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and the headquarters Of most Of the
fraternal and religious organizations
with membership in Montgomery
County.
The town has many buildings more
than a century old, famous as homes
of early leaders in the American Gov
ernment Rockville originally was
known as williamsburg, and is men
toned in George Washington's diary
as the next stopping point beyond
Georgetown.
The towns between Rockville and
Washington-Chevy Chase, Bethesda
and mac--fundamentaliy are resi-
Dental units of the National Capital,
rather than elements OF agricultural
Montgomery County. Their houses
are not farmhouses, but villas, man
sions and bungalows, with almost
nothing to distinguish them from the
outlying sections of the District of
Columbia itself. They represent the
countys largest real estate property
value, but are hardly of the county,
other than for administrative pur-
poses Every year this engulfing
movement is, sweeping northwest
ward.
In COunty's Center.
GaltnerSDufg, a village OF ABOUT
900 inhabitants, is situated almost
in the geographic center of the county,
about five miles above Rockville on
the Frederick pike. 1t is a community
of homes. There is an atmosphere of
prosperous domesticity about the
wide. shaded streets and the substan-
tial brick and frame homes set in neat
lawns which are now tinted with tu-
liDs and narcissi. Scattered among
the homes are the steepled churches.
Gaithcrshurg is "a favored residential
town for retired farmers who desire
the comforts of electricity and con-
yenient stores, but at the same time
wish to spend their declining days in
the locality where their roots were
struck.
Commercially, Gaithersburg is a
shipping center. 1t is one of the
pivotal points of the Washington milk
district. 1t has two flour mills, which
grind the Montgomery County wheat
and whose customers are New YORK
jobbers Most OF the flour produced
here eventually finds it's way to Eng
land, France and Germany.
Approximately 5000 head of cattle
are shipped from this village every
year. It is the center of an agricul-
tural district Of about Is square miles.
Washington is It's wholesale market.
Five-Year Increase.
Gaithersburg has an up-and-cominG
Chamber of Commerce and ambitions
for civic progress. The sign in big
black letters. "a Good Town to Live
In" stands prominently at every en-
trance. "Once people move here, they
don't like to leave" explained DR..
Hartnett. the druggist. president of
the chamber. He believes that the
town has only started on its business
progress, and points with pride to the
| fact that the assessed valuation has
| increased during the past five years
| from $500 900 to $1,000,000 Several
new houses are under construction.
Less than a mile from Gaithersburg
| is Washington Grove, an idyllic com
munity of cottages set in apple or
chards. 1t Is almost part Of the
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No. /, street i'm POolesville; No. ?,
along the main road at Sandy Spring;
No. 3, Better Calf Club of Montgomery
County farm boys; No. 4, Montgomery
farm boy with his pet prize pig; No.
5, wheat reasing one of the chief ac-
tivities on Montgomery farms; No. 8.
house built by John Poole at POOles-
vile, $50 years ago, where first Mont
gomery County agricultural fair was
held; No. I, business section OF Rock
vile: No. 8, courthouse, Rockville: No.
9, Quaker Church. erected 100 years
ago at Sandy Spring; No. 10, street
scene i'm Gaithersburg.
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are perfect--smooth as glass and twist
ing over hills that give new and more
charming rural prospects with every
turn.
The central town of this farming
area is Poolesville, a village Of about
300 inhabitants and eight stores. 1t
is the trading center for about IS
square miles. 1t has a bank with
$4,000 capital, and a grist mill which
does a big local business. This is "A
beef-cattle district, but it is being in
corpOrated in the Washington milk
area. Two truckloads of milk--abOut
! 900 gallons each--leave PoolesVille
each day for the National Capital.
There are three churches--a Presby-
terian, q Methodist and an Episcopal.
All the farmers around Poolesville
are men who work at their vocation
practical men, whose living must come
from the soil, rather than suburban
ties to whom tillage is sideline. Dur
ing the past Is years, there has been
a considerable immigration from south
ern Virginia.
