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largely responsible for the success
of the recent reunions.
Joseph ~. Saunders, vice president
of the District Washington and Law
yers' Title Insurance Co, is one of
the boys of whom the clas SIS is proud.
and the same applies to Albert F..
Shoemaker, an attorney for the Anti
Saloon League.
Those whom the class regards as
exceptionally successful in the bust
ness world include Howard l.. Wilkins,
senior member of the firm of wilkins
& Rogers, operating a -four mill in
Georgetown; Paul Cromlein, phono-
graph pioneer and one OF the principal
officers in the Columbia Phonograph
Co, and Frank Mack, buyer for one
of the largest local department stores.
Miss Evelyn b. Hodge in this city
and Ben r. Welch In Philadelphia
achieved enviable regulations as capa-
BILE real estate operators.
There are many others, but that
is a long enough list to show the
caliber of the men and women who
made UP our class, and who have
brought credit to themselves and their
school III the twoscore years that
have passed since they studied side
by side.
Mrs. Sally Harper, an active y. A
r. worker; Mrs. Margaret Campbell
Buell., present historian Of the class;
Miss Anna Mae At Lee, Mrs. Katherine
Hogan Roman. Clarence Il. Cranmer
and John B. Torbert should be espe-
cially mentioned as having been largely
instrumental in keeping the class
together through the years.
Asked If those who had succeeded
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Paper of Bamboo

WILL the worlds supply of paper
pulp be derived from the bamboo
forests of the tropics instead of being
drawn from the forests of the tenn.
perate zones? A tentative affirmative
answer to this question could be made
by a paper mill which has recently
made very satisfactory experiments
with bamboo pulp at its scientific sta
ton near Kobe, Japan.
This company has the utmost con-
fldence in the results of it's expert
ments with bamboo pulp 1t has been
granted perpetual lease of 5000
acres of bamboo forest in Formosa and
is engaged near Kagi in installing
the machinery for a plant with
capacity OF 800 tons of bamboo pulp a
month, and the capacity can easily
be enlarged to 500 tons a month.
The making of paper from bamboo
is no recent discovery. For genera
tons the Chinese have carried on this
industry in their homes, but their
methods are exceedingly crude, no
chemicals entering into their proc
esses The Chinese use only bamboo
shoots, for the evident reason that
the shoots can be more readily worked
up.
The japanese company contemplates
making use of all kinds of bamboo.
young and old. of which there Is an
unlimited supply. particularly variety
called "kei chiku.' The question of
the supply of raw material will never
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7 7 might be expected that a high
school raduating class which re
ceived its diplomas from the
i President of the United States
had the Marine Band provide
music at its commencement exercises
and used the large t auditorium in the
city for that event would turn out to
be an exceptional class. The expecta-
ton has been fulfilled in the case of
the Washington High School class of
1886, which yesterday held its forty.
first annual reunion. thus setting a
record for an unhroken string Of such
events among the graduates of a
Washington public school.
The members Of the class received
their certificates Of graduation from
President Grover Cleveland before a
capacity audience in Albaughs s Opera
Eouse. now Polls Theater. and at that
time the hall with the largest seating
accommodation in the District.
As each of the more than 200 stu
dents of the class stepped across the
f'ower-deckcd stage to receive his
parchment on the afternoon of June
J6, II years ago, he felt that it was
almost imperative that he keep in
touch with his classmates-not let the
tides Of time and circumstance tear
the group totally apart and destroy
the collective strength that comes
from youthful unity of purpose.
