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The Washington times., 1919-10-15

lose our reputation for conserva-
tism.'"
Wright had to go down to
North Carolina and give an eXhi-
bition before he could even get
himself noticed, and he had to 90
to Europe to get any support.
at will very likely be the same
with this matter Of converting
sun heat directly into power. Pat
ents on apparatus for the purpose
already exist in Germany. The
method will probably be in use
over there while we are still vast
ing man power in this country,
gOuging the remnant Of our coal
supply out of the bowels Of the
earth.
"We have an ever-increasing
need for a new source of power.
Coal and oil are becoming scarcer
and harder to get every year.
Everything we wear and use, most
Of the things we eat, are manu-
featured. The increasing cost Of
the power that is used in manu.
featuring is one of the many
causes of our high-living cost. AS
long as we laboriOuslv dig coal in
the Middle West and haul it a
thousand miles or so to factories
IN New England, we are wasting
Ian power, and we have got to
pay for that waste.
vi course, our great water
power remains undeVelOped. We
are slowly getting around to that.
1t will solve the problem for some
sections, but that is all. The di-
rect application sun heat will
then follow, when we all at last
realize that our coal and oil SUD-
Plies are about gone.
How can the thing be done?
Well, one method is to convert
the sun heat directly into cleo
tricity. The method was applied
by DR.. W. w. Coblentz, of the
United States Bureau of Stand
ards, not along ago, when he made
an apparatus for measuring the
heat Of stars. He made a tinv
thermO-cOuple' by connecting two
nakes Of metal Of different
kinds. When he focused the star
light on one of these, raising its
temperature, an electric current
was generated between the two
different metals, on the same
principle that any other electric
battery works. DR.. Coblentz
measured the heat Of the North
star which, he estimated, would
raise the temperature of a gram
The Washington times., 1919-10-15
Disconnected Thoughts on Homes
And the Lack of Homes
By EARL GOODWIN .
what does L PROFIT Homeless Man Whether Rents Are UE
When he Can't Get House at ANY Priee7

question
The other day placed dollar in the hand Of one
Of our leading sOOthzayers and asked
Where can I rent a housei"
WhereupOn the cairvoyant handed back the mans
dollar.
Later there win be even fewer homes to rent than
there are now There win be no houses to rent and scarcely
any apartments.
In the meantime, unless something happens to clear up
the general housing mudde there viii be scarcely any new
houses built except for occupancy BY the owners.
The rent commission law, which has lust passed win
undoubtedly lower rents 1t win cut some in two
But it win not provide any MORE houses.
Sometime twelve thousand alley dWellers viii Be
evcted from their alley hOmeuness Congress ntervene
Where viii THOSE people got We haven't enough
homes to go round it Is What VIII be the state Of our
problem when add to it the quest Of twelve thousand
evicted alley people7
The irritation shown by members Of Congress toward
real estate here is reflected in the debates IN the
Senate and House when the rent commission bin under
discussion
Those debates should be studied deeply By real estate
owners and agents. nasmuch they contain the key to the
entire situation There is something there to be learned
before the real estate 60 Congress Whether
not members Of Congress right wrong has nothing
to do with the case The fact and the BIG fact this:
AS long Congress egslates for the District Of Columbia
the members Of both houses should be dealt with fairly and
squarely ALL the time by EVERYBODY, not merely at
hearings and luneheons
Until the Rent Commission has established It's pol
icy viii there be any considerable building Of homes fog
rental purposes Perhaps there win be building at all
That means the members Of Congress who don't hang
to their rented homes VIII be out Of luck when they
to this city after spending few months at home. THEN
what law viii be passed. Perhaps when they cannot find
even one hall bedroom to live IN they win turn their atsn-
ton TO Tnendng situation which VIII NOT improve as
time goes on-not even little bit
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Things Seem To Be Happening
Tonight.
WILLIAM KNOWLES COOPER
has arranged q meeting Of the men
Of Cleveland Park tonight Ia the
Congregational Church, S4th and
Lowell streets. OLLIE NEWMAN
and JAMES P. ROBERTS viii
speak. This meeting is the first Of
an open forum series that VIII keep
Cleveland Park in a ferment Of en-
tertainment all winter.
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HEARD AND sen

