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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08
TO ASK COOPERATION OF CI.TRG

Miss Olivia O'Nea1 will speak to the Community club today at their luncheon at the Southern club.
 Mrs. Ralph Barrow will mako an address Wednesday at the Exchange club luncheon at the Tutwiler.
 Mrs. J. D. Moore will make a talk Friday to the Civilians. The object of these three addresses is to put before the prominent men of the city, members of these organizations, the benefit to Birmingham of having an Art league and to ask their back ing and cooperation in the work of the Alabama Art league.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08
MONTGOMERY COUNTY QUEEN

Below an attractive picture of Miss Laura Mae Hill, who has been cho- sen queen of Montgomery county, for the Birmingham seml-centennia1, the Montgomery Advertiser says:
 Miss Laura Mae Hill, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Wiley c. Hill, chosen by popular vote to represent Mont gomery among the beautiful girls of the state at the Birmingham semi centennial celebration this monch.
 Miss Hill is of the brunette type and lovely girl With the other representatives of Alabama counties she will be presented to President Harding at tho Birmingham celebra- tion and will participate in many social events planned in honor of the fair visitors who will grace the oc- CasiOn"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08
MRS SMITH
 CIRCLE HOSTESS

Mrs. A. L. Kidds' circle of the Southside Baptr5t church held It's so- cial meeting with Mrs. E. P. Smith. The home was prettily decorated with roses and ferns. The feature of the meeting was an apron shower for Mrs. H. c. Nabb to be used for the benefit of the dolls bazaar, They were brought in a hamper and Mrs. Nabb was told her circle had been laundering while she was away. Pre- sentation speech was made by Mrs A. l. Kidd, Mrs. H. c. Abbott un- folded each apron for her approval.
 They were IS in number, eighteen of which were made by tho W. M. S. of the McElwain Baptist church and were very much appreciated. Fol- lowing the business hour delightfrf refreshments were served.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08
REHEARsALs FOR DANCE

Professor Miles, who is conduct ing the rehearsals for the smoke and flame dance and the calico ball. to be given at the semi-centennial, reports fine progress of those who will dance in these parts. He urges the young women attending to meet more promptly on time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08

d 0 W n condition. Then l had a ner- |vous breakdown and doctors said I would never be we'll again. After l took seven bottles of Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound l was healthier, stronger and felt better than I ever did in
 ysf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08
MISS nRADSHAW,S BRIDGE PERTY

Miss Grace Bradshaw entertained
 yesterday afternoon at bridge in
 honor of Miss Mabel Plosser. a l charming bride elect The guests in- 1 cluded the members of Miss Plossers bridal party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08
DIR. AND MRS. STEPHENS HOSTS

Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Stephens enter tained Thursday evening at a recep- ton at the Woodlawn infirmary.
 The decorations were of palms, growing plants and cut flowers. Dr. and Mrs. Stephens were assisted in receiving by Dr. and Mrs. Wallace and Dr. and Mrs. E. c. Hagood.
 Dr. W. E. Fonville made an inter- esting talk.
 Coffee, sandwiches and Ices were served
 jour. near Bordeaux where some- thing Is made which must not be mentioned in Amerfca."
 Madame Duffau- Lagarrosse, who went from Alabama 12 years ago to study singing in Italy and France has returned several timess but this Is her first visit since the beginning of the war.
 During the war she contributed her talent and her time In service; ; singing their familiar songs for the homesick English soldiers. while she rolled bandages.
 These charming visitors will leave Birmingham on October 15, and will sail for their home in Paris about the middle of the month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08

parents, Mir. and Mrs. J.. w. Crocker, in Jasper. have returned home
  Mrs. Elmer c. Thurston is rapidly improving after recent operation at St. Vincents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08
HAD NERVOUS
 BREAKDOWN
Mrs. Ireland Permits us to Publish thisLetterforth the Benefit of Others
 Who Are in Her Condition

Warsaw, Missouri. For five years l was weakly, nervous and in run
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08

MT. John Levert will arrive today from the university to be the guest of his parents, MT. and Mrs. Fred Levert MT. Levert will be accom- panied by MT. Clifford Inge, of Mobile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08

ferent times during the sale on al the different corners.
 This sale is put on by the Veterans of Foreign Wars ladies auxiliary for the benefit of all our ex-service men in the hospitals of the city as well as the ones out of employment and otherwise in need of same.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08

Miss Olivia Robinson will leave to- day for New York to spend the win ter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08

