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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-05-20
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ISuSAOu VI ( AOlSSSOl T. OllId Gill 6dA-
denis apartment, which resists di-
agnosis. Read up on radioactive
sodium. See Book ! of the Aeneid,
line 875, Equanimity is essential
Curious-eh, what
ut sounds little crazy to me-"
Markham grunted. care you trou-
bled much with cranks?"
ooh, this is no crank" Vance as
sured him. TITS puzzlin', admit;
but it's quite lucid"
Markham shifted skeptically.,
what, in the name of Heaven,
have professor and sodium and
the Aeneid to do with one another?"
Slowly Vance lighted a cigarette
and then answered.
"Ephrain Garden of whom you
surely must have heard from time
to time, is one Of the best-known
men in chemical research in this
country. Just now, believe, he's
professor of chemistry at Stuyve-
SAINT university-that could be veri-
fed in Who's Who. But it doesn't
matter. His latest researches have
been directed along the lines Of
radioactive sodium. An amazin' dis
covery, Markham. Made by Doctor
Ernest o. Lawrence, of the Univer-
sity Of California, and two of his
colleagues there, Doctors Hender-
son and Mcmillan. This new radio
active sodium has opened up new
fields of research in cancer thera-
py-indeed, it may prove some day
to be the long-looked-for cure for
cancer. The new gamma radiation
Of this sodium is more penetrating
than any ever before obtained. On
the other hand, radium and radio
active substances can be very dan.
gerous if diffused into the normal
tissues of the body and through the
blood stream.
'That is all very fascinating,
Markham commented, sarcastical-
ly. "But what has it to do with you,
or. with trouble in the Garden home?
And what could it possibly have to
do with the Aeneid? They didn't
have radioactive sodium in the time
of Aeneas."
Markham old dear, I'm no Chal-
dean. I haven't the groggiest no.
ton wherein the situation concerns
either me or Aeneas, except that I
happen to know the Garden family
slightly. But I've a vague feeling
about that particular book of the
Aeneid. AS I recall, it contains one
of the greatest descriptions of a
battle in all ancient literature. But
let's see
Vance rose quickly and went to
the section Of his book-shelves de-
voted to the classics, and, after a
few moments search, took down
small red volume and began to riff
file the pages. He ran his eye swift.
ly down page near the end of the
volume and after minutes perusal
came back to his chair with the.
book, nodding His head conpre-
hensively, as if in answer to some
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name Of Heaven. can you take it
seriously?"
Vance drew deeply on his ciga-
rette and waited a moment before
answering.
"You have overlooked one phrase
in the message: 'Equanimity is es-
sential,' he said at length. Zone Of
the great race-horses of today hap
pens to be named Equanimity. He
belongs in the company of such i'm
mortals of the turf as Man O. War,
Exterminator, Gallant Fox, and
Reign Count Furthermore, Equa-
nirnity is running in the Rivermont
Handicap tomorrow"
''Stil1 I see no reason to take the
matter seriously" Markham OBJ
jected.
Vance ignored the comment and
added Moreover, Doctor Miles
Siefert told me at the club the
other day that Mrs. Garden had
been quite ill for some time with a
mysterious malady."
Markham shifted in his chair and
broke the ashes from his cigar.
''The affair gets more muddled
by the minute" he remarked irrita-
bly,. Whats the connection be-
tween all these commonplace data
and that precious phone message Of
yours?"
II happen to know" Vance an
swered slowly, "who sent me this
message"
"Ah, yes?" Markham was obvi-
ously skeptical.
"Quite. 1t was Doctor Siefert."
Markham showed a sudden in
terest.
would you care to enlighten me
as to how you arrived at this con-
clusion?" he asked in satirical
voice.
lit was not difficult" Vance an
swered, rising and standing before
the empty hearth, with one arm
resting on the mantel. ITO begin
with, was not called to the tele-
phone personally. Why? Because it
was some one know. To continue,
the language of the message bears
the earmarks of the medical pro-
fession. sociological tension and
'resists diagnosis are not phrases
ordinarily used by the layman, al
though they consist Of commonplace
enough words. To go another step;
the message obviously assumes that
am more or less acquainted with
the Garden household and the race
track passion of young Garden.
Therefore, we get the results that
the sender of the message is a doc
tor whom I know and one who is
aware of my acquaintance with the
Gardens. The only doctor who full
fills these conditions, and who, Incl
dentally, is middle-aged and Gull
tured and highly judicial-Currie'
description, y'know =, is Miles
Siefert. And, added to this simple
deduction, I happen to know that
Siefert is a Latin scholar-I once
encountered him at the Latin So
ciety club-roons. Another point in
my favor is the fact that he is the
family physician Of the Gardens and
would have ample opportunity to
know about the galloping horses
and perhaps about Equani1nity in
particular-in connection with the
Garden Household" &
ITO BE CONTINUEDJ ~
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he had inwardly asked

