after and assist
children OF the poor without regard to
race, creed or color.
For weeks past the visiting committees
have been going to the homes of poverty
brought to their notice by the Associated
Charities, ST. Vincent de Paul Society and
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is pierced by nine embrasures. The
whole is overgrown with mat OF
honeysuckle. much green lingering in
it's foliage still. Cedar trees, some
young, others old. grow without. on and
within the rampant. On the south side
of the parapet is a tennis court. and all
around is a fine garden, with privet
hedges, vine-clOthed arbors, drive
ways. flower circles and clumps of or
namental grasses. 1t is the summer
home of Rudolph Kaufman. trifie
over fifty yards southeast of the east
ern salient of the battery is the big,
broad house of gray stone and shlngle,
with red roof. green shutters and white
trimmings which Mr. Kaufman built
about ten years ago.
Living a quarter of a mile north by
east from Battery Smeade on sec
ton of the old Milk House Ford road
ago Motley Moreland came from VIZ
ginia and bought land here, gradually
increasing his holdings to hundred
and seventy-fVe acres. The site OF
Battery Smeade was on his lana. his
house is still standing. being between
two later additions. Although so close
t. De Russy and Smeade 1T was not
pulled down, as was the custom theh.
An old oak in the MOreland garden
was also spared, the commanding officer
at Smeade saving that he would not
order it chopped down until eXlgencles
seemed to warrant it. Motley Moreland
died in 1863, and the property was
divided among his heirs. William More
land, Samuel Moreland, Enoch More
land and Rachel Moreland. now Mrs:
Thomas Mclaughlin. resident OF
Washington.
Fort De Russy was built on land that
before the war had been owned by Will
liam Kurtz and at about the time of the
war was in possession of his heirs. Soon
after the beginning of the war, or Mr..
Moreland thinks it might have been just
before the war. the kurtZ heirs sold the
property to Bernard SwartZ. SwartZ also
secured from Motley Moreland the land
on which Battery -Smeade stands. SwartZ
sold to Dos PassOs, a lawyer. and from
him Fort De Russy came into possession
of the government and Battery Smeade
into possession of Mr.. Kaufman.
One of the notables living in this neigh
borhood in war times was j. Pllling.
whose home was on the east side of Rock
Creek north of the Milk House Ford road.
He was a tax collector, and was reputed
to be very wealthy. He has two sons,
Frederick w. Pilling and Walter j. PILL
ing. living in Washington. Close to Bat
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of the civil war defenses OF
washington stands Fort De
Russy, the best preserved OF
the relics of the major works designed to
secure the capital against attack IL
stands at the west end of a short ridge
near the upper end and within ROCK
Creek Park. Its position was determined
on to command the upper valley OF ROCK
creek against approach from the north
and to form a link, with its thanking bat
teries. Smeade and Kingsbury, in the
chain of forts beginning with the several
works united under the name OF Fort
Sumner, northwest Of the receiving reser-
voir and ending with Fort Lincoln and a
group of armed batteries on the western
side of the Eastern branch. In this
chain were Forts Sumner. Mansfield,
Simmons, Gaines. Bayard. Reno, kearny.
De Russy, Stevens. Slocum, Totten.
Slemmer, Bunker Hill. Saratoga and
Thayer and Batteries Martin Scott yer
mont. Kemble, Parrot. Cameron, Ros-
sell, Terrill, Smeade. Kingsbury. Sill and
a long list of batteries, armed and un-
armed, which II ever bearing names nave
none en- the maps Of the civil war period
pelling the raid Of Early's troops in the
summer of 1854. Its fire cO-operated
with that of Reno. Mansfield and Simmons
when the Confederates were sOuthbound
on the Rockville road. maintained Its fire
as they crossed from the Rockville to the
18th Street road and joined its fire with
that of Forts Stevens and Slocum when
Early's lines moved south over the Blair.
Clagett and Carberry farms.
To the west of Fort De Russy is Bat
terry Smeade. its parapet and its embras-
ures carefully preserved. and g the only
one of the many batteries defending the
city that has retained its complete out
line Remains Of infantry trenches ex-
tend from a point on the Rock Creek
Ford road near Smeade southwesterly to
the bottom of Broad Branch valley in the
direction of Fort Kearny. Mounds of
earth and near-filled bitches almost bur-
led under forest mold and overgrOwn
with oak mark where Battery Kings
bury stood. 1t Is region OF historic in
tereSt and scenic beauty.
One can stand on the sharply defined
parapet OF Battery Smeade and think
back half a century. This parapet
forms an arc of about 120 degrees and
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sentatives, and am such disposition will
be made Of it as both corresponds with the char
acter of the illustrious author OF the Declaration
Of Independence and the profound generation
with which his memory is cherished by the
American people.
May 6, 1884. Representative Asher
Robbins, from the joint committee on
the library, made a report That they
have received from Lieut. Levy the
statue, and recommend that it be
placed in the center of the square on
letter full Of the courtly fiourishes Of the
time was sent to Lieut. Levy by Mr..
Robbins.
Notwithstanding the favorable report
Of the joint committee on the library.
Congress, after considerable discussion,
ground that it would be Inappropriate
for the government to receive pres
emit from one of the public servants.
or some such reason. The statue was
in the center Of the rotunda-that was
long before the big iron dome was
buiIt-and found a place in the front
yard of the White House whV Polk
was President.
In 1874, Jonas P Levy, a brother of
Uriah p Levy. sought to have the
statue accepted or returned, and. under
date of Washington, February Is. 1874.
sent to Senator Justin P. Morrill,, chair
man of the committee on pubic bulld-
x
K X
Some forty years ago my brother. then Capt.
Urah p Levy Of the United States Navy. at Il
great expense to himself while in Paris, had
models of a statue Of Thomas Jefferson made,
and upon a satisfactory one being executed by
the then sculptor David, he had cast the present
statue out of bronze Of Jefferson. He afterward
shipped it to New York with the model, that
Ind
to the city authorities WHO accepted it and
placed it in his exceency, the governors room
where it now stands as an emblem OF his
patriotism The authorities OF the city voted
to him (my brother the freedom Of the city and
presented him with gold snuf box. the statue
being such striking likeness to the great
Of that date.
My brother then had the present bronze
statue brought to the city Of Washington at his
own expense, and it placed in the center
of the rotunda Of the Capitol (where it should
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All Want Information.

A BUSHEL of visiting cards were
1 heaped up in a drawer of the desk of
the editor and chief OF the division Of
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An Old Statue.

A n unusual story attaches to the bronze
statue of Thomas Jefferson. one of
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EASE be sure to fasten this
tag TO my purchase"
The clerk to whom this re-
quest was made smiled as
he answered, Indeed / will.
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PEAR the center of the northern
line of forts forming a section
of the civil war defenses of
Washington stands Fort De