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ENVOY TO QUIT ITALY,


place Ambassador Ochiai.
TOXIC, January 20 R).-Kentaro
Ochiai. Japanese Ambassador to Italy.
Is returning to Japan soon. owing to
pressing private business and also be-
cause of his health. 1t is understood
a successor will be appointed some
tlme IN feoruary. Masanao Hanihari,
former Minister to the United States.
is prominently mentioned for the most
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MEMBERS OF HOUSE
SCORE REFORMERS'
INTEREST IN D. c.
BIanton and UnderhiII Hit IN
reference in District
Legislation Plans.
OBJECT TO TRYING OUT
THEIR "PET IDEAS" HERE
Police and Fire Bills Approved by
Committee at Hearing-Other
Measures Referred.

Two bills affecting the police and
iremen of the District were favor
ably reported to the House by the
District committee today after 4
meeting of the committee, during
which protests were made against
the appearance of Clarence Darrow
and other special advocates and re
formers attempting TO promote legis
lauon in which District people are
not particularly interested The com
mittee also ordered hearings on pend
ing measures and referred other bills
TO subcommittee.
The most vigorous applause heard
in the District committee room for
some time was provoked today by
Representative Cnderhul, Republican,
of Massachusetts, when, after inveigh-
ing against people taking up the time
of the committee for experimental leg
islation TO give themselves publicity.
he emphatically declared that Ghe
members of the committee ought to
give more intensive consideration TO
what the people Of the District are
most Interested in
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Uniform Bill Approved.

The committee ordered a favora blc
report on the bill providing that uni
forms and all other official equipment
shall be furnished to the metropOli
tan police and 10 officers and mem
bers OF the Fire Department of the
District. Representative Beers IT
Pennsylvania and Zihlman of Mar
land said there should be all amend
ment 10 restrict the number uf uni
forms TO be supplied to any one
man. Mr. Blanton said that would
not be just, because Congress
couldn't know the circumstances ana
Congress shouldn't shoulder all these
little details. which should be admin
istered by District officials.
Favorable report also was ordered
on the Gibson bill providing for pay
ment of s6S,425 which has been duo
10 certain retired members OF the
Police and Fire departments on ac-
count of a deficiency in the pension
fund between January /, 1911. and
July 80. 1915
Mr. Underhill protested against this
mea sure saying that it is defunCt
fund that it was never Government
fund. and that il ought not TO he
made retroactive with funds taken
from the District taxpayers.
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W WE.ATHER.

~. $. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Cloudy, probably followed by rain;
no change in temperatures; minimum
temperature tonight above freezing
Tenpera ratures-HiShest, 55 at $3.50
pm. yesterday: lowest, 34 at d IN. to-
day. Full report on page I.
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To Fight Bill on Floor.

Mr. Underhill said he would not pre-.
sent a minority report, but would Up-
pose the bill on the floor.
Representatives Gibson and Zihlman
spoke in favor of this nlea point
inG that there is now an anuuai APP
preparation of about 100000 under
the present contributory plan. On the
motion of Representative Lampert,
Republican, of Wisconsin. the favor
able report was made.
Mr.. Blanton announced that he
would make minority report against
the bathing beach bill, which is due
for consideration in The House on the
next District day
Monday there will he Il meeting OF
the subcommittee on streets, highways
and traffic. of which Representative
Stalker of New York is chairman.
On Monday representatives of
number of organizations will be heard
by the subcommittee, of which MIR.
Gibson of Vermont is chairman, on
the bill enlarging the powers of the
National Capital Park Commission TO
include city planning work and for the
addition of six members to that com.
mission. This hearing will be held
in the caucus room of the House Of
fec Building.
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Hearings Scheduled.

