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John Hays Hammond, Jr., Produces
Revolution in PianO-FOrte World

IOHN HAYS HAMMOND, Jr., has
greatly interested the musical
world recently with a reyolu-
~ tionary invention for the piano
Mr. Hammond has become es-
pecially distinguished as a radio ex-
pert, with a record of applications for
some $50 patents both in this country
and abroad. and during the war he
invented a type of alumiothermic in
cendiary projectiles used by the allies.
His interest in music, however. was
not generally known. He seems to
have made this, musical discovery
more in the guise of an adventuring
scientist than as a musician.
To quote the Boston Herald, which
carried a lengthy article that Mr..
Hammond has acknowledged to be
authentic In its details, the exact
nature of his invention is as follows:
Mr.. Hammond's purpose has been
to give the player control over the
notes after the keys have been struck.
BY the use of refiectors set inside
the instrument and controlled by d
fourth pedal it has been possible to
build up tremendous sorority and
tones may be allowed to escape with
any degree Of sublety. Unlike the
notes of an ordinary piano. which
gradually fade after being struck,
those from an instrument ntted with
the Hammond pedal may be sustained
and even increased in volume. The
results are so astonishing experts
feel that the invention may result in
a new type of musical composition.
In describing the genesis Of his
invention, Mr.. Hammond said yester-
day" august 81 at Gloucester, Mass J.,
that it gradually developed as the re-
suit of working more than six years
on the construction OF a large pipe
organ in his home. The main ele-
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might easily be combined to the end
that the evolution of the railroads
through 100 years be better under
stood. The story is one of sensa-
tional growth, especially in America.
where the transformation effected by
railroads appeared to be more of a
revolution than an evolution.
That America has not always been
united with bands of steel from coast
to coast is scarcely conceivable to
the presentday citizen. unless the
scenes of frontier times are wildly
century ago this country had but one
horse propelled railroad. 1t extended
from the granite quarry at Quincy,
Mass, to the coast. 1t was designed
to carry stone for the Bunker Hill
Monument, and was completed in
1926.
The first steam locomotive in the
United States was the Stourbridge
Lion, which had been imported from
England. It's run covered the 16-mile
track Of the Delaware and Hudson
Co. from Honesdale to Carbonate,
Pa.
The Baltimore and Ohio wa the
first railroad built in America for the
purpose of carrying both passengers
and freight. Construction on this line
began July 4, 1928, and the first sec
ton was opened two years later. For
the first year or so after the road was
opened horses were used as the COM
pany's motive power. The inevitable
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Rail Traffic a Century Old

