Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1925, Page 78

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 1, 1925—PAR Explorer in China, Attacked, Turns to Laughter as His Life Saver Critical Situation Arises Among the Wild Men of the Mountain Settlement Called Village of Ten Thousand Winds .tadwl_n‘ J. Dingle, an American For a moment I felt some wneasi- o: ?:‘w riter of recognized standing | ness, but contrived not to show It to A VDIQ‘(:‘I;‘]E [Eeography, commerce fmy men. As I read, however, the % far un s kneon "y Caucasian. |loquacious courler engaged in confi- ] - Eront wmd menowN. to cross that | dential conversation with my men. y Aha (heks nuis rolled Abwi ana wet- Fobt: *Eome e LI "»HNO ‘“rl;xi on | He explained the news the telegram A\, tled in the small of my back and kept The old headman solemnly mads @I%Ery . Sxperteaces: are. relstial | niemad nothlag, Iy evar sebat ! I I me from sleeping. None the less, I|the preparations. A men wers 1n the following article. A signal China), drawing upon a vivid imagi- Y was happy to be alive and. dozing,|brought in and the patriarch, bravely Tecogmition of his explorations |DAUOR for his more lurid facta—he ¢ < dreamed of Little Precious Pearl carrying his 90 years, addressed meg waa his clection s & fellow of the | Accribed how first one forelgner, h ‘ PR Wit (aactinr tiom afer e hwve Royal Geographical Society then five, then ten, then a hundred . \ “2h SN { 0 EXT morntng the whols village | dcided to Eive to you Little Precious foreigners had been butchered up in ‘ N D i o e | Petel, Thore ane s o e A second article upon further W a 5 : that hamlet of the winds, , see 4 y Y Lo = Dersonal adventures of Mr. Dingle | ihat hamlet of the winds, and, seelng k AN road to Burma. Every man, woman | 5 bointed to the happy-faced dame will appear next week that they had a taste for color, in- b YN R vy - i = | vented the yarn that not a single D g A ‘}1‘\ " ! W« M]d‘[‘f;“fl;;r;{"';;;j Me. i who had|2¢l: I merely atoc 1 stared. Littie Y EDWIN J. DINGLE, F. . < [Chinese had escaped. All the serv- > X o 3 Little cious Pea who had|precious Pearl came to my side i = % ants of the ill-fated barbarians, 4 r ) 2 ) . ot * k *x = % F. R. G, S. £ the ill barb he A RG ! greeted me with a respect due to an | é< ET'S do something that no | ingsisted, had not only been brutally / 7 ( ; /s )V 3 S SxipELER AR s vorRon of my Jank 3 T tar ;1\&\:)(!1\4\.1':‘\': tl«\;nr-lkh\-{urn i aurdered 'aikb. Bat fh. suth tashlen B R # 4 3 ;r{ui(: by special privilege my fl:vlv:l'.-‘ document 3 feet sq .a\: T . copeadlogonn ACTOSS | that they co ot even be taken .. X A DBy pusel e g il China!” Mac's face beamed, | pack to thelr ‘,::,‘f,,:’s s barti? ! IR - S RN Y = Men were humbly apologetic and|knowledge of Chi acters I and With glasses refilled | ) & 2 , y g Qe hoped that I would not hold the in-|could see that v handed we pledged each other. | * k¥ k cident of the previous day against|over to me bo 3 oug 8 was i Singapore. ur ends BN hem. Wome ad me lay my hands | could not deciphe what terms. In that Broeperos. otony sciemety | TBEN I tntervenea; I threw the N ; by ) 2 i : - o e edepkedon Sl ol g S et ooty s messenger a few coins, and stood AR X y 7 : % S e s e g %, | thinking A b declared, as soon as they heard of our { % s they strode along. The old has, | thinking 15 Pearl project, that we were a pair of fools. | Pefore my men, addressing them en 2 | Al o i > 0y h s with a readiness of speech and bril- |about 1 s ge, buddi ‘We never would be able to (‘I'fl.\\,“” se as I tore up the telegram into x“ 3 2 2t Y 4 Jif\ ' A\ lance of imagination that any so- she China. We would either be killed |S™ fragments. Despite my elo- /4 i W w clety lady might envy, entertained | by bandits or buffaioes or be poisoned | duénce, however, they still demurred. 1 \ them all with the story of great- | myself, T did not fe te g0 happy. or robbed by our servants. They |TO & man they sullenly refused to ) ness and the meagerness of their own| What could 1 r traveler, added sufficiently harrowing stories | proceed. N > ! 