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Evening star., 1935-04-17
APARTMENTS-UNFURNISHED

$40, NORTH CAPITOL ST" ROOMS,
kitchen. bath, h.-w.h., cleo back porch.
Rent. S3s. so: Key. s31 North Capitol.
COPLEY COURTS. 1914 18th ST. NV
switchboard. elevator; refrig.. gas free;
cor. front. 2 large rooms, large reception
hall. kitchen. bath.
TAKOMA PARK-BAsEMENT APT. l
room. kitchen. bath. with garage: heated,
S32. Phone Shepherd 2g67.
613 NEWTON PL. N.W.-2ND FLOOR
cat E%aN s9Sns Kit ksSh bath: eee gssi
THE CLARENDON. $500 COLORADO AVE
nw.-$ outside rooms, large kitchen. .
baths, exposures: cedar closet: fireplace:
modern: vacant April 10. 500 per month.
Resident Manager
1890 PARK RID NW-2ND FLOOR; :
r.. k. and b.: heat furnished; recently rem
ovated: $50. National 2345.
THE WILBURToN. 1874 COLUMBIA RID
-Seeond-hoor apartment Of six large out
side rooms. bath and porch; high-grede
building; S95 per month.
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FOR WOMEN - Attractive studio room.
also bed room privileges: meals optional;
convenient; reas. Mrs. Patton. North 1920.
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John N. TOISon. DiStrlct 1868. myI3-
PLASTERING repaired, stucco resurfaced.
damp walls. Ieaky roofs. Minnick. Lin
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BEAUTY PARLORS.

EXCESSIVE WEIGHT SAFELY REDUCE
Wonderful French method used. DR., De
Ledendecker. 3025 0 NV, West 1120.
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Lost and Found Advertisements
may be found on page ALL.
HELP-MEN.

AUTOMOBILE MECHANIC. self-reliant.
Must be Thoroughly familiar. with repairs
Of all popular make automobiles. STEADY
class men with unquestionable ability and
competence need apply. Bring own TOOLS.
Compensation. 40se basis. 4532 Wiscon-
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DE FORESTS TRAINING, INC. wv.
TURE AND SOUND EQUIPMENT. will
train few more men in this district In
TELEVISION, SOUND PICTURE AND
RADIO ENGINEERING. Practical labora-
tory and shop work. as well as home
study. Only sincere, dependable men me-
chanical or technically inclined con-
sidered For personal interview. state age.
present position, education and phone.
Address BOX 312-R. Star ONCE.
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WANTED-SALESMEN.
EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES.
INSTRUCTION COURSES.

CALL DOMESTIC AGENCY" Dec. 24l
1895 9th st., for experienced help, me
women. any capacity; quick service.
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STATISTICAI, COIJRSES

Home study courses. S1.50. So and S.
All courses have answers and are fully
illustrated; complete in every detail. Mailed
anywhere in the U. s. upon receipt OF price
Other Home Study Courses and
Books on Sale.
BOYD SCHOOL,
CIVIL SERVICE SPECIALISTS.
1881 r St NV National 233S.
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poets to record its verdure and itS
grace in flowing rhyme.
"My island in POtOmack River
opposite the mouth of Rock
Greek which 1 hold under a pat
ent from the Lord Proprietor of
Maryland by name of Barba-
does"
Those words, written by George
Mason, of Gunston Hall, appear
in his will which stipulated that
his fourth son, John Mason, be:
come the third (and, as it hap
pened, the last Mason) owner Of
AnaloStan Island.
Under John Mason's ownership,
AnaloStan came into its own.
High was the place it occupied in
the early social life of washing.
ton.
Great vessels moved up the
busy Potomac to the ports of
Alexandria and G. or g etow n.
Their white sails, as seen fitting
between AnaloStanss trees, af.
forded an appropriate motif for
contemporary artists. SumptuouS
feasts and elegant social affairs
drew guests from as far away as
philadelphia to its shores via
Mason's ferry.
All this but a century ago!
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Glory Fades

