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The Winslow mail., 1926-06-25
"HOT SHOTS"
By "BOLsHEvIK" BILL

1t is very probable that some
time this summer you will take a
trip up into the pines and camp
for few days on one Of the trout
streams. You delight in the splen-
did beauty of those fine yellow
pines, and inhale deeply the odors
of the forest. You will cook and
eat heartily of your repast prepar-
ed over the camp fire of pine knots.
With the forest sounds in younr
ears you will sleep soundly.
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lengths insurance agents might

lengths insurance agents might
drive one.
Think of the board bills she
could have "hopped" in that time,
being eighty years on the jump.
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The pinch Of poverty is being felt
by the royal family of England,
evidently. At least, Elizabeth Alex
ander Mary Windsor, daughter Of
the Duke and Dutchess of Wind
sor, will be christened in the same
robe in which the P. of w. was
christened.
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The old girl at least shows de-
termination worthy of a better
cause.
The story states that she has rid
en- camels, elephants, jinrickishes,
palanquins and everything, and is
just back from her thirty-first trip
around the world.
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Evidently the man she has been
chasing all these years has headed
north.
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A news story with New York
date line states that spinster of
80 declares herself ready to put
out for the north pole if anybody
will provide transportation.
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for various small loans. Tonight
I will be wed. But then short en-
gagements are the vogue now.
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Nobody home, as usual.
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famous Coast Built
STARFOUR
More Popular in its Retneme1tS

DEFINED Star Four more pronounced
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of 1o25-wins new plaudits, new popularity
these new Spring months!
Not only refined in every part, but lowered
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motorists look to the Refined Star Four as
the master buy among low-cost cars. And an
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points bear out the judgment Of these ever
coming hundreds of Star buyers
Refined Star Four and its comrade car, the
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Torrents of practical power for power-drain-
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More Value Points
Million Dollar Motor. -Easy disc traffic clutch.
Built four popular body Generous cushion full size
styles; touring sport touring balloon engineered
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Longer, lower oooy Ines and flexible springs and "8
Feeders radiator tor ethcien easy steering ratio.
cooling.
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THINGS / WISH MY WIFE
WOULD'T Do

Use my best neckties for hair
ribbons on the poodle.
R. G. L.
The Winslow mail., 1926-06-25

1t just goes to show to what
Evening star., 1926-09-07
New Feminine Fashions for Fall

Reversible Fur and Tweed Coats either side $500
"N1argy Frock in Aumn latest styles and colors $500
College Frocks of avoo Jersey hand embroidered $6.5O
College Skirts low wastine pads and plain $5.o5
New Unbreakabe Glass Flowers for the shoulder to $2o5
The New Reboux Ostrich Rufs light dark. $295 to $500
Miller Beautiful Shoes Fall models and coors. $3.50
Miller Beautiful Hose full fashioned sheer chiffon. $1o5
Leather Bags pouch envelope style shades for Fall $495
Imitation Pearl and Silver Chains
"NTargy Hats velour velvet felt and satin large small $1,000
Dobbs Stroller, in smoothnsh crushabe felt $500
Crepe de Chine Lingerie eaborately lace trimmed $zo5
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Smart Fall Assets to ANY Home

Cogswel Chair solid mahogany frame down cushion $4,000
2Pece Living Room Suite handcarved frame mohair $545OO
1OPece Spanish Style Dining Room Suite very popular $4o5OO
Early American Bedroom Suite authentic reproductions
Upholstery Materials Damask Tafea Velour yard $1o5
Brussels Lace Curtains, recently imported; pair $5o5
Shadow Lace and F1et Net Silk Fnged Window Pane $2o5
Double faced Velour Portieres 36 inches wide pair $l5o5
Chinese Rugs SIZE 912 it, designs and coor $o5OO
Scattered Size Oriental Rugs 3x5 it, specially priced $2o75
Royal Wilton Rugs size ox12 it, Oriental motifs 5000
Seamless Administer Rugs, ox12 it.: patterns. S31o5
Nest of Tables solid mahogany tops. futed legs $3o75
Spanish Console Table walnut top maple front $5975
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Young Folks New Fall Fashions

