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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-07
Here for Mothers Day.

Mrs. Cornelia Morris and Miss Kath-
crime Morris, Of Raleigh, and Mrs.
Florence Throwcr. of Southern Pines,
came this afternoon to spend Moth
ers Day with Mrs. j. L. Curtin. Miss
Lucille Rux, of Raleigh, will arrive
tomorrow to visit Mrs. Currin and her
mother, Mrs. L. j. Rux.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-07
Philathea Glass Meets.

The Shaw Philathea class of the
First Baptist church will have their
class meeting Monday evening at 8
Department are especially invites.
Hostcsses will be Mesdames c. D. AL
len, George Davis, c. E. Daniel, Ed
Wikcrson, John Milne, and Marvin
Davis.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-07
O. e. S. Meets.

The regular meeting of James g..
White chapter, o. E S, will re hell
in The Masonic hall Monday evening
A. 8 o'clock All members are urged
10 be present.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-07
Guests Here Yesterday.

Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Van Orden,
of Kansas City, Mo-, and Miss Arne
Wrav Whitfield, of New Haven, Conn.
were visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. John
B. Watkins, Jr., yesterday afternoon.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-07
Here Sunday.

Hubert Lewis, of Duke University.
Durham, will spend Sunday with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Lewis,
Of their home on Turner avenue.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-07
NOTE OF APPRECIATION.

With sincere thanks for all the
kindnesses rendered during the sick
ness and death of my husband, T. T.
thompson, l appreciate all relatives
and friends who were such a great
help to me, also all the .eautiful
lowers.
MRS, T. T. THOMPSON,
and Family.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-07

tricts each four or five weeks.
CID Judges should be selected in
different way than Ky nomination
and election, as now. One plan would
provide for their appointment period
ically, with the voters to approve or
reject the arnointees at the next sue
ceeding election.
12) jury commissions should b.
named in each county to serve with.
out pay carefully to select prospective
jurors, and grounds for exemption
from jury service should be narrowed
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-07
Visiting Sisters.

Mrs S. NJ. Gary, u ul'ifax. IS visit
inc her sisters, Mrs. w. ID. Burwell
and Mrs. Netty G. Moore, for several
lays.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-07
Mrs. King at Hospital.

Mrs. Roy King unde.A mt an al,
2erdcitis operation 1T Maria arhatn
hospital yesterday. She was report
ed today to be getting along very
nicely
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-07

(COntirueC TOM Fage One.)
ed likely, say, sixty days ago.
The governor. office is already be-
ginning to get requests for passes to
the execution of Bill Payne. and Wash
Turner, despit' the fact that the SUI
pren1e Court hasn't yet passed on
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-07
Leaves Hospital.

Leaves Hospital.
Mrs. T. j. Garrett, who has been y
ratient at Maria Parham hospital, mas
sufficiently recovered be able to re-
turn to her home on South Garnet
street.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-07
Sunbcams Not tn Meet

SUnbeHInS NOI 10 NceI.
The Sunheams of the First Baptist
church will not meet tomorrow morn
ing at the Sunday school hour, due to
Mothers Day.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-07

Mss Elizabeth Conner has returned
10 her home in Durham after visiting
Miss Mary Wylie Ste Wlrt for week
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-07
Drastic Court Reforms
Suggested by Barnhill
In Speech at Bar Nee

'Con-lnueo from Page One.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-07
Hancock Puts Up
Desperate Fight

tContirnec rom rage Ore.)
Evening star., 1938-03-13

more" had fortified themselves with
a brass cannon which they brought
from the Anacostia engine house and
placed under the market house shed
at the corner of Seventh and K streets,
together with firearms, shillalahs,
stones and everything imaginable, Of
fensive and defensive. After the
marines got through with them, those
who were able left town, wiser than
when they came here.
A MOTHER early member Of the Old
est Inhabitants who, according to
the recollections Of w. w. Birth, got
his business start in the 900 block of
Seventh street, was Paulus ThySo..,
who came to America from Amster-
dam, Holland, when II years Of age,
accompanied by his mother, and lived
in Annapolis, Md. for three years be-
fore coming to Georgetown in 1920
From the very beginning he showed
much business ability, probably only
remained in the block between I and
K street for short while as he is
known to have settled in the 800 block
to the south in the early 40s, where
for a while he was in partnership
with Mr.. Isler, and here ne remained
in business until his death July 13,
1874. The Oldest Inhabitants records
show that at the time of his death
resolutions were offered by Dr. Blake,
in which reference was made to his
reputation for probity. industry and
enterprise. and the fact that the as
sociation had lost good citizen, q
worthy member and the community
an exemplary Christian.
Among his many enterprises was
the erection Of the Thyson House in
1865. This building, which still stands
at the northeast corner of Seventh and
P streets, was first occupied and man.
aged as a country hotel by a Mr..
Crawford, then by Francis Brandner,
followed by Mr.. Hopkins, then by
Mr.. Frank Thyson. the owner, who
later leased it to William P. Cole.
When first built 1t was surrounded
by an immense wagon yard contain
ing accommodations for $50 head of
horses and their respective wagons and
other vehicles. The house then con-
tanned accommodations for $50 guests.
and of course. there was a restaurant
in the first floor, where the farmers,
Evening star., 1938-03-13
and recalled Margaret Mitchell's fas-

