Evening star., 1923-10-19
TALKS and TALES
With and about
| CAPITALS GUESTS

judged by little incident that oc-
CURED in the lobby Of the Hotel
Washington the other evening. had
the intrepid hunters immortal ad-
vice. BE sure you're right. then go
ahead" been copyrighted by his de-
scendants, a bonanza could be real
of kings
Flushed with excitement from a
day spent at the Laurel track, four
race players sat in the far corner of
the big lounging room rehashing ex-
periences of rather hectic day.
Did you get that Camoufiage thing,
Joe?" asked the stouter of the quar-
tet as he ran through his program.
Nope" replied the one addressed.
Il went out there with every idea of
going to him strong. but the Re
prisal people switched me off at the
last minute"
The same with me-" chirped up
little jewel-bedecked- person. Last
night / made up my mind to play
nothing else on the card but old
Camoufage, and just when l was
along with some sweet talk about
Sling. Too bad: it was chance of
the century. What did he pay?"
"Ftftyfour- fifty" was Eds sad re-
and intended going to the gelding
heavy, but a bunch OF trainers got
my ear and convinced me about
Sling"
THE same here" continued the one
who started the post-mortem. L told
every waiter in this hotel at break
fast there was nothing to the race
but the Winfrey skate, and there 1
go right to the track and bet bar
rel on that Singh ne; oh; my!
party He had cashed on Camoufiage.
How'd you do it, Sam" burst forth
in chorus as the winner sat down.
"Oh, I don't know. Went up to
Zovian, and by mistake the teller
gave me Camouflage. l was too super
stitious to change 1t, and mebbe I'm
not glad" and with that all made
retreat.
There is no use trying. 1t can't be
done! Much easier is ii to keep
a rubber ball under water than
dampen the enthusiasm of native
Californian over the wonders OF his
state. Dropping into the New Will
lard Hotel George H Wilhelm. vice
president and general manager of the
East Bay Water Company. was en-
countered in the lobby. and what he
did not predict for the future OF
his dear Oakland really was not
worth predicting.
Oakland is the most rapidly grow
ing city on the Pacific coast. said
Mr.. Wilhelm, all the time rubbing
his hands. 1T is the center of nine
cities SO extensively built up that
the district appears as one city, with
a population of about 400, 600
The Almeda naval base, which ad-
joins Oakland on the south, is one OF
the things which causes our section
to watch Washington very closely.
We have undisputed authority of the
highest naval officials that the AL
media site is the logical location for
the operating base of the Pacific fleet
Certainly the Navy Department and
support of Oakland in the project
Catching his Breath for the second,
Mr. Wilhelm then went on to say that
Oakland is destined to be the great
shipping center for the orient, as it
| has unlimited possibilities for harbor
development, with greater stretches
| of lands at tidewater for docks and
plenty of deep water.
Eastern manufacturers" contin-
I; ued the Californian, have come to
know the advantage of Oakland as
manufacturing and distribution CEN
ter as the city is the terminal for
three transcontinentai railroads, as
well for ali of the important shipping
companies. During the past year
nineteen national manufacturers have
established manufacturing and as
sembling plants in Oakland Cali
But Just then Mrs Wilhelm called
her geniel husband, and what Cali
fornia in general is doing will have
to be left for other native sons to tell.
And now a word from that grand
old commonwealth. South Dakota.
| with W. F. Sargent of the Yankton
| Printing Company on the floor:
"Oh, we are plugging away with
| conditions about normal" smiled the
/ happy-faced northwesterner, who.
| with E. II. Valentine of the same
| town, are at the Raleigh for a few
days on a business trip. Corn crops
are of the bumper order, and as ours
| is not a wheat state it would be most
unfair to complain of hard times.
Everybody. especially the republicans,
are more than pleased with President
| Coolidge, and feel certain he will lead
| the party in 1924. No. Hiram Johnson
has not much of a following in our
! section-it's Coolidge out there And
| meeting of the local Kfwanis Club.
| they being members of the Yankton
branch of the organization.
'It will be a knock down and drag
out fight between the wet and dry
| forces in New York, New Jersey,
Massachusetts and other eastern
states next fall" said r. f. Herman
| of New York and New Jersey, as he
| wrote his name on the register of the
/ Shoreham Hotel.
THE feeling on the question is
| growing more intense every day, and
while l am a dry in so far as the
liquor interests ever getting the up
per hand again, l must say the other
side is making a terrible fight"
Mr.. Herman, who is intimate with
the powers that be in the democratic
party, said that the machine" peo-
pie were talking mostly of Senator
Underwood to head the ticket in 1924,
but that Gov. Al Smith was gaining
strength each day, especially in the
east "A personally wet and political
lly dry candidate for any office in our
section hasn't a chance" smiled the
noIitician as he went to his room.
This has been proved conciuslVely
| in New Jersey.
When a young actress essays such
la tragic role as Sarah Judah, in
the play "Steadfast," the part so
admirably played by Lesna Hogarth
at the Schubert -Garrick, and you call
on that actress. il naturally would
he expected to find her most serious,
hut such was far from the fact when at
the Lee House this talented young
woman was interviewed.
! "'Oh 1 just love small-mouth bass
fishing" was her unexpected reply
when asked how she occupied her
snare time. only yesterday, while
walking down by your bay. or river,
or whatever it is. / saw man cast
ing bait, and rushed over. to him,
onIv TO find he was trying for large
mouth bass. l have no use for that
!fish. In Maine. where we go every
summer, l spend my entire time cast
ing for the small-mouth species, and
t-oh, yes, 1 get them.
The pretty girl who made such a
hit last year in Square Peg and
up the Ladder" viii be remembered =
nv Washingtonians when she played
hare several years ago with Lionel
Rarrvmore in 1.-The Letter of the
1 toa hod fO cnt her talk