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Scout, $3.50. See at corner Ala. and Irving
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Current Exhibitions.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
etttutton avenue and Sixth street
Paintings and sculpture by great
masters masters The Art OF France
NATIONAL MUSEUM, National Col
lection Of Fine Arts. Constitution
avenue and Tenth street-Ameri-
can paintings from private collec-
lions and other gifts and loans.
sixth Annual EXhioit tsIa,; Of Fi fsna
s ayh &C. coast Group 'hf0ush '"nu'
ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING,
Jefferson drive and Ninth street
Decorative arts collection. Photo:
graphs BY John W. Gresory. Of
Provincetown, Mass, through jan
uary.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING. Division
avenue and Tenth street-prints
by Louis schanker, through Feoru-
FREER GALLERY OF ART. Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive-Ori-
entail and Far Eastern arts. Paint
other American artists; changing
exhibits.
CoRC0RAN GALLERY OF ART,
seventeenth street between New
can Paintings and sculpture and
exhibition Of water colors by A.
fists Of washington and vicinity,
Wars Toll Of italian Art
through today. Pepsi-cola Annual
to open Saturday.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY.
inss ana Prints. Exhibitions By
Maurice sterne. vaushn Fannery
Clarence Laushlin, to open today.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, East Capt.
toll and First streets--Division OF
Prints. Photographs Of early Archi-
lecture by Frances BENJAMIN
Johnston.
ACTS CLUE b.; so17 street s.s MIA s,s9:,..
through January 20:
lions Club. 17oI Nineteenth street
BARNETT ApEN GALLERY, 1877
Randolph place N.W.-paintings
ana other works BY Elizabeth
Catlett, Through January 70.
WATKINS GALLERY. American Uni:
versity. campus--Watkins memorial
collection to open next Saturday,
PUBLIC seR E sns os ans
BY BENJAMIN Rubin. through Janu-
airy 81.
DUMBARToN OAKS COLLECTION.
1908 Thirty second street NV
Byzantine art Closed Mondays.
Open daily, 8 am. to 4 pm; Sun
days. Q to 5. pm.
BUSH d WEEKS GALLERY, .2010 8
street N.W.-Oil paintings By Jack
perlmutter.
PAN AMERICAN UNION, Constitution
avenue and Seventeenth street
NV
coNNorssEpRs CORNER, zoos q
street N.W-Drawinss by Ernst,
Tansuy and Noguchi, throush jan
uary.
GEoRGETowN UNIVERSITY - Por-
traits BY Boleslaw Jan Czedekow-
ski in Copley Hall, through Janu-
airy 81.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY, sixth street
and Howard place N.W.--Prints BY
Negro artists, through January.
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DAUGHTERS of America

Installation Of officers will be held
In the following councils: Progress
sive, Old Glory and Independent,
Northeast Masonic Temple, Monday:
Goodwill. No. 7, Fourth street NE,
Monday; Martha cambridge and
Peace, Tuesday, Northeast Masonic
Temple; Kenilworth, Wentworth
and Ord streets NE, Tuesday;
Unity, 2407. Minnesota avenue Sc,
Tuesday; Anacostia, Fourteenth and
U streets Sc, Wednesday; Esther.
4618 Wisconsin avenue NV. We'd
nesday; Mayflower, Northeast Ma
sonic Temple, Thursday. t
Barbara Fritchie Council will meet
in the Star Hall, Mount Rainier, Nd,
Wednesday. State Councillor Agnes
Barbour and her stan will make an
oficial visit to Loyalty Council at
Northeast Masonic Temple.
The Deputies Association will
meet Saturday at Northeast Masonic
Temple.
Mrs. Viola Frazier, chairman OF
the George Washington ball tickets,
will hold a meeting at the Northeast
Masonic Temple at 8 pm. Saturday.
Councils are requested to send
names of three representatives on
the District Of Columbia School As
ISOLATION to Mrs. Mary Rutherford,
1918 E street Sc, to complete .
new roster.
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Local Masonic News
Snecial activities.