Such sensations were not new. They
have been part of the growing
pains" Of every graduate since time
imnem0rial. But the thing which was
remarkable about the purposes in this
instance was that they did not ole
with the hour The lived and bore
fruit as can he seen in the fact that
last wear. 80 years after graduation,
about I00 members of the class Of Sc.
practically All alive and dwelling in
the city, attended their annual re
union
As is usual in circumstances Of this
kind. Il Was the carly leaders of The
class who were mainly responsible for
its subsequent success. of course.
without the cooperation of the others,
the efforts of the officers would have
bcen futile. but they initiated the re-
union movement. And the one man
who deserves as much credit as any
o. for the time-defying unification of
the class of 'S5 is Charles II. Bates.
its first president. Mr.. Bates is now
q we'll known local lawyer. Yet the
class Of SO still means so much 10 him
Wat he cheerfully took time from his
business rush" hours to tell some of
the details of its interesting history.
Going back to the afternoon of grad
nation. Mr. Bates recalled that in ad-
dition to being thrilled by receiving
their diplomas from President Cleve-
land the class was deeply moved by
the stirring address delivered by Dan
iel Colt Gilman, at the time president
of Johns Hopkins University and one
of the country's foremost educators.
Prof. Gilman concluded his speech
with the popular quotation from the
Koran:
lie who knows not and knows not he knows
not. he i fool-shun him.
He who knows not and knows he knows not.
he is sinIple-tcach him;
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Steel.Clad Pavement.
THERE is an ingenious form {

THERE is an ingenious form OF
pavement employing asphalt OF
cemert covered with steel plates. This
embodies some interesting features.
The foundation Is made in much
the same manner as that for any
other kind of permanent pavement.
the concrete varying in thickness
from four to six inches. according to
the condition of the subsoil. Upon
this concrete basis is set the combined
curb and gutter. after which the pave
ment is laid thereon. which consists
Of layer of cement concrete four
inches thick and upon this is spread
steeI-clad wearing surface of from one
to two inches in thickness, according
TO traffic.
For the heaviest traffic the steel.
clad asphalt is chiefly recommended.
While the first cost is considerably
more than for an ordinary pavement.
the difference in price is. il is said.
saved many times because Of the sa7.
ing in maintenance charges and be-
cause of the greater dura bility OF the
pavement.
1t is claimed that there is no traf.
fic too heavy for tbs pavement and
that il is particularly adapted for use
around warehouses. milk ana produce
depots. railway sta lions, yards,
stables. CARA ges--in fact. any place
wher~ the strongest and most durable
kind nf pavement is desired. The
Other variety of tlis paNemeEt, steei.
clad cement. is designed for use in
small cities and towns where traffic
is light and wiere the cost Is i'm.
portank
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and-a-Half street. On January % it
was ordered that two other soup
houses be opened. one in the fourth
ward and the other in the sixth
| found this in The Star, Jan. 2s.
1869: mo Money.-The teachers of
our public schools will. we are sorry
to say. fail to receive their salaries
for the month of January, the reason
being no money.
The new Medical Hall of the Medical
Society of the District, + and Tenth
street, was dedicated January 2S,
1869. Those named as taking part in
the ceremony were: DR.. Thomas Mil
Ter. Rev. Dr. Pinckney. Drs. W. Z.
johnson, j. NJ. Toner, &. Fl. Leiber-
man. Grafton Tyler and A. F.. A. King.
The cost of the building was $13 900.
1t was three stories. The first story
was stores. the second story a lecture
room and library, and the third story
was for lodging rooms. with an en-
trance to the boarding house to
which they are attached
There was Grand Masquerade
and Fancy Dress Ball" Of the Jour
nermeu Bookbinders Society at Ood
Fellows Hall February ,. lS69. The
committee of arrangements was: 4.
~ IibiiCAs CNilIt ''tIttiNO1E TIT. II.
Bishop. r. ON. May, James +. Bul-
lock, William Clarkson and Frank
Siehert.
On February |. 1869. all conductors
on the Seventh street railway were
dismissed. The Star said: NO charge
was made against them, many of
whom have been several years with
the road and are great fayorites with
the public. 1t is stated that their
places are to be filed by New
Workers. The conductors let out
were: John Tucker, Nick Porter. NJ
Goddard. Robert Spates. Henry
Oysterhouse, Edward Holey, Richard
Goddard and Lewis Rosenberg. and
these extra mem: Thomas Levens.
