Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1925, Page 9

INSPECT CHILDREN'S | HOSPITAL ADDITION Friends of Institution Are Guests at an Informal Public Dedication. The new $200,000 addition to Chil- dren’s Hospital was informally dedi- cated yesterday to its humanitarfan service, by officials of the institution and visitors who gathered at an after- noon tea, and to inspect the building. The structure will be open also to- day from 10 am. to 6 p.m., when it is hoped that Mrs. Calvin Coolidge may honor the institution with a visit. Funds to finance the new addition have not all been raised yet, and it is expected that the hospital will benefit largely from the Charity Inaugura! Ball, March 4. District Commissioner Rudolph, president of the board of directors, and Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke, presi- dent of the board of lady visitors, headed the list of hosts yesterday. They were assisted by Miss M. M. Gib- son, superintendent of the hospital; Mrs. Reginald Walker, and other members of the board of lady visi- w addition, in the shape of of the most modern construc- tion, down to the finest points and latest improvements, and provides ac- commodation to about 75 more patients, greatly enlarging the pres- ent capacity of the institution. Fwo Wings in Building. the building, which joins the old structure, has two wings, of 100 by 40 feet, and 75 by 40 feet in size. There are four floors. On the ground floor are a much enlarged “out-patient” de- partment, X-ray department, three laboratories, and a large room which may be used for assembly purposes, lecture room or other purposes. On the next, or so-called first floor, s & large unheated room for tuber- cular patients, arranged so that more than 50 per cent of the wall space opens as windows. On both the first and second floors are “head nurse stations,” and many private rooms and wards. One of the features of the wards is that each little bed or crib is in a little “stall” or “cubicle,” separated from the next bed by a high screen, the upper part of which 1s glass, and allows the children to see each other, without danger of communicating any possible disease. There are two wards, heated to 98 degrees temperature, with accommo- dations for six “premature” babies. On the top floor are four operating rooms, ventilated by interior venti- lation and lighted so as not to cast shadows. Quarters for nine internes are provided on the top floor. There are also a nurses’ work room, or sur- gical dressing room, and a place for preparation of plaster casts. Distilled Water Plant. One of the new features of the hos- pital, according to the architect, Ed- ward F. Stevens of Boston, who also greeted visitors yesterday, is a plant for distilling water and furnishing it to all operating rooms and other places where it is needed. The plant for distilling the water is above the top floor and has a container of 250 gallons. Another new series of devices has been installed for the purpose of al- lowing personnel to go through all doors and to wash their hands thor- oughly without having to touch either door knobs or water spigots at the wash bowls. Both the door- opening devices and the water spigots are “arms” or “fingers” which may be operated by hooking the elbows over them. All corners at the junc- ture of floor and wall are rounded, or so-called “cove corners.” For both the tiny babies and chil- dren, shower baths are provided, as the latest development. For the in- fants there is a “baby washer’ of elaborate design, in porcelain. It consists of a porcelain “drainboard.” upon which -to place the infant. Beneath this is a compartment for hot water to keep the board at the proper temperature. At the right is a sink-like tub, into which it drains. Above the baby washer board is a large tank to be filled from hot and cold water pipes to a definite tempera- ture indicated by a thermometer. The water in the tank is then available at gentle gravity pressure and con- stant temperature to be used in a spray upon the infant, as a shower- bath. An ingenious device in the operat- ing rooms provides for heating dis- tilled water to the desired tempera- ture instantaneously by means of a steam jacket around water pipes. Pineapple Yield Higher. Correspondence of the Associated Press. HONOLULU, January 22.—Records of production in both quality and Guantity were ektablished by the pineapple industry of Hawali during 1924, according to the annual report of the Association of Hawaiian Pine- apple Canners, which showed a total production of 6,825,904 cases. 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LOS ANGELES, February 14.