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ference with Ferdinand and Isabella, when Columbus plead so convincingly that Queen Isabella offered her jewels that the voyage might be made. The last act showed Columbus return to Spain after the voyage, when he carried with him Indians and trophies from the new land, closing with a grand procession in his honor
 The pageant was witnessed by 300 peo- pie, and that numbers have asked Miss Gardener for the lines indicate that 1t fulfilled It's purpose of showing history teachers how they may arouse genuine in- terest and help their pupils really under stand the development of this country
 Manual Training
 A most excellent department in wood- work has been in charge of Prof. F. I. Nisbet of Florence Normal MT. Nisbet has had the department of manual arts at Florence for IS years. and he was se- cured for the same work at University this summer, as instruction in woodworN is now required in all county high schools and the teachers were in search Of in- strr ction for themselves. MT. Nisbet's s class was composed of 32 men and they have worked long and faithfully with hammer and saw and plane and other tools. They are required to make free hand drawing of the article to be made, and then drawing to scale. The first ar ticle each made was a candlestick. This was quite easy, but gave practice in the work used In other more difficult objects, in measuring. saving. blaming. sand papering, staining and polishing Other things made were bookracks. bookcases. hall trees, umbrella stands, footstools with padded leather seats a typewriter table and clock frame. These were all in mission style. As to their practical use and value, the hall tree, for example, is like those sold for se. and it cost the one who made 1t 80 cents. The typewriter table cost 70 cents.
 At the request of a nNmber of grade teachers MT. Nisbet organized a class of 42 in elementary manual arts consisting of raffia work, beginning with easiest and advancing to basket making, knife work, with light basswood and cardboard con- struction. In the basket weaving Mir. Nisbet uses an original idea that reduces considerably the expense Instead of reed he uses. the long straws from mat ting for filling The mating is raveled and several straws are put together. The new mating is cheaper than reed and the unworn parts of old mating cost nothing.
 Drawing
 Closely akin to the manual arts depart ment is the drawing. which Is taught by Miss Margaret McAdory. art supervisor III Jeieis soii county. IhlS IS MISS Mc- Adory's third year with this work and hers is well-regulated department of inc school with separate classes for teachers of primary. of intermediate and Of high school drawing. The last, like the high school woodwork taught by Mir. Nisbet. Is new this year.
 Outdoor sketching has been a pleasant part of the work in drawing On Tues day morning of last week party went to Lock 12. on the Warrior river, for an hours sketching before breakfast They left the quadrangle at 5:3o. and after 15 minutes walk began their work on the scene looking down the river from the top sof the iron steps ct the lock. Those who
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-19

The University of Alabama has been a busy place indeed during the past six weeks summer school. The classfooms have been filled with teachers who have turned pupils, the library is occupied all day the dining room is crowded to capaci- ty three times day, and on the campus are peripatetic students, studying as they walk or finding quiet spots under the trees.
 Those who are familiar with the sur roundirgs of the university recall that its chief beauty liess in the immense oaks that make of it veritable forest, except for the well-kept lawns. These oaks are beautiful now, and in them are scores of birds. Woodpeckers are seen everywhere, their red and black and white coats fash ing in and out among the green leaves. Bluejays are as numerous as the wood peclSers and thrushes and other birds are in the adjoining woods
 Tie university summer ecnooi was es- tablshed eight years ago, and was at first almost entirely review for those preparing tc stand the state examination. for at that time there was not nearly so
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displayed their work jointly on Thursda

displayed their work jointly on Thursday evening.
 Chautauqua
 During the past week chautduqua has been held on the campus under the local management of l.. Brooks Lilies. Two programmes were given by the famous New York City Marine band, together with soprano soloist. pr. Ward, Shake speafean student and actor, gave-un able lecture on chosen passages and lessons in shakespeare's plays. At the morning ses- sion various phases of scnooI extension were presented Miss Feminear, teacher of the demonstration school had charge of the Boy Scouts movement at that time. The afternoon and evening pro- grammes were attended by both summer school students and Tuscaloosa people. Many from Tuscaloosa went out in their cars.