Prnzess Cadet Coats for growing girls sizes A. $3o5O
Gay Rain Outfits, for school girls Hat Umbrella Coa.. $7o5
ceved Iucete Dresses. for FALL Sateen Prints $195
Scotch Plaid Frocks growing girls $1295
Girls Zpper Sweater heavy wool jersey 80 to So $500
Boys Red Grange Lumber ackets sizes 10 to S years $5o5
Boys "Zppcr Sport Swcatcrs off ffv $405
Paris rocks. Of hand embroidered net for little $405
Paris Bonne chiffon crepe real lace $395 $Sos
Hat and Scarf Sets for the miss Scotch pas $S95
and Hat Set of "CatO Wvd eopard-ke cloth $3Oo5
unor Misses Tan Calf Oxord rcptian effect $500
Girls Tan Calf Bucher Oxfods S5 2...... $4OO
Misses Patent Leather Sep-in Pumps 5000
Bows Titan Tan Calf Bcher Oxford Black Calf $500
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New Masculine Fashions for Fall

The Sheldon Knitted Topcoat in seasons best colos $500
Sheldon Rnershne Topcoats that shed like duck $1,000
Sheldon Topcoats of heavy imported Scotch weed $500
Sheldon Topcoats cames hair for fasdous $500
Nationally known Society Brand Tweed Topcoats $45OO
Brand Topcoa blue basket fabrics $4,000
Society Brand Topcoa of blue hcrrngboned fabrics $500
Society Brand Topcoats of the finest grade cames hair $500
James c. Whitehead made England Topoats $4,000 $500
Society Brand Suits rejecting the for $4,000 10000
Sheldon Suits introducing Fall fashion, $500
New Imported Neckwea French silks $500
Manhattan Shirts, in the accepted collar match styles $500
Dobbs Hats than which there finer made for
Hanan Shoes the choice of the discriminating for FALL 1926
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ers 69.245 square miles. Approximate.
ly 9A square miles consist Of water
surface. Its topography Is rolling
It's elevation ranges from sea level at
mean low tide Of the Potomac to Ats
highest point, old Fort Reno at Ten.
leytown. which is 420 feet above sea
level. 1t was during the administra.
ton of President Polk that the portion
of the District originally ceded from
Virginia was returned to the Old Do
minion, as a result of q vote of the
residents requesting the retrocession
of Alexandria County.
Washingtonians who are anxious
to know exactly where they are at.
when they live IN the neighborhood Of
the White House, Capitol or Federal
buildings, may glin some information
from what follows: THE District Of
Columbia is situated on the left or
east bank of the Potomac, 106 miles
from its entrance to Chesapeake BAY.
and 1855 miles via river and bay from
the Atlantic Ocean. The center OF
the District as originally established
was in the vicinity of Seventeenth
and G streets northwest. AS a result
of the retrocession Of Alexandria
County to Virginia, the original CEN
ter point Is now nearly on the south
western border OF the District, 1906
feet north and 1879 feet west Of the
Washington Monument"
The original city OF Washingtoa.
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ed from the Potomac River 10 the
Anacostia River on the south and was
bounded by Rock Creek. Florida ave-
nue.. Fifteenth street east and G street
north. The city was built on fields
which once were integral parts OF
20 different farms. When Georgetown
was annexed, in 1895, 543 additional
acres were added to Washington,
bringing It's total area up to approx.
mately 1854 acres.
The owners Of the land where Wash.
ington now stands conveyed it in trust
to Thomas Beall and John NJ. Can't.
Commissioners appointed by President
Washington. They were glad to do
this in view Of the benefits which
would result from locating the Capital
City on their lands. The United States
purchased 541 acres for public build.
ings for $66.66 per acre. while 4,59l
acres were donated. There were
1916 building lots given back 10 the
original owners Of the land. The Gov
ernment obtained. without cost, the
streets and avenues. sites and grounds
for public buildings. and also received
large cash return from the sale Of
alternate building lots apportioned to
it in the City VI Washington.
II you look over the King Plates, :"
our most historic survey REGARD I'm the
District-the huge book is kept In tho
District surveyors office-you will
note with considerable surprise the
49,. ;" ~ the White House
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Surveyors Write Washn&t0n's Land Mapping Hist0