—Cities with more than half a milllon popu- lation and with acute traffic problems in their downtown districts can go a long way toward solving such prob- lems by putting a ban on “jay-walk- ing.” The facts are being proved here in Los Angeles, where, with probably the narrowest streets of any large city in the country and with more automobiles than any city in_the world, except possibly New York, vehicular congestion in its busiest business sections has been almost en- tirely eliminated. Los Angeles enacted its anti-jay- walking ordinance six weeks ago. The penalty for violators is a fine of $5 or five days in jail. Except for Fort Worth, Tex., Los Angeles is said to be the only large city in the country with an anti-jay-walking law that car- ries “teeth.” Results Are Cited. By coupling the jay-walking ban with an automatic central control system directing all downtown traf- fic—the same “master signal” system already in vogue in many large cities—Los Angeles in six weeks is claimed to have accomplished the fol- lowing startling traffic results: Speeded up vehicular traffic 40 per cent. Facilitated pedestrian traffic 50 per cent. Speeded up street car movement 25 per cent. Cut down accidents to pedestrians from automobiles 95 per cent. Enabled fire apparatus and ambu- lances to move through crowded downtown streets at more than double their former speed. In their campaign of educating pedestrians against jay-walking, Los Angeles police have had to arrest more than 200 persons during the six week. Each day, however, as the new ordinance continues in effect, the number of arrests decreases. Fines of $5 have been imposed on the great majority of those arrested. About the only offenders freed have been per- sons who had just arrived in Los Angeles Packer Jailed in Rum Case. LOS ANGELES, February 14.—Alex- ander B. Stewart, Liead of the Curtis Packing Corporation of Long Beach, and eight others, recently convicted in Federal Court of liquor smuggling, were fined and sentenced to varying terms i jails and prisons today. Stewart was sentenced to four months in jail and fined $7,500. Jack Miller of Vancouver, B. C., received a sen- tence of two years in prison and a fine of $15,000. Tug Crowds to View Blimp. HAMILTON, Bermuda, February 14—The Patoka, tender ship for the American Navy dirigible Los Angeles, arrived here this afternoon and an- chored in the Great Sound to await the coming of the dirigible. Owners of ocean-going tugs have announced excursions to witness the arrival of the Los Angeles. every type of frock. material, they feature Also a special collection of bags for all occa- sions, specially reduced to 1339 F St. S OPHAM 1339 F st. BRANCH OF )— H. W. ROUNTREE & BRO.—-! Upper: Group of officials at informal ceremony at tea yesterday after- noon in mew building, marking dedication of $200,000 addition to Children’ Hospital. Appearing in the picture are: District Commissioner Cuno H. Ru- dolph, president of the Board of Directors of the hospital, and Mrs. Rudoiph; Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke, president of the Hoard of Lady V' F. Stevens of Boston, architect of the M. M. Gibxon, superintendent of the hospital ors; Edward new structure, and Mrm. Steyens; Miss Mrx. Reginald Walker of the Board of Lady Visitors, and Mrs. Reginald Huldekoper. Lower: Three little patients in a ward of the new addition shown with Miss G. Cary, nurse. o 50 CONGRESSMEN TO ATTEND COMEDY Accept Invitations to Be Present at “School for Scandal” at Central High. Acceptances have been received from more than 50 members of Con- Bress to attend the community recep- tion and presentation of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’'s comedy, - “The School for Scandal,” at the Central High School Community Center the evening of Thursday, February 2. The play is to be given under the direction of the Community Center Department of the Public Schools, of which , Mrs. Cecl Norton Sisson is the director. Many members of the committees on the District of Co- lumbia in the Senate and House, who have been in touch with the work of the public school system here, will attend the presentation. Senators who have accepted the in- vitation to attend include T. H. Car- away of Arkansas, Robert B. Howell of Nebraska, W. L. Jones of Wash- ington, William H. King of Utah, George P. McLean of Connecticut, Lee S. Overman of North Carolina and O. E. Weller of Maryland. Members of the House who have accepted are: Representatives W. J. Driver of Arkansas, A. M. Free of California, John E. Raker of Cali- ] .