Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1924, Page 31

Universal Union Will Observe Its Fiftieth Anniversary at Stockholm. U. S. LAID THE FOUNDATION. Confederation Is Oldest Organiza- tion of World States. On July 4 the league of postal na- tlons, the Universal Postal Union, em- bracing the earth, will hold its fif- tieth anniversary at Stockholm, Swe- den. “It is significant that the delegates of the nations of the earth gather for this celebration of postal peace ° July 4, American Independence day, hecause to the United States goes the honor of laying the foundation for the Universal Pos is the oldest@comprehen- zation of world states, ons, changed by millions. It has made neighbors of Kalumazoo and Timbuk- fu and put sewing machines in Turk- tsh harems. When Letter Coxt “The difference between 2-cent postage stamp Tepre individu X- ents to the the most dramatie feature of | stal Uniow's accomplis | “n years hefore the Postal Unior i thought of it cost $2.50 to send an r aland; today it The blow to the high cost of mail- ing illustrated by the United States- “w Zeuland Instance has been re- peated to u lessir degree with all forelgn correspondence. . Reduetion of the cost of an ounce letter to England cents to 2 cents, to France cents, and to Brazil Agreements of built into_ the I convention signed at Bern, Switzerland, in 1873. Although the ar anniversary occurred Postal Union it at Stockholm _this 24 is the year of its ch .000 sacks of mall e New York foreign mail post ol not uncammon today. On one p recently the Mauretania el rece K wretania brought t vear the United States spent 100 to send 415.000.000 pleces *f madl, excluding parcel post, abroad, and received 362,000,000 pleces. It s rocry from these thousands of cks of mail to Burns Coffechouse, st office for all Manhattan for a itury. In this old tavern, near the Battery, letters were stuck in a rack alled for by the addressees. the King of Hedjuz had to glve up recently the old custom of dump- n a pile, Total of 670,000 Flowers . _THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D..C. of the life of Richard von Ludendorff, Eric von Ludendorff, former chief of staff of the imperial to Be Set Out in Schedule for District—Roses Especially Beautiful. Peony Show on Speedway. The parks of the Natlonal Capital are being dressed up in their sum- mer finery of flower gardens, in spite of the fact that the daily rain has seriously delayed this work. Already there are excellent floral displays along the Potomac Park Speedway and in various parks, but next week there will be even more delightful masses of blooms. This will Include a mile and a halt of peonies in full bloom along the drive in East Potomac Park. There will also be an excellent display of roses in Montrose Park, Georgetown, which is one of the best natural parks in this part of the country. The new rose garden just south of the bathing beach in the triangular L) corner between West Potomac Park and East Potomac Park is already in| ¢ | bloom, but will be even a more pleas- i ing sight next week. There the roses are set out by varletles with the names marked so that the visitors can see which varlety they like best and be encouraged to plant roses on their own property. WIill Set 670,000 Plants. A force of gardeners from the prop- agating gardens, which supply the White House and which are under the administration of Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, is now engaged in Zetting out beds in the parks about the city. It is not expected that this work wiil be completed before June 10, and not then if the wet weather continues. There are twenty parks, such as Lafayette, MacPherson, Farragut, Franklin,” Judiclary, the Monument Grounds, the Smithsonian Grounds, Lincoln, Stanton, Montrose and the Maryland Avenue boulevard. There are sixty reservations at avenue Inter- sections. In all, there arb more than 300 flower beds to be set out, which will require more than 670,000 plants. Designed beds are being laid out in the Monument Grounds, Lafayette Square, West Potomac Park, Franklin and Stanton Parks. These are made with Sibthorpia as agreen background, and with red, white and black Alter- panthera and white Euonymus. Other Flowers Selected. In the other parks the beds will be filled with cannas, begonlas, salvla, geraniums, petunias, heliotrope, vin- ageretum, pennesetur (feather grass), plants. Large rose beds are set out in Du- pont Circle and around the Webster statue, near Scott Circle. Roses have also been planted in Montrose Park this spring. In all, about 3,500 rose bushes have been set out in these coleus and other follage arks. Col. Sherrill intends to distribute roses in all the parks wherever the location is suitable, and each varlety of roses will be labeled. There has been a big improvement at Grant Circle. Trees and shrubs have been planted, and after the walks have been put In rose beds will be planted. In Anacostia Park 1,000 shrubs and 500 trees have been set out. MONTANA TO EFFACE BOMM DAYS MANSIONS Fire Marshal Orders Destruction of Half a Dozen Buildings of Forty Years Ago. By the Assoclated Press. GREAT FALLS, Mont, May 31.— Half a dozen mansions of forty years ago, paneled still with the chipped and marred remnants of expensive woods, with bits of stained glass ad- hering to the windows and the lines of old landscape gardening merging into the surrounding prairie two miles from this city, are to be burned by order of the state fire marshal. These decaying relics of finance and romance of the early days in Montana will be destroyed at the same time that the stack of the old silver smelt- er which was the excuse for their existence is dynamited. Since 1893, when sllver ore from Canada, northern 1daho and the lonx worked-out silver mines of Montana ceased to flow to the prairie smcl the mansions have been deserted. The old three-story brick buildings, in exterior and Interior the equal the most elegant clubs of the Atlant seaboard in those days, were erected by the promoters of Montana's first | smelter. In them were entertaimed caplitalists of New York and Boston, brought to the west over the new bullt railroads. On the polished floors of the ballrooms danced officers from Fort Assiniboine and other fron- tler Army posts, which now are noth- ing but names. " Build Your Garage o at their sent for them. n who st letter to a mis realize the andfather sendi nton. 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