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Evening star., 1936-04-30
Mrs. Greger to Speak
Women's sAuXiliary

The Women's Auxiliary Of the
American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers will have as
guest speaker tomorrow afternoon at
2 O'Clock Mrs. Herbert H. Greger of
the Ikko Greger School of Flower
Arrangements. who will talk and give
a demonstration of japanese flower
arrangement for the American
woman. The lecture, which will be
given on the roof garden of the
Y. w. c. A., will be for the benefit of
charity.
Mrs. Greger received her masters
degree from the O'Hare School in
Toxic, Japan, where she has been
graduate teacher and is the only
Western woman who has exhibited
in Toxic. Tickets may be obtained
from the door.
Evening star., 1936-04-30
c.. c.. G.. Anniversary
Reception Tonight

A reception and dance commemo-
rating the third anniversary of the
Civilian Conservation Corps will be
held in the Italian garden of the
Mayflower Hotel tonight for the off,
cials and employees of the Once of
Emergency Conservation Work and
the various departments co-operat-
ing in the c. c. c. program. The
affair will be attended by several hum
dred persons from the War, Interior,
Agriculture acd Labor Departments.
the Veterans Administration and the
office of the director, all of which CO.
operate in the c. c. c. program.
Evening star., 1936-04-30
Marriage Miss Mariana Dunn Today Attracts
Serlhora de Bianchi
Is Hostess at Tea
Held at the Legation

CENHORA DE BIANCHI, wife of the
- Minister of Portugal, was at home
yesterday afternoon, having issued
cards for receiving hours from S to
Z O'Clock. Senhora de Bianchi. who
received in her apartment at Ward
man Park Hotel, was assisted by her
daughter. Sen,lorita Sibilia Skidel-
sky Cooling refreshments were served
in the dining room and in the library
was served the famous port wine of
Portugal. named after the island of
Porto OF the main coast of that coun-
try, where the wine first was made.
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Minister'S Wife
Honor Guest at
Fellowship Lunch

Nine. DE BIANCHI, wife of the
Minister of Portugal; Sonora
de De Bayle. wife of the charge daft
Marta Trucco, daughter of the Chill
can Ambassador, will be the honor
guests at the World Fellowship lunch
con at the Y. W. c. A. Friday.
Miss Ellen La Motto, world traveller
and writer and one of the few women
present at the coronation of Halle
Selassie, will speak on Abyssinia.
Evening star., 1936-04-30

Engagement
Announced
Will Be Bride of Mr..
Jules Thebaud of
New York.

~ F MUCH interest in WASH
ington is the engagement Of
Mrs. Chester Walker Lock-
wood of this city to Mr.. Jules
Matthew de Rochefermoy Thebaud Of
New York, son of Mrs. Paul Gilbert
Thebaud of New York and the late
Mr. Thebaud The betrothal is an
nounced today by Mrs. Lockwood's
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Hearne Oliver
Adams.
Mrs. Lockwood, the former Miss
Marjorie P. Adams, IS the widow Of
Mir. Chester Lockwood of Washing
ton. She attended the Laurel School.
Cleveland. Ohio; the French School.
New York. and spent two Winters
studying in Paris She is a member
OF the Junior League of Washington
and the Chevy Chase Club.
Mr.. Thebaud attended st. Georges
School, Newport, r. I. He is a men,
Der Of the Union Club, American
Yacht and Nantucket Yacht Clubs.
and belongs to the Sons of the Revolu-
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Dance to Follow
Races in WarrentOn

A dance will be given Saturday eve
ming at Arlington, the estate of the
late Mr.. Harrison Nesbit, in corinec-
tion with the Virginia Gold Cup As
sociation races at Warrenton, Va.
Mr.. Chaffraix Lelong is sponsoring
the dance.
Evening star., 1936-04-30
Catholic University
Dance Tomorrow

The graduating class of the Catholic
University will sponsor its annual
senior ball tomorrow evening, May J..
at the Maynower Hotel.
Evening star., 1936-04-30


Mr.. and Mrs. H. Hobart MacCubbin
will be at home informally Sunday
afternoon from to o'clock. No
cards have been issued.
Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman left yes
terday for New York, where she will
spend few days as the guest of Mrs.
Elihu Root, jr She will attend the
annual meeting of the Colonial Danes
Of America.
Mrs. Ralph Worthington was hostess
at luncheon today.
Mrs. George F. Becker will give a
dinner party this evening.
Mrs. Barlow S. Weeks will come
from her home in New York tomorrow.
and will be the guest over Sunday of
Continued on Fourth Page.)
Evening star., 1936-04-30

OF Interest
This Month
Miss Brooke Married
Mr.. Dyer Last Night.
Others Wed.