grounds, which, as originally laid on
were more than double their present
size. Lafayette Park did not then eX-
list and Pennsylvania avenue did not
pass within a stones throw of III"
White House entrance. The White
House estate then extended from
street to the banks of the old ship
and drainage canal which linked tn"
Potomac River to the Eastern Branch
The David Burnes farm once oCcu
pied the land in the neighborhood Of
Twelfth and II streets northwest, nov
some of the most valuable business
property in Washington. This prop
ertY is of historic interest because &
is identified in the pioneer records a.
the District as the first to be conveyed
TO Commissioners David Stuart and
ID. &. Carroll.
Neither the District nor congrcs
sional records disclose how the ave
nues of Washington happened 10 be
named after the States. The DermOtt
map of 1895. which was accepted and
ratified by George Washington, is the
only evidence we have which Indicate
that our first President may have had
a hand in naming certain Of the Fed
eral City's leading boule ards. Th'
Same Commissioners who named the
city after President Washington, de
spite his protests, also adopted the
plan of naming the streets alphabet
ically one way and numerically tho
other. When Georgetown was an
nexed it's streets were reChrist0ned
according to the Washington plan.
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The Dolphin Convoy.

WHOEVER has sailed a tropic sea
w will appreciate the account given
by a Government scientist OF Il school
of playful dolphins that appeared sud
denly from the depths and adopted
for their playfellOw the ship upon
which he was sailing.
It was lazy, tropical morning. saw
the scientist. and the engines seemed
to tltob in half-sonnolent marocr
The scientist folded up in q deck
chair and idly watched the beautifu
profile Of the island astern.
Suddenly the sea became alive witt
virile being-curving steel gray bodie.
that shot forth like torpedoes from
me mighty battery. He thrilled ir
every fiber, and the sloth OF the tropics
fell from him as if by a galvanic shock
The dolphips had come. Usually thev
Hppear in their haunts between Donni
MICA and Martinique. but here thev
were in dozens, leaping for breath
with the regularity of machinery
Now and then, in n spirit of play, one
OF them vaulted high in air, 10 feet
above the surface. twisted and fell
oroadside with a slap that could be
heard half mile away. A school
came close alongside. slackened sreed
10 that or the vessel, and now and
then dived beneac. 3-d appeared Off
the opposite quarter. Another tr'.l.
was Tor one or two 10 station them
selves just ahead OF the bow and To-
remain there motionless. urged on bv
the pressure of the water from behind
II was unexpected and splendid tu
have this battalion OF magnifccn
centaceans bursting with vital eners,-
and fullness of life injected without
warning into the calm quiet ~ ~
troDic sc:l.
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Georgetown In 1895 the city limits had
been fixed by President George Wash
ington. who was we'll satisfied with the
original tract OF 6,ll0.94 acres which
was set aside by the Commissioners as
Americas Federal City"
The first surveyor who ran lines and
levels and laid out Washington's un.
rivaled system of streets and avenues
was Maj. Charles Pierre LEnfant.
He is the early author Of much of
Washington's municipal beauty. The
credit Of designing the plan Of our
National Capital, the worlds most
beautiful city, belongs to this French
officer Presidents Washington and
jefferson also aided by valuable sug.
gestions.
Thomas Jefferson, in particular, was
rich in original ideas and timely rec.
concentrations. His familiarity with
the outstanding foreign cities, gained
from extensive travel abroad. con.
trihuted to the perfection of our city
of government.
Mai. L'Enfant was in charge Of the
designing and laying out Of Wash
ington for Is months. Then, because
Of disa agreement with the District Com
missioners he was dismissed Andrew
Eliicott, his assistant, was appointed
District surveyor to replace the i'm
petuous I.'Enfant Early in March.
re-. T. rl.la$ Jefferson. then Secre-
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tary Of State. wrote to the Commits
sioners: "It having been found i'm.
practical to employ Maj. LEnfant
about the Federal City, in that degree
Of subordnation which was lawful
and proper, he has been notified that
his services are at an end"
Maj. Ellicott, who succeeded Len
FAINT, followed practically the same
system of city planning which the
French engineer had fathered. This
plan was a marvellous work of time,
