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The Washington times., 1913-11-20
AGED WOMANIOST
WHILE ON STROLL
Miss Emma Thompson Aged seventyfour of Street South
east Found Five Miles in he Country, Cared for and
Later Returned to Her Home.

the child on the left side of his face.
The dog was running south on Nichols
avenue at the time and swerved long
enough, according 10 the statements OF
several witnesses, to attack the boy.
The child's screams aroused the neigh
oorhood. His parents and a number of
other residents came to his aid. DR..
r. A. Pyles was summoned from Ana
costa to dress the child's injury. The
police were notified of the case and
are seeking the dog. William G. Flow
ers is the boys father.
The first land to be acquired in long
number Of years in Anacostia proper
through condemnation proceedings for
the purpose Of opening a new street Is
about to be obtained by, the District for
the extension of Mt. View place. be-
tween the Morris road and Talburtt
street. The Commissioners have caused
notice to be served that the proceedings
will be started on December before
Justice Wright, in the District supreme
Court. The property owners affected
have been notified to appear, and q
Jury will be appointed to assess dam
ages and benefits to the adjoining prop
erty.
The District governemnt has under
taken TO condemn on the west side OF
Nichols avenue, between Hillsdale and
the Government Hospital for the In
sane, sufficient ground TO permit a regu-
lation granolithic sidewalk to be put
The Washington times., 1913-11-20

down. work on which has been begun.
There have been no sidewalks along
Nichols avenue between the sections
named on account of the cncroaChment
of private property. Acting upon u e rep
resentations that the, principal thor
oughfare in the region referred to
should be provided with pavements the
Commissioners have ordered a start
made. Following this a request was
made to them by the Government Hos
pital for the Insane that the pavement
be extended to the new entrance to the
institution.
The Washington times., 1913-11-20

st. Teresa's parish is interested in
several events planned for December in
aid of the church and school. The first
one will be a play by the alumni of st.
Teresa's Parochiai School in the church
hall on the evenings of December l and
2. 1t has been arranged by the Sisters
of the Notre Dame, who are in charge
OF the school. This is to be followed
by a masquerade bah to be given by
the Altar Society in the parish hall on
December 4
The Washington times., 1913-11-20
WASHINGTON TIMES BUREAU.

ANASOS14A. ~ L.. ->Sf- <V
Found ive miles from the city, which
she left yesterday morning. Mrs. EN-
ma Thompson. seventy-four years old,
was taken care of by the family OF
Charles Hayes. who lives near the
Bellevue naval magazine, opposite
Alexandria, Va, last evening. and was
then sent to her home. 602 g street
southeast, by the police of the Eleventh
precinct. Mrs. Thompson told the peo-
pie by whom she was cared for that
she was not fatigued and that she Is
accustomed to taking long walks In
strolling out into the country she con-
tinued her journey without realizing
that the day was drawing to a close,
SO she became lost.
Mrs. Thompson. came to the city from
Virginia a few months ago and lives
with relatives. She is an intelligent
woman of the old school mad people at
Bellevue desired TO keep her with them
had she no place to stay. She was
willing to walk hack TO the city. but the
police called the patrol and took her
home.
The Washington times., 1913-11-20

Miss Lucy Cropp. OF the office of the
Government Hospital for the Insane, is
visitor in Burketown, Va.
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In full view of many people passing
along Nichols avenue last evening about
$50 o'clock a dog sprang upon Willie
Flowers, five years old. as he was play
ing on the sidewalk before the home OF
his parents. fs1 Nichols avenue, and bit
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similar tests at Mount Wilson, Cali
fornia, and discovered the same phe-
nomena.
June 10, 1912, while Mr.. Abbot was con-
Quoting his tests In Algeria. he noticed
streaks resembling smoke on the horizon,
though a forest lire We're raging in
Tho vicinity. These streaks were very
marked all during the summer, and be-
came more noticeable toward sunrise and
after sunset. In few days the sky be-
came mott,ed, especially near the sun
and resenbled what is known as a mack
erel'' sky, although there We're no clouds.
Through the entire summer and up to
the middle of September this haziness
continued and Mr. Abbot was able to
estimate that the haziness materially
lesSened the amount OF heat radiating
from the sun, and publications I'm Euro
pean journals showed that the haziness
was worldwide. SIR, Fowle had also no
ticed the same condition at Mount Will
son. and il was accepted by scientists
that this haze was caused by the dust
cloud which followed the eruption OF
Mount katmai in June of the same year.
Other tests made during similar eruptions
two scientists, who have Incorporated
their conclusions In official paper of
the Smithsonian Institution
Capt. *. ". Perry Of the revenue cut
ter service reported that June q, 1912
the revenue cutter Manning being moor
ed 10 the wharf at ST. Paul Kodiak Is
land = he observed peculiar Iooking
cloud rising from the southwark Ashes
began to fall about o clock in the even
ing, thunder and lightning became in
tense and the wireless apparatus refused
to work. BY am. of the following day
the ashes had fallen to a depth OF five
inches, and the sailors had to light Ian
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THE; BRICK HOUSE OF MERIDIAN PARK.