HISS ELEANORA HENDER-
M SON BROOKE, daughter of
|Vi Mr., and Mrs. Norman Ed
4 ward Brooke. and Mr.. Ben
Hopson Dyer of Washington. son or Mr..
and Mrs. Benjamin B, Dyer of Camp
Hill, Ala, we're married last evening at
o'clock in st. Adams Church, the
Rev Charles T Warner officiating
While the guests were assembling Mr..
Barrett Fuchs sang several selections.
The church was decorated with palms
and Spring flowers and the pews of
the families were marked with bou-
quets of Spring flowers tied with rib
bons.
The bride, who was escorted and
given in marriage by her father. wore
an egg shell satin gown fashioned on
princess lines, with a lace de Medeci
Continued on Fourth Page)
Evening star., 1936-04-30
Residential
Washington
SOcialNOtes
Mrs. Charles NJ. Lea
to Be Hostess
Tonight.

n FRS. CHARLES NJ. LEA will
M entertain at dinner this eve
wv ming in her home, on Massa-
4 chusetts avenue.
Evening star., 1936-04-30

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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-16
Old Bill Williams, Master Trapper

Williamsl One of us must be
ready for dinner"
After five years, however, VIII
liams gave up his circuit riding
and settled among his boyhood
friends, the Usage Indians, as a
missionary.
For the next Is years he lived
among the Indians. He married
a girl of the Big Hill band of
the Osages and she bore him two
daughters. During these Is years
he became a changed man.
When the United States gov
eminent established the FAC
tory" system of trading with
the Indians, the first trading post
west of the Mississippi was 10
Gated at Belle Fontaine. It was
succeeded by one at Arrow Rock
and in 1903 Fort Usage was es-
tablished east of the present
town of Independence, Mo. Will
Hams first began serving the
government as a messenger be-
tween these trading posts and
st. Louis. In 1877 he was en-
ployed as interpreter at Fort
Usage and four years later he
was made official interpreter at
the factory at Marais des Cyg-
mes.
After this service there is a
hiatus in Williams life for which
his biographer cannot account
satisfactorily. This is a tanta-
lizing fact because, as he says,
these years, between 1925 and
1841, "were the years he made
a reputation for himself, the
years in which his exploits made
him famous as a mountain man.
Much has been written about his
doings; some of it is authentic,
much is fiction.
Like the others of that rest
less breed of mountain men dur
ing these Is years he wandered
through all parts of the Great
West, trapping along the head
waters of its rivers, stealing
horses from the Californians and
Mexicans, trading with the vari-
Gus Indian tribes, living with
them, fighting against them,
coming to know every mountain
range with its passes and its
canons, every river and every
trail.
When the fur trade era ended
"Bill Williams, Master Trap
per-" as he signed himself, had
to look around for new fields of
adventure. He found them in
the role of guide for the military
and exploring expeditions which
began to penetrate the West in
the forties. In 1845 Williams
served for a time with the third
exploring expedition of Capt.
John c. Fremont, marked for
future fame as ''The Pathfinder"
even though he deserved that
title much less than did some of
the mountain men who guided
him, notably Kit Carson.
In the early summer of 1848
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Americana
By Elmo Scott Watson

Down With Demon RUM"
ID ACK in the early days of the tenn
- perance movement in this country,
a poem, called THE Song of the De-
canter," which was often reprinted In
the newspapers, was this typographical
curiosity:
There was an old de-
canter, and it's mouth was
gaping wide: the
ruby wine had
ebbed away
and left
its crys-
tai side;
and the wind
went h u m m n 6,
humming-
up and
down the
sides it few
and through the
reed-like
hollow neck
the widest notes it
blew. / placed it in the
window where this blast was
blowing free and fancied that
its pale mouth sang the queerest
strains to me: They tell me puny
cOnQuerOrS !-that Plague mas SIAM
his ten, and War his hundred thou
sands of the very best of men: But L
twas thus tie bottle spoke-"But have
conquered more than all your famous
conquerors, so feared and named of
yore. Then to me, you youths and
maidens, come drink from out my
cup the beverage that dulls the
brain and burns the spirits up,
and puts to shame the con-
Querors that slay their
scores below; for this
has deluged millions
with the lava tide
of woe. Though in
the path of bat
tie darkest
waves Of
blood may
roll, yet while
I killed the
body I have
damned the
very soul. The
cholera, the
sword such ruin
never wrought as I,
In mirth or malice, on
the innocent have brought.
And still / breathe upon them,
and they shrink before my breath;
and year by year the thousands
tread this dismal road to death''
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-16

