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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-31
Mystery of the Andes
Still Has Its Fascination

Il come back with a fascinating i'm.
preston of the mystery of the place.
Iou somehow know that the brush II
alive with activity, but you rarely $50
It. You know that eyes are peering out
at you, but you rarely see them. The
snakes that slide along the ground are.
so like the texture Of the ground ITSELF.
80 like the grasses they glide through.
that your eye doesn't distinguish them. ,
There are all varieties of snakes there,
from the coral TO the cobra, but they
lurk IN their own peculiar businesses.
The natives themselves are alive
nbout you like that. They see you.
Word of your arrival and passngs
through their country speeds ahead OF
you by way of unknown means of com.
munlcation among the Indians. But
YOU rarely see them. When you do, /
they stand silent about you-almost
fearful! of you. And yet, you can never
be certain they are friendly or not"
Miss MacGregor is so pretty. 80 like
ether glrls-once she is in her civilian
clothes, rs she calls them-that IL n
difficult for one to appreciate her long
ing for the dangerous life It seems 90
necessary for her to live to be happy.
One expects rather 10 hear stories, such
as come from her lips. out of the mouths
of heavily mustachioed and deeply lined
and bronzcd male faces. 1t ia a littls
startling this Contrast-because il il
so unusual
one expects women these days to excel
IN swimming, rowing, in business
but 1t is more trouble to accent n
woman who dares the unexplored. the
poison darts OF tribesmen. the fangs Of
wild beasts, tho lusts of Ind an chiefs.
just for the hazard in the game.
Il don't know just why | like to
wander about. She tries with soma
hcsltancy TO explain just why she's 4
gypsy. Perhaps, II all comes down 10
It "oroIIary reaSon-shc doesn't know
why she shouldn't wander about.
II want to be actiie-I want n H,.
through new expcriences-andj Just be-
cause ! happen to be woman Is M
reason why shouldn't"
And who's their 10 gainRny berS
Some day her pleasant voice will doubt'
less brighten up a pleasant home. Son,.
day she may have gay children NJ bsr
knee. II isn't the most unusual ulti.
mate island for women.
And N she does--just think OF m.
JOY of those chi ldren There won't bs
tame good night stories about Brer
Rabbit and Red Fox-there will b.
yarns about how mother once
killed her jnguar, how she fell from
n high ,clif' how she penetrated re-.
gions where no white woman had svs.
before gone, how she took ''s'
But why go on specializing. SufBcispt
to say that now Miss MacGreeo, ~
enjoying her thrills as much M .r.
children she may have will. And ~
better life Is there than one which 4
a Joy to live. one which is : iov III
tell and, one which Is JOY for CO.,
Gipsy, perhaps,. she is--as has.v -
pIe as the Little Aiinigter's BabS1 ~
'slf--,and twice = fbfilline. e
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to know things" she cried; and she
doubtless will get about. At any
rate, she has begun we'll.
1t was about the first Of last
March that Miss MacGregor began
her trip.
~ flew from Key West to Havana.
I didn't have very much money, so
I did some research work for a COM
mercial house there. Then crossed
to Panama, went through the canal
and down to Ecuador. Here looked
about a bit, made few friends and
by steamboat followed south to
Lima, Peru. I found the country
very beautiful, but wasn't so much
interested in the country there
abouts. I wanted to make the
Andes"
And, she added, smiling: perhaps,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-31
Haze Real Sex Equality!
Women Do Hard Work

