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The Washington herald., 1921-03-29

With the view that Congress at
month may enact remedial legisla-
tion relative to the street car situa-
ton, the Public Utilities Commits
sion yesterday continued the exist
ing street car fares for the next five
months. The commission also de-
cided on the present schedule OF
period.
The rates decided yesterday mean
a continuance of the Scent cash
fare or four tokens for so cents on
both the Washington Railway and
Electric Companv and the Capital
Traction Company. while the cleo
at Siz cents per kilowatt hour.
W. II. r. Makes 5 Per Cent.
In a written order issued yester-
day afternoon, the commission
stated that the evidence presented
question by the Washington Rail-
way and Electric Company showed
that on the basis of the operations
January 81, 1891, that company has
cdTuCu ICNdIh at tuC Eolc Ol o-Gc
per cent per annum on the fair
value of its property within the Dis
trict.
Capital Traction Company, using
however; the ten-month period end
ing February 2S. 1921, showed that
az the present rate of fare that
company has earned a return at the
80 Nf
During these two periods the
Washington Railway and Electric
Company carried 60,3t3.672 pas
sengers, while the Capital Tractor
Company carried 5s,S3o,697 pas
sengers.
Problem Not Settled.
ITO overcome this disparity in the
earning power of the two systems
the order reads, "and to bring about
a merger of the two companies, Is a
problem that has confronted the
Commission for some time and which
both the Commission and the COM
panies have attempted to overcome
by suggested legislation to Con-
gress. but SO far no definite results
have been obtained
A-NSA . OI
the evidence in this case and in the
hope that remedial legislation may
be enacted by Congress at the next
extra session. II is deemed advisable
to continue the existing rates OF
fare for a five-month period"
The Commission decided a con-
tinuation Of the existing rate sched-
ule Of the Potomac Electric Power
Company may reasonably be granted
for limited periad of time.
The power company presented
evidence recently TO show that DUR
ing 1890 the net operating income,
after allowing for depreciation al
the rates prescribed by the COM
mission. was s1,107,e15.45 or q re-
turn of SIS per cent on the fair
value Of the company's property as
found by the commission
TAe, mower camnany 7inciudad In
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29
Cotored Association
RnTis Membership Driue

A-sity-wide drive for $4,000 MEM
oers will be inaugurated Thursday
sys fns District Branch Of the Ma
tiop1 Association for the Advance
1rent OF, Colored People. with Shelby
]. Davidson In charge.
Subeotnmittees have been ap-
oointed to keep the movement In
tetion- There viii be q mass meet
ing tomorroY evening in the Nine
teenta stresf Baptist Church.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29
Arnsfein Trial Set
Ahead to April 5

The retrial of Jules (Nicky) Arm
stein and his alleged confederates
on a joint charge of bringing
stolen securities into the District
Of Columbia struck another snag
yesterday and was postponed until
April next.
Justice Ashley NJ. Gould. of the
District Supreme Court. agreed to
the postponement when informed
by counsel for three Of the code
fendants that neither he nor his
clients were ready.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29
Richardson Reelected.

son. head OF the philosophy depart
ment Of George Washington Uniyer-
sity. has been reelected president
OF the Society for Philosophical In
quiry. In which he has been a lead
ing figure for years.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29

For Colds. Grip or Influenza
and a. Preventive. take GROVES Lana
tive BRoMO QCININE Tablets. The gen
uine besrs the signature Of Y W Grove.
RE sure you get BRONCO Soc-Adv.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29

Kids were passports Till $3.50.
Eye-to-business runts mndr it
costly for unattached daddies.
Two bits was the hoId-up for
a dirty hand steer past the gates.
Married men had the grin on
the lone wolves
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29

All men and women students, old
ana young, at the University OF
MOSCOW, in Soviet Russia. devote at
least an hour day to military drill
with arms.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29

In the morn the croquet plat
form was rerdant. when the
eggs were cracked and the
cracked eggs had scrambled, IL
was Nerdun. At vespers the
cleaners were badly Tapped, but
still afioat.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29

The pulp yard resembIed a
news shop of the old school.
The older the worse. The wind
press mnde IL n street edition.
The Mall caught the leftover.
The whole egE plant was pied.
The breeze saved lives. Gas
tngs were nil. Shells burst. but
shrapnel wns liquid. Live chick
ems were counted out.
Anyway, the egEs rolled four
years. worth. even 10 Doc Saw
yer considers egEsemption for
the White House lawn adyisa BILE
next year.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29
WHITE HOUSE LAWN
ONE GREAT OMELET
Riddles Smear Verdant
Green luith Eggs, Any
Style.