1 hospt Hate about 3 |never knowing exact t he was y har s = spitality. A £0, when about 3| nowing ex: as of the tortures we would undergo if | I thereupon started the ascent alone, AR~ S \ miles on my journey, they all stopped [ E0IN& to confront next or where he We were held for ransom. with as fine a show of courage as v Q % d one by one bowed in ceremonial | Might be going, do with the giri, who All along the 1 we received dis- |w possible. / N malutation for a safe journey, I felt|Would in a very few years be of mar= couragement. But we were not to be | We were now at about $,000 feet; & 3 A X LHAL thefr teats wers sincare: and I|risgeable age? swerved. Arriving by a French mail | the Village of Ten Thousand Winds 4 & e / ¥ y B admit that my own eyes were not dry.| 1 smiled an ecs £ hypoeritical, steamer at Shanghai, we decided, on |lay 5,400 feet higher than this point A . I determined that if ever I returned|S=mile. I was honored, was overs the sound advice of my bankers, to |on the main road. There was no road, ' o that way I wonld visit the Village of | lowing with joy b te overs ascend the Yangtze Rapids, through | scarcely a pathway over which an- 1 Thousand Winds Spmbaitietine s o fy. The, the beautiful gorges to Chunking, In { other caravan had been for years L 4 4 Time went on. 1 crossed China, re- | taking the do e = 4cross Bl ccordingly at Ichang, @ | —possibly no Chinese had been there, > . fitted my avan down at Rangoor city at the foot of the Eorges, we €n-|and certainly no white man had ever & f 4 p 2 3 returned up that marvelously sceni Fuged thls small boat and com- |essayed to do the trip. When about 2 N 4 y Irrawaddy, intending again to pene menced the tedious, mysterious but|sg feet above them I called back to - 9 / trate into the far west and recros tndescribably scenic journey through ! 4 i e A i e i the republic and uitimately to mak is the fourth 1 t of the world's The gathering quietly broke up; the | Although it appeared that they could women tucked me in and poured a|not do enorgh for me, my consters | few walnus into my pukas (the Chi- | nation may be imagined when they nese quilt) to keep away the epirits,|presented me with a gift such as radiantly b my side my men: carried (ot 3 “ome, come . there is no dan- 4 X ) my way down the Yangtzekiang t LDrpusht out soma wilver Tromhe e ot L he world's | ger. It we reach the Village of Ten 5 7, Shanghai. This I also did lialag ofRuv xod b hauich L presenis T e o oring en Yo | Thousand Winds by nightfall your - i ] i And’so, ShpUt MR mbaths,after-| to My ille charge, who wes now stgns of the foreigner's civilization wages are doubled. Come, there is | ward T found myself three days away | [uSsheq Wih 40 \convenient“or me And then—just when we had con- | PO _danger 7 - Ny eGPV INED R Ss iTe to take her with rae, I made clear to cluded the exciting river journey to | Gradually, one by ome they fol- was a new crowd in my caravan, the| o % ouee | had neither pony for Chunking—Mac's thermometer fell. | loWed me. To describe that after- her to ride ror a sedan chair. But I He confiaed in me that we had erred. | DoON's terrific struggle up that slip- would make arrangements for her to What we should do now was promptly | Pery mountainside would serve no SO RenE fhr frori s midetoniashool 315 to return and go down the Yangtze | PUrpose—suffice it to say that, after who none the leas had disowned me| .., ay, so that she should be again, leaving the orossing of China |@lmost superhuman effort, I arrived, } 4 ¥ o’ Rt L ARSEERY attarnoon. . T tol@| CETS ENEY: B0 e et o on foot to oth ¥orefusal to | travel stained and drenched to the 3 them that I had decided to change | L2USHE TAe TUAlente OF O with give 1t up, but sh on alone if he | SKin, having passed through heavy | Mgty when #he aHould énter .y decided to lon the adventure, he | MISts and rain-laden clouds. ot . made me agree that I would not hold | I came upon the village suddenly. it against him—and so Mac went|In rounding a bend in the hill, the back sun just begiining to sink, 1 wa: But T had made a pledge to myself | alarmed somewhat by four loutish | that 1 would walk across China or | Creatures moving toward me, with | vanan die. And I did But several times | huge bamboo poles upraised, brand- Z : T 4 it nearly cost my life—my death was | IShing them above my head as if to & % / e (being interrupged) “Little Precious|being quite overcoms with my gener-| MY fervant, was the only man entered a m even reported in the American and | beat out my brains. They were call- "N/ ‘ | Pearl”, I told them that it would be |osity. I implored the whole assembly | volunteered. and he did so because Chinese chara European press. ing out that ominous syllable, “Da, ¥ regarded as a beautiful name. aay-|to spend this quarter of a dollar's|he had no fuce to let me go alone.