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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

President Wilson's campaign manager, a
man who has made his reputation as a
brilliant lawyer. He went into the pre-
convention campaign with a vim that
was astonishine-he fought the enemy
up hill and down dale, and when the Will
son boom began to sag for lack of money
he was ready worker who hustled out
Princeton alumni, private individuals.
political supporters in New Jersey, any
where-and raised the necessary cash
with which TO continue the: fight
X X
Like Mr.. Dodge. Mr.. McCombs was at
tracted by the Presidents administration
of Princeton He was convinced that the
man who could successfully administer
first a university. and then a state, was
q competent man to take up the reins OF
the democratic party.
President Wilson anC Mr.. McCOmbS
have been friends since long before the
latter became the campaign manager OF
the former. The friendship had been a
warm aid deep one The President, fol-
lowing his Inauguration. Is reported to
have offered at least three positions to
his campaign manager.
But the Presidents chums are not all
members of the Princeton alumni. Dean
Dabney of the University Of Virginia,
is a long tried and trusted friend. Their
attachment has been mutual and based
on the respect each holds for the high
Intellectual qualities OF the other. DR..
Dabney served as assistant secretary of
agriculture during the second Cleveland
administration.
Two warm personal friends Of the Pres
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WALTER T. 3Iy AGL ,.o,o.

together was their mutual appreciation
and understanding of literature Col.
Harvey's delicate satire, never savage.
yet always pungent, has been the subject
of the Presidents appreciation on many
an occasion while to Col. Harvey the
Princeton executive presented the highest
type of scholarship and leadership. Their
friendship was warm and even after the
rupture it was noticeable that neither
cared to make the slightest comment
upon the other. They respect each other
today, although they are not the intimate
friends that they We're a year ago.
Those who know both men declare
that their conversations in New York
club We're moments of education to those
fortunate to hear them Both were keen
political students and both had the
knowledge of men of almost every time
on civic problems and matters of state
government One man who heard them
once during a short discussion declared
IF l could have sat at table with them
for a week / could have learned more
than by reading the books of library
for year"
Col. Harvey cannot now be considered
one of the Presidents chums. Yet he
is still an admirer. and friends of both in
Washington and New York prophesy that
ere time has gone on much longer the
breach of last year will have been healed.
Among the political friends made by
the President are the two senators from
New Jersey, MARITIME and Hughes. With
the latter he is especially chummy.
The peculiar fighting qualities OF
Senator Hughes-and he is generally
known as a man who will quit only
when he is carried from the arena on
stretcher-were what won the Pres
ident to him. Hughes during his long
term in Congress was generally known
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Them'S C0CkereIS.

A PROPOS Of country vacations, Sem
"A ator Penrose told at the Philadelphia
club a farm story.
ION a fishing tour" he said. Il once
put up at quaint farm. The farmer
and his wife We're English. They had
brought from England their neatness
and good taste. That rose-grown farm
house was a thing OF beauty.
But there was a story about the farm
er. The hired man said to me once:
"'Do you want to make the boss madr
mo said l. L don't particularly want
to make him mad. Why?
well, If you want to make the boss
mad said the hired man, Just yell after
him. 'Them's cocherels, Hannah.
How will that make him mad?'
asked.
And then, with a laugh, the hired
man told me how, one day in the spring,
the boss and his wife Hannah had gone
into the cupboard To get a setting OF
eggs, as the old Cochin China had been
setting on corncob for week
well, in the pantry there. as fast as
Hannah picked out an egg. the farmer
would take IL from her and put Ii back in
the basket again, saying:
"'Them's cockerels, Hannah. We don't
want the farm all choked up with cock
erels, do We? What we want is pulets,
and IL you want to get pullets, you must
pick out the short, round ones like this
here, not them long, thin ones like you've
been a-pickin' out
AT this point in his story the hired
man halted. He looked at me and laugh
We'll. said I. there's nothing funny
about that
There was afterward. though said
chicks Matched out and twelve OF en-
was cockerels'
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WINS COMBS ~
q IA RS eNiNG.l

