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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28
Pigs No Longer Pigs.

From the Chicago Post.
Pigs is pigs no longer. Perhaps they
are in some places, but they are not in
places where the uplifting work Of the
government has made itself felt. Mid
dle-aged men and even the younger ones
who live apart from the farms p. obably
think of the pig today as they saw him
in their boyhood days. The pig originally
was a mucker; now he is an aristocrat.
The pig pen was the one undesirable
place about the farm. The dirtier q pig
pen was the better the pigs We're sup
posed to like 1t. They were wallowers:
let them wallow in mud and be done with
it. Some time ago Uncle Sam undertook
the work of lifting the pig out of his miry
poke. He has succeeded wonde: fully. and
now. where men can read and under
stand. the pig has his clean straw. his
clean food, his dry bed and his sunshiny
corner.
AS the pig has advanced in the scale
Of piggery pork has gone up. pork
chop always was q deltcacy, and some
wears ago it was a cheap delicacy. To-
day it ranks in price with articles OF food
which are known as luxuries. There is
money in pigs and the government. being
encouraged bv the success of its boys
corn clubs, is now establishing its boys
pig clubs Youngsters already are at
work in the country districts raising pigs
under conditions which no pig Of a decade
ago would recognize. Soon to call a man
a pig will be a compliment Of force and
favor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28
County Palatine.

From the London Chronicle.
Durham, where the king is on hoh-
day, ranks, as everybody knows, as n
county palatine. But how many who
glibly use the phrase could explain it
Palatine denotes, of course, connection
with a royal palace. and a county pala-
tine was an earldom in which according
to Stubbs) the earl was endowed with
the superiority of the whole shire" His
county was little kingdom, and he WAS
yiceroy responsible only to the sovereign.
In Durham the bishop had this power.
He was absolute governor of the county.
administering the law. taking all profits
from the courts, nominating sherifts.
holding his own councils, exercising all
royal rights and ruling independently
save in homage and fealty to the SOW
ereign.
Thus the kings writ did not run in
county palatine which also was not rep
resented i'm parliament. Durham did not
send M.P.'s to Westminster until 1854.
and even then this was regarded as
an outrage on the authority of the
bishop. Chester ranked with Durham.
both being created by William the Con-
uueror Lancashire became palatinc
later and Others were Kent, shropshire,
the Isle Of Ely, IieXhamshire in NORTH
cumberland, and Pembroke in Wales M
these counties paatine, it will be noted.
Were buffer states against invasion hr
the Scots, Welsh or from oversee. Both
Durham and Lancashire still have their
own courts of cliaucery independent of
London.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28
House Electric an Attractive Display

The house electric, established under
the direction of the Potomac Electric
Power Company, on oxford street,
Chevy Chase, has proved an attractive
display The house is completely
equipped with the proper rugs. draperies
and furniture to suit the different
rooms, and the intention of harmonic
ing the whole scheme has been car
ried out
The exterior illumination is supplied
by two large nitrogen lamps focused
directly on the building, and also an
electric sign and an electric trans
parency.
A representative of the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Company who is connected
with this work says that each day
since the opening of this display it has
been we'll attended. Notwithstanding the
inclement weather. Last Sunday more
than 400 visitors were received.
Three women and several men rep
resenting the Potomac Electric Power
Company are i'll attendance to explain
the various devices which are on dis
play The house is open from 1(
o clock am. till o'clock ON. every day
The display will continue until Sunday
March s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28
Automatic Stair Lamps.

From the Electrical World.
In Europe many Of the apartment
houses arc provided with automatic STAR
lamps which can be lighted by the iourA
of Il button 1T the bottom or top OF Tue
stairs. The lamps burn for two OF ihfce
minutes automatically eNinSuiShinG
themselves at the end of This period,
This arrangement gives the late-e"n'"
ample time to ascend The stairway ptght-
ing each fiigh; successfully if there are
several and il has the advantages OF saw
ing the all-nieht use of the lamps.
Such n scheme would. however. be less
adaptabl to American practice because
most cities here have ordinances reauir,
ing landlords to operate hall lamps al
night long On Tn. scale OF other costs,
also. electrical energy is cheaper in this
country than abroad. so that less need
EXISTS for economizing in current Auto
matte switches used in Germany eKtin-
-r,;sh the lamps at the end OF TWO OF
three minutes, after the tenant fas hao
time to reach his apartment il entering:
or to pass through the street door II
leaving the building. The controlling
push-buttons are conveniently placed at
each door.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28
The Old Fashioned Neighbor.