steam locomotive replaced them in
course of time, and the first of the
iron monsters was built in Baltimore.
whence it retired after its active
days We're over, to be carefully pre-
served in the companys shops.
In 1880 the South Carolina Rail
road. which bore the distinction of
being the first TO use steam from the
start. was begun.
The famous engine, DE Witt Gin
ton, the third locomotive built on
American soil, hauled the first pas
senger train over the Mohawk ana
Hudson Railroad, from Albany To
Schenectady. on August 10. 1891. II
was supposed that the De Witt elm
ton was only capable of running on
a level, so tho rest of its train was
by means of stationary engines at the
terminals.
= X x \
A FTER a period of "cut-throat'
country began, in 1853. Il series OF
consultations that enabled them to
keep pace with the ever-increasinS
public demands.
The railroads were a big factor in
the settlement and development of
the West The year of the first con
solidation also saw the completion of
the Cleveland and Toledo, which es-
tablished through rail communication
between Chicago and the Atlantic
Seahoard
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Foot ball training at Purdue
University saved the life of
Capt. GowSmith, as related by
the author last week. Discover
ing the theft of a pair Of binoc-
LIARS, he had pursued the thief
-Guariba. the medicine man OF
an Indian tribe-and, overtak-
Ing him, brought him low with
a flying tackle. Just as Capt.
Gow-Smith left his feet for the
tackle the Indian hurled back
wards a viciously-b arbed spear
which passed over his pursuer's
head.
Capt Gow-Smith. accepted al
most as a tribal god by the I'M
tutored savages in the heart OF
the Brazilian jungle. had in
CURED the enmity of Guariba
by a display Of greater magic
powers than those possessed by
the medicine man. Following
the tackle, Guariba arose and
smashed the binoculars-all but
a single lens, which plays an
important part in this article,
the last Of a series Of four
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OF my naked companions, another war
council was held. Every nerve in the
party was on edge.
With the roaring rain above us the
sodden fern fronds swishing in our
faces like clammy hands, and cease
less pounding of the thunder. and the
wind flashing the entire jungle into
the fury OF a gale-tossed night at sea,
we feared any moment an attack from
the Chervantes. of which no human
sense in that fearful chaos could give
warning until too late. Even the
keen-eyed sentinels In the flashing
trees. and the outposts crouching
close to the ground were stationed
there more from habit than from con-
fidence in their powers.
My peril was double, for the ma
jority of the CARACAS by now were
convinced that I was somehow re-
And Guariba, with devilish ingrati-
tude that seems amusing to me now
I'm retrospect, was loudest in prescrib-
ing for me the very Saints Tree death
from which / had rescued him.
In this desperate situation 1 called
again on my guide for help. 1 could
speak to him in Portuguese, incom-
prehensible to the others, and I pro-
posed that he slip inland in the dense
y,
and create a disturbance as IL a band
Of Charvantes had come to the attack.
I could then seize on this diversion to
make my escape and would meet him
farther down the river
Joti vanished. and I waited a seem
ingly endless time while the squatting,
rain-drenched CARACAS continued alb
sorbed in their muttered conference.
At last there was a succession Of war
WI ha tr1 he
Cara1as leaped to their feet. The
sentinels came tumbling down from
the tfees.
A moments nervous silence, and
then two arrows hurtled through the
ferns and fell at our feet The next
few lightning flashes revealed them
TO be the Enthusiastically characteristic
poisoned arrows of the Chervantes.
This was mad complication Of the
plot that I had least expected: but
while l wondered what had happened
to my guide, 1 had no time to find
out. The CARACAS. now completely
terror-stricken, forgot their vigilant
watch over me and rushed to pro-
tected vantage points behind the tree
trunks. dipping their own arrows in
the gourds of poison that they car
ried. Cornered. they will fight with
desperate courage.
y " *
HERE was my chance and l slipped
off quickly to the canoes, which
had been drawn up high on the beach.
/ found that the river had already
risen high. One canoe was floating
off, and mine was half awash and
easily launched. Close to the shore
beneath the overhanging roof OF
branches and perfumed vines, my face
| washed by dropping petals OF mon.
strous orchids, l slid stealthily down
stream. then out into the current, and
| so on to the rendezvous below the first
bend where I had promised to wait
| for Jot!.
| In time, as the storm passed and
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a private game of his own. but this
whole affair was soon forgotten in the
dramatic circumstances of the Ara
wanna dance.
X
THIS is the most important of the
Caraja ceremonies. taking it's name
from the Arawana fish. or iraco, which
seems to be worshiped as a sort Of
river divinity. The dance, to the
chant of wild songs and the drum
ming of sticks on hollow logs. Is per-
formed by two chosen Indians CARRIED
in fantastic costumes and representing
the male and female fish
From the first time l saw these cos
tunes I had my heart set on bringing
them back to the United States with
me-. When worn they look like a rus
tic Ku kluX Khan outfit-a skirt and
cape of bristling grass and palm
strands conceal the dancers body; the
forked headdress. ornamented with
parrot feathers in beautifully woven
designs, sticks up two feet above the
head, while the face is hidden in a
cascading grassy mask or hood.
Women and children are allowed to
witness the dance, but not to know
who wear the costumes, or even to
see the costumes except when worn.
Death II the inexorable penalty for
any woman who peeps into the mems
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A WEIRD f1ash-back to another
~ world unrolled before me re-
~ Gently at the Polo Grounds,
1 4 the home Of the New York
Giants, as | watched the first
big league base ball game l had seen
in years. Between my eyes and the
sunlit diamond a shadowy jungle
vision seemed to rise. The high fence
blended into an encircling wall OF
forest.
Low, matched wigwams sprang up
around the diamond, turtle shells took
the place Of bases. the rooters cries
gave way to the shrieking Of monkeys
and macaws, while the uniformed
figures of the Giants and the Chicago
Cubs melted into the dusky forms Of
naked Savages, uttering cultural war
whoops and swinging blood stained
clubs as they ran around the bases.
A tall and rather tattered American
stood in the midst Of the fantastic
scene. winding up on the mound and
trying TO combine the functions OF
coach, umpire and pitcher for both
sides.
Then the vision snapped. and in the
midst of a Summers crowd of New
York base ball fans it was hard for
me TO realize that only few months
before l had been the star In that
wild jungle version OF the great Amer
lean game.
After nay triumph over Medicine
Man Guariba, described in my last
article, | tried to teach the Carajas to
play base ball as q pleasanter use for
their clubs than the cracking Of
heads. Our ball I patiently whitfield
out of crude rubber. and. having
played on the Sac Paulo base ball
team against Rio not so long before.
! was in good trim. l have indicated
above how ludicrously the game
turned out.
The Indians got the notion Of hit
ting at the ball. but couldn't under
stand base running. They would carry
their clubs with them, and race
around the bags both ways. whether
they hit the ball or not. stopping
some times to dance grotesquely be-
tween the bases while uttering a mo-
notonous chant. Most of them We're
gloriously drunk on caju: and l tried
to make them believe that this was
an elaborate ceremonial in honor OF
my particular set OF divinities.
X turned out that they really did
think there was witchcraft in 1t, for
while I could easily land on their de-
liveries, l mystified their batters with
my curves. Perceiving that I made
the ball twist in the air, they Jumped
1t with my other magic powers, and
when one Of them ducked fairly into a
sharp in-Shoot it ended the great
Cara1a base ball series once for all.
For q time I feared the fellow I had
hit might use his club on my head in
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Curious Fish Nets.

