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The Washington times., 1925-12-23
SALE Of EBB|TT
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Sale of the largest single piece OF
improved property in downtown
washington was consummated to-
day when the Recorder Of Deeds
office received the paper recording
the sale of the Ebbitt Hotel and
the Hooe building to the National
Press Building Corporation by the
Stromfeldt L0velyo Corporation Of
Detroit. The sale involves a con-
sheraton of s2,S00.0O0.
The actual transfer Of the papers
In the case took place late yester-
day afternoon in the board room OF
the Riggs National Bank after long
distance conversations with officials
IN New York which were carried
on, Internationally, since 10 o'clock
yesterday morning.
Those at the bank were John
Hays Hammond, Johy Joy Edison
and Attorney Edmund Brady, rep
resenting the National Press Build
Ing Corporation; Col. Joseph Fair.
hanks and Ed Stafford, Stormfeldt-
Lovely Corporation; Glenn Snider,
counsel for Chapman and Company:
Felix A. Jenkins. counsel. and
Z. D. MacConnell, assistant secre-
tary OF the New York Trust Com.
pany, and James J. Becker, of the
Columbia Real Estate Title Insur-
ance Company.
In New York, Henry L. Swein-
hart and James William Bryan, of
the building corporation. with Har-
vey L. Jacobs, attorney, completed
the preliminary Of passing the
check for the sale, and notified the
Washington group by long distance
The necessary papers, which had
been held in escrow by the bank,
were turned over to Mr.. Hammond
and his associates.
The next step In 4he building
project will be taken on January 2.
when members Of the National
Press Club will gather at the site
Of their new home to see the first
bricks knocked out of the historic
hotel. prior to the wrecking work.
The Washington times., 1925-12-23
RIAL To To HAVE
40-EQ.QT Tree

Have you seen a Christmas tree
forty feet tall?
Well. whether you have or not.
therein be an opportunity for you
to see one tomorrow morning in
the lobby Of the Rialto Theater on
Ninth St., between @ and H-that
Is, il you are q poor little boy or
girl of washington or vicinity and
are not likely TO have any Yule tree
Of your own.
For at o'clock tomorrow morn
Ing there will be big Christmas
celebration and festityal at the pop
ular Ninth. street moving picture
house which IL going to hold open
house for the destitute children
of the National Capital.
morning that he will be greatly
disappointed II any child In Wash.
fngton or near Washington who Or
dinarily is unable to see moving
pictures. with Santa Claus and q
Christmas tree and candy and toys
thrown in, fails to appear at the
theater as his guest and the guest
OF the Universal Pictures Corpora
ton as well as The Washington
Times Good Fellow Department.
Besides Old Kris Kringle TO greet
the tots OF Washington and TO give
them gifts, there will be special
showing Of the Rialto feature this
week-"The Keeper Of the Bees"
by Gene Stratton-Porter a Buster
Brown and Mary Jane comedy, a
Krazy Kat reel, and special
Christmas film that has been sent
here especially for the children.
And, good readers, II you are not
a poor kid yourself, be sure to
collect a gang Of poor kids IN your
automobile and take them to the
RiaIto for this Christmas party and
then take them back home to their
mothers.
And il you can, get the mother to
go along. This will be an excellent
contribution on your part toa the
Good Fellow work, for 1t Ii urged
that every deserving boy or girl
in this city be present.
The Washington times., 1925-12-23
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NEWS NOTES