From Tie Chicago Tribune.
What asks DIR. Evans. has become of
the old-ti,ne neighbour She is, as the
doctor suggests. still, on the job in time of
Illness and distress, but the Job has mar
rowed. There are other agencies, equip
ped and trained for the social service in
which once it was either neighbor or
nothing. Very likely in small communi-
ties she is taking cross lot with her apron
flying. The Jones boy has falleu out of q
tree or the Albright boy chopped his sis
tcr's foot with Il Ratchet. or Mrs. McWil-
liaIns has fallen down cellar, or Grand
father Benton has died.
In the stricken household she is a be-
nevolence and disaster Many a house
wife never dared be seriously i'll for fear
the kindly sisterhood would enter with
sustaining hands, but quick eyes, and un-
cover ali the hidden little economics Of
the family.
The only time she had anything like a
patient spirit for an i'll turn to herself
was Immediately after house cleaning,
when pride in the spotiess aspects would
uplift her through anguish. 1t was a
genial man Of the same breed. who. being
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28

railway sidings and ouays. On the hills
there has broken out an eruption of oil
tanks. looking like gigantic mushrooms.
In the river are many vessels, greedy FOR
oil, oil. OIL
Down the coast a long way lies Tux
pam tTuccpam) also up river. Il tow II
built not upon seven hills like Rome. but
in and out of seven hills, each of them
fiat topped; a sea of houses washing
around their bases without throwing nj
any spray. Here is richer valley thau
that Of the Panuco river. on which Tam
pico lies, and pipe lines bring oil to TuN-
pam as well Us 10 its elder and bige"r
sister They even carry II mile out Ia
sea, where Il can be pumped straight into
tank ships at the rate Of ..,10 barrels
an hour Tuxpam has lived through
anxious days of late. The rebels have
long been threatening to attack the OH
district They are anxious to collect tho
tax which is imposed upon every barrel
of oil produced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28

lane and the Brookvilie road Dwight V.
Jones is building an attractive two-story
house of the modified bungalow type from
plans prepared by a New York architect.
The work Is being done by John Sfmp-
sons Sons, Inc, builders. Q. w. Hill
leary is erecting two brick houses on
the south side Of Bradley lane east OF
the Brookvi.le road. On the south side Of
Raymond street, east of Connecticut ave-
nue., A. B. Leet is completing an attrac-
tive bungalow. John Simpsons Sons,
Inc, are the builders.
J. A. Griesbaur has just started the
erection Of a nine-room dwelling on the
Brookville road near Woodbine street
from plans prepared by George P. Hales.
architect. A. c. Wartheu is the builder.
A. B. Campbell is erecting a seven-room
residence nearby. Three cottages are
beng built on Woodbne street west of
Connecticut avenue by r. L. Jennings
for Mrs. Fannie ]. Barrett, who will place
them on the market. Near these Mr.. Jen-
nings is building house for his own use.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28
TRADE IS COMPLETED
Deeds Placed on Record Transfer
ring Ownership Of Office
Building.

Details of the transaction whereby
the office building of the Real Estate
Trust Company at 14th and Ill streets
northwest was sold recently to Mrs.
Henrietta NJ. Halliday were made pub
lie yesterday. when deeds were placed
on record.
The Office building which was held in
the name OF Annie f. Mcqueen. is re-
ported to have figured at a valuation
of 100000 in the transaction. The
Real Estate Trust Company took as
part payment the four story business;
property at 1872. New York avenue, {
portion of which is occupied by the
washington Herald Company
This property subsequently has beer
sold to DR.. Zachariah T. Sewers by tho
trust company. The two-story struc-
ture at 1916 New York avenue, which
formerly was a part of the old Hall
OF the Ancients, was taken as part
pa1ment.
Mo announcement has been made con
coyping the valuations of the two New
York avenue properties. nominal con
alterations being stated in both deeds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28