Judge Garrison asking him to accept is
reported to have contained the succinct
remark that he desired a Secretary OF
War who could settle differences.
It will be recalled that Secretary Gar
rison had hardly assumed office before
he called Chairman Hay Of the House
military affairs committee to his Office and
in a one-hour conference succeeded in OBJ
tanning a declaration of truce in Mr..
Hays war on Mai Gen. Leonard Wood.
The ending Of this old feud showed that
President Wilson had not misjudged this
one Of his friends.
President Wilson's friendship for Sec
rotary Daniels was peculiar in its be-
Secretary Daniels had dreamed in his
editorial columns Of the time when the
new south should send another President
to rule the nation. There is deep strain
Of sentiment in the composition of Sec
rotary Daniels and he Is a most Jealous
partisan when he joins in a campaign
When President Wilson began to be
mentioned as possibility Secretary Dam
iels went into the campaign with all the
ardor Of a press agent trying to save an
ailing musical comedy. and there Is no
to the President-to-be rendering his serv-
ices free. Then he got into touch with
Mr.. McCombs and found out what he
could do. Later he was to be discovered
in a big room in New York directing pub
licity work there.
The offer Of the portfolio Of the navy
came to him long after the election was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

The street where many pale and wan
men and women sit or lie In reclining
roller chairs Is 18th street which
passes along the west front OF the hos
pital and the narrow lawn. iron-railed.
between the building and the side
walk. Along that part of Its course
10Th street is smooth and quiet. Nearly
all the travel passing over ii goes on
rubber tires and even then not very
many automobiles use that passage be-
tween the Avenue and the Monument
lot Some do. of course. but the great
majority of autos that seek the Monu-
ment grounds pass over the fine and
winding drives OF the White Lot.
The west sidewalk of 18th street Is
broad and sheltered with the foliage
OF big trees. The paving is old gray,
cracked and scanned asphalt Tree roots
have ruptured IL in many places and
the heat and cold OF the seasons have
split, warped and roughened 1t. A
park policeman told the Rambler that
this 18th street sidewalk paving was
one of the very early streets of as
phalt. perhaps the first. laid down In
Washington.
Along the curb line grow tall old pop-
lars, reminders of the time now relatively
remote, when that species was esteemed
the street tree of greatest worth and
promise. -hese trees are still green and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03
SECRETARY OF WAR GARRISON.
@EDNONSToN

ident serve in his cabinet. They are the
Secretary of War, Lindley M. Garrison.
formerly on the bench In New Jersey,
and the Secretary of the Navy. Josephus
Daniels, who until his present appoint
ment was a newspaper editor in halelSn,
n. C.
The former awakened the admiration
of the President long before either o.
them was active politically On the
bench Garrison. to quote a phrase wncn
Is attributed to the President, had
way about him.
He was q man OF dynamic energy. To-
day he Is a second Roosevelt. swapping
out his answers pounding his desk and
evincing energy in his every move. There
is nothing about him that reminds one OF
the calm, quiet gentle-spoken President.
Yet these very opposites in temperament
appealed to President Wilson and the two
became fast friends. Frequently they
would meet and discuss questions OF re-
form for New Jersey, Garrison being one
of those who were bitterly opposed to the
old order. The more Garrison talked the
more the future President was taken with
him.
And as Garrison talked SO he acted. and
this appealed to Gov. Wilson. He han
died cases before him humanity. When
the plaintiff and defendant were split upon
an issue and there seemed to be posi-
bility that a little mature reflection would
enable them to settle their differences am
icably Garrison would adjourn the case
and tell them to think things over before
they ran into additional expense and to
report to him within a certain time. This
appealed to the governor. His letter to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03
Avenue of Wickets.