ARLINGTON COUNTY, Lee. 80,
Methods to reduce expenses OF
the county were discussed for more
than two hours behind closed doors
by the board of supervisors of Ar
lington county at q meeting last
night, attended by Sheriff Howard
B. Fields. Commonwealth Attor-
ney William G. Cloth, DR.. B. NJ.
Chichester, health officer; Capt.
John T. Talman, county superin-
tendent of roads. and Robert i.
Walker, Of the health department.
The board later In open meeting or
dered the salaries OF Clavin Mar.
cey, constable of Washington dis
trict; Richard Crane, constable Of
Jefferson district, and Frank Den.
mis-, sealer OF weights and meas
ures, be stopped, effective January
1. and that the salary Of Deputy
Sheriff Archie Richards, SIS .
month, be reduced to $50. also Of.
fective January 1.
The board directed Captain Tai
man to reduce the expense Of his
office wherever possible.
49, -
Contract for the construction Of
Frazier Ave. from the Alexandria
and Washington road to Mount
Vernon boulevard was last night
, awarded to Loomis-We Con-
struction Company. of Washington,
their bid being $26,7e7.76.
Aroused over the proposed build.
J. fNSEr - go HluAlaew enNY
nue., near Hume avenue, Capt. Q.
w. Reynolds, OF Virginia Highlands,
said today that a. petition Is being
circulated protesting against the
erection OF the building, which he
contends win effect the subdivision
In that the building Is to be put
out on the building line, and will
ruin the appearance Of the avenue.
The petition, he said, viii be laid
before the citizens association at
its next meeting"
The Ashton Heights Citizens AS
ISOLATION last night went on rec
ord as being opposed to any private
" owned company furnishing Ar.
lington county with water.
The special COMMITTEES having
charge OF arrangements for con-
BlfuCIlO0@ Ok = oUsUVo SNdAU4A CAk-s
tern for fire purposes reported that.
bids win be called within q few
days.
The town council Of Potomac last
night authorized Town Clerk John
r. Harding to notify the board OF
supervisors Of Arlington county
that Turner Ave-, which is a county
road, is In such bad condition
that it ID impossible to drive over
It, and that the council requests
that something be done TO Inn
prove it.
The sanitation committee was
instructed to make a survey OF the
condition of all vacant lots along
Mount Vernon Ave.
The council on December rs will
receive and open bids for the erec-
ton Of the new town hall and fire
house.
Despite the inclement weather the
Bancroft Community House was
packed to capacity last night by
the citizens attending the Christmas
entertainment by the pupils Of the
Bancroft School.
The Washington times., 1925-12-23

This foryfoot Chrstmas has been erected the lobby q
Christmas
Washington Promptly a o'clock
moving picture show will but before that
children the lobby and give them
and candy II know Of kids in neghOr
that they this monster festival for the
deserving tots Of Washington Manager Fred Sarr shown at
with Shields RaItO ues and of
the ids whO will he - ouesf
New Britain herald., 1925-09-12
THE STORY SO EAR.

May Seymour. whose husband killed himself because of her love affair with another man. returns to her home town after years ab- sense She sells her property. and with her whole tiny fortune in cash sets out to find and marry a man with money.
 At Atlantic City she meets Her bert Waterbury through dvorcee. Mrs, Carlotta Frolking. When he proposes, May accepts him. believ- ing him millionaire. She turns over to him all her money for in vestment, and he disappears with it.
 Penniless, May sells her iewelry 10 pay her fare to California where Carlotta has a bungalow. On her way west, she stops off in her home town 10 visit her old friends, Dick and Gloria Gregory, There she meets a widower. Ulysses Forgan who falls sincerely in love with her and asks her 10 marry him. But May refuses, explaining that she likes him to well to marry him without love, and goes oil to Cali fcrna.
 Carlotta doesn't welcome May warmly when she finds that she cant pay her board, and May leaves. She finds a position selling real estate, but gives 1t up when her employer makes love to her. Finding herself again without funds, May wires to Ulysses for fare home. She returns to the Gregorys, and there Ulysses comes 10 see her. He tells her she ought not to live with the e-too-rich Gregorys, but ought 10 20 out into the world 10 make her own living. May takes his advice, gets job, and sets her self in housekeeping rooms. Then she loses her job, and Ulysses offers her one in his own office. But May refuses 1t, op the grounds that her stenography is so poor that she wouldn't earn her salary,
 (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY)
 Nays next position was in the ad- vertising department of large store
New Britain herald., 1925-09-12
MAY SEYMOUR |F00TIO0SE OY QENIDlCE pllDIOM Q