question he had inwardly asked
himself.
'The passage referred to, Mark
ham," he said after a moment, sis
not exactly what I had in mind. But
it may be even more significant.
It's the famous onomatopoeic Quad
rupedumque putrem cursu quatit
ungula campum-meanin', more or
less literally: "And in their gal
Looping course the horsehoof shakes
the crumbling plain"
Markham took the cigar from his
mouth and looked at Vance with
undisguised annoyance.
you're merely working up
mystery. You'll be telling me next
that the Trojans had something to
do with this professor of chemistry
and his radioactive sodium"
mo, oh, no." Vance was in an
unusually serious mood. "Not the
Trojans. But the galloping horses
perhaps"
Markham snorted. THAT may
make sense to you"
mot altogether" returned Vance,
critically contemplating the end of
his cigarette. '"rhere is, neverthe-
less, the vague outline of a pattern
here. You see. young Floyd Gar
dep, the professors only offspring,
and his cousin a puny chap named
Woode Switches quite an intimate
member of the Garden household, ]
believe-are addicted to the ponies.
Quite prevalent disease, by the
way, Markham. They're both in
terested in sports in general-prob-
ably the normal reaction to their
PROFESSIONAL and ecclesiastical fore
bears: young Swift's father, who has
now gone to his Maker, was a DID.
of sorts. I used to see both young
Johnnies at Kinkaid's Casino occa-
sionally. But the galloping horses
are their passion now. And they're
the nucleus of a group Of young
aristocrats who spend their after
Moons mainly in the futile attempt
to guess which horses are going to
come in first at the various tracks,"
"You know this Floyd Garden
well?"
Vance nodded Fairly we'll. He's
a member Of the Far Meadows club
and I've often played polo with him.
He's five-goaler and owns couple
of the best ponies in the country. I
tried to buy one Of them from him
once-but that's beside the point
The fact is, young Garden has in
vited me on several occasions to
join him and his little group at the
apartment when the out-of-town
races were on. 1t seems he has a
direct loud-speaker service from all
the tracks, like many of the horse
fanatics. The professor disapproves,
in mild way, but he raises no
serious objections because Mrs.
Garden is rather inclined to sit in
and take her chances on horse
now and then"
Have you ever accepted his in
rvitation?" asked Markham.
"No," Vance told him. Then he
glanced up with a far-away-look in
his eyes. "But I think it might be
an excellent idea"
"Come, come, Vance!" protested
Markham. Given if you see some
cryptic relationship between the dis
connected items of this message
you've just received, how, in the
Evening star., 1937-12-09
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MRS WALTER e. MILLS has been
N winning the Regency Club dupli-
cate tournaments with extraordinary
regularity this season. Perhaps the fol-
lowing hand is an example Of why she
has been so successful. Among the
eighteen pairs participating in the
game she was the only one to fulfill
slam contract.
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Mrs. Mills bidding Of the hand was
very good. Just looking at the North
and South hands, they should obvi-
ously be at the six contract. Neverthe-
less, only four of the eighteen pairs
bid the slam.
A club was opened and ruffed and
every player except Mrs. Mills prompt
ly laid down the ace Of spades, where
upon the combination Of the 40 break
in spades and failure of the heart
finesse resulted in the hand being set
one trick. Mrs. Mills, however, decided
on another play. After rufing the
club she played the ace and another
diamond, trumping low in dummy.
Returning to her hand with the ace Of
hearts, she led third diamond, ruffed
with dunmy's king of trumps, now led
a low spade and when East showed
out, played the nine. West won with
the queen, whereupon Mrs. Mills made
the balance of the tricks.
1t Is worthy of note that the play
adopted by Mrs. Mills allowed her
practically no chance to make seven,
since at one stage she used one Of the
high trumps for rufing. On the other
hand, she had wisely calculated that
six bid an dmade was likely to be q
top, or near top, and accordingly
played the hand as safely as possible.
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Evening star., 1937-04-18
Culinary Artists Of New Or
leans, Where Presidents
Have Feasted Like Kings,
Prepare Menus for
Anticipated Roose-
welt Visit.
By Meigs O. Frost.

