Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1921, Page 21

. 21 " INVENTOR TO TEST SINKING SAFE; i WOULD SAVE SHIP'S VALUABLES ——'—h—r——“. RAILWAYS OVERRULED N 2 “THOSE HUNGRY HANDS." . ORATORIO SOCIETY | “wsictmsaaswascs NEW Y WA, HOTEL THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER. 30, 1921-PART 1. = ey S I Buys Traction Line . To Protect Mechanic’s “ " AS LIFE-SAVING GOODS g Lien Upon a Bridge Army gas masks cannot be con- 5 Spectal Dispatch to The Star. * _ sidered lite-saving apparatus, it CUMBERLAND, Md., Octo- el Dispttch o The SR - 1 S Sinoatod j1n ifhe st tmost . : Earats . BALTIMORE, October 20—Me- | compartment .~ = -~ was formally. decided by tho Inter- | B—A nott! Nanni, u Chicago inventor, 1p |, NANDl expects the safe to dogt to == it does not. £0 sure of his invention he says he is willing to die in it should it fail. To prove this he is going to be locked in & steel cylinder and state Commerce Commissicn yes- | terday and southwestern rallroads which held that they were, in the maiter of fixing freight rates, lost a teen minutes, and ‘f why he just shrugs his shoulders and smiles. He taking the | chance, he says, but he is sure the thing will work. f | It the trial is a success Nanni 00 Local Singers Expected to Aid New York Soloists Grace Dodge Already Houses 100 ' Guests—Inspection i co;pi'lr;‘sblc e :nu,nag"; b i3 cast into th harbor this after he Houston (Texas) Chamber of into he al 5 @ ~ . intends to offer the invention to . . . Commerce and the W. C. Munn = . o spanning the Tygart river, moon. He says he will take | sne Ui ia in Big Production. | Company, & corporation 1 the | Shows Many Innovations. Which his company built in 1912, : ; the United States and the Italian _g same city. brought the question | y N and for which s d down an ‘oxygen helmet with @ Eovernatite The Washington Oratorio Society| before the railroad regulating | The conviction of the housing com- Mr. says he is mot fifteen-minute air supply and rise to the surface of the water at will. If it isn’t successful Nanni wants to be hoisted from the water and laid to rest in & ceme- tery In the safe. Nanni, who hails from Italy, al- ‘ body by complaining that the rail- roads which carried a carload of the masks from Camp Logan were unable to find a specific rate charge covering the cost and consequent- 1y made the charge double first class and classified the masks as life-saving apparatus. The commission, pointing out that the masks were sent to Chi- cago for sale as souvenirs, con- cluded that the rate was twice as JUDGE-BROWN TO SPEAK. Father of “Achievement Boy Move- ment” to Give Talk Tuesday. Judge Willis Brown, father of the Achievement Boy movement in the | United States, will speak at a mect- ing of the Johnson-Powell Commun- ity Center at the Powell School, Tues- day night at 8 o'clock. Speeches al=o will be made by Charles Demone:. It his steel tube, which will float. |chairman of the boys’ work comni: s is due, he , to a secret | e Wa composition’ which he claims will |l€¢ of the Washington Rotary Club, absorb pressure from the water |and Miss Cecil B. Norton, general df sufficlent to cause the receptacle |rector of the community center dc- to rise to the surface | 1:artment of the public schools. His - so-called floating safe | The guests of honor at the meetin about ten feet long and five feet will be members of the Boys’ Achiev diameter. It has several com- |ment Club and their fathers. A m partments. each of which are |sical program will be furnished by fastened by triple locks. and he [the boys. |mittee of the national board of the {T. W. C. A that there was need at {the National Capital for a modern | hotel conveniently located to tie halls of Congress for the benefit primarily of the woman voters who come 4o Washington in the interest of some plece of rational legislation seems to| !be borne out by facts. oiThe, mew Grace Dodge Hotel, 20 Ej re W g H 4 jas th 1t o vie - . - - | jas the result of this couvic.ign, al-| ington's newest Hotel, had several i {ready houses about 100 guests and fts v {management anticipates that, ,when | TEe charges. showd ot be “adustcd ‘unlirzly complete its capacily of over U0 pretiy main- ained, at least during the time Con- gress sits. Its cafe is doing & brisk 's to hold its first rehearsal of the| ason Wednesday night at S$:13 oclock in the lecture room of the Church of the Covenant. preparatory o the soventeenth annual presenta- | ton of “The Messiah" to be given hinder the direction of Sydney Lloyd V. rightson. “The Messigh” is to be presented on | 1o ‘evenings, December 20 and 1. in | e auditorium of the Central High) [School. A chorus of 300 voice: <sked by Mr. Wrightson. Rchear: heginning Wednesda. cvery Wedn ¢ n c:trance on N property to eperate it, he will ecavert it into