A determined effort is being made by
the Brightwood Park Citizens Associa-
ton and by residents Of Brightwood Park
to bring about the drainage of a deep
pool which has formed on the south half
of the square bounded by Longfellow and
Kennedy streets and 9th street and ILL.,
nois avenue Residents OF the neighbor-
hood declare the pool. which is quite deep
in places. has been formed as the result
Of surface drainage from Longfellow
street through IA drain constructed by the
Geut.
The pool is considerably more than 100
leet square and is referred to in the
ueiShnornood us Kennedy lake" Sew
raj enterprisins boys living nearby have
built rowboats and when the weather per-
Ets have spirited races on the Jake
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28

The pool has formed since last fall.
when a pipe which formerly drained the
property is said to have been destroyed
when a sewer was laid on Kennedy
street. Now that the trunk sewer which
extends along Illinois avenue has been
completed the residents Of the neighbor-
hood are making an effort to have the
pool drained into it. The trunk sewer
ends at the corner of Illinois avenue and
Kennedy street and 1t is said it will only
be necessary TO provide small branch
sewer less than fifty feet in length in or
der to drain the pool
The Esrightwood Park Citizens -Associa-
ton is anxious To have this done as soon
as possible. Tor ii is believed the pool
will become n meIiace to health il it is
permitted to remain until warm weather
arrives. 1t is said the only people in the
vicinity who do not want it drained are
the boys who have built the rowboats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28
TO REMODEL OLD HOUSE.
Karl F. Brodt to Improve Frame
Residence in Holmead Manor.

Announcement has been made Of the
purchase by Karl F. Brodt of lot adj
joining property which he owns on 18th
street between Monroe and Otis streets
northwest in the section known as
Holmead Manor. The purchase gives
him a total frontage of 40 feet and
the property is about 100 feet deep.
y large frame house stands on the
property. 1t is Mr.. Brodt's intention
to have this extensively remodeled and
renovated for use as his own home. Work
on the structure probably viii be started
during the next month or SO.
A large garage is to be built in the
rear of the property and the residence
is to be encircled by a driveway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28

trict a. H. Dyson is erecting hollow
tile house. containing nine rooms, on the
north side of Hesketh street. west OF
Connecticut avenue. The structure was
designed by f. y. Ryerson, and John
Simpsons Sons. inc, are the builders.
The house probably will be completed
about May Il.
AT the corner Of Connecticut avenue
and Melrose street Burr \. Edwards is
building a residence for his own use from
plans by Dom &- Deming. architects. The
work is being done by the +. w. Page
Construction Company. The house VIII
be finished about June 1, it is said.
II. Prescott Galley is having large
stone residence erected on the south side
of Quincy street from plans prepared by
Hornblower & Marshall, architects, and
under the supervision of that firm. no
general contract having been awarded.
II is understood the style of architecture
is to be somewhat similar to that fol-
lowed in building the Chevy Chase Club.
Erecting Modified Bungalow.
%Io sn,,thyrcSt nf Rradlcy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28
MAY ENLARGE SH0REHAM
Preliminary Sketches Being Pre-
pared for Vermont Avenue
Addition to Hotel.

1t is stated upon good authority that
preliminary sketches are being prepared
by a local architect FOR a proposed addi-
ton to the Shoreham Hotel. 1t is said
the drawings are being made primarily to
ascertain whether the present structure
can be enlarged TO advantage and also
the cost of such an undertaking.
The plans call for an addition facing ON
Vermont avenue, it is said The proposed
structure is to contain large banquet
hail and increa sed dining Dom facilities
in addition to guestroorns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28

