Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1925, Page 77

MAGAZINE SECTION ILLUSTRATED FICTION AND FEATURES he Sy Stad HUMOR Part 5—8 Pages WASHINGTON, D. (., SUNDA Y MORNING, MARCH 15, 1925. - Great Boulevard From Capital May Follow Old Canal Course BLANCHE ¢. HOWLETT. A wi t of might invades Urizht d the city's pale, Tntil the dawn wpiears. Hets wa sentinel nizhti it nears, ¢ Profundis beli HE plan to the clude xtend the parks o Nation's Capital to in several outlying of historic interest met with enthusiastic A park commission, armed puret fation and empow appr il it a between Md. The propelled It aver invention for stry showe pr am Mr. Rumsey the general otowmack Company afterward manager of the THE dream of George Washinto vas to see the and the vigable water- known wilderness west Mour Washing to ses t a countr. extent could be held to fdre the persor for West and ose days was exte Appalachian had the of such v ther only b and nsive ision 1754, twenty Revolution, Wasl explored the proposed routs the East with the rs of the Potomac Rive The result the of years he ington in ghiogheny his eff the Potwmack C organized in Ington as pre The plan Patow open-river localities ts was formation ch with rze Wash- dent 1ack any wa gation impossible lateral th whandoned The expe Potomac in a navigable Ereat, and the people ghe feasibility of from tidewater, Cumberland, Md required the r gecured under Patowmac sendered. 1 Chesapeake and Canal was 1 by act of the Virginia in December, 1824, by d by the act of Cong 1825, The Patow- its final locks Great Fall se of keeping the conditio began t upper at G to To consumate this vd privileges charter of the 1524, a continuous the Comy January auth Assembly Maryland, a any gave Proposal That Government Purchase Property Extendingto Cumberland and Include Beautiful Parkway in Project Meets Approval of Those Who Support Idea of Acquiring Historic Places Near Washington as Part of Extension of Park System. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal One of the Country’s Historic Waterways, Representing a Portion of the Dream of George Wash- ington for a Transportation Link Between the East and the West. sent Au titute and Ol the Gron by Je the 1 celebra Che the the honored Presider and_his eab of forei n ofhi tended by o tional tu aled by really ench Moores the Waters, the boatmen every voice I'aborate for the cerer magazine Two the | Mercer | handed Mr. | President at SHOWING A BIT OF THE president pushed it HISTORIC HARPERS FERRY. but the Adams tripped iy B\V ded of 1 inet, t and other the government P s pro trad ompunfes of ther militia bands them o ore he | Plans <hould be nd Ohio orner road should On the 4th taneously turni for the rles ( viving It company e N wro one to smile upo of the « at ympany re- and of of untin once novel The music The Meeting poured its melody on suspend the labo and. charm silence the | of spadeful th Ohio patriot sround, amon of arra nony ngements were made of breaking groun was near a_powder the head of Little Fal of riflemen ed »f President Adams. Mr. of the company the spade. The into the ground, pu hie ond declaration | it be cott Mills, Adams SCENIC BEAUTY OF GREAT FALLS. struck a ain apeake vads the canal ered Phi rat made for ar America’s f id be wit Chesay “arroll of sige Independence, earth corner stone of the Baltimore and venerable of When the remarked Railroad ed only of down t nd w multitud nd unaniv was com nd Oh 1 large » ot root AS SEEN FROM BOLIVAR HEIGHTS. Mr. | with no better | e spade, ent se le pleted PIMOREANS had no interest o Ca sums would de business men of homes of Geo e Ohlo hat wher the 1 Wash President deful and arrollton the lifted t for the I spade A line Ellicott zroy rst sim A of ea the o he aving into ning to B City, Gopyright by Underwood & Unéerwood . cheer- | mons ap- | afterward in of the rRe lis- ind the ul- rth Ohio Canal, nly Declaration first of | the I consider this the most important acts of my to my independence, second to that.” Md., now the if even 1i- 15 mile structed | The chose found. from Baltimo was con- Baltimore and Ohio was the intention of to push construction | rrom Baltimore the Ohio River. thus uniting Chesapeake Bay with the great tributary of the Mississippi | Wooden rails were first adopted an horses were first nsed for hauling the | coaches