The Peacock's regal beauty
worthy of your finest linens-in-
spired this beautiful design, and
is sure to inspire you with the de-
sire to embroider his splendid i'm
age in cross stitch. You can, you
know, for the patterns a very
easy one, despite its rich effect.
Wool, silk or cotton floss In real
istic bluish-greens and warm
browns, or one color only if you
prefer, will make a handsome
scarf, pillow, chair set or re-
freshment cloth.
Pattern 1854 comes to you with
a transfer pattern of two pea
cocks Il IA by IA IL inches and
four motifs IL by 8 IL inches
color suggestions; material re-
quirements; illustrations of all
stitches needed.
Send Is cents in coins or stamps
(coins preferred) to The Sewing
Circle, Needlecraft Dept, 81
Eighth Ave, New York, N. Y.
Write plainly pattern number,
your name and address.
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accused Williams of stupidity,
treachery, even cannibalism.
These charges, according to Fa-
YOUR, grew partly out of Ere
mont's desire to shift RESPONSE
bility for the failure of the ex-
petition with its loss of life from
his own shoulders to some con-
venient scapegoat and partly,
several years later, out of the
necessity of grooming a tar
nished hero for a Presidential
candidacy. Old Bill didn't live
to defend himself but other
members of the Fremont expe-
dition came to the support Of
the mountain man to clear his
reputation and historians of to-
day, including Old Bills biogra-
pher, have accepted their YER
dict rather than that of Ere
mont.
IS Two months after Williams
reached Taos he started out, &C
companied by DR.. B. J. Kern,
who had been the physician with
Fremont's expedition, and a few
Mexicans, to regain the instru-
ments and baggage which the
expedition had been forced to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-16

