Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-15
Hobbies and H0bbyists
News of Group Meetings and Local
Exhibitions
Bv Edmond Henderer.

And when the months report came
round
'TuUds impressed OF, me BY ma"
And still / like these things to drau,
Each one a pleasant tdks. it seems.
MY Mother hopes I'll take to "laU,"
But sUer in my thoughts and dreams
/ hope some day to find a 10ay
Where / can draD and dra1D all day,
Not only engines till Pm sore,
But also dollars BY the score.
Mr.. Rice seems to be not only q
craftsman and photographer. but
also poet Of sorts. His metrical
story of the growth of his hobby was
written in 1924. BY now he may not
be drawing dollars by the score"
but he has at least acquired enough
to support wife and q home as
well as his hobby.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rice went house
hunting in 1880, and the first re-
quirement was that their new home
have space for Mr.. Rice's hobby. At
that time he had standard gauge
tin-plate model railroad, as we'll as
various pictures on the same subject.
After three or four years at his
new location, Mr.. Rice decided that
standard gauge was too big for the
space he had available. He disposed
of all his equipment and replaced it
with 0-gauge tin-plate. This, too
proved too big for the area, so he
gave up model railroading to con-
centrate on pictures.
Mr.. Rice is member of the Rail-
way and Locomotive Historical So
ciety, the Washington Railroad En-
thusiasts and the d. c. Electric
Railroaders' Association. His base
ment hobby room is a perfect mine
of information and pictures of rail-
road subjects. Much of the photo
graphic material he snapped him.
self. Now, of course, there is q ban
on taking pictures of railroads, and
Mr.. Rice is compelled to satisfy him
self with photographing streetcars.
This Is good thing in one way.
He had many negatives, some sew
eral years old, which he had never
printed. and he now has time to
see what they look like.
All Of Mr.. Rice's material is neatly
filed and indexed. If you are inter
ested in the rolling stock of some
particular railroad, just name it and
he pops it right out of the file.
Much OF his miscellaneous mate
rial, magazines, books, old pictures.
ETC., has been picked up in local
secondhand book stores. FREQUENT
ly he saves items thus found for
which he has no use, in the hope
that some day some one who collects
that sort of thing will come along
and trade a locomotive picture for it.
In acquiring his railroad material.
he became interested in automobile
ads and started a file of them.
While nothing like the collection of
T. j. Mckee, he still has quite a
number.
His railroad collection also in
cludes material for foreign roads.
THIS WEEKS MEETINGS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Society
OF Model Engineers, no worknight:
home Of Edmond Henderer, 400
Beech avenue, Takoma Park, Nd,
8 pm.
Tuesday National Aquarium So
clety, Odd Fellows Temple, 419 Sew
enth street NV, 8 pm DR.. Leonard
Schultz will speak on his recent fish
collecting trip to Venezuela. Talk
will be illustrated by Kodachrome
slides.
Thursday-Dollology Club Study
Group. home of Mrs. v. J. OKelli-
her, 1925 Fulton street NV. 7:3O
pm. Speakers: Miss Mona Hill, on
France. and Mrs. Kathrine Rodgers.
on Switzerland Pictures and ex-
hibits. Call Mrs. OKelliher, Wood
ley 1864, if going.
Friday-Mineralogical Society, Ma
tional Museum, Tenth and Constitu-
ton avenue NV, 8 pm. Speaker,
James r. Benn, on cave formations;
illustrated.
The meetings on Tuesday, Thursday and
FRIDAY are open to all interested in those
subjects. Call Mrs O'Kelliher If you plan
to attend one at her home The MSME
meeting Is "worknisht' and would only
interest those already ACQUAINTED with the
subject. Model railroaders are invited