|pnglish; she a * . da” (strike, strike)—but used in the = where in the world. 1 went on and [ worth of silver upon something well | Accordingly we went. he carrying his| aye of the . sense of striking once and for all described to them the ovster and the | worth keeping in memory of the wan- | bed and I carrying my own a wledge of FTER many weary months in| *“I¢" ‘stated that I relt very brave i me Hitile: vnneiits STAGIE AR e e s Asting | prossiitug, e ik i) e KentiV] 1 walking across the Chinese repub- | apout this sorry business I should | would allow, she blackguard BONes T Knbwl Chet T Dk Sain | with a personal pride that sha had|men and women were dumb with ad- | loping road to within a few hours' | her people to lic, from the Pacific to Burma, I came | Jfe. Scarcely recognizing what was | hideously and all other foreign devils. | was hypnotizing her, it _seemed, |never known before | miration. They d no face,” they | march of my destination Particularly sk at length to within avs of my | passing. however, and being over. | By force of ner diabolical personality | though how was not clear. She gazed| With great ceremony,’1 took my|said, and the aspirants to crime look-| It was a hard trip, but it proved foreigners and long journey's end i | come with fatigue and extreme dis- |she now had the undivided attention |fixedly at me. Then, gradually, she Docketknife (itself a wonder of won-|ed at each other and stroked their be worth it. When 1 arrived the courtesy the stranger 1 had taken the notion, i Jfort, 1 walked slowly, with as|of every one, including the bamboo |began to smile. 2 3 ders) and slit my Chinese gown, tak- | cheeks, saying among themselves thusiastic greeting of those poor peo- | she lapsed lamentably terests of geography much dignity as I could muster. I{wielders, and I could see the r: Look,” she exclaimed, ag if dis-|inE & small piece of silver from the| “We have no face, we have no face, | ple, their thoughtful kindnesses and her foreign benefa through through the wild Chir advanced toward a large smooth |effect she worked upon them. Mean- ving it for the first time, “he's|lining This I presented to Little|and this is the n we wanted to|their great generosity, ng to me|jn love with n s Vst Whera e e middle of the level mud. | time T 'did my best to keep laughing sl W IAGERIRGT Precious Pearl, and as I did so a roar | murder this afternoon. Wonders| the best they had and counting it as | married her. had ever turned 1 i . This only made her the more furious. Her amusement increased; and|©f approval went up, most of them | never ceaxe | nothing, touched me t > quick where human bel had Purposely, perhaps, and with force| For, in the midst of her great|others, catching the spirit of the ding region. The few tumbledown | rapidly proceed with their horrid | some fairly cried for very merriment) huts that fac me, and far above| work. Certainly, I thought that my|luDatio ... ses him laughing | o see his feet . . . his hair . . . see |n-‘ sound of horses’ hoofs—it wa my caravan. As my attendants came WASHINGTON, D. C., March 4.— With the pomp and ceremony of a owned me. \ s & 3 colored coach, decorated with em- “No, no, we do not know the fel- Gi3 bossed cupids and drawn by six other foreign lunatics had been killed For the ceremonious occasipn not far away—that they intended to| o EaTant COOTIE L. Woulh et e i | sciously- not entirely before pla K ings, and he wore diamond garters ing the only game in which a chance and bright silver buckles with low penetrated at all h the exception|of will power, or perhaps from | wrath, literally foaming at the mouth | scene, also began to smile. First one of the poverty-r amilies who | nervous excitement, as 1 walked I|with demoniacal temper, that old hag [and then another smirked, and gig- where 1 then stood, boasted the apt|end had now come. | s name of the Village of Ten Thousand| At that moment I heard a weirdly |Fed_face ... see his nose A eyes! He's a foreign lunatic . . . he's upon the