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dancing after the May ball and the
floor managers were Horatio Bates and
L. F. Sprague.
In The Evening Star of the winter
of Marini: fashionable Dancing
Acknowledgements Hale street
between Ninth and Tenth streets. Pro-
fessor Marini would respectfully inform
his former patrons and numerous
friends that his fourth and last quar-
ter will commence on Thursday, March
., 1865 Persons desiring private in
struction will please call at the hall
during school hours or at his residence.
No. 479 10th street, between D and E
streets"
The first of the May balls in the
present building took place on We'd
nesday evening. May 10. 1875. The
Queen of May was Anna B. Wilson:
Goddess of Liberty, Nettie A. Riley;
crown bearer; Maud smoot; flower
Platter. There were fancy dances az
follows: Tarantella. Maud Trimble;
Cracovienne. Little Miss Maud Smoot"
and Master Oliver Thomson: highland
Thompson: La Manola. Mamie Joyce:
Sylphide, Mary Entwisle; Straspey. An
ME Prall and Master Harry Leonard;
village hornpipe, Matte Owens; Irish
Tilt. Mamie Makee and Master Alex
ander Merchant; sailors hornpipe. Err
Ellis and Master Frank Merchant:
Cachuca, Carrie McCallum; L'Ariel,
Nettie Shafer; Zingarella. Mamie La
throp and Master Alexander Merchant;
Mrs. McGowan's reel. Mary Entwisle;
Smolenski, Willie Joyce and Mamie
Joyce; FL Bolero. Jessie Joyce; Chinese
dance. Masters Harry Cook and Frank
Merchant; skipping rope dance, Annie
Prall; pas de matelot. Master Harry
Leonard; medley, Mamie Magee. Then
there was a maypole dance by twelve
misses and masters. and the lancers
and the polka by all the pupils. after
which the floor was cleared and the
fathers and mothers and the elder
sisters and brothers danced
An advertisement in The Star shows
that the May ball Of 1876 was the
seventeenth of the Marini May balls.
which would carry the date of the first
back to 1859. The advertisement reads:
Professor Marinfs May Festival-For
many years Prof. L. o. Marinfs dane
ing academy has been the resort of
the elite Of the city and there is
scarcely a family of prominence in
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DEUTSCHLAND. MUST CoNsDE
NAVIGATION.

not to be prognostfcated. And so 1t is
with blockades.
"A blockade to be effective need not
be perfect, 1t is not necessary that the
beleagured port should be Theoretically
sealed. 1t is not enough to make the
blockade ineffective that, on some par
ticularly stormy night a blockade run
ner slid through the b1ockading
squadron. Nor 1t is enough that through
some exceptional and rare negligence of
the officers of one Of the blockading
vessels a blockade runner was allowed
to pass when perfect vigilance could
have arrested him. But il the blockade
is not in the main effective. II 1t can be
easily eluded. IL escaping its tolls is not
due to casus or some rare exceptional
pegligencs. but to general laxity or
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the President of the United States for the time
The Rambler has written that 1t was
to these commissioners that the new
territory or district owes the name of
Columbia and the capital city the
name of Washington" The adoption
of these names by the commissioners
is fully explained in a letter which the
commissioners wrote, under date OF
Georgetown, September 8, 1871, to Maj.
LEnfant.
There has been great deal of con-
fusion between the names Of Daniel
Carroll of Duddington and Daniel Car
roll the commissioner. w B. Chiffon
of 20l5 / street has written to the
Rambler that this is a mistake which
has got into print so often that 1t
seems almost impossible to set the
matter right.
Mr.. Chiffon writes that Daniel Car
roll of Duddington and Daniel Carroll
the commissioner were two men. Dam
ie1 Carroll the commissioner was the
son of Daniel Carroll of Upper Marl-
boro, Md. He was born July %, 1870.
and died in April, 1896. He was a men,
Der of the Continental Congress and of
the United States Congress. and was
one of the delegates from Maryland to
the federal constitutional convention.
held at Philadelphia. His home was
near Forest Glen and he gave the lane
on which Carroll Chapel, or St. john
Catholic Church. stands Many of hi
descendants and also his mother, win
was Eleanor Darnall. are buried there
Daniel Carroll of Duddington was c
a younger generation and lived unit
1s49 His father. Charles Carroll. wa
a first cousin of Charles Carroll
Carrollton.