The celebration had it's cash
value.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-05-14

T WANTA you scuse me please eff
u no maka piece cen da paper today.
| gotta plenta trouble and | feela bad
too moocha for da work. l maka my
ieetle dog go dead desa morning weeth
da fieever and | sure feela tough.
You know, me and dat leetle pup
wee been greata frien Tonga time
seence he gotta born bouta tree mont.
Every morning he come jumpa on ola
bed and tella me ees time 60 to work,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-05-14

And every night when come home he
maka beega noise tella me he ees
glada for see.
He tink more for me as he do for da
president Uniteda State. He tink am
smarta guy and he Iowa me more az
he do hees girl. Eef feela good he
feela good. And eef / feela on da
bum he ees sama ting, too. When l
scratcha de head he waga hees tail.
And eef l pulla hees tail he weegle da
head.
Eef I maka meestake speaka da
Engleesh he no care. He no try
cheat me or maka fool weeth me be-
cause l dunno somating yer moOch
Only ting dat leetle Teller no like was
my girl. He tink 'somatime 1 pay too
moocha attensh weeth her and dat
maka heem feela bad.
And now dat leetle pup 90 dead to-
day for ALA hees life. When l starta
da fleever he try maka breakfast
Weeth one front tire. But dat wheel
no stop because no can see and when
| looka back to tella heem gooda bye
my pup ees on da ground ALA bust up
Dat son-of-a-gun of a wheel break6
hees head so.mooch he go dead righta
queeck.
SO I hope you scuse me please for
no putta piece cen da paper today
Dat leetle dog was besta frien I gotta
and | am gonna maka funeral for
heem eef 1 losa my job, no care. And
eef l gotta plenta money, too, / do
somting worse as dat. 1 breaka dat
leever cen thousand piece wot keela
ny leetle pup.
Wot you tink?
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-05-14

Dainty Lucy Cotton is one of the
brightest lights In the silent drama.
She Is one Of the many stage ceIebrI-
ties won over to the screen. She was
born In Texas and began her stage
career in New York, starring in several
prominent productions. She is of the
romantic type of screen player, with
deep brown hair and brown eyes.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-06-30
WONDERS
OF AMERICA
THE HOOKER OAK
BY TT. MAxEY
q, Western Newspaper Union.

TN BEAUTIFUL 2.SOO-acre Bidweil
i park which, by the way, Is one Of the
largest natural-wooded parks in the
country, In the little city Of Chico.
California-sOme $50 miles northeast
of San Francisco. there Is a giant
white-oak tree which is believed to
be the largest Of its kind in the world.
This ponderous monarch of the for
est was named after Sir Joseph
Hooker, the noted English naturalist,
who, In 1877, after close examination
and considerable study, pronounced it
to be larger than any Of the wondrous
oaks for which England was famed.
This great tree Is more than 100
feet high and its circumference eight
feet above the ground is % 4-1Oth
feet. Its longest branch extends away
from the trunk for 105 feet. From
north to south Its branches spread
an even 200 feet. The greatest cir
conference of Its outside branches
reaches the astonishing figure of al
most 400 feet.
Students of freedom from near and
far have come and tried every means
known to science to coax this mas
sive oak to whisper the secret OF Its
tremendous size and unusual age, but
A. merely waves its branches In the
gentle breeze and seems to laugh at
them. So, the best they can do Is to
estimate its age. The consensus OF
opinion is that II has been on earth
well nigh 1000 years.
General William Tecumseh Sher-
man, Of Civil war fame, gave 1t as
his opinion that an army OF 1000
men could stand within It's shade at
high noon.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-06-30
WONDERS
OF AMERICA
@. Western Newspaper Union.
OLD CARLYLE HOUSE
BY 7. I. MAxEY

