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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-29
DISCOVERED
IN old
HOME
By CHARLES A. SMITH

By CHARLES A. SMITH
LONDON, Dec. 29.-0ne of the
richest art discoveries made in
England in recent years is re-
ported from Cole orion Hall, Sir
George Beaumont's home near
Ashby-de-la- Zouche.
In an unfrequented landing of
this old seat of the Beaumonts,
which had been rented for the
past forty years, and to which
the present head of the family
has just returned, was found .
painting asserted Internationally
- be by Rubens.
Insured for $3.50
Art critics, who have examined
the picture. which is the head OF
q man, declare 1t is a better specf-
men OF sRubens' work than is pos
sessed by the famous National Gal
lery in Trafalgar square.
The painting already has been in
sured for $685. 900, and Sir George
Beaumont announces that It will
not be offered for sale.
This important discovery was
made by an expert, who has cleaned
many OF King Georges pictures and
who has been restoring canvasses
Ia Cole Orion Hall.
had no inkling," said Sir
George Beaumont, that had such
q treasure, although the picture
was almost certainly known to my
ancestors. do not mean to
sell it,
Other Treasures Found
Probably the painting is one OF
the last Earl Of ArundeIs or first
Duke OF Norfolk's, for 1t strongly
resembles the Rubens portrait in
the National Gallery.
The expert who unearthed 1t
&rOm obscurity has also brought TO
light again some Gainsboroughsa and
Lawrences that knew were in my
1amily's possession.
Cole Orion Hall has been let
for the past forty years, and. as ]
have only just returned, I am a
little out Of touch with the pictures
it contains
The Sir George Beaumont, one
time owner OF Cole Orion Hall and
its pictures, and the ancestor of
the namesalxe, who Is the present
head OF the FAMILY, was himSel1 q
painter Of some distinction, great
conn oisBeur OF art. and the founder
o. the National Gallery, q hundred
years Old
The earlier sir George Beaumont
VAS the friend and patron Of the
artists and literary men Of his day.
While his guest, Wordsworth
wrote some of his finest poems, and
1t his table. harrington, the diarist,
met Lawrence, Coleridge, AByrno,
Sir Walter Scott and George Dance,
the architect, who assisted in the
rebuilding OF Cole orion.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-29
'36 FIRES IN Dc,
Ne " RECORD

Responding to- tl1irty-six alarms
In the past tWenty-four hours IL
new record for activity established
by the District Fire Department, Il
was stated at the District Building
today.
OF the entire number. however.
there was only ore dangerous fire.
d spectacular five-alarm blaze In
the wholesale candy plant 81
George u. Mueller, $50 Pa. Ave.
N. W., late yesterday afternoon
which caused q $4,000 damage, Inn
periled other buildings and brought
injury to one fireman.
The entire top floor Of the build
Ing wac In flames when firenen
arrived on the first alarm at 4:50
o'clock. "A second. alarm was inn
mediately turned In and brought
Fire Chief Watson to the scene
who Immediately turned IN three
more alarms, bringing every avail
able piece Of fire fighting appar-
atus in the city into play.
Traffic Tied Up.
After more than an hours heroic
efforts by the. firefighters. the blaze
was under control. Street car traf-
tic on Pennsylvania Avenue was
delayed until after s o'clock, forcing
thousands of Government employees
who were in q hurry to get home
20 walk.
Sergeant j. A. Mayhem, Of No.
truck, was severely injured when
he received a gIancing blow on the
head from n broken hose connec-
ton. He was treated at Emergency
Hospital and later went home
10 4. 4
as yet been determined. The loss
Is entirely covered by Insurance.,
It was stated by officials Of the
firm.
Fire in Chevy Chase
Among. the other fires responded
to yesterday was one at the home
OF Mrs. James l.. Parsons, Chevy
Chase. which caused q damage Of
$1,000. Mrs. Parsons was away
from home at the time.
Approximately $500 damage was
caused by a fire by an electrical
short circuit in the apartment oc-
cupied by John NJ Cornwell, 144O
w st, N w. The other apart.
ments In the building were not
harmed.
Fire caused by combustion broke
out last night in the home OF
Col. Charles II. Heyl, u s.. A.
2009 Wyoming Ave. N. w. The
damage was slight.
An effort to thaw out frozen
water pipes started q fire in the
home Of George w. Garner, 334
st. s. f., yesterday. Damage was
estimated at 500.
Other fires causing minor losses
occurred at the home Of F. E. Jack
son, 2644 Davenport st. N. w. NJ.
Thompson, 1886 Bladensburg Road,
and in the basement of one of. the
buildings at American University.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-29
BRITISH TO BROADCAST
NEWS DAILY TO U. s.

