Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1925, Page 71

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., MARCH 22, 1925—PART 5. Rarr}bler, in Haunts of Old Florists, Pan-American Union’s Birthplace Visits the Pierce Home, Bowen Road To Be Razed, Giving Way to Business TR =5 1 { Stately Wallach Mansion, Near Home of United States Chamber of Commerce, Was Scene of Brilliant Receptions and Statesmen’s Debates. I Story of Gardens Which Have Played Part in the Lives of Men About Washington—Some Advertising From Early Issues of The Star. METIMES the Rambler will walk a long waf without meet- Maat new hohie st iR | llain Thomas Pierce, jr., bought land Many new houses are willing | i from Henry McGovern and William to pose for their pic but | § | Willis, and created a place where a a - ho must be old and somewhat 4 7 it | dozen roses grow where but @ single out of repair to be eligible to this H i | doxenronen grow where but x single OE s vainsanen Taad oo 7 | liam Thomas and Charity Ann Pierc et | i - were John M. Plerce, married Miss et e . E Margaret Frye of Oxon Hill, both is one of the most historic i 1 BN living at Bradbury Heights; Sarah| it L s beeE g i % Elizabeth Plerce (deccased), married | quarters at the battle of Gettysburg, | 4 i # B gkt 6o Samuel Frye of Oxon HIIL living in| Grant'’s headquarters at the battle of | i 1 ol : Samuel Frye of Oxon HUL living in | Spotsylvania, George Washington | : oS Thomas Plerce, 2nd, married Miss lda | slept in the room over the garage, e : Taylor of Anacostia; James citizens of the county gave a recep- ? Y ! i Pierce, married Miss Virgle Tavlor | tion to Lafayette in the sitting room L < (deceased), widower remarried and i s nente masiHE T & ' R lives on Alabama avenue: George I Kfug John in the parlor.” | 5 Pierce, married Miss Alma Milstead of Benning: both living next door to the Willlam Thomas Pierce home; | A. Linger. That was the Pierce flower | farm until 35 years ago, when Wil- | Making pictures of new houses is | the work of the staff photographer 2 s X % . f 2 3 Plerc paged, & #nd the real estate editor, and the | e Charles E. Pierce, deceased, singl mble il not violate ¢ e ¢ 2 The children of William Thomas o '\l"\vrm:ng g Wi S it Plerce (2nd) and Ida May Taylor ment. Iithics Is a formiduble thing. | Plerco are Bertie May, married Em- Neworapec athics ey Hot He e ory Talbert of Cheltenham, Md., both > 2 ¢ ay mnot be sof living " across the road; Effic Irene, e mncns s pladicalBstiics (Dut | marricd Eugene Estes, both living in pClceils eihion —sihlosnareddinics 3 Washington; Ivy Elizabeth, married | have jt_your own way 1 Clayton Lowe, both living in Wash- » Rambler t @ vacation at S ington; Daisy Leota, married Llovd & great sanatorium where ethics, Ridgely of Braabury Heights: Wiltred | physicians and lovely nurses abound. | | Calvin, married Miss eth Am- He lived in a splendid room in a monette of Washington; Mildred Al-| ward which, for the convenience of 3 thea, married Charles Thompso patients, was on the same floor with - | Maryland; James Virgil, married Miss the morgue. One day he met Dr. i 5 Rlanch Ridgely of Bradbury Heights, | iith In the corridor and said, ““Dc e . deceased, and widower remarried which way to the post office?” and | From the Plerce gardens have come from force of habit and ethics the millfons on millions of flowers and doctor answered, “Well, really, now. many of them have played some part ion st fconferw it the! phigsician 45 > 5 in the life of men who read the Ram- assigned to your case.” 2 p bler This immense hospital-sanatorium e ¢ ¥ In writing of Joshua Peirce's Lin- had one of the most comprehensive | . nean Hill nursery the Rambler for- bath departments on record. There | . got to mention that for many years were a hundred baths that the man " g 3 he was owner of the squares bounded Jho _takes one in a washtub in the B . i - by Thirteenth and Sixteenth, R and S kitchen on Saturday night never| lud . s : streets, and had w tree plantation heard of In those marblo halls there. ' Joshua Peirce was the cighth . PRy 5 4 e i : were millionaires, Senators, Governor: 4 AM T PIERCE > > HIS F. child of Isaac Peirce and Betsy Cloud v 5 o P L SR S sieaadd State bosses, bishops and generals, WILLIAM THOMAS PIERCE AND PART OF HIS FAMILY. _| Peirce, daughter of Abner Cloud, who x S ¥ g 3 but, having as good and influential | mill whose ruins are on th ® disease as any of them, the Ram- | | flats about a mile this side of Chain bler was recelved on terms of cqual.