*f/ G bbruary fornia, Charles R. Crisp of Georgia, Frank Park of Georgia, Addison Smith of Idaho, Stanley H. Kuntz of Illinois, J. Farl Major of Illinols, Andrew J. Hickey of Indiana, W. Kopp of lowa, James G. Strong of Kansas, J. N. Tincher of Kansas, Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky, J. Zac! Spearing of Louisiana, Ira G. Hersey of Maine, J. Charles Linthicum of Maryland, Robert Luce of Massa- chusetts, Grant M. Hudson of Mich- igan, Oscar E. Keller of Minnesota, Bill G. Lowrey of Mississippi, Clar- ence Cannon of Missouri, Thomas L. Rubey of Missouri, Frank J. McNulty of New Jersey, C. F. X. O'Brien ot New Jersey, Sol Bloom of New York, John'J. Kindred of New York, Frank Oliver of New York, Christopher D. Sullivan of New York, Frank Murphy of Ohio, Edward M. Beers of Penn- sylvania, T. S. Butler of Pennsyl- vania, George W. Edmonds of Penn- sylvania, Edgar R. Kiess of Pennsyl- vania, Stephen G. Porter of Pennsy vania, Milton W. Shreve of Penns: vania, Frank C. Sites of Pennsylvania, W . Stevenson of South Carolina, R. C. Johnson of South Dakota, Wil- liam Willlamson of South Dakota, Edwin L. Davis of Tennessee, Luther A. Johnson of Texas, Marvin Jones of Texas, Don B. Colton of Utah, John M. Nelson of Wisconsin and Dan A. Sutherland of Alaska. e S T The smoothness and clarity of the complexion of Mohammedan women are ascribed to the fact that their regular observance necessitates bath- ing their faces many times each day with cold water. D. C. LIBRARY FUN FAR BELOW NEEDS Bowerman Tells Women’s Club City Is 66 Cents Per Capita Below Standard. The District of Columbia is spend- ing only 34 cents per capita a year on its library service, while the standard set by the American Library Association i3 $1 per capita, Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian, told the Women's City Club at.a luncheon yesterday. Washington will have to make rapid strides if it wants to catch up with cities of comparable size in the development of public libraries as educational _institutions, . Dr. Bowerman said. After outlining the various needs of the Free FPublic Library service, Dr. Bowerman con- tinued: “The carrying out of these plans means money. In the District of Co- lumbia we are spending 34 cents per capita per year on our public library system. The standard set by the American Library Association is $1 per capita. Now, this by no means provides for this educational side of the work, but only for the most fundamental day-by-day serv- ice. The city of Cleveland, which has one of the finest library systems in the country, now pays $1.30 per capita. Not Certain of Budget. “Our very modest budget for this year asked for 52 cents per capita We do not know that we will even get that. If we made our budget on the standard we ought to have over $500,000 today. Very modestly we have asked for $170,000. If we fol- lowed the Cleveland standard we would have $600,000." Dr. Bowerman asked the club to continue the work it has already done a5 one of the 20 organization that have endorsed the present library budget. In beginning his talk, Dr. Bower- man suggested that the modern pub- lic library is no longer regarded sim- ply as a storehouse for books. His ideal for the libraries of Washing- ton, he =aid, Is not to make them a series of long counters over which books are handed out by attendants. His conception of the ideal public library, he said, is to make it a community intelligence service, an agency that will prepare its subscrib- ers for better citizenship by present- Ing them with education for earning a better livelihood and for the clearer understanding of all public questions. “We are all interested in the devel- opment of the city schools,” said Dr. Bowerman, “but relatively the Public Library is far behind the public schools.” Washington, with a studious and reading population, has two branch libraries and a third about to be opened, he explained, while Indlan- apolis, with a smaller population, has 19 branch libraries. Dr. Bowerman said he hoped to see a library branch within accessible distance of every home in the Dis- trict. “And in each library,” he continued, “I want to see real library service given. Each person should be dealt with as an_individual. While num- bers of people come with a knowledge of what they want, others flounder, often thirsting for something better than they eventually select, but with- the knowledge of how to obtain it. Mrs. George A. Ricker presided. One of the members of the board of trus- tees of the Public Library, Mrs. Her- man Gasch, read a short story. S HELD IN NARCOTIC CASES. Two Taken in Connection With New York $10,000 Seizure. NEW YORK, February 14.