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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1946-03-28
District No. ID.
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To the Republican Voters of Garrett
County, Md:

To the Republican Voters of Garrett
County, Md:
As some of my friends have asked
me to become a candidate for the Of
flee of County Commissioner, l, Ell
mer Shawley, hereby announce my
self as a candidate for that office on
the Republican ticket
l have lived at Bittinger, District
No. II, for 21 years and have been a
taxpayer all the time.
Since it will not be possible for me
TO see all the voters, will take this
means to ask the support of the Re-
publican voters at the primary.
especially ask the support and infiu-
ence of my friends.
1t | am nominated and elected, |
will do all | can for all the people and
for the welfare of the county in gen
eral. | will also do all | can to have
better roads in the county.
ELMER SHAWLEY.
Bittinger, District No. IL.
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70 THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS

OF GARRETT COUNTY:
hereby announce my candidacy for
the Republican Nomination for
County Commissioner of Garrett
County, subject to the Primary Elec-
ton on June "a, 1916.
l have successfully owned and
operated a general merchandise store
near Grantsville for the past Is years.
If nominated and later elected, | will
serve the citizens of the county to the
best Of my ability.
Your support and influence is re-
opectfully solicited
STEWART F. STAHL.
District No 3.
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FOR MEMBER OF THE HOUSE
OF DELEGATES

| hereby announce my candidacy
for the House of Delegates, subject to
the Republican primary election to be
held on June "a, 1916. pledge that if
nominated and elected, | will work for
the best interest Of the people of Gar
rett County and the State of Mary
land. | feel that the eight years of
legislative experience that | have had
in the past will enable me to render
to the people of Garrett County the
most efficient service.
l respectfully solicit the support
and influence of all the voters of Gar
rett County.
ARTHUR G. CULLERS,
District No. 8.
P. O. Address, Gormania, W. Va.
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To the Voters of Garrett County
l hereby announce my candidacy
for member of the House Of Dele
gates on the Republican ballot, sub
jcct to the result of the June pri-
mary election.
l served in the legislature in 1914,
and my record for that term is open
for investigation. 1t is one that l am
not ashamed of.
| have been heavy taxpayer for a
number of years, in the mercantile
business Is years, planning mill bust
ness 7 years, Mayor of Friendsville
IL years; assistant cashier of The
First National Bank of Friendsville
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1946-03-28

To the Voters of Garrett County
| hereby announce my candidacy
for the office of County Commits
sioner, subject to the Republican pri-
mary of June "a, 1916.
| pledge continuance of my eff
forts for the maintenance and con-
struction Of roads and the betterment
Of our schools, and will serve the peo-
pie of this county to the best Of my
ability.
1t has been my honor and pleasure
to serve as County Commissioner dur
ing the past four years and to rem
der the best service possible. If NOM
mated and elected to second term,
shall devote my best efforts in the
county's behalf.
| fundamentally support the cree
ton of a first-class hospital in Gar
rett County.
l solicit the support of all inter
ested in the welfare of our county.
Respectfully,
JOHN w. HERMAN,
District No. 5, Accident, Md.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1946-03-28
To the Republican Voters of Garrett

To the Republican Voters of Garrett
County
I hereby announce my candidacy
for the Republican nomination as a
member of the Board Of County
Commissioners, subject to the pri-
mary election on June "a, 1916.
| was born and reared in Garrett
County and have been taxpayer for
many years.
If nominated and later elected,
can give you a sound and economl-
cal county government You gave me
very good vote four years ago, and
although not elected | worked to
elect the three Republican nominees.
favor what the majority of our peo-
pie want in this county and | aim to
represent the people of the entire
county.
Soliciting the support of Republican
voters of all sections, l beg to re-
main, Very sincerely,
JAMES A. SAVAGE.
McHenry, District No. G.
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Old House Was Target
For Artillery in 1864

