Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-09
Washington, Nov. 3.

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COMMODORE LOUIS EISENLOHR, who
~ has given up his cruising boats for the
use Of the Government, has discovered an
apple farm in Massachusetts which is so
successfully managed that the proprietor
offers $1,000 for every apple boxed by him
in which a worm is found. = At least this is
the story told by George O'Conner, of
Washington, whose dialect songs are IA
miliar to those who enjoy the waxen rec
ords George was one of those accom-
panying the commodore on New England
cruise before the war, when Signor Gian-
mini, Of Philadelphia, and several other
musicaly inclined gentlemen were of the
party He tells us that George Hoffman,
c. c. A. Badi. Judge Barratt and Louis +.
White, the Diamond King" were with the
commodore when he discovered this re-
markable old Bay State orchard. The fact
that New England apples are ripe and that
the commodore has revisited the orchard
has something to do with the story. Pos
sibly the commodore and his friends might
be helpful to Anthony NJ. Hance and the
other Philadelphia historians who are en-
deayoring to locate the original Seckel pear
tree.
TNOM DONALDSON, whose grandfather
l. will be remembered by older Philadel-
phians as an all-round newspaper man and
author of several Government volumes, to
say nothing of his rediscovery of the
Thomas Jefferson house. Seventh and Mar
ket streets, is keeping his eye on the
University of Pennsylvania boys who enter
the army and navy via Washington.
Young Tom, who is now engaged sin the
liquidation of the dissolved as special
deputy under Insurance Commissioner
| Charles A. Amber, is something of an
| author himself, being one of the few Phila-
dephia composers who engage in what in
| peace times might be called dining club
| poetry." Associated with Henry Starr
Richardson and John Irving Dillon, two
other Philadelphia writers whose jinginS
genius has never been sufficiently appre-
ciated, the present starkof the third gen.,
Grafton of Philadelphia Donaldsons might
| set up a successful poets club.
| biblical students like d. l.. Anderson
ID and Harry McManus. of the Union
| League, will be interested in the outcome
| Of Congressman Edmonds's search for
Thad Stevenss friend, Nicanor. who died
| in harness." Edmonds Erst thought
| Nicanor was a Homeric hero, but he was
finally driven to the Scriptures. Now
comes Wilfred ii. Schoff, of Cynwyd
| Philadelphia consul for Peru Bolivia and
| Costa Rica and vice consul for Panama,
whose trips to Washington involve an
occasional visit to the Congressional Lii
brary, with a Nicanor yarn which might
| have been of value to Judge Bonnwel had
| it been unfolded before the unsuspecting
voters of Pennsylvania prior to the elec.
ton. "You will find the story of Nicanor,"
saws Mr.. Schoff, 'in the Old Testament
| Apocrypha. 14th and 18th chapters OF II
Maccabees. The gentleman was master of
elephants for Demetrius, King of Syria, and
was named Governor of Judaea, with the
object OF suppresslng the movement for
Jewish nationallsm fostered by the Macca-
bees He disappointed his master by cul-
| tivatng their friendship instead Then the
king ordered him to arrest Judas. So he
demanded of the priests in Jerusalem that
they deliver him up, but they pleaded
| Ignorance OF his whereabouts So Nicanor