LONDON. Dec. 29.-On New
Year Day the. foreign. office will
begin the transmission daily OF
broadcasted Morse code news, bull
letins concerning British affairs.
The bulletins will be transmitted
from the powerful new station at
Hilmorton, which Is said to be
capable of communicating with all
parts Of the world.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-29
CARDINAL MERCER HAS
SUCCESSFUL OPERATION

BRUSSELS, Dec. 29.-Cardinal
Mercier was successfully operated
upon for stomach trouble today.
Prof. Pepaisifix performed the
operation.
A bulletin states that the car
dinal's condition Is favorable.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-29
SINGER IS SLAIN
BY BROKER
BY international News service

A-1~N-ASA-~NA I'll
NEW YORK, Dec. 90. - Miss
Edith NJ. Burton, . stenographer
and a talented choir singer, was
shot and killed by Harry w.
Cowan, a broker whom she had
repeatedly refused to marry. The
broker, after shooting the young
woman twice in the chest, fired q
bullet into his right temple and
today was dying in hospital.
May Be Suicide Pact
The tragedy took place late last
night in the extensively furnished
five-room studio apartment occupied
by Miss Burton and her mother In
Brooklyn Heights.
Miss Burton was 81 year old;
Cowan, 81.
Police. after an investigation, ex-
pressed the belief that the pair
entered a suicide pact and that
cowan murdered the girl and tried
to end shis, own life when she
changed her mind.
Found By Mother
The bodies were found BIZ Mrs.
Ada Burton, mother Of the slain
girl, when she returned from q
shopping trip in the neighborhood.
Miss Burton was crumpled at the
foot Of a christmas tree with it's
gaily colored decorations and tinsel.
Her hands were cIutched at her
throat.
Not far away lay Cowan. bleed
ing profusely and moaning In.
coherently.
Cowan was something of a man
Of mystery. The dead girls mother
told police she understood Cowan
was a wealthy stock broker and
that he met her laughter while she
was working as a public stenog-
rapher. The police, however,
learned that while Cowan gave one
address he lived at another, under
the name of Arthur Rogers.
Had Wife Living
Police said Cowan has wife liv.
ing in the Greenwich village Sec
ton. A letter found in his room
was addressed to Mrs. L. v. Cowan,
who was believed to be his mother,
but whom detectives, after an in
vestigation, said was his wife.
Other letters were found. One OF
them, written on pad with a blue
pencil, read:
My dear family:
Please forgive me for what we
have done and may God bless you
all. Please have Edith and myself
buried in the same grave in our
family plot at Kensico> Good-by ALL
Lovingly,
edith AND HARRY"
This letter, police believe, indi-
Gated that Cowan had long planned
the double Staying and hoped to in.
duce Miss Burton to die with him.
There were two letters addressed
to Mrs. L. v. Cowan, another to
Mrs. Ada Burton, the dead girls
mother, one addressed to Senator
A. B. Lewis" not otherwise identi-
fled and two other notes the police
would not make public.
COwan a Fugitive
Police said Cowan disappeared in
February, 1928, with $4,000 belong.
ing to the Hotel Latham. Miss Bur
ton was secretary to the manager
Of the Latham. She resigned two
months later.
Mrs. Burton said her daughter
used to take dictation from COwan.
She said her daughter told her
Cowan was infatuated with her. The
mother said she had advised her
daughter not to marry Cowan as
she found him to be a heavy
drinker.
She said her daughter had been
highly educated, and was a splendid
musician as well as a singer in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-29
Heart Fails in Duel

: LISBON, Dec. 29.-Beja Da silva,
vice, president of the Lisbon City
Council, died yesterday from heart
failure, while engaged in a duel with
a prominent Lisbon financier.
Evening star., 1925-08-10
VETERANS BUREAU
ABS0RPT|0 IS HIT
Disabled Men to Fight Plan
in Legislative Program
Issued by Head.

