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Evening star., 1915-01-31

Hampden Park. Glasgow. has provided
seats and standing room for $4,000
spectators at an association foot ball
game, and that great crowds have
found accommodation at Shepherds
Bush. near London. The Roman Coli
scum provided marble seats for $1,000
persons. Harvard's stadium has held
$4,000 spectators, and the new stadium
at Princeton has seating capacity of
41.00O. The stadium at Syracuse Uni
versity will hold 10000 spectators, and
the new concrete plant at Cornell will
provide seats for nearly $4,000. The
grandstands, of brick and stone. of the
University Of Pennsylvania give ac-
commodation for $4,000. The Chicago
University grandstands provide for
5000. the Seattle High School has a
stadium built for 10000, and the new
stadium at Vancouver. 1t Is said. will
equal in seating capacity that at Har-
ward.
In Great Britain. in other seasons. It
has not been unusual for foot ball
games to attract crowds of from $4,000
to 100000 spectators. 1t has been re-
corded that the greatest crowd that
ever paid admission to a base ball
game in this country was 3s.2s1. the
occasion being one of the world series
games between the New York Giants
and the Philadelphia Athletics at the
Polo Grounds, New York city, October
IA, 1911.
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PRESIDENTS WHO HAVE
SERVED TWO TERMS

a DOUBLE-TERM President has be-
~ come to be more unusual in Ameri-
can history than such an Occurrences
was within the first half century of th..
lifetime of the republic. Should I'resi-
dent Wilson be reelected and serve
two terms he will be the second Presi-
dent since Grant to so fill the great
office.
The Presidents who served two con-
secutive terms were George Washing
ton of Virginia. Thomas jefferson OF
Virginia. James Madison of Virginia,
James Monroe of Virginia. Andrew
jackson of Tennessee and Ulysses S.
Grant of Illinois.
The Presidents of the United States
who have been elected twice in success
sion. but who did not complete thei-
second term because of assassination,
We're Abraham Lincoln of Illinois and
William Mckinley of Ohio.
The President who was twice elected,
but not in immediate succession, was
Grover Cleveland of New York.
The Presidents who have been candi-
dates to succeed themselves. but who
failed of reelection, were Johu Adams
of massachusetts, John Quincy Adams
of Massachusetts. Martin Van Buren, OF
New York, Benjamin Harrison of In
diana, Theodore Roosevelt of New York
and William Howard Taft of Ohio. Sew
eral single-term Presidents not among
those already named have desired to
succeed themselves. but failed of nomi-
nation.
Among the double-ter Presidents
who, before entering the presidential
office during their first term either
inveighed or argued or demonstrated
against second term, but who ac-
cepted such term, were George Wash
ington, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew
Jackson. Madison and Monroe avoWed
their Willingness, or their desire. for Il
second term, and the same may be said
of Lincoln, Grant. Harrison, Cleveland,
Mckinley. Roosevelt and Taft.
Evening star., 1915-01-31
The Site of Washington.

II n last Sundays Star the Rambler did
u not have sufficient space in which to tell
all the facts about the farms on which
Washington Is built that may be learned
from the map recently prepared by the
geological survey called "A view of the
city of Washington in 1892 and in 19l1.''
a copy of which was sent to the Ram
bier by George Otis Smith, director of the
survey.
The river front from the Monument
Grounds to the Arsenal point and gem
orally along the course of street to
Virginia avenue, to 9Th street and
thence southeast to James creek at
CarrolSburg was tract called Dud-
dington Pastures. Motley Young s
name appears as the owner. and a
house marked between F and G streets
near 10th street southwest.
West of Bealls levels or the west
ern edge of it. down 18th street below
the Avenue, was Hamburger, a settle
ment laid out with nine north-and
south streets inrersecting five east-and
west streets at right angles. The east
ermost street of Hamburger was nearly
parallel with 18th street running
down the blocks between 18th and 18th
streets. The westernmost street of the
settlement was very nearly and part
of its course exactly on the line of
23d street. The northwest corner of
Evening star., 1915-01-31
More Facts About Commodore Jones.