hearings ScneuuIeQ.
Tomorrow, hearing will be continued
by the subcommittee which is conSid-
ering the bill introduced by Chairman
Zihlman. at the request OF the District
Commissioners. TO enlarge the powers
of the District Commissioners to in
clude general municipal authority.
On Tuesday a hearing is to be given
on the Gasque bill for popular election
of the school board before the sub
committee ON elective franchise. of
which Representative Reid, Repub-
liCan. of Illinois. is chairman. \ num-
Der of invitations have been sent out
to teachers, public school officials and
Parent-TeacherS Associations TO at
tend the hearings.
Various measures referred to sub
committees for consideration include:
The creation of a commission to select
a distinctive design for flag for the
District. to the judiciary subCommit-
tee: extension of Fourteenth street. in
cluding street changes at the Walter
Reed Hospital grounds, TO the streets
and highways subcommittee; the Nc
Gregor bill to create d boxing commits
sion for the District of Columbia. to
the judiciary subcommittee: two bills
by Representative Hammer for repeal
of the Public Utilities Commission act
and providing for q 1-Cent Carfare, to
the public utilities subcommittee; the
Juvenile Court bill. introduced by Mr..
Underhill, to the judiciary subcommit-
tee; the bill authorizing condemnation
of land for extension of streets and
highways to conform with the general
highway plan. to the subcommittee on
streets and highways: the Sunday clos
ing bill for barber shops. to the jul
dietary subcommittee: the bill creating
woman'S bureau in the Police De-
partment, to the subcommittee on po-
lice and fire bills.
Row Over Invitation
Chairman Zihlman announced that
he had been asked by Representative
Byrnes of Tennessee to grant hear
ing on a Sunday closing measure to
Noah w. Cooper of Nashville. Tenn,
chairman of the Southern Methodist
Sabbath Crusade committee. Mr..
Cooper did not present himself and
was not heard, but the announcement
provoked a very lively discussion.
Mr.. Blanton protested vigorously
that an invitation to Clarence Oar
row to appear before the judiciary sub
committee on the bill to abolish capital
punishment was extended without au-
thority, as the subcommittee had not
met and authorized such an invitation.
Representative Mcleod, Republican, of
Michigan. is chairman of that subcom-
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The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
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REAL ESTATE BOARD
OF WASHINGTON FIFTH
Had High Rating Last Year in Ap
praisals Made by Its
Committee.

The Washington Real Estate Board
stood fifth last year in the amount
and value of appraisals made by its
appraisal committee.
The local board appraised properties
approXimating in value $4,000 900.
This included the examination in ex-
haustive detail of Ill separate proper
ties. The appraisal committee of the
board rendered its service free to the
National Capital Park Commission
and other Government agencies in ap-
praising park properties to be ac-
CURED for the Identification of the
National Capital.
James =. Schick, executive secre-
tary of the board, stated the board
leit IL was It's civic duty to contribute
tne Work OF its appraisal committee
IN appraislng these park properties.
Inc services Of the boards committee
was also donated to the Y NJ. c. A.
The cities ahead of Washington
are Chicago. Cleveland, Rochester and
Fort Wayne. The average value of
each separate piece of property ap
praised in Washington, however. was
equal TO that of the leading city. Chi
cage, which appraised more than
$1,000. 900 worth.
This committee consists of Horace
q. Smithy. chairman; H. Clifford
bangs, Thomas L. Bones, G.. Calvert
Bowie. Joseph A. Herbert. jr.. Gland
Livingston and John T. Meany.
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as q place to sit. Or if paving Is
too expensive and your own time too
precious to achieve it homemade. sub.
stitute gravel. II the area is small
it may become a, gravel court, with
painted iron furniture. which can be
left out in all weather, and a sur
rounding planting of shade-loving
shrubs and flowers. Perhaps you may
aspire to a tiny fountain. for no
garden is too small for water.
If you build such a. garden you will
enjoy 1t in the Winter from the
windows of the house. in the Spring
when you watch the first unfolding
snowdrops, and perhaps most of all
in the long Summer twilight when
you stretch out in d steamer chair
under your own vine and fig tree,
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engaged in renting or managing prop
critics in the District, through the me-
dunn Of the newly formed property
management division Of the board.
This division, which was formed two
weeks ago. Is holding weekly meetings
at the City Club. and the various prob
lens OF property management are be.
ing discussed In round-table form, and
the entire membership of this division
is getting the benefit Of the combined
experience of those attending these
luncheon meetings
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100 Apprentices Graduated.

