Evening star., 1922-04-06
ORIGINAL S|AMESE
TWINS DISCUSSED
Oldest inhabitants Hear In
teresting Accounts Of
Freaks of Nature.

! A discussion of the habits and char
twins. who lived in this country sew
! ieral decades ago. featured the monthly
meeting of the Association of Oldest
Inhabitants of the District of Colum-
!, bia at Union engine house, 10Th and
II streets. last night
John Clagett Proctor opened the
discourse by reading an excerpt from
J the Metropolitan. newspaper pub
! lished in 1887, which tended to show
| that the twins acted as though CON
, trolled by single mind
| John B. Mccarthy, corresponding
secretary of the association, recalled
| interviews he had with the twins
| toward the end of their career and
said he. remembered distinctly that
their tastes, particularly for sports,
/ differed widely.
One Hunter-Other Fisherman.
"One fellow" said Mccarthy. was
an enthusiastic huntsman. while the
other preferred fishing. The fisher
man had to go chasing through the
woods when his twin was in pursuit
of bird or a rabbit, and the hunter
lad to sit idly by the river bank when
the other was fishing"
The experiences related by Mr..
| Mccarthy indicated that while the
| twins. in their younger days. had
more or less uniform personalities.
as they grew older each developed
very decided ideas on life.
! Mr.. Proctor's clipping from the
; Metropolitan read in part as follows:
"They speak English perfectly, but
| have forgotten their native tongue.
| Two persons have endeavored sepa-
| rately to converse with each at the
same time, but Invariably b,th turn
I~y,
| with him.
! Taste for Food Similar.
| Their taste for food. persons and
| things are similar; they both ex-
perience hunger and thirst, go to
sleep and wake at the same in
slant. And to wake both, it is neces
! Sary only to touch one. There is the
utmost uniformity in their motions.
as if both were influenced by one
will. They have never been known to
/! be angry with each other. A pro-
posal to divide the connecting bond
! is very disagreeable to them. They
often remarked that they have never
seen single individual so happy as
! they are united"
The association appointed a COM
mittee of five to corporate with
other civic organizations in erecting
suitable memorial to Henry b. F.
Macfarland, former Commissioner and
leader in many undertakings for the
betterment of the National Capital.
Committees Appointed.
President Theodore W. Noyes ap-
pointed the following on the commit
tee: DR.. Benjamin w. Sunny. Capt.
George W. Evans, John Joy Edison,
Henry K. Willard and John 3. Lar
ner.
The question of. the Mcfarland
memorial was brought up by DR..
Sunny, who moved the appointment
of the committee. Capt. Evans told
briefly of the untiring efforts of Mr..
and-half plan of financing the Ma
tional Capital.
Capt Evans said as an individual
he would rather see a handsome
portrait of the former Commissioner
placed in the boardroom of the
District building than to have a
bronze bust located in one of the
Mr.. Mccarthy recalled having
worked on a Philadelphia newspaper
with the former Commissioners
Invited to Luncheon.
Henry K Willard invited all MEM
bers of the association to be guests of
himself and Mrs. Willard at luncheon
at their home, 1888 K street, Satur-
day, May 13. in honor of the Tooth
anniversary of the birthday of his
IdCnef, 1enry "A. w lllaEQ- MI. w IL
lard said if his father lived he would
reach the century mark on Sunday,
May IA.
William J. Hughes presented to the
association stone from the old
Friedman's Bank building, which
stood on Pennsylvania avenue west
of 18th street and which was razed
about 1899.
Capt. Evans gave the association
framed portrait of President McKin-
ley, to be added to the associations
gallery of ex-Presidents. A photo
graph of Washington in 1884 was
given the Oldest Inhabitants by Miss
Crosthwaite. 1927 Chaplin street.
The association invited Frederick
Fishback to exhibit at the May meet
ing his collection of lantern slides of
old buildings in Washington AS the
slides are shown members of the as
sociation will. endeavor to recall any
interesting incidents they may re-
member about each structure.
George w. Stone, jr, and Alexan-
der NJ. Holmes were elected to MEM
bership. y