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nate, month by month and
year by year, for the repu-
tation of having the SCOT
lest face, are:
Massachusetts-av and Rural-st.
w. Michigan-st and Sheffield-av.
Westinghouse and Forest-av.
Blocking off five-mile-square
areas in the city, George r. Popp,
city combustion engineer, in a
survey found that the three Sec
tors above each average better
than 500 tons of sootfall yearly.
If you live within the mile
square of 10Th and N. Harding
SITS, 54th-st and College-av, and
Shelby-st and Pleasant Run-blvd,
then you reside-according to the
survey-in the spic and span
areas.
TINE sootfall, the survey shows,
- ollOulO 11OO dNCldSS OfCI AOO
to 200 tons yearly in the ultra
clean sections.
Mr.. Popp gathers sootfall rec
ords by placing jars IL to Is feet
above street level to avoid catch
ing street dust and carbon from
motor cars. The survey, made
for all months and correlated into
a normal sooty year, would be
higher at all II stations if Jars
were placed for the coal-burning
winter of 1886.
Collecting the jars, Mr.. Popp,
aided by the city chemist, ex-
amines the contents and separates
the SCOT and minerals from the
noncombustible dirt. Each jar
averages about AZ per cent SCOT
and minerals and So per cent
dirt. The actual sootfall is COM
puted from the AZ per cent car
bon and mineral deposits of the
jars. Dirt is not counted as SCOT
fall.
n n
TINE II stations where jars were
Il placed, with their yearly SCOT
fall and percentage to the total
sootfall-of between 4312 tons and
5000 tons-in the city, follow be-
low in the order of the tons of
SCOT rained on each approximate
five-mile-square area:
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consumers" or until effective &C
ton has been taken to do away
with the great volumes of SCOT
poured into the atmosphere"
LIE asserts that the city would
l. L have fewer dense fogs and
no smogs if it were smokeless
metropolis.
Knock on the door of a bunga-
low at 1914 N. Rural-st-within
couple of squares Of one of the
worst SCOT areas at Massachu-
sets and Rural-and Mrs. John
McCotter, tired from trying to
keep six children clean, an
swers the knock.
The McCotters at one time lived
next door to a foundry at 500 S.
Holmes-av, so Rural-st seems a
paradise to them and yet
BILLY, he's 8, has always got
colds summer and winter. Helen
cries ali the time-she's land
can't get along at school. Esther,
10, is frail and we've had her out
to Sunnyside. Katherine, II,
seems to take cold quicker than
any except Billy. And outside of
Pat, 5, and James, IA, it seems all
the others are SICK" says Mrs.
McCotter.
Look at Billy there" and she
pointed to a freckle-faced youth
with nose smudged with SCOT and
clothing grimed with dirt who
stood first on one toe and then
another cycling the homes visitor.
DILLY shifted disdainfully at a
I'D comment on his noStril &C
tivity.
"You can't keep them clean. I
never hang out my Washings and
sometimes I have to wash over
again if the. SCOT gets in the base
ment when I dry them in the
house." Mrs. McCotter added.
Next door reside Mr.. and Mrs.
Ivan Farmer. Mrs. Farmer echoes
Mrs. McCotter's complaint with
the declaration she finds it hard
to keep her two daughters clean.
"We moved here from Muncie
and, although Muncie is not such
a clean city, it's not as dirty as
this town. Why wash my cur
tains every month. We'd move
somewhere else, but it's close to
my husbands work" she vouched.
One and one-half miles away
from the Farmer home is Forest
av, between Washington and New
York-sts. 1t had four houses
and lot of vacant ground for
sale.
Situated in one of the city's
SCOT areas, the street was born
of the depression and may die of
the SCOT unless resurrected.
OWNERS of two homes on
" the street, valued at $4,000
to $4,000 in boom years, would sell
out tomorrow if they could get
some return on their investments.
Industrial smoke, coupled with
use of the street as a proving
ground for motor cars, residents
say, has banned it for children.
The block has no children.
ST clean all the time" said Mrs.
G. H. Myers, IS N. Forest-av, as
she shook out a dust-rag, land as
for keeping white curtains up, you
just can't do it. That's why I
use dark Grapes"
Across the street, Miss Edith
TRIBE and her mother, Mrs. Mar
garet Tribe, 4S N. Forest, agree
that the realty value of their.
$4,000 home has deprecated and
that industrial smoke has not
helped keep that value up.
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cleaner section of the city has
been discussed at times.
One of the ironies of Indian
apolis is that one of its clean
est sections, the southwest section,
has few residences and a small mi
nority of the population compared
to similar areas.
William P. Snethen, secretary
manager of the Apartment House
Owners Association of Indian
apolis, points this fact out. He
says that his organizations men,
bers believe that realty values are
affected by the smoke nuisance.
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WHILE visiting in Hyde Park
W last fall he had an argu-
ment with Aubrey Williams, as
siStant WPA administrator, re-
garding unemployment estimates.
"You are all wet on those fig
ures," he told Williams. 1.-THE
WPA administrator right here at
Hyde Park advertised for TOO men,
and how many do you thing he
got? Just exactly two"
And convinced that unemploy-
ment could not be so large if the
WPA could not secure men
around Hyde Park, Roosevelt Or
dered a recheck of figures for
the entire country. Gordon Sill
vermaster, who checked them,
found the original estimates were
correct.
Copyright. 1885. by United Feature
Syndicate, Incl
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at tbs writing to note the cold
indiff renee of the Parisians.
Bomb rdment is no new expert
ence most of them, and they
seem OF to believe the ballyhoo
of the last Is years about huge
bombs which will blow the Bourse
to powder with one large noise
and gas bombs which will destroy
thousands of civilians in condi-
lions of great discomfort. They
have heard all that before.
To be sure, experience taught
them that it was not good hy-
giene to stand in exposed posi-
lions when the bombs we're pop
ping. So the city is now prepared
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ElEnouAh
BY
W'ESIBRO0KPEGLER

