Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1923, Page 7

o . THE .SUNDAY STAR,- WASHINGTON, THRILLING RESCUE IN RIVER PLANNED Coast Guard Exhibitions for Shriners to Be Staged Daily in Potomac. Baviors of life and property at sea, neace-time protectors of the coast of the nation against smuggling and un- lawful entry by way of these sea as personified in the United States coast guard are assembling here today to ' during Shrine week, a display Eive, for the benefit of the visitors from all parts of the nation of the work which a government must perform to protect its people and their property. Coast guard life saving statlons have been established on the banks of the Potomac for drill and for real- \istic rescues, if necessary, showing how these watchers of the coast by and by night keep a lookout for sels and people in distress at sea. xhibitions of the various life-su ing methods employed by the cost guard stations will be glven daily. Every morning, between 10 and 11, the rescue of a shipwrecked crew from a schooner lying in the river will be carried out by use of the line- throwing gun, which fires a projectile ving a life out to the wreck, by ich means the beeches buoy sent out, and the crew of the wrecked vessel safely brought ashore. Boat Drills Inside the tidal muard crew will Y in Basin. basin the carry out their boat drills, such as capsizing Wfebout and righting it in the wa Dem- oustration of the coast guard methods «f resuscitating the apparently drowned will be given on the tidal basin bath- ing beach. In addition to the morning xhibitions there will be an afternoon demonstration at such hours as will not confliet with the various races being held. At the coast guard camp there will be officers and men on duty day and night The camp Koatswain s under the command of (lifesaving) Smith in the Wildwood., N. . aard station. and Boatswain | ving) Moore, officer in charge ape Lookeut station. The gen- supervision of this lifesaving will be under O. M. Maxam. ehief of division of operations, head- auarters, United States coast guard The coust guard camp is now set up, hut the exhibitions will probably not *be pliced on the regular schedule 1 tomorrow addition to the officers and men from shore units of the coast guard | along the the deep seagoing | ships and men will be in charge of | the various activities on the river. The st guard cutters Manning, | Alexander Hamilton and Apache will const Qites: aral coast he stationed at varfous points along the path of the congress of the seas, | and the, patrol of the river will bhe | directed Commander D. F. A. De Otte, captiin of the port of Norfolk | and Hump! Roads, Va., and for- mer supervisor of the harbor of Brest, France, who will direct opera- | tions afloat from the cutter Apache, anchored near the Highway bridge C ter Manning Arrives. | st ard _cutter Manning. | one of the most active ships of the coast guard. has arrived in port and is moored in the Washington channel | just above Haines Point. A platoon 1 of bluejacket infantry from the Man- | ning has been assigned to guard the | ‘Treasury building, and night and day | there will officers and _men on | guard, both to protect the Treasury and to prevent dents and direct visiting hrine The blue: et guard has been installed in barracks fn the Treasury building. Lieut Mandeville and nsign McCabe will be the officers in charge of this guard, The Manning one of the most historic ships of the co: guard. She | was built prior to the Spanish-Ameri- | can war at a cost of $160,000, and has | been in commission ever since, both | in peace and in war. Her performance during four months of a recent vear | resulted in the assistance to vessels | and cargoes in peril at sea valued at ! $13.000,000. She assisted 760 persons | whose lives were in peril, and actually | xaved seven persons from drowning ! during these four months. The practice ship from the Coast | Guard Academy at New London, Conn., the Alexander Hamilton, will| anchor off Haines Point {n the Poto-! mac. The Coast Guard cadets aboard | this' ship will give exhibition drills and the ship itself will be open for visit certain hours. These cadets, who enter the Coast Guard Academy at the age of eighteen, gen- erally bevome commissioned officers at the age of twenty-two. Patrol River at Night. In addition to the larger seagoing cutters, the inshore patrol cutters Patrol Dash and Relief are on con- tinuous duty day and night patroll ing the river for the prevention of | accidents and the enforcement of law. One of