and recalled Margaret Mitchell's fas-
cinating hero
There is so much of "Gone With the
Wind" in Charleston. One feels it in
the patient. placid little church square,
in the tall gates adorned with rusty
and sometimes shining bells, in the
many fine old mansions that have seen
their best day-in the reminiscent
touch on all Of the "old Charleston"
Like every old city with a proud
past, Charleston wears a bright feather
Of modernity in its cap in the uptown
section, which boasts fine buildings,
hotels and homes, but it is to Colonial
Charleston that visitors to the deep
South turn. To the uneven streets
and sidewalks, old walls, messy stones,
the plaintive cries of Negro street
venders calling their wares in melo-
dious tones Sweet vi-o-lets,"
Pine fresh feesh." "Char-co-
al" Down in this old section of the
city, where they are sure to draw the
attention Of tourists, pickaninnies
spring up at every turn and begin to
dance and sing, keeping their bright
eyes on the lookout for potential penny
scatterers.
One enterprising food shoppe in the
shadow Of an old landmark that
draws many visitors has this sign
framed in the window:
"Yes-we have no moonlight, mock
ingbirds or magnolias here. But we
do have first-class Southern food"
And they do not seem to lack for
trade! Sightseeing is full Of interest
and full Of exhaustion, and the places
that administer satisfactorily to tagged
tummies do their share toward the
enjoyment of-even lovesome gar
den-God wot.
Evening star., 1938-03-13

generally used 10 years ago as they
are now, many snapshots of what
would appear to be village scenes might
be found among the personal effects
Of almost everybody's grandfather,
and the names of some Of the pic
lures would surprise us of the present
day.
For instance. one labeled Cor. 7th
and G SITS. N.W.'-a tan yard on a
country road, the low sheds covering
huge vats and strip fence surround
ing the grounds. One marked 9th
and F Sts.-A rural view, with a
creek percolating from the direction
OF the present English Lutheran
Church, corner Eleventh and H streets,
toward the spot where Masonic Temple
stands, where in the interests Of en-
terprise and with due regard for the
probable future of F street, the creek
was persuaded to pursue its course to
the southwark in a less conspicuous
manner, and from beneath the street
oozed out toward E and Tenth. having
sWerved a little in its checkered
career.
"A picture of lonely common, with
small stone slabs protruding above the
damp earth, like ghosts of the stricken
cholera victims who lay buried be-
meath them, would have been marked
East side of 7th st. between L and
M SITS. NV or, If lettered in those
days-Ye countye roade,' for Seventh
street from G street to Boundary was
the country road, and at the northwest
corner OF Boundary-or, as we know it.
Florida avenue-the amateur pho
tographer might have planted his
tripod IN front Of an old inn or tavern,
with the word The Crossed Keys in
large letters across its front and two
huge iron keys crossed and SUSPENDED
above its doorway in the most an
proved English style.
"A snapshot of Judiciary SQUARE.
threaded by narrow, uneven footpaths,
the Courthouse small stone build
ing but half the size of the present City
Hall to the south and as if destiny had
always entertained a grudge against
the northern half of this particular
lot, Jail, gloomy and forbidding. upon
nearly the identical spot where, in
these later years, the Pension Office
perpetuates, in dismal outlines, the
sadness and despair born there so
many years ago. On the hill to the
northeast of the Courthouse stragsled
few nondescript houses, the settle
ment being dignified by the name of
McGeetown. But as the camera man
mad not been thought of, and photog-
raphy. in its earliest and most ex-
pensive stage. was yet many years in
the future. our sires did we'll to store
away, in the recesses Of their retentive
minds, the scenes of their youth, so
that after the passing Of many years
they might show their questioning
children a few of the pictures of
memory many Of them perpetuated
in no more substantial form"
Evening star., 1938-03-13