Darts, March 20.-There have been more planes
i than usual in the air over Paris since Hitler
moved the army of the winter Olympics up to their
positions along the Rhine, and the sound of mo-
tors overhead naturally starts certain train OF
thought among the citizens.
For years now sentimental pacifists and flying
generals groups lopsided the subject of
the horror of the next war from the air-have been
coop rating in fear campaign it is interesting
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His organization is backing smoke
abatement campaigns.
But be it apartment house, art
museum, office building or home,
and regardless of the sector of the
city, it just must receive some
portion of a $50 to 600 tons of
sootfall that Sits, flake by flake,
down in the various areas until it
makes a total blanket of black for
indianapolis of between 4312 and
5000 tons.
Next: Shooting the SCOT Away
How to Do 1t.
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Business Men Of U.S..
Can Work Together
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON March 2O-President Roosevelt
w has called upon business leaders to cooperate in
increasing production and reducing unemployment.
Many think business is incapable of doing that.
They picture business world of tooth-and-claW
individualists unable to cooperate.
Actually however, the business world is full of
great cooperative efforts We don't notice them
because they are efforts in the direction of technique
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They're Rather Expensive

THE masks are expensive equipment costing ap-
Il proximately $3.50 to $780, reduced from sci. At
the old price the gas masks were obviously luxury
for the well-to-do but it hardly be said that this
equipment has been brought within reach of the
masses even now. They are said to be good for "a
hours OF continual USE after which the chemicals in
than So.
There are said to be gasproof garments, too
something like the which marine divers wear
Drug stores and other shops in town also have
masks Tor Sale and there was window display some
time ago of a chemical which, if scattered on the
moor OF room will neutralize certain kinds of gas
but not all kinds.
That suggests another problem of individual de-
tense. A man may buy whole armful of assorted
masks for his family at great expense and issue
them around, only to discover that the stuff in
the snout is not the right formula to resist the
particular gas with which the family circle is being
bombarded at the moment.
Why LiUe Forever?
THE attitude of the civilians who can not pos
sibly get out of town or safely underground
in time for one of the great horrible raids which
nave peen preolcted for years is something like that
OF the British Tommy toward body armor during
the big war. The loving parents or the wife or
chlloren OF the British Tommy might sacrifice MANY
hCtle desires IN order to buy him sort of false
pely mace OF Steelin three sections like the shell
OF an armadllo-and present it to him at the hour
OF his going to the front He would accept it with
afectionate gratitude and half an hour later would
pc tossing IL out OF the window of the train because
1t wasn't regulation. 1t was too heavy and fnav
1t set his comrades to asking him what the hell
did he want to live forever?
To be sure if the air raids In the next war
should justify the stories of the fear campaign
there will be great indignation among the citizens
OF France, who will feel that the army should have
known and the government should have issued
civilian protective gear.
just now, though, they can hear the sound of
motorS over the city, think their thoughts and re-
0T10ioc how Ho1,,
Paris and the French nation for hundreds of years
and here they are today.
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THE CITY OF SMOKE
BY ARCH STEINEL
INDIANAPOLIS has

