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ing to preserve themselves as the storm toyed
with them.
Up and over the crest, down into the troubled
trough where the jobbling water eddied in
miniature maelstroms and cross-seas
blindly and struck at them they struggled
up the next wave, without the protection OF
the ships lee. whirled and tossed, the men
sought to keep stroke. The Santa Maria rode
more and more suggishly, her crew standing
by the rail with hands that gripped 1t with
despairing strength.
She's gong" gasped Holiday. The Santa
Maria gave a lurch a head sea submerged
her. They thought she was gone, but she rode
through
Santa Maria. In taking her round the bark
Brookes the old whaler, made no mistakes. To
avoid the pounding wreckage he had to ex-
ercise extreme caution, but contact was estab-
lished with the bark. The wild-eyed Portuguese
jumped aboard.
Brookes had perfect confidence in two capa-
bic aids-Jamaica Joe knew ships and boats
and he knew the sea; Wilson had sailed on
craft Of nearly every type-but he had no
such confidence in the rest, and now, with a
boatload he less sure of himself. He
made known his troubles-in pantomine at
first but found that the Portuguese captain
knew enough English to understand: two of
the less exhausted sailors of the bark took
their places at the AS it turned out,
the substitution was unfortunate.
Up and down the nils ana valleys OF the
sea hey swept toward the waiting Ocean Queen.
AS they were about to come alongside, the
parent ship rolled heavily. and her plunging
port counter frowned threateningy. The
Portuguese were on the sarboard side of the
boat, and nisaking Brookes orders, made an
extra effort to keep clear, backing frantically.
1t was bad blunder-it swung the boats stern
under the ships counter.
Brookes jumped in time and the rest man
aged to hang onto the rapidly filling boat and
eventually we're pulled aboard safe though
half drowned. But Wilson was knocked over
board in the smash of n.act and sank.
Jamaica Joe dived after him, but his gallant
effort was useless
Wilson was gone. An arm might have been
broken, ribs crushed. His body must have been
caught under the roll of the ship.
Eleven jabbering survivors, blue from
posure their skins wrinkled over the shrunken
flesh, were given liquor, broth. dry clothes,
packed into hunks. Long before that, the bark
went down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
Use of Voting Machines.

With the vote all set on the machine with
the levers all down, the voter throws the cur
tain lever in the opposite direction, opening
the curtain and throwing all the voting levers
on the machine back to neutral. This registers
the vote as desired by the voter. No vote is
tabulated until the lever opening the booth is
thrown, making 1t impossible for any person to
register more than sne vote.
The totals are kept constantly up to date In
the back of the machine and when the polls
close a rear plate is taken off, disclosing the
totals. In one small city, to illustrate the
speed in tabulation made possible by the ma
chimes, there are IA voting precincts, all within
a mile Of the City Hail. When the totals
read runner and two judges copy the figures
on prepared slips. After the totals are all made
a runner dashes by whatever means he can
to the City Hail. where his slips are totaled on
an adding machine along with those from the
other precincts and the entire vote Of the city
for every candidate is known within five or Eix
minutes.
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B = J. Allan Dunn