felt it. The father bowed low before its
superb magpanimity. Only once is Joseph
Chamberlain reported to have had moist
eyes in parliament, and that was the
occasion.
For four or five years Austen was
civil lord of the admiralty. In 1900 he
was promoted to the post of financial
secretary to the treasury, an office which
invariably brings man to the threshold
of the cabinet. Next there came to him
the portfolio of the postmaster general,
and then, in 1908. he was hoisted to the
high position of chancellor of the eN-
chequer. a dazzling elevation which
caused in many people catch of the
Notwithstanding, perhaps, the new chan
cel1or himself. 1t was one of the dramatic
episodes of the tariff CONFUSION. The
government was expected to founder, but
Mr. Balfour's seamanship saved it. The
free traders. headed by the late Duke
of Devonshire, left 1t, so did Joseph
Chamberlain.
1t was at this crisis-a crisis during
which much happened that has never
yet been written about-that the coun-
try discovered with establishment that
cellor of the excheduer. The air was
full of wild conjecture Certain poll
ticiaps smiled ard winked and limited
that Joe with his usual 'cuteness had
not gone out without making his terms;
others suggested that Arthur (BalfourI
had outplayed him, and that the sud
den promotion of Austen to the chan
ceilorship of the eXchequer was the most
bri liant point scored in the game since
the good fortune of the son was nicely
calculated to keep the father i'll order.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28

carried into his house on IA shutter after
an accident, pulled his wife through the
first shock of her grief by saying: Never
mind, Anna, had a clean shirt on Free
uuently neghborIy action, checked in the
sickroo,n by inability to do more than
put on hot cloths. turns loose in the
kitchen with prodgious results. The
household is equipped in short order with
pies, cakes, cookies, bread. doughnuts,
turuovers,- crullers, buns, biscuits, etc,
to batten a battalion. 1t is an instinct to
cambat a grief with the creature COM
forts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28
SALES INVOLVE $4,000.
Transactions in Residential Proper
tiles Reported by Morgan Bros.

SiJse Involving $4,000 were reported
today By Morgan Brothers. Inc, real es-
tate brokers. as follows:
No. 915 French street northwest. for
Mrs B7andenburg. $3.50; to A. II. Ryan
sSi Girard street northwest. $500: TO
Bena Forbes 14Oi Harvard street north
west, $500. for Il. J.. Tracy, 1878 riggs
street northwest, $1,000; for Clara Nor
gan. 1908 18th street northwest S6,'Vo;
for Carl L. Davis. a bungalow at Takons
, Park. $40; for the Washington Land
and Mortgage Company. six lots at Chill
ien Castle Heights, $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28
Solid Mahogany Doors.

Included in the material to be utilized
in the new. structure are a number OF
doors and mantels Of solid mahogany
and walnut. Some heavily built white
pine doors. nearly a century old and yet
in an excellent state of preservation,
also will be used.
The apartment hotel is to be built to
suit the needs of members OF Congress
and their families who spend portion
of each year in Washington. All OF the
brick to be used in the building is from
the old residences to the north OF the
CAPITOL grounds, which have been razed
recently The exterior is to be gwen a
pebble dashed finish. The base and TRIM
ming Of the structure is to be OF Indiana
limestone.
There will be wide parking on both
the C street and New Jersey avenue
frontages This will be bordcred by an
ornamental stone balustrade.
The interior finish is to be colonial
throughout. The upper floors VIII De
devoted to apartments, and on the lower
floor there will be all hotel corveniences'
;acluding large dining room suitable
for banqucts.
The building will cost approximately
SttNOO0 Work is to be started Monoay'
according to an announcement MADE TO-
day by Mr.. Phillips.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28
PROPERTY CHANGES HANDS.
Fourteenth Street Buildings Acquir-
ed BY Emma J. Walter.

A deed has been placed on record trans
ferring the ownership of the property at
22O3 and 22o5 18th street northwest from
Oscar w. White and others to Emma
]. Walter. A nominal consideration is
stated, but the sale was made subject
to a deed of trust of $4,000. The prop
erty has a total frontage of forty-two
feet on 18th street and depth of about
100 feet and Is improved by brick struc-
lures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28

Probably the outstanding event in his
early political career was the handsome
compliment paid to him on his maiden
speech by Gladstone. 1t was nobly done,
as only the Grand Old Man, with his
grand old manner, could do it. The son
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28
The Search for Oil Wells.