Theodore Albert Lay and his wife,
Mary Blanche Selden, had the following
issue: Theodore Albert, James Selden,
who married Lillian Lockhart; Richard,
Blanche Selden, married Henry Waters;
Julia Walker, married Edward Perry;
Augustus Selden, married, first, Elsie
Boyle and after her death Helen Jukes
Mayor Carbery got his military title
in the War of 1872 He was commits
stoned captain in the 36th Infantry,
April 30, 1913, and honorably discharged
June Is, 1915.
Just how warm reception the Con-
federate soldiers were given in The Fort
Stevens engagement of July, 1864, one
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large enough to be felt on nearby
Kwajalein or Eniwetok.
Except for theory, nothing is known
of the reaction of large bodies of water
to atomic heat, pressure and radiation.
To observe and record every phase of
the reactions, the Navy,s oceanographers
will be assisted by experts from the
Smithsonian Institution, the Universities
Hole Oceanographic Institution, the
United States Geological Survey and
Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Geotech-
nical Corp, and the Nays Electronics
Laboratory.
From what is known, it is thought
probable that the second bomb, which
likely will be set off at the depth of
an average harbor, will blast a hole in
the water of the lagoon perhaps 1000
feet across.
The hole might expose the bottom of
the lagoon for an instant before it is
closed by inrushing water with force
enough to toss fountain some miles
into the sky.
Waves of destructive force undoubted-
ly will roar across the lagoon, rising to
unknown heights when they reach the
shadows to curl on the beaches or sweep
over them. Whether the shock will
start landslides down the islands 40
degree slopes into ocean depths of
miles is matter of speculation.
This will depend somewhat on the
Evening star., 1946-04-07
BY Casper Names

When an Arkansas Democrat and q
New Jersey Republican agree that is
something The something is now be-
fore the House of Representatives in
the form of 9 joint resolution calling
on, Congress to meet issues involving
national security and foreign policy on
bipartisan plane, in peace as in war.
Authors of the resolution are second
term Representative Brooks Hays, DEM
ocrat, of Arkansas, and freshman Rep
resentative Clifford P. Case Republican,
of New Jersey.
The measure, which calls for the
creation of Joint committee of the
Senate and House to investigate fully"
the forces needed to insure our coun-
try meeting Its full share of respon-
sibility" for a peaceful world, was
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Parallel Party Action
Deemed Best Service

He conceives of parties as vehicles OF
service and not as ends in themselves;
as instruments for building policy, to be
used frequently, not in opposition to
each other, but in parallel and sup
Elemental fashion" To this extent, the
Arkansas member believes 1.-The majority
party should welcome the instructive
assistance of the minority and share the
credit for achievements with them"
Mr.. Case arrived at similar point Of
view because he is convinced people
OF the country as whole want peace
and also want their country to do what
is right concerning its obligations on the
international scene" The New Jersey
member feels the best of American party
thinking is that which makes it practical
for both parties to work together.
Mr.. Hays is probably the best story
teller in Washington since Chauncey
Depew. He rarely tells stories on the
House floor, but his inexhaustible fund
of tales and ready wit makes him an
ideal POSTMASTER at banquets His
hobbies are fishing and painting, the
latter being strictly amateur" and
definitely in limitation of Churchill and
not of Hitler"
AS youth he campaigned for his
Evening star., 1946-04-07

government was ushered in on Febru-
ary %, 1871, still stands on Georgia
avenue in the large estate between
Madison street and Concord avenue
1t is one of the few buildings remain
ing in the vicinity of Fort Stevens that
was there during the Civil War, and
is certainly of sufficient historic i'm
portance to warrant its preservation.
1t was occupied by Mr.. Emery and
his family at the beginning of the war,
but finding it to be of strategic military
value-being one of the highest points
around Washington-he early gave it
over to the Army, which used it as a
signal station, and many messages were
transmitted between it and the dome
of the Capitol. Depressions, still visible
near the house and raised plateaus Of
earth indicate where soldiers had
erected tents on the grounds.
The Emory tract contains about nine
acres of land and, with its many beauti-
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Farm Called 'Petworth'
Bordered on Road