AZ noon there was. the hint Of a watery sun.
icnts in the wrack of cloud. At sunset the
sky was clear of all save cumuli of trade clouds.
There were no chanteys that night though
the ship went sweetly. The log showed terse
record of the meeting with the bare fact OF
rescue. and the death Of Wilson.
1t was not entirely superstition that left
wilson's bunk unoccupied, though there were
manned there. His ditty bag was slowed In It,.
The Ocean Queen sailed on northward. The
fIky winds about the Line were kind. Holli-
days face cleared. He had removed the hoodoo
from the ship. and he had a record that
would stand-thccc days.
TT was while they hung off the Farallones
awaiting pilot that delegation came aft
to speak to the captain" Old Andrews seemed
to be the spokesman, but his speech failed him,
and Harris, the larrkn made delivery as Holli-
day ms nctively suspicious of any commit
tee" looked at them with hard eyes.
Its this wy. sir" said Harris. Wilson, e
as wife an new baby-new to i'm There's
some more kids. They'll be waitin' for i'm.
e was goin' to quit the sea an go farmin'."
"Well"-Andrews had set down a thin packet,
wrapped in canvas-"what's this?"
Holiday opened it and looked at the face
Of the woman who would come to the wharf
in vain. to meet sorrow instead Of love.
WED like it," Harris went on, IF you'd
tyke a mater OF couple OF quid apiece out
OF watts comm to us-al 'ands. If you pay us
off, we're like as not to split up an cash melts
fast after the first drink.
1T won't amount to much mebbe to 'er but
it'll 'elp with the kids. Ten dollars apiece sir
An, there amt no need to sly where it comes
from. She likely knew e ad some savin's"
Holiday cleared his throat
"All right, men, he said; and they went aft,
shutting awkwardly
When the subscription list was audited it
bore no names. But the amount included $40
apiece from the mates and $50 from Holiday.
1t was evening before he was free to visit
certain cronies.
An able ship and a fairly fast trip" he said
Lost one man. One out of the only two in
the crew." .
They don't make sailors nowadays" COM
mented one of his friends. "IlI bet you picked
up rotten bunch at Sydney"
I was lucky with the mates" said Capt
Holiday AS for the rest, they were Just
scum-scum of the sea!'
copyright. 1900
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the distracted people without guards or COM
'panions and showing himself everywhere in the
smoke -darkened daytime or in the f1ame-lit
night in complete contempt of danger.
The loss of Rome's ancient treasures and
particularly the destruction of nearly every
thing he loved in his own palace must have
very nearly broken his heart, and he worked in
rage and despair.
STANDING one night on the roof of his
the Tiber where he had established his head
quarters, Nero SO moved by the distant
spectacle of the burning city that in the man
ner of professional mourner at a funeral, or
one of the bards of old, he took his harp and
began 10 sing sort of dirge, a lament for
Rome, likening the disaster to the burning of
Troy His powerful voice carried by the wind,
came to the ears of the frenzied refugees
gathered on the outskirts of the gardens who
soon spread the story that the emperor thrilled
by the beauty of the conflagration, had dressed
himself up professional musician and was
calously singing songs in his theater.
The tale took hold Of the unbalanced minds
Of the people and on all sides the question
was asked whether Nero himself had fired the
city in order to provide dramatic setting for
singing his own poem on the siege of Troy.
Recalling the behavior Of the thieves who
had set fire to houses, as has been recorded
above, for the purposes of robbery, people de-
clared they must have been Nero's agents. and
the fact that the wise measures taken against
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
Pro0mg the Nero Sto,yaMneNwh.'

the spread Of the fire had involved the ap-
parently ruthless destruction of unchanged
buildings gave color to the ridiculous tale that
the conflagration had been deliberately planned.
COME said that Nero wished to DESTROY the
city SO it might be built again on q more
elegant plan, others that he just wanted a big
thrill, but whatever might have been his sup
posed reason the belief that he was the cause
of the disaster gained ground.
Curses were hesped upon him, or, rather,
upon those who were thought to have set the
city on fire at his orders, for, as Dio says the
actual name OF the emperor was not cursed,
and the result, TacituS tells US, was that all
his exertons and all his deeds of bravery
were overlooked.
Today. however. the picture of Nero rs
author of the disaster, standing upon the roof
of his palace and Kidding while Rome burnt"
Is impressed upon the popular imagination and
will hardly be obliterated by the facts that he
Strove desperately to extinguish the blaze which
was destroying all that he most valued that
his palace was in flames, and that his dirge
was sung. elsewhere to the accompaniment of
a harp, not a fiddle. 1t is hard to overthrow
even an ugly idol.
Dion Chrysostom writing nearly a century
later, says: Still even at this time all men
yearn for Nero to be alive" and in the fourth
century, AID. st. Augustine tells us that people
were even then thinking of him as a legendary
hero and savior of his country who would come
back to sing to them and to restore that benign
rule which the Emperor Trajan used to say
was the best Rome had ever known
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MOST of the crew were sick of heart and
A'A body, overestimating the danger through
ignorance. There was little for th:m to do
after battening down matches and rigging life
lines, for the seas came crashing on her decks
until the stout planking bowed with the weight
and force Of them, laundering over the fo'c'sle,
seething about the galley and the cabin hous-
ing, deluging the reinforced skylights with
Sonorous cataracts; surging waist deep about
pinnacle and wheel
Rain began to fall, in slanting lines in spouts.
The air was charged with salt spray and fresh
water that worked through oilskins and down
already squelching seaboots At eight bells,
four hours after midnight when the watch
was changed, Holiday believed there q
slight cessation of the storm He fancied they
had passed through q skirt of the flying hurri-
cane. unexposed to Its full force. Daylight
slowly filtered in. mordant. dissolving the utter
blacknesS.
Dauntless. but sorely buffeted, the Ocean
Queen fought on to win her way. They dared
not set more sail. Holiday followed the sec
ond mate below. Both changed into dry clothes
to turn in fully dressed. save for their boots
ready to rush deck in case of emergency
The steward brought them scaldng cups of
coffee.
Through the worst of 1t, mister" said the
captain to Brookes. "A good ship"
None better. Might blow out before night?"
Holiday nodded. HIS face showed the stress
Of fatigue and lack Of sleep, but it had lost
its hardness.
Wouldn't wonder. Wen make up for what
we've lost. Wen drive her"
Come through fine, considerin' the swabs
we had to work her"
The barometer creeping up toward
NAL, infinitesimally, but rising
voice hailed from the companionway that
Of the first mate.
Captain Holiday, there's a red fare on the
port bow"
The skipper and Brookes hurried on deck,
forward to where the lookout pointed to a red
light, wan in the quarter light of the yelled
false dawn. AS they gazed 1t faltered and died
out. They could barely make out a smudge
through the rain, lifting on one of the enor-
nous ssas.
"Masts gone by the board said Holiday.
She'll have been in the thick of it." The
three officers gathered aft the skipper frcwn-
ing, issuing orders.
"All hands, Mr.. Sullivan" his first and
the watch below, barely in their hunks, tumbed
up unwiingly. Orders came in quick success
sion. Drums OF oil were broken out, lashings
thrown off the boats, and lines coiled handy.
The light, seeping through the murk as they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26

