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time that he offered to sell his inven-
ton to the Government for this amount,
but since the Postmaster General did
not think the telegraph could ever be
made profitable he refused to recon-
mend its purchase even at so low a
figure.
Under private control wire connec-
lions between New York and Baltimore
were early completed by a company that
had been formed by Amos Kendall, who
was made president. BY the Spring of
1847 the operation of the line between
Washington and Baltimore was also
taken over by the Magnetic Electric
Telegraph Co., which had been incor-
porated In Maryland and which had Its
offices on the second floor OF Towers
Printing Office, at the southeast corner
Of Sixth street and Louisiana avenue
northwest. Both Vail and Rogers were
members OF this company. the president
served as clerk of the House and at
one time as Commissioner Of Public
Buildings. The price of messages then
was so cents for the first 10 words and
5 cents for each additional word. The
original electric magnetic recording In
strument made and used by Prof. Morse
in 1887, seven years prior to his men,
orable and successful demonstration be-
fore Congress, now forms part OF the
National Museum exhibits
Amos Kendall, the first president Of
the company. no doubt had more TO do
with securing the appropriation for the
experimental telegraph line than one
might at first suspect. He was one of
Washington's early journalists, coming
here from Kentucky when jackson be-
came President in 1929. and after be-
coming Postmaster General in "Old
Hickory's" second administration and
serving until 1887, he published from
1841 to 1874 bi-weekly paper called
Kendall's Expositor, which he records
did not yield enough income one-half
sufficient for the support of his family
In the Senate Morse's interests were
ably championed by Charles Sumner,
and In the House by Representative
Smith, who later resigned his office to
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of the Potomac as it flows into the
Chesapeake-in other places-how often
we have seen those stark hulks Of the
ships we began to build, now skeletons
against the sunset skyl What shall be
done about them? Which of them is
worthy Of reconditioning? How much
money can conscientiously be loaned?
In fact, what amount shall be loaned
for recondftioning old ships at all?
When at the close of the war the allies
and the United States took over the
pre-war merchantmen of Germany. fine
In many cases as they were at the time,
what we actually achieved was to put
Germany today into possession of fleets
OF thoroughly modern merchant ships,
while those that we and the allies took
over are rapidly becoming middle-aged
or antiquated
On the Clyde and on the Kiel Canal
the riveters are ringing. At last We
seem to have heard the echoes over
here. They have begun now to sound
over here-at Newport News and on
Staten Island and along the Delaware.
Americas money is urging them.
And 1t Is this bliie-eyed, long-ncsed
man, with his heroism and his seafar-
ing behind him. with his friends beside
him and the President looking to him.
who Is going to see that the fund he
has to administer is expended with hon
esty and efficiency.
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field equally as hard in which to
achieve success. However, he had
before him the example of Robert Full
ton. inventor of the steamboat, who
was primarily a portrait painter, but
who abandoned art for science, result
ing In the production of successful
steam navigation.
Charles Wilson Peale, well known
for his faithful likenesses OF the Father
of His Country and other notable per-
sons, is said to have made the first
porcelain teeth. and so others might be
mentioned, including the first artist
who is credited with lighting the first
city with gas. Like these men, Morse
succeeded in his new line Of thought,
and few know him today except as the
inventor of the telegraph, forgetting
entirely the works from his brush,
which may still be seen in Washington
and elsewhere.
Indeed. Morse must have been a pro-
life painter. for as early as 1918, he Is
said to have had "a successful five
months in Charleston, where he painted
no less than 50 portraits at the modest
sum of SIS apiece" This was but three
years after his return to America from
England. where he had gone to study
under Benjamin West and others, and
WheTe, IN 1915. ne WAS HWdTOeu LIE
gold medal of the Royal Academy for
his model of THE Dying Hercules"
X X
TN 1929 he again went to Europe for
the further study of art, and 1t was
during his return voyage from France
three years later that he became an
interested listener to a discussion con-
corning recent discoveries in electricity.
A statement that appealed to him
greatly was that electricity could be
made to pass instantaneously through
any known length of wire, and that its
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er's Name Identified With Work for Deaf

