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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-29

Cabrera keeps a large force there to
insure tranquility on his own side OF
the border. Sometimes the COUNTER
charge is made that the Mexican revo-
lutionists who are opposed to Carranza
operate from Guatemala. but the an
swer is that they have no need of
doing that. There is plenty of terri
tory in southern Mexico. outside oe
Carranza's control, from which they
can operate.
The possibility has been considered
that owing to the encouragement 81 .ers
by Carranza to the German agents in
Mexico. some of them would spread
over into Guatemala and make that tho
base of their operations. 1t is alto-
gether within the power of President
Cabrera to prevent this being done. No-
body gets in or out of Guatemala witlt-
out his identity being known. II is
not simply a question of passports. but
of actua'lY knowing who the stranger
is that comes into the country either
across the border or through the ports.
The local police know all about him.
and their reports of suspicious char
acters are not slow to reach headquar-
tiers at Guatemala City.
Since the war began the United
States has been absorbing much of the
Guatemala coffee that formerly went
to Hamburg. The means of commune
cation with Germany have been round.
about. They have not been too rounds
about for German agents to follow
them. but now that the difficulties ara
increased IL may be doubted whether
there is any intercourse.
The German intrigue for Guatemal,.
for all the Central American coun-
tries. has its seat on this side of tto
water. There is no ground to suppose
that ii will be effective. While Guate-
mala cannot do much to aid the United
States in military and naval sense.
the country can do a great deal to ill.,
fuence the rest of Central America by
strongly supporting the United States
as ,ainst Germany, and this course
undoubtedly is the Cabrera poliSy.
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A Beavers Rebuke.

THE late . Richard ar Il Harding s,a Davis was .
great believer in work. Immediately
after breakfast. refusing to smoke a
cigar refusing to glance at the morning
d.: per- he would shut himself up and worry
like beaver
Entertaining at his West Chester home
a rather lazy artist. Mr.. Davis said TO
him one day:
you're just like a girl I know. You
dream your work instead of doing it,
DO you know a girl like that said
the artist eagerly. Il wish you'd intro
duce me to her. We ought to be con.
genial"
Yes. indeed" said Mr. Davis; you'd
make a splendid couple. You could keen
yourself everlastingly busy illustrate ting
the stories she doesn't write with the ri ;,
lures you don't paint,
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rome. jewel of beauty-all in this
one corner of the Nalois. On me
smoking wreck of Peronne they lett
humorous placard: "Nicht aergen' MUIR
wundern, Don't be angry. just Won
derD"
Noyon and Peronne are sacked and
ruined. At Chauny. 1.SpO houses out
of 1000 were deliberately burned, and
at a distance they bombarded the re-
mainder. full of old folks and children.
whom they had parked there. All the
public buildings, churches, hospitals
and poorhouse were blown up. three
hundred towns and villages We're burn
ing at one time, in this small section
of the cradle Of France. HindcnburG
was at Rosel when they rounded up
the populations. went through their
pockets for their money tgiVins re-
ceipts'o. took their clothes off their
backs $50 that all the American re-
lief agencies in Paris were overwhelmed
with kilograms Of appeal. ana bhrgled
all the safes in banks ana business
houses before setting fire 10 the town
and blowing up the main street
quit Shaun Kelly. mourning the
tower Of his childhood.
The German official communidue says
that ii is "all done uniquely, according
to the technical principles of modern
war" At Berlin. they caused an amerl-
can correspondent TO cable these words
to his papers THE enemy viii ma
great difficulty to take shelter on
battlefield where everything has been
completely RACED. We regret the de.
struction of beautiful region OF
France but il was necessary TO trans
form il into clear field Of battle pc
fore. We quit IL.
