The Washington times., 1914-09-27
BY GARDNER MACK.

Descriptions of Washington as a
habit or a state of mind or the
place where more people are paid
more money to live for stated pc
RODS of time than any other town,
have cluttered up the literature of
the nation for many years. But there
has been very little about the city
as a producing center of anything
except regulations. the Congress
sional Record and mooted questions
of residence. Yet Washington has
served as self-starter for more
globe trotters than any other city
of Its size in the world. The dusts
of its streets would show a coming
ling Of the sands of all the deserts
OF the equatorial regions with the
fine loan that lies beneath the ice
caps at the poles. The language
Of its drawing rooms is a polyglot.
win phrase of syllable from
every known tongue tempering the
denatured English of the American
cQsmopOlite.
1t is probably because of the very
cosmopolitan character of the usual
inhabitants of the District of Co.
lumbia, each speaking familiarly of
some place that is only an asterisk
on the map for most people, that
the average native becomes infec-
ted with the globe trotting virus.
Probably it is because almost every
body hare came from somewhere
else and hopes to get back there
some day. And probably. again, it
is because the washington news
papers devote quite as much space
and as many words to paragraphs
carrying date lines as those of a
local nature. Whatev. IS. Wash
ington mas produced many genuine
members of the globe trotting broth
erhood. no matter how they may
have hidden their ailment under the
clOaks of numerous professions.
1t produ ces two distinct types of
globe trotters-the conversational
and habituai. The conversational
globe tro:ter is a person who col
lects post cards, hotel laocls. anI
odd bits of information from Eaed-
ecker There isn't a Cooks tourist
hotel that this sort of a person
hasn't tucncd for 4 paster for his
luggage and there isn't a steamship
lire that hasn't contributed to the
decoration of mis- trunk lie knows
tie streets IF Cairo like he does the
ramiiiCationS of Seventh street road,
and If YOU ask him how 10 get to
Petworth he'll tell you to inquire of
the traffic policeman. lie is the kind
of person who will carefully pCint
to potage CharIr ignon on the bill Of
fare, but If the waiter asks him lie
VII order mushrooms soup, Just Iill..
that. You see. he believes in sUcak-
ing in Rome rs the Ronars are in
the habit of speaking. and at the
same time Indicating how the To-
mans would have done II il they haG
received a course in menu French.
The hahitual S.obe trott"r. on the
other hand. brings US naturally TO
the consideration of ono r. Daniel
I'rawlcy. cdi:o". actor. plav pro-
ducer-aS = characteristic example Of
V hat Washington will do in the way
OF producing globe trottcrs when il
sets its mini To the jt.o. There isn't
corner of tn" earth with which he
isn't familiar. And in addition to
this-and her, is where T. Daniel
has tn" call on most II the fra;er-
nity-the-" isn't n corner of the
Garth that isn't familiar with him.
At the v"rv be"innin,: it might lie
~ !! to state that 7. Daniel FraWleY,
hanncsLuri;, Melbourne. Lordon.
Calcutta. Singapore. sydney. Cane
town. Rio de I"nciro. Los Angeles.
chicago. etc. etc..-and Washington.
=. G.. is exactly the same person
who. as 4 curly haired Youth was
familIar!v acco&ted on tn" streets Of
Washington as Tim. SCforc going
any furthcr. it might il" stated that
the graduation of Tiri into r. Jan
icl is the direct r"$'ilt II his persist
mt and continuous globe trnttir"
Timothy Daniel Frawley was born
in Washington at a time when the
stars were working overtime in an
endcavor to provide a future cover
ing considerable mileage for some
one, and he fell into il without any
difficulty at all. He came into
realization Of what it means to be
figure in tn" census returns at about
the same time that the late Governor
Shepherd was Cn"aSed in fixing
Washington definitely and firmly on
the map as a place for people to live.
lie grew up IN tn" way boys usually
grow mp in Washington. attending
the public schools. playing baseball
on the vacant lots when the police
weren't looking. and hide nd-s seek