AS the commercial activity Of
two rival seaDorts swarmed about
it, Analostan became enmeShed in
the politics pe the time. Great
disputes arose over the compare
tive merits Of the two channels it
formed and lively debates waxed
on the floor of an infant Con-
greSS.
Because of excessive natural
deposits which the river lodged
in the western channel, Congress,
on January 19, 1908, passed an
act authorizing "the corporation
of Georgetown to make a dam
or causewal from Mason's Island
to the western shore Of the River
Potomac"
That act was really the begin
ming Of AmloStan'S end.
And so it was.
In addition to failing to serve
the purpose sor which it was
built, the carseway, constructed
at a cost Of $4,000. doomed
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a consequence, every major news
event of their times has been
handed down through their ntho-
graphs.
Currier and Ives didn't, how
ever, limit their activities to the
news of the day. They illustrated
anything and everything which
they knew would appeal to the
public of that time. Such themes
as sentiment, danger and death
characterized a great number of
their prints.
Now Treasured
The prohibition issue was one
of the themes which they used
to the great advantage Of the
dry forces in the 1850'S and 1860's.
Social caricatures and political
cartoons, that weren't very subtle
but carried their point well, were
quite the rage. "The Print Makers
to the American People," as Cur
rier and Ives were known, had
their finger in every pie.
In the mid-century almost every
had at least one of their
Autographs hanging in some part
Of the house. Then, after while
they became old-fashioned and
were relegated to the attics. Now
the collectors are searching the
four corners Of the world for
them
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Fact and Legend

Long before the site Of the Ma
tion'S Capital had been deter
mined, Analostan Island jutted up
from the Potomac River, and yet,
surprisingly few WaShington
know of its existence. Numerous
newspaper articles, and even q
few privately printed pamphlets
have brought it into the public
eye from time to time, with the
result that much difficulty is en-
countered in determining what Is
fact and what Is legend. Innum-
cradle are the tales recounting its
former glories- es-innumerable and
weird.
First definite record Of Ana
lostan Island appears in the Mary.
land land records of April 20.
1852, at which time one Richard
Edelen, st. Mary's county
surveyor, certified that he had
laid out for Capt. Randolph
Brandt zone certain parcel Of land
being an island lying in Potomac
River near the falls of said river
over against Rock Greek in
Charles county commonly called
or known by the name Of Ana
loStan Island, containing by eSti-
nation IS acres more or less.
Capt. Randolph Brandt, there
fore, becomes the first owner Of
AnaloStan ISland-and the first
to change the Islands name.
Hailing originally from st.
Michaels, Isle of Barbados, in the
West Indies, some retained senti-
ment for his former home
prompted him to call his new
acquisition Barbados Island.
Analostan Island had for its
first private owner a man who was
quite a character in himself. Liv-
ing in a time when reSentful
Indians roamed this section, re-
moving Scalps with discouraging
frequency, the captain proved
himself more than mere passing
figure of his time. So much did
Lord Baltimore think of him, that
he wrote with reference to the
man he deputized to subdue the
marauderS:
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Early History

81 am very well assured that I
should have found some that
would have stood by me sufficient
to have put a stop to such pro-
ceedingS."
For put a stop to the proceed
ings he did.
Although armed with Lord Bal
timore's written permission Ito
fall upon, pursue, fight, take, kill,
vanuuish and Destroy all such
Enemys," Captain Brandt chose
instead "to treate with them"
History bears witness to the wis
dom Of his choice. A compare
tive peace with the redskins en-
sued.
Such then, was the character Of
the islands first owner.
From 1899 to 1717, the property
remained in their hands and al
most no description of its terrain
or even its natural formation is
obtainable.
Either Francis Hammersley or
his son decided the island to
George Mason, OF virginia, IN 4IAII
and from then on, for more than
a century, AnaloStan Island rode
high on the crest of its wave Of
importance.
George Mason Of GunSton Hall,
framer of his country'S Constitu-
ton, aristocrat of his time, and
large landholder was the son OF
the George Mason who purchased
Analostan Island. He retained
title to it for 81 years-the long
est anyone had ever owned the
isle.
Again the name was changed.
From TIT on, popularity at least,
Analostan was known as MaSon's
Island. Under that name 1t en-
joyed the greatest flush of its
existence. It blossomed out into
q garden spot which prompted
The Washington times., 1935-10-19

