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Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-18
Permits Exceed
S6OO,OOO Mark

Building permits for El Cen
tro continued to mount today,
passing the S602,0G mark for
the year and the $4,000 mark
fer this month.
A permit for $4,000 was is
sued yesterday afternoon to
Arnold NJ. Blackburn for two
residences at 1858 and 1857
Commercial street. Another
permit for $3.50 was granted
Mike Abdelnam for an addi-
ton to a residence at 204
Brighton avenue.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-18
FLIGHT OF DON
TO BE DELAYED

LONDON. NOV. IS. ,U.P, The pro-
DCSed transatlantic flight of the
Dornier flying boat DO-X, will be
delayed at Lisbon for diSmantlng
and 0yerhauling of the machines
engines, the Daily Herald quoted Dr.
Claudius Doruier today as saving.
Or. poinier denied that the y
American engines on the flying boat
would De changed, the Daily Herald
.,4jI
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-18
TOMORROW

Junior chamber Of commerce
breakfast. $50. Barbara Worth.
Chamber of comerce lunch
con, Barbara Worth.
Delphian, 9:3O, 535 Wenslcy.
Southern District convention.
9:30. Brawley ElkS hall.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-18
Missionary, Child Slain BY Savages

This photo shows Rev. and Mrs.
Arthur +. Tyiee, Of Memphis,
Tenn, and their 2-ycar-old
daughter, Marian, all Of whom
were attacked by savage Indians
in the Brazilian jungle, where
the Rev. Tyice was stationed as
Presbyterian missionary. Rev
TyIcc, the little girl and mrs
were massacrcd, and Mrs. Tyice,
also missionary, was wounded.
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its owner, a man by the name Of Robey, and
his unfortunate victims. It is surrounded by q
wooden paling IA or is feet in height, with the
posts outside to prevent escape and separated
from tie building by a space too narrow to
permit of a free circulation of air. At a small
window above, which was unglazed and ex-
posed alike to the heat Of Summer and the
cold of Winter, so trying to the constitution,
two or three sable faces appeared, looking out
wistfully to while away the time and catch a
refreshing breeze the weather being extremely
hot. In this wretched hovel all colors except
white, both sexes, and all ages, are confined,
exposed Unfortunately to the contamination
which may be expected In such society and
under such seclusion'"
MIR. CLEPHANE also refers to a later pen In
an adjoining block, and tells us that
1.-THE slave pen in this city best remembered
by our old residents was kept by one Williams
and was located on the southeast corner of
Eighth and b streets southwest, Just south of
the Smithsonian grounds The house sat back
some distance from the street amidst grove
of trees, and was the yellow house referred to
in one of the advertisements which have read.
1t was three-story brick house, covered with
plaster and painted yellow. In the grounds
was also an clubhouse, and in this latter build
ing most of the slaves brought to this district
for sale or shipment elsewhere were kept.
Some Of them were kept in the dwelling house
In q room adjoining the kitchen. A certain
Senator during the debate on the abolition of
the slave trade in the District of Columbia,
which occurred In 1885, described these houses
and grounds as a most pleasant looking place,
viewed from the outside. Had he gone inside,
his description Of the interior might have been
somewhat different The gentleman who pur-
chased this property after the abolition Of the
slave trade had ceased to make it profitable to
its owner told me that he found In the walls of
the clubhouse and Of the room adjoining the
kitchen staples driven in the walls, to which
the slaves were shackeled In this place slaves
were sold, but mostly, am informed, at private
sale. Slaves were frequently sold ut auction,
together with furniture. carpets and household
goods, ut the regular auction houses Of the
city"
Back In the seventies on the Seventh street
side Of this block was Nixon Brewers feed
store and william a. Baum's coal yard and the
latter lived around the corner on street.
Naturally, al traces Of these old slave guar
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tiers have long since passed away. and for years
both blocks have been closely built up with
stores and dwellings.
B street from Seventh to Fourteenth street
has contained the residences of number OF
well known Washingtonians for years. At SO4.
comparatively new building, lived DR.. Harrison