junk. Despite the: fact that an amend- ment to the state constitution. gives . lthem right to sit on juries, Missouri women are barred from this right under a ruling in the circuit enunl ia that state. l —ee though an adopted son of Uncle Sam, has worked for ye: to per- fect a safe for the carrying of valuables on ocean lincrs. He was after & strong box, which, in case the ship =: . could be salvaged from the surface of the sea. This he claims to have accomplished much as proper, especially because the masks were dumaged before they came into the salvage sale. Yarrow. in charge of the southern Ruwsian-Cauca t Relief work, dafly faces a mans of pitiful orphan Toom in any of the orphannges. This ix children's week 0 amwwer Capt. Yarrow’s appeal. Over 65,000 children in the pul wchoolx have been awked to save money to put some food to Join with me in this effort, with the -|distinct understanding that In so dolug :heir work with their own_or: | sunizations shall not sufter or be in terfered with. | Business also, Asks for 300 Voices. An inspection of the premises gives | “@wing. to the conference on limi- | the impression that nothing ne of armaments, which will be|to the cquipment of a first-clu modern hostelry is lacking, while in- op. fetel jtormation from Mias Mary A, Lindsley, | o sarden for outdoor |has a small parlor or lounge com. Zer dinner and supper parties. Situated on | fortably and cheerfully equippad, Ithe same lot i the small bungaiow | where Euests may chat, sew "o get ; used for the Blue Trangle information |up a table or two of bridge. Iivery [EtrsalaclyRmsetal S ana NG et ice. during the war, and after|floor has a shampoo basin. any or all unattended women Who|November 1, the hotel will take pes-| The woman who must bring young visit the city. Session of 'this and turn it inw 7| children with her, Miss ley Just Four Rales. tea-room and place for meotings and | noints out, need only take the lattsrs ¢ eveninz entertaiuments, including | clothes. Sich a guest will find ava'l- axbeiestablishiment g::-::ls Just f.‘:‘:f' small dinners. lable not only & sunny and thoroushly mitted. No pets, no musical instru-} jfauippedinursersabntislsoihe Becys ments and no Uipping ct P 1 cer-| ther three. Men, howev ol Cheerfulness Keynote. nly parmitted, but are encouraged to| managemn :ters| Cheerfulness is the keynote of the i 2 ¢ \'3“ llhemselvesnof n‘-c dining roomto thesc to | documl:'unshlhrmlghr.ml,d 1?? run rhe o - { work. with y r my services jand other first floor feature: which ! wash ou nd ‘ess Lh to bright chintzes, tinted walls and ry. The same coloists will appear|gratuitously as I have done for the include a biz lobby, an imposing|and for this pase b things. Every bed in _cach evening. These have beenipust sixteen years. Rehearsals areilounge 112 by 45 feet in size, and the!inz room on h flong s tnsaged by Mr. Wrightson from New | held every Wednesday evening at|usual cigar and newsstand. {charge being made f York, the names of wliom appear in 5 o'clock. Do not walt for the sec- | pecial teatures already existing or{tubs and clectr t circular letter quoted below rehearsal, come to the first. I!lpjanned Include @ roof lounge ¢ : 10 h has been sent out to the sing-|ask for a chorus of 500 voices.” with awnings, a beauty parlor, a ers in the city. It is the finest or: - CENSUS MAKES REPORT. torio quartet that has ever been rought to Washington. Half of Foreign-Born Men in D. C. Are Naturalized. Large Chorus Wanted. A large chorus is wanted for this R Approximately half the foreign born men twenty-one years of age 's_presentation, and Invitations in Washington are natural- | er cent on that investment wi he maximum return sought. Anot was to provide an opportunity kome economics graduates to learn the hotel busineas by in each of the different d 1 Special Singers Secured. | The special solo parts are to be | T« cial quartet of singers York—Grace Kern soloist of St. Bartholos s Church in New York: Frieda Klink, Mezzo-contralto, touring this season with the New York Symphon: Ji n House, tenor, also soloist rtholomew’s Church and the [vle Emanuel, and Fred Patton, bharitone, who sang at last se ah. par d by the | PATS blic to have an opportunity of hear- z this work, it has been decided i ion at this time, the city, will be crowded with foreign representa- ves from the . different Iuropean apitals, where every ar a perform ance of “The Messiah” is heard b; them and considered almost & na | tional “cvent. So that our perform ances shall in no way suffer by com- on 1 have engaged as soloists for evenings the finest quartet of oratorio singers procurable “in_the _decided [ country, afl of New York. an season to give it on two even-|should comsider it a privilege to sing oth performances will be freeli, a chorus with such a remarkable