increasing the strength Of the magnets
produced, and Henry at once recognized
the importance of the discovery. But
he carried the investigation much fur
Their, examining into the relation of
the battery to the magnet, develop
ing two forms of the latter, which he
called quantity" and intensity mag
nets, and by the aid of the latter, sue
ceeded in making visible and audible
signals at the end of a long line, which
had been declared to be impossible by
Barlow. He actually set up in the hall
of the Albany Academy a line more
than a mile in length. through which
signals were transmitted without diff
Guilty, and the principles involved were
so well understood by Henry that even
then, in 1882. he confidently declared
that transmission through any reason
able distance was possible. This system
was the germ of all modern biography y
Provided with the Morse code, or a
similar code, any operator would, by
the use Of Henry's apparatus have
transmitted in 1881, messages Of un-
limited length, though, of course, at
slow speed.
Prof Henry, like DR.. Langley, a
later secretary of the Smithsonian In
stitution, sought no financial reward
| for his discoveries and freely gave them
to the world in the interest of pure
science However, he was not unmind-
| full of the value of his discoveries, and
upon one occasion stated to Prof. Trow-
bridge, at Cambridge: eff had patent
| ed that arrangement Of magnet ano
battery, 7 should have reaped great
pecuniary reward for my discovery Of
the practical method of biography"
| y X
THERE are other historic places neal
the site of the old telegraph Office
on Seventh street. Just around the
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Seed CatalOes.
THE annual harbinger of spring

The annual harbinger of Spring, the
seed catalogue, has been making
its appearance in the past few weeks
and the roseate dreams of beautiful
flowers again are i'll the making.
The trouble with the average man
and his flowers is that he takes it
out in dreaming and in too little prac-
tical planning. Now Is the time when
the garden should be laid of In what
ever sized beds are to be developed
and q definite plan on paper be. made
OF what Is to be grown.
If such q diagram is made, with the
succession Of flowers designated, and
the approximate planting time, It will
be found that raising flowers and
beautifying the yard Is not only not
difficult, but Is. in reality. a highly
interesting and pleasurable UNDER
taking.
BY planning two years ahead and by
the employment of annual flowers, the
cost can be kept to minimum. The
gardener Of small means, who cannot
afford expensive collections of plants.
viii find the cost not great II he raises
his perennialS from seed, and, even
though they are not started indoors
and do not bloom this year, he will
h9Ye an extensive quantity for next
year at low cost In the meantime
ANIMALS which cost but few cents
for seed can be interrningled with the
perennialS for blooms this year.. IN
the same way few gladiolus and
dahlias, purchased this year, will, by
their natural increase, show q fair
quantity next year,
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Established His First Telegraph Office in Washington

corner on E street was Blodgetts Hotel,
where Congress convened after the
burning Of the Capitol by the British,
and which was subsequently used by
the Post Office Department, the City
Post once, and on the Seventh street
side by the Patent Office. This build4
ing was completely destroyed by fire OF
December IS, 1885, and the erection
Of the building which now covers the
site soon followed.
On the south side of E street between
Seventh and Eighth lived w. w. Seaton
in 1924, when Gen. Lafayette visited
the city, and 1t was here that the
French patriot was entertained By the
associate editor and part owner of the
National Intelligencer, which was for
long time published at the northwest
corner of Seventh and d streets north
west. The company invited by Mr..
Seaton upon this important occasion
to meet and greet the distinguished
Revolutionary soldier numbered $50,
and although it is said to have been
"commodious residence" yet Mrs.
Seaton was forced to use her bed cham
Der and nursery as card and supper
rooms, while dancing went on In the
dining and drawing rooms.
Close to the Seaton residence on E
street also stood for many years Alb
ner's Summer Garden, where drinks
Of various liquid substances were sold.
On the northwest corner of Ninth
and E streets stood the building in
which the Post ONCE Department first
took up its quarters in 1900, when the
Government moved here, and diagonally
across the street at 918 E street lived
James Buchanan, before he was made
President. Farther to the east, at the
northwest corner of Sixth and E streets,
lived Salmon P. Chase, and at 500, E
street lived Caleb Gushing. John C.
Calhoun resided at 618 E street, and
Thomas U. Walter, one of the archi-
tects of the Capitol, at 614 F street.
The National Era, in which first APP
peared Uncle Toms Cabin" was pub
lished nearby, and other historic spots
go to make this neighborhood worth
while and especially interesting-not
only to our own people, but to visitors
as well.
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RY JoHN CLAGETT PROCTOR.

