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The cliffs and banks Of tbc
Potomac are covered with native
trees, flowers and plants The flora
OF this section is intensely interest
ing, as lack Of agricultural pursuits
and building has preserved many
original species. The towpath Of the
canal offers a convenient road for OBJ
serving the flowers and plants Of this
region. The skunk cabbage, found
IN most places, is the earliest Of the
Spring flowers, and this is followed
by the hepatica, trailing arbutus,
bloodroot Spring beauty. adder's
tongue or trout lily, wake robin,
violet, Dutchman's breeches, blue
bells, wild ginger, jack-in -the-pulpit,
columbine and many others The red
bud and dogwood are among the
more snowy Of the trees
The bed of the old Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal offers an ideal site for
a scenic boulevard traversing this
historic region and connecting Wash
ington and Cumbe. and
In the pr".u :. AIRY report of its
committee on forest and park re
serves the American Civic Associa-
tion mentions among the lands desir-
a"!s 10 be acquired in extending tha
Nn'onal Capital park system both
banks of tn Potomac from Washing
!on to Great Falls, to preserve the
forests, the very remarka BILE natural
'cenery and stop DETACHMENT By quar-
ry operations, this park extension
not to interfere with future develop
ments for water supply and power
Plant"
Indicative of a foreigners appre-
citation of Washington, the late James
Bryce, British Ambas ssador. said, in
remarkable address delivered in
1913:
Il know of no city in Europe ex-
cept Constantinopie which has quite
close-in its very environs-such
beautiful scenery as many Of the
woods which stretch along the Poto-
mac. No European city has as noble
a cataract in the vicinity as the
Great Falls of the Potomac. d mag
nificent piece of scenery which you
viii, of course, always preserve. =" .
Some day the people are going TO
set the true value upon all these
hings-these spots of beauty around
Washington. When that day comes
those who come after YOU will
either pay far more for these pieces
of ground, or else men will mourn in
vain over the opportunities lost for
ever. You have such a chance
offered to you here for building up
a superb Capital that it would be
almost an act of inEratitude TO Provi-
dence and 10 history and to the
men who planted the city here if you
did not use the adyantage ges you here
enjoy
The committee pointedly suggests
that this address deserves to be made
a text book in our schools.
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condition that the trustees make the
needed repairs by May. l, 1891. and
operate it as a public. waterway. II
was repaired and traffic resumed un-
til the Spring of 1924, when it was
badly damaged by the two foods
that swept down the Potomac.
x X y -
THE old canal, so closely connected
with Washington's early activi-
ties, it is declared, should be forever
preserved. in some form, as part of
the treasured record of the young
Republic, for it bears the actual i'm
print Of the thought of this great
American, expressed in concrete form.
The Washington Boulevard" run
ming through this historic country,
following the wooded shores of the
quiet river that he loved so dearly
mile after mihe of beautiful driveway
leading into the city that bears his
name-would eventually take its
place among the great structures of
the world.
Several proposals have been made
for the requirement by the Govern
ment of the forests on both sides of
the Potomac River above Key
Bridge. The acquiremept of this
particular stretch of land, lying at
the very portal of Washington, the
National Capital, cannot be too
strongly urged; for the banks of the
old Potomac. from its source, in two
tiny streams in the mountains of
West Virginia, to its mouth, with a
width of seven miles where it flows
into Chesapeake Bay. witnessed the
making of much of our earliest re-
corded history.
In 1908 John Smith explored the
river to the falls. At the foot of the
forest-covered cliffs on the Virginia
side of the Potomac John Randolph
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Miami Sporting Events

