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Miscellaneous Wanted
HODGES AUCT co.
Barter and SWap

LARGE. FORCED AIR FURNACE-,Willl
trade for lathe. or shaper ExceiSlpr
Wire Works 1885 Marttndale ave Nh'
fagT
IKE NFW-4-piece bedrm. suite, French
Walnut: new style china closet otner
f,irn. Trade for livestock. Wa. 2i2I-4.
SELLING OUT-An new electric radios
below cost Atwater Kent, holster ana
stewart Warner Lii. 5425,
Will SEII-Credit Of Ss25 with leading
music house that can be bought Ior so9e'
terms Call Chester Armacost, Ii. .a412,
NEW ELECTRIC -RADIOS-Take anything
in trade Ia. 1921. Mr. Morgan.
TRADE-Equity in lot for electric raolo'
or what have YOU Be O428
DENTAL WORK-In exchange for garage.
lumber and carpenter work. II 5ozo-
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Radio and E ruromenf

BEATING sTOvE-As part pay. on new
rs leslie Doll s54o Madison. DR.. lals-J.
FNP0D al TCr0slev Radios Easy terms
CARSON BROS, lia7 shelby. Or. Vzs<.
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Capacity s.3fs sddsfe ton sood
as new, ERMET PRODUCTS CO, 2l00
y. Caroline st. On. 2Qe7
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WHITE 2-ton chassis and cab; equipped
with pneumatic tires. this truck is IN
very good shape and will make good coal
truck General Motors Truck Co. USED
Truck Dept, TAI e. Market st. L. 1851.
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Store-Omce Supplies

rYPEWRITERS-An STANDARD makes new
and used portables; Dalton adding ma
chimes. Rentals, repairs and typewriter
supplies. AMERICAN WRITING MA
CHINE CO, 1877 Meridian st. Board
Of Trade Bldg. Ii. 1922
ALL the new portables in all colors, see US
before making purchase, some wonderful
secondhand machines. King Typewriter
Exchange. Ii. 9470.
FOR SALE OR TRADE-Underwoo No
typewriter, good cond. 1543 Shelby st
Dr. 3983M.
SPECIAL RENTAL RATES-$25O and up
WOODSTOCK TYPEWRITER co B42
Consolidated Bldg. Ii 47I2.
CASH REGISTER-Remington very good
condition: reasonable. 1859 XIV. Ave.
$50 NOISELESS TYPEWRITER-To go for
$50. Call Ii 9470.
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Stness CpportCnrtIes

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FOR QUICK sALE-Meat -tand m city
market established business, 1uly
equipped. priced to sell very reasonable:
further information call. He. 1902 Eve
nings only.
BUSINESS OwNERS-n you want to sell
YOUR place of business, get 1t listed with
us Our representative will call
E. ", FORLER SALES co:
sol Meyer-Kiser Bank Bldg. Ii. 1927:
GARAGE-IdeaI location; no competition:
corlplete equipment; large 2-story bricE
bldg TO be leased: investigate this cp-
portunity Call Southport Isl:
BARBFR SHOP-2 chairs; full outfit. $500;
barber shop and 5 living rooms, $40
month. 1908 Commerce Ave
COUNTERS Show cases, shelving for drug
store and room for rent; Dig bargain u
D. Ellis. STA w Washington ST.
SHORTCOMINGS cor: East and Nc
Carly; SIS; p mo. rent free; $50 atter
ROOMING nc = ,SEr--S-room modern; rents.
s35. Forced to sell. $3.50 426 Irving Pl.
Dr. 6443-R.
BATTFRY AND ELECTRIC sHOP--Com.
equip small overhd.; good bust. DR.. 1909
coon LOCATION-For grocery; living
rooms adjoining Oh. 2789. owner.
BEAUTY SHOP-EoUipment, with privilege
Of renting shop. $3.50. DR.. 6312.
