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Evening star., 1928-12-23
Washington Spent the Christmas Holidays 100 Years Ago

| the Washington Fox Hounds at Seven
teenth and Massachusetts avenue, where
there was also a social evening during
Christmas week. Boys and young men
carried small lengths of smoldering
rope to ignite fireworks.
| X X X
IN all, the Christmas holiday did not
last more than 36 hours. Govern
ment employees were allowed to leave
an hour or two early on the twenty
| fourth and expected to be back on the
twenty sixth. Even on New Year day
| the clerks worked until noon, then called
on the President and delivered greet
ings. Silver pencils were distributed
among Uncle Sans workers.
Sunday schools did not give Christ
mas entertainments, and save in homes
of native Germans there were few
Christmas trees at the family hearth.
Public houses dispensed lager for the
German population. ale and porter for
Englishmen and old rye for Irishmen.
The Capitals hatters were in heated
competition. Each made his own
chapeaux, and sought to surpaSs his
rival. One Mr.. Handy, featured the
felt hat and was loath to give his
customers silk stovepipes, while Mr..
Todd, sensing business in novelty,
brought to light an original creation
In q top-piece suited to a hackman
or Senator. Hats in those days were
hats. They cost from SIS to SIS. and
might last man a whole generation.
Gen. Weightman lived in rooms
above the old Bank of Washington,
where he entertained his friends regally.
The 1ntelltgencerS press room was at
Seventh and D streets. The Post Office
Department, city post Office and Patent
Office were on street between Seventh
and Eighth streets. On Seventh street
between E and F. a prize fire engine
was housed in highly inflammable
building. the second story of which was
the armory of the Washington Guards.
Pennsylvania avenue was dirt road,
with two rows of poplars in the middle
from the Capitol to Fifteenth street. In
this short stretch there were two
bridges. one the Tiber Bridge, at Sec
ond street, and the other between Ninth
and Tenth streets, spanning a tiny
creek.
Center Market was a shed on brick
piers, extending from Seventh to Eighth
street. Most of the produce was
brought to the city by sled, dray and
tow
The Christmas of 1900 was the first
in the Capital. Ten years before had .
been transition from Revolutionary
to republican days. The city had been
laid out, there were a few houses,
but no sign OF a Federal Government.
In October, 1900, a packet sloop carry
ing Nations treasury of documents
sailed up the Potomac from Philadel-
phia. When Congressman arrived, there
was nothing TO greet them but lot
of fine plans and grand ideas. The
White House was still under construc-
ton. One wing Of the Capitol might
serve in q pinch. Many CongreSSn1en
had to live as far as Georgetown, three
miles from the seat Of debate. The
brave soions Travelled home over q
treacherous road. Amid all the dis
content, one voice rose above the chorus
that of President Adams.
May this territory" said the Presi-
dent, 'be the residence of virtue and
happiness. In this city may that piety
and virtue, that wisdom and nagnanim-
ity. that constancy and self-govern-
.lContinued on sixth gage.).
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ONE hundred years ago. on Christ
mas eve, Meridian Hill was offered
for sale, its disposition being duly au-
thorized by Commodore Porter, the last
resident. The land was described as
"Santasnina about 90 highly improved
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A CENTURY of Christmases have
~ flown since the bridge of signs
"A and creaks crossed the River
4 4 Tiber at Second street and
ox,ayaY,a ovnA Non-
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an administration the soldier-statesman

