Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
Kendall Was Vital Success Of His Enepe-atters Name dnth
MuReport Political Action Introduced Wire Messages

, children to their parents, and the five
| for whom homes could not be found, he
placed in a little frame house which
| formed part of his estate.
It was he who brought Edward M
Gallaudet of Hartford, Conn.,, here, and
it was he who had tbs scnool incor-
porated.
In addition to the frame house and
| two acres Of ground with which the in
stitution began Mr.. Kendall gave a
substantial brick building, erected en-
tirely at his own expense, in 1859, to-
gether with cash donations at different
times as needs arose, making In all
q value of $4,000. Mr.. Kendall died
| in 1869, and shortly afterward Congress
| appropriated $4,000 for the purchase
| Of 80 acres of ground on which Mr.
Kandall's home had been located for
many years and which he had given
the name Kendall Green, the name
by which the institutions grounds are
still known.
| This is a wonderful institution, no
doubt the most wonderful of its kind
| in the world. We who are blessed with
all our faculties can have but little con-
ception of the difficulties under which
both the scholars and teachers are
forced to labor on account of the un-
| fortunate handicap of the students. No
doubt long years of experience mini
mixed the difficulties to be encountered,
but yet 1t does seem, even with skilled
instructors, to be q position requiring
unusual fitness.
Reading In an old book, the writer
came across some references to the
compositions made by some Of the
younger children at this institution.
This Is the story" read:
"A little fellow who lost his hearing
from disease remembers a few words;
SO when he writes on the blackboard
t, he articulates pussy and when
wrote sketch Of Jobs history, with the
startling information that the Lord
boiled him But the most touching Of
all Is the record of a little fellow who,
when asked what George washington
did when his father inquired about the
| cherry tree, wrote on the blackboard:
| He took his hatchet In his left hand
and told his father he did it. Why
did he take the Ratchet in his left
hand?' asked the teacher, surprised at
the expression, and the answer came
promptly. Because he had to use his
right hand to tell his father The
child thought George Washington was
deaf and dumb"
Kendall's handsome donation toward
building Calvary Baptist Church Is only
another of his generous gifts which win
be remembered for years to come.
Morse was not the first one to send
telegraph messages from Washington,
as is generally believed, for in 1841 the
system of Canon had been demon
strated on line built from the Capitol
to Bladensburg. But in this case there
was no leader like Kendall to help out
back 1t up in the Senate like Charles
Sumner, and as such support was in
dispensahle this experiment came to
naught.
AS q matter Of fact, and not Of ar
gument, Joseph Henry, the first secre-
tary of the Smithsonian Institution, In
his invention Of the electro-magnet laid
the foundation for Morse's invention Of
the telegraph. Indeed, Henry's diScov-
cries did, in a way, much that Morse
accomplished.
| Although Sturgeon, an Englishman,
was the first to produce what has since
been knewn as an electro-magnet, vet
the most powerful magnets made by his
method were insignificant, as it has
been said. Compared with what Henry
was able to produce a few years later
instead of vanishing the iron core and
using naked wire, as Sturgeon did
''he insulated the copper wire itself
by covering it with silk, and this en-
abled him to coil the wire closely and
to make two or more layers about the
core.
| This had the effect of enormously