Evening star., 1934-03-11

days" for no one could work under Prof. Ma
son or be associated with him without retaining
pleasant recollections of the fact. It was to
Prof Masons Office that young man named
John Garland Pollard came in the early COS,
and while there made good his time by studying
law and graduating-and by reSigning his POSI-
tion and going home to Richmond. where he
later became Governor, as We all know.
Young Pollard was energetic-just as he has
always been and apparently. even then. had
q nose for news. Employed in the same depart
ment was a Korean named Pom Kwang Son.
exile from his country, who started a revo-
luton there. and for the time being was un-
able to finish it. He was young man. but his
life spectacular. After being educated in
Korea. he was given a finishing course in
Europe and here he had absorbed enough of
European customs. along with his other learn
ing to lead him to feel when he returned home
that Korea needed q house cleaning and a
new deal. There were other young men in
his country who thought the same as he did,
and q revolution decided upon. Appar-
emily it was not well timed, and the progress
sive element at the head of which was our
hero had to make their presence scarce.
Pom K. Sob escaped to America and found
his way to the department of ethnology in the
National Museum. where he became an aid at
$50 a month. and where he told his life story
to the future Governor of Virginia and to
make good syndicate article, and after it was
written, duplicate copies were made and for
warded to the different newspapers. but what
the financial returns were the writer cannot
say. It was a good story and should have
paid we'll However as the story goes. Pom's
father quite lucky his ambitious
son, and was captured and held as hostage
to await the return of his rebellious offspring.
who was decreed to be executed. Subsequent
ly the young Korean thought it prudent to
remain away from that part of the country
until things queted down.
IN THE meantime another rebellion took
! place. and this proved successful. Soon
Mr. Sob of the National Museum became Min
lister Sob of Korea, with headquarters in Wash
ington. and shortly afterward he was promoted
to be the prime minister of that country
Unfortunately. he frail, delicate look
ing man. probably under 80, and when the call
came for him to return to his native country
the state of his health would not admit of him
doing So and shortly afterward he died in this
city of tuberculosis Simpson. who helped
write the syndicate story. later wrote "Regen-
eratiOn' story of the South, and other nov
els. Pollard developed into an able lawyer,
was attorney general Of his State for several
years. and after recently turning over the
Governors chair at Richmond to his Sue
cessor accepted appointment here in WASH
ington to help Mr.. Roosevelt run the Govern
ment. But every time the writer sees the
name John Garland Pollard" he Immediately
associates with it the name of Pom Kwang Sob.
For many years Frederick w. True. curator
of mammals occupied the south center Of the
building. first floor. His clerk for some time
was Percy L. Gladmon, who later went with
the Department of Agriculture. where he now
holds a responsible position. Frederick A.
Lucas had the room to the east of Mr.. True.
In 1892 he was rated assistant curator An
osteologist Of note. Mr.. Lucas left the museum
to become curator Of the American Museum
Of Natural Hist0rX New York. man of de-