Socially they do not have very
complex conventions. The women
work about as much as the men,"
From the village of the Iquitos Miss
MacGregor took q launch. She went
down the Amazon to Para.
There was little excitement durins
that portion Of the trip-excepting one
thing She paused, and then said
sternly:, IF ever get down there
again I'm first going to learn how 10
take care OF a camera and how to use
one. / took many pictures, but the
climate, the heat and the vet ruined
most of my films. To top that. I had
to get what films I had developed
quickly, just as soon as I left the Inc
lands. And the folks who developed
them ruined those which might have
been fairly good. -,
But this accident on the Amazon I
We carried some carbide in a box, car.
ried 1t all the way from Lima. We
managed to keep It dry up until the
time we got in that boat on the Anna.
zon, 1t rained throughout the whole
trip-so keeping that box dry was
quite another feat itself.
the Amazon. Our Amazon guide was
sitting on the box of carbide. He
wore a poncho, which draped over him,
and the box like tent and completely
covered him and the box up. Well,
the rain rained, and it was all We
could do to keep the boat from h1ing
up. The water rose higher and higher,
and suddenly we saw that poncho on
t our guide swelling up like a balloon.I
Then there was an explosion and our
guide was thrown into the air about,
three feet. The water in some mar. =
ner had generated a gas when It pens.'
trated into the box Of carbide.
"Our guide was more frightened than
anything else. The box of carbide wao
ruined"
On August 1 Miss MacGregor arrived,
at Para. and from there she went to
New York City. where she Is now
trying to acclimate herself to the Nfo
OF busy city again.
The main portion of her journey
covered about 800 miles. her line across
the South American continent stretched
some 1000 miles. Her time spent IN
the tropics amounted to about seven
months, wandering in South America
about five.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-31
WANDERLUST
CALLEDH HER
IN FIR PERU
Fight Nth Jaguar
Only One Thrill
ON Trip Filled
WHh Hazards
OVER the heights Of the treacher-

OVER the heights Of the treacher-
" Gus Andes in seventeen daysl
Along trails less than foot wide,
hanging on sheer walls of rock, lip
ping abysses deeper than eye could
penetrate.
Through tropical Jungle, matted
together like the damp, hot hair of
some colossal giant-hiding place
for mad jaguars and slithering poi
sonous snakes.
Through underbrush, riotously,
morbidly beautiful, death-laden with
mysterious miasmas and wasting
fever.
Among polygamous tribes, which
deal in an extensive white slave
traffic-which snatch up white girls
from the borderlands and carry
them off to tragic oblivion in the
depths Of their strange country.
All these serve to suggest the re-
cent experiences OF Miss Katherine
MacGregor, Of Waupaca, Wis, and
former student of journalism at
Columbia University.
Miss MacGregor arrived in New
York last week-the first white
woman to conquer the Andes. She
crossed them within two days of the
fifteen-day masculine record.
She avoided all the devastating
fevers with only two grains of quiz
nine.
And her only weapon against the
wild beasts and reptiles and the saw
age tribesmen was a policeman's
whistle!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-31
Put Great Faith In
Honesty of INTERPRETER

And yet we didn't fear much, even
when they came out to meet us. We
were trustful Of the muletecr we used
as interpreter. It's an important point !:
Always treat your muleteer INTERPRETER
nicely. II you don't, he's liable to say
things to the natives which will bring
death or captivity upon you quicker than
a minute.
The seven day trip took them to the
headwaters Of a stream called Pichis-
though they had crossed many streams
during the seven days, =
49,! One n "a dsy, v. coins nai AZ slowely a. y:
twenty strsams that we crossed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-31
TO0t of Whistle More
Useful Than q Gun

"In Lima, you know" she said at
her temporary quarters in New
York, T discovered that whenever
you blew policeman's whistle
everybody ran away, especially the
police. And I figured it all out: I
didn't suppose I could do much with
a gun myself or a knife. But I
could blow a whistle, and if my ex-
perience in Lima was prophecy Of
what might happen anywhere in
South America, I had only to blow
my whistle when I was in danger,
and my danger would scatter"
OF course, this is only Miss Mac
Gregor's modest way of saying that
she has little or no fear.
She admits that she is twenty-six
years old; but she looks younger.
Not tall, she is compactly made;
when she walks she has something
Of the grace Of the jaguars which
endangered her life on the trail. Her
dark brown hair Is bobbed, her eyes
are green ard rather eloquent with
enthusiasm.
my father, who is still living in
Wisconsin, always says I've been the
gypsy Of the family" she observed.
'I don't myself understand why I've
always itched to be moving about
perhaps it was the influence Of my
sister, who prefers to stay at home;
perhaps it's because we never had a
brother in the family and some one
just had to be active. Anyway,
Waupaca never satisfied me-"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-31
From Heavy Snol1st0rns
to Jungle Sultriness