over the rails. At time the company experimented with a which was carried before the by means of mast and sail Peter Cooper of New York finaliy solved the problem by little en- Tom Thumb. i the first m-draws rederick ing pas thought; it which the Chesat name because wind his of Deeember trains Md ngers the 1831 The fre in operation den of 6 ght tr ind Ohio ¢ was fic would caused Baltimore draw from Baitimore that e Baltimoreans to build the and Ohio Railroad. and the history of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and its gr rival Western trade. the Baltimore Ohio Railroa told at the time The canal was wrecked freshet of 1883, The do nothing to put it in repair and matters were taken to court he court decided to issue a decree for the sale of the canal. Politicians erested in the West Virginia Central ailway made an effort, through an act passed by the Maryland Legis- lature, to sell this valuable property, worth millions. to that company about $200,000. he decree issued the 1890, providing for sale o canal, provided also be estopped on and me by the company could hy the the the should ON THE ROUTE OF THE PROPOSED NATIONAL BOULEVARD FROM CUMBERLAND TO WASHINGTON. X for | for | | mite after mik ‘Miami Sporting Events { BY RING LARDNER. O the editor: 1 hope they won't nobody think I am in the em- ployee of the Florida boosters assn. if I say a few wds, in regards to the Miami race track outside of Miami, Fla., where I visited for-a wile this Winter and which modestly refers to itself as the wonder eity of the world. Maybe they call it wonder-city hecause people that drives into the town in motors spends the rest of the week wonder- Ing where to park But any way since the last time I was there they had built a horse rac track which I wanted to be on hand for the opening of same, but the train from Jacksonville down was over 5 hrs. late and it was pretty near dusk when we limped into the They tell me that only being late on this line now days Is sidered a moral victory for th neer and the wifes of several last named has been ¢ to marry n under th den law which counts a 1y dead if he don't show house for 7 yr | Well 1 got'out to the track the 24 |day in time to place the tidy litile sum of $10.00 on a horse named Soc ket In in the 1st. race. This hors run so much like the train I had jus been riding on that I begun fzeling around in my pockets for a dime to tip the porter. In the 2d. race they Wwas a tip out on a colt named Top- panite. This race was supposed to be § and a 3 furlongs, but the horse was some relation to Nurmi and thought it would be just wasting his afternoon to only go that distance so before the race started he run clezi around the track twice and the jockey couldn’t no more stop him than if he had been Notre Dame. Some of my friends who had told me to bet on this nag and had bet on him theri- selfs tried to laugh it off ind said that the little episode should ought to give Toppanite a big advantage as having been around the courss o often would know his directions and everything without stopping to ask a policeman, but when the racs fine- 1y did begin our entry acted as Jost as if it was his first visit to a race track. 1 managed to pretty near break even in the 3d. race by betting on 3 or 4 different horses. Befween t and the next race one of the gals in hre o1~ engi- of the red cligibl noch Ar n oflicial- ation. | |our party expressed a desire to se | the paddock and wile we was d there looking them over Walter St | Denis come up and give me = tip on | 2 horse entitled Gray Gables. On the | way back to the club house wh |should we run into but Miss Gild Gray, and I says to myself here is a sure hunch, getting a tip on Gray Gables and then running acrost Miss Gray so I will just play Grav Gables crost the hoard. But just then one |0t the newspaper bovs come 1o and wanted to take a picture of Miss {and 1 together so I asked him wh | would it be published and he s probably all over the coumtry says all right as 1 am always r |and willing 1o give friends { thrill. Well the photographe: don | quite a lot of fussing over the pose {and when he wax through 1 up to the betting machines and found the books closed. Needles () say | Gray Gables win the race a: 10 to 1 |after which I set down and wrots the | following bit of tender verse: | He who would mak | Should