Flat opposition to the absorption of
the Veterans Bureau in the proposed
Federal Department of Education and
Relief is one of the leading items in
the legislative program of the Dis
abled American Veterans. announced
today by National Corldr John w.
Mahan of Helena. Mont, at the
Washington office. The program is
based upon the resolutions adopted at
the recent fifth national convention
al Omaha.
The general program includes man
dates to uphold the War and Navy
Departments on matters of strength
ening the national defense, bitterly
f1ayS ultra -pacifists who would inter
fere with preparedness plans and
urges strengthening of the aviation
service and the fortihcations OF
Hawaii
The u. A. V. goes on record in
favor of the establishment OF a per
manent medical corps in the Neter-
ans Bureau. it being pointed out that
last year the bureau lost an average
of more than doctor a day, due
largely to uncertainty of employment.
Another item would prohibit the
Veterans Bureau turning over any
funds to other Government depart
ments for permanent hospital con
struCtion.
TubercuIar Compensation Urged.
Among the proposed amendments to
the Reed johnson act, which governs
the Veterans Bureau, are the follow
ing:
That permanent compensation OF 90
per cent he provided for tubercular
veterans who have reached a state OF
arrest.
That the dependency allowance in
cases of deceased beneficiaries be ex-
tended to permanent and total cases
and to the parents of vocational
trainees.
That out-patient and advisory treat
ment be provided for veterans re-
gardless of service connection.
That the time limit for the begin
ming and ending of vocational train
ing be extended and the arbitrary two
months limit for responsibility IN
cases of rehabilitated veterans be re-
moved.
That the Veterans Bureau reim-
burse patients for loss sustained from
fire in hospitals or theft or personal
property stored in designated rooms
for them in the Veterans hospitals.
That widows be allowed dependency
compensation in cases OF veterans
rated compensate regardless or mn
mediate cause of the veterans death.
a school for the blind be transferred
to the general disqualification fund OF
the Veterans Bureau. Furthermore,
that the permanent hospital building
program be completed at emergency
speed.
That disabled veterans be allowed
TO reinstate insurance upon payment
of two months premiums, the re-
mainder due TO be held as lien by
the Government to be deducted
against the face value of the policy.
That the veterans of the Indian
wars be included in general hospi-
talization.
That the Veterans Bureau provide
funds for clothing for any non-com-
pensable indigent veterans who are
hospitalized.
That the period OF observation for
diagnosis be limited to 80 days, except
where the veteran asks for go days
additional
Evening star., 1925-08-10
BAND CONCERTS.

At Franklin Park. Fourteenth
and h streets. tonight at 1870
o'clock, by section of the United
States Marine Band. Taylor Bran
son. second leader. conducting.
March, THE Evening Star"
Stannard
Overture, "Rosamunde" Schubert
Serenade' Drdla
Excerpts from The Chocolate
Soldler ................S strauss
ldyl. Canoeing" ..........P Pryor
Nalse intermezzo. La Lettre de
Manon .......... .Glllet
Grand scenes from "Rigoletto.
Verdi
The Star spangled Banner
At Dupont Circle by the United
States Army Band. Capt. r. G.
Sherman commanding, Capt. w.
j. Stannard band leader, tonight
at 1880 o'clock.
March. Wa ashington Post. Sousa
Overture, Hungarian Comedy"
Keler-Bela :
Excerpts from Take 1t From
Me- ................ Anderson
Piccolo solo, Polacca de Concert,
Birds in the Forest. There
Technical Sergt. Harry Kravetz)
Nalse, "Septembre" ....... .Godin
Alaskan Love Song, "Cocheco.
Reeves
Fox trots-
ta Collegiate" .......... .Jaffe
CbI~ ~"Ah-Ha" .......C Clark
Selection, ''Hitchy-koo" -. .Goetz
March, American Spirit,
Buglione
The Star Spangled Banner"
At Walter Reed General Hospi-
tai by the United States Army
Band, Capt. William J. Stannard
band leader, Warrant Officer Louis
S. Yassel assistant leader. tomor-
row at $50 pm.
March, Distant Greeting"
Doring
Overture. "Rakoczy". Keller Bella
Waltz. "Valse des F'leurs.
Tschaikowsky
Piccolo solo. Through the Air
Damn
Technical Sergt. Harry Kravetz)
Selection, Don Cesar de Bazan."
Massenet
Fox trots-
ta) "1earning ............ Davis
tb> Summer Nights. johnson
Serenade, Romance .Svendsen
Dance suite. -Four Cuban Dances"
Cerventes
ta) Moderate con espressione,
tb) No IIores mas Weep No
More), tc) Moderate melanconico,
Id Moderate ma con passione.
The Star Spangled Banner"
The annual printing bills for the
Evening star., 1925-08-10
John TEMPLE GRAVES
FUNERAL HELD TODAY
Body Arrives in Atlanta From
Capital-Many Floral
Tributes Sent.
BY the Associated Press.