(Author OF "The Romance of Old
Ne1D Orleans" "A Marine Tells
1t to You" and other bookS.J
NEW ORLEANS. LA.
Evening star., 1937-04-18
By Joseph Marian.

~ OSsIBLY the nerviest piece of
- chiseling put over on the
Washington business man is
L what is known In racketland
as booking" although just how it
derives It's name, no one seems to
know. It should be termed plain grand
larceny In capital letters.
The course Of procedure requires
downright gall on the part Of the So
licitor, but 1t numbers among its VIC
Tins business men in every line, and
they fall for 1t time and again. These
taps" are called angels"
A promoter, having contracted with
an organization to secure and print
the advertising in their program for q
proposed dance, dinner, card party,
athletic event, etc, will Immediately
have his advertising contracts and
souvenir dummy printed. It simply
must be termed souvenir" or else it
would lose its effectiveness.
His corps Of high-powered solicitors
then win get busy and business comes
rolling in, mostly In signed contracts
to be paid upon publication. After 4
solicitor secures signed contract he
will wait for about = week. and then
Evening star., 1937-04-18

dinner was over, now, except for
few slight trihes like squab chicken
with truffles, Parfait Amour punch
that would make a wooden cigar store
Indian sing 20 Caro- Nome; salad OF
Hmp-leaf Creole lettuce with French
dressing, ice cream, assorted cakes,
Neufchatel cheese with guava Jelly,
black coffee and q benedictine for
liqueur.
There were giants in those daysl
And New Orleans amateur gourmets
are wondering II F. D. r. can equal
the record T. r. left behind.
But a real trencherman loomed on
the New Orleans horizon, and "loomed"
Is the right word for the girth of
President William Howard Taft. He
was President-elect when he was guest
OF honor Of the New Orleans Pro-
gressive Union February IL, 1909, at
the old Grunewald Hotel. The chef
studied the Taft contours, and here
IS what he produced and the portly
President OF the United States
wrecked:
glass of sherry, Amontillado, was
the aperitif. Olives, salted pecans
and celery spurred appetite some more.
Then Grabs Pontchartrain began to
satisfy it. Gombo Nouvelle Orleans
was the soup, and in that foundation
OF rice, each grain fluffy and sepa-
rate, is all the sea food known, except
shark and whale Casbugot Cham
bord came next, which is sheephead,
delicious fish in delicious sauce, and
Pommes de Terre Brabanconne, and
With that course they drank fine
red wine, Chateau Lafltte, vintage of
Evening star., 1937-04-18

Of 1900. Salad Of hearts Of lettuce
with French dressing brought them
back to consciousness, and for dessert
there was biscuit glace, with assorted
cakes and coconut pralines. Then a
cafe brulot, flaming spiced brandy
quenched with fresh-dripped hot black
New Orleans coffee. And cognac for a
liqueur.
THAT small sample of New Orleans
eating so fascinated President
Taft that little more than eight
months later he came back for more.
He brought Miss Helen Taft, his
daughter, with him. They were guests
OF honor at dinner at Antoines,
where the menu both President Taft
and his daughter signed appreciatively
still hangs framed behind glass. Jules
Alciatore, having seen President Taft
wedged into chair built for ordinary
mortals on his earlier visit, had Or
Evening star., 1937-04-18