or SURPRISING interest, because
~ or Its unmatched historical associa-
lions, Is the venerable home of John
Carlyle, who came to America as col
iector Of customs for the British
Crown.
1t Is located near the Potomac river
In Alexandria. Virginia, which settle
ment was at that time a sort of Amer
lean headquarters for the British en-
pire. 1t was built In 1852, on top of
an Odd fort which II is thought was
constructed about the year 1900
Solidly built of cut stone which 1t
Is believed was brought from England.
the walls Of this two-story-and-base-
ment house are wonderfully well pre-
served and much of the interior fur
nishings remain but little unchanged
from the days when this was the
scene Of much old-fashioned hospital
ity.
In the hallway stands a slender,
grandfather's clock which for more
than a century recorded the passing
of time. Upstairs is the ancient cam
opy bed, so high that a step was nee
essary to enable one to comfortably
climb into it, in which slept General
Braddock who was sent to this cOun-
try to take charge of the British for
ces during the French and Indian
wars.
1t was In the blue-room of this man
sion that the celebrated and historic
Council of the Governors of the Col
onies was held. which contributed so
much to the growing discomfort that
later expressed itself in the Revolution
airy war.
General George Washington fire.
that his commission as commander in
chief of the Colonial army was
handed to him i'm this house.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-06-30
MRS. DAURENSPECK DEAD.

After a long illness Mrs. j. G.
Daubenspeck Of higgins, died at a
hospital in Moscow on Monday and
was laid to rest at that place on We'd
nesdaS, funeral services bding con-
Quoted at Grice's chapel by Rev. w.
). Crockett.
Deceased was 60 years of age. She
was united in marriage to ]. c. Daub
cnspeck on January %, 1887, in the
state of Texas. She is survived by
her husband, one son, J. w. Dauben.
speck, Of Detroit, Mich, two daug,-
ters, Miss Margaret OF Kansas City
Mo-, and Miss Marian of Seattle, all
Of whom were at her bedside when
when life departed.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-06-30
WONDERS
OF AMERICA
@, Western Newspaper Union.
THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE
By T. T. MAXEY

COMMENCED In 1870 and opened
~ for traffic In May. 1883, this
world-renowned structure cost the at
that-time unthinkable sum of $4,000
QUO. Its extreme length approx
mates mile and a half and its over
all width is SO feet.
1t spans the East river, which con-
meets Long Island sound and New
York bay between Manhattan island,
on which New York city proper
stands, and Brooklyn on Long island,
and carries one of the densest and
most heterogeneous streams of traffic
In the world.
The caisson on the Manhattan side
measures 102 by 172 feet and the foun-
dalton goes down 78 feet below high.
water mark, while the tower measures
80 by 40 feet at hIgh-water line, Is
272 feet high and contains approx
mately $1,000 cubic feet Of masonry
The bridge Is suspended from four
cables, strung between the towers
the calculated weight of the structure
and its load being In the neighborhoOd
of $1,000 tons. Each cable Is made
up of 5,296 galvanized-ste oil-coated
wires wound into a single strand
which measures 15A inches In
diameter and Is 357Sh feet long.
The center of the river span has
a clear height OF 1876 feet above the
surface of the river at high-water
stage. The floor space of the bridge
is divided into FIVE avenues or pr ssage-
ways-the center space being arranged
for foot passengers, on either side of
which are spaces for trolley tracks,
while each outside space is set aside
for the accommodation of vehicular
ATTIC
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-06-30
BAND NOT MAKE TRIP.

telegram received this afternoon
fl ON Lewiston stated that it was i'm
possible to raise sufficient funds to
finance the Cowboy band on the Lb.,
Angeles trip that had been planned.
The Elks' lodge Of Lewiston had prac-
tically completed arrangements for
the band, all of whom are members Of
the order, to accompany the delegation
to the grand lodge session at Los An
geles in July, and the news was very
disappointing.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-06-30
WONDERS
OF AMERICA
" western NEWSPAPER Union.
GUNTHER COLLECTION
BY 7. 7. MAXEY

kTANf great and good men. DOS
AVA sessed Of hobby for collecting
curious and other things, have left
neritages of untold monetary value
ana rar-reachlng educational value.
Inc recent death Of Mr.. Charles r.
Sunther. Chicago philanthropist,
VINO possessed q consuming passion
Tor collecting released to permanent
quarters In that city the greatest
known collection Of historical docu-
ments and autographs letters In Am
erica, and enables the looker-On to
visualize the westward shifting of the
frontier from the colonies on the At
aantic to the slope Of the Pacific.
stroll through these wonders re-
veais such relics as-the compass
used by General George Washington
In his soldier days; the first edition
tloOD OF the first book in which Am
erica was mentioned; the first news
paper, The Gazette, Oxford, England
tl66o); the table upon which Gen
eral Grant wrote the terms Of Lees
surrender at Appomattox court house
<looo); the silk hat and umbrella of
Abraham Lincoln and the carriage In
which he rode about in the city of
washington; the document transfer
ring the Territory of Louisiana from
Spain to France QSO3). and another
covering conveyance from France to
the United States; the instruments
used In plating Chicago (1s29).
Mr.. Gunther is said to have hunted
with intense eagerness for forty years,
spending one million dollars.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-06-30
WONDERS
OF AMERICA
THE HIGHEST WATERFALL
BY T. T. MAXEY
o, western Newspaper Union