|Men Who grew flowers for vour|manners of our time. Your children are | Brigge. . Is Peirce was born_in e nr s 5 A 2 - ‘fty. In fact, having a disease they | Sweethearts Yow réniember: the | as ool s zon were: Thoy aye am fn- | Chester, Cotlityy Pas April o) 6 DELEGATES TO THE FIRST MEETING OF THE PAN-AMERICAN UNION. HELD IN THE WALLACH HOME, WASHINGTON. THIS PHOTO- had never heard of, one with a longer | bouquets, and when you were young| provement on you. Your boy does not |came to the District about the time GRAPH WAS TAKEN IN 1889, AT THE STUDEBAKER HOME IN INDIANA, WHILE THE DELEGATES WERE MAKING A TOUR OF name than usual, and the Rambler,|and gay “bouquet” was pronounced! break windows and pull palings off the |of the Revolution, and married Betsy THE UNITED STATES. having been in more hospitals than | “bow-kay,” in which hundred-leaf| fence with greater glee than you did. |Cloud in 17 Isaac bought a mil = — - hey, he put it over the judges and |roses, =~ sweetwilliams, ks and to his brains, allow to_suggest | seat on Rock Creck and built Peirce’s | NE more of those stately old| The persons whom Mr. Wallach had and also for a uniform ishops. One or two of the impor-|tuberoses were bunched tight and set| to you, Bob, Tom, Joe or Sam. that vou | Mill about 1800. You have seea cut | dieiche DA on s diiter | Tath by GHavey | O M S e et tant men wore sheets, but most of us |in a funnel-shaped cardboard holder| were not @ monster of learning when |in stone, in the spring house west of | in the heart of the Wash- |t 1 rge and » mansion S were not so formal. The point to be | Whose upper edge was perforated like | you were between 12 and 20, Your |the mill, this “B. I P. 1501 You ington which is rapldly |close to the White House and the made is that in the bath department| Hamburg edging. Before $our hair| daughters are as sweet as their mother [ might infer the meaning as “Buiit h"l passing, hiomes =0 intimately | various Government offices, offered it 5 e S of a big sanatorium distinguished | fell out and when vou slicked h| was when you used to it up nights |Isaac Peirce,” but the Abnert i jentified with the history, not only | to Secr Blaine, a Sas) oo coamentionuof Blo do ey men are a disappointment. To meet|Pomade, and before vour wi trying to compose @ verse for her auto- | Peirce Shoemaker SiEi e b A Capitaliifeeic. bt Bt] srrtitt B, | Mweniter 1887, and of I them in the lounge, billiard room and | B0t out of control, and whe &raph album. I not the times that are | “Betsy and Isaac Peirce R e et s falilie béeata Sttt g sop BB bl 2 1888 chapel was an inspiration. To see|WOTe a mustache and carried a out of joint, it's your liver children of lsasc and Betsy Peirce |4, €00, BN Wil 1ong " 0f modern | roar the great Pan-Amerlean Unfor 12, The adoption, in reg them with 36-Inch chests and 60-inch | Jacca cane, you used to buy these how-| But ~about these old florists. Last |were Amy, born 1780: Job, born 1781, [0 0 sl et TomouE Dt 1ts and trade-marks of t waists was too sad to write | ka¥s. You had them passed over the | Sunday the Rambler recalled many of | married ah Harvey; Anne, born[PrREVERR o o0 o s tes keissosigh ol o | conctuaea. at Howih ¥ Amaerican * ok ok * | footlights to Mary Anderson. Lil and today he will lead you s | married Samuel - Simonton: | ¢ 78O0 TG Of Mavtime, the | The ‘republic of Mexico, those Cobivess; Ll at Atontevideo from FEW days ago the Rambler heard | Carating Ritohings. saa in later Gos| the og Ploes mame Ton Do e o e il Teoperts: | famous old Wallach mansion Jong the | central and South America: Halc August 25, 1855, to February 15, 188 a Judge, dressed in dignified and| to Dells For. Jernic Winston Tames| he not confie o ioe o oead. | Hiaanan. born 