marked the grave of Mrs. Surratt with
symbols of love. And this suggested tne
thought OF turning back through the yell
low files Of The Star 70 July, 1850, ana
Of rereadng one OF the dark chapters Oh
American history.
In The Star of Thursday, July q. 1860.
there We're these headlines on the Sec
Ond page in type especially big and bold
for that period. but which would be con-
sidered inconspCuous now: .'EXtra-The
Consp iracy-The Findings of the Court
The Sentences Approved by the Presi-
dent-Mrs Surratt. Payne. Herold and
Atzerodt 10 Be Hung-The Sentences to
BE Executed Tomorrow-Mudd, Arnold
and OLaughlin 10 Be Imprisoned for
Life-Spangler TO Be Imprisoned FOR Six
Years.
Then follow the official orders publish
ed by the adjutant generals office War
Department, beginning: Whereas by
the military commission appointed in
paragraph 1, special orders No. 211,
dated War Department, adjutant gen.
erals office. Washington, May 6, 1865,
and of which Mai. Gen. David Hunter.
United States Volunteers is president,
the following named persons were tried,
and after mature consideration Of the
evidence adduced in their cases were
found guilty and sentenced as herein
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was as large and heavily armed as
some Of tire land forts in the GORDON OF
civii war defenses Of Washington, was
Battery GareSChe
Ii was named in honor Of the officer
ut.o rests in Mount Olivet and stood on
tie ridge which rises from the south
side of Four Mile run and west of the
dirt road from the Aaueduct bridge by
Tee east front Of Arlington to Alexandria
The site - TINS battery i now grown up
IL woods tt3t the redoubt may he traced
IS the side ~ Col Garesche rests his
uite. t,s tomb heins inscribed: Mon
Dieu j. cro.s j'espere jaime il me re-
rens Nariluitta Col;JraS de l-aureal
relict of Lieut.. col julius p. Garesche
IT, : H.. born in Guadalupe 9th July.
1890. Died At 81. Louis Mo-, 10th Febru-
AIRY. Is1l
In the Garesche lot are a.so the graves
~ LaureaI GaresChe. Edgar Garesche
Marie I. and Gertrude Mariquitta
'iarescne.
Close at hand is the tomb of Nal
James Theodore Talbot OF the United
States Navy Born December - $50
Died April 90. 1862 y At his side rests
"Adelaid Thomson Talbot, wife OF Hon
lsham Talbot of Kentucky. Born on the
stand OF Santa Cruz. West Ind IS. jan
'tary I. 1890. Died at Washington, ID. c.,
June %, 1873 Also there IS the tomb
cf her daughter Mary Louise Talbot
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who died in the city Of Washington
June IL, 1SSc.
This tomb should not be confused with
another tomb not far from the Surratt
grave the tall marble shaft above which
reads Sacred TO the Memory of MY
Dear Husband, George W. Talburtt. VINO
departed this life November -. ls6e, In
the forty-seventh year of his age. The
wife. who erected that monument nearly
forty-e!ght years ago. was laid TO rest
there only about a year ago. She was Il
daughter of George Z. Mattingly VINO was
born in st Marys county. Md, and
came to Washington very early in the
nineteenth century and was a large land
holder in South Washington and prom
inent in business in the older Washing
ton.
The graves of these good people lie
not far from the grave of Mrs. Surratt
No doubt these Talburtts and the sur
rats were acquainted in this world. The
Surratt farm and mill on OXon Run,
about a mile beyond Congress Heights
and which at about the time OF the c1vll
war came to be known as Cond1n S Mil,
adioined one of the Taiburtt farms. me
TalburttS We're related 10 the family OF
Richard Bryan of Richard. who owned
a
who were on friendly terms with the
Surratts when they opened the tavern
at the junction of the Washington-T. Is.
and the Piscataway- Marlboro roads at
the place which came TO be called sur
rattsville, but the name of which was