Old Bill served as a scout with
the Missouri Volunteers against
the hostile Apaches and Utes
and was the hero of the Battle of
Cunbres Pass. Although he was
"shot in the arm, shattering it
most horribly, he managed to
use it so as to keep his rifle hot
during the engagement" and
won from the commander of the
troops, in his report of the battle.
this accolade: Williams. a cele-
brated mountaineer, though
wounded badly, behaved himself
CALAMITY in the engagement"
Williams went back to Taos to
recover from his wounds and
late that fall went up to Pueblo.
Colo, to spend the winter there
with some old comrades. To
Pueblo in November came Ere
mont on his fourth expedition and
although all the mountain men
advised the army officer against
trying to cross the snow-flled
passes in the winter, Fremont
prevailed upon Williams to I'M
dertake the job of guiding. Lit
tie did he expect that in a few
short weeks he was to become a
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leave behind during the retreat
from the mountains. On March
IA, 1849, their camp was at
tackled by party of Utes and
both Kern and Williams were
killed at the first fire. After
wards when the Indians dis
covered whom they had killed,
they gave the old trapper a
chiefs burial.
His grave is unmarked but he
has an enduring monument.
Down in Arizona there is a
beautiful green, wooded noun
tain, a towering solitary peak
above the foothills at its base,
characteristic of Bill Williams
old Solitaire-and not far dis
tant is the mountain stream,
quiet and peaceful, or, after a
storm, rushing torrent, en-
blematic of the human career,
whose life as a mountain man
helped to save the plains and
mountains of the Louisiana Pur-
chase to this country" Both
that mountain peak and that
stream bear the name of Bill
Williams.
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Spanish authority as a boy, and
started his own career at the time
Jefferson, Livingston and Monroe eff
fected the Louisiana Purchase. In
manhood he became a part of the
life Of the plains and mountains. He
saw the Indians pushed back, the
New Mexicans dispossessed, and Call
ifornia taken-all in one lifetime. ..
AS we follow him through life we
find him a member of an average
early American family, then a trap
per and hunter, finally emerging into
one of the most noted of the noun
tain men. Likewise we can follow in
his career the changes and develop
ments of the West from a wilderness
of the Louisiana Purchase of 1893
into a compact section of our coun-
try at the time Of his death.
The wanderings of this Amer
lean Ulysses becomes more un-
derstandable when we consider
his ancestry. He came of a line
of Welshnen, restless and indie
pendent, who migrated to Vir-
ginia, then moved to South Caro-
lima and, failing to find the pros
perity hoped for there, crossed
the mountains to the western
part of North Carolina. When
William Sherley was seven years
old the urge to move struck his
father again and the Williams
family started west - through
Tennessee, Kentucky, southern
Illinois, finally arriving in the
Spanish country west of the Mis-
sissippi and settling in village
of less than 1000 inhabitants
called St. Louis. There on Sep
TENDER %, 1875, another son,
John W., was born to Joseph and
Sarah Williams-the first Ameri-
can white child born in that city.
Even at that early period St.
Louis was the center of the fur
trade and young Williams saw
French voyageurs with their
keel boats and barges going up
and down the river, within sight
of the Williams home. The cou-
reurs de bois travelled over the
old Trace past the Williams cab
in, going into the trapping coun-
try and returning to st. Louis
laden with their packs of furs.
All this became part of young
Bill Williams life. He grew up,
from his first remembrance in
the atmosphere of that trade"
He also grew up in a religious
atmosphere, for Sarah Williams
was a recognized authority on
the Bible among the American
settlers. Although restrictions
were placed upon freedom of re-
ligion by the Spanish rulers of
the country, they were removed
when the Upper Province of LOU
isiana, including st. Louis,
passed from the control of Spain
to France and Immediately to
the United States in 1904. A re-
ligious revival, then sweeping
across the Middle West, helped
foster more interest in spiritual
matters. So it was not so un-
usual that young Bill Williams,
with his religious training and
his gift for speech Che is de-
scribed at the time as "a ready
talker, witty and quick at repair
tee") should begin to preach.
Within a short time he was rid
ing regular circuit and VIII
liams once said of himself that
he was so well known that even
the chickens at the farms which
he visited knew him and would
eXclaim: Here comes Parson
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-16
MORGAN HORSE OLDEST

The Morgan horse is Americas
oldest breed, according to a writer in
Hoards Dairyman. 1t was the general
utility horse of New England in the
Nineteenth century. Now a saddle
horse for bride path, hunt, and range,
it is noted for its stamina. Height, 10
hands preferred. In the fall of 1875.
Justin Morgan went from Vermont TO
his former home in Springfield. Mass.
to collect some money due him. In
stead, he returned with a gelding and
a two-year-old colt. The latter was
later named Justin Morgan after his
owner and became the fountainhead of
the breed. Although Morgan, the man,
died three years later, Justin Morgan,
the horse. lived to the ripe old age of
Twenty-Five years and finally died from
an injury.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-16

us the first full-length biography
of this famous frontiersman. 1t
traces his career from his birth
on January 8, 1887, on Horse
creek in Rutherford county,
North Carolina, to his death at
the hands of the Utes on the Up
per Rio Grande in southern Colo
RADIO on March IA, l849, and re-
ports in as much detail as can
possibly be done the Odyssey of
Old Bill Williams.
Interesting as an individual,
William Sherley Williams-such
was Old Bills full name-is more
important as type, as SYM
boil of an era in American his
tory, the like of which can never
be duplicated. For, says his biog-
rapher:
His life comedies with and touches
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-16

principal in one of the greatest
disasters in exploration that ever
befel any guide engaged during
the history of the Rockies-a dis
aster which was to be the con-
tributing cause of his death,
where his ability as scout and
guide would be brought into con-
troversy, and in the final chap
ter, result in the perpetuation of
his name in Arizona by the NAM
ing of a river and mountain
for him."
But that is exactly what hap
pened. For Williams almost
froze to death, almost starved
to death and after Fremont and
the remnants of his expedition
had struggled back to Taos he
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-16
Rouqh Work, Gentle Work

