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The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
Street SLIPS AWAY;
HOMECOMING COMPLEX
Authorities Divest School Streetsof Its
Name-Make 1t Hiatt Place.

A Washingtonian left his comfortable
home yesterday morning under the i'm
preston that he was living in School
street northwest. He had lived there for
some time, expected to continue to live
there. However, when he glanced up at
the street lamppost upon his return in
the evening he discovered that he was
turning down the wrong street.
The sign read, Hiatt Place." and he
lived in School street.
He hastened on, scanning the street
signs for school street northwest"
On and on he went, but to no terminal
School street northwest" seemed to
have disappeared Terror seized the citi-
zen. His home had gone with the street
and It was q mighty cold, blustery night
He hastily retraced his steps to Hiatt
Place." whose general aspect seemed
more familiar than did any of the other
shadowy streets he had visited In his
search for his vanished home. and hur-
ried down 1t. eagerly examining impassive
fronts Of houses.
Finding a house that seemed to resemble
the one he had left that morning, the
citizen rang the door bell gingerly. II
whole streets could disappear within the
short space Of twelve hours, there was
no telling what mere house would do.
The maid who opened the door looked
at him In surprise.
Good evening"" she said. Dinner will
be ready as soon as you come down" |"
The citizen breathed a sigh Of relief
and walked In.
Whatever had happened to the street
his homo was left. At the dinner table
him family enlightened him as to the fate
Of the street.
The name on the sign post had been
changed during the day.
Why?
The family did not know, so the citizen
called up The Washington Herald. max
irg it plain that he had not been con-
suited in the matter and had suffered con-
siderable chagrin therehg. The Wash
Ington Herald learned that the Columbia
Heights Citizens Association had request
ed the change from School street" to
Hiatt Place" since there Is a School
street southwest Now the citizen Of
Hiatt Place" is relieved to know that his
homo is still on earth, but favors a gen.
eral advertisement of the change Of q
streets name. go that no one in the fu-
ture will have to undergo his alarming
experience OF last night.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
OYSTERS ARE SCARCE;
PRICES SOARING HIGH
Bad Weather Has Halted Dredgers and
Also Delayed Cargoes.

A canvas of local oyster dealers has
revealed that this sea food is not only
scarce this Christmas but from 20 to
40 per cent higher than last years
prices. Inclement weather has halted
the dredgers and prevented some of
the boats from coming up with their
cargoes. Retail prices at the wharf
range from 80 cents a bushel for the
ordinary oysters to $3.50 for the bet
ter grades, and shucked oysters range
in price from Is to so cents a pint.
OF course, the latter are the very
best oysters obtainabie IN this section.
The frequent spell Of warm weather
experienced in this locality often finds
the price of the bivalves very low, and
at the first cold snap, the prices climb
up.
Although there has not been enough
ice on the river to prevent operations.
the wind and frequent storms nave
done their share to keep the price of
the oyster up, but SO far the rise in
price has not been quite so painful
as have the prices of other sea foods
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
YULE EXERCISES Held
At FRIENDS SCHOOL
Recitations and Music Feature Pro-
gram at Sidwell Institution.