THE Avenue of Wickets Is a way
which parallels the east side of
18th street from B street to the Paul
Jones monument. 1t has been and is a
popular promenade 1t is q way that
leads from the main entrance Of Potomac
Park to the bathing heath. to the tidal
basin and to the numerous shady places.
romance spots and interesting sections Of
the great playground.
From the east gutter OF the 18th street
drive to the line of the thirty lofty pop
lars on the east is q broad margin Of
lawn which. during much OF the day. is
shaded by the poplars and a line OF
younger and smaller trees along the
drive. A footway was marked out along
this shady strip of sward. but few pedes-
TRANS resisted the desire to walk on the
grass, with the result that the lawn took
on a dusty, beaten and moth-eaten look.
The wickets, tall and heavy ones paint
ed white. are planted in lines of five at
distances of about twenty feet the whole
length of the way between the footpath
and the poplars and in lines Of twos and
threes between the footpath and the
gutter of the roadway. AS one looks up
or down this walk there is a great show
of white wickets. Looked at from either
side ranks of tall pallid wickets bristle
to the right and left There are hundreds
of these wickets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

ON the hilltop to the right, and the shrub
and vine-tangled graves and tombstones
Of the old cemetery on the LETT, you VIII
after a short and winding walk come to
the bottom of the valley of Rock creek
After following for few yards the fine
road which leads along the east bank OF
the creek you Will come upon signoooaros
warning you of danger and other notices
displayed across the road that the way Is
closed Big works are under way along
that part Of the creek and the road.
Explosions of blasting powder have been
frequent and loud enough to rattle win
dows within a wide radius. The dwell
ers I'm the Mount Pleasant and Cleveland
Park sections hear these blasts Inc
noise sometimes sets the lions and the
tigers in the Zoo to roaring and the wolves
to barking. Then there Is some disturb
ance. But II IL one Of those forms OF
progress to which noise is necessary.
Along the west side Of the creek a
trunk sewer Is building. Gray rock Is
exposed all along the steep timbered
bluff on the west. Derricks and drills and
gangs Of men are working down there In
the deep shadows. The sewer is building
north. The cut is through solid rock,
SO that this sewer Is not being Dug
with pick and shovel. out with steam drill
and powder-it may be dynamite. Ihe
stone, shattered and then thrown up out
of this sewer trench, is used TOT pulio-
ing a rubble wall along the west SIDE
of the creek, and no doubt a ROAD VIII
finally be laid out where now this blasting
Is in course.
If you will leave the sewer-quarry work
and continue northward on the Adams
mill road you will soon be stopped by
the progress Of another big piece of con-
struction work. The old bridge where the
Adams mill road crossed Rock creek into
the main cleared parklike grounds OF
the Zoo has long been down and new
cement bridge Is being set up. The
cement mixer is playing lively tune. The
cement abutment on the north side has
been constructed and on the south side
the cofferdam In which the south abut-
ment will be built Is down, ana proDapiy
when this gets into print the cement
will have been poured In.
Horse and gasoline traffic u.s. OF course
suspended along this part of Rock creek
valley, but for the convenience OF pedes-
TRANS q slender foOtbridge has been
thrown across the stream and anchored
by wire cables to stout trees on the
banks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03
Defeat.

CAPT. VIVIAN LOCKETT. at the Au-
~ gust Belmont dinner to the defeated
English polo team last month. said in an.
swer to toast:
"But, after all, there's always some
thing shameful and ridiculous about de-
feat. Gloss 1t over as we will. defeat 10
always absurd.
Defeat reminds me OF the foreigner
who said to the fair American girl:
".Ah, dear young lady. dere iss only
vun wort in de English languitch to de.
scribe your beauty
"sYes. yes? said the girl. with an ex-
pectant and encouraging smile.
And unfortunately the foreigner cons
cluded, 4 hat forgotten vat de wort issP
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thrifty and their foliage dense. Their
shade falls upon the street and the side
walk. Along the park side Of the old
asphalt pavement are broad elms, and
the interlac!ng branches of the elms and
poplars give to the gray sidewalk the
feeling Of leaf-coiled corridor. The
summer airs that float through this dim
aisle are cool on the hottest day. Some
times the breezes float through here, at
other times they rustic or rush through.
1t is on this asphalt sidewalk and under
these trees that numerous patients from
the hospital across the street recline.
Some doze and some gaze weakly or in
differently at the few persons who pass
that way, while others read. All of them
are in roller chairs which some kind and
gentle nurse has wheeled from over the
way Many of them are carefully COW
cred up and tucked in to ward against
the effects Of draught.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