0peEIaI dCCIVIEISS,
Federal Lodge = Monday, first
meeting since change Of date and
place, second and fourth Mondays.
Acacia Lodge-Tuesday, initiation.
Washington Centennial Lodge
Tuesday, Officers meeting and de-
gree team rehearsal.
Theodore Roosevelt Lodge-Wed-
nesday, Fellowcraft Club with Ernest
j. Higgins.
Lafayette Lodge-Thursday, mi-
tiation.
Lebanon Lodge-Friday, special,
pm, M. NJ. Degree.
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ROYAL Neiehbors

Installation Of officers Of Fidelis
Camp will be held Thursday at
pm. at 921 Pennsylvania avenue
Sc. District Deputy Nena e. Dies.
man will be installing officer. The
officers are: Anne B. Hid, oracle
Anna Pigott, past oracle; Edna
Courtney, vice oracle: Bessie O'Don.
nell, chancellor; Margaret Cricken.
berger, recorder; Mildred Hodges
receiver; Dorothy Read, marshal
Jennie Trotter, assistant marshal
Mary Himpler, inner sentinel: Lois
Tucker, outer sentinel; Florence
Cook, hagbearer, and John Pigott
manager for three years. Refresh.
ments viii be served.
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SWV Auxiliaries

0pcCAdl loeiSco.
On Tuesday and Wednesday the
annual department presidents con-
ference will be held at national
headquarters, 40 G street NE.
On Tuesday at 7 pm. the annual
department presidents banquet will
be held at the Continental Hotel
Tickets may be obtained from the
department president, Mrs. Madge
Ryce, 1010-A Thirteenth street Sc.
Lincoln 1866, or from the auxiliary
presidents.
william Mckinley Camp. No. 145
Sons Of Spanish War Veterans, and
Capitay City Fort, No. 20, Daughters
Of '9S, will have a joint installation
Of officers at Odd Fellows Temple
419 Seventh street NV, Wednes-
day evening.
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Chronicle Of Record Shows

strongly built stone house or stable
from the bank Of where now Is your
town is a well-remembered story
Of the past"
There have been many severe
winter storms occurring here
within the memory Of a number
Of our older residents. The one
which took place at the time Of
Grants second Inauguration, March
4, 1873, was especially severe for
that time of the year.
The channel in the river was
completely frozen over and the ice
Is reported to have formed quite
thick as far down as Cedar Point,
and at many places about the city
the ice was said to be 8 to 10
inches thick and many carts ana
horses were employed in filing
private icehouses from nearby
ponds.
The next real cold spell, when
the thermometer registered 56 de-
grees above zero, occurred January
II, 1886. Much snow fell upon this
occasion and physicians and others
who found 1t necessary to 60 out
on business had to make their calls
in q sleigh. As usual, everybody
in town who had a horse and sleigh
turned out on the Avenue. On Feb.
ruary 4 of that year, 1t was reputed
that there was the heaviest fall Of
snow for many years. Believe 1t or
not" an earlier account tells us that
In the winter of 1877 it was so cold
that the minimum instrument failed
to operate properly and refused to
60 lower than 4 degrees below zero.
when it was evidently much colder.
A blizzard is recorded on January
4, 1892, when the streetcars were
tied up, due to the heavy fall Of
snow. Then the one-horse cars were
increased to two horses, and the
two-horse cars to four pulling, tug
ging and straining at the traces to
pull the heavily loaded cars.
But a blizzard in ye olden days
had It's picturesque attractions, az
we'll as its discomforts, and GER
tainly the old blacksmith shop, with
its flaming forge and the line OF
horses waiting to be shod. were
most fascinating scenes, when the
sparks were flying and the snow was
falling, and the old smith was per-
spring from his laborious occupa.
ton. For. after all, "the smith, .
mighty man was he" 49,
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Sl0le 1Or MIN TO DecOI1e IldtlUIldlo
audience. Hence one applauded thu
Phillips Memorial Gallery's exhibit.
ton Of Artists of the San Francisco
Bay Region" two months ago. ant
now the National Museum has JUS
opened an exhibition of the Florid.
Gulf Coast group. sponsored by thu
Clearwater Art Museum, of which
Ralph H. McKelvey is director ant
Mrs. G. Shillard- Smith is president
both of whom are represented in thu
show.
This is the groups sixth annual
but its first appearance in Wash
ington. During the past five year.
one or more of its annual circulated
exhibitions have been shown at ar
museums, libraries and educationa
institutions of 80 cities In 16 States
in every part of the country except
the Southwest.
A dominant feature of the Gull
Coast groups show is the prevalence
of Florida subject matter. The
paintings, water colors and prints de-
pict landscapes and people one as.
sociates with that part of the coun.
try. Some of the artists are per.
manent residents of various cities or
Florida's West Coast; others are
Northern artists who spend winters
there.
Pleasant Themes
The show is markedly conservative
and its themes are pleasant. Per.
haps Florida's climate keeps people
In a happier mood than less balmJ
places. From the esthetic stand
point, the exhibition. like nearly al
other group shows, has excellent
mediocre and a few very poor works
It is unnecessary to enumerate the
latter.
Washingtonians will be pleased tx
see paintings by Wells M. Sawyer
and Helen Sawyer Farnsworth. The
former Is represented with a fresh
sunny. high-keyed landscape, "Apri
Sunshine in Florida" Mrs. Farms
worth shows a Florida landscape in
rich colors. impressionistic in char
acter. Aida Conover, also vel
known here, has four items in the
exhibition, among them an oil
"Danse Macabre,'' pattern Of
tangled driftwood against the dark
background of the sea. 1t Is the
shows nearest approach to abstrac'
ton.
Truman Fassett's two landscapes
are competent and pleasing, particu.
LARRY Sudden Green" contrasting
sunshine and clouds. Katharine
Merrill's tropical glade, THE Pool,
Is excellent, with naturalistic tret
forms making a decorative pattern
I was impressed with the paint.
tngs of George Snow Hill, whose
name is new to me. He has essayec
two biblical subjects with consider
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AMVETS Auxiliary