THE voting machine, an instrument of Curl
osity only so far as Washingtons voteless
citizens concerned is one Of the greatest
advances in registering the voice of the people
in an election.
The machines are so arranged that the tabu-
lation of the vote Is q mere matter of opening
the back of the machine at the close of the
balloting and reading of the totals. Each
machine is a voting booth in itself, with a
curtain running around the three open sides,
the machine itself constituting the fourth side
of the booth.
When voter enters the booth he throws a
lever closing the curtains and at the same time
unlocking the machine. Should he desire to
vote a straight ticket, he throws down one
lever under his party's name and emblem. This
automatically registers vote for each candi-
date on the ticket. IT, however the ticket is to
be split, small lever is thrown down fer each
person to be voted for The mechanism is
such that 1t is impossible to vote for rsO,. than
one person for each Office
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lunged on. showed them a dismasted hull, nd
ing to a sea anchor, soggy as saturated log,
dangerously low in the water that broke over
her continuously Little by little things be-
came more distinct: the litter on deck the
s-intermittently-at the pumps the
stream of water they contrived a mockery
against the tons that went cascading down her
deck. The men pumped like automatons whose
machinery was running down.
She'll go inside of an hour or two, Mr..
Sullivan" said Holiday. Wen run down to
loo ard for observation"
Presently Holiday read the name in white
lettering her stern.
santa Maria. Bark-Portygee. Nitrate.
Leakn like a sieve
The ghost of a shout came to them as they
put about to work up to windward of the
bark after laying an oil slick in her path. An
officer was trying to megaphone to them.
Holiday had his own in his hand. His face
grim, as were those of Sullivan and
Brookes. Rescue was imperative at the earliest
moment. but the fearful seas that swept be-
tween them made any attempt to tackle 1t as
yet extremely dangerous.
THE Ocean Queens crew were busy seeping
oakum in OIL bundling it in canvas, piercing
that. easing the falls The Portuguese captain
made despairing gestures as If he thought him.
self abandoned while the Ocean Queen tackled
and drew ahead.
"Confound the fooll" said Holiday. Doesn't
he know we've got to head him first?"
As the Ocean Queen was working well ahead
Of the doomed bark. Holiday looked at his
crew doubtfully. How many of them could
actually handle oars? He called them aft
We've got to get them off, men, he said
brusquely "It's q risky job. III ask for
volunteers"
Wilson stepped out promptly, old Andrews
close beside him. Then, to Holidays sur
prise the rest lurched forward.
THE whole lot Of us, Cap'n." said Harris,
the larrikin, grinning. "Tyke your chice"
The skipper surveyed them keenly.
Pick your men, Brookes,' he said. You
can have Wilson and the Negro"
The six men picked by Brookes took their
seats, Tending clear as they were lowered,
casting off, pulling hard as.a wave raced along
and bore them away. Holiday watched their
progress with somber eyes.
Here his fine seamanship counted. Short
handed though he was, he succeeded in work
ing the Ocean Queen without mishap: he took
her clear of the Santa Maria and hove to-
Meanwhile the rescuers were desperately try
New Britain herald., 1930-06-14