patience and brilliancy. If Washing.
ton were, so to speak, nothing but
raw material today. and if the best
city building talent were assembled
to map and develop a matchless city.
1t could do no better than LEnfant
and Ellicott did. The scheme of lay
out has stood the test of 1874 years
without being surpassed. 1t appears
armored to resist all future attacks
Of time and change. In 1888 Congress
directed that all future subdivisions
OF land in Washington and George
town should be made in conformity
with the general plan Of the City OF
Washington. This national edict has
been obeyed and will unquestionably
prove satisfactory to future genera.
tions.
Every sale of land or lots made
in the District. as well as all building
ffinnS can 10 Traced hack To
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snake in the pot after fastening a
roose about the snake and tying the
other end Of the vine to the peg. Then
he put the lid on the rot and weighted
it down and built a fire under the pot.
1.-The snake, tortured by the heat.
associated its suffering with the smell
that was closest to him, that of the
sweaty handkerchief. When we drew
near, the sorcerer tilted the lid off
the pot and let the snake out.
Then he cut the vine, knowing that
the snake, 1nfuriated by his agony,
would make straight for the thing that
had the same smell as the handker-
chief which he blamed for his pain.
"In other words. that snake was
bent on attacking the person whose
scent was on the handkerchief. In
this case l believe it was me. but it
might have been you. so when | ran
/ pulled you along, too
1t sounded preposterous then. 1t
sounds that way now, even though l
have seen in official reports Of the
cases narrated.
But that marked the last OF old
Mira Ga so far as we were concerned
On the banks of the Aikafoa lies the
village of Maipa, and there Humphries
proposed to get our last batch of car.
riers, having meanwhile sent back
such of the Wanna and Kivori men as
had shown themselves unequal to the
work, substituting for them the more
hardy, more sure. footed men of Kekeo.
At Maipa disappointment stared us
in the face, however. Semi.mountain-
eers themselves, the men and most of
the women had gone off to the noun
tains to join in q feast and dance.
Wen start, anyhow, and We'll be
sure to meet them coming down"
said HUMPHREYS.
Our advance party soon reported
large body Of men and women coming
in our direction. 1t proved to be the
Maipa villagers returning home in
haste and bearing the marks of battle.
Cannibals, apparently have a low
sense of hospitality. The mountain
folks had provided the usual pigs for
the feast, but had been seized with a
desire to top off their gluttonies with
bit of human flesh, and attacked one
of their guests.
His life was saved by his fellow vii
layers after a free.for-all, and the
mountaineers. disappointed as they
were, insisted upon q resumption of
the feast. However, as soon as their
hosts had eaten themselves into q
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Kali had been away when we
reached the village and had been de-
prived of this privilege. Naturally he
was peeved when the urchin came to
the tent with three opened nuts. The
boy seemed tongue-tied with awe, and
| Kali wasn't getting very far with his
inquisitions when HumphrteS stepped
in.
"Give me a nut" he ordered. "ThS
boy should be praised, not chided, for
bringing them"
Kali was standing we'll within the
light of q hurricane lamp fastened to
a tent pole, and he was holding each
nut in turn where the light would re-
veal the amount of milk within. Prob
ably his idea was to give the magis-
trate the best nut.
But suddenly Kali grew quite ex-
cited and hurled the coconuts to the
ground
why did you do that?" cried Hum
phries, angrily. 1t looked like case
of insubordination.
The old mans bare heels came to-
gether, he stiffened abruptly and his
fingers touched his forelock.
Master" he said. "the nuts were
poisoned
And so 1t proved when We had
picked them up, broken them open
and examined the meat closely. To 1t
| was clinging infinitesimal bits of bam-
boo fiber, pounded almost into pow.
der.
That is the favorite method Of MUIR
der of the Papuan sorcerer. Mixed
with food or drink, the slivers pierce
the intestines, set up inflammation,
cause a high fever and prove fatal
within q few days.
"Mira-Oa" cried Humphries, haZ-
arding a good guess. and sent the po-
lice corporal to seize the old sorcerer
and bring him to us. But Mira Ga
had disappeared. and when we re-
sunled the march next day another
man carried his load.
AS for Kali. whose keen eyes had
seen the slivers floating on top of the