THE RAMBLER sometimes strikes
u upon a story that awakens so
many recollections in the memory of
readers of The Star that they keep the
story running by adding to it many
facts which the Rambler did not
learn. Several weeks ago, on a Sunday
afternoon trip along the Leesburg and
Georgetown pike west of Langley, the
Rambler dropped in at fine, old
place, which he found was Sharon, once
the home of Commodore Thomas Ap.
Catesby Jones, one Of the officers of the
early American navy. From such
sources as he was able at the time to
consult the Rambler obtained much in
formation regarding the career of this
officer. but there were many incidents
in that career which were not touched
on.
The recent observance Of the cen
tenary of the Battle of New orleans
in the life of Commodore Jones which
was overlooked in the article on
Sharon. A correspondent writing OF
the British expedition against New Or
leans with the object of obtaining con-
troll of the Mississippi river and thus
gaining not only possession of much OF
the territory along it's shores, but also
securing an avenue of approach TOT
the conquest OF lne great uoT III W COT
and of the western three of the great
lakes, said:
jackson reached the city at the be-
ginning of December. He found chaos
and panic, and set about creating order
and confidence. Assuming correctly
that the British would not go to the
delta and the mouth of the Mississippi.
but would essay the shorter cut by way
of Lake Borgne and Lake Pontchar-
train, he hastily fortified as best he
could the Chef Menteur pass. between
those lakes. He had little time for the
work, for six days after his arrival
more than dozen British line-of-bat-
tleships and transports with thousands
of men anchored at the entrance to
Lake Borgne. Four days later the re
mainder Of the expedition arrived and
the advance was begun. Opposition
was offered by a little American fleet
Of a sloop and five gunboats. the latter
commanded by the famous Thomas Ap.
Catesby Jones' who afterward neGo
tiated our first treaty with the
Hawaiian Islands. The six fought
valiantly against the overwhelming
forces of the British. but in the end
every one of them was captured
In looking up the official history of
Commodore Ap. Catesby Jones of
Sharon. the Rambler came upon the
name OF Lieut.. Catesby Ap. Jones, who
resigned from the United States navy
in 1861 knowing that this Jones fam
lily was a Virginia family, Commodore
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Site for National Stadium.

a few weeks ago, just at the season
~ when the lawns of Washington
were beginning to look seedy and the
foliage Of the street trees was turning
from green to yellow. the Rambler
took walk over that government res
ervation of unlucky number and dis
NAL associations whereon stand the
Jail, the Washington Asylum Hospital,
the pest house and the crematorium,
and where for a long time stood the
Washington Asylum or almhouse and
the warehouses; for male and female
prisoners. That tract of land is laid
down on the city plat as Reservation
No. 13 and a large part of it was long
Evening star., 1915-01-31
The LikeIier One.

THE late Admiral Mahan, at the be-
ginning of the war. was arguing
with a lady at a luncheon about tho
British navy.
But, my dear madam said the ad-
miral, lit is hard to argue with you
because you are so-er, pardon me-so
ignorant
you remind me of the young wife
who said to her brother about her vol.
unteer husband:
Isn't Jack just wonderful? Think
he's already been promoted to field
marshal
From private to field marshal in
two months? Impossible said the
brother.
"Did say field marshall? murmured
the young wife. Well, perhaps. it's
court t-martal. I know it's ono or the
other'."
Evening star., 1915-01-31