Daniel Carroll the commissions
married an aunt of Daniel Carroll
Duddington. II the two CAROLS wer,
otherwise related 1t must have beer
very distantly. as their ancestors camo
from Ireland Independently.
Daniel Carroll the commissioner was
the brother of John Carroll, the first
American archbishop.
Mr.. Chiffon writes: ITO correct an
other often-repeated statement I may
add that Daniel Carroll the commits
sioner was not landholder in the Dis
trict of Columbia, while Daniel Carroll
of Duddington was, of course, one OF
the original proprietors.'
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EYoND her million dollar dye
lO stuffs cargo the German super
lin submarine Deutschland brought
~ into Hampton roads with her
Pandora's box of diplomatic problems
about which historians and publicists
will be wrangling and writing long
after peace comes in Europe and which
bid fair to keep the State Department
busy throughout the period of the war
These problems have not yet been
presented in the form Of concrete cases
Apparently the State Department is
to have an easy task in the settlement
Of the only question raised by the in
ttial appearance of the submarine liner
in American waters-the question of
whether she is to be classified as a
merchant vessel or a ship OF war.
The Treasury Department representa-
tives in Baltimore having reported that
the Deutschland could not be made
available for warlike purposes or Of
fensivs operations without extensive
structural alterations. the State De-
partment is apparently saved the
trouble of cracking that nut.
~
But, like the proverbial good luck IN
the first hand at cards. this easy be-
ginning seems to presage only greater
difficulties later on in the game.
The moment the supersubmarine
dives under the water off the Virginia
capes and begins her 4.000-mile game
of hide and seek with the allies war
ships. these diplomatic tangles are apt
at any minute to arise. And. once start
ed: they may be expected TO fill the
fully as the legal problems of the allies
blockade and the U-boat warfare.
Here is a sample of the problems that
may be bothering Americans and their
Deutschland. upon rising to the sur
face outside the three limit is
sighted by British cruiser. II II were
an ordinary submarine. there would be
a pun of smoke from the cruiser. and
the submarine would stand good
chance of being sent to Davy Jones'
locker.
But the Deutschland. it seems is a
merchant vessel not warship. There
fore, the cruiser cannot fire upon her
at sight. II must warn the submarine
and then approach to visit and search
her Now, according to the statement
of the Deutschla nd's captain, the boat
can disappear beneath the waves in a
minute and half. What chance has
the cruiser to approach and search a
ship as elusive as that?
With surface craft the cruiser may
open fire on a merchant vessel the
moment she attempts to escape through
flight. Query: When submarine
sinks below the waves. is she guilty
of hight2 Going down on an even
keel. the Deutschland presume bly,
could remain in the same spot and sim
ply sink out of sight without diving.
When would the cruiser have a legal
right TO open fire on her? Would laws
written for days when ships behaved
themselves and stayed where they be-
longed and could be seen apply in
such case. and, if so, how would they
be made to apply?
The intricacies of such problem
may before long be engaging the at
tention of American newspaper read
ers as well as of officials of the State
Department But German science II
must be recorded. is doing its best to
spoil this nice problem BY providing
the Deutschland with an equipment de-
aigpea 10 keen hsE&xom eyer coming io
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ted that in some situations he thought
this practice did not fully meet the ends
of justice.
ligerent powers the adoption of modus
vivendi or operating agreement that
would serve as law for the period Of the
war When that was rejected the United
States was obliged to insist that they
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get along the best way they could with
the law they had.
But now the submarine merchant ship
promises to raise even more questions,
and also to upset, in some respects, the
difficult and not altogether satisfactory
adjustment of existing laws that was
made to fit the advent of the submarine
cruiser.
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the District but has children trained
in the graceful art of dancing by this
accomplished teacher. Professor Ma
rini's Seventeenth May Festival to take
place on the 10th is to be celebrated
with their usual spirit"
There was another dancing master in
the District in the early COS, from
whom probably a great many of the
citizens of Washington today learned
when they were children. to dance
This was Prof ]. w. Kreis, who con-
Quoted a dancing academy in Parker
Hall, on Pennsylvania avenue between
9Th and It'll streets, opposite the Metro
politan Hotel.