- NE of the most important and
interesting historic sites In
washington is that Of the first
~ public telegraph Office in the
United States, which stood
about the middle of the square on the
east side of Seventh street northwest
between and F streets, where STANDS
4he old building erected for the Post
&c Department, cut now used Tor
other governmental purposes. The
bronze tablet which marks the place
where the old building once stood tells
us that Samuel F. B. Morse, artist and
inventor. owned and operated ON this
site under the Post Office Department
the first public telegraph office IN the
United States, April /, lS45. What
Hath God Wrought"
The designer of the tablet was Henry
Bacon. architect of the Lincoln Me-
mortal. and the inscription was written
by Royal Cortisson Of New York, who at
the time of the placing of the marker
in 1918 was the historian OF the j. Pier
pont Morgan art collection. The bronze
was executed by Henry Herring, who was
a pupil under the distinguished Sculp-
tor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
The building in which the office was
opened is described as having been an
OIOIldEH fIWU-StOty itUt%aC Will Ola Ouo-
side stairway leading to the second
story. OH which the telegraph Office was
located The front room, facing Seventh
street. was occupied as an operating
room; the other rooms by the main bat
teries and other accessories.
Few people achieve great results
without encountering the usual assort-
ment Of obstacles and discourag
and Prof Morse did not give the tele-
graph the start that made it grow into
its subsequent great usefulness without
undergoing many hardships and endur-
ing many sleeplesS nights. Genius,
however. uses stumbling blocks to build
upon. and so it was with Morse that
he turned failure into success. and tri-
unlphcd over all difficulties.
Morse was an artist OF distinction,
and turned inventor after he had about
concluded-at least for the time being
to abandon the brush and palette,
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be associated with Morse's company, but
no one fitted in better for lobbying the
bill through than Mr.. Kendall, and the
success of the telegraph is In no small
measure due to his political skill and
influence. Incidentally--of course
Kendall became rich, and thereafter de-
voted much Of his time toward further
ing the interests of the telegraph COM
pany of which he was member.
X = \ "
TN 1854 he subdivided into two-acre
tracts the property we now know as
Kendall Green, which he called Ken
dallville. Upon these tracts he erected
several houses on tract running east
and west. In one Mr.. Kendall himself
lived, his son-in-law, William Stickney,
lived in another, while the others were
offered for sale. He was equal to the
real estate promoter Of the present day.
and to encourage settlement even ran
a line of omnibusses twice a day from
Pennsylvania avenue and Seventh street
to the property.
Evidently the lots did not sell very
rapidly, for Kendall, who was charitable
and generous with his wealth, later
gave one of the houses as home for
the newly incorporated Columbia Insti-
tute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. In
deed, he did more than this. He took a
friend to a house In which poor waits
were being kept by man protesting
zeal In charitable work, and who had
gathered together all deaf-mute and
blind children Of the District for the
purpose of educating them, he said. He
did not keep his promises, and 1t was
due to the horrible stories of the suffer-
ing of these children that led the ten
der-hearted Kendall to investigate their
condition.
Finding the door locked. he broke in.
only to find conditions even worse, If
possible, than reports had depicted
them. He restored the majority of the
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to Washington, along with Admiral Pal