Clinton Thomas. j. Worden, James
knight and Charles Riger.
LA Coterie Carnival" was held at
Marinis Assembly Rooms February
4, 1859 Little folk and grownups
danced in character and | found these
names and characters in The Star:
Sam. brother of Dundreary. James Y.
Davis. jr.: King Charles III, II, b..
Cole: Harlequin, George w. Calvert;
English Clown. Charles +. Wurder
man: Polish Gentleman, W. Scott
Smith; One Hundred Years Ago, John
Hitz; Lo. the Poor Indian, p. r.
Evans; King George Ill. John Altman:
Street Sweeper, Charles Schaeffer:
Fop. George Lamborn; Postillion de
Longemaux, w. j. Bennett; Cook, DIR.
H. 3. Noble: Rhoderick Dhu. w. E.
Johnson; Hamlet. Herman Selegson:
Spanish Cavalier, Theodore w. Noyes,
Country Parsons Mr.. Lansburg: Old
Rooster. H. Sel1lKen; Pantaloon. John
j. Bogue;4 Gen Grant. l.. Moxley;
and Friaa4 Thomas E. Lloyd. Capt.
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Washington High School Glass Has Record of fl Reunions

in after-life had been the ones who
had been the brightest" in school,
Mr.. Bates replied that he believed
they were. He asserts that az be
meets his ella assmates today he finds
in them the same old qualities that
were manifest in school days. He be-
lieves that the characteristics which
make or break a man crop out in
boyhood.
When they meet around a banquet
table the surviving members OF the
increasing gray hairs or the Santa
Claus" boards. declares Mr.. Bates. but
they see 1.-The same luster in the eye.
the same brightness of the smile. the
same beaming of the soul through it's
mask Of clay" that calls back the
time when they were all physically
perfect specimens Of untried strength
and limitless faith In their own
futures"
To an outsider it seems incredible
the influence OF those three years OF
less in high school upon the personnel
Of the class Of sc. Looking back. Mr..
Bates said that during the first FIVE
years after they left school il was GUS
tOmary to speak of their classroom!
days as Of Il remote era. When the"
meet now, school experiences are
spoken Of as if they occurred only
yesterday. It is necessary to stop
and think:
Forty yearS--d comprehensive Pc
riod in the life of any individual.
Forty years-long enough TO see the
ambitions of youth fulfilled. Its dreams
realized. its illusions discarded. Forty
years--in prospect an endless con. In
retrospect a swift day of dreaming.
Forty years-a time Of testing too
severe for some-and to have come
through its dangers. its heartaches,
its triunphs and it's inevitable dis.
couragements with the same love of
life and the same companions with
whom one started is 10 have accom-
plished something decidedly distinc-
tive. That is the unique achievement
Of the class Of sc. which can now
knowingly say what Mr.. Bates, as its
poet in 1896. said: Father Time, we
know thou hast virtues redeeming."
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upon their third term in 1886 be eligi-
bic for membership"
Former District Commissioner and
Ms. Lemon G. Hine We're made the
first honorary members OF the class.
Their daughter Mary, now Mrs. J.
Ramsay Nevitt. graduated in SO. and
their home. Prospect Hill, Ecking-
ton. was the scene of most of the
early rcLnions.
III addition to the Hine residence.
various hotels and private homes in
Washing ton have been used for their
annual party" and this year the
class met in the Women's Cit Club.
In 1925 the only out-of-town reunion
was held, when the "old grads jour
neyed to Philadelphia as the guests
of Ben T. Welch. who had nsved to
the Quaker City and who was anxious
to have some friends of high school
DAYS help him spend some of his
substance in riotous living"
The reunion itself was held i'll the
Benjamin Franklin Hotel. and proved
more than usually enjoyable. Mr.