officially changed to Clinton.
The Bryans and the SurrattS attended
St Mary's Church at PiScataWay. These
Talburts also knew David Z. Herold, one
of the Booth conspirators. Herlod came
from a respectable East Washington
family and was born AT the corner OF
18th and II streets southeast. He
was often on the Talburtt farm. over
which much of Anacostia has been built.
He and the Talburtts cannot be said to
have been friends, for young Heroid.
though coming of good family, was
wild and shiftless, and the Rambler has
heard that those who knew him before
he became involved in the great tragedy
considered him not vicious, but simple.
This George W. Talburtt, at whose grave
the Rambler stood. was one of the close
friends of John Howard Payne.
So close to the grave of Mrs. Surrau
that its shadow might fall upon 1t is the
monument over the grave of Ann EMS
Resecrans nee Hogeman, wifi eff Gen.
w s Rosecrans. Born October 4, 1s23,
died December -, 1888"
Ii was only few days after the ami
versary of the quadruple hanging OF the
Booth conspirators that the Rambler
paused before the grave of Mrs. Surratt
and noticed the newly planted Hover
there. This gave rise to the thought
that some one had preserved the mem
DRY Of that terrible anniversary and had
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after stated" Then follow the findings.
which occupy column and half OF
type. and concluded with his:
Executive Mansion, July 8. 1865.
The foregoing sentences in the cases
of David Z. Herold 6. A. Atzerodt.
Lewis Payne and Mary Y. Surratt are
hereby approved. and 1t is ordered that
the sentences in the cases Of David Il
Herold. G. A. Atzerodt. Lewis Payne
and Mary H. Surratt be carried into
execution by the proper military autnol
lty under direction of the secretary OF
War on the 7th of July, 1860 between
the hours of 10 o'clock am. and o'clock
ANDREW JOHNSON.
President
The Star Of that day also contained
this:
Second Editions oclock-The Great
Conspiracy-The Criminals-Their Death
Warrants Read to Them-Where Ihey
Are to Be Hung-The Preparations fof
the Execution.
This morning Gen. Hancock. COM
handing the middle military division.
proceeded to the arsenal and handed the
death warrants of Payne. Heroio, MRS.
Surratt and Atzerodt to Maj. Gen. Hart
ranft, in charge of the prisoners. ano
where they informed the prisoners OF
their sentence. Gen. Hartranft reading
the warrants in each case.
THE announcement did not take Payne
DIV surprise, as ne GApeCtSu IlO OluSi Sch
tence, and he showed little emotion. At
Zerodt tried hard to assume an indiner-
ent air. but vainly. as shown by the tell
tale tremor Of his extremities and the
ashy pallor upon his face. The sentenc
was a thunderholt to Herold. who had
expected nothing more serious than a
short Imprisonment in the penitent!ary.
The frivolous simper deserted his face
and for once he seemed wholly I'M
manned. Mrs. Surratt was completely
unstrung.
THE execution is to take place In the
prison yard at the arsenal. which Is not
large enough to accommodate many spec
will in effect be a public one, it will re-
Mai Gen. Hancock, who is charged with
the execution of this order. and these
will be given sparingly-no more being
admitted than can find convenient stand
ing ROOM
i X
on the afternoon Of Friday, July I. The
Star told the story of the execution OF
the death sentence. 1t was headed
Extra and these were the headlines:
The Execution-Four OF the Conspirators
Hung-Incidents at the White House
Scenes at the Surratt House-Sketcheso Of
the Condemned-Their Preparation fol-
Death-Prostration of Mrs. Surratt-The
Agony of the Daughter-Scenes at the
Gallows-incidents."
Following these headlines are ten col
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Quarry Road Landmark.
Ever since the Washington Zoo was