mer, to be general manager OF the Gov
ernment's Fleet Corporation In 1924.
n "
Nov, every one in Washington knew
y in q general way that the Shipping
Board had been suffering from sort
of measles for some time. just what
form 1t took or how severe the case has
never been generally known. But Pres
ident Coolidge was determined to be the
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~ n0SeQ, DlUe-eyeO man. lGb
T see what's back of all this"
The men around the ia
bic snap to attention. For
there is a ring in this voice which
echoes the habit of command. And
there is knowledge of the quality Of
this man which commands respect.
Hutchinson Ingham Cone Is speaking
One time admiral of the American
Navy in his sea-faring and fighting
days, administrator of important bust
ness Jobs in his private days, now COM
missioner in the United States Ship
ping Board.
Time was when he guided destroyers
ia f1otilla sweeping through the Magel-
Ian waves. Time was when he served
on the Shanghai station, stood on the
bridge Of the Utah at Vera Cruz Many
a post of responsibility has this man
had in navy life and in private life, but
never any which more requires his quail
tiles of honesty and courage and mental
Insight than his present post.
For to him is given the work OF adj
rninistering a fund OF S250,000, 900 voted
by Congress for the recreation Of our
vanished merchant marine.
Writing in 1916, William Brown
Meloney said:
an the eyes of an astounded world,
the United states established her birth
right in the freedom of the seas as no
other heir of Tyre had ever done. she
wrested the Tyrian trident from Brit
bin's grasp; tore the proud title OF Mis-
tress of the Seas from her breast.
"And, having done this, she flung her
heritage away like a witless wastrei-
with the abandon Of drunkard.
To-day, although rich to wantonness,
I 4,aH In fQQfinV
of the human race is imrneaSurable. our
starred flag is curiosity beyond the pre-
cincts of our continental shores and in
tular holdings"
Cone, at that table, administering
that fund, is living sign OF the hope
That such words as these may not have
been sounded in vain.
What sort of man is this to whom so
important work has been assigned and
what are some of the elements in the
work itself?
ITO inquire about Admiral Cone among
IN those who know him in Washing
ton is like switching a radio dial rap
fdIy around. There is a sudden and
confusing clamorouS noise OF praises
competing for hearing.
"The most generous man that ever
lived" one begins. Inc nohestes'
man you ever saw" another goes on
ETut his nindl It's clear as crystal
ard strong as STEEL" some one else in
t9rjects, until the listener puts his
hands to his ears and says:
Prove it!'
prove It? Why. look at his record!'
And then a fellow admiral, one OF
those Southern sdnErals with nice
. ..sS1.@i;;;;yy- SuiCeS, says:
r -. ~. y@::. He was born In Brook
lyn,. but pretty soon he was taker
T.outi1-to Florida. And he went u
tcl1ool in Florida and was graduated
from the Florida Agricultural College
: when he was only 10. That showed NJ
vas smart, didn't it? And then M
ttarted in teaching school.
well, he had a friend up here tr
Washington, in Congress. and he wrote
TO him and told him he didn't thinl
iluch of a lob at teaching school fol
go g. month and no future, and III
'ented a Government job So hi
t-:ond sent for him to come u here
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In washington that It was high time
that our nag should be put back once
more upon the seas. The ship subsidy
act had been defeated. Yet the more
the memory of our clipper ships re-
turned to- mind, the more two things
flag must 60 back and that It must 60
back flying above ships manned by
American searnen and built, owned and
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Largest Palace.