within six hours we Travelled from
raging snowstorm at $4,000 feet to
5000 feet, where we found ourselves In
the midst Of the densest tropical
growth. At La Mered we began our
real trip."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-31
Lure of Hiking AlWays
Had Potent Attraction

member, she has been hiking some
where. Her family Is not wealthy,
consequently it has been necessary
Tor her to make her expenses as she
travelled along. She has been able
70 do this by writing newspaper ar
slcles off and on.
In this way she has tramped about
in Canada and the far corners OF
the United States. She took a post
graduate course in the Columbia
School Of Journalism year or so
ago, and determined while student
there on this trip in the tropics.
hand now that she has accomplished
|his trip so successfully she means
70 return again to South America.
"You bet believe in the modern
woman!"
This conclusion came out explo-
Eely, with the unequivocal en-
(asis Of happy conviction. And it
oodles of information. 1t sug-
led that "career" to this particu-
~ maiden doesn't mean husband
nor the prison walls of a home to
cloister her while she's young and
|4ll she dies.
mean to get about to see things,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-31
DEATH e
BY FALL OF
PACK MULE
Stodgy WUc0nstn
T0svn Has Lost.
HsAttractionsfo for
This Girl

whites. but most Of them wear noths
ing. The little children look fat
enough. I saw one little child who
was very fat and shy. I learned that
che was thirteen years old--and q
widow!
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

possible the Gentlo0eSs, ,owcr and intolli-
gencc Of the man"
The statue, which is The work of Daniel
Chester French. took four years to carve. Ii
is Of interest to note that the sculptors uncle
Benjamin Z. French, was the officer in charge
Of public buildings during the Lincoln aa-
mnstratiOns.
The mural decorations, by Jules Guerin,
painted entirely without assstance are not
only Weatherproof but expected to be as i'm
pcrishable TIE memorial itself He mixed
his paints with wax and kerosene, and since
the wax is chemically similar to that found
in the tombs of the kings of Egypt it is be-
lieved that the colors will be as lasting The
figures in the decorations are heroic in pro-
portion, being eight and one-half feet high.
forty-eight figures appearing in all. Mr.
Guerln said when asked to interpret his work:
',rherc are six groups in a grove, each
group having for q background cypress trees
the emblem o. eternity.
The decoration above tho Gettysburg ad-
dress typifes. in the central group, Freedom
and Liberty. The left group represents JUS
tee and Law The right group represents
Immortality
The decoration "bova the Second inaugural
address has for the motive of the central
group Unity. The left group typiies Fra
ternty. The right group represents Charity"
The memorial was built under the direc-
ton OF the Lincoln Memorial Commissions ap-
pointed by Congress in 1911, with William
Howard Taft for chairman. Other members
Of the commission were Shelby NJ Cullon,
Joseph G. Cannon, George Peabody Wetmore,
Samuel Walker Mccall, fernando D. Money
ard Champ Clark, with Lieutenant Colonel C.
o. Sheriff. as secretary and executive officer,
Throughout its work the commission was
aided and advised by the National Commits
sion OF Fine Arts, the members Of which are
Charles Moore, chairman; Herbert Adams,
sculptor: John Russell Pope, architect; James
L. Greenleaf, landscape architect; j. Alden
Weir painter; Charles A. Platt architects
William Mitchell Kendall, architect
The site of the Lincoln Memorial is part of
the development in 1901 of the L'Enfant plan
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