an administration the soldier-Statesman
would bring to the White House.
On Christmas eve, Maj. Joseph Gales,
jr., issued a bull of warning:
Whereas it has been too much the
habit of idle and inconSiderate per-
sons on Christmas eve and New Year
day to fire Off guns, squibs, pistols and
crackers, to the annoyance of peaceable
inhabitants !. this city and to the
manifest danger Of their persons and
property-all such practices amount to
'disorderly conduct and are punish
able by law.
"Now, with a view to prevent such
practices, I, Joseph Gales, jr., mayor of
Washington, do enjoin police constables,
ward commissioners and others to be
diligent in the execution of their duties
and bring to justice persons offending
against the law"
(Signed)
JOSEPH GALES, Jr., Mayor"
At Browns Hotel, c. S. Fowler was
| offering prizes prizes! priest" for
| the famous New York Consolidated Lot
terry. He sold tickets for $1.50, SO
and Sc, for pots of gold from $50 to
$12.50O.
The Post Office Department adver-
| tized for bids to transport mail be-
tween Frankfort and Covington, ILL.,, a
distance of so miles, and allowed the
contractor two and one-half days to
| make the trip.
A movement was on foot to open a
| reading room on Pennsylvania avenue
between Tenth and Twelfth streets, to
be furnished regularly with American
and European newspapers and periodi-
Gals. The room was to be opened a,s
soon as 100 subscriptions were received.
Interested gentlemen were asked to
leave their names with s. j. Todd & Co
| George Kensett informed the gentry
Of Washington that he had opened a
room on Seventh street, opposite the
Patriotic Bank, for the purpose of
giving instruction in the manly
| science.
Gentlemen" he said, will in a few
lessons be able to protect themselves
from the grasp of villains and lawless
rufaans Terms will be made known
on application"
Among landladies and housekeepers
| there was great competition for the
patronage of newly arrived Congress-
men. Mrs. Turner, on the corner OF
Seventh and Pennsylvania avenue, ad-
vertised that her home had been newly
fitted for the reception of Congressman
or others who desired to board during
the approaching session. Legislators
could be accommodated with rooms sep
arate from those appropriated to
transient boarders.
\ X
lnNE hundred years ago, on Christ
mas eve, Meridian Hill was offered
for sale, its disposition being duly au-
thorized by Commodore Porter, the last
resident The land was described as
"sontasnina about 60 highly inapgoYed
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$50 now we have the Christmas tire,

$50 now we have the Christmas tree,
decorations of red berries, waxy white
mistletoe, green leaves, evergreens.
Epiphany twelfth night and the
waits"
but, father" mother looked worried,
where does our Christmas come in?
All this is $3.50 pagan"
Exactly" father smiled. "It is to
the everlasting glory. to my mind, Of
the apostles and early missionaries of
the church that Christmas did come in
just as we have it. They were wise
men and men with understanding
hearts, and they realized or soon learned
that you might divorce man from a
disagreeable pagan deity without too
much difficulty, but to take away his
most cherished festivals was another
matter altogether. So wherever it was
possible they grated Christianity onto
the old stalks and pruned and watered
and prayed over the graft until they
had trained it into a straight and
lovely growth. The old became swal-
lowed up in the new, although 1t was
still visible in certain signs to the see
ing eye
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rising higher and higher in the heavens
by decking a chosen tree of the forest
with any bright things they could find,
because the climbing monarch of the
heavens would spread and blossom like
q great tree. Prof. Schwartz says that
they compared the lights they set upon
the branches to the lightning flashing
overhead and the golden apples and
nuts to the sun and its satellites, the
moon and the stars. Little animals
hung In various places were sacrifices
also. Going south. in Rome was found
the tremendous feast of the 'Saturnalia,
gay. licentious, extending even to the
slaves, feasting, drinking and hanging
its houses with evergreens. Later the
Lord of Misrule' in the English Christ
mas was to be lineal descendant from
the ruler Of the sports in the Satur-
MALTA.
X X y X
U'T>HE Druids came close to the Ro-
= mans in that they, too, decorated
their dwelling places with evergreens
and, Of course, with the waxen berries
cut by the golden sickle aforemen-
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"And to go on. The great feast of
Christmas came at last to be the peak
of the Christian year. It's sacred sig
nificance was increased thousand
fold by the repetition of its mystery.
Legends grew thick about it. Customs
rooted firmly in ancient soil. In Latin
countries there was feasting, but gift
giving was left for the new year. Not
so among the Teutonic peoples.
X X X X
CD IGHT here we really must bring
Az in st. Nicholas. We haven't
many facts about him, but we do know
that he was bishop of Myra, in
Lycia, and I hope you know where that
is! I didn't until hunted for it, so
I'll let you hunt, too. At any rate, he
seems to have lived in the time of
Diocletian, who prosecuted and tor
tured and unfeelingly cast him into
prison for some years. Constantine
was better disposed to Christians, you
will remember, and so our saint was
released after ALL He is supposed to
have BEEN present at the Council Of
Nicaea, but this is not known for sure
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to Congress by President John Quincy
Adams. No greater interest to know
the contents OF public paper was ever
shown, editors said.
who know his piety of heart and meek
ness of spirit, should rejoice. Here
tofore. he was known as a great, able
and upright statesman; now he appears
as q great and good man and Q sterling
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patriot. He reached the highest office
In the gift of freemen without seeking
it, and he now can retire without
repining, .finis coronat opus Defeat
was necessary to complete the glory
Of John @. Adams"
Thus the retiring Presidents farewell
message Andy Jackson, hero of New
Orleans. was about to begin the "reign
of terror" A century ago. the coun-
Tx debated in whispers Mhat kind Of
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blowing whistles and shooting fireworks
and sampling the spirits in every open
household.
On Louisiana avenue between Four
and-a-Half and Sixth streets the old
American 1heateg was going full blast.
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Just a stones throw to the east. Ma
sonic Hall rocked to the measured steps
of dancers. The Columbian Museum
and Carusis also had balls.
Weather permitting, a fox hunt
would be sterted from headquarters Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-01