For years Che was then Sir Neetnan
Pearson, he poured out money trying 10
find oil wells along the gulf coast be-
tween Tampico and Tuxpam. 1t taxed
his patience and il taxed his purse. only
u very rich and very determined pros
pector could have seen the search
through. Even after he had been re-
warded by striking Il ''StShcr,' which
gave a million barrels = month, his hopes
were dashed again. The oil, which mys-
FERROUS forces far below the surface flung
upwards in Il hugh fountain, caught
aiight and burned itself ont. \ fortune
famed away in that column of SNAKE
and fire. Once again Lord Cowdray
proved the truth of the homely proverbs:
ITS logged as does it, Cndismayed. he
kept his team of biologists and borers at
work and soon they found another
''gusher' almost prolific rs the first.
For two years this has been yielding
SJcG00 barrels a month, which means
roughly E900,o6n a year. Besides this the
Mexican Eagle Company has several other
wells of smaller capacity, and numbers of
ether companies are at work to supply
the eyCr-iucreasing demand for oil to
drive ships. locomotives. all kinds of
engines, the all-conquering motor car.
This is the oil age. The world cannot
get enough of this valuable fuel which
has lain hid through "A the a-es until
| now. In every likely region holes are being
punched through the earths surface in
the hope to lind il. Up to now the United
States produces more oil than any other
country. Russia comes second. When
the Mexican oil fields are yielding to the ,
full extent they will, it is believed, take
Russias place. Then Tampico will be a
flourishing city. one of the great oil ports
of the world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28
Diligently Does His Work.

Such were some of the political specula-
tons of the moment. Austen himself
seemed to pay no heed to them. He
seriously, and applied himself to the
work of the treasury Ito which he had
already served an apprenticeship as
financial secretary with praiseworthy
di igence. His first budget was received
by the house of commons with the com
placent tolerance which it always eX-
tends to a budget that does not en-
cite it.
Right through that parliament until
the debacle of January. 1906, the son was
the second man on the treasury bench
and the father a back-beEcher. But
still the member for West Birmingham
was the greatest man i'll the world to
the member for East Worcestershire The
glamour of the father never waned in
the eyes of the son. Austen was loyal
enough to his parliamentary chief, Mr..
was turned to that rather solitary hut
completely self-suf1icient figure below the
ganeway. Austen was as great n tariff
reformeT as his father, and still is.
1t is possible that Austen has 10,
played his cards with absolute accuracy,
but he is still young us politicians go
a man who has attained front political
rank at fifty has great possibilities be
fore him. Austen Chamberlain is not
a man Of genius He has not the initial
/ tive and the craft Of his father, nor the
resource and the subtlety of Mr.. Bal
! four. His speeches contain no epigrams
| He is not a very forceful personality
What he says he believes he does be-
| lieve> He nails his coiors not to the
fence, but to the mast. He is faithful
and sure and candid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28
PHILLIPS BUYS SITE
FOR UNIQUE STRUCTURE
?
70 Utilize Material From Old Wash
ington Inn in Apartment
Hotel.

!: \ five-story apartment hotel is to be
erected at the southwest corner of New
Jersey avenue and c street southeast by
Hugh j. Phillips, on property purchased
from John NJ. Henderson. the sale of
(which was announced today by Thomas
y. Fisher & Co, Inc. The consideration
is said to have been approximately s2o.-
90. The property has frontage Of lo3
feet on c street and seventy-six feet on
New Jersey avenue.
The hotel structure is to contain fitty-
one apartments 1t is to be o. the
colonial type Of architecture with tan
stone columns at the front
Material removed fron the rows OF
houses being RACED by mir. Philips on
the squares which have been aoded 70 70
the Capitol pa-n is to be utilized In
the structure, which is to be known as
the George Washington Inn This name
. Is to be given the hotel because CT the
fact that considerable material removed
from the old Washington Inn on Sortn
Capitol street. between B and c streets,
"a portion of which Is said to have been
built by George Washington, Is 70 be
used in its construction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28
Vessels Greedy for Oil.

Yet the view from the higher part of
the town is delightful. You look across
wide sheets OF water, green meadows,
wooded hillsdes, all glittering in the
tropical sunshine, all quiverinS in a
sheeny haze. Toward the sea, some few
miles down the river, stretch miles of