our party expressed a desire to see
the paddock and vile We was down
there looking them over Walter ST.
Denis come up and give me zip on
horse entitled Gray Cables On the
way back to the club house who
should We run into but Miss Gilda
Gray, and | says to myself here is
sure hunch, getting a tip on Gray
Gables and then running acrost Miss
Gray so l will just play Gray Gables
acrost the board. But just then one
of the newspaper boys come Up ana
wanted to take a picture of Miss Gray
and | together so | asked him where
would it be published and he says
probably all over the country so
says all right as l am always ready
and willing to give my friends a
thrill. Well the photogra phe' done
quite lot of fussing over the pose
and when he was through l rushed
up to the betting machines and found
the books closed. Needles il say
Gray Gables win the race At 10 to
fter which l set down and wrote the
following bit of tender verse:
lie who would make the races nay
Should keep away from Gilda Gray.
They was a horse in the next race
called Brice and this was the horse
j should of bet on on acct. of being
ioiiu VI Il anu l says TO
some of the folks in the party that
if Fannie had not of got her face
fixed over l would play Bricl to win
by nose, but what l did play was
Sarko, and Brice win the race at 6
to /. Superbum, which hal win the
last race the day before, was entered
in the last race again this day and
one of the boys whispered to me to
plunge on him so 1 played a 10 spot
each way and Superbum come in a
mile ahead of the others and 1 said
| to myself we'll that should ought to
make me even on the day but it seems
that pretty near everybody at the
| track had overheard the whisper and
| my total profits on my $4,000 invest
ment was $3.50.
In one of the races they was long
| shot named Brunnell and Brinck
| Thorne, the old Yale halfback was
amongst the spectators so 1 said to
him that that horse had a name
pretty near the same like last year S
Yale quarter back, so Brinck says you
are right and rushed down to the
mac chine and placed a bet. on Brun-
nell. Well when the other horses
| finished the race. Brunnell was 20 tar
| back that Brinck said he must - AI.
pecting q punt .:C'.
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Of Roanoke and Henry Clay fought
their celebrated duel, Randolph
threw away his fire and offered Clay
! his hand. On the other side of Key
Bridge is .Analostan Island, formerly
known as Mason's Island. the home
! of John Mason, son of George Mas
! who drew up the Virginia constitu-
tion and who was the author of the
! famous bill of rights.
BY far the most picturesque river
| legend of this section is the story OF
! the Three Sisters, the three small
rocky islands in the center of the
Potomac just above the Key Bridge
Before a drowning occurs they are
! believed. TO emit a sound like the
| slow Ginning of a cathedral bell.
The three maidens, daughters of an
! Analostan chief, met one dark night
and stole out in their. canoes to visit
the Powhatans. They We're caught
! in the whirlpool, and in fright they
| flung themselves into the water and
were drowned. In the morning three
rookS, gray and barren, had arisen
from the water. There is an old bal
lad (which gives their story. Part oil
it runs:
Swiftly they come and swifter.
With dark eyes cleaning round.
With soft words. glad and eager.
For the braves of the Fowhatan
When out of the darkness around them
out of the black of the trees,
The voice of the Great Spirit called them,
Like the cry of choking seas.
They leaped, with a moan of terror
Into the heart of the mere:
The waters hisSed around them.
The stars were white with fear.
Three rocks, spired and gloomy,
Gray stormy sky.
Sprang from the depth Of the whirlpool
Where the Indian sisters lie.
Ever at night they ring,
Like a sad cathedral bell.
EchoinC far the waters,
They sound the warning bell.
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Silent Airplanes.