Somewhere in America, a man,
very much alive, may have read an
account of his own violent death
in Indianapolis newspapers a week
ago.
He may even have read of the
arrangements for his funeral
Wednesday.
The man is George Negley, As, of
1645 South Delaware street, who left
home two weeks ago and went, it
now is believed, to Gary, Ind. Mrs.
Negley said today she heard her
husband was working in Gary.
Last Friday the body of man
found on the Pendleton pike near
Lawrence, the victim of a hit-and-
run motorist, was identified as
Negley by his wife, Mrs. Mildred
Negley.
Fellow workers of Negley in the
Van Camp Hardware Company
viewed the body and most Of them
agreed with Mrs. Negley's identif1-
cation.
Funeral services we're arranged
and it was planned to bury the dead
man Wednesday afternoon.
Just before the funeral, however
it was learned definitely the dead
man was not Negley. The body's
identity still is unknown.
Negley, his wife said, has a full
set of false teeth, while the un-
identified dead man has natural
teeth.
The resemblance of the dead man
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CaretYee! Gay! Waits Se!f-Apb0inted T1ySt

LTERNATELY laughing and sneerng
lies ward city hospital waiting
The girl Mrs Mildred Hanley North
poison Saturday in attempt to kill herself
the emergency efforts to her life
Pretty friendly part CHEEKY bright the girl who
life.
white cot she keeps strange ryst a
at her side surrounded with photograph
band Charles died
such fit of dependency the
Callers Wednesday found her bubblng.
Whats the betting whether live" geeuy
"rn take either
And herbut after ALL it's your
what please her pretty head
and began series of TRADES against curious people"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-01
MILK
HIKE FORCED BY
DAIRY FARMERS
Retail Price to Go Up in
City Nov. 5, Customers
Are Notified.

Organized farmers and dairymen
of central Indiana today forced an
increase Of one cent quart in the
retail price of milk charged Indian
apolis consumers by milk distribu-
tors. The change is effective Nov. ).
The farmers were blamed for the
increased cost of one of the most
staple foods for babies and children,
by the distributors. 1t was a case
of pay our price or go without
milk" the distributors contended.
The farmers, organized in the
Dairy Producers Association, the
milk pool Of the Indiana Farm
Bureau Federation, demand and will
get 60 cents a pound for butter fat,
an increase of cents a pound over
the present figure. The new fig
ure is the highest since the World
war. The farmers showed an in D..
crease of from go to 65 cents a
pound from the distributors Sept. is.
The distributors absorbed the in
crease Of Sept. Is, but declared they
could not stand the load caused by
the organized farmers last ultima
tum.
No distributor could be found who
will not increase the retail price
from II to 13 cents a quart Nov. 5,
although N. D. McKinstray of Nc
Kinstray Brothers, said:
1--WE do not have to raise and do
not want to, but to keep peace in
the family we probably will increase
as matter Of fair dealing with our
competitors who are in the pool?
"Our company is waiting to see
what the others do. If the price in
the country is increased we will
have to raise. too" said Ralph Car
ter Of the National Dairy Products
Company.
Practically all distributors left no.
tice to their customers with this
mornings milk that the price would
go up Nov. 5.
Defending the farmers, Carl L.
Hedges, manager of the Dairy Pro-
ducers' Association, said: "The pur-
pose Of raising the price is to give
relief to dairy farmers in the Indi-
annapolis district"
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LTERE changed and she sbbed Historically for few
minutes Then dab at her and she smiling again.
BY the way" nonchaanty "have you talked
with the about What about chances
lve?" shoulders.
"They telling probably will get WELL but that nobody
dying
harder than you think Next time I'll try railroad train"
you're serious surely going try
you get wel2" asked.
We'll don't know What got to live fOrP And yet don't
sit tight at that"
Haney formerly
Saturday decided life spent the entire
afternoon biding her friends goodbye
the poison-and the hospital
the funny paper" parting phrase friends
the store and to callers at her bedside Thursday.
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Weapon Was Kept Ready to
Fight BootIegger Woman
Testified Against.