c. Dyer, the entymologist widely known in the
scientific world as a specialist In mosquitoes,
but who a few years before his DEATH which
occurred about year ago, came into public
notice because of the tunnels he dug in his
backyard, purely for recreation and diversion.
FIGHT FOURTEEN is the old r. A. Golden
home, and in the beautiful old brick dwell
ing on the southeast corner of and Ninth
streets once lived Arsenius I. Harvey, founder
and president Of the Harvey, Clarke & Given
Coal Co.. one Of the earliest coal companies Of
the city, with wharves at the foot of Thirteenth
street. and their principal place of business at
one time at Maryland avenue and Thirteen
and-a-half street, now Lnwood place, where
they also sold groceries. Henry A. Clarke Of
the firm lived on b street near Thirteenth,
while John T. Given, the other member of the
company, lived uptown.
James S. Harvey, the father of Arsenius I.
Harvey, was also resident of South Washing
ton, and for years was wholesale merchant
on the river from before his death in 1867.
on February /, 1795, and married In 1917
Catherine Clarke, who was born in 1898 and
died on THE Island" in 1862 OF their eight
children Arsenius is said to have been the only
one who lived to maturity and he was born In
Georgetown in 1919 and died at his street
home February IA. 1891.
Arsenius I. Harvey married Margaret Fem
wick Bean, who was born in st. Marys County,
Md, November IL, 1885, and who died
in this city In 1894, and they were the parents
Of James S. Harvey, Mary Catherine John
Bean, Benedict Fenwick, Arsenius Thomas,
Margaret Rosalie and John Raymond all born
in the old homestead 816 B street southwest.
This family has numerous connections in wash
ington.
At the southwest corner Of and Tenth
streets Mved-and, believe stin nves-James J.
Cooper, for many years trainmaster for the
Pennsylvania Railroad. At 906, just to the
west, was the home and office Of DR.. Louis J.
Brothers, In an old-fashioned dwelling that
stood back on the street W. A. H. Church, the
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CHRISTIAN HINES in his Early Recollec-
tons of Washington City," tells us Of a
family named Jacobs that settled on Seventh
street southwest at very early date. He
speaks OF the place as Spring Garden" and
writes as follows:
Among the earliest settlers of Washington
was Mr.. Jacobs, stonecutter, who lived on
the east side of Seventh street between street
south and Maryland avenue, ON what is now
called The Island He was the proprietor of
large plat of ground-perhaps the greater part
Of square This piece of ground was known
by the name of Spring Garden Here Mr..
Jacobs kept house of entertainment some
thing similar to the numerous restaurants which
now abound in our city. I recollect there were
on the opposite side of the street at that time
Q802 or 1909 several larke oak trees, on which
were suspended two or three swings, intended
Tor the amusement of young people. Mr..
Jacobs family consisted at that time of three
boys-Michae1, Jasper and Philip-with whom
we used to associate. Mr.. Jacobs did not con-
tinue there long, however, and could never
learn to a certainty what became of the family
but think have understood that they moved
10 Frederick County, Maryland. There was
another person living with him or in the house
adjoining by the name of Henry OrandorR.
This property, believe, was afterward pur-
chased and occupied by the late Mr. Hepburn
With some of the younger members of the
sons. think John was in the War Of 1872"
Just how long Spring Garden" continued is
question the writer cannot answer but this
block later on was put to a use not near 80
pleasant to think Of, for some time prior to
1885 it became Robey's slave pen. Some years
ago w. G. Clephane in writing Of slavery in
the District Of Columbia for the records Of the
Columbia Historical Society, spoke particularly
of this block, and said:
"A good many of the slaves were confined
IN private pens. OF these, prior to 1885, the
most noted was one located on the east side Of
Seventh street southwest south Of street.
known as Robeys pen. MIR. Abby, an English
writer, who visited this country In 1895, thus
describes this place:
"'One day went to see the slave pen,"
wretched howell, right against the Capitol, from
which it Is distant about half q mile, with no
house intervening. The outside alone Is access
Sbe to the eye of the visitor, what passes within
being reserved for the exclusive observation q
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Southwest Washington Rich in Landmarks

Entire area Oe0ned at One Time BY Da0M
Burmes and Motley Young-7He old Sla0e
Quarters, the Spring Garden Picnic
Grounds and Some of the Early
Residences.
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~ of the city that laid to the
south of the Washington Canal,
which once lazily flowed approximately along B
street northwest the James Greek Canal, the
last part of which has just recently been filled
in, serving as its eastern boundary, its western
line being formed by the Potomac River; and
this-through a stretch of imagination-con-
Stituted what the old resident called "The
Island"
David Burnes and Motley Young owned all
the land in this area when the District of
Columbia was laid out, and both had their
homes on their respective estates, the Burnes'
cabin being on the site now occupied by the
Pan-American Union Building, at the corner
Of Seventeenth and B streets northwest, while
Motley Young's residence stood somewhere close
to the old home Of George White, near the river
front; and indeed, may have actually been the
older part of this identical dwelling, still
standing.
Today there are many old homes and many
old families still living on 1.-The Island" as a
reminder Of an earlier Washington, when its
beautiful vistas were not obscured by the rows
and rows of block houses that we not only see
in the Southwest today, but indeed, all over the
entire city.
In the early days of the city there were quite
q number of important and wealthy people who
though extensive building was delayed for some
years. yet its growth at all times, particularly
in population, was as much, and maybe even
greater, than the old ariStocratic families Of
'"The Island" desired.
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BY JOHN CLACETT PROCTOR.

HAT the old resident still looks
upon as South Washington, or
1.-THE Island" was all that part
of the city that laid to the
south of the washington Canal.
Putnam patriot., 1930-04-03
West Glocester

Mrs. Jeremiah Hall, who has been sick, is much better.
 Mir. and Mrs. C. W. Place called on friends in Glocester Sunday.
 Miss Almira Reynolds recently spent the afternoon with Mrs. Cyrus Place.
 Some of the houses of the D. Nj. woolen mills are being wired for election lights.
 Little Barbara Place. daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Willard Place, is i'll with a hard cold
 Mir. and Mrs. Lester Dinges and daughter were the guests of relatives in Hope Valley. Sunday.
 Mir. and Mrs. George Lee enter tained Mir. Lees mother, Mrs. Eliza Cowen of Paseoag, Sunday.
 Mr. and Mrs. George Lee enter tained Mrs. Lees brother, Mir. Bart lett of Woonsocket, Sunday.
 Mrs Cyrus Place and son Willard attended Mrs. Places cousins funeral in Providence Wednesday. She died in Florida. March IT.
 Mir. and Mrs. Frank Brodie recent ly entertained Mrs. Rose LeBlance and children. and Mrs. Brodie, sister Mrs. Eliza Cowen of Pascoag.
Putnam patriot., 1930-04-03
Eastford

Mrs. Darwin Lewis was in our Capital city Friday and Saturday last week.
 The Home Economic group in town met with Mrs. Charles Clark last Wed nesday afternoon.
 Miss Helen French and Miss Verna Scarbough spent the weekend at their homes here.
 Mrs. Fred Bowen spent last Friday with her sistere Mrs. Everett Phillips in Charlton. Mass.
 Mrs. Ian Byres is visiting her sister and family, Rev. and Mrs Frank Ab- bolt in Wilkes Barre. Pa.
 The Fashion show will be held in Putnam Saturday, April 5. Lets make a good showing in numbers-that day.
 MT. and Mrs. Merrill R. Keith and daughter Marjory of WhitInsviile, Mass. spent Sunday with his parents, Mir. and Mrs. Arthur Nj. Keith.
 Mrs. Jennie Dawson. her daughter and husband, Mir. and Mrs. Tanner of Norwich were Sunday guests of their cousins, Mir. and Mrs. J. NJ. Tatem.
 In last weeks Courant. it gave an account of the death of Merriam Dodge of Hartford He is the last member of the family. who was born, and spent his boyhood days in this town.
 The ladies of the church served a delicious cold meat supper, together with rolls. mashed potatoes, turnip, pickles and pies at the chapel last Friday night, followed by most in- teresting and amusing program. Much credit was due the committee.
 The members of the Community club were the guests of MT. and Mrs. Burnell last Saturday evening at Gen eral Lyon Inn. They proved them selves royal entertainers. the eve ming was spent with many games and stunts. which made a most cordial feeling for one and all. Delicious re- treatments were served. and all left at a late hour, pronouncing NIT. and Mrs. Burnell ideal hostesses.
Putnam patriot., 1930-04-03
Abingdon

Robert Wahn has moved into Cliff ford Bowen's house.
 Mrs. Barbour of Danielson is the guest of her daughater, Mrs. George Hawkes..
 William Gallup has gone to Mil ford, N. H., to work for his brother, Charles Gallup.
 The Sheba Sheep Club met at the home of Emil Baker in Goodyear last Friday evening.
 Mir. and Mrs. Stanley Amidon of Willimantic were Sunday guests of Mir. and Mrs. A. H. Amidon.
 Burton Baker and Miss Bowers were married at the parsonage last Sunday by Rev. George Hawkes..
 Miss Della Davis of Bristol and Miss Dorothy Horton of Hartford spent the weekend at their homes.
 Mir. and Mrs. Herbert Nelson of Hartford were weekend visitors at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Freeman Nelson.
 Miss Ruth Hawkes. of Tufts Col lege is spending her vacation with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. George Hawkes..
 The missionary meeting was held mt the home of Mrs. J. Nelson Platt, Tuesday afternoon, March 3lst. Sub ject, "China."
 Mrs. Burt Bennett who has been spending several weeks at The Ha- ven returned to her home last week, much improved in health.
 Rev. George Hawkes. will be in New York City next Saturday, April 9th, attending the wedding of his brother, Rev. William Hawkes., of Salonica, Greece.
 A large number of children attend ed the Sunday School social held at the home of Mir. and Mrs. J. H. El- Iiott last Friday evening. Games were played. Sandwiches, cake and cocoa were served by Mrs. Elliott. A most enjoyable time was had by all.
 The regular meeting of Wolf Den Grange was held last Wednesday eve ming. During the lecturers hour a short play. entitled "Squaring it with the Boss" was given by members of the Grange. Next Friday, April 4th, Wolf Den Grange is invited to neigh Dor with Natchaug Grange at Chaplin.
Putnam patriot., 1930-04-03

The game for the championship of the First Girls Gold Metal District found West Warwick, champions of R. l., opposed to Woodstock Academy. champions of Eastern Connecticut The first half was closely contested with the score l5-s in Woodstock g favor. but the second half found Wood stock in rare form, emerging with the final score of 45-l6.
 After the final game, Dr. Ernest Pike of the trustees, presented the gold trophy to Captain Cady of the winners. and each member of the team received gold basket balls. Next the West Warwick girls were presented with their gold basket ba'ls, symbolic of second place. The Worcester Girls Club received gold basket balls as the consolation prizes.
 The All Star Tournament first team was chosen as fellows: For wards, B. Child, K. Foskett center, A. Mason; side center, F. Johnson
Putnam patriot., 1930-04-03
Mrs. Moulthrope
 Granted Divorce
Said Husband Posed as Model Young Man-Was Arrested Two Weeks
 After Marriage

Mrs. Anna E. Stratten Moulthrope, wife of Watson Moulthrope, recently convicted of murder in the first de- gree with Raymond Lalone. ''ice box" bandit. by Jacksonville. Florida, dis trict court jury, has been granted a divorce. The decree was awarded in the superior court at Danbury, last week. The action came up two weeks ago but the court refused to proceed because service had not been made on the defendant.
 Mrs. Moulthrope. whose husband has been brought back to the states pris. on at Weathersfeld to finish his term for burglary. set forth in her com, plaint that Moulthrope. before he married her. had represented himself as a model young man, whereas he had been involved in robberies prior to his marriage. his arrest following two weeks after the nuptial ceremony
 The decree was awarded on the ground of desertion. Mrs. Moulthropt is allowed to resume her maiden name.
Putnam patriot., 1930-04-03

through the difficult periods of the games, to come out the vietors.
 The captain chosen for l930-31 is Katherine Foskett; the manager chosen was Sylvia Collins
 November 27th, Alumnae, home. ST. 6; December 9th, West Warwick, home, 19-9; December 18th. Bryant Stratton, home, 47-10; January 10th, Bacon Academy, home. 47-9i January 15, Putnam High, away, 33-22; Jan uary l7th, Norwich Girls Club. home, 49-1O; January 25th. Williams Me morial, home, 41-23; January 2fth, Plainfield High, away, 2l-23; Febru- ary 9th, c. A. C. Freshmen, away, 26-5; February 7th, Rhode Island School of Design, home, 4s-20; Feb ruary 1fth, Bacon Academy, away, 2s-f0; February 18th. Fall River Girls Club, home, ss-5; February 18th, Tourtellotte, home, 32-15; Feb ruary 2ist, Rhode Island School of Design, away, 43-17; February 2sth,
Putnam patriot., 1930-04-03
POnlfret

Miss Dorothy Colt spent Monday and Tuesday at Fox Hill Farm.
 Both the Pomfret and the Rectory Schools are opening next week after the spring vacation.
 Mir. and Mrs. J J. Whitehead of Cambridge, Mass, spent the weekend at Fox Hill Farm.
 Mir. Luis de Florez and Peter de Florez travelled by airplane from New York to Boston on Saturday.
 Mir. and Mrs. William F. Johnson started on Wednesday to motor to Detroit to visit Mrs. Johnson's sister.
 The governess and two little child ren of Mir. and Mrs. Wilson Wing of Cushing street, Providence, are spend ing a week at Fox Hill Farm.
 Miss Katherine Moves and Miss Alice Lowell motored to Providence on Monday and lunched with Miss Harriet Harris of Cushing street.
 Miss Elizabeth Andrews and Mrs. Elizabeth Canda, who have been spending the winter in Cambridge and Hartford. arrived at Fox Hill Farm on Tuesday to open their house for the summer.
 General John Carson arrived at Fox Hill Farm, from Tryon, North Caro- lima. on Wednesday. Mrs. Carson will follow next week. Mrs. Henry C. Holt and her three little girls are spending the spring holidays with their grandmother. Mrs. Carson, in Tryon.
 The Pomfret Branch of the Put nam Chapter of the Red Cross, held it's annual meeting at the Misses Reyes on Friday afternoon at three o'clock. There were present Mrs. W. F. Johnson, the Misses Reyes, Miss Hutchins, Mrs. John Grosvenor and Miss Lowell. A ballot was cast by the secretary to elect the same offi- cers for another year, with the addi- tion of Miss Katherine Moves as one of the directors.
Putnam patriot., 1930-04-03
NO SPECIAL ELECTION

The decision of John H. Trumbull, 1oyernor of Connecticut, to defer the spesial election to fill the Compression a vacancy caused by the death of James P. Giynn of the fifth district
 suegests that he is fearful of the choice of a democrat for the seat in the present Congress" in the opinion ol Jouett Shouse. of the democratic nStlonal committee.
 The law plainly states that in such case as this, the Governor shall 5ake the necessary steps for an cleo uon.' Shouse declares. "A Congress man would be elected next November, whether or not vacancy existed. So ihe special provision as to filling vacancies. if honestly construed, would mean that an election should oe called at once"
 Both Senator Frederic C. Waleott and Senator Hiram Bingham, how eFef, join in supporting Governor irumbull in his decision to postpone tae election of successor to Glynn lntii the regular election. They feel 1hai special election would be an economic extravagance.
Putnam patriot., 1930-04-03
Lose But TWo Games In Eighteen Played