1789, married Hayes | brilllant residence of one of Wash-| Dominican Republic, and the Empir 12. The adoption in regard to ex- dismal ‘robes, i bl Fok g Jntu A A, & o Rt ington's most distinguished citizens, | of Brazil, as it was then known, tradition of criminals of the treats ,» and hedged by dull|Searle, Mary Beebe and oth You | Pierce, or Peirce, who had a nursery [ Speakman, died 1875; Mary, born 1791; | FERRCE, OTL, RO R PTG, T ERn ™ | 00 Ot to send delegates, and on international penal law conclud- books, deliver an opinion. It was | rememi f 3% i =1 ) b . as | remember, but whose names do not | called Linnean Hill, now part of Rock |Betsy, 1793; Joshua, born 1795; mar- [ 04 b¥ & Siroste of TorERRe A8 B I e 0 e ntat i came ; raational ¥ tw concing soncrous and incomprehefsible. There | instantly come to me. Do you ever| Creek Park, and whose g {104 Susan Conts, daugnter ot Nacon | DIace of e FeA_Amereas TRan, Wil anonse zepsoscntorly o i s e o K | Cots ot R o ceaser, | chapter in the annals of the Columbia | lombia, Costa Rica, 14. The appointment of an inter- i e x| Histori e Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, 4 \al crican commission to R e b e oifase| o1n its there is to rise soon | Mexico, Nicaragua, Paragua n ington and dise Joahina abehce S Tho a0 ol s 105 siidiiars reten S [itras oy e Ve el the the | queation : et S L ear this city. in the 75th | ening tide of business and official life RAEH T & The estabiistonent ot an {¥ear of his age., tincs od v, for | With the rapidity of a flood. On its| Y the act of Congress : horizing | s & a0 0s ot Sk toant [known 1o our citizens eneralls, tor | 50 T PRGN T e Fhrocs | B the meeting the conterence was was the owner of a square of grov near the State Department. which he used as a branch of his nursery at the Rambler recalled to you several|lose patience at your babble about the pub: 'he adoption of the sani regulations established in the ard to pa e treat rivate, civil and commercial ational law, and also on in r t T sions her. huge sign by virtue of which the con- | topies: law and procedure, concluded 4 e making of tractors Inform passers-by-that the| 1. To preserve the peace and pro- above-named South American | loc : e center site is to be oecupied by “a modern|mote the prosperity of the AMerican | Gongress at Montevidec 2 S outa office building.” ‘ states. 17. The adoption of certain prin- tuz 0 am’ of For long years the Wallach man-| 2. Formation of an American cus- |oipids on the subject of claims and| i > sion, standing sedate and autocratic! toms unic AiBIoTAstic Thteraention SRE follows an advertisement in * % ok * the close of their conversatio on that memorable May 14 Ger Pershing asked Maj. Harbord n vou speak French replied the “Are you quite sure Linnean HIIL" The Linnean Hill property was left by Mr. Peirce to Peirce Klingle, a nephew of Mrs. et Re DR Klingle family at the time of its in- that rivers serving as boundary 1 the evolu | clusion in Rock Creek Park in 1890. between borde ations should s dest : 3 Y freely navi part in = L 4 3 . 19." The submission to arbitration | be remembere ; S 3 5. disputes between the American who migh The Star, March, 1854: “The sub- s > £ ¢ tions, and the condemnation in| portant event riber has personally selected in | LRl N ; i PRl | smerica of the right of site back Europe all “he finest vegetables and % . Harbord Came to High Post large York, nonpareil, Enfield market, London market, Wheeler's imperial, ‘s queen, Spetbro, Mitchell brocoli, as Wilcove and white cape, 3 4 7 BY PRESTON WRIGH { me over in co: nd. I want yo caulifiowers, early peas, onions, Eng- L 2 3 : A e i e T o o OhieE of miafr compr everything new and rare. a ie nant, en 1 for cary duty with | ville, Pershing and Har Sibrie ooy Heventl: wndl B mixadry: mporary duty with | ¥ille, ! : o o Seventh between O and P." Casaliy: ot Tmted atenl i . velant t Hors ie: ax &0 ctnhThe Rtacidur: the same tent with another first|Japan aboard the same stea ing most o 53: “Hughes' Flower i < E 1 = ¥ TR % el s i peing | they met in the Philippines, where proprietor has a fine stock of Camelia THE HISTORIC WALLACH MANSION, AT SEVENTEENTH AND I e eatly 13 oar e oEOn bk | Pershing had ‘an opportunity toides japonicas, perpetual blooming roses STREETS NORTHWEST, WHICH 1S BEING RAZED TO MAKE | chosen commander of the American | piiiir” as assistant chief of o THE WILLIAM THOMAS PIERCE HOUS! G N L othor Mvering — — === = _ | plants, which will enable him to fur- bl DEAE an ! o T an organizer and administrator e SR T e =N > e i % nish the public with bouquets and o 3 Tats e L N e n asion fnen e onibu -@s ruch .uI; n.