THE largest royal palace in Europe
= is said to be that of the King of
Spain. called Escurial and located near
Madrid. 1t Is said that 1t requires four
days to go through all the rooms and
apartments and that more than 100
miles would be covered in such togr.
The American Philosophical Society &C.
Inmates that 1t would take fc.,r days to
make complete visic to the palace.
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doctor; and he had undoubtedly called
in Palmer and Gone in his best bed
side mood. But some Of the Capitals
best interferers would not let the case
rest. They started In sniping Palmer,
and Cone resigned, along with Palmer,
in 1925, in q protest which would back
up the President. Cone returned once
more to private life.
Meanwhile, there had been growing q
general sentiment which was registering
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BY ANNE HARD.

M ENTLEMEN," says the long
sSl nosed, blue-eyed man, "let's
Y see what's back of all this"
~ The men around the ia
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
CERTAIN PUNISHMENT THE DETERRENT

Discussion that is going on throughout the state regarding the value of capital punishment as de- terrcnt against homicide, or its lack of being a deterrent, is largely aca- demic. What counts is certainty of punishment.
 When a homicide is committed in New York it is said that the chances are in 40 that the guilty person viN be apprehended, tried. convict ed and hanged, In Chicago the chances are approximately the same or they favor the criminal even more. Naturally the hangman' IS moose. the electric chair, or life i'm prisonmcnt are not sufficiently de terring 10 prevent crime commjs- sion.
 In places where there is as poor chance of escaping punishment as celluloid feline in the neither re- aious either the hangman's moose. the electric chair or a life sentence is a perfectly good deterrent.
 Punishment certainly deters crime wi hen it is certain.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
SPEED LIMITS

Cooperation of the state motor vehicle department with the town of Stratford in inaugurating speed limitations for automobiles is term ed an experiment" It was not many years ago that such limita- tions were in force throughout the entire state. When they were elimin- ated it was held that conditions would be improved Many observers feel justified in thinking there has been little improvement. if any, along the main thorough that speeds of 50 and 60 miles an hour are far too common. Now the motor vehicle department is experimenting in the other direction. It is fair to as sume that such experiments will be made in other towns; and it is pos sible that speed limitations will re- turn throughout the entire state. Most autoists have good judgmen: | and know when they are driving 1 faster than conditions warrant. But 1 there is an unsafe minority which, l given a little leeway abuses it's prlNl- l lcges and endangers the highways i for all. In order to curb this minority the motor vehicle department is forced to begin experimenting with 1 everybody
 It is not exactly hardship, how ever. as it is doubtful whether drivers with good judgment would of their own accord travel faster than the speed limitation signs that promise to go up,
 If the speed limitation signs dc
 not curb the minority perhaps
 something else may be necessary
 possibly more and better jail sen'
 tenCes.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
THE INJURED OCEAN PLIERS

After crossing the South Atlantic with exceptional speed, Major Tudeo Iarre- Borgcs or Uruguay and his French comrade. Lieutenant Leon Challc, appear to have been forced down in northeastern Brazil, and either one or both were severely in- jured as result Of the forced landing. They landed on the South American continent and not in the ocean, however, and thus they are added to the list of those daring aviators who have succeeded in con- quering the Atlantic.
 The flight was particularly daring in that 1t was attempted at time of the year when the Atlantic is in a tempestuous mood. Only the fact that their course lay through south ern attitudes and traversed the shortest span over the ocean. made IL at all likely that success cOuIu eventuate. A flight over the North Atlantic at this period of the year. of course, is utterly out of the ques' ton.
 .. Men Of all nationalities are becom- ing aviation aces. All the nations Of Europe have had sons gain re- nown as courageous sons Of the ar. And we have had Mexican, Argen' tine, Brazilian. Central American republics. but one of the best gov erned and most fertile, lying between Brazil and Argentine, and possessing in Montevideo one of the finest ports on the western hemisphere, and in cidentally a university of great repu. taton Its people are prosperous anc intelligent and the major well repre-. sents it's progressive spirit.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
Observations Or The Weather

Washington. Dec. 17.-Forecast for Southern New England: Rain tonight and Wednesday,; not quite so cold in Connecticut tonight. Fresh 10 strong south and southeast winds.
 Forecast for Eastern New York: Rain in south and snow or rain in north portion tonight and Wcdnes- day; not quite so cold in south DOT tion tonight and in extreme south portion Wednesday,; fresh south west winds,
 Forecast for New Haven and vicinity: Rain tonight and We'd nesday. Slightly warmer tonight.
 Conditions: Pressure is high over the Maritime provinces and New England. A disturbance is cen tral over Oklahoma with a trough extending northeastWard to Lake Erie Rains have been general in the Ohio valley and the lake region. Temperatu lures are rising in the east ern portion of the country but are falling west of the Mississippi river Conditions favor for this vicinity unsettled weather with light fog and rain