northwest corner of Seventh and K
streets, was then vacant, but the owner
of the land, w. T. Griffith. had erected
two brick dwellings a short distance
westward and lived in one for a
number of years afterward.
Near the corner of Eighth and K
streets there were two old-fashioned
brick houses set back, Mr.. De Kraft
living in one and Mr.. Lund Washing
ton residing for a time in the other.
The northwest corner of Eighth and K
streets was vacant prior to the 40s, as
was in fact, most of the square.
Mr. Daniel Gold, a son-in-law of
Amos Kendall and well-known cor
respondent. owned nearly If not quite
all the south front of this square, liv-
ing in hree-story brick house near
the corner of Ninth street. This
ground was In the 40s held first at 7
and subsequently at 10 and IS cents
per foot"
The Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Episcopal Church South, which stood
until few years ago where is now
the Machinists' Building, was not
Evening star., 1938-03-13
Job Is
Handling
Explosives
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILM1NGTON, Del.-Playing with
dynamite is a job for Sam Rus
sell. He's been handling explosives for
81 years.
Jittery work?
WELL" he says, when there are
lot OF men on the job. it's enough to
give you the jitters. Men even smoke
which is against all rules. It's better
to have a small trained group"
Russell is tall, lean, tanned to a
leathery hue. He takes his work calmly,
explaining it's like any other work,
except that nitro-glycerin gets into
your pores and pumps the heart faster.
Men who work with dynamite get
"n-g" headache or dynamite head
ache. To avoid this, Russell says, Ne
gro workers in the South nibble the
dynamite sticks.
He says blasters act on lunches,
plus experience. A general rule Is a
stick of dynamite to a foot of ground
A better method, however. Is to figure
out the shearing and crushing strength
OF the rock to be blasted.
Then We know how much energy
or force we have to supply to over
come it," he explains. 1T offers so
much resistance; you're trying to bust
1t up. You don't always try to move
it-you try to smash it.
But you can't overdo blasting, par
ticularly when you have to figure on
buildings. You must do the Job and
no more. That requires Judgment and
close figuring"
Russell's work has taken him all
over the country and to South America
and Canada. He figures he has han
died 10 or Is million pounds Of dyna-
mite" He is graduate engineer who
started out on field work. He has been
called in on such big blasting Jobs as
the Hudson River tubes, New York
City subways and dredging Jobs in
New York Harbor, Alexandria Bay,
Buffalo Harbor, the New York Barge
Canal and Honolulu Harbor.
His wife, he says, didn't like It at
first when he went out on q blasting
job. but shes gotten worn down"
Russell Is 56. Field workers. call
him that dynamite man"
Evening star., 1938-03-13

Country Road of Ancient Days Was Far From
Capital-K Street Corner Witnessed Initial Efforts of
Business Men-Poorhouse Site.

Montgomery County, and during the
days of the cholera epidemic 1t was
much used by hearses and wagons
bearing away the victims of the
dreaded disease, who were buried q
short distance north Of the asylum"
Incidentally, the poorhouse was on
square 448, between M and N and
Sixth and Seventh streets NV, which
was purchased by the Corporation of
Washington in 1909.
The burial ground attached to the
institution was on the line Of N street,
and the one for the interment of the
cholera patients was on the Sixth
street side of the square. In 1845
the poorhouse was removed to the
neighborhood of the old Washington
Jail, near the Eastern Branch, and
only a remnant of the poorhouse
buildings remain During subsequent
building operations, the remains of
many buried in this locality were dis
inferred, several of whom had around
them what was supposed to be the re-
mains of leather belts, conveying the
impression that they had been labor
ing men.
Some years later, on K street be-
tween Eighth and Ninth streets NV,
Evening star., 1938-03-13