SANDWICH SHOP-Located between two
theaters: good bus Ii. 1929. IA w. Wash
GROCERY AND MEAT MARKET FOR
SALE $50 S. LYONS. "
TAURANT-OPPOSITE COURTHOUSE
ass E WASH. R1, O5oz;
Is CAR G4RAGE-For rent with filing
st~t79,S PSI s Noble St
Market stand. Call DIR. 1899.
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building at New York avenue-one for
housing the w. A. Clark collection and
the other for its permanent exhibits.
Perhaps you have seen here the beau
tiful Greek Slave" by the American
sculptor, Hiram Powers. This work OF
art was one of the earliest of its kind
in the old building, and a description
of it printed more than so years ago
is indeed interesting and worth repeat
ing here:
1.-The direct history of this statue by
Powers Tor the circumstances attend
ing the modeling) has been written by
a correspondent abroad. 1t points TO
one of our countrynen about 80 years
ago, whose domestic sorrows and pow
erty in strange land were relieved
by the faithful love of daughter, pow
erless to help him otherwise than by
,onsenting to become the model for the
Slave Beauty of form and features
ade into irsignificance compared with
filial love that, even surprising that
the Roman daughter who nourished
ler starving father in prison, felt no
1crifice nor duty too great or painful.
Thy is it that such an incident brings
qore potently than ever to our minds
he truth Of the allegory, no cross-no
:rown!' for certainly to this faithful
hid grief and poverty brought the
burden OF a cross that many would
nave sunk under, rather than to have
risen from. But faith was the STEP
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Throughout in
tWasL lAbuadinB

extreme purity and chastity would i'm
press one with the ideal style more
than the natural"
THE Louise Home, another Of the
Corcoran beneficences, and which
perpetuates the name Louise, borne by
both his wife and his daughter, was
erected shortly after the close Of the
Civil War 1t is situated on the south
side of Massachusetts, avenue between
Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets north
west, and the building and grounds cost
100000, which the donor endowed
with a further gift Of $250,000. The
home is for women of refinement and
culture who have become reduced In
circumstances in their old age. AS
stated, it is named after Mr.. Corcoran's
wifeand daughter, and is testimo-
NAL ito their devoted concern for the
poor and unfortunate"
Mr.. Corcoran's daughter Louise
married George Eustis, Representa-
tive in Congress from the State OF
Louisiana. They resided for several
years in Paris, whittier her father fire.
quently went to share in the sweet So
cial atmosphere for which her home
was noted. Representative and Mrs.
Eustis were blessed with three children,
which added to their many joys and
blessings But the dark days Of sick
ness, and finally death, bedinmed the
sunshine Of pleasure, and Louise Cor
coran Eustis passed into the great be-
yond, at Cannes, In December, 1867.
1T was truly a sorrowful day." as has
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rectory for 1843 the name of "Corcoran
& Riggs, bankers, n side F ST., betw.
IA and Is w, cor. 49," In 1845 they
purchased the old United States Bank,
corner of Fifteenth street and New
York avenue. MIR. Corcoran, while sue
ceeding in business, had not forgotten
those whom he could not pay when
he failed back in 1928, and, in 1847
settled in full with all these old cred
itors: the amount disbursed for the
purpose, including interest, being about
$4,000.
AS financier, Mr.. Corcoran was
4 eminently successful, and his word
and Judgment were depended upon
even by foreign bankers. A demon
Stration of the faith held in him &C.
Cured in 1848, when, finding his bank
with about IL millions of United States
6 per cent bonds on hand, and the
demand for them in this country being
poor, they being at that time / per
cent below the price at which Cor
coran & Riggs took them, he deter
mined to try the European markets,
and, after one days reflection, en-
he was told by Mr.. Bates Of the house
of Barring Bros. & Co. and George
Peabody that no sale could be made
of these securities and no money could
be raised by hypothecation thereof.
He was further told that he should
have written to them on the subject
before coming over.
In reply, Mr.. Corcoran said he was
not surprised at their views but that
he had felt confident that he could
convince them of the expediency of
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life, and few terminated so interestingly.
One can almost hear Mr.. Corcoran
speaking in the words Of Shakespeare:
But soft. what light through yonder window
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than
she.