Ideal Pasture Land.
From Poolecville on the land is
sloping gradually upward toward lhC
foothills of Sugarloaf Mountain, which
stands on the borderline of Montgom-
cry and Frederick counties. 1t is
ideal pasture land-well watered, well
drained and luxuriant,
The town Of Poolesville was estab-
lished in 1898 by one John Poole. who
came west from Anne Arundel County
and started Il store there. The house
he built is still standing.
An example of romance which at
taches to the old town-and for that
matter to the entire section--is af-
forded by the story of ChisWeu Hall,
on the outskirts of the town toward
GAINESVILLE. Burned in the brick, high
up in the side wall almost hidden with
ivy, is the date 1876. 1t was built
by a young English adventur2r.
stephen ChisWeu, who came to live
with his mothers brother in Anne
Arundel County, The uncle, so the
legend goes, was a widower with four
beautiful daughters. Chiswel, defy
ing his uncle, eloped with the eldest
of them. To escape the wrath of her
father they wandered over Maryland,
finally coming to the western edge of
Montgomery County. where the yourg
man took up several thousand acres of
land. for which he received a grant
from Lord Baltimore. He prospered
and as he approached middle age be-
gan to build the mansion which still
stands. The materials were brought
across the sea from England, the in
.erior woodwork beautifully carved By
hand.
Rich In Churches.
About miles farther up the pike
is Barnesville, lying almost at the
base of Sugarloaf Mountain. Barnes
vile also is an agricultural trading
center. 1t was established in 1747 by
jeremiah Hayes. who came down from
Frederick County. For many years
Barnesville was a tobacco town, until
the land became impoverished AMI
the settlers were obliged to turn TO
some other crop which did not rob
the soil
GAINESVILLE has been rich in
churches. The Oldest Of these is ST.
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larger town, depending largely on its
stores and using the same water sys-
tenn. Originally it was a Methodist
camp ground. but it now is the sum
mer home of many Washington work
ers. who escape there every evening
from the city,
Splendid Country Homes.
Germantown has u population of
about 400. a bank with $4,000 capital,
and four churches, two Methodist,
PRESBYTERIAN and a Catholic. There
are about IS daily commuters to Wash
ington. There are some splendid coun-
try homes in the village.
Germantown is named for two fam
lilies. the original settlers, the Schnel-
ders and the Richters, who came there
originally about so years ago. Then
home was a mile up the road from the
Germantown of today, which Mr..
Baker explains, should be called New
Germantown. To the credit OF the
inhabitants, they refused stubbornly
to change the name of the village
during the World War, despite pres
sure brought upon them by over
enthusiastic patriots.
Richest Farming Land.
The country Immediately around
Germantown is perhaps the richest
farming land in all Montgomery COun-
ty and the farmers are exceptionally
prosperous Their greatest problem
is farm labor.
Northwest from Gaithersburg the
road runs for 20 miles through sec
ton of Montgomery County highly
SEiced with romance and antiquity.
This territory Is off the railroad. Con-
"a n h2an touched
the suburban invasion. The country
is purely agricultural--ac achecker-board
Of sprouting green wheatfields ana
close-cropped pastures. Ancient
granges-stone houses, gabled wooden
houses, and big red barns, all spread
over in April with a fluttering, lace
like canopy Of apple blossoms-dot
the picture of rustic opulenCe
Through these pastures Big Seneca
Creek twists and winds. Probably
nowhere else in the United States are
to be found more prosperous farms
This country would be q paradise
for an antiquarian. Many Of the
houses date from Revolutionary days
and the descendants of the original
families still occupy them. There are
real old-fashioned gardens. over the
fences hang golden roses or japanese
kerrias which, likely enough. have
| been rooted in the same soil since
before the Civil War. The box bush
es, slips in the days of Brandywine
and Yorktown, now are small trees
valued at from $500 to $500, if the
| owners are willing to sell Most OF
! them, apparently, have refused. There
| is nothing else that gives such gen
| uine stamp Of antiquity to an estate
as box 1t is something the architect
and the landscape gardener cannot
duplicate.