pickup man" IS on his way to pick
up the check or cash.
Now, incredible Is it may seem, at
least so per cent do not request q re-
ceipt, and the solicitor and pickup
man are just that much in pocket.
II receipt IS given, sometimes that
check Is turned in to the promoter.
In any event, all the advertisers win
receive another bill when a copy of
the program Is either mailed or de-
livered to them, and invariably will,
in the course of business routine, mail
check for the advertisement for
which payment already has been made.
And when there is lapse or two or
three months between the signing of
the contract and the date Of the
printing Of the program the solicitor
Evening star., 1937-04-18

champagne at which to sneer. Then
he polished off salad OF hearts of
lettuce, and for dessert demolished
biscuit glace, with assorted cakes
especially those little iced French
pastries they call petits fours. He
loved those. And he drank his black
coffee and followed it with q Pousse
Cafe for Iqueur, one Of those things
that looks like a sunset and tastes the
way perfume smells on an Argentine
dancer.
But that public luncheon was only
q warming-up heat for the private
dinner little group Of New Orleans
leading citizens gave T. r. At Antoine's,
with the late Jules Alciatore, chef de la
Gordon Bleu, personally planning and
supervising.
1t started with chilled Dubonnet
cocktail, that dinner. Then some ripe
olives, celery, tender young radishes
and salted almonds to nibble Bayou
cook oysters on the half-shell followed,
and with them T. r. drank a great
Chablis, vintage Of 1898. The soup
was crab gumbo, Pontchartrain,
Creole, and that's a meal all in itself.
It was followed by filet of trout la
Marguery, the creamy sauce full of
tiny river shrimp. This T. r. washed
down with a rare white Burgundy,
Chevalier Montrachet, vintage of 1895.
The entrees were Riz de Veau Piques
la perigeux, sweetbreads stewed in
champagne with truffies Another
rare white Burgundy went with this:
Meursault Perrieres, vintage of 1889.
RUT this dinner was just getting
started. Next came Papabotes
Roti, a Ia Antoine; Louisiana upland
plover stuffed with pate de foie gras
and roasted. And what T. R. did to
them! And to the rare red Burgundy
Jules, kept for extraordinary occa-
sions, Romanee-Conti, vintage of 1887.
Then came salad of hearts of palm
especially imported from Africa for
this dinner, and for dessert, Praises
au klrsch, tender, fresh, selected
strawberries bathed in the distillation
OF the Morello cherry Of Southern
Switzerland. Cafe-cognac followed,
New Orleans black dripped coffee faced
with Napoleon brandy. And for the
liqueur, an 1840 cognac dating from
the year Antione Alciatore founded
that restaurant. They found 1t in q
hidden corner Of the cellar after he
died, his own favorite personal hqueur.
They broke 1t out in honor Of Theodore
Roosevelt,
1t was six years later when Theo-
dore Roosevelt returned to New
Orleans. But the memory Of his
record as a trencherman fingered on,
and on March II, 1911, the New
Orleans Progressive Union gave him
dinner at the old Grunewald Hotel.
A Sazerac cocktail started 1t. Olives,
salted almonds and celery went ahead
Of Tomato Monegasque, which is what
they do to tomatoes in heaven when
they eat tomatoes in Heaven. Then
Louisiana crawfish bisque, with the
stuffed cravfish heads floating IN the
rich bisque. And then came . Louisi-
ana reddish Ia Creole, with rosette
potatoes and fine Rhine wine. Young
Canadian lamb 4 la Grunewald WAS
next, and the champagne was Louis
Roederer, Brut, 1900 vintage. Whe
Evening star., 1937-04-18

will collect twice for the "ad" and the
advertiser again will pay when he re-
cetves the program
A LII this may read like fiction, but
here Is an actual case as told the
writer by . prominent Washington
business man, who Is q member Of q
number Of organizations which are
constantly warning their members to
be on the lookout for these crooked
solicitors.
This gentleman signed a contract for
a $25 advertisement. to be placed in =
program for an event which will not
take place until June, giving his check
at the time, made payable to the or
Shortly thereafter he re-
ceived q letter Of thanks, supposedly
from the organization. but more than
likely from the promoter, inclosing
statement In the amount of his adver-
tisement, which he turned over to his
secretary for payment, forgetting he
had already paid for 1t when he had
signed contract. This was quite nat
ural, as he had signed for about 10
similar lads" In the interim. And the
Continued "a Sixth Page)
Evening star., 1937-04-18