IT appears that fish nets cost moth
ing at all at Valley, New Guinea.
In the forests nearby spiders about
the size of a small hazel nut weave
them, and as soon as they are finished
the native fishermen go in and take
them away. The webs are as large as
6 feet in diameter and are woven in
mesh that varies from l inch square
at the edges to an eighth Of an inch
at the center. The webs are exceed
ing strong and, moreover. are water
proof.
At the place where they are most
abundant the natives set up Iorg
bamboos bent over into loop at the
end In a short time the spider
weaves q web in a convenient frame
and the native has his fish net ready.
He goes down to the stream and uses
1t with great dexterity to catch fish
OF about a pound weight; neither the
water nor the fish can break the
mesh. The usual practice is to stand
on a rock in back water and when a
fish appears dip it up and throw II on
the bank.
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the Pan-American Union here, that
later in the season he will lend the
instrument for concert to be given
under the unions auspices. Mr.. bona.
hue will probably come here to play 1t.
The young pianist says that although
any musician should be able to learn
to use this pedal quite easily, 1t will
probably require considerable prac-
tice before he can achieve the maxi
mum musical effects. He himself
worked with it since the first of the
year January until August-until
now he feels that he can use it auto
matically.
Among those who have heard the
instrument used and expressed to Mr..
Hammond their confidence in it are:
Rachmaninoff. Josef Hofmann, Stra-
whisky, Leopold Stokowski, Kousse-
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ments of the piano-forte, he continued,
have continued essentially unchanged
since its invention by Christofori, in
1920. It's evolution has been in de-
tails rather than In principle, and has
been largely concerned with obtaining
more sustained tone and power. This
has heretofore been achieved by
greater rigidity Of frame and higher
tension of strings, which has been
more than doubled in the last 100
years. During this period many at
tempts have been made to modulate
and control the tone, but always UNI
successfully. In the ordinary piano
once the keys are struck this energy
cannot be controlled by the player.
It is impossible for him to build UP
tone and then allow it to escape as
he might desire.
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the Carajas as by white explorers.
Here, in the gathering darkness, as
lightning slashed savagely around, re
yealing momentary glimpses of wild
eyes and cleaning, rain-sluiced bodies
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left bank of the river before being
swamped.
And this was the side patrolled by
the relentless Chervantes, whose poi.
soned arrows are dreaded as much by
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Not Worth Two Gents.

JOHNNY always say what I think.
Helen-I always wondered why you
We're so quiet.
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White Explorer Turns the Tables by
Use of Compass and With Aid of Sun.
How American Base Ball Game Was
Introduced in ,Jungle-Elected to Be
Lashed to Tree as Victim of Ants.
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BY FRANCIS GON-SMITH

4 WEIRD 1ash-back to another
~ world unrolled before me re-
~ Gently at the Polo Grounds,
4 A the home Of the New York
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-28
DELEGATES TO
CONFERENC
RECEIVED
President and Mrs. Cool
idge Hosts to Pan-Amer-
lean COnferees