ATLANTA. Ga, August 10.-The
body of John Temple Graves. noted
Southern orator and journalist, who
died at his residence in Washington.
arrived here yesterday. The body
was taken to a local undertaking
parlor. where it will remain until
funeral services today. Interment
will be in the Westview Cemetery.
Beautiful floral pieces. sent in token
of the high esteem in which the writer
was held by host of friends through
out the country, adorned the casket.
Mrs. Graves and John Temple Graves,
jr accompanied the body.
Rev. DR.. Dunbar ogden of Mobile
will officiate at the services.
Evening star., 1925-08-10
| KILLED, 3 WOUNDED
IN KENTUCKY GUN FIGHT
Alleged Stealing of Two Turkeys
and Hen Precipitates Battle
in Beattyville.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LEXINGTON, Ky, August 10
Jake Shoemaker, As; his son Porter
"a, and Elihu Baker, 3S, were brought
to a hospital here from Beattyville,
Ky. suffering from bullet wounds re-
ceived when they engaged in gun
fight. in which Frank Baker, 80, was
killed late Saturday night.
The fight is said to have started
over the stealing of two turkeys. The
Shoemakers were met by the Bakers
on their way to give Sheriff D. II.
Kincaid of Lee County a warrant for
the arrest of Frank Baker.
Evening star., 1925-08-10
ON THE THIRD FLOOR
Double Bed Sheets
Regular and Extra Long Sizes
$1.35 and$1. As

Soft finish sheets that free from dressng Well
known Wildwood brand. Regular size Sheets S1xoO in.
S1.35. Extra long Sheets 81xoo in, $145. A timely
offering the who reviews her linen closet and
takes of the Autumn needs
Shop Tuesday-and SAGE!
Evening star., 1925-08-10

The annual printing bills for the
Cardiff consular district of Wales
total $1,000 900
Evening star., 1925-08-10
ON THE FOURTH FLOOR
Girls Muslin Underwear
Combinations, Princess Slips, Nighfgowns T
48C

Lace and embroidery trimmed combinations. Elastic
knee. Sizes to - Combinations of bar muslin
lace trimmed, sizes to p Muslin gowns Pink white.
Embroidery trimmed. Jenny neck Sizes to II. Prin-
slips trimmed with lace embroidery Sizes to Il.
Shop Tuesdav-dud SAGE!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-05-07
Progress on Deep Creek Hydro
Electric Development
FROM PENN PUBLIC BULLETIN

projects, one on the Clarion River, in
Pennsylvania, and the other on the
Youghiogheny River, in Maryland:
The first unit of the Clarion River
poject was completed and put in oper-
alton in 1924, and the first unit of the
Youghiogheny project is nearing
completion and will be generating
energy some time during the present
summer. During the present year
these two developments will be send
ing out electric energy on over one
thousand miles of main transmission
lines, and this energy will be stepped
down to commercial voltage in some
two hundred commercial substations
and carried to over seventy-fve thous-
and customers in a territory covering
nearly eight thousand square miles,
extending from Lake Erie through
Pennsylvania into the State of Mary
land, over five thousand miles of
distributing lines. This electric en-
ergy from the hydro-electric develop
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-05-07

Of the drop to the turbine. But the
power developed by the water wheel,
by the turbine, and by steam engines
also, being direct power, was limited
in quantity, and must be used where
developed, it being impossible to
transmit it for any distance.
1t is in the generation of electricity
that the immense progress in power
supply has been made in the past few
years. 1t ispossible to generate many,
many times the volume of power in
electric energy which could be devel-
oped under the old time direct power
methods, and it is also possible to
carry that energy almost unlimied
distances quickly and economically,
and use it at any points desired re-
mote from the place of its source.
The Penn Public System, through
it's affiliated companies, the Clarion
River Power Company and the Yough-
iogheny Hydro-Electric Corporation,
is developing two large hydro-electric
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-05-07