Ono of the features of the Christina
exercises held at the Sidwells' Friends
School. Friday afternoon was a Christ
mas tree ceremony, conducted by the
students for the benefit Of the Children
Hospital A program of recitations and
music was rendered by the primary anC
intermediate classes of the school under
the direction OF Miss Elizabeth E. Mar.
shall. Miss Maude Burwell and Mis-:
| Blanche A. Polkinhorn, all of the Friends
School. Master Jimmie Brown was 9
distinct success as a diminutive SantG
Claus, and among many excellent recita-
tions, The Best Thing" by Katharine
Lackey. was especially appropriate. The
| Girls Glee Club rendered several Sc
iections.
At the close Of the exercises, Thoma:
W. Sidwell. principal, awarded the follow,
iEg certificates for scholarship:
Primary-Jean Mackey, Phillips Smith
Walter Stevens Turpin. Edgar Y. Gil.
chist. jr.. Charles Keene. jr., Elizabeth
Morris Kennedy. Thomas Colston Kinney
Malcolmn 8. McConihe. jr., Etreu, Ar.
redondo, Newton D. Baker, Sd, Eldridge
Roger Boyle, jr., William Bradford
Briggs. Gale Curtis Hill, Brewster. H
Marshall. Robert Walker Morris, Albert.
Perley, Lillian George Richards, Wade D
| Stafford. Elizabeth Wilson, Thomas Nc
Pherson Brown, Joe Hamman Eagle. Su'
san Mabel Ford, Alexander B. Hagner
John Henry Polkinhorn, Dorothy r
Smith, Dorothy Jeanette Thayer.
1ntermediate-Leah Isabel DeMoll, VIII
lam r. Grunwell, Philip Hichborn, Georg,
Element Judd, Devereux H. Lippit, jr
Jean Wharam Morris, Dorothea w Rich
ards. Margaret Elizabeth Sharp, Ross w
Stutler John McFerran Sweeney, Cor
coran Thom. jr., Lawrence Edward Tier
ney. jr.. Corwine w. Wallis, Jr., Milton f
Allies, jr., ]. Holmes Branson, tr., Laur;
Bryn, Richard Clayton, William r
Duryee, John Henry Eagle, James Bun
nell Faulkner, Gilbert B. Grunwell, Will
lam Harrington Leahy, Margaret Winfield
Leet, Reginald ]. Masters, David Parl
Monke. Anita Phillips Smith. Hele,
Marsh TowneE David Warheld warthen
Eliseo Arredondo, Johannes Grilstat
Bryn. Clifford Cochran Ewing Moran Nc
Conihe, Harwood Merrill, Thomas Bel
Sweeney. jr., Mannix Walker, jane
Young, jr.. Joseph Robert Andrews, Rau
Arredondo, William Kelledy Gilbert
Katharine Holton, Anne Lockwood
Lackey. Charles L. B. Lowndes, Beal
Magruder Woodward.
High school-Inger Margrethe Bryr
Katharine H. Fenning. Mary Weaver Fox
Anne Clarissa Kittilsen, Mary Elizabeth
| Runway, Thelma B. l. Reeve, Emmon
Smith. Jr.. Harrison Wilson straley. jr.
Louisa Carr Tsyloe. Constance NJ. Tow
ner, Roger Sidwell Russell. Clinton Blak,
Townsend, Eleanor B. Ball, Katharin
| Buckingham, William Tinsley Dent
Elenore Dewitt Eby, Helen Russell
J GruveT, Julia Benton Hopkins, TAI
/ wang Kwan. Edwin H. ~Dierce, Mar,
Hunt Roberts, Joseph Coburn Smith
Charles P. Stone. jr.. Theodate p. VIII
son, Evelyn Yates, Eleanor D. Buckman
IGrace Estelfe Fox, Rudolf Kirk, Henr,
lC. Boynton. Sigmund Bryn, Dexter NJ
I; Bullard, Hazel e. Jones. Richard King
/ Estelle z. Reeve, Allen H. Roberts, VII
helmina M. W. Spanhoofd, Charlotte G
Washburn.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
MRS. ROSA l. TOWNSEND
RECOVERING FROM FALL

Physicians at Emergency Hospital
stated last night that the condition Of
Mrs. Rosa Lewis Townsend, a clerk in
the land office. who was injured in a fall
at Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue, was much improved and that she
was practically out of danger. An X-ray
photograph was made yesterday to de-
termine If her shoulder was broken.
Mrs. Townsend was returning from the
reception of the Southern Society Of
Washington at the Pan-American Union
Building Thursday night, and while wait
ing for a car fell into an areaway at the
Mills Building. She was removed TO
the hospital where 1t was found she was
suffering from broken arm and injury
to her shoulder.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
MACCABEES ARE GUESTS
AT HEBREW TEMPLE