President and Mrs. Coolidge to-
day received the entire foreign dele
CATION to the Pan American Con-
ference on Capital Cities, which is
now meeting here and which had
its formal opening last night with
a banquet at the Mayflower Hotel.
The audience was held this morn
ing and this afternoon Mrs. Cool
idge win be hostess to the delegates
to the annual convention Of the
League of American Pen Women.
Mrs. Harry Atwood Colman. ma
tional president Of the organization
will head the deputation.
The Chinese Minister and Nine.
SEE will entertain at dinner on
Friday evening in honor of Doctor
Harry Pratt Judson, president
emeritus OF Chicago University and
Mrs. Judson.
HxA
Miss Sybil Amherst and Miss
Florence Amherst, of London, have
arrived in Washington. and are
staying at the Mayflower Hotel.
The Misses Amherst are aunts of
the Honorable John Francis Am
herst Cecil, whose wife was Miss
Cornelia Vanderbilt.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-28
MASONIC KNIGHTS TO GIVE
GIANT MINSTREL SHOW

One of the most elaborate min
strel shows ever given by a Masonic
organiza ton in Washington will be
given at 8 o'clock Wednesday night
in the New Willard Hotel under the
auspices of the Columbia Com
mandery. knights Templar, and I'M
der personal direction of Charles d.
Shackelford.
The show will be for the benefit
of the commandery's drill team,
which has been selected to represent
the grand commandery Of the Dis
trict of Columbia at the perennial
conclave of the order in Seattle,
Wash, in July.
A chorus of seventy-five male
singers will be at feature. Harry
Angelica. tenor, will be the featured
singer. Tie glee club of New Jeru-
salem Lodge, No. 3, and the Mo-
hawk Quartet will sing. Specialties
by Lou Abbot, Chic Godfrey, Fred
Shaffer and Billy Zeitler have been
arranged.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-28
WONIEN'S CLUB HONORS
MRS. LAURA BRADLEY

Mrs. Laura A. Bradley will be
the guest at subscription dinner
in her honor at the Women's City
Club on Thursday.
The dinner has been arranged by
Mrs. BradIey's friends in the
Women's City Club and D. C.
Branch Of the League of Women
Voters as an expression of their ap-
probation Of her work for both or
Eanizations. AS chairman of the
luncheon committee of each society
she has given the members an op-
portunity to hear speakers of ma
tional and international reputation,
and has otherwise been most gen.
erous in giving of her time, energy
and resources.
The speakers will be Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward p. Costigan, Doctor
A. Frances Foye; president of the
Women's City Club; Mrs. George A.
Kicker, chairman, d. G. Branch,
League Of Women Voters. Three
minute tributes will also be given
Ey Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, Miss
Elizabeth Eastman, Mrs. l.. b.
Swormstedt, Miss Ethel Bagley,
Mrs. Louis Gutenberg, and Judge
Mary O'Toole.
Other guests will be Mr.. and Mrs
Basil Manly, Mr.. and Mrs ellison
Gardner. Among the subscribers
are Miss Florence F. Stiles, Mrs
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-28
LECTURE ARRANGED
FOR MISSION SCHOOLS.

The Pilgrims of st. Mary's, under
the presidency of Mrs. David Nc
earthly, are working hard for the
success of the lecture to be given
by Frederick William Vile, on
Tuesday evening. May Z. at Rau-
scher's, to aid in the maintenance
Of mission schools in the rural dis
tricts OF Southern Maryland. Among
the Pilgrims who are taking promi-
nent part in preparations for the
benefit are: Mrs. Dudley Morgan,
Henry Binsse, Paul Johnson, Miss
Ella Lorraine Dorsey, Mrs. j. Davis
Brodhead, Mrs. William Kearney
Carr, Mrs. Fl. III. Father, Miss
Loughran, Mrs. Elmer Murphy,
Mrs. B. r. Saul and Mrs. j. E.
Woodward. The Most Reverend
Archbishop Curley has indicated his
interest in the establishment of
rural schools in this section OF the
archdiocese
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-28
LUNCHEON TODAY
AT POLISH LEGATION.

Nine. Wroblewska, wife Of the
Polish Minister, entertained at
luncheon today when her guests
were Mrs. Shipstead, wife of Sen.
ator Shipstead, Mrs. John Van A.
McMurray, wife of the newly ap-
pointed American Minister to
China; Mrs. Wilbur J. Carr, Mrs.
Evan Young, Mrs. Samuel Jordan
Graham, Nine. Calderara, Nine. He'll
mann, Mrs. rank Simonds, Mrs.
Thomas +. Walsh, Mrs. James T.
Morris, Mrs. John Allan Dougherty,
Miss Sarah Lee, Mrs. Alvin Dodd,
Hrs. Walter Wilcox, Mrs. George
Oakley Totten, jr. and Nine. Hule-
wicz, wife of the military attache
Of the Polish legation.
The Minister and Nine. Wroblew-
ska will receive Sunday afternoon
from 4 to 6 O'Clock at the legation
the members of the Polish colony
here in celebration Of the ami
yersaEy Of Polish independence.
The Minister and Nine. Wroblew.
ska viii be hosts at dinner Fri
day evening. May 8, for the mem
lars q the Polish delegation here
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-28
WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN
SOLD BY MAN FOR SIS