1t is long distance in time and
knowledge and progress from the
primitive water wheels along the
streams of our country in its early
days, to the large hydro-electric
plants of the present. These old pow
er plants generally operated the
grinding stones of mills where farm
ers took their grain to be transform
ed into meal, leaving a certain per-
centage for toll, which the miller was
privileged to dispose of in order to
get his profit out of the transaction.
Yet these old water wheels, primitive
and crude in principle as they were,
and lacking in the economical conser-
walton of the water resources, carried
with them the dimly grasped idea of
the immense hydro-electric develop
ments of the present.
Few of US have perhaps seen one of
these old water wheels actually in OPP
Grafton, but most of US have at least
a recollection of an cold mill race"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-05-07

which carried water to the wheel, and
of the "old dam" across the strem,
simple affair of logs and planks which
raised the water to provide flow in
to the race. In the majority of cases
it was neither necessary nor desirable
that these old mills should operate or
grind all the time, but the principle
of the reservoir to provide sufficient
water for more continuous operation
was carried out in the comparatively
small pond formed by the dam. The
power was derived from the water
falling on the broad paddles of the
wheel, ard the machinery was operat-
ed by direct drive.
At a later date the water turbine
was developed. This was an enclosed
wheel, with blades, smaller stream
Of water being thrown against these
blades, the amount of power develop
ed being regulated by the velocity of
the water instead Of by its weight,
as in the old time wheel. This veloci-
ty was attained by continuing the
stream to the turbine within a small
Ter limit, and by the pressure behind
it as a result Of a large volume of
water in a reservoir, and the distance
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-05-07

At the outlet the water is discharged
into two penstocks, each six feet in
diameter, feeding two turbines, which
are 437 feet below the crest of the
water in the reservoir, giving a head
which is equalled in few developments
Of this kind in the East. The eleva-
ton above sea level at the dam is ap-
proximately 2,47O feet.
The lake formed by the Deep Creek
dam will be about a dozen miles in
length, and will vary in width, with
about a mile and half as a maxi
mum. About $500 acres of land will
be inundated, but in acquiring the
property some 1000 acres were pur-
chased. Considerable roadway was
abandoned, and about fifteen miles of
new road built, about four miles of
this being improved road. 1t also was
necessary to replace two small bridges
with new structures, and a number of
residences and other buildings were
AAAN'N ~ w AAlS llCL SIOuuU.
The power house of the Deep Creek
development is of brick, concrete and
steel construction, and is los feet. 6
inches by 43 feet, six inches, and four
stories in heighth. The structural
work is all done, and the turbines and
two $4,000 horse power generators
have been assembled ready to be oiled
and tested. The switch boards are
set up and have been partly tested.
The outdoor switching structures
have been erected, and the oil is be-
ling filtered for the transformers. The
storage batteries will be completed.
and the Johnson valves which will con-
troll the supply of water to the tur-
bines are ready for operation. Only
some of the inside painting and the
laying of the last Of the concrete
floors remains to be done before the
power house will be ready for trial
operations and testing.
The penstockss have been completed
and the concrete lining of the tunnel
is nearing the finish, so that it will
be possible to turn in the water in a
few days.
A number of comfortable bungalows
for the use of the permanent operat-
ing force have been built, and only a
little inside finishing and painting re-
mains to be done on these. These
have all modern conveniences, includ-
ing sewage system, and septic tank.
The lawns are being graded and put
in shape, and those who are to occupy
them will be satisfied with their homes
both from the standpoint of comfort
and of beauty,
A number of pictures shown in con-
nection with this article will give
some idea of the magnitude and COM
pleteness Of this newest addition to
the generation sources of the Penn
Public System.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-05-07
CASSELMAN
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Mr.. Christian Bethel and family,
of Champion, Pa, were guests at the
D. L. Bethel home here on Sunday
night.
Mr.. Asa Schrock entertained sever
al of his friends at his home Sunday.
Mr.. j. NJ. Schrock was a business
caller at Grantsville on Monday.
Mr.. Leonard Orendorf, of Sails
bury, Pa, is visiting at Nelson Oren-
DORIS at present.
A large number of our residents at
tended the singing at Glade church,
which was conducted by Newton Bit
finger Sunday evening.
Messrs. D. L. and j. c. Bethel and
Peter and Simon Opel and Harvey
Knox made a business trip to Oak
land Monday.
Mr.. John Klotz and family were
Sunday visitors at the B. M. Schrock