 Summer School Closes
 The past week brought to a close the
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and it ought to lie, and wlthonI taMns mi IL, ~" !. =
Of the conditions which produce crime. anu who y
removal it is possible and practicable for as 10
secure. . ,.
The system are invited to propose Is u :; IS >,
tenn for tie District Of Columbia, the at OF tte
national government. Tie capital OF hatti,
tEorgi ii lie at TIE level of tho sea Is a citi
set on a hil-it cannot he hid. Nhe.her We "if \
i; ~ NOT II will be observed of all obse verS, a.
It's Influence Will go out for go,d or Tor eVh ~
cornc- OF the land. We wish to sec sysItn =
,6oI,1rd which may teeome a model TO All VIII VIII
arc seeking to improve their own institutions anu
n,,ic;es and w,ich shall he worthy TO FORM a
,,art ,If the law of Il wise and just people
In submitting this report to Con-
gress the Observation-Disclosures Roose-
yelt-Said:
1t is of such exceptional Importance that l ass
the Congress to consider well all that Is therein
set forth The Congress authorized the appoint
,oout nf this commission marked out the course
of It's inauiry and invited its recommenda ations
offered advice or volunteered opinion hut Us a
direct answer to the questions put by INC Con
.rruss which, in sIlasTalce We're rs ionows.
..l11 What is the real condition Of things AT the
,rortbonse and the jail; ~ ought either or both
NJ these institutions TO I've removed and tS) what
ought 10 be done generally in respect 70 .he penal
and correctional system Of the District:
The direct result of the inquiry and
renort of the commission was legisla-
tion looking to the establishment OF
n reforrnatory on a tract OF land OF
900 acres which should be cleared.
cultivated and built upon by the pris-
oners themselves, and the establish :
ment Of a workhouse also on tract OF
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ouested by the Board of Trade TO
Formulate a plan for % the ultimate
removal from their present sites OF the
Jail, the workhouse and the aiihshouse
with their respective necessary ad-
juncts of potters' field. isolated Waros,
etc; CD a plan for the separation OF
the administration of these three IN
stitutions; (3). the location of each on
Il site specially adapted Tor its neeas'
to the end that each of these necessary
institutions can, at a minimum OIL Cost
and annoyance to the community, per
form the maximum of service not only
now required of each, but SO located as
will enable them in coming years to
grow with the certain growth of the
National Capital" The committee pro-
tested AGAINST further expenditure on
the present site, saying: That the eX-
tent of the present obstruction to the
natural growth of our city in an east
ward direction can be shown and TO
have this needless obstruction pro-
longed by the expenditure of vast sums
of money for the purchase of addi-
tional land and the erection of addl-
tional structures for these institutions
on their present site would be uEwisc."
Reforms require a great deal of agl-
tation to start them, but when started
thev usually gather adherents and go
ahead with increasing speed. The
workhouse, almshouse and hospital re-
forms remained for several years in
state of resolution and discussion
Conditions became notorious and wide
attention was called to them by JUS
tice Wendell p. Stafford of the Supreme
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the south. Along the west front of
this reservation runs 18th street, a
gravel-surfaced road with narrow
brick foot walk on one side, and the
rear Of the reservation slopes eastwardy
down to and merges ih the ooze and
gray brown. autumn sArfveled weeds
and grasses of the 4f5arshes of the
Eastern branch. t2z{
According to 'Mapfof land owned
by the United States. Comprised within
what is known as the flats of the Ana
costa river. from its mouth to the
boundary line of the DiGtrict of Column
bia, from survey authorized and direct
ed by act of Congress of July 1, 1902"
this marsh is 400 yards wide at the
southerly line of the reservation, but
abruptly expands to a, width of 500
yards.
Through this marsh will run a new
and deepened channel of the Anacostia,
provided for in the improvement plans
of the Eastern branch, and between
the present eastern edge of the reser-
walton and the proposed bulkhead line
of the new channel will rise about
forty-two acres of land that will bios
som with bright aoNers and over
which will wind walks and drives
where countless Americans will pass.
One Of the imporfast and vigorously
urged plans for the future use of this
reservation is as the site of the new
Eastern High School and the location
of a national stadium, where the great
est athletic contests could be sta aged
and the largest thrpngs of witnesses
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of the serious and important American
training schools for nurses.