Post Office Department ceased to use
the space at F. street between Sixth
and Seventh streets to burn the un-
claimed dead letters and refuse paper,
this material was hauled here and de-
stroyed. This was prior to the coming
to this corner of Burr's wood and coal
yard. before mentioned.
Speaking Of the period around l84O,
an old-timer tells us In an early issue
OF The Star: THE west end Of the two
angular squares fronting the east side
of the space was not improved until
after the 40s and was not susceptible
of improvement, for a stream which
had its head in the commons north
of the space crossed by Seventh street
near the center of the square forth Of
K street and New York avenue, east of
Seventh street, made its way in the
gulley of Sixth street to the Judiciary
Square, the waters joining those from
Willow Tree spring on New York ave-
nue. between Fourth and Fifth streets.
A small arch spanned this stream at
Seventh street and there was narrow
bridge at the roadway on New York
avenue Not far east of the square
there had been brickyard. What was
then known as Spignul's corner, at the
Evening star., 1938-03-13
Two Eclipses Due,

Scientists Of South Africa are
preparing to view two eclipses, one
OF the sun and one of the moon, this
year. Some will travel toward the
South Pole in order to witness the
blotting out Of the sun on May ~,
for 1t will be only partly visible
north Of the Cape Of Good Hope.
The complete eclipse of the moon viii
be visible to astronomers in Pretoria
and other cities. It will extend over
two days, beginning at 8:41 on the
night Of November Z. becoming com.
plete at Gas, and the shadow remain.
ing on the earth until 1l:0s pm. on
November 3. '-,t
Evening star., 1938-03-13

two daughters. The sons were Thomas
NJ. Hermanus G. and Frank. One
daughter was Kate, who married, first,
Mr.. Barry. member of Congress,
and second, Alonzo May. The other
daughter, Mary Burnadine. remained
unmarried Hermanus G. Thyson, the
son Of Paulus, like his father, became
a member of the Oldest Inhabitants
Association. and his son, Of the same
name, is now a member.
An early resident Of the northwest
corner of Seventh and I streets was
the family Of DR.. William j. c. Du-
hamel. WhOse son. James T. Duhamel.
Evening star., 1938-03-13

near Ninth, were two 3-story brick
dwellings, owned by Harvey Crutten-
den and w. H. Ward. and near the
corner of Eighth street was a brick
dwelling owned by Anthony Preston,
who then lived on Ninth street be-
tween G and H streets. The south
east corner of Eighth and<K streets
was vacant. and about where Charles
Dismer used to dispense lamb stew
and Mertzen beer, stood back from
the building line the two Oldest
houses in the neighborhood, one of
which was occupied by free colored
woman named Ford. Farther to the
east lived family named Elliot,
saddlemakers. The father made the
trees; one son. a blacksmith, put on
the irons; another fitted the leather,
while daughter assisted in the sew
ing. This was case where everybody
worked but mother, and, no doubt,
she looked after the housework.
THE southeast corner of Massachu-
sets avenue and Seventh street
was then vacant ground, and when the
Evening star., 1938-03-13

iogton from Brooklyn, N. Y, for a
visit, he was persuaded to give an
account Of his early recollection of
his home city. He was then IS years
Of age and had formerly been a mag
istrate in Washington. What he then
said about the early condition of
Seventh street should be even more
interesting now than it was So years
ago-at least the writer believes that
it will be, and so what follows is what
Judge Bates remembered of Seventh
street:
IF pocket cameras had been as
Evening star., 1938-03-13
Cherry blossom time in Washington,

Cherry blossom time in Washington,
apple blossom time In the Shenandoah
Valley, azalea time in Charleston. and
dozens Of other spots. where nature
throws open her fiowery kingdom with
breath-taking lavishness-ap spring.
time shrines of beauty with a potent
charm for the inner man.
Though not so spectacular as the
gardens that have helped to make her
famous Charleston numbers many 9TH
ers even more appealing in their
homelike suggestion.
Stroll down Battery Park and peep
through the tall iron gates at the
high-walled gardens. The fountains
may be a bit moldy and the walks in
disarray, but the roses, oleanders and
myrtles are faithful, still as are the
bandanaed mammies minding their
charges in the quiet seclusion.
Follow the gateway walk of the
Garden Club and you will pass through
II gateways and traverse ground hal
lowed In Charleston annals and all
aglow with the grace Of Charleston
springtime. Linger before the old
Pirate House, smothered in wisteria,
and recall how Charleston citizens
waged war against those bold bucca-
neers who chose to make their home
on the mainland, the while they con-
Quoted their nefarious activities along
the coast. Go to the old Slave Mar
ket, where semi-tropical vegetables
and great punches of boughvilleas are
sold today instead Of human flesh;
search out Catfish Alley, where Du
Bose Hayward created Porgy.
7 DISCOVERED the name, Col. Wade
Hampton, and Col. Rhett on the
brass plate BY disnifed old .doorwsys
Evening star., 1938-03-13

