Evening star., 1921-04-03


SOUTH END OF
have some symptoms OF human intel
ligence: do you really go to these
places you write about
How else in the name of common
sense could it be done? Has not the
Rambler written stories of trips to
to thousands, of places in
the District. Maryland and Virginia
that have never had a line in print
before? Has he not hunted out places
that nobody living more than five
miles from them ever heard OF be-
fore? Has he not written columns Of
matter after his fashion:
"One hundred yards further along the
road you pass a spring on the left
hand and at a right-hapd bend in the
road you come to black oak tree,
over which g. trumpet creeper has
grown, and fifty feet south Of the
black oak is one remaining gray gate
post standing in the morning shade OF
= red cedar?
Don't you know that all the people
in that part of the country near
Washington. in all parts OF the coun-
try near Washington. read The sun
day Star and does any one oeneve
that the Rambler could pull that sort
of a description and get away with
it if he had not been over the ground
Other persons, who seem TO nave
sense enough to make living, pu'
one wonders how they do 1t, nave
asked the Rambler, do you really &c
to these places you take the pictures
off" In the years that the Rambler
articles have been running In ine
Sunday Star and the writer walking
in the byways and the places w1tnou'
byways, has he not shown pictures
Of tumble-down old houses. parns
corn houses. springhouses and rustic
people whose pictures had never oeen
made before? How could those pic,
lures be made without going there!
Do YOU think that you can walk into
a souvenir shop and buy post.
card of old Jim Smiths slaosioeo
barn on Cucapotowaxon creek, forty
miles from nowhere: But well let
this pass.
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The series Of Analostan Island
stories has been long one, and some
persons have perhaps grown tired o'
following these notes. The Rambler
took up this subject because ne De-
lieved that a close search would re-
veal much good matter concerning
the island, and because nothing worth
reading had ever been published abou'
Analostan Island, SO far as the Ram
bier could find, except one chapter IN
a book written by David Balllie WI
den in 1916. telling of visit to tne
hof q
thought Analostan would be a popu-
lar, subject, and he guessed at this
from the number Of letters he had
received in the course of several
years asking for information about
the island. Here is sample OF these
letters. and this one was dated March
s, 1919:
Dear Sir:
/ am desirous of procuring for friend
such informal tion as may be obtainable con
cerning Analostah Island, in the Potomac
near this city and nn.d Its cary ri tho
Historical Society of this city and to my old
friend, DR.. william Tindali. regarded q,
neither was able to furnish the desired IN
formation. the latter suggesting that migh'
possibly obtain it f1o@ the Old reliable Even
had myself previously thought Of this
for I seem to recall an article written py
the Rambler within the, past few yens u
some other familiar function on Analoetaz
Island at which were present some OF. La,
f.yettes stan Or It may have been some On th9' g
is rather vague, bnt think I am not mis-
taken having read something 1n,sc Of tss
Rambler's unique and very interesting ar 9,
ticles will greatly appreciate it II you viii
let me know where it-may be found.
The thoughts of a good many per-
An r. ~
odd years when they read in last
Sundays "ramble" of the organiza-
tfon OF the Columbia Athletic Club
the leasing Of Analostan Island by
the club. the purchase of the ground
on G Street and the building OF the
fine clubhouse. later lost to the Co
lumbia Athletic Club by foreclosure
or mortgage. That fine clubhouse
is still standing. being now part
of the plant of the Y. NJ. C.. A. There
lies on the Rambler's table a list OF
members of the club in 1890. The
active members at that time num-
bered 90S; the nonresident members
ISL; the visiting members. %. and
the life members. 3-W. B. Hibbs, 81:
Massachusetts, avenue; James F
Hood, 1917 o street. and Andrew Nc.
Callum, the Richmond. The Rambler
would like to print here the name:
Of the members of the old club. bu,
the list would take too much space
The list reads like the business reg.
lister and social blue book of Wash
ington in 1890. Hundreds of the
young men Of the club are living ane
are prominent in trade and the pro
fessions and are held in regard b,
agencies. It would be a great fea.
ture for the Rambler II he could find
a way to get this list Of members
in his part of the paper
The Columbia Athletic Club house
was opened Friday evening. April %
1890. The Star of Saturday. Apri
26, carried a little, one column line.
drawing cut of the new building ane
a picture of, President Jimmie HOOD
Eyeglasses, mustache and all. The
IA Myriad Of Guests-the Columbis
Athletic Clubs Housewarming Las
Night-Brawn and Hospitality-Brff'
liant Scene at the Opening Of the
New HouseA Great Crush-Scene:
About the Building-A Notable En-
tertainment."
Here follows the introduction tt
The Stars story:
All Washington turned out to the Columbi
Clubs house-warming last night, at least,
ali Washington WAS not there SO large a par
Of it was that the part that was not ther
did not count for much. 1t was TIRE
! mendous success. both in point of number
AND tn the to
| as early as O'Clock and would probably hav
come sooner had not the Invitations read fo
that hour as the earliest. and at IL. whic
was stated for the close Of the reception
they were still coming. Outside the clubhous
white House, an awning having been stretche
from the curb to the doorway, and the crow
| very soon after O'Clock extending In lin
down the street in both directions. In a
| hour this line was half o square in lengt
and 1t kept growing until near the end, whe
| il suddenly began to dwindle.
Inside the house was dense, swayin
| throng, Every mock and corner of the larg
! edifce was packed and stairways made soil