The Washington times., 1918-11-10

I WILLIAM J. EYNoN owns q
historic lead pencil. While aiding
JOHN POOLE, EUGENE THOMP-
SON, EDWARD EYNON, and other
leaders who put over Washington'p
big subscription to the fourth LIB.
erty loan, he went with Secretary
McAdoo and others on the memoir
able tour which obtained subscrip-
tons Of close to 5000, 900, inelud-
ing that Of President Wilson for
$4,000.
PRESIDENT WILSON met the
committee on the portico Of the
White House. Taking the blank
subscription he looked around for a
pen.
"Use this Good Luck pencil.
please, Mr.. President" Enyon urged.
as he put forward q pencil with an
old-fashioned eraser on it.
Certainly" and the subscription
was quickly made.
At the home Of BARNEY
BARUCH that great American sub
scribed for a cool MILLION.
Then MRS. ELIN0R N. PAT
TERS0N, at Dupont circle, added
a large subscription, also using the
pencil, and when the day was over
many noted people had made their
signatures with it, including AID
MIRAL and MRS. CARY GRAY
SON.
Eynon has had a hard time ~
tanning it. CHARLES ]. BELL
JOHN POOLE, even SECRETARY
McAD0O made surreptitious efforts
to borrow it, and MR.. BELL almost
succeeded.
The pencil win probably 90 to the
Red Cross to be auetioned to the
highest bidder.
JOHN ABSOLUTE is now divine
into poetry. This is it:
Backward, meander backward, o
time, in your flight,
I want to buy q hot dog for cents
tonight,
want to buy for 5 cents an egg
sandwich, too.
want to buy for 10 cents . big
Irish stew.
Automobiles Without Pumps.
IRVING JOHNSON and a friend
out riding one night found them
selves with a nat tire. Looking for
their pump they discovered it had
been stolen. $50 we decided to ask
the owners Of different cars passing
for pumps" writes johnson. Seven
teen went by who said they had no
pumps. We took the numbers Of
thirteen Of these and herewith send
them to you. Some Of your adver-
tisers may want these numbers The
other four numbers we could not see
because the rear lights were out. A
taxi passed, but the driver had no
pump. We didn't interrupt one low
ing party that went by. II would
have been sacrilege. Finally an
army auto came along and the sol
der boys fixed as all right Their
number was 1856"
A Scranton. Pa, man says he
thinks it would be q great con-
venience to strangers arriving in
Washington, and form q good i'm
preston Of the city, II the street
railways would unite in installing at
the Union Station . representative
in uniform, elevated on q plaf6-m,
TO direct inquirers to various ear
lines.
He points out that the railways
would take business from taxi
drivers, because hundreds Of
strangers use the taxis to avoid
bothering people about routes, des-
tinations Of cars, etc.
Seen Any Excited 'CoOns TOdayi
II you should hear today or to-
morrow Of any excited raecoons In
side the District charge It up to
COMMISSIONER GARDENERS big
coon hunt last night on his farm
in Prince Georges county.
One hundred prominent wash
ingtonians and many dogs joined
in the chase and no coon for miles
around had a chance for his scalp.
The animals are still on the run.
coming this way and going other
ways.
HERBERT HOOVER, the dis
tinguished food provider and dis
tributer OF the country, was TO
have attended, but important bust
ness Detained him at the last min
ute. He is said to have hunted
'coons OF their kinsmen in nearly q.
ever country under the sun.