Chamber Of Commerce LmehWon
to Lieut.. Commander ALBERT c.
READ, commander Of the NC-4I
which made the first TRANSATLANTIC
air flight tomorrow at RauscheFs,
1880.
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WALTER A. BROWN. president of
the Board Of Trade, a member Of the
Executive Community in charge Of
the Trinity Community House Drive,
Oct. % to Nov. 1, has endorsed the
movement heartily. In accepting an
pointment as committee member l[f.
Brown said:
Il am familiar with the work b.
ing done in connection with Trinity
Community and therefore It gfve1
me great pleasure to serve On the
COMMITTEES and IN making the dFiVs
q most successful one"
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WHATEVER YOU WANT TO KNOW

The Times C attempt questions Of fact toT any
Az Write
Frederic j. Hdskt, director
Enclose 2-eent stqmP. Do not telephone
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Also a friend phones that the FL
DORADO CLUB, which has been
quiescent duriag the war, win spring
to life again TONIGHT at 1888 G
street. You viii remember this out
fit, no doubt. LEON COOPER is
the president. The club slept dur
ing the war because nearly all its
members were in the army OF navy.
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GArmy or Navy People Oh
GENTLEMEN.S
If0s NEW HAMPSHIRE AVB-TWo iargo
bay-WindoW front bedrooms: second door;
sitting room; plano; hrBt-clasg meall;
Army or Navy people or gentlemen n
STAR, Oct Z.
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MIR. Breese Chatting Earnestly with Miss
Swanson, an Attractive Artists Model,
While Penrhyn Stanlaws, the Well
Known Artist, Sits Holding a Dog.

studio and almost fought for the privilege
of being photographed by him.
With his talents, his wealth, his numer-
Gus admirers and his many accomplish
ments, Mr.. Breese was able to make his
studio the scene Of many remarkable social
affairs, where art and pleasure were
gracefully mingled.
And it happened that the famous Girl
in the Pie" dinner, an event that has
become memorable ia New York's society,
was given at the Breese studio. This is
commonly associated with the memory of
Stanford White, that noted architect whose
career in upper high life Bohemia was
ended by Harry Thaw's pistol White one
of the most prominent guests, was
especially attentive to poor Susie Johnson.
whose appearance as the pie girl was
one act in her little tragedy.
Susie Johnson was a pretty, sweet
faced, innocent looking child of New York
tenements. Her home was on the top
floor of No. 1Oi Eighth avenue. Her
father, ali honest mechanic, occasionally
drank "a drop too much" and at such
times made life hard for Susie and her
mother and the other children.
At twelve years of age, Susie went to
work in braid factory
She stayed there three years, when the
dispensary doctor informed her that she
would have to find other and lighter work,
or her days would be ended by consump-
ton.
At this moment prominent New York
artist happened to be in need of model.
He wanted slight, fraii figure to pose for
a nymph in a forest-in a state of nature,
of course as nymphs always are. He in
serted this advertisement in a newspaper:
"Wanted-a young girl model to pose
in the nude. Experience not necessary.
Thirty cents an hour"
Little Susie Johnson answered the ad-
vertisement and was accepted, and so be-
gan her life in the studios She was quick
ly seen and appreciated by several of the
noted artists of the day
few weeks later she was engaged for
the famous pie girl" stunt in the dinner
at Mr.. Breese's studio. This was in the
Winter Of 1895. The occasion of the din
ner was the tenth anniversary of the wed
ding of a man prominent in New York
society. His wife happened to be away in
Europe and his friends thought the event
could be most fittingly commemorated by
a stag dinner. Mr.. Breese, whose wife also
had interests elsewhere, volunteered the
use Of his studio his professional talents
and other expert services.
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diners into a throng Of gay jewellers eager
10 make her acquaintance.
Susie JOhnsOn's life after the reveI in
the studio was a rapid descent She dis
appeared from her home and for a year
circulated in the studios Then the wife
Of an artist, who had been touched by her
winning face, took pity on her, and she
spent two years as a governess in a quiet
Brooklyn home. Then she married re-
spectacle young man, but he left her when
he heard Of the pie dinner and its conse-
quences. After that she was for time a
chorus girl in a road show.
Finally she paid visit to her former
home. Her father, in his anger at her
conduct, threatened to strike her. but de-
sisted when he saw her pitiful expression.
Susie Johnson, in a statement about this
time, said:
81 was fifteen years old when / an.
swered the advertisement and had been
earning $3.50 a week in the braid factory.
Thirty cents an hour for posing seemed a
fortune to me. My mother used to ac-
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middle Of the table. The negro chorus
swelled louder-"Four and Twenty Black
birds Baked in a Pie"
The guests. startled into curiosity, be-
gan to poke their noses against the pie.
They detected a movement in it like a
chicks pecking against the egg. A quicker
movement and the crust burst at the top.
A flash OF black gauze and delicate flesh
showed within. A cloud of frightened yell
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MIR. Breese Smoking a Cigarette IN
His Studio IN the Luxurious
Embrace of a Very Com
Portable Davenport.
hNTsRg NHITG
SraO0.