Marini's Hall became a great hall in
the late 70s and the early SOS for lee
lures and concerts. Raphael Joseffy,
the great pianist, who was a great
spring up on every hand. usually played
there on his frequent visits to Wash
ington.
About this time Marinis Hall had as
competitors several other halls, which
were frequently occupied by lecturers
and musicians, and also sometimes by
Tallmadge Hall, Lincoln Hall. and. of
course, ODD Fellows Hall. Among the
lecturers in those days were Victoria
Woodruff, Tennie c. Claflin, George
Vanderhoff. who used to read Shake
speare and Dickens; Rev Moncure D.
Conway, Rev. DR.. John P. Newman.
Annie w Story. E. c. Townsend and
Alfred P. Burbank. Blind Tom was a
yearly visitor to Odd Fellows Hall. In
those days. among the local actors and
musicians who gave many entertain
ments in the halls, were John Tweedale,
Ed Hay, Zaidee Jones, Eva Mills, Ack-
land Boyle, Kate Goodall. E. A Dun
can, Walter Dennis, Harold Forsberg.
Anna D. Ware. Lois Mygatt. soprano;
Walter Paris. violinist: Henry Eber-
BACH violoncello. and Samuel G. Young.
1t was in one of these halls, the Ram
bier believes Tallmadge Hall, on the
south side of F street between 9th and
10th streets, that a great woman's suf-
frage convention was held in 1876.
Some of the women in attendance were
Susan B. Anthony, Belva A. Lockwood.
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ssTHREE- INFORMED ACACIAS''

7F one is interested in the honey To-
Gust tree he should saunter along
q w street from 18th to 18th, or the
spectacle may be enjoyed just IS we'll
II the PERSON. will walk from 18th to
18th. The trees are there and the dou-
BILE row shading the smooth and quiet
street furnishes one of the arboreal
attractions of Washington. They are
tall trees probably from fifty to sew
enty feet high, and the foliage is light
and graceful. as is always the habit of
the honey locust. The trunks are dark
to blackness and rise straight from the
ground to near the topmost branches
Up and down the trunks and along the
big branches are tufts of leaves and
thousands of spikes or spines. which
distinguish this tree from nearly all
others.
East of 18th street stand few honey
locusts with wide gaps between them
that have been filled in by the planting
of hard NAPLES. 1t may be that at one
time w street for its full length was
planted with honey locusts, for it was
quite popular, or at least quite promis-
ing, as a street tree thirty or forty
years ago. There is no break In the
lines of locusts between 18th and 18th
streets. there being sixteen trees on
each side of the street On the south
side of the street is green lawn one
square long from which a few trees
white pines, tulip poplars and others
rise. That lawn fronts the north side
Of the Children's Hospital. Southside
ivy has thrown a green mantle over
the wall of the hospital from the foun-
dation to the roof, the center building
being four stories high and the long
wings thanking it on the east and west
being three stories The vines have
covered everything except the win
dows and the small porch at the north
entrance. over which Is a black sign
lettered In gilt "Children's Hospital
incorporated 1870" On the north side
OF the street is a row of small two
story bay-window brick houses with
small lawns and flower plots in front
of them and separated from the side
walk in some instances by iron ratings
w street west of 18th is planted with
broad and branching plane trees.
The honey locust is an interesting
tree. OF course, all trees are interest
ing to persons who understand them,
but the honey locust is an especially
individualistic tree. Sargent. the dem
biologist, says that the honey locust
has many qualities to recommend 1t as
an ornamental tree for the decoration
of parks and the borders of highways.
1t is easily raised from seed, grows
the kind or quality of soil it grows in.
is extremely hardy and remarkably free
from serious disease and the attacks of
disdguring insects. Sargent says that
1t can support the drought and dirt of
cities better than most trees. and that
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send a warship to escort the German YES
sci to the three-mile limit in order to
make certain that the allies cruisers
our neutrality was protected. But this
cannot be done with the Deutschland. for
she will duck under the surface while still
within American waters. and after that
no one will know her course.