II is false. Put pin here They
also blew up the precious Romanesque
church of Tracy-le-Nal, which oates
before the Gothic. What for? To Clear
n battlefield? No: the church was SIT
uated in the midst of the great forest
Of Laigue They blew up the church
and left the forest standing, No bat
tlefield was cleared. but they hacked
the bark to kill great trees by thou-
sands They made no effort to clear
peasants tell how half a German regi-
ment was occupied three days in bark
ing trees to prevent the sap from
mounting. The crushed pearl of archi-
lecture lies in dying forest NO
battlefield is clean ed
/ tell these things for :E.it relation
to Coucy. The shelter Of Coucy re-
mains. a mountain of broken stones:
At lie Novion. torch in hand, they
burned 223 houses. but all the Quilted
walls are standing. No battlefield is
cleared Their black revenge is not
even new. Put another pin here. As
we returned to Compiegne by the
Noyon highroad, we passed the great
burned town of Choisy au Bac-
wrecked, Quilted with firebombs and
dynamite sticks. when? Yesterday
they blew up the main street of beau
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There is record of two other early tay.
ems within the city. These seem to hnvo'
been in operation in 1897. One was called
the Capitol Hill Tavern and was kept by
Elizabeth Leslie. and the other was Jo-
sephs Wheat Tavern. near Barry's wharf.
at the foot of New Jersey avenue.
Skipping over a period OF years. thu
Rambler will recall to his readers that
in 1880 Jonathan Elliot. Washington
printer. issued a publication on the 'front.'
ispiece of which was the following:
Historical sketches OF the ten-mile square
forming the District Of Columbia. with pic
ture of Washington. describing objects Of gen.
eral interest curiosity at the metropolis or
the I-nion also a description Of the river Po-
and plan Of the chesapeake and Ohio canal from
Georgetown 10 Pittsburgh. and an account OF
Mount Vernon. together with public documents
and statistical facts touching the Affairs Of tho
District.
In this old book one may read what
follows concerning the Indian Queen
Hotel:
This extensive establishment ia owned by
Jesse Brown. esq. II fronts on the business part
Of Pennsylvania avenue upward Of 40 feet. with
new large building in the rear on street
H a"' s,, r and comfortsbe manner Tbcrs
is also private door leading to private rooms
for families. Mr.. r. Is very popular
tavern keeper and much esteemed by his fellow
citizens and neighbors. The patronage he
ceives is liberal and lucrative. The kitchen.
washhouse and dairy have each fountain OF
purest water supplied from a never failing spring.
As appurtenance TO the Indian Queen. Mr..
Brown hns a garden cultivated with much
Judgment and industry that he is not only able
supply his table with the richest and
freshest vegetables. but vends in the city
market of his surplus enough TO defray the eA-
penses of that establishment
The late James Croggon, in an address
at meeting of the Oldest Inhabitants
Association on Wednesday evening. Sep
TENDER 3, 1902, speaking of hotels, said .
Prior to the war Of 1912 most of the hotels
were located In the vicinity of the Capitol. hut
by 1890 there a number the Avenue.
O'Neals, afterward Gadsby's was at 2lst street;
east Of 18th street Sanfords. with Nc
site Strother's Hotel located. At l2;h
street. the site of the Raleigh. APP
piers Hotel. The predecessor of the Metropo
ian was first known Keowin's. hut then
1s2Ol the Indian Queen Browns Hotel.
Queens Hotel was on Capitol Hill.
Gadsby evidently moved. because G. ads
by's Hotel at one time stood on the Forth
west corner of Pennsylvania avenue and
Sd street About 1867 or 1865 it hec,,'n.,
the Washington House. undar the man
agement Of Benjamin Beverage. MEALS
Hotel or the Franklin Hotel stood at tho
northeast corner of 21st and | streets.
La Fayette was a guest ut shdt norel Oh
the occasion of his visit 20 Washington
Til. Rambler will take up this subjec: AZ
another time.