dered . chair specially built, big
enough to seat Gargantua, hero Of
Rabelais, in comfort President Taft
sank into 1t gratefully.
Spanish absinthe in an Ojen cock
tail started that dinner Then came
Fonds d'Artichaut Chevalier Bayard,
hearts Of artichoke stuffed with secret
magic. With them, this verse was laid
by President Taft's plate:
"Ah, me! With what prodigious
strides
This world Of ours moves on apace!
What reused our wonder yesterday
Will be tomorrow commonplace.
But Bayard, fearless knight of old,
May we'll our progress laugh to
scorn!
, For did he not, with prescience
rare,
And cunning skill beyond compare,
Concoct this culinary MASTER
stroke
This king Of dressings for the arti-
choke,
Long, long before the artichoke was
born"
President Taft's laughter didn't stop
him from eating The waiter removed
an empty plate. Then came Potage
Tortue Molle en- tasse, soft-shell turtle
soup in cups, and with it sherry,
Amontillado, vintage of 1890.
And with this the quotation: For
10, the Winter has come {. the voice
Of the turtle Is not heard in the land
-. for the turtle is In the SOUP"
Then, as empty soup cups vanished,
on came Becasse Roti au Madere,
roasted woodcock with Madeira wine
sauce. And the wine with this was
great Chambertin, vintage of 1890. a
red Burgundy.
Heart of lettuce salad, with French
dressing and the faintest suspicion Of
garlic about 1t, followed the bird. Then
rare aged Camembert cheese was
served, with Barbecue jelly, and
more Of the 1890 Chambertin. Cafe
Creole followed, and then an orange
brulot. The orange itself Is the cup
in which the orange brulot is burned.
A sharp knife cuts exactly through the
orange peel at the equator. Carefully
working with fingers, the peel is
turned inside out, but left attached to
the orange at top and bottom, this
forming cup with base. The essen
tial oils Of the orange peel, mingling
with the burning spiced cognac, give
a rare flavor. And that Taft orange
brulot was made with cognac Of 1865.
Then, as the cigars were lighted, a
Krug champagne Of the vintage Of
Evening star., 1937-04-18

recall his angel on the telephone.
His conversation will be: Good
morning, Mr.. Bradley, this is Mr.. Big
gans, a member of the committee for
the dance to be given for the benefit
OF the So-and-So Hospital on such a
date. You very kindly took space in
our program, and as our printing ex-
penses are rather heavy we would like
to pay for our work as we go along,
and I was wondering If you could pay
for your 'ad' now, rather than wait
for publication. 1t will certainly be
appreciated by the committee"
The business man, knowing this ac-
count must be met eventually any
way, will, Is rule, reply, eyes, will
take care Of that" and, after 4 sweet
Thank you" by the q icitoE. the
Evening star., 1937-04-18

Continued "a Sixth Page.)
Evening star., 1937-04-18

Q Embroidered balconies, characteristic of the archi.
lecture of New Orleans old home in the French
Quarter. (2) Canal street, the main horoughfare and
dividing line between the old and new sections of the city
(3) The word-famous Antoines Restaurant. ~ The
Place dArmes heart of the Vieux Carre showing the
Camille Averna of Antoine's, whose dishes are known
the world over co. Oysters Rockefeller only Antoine
knows how to prepare them % Roy Aciatore proprie-
tor of Antoines making cafe brulot dabolique. (S)
President Roosevelt for whom New Orleans preparing
special treat, describing favorite morsel.
Evening star., 1937-04-18
LARCENY is MASQUERADING AS CHARITY
Tendency of Busy Persons Ignore Minor Irregularities.

EDITORS NOTEThis the second OF of articles
exposing vcouS racket being practiced the
on innocent vtcttms IN Wahgton 1t estimated that oeh
cts OF hundreds OF organized "charty District
during the past The Ohch crooks operate
ploy to n,uct and detraud their ucts explained
these articles pch detail actual cases of cnru
racketeering here