More than 100 apprentices in the
five building trades, bricklaying, car.
pentry, plumbing. electrical and paint
ing. were graduated from the Cleve-
land Building Trades Apprentice
School at its commencement on Deem
Der ,. Twenty-one were bricklayers.
The commencement was timed to CO.
incide with the convention of the Ma.
tional Society for Vocational Educa-
ton, and a large number. OF the
delegates to the convention attended.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-13
LANDSCAPE PLANTING
For the Home Owner
GREELY, Landscape Architect

Is Not<.-Vl,s Grrc1y,S landScdp, plant
ing coinIpH. ipicaded priIDdrt'y 10 Shom
shs poSSjb,i.,cs tor hsa9t,fyino sn,Gb
prdayS Home and Garden section OF
5f,e EreBi1g star. Todav planting plan
q for tie back yard Of u rO1r house.
.ASrt 1reCE SHE 'riV Oirs suggestions Tor
treating rEe grounds 81 n Sniaf dstGch-
cH house
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-13
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
DIVISION AIDS REALTORS
Disseminates Valuable Information
to Members of Board in Two
Weeks Existence.

Information and valuable knowledge
is being disseminated to the members
of the Washington Real Estate Board
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Study Plan for Garden.
Other Ground Covers.

having mapped out the general
n of the garden, study the mate
s in which it may be carried out
tead of grass, SO difficult to achieve
the small city garden, why not
some other green ground-cover.
perhaps, pave the center with
stone, making it doubly useful
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Serum for Measles.

THE blood serum of adults VINO mao
measles in childhood may be used
to modify the disease in children $"
that it will take only a mild form de
void of serious after effects, and yet
will give immunity for life just as the
normal form of the disease does.
This is the conclusion of Prof. X.
Debre and DIR. JOannon of the Uni
versity of Paris Medical School. re
ported to the health committee OF the
League of Nations. More than
thousand injections of serum have
been given without any bad effects.
The efforts of DIR. Leon Bernard, OF
the University of Paris resulted in the
establishment of two prophylactic sta
tions in Paris for the treatment of the
disease.
up to the present time" DR.. Ber-
nard said, 'prophylactic methods have
been used to some extent in the United
States and Germany TO secure tempo
rary immunity. A serum from con-
valescent cases was used and injected
in patients during the first six days
after infection.
But a durable immunity may be de
veloped if the serum is not injected
until the germs have had more time
to incubate, as in the modified proceed
ure of Prof. Debre. where the injec
tions are made only between the sixth
and the tenth day after infection. a
serum shortage problem was solved
by the discovery that the serum of
adults who have long since recovered
from measles was as efficient as that
taken from convalescent childreN
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shot wounds received in the Civil
War.
The Medical Society of the District
of Columbia as an organization and
it's members as individuals all gave
unstintingly of their time and
energies to the founding of the much
needed hospital all this time. On We'd
nesday, May 10, 1882, the society
passed resolution, saying that no
more appropriate method of honoring
the memory of our late brutally muir
dered President, can be e. lceived of
than the erection of .".a a monu.
ment: an ever active il litution for
the relief of humanity, suffering in
so many various forms. n source for
the requirement and development of
knowledge in those branches of scien-
tific study most nearly directed to the
immediate relief of many: and an
everlasting and inexhaustible well
spring of charity and benevolence,
which in the minds of all men of right
feeling must be esteemed far above
the tablets of brass or mere monu-
ments of bronze or marble"
A few weeks later So physicians of
the city joined in a memorial brought
to the attention of the city heads urg-
ing aid and encouragement for the
hospital to insure it's establishment
and permanence.
Legislation was needed by Con-
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Garfield Hospital as it stands today.
They bought the Snyder farm, then
outside the old boundaries of the city,
up in a section which had seen little
development, but on a high hill over
looking the entire city, from whose
wooded slopes the silver sheet of the
river could be seen far below Alex
endria, sloping up to the highlands
to the north, where Maryland met
the confines of the Federal City
So anxious were the women who
formed the Ladies' Aid Association to
get the new hospital functioning that
they made sheets themselves and
fitted out five rooms in the old Snyder
farmhouse, providing all the equip
ment themselves. Their first patient.
taken in in 1882, was full-blooded
Sioux Indian. n member of Buffalo
Bills shows, then in Washington, who
was brought to the farm-hospital
suffering from pneumonia. The first
patient Garfield Hospital had died.
for the Indian brave succumbed to
the disease n few days after being
removed there. In 1882 also came the
first amputation, that of the leg of
an nX-SolGipr made necessary bV gun
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a petition from citizens. DR.. Ashford
presented a project for a general hos
pital to the municipal authorities, but
it Jagged until the assassination OF
President Garfield. when The Even
ing Star printed a communication ir
1881 from Lewis J. Davis. urging
erection, in memory of President Gar
field, of a hospital at the station of
the Pennsylvania Railroad where
he was shot. This project was
later aided by a letter from A. 5.
Solomons seeking the same end.
These men worked together and a
public meeting of citizens was held
II Lincoln Hall, October ), 1881
where Garfield Memorial Hospital was
really born. Two Hebrew congrega
tions in the city made the first con
tributions, totaling $40.
x X x
A y executive committee of % was
appointed at the Lincoln Hall
meeting, and proceeded to raise the
necessary funds. The National
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home"
ut 1872 G street was acquired, and
sold for S39, ,70S.03, a sufficient nucleus
to give the founders of the new ven
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ture something to work with. One of
the proposals made at the time of the
founding was that each State should
contribute $4,000 and should have 8
ward named after it. This plan also
provided that the Ladies' Aid Society
should have a vice president from
each State and Territory. This was
finally abandoned as too complicated
Six Washington physicians of the day
Drs. William G. Palmer james M
Toner, Smith Townshend. Francis
Ashford, J. Ford Thompson and
Samuel G. Busey, were, with the
other members of the executive com
mittee of 25. made incorporators of
the institution, and held their first
meeting on June 6, 1882. DR.. y. Y. T
Garnett. father of the physician OF
that name practicing today, took the
place of DR. Ashford, who died II
1884
All this time. while the medical
profession and public-spirited laymen
were cooperating, the women OF the
city joined in the movement.
With customary energy they organ
lied Ladies' Aid Association in 1881
and promptly swung their aid in with
the men in getting the new project
under way.
In 1882 the mems committee took
the first step in the formation OF
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TIME athletes of Brady's Gymna
stun in the picture, from left
to right. are Frank SaXton,
John Pugh, VIII Colgate.
Thomas Nolan. Edward Droop,
George w. Evans and Lucian ID.
Alden The sitting man is Abner ).
Brady. called Prof Brady by Wash
ingtonians 81 to sc years ago. One
note on the photograph is that the
young men named We're athletes OF
Brady's Gymnasium 1864, 1868 and
1866" Another note on the picture
is "Brady's Gymnasium Athletes 1860
1870"
Brady's Gymnasium is recorded in
Boyds Washington Directory of 1860
as at Nos 81, 81 and SO Louisiana
avenue and Abner 5. Brady is entered
in the directory as boarding at the
Metropolitan Hotel. The Rambler asked
his friend DR. William Tindall of the
bureau of information, District Build
ing. to what numbers of our present
street-number system the numbers 81
1886 Louisiana avenue would CORE
spond. and he answered Nos. 924, 926
and 92S. and he said that Brady S
Gymnasium was on the top floor of
three two-story buildings on the south
side of Louisiana avenue just east of
the Central Guard House.
The Rambler has not found anybody
to give him many facts about Prof.
Brady Bill. our elevator man, who
wears a rose on his coat lapel every
day (hut not the same rosel and who
knew. many great and not great men
in Washington $3.50 years ago, told
me that he knew Of Prof. Brady and
that he was quite a man in the opin-
ion of the young fellows. You see by
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Growth of Garfield Hospital Work
ArOuses Pride of Washingtonians
Expansion Reveals
Grea Devotion of Its

gress to enable the hospital to
take over the National Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans Home" and writings
of the time chronicle that Para
mount Blount, an opponent of the
new project in the House, frequently
alluded to the new hospital as un-
necessary, since there were sectarian
institutions to take care of the sick.
His protests were of no avail. nor
were representations that efforts to
establish Garfield Memorial Hospital
were inimical to Providence Hospital,
for Congress in August. 1882, per
mitted acquisition of the Soldiers and
Sailors Home property. Soon after
the record of the deed of transfer.
the incorporators took possession Of
the real estate and held meetings at
the "Wirt House. 1892 G street,
where a plan of organization was laid
down and provision made for board
of directors.
On January -. 1884, the annual
meeting of the Ladies' Aid authorized
it to borrow $4,000 to be used for
construction of a Ladies Aid Build
ing" A lien on the property was
allowed by the mems board as security
for the loan. All payments were met
and the obligation liquidated in dec
ade.
The first school for trained nurses
was organized in 1889, the beginning
of the present large school. with a
tWO-year course. The records of the
Ladies' Aid Association point out that
the school had difficulty in beginning
because of the antipathy of the med
iCal staff toward female nurses,
Only a year later, however. the
women triumphed. for in that year a
great typhoid epidemic came upon
Washington. Garfield. as we'll as the
other hospitals of the city, was full of
patients with typhoid. The devotion
of the female nurses and their skill
completely won over the recalcitrant
men and they established themselves
as ranking with physicians as aids to
the sick.
During all the time the young hos
pital was getting on its feet the
Ladies' Aid prompted by sentiments
of mercy. was giving it's utmost en-
couragement and practical aid. The
women raised money in various ways.
The records show that Mrs. John A.
Logan Iectured on "A trip To Europe in
1896 and raised S343. while matinee
benefit performances were given.
4 grand fete and bazaar given at
Gen. Logan'S house in 1856 netted
81 059, while lunches and entertain
ments brought lin various sums and
other baZaarS more money.
One OF the spectacular means of
raising money, brought forward by
the Ladies' Aid, which also served the
practical purpose of advertising. was
a tea party given on May 8, 1882,
when enthusiasm was at its height, in
the rotunda of the Capitol Building,
which netted S4.721 This is the first
and last time the Capitol rotunda has
been used for such social purpose
Three wives of Presidents have
been members of the board Of d.
rectorS-MrS ReDian Harrison
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Sn o R A ATE HonN

ton Choral Society and sang bass in
the Arion Quartette"
Before writing this looked through
several copies of The Star of 1860
hoping to come on an advertisement
of Brady's Gymnasium. The hopin@
was vain. / did come upon an adveI-
tisement which interested me. because
wrote of Growers Theater two weeks
ago. Here is the "ad" from The Star.
October l.. 1865:
Growers New Theater. Leonard
Grover * Co Directors. Leonard
Grover. c. D. Hess. f. Lamb. stage
manager. The Great Romantic and
Dramatic Irish Drama aside: Ora
matte drama Most unusually ARA n
Ma Pogue or The Wicklow Wedding.
| The cast is the strongest ever given
to any piece in this city. including 7.
| Fl. Glenny as Shaun the Post and all
| the principal actors i'm Growers Star
I Company"
This reminds me- though it has not
| been out of my mind, that | have
letter which will turn the thoughts of
some persons To another time. Here
! il is:
My Dear Rambler: | take the lih-
erty of addressing you. as the photo
graph of Growers Theater in last Sun
days Star impressed me greatly.
aside: The Rambler also wrote story
which the photograph embellishedt
( My father Michael Geary. occupied
the upper part Of the building during
and for a time after the Civil War as
billiard room and bar. Those days
the highest men in the land came t.
this resort. as homes did not have the
| billiard room. 1t was our special priv
| ilege to occupy the balcony whenever
I - . hot
family witnessed the grand review in
| 1865. \ long time ago, but ii Is
vivid | was in my ninth year and
! can hear now the great events nap
pening then. especially the assassina-
! tion Of Lincoln.
Il remain very respectfully,
MARGARET MAY.
"l36 Que Street Northwest.
( In the hunt for an advertisement "f
| Brady's Gym ! found in The Star
| this advertisement October II, 1865.
| Of the theater which became the
| Comique then Kernan's I4yceum and
now the President:
! "Fenno and Maginley's Washington
| Theater. Eleventh Street near Pennsy r.
vania Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. j. W.
Florence. Handy Andy and the Young
| Actress.
also came upon this horse race
| item: THE race at BladensburG Tues
day. October 10 uS65l. between the
| roam mare Prince George, owned by j.
Steele, and the sorrel mare Josephine.
owned by F.. Goodman. for 5000, dis
tance. 500 yards. time % seconds. was
won by the sorrel mare Josephine ny
half length in fine style.
Near that item was an advertise
ment which copy for the ladies. The
Rambler desires nothing else so much
| as to please the ladies: win the
ladies'" would be just phrase. but
Jealous husbands would want to fight.
Here it is:
Mrs. A. NJ Knott respectfully an
nounces TO the ladies of Washington
and other vicinities that she has re
turned home with the Fall Fashions.
Artistic dressmaking i'm all it's Varfe-
ties. cut to fit the form with unerr-
ing accuracy and symmetrical pro
portions"