Further along the terrace and among
the trees is an old dwelling house neatly
painted which The Star man took for the
home of the doctors at the hospital. but
this was only an assumption. The next
building is small brick set well back
among the trees. surrounded with flower
beds and with wide porches SO dressed
with hanging ferns that one might call
it fernery 1t is the office of Louis
F. Zinkham. superintendent of the Wash
ingtop Asylum and Jail.
The next building to the north of the
superintendents Office is a gloomy
brick building of three stories and
basement. Until the removal of the
almshouse to Blue Plains this build
ing was it's home. 1t was erected in
1857, the site OF an older aims
house. To the average man CIR woman
this old building is a place of terrors
now. 1t is occupied by two classes of
patients committed to the Washington
Asylum Hospital. 1t is the psyche
pathic ward. Alcoholic victims and
people under observation before re-
lease or cornmittal to the hospital for
insane are cared for here.
The noisy and the quiet patients are
separated as far as possible, and sep
arate rooms are provided for white and
coiored, but the accommodation for
these people is crude and unsatisfac-
tory to the authorities, but they are
doing the best that can be done under
the circumstances. Conditions here
furnish the unanswerable argument for
an inebriate asylum. At one corner of
this building is an old brick structure,
which was set aside for tubercular pa
tients and used for that purpose until
the opening of the new tuberculosis
hospital.
North of this building is the lot, in
closed by wooden paling fence, in
which the Jail stands, but between the
psychopathic building and the jail lot
a dusty lane leads east to the smallpox
hospital, the potter's field, the quaran-
tine station for smallpox and other
highly contagious disease suspects, and
the crematory, but these places may
also be reached by road marked on
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buildings-sometimes it is a bit of
wall you see and sometimes a bit of
roof.
The first building on the right is a
To the. left of that is clutter
of freshly painted low, cottagelike
frames. white with brown tin roofs.
Still further to the left is a solemn.
dismal-looking brick building, and out
on the extreme left is a red stone
building in the form of giant cross
with roofed-in chimneys and a factory
like smokestack, over all of which
droops the American .-ag. 1t is the
Jail.
Following the gravel footway be-
tween the cemetery fence and the sill
yer naples you come to the intersec-
ton of 10Th and E streets. Among
the trees and along the east side OF
10Th street are many buildings of many
types and periods of architecture. e
street at this point is crossed by a
low red brick wall bearing signs of
age and decay. vine glowing with
October reds and purples is kindly
growing over it.
On the right is small brick house
with barred windows which you know
to be, or to have been, a guardhouse
1t, too, is taking on the look of ruin
Across the way is frame cottage in
faded yellow paint. a night watch
man of the grounds with his family
lives there. A low brick wall is parted
by double wooden picket gate. Both
halves swing partly open and sag on
their hinges. Despair is written or
things here. E street passes through
this gate and becomes road sprinkle6
with leaves fallen from big naples that
grow along both sides. This road leads
through the workhouse grounds-.'the
Farm''-to the lower lands and the
river, or the marsh.
On the left of this entrance is tn,
shell of what was the older workhous,
for males. The windows are grated
with rusty bars. The front is pebble
DASH" and his composition is falling
from the Wa Is, exposing big patches OF
the underly. brick. The semi-circu-
lar drive before it's entrance has grown
up in weeds. In the rear of this struc-
ture are two massive red brick build
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Massachusetts avenue at reservation
No. II was given the name Potomac
avenue. perhaps because il does not
touch or lead to or from the Potomac
When you have come to the north
end of the cemetery wall you should
turn to the right The road here is a
gravelly way leading east, with the
cemetery's iron fence on the right, a
row of large silver naples on the left.
and beyond an expanse of commons
Far out across the commons a few
small houses show, and in the distant
background are hills, prominent among
these being Mount Hamilton and Mount
Lincoln, blue and mist-dimmed.