company me at first and help me to dis
robe.
After the pie dinner left my home for
finer quarters. To any girl who is poor I
should say, stay in the factory Or kitchen.
She who enters the studio leaves inno-
cence behind"
year after the "girl in the pie" dinner
another little affair at Mr. Breese's studio
excited interest. It was called costume
masque."
Some Of the men wore bartender's cos
tune and stood behind a real bar, where
they served beer and champagne other
drinks. During the dancing one ,loman's
> flmy dress caught fire from a match
thrown on the floor. and she might have
been burnt to death had not her partner
thoughtfully drenched her with cham
payne.
Mr.. Breese was a great racing auto
mobilist in the early days Of the sport.
In 1904, while racing with W. K Wander
bile in his car at Havana, he was severely
injured and nearly killed
His country home. 'The Orchards" at
Southampton. l.. l.. is one Of the finest
examples Of modern Colonial architecture
in America. II was built and furnished
by the late Stanford White The furniture
and contents are worth many hundreds Of
thousands of dollars. The great music
room is furnished with authentic sixteenth
century Italian furniture. Magnificent
Flemish Gothic tapestry adorns some Of
the apartments. The vast garage attached
to the house includes complete machine
shop. where Mr.. Breese can have every
repair made.
Mr.. Breese's present New York home
is three-story studio in the magnificent
Hotel des Artistes, at No Is West Sixty
seventh street. The living room Is sixty
by thirty feet. It's furniture includes some
enormous pieces of old English silver.
Venetian columns Of red blue and gold
lend indescribable richness to the walls.
Mr.. Breese finds comfort Oh a diVan GOV.
cred with old Spanish brocade One Of
his many fancies is to have the fire screen
decorated with live smilax fresh every
day, all the year round
Mr.. Breese was first married about
thirty years ago. His wife, daughter Of
General Robert B. Potter and a niece of
Bishop Potter, died two years ago.
In his younger days Mr. Breese wore a
beard and prided himself on his resem-
blance to King Henry VIII Now he Is
clean-shaved and with face more wrinkled.
but not less interesting
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through which the girls white limbs
cleaned like ivory. She rose from her
crouching posture and timidly stepped
forth to the table.
An architect lifted her to the floor. A
banker led her to a chair. An artist held
a glass of champagne to her lips. Susie
Johnson was the great success of the eve
ming. She transformed the distinguished
gentlemen present from a party Of tired
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low canaries flew
out and perched on
picture frames and
even on the shoulders
of guests.
But what drew the
eyes of all the revel-
lers was a slender,
girlish figure amid
the broken crust Of
the pie. The figure
was covered with
spangled black gauze,
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AAoNB AAC SNGSCA INC Ia
nous Girl in the Pie dinner at his
studio many years ago, and, again,
the other day, when he announced
that he was about to be married.
Mr.. Breese is unusual in many
ways. Most artists who live in the
merry studio buildings have to
work for a living. But Mr.. Breese
is very wealthy and he lives in a
studio because he loves the life. He
is rather a patron than a daily
bread worker, and so the busy art.
lists and the somewhat Unconven.
tional models look upon him as
friend, admirer, patron, rather than
a fellow wage-earner.
Mr.. Breese is sixty-four. All his
life he had been familiar figure in
the studio world of New York.
Every worth while artist he has
known, and all the best models. Al
ways he has been known as
Jimmy" Breese. No one entered
into the Bohemian ways of the art
ist colony more freely than he. But
not one of them ever dreamed that
Jimmy Breese was in love.
1t was not in a studio that Cupid
did his work. 1t was on a sunny
day in June that Mrs. Ralph Isham,
a member of the Long Island Smart
Set, drove a half dozen house party