7 n THE great hOllows of that mighty
pile of granite known as the Sierra
Nevada mountains in California there
are many wildly beautiful valleys. In
the very heart of this mountain world
is spot of unusual loveliness known
as Yosemite valley-a seven-mile-long
chasm In an i 100 square mile master
piece of scenery.
Flowing gracefully over the rugged
sky line of these bold, towering, al,
most perpendicular walls are a number
of cataracts which readily take first
place of all their kind on earth.
Greeting the sightseer from dizzy
heights these columns of water tumble
headlong down the sides of the can
yOn to join the foaming river below
OF the eight spectacular falls, by
far the tallest Is the Yosemite. For
merly this monster cataract un-
doubtedly leaped in single great
plunge. Now, this fall, which normally
is 35 feet wide at the top, drops l ,430
feet in one sheer spill, followed by
cascades for about 900 feet and then
makes a final jump of about 400 feet
total distance of approximately half
a mile.
The great Staubbach in Switzerland
is 1000 feet high; there Is fall In
New Zealand said to be 1904 feet
high; the Grand In Labrador is cred
tied with drop of 1000 feet. BY a
considerable margin, therefore, the
Yosemite dwarfs all other known
tarPaIlC
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-06-30
MINING EXEMPTION KILLED.

In telegram to the Lewiston Tri-
bune this week Senator W. f. Borah
announced that the 1920 mining ex-
emption bill that had passed the SEN
ate had been killed in the house of
representatives.
The news will undoubtedly put at
rest the matter of whether or no min
ing men will be required to do as
sessment work on claims for 1920 in
order to hold their properties. The
work will have to be performed or the
claims may be jumped
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-06-30
OUT FROM WAyERLY MINE.

Felix Roberts, who Is connected
with the Waverly mining property,
located in the Florence mining district,
arrived in the city from Florence this
afternoon and win remain here for a
few days. Mr.. Roberts states that
while work on the waverly shut down
last fall 1t Is the inteAton of the COM
pany to resume operations at an early
date The property now has a well
equipped mill ready for operation.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-06-30
WONDERS
OF AMERICA
8. Western Newspaper Union.
OUR GREATEST BALANCED
DRAWBRIDCE


IN ONE way 1t is surprising and in
i another II isn't that In the most
unexpected of places one often will
find the greatest of its kind. To
illustrate. across the Chicago river,
which is not nationally-known
stream, at 18th street, Chicago, one
is a bit astonished to find a single
lift. counterbalanced bridge that is
one of the marvels of engineering and
the longest and greatest structure Of
the kind in the world.
At this point an exceedingly heavy
traffic interchange takes place between
several large railroad systems and.
at the same time, the traffic on this
busy little river is such that the con-
tinuous flow of the rail traffic is fire.
Quently interrupted by the passing of
ships.
This condition necessarily called for
q structure which could be opened and
closed In the minimum of time and
was, at the same time, suitable to
accommodate the traffic conditions.
The river is bridged by one enor-
nous span, about 265 feet long which,
standing on end, is as high as a %
story building and weighs approx
mately $500 tons. One end is station
airy. the other is raised and lowered
by electric power-only ~ minutes
being required to open or close the
span.
The bridge is single span, carries a
double track. successfully meets the
peculiar requirements imposed upon
II and cost upward Of 100000.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-06-30
FOR SALE

One P. & o. 3-bottom engine pillow,
nearly new, cheap; / Hackney 4-cyl-
nder tractor and S-foot Idaho COM
bine in god shape, $500; Idaho com.
bine, $3.50; Ford touring car, $21O
1 Twin cylinder Indian motorcycle,
$11O; blacksmith tools See q. w.
BlOor oo.t
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-06-30
FOR SALE.