The Washington branch Of Maccabees
were guests Of the Washington Hebrew
Congregation. at the Eighth Street Tenn
pie. last night. The invitation was ex-
tended in recognition of the fundamental
teachings of 'Channukah.
Rabbi Abram Simon made the guests
welcome with a sermon. He announced
that a playlet will be given by the dra-
matte branch of the Maccabees tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock in connection with
the children's 'Channukah entertainment.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
KILLS A
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYE

Priestler Poole, 81 years old, employed
at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving,
died at Emergency Hospital last night.
He was taken to the hospital with scalp
wounds and broken ribs after being hit
by an automobile at Fourteenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue northwest
The body was removed to the Morgue
where an inquest will be held today.
Poole was unmarried and lived with
his brother, Lewis Poole, at 5Oe D street
northwest.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23

On Peruvian railroad that within 40
miles rises from sea level to an altitude
Of 1855 feet, all trains are preceded by
pilot cars to detect. unexpected perils.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
PAIN? NOT A BIT!
LIFT YOUR CORNS
OR CALLUSES OFF
No humbua! Apply few drops
then just llft them away
with fingers.

This new drug is an ether compound
discovered BY a Cincinnati chemist.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23

n is called freezone, and car
now be obtained in tiny
\ bottles as here shown al
very little cost from any
drug store. Just ask for
freezone. Apply a drop OF
two directly upon a tender
corn or callus and in
stantly the soreness disap-
pears. Shortly you viii
find the corn or callus 81
loose that you can lift il
off, root and all, with the
fingers.
n Not a twinge of pain,
4 soreness or irritation; moi
4 even the slightest smarting,
N either when applying freez-
WI one or afterwards.
This drug doesn't eat up
the corn or callus, but
Hi shriveIs them so they
E loosen and come right out
MI 1t works like a charm
E For a few cents you can
get rid of every hard corn,
ID soft corn or corn between
y the toes, as well as painful
calluses on bottom OF
4. 1t never disappoints and
rms, bites or inflames. Genu-
one is sold only in these small
acked in a little sealed wood
lring a yellow wrapper. Be
imitations.-Ady.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
PROGRAMMES OF THE WEEK
 AT LOCAL MOVIE HOUSES

Tuesday-"Once a Thief" with Bry- ant Washburn and Nell Craig
 The Human Telegram" with Helen Rose Gibson, Wednesday-"M Merry Mary with an all-star cast Selig- Tribune news features. Ham and Bud company. Thursday-"The Wheat and the Chaff," Lubin feature with all tar cast Frday-"A Return to Youth and Trouble" with Edward Arnold and Lillian Drew. An Elephants Gratitude" selig ani- maj drama. The Water Cure Vim comedy with
 allstar cast. Saturday-''Broken Letters.'' with Margaret Landis and Madeline Pardee
 "A Lunch Room Legacy" with Sis Hopkins. Strand Sunday-"The Moment Before" fea- turing Pauline Frederick. Monday and Tuesday-"David Gar rick" featuring Dustin Farnum. Wednesday and Thursday-"T Lit
 tie Church Around the Corner" with Emelie Pollini. Princess
 Friday and Saturday-"The Innocent
 Lie,' with Valentine Grant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
PAULINE FREDERICK
 STARRED AT STRAND

mum as Garriclx seems perfectly fitted for the role of gentleman in the pow dered wig and dueling era, and his presentation of the character is most excellent
 Winifred Kingston, Herbert Stand ing. and many others of stellar stand ing complete the cast.
 THE LITTLE CHURCH AROUND
 THE CORNER
 Emelie Pollini is starred at the Strand W Wednesday, and Thursday in 'sThe Little Church Around the Cor ner, magnificent drama based on the history of the real little church around the corner. which, has proved a haven of rest for thousands of weary souls. The action is intensely thrill- ing throughout. and the play is calcu- lated to make one think
 THE INNOCENT LIE.
 f"rhe Innocent Lie is the screen of fering of the strand Friday and Sat urday and Miss Valentine Grant is starred. it being her debut under the Famous Players banner. Miss Grant portrays the character of Nora O'Brien a poor Irish emigrant who is ren- dered unconscious by a blow while searching for her brother, soon after landing in America. She regains her senses and finds she is in the home of wealthy people who call her Cousin Nora How she appreciates their kind- ness and repays it makes a thrilling story The setting is in Bermalda and the production vas filmed unter the direction of Sidney 0lcott. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07

.N AULINE FREDERICK is starred e at the Strand today in The Moment Before, an intensely dramatic story of domestic unhapps- ness, which later turns into happiness, and which. by another queer twist of the story is ended most unhappily for the heroine
 Miss Frederick appears in The Mo III ent Before' in the role of wild gypsy. maid and also as stald, dis nified duchess In the first scenes she is seen as the duchess The duke meets death and the duchess is seen in the carriage en route to the funeral. As the hearse hears the cemetery, she hears the church bells tolling, and re- calls a prophecy that was made to the effect that she would die the day the bells tolled for her husband She re- turns home and falls asleep. dreaming of her past life. as the bride of gypsy whom she ahhorred; of his final death, and of her marriage to the duke, whom she loved She awakens and is over husband and dies
 DAVID GARRICK
 Dustin Farnum will he seen at the Strand Monday and Tuesday in David aGarrick.' perturbation of the classi'' of by-gore days in London. David Garrick" has been produced before n a much less pretentious manner but this offering of the Pallas company irnarks the advance which has been made in film production. Dustin FarS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
Odeon Two

 sunday-"IIis Trysting Place with Charles Chaplin. 'The Worst of Friends, '' with Weber and Fields.
 Monday-'The Girl Who Didn't Matter, ,-@ith Margaret Landis. ''Mllionaires by Mistake with Ham and Bud, comedy. "Skylight Sleep. Heinie and Louie comedy.
 Tuesday-"The Greater Wrong with Leslie Austin and Octavia Handworth. Hearst vitagraph news
 Wednesday-"The Social Pirates with Marion Sais and Ollie Kirby. "A Tender Hearted Boy with Mae Marsh and Rob ert Harroun. The Boob Weekly" by Rube Goldberg
 Thursday Haunted and Rounded, ? with Madeline Pardee and Robert Gray. Romance and Riot" with Sis Hopkins Natural color scenic.
 Friday-"Sin's Penalty with Mary An derson. Hot Stuff" comedy. Hearst Vitagraph news.
 Saturday The Last Adventure" with Lillian Drew and Edwin Arnold "A Race for a Siding" with Helen Gibson.
 Rialto
 Sunday-"Honors Altar" with Bessie Barriscaie. Auto Ruination," Keystone comedy.
 Monday and Tuesday-'Love's Toll with Rosella Brice and Richard Buhler. Wednesday and Thursday" Re demption of Dave Darcey." with James Morrison, Belle Bruce, Billie Billings and Mary Maurice.
 Friday and Saturday," Million Dollars, featuring William Faversham
 Trian0n
 Sunday-"Sold for Marriage" featuring Lillian Gish, with all-star support E Monday and Tuesday, The Other Man" Keystone comedy, with Fatty Ar buckle.
 Wednesday and Thursday-erhe Stepping Stone" with Frank Keenan sand May Roland.
 ''Ducking Society Keystone comedy, with Chesey'<Conklin and Lou Allen MatfrR
 Friday and Saturday-"The Rack { with Alice Brady.
 Princess Sunday-"The Gray Bask," with Ed win Arden featured
 Monday-'"The Resurrection of Hol- lis" with Walter McGrail and Belle Bruce.
 "skelly's Birthday" with Charles Murray.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
A Successful Game Farm

