The Washington times., 1935-05-17
NOW
Traffic Lights
Timing Scored
ART AT DINNER
BY HELEN ESSARY

q green or red light stays on
too short a time to permit the
traffic to move properly in
either direction.
During the rush hour when
streets are damned with cars,
I often find I must stop three
times in one block, because Of
quick changes Of lights, before
I can get my car across the in
tersection.
If the lights were kept on Ion.
ger, traffic would move faster
and more safely in both direc-
tons. Impatient motorists would
not dash out Of the line. Pedes-
TRANS would have time to cross
the street before the light
changed.
Generally now, when the
right and left hand turner's have
gone by and the pedestrian has
taken as many as three steps
across the street, he finds the
light facing him has changed to
red. Automobiles spring at him
from all directions.
Baltimore traffic moves wisely
and swiftly. It is possible there
to travel three or four blocks
without stopping. The pedes-
trian may cross the street on a
light without risk of death.
Also Give written it before)
one cross-town boulevard, con-
trolled by traffic lights, Is not
sufficient for Washington. r
Street should be an East-going
boulevard. Columbia Road, al.
ready a West-going one-way
street, should have tra + fic
lights.
Those exquisite gold fruit
plates which the Canadian
Minister and Mrs. Duncan
Herrjdge use at the end of
formal dinners were a pres
ent from Mrs. Herridge's
brother, Mr.. William R. Ben
nett, the Prime Minister of
Canada.
The plates are so beauti-
fully carved that I wanted to
turn them over and admire
the filigree from the under
side as one does Florentine
jewelry.
The Prime Minister discov.
cred the plates in Europe.
They are very old and al"
most priceless. They may
even have been designed by
Benvenuto Cellini, the Flor
entine goldsmith.
The dinner party at the
Canadian Legation the other
night was a Joy to connois-
seurs of hospitality and grace
full service. In the big din
ing room hung in deep red
brocade, the panelled walls
and the glowing mahogany OF
the table Oace table mats
were used instead of a clotO
reflected the light of many
candles.
Philip Mainwaring Broad
mead, First Secretary of the
British Embassy, who sat be-
side me at dinner, explained
that the autographed silver
service plates were given to the
Minister and Mrs. Herridge by
the conservative members of
the Canadian House of Parlia"
ment.
The Canadian Legation is
one Of the most charming
houses in Washington. Before
the Canadian ernm ent
bought it, it was owned by
Mrs, Axsel Wichfeld, whose
first husband, Col. Clarence
Moore, was drowned in the
Titanic disaster.
The legation with it's big
spacious rooms, panelled walls,
and fine furnishings, is hand
somer than many embassies.
Yet is is HON e-like and
friendly. The Minister and
Mrs. Herridge have given to
the house some of their own
delightful personality.
A, Harding Paul, income-taX
expert whose grandfather and
grandmother were among the
pioneer settlers of Utah, has
"a first American room" in his
residence in Spring Valley. Here
he has brought from his West
ern home rare rugs, ceremonial
pipes, headdresses of warrior
chieftains and other fascinating
Indian souvenirs George
Wildwood Murray, personal coun-
selor to John D. Rockefeller for
nearly half a century, has gone
back to Montclair, N. j. Mr..
Murray is tall, white-haired,
pink-cheeked and keen-eyed. He
was one of the stars of the re-
cent meeting here of the Ameri.
can Law Institute Sunday
is the one hundred and fiji
teenth anniversary of the birth
of Florence Nightingale, British
nurse who during the Crimean
war cruSaded for the humane
treatment of wounded soldiers.
The home of Clara Barton,
Florence Nightingale's Ameri-
can counterpart, is still stand
ing near Glen Echo. Clara Bar
ton was not only the founder of
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