Putnam High, home. 5S-33; March sth, Williams Memorial, away, 35-27 March i4th, Tourtellotte, away, 25- 3i; March l7th, Plainield High. home. 34-23.
 The first annual Girls Gold Metal Tournament was held in the Hall Gymnasium on Saturday, March 22nd
 The first game of the semi-finals was at two o'clock. the two teams playing the first game being Becker's Business College of Worcester and West Warwick. champions for four years of Rhode Island. This game ended with West Warwick on the long end of the 36-l7 score. The second game found Woodstock opposed to the Worcester Girls Club. The re- suit of this game was 3720 in Wood stocks favor.
 The finals were played at eight O. clock in the evening. The preliminary for the consolation prize were the Worcester Girls Club versus Becker's Business College, with the Girls Club winning by score of 33-s.
Putnam patriot., 1930-04-03
Girls Gold Metal Championship Team
 Have Wonderfully Good Season

The Indian girls closed a very sue cessful season of basket ball on March l4th, by defeating the Plaintield girls, at Woodstock.
 The girls have played eighteen games, won sixteen and lost two. One game was lost by two points and the other by six points.
 The total points scored by the In- dians were seven hundred and eleven and the number of points scored by the opponents was three hundred and eight.
 Marion Cady explained the team. with Katherine Foskett as manager.
 The members of the squad were as follows: Capt Cady. 80; Mgr. K. Foskett '32; F. Johnson. 30; R. Child, 80; F. Hubbard, 30; B. Child, '29; E. Pike, 80; F. Tourtellotte. '33; B. McWilliam, '33; R. Palmer, 30; E. Morgan, '32; A. Johnson, 80.
 The successful season is due to Coach Ellis. who guided the team
Putnam patriot., 1930-04-03

uer. Donald French.
 A notice was received from the World True Throw Tournament" at Memphis, Iowa, last week. The Aead emy Junior True Throw Team re- eoivcd first honors tn the e. <. Flor ence Johnson received first place. in the world. for individual score. with Katherine Foskett and Marion Cady tied for second place.
 The Junior Play which it became necessary to postpone will be given on the sixteenth of April, in the Acad- emy hall at eight o'clock. There are several novelties connected with this play. one being n reserved seating plan and another is that prizes are being given by merchants of Putnam to the persons holding the lucky numbers.
 The Academy will reopen, after q weeks vacation, on the seventh of April.
Putnam patriot., 1930-04-03
PUTNAM MEN SELL
 THEIR LUNCH CART

Francis Metcalf of Putnam and Adelard Gravel of Windham. own eers of the lunch wagon at Williman- tic known as Busters Lunch" have sold the cart! with business and fixtures to Sam Scheinman of Willi- mantle. who took possession immedi- ately. Mir. Scheinman has secured Henry Sypher as manager of the busi- ness. Metcalf and Gravel located the lunch wagon in Willimantic two years ago. transferring it from Putnam.
Putnam patriot., 1930-04-03
Athletic Ranaue,

The second annual Athletic Banquet is to be held in the Hall Memorial Gymnasium Friday. April ilth, al seven o'clock. An entertaining pro. gram of music and novelty dancing as well as many nationally known speakers, have been arranged. Tickets may be secured from members of the student body.
 On Wednesday, March 26th. Elliott James gave a very interesting talk, on the subject of Liquid Air" Students of the grade schools attended as well as the members of the Academy.
 The fourth edition of the Culver was issued on Friday, March 2sth Copies may be secured from the treas.