Seattle, and has come on to Washing
ton to deal with the veAing and multi
tudinous problems that come up to
him for settlement from the pension
office, the patent office, the Indian Of
flee. the bureau of mines aud numerous
other bureaus under his jurisdiction in
the ass ignment of departmental bust
ness.
1t is job in which there is nothing
to do but work There is nothing spec
tacular in the business of the office
of assistant secretarE of the Interior
1t is in somewhat of backWater of
ofhcialdOin, concerned Only with the
operation of vast aud complicat-
ed governmental machine It's only
chance to break into the limelisht is
to let the machinery go wrong. Eut
under Sweeney it docs not go wrong.
Naturally and inevitably one finds in
talking with Mr.. sweeney that this
typical westcrner is :, booster for the
west. But his boosting is not of the
fiamboyant, spread eagle style of ira
dition. He loves the west because he
believes in it, and he believes in 1t he
cause he has knowledge. information
and logic to prove its worth
But let him talk.
TT is common belief said he, that
the tremendous advance made 10y the
far west in the last third of century
has pretty well established it's relative
place in the nation. But that is an
error. The west has only begun TO de-
Velop.
To-day the dominant part of the
country's population is on the Atlantic
seaboard. Atlantic seaboard cities in
large measure control the finance
aud trade of the continent. But the
time is not far distant when all this
is to be transferred to the Pacific SEA-
board.
Il confidently believe that a century
hence the center of the worlds trade
Will be on the Pacific. that the pre-
dominate population of the country
will be there. that the centers of learn
ing and Of finance also will be there.
The European war and the opening of
the Panama canal are factors that are
Fastening that day.
The richest part OF the continent lies
on the Pacific coast or contiguous
thereto. That region, in climate, in
natural wealth. in opportunity. in
healthfulness and beauty of surround
ings. in all Of the natural things that
make life better, is Infinitely the su-
perior of the Atlantic coast 1t is
fitted to support much larger and
better population.
The Atlantic coast is great only be-
cause it has been great. Nations grow
and expand and shift their centers to
meet new demands. or they decay and
die. There is no standing still This
nation is but a youth. AS it approaches
maturity 1t will be found that it's di-
recting force will come from the west.
xA
And the world ever is changing.
Trace through history the march west
ward of the worlds center of trade
From the Bosphorus on. step by step
ut intervals of centuries through the
ports OF the Mediterranean and thence
Evening star., 1915-01-31

carefully studied the question. when
assert that the best examples of Amer
lean manhood and Womanhood VIII be
the population of the Pacific coast. Our
present population is made up of the
finest blood Of the land. We have at
tracted to us the young, the lusty, the
adventurous American colleges for
years have been sending US the f1ttest
of their young men and women to grow
UP with the country.
Climate and environment arc un-
matched in the world. We lack the
harsh climate of the eastern seaboard.
nor cold. Mortality statistics. and es-
pecially infant mortality statistics,
show wonderfully low rate. The bet
ter babies movement is not needed on
the Pacific coast, for our youth is su-
perb.
From every quarter Of the United
States we have drawn our population.
and mixed with it is also a liberal pro
portion of the best of alien-born citi-
zens.
The result is that we are producing
the real American out there-Virile
vigorous, healthful. of high ideals.
broad Imagination. quick intelligence.
The true spirit of democracy is in our
people.
while our efforts have been occu-
pied in the opening and development
of new country, and while it might
well be assumed that we would be a
commercialized people. we have found
time for the finer things of life. For
example. our school system is infinite
ly superior to that found in older por-
tions of the country. AS a parent L
know that the school system of Seattle
Washington. Statistics show that we
in the west spend more money per
capita on education than Is spent in
any other part Of the United States.
make our institutions of higher learn
ing. like the primary and secondary
schools. of the best. Steadily they are
forging to the front.
ut means something when the lead
ing architects of the country indorse
the statement that the first really dis
tinctive American architecture is being
developed on the Pacific: when the
leaders In the world of art confidently
predict that the finest American ex-
preston of both the plastic and the
graphic arts will be found in the
west.
"It is but natural that in a region
Of inspiring natural beauty and
benign climate our youth should grow
up with a love for the beautiful in
all its forms. That love appears in
the manner in which we build our
cities. the money we spend on our
great park systems. the insistence on
harmony in form and color of our
public buildings, the charm OF our
residence districts. where the homes
are not mere barracks but express
something Of the individuality of their
occupants. Our tired business man
finds relaxation in the cultivation of
his rose garden quite as frequently as
in smashing speed ordinances.
Realize one thing: we have started
from the scratch out west. We have
nothing to build over. nothing to adapt
Evening star., 1915-01-31

to the British Isles. Today Europe is
at war over the issue of whether it
shall remain there or be shifted back
to the continent. 1t is an idle dispute
and but helping artificially the natural
next step westward to the Atlantic
coast of the United States. And the
next step after that will be to the
Pacific coast.
Take your history and your globe
and observe that the bulk of the
worlds trade has moved in a definite
zone within a narrow range Of lati-
tudes. There are branches. of course,
of varying degrees of Importance. but
the big zone is clearly and heavily
marked. New York is squarely within
Evening star., 1915-01-31