earth were scattered. and over 600 peo-
the air in dust.
An explosion terrific enough to scatter
a mountain over thirty square miles is
believed to have been sufficiently power
full to throw great mass of dust into
the atmosphere.
In the following December the volcano
Mayor in the Philippines blew up and
lights were necessary in Manila houses in
midday. Violent eruptions from other
Philippine volcanoes were reported dur
ing the same year. The activity of the
Island of Vulcano. on the coast OF Sicily.
continued for twenty months during 1855
and 1890 In February. 1890. there was
an eruption of Bogoslof in the Boring
sea. Three small islands were created
and raised 1000 feet.
In June 1882. a volcano exploded in the
Island of Great Sangir, south OF the
Philippines. Thousands of people We're
killed, immense quantities OF ashes We're
spread over the island and the noise was
heard 800 miles away. An eruption or
Mount Etna occurred in July, 1872, and
emitted enormous quantities of sand and
smoke
As has been noted, this period from
1883 TO 1893 was a period of marked de-
crease in the amount of solar light and
heat reaching the surface of the earth
and is regarded as a link in the chain
of evidence on which the experts opinion
is based.
In the period from 1902 to 1904 the
Mount Pelee disaster occurred, with the
catastrophe of Soufrere, st.
Vincent The transparency of the atmos-
phere during this time was also found to
be quite below normal. ST. Maria, in
also erupted at this time
and the ashes of this explosion covered an
area of 125.OO0 square miles In February
and March, 1903 no less than twelve erup-
lions took place from Colima, in southern
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umns of the small, tight-set type of that
time There is something gruesome. even
at this distant time. In reading the long
account the introduction to which was:
THE last act of the tragedy OF the nine
teenth century is ended. and the curtain
dropped forever upon the lives Of four Of
it's actors-Payne, Herold, Atzerodt and
Mrs Surratt have paid the penalty OF
their awful crime.
I'm the bright sunlight of this summer
day, when the hills and grassy fields are
fairest and all the elements make earth
pleasant the wretched criminals have
been hurried into eternity.
Their deeds have been judged patient
ly and impartially. Seven weeks were
devoted to th0r trial. witnesses have
been summoned from remote sections,
every point that in any manner suggested
innocence was carefully weighed, and the
sentence OF death executed only because
there was not one reasonable doubt or
overwhelming guilt
1.-The friends of Mrs. Surratt thought
her life might be spared out OF regard
for her sex, but just tribunal Ia no re-
specter Of persons and declares that the
majesty OF outraged law must be vindi-
Gated without reference to age. sex or
condition"
Between the lines and even in the lines
Of this long account of the last chapter
Of the Lincoln assassination the reader
today gets the sense OF the hard, tense
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created, and about quarter OF GEN.
fury mas passed since mat DIS tact Was
accomplished, there has Deen at tho
bottom o. quarry road a singer-pop
ana peanut stand. Young hasiiinSto-
mans now bald and gray, have sIaked
their summer sunday thirst there, ana
no doubt tons and tons OF peanuts nave
passed over the smooth worn counters.
To be munched by all manner OF per
sons and ~ feed the monKeys. the ele
phaut. the peafowi and every animal
III the Zoo that VIII eat peanuts.
There may be some animals In the
Zoo that do not eat peanuts, but they
are hard for any one not zooloSlst 10
find The biggest of the bears beg Tor
them. Any bear will sit on his
launches, embrace the cruel bars or his
den with his forepaws and eye you
longingly and wishfully and almost
lovingly IL he but suspects that you
have peanuts in your pockets. Even the
hearty meat-eaters IN the Zoo VIII
relish crisp peanut, and will ask To-
more.
SO that little old peanut stand has
become landmark. but now that
Quarry road is being buried deep under
hundreds of trainloads of earth, and "A
new Zoo entrance is in the making.
clods of clay are rolling down the nigh
embankment and falling at the founda-
ton posts and planking of the familiar
peanut stand. Perhaps. with all the i'm
provement going on in that neighbor-
hood the landmark may soon vanish.
The dirt fill for the new parkway
towers high above the roof of the little
old stand, and ii seems that IL must
soon be buried under a mountain.
one of the longtime residents on
Quarry road is W. \. Fry. whom the
Rambler found In his picturesque cot
tage at the corner OF Quarry road and
Summit street, a new street that leads
firm Onta rio road and affords the only
means of getting into quarry ROAD
without falling, since that old way has
been closed by the filling across IL or
Lanier place.
Mr.. Fry recalled that the ginger-pop
landmark was started nv a FAMILY
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The inventory.
WELL known fin