guests to Southampton for a look
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The society photographer uI
derstood to perfection the art o
making a woman's face soft
charming and attractive.
The most beautiful women &
in the country thronged his
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gay posters boldly remi7i-
scent of Partisan scenes.
Four banjo players and as
many jubilee singers helped
to enliven the feast with
music.
The dinner was over. The
four and a half bottles of
champagne allotted to each
person had been consumed,
and a certain somnolence
was setting in. Something
was needed to Jolt the re-
vellers into a wide-awake
condition.
Suddenly the old-fashioned
lullaby -Four and Twenty
Blackbirds" broke forth from
banjoists and singers. Four
walters came in bearing a
surprisingly monstrous OBJ
ject, something that looked
like an impossibly large pie.
They set it carefully in the
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TT is not easy to send thrill of surprise
through New York's artist colony. The
= Bohemian dwellers in the studios are a
very sophisticated lot.
But Mr.. James L. Breese has accom-
plished the feat twice
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at Mr.. Breese's famous gardens. One Of
the party was a lovely young girl of an old
Southern family, Miss Grace Lucille
Momand.
Mr.. .Breese personally led the party about
the grounds and watched the girls brown
eyes glow softly at the beauty of the
scene.
Wonderful hair" unused Mr.. Breese, as
he contemplated his fair young visitor
closely with artistic appreciation. THE
only hair have ever seen in three colors.
Looking at it in different lights it is brown,
it is golden, it is red"
Miss Momands enthusiastic approval
of his gardens, his stables, his horses
awoke a response in his heart and next
day Mr.. Breese mOtored over to the girls
country home at Southampton and met her
mother.
The romance progressed rapidly and the
other day Mr.. Breese made application for
a marriage license-and the surprise of the
art world was complete.
Mr. Breese, as has been said, is sixty
four years old. His fiancee is twenty-three.
But Mr.. Breese is very young for his years
and Miss Momand is quite mature for her
youthful age, So the prospects nf happiness
are not dimmed by what would seem to be
an important disparity in their ages, their
friends agree.
Mr.. James Lawrence Breese is easily
- -. Al.
Bohemia of New York. Millionaire, scien-
tist, sportsman, connOisseur of all the joys,
he combines inherited wealth and ability
in a remarkable degree. His vitality for
his years is astonishing
He comes from an old New York Colon
iaI family, and owns, among other desir-
able possessions. 4 great slice of down
town New York real estate. He was edu-
Gated at the Rensselaer, Polytechnic Insti-
tute, a noted scientific place of education,
and graduated there in 1875.
Mr.. Breese was too rich to follow any
calling for Profit After knocking about
in many places and enjoying strange ex-
periences for a few years, he decided to
devote his talents to artistic photography.
He had an equal interest in science and
in the fine arts.
He built the most beautiful and the best
equipped studio, at No. West Sixteenth
street, that New York had ever known up
to that time. 1t was called "The Carbon
Studio" Mr.. Breese's personal apart
ments were as wonderful as the rest of the
establishment. The Oriental rugs and
drapeTies were especially rich, and some
very rare old armor gave distinction to
the place.
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The banquet was of Lucullian luxury
The cost is said to have been $500, oil
$11O a plate, a surprising sum IN those
days of lower prices. Nothing but cham
payne was drunk.
The guests included thirty-two Of the
men most prominent in New Yorks finan-
cial, professional and fashionable life.
The studio was transformed into bower
of roses, and here and there peeped forth
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-14
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kEOkUk MEN IN FAMOUS
REGIMENT.