—De- tectives today arrested two alleged narcotio peddlers and seized drugs valued at $10,000 in a printing shop on West Ninety-ninth street. One of the prisoners was thought by the authorities to be the man known as William Williams, whose arrest on a similar charge two years ago uncovered a drug scandal among Hollywood movie stars. This man, however, said he was David Mat- thews of Newark, N. J. Code letters and telegrams, most of which were from drug addicts in the South, wers seized in the shop, the police said. The men had handled a mail order trade, detectives reported. 182 DINNER and DANCING 7 0’Clock to Closing Music by VINCENT LOPEZ And His Orchestras OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Ten Dollars Per Person Souvenirs CONNECTICUT Reservations Maitre d’Aotel Telephone Main 9800 AVENUE PART 1. Millionaire, Finds Philosophy of Life In Subway Trains Rides Them to Rub El- bows With Humanity and Think, He Says. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, February 14.—A millionalre reputed to be the fifteenth richest man in America celebrated his birthday today by telling how he en- joys riding in the subways. He is John Emory Andrus of Yonk- ers, former Congressman, who thinks that people who ride in automobiles too much are snobs, and that women who smoke cigarettes and use exces- sive powder and rouge are nuisances “That's why I ride in the subways —don’t you ' see and he looked anxlously at his interviewers in the hope they would understand. “You rub elbows with people there, they talk to you and you talk to them. I don't mind the nolse. I like it. It's a great show for a nickel. The great- est show on earth.” Then the man said to be worth $100,000,000, but who doesn’t wear diamond studs, but only plain ones, in his stiff white shirt front, leaned back and sighed. “A man can think about a lot of things while rlding in the subway,” he sald. “For instance, I have been thinking, while riding back three or four times a week, In most cases merely for the sake of the ride, what snobs people are who always ride in automobiles. They are side-stepping human beings too much. “Then I think about the women I see in the subways. I see short skirts. Of course, I don’t like skirts that trail in the dust or dirt. But they should be about 4 inches above the ground, no more. So far as cosmetics are concerned, we don't want to interfere with nature as long as she is functioning properly. I sup- pose the girls use powde:, paint and other things on their faces so the boys won't kiss them.” Mr. Andrus likes life. Yet he is prepared for death, too. He has had built a mausoleum in Kensico Ceme- tery, believed to be valued at $350,000. INSURANCE MEN PROFIT BY REPORT ON CHURCH Seek Business in Vicinity of Cathe- dral When Dome Is De- clared Dangerous. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 14—There are plenty of “go getters” in the British business world, no matter how slow the majority may seem to those ac- customed to the hurry of America. A few days ago the city surveyor said St. Paul's towering dome was dangerous and intimated that it might come crashing down some day. The very next morning shopkeepers in the streets and lanes around the great cathedral received letters from insur- ance salesmen advising them to take out policies against catastrophe. Some of the property owners actually did take such insurance. Meanwhile the controversy over the safety of the cathedral continues to fill columns in the newspapers. The surveyor is credited with the desire to have the cathedral closed on grounds of safety. Hundreds of peo- ple, however, still wander around under the huge dome seeing the sights and other hundreds gather regularly for the services. The dean and other authorities assert that the place i3 absolutely safe. More than £200,000 has been ralsed by contribu- tion for the work of-repair. TRY TO STIR ITALY OVER ALBANIAN OIL Tirana Government Officials | Accused of Seeking to Involve England. "ebruary 14.—Dis the reported concession to Anglo- Persian Oil Co. to work oil ficlds in Albania, the Giornale d'Italia say “The Anglo-Persian company ob tained confirmaiton from ~Ahmed Zogu (president of Albania) of a letter the company possessed since 1921 whereby it was entitled to ex- ploit a certain zone considered to con- tain oil. The Italfan government reminded the government at Tirana of previous Italian rights on the Al- banfan oil fields when they were tested by the Italian army and navy during the war. The British Am- bagsador and Premier Mussolini had a conversation on the subject, and the Ambassador presented a memorandum which was submitted to the Italian government office handling such mat- ters. ‘The question is considered unim- portant, but some significance at- taches to it because it shows the at- titude of the Zogu government, ich, considering that the Italian Fascist cabinet was favorable to for- mer Premier Fan S. 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