Our home on China hill. Modern, ex-
cept heat Good location. close In.
Furnished or unfinished. Some terms
if taken now.
31-tf. MRS, GEO FOUST.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-15

But I stayed in Denmark. My
t%Wenty-third birthday found me
holding a clerical position in Copen-
hagen-a good enough position,
somewhat above the average. |
might have got on and worked my
! way up; but at the time, my position
! did not look to me as holding any
' possibility of future independence.
In the years of which l speak-the
Eighties and early 'nineties-there
were imposed upon the people of
Scandinavia, especially of Denmark,
certain political restrictions which,
to the free-spirited. made life seem
unbearable. Then there were all
the old conventions of caste, the old
social h%indrances that almost ire
sistibly held down a man of humble
parentage. These political and So
cial conditions were largely respon-
sible for the big emigration from
early 'nineties. It should be added,
however, that since then these con-
ditions have entirely changed.
In our school-books. we Danes
read about Washington. Franklin,
Lincoln. Grant-names from out a
new world, that lighted up
the Western Hemisphere. From ar
ticles in newspapers, but more par
ticularly from tales brought back by
returned emigrants. our minds were
fed with the idea of America as the
great and rich country where oppor-
tunity awaited all.
81 Three brothers and a sister had
gone to America, and were writing
me, urging that l follow. And so il
came that, at the age of twenty
three. l decided to emigrate to the
United States. Like the majority OF
Danish emigrants, I did not regard
the emigration as a permanent thing;
I was simply going to America, for
an unknown number of years. for
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-15

has to fight his way up from the
bottom. it is work, work, work.
hard, grinding work. But it is not
this that leaves its mark-it is the
fact hat he is made to feel that he
is an outsider. a Pariah. My early
years in America were before the
great influx of immigration from
South and East Europe. The word
"greenhorn" was then very much in
use and was applied to anyone who
was not born here. 1t carried with
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-15

represent the finer ideals of life.
music, art, literature. l had expect
ed that l would have to give up for
a time my writing and poetry; but
1 had not expected to find my life
stripped so absolutely bare of even
a reference to these things-the talk
around the shop and outside was
mostly about baseball and prize
fghts-so different from what l had
been accustomed to in Denmark.
After about four years of manual
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-15

it a stigma, and was meant to hurt.
For me, as for other ambitious
immigrants. the first years in Amer
lea were bare of leisure or recrea-
ton. After the hard, manual labor
of the day, I went to evening schools
to study English, bookkeeping. stem
ography, and many other things
which / found necessary in order to
advance myself. 1t was sometimes
two schools in one evening. 1 had
to put aside all those things that
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-15

low I nurse it to life, And so. in
my spare time. I have roamea an
over the United States and the cone
tinent of Europe. I have been
Italy. that land of my boyhooN
dreams, and though / found 1t as
sunshiny and jolly as / expected, yet
il I were to be born again and had
the choice of my birthplace, my
choice would lie between two coun-
tries-the United States and Dem
mark,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-15

bridling part of my better self. l
did not. like many of my country
men. Jacob A.. Riis for instance,
strike out into the uncertain, wan
dering from place to place, depend
ing on chance jobs between commu-
ming with nature. So my experience
as an immigrant is commonplace.
Since business success has brought
me freedom from the steady grind,
the old longing for adventure occa-
sionally awakens. How carefully
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-15

labor and study. I found in my Sc
lected trade the opportunity for sue
cess. The idea of making useful and
beautiful things out of clay appealed
to me as a happy combination of in
dustry and art. of getting perhaps
satisfactorily close to art. / took
hold of this thing and stuck to it.
The old desires of my boyhood, to
rove and adventure. came to me. but
| depressed them even though l
sometimes felt that in doing so l was
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-15

1t was out on wind-swept, tree
less, heather-covered Jutland that |
was born. l loved that country; but
perhaps it was the whisperings of
sea-roving, Viking ancestors-I al
ways had a longing for getting out,
u in the world. ! often thought of
lands and people that enjoyed mild
err climates and more favorable con-
ditions. The place that I wanted to
see more than all others was sun
shiny. jolly Italy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-15
DANE WHO CAME AND STA YED
WHY AND HOW BECAME AN AMERIcAN
By Z. V. ESKESEN

In the February issue of "WorIds Work" there appears a article
written by i. v. Eskesen, of tt3 Water street, this city, entitled "a Dane
Who Came-And Stayed" The account gives briefly an ouuhhe Oh INC
local mans life prior to the time he became n uccessfu Terra cotI'
manufacturer. This article is sub-tiIed: "Why n L Becafne an
American" and reads as follows: