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wood, Michael Koran, Johanna Col
Inns, Jacob B. Miller, John Terry,
Honora Murphy Henry Kellum,
Johanna O'Brien, Lewis j. JeWett
Hiram NJ. Wadsworth, Henry r..
Searle, James Foley, John II. Gleason,
Nicholas Caffrey, John Ryan, Eugene
and Mary Sullivan, Marshall Clark,
Samuel Johnson. Charles Edelin,. Cath.
crime Brosnehan, Theophil Twomey
and John Donnelly. The lot owners
in that square sound to me like
Democratic majority. In 1894 the
owners were: Thomas Law, William
Gunston Edward Simms, w. t. FL
lott, VIM. c. Austin, Judson Milstead
and Bank of Washington. In 1874
the main structure on the square was
the Sugar House and the lot owners
were: Thomas Law, Thomas Coate,
Clement r. Coate. Franklin Whar-
tons heirs, Griffith Coombe, James
White, William Peter. Charles Glover
dots and 81, Samuel Elliot jr. S heirs
and w. c. Orr's heirs. In 1927 the
owners were: Thomas Law, James
Peary, Walter HELEN, John Eden and
Daniel Jennifer.
1 will take one more square with
the hope of tipping a name that VIII
give you a thrill. Let 1t be square
SOL, between NJ, n, Third and Fourth.
now within the Navy Yard and COW
cred with war iron. The lot owners
in 1879 were: Catherine A Maddox,
Alvin N. Meeker, Alexander w.
Eaton, Thomas RI. G.. Todd, William
e. Howard, George b. Smith, John W.
Woodward. Isaac Cross and Sarah
Jane Cross. The District of Column
bia Tobacco warehouse was standing
on the square. In 1854 the owners
were: Katherine A. NJ. Maddox. Rich
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CUTTING THE WOOD For " AsHINcroNs FIREpLAcEs

cords capacity, loaded to their water
lines with cordwood for Washington s
use.
The holds of the boats are packed
to capacity with cordwood while the
decks are piled high with fuel. One
explanation of the present-day high
prices of wood is the fact that so
much hand labor is involved in its
preparation for retail use. Trees are
felled, logged and split into cordwood
by hand The wood is hauled by
wagon or motor truck to the loading
wharf. There it is handled by hand
from vehicle to boat. On arrival at
Washington, it is unioaded and placed
in enormous piles to season Six to
seven months later 1t is hauled to
the saws where ii is cut into stove
and fireplace lengths. In some cases
the fuel is handled six to eight times
by hand, before it finally is consumed
in some Washington fireplace. This
repeated re-handling pyramids the
ultimate retail price.
The largest Washington wood yard
owns large tracts of timber on the
Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers.
1t hires choppers to cut this wood
each Winter and teamsters to haul
it to loading yards Rt the company's
wharves. Last Summer this establish
ment operated five wood boats which
it owns and sails. as we'll as Is others
which it hires for fuel transportation
purposes in hauling between 5000
and 5000 cords of oak, pine and hick-
DRY cordwood to the National Capt.
tai, The greater part of this wood
is sold in wholesale quantities to fuel
dealers in all sections of the city. Cut
and split wood is also provided TO
wood peddlers who serve regular
routes throughout Washington.
x \
THE wood shed where the screech
of saws and the thuds of auto
matte axes are the bass and soprano
notes of our fuel preparation anthem
is most interesting place. Four sta
tionery saws operated by steam power
race like lightning through the sea-
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ard Barry, Juliana H. Barry, Thomas
Howard. Corporation of Washington
Downing the tobacco warehouse),
George B. Smith, Daniel Carroll, Sam
ue Davis. John George Adams and
Griffith Coombe. Catherine Maddox
was the largest owner, her lots being
to 9. inclusive; "a TO 81. inclusive, and
81 and go In 1924 the owners were:
Griffith Coombe, William r. Maddox
and Daniel Carroll of Duddington.
Most Of the lots were owned by Car
roll, and I understand that he would
have sold any lot, even one facing NJ
street. 1t was believed once that M
street would become what Broadway
and the Strand are to two small
towns. There was no thought that there
would be more traffic at Fifteenth
street and New York avenue than
at NJ and South Capitol The mag
mates of Southeast Washington could
not believe that a street so far in
the country as Connecticut avenue
would be buster than M southeast.
AS for Fourteenth and Park road be-
coming a lively neighborhood, it was
not thought of The Indians had not
been driven from that part of the
country and travellers were often
chased by wolves. In the late seven
ties and eighties one of the exciting
things on M street was that you
could watch pass a little street car
pulled by one horse. During the rush
hours one would pass, travelling from
west Seventh street to Anacostia,
every half hour.
l called on my friend. Frederick Z.
Woodward, to help me out with this
story by supplying the photographs.
Fred photographed most of the old
houses in South Washington years
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much heating value as one pound OF
good coal. On this basis. one ton OF
coal is equivalent in heating value
to one cord of heavy wood, one and
one-half cords of medium wood or
two cords of light wood. Eighty
cubic feet of seasoned wood with n
moisture content ranging from 10 to
20 per cent equals one ton of coal
in heating value. The heavy woods
are hickory. oak. beech. birch, hard
maple ash. elm, cherry, locust and
longleaf pine. The medium weight
woods consist of rec gum, western
hemlock. sycamore, snft maple ana
shortleaf pine. while the light woods
are cedar poplar, redwood. cypress
Eastwood, spruce and white pine.
The fuel value of wood depends in
MANY cases not alone upon it's heat
ing power. but also upon such quail
ties as easy ignition. rapid burning.
freedom from smoke and uniform
heat. AS a rule, softwoods burn
more readily than hardwoods and
light woods more readily than heavy
woods. The pines give a quicker
hotter fire and are consumed IN
shorter time than birch. while birch
gives a more intense flame than oak
on the other hand, however, oak
wood provides a very steady and de
pendable heat.
From the viewpoint of industry
the manufac turers of wooden prod
ucts often overestimate the fuel
value of lumber wasted in cutting
operations. The fuel value of waste
from lumber is generally not more
than 81 ger cent of that of COAL Tor
the by-product material is inferior
in heat production 70 marketable
cordwood.
You can understand why many
manufacturers burn coal instead Of
waste wood when you study the tol-
lowing figures, which come from the
United states Forest Service. one
thousand board feet, or approximate
Nv $500 pounds. of waste from OAK
lumber will have a fuel value
equivalent to that of 1850 pounds Of
coal. If the coal WHOLESALERS at $3.50
a ton the fuel value of 1000 board
feer of oak would be 1886. But the
oak lumber from which these waste
cuttings came probably cost the
manufacturer S62.50 per 1000 board
feet. The cost of the oak waste as
| fuel then. is about eight times that
of coal. while the handling charge
| in the furnace room is greater Tor
wood waste than for coal The fuel
value of wood waste is not usually
great enough to Offset the freight
charges to move it from mill 10 rae
| tory.
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nges in Southeast Washington Are Shown by Rambler

/ will and desire that my negro woman
Nina shall live with her, wait on and
take care of and treat kindly my said
old faithful negro LYDIA so long as she
shall live.
TENT is my will and desire that
my executor shall hire out somewhere
in the country my negro man Robert,
and pay the proceeds of his hire regu-
larly to my two daughters, Mary Ellen
Addison and Clara, the same to be
divided equally between them.
Item will and desire that my
children will provide some small but
comfortable house for my old, faithful
servant LYDIA, to live in so long as
she survives and / will and desire my
daughters, Mary Ellen Addison and
Clara, to apply and appropriate so
much of the funds arising from the
hire of Robert as they may think nee
essary. to the support of old LYDIA
1t is my will and desire that my
beloved children and heirs will, after
my decease, have the burial ground
handsomely paled In as token of re-
spect and veneration."
John Addison, Jr., was named in the
will as executor.
GAMUEL n. SMALLWOOD appears
~ in the District land records several
times between 1902 and 1920. His first
purchase of land was in 1902 In that
year he bought from Robert Brown
a lot in the square between l., old
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Gen. William Smallwood and served
% months with him, including the
Germantown and Brandywine cam
paigns, and spending the memorable
Winter with the army of Washington
at Valley Forge.
II have been aware of the fact that
Gen. William Smallwood died at the
woodward, and if you will get out
one of your Geological Survey maps
you will find the woodward called
Woodward on the road map) on the
road that runs from Piscataway and
Clinton to Marlboro. This house was
one of the most celebrated Maryland
colonial houses and was built by Col.
Henry Darnall, who married a daugh-
ter of the second Lord Baltimore and
was surveyor general of the colony.
He secured a grant for some six thou
sand acres along Rock Creek and
now embraced in the National Park
and also d grant of many acres be-
tween here and Annapolis. including
Mount Airy (the Dover Housed and
Poplar HILL woodward house was
burnt about 1854 and a smaller house
now stands on it's site and built from
the old bricks.
THE road above referred to was, a
hundred and fifty and two hundred
years ago, the main artery of travel
between the North and South, the
Potomac being crossed at Piscataway
and there by stage to Annapolis,
where a boat was taken to the head
of Elk River. and by stage again to
Newcastle. 1 believe the Sewells
owned Poplar Hill. opposite Wood
yard. and now in possession of some
of the Daingerfields.
You may find in the Congressional
Library a Life of Gen. Nathaniel
Greene who was in command of the
Continental Army in South Carolina
and Georgia during the latter years
of the Revolutionary War, and
Smallwood served in that campaign.
There is nothing in history that com.
pares with the vicissitudes and hard
ships suffered by the American ARMY
during these memorable years. but
with wonderful perseverance they per
sisted against great odds until victor
ious.
Henry Darnall left many children
and his descendants are numerous In
this vicinity.
Yours truly,
JAMES F. DUHAMEL."
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@ HE will of Ruth Smallwood
shows her feeling for her
slaves and names bits of per
sonal property-silver sugar
bowl etc.-which she thought
a great deal Of Those things may
have been left her by her parents.
They may have heen In the family for
generations. They may have been
associated with her early years as
wife and mother. She was careful Of
them and bequeathed them TO her
children, Clara Smallwood and Mary
Ellen Addison. Women understand
how many memories may hang about
a cream pitcher or pair OF sugar
tongs.
The Rambler assumes that Ruth
SmalIwood was the widow of Samuel
Nichols Smallwood, lumber merchant
and Eastern Branch wharf owner,
who died in 1924 and left an estate
Of large value. His widow, Ruth,
and son, William A. were admins.
traitors. / have not found the will
or the administration case of William,
and / assume chat he did not die in
Washington, but / do not warrant
that my search was complete. me
viii of Ruth shows that the wealth
beoueathed by Samuel n. Smallwood
TO his widow and son decreased, and
nothing is extraordinary in that 1t
ia an old story. Ruth's will was
signed October q. 1896, and offered to
the court for proof November s, 1886.
The witness was Darcy A. French
You will get more comfort from read
ing the will than reading my COM
ment on it, so the will follows
''Item-It is my will and request
that NV daughter Clara SHOULD ii be
her wish) shall sell and dispose of
her house and lot on Eleventh street
and purchase with the proceeds
thereof the house and lot now in my
possession on Seventh street, with
The lot contiguous thereto. that she
NAV secure to herself a comfortable
home and dwelling. and l desire and
request that the rest of my children
and heirs viii consent TO it,
II give and bequeath TO nay daugh-
ter clara one Of my best beds, bed
steade matrass and furniture at
fachad TO il, that l leave at my death,
10 he selected by herself: also my sill
,,ar smear dish, silver sugar tongues,
silver cream jug, half dozen silver
dining spoons, eight silver teaspoons
one nair of lookingglasses to be chosen
hv herself, also my piano and claw
footed table. also my large Bible and
my two trunks. one large and a
small one.
"IYRnl--l
eyecntor hereinafter named. as soor
after my death as convenient viii
sell and dispose Of my negro CIR
Harriet now aged about is years, To
some good master or mistress in the
District of Columbia, and not to any
one living outside the District, Il
serve as a slave the period of 10 years
from the time of my death, and NJ
longer. after which period I will tbs
said negro girl Harriet 10 be free and
set ar liberty, being DESTROYS to re
ward her for her fidelity to me, and
wish and desire my executor L
apply the proceeds arising from the
sale Of negro Harriet for the tern
aforesaid TO the payment. first, of my
funeral expenses and the balance Il
the payment Of my just debts.
'Item-I will my negro woman
Nina free from the time of my de
cease. and desire that she may be sci
at liberty Immediately thereafter.
also will and desire 'hat my old negro
woman LYDIA shall he free and set al
liberty from the time of my death AM
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belt as it ascends to the second floor
Of the wood house.
The delivery of these blocks is con-
| trolled by special levers. They can be
diverted into tributary conveyors,
which dump them into the wagons of
| the hucksters in the street below by
means Of inclined chutes, or else they
can be deposited in front Of the me-
| chanical axes. These automatic axes
| split them into kindling wood and
small sticks for use in stoves or fire.
| places. The split wood is delivered
| at the mouth of a chute whence ii
| can be dumped readily into the carts,
wagons and trucks Of the fuel buck
sters,
The mechanical axes consist Of
, keen-cutting bars which are operated
| by accessory belt driven wheels. Each
AK delivers a short, sharp stroke
against the block of wood as II is
| held on end by the machine attend
ant. He changes the position Of the
| block rapidly as the ak delivers three
or four strokes and splits the block
| into as many sticks Of fuel. Machine
| power works three to four times as
| rapidly as could a champion chopper
| while it is untiring and continues at
| the same swift working speed day
after day.
The only products Of the wood.chop-
| ping shed which are not marketed
are the sawdust and debris which ac-
cumulate around the quartet of steel
| bladed saws. These materials are
not wasted. They are used as fuel
| in firing the 40-horsepower boiler
| which develops the steam power with
! which to saw and chop more wood.
| In addition to the stationary saws, a
portable wood saw, operated by means
| Of a gasoline engine on wheels, is
used at this commercial woodward in
| preparing fireplace and furnace woods
| for the use of Washington home
owners.
In addition to the fuel supplies
which are delivered 10 the woOdyards
in Southwest and Southeast Wash
ington by sailboats from the down
river country. large amounts of cord
wood also are disseminated through
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Vacuum DiStillation.

L IsING the nearest perfect vacuum
yet obtained for distilling crude
oils. a new method of producing
gasoline has been developed which is
said works much more efficiently
than the older processes, in which
the vacuum feature was less highly
developed.
The crude oil is first stepped up
from 140 degrees Fahrenheit to $50
degrees and then heated still more
until it reaches AIS degrees. Then 1t
is discharged into the high vacuum
chamber. which is specially braced
on the inside to prevent collapse. In
this process it is passed through 10
banks of tubes. in a stream only
Il Inch thick and at speed of about
20 feet per minute. When the crude
oil, heated to this high degree.
comes under the vacuum, about Is
per cent of 1t Is said to flash of at
once into Vapor.
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| ing l had left my tools--fountain pen
and eyeglasses-at the shop, and
when / got there the II o'clock whistle
blew and 1t was necessary to go to
lunch. After lunch I forgot what 1t
was | had been loOkin,. for in the rec
| ords and then sat down to write this
story.
1t was when Mr.. Smallwood began
to make money in the lumber bust
ness on the Eastern Branch that he
began TO have a great many friends
and ii also seems that at about the
time he began to make money in the
lumber business a great many per-
sons discovered that he had political
talent and would make an excellent
mayor. He was a good mayor, but
nobody suspected his talent in that
direction until he began to make
| money in the lumber business on the
Eastern Branch. Before he began
to make money most persons con.
sidered him a very ordinary fellow
but when he began to make money
in the lumber business very large
number of persons discovered that he
was a man of parts, capable of sit
ting high In the councils of the city
and of entering it's social life. Not
all of them that made this discovery
dwelt in the Suburb, or the poor dis
trict of Rome, nor voted for the
Democratic leader, Marius, nor ran
| with the mobs of Milo and Clodius.
Many that rushed to shake Small
woods hand and grin their pleasure
| lived on the Palatine Hill and traV-
eled in a Thurman litter-the Brew
ster buggy of its time-with lictors
TO light their way And some of
them wore claVus latus, or wide
purple band, on their tunic.
MANY changes have been made in
A'A the part of Southeast Washing
ton / have In my minds eye. From
NJ street to the Eastern Branch, and
east of where James Creek passed
under a wood bridge on M street,
all is Navy Yard piled with relic
metal. Two of the squares taken for
the Navy Yard extension were No.
500, between n, old Georgia avenue,
Third and Fourth, and No. III, be-
tween N, old Georgia avenue, Second
and Third The owners in square SO2
were. in 1879, Laura S. Blagden, Zadoc
Williams, Mary Williams, Nancy Mat
tingly, Christiana A. jolly and George
b. Smith; in 1854, Thomas Blagden,
| John Price, Griffith CoOmbe, w. T.
! Wheat and George r. Smith; in 1874
/ this square is missing from the book
! looked n, ana In lbUA LiIc#OW4lCt5 NNAS
! Daniel Carroll of Duddington, Il. Mes
NTH, Thomas Wheat, Joseph Wheat
| and James r. Dermott's heirs.
| In square I'll the owners were, IN
| 1879, Leon Williams Guinand, Isaac
! Cross, Ann Beach, Enoch M. Norris.
The square was occupied by wharf
| Commands wharf. coal sheds and the
| Columbia Pottery. In 1854 the owners
Were Griffith Coombe, William Spell
den, George and Ann Bean, William
! S. Colquehoun and George Sanford:
| in 1924 by Barry & Coombe (whose
wharf and warehouse were there), r..
3. Caldwell, George Sanford, ELI
Cross, Bank of Washington and 49,
Foyles in 1927 by John Craig, Ben
jamin Waters, Thomas Law and Dan
| iel Carroll.
