Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1922, Page 2

* HANNSTAYLORDE AFTER OPERATION Former Minister to Spain Was Authority on Interna- tional Law. HANNIS TAYLOR. Hannis Taylor, former United States minister to Spain. prominent as au- | thor. authority on constitutional and international law, & member of the law faculty of Georgetown Uni- versity, one of the leading members of the District of Columbia bar and rationally and Internationally known, died la night at the Washington Sanatorium following an operation Saturday for Bright's disease He was seventy-one years old. He had been iil for a month. His wife and daughters were at his bedside at the time of his death. Mr. Taylor was appointed minister ta Spain in 1893 and served in that post four vears. He s later coun- for svernment hefore the commission established under the nish American treaty in settiement of the claims arising from the war with Spain. and also served tn al before the Alaska Bounda fssfon. At the close of his diplomatic career he returned 10 Was 1d estub International Law Authority. In his career the bar in this eity Mr. Taylor ained to noted distinction in large matters, especial- 1y as they pertained to international law. He was author of a number of books treating on constitutional and international law and was a accepted upon those sul jects. One first works was a rican ¢ in book in use Prob- ably his greatest w was “International Pullic Law,” whi 1t i said, is more gencrally quo European law wri and p tioners than any other similar work. Other works from the pen of Mr. Taylor were “The Origin and irowth of the American Constitu- tion” and “The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution * He had been honored with honorary | degrecs from eight American uni versities and from the University of Dublin and Edinburgh. A & some af the other more important works of Mr. Taylor there was the Jurisdictlon and Procedure of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Science of Jurisprudence, Due of Law and Equal Pr Born in New Bern, N. C. Taylor of New was born N aw Mr. Bern, XN. September 12 to the bar in 18 years practi Mr. Taylor is he He was admitted 70 and for twent: law in Mobile, survived by his widow two daughters. Mrs. Clay Balley and Mrs eld Hunt, and three gons, Hannis Taylor. jr. Alfred R. Taylor and Charles Tavlor. No announce- ment has been made for the funeral services. Tells of British Ald. ne of the interesting incidents re- two led some time ago by Taylor was an attempt in 1896 of the German emperor to form a coalition of Eu- ropean governments to exert pressure on Spain’'s behalf against the United States, and which Mr. Taylor d elared, was frustrated by Great Brit- ain’s friendship for America, “which eaved us from what would have been the greatest humiliation in our hls- All the details of the story— kind of diplomatic romance’ Taylor said, are contained in is autobiography. appear until after my death. Summarizing the attempt of Ger- many to embarra Mr Taylor saild it was brought to ifght and crushed jn 1898, while the diplomatic corps was at tian, the summer capital. ing actor was the Austrian ambassa- dor, Count Doubsky, the architect ot the whole design.” Mr. Taylor said, “supported by the active sympathy and assistance of the German am- bassador. von Radowitz, a pupil and friend of Bismarck.” Just at the the coalition in ques- tion—designed s a modern version of the holy alliance of 1817i—was about to be consummated. everything was upset by the refusal of Great Britain _to co-operate. “She made it known.” said Mr. Taylor, “in no un- certain terms, that if the attempt was made against us she would stand her whole strength by the side of the United States. “At the psychologleal moment the entire situation was revealed to me by a distinguished British journalist, then living in Spatn, and T lost no time, you may be sure. in communi- cating with my chief, Mr. Olney. then Secretary of State. who gave me his most cordial thanks and congratula- tions.” Mr. Taylor said he never learned of the entire details of the plan, but that he did know “that ut the critical moment Great Britain intervened and saved us from what would have been the greatest humiliation in our history.” moment when SIXTIETH WEDDING DAY IS FOLLOWED BY DEATH Mrs. Hiram Smith Taken I1l After Celebration on Christ- mas Eve. The excitement incident to the cele- bration of her sixtieth wedding an- niversary Christmas eve is believed by relatives to have been a contribut- ing factor in the death yesterday morning of Mrs. Hiram B. Smith of 704 F street northeast. Mrs. Smith, who was seventy-nine vears old, had been in good health prior to her death, but the abnormal activity she experienced in receiving many friends who called upon her on the wedding anniversary was thought by members of the family to have caused a sink- ing spell Monday night. Funeral services will be held at the residence tomorrow morning, at 11 o'clock, by Rev. E. E. Richardson. Interment will be in Congressional cemetery. Mrs. Smith is survived by her hus- band, two children, Mrs. D. R. Moore and Mrs. Salvadore Hobbs; nine grandchildren and five great-grand- hlldrea. shed him- | rk as an