Mir and Mrs. Douglas Leake have returned home in Jasper after brief visit to Mir and Mrs. w. F.. Leake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08

MT. Rodger Richmond Rinehart of Charlottesville, Va, is the guest of MT. and Mrs, ". F. Redd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08

The Age-Herald has arranged with
 leading fashior designers of New
 York to furnish it's readers daily
 fashion and pattern service. All pat
 terms will te seam making and guar
 anteed to fit perfectly. Safe delivery
 of every pattern ordered is also guar
 4nteed. You should order patterns .
 little in advance of the time you will
 need taem as stock Ia not kept in
 Birmingham. but all orders will be 'S forwarded to the pattern department tn New York for attention.
 .Child's Rompers-A novel play suit for little boy bears a close re- semblance to rompers except that the trousers are long. The latter are made with wide pockets at the sides and are buttoned to the kimono waist through a band.
 The childs rompers are cut in sizes ?, and years. Size requires 2s yards 32-inch material with ss yard 36-inch contrasting. Price of pattern 15 cents.
 Every woman who wants to dress stylishly and economically should
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08

MT. and Mrs. Ford Cromer are ; home for the winter with MT. al Mrs. Brooks Forbes, on Highlar avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08

Jour. near Bordeaux where some- thing is made which must not be mentioned in Amerfca"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08

| Mrs. s. ll. Ganschow of Columbus. O., will arrive Sunday to be the guest | of his sister, Mrs. W. G. Lewis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08

MT. E. r. Thornhill has returned to his home in Wetumpka, after a visit to his son, MT. w. F. Thorn hill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08

Mrs. P. D. Lopez of Los Angeles Cal, is the guest of her mother Mrs, R, c. Rush.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08

Miss Allie Stewart, who has been the guest of Mrs. N. S. Johnson in Clanton for several weeks, has re- turned home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08

MT. Lester Crowder has returned from visit to friends in Roanoke.
Evening star., 1921-03-06

holding in his hand an ancient geo
logic survey map. will be saying
something like this: "One hundred
feet beneath you is the mouth OF a
stream laid down by the classic Seog-
raphers as Difficult rum 1t waa
ii great rock gorge, which let tenn
p"stuous stream pass t&om the high
lands down to the Potomac. 1t was
quite a thoroughfarc for venturesomc
people called mixers" 'wanderlust-
ers," nature lovers and other kinds
of lovers. who passed from the high
plateau on The west, now one o: the
handsome residence sections Of our
city. to the rocky wilderness in the
bottom of this lake. There YOU see a
tall and branching tree that has
turned to stone. 1t is a fossil of "A
variety once called 'Sycanore'-that
is. so | have been told by d gentle
man from the Smithsonian 1nstitu-
ton. because | have no knowledge of
such abstrusc matters myself. That
fossil tree stands just about where
the run reaches the level of the river
Those blue fish spangied with golden
stars: those green cats and scarlet
cells. which you plainly sec. are SWIM
ming among the topmost branches of
the old tree. A man from the National
Museum told me that il is quite prob
able that at one time birds that were
called blue birds. goldfnchcs. green
hcrons and scarlet tanagers sat
among those branches. What vast
progress we have made, That pale
streak Of gravel and howldcrs which
you see on the slope and which used
to he hillside, and which you can
make out among the tall waving
grasses. was one of the trails that
those people, much more Soat-l!ke
Evening star., 1921-03-06

aqueduct dam. 1t was given the
right TO purchase two thousand acres
of land in Montgomery county and
to lay. construct and build lines Of
conductors along. upon or over
streets, squares. lanes. alleys, roads.
and Prince Georges counties and to
connect the same with any manu-
featuring plant, etc, and also with
any line or lines authorized TO lac
erected in the District of Columbia.
Mr.. Wright. in concluding his re-
port to the Department of the Int
rior. wrote:
With the impending necessity Of ccnstrnr'
ing a conduit 70 enable the city to rr.
ceive All tie water To which it j. now al
mitteiiy entitled: with the certainty shat
within few years every cubic inch of water
which we now avn will be required for d.
mestic consumption. with the inevitable needs
at some time within the next few years "f
increasing the eNteut Of government owner
ship at Great Fais-with all these rrcmn-
stances plainly in view, imminent. indispuia-
BILE. irresistible in their local significance--can
there be a doubt to the governments duty
to actsand te.,net atrpnce: First. all adverse
water rights 3nyol wing ntilizati tion for power
purposes atsf;reat Falls should he extingnish
ed; the government should acquire the right
to every cubic foot of water at that point.
subject only 10 tbe rights Of the canal com
pany. second, the new aqueduct should be-
built with reference TO a general plan which
will permit disqualification of the existing ri-li'
of way some time conduit in the d.
yelopment of the hydro-electric power plant.
He urged that the eNigency dc.
manded the quickest mode of action
He thought that the legislature
Maryland, upon proper presentation!
of the pract lea nou-user of it's fran
chse. would revoke the charter %
the company. or that there may haNt
been such non-user that a court upon
quo warranto proceedings instituted
Evening star., 1921-03-06