DY means of an improved exhaust
~ and a propeller that operates on
special gears, eliminating the usual
whir. British engineers are said by
Popular Mechanics to have devised an
airplane that is practically noiseless
without sacrifice Of speed or lifting
power. At the same time, by increased
use of internal bracing, much of the
noise caused by the wind rushing
through the wires and spars has been
avoided.
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nobody think l am in the en-
ployee of the Florida boosters
L assn. if l say a few wds. in
regards to the Miami race
track outside of Miami, Fla, where
visited for vile this Winter and
which modestly refers to itself as the
wonder city of the world. Maybe they
call it Wonderfully because people
that drives into the town in motors
spends the rest of the week wonder
ing where to park.
But any way since the last time /
was there they had built horse race
track which | wanted to be on hand
for the opening of same, but the train
from Jacksonville down was over 3
hrs. late and it was pretty near dusk
when we limped into the station.
They tell me that only being hrs.
late on this line now days is con-
sidered a moral victory for the epgi-
neer and the wifes of several of the
last named has been declared eligible
to marry again under the Enoch Ar
den law which counts man official
ly dead if he don't show up at Tne
house for yrs.
Well | got, out to the track the 2d.
day in time to place the tidy little
sum of $1,000 on horse named Soc
ket In in the 1st. race. This horse
run so much like the train L had just
been riding on that 1 begun feeling
around in my pockets for dime to
tip the porter. In the I'd. race they
was tip out on a colt named Top
panite. This race was supposed to
be and II furlongs, but the horse
was some relation to Nurmi and
thought it would be just wasting his
afternoon to only go that distance SO
before the race started he run clear
around the track twice and the jockey
couldn't no more stop him than If he
had been Notre Dame. Some of my
friends who had told me to bet on
this nag and had bet on him them
selfs tried to laugh it off md said
that the little episode should ought
to give TopDanite big advantage as
having been around the course 80
often would know his dire ctions and
everything without stopping to ask
policeman, but when the race fine
ly did begin our entry acted as lost
as if it was his first visit to race
track.
I managed to pretty near break
even in the Sd. race by betting on
; or 4 different horses. Between that
and the next race one Of the gals in
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miles from Baltimore, was con-
structed.
The name Baltimore and Ohio was
chosen because the intention of its
founders was to push construction
from Baltimore to the Ohio River.
thus uniting Chesapeake Bay with
the great tributary of the Mississippi.
Wooden rails We're first adopted and
horses were first used for hauling the
coaches over the rails. At one time
the company experim mented with a
car which was carried before the
wind by means of mast and sail.
Peter Cooper of New York finally
solved the problem by his little en-
gine, Tom Thumb.
By the first of December. 1881.
steam drawn trains were in operation
to Frederick, Md. The idea of con-
Veying passengers was an after
thought: it was the freight traffic
which the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
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would draw from Baltimore that
caused the Baltimoreans to build the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and so
the history of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal and its great. rival for
Western trade, the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, is told at the same
time
The canal was wrecked by the
freshet of 1889. The company could
do nothing to put it in repair and
matters We're taken to court. The
court decided to issue a decree for
the sale of the canal. Politicians in
tereSted in the West Virginia Central
Railway made an effort, through an
act passed by the Maryland Legis-
lature, to sell this valuable property.
worth millions. to that company for
about 100000 The decree issued
by the court in 1890. providing for
the sale of the canal. provided also
that the sale should be estopped on
Evening star., 1925-03-15
Insect Civilization.

THAT insects do almost everything
known to mankind. whom they
excel in skill, is the belief of a we'll
known nature student, who spoke be
fore a meeting of the American In
stitute of Phrenology. While the
less developed species live under
rocks or in the earth, and exist by
hunting, trapping and fishing for
prey, others colonize in large COM
munities and keep herds. raise crops
and use leaves for clothing and shell
ter. Many insects even build tiny
streets and highways.
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N.Rays of Coal.

4 MOTHER practical use of the X
I \ ray has been introduced by an
English chemist. who is reported to
have devised a camera. which, with
the aid of the days, takes a stereo-
scopic photograph of the inside of
lump of coal. revealing the amount of
ash-forming material il contains. This
process, it is believed, will be Of value
in opening up new mines, as il will
also show how much weight a sam
pie will lose when the outer ash pres
ent is removed by washing.
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4 Vanishing Race

A COLONY of 125 near Jerusalem,
"a said to be descendants of the Sa-
maritans of Biblical days. must soon
become extinct unless they change
their customs. For 1000 years they
have forbidden marriages outside
their own people. Their numbers
gradually have diminished and too
close inbreeding is exterminating
them,
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but the spade struck A root. Mr..
Adams tried it again, with no better
success, SO he threw down the spade,
stripped off his coat and went seri-
ously to work. The multitude cheer
ed and gave loud and unanimous ap-
plause The canal was completed to
Cumberland. Md. - years afterward
in October. 1850.
RALTIMOREANs had no interest in
4 the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
They had expended large sums of
money on public roads to obtain the
trade which the canal would deprive
them of. The business men of Balti-
more gathered at the homes of George
Brown and Philip +. Thomas to dis
cuss transportation. They organized
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co.
Plans were made that when ground
should be broken for the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal near Washingto the
corner stone of Americas first rail-
road should be laid in Baltimore.
On the 4th of July, 1928, stimuli
taneously with President Adams
turning the first sDadeful of earth
for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal,
Charles Carroll of Carrollton the only
surviving signer of the Declaration
of Independence, lifted the first
Spadeful of earth for the laying of
the corner stone of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. When the venerable
patriot pushed the spade into the
ground, yhe remark ed: II consider this
among the most important acts of my
| life, second only to my signing the
Declaration of Independence, if even
it be second to that" A line to Eli
colt Mills, Md, now Ellicott City, Is
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Flowers Use Gas.