author | which “will not | the United States, | 'RAIN IS DUE TODAY, ACCORDING TO TIP OF WEATHER MAN weather will strike the late this afternoon or Rainy District evening, according to the weather bureau, following the two days of fog. which caused 249,000 people who have never been abroad to exclaim 1,000,000 times. “My! It The rain probably will continue through tomorrow morning, with aring ies tomorrow after- noon, the weather bureau said. Some wind will accompany the rain, but the temperature will be well above freezing. Our rain is part of a general storm coming from the south up the Atlantic coast. No immediate return of below freezing tempera- expected tures is here by the w IFATE OF CHINESE ‘ GIRL WITH POLICE (Continued from First Page.) corner to see a friend. She has not been seen since. Word was received yesterday that the prospective bride- {groom, who Is the son of Lee Quon, { president of the Cainese Merchants' Association of New York, was speed- ing to Washiugton. and & marriage license had been obtained for a wed- ding at the Calvary Baptist Church by Rev. A. Freeman Anderson, assist- ant pastor of the church. Friends and relative nf the bride and bridegroom were group-d in the fchurch waiting for the ceremony. { The latter did not show up and the hride continued missing despite preva- {lent belief that she would put in a {dramatic. last-minute appearance. Relatives of the missing girl main- tain that Lee Is not in the city. They iare ev e on this point, however. 1t is understeod that he is stopping here with a friend whom he met while attending college In New York. Brides High in America. The quirks and turns in the romance of Mildred Wen provide material for a potent treatise on Chinese-American life. The Chinese custom Is for the par- ents of the prospective bridegroom to buy the bride. From highest au- thority, it is learned that brides of the best familles of Chinese in America ! have ranged at prices from $2.500 to $3,500. In China. however, they can be bought for only $500, was dis- closed recently to welfare workers in Chinese quarters when they inquired of a Chinese student here why he did not marry an Americanized Chinese girl. Mildred's trousseau is reported to have cost her parents in the neigh- borhood -of $2,500. Naturally, for a time, they had been anxious that she mal use of it, jcording to information reaching in | vestigators, but the independent spirit, bred of American schools, which she attended, has thus far a: rted itself to such a degree that the parents are willing to make the policewoman's {bureau arbiter in the case, and to iablde by the decision of Sergt. Rhoda case the girl is found i Milliken, again. Wil Hear Girl's Side. Policewomen again are attempting to locate Mildred in Washington. It has been made clear, however, that their efforts are based upon the un- derstanding that they will have the opportunity to listen to the girl's side of the story und to take such actlon as wiil be just and falr to both the girl and to her parents. George Wen. the uncle of Mildred, announced that he had withdraw his reward of $300 for her recovery and also stated that he intends to cancel the marriage license. On all sides there is reluctance in speaking about the affair. {Mre. Wen, mother of the girl, is in a | nervous state again as the result of !the second disappearance. Mildred {is belleved to be in Washington still, i but it is thought that she will await ! definite information that Lee has { abandoned his intention of marrying | her and returned to New York before { she returns home the second time. She has attained. it seems, that in- {dependence of thought and _&pirit {which enabled her to stand her { ground regarding the self-selection iof a husband. As far as can be Jearned. she 18 belleved to be with some female friends, who are uphold- | Ing her in the stand she is taking. ALL CHINATOWN AGOG. | Celestials Reluctant to Discuss Wedding Fiasco With Outsiders. By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK. December twisted streets of Chinatown are | pulsing with subdued gossiping since | Miidred Wen, nineteen-year-old Chi- nese “flapper.” ran away from her Washington home on the eve of her | wedding to George Num Lee, scion jof one of the best Chinese families of | New York. The first thrill came when word assed that Miss Wen had re- 27.—The | was turned to her home and that George Tee—whose father is president of Tong in the United ?7 her on the first terday morning. the On Leong States—had rushed t: Washington train yes! Then, along about noon almond- | ev tants of Mott street con- SCTD ee home, at No. gregated about the L o Baw two black, shiny wardrobe trunks unloaded and lugged up five Winding fiights of stairs, by truck- men of the Canton Transfer Company. Boldly across the end of each trunlk, in brave red letters, was the legend, “M. Wen.” Tong Chief on Move. The trousseau had arrived, but still no bride. A little while later, Lee Quon, tong chieftain and prospective father-in-law, hurried from the house and—according to neighbors— took & train for Washington. s ave added sweep to the o fhat the Amerlcanized Mil- dred Wen had put her tiny foot down {on the Chinese tradition that