BilIbOards Absent.
| Fortunately, the ugly finger Of com
mercialism has been kept out of this
!
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BiIIboards Absent.

Fortunately, the ugly finger of com
mercialism has been kept out OF this
fairyland of old romance. There are no
glaring billboards on the hillsides ad-
vertising Jones garters or Smith
ketchup Even the gasoline stations
are modestly refining, And the roads
, 1927-07-19

OE2L1 80 &1lE4LAS !
CEALED BIDS will be received in
y the Department of Finance, Ad-
mlnistrati0n Building, Saint Tho
mas, Virgin Islands up to eleven
a. M, WEDNESDAY JULY 70,
1927, at which hour bids viii be
publicly opened, for five hundred
900 standard barrels of PORT
LAND CEMENT. Bids received
after that hour win not be con-
sidered.
This cement is located in the Pub
lie Works Storer00ms at property
Ne. rs Kl0nprinsensga1o and Quar-
ter, Saint Thomas, and may be seen
bu prospective bidders daily BE-
tween the hours of one to five pm
Sundays and holidays excepted.
Bids may be submitted ON The
entire lot Of five hundred 600 ball
rels or in lots of ten 40 barrels or
muItiples thereof.
The cement is not guaranteed and
viii be sold where is and IS is.
Bids must be accompanied by 8 +.
certified check, money order or cur
rency for 0ne-hfgh of the total
amount Of the bid. Deposits viii
be promptly returned to the unsuc-
cesstuI bidders.
Envelopes containing bids should
be addressed 10 "Ihe Department
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-08
SANDLOT MINES PRUNING
FOR WEEK END CONTESTS

Mclean Juniors tomorrow afternoon
at 1 o'clock on No. / Monument dia-
mond.
Collegians play Smithfield Juniors
at 1 o'clock Sunday on Ellipse dia-
mond.
WaverIy Juniors meet Coca -Colas on
diamond No. 4 on Monument lot Sun.
day at / pm. Waverly practice to-
morrow on No. Z diamond at 8 pm.
Frank Corkins, former Blue Ridge
League pitcher, has signed with North
east Motor nine, Manager Lewis has
announced.
st. Patrick Midgets had two big in
nings to defeat st. Johns Midgets in
15-to.9 SUGGEST yesterday. Nc
Mahon, Cristie and Desmond starred.
SmithfieId Juniors meet tonight at
| the home of George Faina, 308 Four.
teenth street, at o'clock.
Corinthian Seniors, Juniors and Mid
gets meet tonight in Immaculate Con
ception Hall at s o'clock.
Aztec Juniors play Kennedy Juniors
tomorrow at noon on Monument dia-
mond No. 4. Aztec players report at
IL o'clock.
jess Barnes Peewees were defeated
9 to s, yesterday by st. Patrick s
Peewees.
Moose Juniors want game for Sun.
day. Call Manager Nally at Lincoln
1924.
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Fooled in their efforts to open their
respective seasons last week end by
untimely showers and cold weather
local sandlot base ball teams are pre-
pairing for the curtain raising num-
bers this week end.
The majority of clubs are now pre-
pared to start active campaigns, with
a few practice sessions already in tow.
Aloysius and Knickerbocker Seniors
will furnish one Of the main titls for
Sunday when they meet on George
town Hollow diamond at o'clock.
Alloys meet tonight at their club at 8
o'clock.
Elliotts A. C. opens the campaign
at Addison, Va, on Sunday afternoon
at o'clock. Players are to meet at
1898 Morse street northeast by 1880
o'clock.
Terminal Icemen and st. Mary's
Celtics play Sunday afternoon at
o'clock on West Ellipse diamond. Ice
men meet tonight at o'clock.