10 tell OF the beauty. The grandeur
and the glory of that region. Some
of the millions OF pictures that have
been snapped against the gray rocks
and frothinE waters may be FOUND in
the National Museum. and men who
will come after viii wonder that the
Potomac valley about Washington
could ever really have been like that.
People viii look on the vast. smooth
lake that VIII srr..d Itself from ridge
to ridge and wonder what lies be-
meath IL and what The bottom looks
like. som" Old fellow. with bald
head wrink!ed face. beat back and
long " hit" beard, who has unused
through til" files Of newspapers print
ed back in 1921 or 81. ~ or 81 win
tell that n" had read references thai
down in thc bottom of that lake
strange wild flowers. build fires. boil
pots OF coffee. broil ''we;0ieS. take
pictures OF each other and lounge on
The rocks.
Down at the bottom of the lake
there was a river. Sometimes il was
ioamuG write. shining green or
sparkling biuc. and sometimes when
the rains and melted SHOWS ran down
III. muuuisinsidcs ard all the 2ulli"s
al III" band. the wat"~ changed to
red or yellow. II is said 20 have been
a frothy Ii'tl" stream with falls.
rapids. cddics. quiet pools and
stretches of CalrH water. II was
sprinkled with islands. Some OF thes,.
kept their tops abov" the water and
wore trees as plUmes-grsen in spring
and summer and red aud gold in
autumn. Some pokef their rocky
heads and noses a bove the surface in
seasons OF low water. and many of
them lay always just little below
tho water and churn~d into hrich'
foam the river as ii passed above
Evening star., 1921-03-06

Great Falls for manufacturing pur-
poses goes back certainly to the time
of the American revolution and most
probably to an earlier time. The
building of a manufacturing city at
the falls was part of the plan Of
the Potomac River Improvement
Company. which was incorporated by
Maryland and Virginia in 1874. and IN
which project George Washington
was the dominating figure. The mile
long canal enabling boats to pass
around the falls was also a power
canal in that it delivered water to
the wheels of mills set below the
canal on the river side. No great
prosperity attended the project be-
cause the company organized to make
the river navigable from Cumberland
to Georgetown failed and its charter
was taken over by the company,
which proposed building a canal be-
tween those cities. That was the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal. The mills.
left with no other safe communicat
with the outside world than by rough
and hilly roads, languished' and de-
cayed. But the great rush of water at
the falls was a lure to many ad-
venturous business men.
On February 4. 1899. the Legislature
of Virginia granted a charter to the
Great Falls Manufacturing Company
for the purpose of manufacturing
hemp, cotton. fax, wool. etc. at Great
Falls. Authority was granted it to
acquire by purchase land in Fairfax
county not exceeding 5000 acres lin
an entire body" fronting on the river
continuously and for distance not
exceeding one and onc-half miles. c.
Edward Wright. assistant attorney.
in a report to the Department of the
Interior. February /, 1909, on the
rights of the United States to the
Evening star., 1921-03-06

A y inland sea will roll above
~ gardens that have been mill
~ lion years in making when
the Potomac river is set to
turning turbines and producing light.
heat and power. These are the rock
- rdens of the Potomac between the
Little and Great Fails. and which
were set in place when the deep in
ma -Is'' of the earth wehe heaved up
and tumblcd about in twisted. jagged
fantasies. When the world was young
these rocks were fluid. molten. red.
They were hotter and redder than
anything that man knows now. but
es the earth grew older they turned
TO stone-to cod. hard. gray stone
mixed with white crystal quartz. and
quartz that in some places is stained
pink. yellow. brown and black. Some
of the rocks spangled themselves in
side and out with shining flakes of
mica and jeweled themselves with
tiny garnets and other precious
stones. They locked up i'll their en-
brace many veins of gold-pure gold.
They also buried within themselves
fields Of fools gold or iron pyrites.
which. like many other things. gilt
tars but is not gold.
Far. far back in the abyss of time
some mighty fore, 50 colossal that
it taxes ones conception. cleft thesr
rocks for many miles around, and to
vast aud undetermined depths. Il
turned this rock area upside down
in place.. and turned other areas on
their side. Vast PATCHES o: SION"
We're 'iltcd at all degrees between
the horiECntal and the vertical Tn"
rocks themselves have al this history
written or them. and III them. and
Evening star., 1921-03-06