a bride { ust go to her husband, and had I delivered an ultimatum that there Would be no wedding unless it was aolemnized in her home in Washing- fon. Then again came news of the Chinese girl's second disappearance. The elder Chinese of Mott, Pell and Doyers strects, masking what- over emotions they may have had behind imperturable ~faces. shook their heads and kept stony silence be- fore the little army of reporters that in- vaded their city within a city. Members of the younger generation were less reserved, but still could not 2dd much to the story of the disap- pointed bridegroom and the uneaten wedding fea Thousands Spent on Jewels. All they knew was that George Num Lee had expected his bethrohed to arrive on Christmas eve and that she did not; that thousands of dollars had been spent on_ewels for the bride and for a_ wedding feast, but that| the jewels had not yet found a place on Mildred Wen's comely figure and the wedding feast was still unserved. There were several stories concern- ing the cause of the mix-up, but no one could say which was the true story. One was that Miss Wen had merely gotten mixed on her dates, having figured by the Chinese cale; dar instead of the Gregorian calen- This would explain why she did not arrive, for the wedding, as there is three days’ variation this year in the two calendars. But it does not ex- plain why she ran away from home. ‘Another story, taking account of her sudden disappearance, has it that Miss Wen—a thoroughly American- ized “flapper.” with bobbed hair and occidental turn of mind—had disap- peared merely to register her inde- pendence. Still a third had it that she was registering disapproval of the Chinese custom which makes a bride go to her husband, instead of waiting for the husband to come for her. T HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNE WHERE CHRISTMAS PARTY WAS HELD FOR CHILDREN OF EMPLOYES OF TH o S DAY, DECEMBER 27, 192 FINDDISCREPANCY N URDER STORY Louisville Police Study Case of Woman Who Sat All Night With Man’s Body. By s Associated Pross LOUISVILLE, Ky.. December 27.—The air of mystery surrounding the shoot- ing of O. L. Black in the apartment of Mrs. Olive L. Jones, divorcee, had been increased today by facts uncovered by police department investigators. Mrs. Jones, who claims she fired in self defense, faces a charge of murder. Officlals declared impartant points in the woman's account of the tragedy had been contradicted. : tering police headquarters eari Monday morning, Mrs. Jones told offi- cers she shot Black late Sunday aft- ernoon. following a quarrel, and watched ul! night over the body, un- able to summon courage to call police Woman Wasx Chéerful. The woman apparently was in her usual cheerful mood beiween 11 and 1216 o'clock Sunday night. William Hix=on, nineteen. who accompanied Clara, the seventeen-year-old daugh- ter of Mrs. Jones and C. H. Jones of Ciniennati, her divorced husband. home from a picture show. Mrs. Jones declared following her surrender that she was in a hysterica! condition dur ing the night and fainted seve time. Investigators also intimated that the discovery of a piece of looped wire outside the window. near which the body was found, was considered of importance. The wire, together with marks believed to have been caused by shoe nails, indicated a possibility that Black was shot in another room from the one in which the body was found, and raised or lowered through, the window, it was sald. Mrs. Jones’ former husband declar- ed in Cincinnati yesterday that prior to the shooting plans had been made for the remarriage of the divorced couple on January 1. He reiterated his statement thut he would stand by Mrs. Jones throughout the case. Showed Interest in Plcture. According to the officers, Hixson accompanied Clara. daughter of Mrs. Jones, and Jones, home from a motion picture theater on Sunday night. The couple arrived at the Jones’ apart- ment about 11 o'clock, police say Hix- son told them, and the young man remained until just after midnight. Clara entered the room where, ac- cording to the story told by her mother, Black’s body, covered with his overcoat and screened by a row of chairs, was resting, more than once while he was at the Jones' apartment, officials say Hixson de- clared. On one occasion, according to his account, mother and daughter were in the room together, while Clara changed her shoes for slippers. When told, In answer to an inquiry, that the couple had witnessed a show- ing of “The Woman Who Fooled Her- self,” Jones displayed interest, Mr: Hixson =ald, and the picture was dis- cussed at length. Officials point to Hixson's account of his call as an important contradic- tion of the account of her death watch given by Mrs. Jones, in which she declared she was hysterical and unable to summon courage to call police. EX-MAYOR FIGHTS EXTRADITION WRIT IN LAKE MURDERS (Continued from First Page.) few years ago by a resident of Mer Rouge, the town and parish got their names from a Kentuckian and a Spanish nobleman. In 1806, when Spain owned what is inow the state of Louisiana, a Spaniard, Baron de Bastrop, was said to have obtained from Spain a contract to the effect that when he had induced 500 familles to