From Outing.
 Hand rearing game birds in the north. ern states is still uncommon enough to make conspicuous those instances that are successful. Very few breeders have wintered such birds in any numbers and then mostly on ground at tide water level or exceptionally well sheltered, or in dis tricts too populated to be frequented by predatory birds and animals
 1t requires a lot of patience and more than ordinary perseverance to bring through New England winter. for in- stance, a varied collection of wood duck black duck, pintails, mallards. redheads, canvas backs widgeon, English pochards, Canada geese and pheasants, 200 or 300 in all, and have them in condition to mate in the spring. But this has been done for two or three years now on a game refuge in the Litchfields hills of Connecticut, just under the Massachus- sets line, where the fox, hawk and bob cat still thrive in considerable numbers where country folk enjoy winter of from 15 to r weeks of sleighing where the breeding grounds lie 15 feet above sea level and where about every piece of water is frozen solid from the middle of November until late March
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
OFFERINGS OF WEEK AMONG LOCAL PHOTOPI4AY HOUSES
Birth of q Nation"
 Corning For Veterans
Same Company Which Was Here Earlier in Sea- son Will Spend Entire Reunion Week at the Jefferson-Deluge of Requests Received By Management

Positive assurance that The Birth of Nation" is to be presented at the Jefferson theatre during Reunion Week by the same company that played two tremendously successful engage ments at this playhouse earlier in the season, is given by Manager R. S Douglas The same symphony orches- tra of 30 New York artists and the same realistic stage effects will be shown, and the entire spectacle will be seen on the same elaborate scale that it was first unfolded to the view of Birmingham p1aygoers during New Years Week.
 Following its second engagement at the Jefferson the week of March the company opened at the Tulane theatre, New Orleans. and remained there until Saturday, April 29, giving sS consecu- tive performances before 100000 peo- pie. Engagements in Baton Rouge, Natchez and other important points in. Mississippi and Louisiana will fill the interval before the company's return to Birmingham. There are several or ganizations presenting ''The Birth of a Nation'' on tour. but the one booked LOT the JeHerSon mas not played any engagements in Alabama since it's last visit to Birmingha the week of March 5. These facts are set forth so that the orchestra and production re- booked for Birmingham as special reunion feature may be properly iden- tified.
 Upwards of 35,000 people witnessed the Griffith masterpiece during it's previous engagements in this city, and they have praised it so fervently that there is little doubt of its repeating its feat of playing to capacity business at the IA additional performances. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
CHARLES CHAPLIN
 IS OFFERED TODAY
 AT THE ODEON TWO
T HE odeon Two comes forward to-
 day with two of the best comedies " ohtaipo hIo in +ha f;T,,, VI, O rlx at to

6 HE Odeon Two comes forward to-
 day with two of the best comedies A obtainable in the film market to- day. Charles Chaplin is the star in one and Weber and Fields are the funmakers in the other. His Trysting Place" is Chaplins vehicle, and Weber and Fields come rolling onto the screen in that time honored wheel barrow. The Worst of Friends The reputation of Weber and Fields for raising laughs is known round the world, and that they will have large audiences goes without saying. Chaplin, of course, will draw.
 In fact, it appears that Manager Left wich has managed to get hold of bill which has in it much of the properties of the magnet
 COMEDIES FOR MONDAY
 Manager Leftwich also has in reserve two screamingly funny comedies which will be shown Monday. Ham and Bud make the fun in "Millionaires by Mis- talxe,' and Heinie and Louie are starred in "Skylight Sleep"
 Margaret Landis in ''The Girl Who Didn't Matter" will lead tomorrow's pro gramme
 Leslie Austin and Octavia Handworth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
|SOLD FOR MARRIAGE | IS THE OFFERING AT | THE TR|AN0N TODAY
Lillian Gish Starred in h. tensely Dramatic Produc- ton, Showing Customs
 of Another Land
,<C OLD FOR MARRIAGE, a play