‘( e ;/u.m;o | mention these things to vour wife|is the home of Sergt. Patrick Joyce, U- | .yt flowers, dress vases, ete, at|at the intersection of Seventeenth| 3. Establishment nfreglular and frye. Font Ay etorin his CHISE GENEATE 3 ° .y{(”: lon then m on 1 that a man would rather choke t g i 7 ‘CErELal | perintendent ¢ e pari at Pei : £ s iy * = s, withs lent- | quent communication between the Bosd sk tha prosant .tims.a|was not forgotten. In crisis « and daughters? Certainly not. You | Derintendent of the park. That Peirce o 5 ey . and 1 streets, withstood the relent-|q Harbord, I <ought, and a sneeze would have been | 214 daughter e e | ean )i m0n. of Jakus, Pelice, Bullasor | oy, rosldences, and his '« 1arges will) 3. head of him, b 1 . ; - ‘ any years ago was| 4. Establishment of a uniform sys- | g : {ontoe o | ganization ahead of him, he natural could not_clear his mind of the|miche of the mind and rant about the | 1l property to Joshua Peirce Klingle, | 1L, 81V his personal attention to | tlon thet Rot S0 ™y, T, Guarter | tem of customa regulations S e e Py 14 10177/ | turned to the man he knew he could thought, “Oh! Judge, T've seen em |Willful and dissolute fellows of todas. | who was born January 1835, and [(SYI9E out QoW e i AxIng | ot the Federal City. One by one its| 5. Adoption of a uniform system of | " War had been declared against | trust 3 just as dignified as you hopping in U remeuer Mo Dfortle BNl aea Duiy 3 1803 Thac wspetieritany, | S ol L T ERE B § trees, | Of NS melghbora nave passed on weights and measures, and 1aws t0 | Germany on April 6 The whote| On May 28 the commander and h ing December water from the Great|Used to take to hops at the Washing-| pigrces of the Eastern Branch are not iy he United States Chamber | marks. tens the “Govesiioent, ~was “baking | onel.sailed for Frauce f on g v Armory e Na- 3 - 4 - advertising in The Star in 1854: * o [ nome of the United & am - % - .. |steps the Government was taking ok Smbd, s i ]"l,}}"fl o g A e S R s r;”:t;.vu”:t'um:s‘ Telated. & far a5 the Ramuiesigeiea | 1shas, Ao An' excellont oppe tanite | of - Commerce': and other atructures | 6 Adoption of a common silver | toward participation in hostilitics M;}l;-é = c:»)‘uri"».»\,‘,iva lows T 1 I ay the course « : e Sdon Minnie | logical records go. William Thomas | " trofed to the admirers of roses— |into the nelghborhood. at was A - oo | . Harbord, then a nfajor, was at the | Playing o part second only to Persh- this narrative the Rambler would pay | Pierce came to the District from the |33 9F¢|0¢, 10 U0 TR 0F Moses | e final blow. The flood of business Agreement upon e reco War College in Washington studying e e N [ Caruana’s? Yes, yes. But you sit in| S 3 : 2 . 3 ¢ k ;- hacaiine o him re "v;e‘tj‘;lnl:;" lz;mm l-:"{: s t«’l‘.:l hv;\i;.‘ ‘_”m*‘rm_kmg hal A "“M;y s .~’.m;1 x?if"’fl"."ivfi'\““.v u;-‘ was born far down | i1y or by the dozen. Those pur- | up the other side of _\,'\\u.l.,m, «’"fi”‘» (;:'::n'n(s of a definite plan of arbitta- | jn the conflict would be ::{vil.\alb!;(t‘):dx r;]r:\n 'u].".:u‘<\-‘r1r,~j\f. hig %2 obinion. Tt opinions wers only given| A% though you were full of crape:| tha first of the family 1o come to Amer: | Sanin€ 5 worth will be urnished | burst 18 WEMCENIE SO % (an’ | "3 Consideration of other matters | moned 13 the. tsiepiions. at the War | Radio Corporation of America o b Ly men qualified to give them there| Them times Is past,’ or “I cawn't|ica was his grandfather, Daniel Plerce, [ 10" experionced men to plant them. | 1n (1€ 25 lucture was attracting | relating to the welfare of the several | College. An aido to Gen. Pershing | lts president upon his retirement, private conversation than we have,|they are disgracéful”—and other ad-|,;arried Charity Ann Alley of Oxon Hill ¢ or of value as a home, even | the conference. en. Pershing wishes you to come | ¢Yerybody does not know how one o < o aualified | Jectives. e #eo - | geraniums, polyanthus, fuchsias,| No longer o s S olde Bk o . 