Warden LaweS' newest book
Cell 202-Sing Sing" is the
story of these four men.
In the recitation of the paths
the men trod until the cell door
opened IS an exciting tale. The
concluding chapters concerning
the. lives Of these men in Sing
Sing and what the prison life did
to them is a stirring indictment
Of society and its cruelty to its
fallen members.
The stories of these men become
the stories Of New York in its
formative days. And later they
become the story Of changes in
administration and policy that
have beSet Sing Sing since the
huge prison was smashed by
prison labor out Of the granite of
the hills on which it SETS.
From his experiences as the
warden Of the prison, Mr.. LAweS
has drawn many observations on
prison psychology and its effects
which he uses throughout his
book.
Foremost among these is the
story Of the grim warden who
called in the supposed leader of
a pending revolt and commanded
him to shave him. Alone in his
office with the desperate, the
warden allowed his neck to be
Scraped by q man who had sworn
to kill him.
The prisoner didn't take the
chance. The riot broke out. The
warden was dragged to the whip
ping post where he had Savagely
tortured so many of the men now
clustered around him.
The leader who had shaved the
warden the day before stood with
the whip in his hand. He refused
to do the whipping and was him
self lined up with the warden and
each beaten 100 times.
c'CeH 2O2--Sing Sing" By War.
den LetOiS E. LGWeS, published BY
FGrTGr and RtlehGrtL. a....u.
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Bucked by the National Com
mission Of Fine Arts and the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission, the Gas Company
was forced to abandon its plan Of
locating supply tanks there and in
1881 the Roosevelt Memorial AS
Sociation took title for 1894 900,
turning it over to the U. s. Gov
ernment as a site for the memorial
to Theodore Roosevelt.
- Once more, this time by an act
Of Congress, Analostan'S name
was changed to Theodore RooSe-
velt Island.
Present plans call for a native
river island, with an unSpecified
memorial to Theodore Roosevelt,
to be constructed where q native
river island once flouriShed--a
creditable memorial to the one
who caused its formation.
Work on the project has pro-
greSsed amazingly. Under the di-
rection of Director G. B. Arthur,
small army Of CCC boys pene-
trated the brambles to start the
project off the middle of last Jan
uary. They encountered nothing to
make the job easier.
In the space Of ten months, 200
cords Of wood have been absorbed
by the local relief agencies.
made up Of trees which were
either unsuitable or too badly hurt
to survive. The island has been
cleared until but a sparse remnant
of its forest still stands, and re-
planting has already begun.
AS has been said, q century or
so hence will see the transition
complete. Trees grow slowly
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The Best
Sellers
FICTION

"Vein of IrOn," by Ellen
Glasgow, Harcourt, Brace.
Europa" by Robert Brit
fault, Scribner.
"The Stars Look Down"
by A. j. Cronin, Little, Brown.
Golden Apples" by Mar
jorie E. Rawlings, Scribner.
"Without Armour" by
James Hilton, Morrow.
Honey in the HOrn," by
H. L. Davis, Harper.
N0NFICTI0N
'TBIack Shirt, Black Skin"
by Boake Carter, Telegraph
Press.
"Seven Pillars Of wisdom"
by T. E. Lawrence, Double
day, Doran.
'Iife With Father" by
Clarence Day, Knopf.
North to the Orient" by
Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Harcourt, Brace.
"Mary Queen Of Scotland"
by Stefan Zweig, Viking.
"T Live in Virginia." by
Julian Meade, Longman'S.
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Analostan Island as a place to
live.
In 1851, William A. Bradley, one
of Washington's mayors, pur-
chased it. After the Civil War,
at which time the Mason mansion
is reported to have burned, the
Columbia Athletic Association
rented the site and turned it into
a Jveritable maze of ball fields,
tennis courts, running tracks and
Jgrandstands. In 1892, it was
forced to abandon it. For a time,
the AnaloStan Boat Club had its
boat-houSe there and In 1918, the
Washington Gas Light Company
The Washington times., 1935-10-19

Iney are the famous Currler
and Ives Autographs of the middle
of the last century.
The library is exhibiting several
Of the more representative of the
Currie and Ives Autographs, which
have been loaned by the Library
of Congress from its large collec-
tion.
Autographs which during the
last century, during the height Of
their popularity, sold for Is and
Is cents, are now calling for sums
in the hundreds and thousands,
one of them recently being sold
for $4,000.
Although as pieces of art, they
are in most instances sadly lack
ing, they are all interesting, not
to mention amusing.
Major Events
Currier and Ives, whose full
names were Nathaniel Currier and
James Merritt Ives, were partners
in the most flourishing ithograph-
ing business in the country when
lithographers were popular, that
is, before the time when news
papers began the use of pictures
in the daily news.
Both of them must have been
newspapermen at heart. They
were right on the spot when
news broke and they knew just
what sort of news would capture
the imagination Of the people. AS
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s
Charm Is
Renewed