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ton. and Sketch of the Life of Capt
William Easily" which she read be-
fore the Association of the Oldest In
habitants of the District of Columbia,
June 4, 1913, said:
This property had been bought fourteen years
before us0S) by Josiah Fox for 81 500. The
house standing in 1795. but so far l have
been unable to trace it beyond that date. The
founda ton and basement of the house are three
feet thick. 1t thirty-six feet broad and the
same depth. massively built. and 1t might stand
a siege. In 1875 in sale made by party in
Philadelphia. William Tunnicliff was ap-
pointed attorney ] suppose il was he who estab-
lshed a hotel there. 1t is supposed TO be the
oldest house standing in the city. ! have
been told that there was so much water in the
neighborhood that It was necessary TO keep a
ditch the Pennsylvania avenue front of the
place. and for that and other reasons it was
dubbed Warwick" by which II was
known in the family until 1857. Here my father
lived before moving to Easbys Point for more
than seven years, beautifying the lot with
flowers and fruit trees. He was especially fond
Of the crabapple blossoms and of hyacinths.
have learned that these blossoms abound in the
Cleveland wales of Yorkshire. where he spent
his early childhood
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was that the United States had not
recognized the administration of Presi-
dent Tinoco.
1t was not SO many months ago that
Latin America. accustomed as it is to
revolutions aStoniShed to learn
that one had taken place in Costa Rica,
which for fifty years had been cited as
as example of stable and orderly Latin
American government. 1t was a COM
paratively peaceful revolution, but it
was purely of a military character
The minister of war, controlling the
police and the army, just took posses
sion OF the government and ousted
President Gonzalez. 1t was alleged that
American fruit interests were back of
the revolution and that other foreign
interests also encouraged it. because
the administration in power had in
sisted taxing the land holdings
which previously had paid only a
slight tax.
Possibly the State Department had
evidence to convince it that there was
ground for this assertion, or possibly
not, but at any rate no recognition was
given the revolutionary governma"-
Nor was that recognition extended
after the revolution was legitimatized,
so to speak. by an election in which
Gen. Tinoco was chosen president
Most of the Latin American countries
have recognized President Tinoco APP
parently. the Washington policy is to
let the matter drift for the time be-
ing. while taking no notice of the offer
of the hospitality of Costa Rican wa
tiers. The situation, however. makes it
difficult to obtain complete concord
among the Central American countries
in regard to Germany, and since rec
ognition is matter of expediency
rather than of sentiment the Tinoco
de facto government may yet be rec
oSnized.
Some German capital has gone into
Costa Rica in connection with the bana-
ma industry. Several years ago a de-
termined effort was made to establish
German steamship line as a rival to
the American line in the control of the
banana business. but it was not success
full.
Honduras has not taken a prominent
part in the movement for Central
American concord, although it has done
nothing antagonistic to the United
States. The difficulty about Honduras
is that it rarely is free to act indie
pendently. Either Guatemala or Saliva
dor is seeking to control its policy.
and sometimes does control it, Hon
duras. in Central America, is not I'M
like the Balkan states, in Europe. Its
neighbors are not willing to let it
alone.
Salvador usually is the uncertain
element in Central America in it's re-
lations with the United States. A
small and very populous country ana
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we'll administered, it has a high con-
ception of its own sovereignty, and of
its role among other republics. There
alwars has been a group of young
politicians who have worked them
selves into fever heat over the sup
posed ambitious designs of the United
States. They have raised the cry of
Yankee imperialism, and harped on it
when there was nothing else to talk
about 1t was in Salvador also that
some years ago the forged letter at
tributing to Elihu Root sentiments
which he never uttered originated.
There also has been small group
who have been pro-German and talked
German influence an offset to the
United States. These things must be
understood in connection with Saliva
doris irritation over the Nicaraugan
treaty, when the effort is made to Sc
cure identical action by all the Cen
trail American countries against Ger
many
Guatemala is in the strongest posi-
ton to strengthen itself in the present
situation. There is every reason why
autocratic authority he exercises.
should come out strongly for the
Washington policy, Notwithstanding
that the Guatemalan coffee trade is in
the hands of Germans, and the Ger
mans also control most of the banks.
Whatever administration has been in
power in Washington has shown a
kindly tolerance for President Ca
brera in spite of the occasional fric-
ton in regard to the Guatemalan debt
and other matters. Years ago, when he
sought to introduce American educa-
tional methods. including manual
training schools. his efforts were sec
onded by Washington. His railway
policy also has been given encourage
ment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-29
The Rambler Writes of Old Taverns of W.
m HE numerous new and projected

IN HE numerous new and projected
hotels of Washington recall to
the Rambler many of the places
of rest and refreshment of the
older Washington. Frequently has the
Rambler written of the ancient taverns
and the sites of nearly forgotten tav-
ems along the roads around Washing
ton. but even that work has been i'm
perfect. and in attempting to recount
me early hotels of the District there
viii necessarily be many omissions.