INDIANAPOLIS has its spots-soot spots-that, like
eopards Spots change when the SCOT begins to
fall.
They sectors where the children get the dirtiest
where curtains washed the ofenes where housewives
work the hardest to keep living quarters cean where wall
paper cleaner sales BOOM and where cold
black smoking chimney.
The three drtest sectors of the city, and they alter
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Four residences on the street,
no children, but lot of SCOT, is
the predicament of F0reSt-av, off
of E. Westinghouse. 1t is shown
above, located in one of the city's
dirtiest soot-infested areas.
SCOT and smOgs rarely give Billy
McCotter's handkerchief break.
Billy, 3, of 1914 N. Rural-st, lower
photo, ives-accOrding to records
in the office of the city smoke
combustion engineer-in another
leading "blackface" district. BILLY
always has colds" his mother
says.
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Former Steel Chief Dies

by JHlted Pf6SS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March 90
George Gordon Crawford, former
head of the T. G. l., Southern sub
sidiary of United States Steel, and
onetime head of the Jones g. Laugh
lin Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh, died
here today. He was so.
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Solution to Precious Contract
Problem
BY VIM. E. M'KENNEY

Secretary American Bridge League
HERE is a hand with a play
l. Il that looks similar to a
grand coup, and still is not a
grand coup. While North and
South are loaded with high-card
tricks, Vests spade bid saves
them from getting into an I'M
makable slam.
Against four hearts West can
hardly be criticized for not open
ing his ace of spades. 1t is true
that, if he does, he can hold the
contract to five hearts. With a
diamond opening, however, the
declarer can make seven odd.
The opening diamond lead is
won in dummy with the ace. A
heart is led and. of course, declar-
er should not take a finesse on the
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10 ave underground when the raiders come But
tney nave not bought many masks and sales at the
Galleries Lafayette during the last week amounted
to just 10.
Evening star., 1936-08-16

tory Of the United States now held
or hereafter acquired south Of latitude
SO degrees and 80 minutes and pro-
vided that slavery of the African race
shall be effectually protected as prop
erty therein during the continuance Of
the territorial government, and the
fourth article shall secure to the own
ers of slaves the right of transit with
their slaves between and through the
non-Slaveholding States and Terri
tories, constitute the basis of such an
adjustment of the unhappy contro-
versy which now divides the States
of this Confederacy as would be ac-
cepted by the people Of this Common
wealth.
after some preliminary business,
ex-President Tyler was chosen pre-
siding officer of the convention and
delivered very conciliatory and
patriotic address. In consequence,
however, of the convention carrying
on It's deliberations with closed
doors, no account Of the proceedings
has reached the public ear. We con-
slider this determination highly COM
mendable, as 1t places the delegates
above the temptation Of making bum
combe speeches, which are more fire.
quently calculated to inflame the
hostility Of parties than to smooth
their difficulties"
John Tyler, who served as president
of the Peace Conference, died two
years later. in Richmond, Va His
second marriage, which took place
while he was still President, was
notable romance.
A MOTHER incident Of historic sig
nificance which took place in
willard Hall was the first showing
in Washington Of Lumiere's cinemat-
ographes, on January 1, 1897. and the
following announcement of the event,
taken from the press of that date,
should be conclusive evidence for this
statement. The advertisement reads:
Begin the New Night
BY Seeing the Marvel Of the Age.
Limited Engagement Beginning
New Years at Willard Hall
and continuing daily at pm, pm.
and 8 pm.
Absolutely First Time in Washing
ton Of
Iumiere's
Cinematographe.
Motion Photographed. Next to life
itself there is nothing so real as the
Cinematographe.'
Admission, Soc; Children, 25c.
No reserved seats"
Henry A. Willard Of the Willard
brothers, who bought Willard Hall in
1859, was one of the most progressive
business men in Washington. When
he came here. in 1847, he first leased
and later bought the City Hotel.
which then stood at the northwest
corner of Fourteenth street and Penn
sylvania avenue, from Col. Benjamin
Ogle Tayloe, son Of John Tayloe. who
built the Octagon, at New York ave-
nue and Eighteenth street. The for
mer built the house. still standing.
just to the north Of the Belasco Thea
ter, in 1929, where his visitors in
cluded Presidents John Quincy Adams,
Andrew Jackson, William Henry Har-
rison, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fill
more and James Buchanan: also Lords
Napier. Ashburton, Lyons and Rad
stock. Later, Admiral Pauldtng, son
of John Paulding, one of the captors
of Andre, and Vice President Hobart
occupied the residence. Senator Mark
Hanna resided there during the Nc
Kinley administration, when it was
called the Little White House"
RENJAMIN odLE TAYLoE was
also the first president of the
Evening star., 1936-08-16
WILLARD HALL WAS CENTER OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
FAMOUS IN WAR AND PEACE|
Established Presbyterian Church iii Early Days of City, and
Became Chief Local Place of Assembage-Area Which
Contributed Interior Office Birthplace.