COMMODORE MORRIS was a hardy
~ old martinez and would not be-
lieve it possible that his daughter could
care for any one outside "the service. :"
All appeals to his reason were Vair
against the walls Of his prejudice, and
the way Of this true love was rough in
deed. But Louise Morris had a pretty
fair share of her fathers courage, and
she consented to an elopement. With
sight, and, Just as in the great Shake
spearean tragedy, arrangements were
made to steal the bride. However,
when the night came for the runaway,
and the fair Louise was about ready
to jump from the window into the
sturdy arms of her lover waiting below,
the modore-being accustomed to
night watches-reached down and
snatched her back into his home.
The commodore was only outwardly
stern, as all his men knew, and when
he realized that his daughter was seri-
ouSly In earnest, and that "love laughs
at lockSniths," he sent the would-be
bridegroom for the previously engaged
minister and, calling together the rest
of the household, had the marriage
ceremony performed then and there at
midnight.
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ran Name Associated With Districts Financial History

and S streets northwest, and con-
tributed a sufficient amount to build
a medical hall for old Columbian Col
lege. He donated $4,000 toward
erecting Ascension Protestant Episco-
pal Church, and supplemented this later
with a gift Of $4,000.
His gifts were not confined to Wash
ington but included number OF out
side places.
To washington and Lee University
he gave a library Of five thousand
volumes. and assisted William and Mary
College financially, and generously made
gifts of money to the University OF Viz
ginia and to the Virginia Military In
stitute. His enterprises included the
erecting of the Corcoran Building In
1847 and which stood until few
years ago when it gave way for the
Hotel Washington, at Pennsylvania
avenue and Fifteenth street. 1t was
erected for Federal departmental use.
but finally gave way for private Office
purposes AS a lad the writer recalls
that the Western Union Telegraph Of
fee was in this building at the south
west corner of F and Fifteenth streets.
For a number of years, Mr.. Corcorar-
who was an early member of the As
ISOLATION of Oldest Inhabitants-gave
this organization permission to occupy
room here, rent free.
The Arlington Hotel, which occupied
the site of the Veterans Bureau, and
| which was erected about 1870, was
| another of his well-known projects. In
it's day this was one of Washington's
famous hostelries, for here stopped
| many of the worlds most noted people,
such as Don Pedro. President Diaz,
King Kalakana, Ii Hung Chang, and
| other foreigners equally distinguished.
Some of our own notables who stopped
here we're Charles Sumner, William l..
| Marcy, Secretary of State; Louis Cas-,
| Secretary of State; Presidents Blu
| cnanan and Benjamin Harrison and
! Gen. Joseph Wheeler. Prince Albert
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BY JOHN CLAGETT PROCTOR.

8 I was leaving the newly made
n grave Of a friend and neighbor
"A whose interment recently took
place in Oak Hill Cemetery my
eyes wandered to a nearby &C.
tagonal Doric temple of pure white
marble standing upon conspicuous
eminence Surmounting the family vault
of that greatly admired and respected
citizen. Col William Wilson Corcoran.
In reminiscent mood, pointed out
this handsome monument to the gen.
tIeman nearest me, telling him that it
was the last resting place Of that great
philanthropiSt who was so justly and
sincerely admired by the people Of
Washington in days gone by, and whose
memory is revered even today by those
who are still with us and who knew
him in the flesh. Being man of only
middle age. it was not surprising to
find that my friend knew little, If any
thing, of Mr.. Corcoran, whose death oc-
CURED nearly Al years ago, on February
"a. 1888.
It was not the time nor the place
nor was the weather sufficiently cheer
full for one then to go into detail re-
garding the life and activities of man
who, at the time of his death, was
rightfully regarded as our foremost cit
izen, but it did occur to me that, after
all, perhaps there were many thousands
of The Stars readers who would like to
know something of this benefactor who
had done so much and in SO many diff
ferent ways for the District Of Column
bia, in which he was born two years
before the seat of government was
moved from Philadelphia, and indeed
to whose thoughtfulness and benevo-
lence the very cemetery in which he
lies became the property of the people
for burial purposes.