In barking back to the old hosteiries
OF the District one is very apt TO think
Of Suffers Tavern, the formal name OF
which was the Fountain Inn, which for
many years stood on the east side or
what is now Wisconsin avenue between
VI street tand the river near where
stands Grace Protestant Episcopal
Church. 1t would seem TO have been
the principal hotel of Georgetown at
the time OF the creation of the federai
territory of Columbia. for there. on
March 80. 1871. the owners of the lana
comprised within the original city OF
Washington met George washington
and coded their farms under the condl-
irons which need not be reviewed here,
TO the general government as the site
Of the new Capital city.
IL was also at meeting under the
roof of this historic tavern that the
commissioners of the new Ten Mile
Sruare Gen. Thomas Johnson. DR.. Da-
Md stuart and Daniel Carroll. met sep
tenlbcr .. 1921, and reached the agree
rrept that the new capital should bear
the name Of the city of Washington
The site of this tavern has been
marked with one of the familiar but
temporary tablets under the auspices
Of the committee on points of historic
interest appointed in connection with
The inauguration of President Wilson
and Vice President Marshall and which
committee has performed valuable
service to the people of the District on
number of previous inaugurations
and other national gatherings and cere-
monies at Washington. II rs oeiieved
that the first sale of Washington city
lots was held in this tavern on october
Il. 1871. for in the record of the pro-
ceedings of the commissioners of the
proposed city there is an item that
John Suffers bill for wine and wood
furnished at the sale of lots was paid.
Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan. one of the
friends of the Rambler. in his History
of the National Capital" has written
that the earliest record of hotel with
in the limits of the city is that of John
Travers. on the Eastern branch. that
invited public patronage as early as
the summer of 1898. He points out
that there was hotel called Mark
Wards Tavern at GreenleafS Point,
where passage could be engaged on the
packet plying between Georgetown,
Greenleafs Point and Alexandria. An
advertisement in the Impartial Observ-
err and Washington Advertiser of the
issue of June II, 1875. recites that the
fare from Georgetown to Greenleafs
Point by this sailing packet was II
cents. and from there to Alexandria SO
cents. The landing place of the packet
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tell a story about Mazarin. He deemed
so strong a place so near to Paris
might be dangerous to the crown. 50
he dismantled Coucy. militarily. with
out destroying its architectural beauty.
The donjon worried him, in those days
when artillery could make no impress
sion on it's massive thickness. So Ma
zarin put sixteen barrels OF powder IN
side the tower and set them of DO
YOU know what happened? The tower
just converted itself into gun barrel.
The powder blew out all the stories
and the roof-shot them up: IKE
gun pointed at the sky. But the tower
stood. exactly as before
''The donjon floors were never re-
placed?" | said.
No There was a winding staircase
inside Like any American boy Would
do of course / hunted and grubbed
romantically through the old place in
my school vacations. oh. yes: hunt-
ed for treasure and secret passase
There is. in fact. MASSIVE suptef-
ranean exit running under the entire
town IN beyond the outermost walls.
II was long ago blocked up. but you
could find parts of IT. The castle was
at the extreme end of the town, on
this high point with three sharp sides
and the only entrance was through the
town The sire had walls to protect
him from the town itself. and walls
beyond to protect the town from the
outside So in protecting themselves
tie He was wise old sire"
The masonry was. admittedly. the
heaviest achieved by the middle ages
From the donjon extended three great
yatlIted halls. Massive buildings con-
tinued. There was Gothic chapel.
tribunal hall. the hall of the nine peers
whose statues remained), the hall of
the nine countesses twhose medallion
portraits were carved on the monu
mental chimney. There was a Roman
esque chapel frelic from Charlemagne.
like the original donjonD. the separate
fortified chateau of the chatelain tthe
sire's first oficer). and so on.