1 -its' first - ses- ¢ = st . little thi complicated his ap g HgTee sATERE Y R i ow 15 vears 2 ed | P2 Lo o s, corne: pon | sion on Oc 2, 1889, office 3 s : ote ®lmost always wrong dances with 20 minutes instruction from | i tho Episcopal Cemetery at Forest- | Fifth street between K and New York | otder 0% ConEY yom, vested imme- | in session until April 19, 18%0. In|®Farbora set out for the War De- |20d fOr awhile threatened to kees . i e Gy less athletic and exertivo than the old, Honest, fellows, the Rambler could | diately became . it blics, since re- 2w 2 Py him. Store mith. hait a mile ot shelves af| and the trot the polka beaten from wiita more on this. subject. buc. i|moter of an ofMce or professional|of the American Republics, since re- | mind? Who can know? ' Probably > s S Of| here to the Navy Yard Bridge. W IT was, T think, let me say I know, [is late and an important member of | building. Finally, it was sold, and)femes = Bicy at| only suppositions, and vague ones tinetures and extracts. Tor every-| youdance them gracefully or diss e wreckers are well into their |was the outstanding achievement of [ ot that, for he hadn't the slightest . thing that could happen to a man | 5 % 1 S i i t ! | fully is up to you and the floor manager. | from Oxon Hill and began growing|thing of burning gas nearly all night ine iea s wer o i A Xners' were 19 remedies. The doctor{ “peypv.: John, .Jim; Dick ‘and. Bill, I | Howers onipakt .of the farm of llenr§ hasggul to s(opgs : B0t Chambers are opened up to‘the View |tions were adopted, as follow ? sent for him. Only remotely did he *who could write the longest prescrip- 7 5 of any one who might turn his head 1. The adoption of the metrical|conjecture that he might be on the wion which the drug clerk could not - 2 8 - in passing. decimal system of weights and meas-| way to something important. Mod- read had the best-paying practice. &Q 5 , - 3 T % * % ures. esty is graven deep in the man. Peirce, and it was in possession of the - ; 18. The adoption of the principle | has of certain classes of questions on its modern flower seeds among which are all Af ice in the Rank ter Service in the Ranks John ul, nurse y seedsman, seed Huntsville, Ala., in 1898, in the same tent at Hunts Garden, Seventh street, Island. The lieutenant, James G. Harbord There was another lapse and ther _WAY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN OFFICE BUILDING. bring an end to the World War, | Stabulary, display marked ability as contempt of court. Yet the Rambler | keep the rosy memories in a secret| pal &t SO7, of fsaar Teffce, bullfer of |be very moderate. ~William Hughes | less march of business over the sec-| American states. major general, retired, and president | 1917, with an immense task of o & marble alley with a firehose pour. |1 (onE resses and Jong LAl vou|The Peirces of Rock Creek and the|P"pir8 BRSNS, 4001t who was| Then, finaily, came the great, white | protect patents, copyrights afd trade | Nation was on edge, watching the| Shict of staff now a lieutenant col his humble tribute to the progress of | Hawke's, Vermilya's, Flora Dyer's and| oxon Hill neighborhood of Prince | arec, PUShes of Darpeth: cente each | that had been temporaril mmed | mendatian for adoption to their ov- [ and waiting to learn what his share | BOMe & major general. And every «ould be less public speaking and|darnce the new darnces, you know cotchman. . William Thomas Pleres | (ot SERSCRiper, S0, J08 {1 ROOT S| up that way countries which may be presented at | was. on the othor end of the wrire aopileation: fiom the ATy Bu The Rambler remembers that in his | JOUT granddaughter. The new waltz is | yile, Md avenue.” % hom rested imme- | In assoton wniil Aoril 18 1836, In| | pashoraast outifor the War pe- | R (27 SvUe Whrasiimed 1ok In 1873 that the Plerces moved |his family reminds him that this| BOW T8 S0 liion. Already, its great | the meeting. Nineteen recommenda-|suepicion of why Gen. Pershing had D Foray i maner e e UT if the scarred walls of S 2. The construction of the Inter-| After all, those who serve in our| «yag- Dr. Jones who pufied him through ikl : continental Railway. 