There must be work done by
the arms, or none of US could
live. There must be work done
by the brains, or the life we get
would not be worth having. And
the same men cannot do both.
There is rough work to be done,
and rough men must do it; there
is gentle work to be done, and
gentle men must 90 it; and it is
physically impossible, that one
class should do, or divide, the
work of the other.-John Ruskin.
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In the western mountains that,
although he stands out In most
of them as a prominent noun
tain man and master trapper, In
many ways he has come to be
regarded as a legendary charac-
ter. Certain of his characteristics
are always emphasized IN the
records of his doings: his early
calling as an itinerant preacher
In Missouri; his efforts as a mis-
sionary among the Osages; his
eccentric habits; his drinking of
quantities of strong liquor; his
ability to speak many different
Indian tongues; and finally mis-
capability as a hunter and his
peculiar method of Indian fight
ing.
Search the records as you
may, Old Bill Williams never
seems to have had any youth,
for he is usually referred to as a
trapper who had been many
years in the West. A number of
different versions of his death
have been given, ranging from a
ceremonial execution as a medi-
cine man of the Utes in the
Southwest to a violent death at
the hands of the Blackfeet in
the Northwest. The stories told
of Williams are more varied than
those of any other man of his
time, and leave the casual read
er in uncertainty as to the real
man, or in doubt, indeed, if there
ever did exist such a character
outside of fiction"
However, Mr.. Favour's re-
searches into the available
source material has set at rest
any such doubts and has given
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-16
Alaskan Glacier. Awe.In.pirins

The Alaskan glaciers are among the
most spectacular and awe-inspiring
sights in the world. Those on the
slopes of Mount Mckinley and Mount
Foraker include some that guard the
unsurveyed heart of the Alaska range.
The greatest glaciers of the range are
on its southern slope and extend down
to the shore. At some places ship on
its way through the passage may d.
rect its way into safe waters, blow its
whistle and cause huge masses of ice
to come tumbling down into the sea.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-16
Being Tir11id

LIS own timidity is the last
4 thing a tirnid man ever
fears. And yet timidity has lost
many a cause which could have
been won without rashness or
even holiness. The man who is
afraid to invest his money
loses an income just as truly as
the man who has no money to
invest.
A policy that straddles and
hedges in order to avoid the
possibility of error is itself an
error. No great scholar, states
man, or reformer is non-com-
initial. 1t has been well said
that he who never makes a mis-
take never makes anything.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-16
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON

THOUGH Jedediah Strong Smith is commonly regarded
claimant the title of American Ulysses there
another who respects better prototype of the
Greek hero Shooter the Osages named
PEARSON Williams he became when, youth of
he left his home in Missouri ride the circuit Baptist
preacher threatening here and birthstone the unepentan
"Od Solitaire his fellow appers called him. But frontier history
has written him down "Od Bill Williams
figures that opd the of the Great
West when strong individuality and pctuequesnes
rule rather than the exception.
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upon many phases Of our national
growth from the time of the Revo-
lutionary war to the end of the west-
ward expansion. His parents lived
in part of the country where doubt
and misunderstanding of the leaders
of our country had become the COM
mon attitude of the people toward
the government. His kinfolk were
among the Regulators of North Car
olina, and his father, although a
Revolutionary soldier with years of
service, emigrated into what was
then a foreign land.
Born in the early days Of the
American republic, he lived under
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-16

Along with history, legend has
also marked him for its own, as
witness a quotation from a
book published recently by the
University of North Carolina
Press. 1t is "Old Bill Williams,
Mountain Man." written by
Alpheus H. Favour, who says:
Fiction and fact have been
so mixed In the fragmentary &C
count we have of the life of
Bill Williams on the plains and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-16
Worth a Battle

Magistrate-For two years you
two men fshed together peace
ably, and yet you had to fight
over this fish.
Prisoner-You see, sir, it was
the first one we ever caught!
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Turning Point

Squire to Villager-So you're
married, Tom?
Tom-Well, EUR, I TUX fancy
to she cause of 'er looks; 'er's
purity like. When l heerd she was
dom steady washin' for seven
families, then and there I sur
rendered, zur.
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Knows Her Boy

Mother Ito boy)-Be sure not
to get your bathing suit wet, dar-
ling.
Friend-What an absurd thing
to tell him"
Mother-My dear, it's the only
way I can be certain he'll have a
thoroughly good battle.
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Desperate Measure

She-The doctor has forbidden
me to cook.
He-Why, are you i'll?
She-No, my husband is.
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