public, the first ever h will be distr | lrx thia impulse eve: Tem. combine h Finery. t hotels have ) the itiation fee of $1 is charged of preparing thi erved for permanent gussts. pusing committee, of Wwhich hsent from men, < get together,” and to| g O 0= The Light That Fails Haven't you been reading nights and ve been issucd to all the singers Washington who care to take part this performance. In an appeal to all singers, who are iierested in helping make this work success, Director Wrightson s T am endeavorinz to gather around for my chorus all who have ng nder my direction for the past se: teen vears. I am anxious. if possible, duce all the prominent singers in hington to co-operate with me, to ke a broad-minded stand in this the bureau announced. had taken out their first papers in January. 1920. Nearly | {three thousand had made no move :toward becoming American citizen: yuatter and sing in this chorus. as all | while the citizenship status of 1,639 tie leading singers in other cities do{was not reported. 4 i for the rendition of “The Messiah.”| The_proportion naturalized in 1920, naturalized, while 1 “I Want the Most for My Money" 1 ask the choir directors of other|was 55.4 per cent of the total foreign ! musical organizations in the city tolborn twenty-one years of age and| suddenly find that your eyes werce urge the members of their chorus ov smarting? Yes! Surely and pos- Is a statement that is often made to our s#lesmen and sibly you thoughbt you were get- ting old, when it really was the unsatisfactory light from a hang- ing fixture. usually followed by the question—“Now, tell me what rug I shall buy.” There’s always one answer, when the question is put to us so directly as this—and that is ¢ Wilton. A real Wilton will give you more real wear per dollar expended than any other rug you can buy. Made of yarn dyed wool or worsted and so woven that they are practically impossible to wear out. Wil- ton rugs will last and last and last. The soft rays of a floor lamp make reading easy and will keep you away from the oculist—besides making your room more attrac- Royal Bengal Oriental Rug Reproductions tive. As usu.a.l——you'll find the best-looking lot of lamps in Washington at the Lifetime Furniture Store. Are the most faithful reproduc- tions of the handmade Orientals to be had. They~ possess the unlimited color- ings, the depth of pile and the lustrous ‘sheen of the rugs from the Orient, whose cost is four or five times greater. We show these faithful repro- ductions in several sizes— and invite your inspection. Mayer & Co. 15 Seventh St. between D & E As usual, you'll find these fine rugs at Mayer’s Lifetime Furniture Store—rich in colors, fine in texture'and practically lifetime in wear. Expensive? Not a bit of it, when you count years of service. There’s a fine one waiting to be shown you at $85.00. Seventh Street Mayer &9 Co. Between DG E JJFE TI Seventh Street Mayer @ CO. Betwecn DG E oA e, e RNITURE NT 1 | 1 | i | | | H ¥ T AT A AR [T i ilifli Once Upon a Time “No, They'’re Not Haviland” And not so very long ago people never thought of reed or wicker furniture except for outdoor use. Now, it is just the oppo- site. We have made the finish so good and attractive now that it is a most desirable furniture for living rooms. “Main 2826, Please” *#Hello. Is this the Lifetime Furniture Store? I have just read r advertisement, and I that an artistic telephone stand is a wmle lot better than having the telephone sitting on the window sill, the hall rack-or the radiator. *Can you send me one in mahogany?—VYes?—Well, if you have so many styles as all that, I think I’lrcome down tomorrow and select one to match my furniture. Thank you, so much.” —And we can match your furniture, too, with one of these convenient little stands, so you, too, please come down. ‘Mayer & Co. Seventh Street Between D & E > But they have copied the designs of the finest of China makers and applied them to this good, serviceable American China. The designs are beautiful,. the shapes excellent and they will wear fine. : They make.the finest sort of dinner sets for everyday use, and have the same appearance of the finest of Chind, and yet arg quite ‘reasonable in price. TFor instance, a dinner set oft fifty pieces is only $14.75. : ' Surprised to-know we carry dinner scts? Yes, and there are lots . of things that you never knew we had—so come in and see, & ¥ . Instead of the old hard bottoms we have spring cushions and all upholstered in fine tapestry to harmonize with your other living room furniture.. Made .in; mahogany or walnut finish—it is a most desirable furniture for the living room. - It will take only 4 few minutes to see it—we'll show you cheer- fully—and you’ll like the little rocker at $14.75. EAEN ¥ s Mayer & Co. e 5288 _ oy Mayer & Co, semmoor -