settle in the country lying north and east of the Ouachita river he would acquire ownership of twelve leagues of land, or about 1,000,000 acres, for his service. To help n the fulfillment of this contract, Baron de Bastrop is credited with having enlisted the services of Abraham Morehouse, a Kentuckian. In turn Mr. Morehouse is said to have arranged with Capt. Josiah Daven- port, a native of Rhode Island, to assist him in the colonization work. Settlers were brought from other sections of the United States to de- velop the country. The parish was created by an act of the legislature in 1844 and shortly thereafter the parish seat was established at two cross roads. It was decided to name the gl‘fllh “Morehouse” in honor of ‘Abraham Morehouse, e the parish seat was named “B: p” In homor of Baron de Bastrop. 2 v . v Reform Leadc.r Victim Of Pneumonia Attac]xl WILBUR F. CRAFTS. WILBljR F. CRAFTS PNEUMONIA VICTIM (Continued from First Page.) __] commonwealth in the world where prohibition was in force. His father left Maine when Wilbur was twelve years old, partly that his children might pursue studies in the public schools of Massachusetts. Later, in order to secure for his son a college education, the father sent the boy to Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. He completed his theological, oratorical and thetorical training at Boston, Mass. At the age of twenty-six he accept- ed a pastorate in the west and be. came, with his wife, a younger asso- clate’ of such men as D. L. Moody. B. F. Jacobs, John Heyl Vincent and William Reynolds. Following ~this schooling as a pastor, he returned e: and worked with Henry Ward Beech- er and T. De Witt Talmage in New | York's religlous circles. Five years later he went to Pittsburgh and en-’| gaged in reform work. In 1895 he set- tled for the remainder of his life in the National Capital. where he con- ducted most of his drives against im- mozality. Author of Thirty-Eight Books. During his years of activity in this connection Dr. Crafts wrote thirty- eight hooks, all of which reached at least their second edition, and one of which, “Successful Men of Today,” has had 50,000 coples printed. He toured Europe extensively during his career, going there first in 1873 as a sightseer and afterward four times to Europe and once to all five con- tinents as an international reformer. He sought on these tours chiefly to protect native races against rum and opium Illustrative of the accomplishments which he and the Reform Bureau re- ceived credit for having initiated were the following acts of Congress, the bill for which were introduced at Dr. Crafts’ request: Glilett act, to break up “divorce colonies” in territories; Wellington amendment, to limit divorce to one cause only in the District of Colum- bia; Broderick act, to increase penalty for the seduction of girls under twenty-one in the District of Colum- 1bla; Hepburn act, to prevent impor- tation and exportation of obscene matter; Smith-Lodge amendment, to prohibit oplum traffic in the Philip- pines; Teller amendment, to close, by “contract,” gates of the St. Louls ex- position on the Sabbath; sama “con- tract” for Jamestown exposition: Johnson anti-canteen amendment; RBowersock amendment, to suppress lquor-gelling in immigrant stations; Gallinger amendment, to forbid liquor selling in old soldlers’ homes; Hum- phrev act, to facflitate the use of faderal liquor tax receipts as evi- dence. Gillett act, to forbid sales of liquors. opium and firearms by American traders in the Pacific islands having no civilized movernment: the Lodge Senate resolution favoring the inter- national treaty to forbid the selling of liquors #nd oplum to uncivilized races; the Sims amendment, forbid- ding racetrack gambling in the Dis- trict of Columbia; Rodenberry-Sim- mons act, forbldding interstate ship- ment of prizefight films; the Kenyon red light injunction law; Porto Rico prohibition referendum amendment; war prohibition (bill was drawn by bureau superintendents and Senator Norris and approved by the Senate agricultural committee, January 1 1915, but this Senator Sheppard changed on the request of the Presi- dent in final draft). None of these laws has been set aside by the courts, it was pointed out. He has helped promote many other “good” laws and helped de- feat “bad” ones. Dr. Crafts has only recently an- nounced plans for the erection at 2d street and Pennsylvania avenue south- east, of a great ‘reform_temple,” to serve as headquarters of the Inter- national Reform Bureau, and he was erigaged In pushing & campaign for funds with which to carry out the project at the time of his death. | cAMOUFLAGED RUM CARRIERS AND FANCY FLASKS DE_NOUNCED (Continued from First Page) gifts, and they are willing to pay a high' premium to secure something which s better, unique and more pic- turesque than any one else can show. It is the open sale of these artcles that has alarmed the people here who are fighting to compel the strict ob- servance of the prohibition law. These silver and gold flasks go only to people who can afford to pay for their whims. Reports of reform or- ganization field agents show that the sale this holiday season has not been confined to the big cities. en