waters of the Potomac river and
power privileges at Great Falls. said
of the Great Falls Manufacturing
Company of 1899 that Its water
rights were evidently to be acquired
through riparian ownership, though,
oddly the whole of the river is with
in the jurisdiction of another COM
monwealth' (Maryland'.
!. x !: *
THE GREAT FALLS MANUFAC-
TURING COMPANY. reorganized
a number of times and granted vari.
Gus charter extensions by Virginia.
engaged in no manufacturing enter
prise. but held title to the lands and
rights it had acquired. In 1895 (April
- the Great Falls Manufacturing
Company sold it's lands and such
water rights as were its. to the
Great Falls Power Company, which
was chartered by the legislature of
Virginia March 3. 1894. Under. its
charter it was authorized to acquire,
hold, improve and use water power at
or near Great Falls. to construct
dams. canals and other hydraulic and
auxiliary steam works: TO sell ana
lease water powers and use the same
for manufacturing and other pur-
poses; TO generate. transmit, sell and
lease electricity. electric power and
light for railroad and canal as well
as other purposes. including the right
of eminent domain in case the use
was public. or by purchase or other
wise. and to hold and improve real
and personal property. and TO sell
and mortgage the same.
On April s, 1894, the Maryland leg
islature granted the company the
right to build dams or other struc-
lures in the Potomac river between
the Great Falls and the government
Evening star., 1921-03-06

ydu may read IT, even though you
-e not learned. Look at them and
trace the waVy. twisted. twisting
lines that w.r.- scuiptur,d when the
iabltcn stuff was relatively cool and
@'in. and then n the ages passed
-pt cold and hard.
4
,J,HE.N. perhaps when all this had
taken place FAR and deep wiirin
our world and The seas began 10
shrink- the upland seas whose shores
were mountain ranges began break
ing their rocky bounds. S~' king
lower levels. and the oceans that al
ready rested IN Tia" deepest valleys
and the pits of earth, they tore.
SMASHED and crushed their way
through mountains. washed from the
earth thick layers OF rock that had
been laid down by the sediment of
seas and the remains Of things that
had lived in thoS" seas. and washed
away many miles Of dirt which had
first been soft ooz. i'm the bottom
Of the sea- tion had turned to stone.
limestone. sandstone and the like.
and " hen ;h" seas ha1i passed away
the top 6f this stony bed WAS broken
up into mere dirt. Or wealth hcrcd. by
tens of centuries OF sun. ffost. heat
"a nd cold This is tho dirt in which
crow the things We eat
These seas held in place by noun
tains. were. when they brok" their
bounds. not content with securing the
TOD crust of the Garth, but ground
their way through that crust down
20 those gray hard rocks that lay
broken, upheaved and twisted far
within the earth. One can see at
Usrncrs Ferry tho gorge that tho sea
between the Blue Ridge and the AL
Evening star., 1921-03-06

leghanies made when il broke through
the tail and thick Blue Ridge. one
can sce like signs all along the Poto-
mac river. Many persons have seen
the signs at Great Fa'ls. Many have
read the story in the Deep valley be
tween Little Falls and Great Fails.
and in this valley are a thousa nd
pa geS-rerhaps as many chapters
in rock that only the somewhat ad-
venturous and s;cut-footed and stout
legged WashingtorianS have read.
And this is the part OF the Potomac
valley which will be buried under
miles Of wafer when a great dam is
built at Little Falls. When that will
he rests in the lap of the gods and
tin" future. The height of the dam
will determine tn" area that win he
submerged.
Throughout this district. castles.
pinnacies. palisades. shelves. ledees
and detached batti.ments Of gray
stone jut from the green earth. There
are also caves and grottoes. There
are masses and Businesses of rock
with single rocks as big as houses.
and in the clefts and channels of
which grow many kinds of ferns and
mosses, Towering plants and trees
that are found nowhere else in the
region around Washington. Many
Washingtonians have a general ac-
qudintance with the islands of the
Potomac and the scores of rocky siets
around which the old Potomac fumes
and sprays and over which it often
roars and surgcs.
!: y :: !.
C,cENE.S that are familiar to many.
- scenes that were known to the
Indians scenes that were looked on
by The carly Immigrants from Europe.
will PISS from view. When our eyes
shall close there will be no one left
Evening star., 1921-03-06