Playing with a borrowed revolver
his mother kept as a protection
against a bootlegger's revenge, Ed
ward Peil, 5, son of Mr.. and Mrs
F. G.. Peil, 1903 North Sheffield ave-
nue., shot himself this morning.
The bullet struck the boys collar
bone, was DETECTED through lung
and passed out Of his body nearly
hitting his 14-months-old sister.
He is critically wounded, city hos
pital doctors said.
A short time ago Mrs. Peil testi-
fed against bootlegger who lived
near their former home on Beauty
avenue. The man had threatened
her, she had heard.
Feared to Be Alone
When the family moved into its
present residence a few days ago
she feared to be alone at nights
while her husband was at his work
with the Indianapolis Power and
Light Company, she said.
Their son always had been eager
to play with toy pistols SO she
warned him he must not touch the
"big gun," that 1t would kill him,
the mother explained at city hos
pital while she waited for q word
Of hope from the doctors.
Peil did not work last night and
took the children downtown to view
the Halloween celebration.
The revolver was placed on the
floor under the bed.
This morning the parents arose
and went into the kitchen to pre-
pare breakfast, leaving Edward with
his sisters, Norma andd Mary, 4, in
the bedroom.
May Have Chance to Live
A few minutes later they heard a
shot and rushed in to find Edward,
the revolver by his side, lying on the
bed wounded.
The father took the boy to city
hospital in his own automobile. AS
they rode the boy asked if he had
shot his baby sister, before he lapSed
into inconsistencies
City hospital doctors ordered alb
solute quiet for the boy. They will
be unable to tell whether he has a
chance to live until they can make
an X-ray examination later, they
said.
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TERHUNE is a modest hero.
l. He slipped out of the back
entrance of the dirigible, as he
had entered it, and tried to es-
cape the crowd. They would not
have it, and took him away from
police, who were eScorting him to
his hotel. He was hoisted on the
shoulders Of the crowd, kissed by
the girls, cheered and photo
graphed. He had to sign auto
graphs by the hundred, and while
the crew and passengers were
breakfasting or sleeping, he still
was signing his name.
While answering questions, Ter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-01
HOOVER Turns
HOMEWARD ON
W|NDUP TOUR
Goes West Today to Vote;
Speaks Tonight in
Maryland.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES

WASHINGTON, Nov. Herbert
Hoover will leave the national capi-
tai today, the base of his unusual
campaign for the presidency, on a
tranScontinental journey to his
California home to vote.
1t would be costly vote, but he
goes on another mission, to garner
other votes on his way west by pub
lie appearances before thousands of
voters and four speeches in which
he is expected to restate, in general,
his position upon the issues of the
election.
He will deliver the first Of these
final campaign messages tonight,
standing beneath the sputtering
flares redolent of political cam
paigns in the little town of Cum
berland in western Maryland, Re-
publican stronghold in this state
generally conceded las doubtful"
Confident of Election
Hoover leaves here confident he
will return some weeks hence as
President-elect of the United States.
He expressed his confidence again,
for the second time in his campaign,
in his final newspaper conference
here.
I'VE shall win this election with
out any question of a doubt If the
people who believe with us 60 to the
polls" Hoover said.
The high point of his western trip
will be his appeal for farm support
in his st. Louis address Friday
night over a national radio hookup.
Hoover has indicated the impor-
tance he attaches to this address,
the final major speech of his cam
paid, by the care with which he
has prepared it.
Calls at White House
The two other speeches on the
way west will be those at Louis
vile Friday morning, which he will
deliver from the courthouse steps
after an hours parade through the
city, and at Pueblo, Colo, the
home Of Chairman Work of the
Republican national committee,
Saturday night over a radio hookup
that will carry it to the neighboring
Rocky mountain states.
Hoover was to call at the White
House today to bid good-by to
President Coolidge. and at Repub-
lican national headquarters to
thank those there who have worked
for his election.
There were rumors about today
the President may yet make a
statement in his former cabinet
officers behalf, and that this would
be revealed after Hoover's farewell
visit.
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WORKMEN HURT
Negro May Die From Crash
at New AyreS Building.