When you come to the north gate of
the cemetery you pass the brick lodge
office topped with little cupola, above
which rises a white wooden cross
and in which hangs a bell that tolls
when collins come that way. About
200 yards ahead and extending far to
the left are two lines of trees, the
first and lower catalpas, with their
thin and light green foliage, and the
second and higher line row of pop
lars and naples of darker and denser
foliage. There is a long. high terrace
of gray-green turf, and out of the
foliage you get a glimpse of many
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III PsYCHoPATHIC WARD


ings three stories high, with tall, mar
row, iron-barred windows They are
full of steel cells. One was built about
twelve years ago and the other about
eight years ago. They We're built as
parts of the new and modern" work
house, which was to take place of the
old on these grounds
Before the group of modern build
ings was completed and Joined, the
work farm idea prevailed, the estab-
lishmert at Occoquan came into beng
and the inmates were removed from
these buildings. Standing idle and
being tireproof, and the government
paying storage rates on certain goods,
these buildings were in way turned
over to the superintendent OF the Cap
itol, and they are now full of stored
government property, among this being
a great store of models belonging to
the patent office.
Leaving these buildings behind you
continue your walk through the
grounds and toward the river. On the
right, somewhat back from the road.
stands a grim brick building, once red
but now stained by the years darker
than red. 1t, too, has windows barred
with rusty iron. al! the rooms and
halls are bare and cold. On what was
the lawn tall weeds and wild shrub
berry have sprung up. This was the
worlshouse for women. In helds east
and west of this building are nurseries
of street trees.
About half way between the west
wall and the river low ridge runs
north and south through part of the
farm, and between this and the higher
18th street stand is a long and SYM
metrical depression, which to many
persons has suggested it as a site for
a stadium. In this little valley now
are patches of cabbage, beets. and
beans. and in grassy bit of pasture
two red cows were grazing when The
Star man walked that way. On this
ridge is a village of old wooden build
horses of the jail and the hospital
and others seeming to have outlived
their uses.
Down in this part of the old farm is
a freshly painted brick cottage with a
box-bordered walk leading to it and
blooming flowers to brighten it, 1t
is the home of Mr.. Ladd. assistant
superintendent of the jail.
You can walk all through the grounds,
FOR wagon roads, not much used now,
lead all ways, but it is better to go
back. pass through the dilapidated
o.te and turn north on 10Th street.
Passing the yellow pebbledash build
;ng which was the male workhouse
and which was partly built of the old
waterfalls of the Jail which stood in
Iudiciaryl. Square, you come next to a
aroup of frame buildings with porches
and fresh lawn around them: They are
wards or pavilions of the Washington
Asvlum Hospital, an institution which
has been an adjunct of the Washing
ton poorhouse or almshouse or asylum
ever since the poorhouse was estab-
Tshed in 1906. Groups of convalescents
are on the porches or the lawn. There
arc white and colored patients, but
thew have separate wards.
A trim nurse in a spotless blue uni
form moves among the poor people on
the porch. There are graduate nurses
hare. girls in Immaculate white with
the little touch of black velvet ribbon
on the white cap which denotes that
thay are graduate nurses, and there
are nurses in training. for here is one
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the city map as b street south, which
leads along the north side of the Jail
grounds.
lot is a low paIing fence, and around
the eastern half "a tight board fence
with two strands of barbed wire on
TOP. But prisoners other than trust
les" do not use these grounds. There is
no place for prisoners to take the open
air. The only exercise they get is that
at certain hours their cells are un-
locked and they may walk in the cor
ridors. There is no J2ll yard as that
term is generally understood Several
years ago there was u proposal to wall
in the jail lot that prisoners might
exercise there. but sufficient money for
this improvement was not approprlat-
ed and in view of the uncertainty of
the future of this Jail the wall matter
mas not been pressed.
East of the Jail and across a narrow
road from the crematory is the quar-
antine or suspect house. 1t is plain
frame dwelling in small lot, sur
rounded by q post and barbed-wire
fence about ten feet tall, within which,
about six feet back, is wire beyond
which suspects or guards must not
pass, that persons on the in and out
side of the tall barbed wire fence shall
not come in contact with each other.
When there are tenants in that place
the yellow flag flies. the reporter mas
passed that way when the small cot
and colored, who had been eXposed to
smallpox and were being held during
the development period.