However, the first estate on the east
side of Georgia avenue to the north of
Rock Creek Church road, which it also
bordered, was the large, farm of Col
= John Tayloe which he named Petworth
as has been said "fer the English town
of that name Prior to this we are told,
the property belonged to Capt Balch
and as part of his estate, it was sold to
Col. Tayloe after the formers death,
about 1903.
At this time, Col Tayloe improved the
farm by erecting line of posts and
rail fence Of cedar along the Rock Greek
Church road side for about three
fourths of mile. The rails, according
to an old item, after being hewn, were
planed, the work being done by slave
labor. According to an item written
in 1865, the rails were then in a good
state of preservation. 1t was further
stated that when the fence was erected,
there was no road up Seventh street,
which now means Georgia avenue
Another family that settled In Bright
wood at an early date was that repre-
sented by Enos Ray, who first came
into the neighborhood in 1880, when he
farmed for several years a tract of land
to the north of Petworth owned by
Theodore Mosher, and later by Marshall
Brown, son of Jesse Brown. who con-
Quoted hostelry on Pennsylvania ave-
nue., called the Indian Queen This tav-
ern was later operated by his sons,
Marshall and Tillstson, when it was
generally known as Browns Hotel, and
later as the Metropolitan.
In 1885, Mr.. Ray bought an extern
sive acreage of property east of Georgia
avenue on old Milk House Ford road,
later changed to Magnolia avenue, then
to Shepherd road and now, for some
shall Brown tract extended northward
to the stream known as Piney Branch
The old Marshall Brown mansion will
be recalled by many as once the home
and course of the Columbia Golf Club,
later known as the Columbia Country
Club, organized September 20, 1893. The
old home was located about at Della
field street, between Georgia and Illi-
nois avenues
Piney Branch Park
Made From Old Farm
The country home and estate of
Richard Wallach. who was Mayor of
Washington from 1861 to 1867, was on
the west side Of Georgia avenue, about
opposite the Marshall Brown property.
1t contained 80 acres and was known
as Maple Grove farm. On May %,
1854 this farm was purchased from
Mayor Wallach by the pioneer John A.
Saul, and here he kept his nurseries
until his death. The Wallach home was
a modest one and Mr.. Saul added a
central portion to the structure, and
wing to correspond to the original
dwelling. After the death of Mr.. Saul,
May II, 1897, the Saul property was
subdivided into building lots, and be-
came Saul's subdivision, its name later
being changed to Piney Branch Park.
The country home of the late Mat
thew G. Emery, mayor of Washington
during 1870, and until the territorial
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How About hose Atom Bomb Waves?

bouys and guinea pig" ships to report
their movements in the turbulent water.
Some will broadcast the information.
Electric contacts will be set on piles to
measure water levels, and television and
still cameras will picture water move
ments from four towers on nearby
beaches
Additional camera records Of surface
upheavals will be made from three air.
planes operating on a split-second syn
chronized schedule. These are expected
to show the heights, velocity and wave
length Of the undulations.
Sensitive recorders will be set up on
surrounding islands to catch any un-
usual movements Of the water, accord
ing to Comdr. Roger Revelle, chief Of the
oceanographic staff for Operation Cross
roads.
Comdr Revelle, who before the war
was professor OF oceanography at the
University of California, is convinced
the tests will be very powerful re-
search tool for many branches Of
science.
For example, evidence of radio-activity
will "tag" ocean water for the first time
and allow its currents to be accurately
traced far beyond the danger point to
man or marine life.
Seven destroyers and six gunboats will
trace the water pouring from the lagoon,
as security measure, and some units
probably will follow the drift as long as
it can be identified.
Resulting data will help to predict
danger areas for any number of atomic
bombs. it was said
BY coincidence, one of the most COM
plete units ever assembled for studying
the motion of ocean waves and tides
was in Hawaii en- route to Bikini when
the huge breakers rolled ashore at Hilo.
The party's elaborate instruments,
however, were either in storage awaiting
shipment or undergoing alterations.
There they were getting ready for
manmade wave" said a fellow scien-
tist here, when nature rolled a much
bigger one right up to their front door!"
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can somewhat imagine from the fol-
lowing official statement of what oc-
CURED in part in this engagement
July II and IL. Says the report:
"On July H.. 20 shots were fired
from the guns of Fort Stevens-14
30-pound and six 24-pound. OF
these, five were fired at the Confederates
in grove 1,050 yards distant, six "a
pound and two 30-pound shots were
fired at them in the rear of the old
target, one in the pike in front of the
target, two at 1000 yards distance, one
at the skirmish line behind an orchard,
one at the Carbery house Gay) and
two in their midst at a distance of
1884 yards.
"On July II 81 shots were fired, 80
of them at the Carbery or Lay, house,
which was set on fire by shots from
mortar; IS at the Reeves house (B. H.
Warmers house,, 1,078 yards; on the
ground at the right of the pike, 1850
yards; 2 in the ravine in the rear of
the Lay house, 10 at the carriage shop,
2 solid shots at the old camp and 4 at
the column en- masse" The destroyed
Carbery-Lay house was later replaced
Evening star., 1946-04-07
BY William H. Shippen, Jr.
Auiation Editor of The Star.