made dresses and custom mad shoes should be working for $1t 8 week.
 Any pair of shoes she had cost more than s14 . .. that was plain to be seen! And the other girls told each other so in the washroom where they gathered 10 gossip.
 May knew that they gossiped about her; and so she made no ef- fort 10 be friendly with them, al- though she needed friends,
 She sat alone in the darkest cor ner Of the room, walled of from the others by the filing cases, and worked like, machine day in and day out. for two months,
 Three or four times Gloria Greg ory telephoned to ask May out for Sunday night supper, But May re- fused.
 She knew that she couldn't afford 10 return their hospitality, for one thing. But there was another req son for her repeated refusals. |. The very sight of Gloria's happiness in her home had suddenly become unbearable to May. She didn't know why, either ..
 The men In the office began to pay attention to her. Two or three of them asked her to have lunch with them, at intervals. In the slang phrase of the office, she turned them down cold"
 Attractive young chaps they were, too, but not to May. She had fallen into the fatal habit of contrasting all men with Ulysses Forgan.
 This one was not so tall as he, or so good looking.
 That one walked with a slouch, while Ulysses was as straight as an arrow, and walked with the grace of q trained soldier.
 One afternoon a group of four men walked into the office to confer [ with Mir. .Boulanger, the office man. ager All four of them were the sleek. well-fed, well-dressed type of successful business men.
 May found herself comparing them with Ulysses .,. greatly to
New Britain herald., 1925-09-12

on Main street. Her work there consisted mainly of addressing en- velopes.
 Sometimes she addressed as many as five hundred a day. But this was not enough. A thousand a day was the number required, and at the end of the second week May gave up her job.
 Sh rented a typewriter, took it home, and for three days practiced on it. But neither her speed DOT her accuracy increased. It was hard to believe that only ten years ago she had been frst-rate typist who could turn out a hundred letters a day!
 Every night she read the Herald Help Wanted" ads carefully, but failed to see anything promising. She had very little money and she lived on soda crackers and coffee for several days
 Finally she made up her mind to take anything in the way of a job. Anything" proved to be filing and errand running in the New Britain office of the railroad.
 She worked nine hours a day, and earned s14 a week. On the first Sat urday, May tore open her envelope and looked at the money she had slaved for all week long.
 |. There had been time when she had spent that much and more, every week on lunches downtown and for gasoline for her car.
 Now it must buy her food, pay her rent, and supply her with what clothes she needed.
 So far, she had had 10 buy very few clothes. The dresses and shoes she had bought in Atlantic City, months ago, were still smart and fresh looking.
 As a matter of fact, they were much too smart 10 he worn by an office girl in railroad office.
 May caught the other girls in the place looking askance at her once or twice. They seemed 10 be won- dering Shy 8 girl who wore hand
New Britain herald., 1925-09-12

At that instant the door opened and the woman, herself. walked into \ his office. ...
 "A package for you from Mir Boulanger," she said, demurely, and laid a large, rubber-strapped bundle on his desk.
 Ulysses stared and stuttered. "Y-you working for him?" he asked,
 Yes" May answered.. She threw back her head with a defiant move- ment.
 "Tm his office girl" she said
 Then she turned 10 go
 She had reached the door. and her hand was on the knob when he stopped her.
 Wait" he said, and she turned and faced him quietly,
 The length Of the office was be- tween them.
 May measured 1t with her eye. She had once thought she would like to be footloose 10 travel all the hlSh-roads or the world ... but now she knew that the only road for her was the few feet Of space betwen her and Ulysses For gan.
 She never knew whether or not he called her 10 come to him.
 She never knew how she crossed the floor of that office of his All she knew ., all she wanted 10 know . was that she was in his arms close held against his breast.
 "All my life . it seems to me !. . I've been trying to find my way here .. to you" she said in whisper so low that Ulysses could hardly hear what she said. But he did hear, and he held her even more closely held her as If he would never let her go. And as May looked up at him, she knew beyond all doubt that life held no better thing for her or for any other woman -. than this: 10 be in the arms of the man she loved.
 THE END
New Britain herald., 1925-09-12
Night Letter from Leslie Prescott to Melville SartoriS, care SS At lantis, Los Angeles Harbor,
 Enl