.The grandest relic of the middle
ages in north Europe" said Shaun
Kelly. Il would compare it with Car
cassonne not in size. but in impor-
lance Carcassonne is a walled town.
simply You remember the song: And
/ have not seen Carcassonner-the man
who craved, all his life, to see the ro-
mantle old place? Well, the French
architect and archeologist. Viollet-le-
Duo. before restoring Carcassonne.
tried his hand in the north. Napoleon
III wanted him to restore Coucy to it's
primitive glory. but they found Coucy
SO great that the task frightened them.
so they took ruined Pierrefonds. and
made it the show place you know.
Carcassonne he tackled later"
The retreating Germans have not only
blown up Coucy. but that other price
less relic the tower of the grand con-
stable and the entire historic chateau
of Ham, and equally the castle Of Pc
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Samuel Blodgett. whose name is asso-
ciated with the first of the great hotels of
the Capital, was a New Hampshire man
who was early attracted to Washington
by the great promise of the new city. The
first mention of his name in connection
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THE donjon was very high" said
shaun TT stood on kind Of blum
q elevation. overlooking the country.
and before the days of aeroplanes II
might have been used for Observations.
Nowadays. when aeroplanes and 'sau-
sage balloons do an organized service.
i seems absolutely unnecessary to de-
strcy a wonderful old place like Coucy.
the lcn en- walls were sixteen yards
tn-.i.-ro. feet; No other tower in
e ad those dimensions. They
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The revolutionary effort to GUST him.
on the ground that he is another Diaz
and has kept re-electing himself by
Diaz methods, apparently has made no
impression on the present national ad-
ministration. The assumption seems to
be that. under despotic forms, he is
giving Guatemala about as good gov
eminent as 1t is ready for. and is con-
tributing to the upbuilding of the
country, though there may not be
much to show in the way of popular
self-government.
The unsatisfactory attitude of the
Carranza government in Mexico is an
other reason why President Cabrera
should bring Guatemala strongly to
the support of the United States. There
never will be genuinely good relations
between Carranza and Cabrera.
Whether the Carranza administration
encourages Guatemalan revolutionists
along it's southern border or not. the
Guatemalans believe SO, and President
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was generally known as Lovelrs Tavern.
but at later times II Is referred to as the
Union Tavern and Washington Hotel. 4
small frame building was erected In 1900
at the southwest corner OF Pennsylvania
avenue and 18th street and opened as a
hotel by man whose name was Lewis
NORM. He was a Baltimorean and bought
the lot from the commissioners Of the
city.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-03
MAKING a Magnet.

The simplest way Of magneti1ng
bar Of steel is that known as single
touch" The bar to be magnetized is
laid on the table, and the pole of a
powerful magnet is rubbed from ten to
twenty times along its length, always
in the same direction. If the north pole
of the magnet is employed the end of
the bar first touched will also become
a north pole, while the opposite end, at
which the magnet is lifted before re-
turning, will be a south pole.
There are other and more complicat-
ed methods, known as divided touch
and double touch" in which two and
even four magnets are employed.
A steel bar can also be magnetized
by placing it within coil of insulated
wire, through which galvanic current
is circulating The magnetism induced
in this way, however, is weak COM
pared with that which can be procured
if the same strength of current is en-
ployed through the intervention of an
electromagnetic.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-03
Outside the House.

How many beautiful homes on which
money has been spent lavishly to make
them complete are marred by some de-
feet in the landscape work! A few
hours motor trip through the suburbs
of almost any city in the country will
reveal many such cases. The most fire.
clent jar the trained eye receives is
from the poorly laid out walks and
driveWays in which badly arranged
curves are used or walks made to curve
around an oval grass plot placed in the
center for no other reason than to
make pedestrians take time to circle
about that particular grass plot. Post
men, messenger boys and others take
short cut, and soon path in the
proper direction is worn across the sod.
When a curve is used in walk or
driveway there should be reason for
it. If there is no other reason plant
one; place tree or two or shrubs in a
position SO the curve will seem neces-
sary. People then will keep on the
walk, and the plan will seem reason
able.-New York Sun.