Thomas Corcoran, the father of w.
W. Corcoran-by which name the lat
ter was always known-was born i'll
Liminck, Ireland in 1854. He came to
Baltimore, we are told, in 1888, when
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Uncle Sam Spies Out Automobile Test With Quartz
Glass Windows tWrVaraon Combustion Shown

the chemical reactions and variations in
fuel conditions, temperature, turbulence
and piston movement.
Despite the fact that experiments
with simple explosive mixtures under
controlled conditions have yielded i'm
portant information regarding automo-
tive combustion, supplementary data
have long been needed to correlate these
fundamentals with the observed per-
Torrance Of actual engines.
From theoretical standpoint, from
the analysis Of indicator cards and from
observation of operating engines, it has
been proved that the time required for
complete combustion Of the charge
varies markedly with different engine
designs and running conditions. It is
at any particular instant after ignition
may differ even in cases where the total
combustion time Is the same. Both the
rate of combustion and the time re-
quired for complete burning of the
charge exert direct effects on the power
and economy Of the engine. The maxi
mum power and economy are, Of course,
attained in the theoretical case of in
Simultaneous combustion at upper dead
center. The slower combustions OBJ
tainable in practice may result in con-
siderably reduced ef1ciencies if inn
properly timed with respect to piston
position. However, the maximum theo-
retical performance may be approached
very closely with a wide range of COM
bustion times and rates, provided the
proper spark advance is maintained for
each particular condition"
TOR studying the movement of the
l. flame in an actual cylinder, the
scientists have mounted and equipped
a small single-cylinder engine for re-
search purposes at the bureau. Thirty
one small quartz glass windows have
been installed symmetrically as scien-
tific peepholes in a detachable cylinder
head Of special design. Each Of these
observation windows Is one-eighth Of
an inch in diameter, the glass being
inserted temporarily between special
gaskets mounted in the small aperture
| In the head Of the engine.
Light from the explosion of the COM
bustible charge In the cylinder passes
| through these windows to a seven-inch
lens placed just above the engine. The
particular duty Of this lens is to bring
the rays of light to focus at a strobo-
scope where they may be viewed by the
| observer. A small mirror Is employed
to reflect the converging light beams
from the lens to the stroboscope, which
' for convenience is placed at one side
rather than abeys the engine.
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be viewed from an anglep is also in
stalled in both manifold and cylinder.
Whenever a gasoline engine Is started
gasoline fog exists In the manifold
this condition being prevalent irrespec-
tive OF temperature or season of the
year. A fog in nature is nothing more
than a cloud on the surface of the
earth. The cloud In the engine mani
fold, with its content of particles and
fuel droplets, scatterS the light from the
arc and appears luminous in the same
way that moisture particles scatter the
light beams from your automobile head
lamps when you drive into a fog at
night.
When the fog from the manifold is
drawn into the engine on the suction
stroke it mixes with the hot gases left
over from the previous explosion and
comes in contact with the hot walls
Of the combustion chamber. This
heating OF the charge tends to vapor-
ice the fuel, the dry vapor, un-
like the liquid, being invisible Just
as clear air Is invisible in the
rays Of your automobile headlights
BY adjusting the stroboScope, which is
mounted on the test engine to give a
view" into the cylinder at the end of
the suction stroke, the degree of wet
ness" or "dryneSS" Of the charge which
is about to be compressed can be eSti-
mated.
Compression by the piston on its up
ward stroke adds more heat to that
which the charge has already absorbed
from the hot walls of the cylinder. The
resultant rise in temperature operates
| to increase vaporization. Compression,
simultaneously, however, causes a rise
in pressure which acts in the opposite
direction. tending to condense the fuel.
Automotive research has not as yet
determined which Of these opposing ef-
fectS predominates. A fundamental
purpose Of the present Government test
Is to determine for varying operating
conditions the physical state Of the fuel
at that point in the compression stroke
when the spark occurs. Such deter
limitations are difficult, because the Wis
Utility through the quartz windows Is
decreased as SCOT is deposited Further
more, there Is the likelihood of con-
fusing fuel droplets or fog with minute
particles of water or SCOT, which have
similar appearance when Illuminated
by the arc.