She may come up within the three
mile limit or she may head straight for
the open sea. How Is the United States
to make sure that she gets out of Ameri-
can waters before she is attacked? 1t has
been reported as the most likely course
for the vessel to submerge within the
three mile limit. proceed up or down the
coast within territorial waters and then
to come to the surface at some distant
point still within American territorial
waters for last look around before max
ing for midocean.
These are but few Of the problems
likely to be raised by the introduction
of this new craft, the super-submarine
merchant liner The submarine warship
did enough In the way of wrenching and
twisting existing laws. For time it
looked as though that problem would get
the better Of the United States, occupying
the precarious seat Of the worlds chief
neutral power.
THUS far at least the United States has
succeeded in saving itself by clinging to
the policy that until new laws are ac-
cepted by all the nations the old laws
must stand. Sometimes 1t has been a
hard task to stretch these old laws to
cover the new situations, and Secretary
Of State Lansing. in his formal communi-
cations to the powers, has frankly admit
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want of efficiency. then such blockade Is
not valid"
Now try to apply that ruling to the
situation promised by the Germans
when a regular line of submarine mer-
chant ships will be plying between
Bremen and American ports. Would
the escape of the tolls Of the blockade
be due ito casus or some rare excep-
tional negligence? Obviously not. Yet
could not the Germans claim that the
blockade was mot in the main effec-
tive and that it could be easily
eluded.''
Could perfect vigilance arrest these
,,nd>ru,,<or croffo Clr wou1d therA not
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when full grown few trees compare
with it in the beauty of its massive
dark trunk and spreading head and in
the grace and lightness of its lustrous
foliage.
But it has some drawbacks It is
hard to find perfection in a tree S 1t is
to find it in other things. The lateness
of the honey locust in taking on its
foliage, which does not come until most
trees are in full leaf, is accounted one
of its serious drawbacks as an orna-
mental tree. and the litter of it's pods
has also had something to do in con-
demning it as street tree.
The honey locust is known also as the
"three-thorned acacia" and its Official
name is gledtsia triacanthus In favored
localities 1t reaches a height of lao feet,
and occasionally trunk diameter of ivel
or six feet though such diameter is un-
usual. a thickness of two to three feet
being common for the tall and old trees.
The honey locust reaches its greatest
streams in southern Indiana and Illinois.
1t likes rich soil and keeps company with
the black walnut. shellbark hickory, red
elm. blue ash. box elder and the Kent
Smaller forms Of this splendid tree are
also seen even on poor and gravelly land.
Sargent points out that the honey locust
grows naturally along the western slope
of the Allegheny mountains in Penn
syl-ania and ranges westward through
southern Ontario and Michigan to eastern
Nebraska and Kansas and southwark to
northern Alabama and Mississippi and
to the valley of the Brazos river in Texas.
The spines. which are undeveloped
branches. are three or four inches long,
either simple or three-forl1ed. are very
sharp, rigid, long pointed. thickened at
the base, and red at first and bright
chestnut brown when fully grown Tho
legumes, or pods, on big trees are some-
times from twelve to eighteen inches long.
dark brown, walls thin and tough. have
ing thin. papery inner coat and quan-
It'll of sweetish pulp between the seeds.
They fall in autumn and early winter
and every child knows about them.
Baking Soda Very Useful.
r. HERE are numerous uses to which
baking soda can be put. apart
ones of cake and bread making. First
of all, 1t Is an excellent remedy for
scalds. When milk is on the point OF
turning sour a pinch of baking soda
dropped in 1t will restore II to it's
natural sweetness. A thick paste made
of soda and water is excellent for
cleaning glasses in which milk, ice
cream or other greasy substance has
been standing, or even when there is
no time to make a paste. IL the fin
gers are dipped in water. then in dry
soda and the greasy part of the glass
is rubbed around with them. tho
marks will quickly disappear and the
glass become bright. Lamp chimneys
treated in the same way will shine like
crystal while II lamp burner is
boiled for half an hour in soda and
water it will cause the lamp to burn
with renewed brilliancy Soda Is also
excellent to clean silverware. Make
1t into thin paste and rub briskly,
then wash in hot water.
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buried from ST. Patrick's Church
Thursday morning, September IS.