scene, an explanation was peremptorily demanded of them. And European court, Calvin Coolidge low,” they declared, without a quiv-| ¥ cream - colored horses. Footmen er. “We met him down the hill and| and outriders accompanied the fecd the birds with me also. Turning, | a superb black velvet suit, consist- she shouted to the picked ssins & ing of lon led, skirted coat, SS CHINA. for me lay black shoes. His hair was pow- E At this moment, a sprite of a girl dered and done up in a bag drawn only man of the old gang belng my personal Servant, who had bec through many a scrape with me, b my route to visit my friends at the Villlage of Ten Thousand Winds. i Tt e “Ten Thousand Winds,” they echoed. | p015 and" Keep her in nice clothes. “wild men - wild men . 2 : we won't go! sentially reasonable And nothing would make them go. V' this . what hap- “OUT, OUT WITH HIS CARCASS. DA' DA!” T coaxed and cajoled and threatened e B ————————— | but they were adam his struck the old headman as es- . . grow crude buckwheat and corn to ed to laugh. The flends of men|of a woman stopped dumb for a mo- | €led, finally ending up with a burst keep them from starvation, and | still jumped around me waving their [ ment, staring, then jerking out | of laughter. Others began with a to cover their nakedness. 1 was now | poles, and I admit that I found it in Why. bless my heart, look, a for- | chuckle or a snigger or a mere / | Fl'Om MOunt V ernon to Ne W YOI‘k ! Winds. | harrowing voice S e The pack mules had been fed, mei “Curse your ancestors, ye snivelers | mad—ma then my men, some of whom had 2 S was inaugurated President of the been with me for sever months in e United States today He rode to are merely carrying his things. No equipage, and two couriers in we don't know anything about him.”| white satin preceded him on foot, “Why on earth do ve hesitate-—are vy knee breeches and embroidered ve struck dumb?—Da, da | silk waistcoat. His lower litmbs In a wind-swept, barren and forbid-|my heart to wish that they would | oot O, B0 SN (000 L (o | cackle; some shouted with mirth; Bill had been paid, and I sat waiting Da, da . .. @s, daf Throw his| At that moment there came 'the : BY OLIVER P. NEWMAN, continuous travel, immediateiy dis- the Capitol in a magnificent, cream- The old witch velled to them that | waving white plumes ANl the whiie T laughed, now con- were incased in black silk stock- MR. DINGLE'S ROU T while the animals were being har-|carrion out to fatten the birds . . .|ill-clad and underfed, rushed out| nessed up preparatory to our ex-|Out, out with his carcass Da, |from one of the huts. She possessed | Bttt s Ghan ip to-the Viliate o] ot a remarkably bright pair of black | the Witas, | TR e whieHE weil aflame with horror | sword with a jeweled hilt I then saw a Chinese hurrying down | FIRHERE ap: 2 8 oo gt Ans B Sy She sonatetn, Diy fatiered weitucml b og e L e a AT O reiia, SR Etan s e UCH would now begin the report | SBOwine bitaiio bk slomual coutien | o 0F Suek horrid kopenraice &K a1 |eried Nerivbicn SiSCInE BIED aiD Xe of President Coolidge’s inaugs- kil when be anfied e & telegram 1| TOSE 0 forbkl . St KRR H S OO So NIk OBiE v ration if the customs of early was dumfoanded to find it addressed | FENtLY assumed that the shrill voloe | bim . . - 1€ ¥04 do b8 S0/RE WU FS" | —and still none knew quite what inaugurals had been continued te myself—telegrams are not every- | Was that of a woman. This women | M o eilence which fallow- | theY were laughing at. until today. It would have been day occurrences out on the roof of | hed TO mose, BuL enoEION cat in | ed, she e o O] And there the whole village stood | substantially the report of Washing- the world R e e IR Bl e St o i 5| = 00 mectaleiiiils. Waishian K] SIS Aused Bawmeostes o e My consul had taken this means of | (oIEnoo)] AL the HoB O b tousied | mad mant” 3 3 alrose from my stone seat and at-|events had then been handled, from a informing me that I should turn back | wpite hairs; her unsightly skull was| Meanwhile, I kept on assiduously Feri i e TE S I e L R SR TR R from my harebrained adventure and | misshapen and ravaged with disease. | with my feigned laughter. The little|tN® men, but burst out laughing in|The diamond garters, the jewel-hilt- follow on toward Burma Ly the main | Sha had only one eve, which struck | girl clung to the bony arm of hag|nis face. Men came to me, but were|ed sword, the cream coach bedecked roads. deviltry into the hearts of all upon |grandmother. e unable ‘to speak for laughter. Our|with cupids, and the gentlemen wav- “One foreigner,” the message read,| whom it fell Al him, grandma, she |ides ached. Not one of us could stop | ing plumes Were all in evidence—and “has lately been and the pecple | T p e Lo me sitting on the stone | pleaded. “Dom't . . .