leman, G. S. Orth, E. w H Lewis,
T. c. Stoughton.
"New York-David Dudley Field,
william Curtis Noyes, James S Wads-
worth, James c. Smith, Addison Gar
diner, Greene c. Bronson, William E.
Dodge, Amaziah B. James, Erastus
B. Corning.
"New Jersey-Charles s. Olden,
Robert S. Stockton. Joseph K. Ran
dolph, Rodman M. Price, Peter D.
Vroom, Benjamin Williamson, Fred
r. Frelinghuysen, Thomas J. Stryker.
William c. Alexander.
"New Hampshire-Amos Tuck. Asa
Fowler, Levi Chamberlain.
"Ohio-Salmon P. Chase, s. c.
Wright, v. Harlon, Thomas Ewing,
William Groesbeck, Reuben Hitch
cock, F. T. Backus.
"Pennsylvania-Will M. Mere
dith, James Pollock, Thomas E. Frank
lin, Thomas White, David Wilmot,
Andrew w. LOOMS. william Nc
Kennah.
Rhode Island-Chief Justice Amos,
Evening star., 1936-08-16

used as church and for a number of
years was occupied by the leading con-
gregation of Presbyterians in this city.
People who are not very old recol-
lect the name of Rev. DR.. Laurie. He
served as pastor Of this church from
1903 until his death, in 1853. The
church was organized by number Of
persons who were connected with the
Associate Reformed Church in Phila-
delphia and who came to this city
when the seat Of government was re-
moved. Joseph Nourse. who was for
many years the register Of the Treas
ury, was an elder In the church, and
the pastor, Rev. DR.. Laurie, was en-
ployed in the Treasury Department.
The congregation subsequently became
connected with the Presbyterian
Church, and soon after DR.. Laurie's
death Rev. Phineas B. Gurley was
called to the pastorate. In 1859 the
building was sold to the Willards and
the congregation Of the Second Pres
byterian Church. having united with
the street church, new edif1ce was
erected on the site Of the Second
Evening star., 1936-08-16
ByFlorence s. Berryman

w YHILE Washington water
M color painters search for
Wv new inspiration this Sum-
mer in many States, some
Of their completed paintings are trav-
cling around the country. giving pleas
ure to thousands of museum visitors.
Throughout this month a group Of
these water colors is on view at the
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery in
Memphis, Tenn.
From the fortieth annual exhibi-
ton of the Washington Water Color
Club, held at the Corcoran Gallery
of Art last February, the American
Federation of Arts selected a group Of
paintings by 25 artists, to be sent on
a circuit of cities in Eastern and
Southern States. 1t will be recalled
that the Water Color Clubs annual
is not limited to the work of its
members, but iS Hospitality open to all
artists. In consequence, the exhibit
ors represent every section Of the
United States. From total Of 200
items in the last annual. the fedora
ton S jury selected 20 paintings on
the basis of esthetic merit. OF the
IS artists represented flour of them
by two paintings eachD, IL are Wash
ingtonians and two others live in Be-
thesda and Alexandria respectively.
The travelling exhibition first went
to Winchester, Va, where it was
shown the final week in March at
the Handley School under auspices Of
the city's public schools. The eX-
hibition was the first ever held in
Winchester and it aroused keen en-
thusiasrn.
The Junior League Of Lancaster,
Pa, was the second organization to
exhibit the rotary show, for the first
fortnight in April. From Lancaster
the exhibition went to the State
Teachers College at Lock Haven, Pa,
where it was on view until the end
of April. The faculty members who
handled the exhibition were i'm
pressed with the variety of treatment
and subject matter.
The Washington water colors were
shown throughout May at the Arnot
Art Gallery, in Elmira, N. Y. They
Evening star., 1936-08-16