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The Washington times., 1930-10-28
Have Stepped Up

Lester Issaccs, first projection
list at the Palace, is now chief of
projection for all of the LoeW
theaters and is one of the IN
ventorS of Realize, the large
screen process just installed IN
the Columbia.
Others who have gone to great
ness are Larry Beatus, first man.
aging director of the theater and
now division supervisor for 81
Loew New York theaters. Nicho-
las Schenck, then division man
ager and chief bookkeeper, is now
vice president of ro-Goldwyn-
Mayer and chief booker for the
Loew houses.
The present managing director
is Michael j. Cullen, and he be-
l1eves the most interesting phase
of the steady Palace patronage
is that there are more than zoe
customers who have not missed
weekly visit since the theater
opened, more than 10000 weekly
patrons, or habit" friends, whose
favorite amusement house is the
Palace. OF these regulars House
Manager Ratio claims a bowling
acquaintance with at least $500.
The Washington times., 1930-10-28
PLAY1 OFFERS
SPIRITUAL SPECTACLE

AS an adventure in faith
primitive, naive faith-the Fret
burg Passion Play is a drama
which belongs, in the nature OF
things, to the scope of the relig-
ious editor rather than to the
drama department, although we
do not for a moment infer that
the pageantry and tableaux pre-
sented in the Washington Audi
torium this week is lacking in
the majesty of great drama.
1t is presented, however, as a
great spiritual adventure, just as
the Oberammergau version is pre-
sented; it is the Christus story
without the casuistry of modern
dramatic effects, a narrative that
iS/the Scriptures undiluted.
There are times when one
stepped in theatrical traditions
speculates on what Max Rein
hardt, David Belasco, or Norman
Bell -Geddes could do with such a
narrative. And it is possible that
Herr Fassnacht. who is the
Christus and the guiding genius
of this production. speculates on
it also. His stage settings have
a touch of THE Miracle" in
them, and there are other points,
also, where purely medieval drama
has given way before the poig-
nancy of modern dramatic treat
ment; but, in the main, the Pas
sion Play is much the same as
the play presented by the Frei-
burg peasants 400 years ago.
Then it was presented in the
cathedral square, according to
Herr FaSsnacht, but in certain
years the citizenry alternated this
version with one done in pan
tomime, or in a puppet show.
None who saw the scene of
the Crucifixion, the Last Supper :,
the Trial Before PLATE. and the
Entombment last evening could
fail to be exalted with their
beauty. There is genuine illusion
here as we'll as the nobility and
majesty of the greatest drama
that has yet been inscribed by
the human intellect. Even the
non-believer will be exalted by
them.
The acting is in the spirit of
the pageantry of the Middle Ages.
The dialogue is in German.
Rarely does not Herr Fassnacht.
whose ChriStus is a restrained
and glowing portrayal. allow any
underscoring or heightening of
dramatic effect. For the most
part the Passion Play would fare
just as we'll without dialogue, so
far as an American audience is
concerned,
The leading roles are in the
The Washington times., 1930-10-28
LOEWDS PALACE TEATER BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY nT
When The Feature Is
Shown on The Screen

R.K-O KEITH'S-Amos n Andy
in Check and Double Check" !"
At 1890 a. m. 1925, 2:15. 4:1O,
6, 1850 and 9:40 p. m.
FOX-Nancy Carroll In Laugh
ter" At 11:01 a. m, 1:21, 3:41,
500. 7:23 and 9:44 p. m. Stage
shows at 1913. 3:03, 4:24, 6:45
and 9:06 p. m.
EARLE-Lew Ayres in door
way to He'll" at 1880 a. m, 1855,
4, 5:35, 7:45 and 9:55 p. m.
Stage shows at /, $40, $50 and
8 p. m.
COLUMBIA-John Mack Brown
in Billy the Kid" At II a. m,
/, sos, $40, 7:l5 and 9:20
ITAN-Marion
Nixon in college Lovers" at II
a. m. 12:45, 2:30, 4:20, 6:10, 8
and 9:55 p. m.
RIALTO-Conrad Nagel in "a
Lady Surrenders," at 1925 a. M.
1:25. 3:25, 5:25, 1925 and $3.50
D, m,