° dontt The|that hysterical laughter, and when|nobody but the most extreme Repub- of the Village of Ten Thousand Winds| — mriving. mantully. te sentinue my | would.be executioners . with their|>n® had thought he had regained|licans, headed by Thomas Jefferson, Enow of yoar wheresbouts, and A6h | meEaten and the e ROsitating ts | oront buisbony fosked. - ungertamty | TORUSE ‘O Eimuelf, sasther weuld|thewght that they wars out of place. 3 7 merely waiting to - you.” Bo. 3o SITHIvE BT RLHIle 06’ Aowa | ConiaAhi 618 gwomus: step in and start the ludicrous ex-|The presidency was an exalted posi-|than his second, but even o it was a | At Alexandria, Georgetown (Wash- such an occasion a band was en- nl};“:h:g l:nukhlfu!(y at my pipe, 1|once and for all, she flew into a “I wonder whether he's really Nrv\-*:";:[;g;lnhn“w\_” HEE xynh!bzncull:y fmJ lhhe :;flm"nlf;f far cry from the “simple ceremony” | ington then being a wilderness), Bal- d to furnish music. At Trent ed in the blanks in this cheery | paroxysm of rage. Shrieking and|mad.” the old hag muttered to her- 2 s - SRS R B RS, his sis ’ v ~o i in memory of Christmas night, 17 3 ag came towards me. She led me by | sor), and most statesmen of the time|jzgg % 5 Figiind oo WL 5¢d: | over which Washingt crossed t S Fhaee 1789 (which h; ome on a 3 ch tow e % 0N Crosants 10 the arm, saving. “Oh, you must be | believed that a large amount of form | 3257 ("hich happened to come on the | and from sach town crowds eacorted | anter the town, bearing the inserip- very hungry. Come and let us give|and ceremony was necessary in order |, A . i sl x 10uUsands| tijon, “The hero who defended the the. ETent toacher something to cate | o e e aith the rowor | JAter constitutional amendment, fixed | flocked to the roads over which he| 0l ors i protect the daugh %6 wtill Ahaking * weith: GoCRNTERRT Sithas The BROw POWET | the date of all future inaugurals),|passed from the surrounding country o _protect the daughter < and majesty of Government. Sad besn d by C Fob She] There W ay Be OF and little girls strewed flowers in the bursts of laughter. o . ; ) een decreed by Congress for t hera was hardly a mile of his route o 5 3 e tnauguration was held in Phila- | jnduction of G Washingt at & , & general's path at his approach. She’ Aried “to . speak aloud,i-thenlagionts * Mbrveh CV1788 \fh' Congreis] o n of Gen gton into|upon which he was not greeted b: WeshihEton wae met ot Tisabuti iBnghet: sha iried: agh S e s , 1793, ress | the presidency, but, owing to the con citizens clamorous to pay him hom g : bt g SN e gain, laughed | Hall, a plain, two-storied brick build-| dition of the roads, a quorum of Con- | age. This journcy. therefors, may |tomm No J. by a committee from again, then cyrsed hersel? for being|ing at Sixth and Market streets, where| gress did 3 Nt York) Ahen T e alIEA b = Y| Congress and escorted into New 2 obl. AbWE hex tebiper.” Eirhad 15 Phe t g gress not' reach New York, then | properly be called the longest inaugu- | yorr o Segors : | otne &7 4 the | the Senate chamber was housed up-|the capital, until April 6. The vote|ral parade in history. ork City on an elaborate barge, and cursed them for persist-| qairs and the House down. The oath| of the electoral college was jmme-| At Philadelphia Washf built and decorated for the occasion. ently encouraging her to laughter s college 2 adelphia Washington en- [ DI x & was solemnly administered by Jus-| diately counted and o s- | teral =) A : - t was propelled by 13 oarsmen. when they knew she was old and Htlara Oush 7 A - e ered the city on a big white charger | qnington and his party occupied might die laughing. Finally, she as- | tice William Cushing of the United| patched to Mount Vernon to advise| which had been taken to Chester for| 41504 and cano fed platform at the imed control to Show me how