! have before me square No. 744,
between N and o. First and Second
southeast. The owners were: 1879
M Holloran, A. Fl. F. Holster, John
Mcmahon, Timothy Brosnan. John
Egan, John Fitzgerald, David Fitz-
gerald, Matthew Ash, Jonathan Kirk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
SACCO FRIENDS BUSY
Leave No Stone Unturned to
Save Clients.

BOSTON. Aug. 18.-Plans for
speedy last-minute efforts to save
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo
Vanzetti from the electric chair if
the Massachusetts Supreme Court
rules against them were completed
today.
Michael Angelo Musmanno of
Pittsburgh, defense counsel, ex-
pected to leave soon for Washing
ton. If the States highest courts
decision is adverse, he will file with
the United States Supreme Court a
petition for writ Of certiorari.
Granting of such writ would
bring before the Supreme Court for
review, the complete record OF the
case.
Because the scheduled execution
of Sacco and Vanzetti is now only
five days away, it was believed that
an appeal to the nations highest
court would be followed closely by
application to an individual member
of that bench or a stay of execution.
1t was reported such application
would be made to Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes, on vacation at
Beverly farms. A week ago he re-
fused writ of habeas corpus.
Sacco and Vanzetti were reported
fairly optimistic. Another protest
meeting had been announced for to-
night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
SLOT MACHINE
WAR CONTINUES
Six More Arrests Made
Wednesday Night.

Continuing their drive against
slot machines in poolrooms, drug
stores and soft drink parlors, police
and deputy sheriffs arrested six
more persons for operating gaming
devices Wednesday night.
The arrests brought the total up
to twenty-four. The same number
of machines were confiscatde.
A squad of police under Lieut.. r.
A. Pope arrested Carl Frandorfer,
"a, 2972 N. Sherman Dr.. and Ernest
r. Marker, 40, 500 E. McCarty st.
Robert French, Pendleton Pike
and the Fl. Harrison Rd., and E.
Pugh, FIT. Harrison Rd. and the
Big Four railroad tracks, were ar
rested by deputy sheriffs. Two 9TH
ers we're arrested by the deputies,
but names had not been given to
Sheriff Omer Hawkins. Charles
Moody, 38, of 1877 Barth Ave-, also
was arrested for operating a base
ball pool.
Cases of nine of the seventeen
arrested Tuesday a few hours after
a Times reporter began an investi-
CATION in the city controllers Office
of the large number of vending ma
chine licenses issued this year, were
continued to Sept. IA.
They will be heard b. Municipal
Judge Pro TEN. Henry Winkler.
Judge Pro Tenn. James Rockford
will hear the others Sept. %.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18
DECLARE LAND
RECLAIMED BY
U. S. is PAYING
Interior Department Claims
Better Record Than
Nature.
Times Wdshin0ton Bureau.
1922 NetD York Avenue

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.-Nature
may have some tolerably good farm
land, but so has the Interior De-
partment.
Crops on government reclamation
projects averaged $45 per acre ins
1926, compared with only $40 aver
age per acre for the ten principal
crops grown elsewhere through the
nation.
The Interior Department was
quick with the information follow
ing what was interpreted as an at
tack on the reclamation system by
Secretary of Agriculture Jardine.
Jardine Began Debate
Jardine in an article in the Farm
Journal, asserted, "We should not
spend millions to put more desert
and swamp land into cultivation
when land chat is good as nature
made it yields an unsatisfactory re-
turn"
While declining to be quoted in
opposition to Jardine, Interior De-
partment officials in charge of rec
lamation appeared nothing loath to
submit the following facts and fig
ures:
In the last six years more than
100000 farmers have abandoned
their land "aS nature made it" and
hied themselves to cities, but rec
lamation farmers increased in num-
Der from 127,654 in 1923 to about
100000 in 1926.
Natures Land Doesn't Pay
Cultivated farm land "as nature
made it" decreased 100000 acres
from 1920 to 1925, but the number
of reclamation farms increased from
S4,co33s in 1928 to 1880 in 1925 and
new areas are being opened for
entry every month.
Farmers of land "as nature made
it" are virtually bankrupt, but
farmers on reclamation projects
have actually increased their pay
ments to the government from
$1,780,oO0 in 1921 to $2,66S,000 in
1926.
All of which may play part in
the farm relief debate due in the
coming Congress. 1t has been
claimed more than once that recla-
nation farmers ere, in effect, being
subsidized by the Government. 1t be-
ing pointed out that, despite the in
creased payments to the government
the reclamation installments were
about 100000 in arrears at the
end of 1925, the government carry
ing the reclamation farmers by so
much on the books.