Los Angeles, Gal
 Dear Mir. Sartoris: You got away too soon for me 10 thank you ade- quately for the beautiful party you gave me on board your yacht, and also for saving my life. You see l put the party before my life be- cause the party was ons of the great events of my life - one ] shall remember as long as l live. I saw in the paper this morning notice of your arrival in Los An geles, and am sending you this night letter to tell you I am sure you will have a most delightful time with Miss Perrier, who, al- though I have not seen her often, I consider one of my best friends. I know you are going 10 be very nice 10 her. Perhaps you will du- plicate that party which you gave for me. If you do, l am sure 1t would make even Hollywood sit up and take notice.
 I had rather been expecting a note from you. You will write me one won't you, and tell me how | you like Miss Perrier? But whether you write me or not, please always remember, that l am
 Your sincerest and most grate-
 full friend,
 Leslie Hamilton Prescott. Copyright, 1925, NEA Service,
 Incl
 TOMORROW - Clipping from the Hollywood Express.
New Britain herald., 1925-09-12


 story of Little Miss Muffett." A new story will start next week. Watch the Color Cut-Outs for it. Little Miss Muffet thanked her mother and took her bowl of eurds and whey. She ran out into the gar den with it and looked around for nice shady place to sit and eat 1t, She had no sooner sat down and taken a big bite of the delicious curds and whey than along came tho largest spider Miss Muffet had ever seen in her whole life. Now Miss Muffet was afraid of even little tiny spiders so with a scream she jumped up and ran away just as fast as ever she could, The poor spider wondered what he had ever done to have such a cold recep- tion.
 But even in her fright Miss Muf- fet held on tightly to her bowl of curds and whey, and you will be glad to know that she never spilled a single drop.
 (Use your own choice of colors and make this picture just as at tractive as you possibly can) Copyright, 1925, Associated Editors,
 Incl
New Britain herald., 1925-09-12
Letter from Leslie Prescott to the Little Marquise, GO the Secret
 DraWer-C


 expect, Little Marquise that I really have not given you very much of an idea of what kind of man Melville Sartoris is. In fact. do not know very much about him. only know that just at present, although he is thousands of miles away from me, he is cer- tainly taking up too much of my time. do not think there Is an hour of the day I do not think about him. wonder where he is and what he Is doing and if he is thinking of me.
 He told me in this letter that eyd was alsos in love with me, which you can see was the most subtle kind of a compliment. as Sydney Carlton has never said anything or looked anything that could In any way be construed as lovemaking. It was he who rescued Jack, leaving Melville Sartoris to bring me to the top of the water
 Poor old Syd! IL seems too bad that after all he has done for us, he should be accused Of falling in love with his best friends wife. wouldn't tell it to any one else in the world but you, Little Marquise - it would make me seem so con ceited-but sometimes I have felt that if Syd had not cared so much for Jack, he might have cared good deal for me. He is a true, good friend. I wish Melville Sar- toris had not told me any of his suspicious.
 I'm very much upset over il all, and If can get up courage enough, I'm going to tell the whole thing to Jack.
 I haven't the courage to even write you any more. You seem so far away from me today, Little Marquise. l wish my mother were
New Britain herald., 1925-09-12

Ulysses advantage, as usual.
 The truth suddenly flashed upon her she was in love with Ulysses!
 She was in love with him! |. That was why all other men look ed gray and uninteresting to her!
 The friendly feeling she had all ways had for him .. , the, feeling of loneliness that lay like lead at the bottom of her heart, that was love and . she had never guessed 1t /.
 She sat there staring at the blank wall in front of her, so wrap ped in her own thoughts that she was unaware that someone was standing beside her desk, until a large roll of paper was laid before her.
 Day dreaming, Mrs. Seymour ?" asked the booming bass voice of Mir. BoulaHger, the office manager.
 TT think I was" May faltered. Cu6 luOhtu up anu sIllltu dL NIT. Boulanger. longing to slap his fat face.
 He had a way of looking at May, of standing too close to her when he talked to her. that was insulting. May felt very sorry for Mrs. Boul- anger. a white-faced little. woman who brought her husband to the office every morning and called for him every night-as If she didn't dareto trust him out of her sight
 "Wel, if you're day-dreaming about me. I don't mind your doing it." burbled Mir. Boulanger. About these papers" He pointed to the roll on Mays desk with fat fore finger.
 About these papers-you're toe take them to Mir. Forgan in the Mutual building. Ulysses x For. gan"
 e. Ulysses x. Forgan!
 When Mir. Boulanger had gone May sat perfectly still looking down at the roll. of papers. bound togeth- CT by thick elastic band, It wal the most ordinary roll of papel
New Britain herald., 1925-09-12

