Evening star., 1920-02-01

Connaught. visited
Prince Arthur this country fifty
W.. years ago. arriving
Visits Here. in washington on
| the evening of January %, 1870. The
Star Of the cath thus describes the
| arrival:
Prince Arthur and suite. accom-
panied by Sir Edward Thornton. the
| British minister. who had proceeded
| to New York to greet him upon his
arrival in the United States. reached
| this city Saturday afternoon. They
were met at the depot by Messrs.
Ford and Fame of the British lega-
| tion and Assistant Secretary of State
| Davis. who represented the United
| States government. a large crowd
| was assembled. all eager to catch a
! glimpse of the prince. After leaving
| the cars the party proceeded to the
| residence of Minister Thornton. The
apartments assigned for the use of
| the royal guest have just been newly
| fitted up and are furnished in mag
| nificent style. The prince is good
/ looking young man, apparently about
| five feet eight inches in height. ana
| was dressed on his arrival in a dark
suit, heavy brown melton sack over
| coat, dark neckscarf, with handsome
pin hat of the latest New York style,
| and carried q light cane with ivory
| handle. His full name is Arthur VIII
| liam Patrick Albrecht and is the sew
| enth child and third SON of Queen
Victoria"
| Prince Arthur remained in Wash
| ington for a week and was elaborate
! ly entertained, the features OF the
| program including several 1ormai
| dinners. one being at the White
House. and a grand ball at the Brit
| ish embassy.
| In its issue of January "a. 1870. The
Star takes occasion to correct an er-
| ror regarding "A term
''Telescoping' then in occasional
Explained. more @ frequently re-
ouired by subsequent railroad acci-
dents:
"A striking instance of ignorance on
a topic of which the writer might be
supposed to have special knowledge
is furnished by the author of an ar
ticle on idoms,' in the Galaxy for Feb
| ruary. In referring to the word tele-
scoping' as used in connection with
| railway accidents, he says its use
seems to have its origin merely in
the fact that the general direction
that a car takes in a collision resem-
| bles the slanting position of tele-
scope when turned to some heavenly
body midway between zenith ana
horizon Clearly. the writer has new
er been the victim Of an accident in
a case where telescoping' occurred or
he would have known that the term
! is used to express one of the results
of collision where one car is driven
into the one before or behind il, like
the sections of a pocket telescope.
1t is, we may add, one of the very
worst forms of railway accidents and
| rarely occurs to passenger train
without great destruction of life and
limb
Advocates of the removal of the capi
tai from Washington to a midwest
ern city were in
ISneculofiou and clined to count
Capital Moving. nrematurely ffty
years agos as the following editorial
in The Star of January &c. 1870. indi-
Gates:
| 'The real estate spectators out
west are already quarreling for the
spoils in case of the removal OF the
capital. Every prospective city of the
west has its ring OF spectators. who
want to get the capital located on
their unpopulated lands in the hope
that they may make their pile by the
operation. The Chicago Tribune. the
sponsor for the capital moving
project, finds IT necessary to admon-
ish these rural localities that they
have no business to put their finger in
the pie, that it is settled that the capi-
1 tai if removed. shall go to st. Louis
or Chicago. AS the Tribune has al
ways said that Chicago does not want
| the capital and comedies that its in
| isalubriouS climate wouldn't suit Con-
gress. il amounts to choice between
Chicago and st. Louis, with Chicago
| counted out. And it is rather cool in
the Tribune to berate the country
| real estate spectators for their i'm
pudence in proposing to work the
capital moving scheme for their own
benefit, when the original project to
| take the capital to St. Louis is noto-
| riously a scheme for the benefit of Ger
tain real estate spectators of ST.
| spectators who happen to own real
estate opposite st. Louis
why shouldn't the country specu-
! lators have an equal show with the
city ne lets
the cat out of the bag by saying that
the immediate property. of which the
government would require to obtain
the title for the location of the gov
| ernment buildings and collateral pur-
poses. would not exceed 1000 acres
and perhaps 1000 would be all that
would be accepted as a gift Exactly
The real estate spectators will in
duce the city of St. Louis. of the
state of Missouri. to buy of them
1000 acres to give to Uncle Sam for
the site of the capital and then they
will sell him the other thousand acres
he needs at their own price. But to
get the amount of land necessary il
would be requisite to go far outside
the city limits and create a capital
on the prairie. even to setting out
the sapling trees that will not in nifty
years afford shade enough to cool the
brows Of our national Legislators
Uncle Sam is not likely to be duped
by the spectators into entering upon
a job the cost of which he cannot
count but which is certain to mount
to hundreds of millions of dollars"
The ma de lands" of the water front
OF Washington have figured conspic-
uously in litigation in
'Kidwell's connection with the
,, great project of rec
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