Of that institution or whether it is a
relic of the garden of the Riggses or the
BIackfords. who lived there before the
Soldiers Home came into being.
At the northeast corner of Connectl-
cut and Rhode Island avenues small
sundial stands on the terrace before
large red brick house. 1t has been
there several years to the knowledge of
the Rambler, and though its location is
very conspicuous few persons seem to
consult it. Watches and clocks are
handler to get at and easier for modern
men to read.
In the garden Of the house called Bost-
wick at Bladensburg. there is a fine ex-
ample of an eighteenth century sundial.
and in the neglected grounds uf the
Barnabee house. off the Wheeler road,
about mile beyond the District line
in Prince Georges county. is a brown
stone pedestal which generations ago
supported a sundial
Evening star., 1915-01-31
sUNDIAL At ST. ALBAN'S.

known as the farm and as potters
field. With the removal of the in
stitutions which remain there and with
the Improvement of the AnacoStla fats
this big tract of land will no doubt be
come one OF the beauty places OF the
National Capital.
Several of the public Institutions long
located here have been removed to
other places within the past few years.
The institutions removed were the
workhouse, the poor house and the
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it. And the prolongation of the lines
carries it on to the north Pacific.
'"The orient is awakening. Far Cathay.
greed for whose trade possibilities
moved all of the ancient explorers to
their tasks. is being stirred into ac-
tion.- The spirit of progress. long sleep
ing, is taking possession of Asia and
it's teeming millions. The dreams of
the worlds great dreamers are coming
true.
The Pacific has been the nations
back door. In time it is to become the
front door. We will look outward to
Asia. not to Europe.
II am not expressing my own opinion
alone, but that Of scientists who have
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ROM THE WESTo~ I'm PRESENT ADMINISTRATION

touch with Europe. South and Central
America, by reason of trade inter
change. have long been regarded as
neighbors: they are being made closer
by the canal. Alaska. just on the
threshold of opening, capable of sup
porting q population of 10000, 900, is a
part of our own land.
II have tried briefly to sketch condi-
tions as they exist. Assuming that I
have drawn correctly, does it require a
man of prophetic vision to see the pos
sibilities that lie in the Pacific north.
West?' ASHMUN BROWN
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tended stadium to be constructed
there.
The opening of Yale's new stadium,
OF the Yale bowl, with its capacity for
seating 10000 persons, brought back to
the mind of the Rambler his visit to the
potential stadium site in the old work
house grounds. A great crowd could
be accommodated there. 1t could very
likely be made into the largest ath-
letic field in the United States. perhaps
in the world, notwithstanding that
Evening star., 1915-01-31

Jones and his brother. Gen Jones. having
been born at Hickory Hill in Westmore-
land county, a few miles from the Lee
ancestral home, Stratford. the Rambler
concluded that Lieut.. Jones in resigning
from the navy at that time had gone
south to cast in his lot with the Con-
federacy. A few days after the pub
LEGATION of the story about Sharon, the
Rambler received a postal card, on
which was written what follows:
IF the Rambler will consult Battles
and Leaders of the Civil War; he will
see that Lieut.. Catesby APP. r. Jones
not only went south. but was executive
officer of the Merrimac in her fight
with the Monitor
Evening star., 1915-01-31

In many of the old sundials this IN
scription will be found in Latin. but on
the Soldiers Home sundial the text is
in English The clock face or the dial
proper is j fine piece of engraving and
on the bottom OF the plate is the name
of the maker. who was James Sword.
Washington. d. C."
This sundial is without q date and
there has arisen a question whether it
was put there by authorities of the
Soldiers Home soon after the creation
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scribed, Jesus Christ Himself being
the chief corner stone'
Another object of great interest near
the sundial is the Glastonbury thorn.
about which the Rambler has previous
ly written. All the essential facts
about this tree are given in little
pamphlet published by authority of the
edited by Rev. G. C. F. Bratenahl,
canon of the Washington Cathedral
Scattered among shubbery across the
drive and east of the sun dial is a litter
OF carved stones. appa rently quite old
which the Rambler took Tor relics from
some Old cathedral, but which he armed
We're given to the builders Of the Wash
demolition of the old Academy of De-
sign in New York. They were a part
of that structure, and some of the stones
sent to Washington were used in the
construction of the little sanctuary. Those
stones scattered on the ground not far
from the sundial were found unsuitable
for use in the little sanctuary, but per-
haps in some other way they may
come in.
An old Sundial stands in the grounds
of the Soldiers Home. 1t is between the
battery of antique brass field pieces and
the Anderson building and few feet in
rear of the flag mast. In the upper left
hand corner of the green bronze face
you may read this:
TABLE of Equa tion of Time Add to:
S-subtract from Sundial for mean
time. There is q table for days and
months. and in the upper right-ha nd
corner is the inscription common on old
sundials: Il mark none by sunny hours. y
Evening star., 1915-01-31