Langfitt, Corps of Engineers. returned
Il report on the project July II. 1917.
No definite recommendation was
made. About that time the idea was
advanced that it would be feasible
and advantageous to combine the in
crease in the water supply of the
city with power canal to lead from
Great Falls to Dalecarlia reservoir.
where the necessary additional water
supply would be delivered. The sur
plus would be led to a power house
located on the river bank and con-
yerted into electrical energy for gov
ernmental and municipal use. A ten
tatiye study of this plan was made
by NJ. o. Leighton. United States geo
logical survey. and his conclusions
though favorable. pointed to de-
tailed study as being necessary. That
was authorized in the District bill
approved June &c. 1912.
q: K :k Il
DLANS for utilizing the flow of the
Potomac river at or near Great
Falls have been under consideration
many times since the early 90s. Gle
mems Herschel. consulting engineer.
in n letter to Col. Langfitt, in 1913.
said that during the past twenty
years many plans have been devised
for creating hydro electric power
station to utilize the flow of the Poto-
mac river at Great Falls and down.
stream from the aqueduct dam at
that point. and it may he proper TO
remark that in 1902 | had the honor
to advise syndicate of New York
bankers upon just such proposition.
making me. fairly well informed on
the subject before receiving the ap-
pointrnent of consulting engineer at
your hand in the present investiga-
ton"
The plan of utilizing the flow at
Evening star., 1921-03-06

them. Brave blades" and lassies Of
that remote time. bearing in mind
the Indians who had not long pre-
ceded them. Travelled up and down
that river in frail hut sturdy little
ships propelled by hand. and which
they called canoes" for the Ian
guaGe Of the Indians was still spok en-
to some extent by the people who
lived here then. In some of the very
old books which one will find in the
Washington Public Library-not the
little marble building which used to
stand in that ancient part Of The city
ca He'd Mount Vernon Square. hut the
new building which covers four
blocks and rises thirty stories on thar
tract of land which your forebears
called Meridian Hill--weli, You will
find books which tell Of the flowers
that used to grow among the rocks
and wet meadows at the bottom of
the Lake. These flowers became ex-
tinct centuries ago. and our wisest
students of old English are not able
'adder's tongue. "arbutus" 'azalea." :"
beech drops ''bellwort. ''betony."
"bloodroot." "bluetS.. "buSloss," but
tercups." 'columbine." ''cranesbill,"
day flower 'Dutcllman's breeches.
'"foxglore." wild, geranium." gold
slipper 'lohella.'' monkey flower"
golden ragwort and many other
plants that grew about the olden city
when Great Falls. Occoquan. Pisca ta-
way. Laurel and Rock willie were sub
urbs. The people of the little old city
used to come here among the rocks
and meadows and woods. now a hun
dred feet down in the watery depths.
and gather these flowers and also to
study birds. for in those remote times
birds of gay plumage might be met
with even in the environS of the city.
" ga ms
into these parts for pleasure used
sometimes to encounter bideous mon
sters which they called serpents. In
the older books one will find these
creatures named water snake"
garter sna ke." black snake" "sala-
mander.' lizard etc. but these an
cestors of ours We're not so far re-
moved from the ichthysauritlae. the
mastodons. the brontosaurus. the di-
nosaurus and other large, fierce wild
reatures that lived here some time
before your ancestors arrived. that
they fthe ancestors seemed to have
but little fear of the wild creatures
they called garter snakes. chameleons
and frogs.
DERHAPS in the after years boats
with glass bottoms will cruise on
this broad. long lake whose mar
=
our high ridges. Passengers will look
down into the depths and see our old
Fairgrounds among the rocks. They
may call them the picture rocks of
the past pleasure haunts of the
primeval denizens of this region"
and things like that. Strange fishes,
and even new varieties on ca tfish and
eels will float around the places Some
modern maid looking down into the
green depths may giggle and cry out.
But what funny people they must
have been to pick out such a place
for picnics"'
Perhaps in that future there will be
picture machines on floats.
which will perfectly reveal the bot
tom and the slopes of this inland sea.
Perhaps guide, standing on the
deck of a sightseeing boat. and by
the side of this picture machine. and