em. | States Supreme Court, in the pres-| Washington of his election. The|his use. Decorated arches spanned | /U "\ oot gl the cient she was in other wa Siami. | ence of members of Congress, depart- | general left home on April 16 by | the streets over which he passed, sa- i A o e ing at the entrance of her gon little| ment officlals and distinguished fam- | coach and arrived In New York on|lutes were fired and church bells bt My representing a State. hut, she shouted instructions. ilies of Philadelphia. - April 23, but along the route received [ rupg. A big banquet was tendered | “ATINE WES Sante o what would Coarse tobacco rolled into strange-| WAshington's first inaugural was|the greatest ovation ever.accorded|him at night by the governor and ek ALt lower, New| Torkysand > marked by less pomp and display|any one in America up to that time.! other officials, and for the first time|O" the wharf Washington was met by Gov. Clinton and a great crowd shaped cigars was offered me by the men, even thosw who had stood ready of officials and distinguished person- ages of the city. Among others w to a point in the back, and at side was suspended, In a rich sha- green scabbard, a beautiful dress | WASHINGTON TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE ON PORTICO OF “FEDERAL HALL,” AT THE CORNER OF WALL AND N.\.\'SAI;STREETS. NEW YORK. ON APRIL 30, 1789. to kill me. We smoked while the| [8 v ? = ! women prepared the meal of unapte- s ¥ o % . Col. Al X PHeeed unap: W v Col. Alexander Hamilton, who had L R T in the Revolution, and another di | smoiks s y e- ; . . : s y : Aaron Burr. Hosts of other com- ‘:mnnlh. 2N i ; ; - \ e P % o g panions in arms were present, all % s : o in full dres s. C v [ RAIN descended in torrents as, atter| | uir - ! . A ; B |shot off and church bella were rne - dinner, I sat with them all over X as Washington rode through cheer- i a small coal fire in a hole dug in the ing crowds to the house of Walter {)/’7/} \ (“Ie)r:‘lrl;rfl;gle’:c(:lx:d ‘r:‘(:nr.] The ques Franklin, on Franklin Square, which i o s came vas : 9, . bid % » had been provided for him by Con- "/ / kept off the mud floor by a four-inch| F& - 7 # " :;,!b P e oo = form, a flat seat, which was chared . . . 1 g Hig & t * % % % by a slight-bearded old fellow, wear- o : i 4 ' VEEK b 2 ing gigantic horn-rimmed spectacles. : L > Hoh 3 iy f’h b it Tl Aot About him was an aspect of austere . » = ? e TR R e dignity; he was in his ninetieth year. : A gy ShiotchaRT e That I was younger than 90 he would lay was debate over the form of sal- not for a moment believe, and when e e e e el \ W \ '}l.) one of the “bloods” suggested that I possibly might be, the infuriated headman brought his bony hand with such & whack down on the head Lf the culprit as to knock him into the fire and capsize several of the assem- hled company. Among these was the little sprite of a girl who had intervened in my behalf, and as it had now been es- tablished that I was the oldest In the company, 1 assumed the privilege of talking with the females—an aspect of Chinese etiquette with which one should be careful to conform. Call- ing her to me, I put my arm around her, and, as 1 quietly spoke, telling her that I thought she had been the means of saving my life that after- noon, every one hung on my words. That was a service, I told her, that 1 found it hard to repay. FEDERAL HALL, WALL AND NASSAU STR ETS, NEW YORK. THE ¢ TE IS NOW OCCUPIED BY THE addressing the Presldent and over the selection of the person to ad- minister the oath of office. John Adams, who as Vice President would preside over the Senate and the in- augural ceremonies (a job to his taste because of his long experience at foreign courts), thought Wash- ington should be addressed “His Highness the President of the United States and Protector of their Lib- erties,” but he was voted dowm, and it was finally determined that the general should be addressed simply as “the President of the United States After a long wrangle it was at last agreed that the oath should be administered by Robert R. Livingston, chancellor of the State of New York, the first man to hold that office. The selection was ne- eepted as particulariy _appropriate. ‘When she told me her name was UNITED STATES SUB 'RY. TRINITY CHURCH IN THE DISTANCE. (Continued on Sixth Page.) >