kkC OLD FOR MARRIAGE a play
 with dual setting. featuring
 A Lillian Gish, is the offering of the Trianon today, Monday and Tuesday The play begins in Russia, and depicts the terrors of that country for mar riageable girl whose guardians insist that she marry the man of their choice simply because he happens to be able to pay more for her than the other man.
 Maria" the heroine of the play, leaves Russia for the United States. where she hopes to escape the prosecutions of her relatives Aboard ship she meets the man she loves and their loves grow as the ship hears the Promised Land. At Ellis Island, however, she is torn from her lover's side, and the relatives are engaged in the gentle practice of forcing her to become the bride of an old man she abhors when the police, at the in- stance of her sweetheart, intervene.
 On the other side of the screen at the Trianon today Fatty Arbuckle is starred in a Keystone comedy entitled "The Other Man"
 THE STEPPING STONE Frank Keenan and Mary Roland are cO-StarS In ''Ihe stepping stone, Wnlcn will be the attraction at the Trianon Wednesday and Thursday This is a strong drama, which will strike re- sponsive chord in the hearts of many women who have aided unappreciative husbands in an upward climb, and fl should awaken consciences of careless men. The story tells of the struggles of a wife to the end that her husband might be made comfortable, despite their pow erty, and how she aids him in his law studies. Like most husbands who take all and give nothing, he is ready to cast her off when his beggerly goal is reached. The story Is well worth seeing in it's pie turized form.
 'Ducl1ing Society is a Keystone com edy on the other side of the screen at the Trianon
 THE RACK
 Alice Brady and Milton Stills are starred Friday and Saturday at the Trianon in The Rack, 's which is another of the domestic relations dramas, and which has a trial scene in it that alone justifies the whole. The story tells of the machi- nations of dissolute man-a n-about-town who causes discord in several homes be- fore finally being brought sto his doom The wife of Tom Gordon is accused of the murder. She fears her husband killed Freeman, and confesses. At the trial the case is rehashed in court but the wife is finally saved by the husband of an- other woman who comes forward and admits his guilt, saying Freeman had de- stroyed his home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07

strong desire of nearly every playgoer to see it again" multiplies the draw ing possibilities of the spectacle wherever it is shown and in the au- diences that w~l fill the Jefferson next week will be thousands who have all ready attended one or more perform ances and felt the spell of "the miracle movie"
 Under ordinary conditions, Birming- ham would see no more of The Birth Of Nation" this season. The Griffith corporation hasl no thought of booking second return engagement until the request was made by the committee having charge of the arrangements for the Confederate reunion. The commit tees request was supplemented by let ters from all parts of the south, many Of them from veterans residing in the small inland towns where the spec tacle has not been and never will be shown. The writers stated that un- less "The Birth of a Nation" was pre- sented in Birmingham during the week or the reunion they might never have an opportunity to witness it. Promi- nent leaders of the Sons and Daugh- ters of the Confederacy joined in what appeared to be a strong campaign of letter writing to bring the big film opera here for the grand rally of the boys in gray. All this had its effect not alone in the rebooking of the spec tacle. but in the arrangement of spe- cial scale of prices for the veterans The concession amounts almost to 100 per cent reduction from the regular prices
 The advance sale of seats will be opened Thursday morning and patrons are urged to buy early Thousands have learned from bitter experience that 1t becomes next to impossible to obtain good seats as the advance safe progresses, The engagement will be- gin with matinee and night perform ances next Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
REDEMPTION OFDAvE DARCEY''

The Redemption of Dave Darcey," d Vitagraph Blue Ribbon release of heart interest, will be the offering of the Rialto Wednesday and Thursday. Stars that appear in the play are James Nor risen, Belle Bruce, Billie Billings and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
.ONE MILLION DOLLARS"
Leading Up

From Life.
 Maude--, What makes you think his intentions are serious?
 Mabel When he first began to call he used to talk about the books 1 like to read
 Maude-~.And now
 Mabel--- Now he talks about the. things he likes to eat