coconut milk and probably saved some
of us from great agony, il not death.
he was rewarded with five sticks of
tobacco, worth about cents each.
Had he received more than that he
wouldn't have appreciated it, but in
his black mind would have concluded
that we were simpletOns.
Downing and were properly horri-
fed by the incident. but Humphries
dismissed it with Shrug Of the Shoul-
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Washington record books of the
earliest surveys and land transfers in
the City of Presidents. The early
cartography Of Washington Is pre-
served in carefully mapped form in
the notable King Plates" the work
of Nicholas King. who served the
District as surveyor for II years, be-
ginning In the Fall Of 1895.
The Dermott map Is another famous
relic, featuring the public reservations
rs they were designated by Presidents
Washington and Adams. These maps
and plates first gained public fame
when used as evidence In a remarka-
BILE lawsuit which involved the Gov
ernment and which related to the true
ownership Of Potomac Flats. Uncle
Sam ultimately won the verdict in
this, the first legal controversy over
riparian rights along the Potomac's
curving shoreline.
DISTRICT SURVEYOR NJ. c, HA-
~ ZEN and his corps of 40 transit
men, engineers. computers and
draughtsmen today follow the same
system of street extension and lot
survey pursued by Ellicott, King. Du-
Bois, Bliss, Carpenter, Forsythe,
Lucker Richards and the other eX-
perts who have had charge OF such
work in the District The District
surveyors Office at present handles
more than 10000 surveying assign
ments every year. Every time new
subdivision is plated into lots, and
whenever another Government build
ing apartment house, office building.
hotel or club is built, an official survey
is ordered, to make sure that founda-
ton walls do not treSpaSS upon ad-
joining property.
The condemnation of land for streets
and alleys and the closure of unnec--
essary alleys are also taken care Of by
the District surveyor. There are now
SO condemnation cases on the court
docket. Pathways for vehicular traf-
fic are constantly being opened as
pushes farther and farther toward the
borders of the District. At present
there are 6.170 squares in the District,
including Georgetown. Estimating an
average of 25 building lots to the
square, this means a total Of 154.250
lots. a considerable surplus over the
needs and occupancy OF our current
population of approximately 100000
residents.
Resurveys, which have been made
in all parts Of the District OF Colum-
bia, verify the accuracy of the work
performed by Nicholas King. his pred
ecessors and successors. Georgetown.
which was a successful city during the
days when Washington was first
mapped, shows more early day survey
ing errors than any other part Of the
Washington neighborhood. This prob
ably obtains because the original sur.
veys in Georgetown were made before
the surveying art attained the infini-
tesimal accuracy and freedom from
error which now grace it's activities
The greatest discrepancies which have
been found in the early surveys of
Washington, the Federal City" have
not exceeded more than two feet in a
block. BY law such mistakes are pro-
rated among all the lots in that par
ticular square. so that the loss or gain
per property owner is very small.
The District of C"'urn'." r"'r coy
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and Hamburg were located as mapped
towns on that portion of the land
which was ceded by Maryland to the
national Government. Two of these
towns-CarrollSbu and Hamburg
although laid out in the records. were
nothing more than paper talk" as
they did not really exist as communi.
ties. Carrol!sburg was the name of "A
l60-acre tract divided into 26S lots on
the northern bank of the Eastern
Branch on Arsenal Point. Hamburg.
or Funkstown, fronted the Potomac
near Twenty.fourth street west and
contained l20 acres. Jacob Funk, its
owner, had subdivided il into 2S7 lots.
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THE District was not named official.
, ~ by Congress until February q,
1871, fourscore years after its site
was selected In 1871 the original
Commissioners recorded: we have
agreed that the Federal district shall
he called the Territory of Columbia. ."
However. they had no specific author
ity TO select a name. Hence our seat
Of Federal law making was known as
both the Territory" and District OF
Columbia" until Congress ultimately,
by special act, eliminated such am.
biguity of title.
The boundaries Of Washington have
never been eAtned in congressional
literature us TO the annexation 81