Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1922, Page 19

Widow Is Left $30.000 and Home |, and such may elect. | MeL\CHLEN WILL FILED. at Los Angeles. Calif. len, dz\tcd O fled for widow, Mrs e hlen, 000, the Niouse at Los \ng\.lea Calif. 4 Washington 62 Yeqrs Ago—in 1860, household effects as Qxe The remaining estate is Eugene, devised in trust to three sons, Eugene H., John M. and Lanier P. McLach- ."with tmstructions to pay the-met |- In(-cmc to the wife during her life. On_the death of Mrs. McLachlen W. Goldney and Mary B. Allen. ha résidue of lhe estate is then to'the timber throughout. ho been dlscov:red b) neer. He “vaccinates” of water. \ ® o The Reminiscences of D. C. Olds, Esq. OUNG man, it is difficult for you to' realize it, but the fact is that in those eve-of-the-Rebellion days of over threescore years ago,. I numbered among my friends several clderly gentlemen who recalled Gen. Washington. especially remember Noble Hurdle and Christian Hines, who was seven years the junior of the first-named. Christian Hines went to see the White House when it was just rising above the basement story, and the workmen and little Hines, as well, bought cakes in a nearby frame build- ing. At this time there was not a single house between the President’s and the Capitol, and many acres of magnificent for- est trees bordered Pennsylvania avenue on what is now the promenade side. There were no drugstores in town, few grocer- jes, ard a country fair was spread on the grounds of the Smithsonian, The first city tav- ern was Bet’st—so Christian Hines told me with his own lips. ‘This hostelry, with its swinging sign of the Black Horse, occu- pied an old two-story house be- tween 13th and 14th streets. Hines informed me that he saw Gen. Washington sailing up the Potomac and disembark- ing in Rock Creek, where there were semi-circular steps leading up the bank to his nephew Thomas Petet’s home. - My an- cient friend saw our first Presi- dent for the last time a year before his death, when he cross- ed the river from the Virginia shore on a ferryboat at a point’ near the Aqueduct bridge, and then walked down Water street, Georgetown, through rows of citizens who, like himself, un- covered. The Georgetown Col- lege boys were in line: Their blue coats and red waistcoats quite took the fancy of my friend, Christian Hines. When the Father ‘of Our Country crossed Rock Creek bridge to enter the house of his nephew the volunteers fited a compli- mentary volley. You will pardon me, my good young modern sir, for ventur- ing to say-that I lament the passing, or let us hope, the tem- porary interruption, of those gentle courtesies that mellowed our existence sixty-two years ago, as well as during the youth of old Christian Hines. No mat- ter how fatigued a stage pas- senger to Georgetown might be, he, would not dream of sitting while a woman stood in the swaying coach; and the weather rainy, he would, with a bow and a doffing of his hat, climb to an outside seat, and relin- quish his inside seat for the newly arrived lady passenger, no matter how uncomely her features. It may even be true that you can recollect how, in, the days of your own childhood, it was uncommon for an able- bodied young government clerk on a street car to become pas- sionately absorbed in the racing columns of his newspaver while +a woman swayed directly in front of him, I know that times have changed, and certain Amazonian females have overdone the equality cf the sexes, yet I admit that it vexes me to watch zrowmz boys who calmly remain seated in the trolley cars and gaze without tremor at an old lady—or a- young lady— whq is standing. . Sixty-two years ago we found time to bow to our acquaintances, and to murmur a “Thank vou!” to the dry eoods clerk and the floor- walker. Nor did we omit to soeak a word of greeting' to the colorcd doorkeeper. At the threshold of the war, I saw _Old Beau Hickman dailv fluctuat- nmversaw ' a' es g —Start Monday eLE ing between Downing’s Restaurant and the reception room of the Senate. I used to pitv the poor old played-out gallant, with his fierce waxed mus- taches, his ragged blanket-coat, his walking stick, his borrowed boots, his spotted btown necktie, and his gorgeous figured waistcoat. Some one said of Beau Hickman that “he foueht age step by step." He came to Washington in the hey- - day of the southern domination, and dressed in the summit of ‘splendor. I think it was rather cruel to call him “a dauntless outcast tod timid for a crime.” Often I witnessed the young beaux of my epoch when they made their choicest purchases at Lans- bureh & Brother’s, 1020 7th street, N.W., the oldest drygoods estab- lishment in town, Nowadays, I frequently amuse myself in the course of my morning . promenade with my beloved rose- wood cane (a gift, by the way, of my- dear friends, Gustavc and ]ame.r say, by exploring ai that vorite shop of my youth, where the gen aly ‘salesmen gmtcd‘ me with a ‘smde and a bow in 1860, and -whete, in 1922, the unbroken cour-/ tesies of :the House continue to be cxtuded,inacharmingmamlcr.not only to your humble servant, but to all who enter the new building. 