WELL known financier was talk
ing in Denver about an executor
who had been, to say the least of II. re-
miss.
THE man reminds me-" said he, 'of
the two clerks who were making an in
ventory of a bankrupt actress posses
sions. The inventory ran like this:
Eight pots grease paint.
Right
Three blond wigs
Right
lone cigarette tube.
Right
Six bottles of port.
II don't think it's port. 1t smells TO
me Ike claret.'
Thus the second Inventory clerk spoke,
and there followed an hours intermission.
Then the inventory went on again:
'Sh-his--shix empty-hic-claret bo'ls.'
"Ri-his-zhat's right.
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Volcanic Eruptioms and Their Effect ON Climate.

terms TO remove the ashes although
working during the day.
At pm. the fall of ashes ceased and
the sky assumed a reddish color and OBJ
island the fall of ashes was about one
foot This eruption is compared to the
eruption of Mt. krakatoa, in the Strait
of Sunda, in 1859, which was investigated
by the Royal Society Of Great Britain.
This explosion was SO terrific that the
northern and lower portion of the Island
of Krakatoa was quite blown away, leav-
once a mountain stood. 1t also blew out
a cavity OF 1000 feet deep and below
sea level.
Nearly $1,000 people persisted in tidal
wave that followed and which inundated
the coasts Of Java and Sumatra, carrying
a Dutch warsh!p two miles inland and
leaving 1t thirty feet above sea level This
wave was still several feet high when it
reached the Cape of Good Hope and the
noise of the explosion was heard 1900
miles away. The air waves caused by
the titanic eruption passed around the
earth seven times. A column of dust
was thrown into the air to a height OF
from seventeen to twenty miles and ex-
tended completely around the world
causing wonderful sunset phenomena all
over the globe. In one year this dust
cloud settled only ten miles.
Although the explosion OF Mt. Katmal
failed to produce the fearful detona-
ton of Krakatoa, the fall Of ashes on
Kodiak Island was greater than the ash
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zG QVS
QUARRY ROAD LANDMARK.

was generally known as Prison Hospital
receiving the prisoners from the guard
houses of the various camps and posts
9bHut ,s sse DIT sity william J. ws Stone e'V Who
owned the place, offered the grounds
freely to the government Later, it be-
came the property OF Senator John 4.
Logan and is still owned by the senator's
widow. William j. Bryan is the present
tenant.
Last winter The Rambler wrote the
story of the origin Of the name. Meridian
Hill, and Of Commodore Porters house
and farm, the farm occupying all that
tract which will become park ana the
house standing above what is now the
bed of 10th street. When the seat of
government was removed to the D-strct
Of Columbia Meridian Hill was known
as Peters hill. being part of the Peters
tract. The other evening in the Library
of Congress the Rambler. while reading
some back numbers OF the National In
telligencer, came across the folloW ns
sale advertisement of Meridian Hill in
the lntelligencer OF Monday, october L.
1898:
Meridian Hill for sale.
Being duly authorized by Commodore
Porter, the subscr.be offers Meridian
Hill for sale This property, the last
residence of Commodore Porter while in
this country commands a bea utiful and
extensive view OF the District and of the
surrounding country and is one Of the
most desirable places in the District. The
lands contain about sixty acres and are
highly improved. and have a number of
valuable young fruit trees now bearing.
1.-The buildings consist of large dwell
ing house finished in the best style and
of necessary outhouses, including an
overseer's house and substantial barn
The property lies one mile north of the
Presidents house.
"A part of the purchase money will be
required in hand and for the residue a
posed to purchase will be pleased to apply
to the subscriber. A great bargain may
be had in this property.
RICHARD SMITH"
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Fowle and Abbot They found that the
haze from katmai began to affect meas
urements in Algeria on or about June 10,
some thirteen days after the eruption.
On Mount Wilson the haze was first no.
ticed to be affecting observations about
June 81 Duding July this hazy effect
increased and reached it's maximum at
Bassour about the middle Of August. but
still seemed increasing at Mount Wilson
at the end of August.
They also determined that the maxi
mum decrease in the amount of solar
heat. directly attributable to the haze.
reached about ID per cent at each place.
1t was also noticed that the particles
of matter blown into the air were larger
than is usual in such instances.
So great was the amount of dust
thrown into the atmosphere at Mount
Wilson that Mr.. Fowle collected a guam
tity from the mirror of the coelostat, and
this dust showed a quantity of volcanic
glass, one of the most marked charac-
teristicS of volcanic dust
In the passage Of a beam of sunlight
from the outer limit OF the atmosphere
to the earth losses of energy occur
through absorption by the gases and
vapors of the atmosphere, by the reflec-
ton of light back into the sky, by the
dust particles fioating in the air and by
the scattering of the light into space
purposes.
Although it is not possible to compute
this loss by the actual use Of instru-
ments, the scientists. however, know
the average absorption, reflection and
other items of loss by other expert
ments and are thus able to arrive at
the special loss of light and heat occa-
stoned by the extraordinary quantity
Of dust particles In the air.
Mr. Abbot also constructed several
of w m hoe
observations which were Of great help