in the smaller towns and villages the windows of the jewelry establis ments and the novelty shops ha been jummed with articles of this character. And the cost—well, here are a few instances Sells for $650. A beautiful pigskin leather brief case. the outside tooled with an elabo- rate deslgn and with three initials neatly monogrammed just above the lock. Inside three square bottles of ham- mered silver with screw tops, lined with gold, the front adorned with a raised monogram in gold to match the one on the outside of the case. Each had been hammered out by hand—the work of days—and the corners protected with a_filagreed gold adornment which stood out like lace work on the smooth bright sur- face. The case was designed to carry three quarts of liquor and its cost was $650. A half dozen flasks of every shape and size, all made of the most costly materfals and exquisitely monogram- med, each gold lined and more than half of them having cunningly devised golden cups set into the bot tom. A few of these were small, just big enough to it into the vest pocket or into the change purse of the modern woman's vanity case, and holding but a single drink. Cocktail shakers of a kind never dreamed of when John Barleycorn and his forces moved openly in the best soclety, some even made so that the mixture could be carried in them without spilling, all ready to have the ice mixed in and fmmediate serv- ice assured. There also was on hand with this displuy full-page advertisements from various magasines, which cater ex- clusively to the “smart set,” setting forth where “medicine cases” could be obtained {n gold and sflversmiths’ establishments in New York, Chicago and other of the larger cities. Trade Denounced. There is no law to ‘prevent the manufacture and sale of articles of this sort. That fs one reason why the men Who oppose the trade are hopeful they will be able to Initiate a boycott which will compel those dis- playing them to relegate them from the show windows to the shelves and to keep the advertisements out of the magazines. “This trade 1s abominable,” declared one of the men planning the war on it. “If the people of the United Statos, the Christian people who are opposed to liqor, realized just what a tempta- tion it is for persons owning such ac- cessories to violate the law, they would withdraw their trade from every one who encourages it. Why, we have records here that show fathers and mothers have bought flasks of this sort for thelr daughters and their sons. They have paid enor- mous sums for elaborate silver and gold contalners decorated with pre- cious stones. And they have done this knowing that the use of these was| possible only in violating the supreme law of the land. “What is the use of the President and his cabinet, the governors of the states and the law officlals of the country publicly announcing an in- tention of enforcing the law while the open sale of the very materials usable only to violate it goes on everywhere? If moral suasion will not prevent this traffic then more stren: ous methods must be put into vogue. (Copyright, 1922.) SEEK MISSING SON. Harry and Ida Moses, 1452 Clay ave- nue, Bronx, N. Y. have written to The Star asking assistance in their efforts to locate their son, Milton Moses, who disappeared from home December 13. He is reported to have said he was coming to this city on a freight train. When he left home his wearing ap- parel included a light brown overcoat, gray cap and tan shoes. CHILDREN PRESENT PLAYS. 0 plays by the department of childhood of the Trinity Community House, 3@ and C streets northwest, were well recelved last night, and the little performers did exceptional- ly well. Under the direction of Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, director of the Association of Theater Arts, the casts for “The Dream Maker’ and “The Bag of Dreams” were perfected, and the children were trained by Vic- tor xum-y. formerly with Robert m. mrlon Ql.ut; ;fld suaora ttler starred in ormer DIy and Judy Leath and Marion Davis in the Iatter. X e e | all | GEN. M. J WRIGHT DIES AT AGE OF 91 {Was Prominent Confederate Leader of Civil War—Na- tive of Tennessee. Former Brig. Gen. us Joseph Wright, Confederate leader and au- thor, died eariy this morning at his residence. 1743 Corcoran street north- {west. He was ninety-ore vears old and died from hurdening of the ar- |teries. Previous to his death Ger Wright was one of two Confederat brigadier generals of the civil war, the other one being Gen. Felix Robertson of Waco, Tex M from | common schools and nessee. later practic tered the arm. lin May. 1861, as 1 3 : as 1 colone of the 154th Tenne: % was promoted to brigadier - the following year. - ; S Prio= to the war he FNEAZ e e engaged in teaching for a number of years, and Wwas assistant purser of the United States navy vard at Memphis, Tenn. He was s equently clerk of the common law and chancery court of that city. During the war he was en- gaged in the battles of Belmont, Shi- loh. Perryville, Chickamauga and Misstonary Ridge. He was twice wounded ~during varfous cam- paigns. Camp Named in His Honor. In the spring of 1861 he garrisoned the and fortified Randolph, on the Mis- sissippl. which. in