YE subsrface atomic bomb probably will
fountain but its rppes
Il inhabited
In to anxious questions off
for the Army-Nay
will
positive those
reactions
Aeuthn Trench thousands of times
expected
or the subnface blast scheduled a month
Destructive
Bn lagoon possible but not considered probable
underwater base It doubtful
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congressman Sidetrack Politics for Peace

signed by IL Democrats and as many
Republicans.
The two Congressman started from
opposite sectional and political posi-
tions to arrive independently at the
conclusion that party politics must
give way on these vital issues.
Anything touching the national
security or which embraces our whole
foreign policy is matter for bipartisan
consideration. The general pattern of a
majority determined to carry its views
with the minority doing its best as an
opposition, does not At the security and
foreign policy situation" declares Mr..
Hays.
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died in full communion with the Cath
olic church"
Thomas Carbery, ST., married Mary
Asonath Carbery, who died January 2,
1919, in the 64th year of her age Their
II children included Mary, John Bap-
tist, Martha (Catalana), Ruth, Ann
(Mrs. Mattingly), Joseph, Catharine,
Thomas, James, Lewis and Ignatius
Henry. Thomas, the Mayor, is buried In
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
After the death of Capt Carbery, the
Norway property seems to have gone
into the hands of his sister Ann, who
married John Mattingly, and then to
their daughter Mary Susan, who mar
ried Richard Lay, an Official in the Post
Office Department, and who was likely
the owner of Norway at the time of
Earlys raid on Washington. His son,
Theodore Albert Lay, who married Mary
Blanche Selden, was living at Norway
when he sold the property to Senator
Cameron and Col. Myron NJ Parker,
who in turn sold it to the Government.
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father, Steele Hays, when this country
lawyer and school teacher ran for Con-
gress in 1922. His father was defeated.
Today, he regards his election to the
same seat his father sought as vindica-
ton of the latter's adherence to liberal
principles.
Mr. Hays, at q, was assistant attorney
general OF his State. Two years later he
ran for Governor and finished second in
a field of seven. In that campaign, his
opponents jeered him as the boy Scout"
candidate The Boy Scouts of 1928 have
come of age, Mr.. Hays now points out.
He came to Washington as a member
of Congress in January, 1912. Twenty
three years earlier, he had come to the
District to work for the Veterans Ad-
ministration, after serving as private
in the World War. He also studied at
George Washington University Law
School, his roommate and classmate
being Bolon Turner, now presiding Judge
of the United States Tax Court.
Hays Had Reverses
In Arkansas Politics
He married while a senior in law
school. He had met his wife while at
tending the University of Arkansas.
They set up house short distance from
their present Washington residence.
Mr.. Hays and Attorney Turner were law
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Early yCeorgia Avenue
BY John Clagett Proctor