1902, and Is at rest in Mount Olivet
cemetery. 1t was after the sale of the
house 1919 F street that Aunt Julia
removed to the brick house 500 f
street.
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-HERE is a building on the south
side of E street between 9th
Ill and 10th streets to recall which
q will bring happy recollections
to a great number of Washington peo-
pie. High up on the front of that building
Is the legend 'Marinis Hall and the
date of the construction of that particu-
lar building. 1915 1t is hardly neces-
sary to remind Washingtonians that
Marini was one of those old dancing
masters who taught the art of dancing
to thousands of children. many of whom
now have gray hair or bald heads. 1t
has seemed to the Rambler that thou
sands of citizens must recall moments
of their childhood as they pass this
building and which occupies the site of
that older public hall-Temperance
Hall. Marini was one of the conspicu-
Gus figures of older Washington.
The Rambler does not know when
Marini came to Washington, but he
knows that there was a great May ball
ut Temperance Hall on May 9. 1865. and
he knows that there had been many
Marini May balls before that date. But
at that particular May ball Kate Seitz
was the Goddess of Liberty. Jennie
Montgomery was Queen of May and her
maids of honor were Sallie Duncan,
Lilly Bruf, Hebe Barney and Mary Nor
gan. while the crown bearer was Jose
phine Plant.
The old dances that were danced
there are interesting to recall. and the
names of the dancers may touch many
fond and tender chords. The Rambler
will give the list: Highland fling, Cor
nelia Campbell: village hornpipe. Flora
Clark: La Bayadere, Kate Thompson;
highland fling. Misses Norbeck and
Plant; Sicillienne. Miss c. Barney; sail
or's hornpipe, Master Walter Dennis;
Neapolitaine. Flora Cook; Irish lit.
Cornelia Campbell, Cracovienne. MISS
Moves and Master Stevens; Cachuca,
Ella Norbeck; sailors hornpipe. Masters
Dennis and Bean There was general
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clearly demonstrated her hostile mis-
sion before opening fire.
So far as direct interest in such is
sues is concerned the United States
may be able to escape unless American
citizens form the habit of travelling as
passengers on these submarines. The
State Department has always taken
the view that the United States Is not
directly and vitality interested in a case
save when it involves the life of an
American citizen.
But even if direct concern in the is
sues is avoided, it seems highly prob
able that such an event in the mari
time warfare of the future will indi-
rectly involve the United States by up
setting the logic upon which it is now
resting its position as to the right of
merchant ships to fire, in defense, upon
submarines.
Again there Is encountered the ques-
ton of the effect of these new craft
upon the legality of blockades. To be
sure, the United States has already chal-
lenged the legality Of the allies block
ade on other grounds, but the appear
ance of the submarine merchant ship
brings into question the effectiveness
Of the blockade. and thus attacks it's
legality. according to the Germans.
from another quarter.
In order to claim legality and recog-
milton from neutral powers, a blockade
must. first Of all, be effective. 1t must
effectively and physically bar COM
munication with the blockaded port.
When the Deutschland slipped past the
allies blockade line. the Germans at
once raised the claim that the inef-
fectiveness of the blockade had been
demonstrated.
II existing international law Is
searched for rules and presidents to
settle this question. it appears that
the passage of the lines by this one
merchant submarine does not go SO
far as the Germans claim. But the Ger
be followed by other submersibles and
that, in fact, a regular line of sub
marine merchant ships is to be oper-
ated between Germany and the United
States.
Probably no better way could be
found to illustrate the difficulties like
ly to be encountered in applying exist
ing law to cover this new type of
craft than to sight the judgments of
statesmen and publicists upon this
question Of the effectiveness of block
AIDES and then to attempt to apply their
dicta to the present or promised sit
uation.
For instance. the authority on inter-
national law, Wharton, says upon this
point:
ITO agree to perform a duty effec-
lively Is a very different thing from
agreeing to perform it absolutely. A
carrier. for instance. does not insure
against a sudden frost, which a prudent
person could not foresee, nor against pc
culiar and extraordinary storms; nor
even against defective performance by
employees, when this effectiveness
arisss from extraordinary iaterferencss
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EYOND her million-dollar dye
stuffs cargo, the German super
submarine Deutschland brought
into Hampton roads with her a