DUT piece of misnonette and a
rose together in vase. Within
half an hour each will make a per-
fume "gas attack" upon the other. In
the battle of odors both flowers will
lose their freshness and scent. Sepa-
rate them and each will revive at
once.
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T G PA Pp Cb Par AyiPr Meets
of fAqnT PcsN Pro
pl ld Canal One ~ Rep t t Df fGgW Wh
nt aTnnIrato Bet he E
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BY RING LARDNER.

.O the editor: l hope they won't
nobody think l am in the en-
ployee of the Florida boosters
1 assn, if l say a few wds. in
The northwestern bulletin-appeal., 1925-02-28
Local Artists
Display Talent
AtPopularClub

The Aleph Beth Club, an exclusive
Jewish organization, with club rooms
in the Garrick Building, reproduced
the Cabaret of the famous Club
Alabam, New York City, Sunday eve
ming, Feb. %, using number Of our
professional artists.
Mrs. Freda Jackson in a Spanish
dance and song, Mr.. Eugene Jackson
in lightning steps and song, Mrs.
Babe Harmon in sentimental ballads,
Mr.. Arthur Graham, saxaphone solo;
Miss Thelma Davis in songs and
dances, and Clarence Johnson, fea-
turing the Charleston, participated,
and were highly received by their
audience.
Music for the occasion was fur
nished by the Shortneck Orchestra.
This unique entertainment was un-
der the direct supervision of Harry
Bernstein, chairman of the entertain
ment committee, and Buster Lindsay,
assistant.
The northwestern bulletin-appeal., 1925-02-28
Acquit Woman
OfC0nspiracyin in
Kingston Death

The case of Mrs. Hortense Kings
ton, colored, indicted several weeks
ago for conspiracy in connection with
the murder of her husband, George
Kingston, by Elmer Douglas, on the
morning of December II, was dis
missed in district court Wednesday,
for lack of evidence.
Douglas, who was sentenced about
two weeks ago to from Z to 30 years
in the state penitentiary at Still
water, at the time of his arrest i'm
plicated Mrs. Kingston in a plot
whereby, he said, she and he were to
benefit by Kingston's death.
Later Douglas denied that Mrs.
Kingston had plotted with him.
Mrs. Kingston was represented by
Attorney ]. Louis Erwin.
The northwestern bulletin-appeal., 1925-02-28
GIRL WINS VERDICT IN
CASE AGAINST OFFICER

A verdict Of $500 was returned by
a jury against Mrs. Catherine Olin-
ger, 1886 Iglehart avenue late Fri
day, in favor of Mrs. Roberta Kirby
122 Fenton street, 16-year-old color
ed girl, growing out of an alleged as
sault on the girl by Mrs. Olinger Sep
tember 13 last. The jury returned
the verdict to District Judge Olin B.
Lewis after being out an hour. The
girl sued for $2,5O0.
The girl, married woman, was
sent by her mother, Mrs. Beulah
Davis to deliver the Olinger laundry
to the latter's home on the evening
of the alleged assault. A contro-
versy arose over the payment for the
work, and Mrs. Olinger, 1t was alleg-
ed, attacked the girl. Because of
her delicate condition at the time, the
girl declared that she suffered severe
pain and injury.
Mrs. Olinger denied the assault in
her defense.
The northwestern bulletin-appeal., 1925-02-28
FRANCIS WINS
PERSONAL INJURY CASE

The case of George Newsham
against l.. A. Shak, in which Mr..
Newsham sought to recover fifteen
thousand dollars for injuries to his
four year old son, resulting in the
boy becoming hunchback by reason
of falling into window pit at the
rear of an apartment building owned
by Mr.. Shak on Portland Avenue,
was bitterly contested before Judge
Dickinson and jury, on which there
were three women, in the District
Court at Minneapolis last Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday. The little
fellow was stripped before the jury
and his injuries described by three
medical and bone specialists. The
Arm of Bissell & Mckinley represent
ed the plaintiff and w. T. Francis
represented the defendant. The jury
returned verdict for the defendant
at 4:15 Friday afternoon.
The northwestern bulletin-appeal., 1925-02-28