ANU WH6W COWItL CHo
earthly hours
That I shall treasure most of
all,
That Walk in AnGlostGn's
bo10erS
Will be the first that I
recall"
Thus wrote James K. Paulding,
well-known American poet Of the
early Nineteenth Century, refer
ring to a day spent on the
scraggly patch Of land which
splits the Potomac River just
south of Francis Scott Key
Memorial Bridge. The poem,
written in 1925. consists Of four
Stanzas, the last Of which appears
above.
Preceding verses. sing in
cadenced phrases Of the unseen
thrush's vesper song," and tell
of great trees whispering "as
bashful lovers do"
Eighty-eight years after Pauld-
ing penned those lines, the Wash
ington Gas Light Company con-
templated installing huge supply
tanks on what is now officially
known as Theodore Roosevelt
Memorial Island.
Its great trees had long since
ceased their "nodding to and fro
In stately conclaves."
Those who follow a century or
so hence will perhaps see Theo-
dore Roosevelt Memorial Island
exactly as James K. Paulding
saw it, and the sight will give
meaning again to his inspired
verse. But his description can.
not be reconciled today with the
appearance Of the low-lying strip
Of land which splits the Potomac
River just south Of Francis Scott
Key Memorial Bridge.
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abandoned Plans

purchased It.
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RareLithographsA Attract
Interest at Library

The pictorial record of is display at the
Public Library, Eighth and Streets Northwest.
Harng back to the days before newspapers carried all
the pictures in the days the library is displaying the
pictures that the height Of fashion in the iusa
tion of the goings-on in the United States
The Washington times., 1935-10-19
HistoryofNew York Told
From New ANGLE

Four men occupied cell 202 in Sing Sing Each OF the
scratched his name the date Of his imprisonment and
oneword label for his life on the wall of his cell.
The Washington times., 1935-08-27

CANADA
Montreal funds In New York S3.12A
discount.
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MASS. TO OFFER
NEW ISSUE

NEW YORK, Aug. 81 GN.SD.
Despite the pessimism resulting
from the decline in Government
bonds a substantial amount of
new State and municipal offerings
were announced today.
Massachusetts is asking tenders
on a $3,500,000 metropolitan water
loan.
The metropolitan water district
of Southern California is asking
bids on $12,O96, 900 of bonds.
The city of Denver will receive
bids on September II on $5,400,'
600, provided voters approve the
issue at the polls on September
10.
The city of Detroit will sell pub
licly $4,262.000 water bonds on
September 8.
Short-term anticipation certifi'
Gates will be sold by San Fran
cisco on September Is. The issue
will amount to $2,500,00O.
The Orleans 1evee district OF
Louisiana will receive tenders Sep
tember 9 on 100000 S per cent re
funding bonds.
Westerly, R. l.. on Friday will
sell an issue of 100000 tenn
porary loan notes.
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WHEAT F|RMER
AFTER EASING

CHICAGO, Aug. q GN.sD.
Wheat prices firmed after an easy
opening today, the market climb
ing back to yesterdays closing
level after yielding about 34c a
bushel.
Commission house buying raj.
lied the market and offset the in
fluence of hedging sales and sell
ing on easiness at Liverpool. De-
cember rallied to 903s from ga.
Corn and oats were mixed in
light trade. December corn was
moderately higher around SIC
while September was Ac off
around 4.
Near mid-session wheat was un-
changed to Ac up. corn 14c down
to 12c up and oats 1sc down to
hc up.
The Washington times., 1935-08-27
Kennedy Won't Talk
About Resignation

Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission, would not discuss yester-
day reports that he was going to
resign.
He ridiculed rumors he was dis
pleased with the appointment of
James D. Ross, of Seattle, to the
commission. Ross has been de-
scrlbed as a municipal ownership
advocate and a foe of public util-
ity holding companies. The chair
man also dismissed conjecture he
did not like the holding company
bill.
Associates said the chairman
has hoped to leave for some time,
but that constantly changing cir
cumStanceS had made it impoS-
Sible. The situation, it was said,
is still the Same-he would like to
resign for personal reasons, but
has not been able to make up his
mind because of problems dealing
with his Government work.
The Washington times., 1935-08-27
COTTON PRICES
OFF SLIGHTLY

NEW YORK, Aug. 81 G.N.SO
The cotton market turned down
slightly from best levels, ignoring
sharp improvement in Liverpool
cables. Traders were still uncer-
tain and confused on the rapid
change of loan fronts.
The trade, the Continent. Liver
pool were buyers, and New Orleans
also switched to the purchasing
side. The South. Far East and
locals were selling, and some
hedge selling was also in evi-
dence.
The chief changes in the new
loan arrangement are. of course,
the 10-cent loan compromise. com
pairing with the 9-cent figure
projected by the Administration
and the previous 12-cent loan, and
the arrangement whereby farmers
receive from the Government the
difference between the average
price on the day they sell and II
cents. This considerably narrows
the variation from IL cents which
each farmer would be likely to
receive. Those who have come
around to an Interpretation of the
compromise policy favor it, both
in preference to the old IL cents
and the Administration policy of
several days ago.
Toward noon the market con.
tlnued fairly steady, with October
quoted at 1882, up 4; December
lO.41, up 4; March 1850, up 6,
and May 1850, up 4 points,
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CURB ADVANCE
CHECKED BY
PR0F|T|NG
BY JULES KRAMER