Welc.l betrayed all the expenses OF
those who attended, including trans
portation in special Pullman cars OF
more than so Washingtonians who
made the trip. Several men and
women came from other places in the
East, and many took advantage OF
their hosts invitation to remain an
extra day and join him in sight-see-
ing tour of the city.
X !; y
ONE reason why the class OF 1856
" has held together so we'll is that
II has been the good luck OF those
who comnose ii to grow up intellec-
tualIy with each other. So many high
school classes are made up of people
who outgrow their associates in after
years. The capacity and performance
of about half the class increases i'm.
mensely, while that of the other hair
increases very little. il at all. with
the result that the two have no in
terests in common. Not so with the
class of 1886. It's members look for
ward from year to year to their re-
union. and if circumstances take them
out of the city or prevent their at
tendance, they go to the trouble OF
writing messages, which are read to
their more fortunate friends.
Like the famous Annapolis class OF
1881, that boasts of such men as Ad'
miral Wilson, Admiral kato and
former Secretary of War Weeks. the
Washington high school class OF 1886
numbers several men and women on
its rolls who have achieved proml-
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amber Revives Echoes of Busy Washington in Days of 1869

and enthusiasm in Washington. but
there was no rush to put up money
to build the road. The Point of Rocks
Railroad was under discussion. This
was to give connection with the main
line of the Baltimore & Ohio by
building a line from Washington
west If you wanted to spend Sun
day at Harpers Ferry, you took L
train from Washington to Relay
House and thence west. There were
two or three steam packets" on the
canal between Georgetown and Har-
pers Ferry, but canal travel was not
swift.
"Reslrrectionists" helped to make
news in 1869. Police sometimes in
terrupted grave robbing and some
times captured a wagon at midnight
bearing bodies from cemetery to a
medical college. Body snatchins
was carried on surely irto the 90s.
In 1869 the Washington City Canal
was getting OH the nerves OF our peo-
pie. There were demands that it be
decpened to aid the health and trade
Of the Metropolis and there were
some persons 50 extreme in their
views as to say that the confounded
thing ought to be filled up. Simply
uiIPu NOulH iibL DG CiIoUBl IL illuSt
be filled up"
This is from The Star of January
II. 1863: AT a late meeting of the
National Base Ball Club of this city
the following officers were chosen for
the ensuing year; Col. Frank Jones
president: Col William G.. Moore, first
vice president; John l.. Pfau. second
vice president; James Patterson, re-
cordinG secretary; John -. Hyer, cor.
responding secretary; James t.
Waugh, treasurer; Joseph Y. Potts,
scorer; A. X. Benner, A. u. German.
r. r. French and +, J. Evarson. Iii.
rectOrS. -
January 13. 1863; "Fenian Mass
Meeting at a meeting of Fenians at
Odd Fellows Hall last evening Gen
John O'Neill, president of the F'enian
brotherhood: James Gibbons, vice
president: Capt. w. J. Haynes and
Hames Lackey. preceded by military
company dressed In green, comman
ed by Lieut.. James Wilson. entered
the hall amid tremendous applause,
At the same time Prof. Malone q
brass band struck up an appropriate
air."
Stockholders of the Washington &
Georgetown Street Railway Co. elect.
ed the following directors January 13,
1863: Silvanus =. Riker, Henry Hart,
James McKenna. Maltby G. Lane and
Allen Mitchell of New York. William
Orme and Gilbert Vanderwerkin of
Washington. The directors reelected
Mr.. Riker president; Henry Hart, vice
president. and A. w. Nichols, secre.
tary and treasurer.
This was In The Star Thursday,
January IA, 1863: "Mr. Howe, who fell
from the slack rope Al the Canterbury
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=. NJ. Dubant. Col. Robert Boyd and
Joseph Pearson were in mask and
domino. Names OF the following little
misses and women. dressed in char
acter. were given in The Star; Miss
Halstead, Miss Anne Morgan. Mrs.
John Hitz, Miss Annie Dubant. Miss
Emma Evans, Miss S. Durell. Mrs.