Columbia Heights Auxiliary met
at the clubroom. 1473 Irving street
ton Of officers. The next meeting
NV, Tuesday evening for nomina-
will be February at the Amvets
clubrooms, Twelfth and E streets
NV. Plans are being made to have
this meeting in conjunction with the
Columbia Heights Post and to join
them in banquet. Election Of ofii-
GERS will be held.
The Auxiliary of the Founders
Post met at the Amvets clubroom
Tuesday evening. Plans were made
for work at Mount Alto Hospital
Mrs. Helene Jones, president, pre-
sided. The next meeting will be
held February 8.
The Anvets Auxiliaries Of the
District of Columbia together with
the Amvets National Auxiliary, will
hold an auxiliary night on January
% at the club room. Twelfth and E
street NV. Entertainment will be
furnished. There will be speakers
from the VA and Amvet national
headquarters. All Amvets ano
friends are invited.
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Organizations
Legion Auxiliary
Head to Direct
Patriotic Meet

Mrs. Lee w. Hutton, national
president of the American Legion
Auxiliary, will be general chairman
Of the 22d Women's Patriotic Con-
ference on National Defense which
will open with mass meeting ct
the Statler Hotel next Thursday at
8 pm.
Senator Weyland Brooks of Ili-
nois and Representative Margaret
Chase Smith of Maine will be among
the speakers at the opening session.
A round-table discussion will be
held at 10 am, with Representative
Karl Mundt Of South Dakota as the
principal speaker. Representative
Frances Bolton Of Ohio also will
speak.
On Friday afternoon Tuning IN
on the World" will be the subject 81
a round table discussion.
James E. Forrestal, Secretary OF
National Defense, will be the princi-
pa. speaker at banquet Friday at
7::30 pm. Mrs. Lawrence H. Smith,
past national president Of the
American Legion Auxiliary, is gen.
eral chairman Of dinner arrange
ments.
Gen. John M. Devine will be prin-
cipal speaker at the Youth Program
on Saturday morning. The confer
ence will close with an address by
DR.. Daniel Polling, Americans ALL"
which will be proadcastat 1915 pm.
over Station WRC.
Mrs. Della E. Luther, District of
Columbia Department national de-
Tense chairman, requests unit ma
tional defense chairmen or their
representatives to be at the auxiliary
headquarters tomorrow at pm. for
registration and payment of dele
gates fees to the national defense
conference.
Mrs. Lillian M. Judd, national
executive committeeman, left
Washington last night to attend
meeting of the auxiliary's National
Executive Committee in Indianap-
oils on Monday and Tuesday
Mrs. L. Estelle Stone will preside
over United States Department Of
Agriculture Unit Tuesday night at
the Raleigh Hotel, when the unit
will celebrate its 18th anniversary.
Mrs. Pearl Heagerty, auxiliary
building fund chairman, has offered
a. prize to the unit bringing in the
largest percentage of donations to
the building fund as of January 81.
All unit rehabilitation chairmen
are requested to send in their re-
ports OF rehabilitation work to the
department rehabilitation chairman,
Mrs. j. Florence Dietsche, 1856
Twenty-second street NV, or to
the auxiliary headquarters.
United States Treasury unit will
give party for the patients in
Ward Eli Of Mt. Alto Hopsital
on Wednesday at 7 pm. Mrs. Vir-
ginia Kraus, rehabilitation chair
man, will have charge, assisted by
Mrs. Melvina Mishler, president, and
volunteers from the unit.
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Retired Enlisted Men