II. II. Keane Seniors would like to
book a game for tomorrow with some
senior team. Call Manager Freschi at
Franklin 1907.
l.. s. Coleman is looking for a pitch
ing job with some semi-pro club.
Managers call North 1887. He is also
a first baseman.
c. & p. Midgets play Harlem A. c.
tomorrow on diamond No. of the
Monument grounds.
Southern Railway Juniors engage
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ALLOW FOR EXCITEMENT
In CONSTRUCTING STANDS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
" PSOM, England. April SIX
- cited spectators and stretch
ers" at base ball games and
L. horse races weigh a great deal
more than persons who are
nonchalant and sit still.
In the building of grandstands. such
as the one just completed here for the
opening of the Spring racing meet
April 10, this fact has to be taken
into consideration by the architects.
The EPSON stand and similar struc-
lures are designed to bear not only
the approximate weight of the spec
tators they viii comfortably accom-
modate, but also the weight Of their
excitement, which at times more than
doubles.
1t has been calculated by British
architects that If a grandstand is de-
signed to hold a crowd expected to
weigh normally 300 tons. a founda-
ton and supports must be provided
which will stand the weight of at
least 1000 tons.
They explain this by the fact that
when people are excited they weigh
considerably more than when sitting
still. A crouching person adds so to
| 65 per cent to his weight in straight
ening himself up, and to rise from a
sitting position adds nearly so per
| cent to his weight. BY rising with a
| sudden jerk, as base ball and foot
| ball fans are apt to do at exciting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-08

By the Associated Press.
~ ECOND base will be the keystone
in fact as well as name for
quite a few of this years bud
~ ding pennant hopes and asplra-
tons.
The Giants. for instance, won't be
so optimistic If they fail to get the
celebrated guardian of their middle
bag, Rogers Hornsby, out of the legal
woods and stock entanglements before
the opening guns boom next TUESDAY.
It also happens to be vital issue Tor
the Cincinnati Reds, another formtda-
BILE National League flag contender, to
have the recalcitrant Hugte Critz IN
line.
Critz already has gone about so per
cent of the way to meet his employers
bv scaling his demands from $4,000
down to around $4,000, as against
the clubs offer of a $4,000 contract.
Narrowed thus far, the gap probably
will be closed and the Reds bene-
fitted by the return of the leagues
second most valuable player"
Marty McManus, acquired from the
Browns and stationed at the middle
bag. has made the Tigers, in the
opinion of Manager George Moriarity.
Connie Mack's Athletics are well forti-
fed with the capable Max Bishop
ready to step into the vital inf1eld
post if Eddie Collins legs fail him.
The Phillies may not be going any
where, particularly in the pennant
race, but in their new second sacker.
F'resco Thompson. they have one of
the most highly touted stars of the
Spring.
with Thompson shining at second,
Jimmy Wilson, behind the plate and
Hal Carlson in the box, the Phillies
will be as tough as any club in the
league to beat"-if you take the word
of one seasoned observer. But Carl
son, unfortunately, can only make 1t
tough" for the opposition about once
week.
This may be a season for boy won
ders" in swimming. George Young,
1T-year-old Canadian, outswam long
distance veterans to win the Catalina
Channel derby, and now George Ko-
jac, 17-year-old New York school boy,
has conquered the famous sprint king,
Johnny Weismuller.
Kojac, who wired his mother he
lowed 1t alto her beef and cabbage
soup has been a Metropolitan sensa-
ton for some time but his worlds
record performance in national back
stroke championships strengthens the
possibility that he may displace Weis-
| muller as the all-around speed ace
of the tanks.
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EXHIBITION BASE BALL.

By the Associated Press.
At Louisville Z. H. T.