these vessels will be sta- tloned at all times off the Coast Guard | camp at the Inlet bridge to the Tidal | « basin, and which Is in telephone com- munication with the city telephones. Any emergencies or requests for as- sistance can be obtained through the | Coast Guard camp. The Coast Guard | «cutter - Apache, from which Com- | mander DeOtte will direct operations | afloat, will also be connected by tele- | phone. Through the courtesy of Lieut. Dean of the harbor police the| Jaunches of the metropolitan harbor | police will co-operate with the Coast Guard vessels on the river. Reduests for information regarding operations and events on the river coming un-{ der the supervision of the Coast| ard should be addressed to Lieut. | § Yeandle, llaison officer of the Coast Guard, whose address is Coast Guard headquarters, pay and allot- ment officer, 14th and E streets north- west (telephone Main 6400, branch 345), or at his residence, 1308 New Hampshire avenue northwest (tele- phone North 7367) ALEXANDRIA READY FOR SHRINE HOSTS First of Residents of Pullman City to Arrive Today; Dance Pavil- ion One of Features. 8perial Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2.—The first contingent of Shriners for the Pullman city in the Southern railway vards, south of here, will arrive at 4:40 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and the first to arrive in the Pullman city in the Potomac yards will reach that place at 3:30 o'clock Sunday morning. A total of about 5,000 Shriners will be in the two Pullman cities. it is estimated that from 2,000 to y 3.000 Shriners will be at the Southern ailway yards, just west of here. The st to arrive at these yards will be 200 at 4:40 o'clock tomorrow after- noon from Temple Karem, Waco, Tex. At the Southern railway Puilman city a dancing pavilion has been erocted, twelve public telephone booths and a post office instaled; showers for both men and women, colored attendants, both men and women, will be on hand; other con- veniences installed, including a tele- graph office. George H. Buddin, division superin- tendent, announced tonight every- thing is in readiness for the Shriners. It is expected that a total of sev- enty cars will comprise the Pullman city at Potomac yards and everything has been installed at these yards for ‘the accommodation of the visitors, including practically all that the Southern Railway Company has at Shrine City, with the exception of a sancing pavilion, i The Y : K APREEIES PREIEEH James C.Burge ASS ISTANT RAB o el Conrade V. Dykeman. *PEPUTY BOTENTAT e N L AL Shrine Souvenir Gift Book Shows Washington in AU Its Beauty .As good as a_sight-seeing tour of Washington—such, is the handsome Shrine souvenir book, the- gift of Almas Temple to the cofticial delegates to the imperial council session*of the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. The book, ~beautifully bound in green, limp suede leathér, contains nearly 260 pages, alternately a pho- tograph of a building orplace in the District and a page of descriptive matter S The book, which is entirely, vrigingdy ! = Hj was written by Noble Carl H Claudy of Almas Temple, a newspaper and magazine writer of Washington, who spent months in.the compilation of the material and.the writiag. Thotographs Are Gitis. The photographs, gifts to Almas Temple ~ from - various photographers Who are nobles, as well as from the Army Alr Service, are beautiful spaci- mens, bringing out In striking fash- s 1922 1) &CPE'R D.- C..- JUNE .3 "Frank C. one. FIRST ‘QSQEMON"!IAI;,MASSTER.& Davio W. 1923—PART " 1. T sten A Fleicher MARSHAL W. S. Brown, TREASURER. HIGH Crosland EST & PROPHET ames S. cCandless IMPERIAL POTENTATE ) ) OFF have been printed and none is for sale, although Almas Temple hes been deluged with orders. The executive committee felt that to print more than was necessary as gifts, and to offer the extra ones for sale, would militate against the beauty of the gift, it was explained. In the article facing a bird's-eye view of the Central High School the writer considered the school situation in the District and the city’s voteless condition, He said: D. C. Not Proud of Schools. “When you haven't very much to be proud of you are inordinately proud of what you have! Washing- ton has little to be. proud of in its public school system. Congress, sit- ting as a olty council for the Cap- ital clty, seems to have greater regard for votes ‘back home' by mak- jon the beauty of ths Lincoln Me- morial and.scores of other buiidings and sccres, ! Oriy.a& thousand copics of the