public and challenges admiration at
the northwest corner of Fourteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue. This
new City Hotel. just rebuilt and en-
larged for the owner, B. Ogle Tayloe,
Esq, will shortly be occupied by Mr..
Willard and ready for the reception
of guests and visitors. The new City
Hotel fronts 140 feet on Pennsylvania
avenue and ITS feet on Fourteenth
street. The main entrance to the
building is by large and handsome
portico. There is also private en-
trance from Pennsylvania avenue for
ladies.
1.-The City Hotel contains about
$50 rooms, well arranged into sleep
ing rooms and suites Of rooms for
families. The ladies' parlor is %
Continued on Sixth Page.)
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Church This building. changed and
altered, is now known as the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church"
THE STARS reference to the peace
convention. also called the peace
congress, calls to mind the convention
which met in Willard Hall on February
4, 1861, and continued to meet there
for some time afterward, at one Of the
most critical periods in American his
tory, and though it ultimately resulted
in nothing, still the object in calling it
was most commendable, ard, had 1t
resulted in preventing the Civil War,
as it was hoped it would do. half
million lives would have been saved.
An account Of the convention, printed
at the time, follows:
Monday, the 4th Of February,
1861, will long be memorable in the
annals of the world, for on that day
a patriotic effort was made to suggest
some method to avoid the disruption
of a republic which had made greater
strides in prosperity and power than
any similar experiment in history. The
patriotic effort we allude to is the
Convention Of Delegates from the
Border and Other States, for the
adoption of some measure which will
satisfy the South. To further so noble
an end IS States have sent their dele
gates, viz: Illinois, Indiana, New York,
New Jersey, New Hampshire. Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont,
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland. Mis-
souri,, North Carolina, Tennessee and
Virginia. The following eminent men
have been appointed as delegates:
FREE STATES.
"Illinois-Stephen s. Logan, John
M. Palmer, John Wood, B. G. Cook,
T. J. Turner.
"Indiana-C 3. Smith, P. A. Huck-
Evening star., 1936-08-16

Association Of the Oldest Inhabitants
of the District Of Columbia.
A detailed description Of the hotel
building, printed in 1847, is especially
interesting, since no part of the old
building is now standing, and also
because it remained substantially in
its early form up to the time of the
Civil War, when Lincoln made it his
headquarters before being inaugu-
rated President. The old description
follows:
Another new and spacious hotel
now presents itself to the view of the
Evening star., 1936-08-16
WATER COLORS ARE ON TOUR
Washington Art Selections With Some Ouo Town Works In
cuded, Arouse Summer Interest in Various Cities
of Eastern and Southern States.

visited Scranton. Pa, for an even
longer period, remaining at the Ever
hart Museum there throughout June
and July. Scranton draws a large
number of Summer visitors. and
Eliza beth Taylor, director of the Ever
hart Museum, endeavors to display
outstanding exhibitions during the
warm months.
The painting most admired IN
Winchester, according to those in
charge of the exhibition there, was
Eliot OHara's Dark Silos." This
had been one of the outstanding
works in the original water colo- an
nual and was reproduced in The Star
Of February 8. O'Hara is now in
Maine, where his School Of Water
color Painting. at Goose Rocks Beach,
is conducted for two terms Of four
weeks each during July and August.
Elizabeth Sawtelle also spends most
of her Summers in Maine: she has a
home in Ogunquit. The Studio In
terror" which she contributed to the
travelling water-color exhibition. was
painted in Ogunquit last Summer, in
the studio OF q Boston artist, Amy
Cabot.
Ruth Osgood Is also usually at
tracted to New England, as her two
water colors in the show indicate
Vermont Barn." painted near st.
Johnsbury, in a secluded little spot
where every one lives to be over
co." and Tidal Outlet" which de-
picts an unusual phenomenon Of re-
versing falls in back cove of Penob-
scot Bay, Me.
Z ENNETH STUBBS. instructor in
N antique and life at the Corcoran
School of Art. painted in New Eng
land last year and is represented in
the travelling exhibition with his wa
ter color. Hills" done near Province
town, Mass. He is remaining in
Washington this Summer, painting
series of II small mural panels for
the Department of Labor.
Charles C. Council, who lives in
Alexandria, Va, is also remaining here
most of the Summer, painting in Vir-
ginia and the vicinity of Washington;
he will probably spend a week in