The greatest sensation ever pre-
sented on any stage is appearing this
week at the Lafayette Theater, New
York City, and is known as the Har-
lem FOUNDERS.
Included in the cast are such stars
as j. Rosamond Johnson and his
band, Billy Higgins, Abbie Mitchell,
Florence McClain, Gulfport and
Brown and Dewey Wineglas, South
ern Four, Kitty Brown, Eloise Ben
nett and snappy chorus.
Appearing with the j. Rosamond
band is our own violinist, Mr.. Leon
Abbey, only son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Abbey of Minneapolis.
Mr.. Abbey is violinist OF rare
ability, having conducted his own Or
chestra in the Mill City prior to his
connection with the J. Rosamond
johnson Troupe, which was booked
over the orpheum time for several
years.
The northwestern bulletin-appeal., 1925-02-28
AMERICA DOING
GREAT SERVICE
FOR THE WORLD
British Visitor to United States
So Regards Efforts for
Racial Adjustment.

Atlanta, Ca, Feb.26.-tSpeciaD
In seeking an amicable solution of
their problems of race relations, the
American people are doing the world
service of greater Importance, ac-
cording to Secretary Kenneth Mac
lehman, of the Missionary Confer
ence of Great Britain and Ireland,
who is now in the United States
studying the interracial situation and
the status of Negro education in this
country. After inquiring carefully
into the Interracial Movement in the
South, at it's headquarters here, Mr..
Maclennan said:
You Americans are doing much
more important thing than you
realize, one which has significance
not for America alone but for the
whole world. The twelve million
Negroes in this country are but a
small part of the worlds colored
population and the relation of the
two races here is only a segment of
worldwide problem of racial at
titudes. Great Britain alone is deal
ing with a vastly larger native popu-
lation in Africa and with some three
hundred million Inhabitants of India.
Seek Right Solution
"The best minds among the British
people are earnestly seeking the
right solution of this tangled web Of
race relations" continued DR.. Mac
lennan. "They are looking hope
fully to America where the prob
lens seems to be clearing up through
mutual efforts to promote under
standing, sympathy and helpfulness
between the races. You may feel en-
couraged, therefore, to go forward
with your efforts" he concluded,
seeing that they mean so much to
millions of people in other lands"
While in the South, Mr.. Maclen-
nan visited Tuskegee Institute and
several of the Negro colleges in At
lanta and expressed himself greatly
pleased with the educational prog
ress the race is making in this coun-
try.
The northwestern bulletin-appeal., 1925-02-28
WELL KNOWN WOMAN
DEAD IN INDIANAPOLIS

st Paulites who had the pleasure
a few years ago to meet Mrs. Rhetta
Moss of Indianapolis, Ind, will re-
gret to learn of her death, which oc.
CURED in that city Sunday, Feb. Is,
after a brief illness.
Mrs. Jones had resided in Indian
apolis for many years. She was a
charter member and president of the
Old Settlers Club, member of the
Sisters of Charity No. /, and presi-
dent Of the Sunshine Neighborhood
Club.
She was quite prominent socially
and visited st. Paul as the guest OF
Mrs. Alice Franklin, 486 st. An
thony Ave-, who entertained at a
large reception in her honor.
OF striking appearance, though
diminutive in size, Mrs. Jones with
her pleasing personality acquired, a
large circle Of friends. She Is sur.
vived by her husband, Charles; q
sister. Mrs. Emma Rowlins; a broth
er, Stanford, and niece. Miss An
dred Rowlins of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The northwestern bulletin-appeal., 1925-02-28
Z" The Chocolate Dandies" with Sissle
And Blake Stars at the Metropolitan

the moment?" the interviewer ven-
tured to Eubie Blake, who was seat
ed at the piano nearby.
you bet there's permanent value
to it," replied Blake. i've got so
much proof that II would take too
much time to present all of II. One
night as l was seated at the piano
with my orchestra in New York, I
observed that Ossip Gabrilowitsch,
director of the Detroit Orchestra, and
very famous piano yirtuosso was
seated directly behind me, where he
could study the scores and observe
everything. He didn't know that /
recognized him but l could see that
he manifested the same deep interest
ever increasing in jazz music. call
ed my men together and told them
that We were being heard by a great
musician at the same time intimating
that we were not playing the kind of
music with which he was acquainted.
/ asked them to give their best en-
deavor to put forward our style OF
music in the best possible light
Well for three succeeding nights
Gabrilowitch was in the same seat
with a guest beside him, discussing
the music as the program progressed
Fritz Kreisler came and said that II
was tremendously interesting.