CHICAGO, April 2s.-The story
of how a man sold his wife and
two children for SIS and a quantity
of liquor will be unfolded here in
the court of domestic relations
Mrs. Louis Job, the wife, appealed
to the court after tho man who hai
bought her threw her and tho chill
dren out of his home. He Is John
Parker, a friend of her husband.
my husband sold me and the
two children to Parker for SIS and
some moonshine July % of last
year" she said. II remained with
Parker until February 10 of this
wear when he threw me out"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-28
TEA TO BE HELD IN
NEW QUARTERS OF HOME.

Mrs. Archibald Hopkins. president
and the board of managers of the
Washington Home for 1ncurables
have sent out invitations for tea
on Thursday afternoon from to 6
o'clock at the home, Wisconsin
avenue and Upton street. This tea
rs an annual event, but for the first
time 1t will be held in the new and
spacious quarters Of the home. The
president and members Of the board
Of managers will receive and all
who are interested in the institu-
ton will be made welcome.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-28
KELLOGGS GUESTS AT
british EMBASSY. \

The British Ambassador and
Lady Isabella Howard were hosts
at dinner last evening at the en-
bassy in honor of the Secretary of
State and Mrs. Kellogg. The other
guests were the Italian AmbaSsa-
dor, Signor di Martina; the Swedish
Minister and Nine. Wallenberg,
Justice and Mrs. George Sutherland,
the naval attache of the French
embassy Captain Willm, and Nine.
Willm, Jules Henry, first secretary
of the French embassy; Doctor
Francisco Gerardo Yanes, charge
d'affaires of Venezuela, and Nine.
Yanes, Edward II. Lotus, secretary
of the Siamese legation, and Mrs.
LOTUS, Captain and Mrs. Adolphus
Andrews, the secretary to the Pres
ident, Everett Sanders, and Mrs.
Sanders, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Tuck
erman, Doctor. and Mrs. William
Holland Wilmer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Denegre, Mrs. Godfrey
Lowell Cabot, Mrs. Gibson Fahne-
stock, Sir H. G. Armstrong md
Lady Armstrong, Mrs. Frederick
Dent Grant, Keith Merrill, Coleman
Jennings, the Counselor of the
British Embassy and Mrs. Chill.
Lady Bette Fielding, G. III. Thomp-
son and Henry Hopkinson, Of the
British embassy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-28

NETHERLANDS ENVOY
TO GO ABROAD.

The Minister Of the Netherlands
and Nine. de Graeff will sail on
June 13 on the Wee Dam for HOl.
land, accompanied by their daugf1-
tiers, the Misses de Graeff. They
have leased a summer place at
Arnheim until the last of Septem
Der.
Jonkeer de Server, former at.
tache of the Netherlands legation
here, who was transferred to War
saw, has been assigned to the lega
ton at Berlin.
The former secretary, of the lega.
ton, Baron de Vos van Steewyk,
has been transferred from the iega.
ton at Constantinople to Paris.
y X 4
Colonel and Mrs. George Harvey
have as their guests Mrs. James Nj.
Thomson, of New Orleans, formerly
Miss Genevieve Clark. Mr.. Thorn.
son, who accompanied Mrs. Thorn
son to, Washington, has returned
to his home in New Orleans. Mrs.
Thomson will go to Summit Point
in a few days to visit Mr.. Thorn.
sons mother, Mrs. A. p. Thomson.
~ \
Mrs. G. Wallace w. Hanger left
w dSIllIEtOH yCStCAu1J IVA a N4OAI AAA
Massachusetts. Mr.. Hanger will join
her later at their summer home,
"By the Tides" at Cape Cod.
y
Mrs. Charles Warren left on Sun.
day for months stay in Santa
Barbara, Calf.
Mrs. Robert r. Mackenzie will
sail for Europe the early part OF
June to pass the summer.
+
The ladies Of the Georgia State
Club will have a luncheon tomor-
row at Nunnally's, from 1890
until o'clock. Mrs. J. Edgar
Mars is in charge All Georgians
and their friends are cordially In
vited. 81
-
Mr.. and Mrs. M. B. Marshall, Of
Lake Placid, are spending a few
days at the New Willard.
X X
Charles Downer entertained q
company OF fourteen at dinner al
LIE Paradis last night.