could talk they would probably say of
this little garden that 1T is simply i'm
possible" or 1T is not In our Set" or
1t is terribly oldfashioned." or some
thing of that sort. However In this little
garden the intent is there and the intent
has created fresh grass, radiant blossoms
and grateful foliage where otherwise
would be a claybank or a bare terrace
Love has been lavished on this little spot
and hands hard and weary from days
labor have tended these old-style plants
And this little garden has requited that
love and care In the best way IL knows
how.
You may find this place on 23d street,
on the west side, between F and G
streets. Along the west side Of the street
there is a low terrace. The tall and steep
flights OF wooden steps to the front door
Of the house shows that here the grade
Of Esd street has been cut down. On
the clay slope OF the terrace new grass is
growing.
1t was no mean achievement to make
grass grow there. Many lot holders. even
ON streets where property brings high
prices. will understand that In growing
grass between the house and the pave.
of colsus. and this should be read In the
plural by persons who know what the
plural Of this plant Is. grows before this
house A few frail crotons are also grow
ing there. There. too. are ptnsies ana
bachelors buttons. Nasturtium IL grow
ing IN a large tin can and the vines are
festooning its shiny outside Moonvines
have climbed a Irvine lattice to veil part
of the crooked wooden stairway that
leads to the front door one story above
the level of the street.
In the big tin pail In the middle OF the
garden a water lily lives and grows. A
row OF ferns is growing where there II
some shade. A cigar plant. with Mowers
like firecrackers. lends It's color beeonias.
lady slippers and fuchias are also bloom
ing In this very small garden: one OF the
vines climbing the stairway Is . madeira
vine There Is a border of uranium
Next door the ground has not been 90
cared for and on that terrace where
weeds or parched and uncut grass Is not
growing the bare clay shows. The nome
ly but happy little garden In the picture
is on the square south OF that wnereon
stands St. Marks Chapel, whose prcH
walls are hung with southside Ivy and
along whose narrow lawn grow SAD and
seedy spruce trees
While the Rambler was making . pho
tograph of the garden its maker came out
to inquire what the trouble was about.
His name Is Clarence coleman and ne
works in the garden OF the Pan-American
building.
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A Yucca Garden.

A FRONT yard or a sidewalk garden
- planted solely with yucca IL I'M
usual enough in Washington to cause
a passerby to give moments notice
to the gray-green foliage and creamy
flowers. On / street between 18th and
10th streets, opposite the great excava-
ton which at some time may be the
subterranean section Of a new Airing
ton Hotel. is an apartment house. On
each side Of the entrance Is small
plot Of ground separated from the side.
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Near Enough.

MAYOR GAYNOR, at a luncheon in
IVA Brooklyn. praised the many whole
some attractions and amusements OF New
York.
New York. said he, is not one Of
those cities where the citizens have no
place to go but back to work. Nor Is 1t
like q wretched town that limited ex-
press. through accident, was obliged to
pull up at one evening.
"A passenger on this express. putting
his head out Of the window. said to. ma
tive:
My friend. what is the name OF this
dismal, dried-up. heaven-forsaken hole?
That's near enough. the detected ma
tive answered. That's near enough. Let
her go at that.
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Shady Sidewalk Near Hospital.

THERE Is one of the streets OF
Washington where rest In the
shade and cool breeses the GONZALES
cent patients of q great and busy hos
pttal. Two squares away traffic throbs
along Pennsylvania avenue. Nearer.
heavy electric cars roll through streets
and wagons rattle over rough stone
nvement 1t IL Emergency Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

WILL
SON. a ! I h o u g h
lacking the exub-
erance which help
ed 10 make Col.
Roosevelt famous,
has possessed him.
self of m a n y
chums - friends to
whom he is not
Mr.. Pre- . ident,"
but a comrade and
companion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03
Construction Work.

IF you will turn down the Adams Mill
road entrance to the Geological
Park. pass through the deeply wooded
ravine with the gray stone and vine
grown administration building Of the Zoo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

Some Are in Politics,
Others in Private
Life-Two Princeton
Alumni Very Near to
Mr.. Wilson = Two
Cabinet Chums and
Two Intimates in the
Senate = Other Men
Who Know the Chief
Executive Intimately
and Who Have Great
Person Influence
With Him.
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Fruit Trees in the Parks.