keep away | They was a horse | called’ Brice and the rac s Gilda in the o aco this was the hors: {1 should of bet on on acet. of heing | fond of Faunie Brice and 1 s to | some of the folks in the purty that if Fannle had not of got her face fixed over 1 would play Bric. to win by a nose, but what I did play was Sarko, and Brice win the race at 6 to 1. Superbum, which hal win the last race the day before, was entered in the last race again this day and one of the boys whispered to me to plunge on him so I played a 10 spot each way and Superbum come in a mile ahead of the others and I said |to myself well that shouil cught to make me even on the day but it seems that pretty near everybody at the track had overheard the whisper and my total profits on my $30.00 invesi- ment was $6.50. In one of the races they was a long shot named Brunnell and Brinck Thorne, the old Yale halfback was amongst the spectators so I said to him that that horse had a nan pretty near the same like last year's Yale quarter back, so Brinck says you jare right and rushed down to the machine and placed a bet on Brin- nell. Well when the other hofses finished the race, Brunnell was se: far | back that Brinck said he must be o%: pecting a_punt. Xt rushed | | forest-covered | bloodroc tongue violet | columt bud The Ohlo lump of co process, it rming st ing u €0 sh wi Insect of By courtess_of the Baltim 4 Ohio Ra devel Tess Clay fought | hunting Randolph | prey, athe r condition that the trustees make the needed rep: by May. 1, 1881, and operate it as a public waterway. It was repaired and traffic resumed un- til the Spring of 1924, when it w badly damaged by two floods swept down of Roanok the cale threw away | his hand Eridg. known Henry duel and o Analostan Island. up ‘the who was 1 of rig the most pict this section the and his fi Clay Key formerly the the o Mason netitu- that the john ho * % o % W ow nd us b connected EReS should be fo e form, as part sured record of the y . for it bears the actual rocky islands in th of the thought of this great Pot just abov n, expressed in concrete form. | F drowning The Washington Boulevard, run- | helieved 1o ¢ ning through . this historic country, | slow chiming of a cathedral b following the twooded of the | The three maidens, daughters quict river that he love arly— | Analostan chie one dar of beautiful driveway | and stols out ding into city that bears hi= | the Powhat name—would eventually in the wh place among the great struct flun thes the world. were drowned Several proposals bave been made | rodis. gray. and barren for the acquirement by the Govern- | oo™ BEE ARG O ment of the forests on both sides of | 1,q'hehich gives their stors. I the Potomac River above 7 s Bridge. The acquiremept of this [ 'guUfile Lo er particular stretch of land, lying at With dark eves gleaming roi the very portal of Washington, the | With soft x glad and caz National Capital, cannot ~be too | (For the braves of the Powhataii strongly urged; for the banks of the | " heh Ot of the d old Potomac, from its source. in xun‘ The voice of th rit called them, tiny streams in the mountains of e cry i feas, West Virginia, to its mouth, with a | They leaped. with & moun of terror width of seven miles where it flows | Tue ywaters hivees arouad. tiem, into Chesapeake Bay. witnessed the | making of much of our earliest re-‘ | HE old canal, so closely with Washir ties, it is declared eserved, in B of | 1egend of ng | the Three print Amer! mac the irplane without Power ore they are cours use shores an nizht visit th avoided n their The Ipool, and in elves into the In the th were ca fright & threc bal- rt res of morni had is an old m mari becon their of custo own gradually | close inb | them = | half an hc fume “gas | the battle | lose their rate them The stars were white with fear. Three rocks, spired and gloomsy corded history In 1605 John Smith explored the Gray as & stormy sky. Sprang from the depth of the whirlpool river to the falls, At the foot of the eliffs Where the Indian sisters lie Ever ‘at night they ring. Like a sad cathedral bell 5 Echioing far on the waters Potomac They sound the warning bell on the Virginia side of the John Randolph | THE RAILROAD, RIVER, HIGHWAY AND CANAL. - hi lose w Civilization. i ceding Flowers Use Gas. ogether x ur ea w attack freshness and e 8. & 0. Kailroad Photo.