They are the only gardens without an
admittance fee, and were opened to
the public in 1882 by their owner,
H. w. Huntington, the husband of
Anne Hyatt Huntington, the sculptress.
In fact, the idea Of an open-air mu-
scum, embracing the art of the Gre
ative genius in marble and bronze and
that of the landscape gardener, was
first conceived by Mrs. Huntington.
As you walk down the avenue of
gigantic oaks, trailing canopies of gray
moss, you have the feeling that you
are approaching an old Southern man.
sion instead of unique and breath
taking garden-museum. And, in
truth, the avenue once led to just
such an old home.
The site was the plantation owned
by the Allston family, which produced
artists and statesmen and long line
of successful rice planters as we'll as
the first lieutenant governor of the
State. The stately mansion was the
scene of many Of Julia Peterkin's
novels, but was unoccupied when 1t
burned to the ground 10 years ago.
Now the spot where once stood the old
home is marked by a great circle
abloom with rare plants and adorned
with sculptured art In the center
a fountain splashes and beckons with
ghostly fingers of mist to the brood
ing silence around.
THE wall which surrounds the
garden-museum introduced by the
avenue of oaks has all of the appear
ance of great age. This effect was
created by spraying brick walls with
thin greenish cement and was Mrs.
Huntington's own idea. The wall fol-
lows shallow curves, the hollows Of
which furnish continual surprises in
offerings Of marble against an ap-
propriate background of flowers or
shrubs
Now the lovely figures Of Tragedy
and Comedy spring forth from q
mantle Of ivy and saucy pansy faces,
and from long darkening moss -draped
vistas you glimpse Mario Kobel's ex-
quisite masterpiece, Might"
The garden is given whimsical note
by lines from the poets, In playful
mood, engraved on tablets set deep
In the walls and framed by rare plants
and flowers. Caroll's How doth the
little alligator improve his shining
tale?" Timrod's Consider the Frog
gie," Emily Dickenson's I'm Nobody,
Who Are You?" and many others. As
you loathfully turn away from this
artists symphony Of art and nature,
your eyes fall on q wall topped with
yellow flowers of every description,
from honey jessamine to rare Alpine
blooms. The lines beneath read "The
sunlight speaks and its voice Is a
bird"
The garden displays some of Mrs,
Huntington's own work, and that of
many other sculptors, and the visitor
invariably leaves with the. feeling Of
having been graciously entertained
by talented hostess.
IAN inconceivable place, unearthly
and beautiful" exclaimed an English
visitor Of the Cypress Gardens, when
they were first opened to the public
few years ago.
These strange sardens, said 10 be
Evening star., 1938-03-13

hundred years, at least, to grow good
sward."
Somewhere in the heart of the
garden he helped to perpetuate is
the great grey tomb of Arthur
Middleton, signer Of the Declaration
of independence. A later Middleton
brought to this garden the first came
las Japonica ever brought to America,
and three Of those plants still contrib
ute blooms in March.
The plantation embraces 1000
acres, with IS set aside for the gar
dens. Negroes, proud of their descent
from the early slaves who rolled the
famous terraces, gather at the gate
to greet visitors and impart a pic
turesque touch to the quarters be-
hind the site of the original mansion
house.
In the Kew Gardens, in London, the
following notice is posted:
"Azaleas in their highest glory are
to be found in Magnolia Gardens at
Charleston, s. c., In the United
States"
THOSE who have walked beneath
the towering azalea trees at
"bloom time" in the famous gardens
will carry with them always the mem
ory Of those roseate clouds overhead
and billows Of pink, rose and lavender
In every shade, rolling away on either
side ohmiles Of walks. Ones self sud-
denly seems to become q disembodied
soul wandering In Eysian FIELDS, with
all pain, disillusionment and fret Of
life dropped behind like q worn gar
ment. You meet many visitors from
. distance, who tell you that the pill
srimage to the Charleston gardens In
sps1n4 has become q habit.
Evening star., 1938-03-13

who were its principal guests, could
refresh themselves at will. To those
who recall the Thyson House about
60 years ago, one thing they will prob
ably not forget Is the four and six
horse country teams that came down
Seventh street from Montgomery
County and put up at this place for
the night. before proceeding to mar
ket. Indeed these teams made a won-
derful sight, such as we are not likely
to see again.
Paulus Thyson had three sons and