H.. B. Cole, Mrs. Rosa Miles. Miss
Annie Riggles. Miss Ella Harvey, Miss
Doyle. Miss Lizzie Nalley. Mrs. j. III.
Reilley, Mrs. Glasscock, Mrs. A.
Bielaski. Mrs. Hubert. Mrs. G.. w,
Calvert. Mrs. Gen. Cayode. Miss Lima
Davis and Miss Marion Power.
y children's costume ball followed
the carnival Tuesday. February 9, at
Marini's. and the names or these chill
dren are before me: Harry Benson.
Hepburn Benson, Florence Dawson.
Thomas Mohun, Ward Mohun, Frank
Ward. James Ward, William Wills.
Ida Miller, Minnie Sheckels. Clara
Cole, Master Drawner, Master Nc
Falls, Lizzie McCallum. Annie Thorn
Miss Merryn1an. Addie Clagett, Lulu
May. Miss Burrows, Miss Loonis. An
drew Patterson, Annie Gaburri, Jen
nie Calvert. Charlie Hoover. Fannie
Bogus. Maurice Clagett, Arthur May,
Howard Clagett. Annie Harvey. Jen-
ME Harvey. Ernest May. Master Ken
dali. Master Hills, Bessie Huelings,
Miss l.. Blanchard. Master Miller.
Master McCallum, Ida Marshall, Liz
zie Marshall Mary Alexander. Ida
Graham, Emily Fox and Carrie Blan-
cllard.
St. Dominic's Church was building
in 1869. The Star, February IS, had
this:
st Dominic's New Church.
Tuesday evening next meeting will
he held to consider in what manner
the work on the new church can he
commenced the coming Spring. The
walls of the new eiifce are up, and
the desire IS to push the work go as
it will be under cover by the close OF
the year. This splendid church. prob
ably the finest in some respects in this
city. Is a credit to the Federal petrop-
oils"
THE remains of John Wilkes Booth
- were removed from the Arsenal
to Harry & Marr's undertaking rooms.
335 F street. Tuesday. February Is.
1869. A few days later the body was
taken to Baltimore and buried in the
Booth lot, Greennlount Cemetery. The
Star, February Il. said that Booths
body was buried in the wareroom of
the old pcnitentiary. Here it was
allowed to remain until the removal
of the penitentiary building having
been determined on, Booths remains.
as also the bodies of Mrs. Surratt.
Payne. f4elold. Atzerodt al Wirz.
were removed to No. . warehouse in
the Fall Of 1867. Booths body occu-
pied the lower end o4 the row-a
white painted board with the name
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Booth being nailed on top of the
box, where the body remained until
Yesterday Atzerodts bod" was
given to his brother. John c, Atzerodt,
and was buried in Glenwood.
A velocipede riding school was
opened in Carusi's Hall in February.
1869. "by the Hamilton Bros. of this
city. who have secured the services
of Mr.. c. b. Demorest Of New York
as instructor" The Star. February
20. said: The whole building is d2
voted To the purposes of the school,
and although it has been established
only three days already 2S scholars
are booked l make out that the
"velocipede' was a bicycle-one wheel
as high as man and the other wheel
a small one.
One of the shows in Washington in
1869 was white OK. named Gen.
Grant, which. according to the adver-
tigement. weighed 1000 pounds. The
OK was exhibited ION the reservation,
corner of Pennsylvania avenue and
Seventh street. Admission. % cents"
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pledge book OF the society during the
year-just one for every day."
The Schuetzen Versin Germania
gave its first anniversary ball in
Carusi's saloon, Eleventh and G
streets. January 5. The Star said:
THE festivities were kept up until
about O'Clock this morning. About
O'Clock a fine supper was served by
Mr.. Ed. Abner."