imaginable, and yet 10 May that April afternoon it' looked like the Magic Carpet of Bagdad,
 For It was the means of taking her 10 the man she loved!
 Outside there was sunshine and a high wind that tossed soaps of paper over the city streets like white butterflies over a meadow.
 The very smell of springtme was in the air as if the fragrance Of all the daffodils and burgeoning buds out in the country lanes had found its way into the gray town.
 And without warning something very like springtime blossomed in Mays breast, It was as if all the coldness and the loneliness went out Of 1t, as miraculously as winter leaves the earth. t.
 For the first time in months and months she was happy won derfully happy. In all her life, she could not remember such happiness as this. {. She was going to the man she loved the one man in all the world she would ever love.
 The one man In all the world sat at his desk, frowning
 He was trying to decide which would bore him least 10 go out and play golf or to so home and butter in the garden.
 Neither prospect lured him much. When he went out to play golf, he spent most of the time comparing the women on the links with May Seymour . wondering how she would look in scarlet golf sweater and leather skirt.
 And if he went home to dig in the garden, he would picture her there standing on the graveled path between the rows of budding plants, with the sun in her eyes ..
 He got up suddenly and put on his hat. |. He'd get out and walk i off his mood! No use to stay here and brood about woman who didn't care snap of her white finger about him.
New Britain herald., 1925-09-12
A Wife's Confessional
 Adele Garrison's New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE

Mrs, Underwood must speak very slowly" she said, "and only few words at time, or l will not answer for he consequences, ! Drink this, dear" she turned back to Lillian with a tiny glass filled with an aromatic potion. Her pa tient opened her eyes and obeyed the command, Then she kept them open and addressed Mir Ed ridge in slow. measured speech and feeble tones which l knew were accentuated for his benefit, although there was warrant | enough for them In her condition.
 w Will Vouch for His Honesty"
 Mrs. Graham tells me that our man has gone, you think for good"
 Tt certainly looks that way" MT. Eldridge replied, What do you want me to do. stick around until we see whether or not the Chinese comes back?"
 Hell come back unless the other man has killed him for his car" Lillian returned.
 Why that's the theory Bill has!" Mir. Eldridge exclaimed with quick glance at me.
 "Yes, so Mrs. Graham said" Lillian replied coolly, and l think 1t d very plausible one. Yet, some way, l have a great deal of confl- dence in Lee Chow's shrewdness. l believe he would be able to take care of himself even against a criminal like this man. Dackett."
 You know the Chink, then?" Mir. Eldridge asked, excitement tingling his speech,
 Lillian closed her eyes.
 Excuse me for minute, please" she said faintly and we waited solemnly until she opened them again.
 What did you ask me-" she faltered. "Oh! yes, about knowing Lee Chow. Indeed I do know him. He used to be the servant of an old friend of mine" she nodded toward Eldridge significantly. He is now ill - in a sanitarium, I be- lieye, and his servant came down here to stay with relative, the .lo- cal laundryman. I was surprised to see him one day upon the street, and ever since he has done odd CT. rands for us. But I will vouch for his honesty absolutely" ..
 You're sure he might not have been double-crossing your friend while he was working for him?" MT. Eldridge asked.
 My friend" Lilian's voice was icy. was one of the shrewdest and most prominent men in the serv- ice. If he gave his confidence to this Chinese, - and l personally know he did 1t is not for any, one else to doubt him"
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