= In August, 1917. sixty-three
= men OF Company L~-keokuk's Z
q Own-of the First Iowa ma
. tional guard, were transferred 4
. to Company l., of the Third
. Iowa national guard, to so over 4
. seas with the Rainbow division,
. with that regiment which was Z
. renamed the l6Sth infantry
. little later.
. The men left Keokuk August 4
. 16. 1917, and on August 20 the 4
. sixty-three men for transfer
. were chosen by lot. These men
. We're the following;
. First Sergeants c. 0. Bunyan, 4
y III. j. Buffers, l.. Il. Mckenzie, 4
= G. j. Semones.
= Corporals r.. V. Hewett, Cliff
= ford Gaylord, p. M. Chesser. T. Z
. B. Black r. III. Bossler, G. +.
. Hancock, A Il. Mcdaniel, l.. G. 4
. Vermillion. 4
. First Class Privates B. G.
. Barker, II. r. Bird, II. A. Brett 4
. enstein, w. +. Curran, William 4
= Gillette, Wesley Howell. o. l..
= Klapprott. Glen MRbry, N. p. 4
. Mckenzie, g. S. Pardekooper,
= Nal Rossi, Merwin Vanausdell,
. W. F. Weider. Martin Yurth.
. Privates Oscar Althar, Carl 4
= e. Arthur, John Beamis, r. w.
= Blan, f. j. Brown, Valda c.
. Burch, w. H. Butcher Ray Cas- 4
= sidy, l.. n. Cochenour, q. F. 4
. Clark. e. l.. Ewing. l.. X. Ewing,
. e. L. Gregory, John Glines,
= George Gibson, Ernest Holmes,
. Gibson Hedrick. John Hamrick,
= w. q. Howes, w. U. Johnson, 4
. f. w. Larson, Clarence Morgan,
= Ira Moorehouse, John McCarten,
. Ernest Myers, Thomas O'Neill,
= Donald Pollard. John Pray, E.J.
= Prouse, Raymond 'Rossi. John
. Sturgeon, r. w. Stevenson, 4
. Floyd Semones, Oliver Spiker. 4
. j. E. l.. Semones, B. e. Schu- 4
= maker, I. B. Stack. 4
. OF these, five made the SUI 4
. preme sacrifice and were mus 4
q tered out on flames eternal
. camping ground.
. Oscar Althar died in Keokuk 4
= July 81, 1918 4
= Charles o. Bunyan was killed
. in action July &c, 1918
John Glines was killed in
= France July 16, 1918. 4
. Ira Moorehouse was killed in 4
y action in July, 1918. 4
. w. T. Weider was killed in Z
. France July %, 1918.
= Others were transferred to 4
. other units in Europe Ten
Q were invaded home from hos {
. pitfalls and reached Keokuk be- I
. fore their buddies in the regi- I
. ment on its ceremonial trip 4
. home to Iowa. They are: I
. Ben C. Barker, James e. l.. I
. Semones, Ebert l.. Gregory, 4
. John McCarten, Wesley Howell. 4
. Ernest Meyers, William Lau- 4
. brecht, Harvey =. Breitenstein, 4
. George Gibson, Donald Pollard.
. Mo r. Mckenzie. Z
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deter the hungry men from starting
| in at one side and e?ting their way
/ through in surprisingly short space
of time.
Banners Express keokuk Idea
| At Second and Main streets an
immense banner stretched across the
street and told the marching men:
"KEOKUK WELCOMES 16sTH."
| Another big banner at the union
station read:
IOWA SENT YOU. YOU GLORI-
FLED IOWA IOWA WELCOMES
! YOU BACK"
These banners each had big rain
bow painted above the legend 1t bore
and were eight feet wide by forty
feet long, so that they were very
prominent in the color scheme of
Main street.
| Across the street at short inter
walls were tricolor bannerets strung
| on lines.
Rainbows and Flags Galore.
! The red, yellow and blue colors of
/ the Rainbow division to which the
! 168th infantry belongs were as much
| in evidence in Main street as was
| the national colors of red, white and
bule.
| The rainbow colors were often ar
ranged in a wide arch. and in some
F, instances they had the shape Of the
shoulder MARKS Of uniforms in the
42d division.
They were inside the glass Of large
show windows; high on the facad es
Of business buildings; stretched in
profusion along second story win
dows; in every conceivable form and
place where they could be seen by
! the marching men who had made
them famous in a world war
Flags and the tri-color were also
everywhere along the line of march.
At several places. great pains and
much work had been expended on
the decorations.
Forest Of Flags at EIks' Club.
Those at the Elks' club, where the
formal exercises were held, were par
! ticularly fine. From flying wings far
each side Of the building, a wide
rainbow extended up past the roof
cornice in broad lines OF red, yellow
and blue across the top of the
facade.
| Around the cornice of the porch
were all the allied flags, of large size,
placed close together. making a har-
monious riot Of color.
Draped down each of the large
porch columns and across the Intel
Of the entrance were large American
| flags, and another large flag made
the background of the porch from
which the orators spoke.
The colorful picture was topped by
frieze of smaller American flags
placed close together entirely around
the roof coping, with a large flag
waving from an upright staff in the
center Of the front
The whole picture at the place Of
1.-THE exercises OF the day was one of
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-14
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WHAT THEY ARE.

. Guests of Honor--A battalion
= of the 1SSth infantry, formerly
. the Third Iowa guard. This regi- 4
g ment was one of the very first to
. go to France. 1t fought at Cha
. teau Thiery, along the Marine,
. the Aisne, at st. Mihiel and In the
. Argonne forests, as part of the
Q Rainbow division French gen.
. erals, American commanders and
. experienced war correspondents
. are agreed that 1t was one OF the
= three best regiments in the Amer
. lean Expeditionary Forces. 1t
. was cited and decorated time and
. again by both French and Amer
q lean commanders. 1t is histor-
y ically one of the most noted
= units Of the world war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-14
Labor Scores Victory.

SPRINGFIELD, H., May 14-Or-
ganized labor Of Illinois scored its
first victory of the legislative session
here today by defeating the state
police bill. The senate vote was %
to 16 against the measure
Senators from strongly organized
labor centers voted against the meas
ure.