At present the automobile industry,
as well as our younger motor boat and
aeronautical businesses, are confronted
by bathing puzzles about fuel supply,
which, up to this writing, have evaded
all attempts at solution. This re-
search, which fosters the use of spy
holes enabling one to look directly at
the vibrating, pulsating heart of a
motor car will, without question, an
swer some of these riddles.
The potential results Of this practi-
cal experimentation with automotive
engines will facilitate better and more
economical engine performance and the
more eficient use Of available fuel sup.
plies.
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ping stone, and duty the goal, and
through her brave struggle for relief
the sorrow of earth made the promise
of heaven the brighter.
''Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz has beau
tifully defined no cross-ro crownr
when she says: TT is the slogan of
life, the victor anthem of death; the
chorus of eternity; and truly to those
who have borne the one, and shall
claim the 'coronal that endurance
wears the words are singularly adapt
ed. In the Greek Slave there is real
poetry Of pose, and sweetness of facial
expression. In the beautiful and grace
full arms there is great symmetry, and
in the no less perfect hand there lies
world Of expression. Altogether the
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a small hole near its circumference
Once during each engine cycle these
holes coincide at the eyepiece of the
instrument, permitting q very brief
glimpse Of the engine heads and its ex-
detrimental windows. This Stroboscope
chuS enables the watcher who keeps tab
IN the activities of the engines Gin
ernal workings" to study the move
nents over and over again many times
second, but always at the same point
l the cycle.
II desired the stroboscope may be adj
listed to give the "view" one one
housandth of second after the spark
las developed. In such case, only the
widows close to the spark plug will be
illuminated by the flame, the rest OF
The cylinder appearing dark However,
rs the "yiew" Is timed later and later,
the combustion spreads gradually until
finally the whole Of the charge is
af1ame. BY keeping track of the quartz
windows as they are Illuminated in Sc
quence the progress of the fame may
be charted and the effect of operating
conditions and various fuels on fame
movement and velocity may be studied
BY still further retarding the view
1t is possible to measure the time re-
quired for the flame to disappear in the
cylinder, leaving the combustion cham
Der once again in darkness.
ONE remarkable feature OF this re-
~ search is the use of Neon lamp
connected in series with the spark plug,
so that it flashes every time the spark
plug fires. Gauge marks inscribed on
the rapidly rotating f1ywheel Of the test
engine appear stationary when illumi-
, mated by this curious lamp, and are
used to indicate the amount OF spark
advance. The stroboscope is always set
accurately on the beginning of the ex-
plosion when the flashes of the Neon
lamp are discernible through Its eye
piece.
Both the period of combustion as well
as the interval Immediately preceding
combustion, during which the explosive
charge Is drawn into the cylinder and
compressed, are of interest in engine
performances.
The second experimental engine used
Is a four-cylinder equipment, although
only one of its cylinders is used IN the
practical tests to determine what hap
pens before the spark flashes. A pow
erful beam of light from an electric arc
is directed through a quartz window
either into the intake manifold or into
the engine cylinder.
A second quartz window or technical
Spy. hole through which the beam MAJ
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For a few years happiness followed
the wedding, and three children were
born. Harriet Louise, who lived only
a year; Louise Morris, born March
20, 1888, died December 4, 1867, and
Charles Morris, who also died within
year. On November 81, 1910, the
greatest affiiction of his life befell him,
when his beloved and devoted wife
passed away, leaving him with only
Louise. the daughter.
From this time on Mr.. Corcoran de-
voted his life to business and to char
tiles. He had commenced the broker
age business in Washington in 1897
in a small store, 10 by 16 feet, on
Pennsylvania avenue near Fifteenth
street, and moved his family to this
side of Rock Greek the same year. In
1910 he took into partnership George
w. Riggs, and we find In the city d.