honor, was later named Fort Wright. He then served one year as adjutant general on the taft of Maj. Gen. B, F. Cheat- am. Following the war, he held the office of sheriff of Shelby county! Tenn., for two vears. He was ap- pointed agent for the War Depart- ment In Washington for the collec- tlon of Confederate records July 1, 1878. He held this office continuously until several years ago, when he was forced to retire on account of ill health. As an author. Gen. Wright wrote Among these were “Life of Gen. Win- field Scott.” “Life of Gov. William istory of McNalry County, ketch of the Life of the Duke of Kent” “The Social Evolu- tion of Women” and “Sketches of Confederate Generals” in Appleton's Cyclopedia of American _Biography. He also was co-editor of “Memolrs of Gen. Robert E. Lee” with Gen. A. L. Long, “Library of American His- tory”; wrote “General Officers of the Confederate Army,” “Colonel David Crockett of Tennessee,” “Life of Gen- eral John Peter Muhlenberg™ “Tennessee in the War of 1861-1866." Member of Civic Socleties. Gen. Wright was twice married, first wife being Martha Spencer ElcTr!: of Memphis, and his second and sur- viving wife, Pauline Womack of Ala- bama. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, Southern Historlcal Association, president Southern Historical Society, member ‘Washington Historical Society, hon- orary member Alabama Historical So- clety, and member of the Order of ‘Washington. Surviving him, besides his wife, are four children, Col. John Wright, U. S, A., stationed here; Marcus Wright of California, Howard Paul Wright, spe- cial agent for the Department of Jus- tice, and Mrs. Pauline Casey Dinwid- die of this city, and four grandchil- dren. Funeral arrangements have not been completed, but it is expected that services will be held tomorrow, followed by interment in Arlington cemetery. —_— CORONER ORDERS PROBE. Seeks More Facts in Death of Jo- seph Colinsky From Gas Poison. Joseph Colinsky, sixty vears old. who was found in his room. at 708 Thode Island avenue, yesterday morn- ing suffering from the effects of il- luminating gas, died at Emergency ‘Hospital last night. Coroner Nevitt has asked the police for a special re- ort in the case. He thinks the gas . the room was turned on acci- dentally. Mrs. Colinsky, who was also affected by the gas, is expected to recover. e POLICE RAID CAFE. Police of the first precinct and rev- enue agents created a ripple of ex- citement yesterday afternoon, when they ralded the Venice Caf, 612 9th street, and arrested two men, said to ba the proprietors, on charges of illegal possession and selling whisky. The men gave their names as Luigi Porticari and Luigl Laggarinl. Th i Al party beised s small’ quan- :{‘t‘y :’ nllo['ofl intoxicating concoc- .tions. surviving | Gen. Wright was born June 5, 1 at Purdy, Tenn. He was e {Capt. Bénjamin and Martha n (Hicks) Harwell Wright. He = ceived his carly education histories and memoirs of the south. ! and i E STAR!Santa Puts on Big Party For Evening Star Family Tree, Jazz and Refreshments Hit Kid- dies and Grown-Ups Where They Like It. BY W. H. CLAGETT. Backward, oh, backward Time turn in thy flight, And make me a kid again Just for a night! Dear Folki Now that the local board of conceed- ers has officially announced that never before in the history of the little old District of Columbia has the joyeous Yuletide season been more fittin'ly ob- served by all classes and kinds than in the prrsent anno domini, I sure think it's In order to add, that if there be any happler kiddles in all of our in- comparable seven-by-ten-mile-square than them belongin' to the 450 men and wommin attached to The Evening and Sunday Star, they'd better be look- ed after or they'll burst from jublla- tion! | The sisslin’ torpedo of good cheer which has been kissin’ the surface around the big Eleventh street buildin® ever since December 14 struck fts ob- Jective and exploded last night. when every blessed youngster connected in any way with members of the “Star family,” together with them poor un- fortunate kidless employees. hobnobbed with old Santa Claus for more'n three hours! ‘Twas a red letter night for the Star folks! By special orders from the heads of the paper, Col. C. Fred Cook, Christmas tree expert, who for thirty vears has fiddled with intricket news problems, and Hi Henry Han- ford, the company's prince of ar- rangers, had been workin® their heads off preparin’ for the entertainment, and when the little army of embryo reporters, compositors, pressmen and stereotypers got a squint at their efforts, you can take It ffom me there was some lusty cheerin’! To start with, the entire south end of The Evening Star Club's spaclous quarters on the eighth floor of the buildin’ had been transformed into a miniature Mount Vernon by Clifford Lanham, the District’s painstakin’ superintendent of trees and parkin’, who had generously dug deep into his own stores of equipment! In the cen- ter of the beautiful scene, which in- cluded real hones'-to-goodness lakes, trains, old mills, dancin’ | railroad pickinnies, spoonin’ colonials, and the | Lord knows what, all goin’ like forty, the biggest, hugest Christmas tree ever set up In this neck of the woods! It