SoutherIy from this place on a dusty
road sllirting the potters held Is the
SMALLPOX hospital! A small brick build
ing fronts the road and back of this
behind wall you can sec the foonns
and gables OF what appear to be small
frame cottages. III the gate Oh the nigh
tight board fence is u square of glass
,hn
this you may talk to the guard on
duty.
Reservation now known as reServa-
tion No. 13 is shown on the plan OF the
city intended for the permanent seat
OF the government of the United States
projected agreeable to the direction of
the President of the United States in
pursuance of an act of Congress passed
the sixteenth day of July, MDCCXC
d79O) 'esta blishing' the permanent
seat on the bank of the Potowmac' by
Pierre Charles L'Enfant." In certain
of the squares which l. Enfant number
ed, of which there were fifteen, No. 13
was that reservation, long Il common,
but which was recently improved as
park and playground at the intersec-
ton of Potomac and Virginia avenues
southeast.
On the Ellicott plan of the city of
Washington in the territory of Column
bia ceded by the states OF Virginia and
MARYLAND to the United States and by
them established as the seat of their
government after the year MDCC" the
reservation now known as No. 13 was
indicated for improvement. Ellicott's
map shows a quadrangle of buildings
about three blocks long on the west
front of the reservation. It was prob
ably given it's unlucky number 13 in
the executive order of President Wash
ington, March 2. 1877. in which he de-
scribed the boundaries of this tract as
follows:
TbIrteentb. The appropriation bounded on the
north by the south side of street and the west
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could be seated, 1t would be
stadium in which the .nnual Army
Navy foot ball game cold be played
and where the Olympic ,ames might
be held.
The East Washington ftizens' Asso-
citation has recorded ittlf as favoring
this reservation as the long-needed
site for the long-neded Eastern High
school and its co-hlated educational
institutions and as.he location of a
stadium with sea'ng capacity of
from 10000 to 10000 people, thereby
supplying to this gre& and growing
lefty opportunity to witrss competitive
contests of schools and olleges of this
and nearby cities. as well as other
| Igreat open-air function to which great
|multitudes are drawn in other cities
F of the world having sth structures"
This reservation, COMPRISING seventy
acres, Is numbered on he city plat as
thirteen. Whether it ws given over to
its past and present ises because of
that unlucky number because of it's
remoteness from the dy.lt-in city sec
tions and the belief thai parishes, COM
mons and forbidding ASSOCIATIONS would
ever keep the city at adistance, is a
IQuestion.
On this reservation star the Jail, the
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for smallpox suspects would be con-
spicuouS.
Thus, the removal of all the instltu-
tions on reservation No. Is has already
been brought about, or is in imminent
contemplation, except the Jail. pest
house, quarantine camp and cremato-
rum. and the pesthouse and quarantine
camp Will certainly be forced to an
other location by the parking of the
fats, and the Jail will be drained of
most of its patronage by the creation
OF a District reformatory.
Another and an important reason put
forth for the removal of the penal ana
eleemosynary Institutions from, and the
reclamation of. this large public tract
for healthier public uses is that the
presence of these institutions casts a
pail over a large section OF eastern
Washington, hinders the development
of the city toward the east, blocks
streets and avenues that in the course
of time would be or should be extended
over the Anacostia into the region east
ward and tends to nullify the improve
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Man and Motto.

zen. JoFFRE, the COMMANDMENTS.
" chief of the French army, re-
treated swiftly for two weeks. ADAM
doning everything from the Belgian
frontier clean down to Paris.-then.
at the Marne. he suddenly assumed tine
offensive and the invinCible German
did the retreating.
Gen. Joffre, in this feature OF h0
campaign, lived up to his motto HIS
motto. a punning motto on his name
ia "J'ofrre-mais je prends." which
might be translated, 81 seem to give
bu. / really take"
Gen Joffre, in that long. swift dis
couraging retreat from Belgium to the
Marne, seemed to give the victory to
the Germans. At the Marine he halted:
the Germans thought he halted from
exhaustion, and confidently they came
on Rut go terribly were they attacked
that. all along their line. they had to
fall back.
the victorious general.