NEW YORK, Aug. 27 d.N.S0.
The advance in Curb stocks was
short lived, profit-taking becom.
ing heavier as the session pro.
gressed. The market continued
generally higher but gains were
cut, substantially in some in.
stances. Trading was inclined to
be light.
In the power shares, a few of
the higher-priced issues held on
to good gains established earlier
in the day. Electric Bond and
Share per cent preferred, United
Gas were included. Advances in
Columbia Gas were cut slightly
and more heavily in Niagara Hud.
son Power and Electric Bond and
Share 6 per cent preferred. Elec.
trio Bond common dipped 3s point
net after a steady start. Puget
Sound continued easy.
Molybdenum gains of almost a
point we're wiped out in the mis-.
cellaneous list.
In the liquor shares gains In
Distillers Corp. Seagrams were
pared but Hiram Walker contin'
ued steady at slightly higher lev
els and Kreuger held on to its
half point advance.
South Penn Oil advanced Il
point on an improved six months
earning statement. Other petrole'
ums also gained fractionally.
While Hudson Bay Mining
turned down 5s to 1915 under
fairly heavy liquidating pressure,
the rest of the mining list ignored
the trend of the market and con-
tinued to hold at improved levels.
Newmont was in good demand.
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strong spots. Auto shares were
aggressively bought, with Chrys'
ler up more than a point at one
time. The gains were cut later.
Du Pont displayed an usually
thin market for an issue with its
capitalization and jumped points
to a new high. 1t sold down later.
American Can was higher. Phil
lips hit a new high in the oils,
and Johns Mansville duplicated
this in the building group.
Mining shares is a group were
firm.
Steels Turn ReactiOnary
Steels started off strong, but
turned reactionary later. United
States Steel sold under the As
level. Profittaking was a big
factor.
Rails were steady for while,
but slipped in the second hour.
Poor earnings and the new pen
sion law outweighed the traffic
improvement.
Foods were reactionary. Gold
Dust was under heavy pressure.
Demand for du Pont firmed up
the whole chemical list American
Tobacco B and Phillip Morris
were strong in the tobaccos, the
former duplicating it's high. Rail
and electric equipments were
quiet. Farm stocks we're up as
much as a point in the first hour,
but slipped later.
Outside markets we're sluggish.
Cotton rose only slightly in re-
sponse to the raising of the United
States loan figure to 10 cents a
pound. Grains caSed. Bonds we're
irregular and foreign exchange
quiet.
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Cotton Goods

NEW YORK, Aug. 27 s.).-Cot-
ton goods market active was some
what better today, but failed to i'm
prove as much as traders had believed
would be the case when the loan ques-
tion was finally settled. Prices were
firm. Buyers did not fear any imme-
troversy over the loan a. tion. IL or
cents, and the final comp @.omise on 10
cents, has been to make the 10-cent
loan a psychological facsor making to-
been cut 10 cents directly it would have
proved deflationary. OF couse. the de-
flation has already Occurred in the
futures market, and the mills in the
goods markets have indicated their i'm
tention of maintaining prices no matter
what the raw market did.
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GsSs%:y NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE 1:45 P M. PRICES
Name and
ni.rtAAnA nAI

-193S- Name Net
High Dividend
rs a. Gulf Mobile N pf. % z % % n |
2S IL Gulf States Steel. 24LS 24< 241f- ~
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B. 90. Car|oadings
Increase for Week

Carloading on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad for the week
ended August "a. totaled 38,445.
an increase of 286 cars over the
same week a 1884.
1t was also an increase Of 754
cars loaded over the previous
week
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a1Cer an early
advance.
Utilities were
upset by t h e
Presidents sign
ing the holding
company b ill.
C on oil idated
Gas was driven
d o W n m or e
than a point on
t he opposed
referendum in
New York city
on a municipal
ly-owned plant.
There were a
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UTILITY SHARES
TURN D0WN0N
MIXED MART
BY LESLIE GOULD

NEW YORK, Aug. q GN.S0.
Renewed weakness in the utilities
unsettled the stock market today