Look! ing a record for ‘economy’ than for the welfare of the children of the city of the seat of the government. “But when il does have a it of GERS, COUNCIL MBABIC ORD (¢ nervous generosity and makes an ap- propriation for a new school building it usually provides for a good one, as 18 this magnificent bullding, with its own stadium and.tennis courts. “Far too small now and crowded so that many of its classes are but half periods, Central High is yet a ‘wonderful building, with a huge au- ditorium, a large and well equipped stage, & complete equipment of laboratories and workshops, as well the necessary - schoolrooms, with its own gymnasium and swim- ming pool. Graduates Several Hundred. “It is located on the ‘brow of a hill’ overlooking the city, on a plot of ground totaling four city squares, between 11th and 13th streets and Florida avenue and Clifton street. It annually graduates several hundred young men and women, prepared for collez :s, most of which admit Wash- ingtoa high school graduates on PRI James graduation credits and- without ex- amination. “Nobles who read this, necessarily interested in the cause of education because they are Masons, will find a visit to this and a few other Wash- ington schools well worth while. “But don’t visit the school system as a whole—unless you are prepared to be all ‘het up’ and ready to go back home and talk to your congressman and senator about what their duty is in the matter of allowing voteiess Washington to buy itself a decent school system.” The various pages of the book are sponsored by a large number of per- sons, the name of each being printed at the bottom of the page oOr pages which he has so sponisored. Among the many names appear those of Gen. John J. Pershing, Victor J. Evan: Willlam _H. Santelmann, Clark C. Griffith, Robert N. Harper, Appleton P. Clark, Charles Giover and Charles J. Bell, to mention but a few. E. Chandler CHIEF RABBAN . | 5 S b o AT PLAN BAY STATE DANCE. Part of Avenue Assigned to Mas-' sachusetts Society. The Massochusetts Society of Wash- ington requests all Bay staters to join in the dance on Pennsylvania avenue Thursday night directly after the parade.. The Shrine committee hag assigned the society the Avenue between 14th and 15th streets. Nobles from the Bay state are particularly invited. The two big electrical signs, “Mas- sachusetts My Homeland” and “Mas- sachusetts Society of Washington™ will be displayed on the front of the Hotel Willard as well as the state fiag being displayed from the piazza, MARINES IN MIMIC WAR FOR SHRINERS Many of 1,500 Fighters Saw Service in France—Parade on Thursday. The Marine Corps, from Maj John A. Lejeune, commandant, down to the “rookie” private, will do “bit" to make the Shrine conventins entertainment program a Parades, drills, exhibitions and certs have been arranged which wil bring into action virtually every mn in Uncle Sam's crack fighting orgar ization during the we One of the chief features will i a special excursion down the Poton.. to the Marine Corps camp at Quanti co, Va.. at which 3,000 Shrinars w1 be entertained by Gen ler and shown by the “leathernecis how war operations were conducted on the western front in France A model camp for 1,500 mar‘nes h been pitched in Potomac Park, wherr visitors will be made welcome. A number of other marines have hee. detailed at public buildings places of historic interest in Wa ington success and <h Open Model Camp. The week will start tomorrow wit the official opening of “Camp Mear the model camp in Potomac uri The camp is located on the Potom: Park speedway. on the soutn of the Washington channel. 1t ma be reached by the 14th strest cars and begins at the rallroad viadu. | just across the outlet to the Tid: basin. 1In it about 1,500 marines wi be encamped for the week, u forc: consisting of a battalion of the cele brated 5th Marine Regimen®, whi -1 distinguished itself in Belleau Woorl in the war with Germany, a sectio of artillery with two .75 milimet cannon, special troops with machin guns, automatic rifies, trench mo tars, all the equipment of mod.r war and a band of 200 pieces and signal company equipped with wirs less telegraphs and telephones | aadition there will be an aviatior section with land and [ which will be drawn from :he at Quantico as required The marines from “Camp Mecca will hold a special exhibition dres parade and retreat on the Monumen Grounds Thursday afternoon at o'clock. The men will be clad in the marine blue uniform with whit« trousers and caps. their band wi furnish music and one of the