OfhcerS Of the Retired Enlisted
Mems Association No. 2 were elected
as follows: Commander, Richard l.
Quander; vice commander, Charles
H. Key; adjutant, Andrew Lewis;
quartermaster, Charles M. Smith;
treasurer, William Reid, jr.;; officer
of the day, Elijah Talley; ofiicer
of the guard, Carl Henley; chaplain
Frank p. Jamerson; sergeant-major
James r. Holiday; quartermaster-
sergeant, Clarence c. Dorsey.
The association meets on the frs,
Thursday of each month at 1881
Eleventh street NV. at 8 pm. The
annual banquet will be held Feb
ruary l6 In celebration Of the 10Th
anniversary.
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IVFW Auxiliary
Head Plans Visit

National President Margaret Mann
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Auxiliary will make her official
visit to the District Department
in February, it was announced by
President Martha Reynolds.
Members are requested to attend
the Woman's Patriotic Conference
at the Statler Hotel, which opens
Thursday evening. ~
Members are invited to q dinner
in honor of Robert Handy. national
ouartermaster general, at 8 pm.
January a at the Mayf1ower Hotel.
Naval Gun Factory Unit will hold
an evening OF games at 8 o'clock
January "a at 73o Eleventh street
Sc.
A dinner and bazaar will be held
by National Capital Unit at $50
I'm. January 81 at the Fairfax Ho-
tel.
Equality-Walter Reed Unit will
hold an evening of games, at Mount
Alto Hospital on January 20.
The Coolies Fire Crackers will
hold a party at pm. Wednesday
at 935 G place NV.
France Dove, department ways
and means chairman, requests do
nations for the bake sale at 9 am.
on January 81 at Sears-Roebuck
store, Wisconsin avenue and Abe
marie street NV.
Meetings this week: Monday
Front Line Unit, washington Loan
& Trust Building, room 418; Friday
-An-American Unit, Northeast Ma
sonic Temple.
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News Of Art and Artists
By Florence S. Berrymon

Opportunities for regional artists to exhibit their WORK IN
National Probably artists chief
ambition to CITY, undoubtedly Washing
artists hopes No matter how
city State is npo
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By John cIosett Proctor