was Norway spruce. ped clean from Maine, especially for the big blowout, and measured a full foot through its base and stood ex- jactly 360 inches in its stockin’ feet! Scenes Greeted With Surprise. Its mighty boughs drooped under 1> “struin of bushels of scintilatin® Christmas tinsels and myriad lights, i colored and Incandescent, that bedeck- led every available twig. and as them iin charge had been told by George ezo, they could go the limit with janything from the stock of the Con- tinental Electric Supply Company, it's superfluous to add that the scene was {most dazzlin’! The whole settin’ wis backed with an elaborate drop of the dear old Potomac, which was installed with the compliments of Woodward & Lothrop To the jazziest of jazz music the big doors “swung open at 7 o'clock sharp, and honex’, folks, if you could have heard the “Ohs” ahd “Ahs” that Lurst from the tender throats of them happy kiddies as they caught their first glimpse of the magnificent out- lay. you. too, would have recalled the Lines at the top of this colyu Willin' hands immediately formed ithe tiny visitors into long lines, and | with perfect order all hands proceed- ed to the bridge in front of the mani- moth tree and then descended at the far end to be greeted by Carl Her- man Braatz from the Central TUnion Mission. who needed no make- up to convince all he was Santa Cla; and showered with presents :n ho: of_the occasion! The most difficult part of the pro- cedure was to coax the happy young- ers to leave the entrancin’ scene! r minute!” cried one little one as she clung to the railin’! “I don’'t want no ice cream!” bel- lowed another. “I wants to watch the fishes swim And o it went all evenin'® O’ course. ino turnstile record was kept, but it wouldn't be exaggeratin’ none to say that fully 600 young ones, with as many more grown-ups, enjoved the thrills of The Evening Star party! A Happy Commingling. And 1 say grown-ups advisedly. for there were no old folks in that hall last night! And. touchin’, indeed, was it to note the true heartfelt expres- sions on the faces of workers grown {gray in the service, as they frollicked land kidded with their children and | grandchilare: Oh, they were all there, from editor- n-chief ‘down to the rookiest copy boy, and all I can hear as I set scrib- ever pulled by The Star!” I ain’t no socfety editor, but I couldn’t help tabbin’ some of the old-timers present! Here was Clif Berryman, with stalwart son, James, now with the paper, breakin' the glad tidin's to Alec Cowell, veteran of thirty-two ars standin’, that Harry (Rambler) annon, Jack Smailwood and John Martin, The Star’s disabled, were all doin’ nicely and would soon be OK | ! There was handsome Harry South land, unmatchable foreman of the composin’ room, who first donned jumpers back in 1887, reminiscin’ with his chief assistant, Joo Whyte, another old-timer, while over in a adjoinin’ groun, Gus Bruehl, who be- gan by sellin' Stars in 1874, and has worked for the paper ever since, was recallin’_sweet bygones with Doc Berner, Tke Field, Tom Harlow and Col. Shinn. Over yonder could be seen -Dick Brown. the doughty foreman of the stereotype room, talkin’ his head off to his brother Joe and “Pop” Gal- braith. Dick joined the force a few days after the Monitor fit the Mer- rimac, havin' saw service on the former, and is proud of his record! { And still further over was little Guy Collins! You know Guy, down in the business office! The scene affected Guy turrible, and_he stood chirpin’ to Col. Leroy Herron, advertisin’ menager, born and bred on the paper, he recalied many early Christmases when he done the then “big swing”— Alexandria, Bladensburg and Ana- costia—recitin’ the old jool, “The Other One Was Booth™! And what would a Star party be without 1. William Galt Burns, who “From Press to Home With- gets ‘'em in the Hour”; Big Bill Fenton, the hefty head of the pressroom; Lee Cox. the unbeatable veteran ' copy cutter, or our old friend, Carl Stod- der, who's dished out pay rolls and change for more'n forty years and never made a error—yeppe, they were all present, as Scott were Walker, Doran McCarthy, Roy_Cor- alsh and Ben Wood, vin, Jimmy W the. -up lads, and the paper's classy make a whole mess of others! Some Droppers Im. Oh, yaas! Gideon Lyon, Philander Johnson, ack’” Messenger, Gould Lincoin, “Bill” Kennedy, Ollie Kuhn, Sheldon Cline, Charlie Tracewell, Ben McKelway, Bill Landvoigt, Russ Young, Bill Wheatley and Danny Ring all dropped in to get @ bit o “gtmosphere” and say “Merry Christ- mas,” while Miss Nannie Lancaster and Mrs. Sallie Pickett chaperooncd the young wimmin, and, take it from me, The Star has s-o-m-e young wimmin! ‘Headed by their old favorite city editor, Charlie Keller and “Pop” Fleming, the whole reportorial staff was here, there and everywhere, while just to show there was no ill fama, please lemme stay one more | while still a third | proudly boasted his buddy that “this has been my trip to the bridge!” ! blin’ this is, “The best Christmas party | when “Pop” Harry carries these days, as lo golfitis! Why, certainly the owners present—you betcha!