2 f1Si.qIiis C.x a. SS2SS9S5d9saa 8 7
Batteries-Gincinnati Lgque and Picinich
At Atlanta r. +. f;
R RgRShisH ~ ST.: 4S4SSsS99SE11d5 f Il 8
Vance Griffin Clark g., B srne;, and Har-
B BsiIs. r. o.. SfSSSSss5533--55 j Z
Hill and Smith: Perry. Mccall and Berry
BRilsasISSiis }S S}} SSaSSSSSSS3G 8 :
Scott and Wilson: walberg and Fox.
VII; M 5SSS4qSqSsss
May and Perkins; Taylor, Gober, Johnson
es 4 sss'i2 IS A. sgISSssgsfHE
swaynsy and Walsh; wicsl. Munday and
Richmond (va.l l 0 / 2 o 0 900 o. 10 /
eleven innings: tie.l
nsE and ff fsnsr aS c Sye' end
eleventh. Toronto catch train.
s sss SsPF Ev.j.: Si2S2sSSGiI
Second team.
Kallini and Cummings Bournier, Johnson
and Rowland. Sauter. Abbott.
At Nashville Ri E
ST. Louis fN.l..... 200l Q o 4 10 10 s
Batteries-Shawkey. Thomas. A. Merchant
and Collins: Ring Reinhart and Abbott
Called at end of eighth inning.
At Memphis R.HE
Chicago (A) 10O013O2 IL
Memphis IS. Al. 10000 000-1 9 2
Batteries--Faber Connolly and Grouse; Nc
Curdy. Morton and Mckee.
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TIGERS BATTING ORDER
FINALLY DECIDED UPON

Fred Blake seems to be the only one
at all ready to face the worlds cham
pion Cardinals.
CLEVELAND, April (P).-The
Cleveland Indians have packed their
newly acquired straw hats TO beat
north for the beginning of the season.
A game with the University OF Ala
bama at Tuscaloosa today in which
Tommy Sewell, brother of Joe and
Luke Sewell of the Indians. was sched-
uled to hurl completes the southern
program, and the Tribe Will appear In
Cincinnati Saturday for a two-game
row with the Reds.
After that it's home and the open
ing day.
PITTSBURGH. April 8 (P).-Indica.
tions are that Ray Kremer will pitch
the opening game for the Pittsburgh
Pirates at Cincinnati on April II. Dali
las. Tex, trimed the Buccaneers yes
terday. 3 to /, and today the Pirates
were to oppose the Little Rock, Ark,
Travellers, of the Southern Assocta-
ton.
Memphis, Tenn, will be visited Sat
urday and Sunday.
ST. LOUIS, April 8 P).--If there
IS
ne who laughs last having the long
est cackle, then the Cardinals are
chuckling right merrily today. They
came from way behind to win the final
fray of the Spring series with the
Yankees at Nashville yesterday. 10 to
s. Frank Frisch garnered two homers
and two tWo-baggerS while Babe
Ruth was getting one circuit clout.
The cards are due home Saturday
for the city series with the Browns.
Rain prevented the exhibition between
: the ST. Louis Americans with Tulsa
yesterday.
CINCINNATI, April 8 R.-The
Cincinnati Nationals close their long
training tour with a single contest
against the Indianapolis club, of the
American Association at Indianapolis
today.
Saturday and Sunday the Reds play
the Cleveland Indians on Redland
Field here.
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GIANTS CLINCH SPRING SET
NHEAVYHITTINC CONTEST
McCrawmen Collect Two Dozen Safetes off Quartet
of Fingers to Win by l9 to 9-Tris Speakers
Showing a Bright Spot

! was done by five of the Giants.
| though.
Little Eddie Farrell, subbing for the
| i'll Travis Jackson at short, got dou-
BILE and three singles in six turns at
bat driving across six runs for his
team. In the six innings he played
Rogers Hornsby, eminent fnancier'
made three bingles that netted ms
team four markers in addition to the
three he registered, Bill Terry, FREQ
Lindstrom and AL Tyson each got
three hits. Two of Iindstroms we're
doubles Terry included triple ana
two-bagger in his lot.