Three workmen were injured, one
perhaps fatally, in an elevator mis-
hap at the new L. S. Ayres store
building, 16 South Meridian street,
son after noon today.
The injured are George Kritz, 2011
Singleton street, construction fore
man, injured back; Robert King,
Negro, broken leg and critical in
ternal injuries, and Alex West, Ne
gro, severe cuts and possible inter
nal injuries.
The accident occurred when an
elevator on which Kritz and West
were descending from the twelfth
story struck a scaffold on which
King was working on the ninth
floor.
King was hurled from the scaf-
fold to the ninth floor and the
scaffolding struck Kritz and West.
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Hourly Temperatures

ca awaiting you on arrival. Don't
sign before you get them. Best
wishes"
A MOTHER dispatch from a
IA newspaper syndicate ordered
its representative aboard to "get
stowaway's story at all costs"
Another message instructed Ter
hume to meet President Won Hin
denburg and get an interview as
his first newspaper assignment.
Terhune received dozens of Of
fers to buy his story, telling how
he planned to stow away, how he
got aboard. and other details.
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though it was marwed by slight
growth of downy youthful whisk-
erS. He wore a leather jacket,
pale blue flannel shirt, polka
dotted necktie, corduroy trousers,
and tan shoes.
During the zeppelin's flight
over France, the wireless operator
of the Zeppelin complained that
it was hard to transact other
business because the air was filled
with fabulous offers to Terhune.
One message, signed by Alfred
Rachmann in Berlin, said:
big offers for your appearance
In a chain Of theaters in Ameri-
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moving picture performances.
"I'm not worried about my fu-
ture," Terhune nonchalantly in
formed reporters at his hotel.
The young adventurer, because
he did the unusual and the spec
tacular, got away with it. John
E. Kehl, American consul at
Stuttgart, handed him a special
permit to remain in German. He
was not arrested or fined. The
officers and crew of the Graf Yep
pelin made much Of him and he
was adopted as member of the
crew, doing kitchen police while
aboard.
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FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,
Il Nov. IA golden harvest
awaits Clarence Terhune, the
boy who stole a $4,000 ride on
the first passenger dirigible to
cross the Atlantic.
While the 19-year-old adven-
turer rested at a hotel today
after his trying voyage, he was
made popular idol in Germany
and lucrative offers poured in on
him.
He will have his pick Of the
atrical and newspaper offers, in
cluding stage appearances both
here and in America, as well as
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1t was not known, however,
whether Mandy and Miss Knaak
ever had mes. Mandy was out Of
town today.
Whether Miss Knaak's remark
about Frank" was another sign of
delirium or has a bearing on the
case was problematical. Her state
ment that she burned herself in
the furnace as a "test of love" in
her affair with the good looking
night policeman, Hitchcock, also was
thought at first to be the result of
delirium. ~
Today, after running down al
most every other clew, and after
hearing from psychiatrists, who
said it would not be impossible for
woman to burn herself as Miss
Knaak was burned, police were about
to accept her story.
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ICY BLIZZARD HITS
NEBRASKA; TIES UP
TRAINS, HIGHWAYS

section. Ice-coated wires were
blown down in all sections.
The storm reached its height in
the northern section, where as much
as a foot of snow had fallen by noon.
The snow was wet and heavy and a
strong wind drifted it enough to
make automobile traffic virtually
impossible. Limbs of trees we're
broken by the weight of the snow.
Although the forecast for to-
night was more snow and lower tenn
peratures, the weather bureau had
issued no warning to livestock in
terests. The temperature over the
state thus far has not fallen much
below freezing.