histo flags of the Marine Corps will used for the ceremony. Infantry artillery and special troops will pe ticipate. Parade at Sundown. Following the ceremon rines will participate in the militars parade, beginning at sundown, and on the following morning when the parade is repeated, they will alsn march On Friday afternoon, June § marine force will give an exhibitio of the methods and tactics of modern war on the Monument Grounds, o'clock. A battalion problem by fantry, assisted by automatic rifles machine guns, trench mortars, gren ades and one-pounder guns be worked out. The Marine ) will be deploved as for action a_hostile trench line in the vicir of the base of the Washington Mor ument. Scouts and skirmishers wil be thrown out, while the mass of the infantry and the auxiliary arms cover their advance with rifie and artiller fire. Advance positions will be established and the infantry will go forward to the assault exactly as was the practice on the western front, until the final few yards are recovered in a last rush on the enemy’s position. Many of the mer participating in the exhibition will be veterans of the original Fifth Marines entitled to wear the French regiment al Fouragere, or decorative cord wor on the left shoulder. Excursion to Quantico. A most popular feature of the enter tainment offered the visiting Shrinecrs is the excursion ao Quantico, where the visitors will be given an opportur see marines at home. More than 3.00( have applied to take the trip, and huge crowd is expected. The trip will start from 7th street wharf at 10 o'clock, Wednesday morning. The rive steamer St. John, and two naval ves sels will carry the throng to Quantico where they will be entertained for lunch eon by Gen. Butler and Mrs. Butler. Lt the afternoon they wil be taken on a1 inspection tour of the camp, and wil witness a war game held for their beneft on the military reservation. For Shrine week, the Marine Corps is supplying Marine guards for th Capitol, the Congressional Library, and many other public buildings and piace FIELD HOSPITAL PUT AT SHRINE DISPOSAL Complete Army Equipment Set Up ini Potomac Park for Con- vention Period. A complete Army field hosp been established in Potomac {on the east side of 17th street the Tidal Basin for the emergency of all persons who may be injured {become ill during the Shrine conven tion perfod. It consists of a { plete hospital company of eleven offi cers and sixty-nine enlisted men and an entire ambulance company of one officer and forty-nine enlisted men. The soldiers were transferred to Washington from the regular med i cal field hospital school at Carlisle. {Pa.. and made the trip here under {their own power. | “There are twelve wards in the hos- the ma 1 { i has Parl near ta pital, including a surgical ward with a total bed capacity for 150 patients. Seventeen ambulances will be oper- ated. One will be stationed at the camp for emergency use in the terri- tory south of Pennsylvania_avenue bounded on the east by the Congres sional Library and on the west by Washington Circle. The other am- bulances will be stationed at various points along the routes of the pa- rades and processions designated by he Shrine convention committee. The {ambulances will take patients direct | to the city hospitals when such action {1s desired. Maj. Joseph E. Bastion ‘mand of the hospital. Assisting him lare Majs. John P. Fletcher. Thomas E. Harwood and Walter K. Lloyd chaplain; Capts. John J Carden Clyde C. Joh on, Thomas G. Tousey Lucius K. Patterson and George M Krough, Dental Corps; Isaac O. Glad ish, Veterinary Corps, and James H. Blackwell and First Lieut. John C Schweiger. 225 MONTANA TEMPLE NOBLES ON WAY HERE Two hundred and twenty-five no- bles from the top of the “richest hill in the world,” or, in other words, 225 members of Bagdad Temple, Butte Mont.,, will arrive in Washington aboard thirteen Pullmans tomorrow. They are bringing with them samples of Montana, including mineral, agri cultural, timber and industrial wealth exhibits. They are accompanled by their uniformed band and patroi. clowns, comedians and other enter- tainers, The exhibits, occupying one special car, will be thrown open to the pub- lic ‘during the stay of the Shriners here. The car will be cut off from the Bagdad special and placed on the Pennsylvania railroad elevated tracks at 6th and C streets southwest, where it will be open daily. Men conversan! with every phase of Montana life ara in charge of the car and will be on hand to receive the visitors and ex- plain the exhibits, is in com-