Two colored servants of the French
Minister. NJ. }. Berthemy. were found
dead in bed at the embassy, Fifteenth
and Fl streets. January 5. The names
of the men We're Sandy Diggs and
Lewis Taylor. 1t was Il mystery and
sensation, and some persons in Wash
ington sat up till o'clock TO talk
about IT. Coroner ". W. Potter and
his jury decided that the men died of
poison. believe it was not settled
what poison it was. nor whether the
men died by accident or crime. Among
the experts before the coroner's jury
were Drs. Thomas Antisell. w. =,
Johnson. William j. {. Duhamel, Ed
ward Bentley and r. s. Verdi, Before
old Washington ceased to gasp with
this sensation. Mrs. Minerva A. Mar.
tin died from an overdose Of morphine,
prescribed by physician and com
pounded by u pharmacist who testi-
fed that he was suspicious of the
prescription. but that the physician
| insisted the dose was not too big.
This is from The Star, January 8,
] S69 The property known as the
Columbia Hospital, at the corner OF
| Fourteenth street and Massachusetts
! avenue, containing three acres and
improved by a good building, was
-, i 40
purchaser was n gentleman from Chi
cago. who proposes 10 erect u hand
some residence on the site"
X y II 4
WE talked much of railroads in 1863.
w The Baltimore L. Potomac was
| building. | collect for the old ac-
| counts that the survey for the road
was made in 1868 and that it's charter
was given by Maryland in 1867. The
new railroad between Washington and
! the East was going TO uplift the
metropolis. Many persons in Wash
! ington in 1869 found 1t easier to say
! the Metropolis" than "Washington." 3"
! Writer'S and speakers in 1927 like Ma
! tional Capital" Capital of the Ma
! ton" Federal City" and The Seat
I Of the Nations Government" more
! than they do plain Washington. y
| The Point Lookout Railroad was a
| project. Efforts were making to have
| Washington business men take half Il
/ million dollars worth of stock that
| Washington might be one Of the
termini and thus rake up trade in all
the land between Benning and Point
Lookout.
II see by the paper" that there
we're meetings, speeches, resolutions
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He who knows and knows not he knows he
is asleep-wahe him.
He who knows and knows he knows be is
Vise-follow him.
District Commissioner Webb also
delivered an address 10 the graduates,
| while the invocation was pronounced
by Rev. :. NJ, Newman. Supt. W. Il.
Powell. Principal Edward 4. Paul.
Trustee Clal'; and the faculty Of the
school shared the stage with the grad
yates. Albauehs Opera House was
crowded to overfiowing. according to
the newspaper accounts OF the ev Mt,
ard enough people were said to have
been unable to gain admittance to
have filled the house again.
r 4
CETTING out his remarkably COM
- plete files to aid his memory. the
first president Of the class of '86 dis
played the program of its initial re-
union. This affair was held In Shell
dou's Hall, Oh r street between Tenth
and Eleventh, December 20, 1886. The
program for the evening included u
schedule Of 10 dances Of the type
Henry Ford tried to revive-lanciers.
polkas. quadrilics and schottisches be-
ing designated in the order Of the
dancing"
With exceptional foresight for so
young a man. Nh. Bates realized in
the beginning that If The class was to
succeed in getting together each year
as m~ly people as possible would have
to keep up an active interest. Ac-
cordingly when his term Of office as
president expired he refused re-elec-
ton. insisting that the Office rotate
and setting a precedent that has ever
since been followed.
Under the presidency of other men
and women. the annual reunions con
tinued. The fina scal accounts OF the
early "get,togethers' seem ridicu-
lously low in these days. one item of
amusing interest that was found in
several of them being "One full-dress
waiter. So"
in 1896. Il years after they had left
high school, at a time when the aver.
age a,umnus has lost all trace of his
former classmates, the graduates Of
SO We're still SO completely united
that it became advisable to adopt a
constitution. Feeling that the test of
membership should not be the posses
sion of a diploma SO much as the pres
ervation of the spirit of mutual help
fulness and good will that was almost
unconsciously acquired by all those
who attended the school in that pc
riod, the class provided that "1ll grad
yates and all persons who entered