EORGIA particularly
interesting because
this
prominent affairs of
called Seventh
BrghtWood
the Capital City In 1900 Some time 1909
authorized Columbia Turnpike
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q. Emery, last mayor OF WdSh-
ington.
full old trees, forms one of the most
attractive of the few remaining avail
able park sites In the District.
Carbery Home Stood
On Hospital Site
Still to the north on Georgia avenue,
where Walter Reed Hospital now
stands, was once Norway, the country
home OF Thomas Carbery, the sixth
Mayor of Washington, who served the
city as such from 1922 to 1923. He was
man of many activities, charities and
honors, and, in addition to serving as
Mayor of the city, was collector Of the
port of Washington, a member OF the
commission to erect the City Hall (now
the Courthouse) and member Of the
first Board of Prison Inspectors. When
the citizens of Washington undertook
the collection of funds for erection of
the Washington Monument, and when
the Washington National Monument
Society was formed, September rs, 1888,
with Chief Justice John Marshall as
president, Thomas Carbery was selected
as one of 13 members of the Board Of
Managers. He was a justice Of the peace
for more than 40 years. He was also
prominent in financial circles and was
president of the Bank Of the Metropolis
(now the Metropolitan National Bank
from 1855 to the time of his death, in
1863
Mayor Carbery owned considerable
city real estate, including his home at
Seventeenth and c streets, where oc-
Cured the celebrated miracle to his
sister, Mrs. Ann Mattingly, earlier de-
scribed in one of these stories. He also
had an interest in the historic home of
Motley Young, an original proprietor,
in the Southwest part of the city. He
also owned about half of the block where
now stands the Woodward & Lothrop
department store, between F and G and
Tenth and Eleventh streets. This site
formed an interesting part of his reli-
gious benefactions.
Orphan Asylum Built
With Carbery Funds
About 1925 the st. Vincent's Orphan
Asylum was built here. A history of
st. Patrick's Parish says the first build
ing for the orphan asylum, which stood
on the west side of Tenth street be-
tween F and G streets, was erected very
largely through the muniflcence OF Capt.
Carbery. The asylum was incorporated
by Congress in 1881, the incorporators
being the Rev William Matthews, the
Rev. Matthew Deagle, Peter S. Schrie-
ber, Thomas Carbery and William
Hickey.
When Mayor Carbery died he left an
estate estimated at 100000. He be-
queathed $2,500 to each of his sisters,
Ruth and Catherine, together with the
city family residence, and made minor
charitable bequests. The rest of the,
estate went to charity fund" How
ever, the heirs contested the will and
compromise was made.
Capt. Carbery came in possession of at
least a part of Norway upon the death
of his aunt, Mrs. Sybilla Carbery, widow
of Henry Carbery, Revolutionary SOL
dier. Thomas Carbery, sr., brother OF
Col. Henry Carbery and father of Mayor
Thomas Carbery, located in or near
George Town about 1905, and of him the
Mayor has this to say: my father.
Thomas Carbery, died In the City of
Washington on the 18th of July, 1872,
and in the 67th year Of his age His
whole life was marked with peculiar
energy, piety and virtue. He lived and
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Nothing actually known OF the reaction Of large bodies
Of Uaer to atomic heat radiation
haze to 0aH for the aton1-bonb test Pacific find
But is predicted that result will be the biggest uaer oun
tain created and ucky diminish to
ripples by the time they reach coast
gdebated OF whether
Pacific aon
planted Of
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around Washington, delayed the work,
and the project was finally taken up by
the Washington & Rockville Turnpike
Co., of which Benjamin Ogle Tayloe
was president and John Carol Brent
secretary.
Sessford, in his Annals" for the year
1922 says: THE turnpike road leading
from Seventh street to Rockville has
already become Of great utility to this
ward and the city generally" and from
this statement 1t might well be assumed
that it was new road at that date,
but it was certainly not completed to
Rockville until 1929, when toll gates
were erected. 1t must have been a mud
hole in wet weather, and extremely
dusty when 1t was dry, for 1t remained
unimproved for many years.
About 1850, the Maryland portion was
improved with plank road, and in 1852
the District part was covered with hem
lock planks, 3 to inches thick, with a
width of feet. Just what two teams
did when they met can only be surmised.
Road Widened Twice
In Last Half Century
1t was narrow road, within the men,
ory of many, and has been Widened at
least twice within the last half century
AS might be expected, the plank road
did not last long and remained in bad
shape for a long while, until graded
and macadamized by the Board of Pub
lie Works during Gov. Shepherds ad-
ministration. 1t happened to be one of
those Improvements which were ques-
toned by the committee which tried to
find something wrong with everything
that Mr.. Shepherd did. However, in it's
improved condition, it made fine road
for driving for some time, and in later
years, when bicycling became craze,
it was used by enthusiastic wheelmen
as one of the better roads around the
city.
AS the writer recalls it, many years
ago, it was similar to any other country
road in this part of the country-lined
with overhanging trees of various native
species, and with holes in it large
enough to make a driver stop every once
in while in order not to break a wagon
spring. Occasionally there was a spring
to the side of the road, around which a
half barrel had been placed and Coco
nut dipper or rusty tin can with which
the weary traveller on warm summers
day refreshed himself with genuine
aqua pura.
One of these natural fountains
known as James Whites spring-is still
recalled in particular by the writer, since
it was the most copious, so far as he
knows, along this pike. Incidentally, it
now empties into sewer. A few of the
trees which once surrounded 1t are still
standing, recognized only by those whose
memories wander back into the distant
past. ...
On both sides of Georgia avenue, up
to the period of the Civil War, there was
little else but farm land. Between 1857
and 1885, few persons lived and owned
property on what was then a turnpike
road.