GOVERNMENT fruit trees in the pub
~ lilo parks OF the capital are at
tracttve to esthetic-minded persons. to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

n intensely and at
fectionately cult
waited garden of
Washington Is a
very humble one.
Its beauty might
make no very
strong appeal to the
landscape a r C h j.
tect, and IL some
of the fashionable
gardens in the rich
sections of the city
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

walk by a low rounded cement coping.
In these little plots yucca, or Spanish
bayonet has been planted There are
about fifty stalks in this little garden.
Nothing but yucca is growing there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

Were he to pick from his wide acquaint-
anceship the two men whom he hoids
nearest to him the President propaDiy
would select Cleveland H Dodge. imam
cier and man of power in New York ana
New Jersey, and William McComps' a
young lawyer
The latter's name is well known. Inc
formers is not so frequently associated
by the popular prints with that OF MT.
Wilson.
When Mr.. Wilson was president of
Princeton that office had about as many
complexities attached to 1t as has the
loftier one which he now fills. He found
stern opposition to some of his proposed
reforms From his college experience De-
fore he became an executive, ne mao
learned the dangers of segregation ana
was now determined to fight snobbery; 10
make the historic college of Princeton
really Independently democratic 1nstltu-
ton.
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When this reform was being decried as
revolutionary there came to Mr. wilson
aid a quiet. gray-haired, self-possessed
man. with youthful face and charming
smile This was Mr.. Dodge, graduate
of Princeton. man of wealth and Gull
ture and above all, one of perseverance.
What you need" said he. lis the sup
port Of the alumni We must organize.
Then he went forth With Mr.. Wilson
he soon interested a majority of the
graduates in the projected reforms. and
in a surprisingly short time men who in
previous years had done little except at
tend the annual banquets and make
speeches were rising up and bowling for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

child and patter and splash in the lower
basin.
1t is an ornament that is not often seen
in front yards today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

bay window and without ever a chance
that some mouse may gnaw him loose, Is
a worse fate.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1913-09-12
EXTRAVAGANCIAS


Sc trata de un angel. caido de las al
turas, que a POGO manda al inferno 4
toda una asamblea de jesu1tas.
En- Roma, en- la Via Espetta, tiene su
estudio nuestro compatriota ell reputa-
do pintor Gallegos
Esta ell art1stico taller en- un vieio edi-
ficlo que fue convento, y en- ell piso in
ferior del ocupado por ell pintor espanol
Sc ha instalado la Redacci0n de I'm i'm
portante 6rgano de publicidad de los je-
su1tas, titulado CiUalta Cattohca.
Hace pocos d1as, los padres jesuitas
redactOres estaban afanosos trabaiando
cuando de improviso ell techo Sc hundi6
y entire espesas nubes Gle polvo vieron
aparecer una hermos1sima joven en- ell
primitive traJe Gle Eva; es decir; para
que nos entandamos mejor, competa-
mente desnuda
i Horror -gritaron todos-. ESQ
es una aparicion diab6lica Y hacienda
cruces todos huyeron de la estancia
En- tanto, la diab6lica aparici6n daba
gritos lastimeros, que por 1ltimo deci
dieron los fugitivos volver en- socorro
de la infeliz muchacha que Ell la Redac-
cion Sc habia presentado Ell forma tan
sorprendente y sin intervention de Sa-
tanas.
La aparecida era una modelo del pin
! tor Gallegos, que la hizo subir sobre rln
| pesado pedestal de bronco para estudiar
la meJOr posici0n academica. Los
maderos del piso, viejos y carcomidos,
no resistieron al peso de la masa del pe~
destal, y todo junto, ell un terremoto,
fue a interrumpir las period1sticas ta-
reas de los atemorizados jesu1tas.
LOS BUENOS AMIGOS.
La buena sociedad de Londres esta
muy divertida con la pequena aventura
acaecida una bellisima actriz que ha-
ce POGO Sc cas6 con un hombre de mum
do, muy rico y enamoradizo.
.El matrimonio pasaba la una de miel
Ell ell campo dando grandes paseos en-
autom0vil.
Pocos d1as hace la joven esposa Sc
sinti6 fatigada, y Ell .marido sal6 solo
para dar una vueltecita de media hora,