place "Uncc joe Cannon was one of the
most vigorous opponents of the plan and de-
clared that the building would shake itself
down with loneliness and ague.' A few
months ago, when "Uncle joe" announced his
intention Of leaving Congress, the Lincoln
Memorial was the one achievement in his
fifty years of service in Congress to which he
pointed with most pride.
"If ever | come back to Washington" he
said "t won't be to wander up and down
through the halls of the House of Representa-
tives You will find me walking down the
Mall toward the Lincoln Memorial or stand
ing there, looking at the statue of the great
est man in American history'
The very isolation Of the site, now known
as Potomac Park, a peculiar advantage
For long distance in every direction the
surroundings were absolutely free for such
treatment as would best enhance the effect of
the memorial. The fact that there were no
features of interest or Importance, that every
thing had yet to be done, meant that no en-
barrassing obstacles would Interfere with the
development Of d setting adequate in extent
and perfect in design, without compromise
and without discord.
1Co duNoN'ltS poliliei Oul JllaC III Judging
the site for a memorial to endure through the
ages the fact to consider was not what the
location had been, nor what it might be at
the moment, but what it could be made for
all time to come. The short period required
for grading and the growth of trees was as
nothing compared with the possibility which
the site presented Of treating freely every
element of the surroundings in the best man
ner that the skill of man could devise
John Hay, one of Lincoln's secretaries and
biographers, strongly favored the site
Lincoln, of all Americans next to Wash
ington, deserves this place of honor he said
Toll must not approach too close to the I'M
mortals. His monument should stand alone
remote from the common habitations of men,
apart from the business and turmoil of the
city-isolated distinguished and serene OF
all the sites this one, near the Potomac, is
most suited to the purpose
Since 1911, as its advocates had foreseen
the location has become the most popular CT
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
-FOUR Features Combined
IN Single Design

Speaking Of his conception of the memorial,
Henry Bacon, its architect. said:
From the beginning of my study | be-
ileved that this memorial of Abraham Lincoln
should be composed of four features: statue
OF the man, a memorial of his Gettysburg
speech, a memorial Of his Second Inaugural
address and symbol Of the Union of the
United States, which he stated it was his
paramount object to save and which he did
save. Each feature is related to the others
y means Of its design and position, and each
Is so arranged that it becomes integral
part Of the whole in order to attain unity
ana simplicity in the appearance of the monu-
ment
The most important object is the statue
"a Lincoln, in which is expressed as far as
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

The water and on it the Senate Park Commits
sion. appointed the following year, advocated
nc erection of memorial to Lincoln, to con
stltute the rond- point of the Mall.
TIE proposal, however, met with fierce op-
position, the area being then known as the
Potomac Flats, a favortc place still for
shooting birds, gathering ground for the
frogs in their spring concerts and the abid-
ing place of mosquitoes and malaria. 1t was
remote from the city, a waste and isolated
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

all parts of the capital. Near It are the golf
Inks, tennis courts, baseball diamonds and
great park spaces through which drivewavs
have been built The full spring floods the
world with the lush life and vivid green of
growing things, and what a few wears ago
was nothing but dismal and malaral swamp
is now the recreation ground for the peopIe of
great capital city. The object now is to Sc
cure for the Lincoln Memorial needed degree
OF isolation by proper planting of trees.
The memorial and Potomac Park are both
parts of the extension Of the L'Enfant Plan.
For decades after the preliminary work done
under the supervision Of Washington and jeff
erson the capital remained merely a strag-
Cling village, rdculed alike by those who had
hoped for different site and by visitors from
abroad. In 1900 Pennsylvania Avenue was
merely a deep morass covered with alder
bushes. There were few houses, and cattle
browsed everywhere, while quail and other
birds wore shot within a hundred yards of the
Capitol
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Taft to Make Presentation;
President to Accept

On Tuesday of this week the Lincoln Me-
mortal will be dedicated with ceremony in
keeping with the simplicity of the man in
whose memory the monument is erected The
remnants Of the Grand Army of the Republic
men some of whom knew Lincoln and all
of whom fought to uphold the Union which he
preserved-wil form a guard on the terrace
when the colors are presented. They will be
supported by veterans of the Spanish-Ameri-
can War and of the World War. The presen-
tation Of the memorial will be made by former
President William Howard Taft, and Will be
accepted in the name of the Republic by Pres.
ident Harding
Edwin Markham, the author of "The Man
With the Hoe will read poem to Lincoln
which he has written especially for this occa-
sion. The invocation will be delivered by the
Rev. Wallace Radcliffe and an address made
by Dr. Robert r. Motion.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
From Chaos to Beauty,
A Century's Progress