5§ bevequall) distributed mong the nvel Lanier, MANY FABING Ll]SS i OF “SICK BENEFITS 8_225,000 ,Monthly May Be “.Cut Off by Controller General’s Ruling. Imbcr has fl. Dmldm engi- . they lving: tree; with one-tenth of a pound of aniline colors dissolved 'in 200 pints This is_sufficient to color Expenditure of $225,000 a month {n compensation benefits to governmeny employes may bo restricted in the \ | future only to “Injurics,” cutting oft 'thosa with “disease.” VThis loomed today as a possibility Iresulung from a ruling of the con- j troller general of the United States 'a‘alnsl the United States Em- ployes' Compensation Commission. The commission has spent $6.670.05 * |illegally, according to ‘Controller Mc- !Carl, and the disbursing officer, A, H. Gardes, who spent the money, is scratching his head, td&" wonder if he will have to wake -good the sum. | This he will have to do if the ais- {allowal is put in force, according to { Commissfoner Charles H. Verrell. { Claims Caused Decision, It all came about through the; u“-ara of & number of claims for com- | pensation, including several to Wash- Iingmnlan«, which the _commission considered’ to be compensable within the law, hut which Controller McCarl held could not be paid under the law. { “It is clear,” said the comtroller in his review, which upheld his original decision_of July 15, disallowing the claims, “that the latter statute con- { templates that compensation shall be vaid for such injuries only as are of |.m -accidental nature, or at least that payment shall be confined to injuries which arc referrable to some partic- ular event capable of belng fixed| in point of time.” | I Employe to Give Neotiee. +i The controller makes this clearer i by quoting the statute under which ! moneys can be paid out by the cam- pensation commission. It says that a nctice shall be given by the em- ploye of the injury and that “this | notice shall state the name and ad- | dress of the emplove, the year, month, day and hour when and the particu- | lar locality where the injury o and the cause and nature of urred | he in- | jury, and shall be signed bv ans ~on-! tain'the address of the person giving | 1 the notice, I Officials of the compensation com- mission are uneasy over the con- troller's retusal the second time to | allow the claims. They say (ht‘)l will take the matter up agsin with him. At the controller's office the record stands that the commission | has spent $6.570.05 that it could, nu(' spend under thie la Tt \ould see! ays the con- i troiler. “that so- ldlled u-cupa[lmml diseases. not duc to accident or to ”m)-p-nmg of a particular event. can- not be bronght Within the terins of | the statuic, but fnal decision ‘on each {of the sevéral cases involved in this' [application for review will be left open for further consideration. ilxould ]mo comhission desire to submit fur- ither cvidence in any case. i Quention Tx Compliented. What the- far-reaching effects Df' this decision might be. Commissioner Verrell of the compensation commis- | sion was not willing to admit today. i Tt was a very complicated question, said, and might be further 'lonluacd | by much discussion. {71t the decision of the controlier means to hold the commissionegs i strictly to the term “Injury” und a re- {port on the exact hour und place to { which_the Injury can_be attributed, some persons said it may go far to re- | strigt_the wmount of help given to! persons who are suffering from dis- ' jease in the government service in Washington. PAVING PLEA MADE. Ccmmxsslnners Asked to Improve Georgia Avenue. l Request that Georgia avenue be {paved as soon as possible from Flori- | ln]'v. avenue to Kenyon street was lajd | i before the Commissioners today by a delegation of citizens headed by A. | 17 Driscoll, president of the Mid- City | {Citizens’ Association. i The committee. which called on the | city heads included Michael Mahaney, {Charles I. Corby, William M. Hender- tt, Dr. D. W, Ise- yion. Vincent L. rgeon, Joseph ! A. Geyer and W. I. Swanton. ; g PAPERHANGER BANKRUPT. Thomas D. George, a_paperhanger fat 500 ith street southwest, today {filed 3 petition in_voluntary bank- {ruptey. He lists his debts at $12.- and estimates his assets at Hec is represented by At- Williams and Bar- | ] torneys Robert nard & Johnson. _(FEENCH REPUBLIC PROPERTY) Natural Alkaline Water i Unexcelled for Jable Use Known and pre- scribed by the Medical Profession for many years as TR’[-DAY SEPTET«ZT.T‘R 23, Every business man needs to be well dressed : MAN who has many impor- . ’ tant things to do must have . clothes that he can have respect - for—clothes that will i inspire respect ( in others Such a man must get the best of style, fine quality, and good service * : Really, all he needs to know - .-~ s, about his clothes js that they j : . are made by Hart Schaffner & Marx Ralelgh Haberdasher 1109-1111 Pemz sylwma Avenue