-—~that §s cept Mister Frank B. Noyves tourin' the world! All others ever, ehowed up early and many a hundshak ~ extended by Messrs. Theodore W. Noves, edito in-chief: Rudolph Kauffmann, ma agin’ editor, who tops the list of service stripe way, looks as rugg 3 to golf—as he did when he Victor Kauffmanr R. Howard, s v , hus: suffers “hrassic fror were 1 ea- who | tart Sandwiched In_ bet these a briga of the on-comin’ generation ol . now aseociate editor; R. M. ki mann. Phil Sam Kauffmann. The dore P. Noyes and Adams Howar All joined in the big doin's, fore the band had struck up “Houw Sweet Home™ it was announced b the game entertainment would be rv peated tonight for the route ki their friends, and tomorrow ever for the colored folks employed by the paper: Congratulations [ happler, healthier re bunch of humans in our go town than them affiliated wi seventy-year old paper, then been my good fortune 1o get a at their photograph’ I thank vou. DOPEY DAN —— BRITISH DECLINE TO RELINQUISH OIL RIGHTS IN MOSUL “ontinued from First Page.) rt It there h vou squir ence, there was no reason why the Egyptians or the Irish should r allowed to present their demar Hear Armenian Plea. The so-called irre i permisgion to t ference and v independence of withdrawal of the In_consequence test the official mee mission was pos! sentatives of th Brit listes who suggested that lished In the northea key, which should incl: Ararat or a gection in ¢ impossible, L declared, posed Armenian home to with the Armenian republ which had been taken over cow soviets, ‘The Armenians willingly mccept the same rel with Turkey as the do England. In concluston, exemption from militars Armenians and urged the orthodox patriarch nople. The entente delegates took menian_petition f the ng of © i | i the under advisement, they did also petitions from the Bu garians and the ancient people know A as the Assyro-Chaldeans. OF GREAT IMPORTANCE. Mosul Oil Fields Wanted by Turks for Loan Security. (By Cable to The Ktar and Chicago Da''v News. Copyright, 1822 LAUSANNE, December 27.—The M sul oil question before the conferer is important because it is someth:: desired by powerful Interests hence, can be exchanged for loan- Disposition of the Mosul oil fields has been the subject of secret nezotis tions, with the exchange of note- To & Turkish note demanding the return of the Mosul oil fields to Tur key through rectifying the Turkish- |Irak (Mesopotamian) frontier, Lord | Curzon replied December 14. In a memorandum accompanied by a Jetter, Curgon gave many reasons why it was impossible for Great Britaln to give up the territory, basing his argu- ment upon the fact that Kurds in the area are in the majority, { numbering 450,000. Further, the Bril- jish let it become known that they i“'nuld not surrender an inch of ter- ritory. but it was intimated that Cur zon verbally informed the Turks that he was ready to return part of the o'l fields if the Birtish rights to the re- mainder were confirmed. Agreement Reported. The Turks want the area north of a line traced from south of Mosul alony ! disputed the mountain ridge to the Persiar |frontier. The most valuable area {Beems to be east of the Tigris. {_ The Turks attempted to refute the Britis argument as to the Kurds by claiming that thesa people are Turks or pro-Turkish. This contention by the Turks was made last Sunda: ! Meanwhile the negotiations con | tinuing In London It i= reported i Lausanne that an agreement has bee reached wher the T s will rec ognize the Dritish oil rights in ex- change for territorial r- | "It is said that Americ {been allotted a 25 per cent s | the exploitation of the Hritixh jdated flelds, and that the Turks | tended to offer the Americans { centage of the ofl productior Turkish territory returned to The Turks say they prefer Am exploitation because the | is not interested politic CANCEL CONTRACT. Commissioners Not Satisfied With Progress on New Bell School. The District Commission ctifications n firms ha\e 1y, rs have nui lifled their contract with the I T | Watts Company for the crection o new Bell School m the tion, it was learned yes noon. According to Danlel E. Garges, sec- retary to the board. the Commissioners {based their action on the ground tha: | work on the building was not progres ing as rapidiy as they believed should. The Commissioners probably will de {clde within a few dars how the stru ture is to be completes POOR LIGHTS FATAL. Inquest Blames Antonelli Death on Inadequate Street Illumination. A poorly lighted street was given n one reason for the fatal accident 1. i o Antonelli, forty-cight years old i 2 rect northeast, who was kille pital Traction car near 2d F streets northeast Saturday night, cording to testimony given at an qffuest at the morgue yesterday afte noon. It aiso was in evidence that because of the dense fog it was necessary for the motorman to drive slowly, and several witnesses told of the ringing of the gong as the car rounded the curve and just before Antonelll was killed. The motorman told of ringing the gong, applyinz the air and reversing the motors as soun as he suw Antonel! approaching the tracks. A verdict of accidental death was reported i The Suburban War. the Smith's cow is in our “Pop, yard."” +“She 18? Run and tell John to g/ a bucket and milk her before she gets away.”