Action was fast and furious for a
short time. With two gone in the
first inning, the Giants got run
with Roush's double and Hornsby's
single, but the Nationals countered
with a tally resulting from singles by
Speaker and Judge, with passes to
Goslin and Myer sandwiched between,
all coming after two hands had been
retired.
The second session saw the Nation
ais forge ahead, O'Neil's two-bagger.
Lisenbee's neat sacrifice and Rice's
slash for a base netting marker.
The Giants, though, came back Tor
a couple in the third, when, with two
out, Terry tripled to tally Tyson and
Lindstrom, who had hit at the out
set Of the round. Again the Nationals
went to the front in the fourth. when
three hits and pass were clustered
for two runs. Speke's two-bagger
drove in one marker and Myers
single another.
In the fifth both clubs registered
at the counting block, but the Giants
got three runs to the Nationals one.
A walk, two singles and Farrells
double did most of the work for the
New Workers, but they probably would
have scored only once in the frame
had Myer chung to O'Neil's good throw
and prevented Roush's theft of third.
Bluege's double and O'Neil's single
accounted for the local score.
All Giants Thereafter.
After that there was nothing to
the game but the Giants. 1t seemed
they were out to celebrate fittingly
John McGraw's f1fty-fourth birthday
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. happened to
be that--and they did just that thing.
In the sixth session they fell upon
Murray for four singles and two dou-
bles, which, with two walks and
Roushs theft of home, were good Tor
five runs. Ana all Oh Lne SCORING OC"
Cured after two were out. The pa
rade of Giants to the plate in this
frame was so lengthy that Mueller,
who pinch batted for McQuillan at
the start, also came up to end the
affair.
Then Jones was soundly drubbed
for a couple of frames. Two singles,
double and two passes, with some
foolish fielding, netted the Giants
three markers in the seventh, and four
singles, with a wild heave by the
pitcher, accounted for four more In
the eighth.
The Nationals awakened sufficiently
in the eighth to make run with
singles by Cullop and Goslin and
Myers sacrifice And after single,
an error and a passed ball let the
Giants raise their total to 10 in the
ninth, Griff's hirelings denied the
plate three times. Two singles, two
passes and Fitzsimmons' wild pitch
were responsible for the scoring.
Tate then mercifully ended the night
mare by grounding to Reese.
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SECOND BASE VITAL SPOT
FOR A NUMBER OF CLUBS

Like Bobby Jones, Kojac got an
early start. At about the time Bobby
was first swinging his juvenile clubs
around the East Lake course, Kojac,
at the age of 6, started padding about
in the East River. He has developed
steadily as a record breaker through
grammar and high school ranks. He
is the national er-scholastic cham
pion and holds tank records of 20
seconds for so yards and 551a seconds
for 100 yards, free style, These
marks are still bit shy of Weis-
mullers world records, but they
show in which direction Kojac is
headed.
AprOpOs of Bobby Jones, the vet
eran, they tell a story of how the
Atlanta wizard complained of miss
ing" many of his shots in one of the
rounds of the recent Southern open.
IT'S tough" commented a pro.
Here's this fellow shooting II, one
over par, yet he's actually off his
game
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Pitcher Parade Gives Impression G First Home eaance
ATHLETICS CAPTURE
SERIES FROM PILLS

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. April S.-The
Athletics already have won base
BAN championship, although the major
league opening is still in the offing.
they stopped the Phillies, to ].
Yesterday, cinching the municlpai
title, three games to one.
Seeking a stronger batting combf-
nation. Connie Mack yesterday SHIFT
ed Eddie Collins to lead-on position
The first time the veteran has head
ed batting roster. He failed to get
hit.
Mack, in base ball since 1887. is
enthusiastic over the outlook. I've
never seen a team in better shape,
he said, nor have L ever heard of a
club better fortified with substitutes
or having such wealth of talent as
we have this season"