Even after the Civil War Washington con-
tinued to be but mediocre town. il-buiIt.
unpaVed, with cattle and swine roaming
through the streets at will. 1t remained in
much this state until, in the early 7O's. some
of the long g-neglected improvements were
made, particularly the grading and paving of
the streets Once begun, the work went randi
ly ahead until President Grant was able to
state in his annual message to Congress- in
1873 that washington is now one
of the most slightly cities in the country and
can boast Of being the best paved"
But the growth Of the city had been with
out plan, so that when it met in 1901 the
Senate Park Commission, appointed by Con-
gress the year before to draw I'D plans for
the Improvement of the national capital wero
confronted by many difficult problems and
situations. The commission finally decided
upon the virtual restoration and extension of
the ong-neglected L'Enfant plan.
According to this century-oId plan tbo citv
had two dominant features: the CanitoI as
the seat of the legislative branch. and tho
White House, the seat of the executive
branch of the government From the C.,itoI
and the White House the great avenues radi-
ate, These two foci have two connections.
Pennsylvania Avenue as a direct traffic thor
oughfare and the Mall as a park connection,
The commission found that during the cen
+,,,-, Ill
Jury that mad elapsed Pennsylvania Avenue
had gradually been developed more or less az
cordlng to the L'Enfant conception. but that
the Mall had been cut up into peces eacb
section being developed separately without
reference to other sections, thereby LOSING tho
basic continuity of the plan of 1892. The
commissions chief problem was to restoro +o
'"e Mail the pre-emlnence to which it had
been destined by L'Enfant
One obstacle was the Botanic Garden which
had been located in such manner as +o c,,+
or access to the Mall from the Capitol oron,ds
But much more serious obstacle. INVOLVING
questions of vested rights and great masses of
private capital consisted in the fact that Con
gress had granted authority to railroads 70
middle Of its length and to build a station in
the public grounds, and these grants had but
recently been confirmed by Congress after
prolonged legislation for the elimination Of
grade crossings.
The Commission finally succeeded in reach
ing an agreement with President Cassatt Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, by which the Mall
tracks and station We're abandoned and the
present Union Station, accommodating all
railroad tracks entering Washington, was
built in place of them. 1t was a most happy
exchange, since it has not only resulted in the
building of station unsurpassed among the
railroad terminals of the world, but has also
allowed Washington to develop without hind
drance into what one day it will unouestion
ably be-the most beautiful and magnificent
of all the capitals of the world
Taft to Make Presentation;
President to Accept
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

~
=" jerkins once dehed malaria .bot
they might shoot reed birds TO,
their lady loves the Lincoln Nc
moria now stands.
For elsh' years the memorial has been
building, but for more than twenty wears the
Vision of its beauty has been vivid in the
minds Of those who conceived it, Now that II
is finished experts say that no finer memorial
exists anywhere in the world, with the OK
rption Of the Tai Mahal in India. To look
down the Mall from the foot of the Washing
ton Monument and sec the stately Doric col
unlns Of the Lincoln Memorial reflected in the
quiet lagoon when the moon rides full. food
ing the land with its silver light. will rival
the moonit turrets of the Tai Mahal-a sight
that has inspired rhapsodies and lvrics from
poets and art lovers for centuries
The beauty Of the memorial stirs the emo
lions almost to ecstasy There is not an nm
necessary line, not a fault in proportion Line
and mass combine to make that for which
dealists strlve-the unity that is perfection
l. foods the mind with delight and with the
sense of great and beautiful things There
pass in review
The glory that vss Greece
And Tho grandeur that Rome.
Sanatas of Beethoven. songs of Handel arc
stirred 10 active moUory. Crovdjng with
1hem is koener consciousness Of the heroic
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Setting of the Memorial
|, Magnificent One

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INTO death that Tie national destiny M ght
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Lincoln Memorial bv = great LAGOON that will
reflect both monuments A mile bevond the
WASHINGTON Monument is the Caoi+ol These
-hree-the Capitol. Washington's Monument
and the Lincoln Memorial-form the t}reo
great features Of the Mall thc rlan Of which
provides for walks and drives and rows Of
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

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New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
MEKlCA'S TRIBUTE TO THE RAT SPI TT~TFR
NJ

Y IHEEE Colonial gallants in leathern
~ jerklns once dehed malaria that
they might shoot reed birds fo,
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
In This Temple,

In Th's Temple,
4 IN the Hearts Of the People
For Whom He Suued the Jnion
Tie Memory OF .4broham Lincoln
Is EnshfOted Forerer.