M\ ington and its environs would
N\ probably be a long one. The
& x Rambler has seen number of
these interesting objects, and
no doubt some are concealed from pub
lie view in the high-fenced gardens
about great homes. 1t is rather usual
experience to find sundial, or the
relic of one, in the gardens of old
places in and around Washington.
The sundial which is perhaps the
most beautiful in the District and
which is perhaps visited by the largest
number of persons is that which rests
in the solemn and majestic close, or
grounds. of the Cathedral of st Peter
and St Paul. Nearly all the pilgrims
TO that reverent place gather at one
time another about the sundiai,
and most of them mount the three
granite steps at the base that they
may stand the narrow platform
around the sundial TO study the null
titude of devices carved on the stone
pedestal and the bronze face and read
the inscriptions engraved there.
This art object is described in the
handbook of the cathedral The
Cathedral Landmark and Sundial.
and in that handbook man may read
that "On Ascension Day. a. u. 1906, the
landmark given by Mrs Julian James
to commemorate the freedom of the
cathedral land from debt and the con-
Sequent hallowinE of the cathedral
close was presented and consecrated.
The landmark is beautiful bronze
Sundial. surmounting open-air
altar on which are inscribed the names
of those it commentaries. The sun
dial marks not only the hours of the
Evening star., 1915-01-31
BO SWEENEY, 'e7FEEAE MAN FROM

the Adds
Circle That Makes
of the Far West Predicting the Nation
The the Worlds War
and the Opening O Panama Canal
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nHi0N ELL it to Sweeney is no idle
CO jest in the great Department
of the Interior at Washing
q ton, nor yet with the $4,000
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And the world ever is changing
Trace through history the march west
ward of the worlds center Of trade
From the Bosphorus on. step by step
at intervals of centuries through the
ports Of the Mediterranean and thence
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-08-18
L|NDE IS AZ TER
LIQUOR SELLERS
States Attorney in all Counties
Asked to Cooperate
With Him.

Attorney General H. J. Linde is de-
termined tiat the injunction against
all the railroads in the state, pro
.hibiting the importation of liquor
where same is to be used in viola
ton of the state laws, will be en-
forced.
Rumors have reached the Office Of
the attorney general that some Of the
agents OF the various, railroad COM
panies in the state are not complying
with the order, and Attorney General
,Linde is anxious to make certain.
The states attorneys are asked to
keep constant watch on the liquor
shipments into their respective cUun-
ties, and to make. sure that they are
fer the individual consumption of the
consignee In cases where large
shipments are made to individuals,
the attorneys are asked to report at
once. In a number of instances
agents are aware that the liquor be-
ing shipped in is for violation of the
prohibition law, and they are subject
to arrest
Attorney General Linde is after the
liquor traffic hard and does not in
tend to let any grass grow under his
feet. The cooperation. of the states
attorneys will likely result in num-
ber of arrests being made.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-08-18
MAKING PLANS FOR
GARRISON CORN SHOW
Corn in District Is Only Few
Days Behind Usual
Condition. &

The general conditions around
Garrison were never better. Not on
ly is the community enjoying boun-
tiful harvest, but it is passing
through a period Of great community
development, due to the splendid
crops of last year and the natural
resources which abound here.
Scores of new farm houses and
barns, footing up to thousands, Of dol.
lars, have. been erected the past
month. Acres OF alfalfa have been
seeded. Hog pastures, well fenced
and we'll housed, are now to be found
on nearly every farm. 0
The corn crop, which in SO many
sections is proving q failure, is here