I put them on, and, taking TIT
branch of q tree In my hands,
crossed over In safety to the sat
isfaction Of the crowd who stooe
looking on at my foolhardy ven
ture. As I skated on the ice, Il
was so thin that it would crack
and bend under my light weight
and I could distinctly see the leave.
and twigs floating in the water
under my feet. Having arrived or
the Washington shore, I felt sc
well satisfied that I would not havs
returned for the fortune Of Ste.
phen Girard..
Is Below in 1885
1.-THE winter of 1885 was the cold.
est ever experienced in this lati.
tude. We had some weeks q thaw
and then the weather would turn
extremely cold. The mercury In.
Dictated, In January, 16 degrees be.
low zero. We had three severe colo
spells of weather during that year
one of which was in March On the
Sd Of that month I skated on the
Potomac, playing handy and pris'
oner's base.
THE winter Of 1S39-40 was Ions
and cold. The Ice broke up in TIT
Potomac on the 10th Of February
1910, and carried away the Chair
Bridge and the draw Of the Lont
Bridge. The winter of 1901 wa
long and cold; though the degre,
Of cold was not as great as som'
previous winters. The 18th OF Feb
ruary, 1841, was the coolest da,
during the season and 1t is wei
remembered by the inhabitants o
this town as the day that Gen. Har
rison paid Georgetown q visit jus
before his Inauguration as Presiden
Of the United States.
Trains Ran on Ice
I'VE all remember the winters o
1855, 1856 and 1857; the SHOWS wer
deep and the cold was severe. Dur
ing the winter of 1857 sleighing wa
enjoyed by our inhabitants. Flee
horses were brought on from othe
cities to race on Pennsylvania ave
nue., and when the drivers would b
arrested for driving at an imprope
speed, they would pay the fine, cracl
the whip over Che head of justic,
and 60 1t again. This was the wir1tel
that q locomotive was run on thu
ice across the river from Maryland
to Alexandria; also sleepers and rail
were laid upon the ice at HAvre d.
Grace across the SusqueharlnA Rive
and trains Of cars crossed over 70
more than q month"
Thomas Jefferson in his Mote
on Virginia." goes back even furthe
and tells us that the winter o
1850 (probably 178D was 20 coll
that the Chesapeake Bay IVA
frozen from its head to the rtioutl
Of the Potomac River, and at An
napolis, where the bay is S mile
wide, the ice was 5 inches thick.
George Washington Parke Custi!
who began the erection Of Airing
ton Mansion in 1902, and VIII
surely knew the Potomac River an
the intensely cold seasons Of earl
Washington, gives us an interestin
account Of the ice during the win
ter OF 1784-the year probably re
ferred. to by Mr.. Jefferson. Th1
Is what Mr.. Gusts says:
Late Winter in 1873
1.-THE ice in the memorable yea
Of 1894 moved twice. 1t frs
descended in vast quantities fror
the Upper Potomac till it reache
the Three Sisters, where it stoppe
and accumulated in great masse
and froze together again; the
came the deep. snow, followed b
general thaw and violent RAIN
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moved to larger quarters In the Barr
Building, Farragut Square. TWO
years ago Thomas c. Parker, who
became director of the federation in
1910, and Hudson D. Walker OF
New York City, its president, con-
cluded that it was time for the
organization to establish permanent
headquarters in q building Of its
own.
Il 4 X i
Members Show
New York City's billiards. inter-
fered with the transportation OF an
exhibition by q trio Of artists from
the Midtown Gallery there. which
was to have opened last Sunday at
the Arts Club. Resourceful COM
mittee members, Phoebe Hyatt and
william F. Walter. assembled an ex-
hibition of 40 oils and water colors
by nine other painter-members,
which is an exceptionally attractive
display. Largely conservative IN
character, and marked by technical
competence, the paintings have q
homogeneous effect.
Ruth Perkins Stafford lent several
of her admirable interiors Of famous
old buildings, also. landscapes and
a street scene. Rowland Lyon shows
glimpse Of Georgetown, circus and
harbor subjects. Florence Morgans
close likenesses of flowers beautifully
arranged with still-life In harmo-
NOUS color schemes, add much
charm to the show.
Robert e. Motley and Garnet Jea
are represented with mellow land
scapes. Street in Harpers Ferry
is the best of shefield Kagy's works
BY Martha Mohett Bache is famil-
lar bit of Connecticut avenue. Roger
Rittase is the most modern Of the
group: his plate of Fruit" ano
Sailing on Lake Mendoza" are
simplified in form, bright in colors
and have strong carrying quality
and decorative effect.
+ Il \ 4
Watkins Memorial Show
The Watkins Gallery Of American
University will open next Saturday
an exhibition Of the Watkins me-
mortal collection. Visitors will be
welcomed from 8 to 6. The show
will remain through February Is
The collection was first exhibited
two years ago when it was presented
to the university by artist friends Of
the late c. Law Watkins. Ten work.
have been added by gift or pur.
chase. The gallery is closed unit
Saturday while the pictures are
being hung.
X + 4 \
Laughlin to Speak
Clarence Laughlin, one Of thret
artists whose exhibitions are tx
open this afternoon at Phillip!
Memorial Gallery, will lecture there
tomorrow evening at $50 on "Louisi.
ana Plantation Architecture" He L
well acquainted with this subject, a
he has spent much time photo
graphing outstanding examples. HI
had q one-man show at the Phillips
Gallery several summers ago an6
later at I'm Transit"
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AFA Acquires a Home

for The American Federation OF
Arts, a national nonprofit organi-
cation which has always had head
quarters in washington. Founded
nearly 80 years ago, it has Just
moved into home of its own. Last
summer the trustees purchased a
three-story brick building at No.
1852 New Hampshire avenue, which
has been completely renovated.
The federation was formed In
1909 by a group Of art lovers, mostly
residents of Washington. Among
them were Elihu Root, Secretary Of
State under President Theodore
Roosevelt; Francis D. Millet, noted
artist who lost his life on the
Titanic: John w. Alexander, n1u-
raj painter. who created the series
on Evolution Of the Book" at the
Library of Congress. and many
other notable works; Leila Mechlin
who was for As years art critic OF
The Star, and was also secretary
of the Washington Society Of the
Fine Arts. and distinguished lee
turer and magazine writer on art;
Charles M. Ffoulke, patron and
collector of art; Glenn Brown, Sec
rotary Of the American Institute OF
Architects, and several others. Miss
Mechlin became secretary of the
federation. and had the major re-
sponsibility for 1t for more than
40 years.
From 1909 to 1923 the federation
had Offices in the famous old Octa.
gon House, headquarters of the
American Institute Of Architects. In