115 &8 A , spacious rooms could n A armies ordinarily can anticipate little | “you could learn e the o Madiieey might well tell thrilling stories of bril- ( 3. The negotiation of partial re-|in the way of a career. And this| yyalr called too Tate. The last time the T O toas, B4y Aajons or sober de- | ciprocity treaties between the govern- | little becomen leas In the case of a ambler was in that drug store some couldn’t vou? Jokingly—"I learned speak English and some Sparish. the shelves were filled with mil- linery and notions, and the pharma- cist sald he was going to take out the remaining bottles and put in boots and shoes. The modern doctor still insists that You are doing fine and tells your wife that you are in a bad way, thus giv- ing encouragement to both, but, in- stead of calling in the old tinctures and _extracts, he talks about open windows, soap and water, exercise| and diet. Then he has your tecth pulled. “Get up in the morning,” he says, “before the milkman comes, swim the Potomac, walk up to Great Falls and back and eat a poached egg for breakfast.” The modern doctor believes in keeping his patient cheerful. In a aistant city a physician celebrated for his bedside manner and his bills got a friend of mine. There was a long examination by a squad of sub- doctors, and the main doctor, after reading the reports of the subs and phoning Bradstreet for the patient’s rating, came in to meet the patient. He beamed with benignity and said, in encouraging tones: “There does not seem to be anything very much the matter with this man. He is in- curable. But outside of that he is all right” So you see how therapo- psycho-suggestion cheers a fellow up. x k% WE_will get back to what this ramble is about. We were talk- ing last Sunday about old florists and" bates over matters of state, and care- fully “worded discussions between men of international fame that had been car- ried on within the protection of their precincts. They could tell of the birth of the “American lLeague of Nations” which every day is becoming a more im- portant factor in the destiny of the New World. Richard Wallach built the mansion. The time its foundations were lald is a matter of question, but certainly, all agree, more than half a century ago. For many things Richard Wallach will be remembered by Washington. A prominent lawyer, he was appointed marshal of the Federal City in 1849 by President Zachary Taylor, and served until 1853, two months after Pierce became President. A year after The Evening Star was established by Joseph B. Tate, W. D. Wallach, a brother of Richard Wallach, purchased it and remained its editor un- 11 he sold it to Crosby S. Noyes in 1867. Richard Wallach played a prominent part in the early politics of Washington, and was twice mayor of the city in th days when the people of this District chose their own leaders. It was while Mr. Wallach and his family were away in Europe that the then Secretary of State, James G. Blaine, summoned the nations of the New World into conference here in 1889. The invitation was formally authorized by an act of Congress the year before, and the occasion was probably the greatest” international meeting that had e e At el W61 DgeD Reld on- thia continonty ments which might be interested in|man like Harbord, who was not a making them, with a view to the promotion of the common welfare of all 4. The granting of subsidies and other assistance to steamship lines, 50 as to improve and facilitate inter- American communication on the At- lantic side. The same in regard to com- munication on the Pacific side, 6. The same in regard to communi- cation on the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea 7..The adoption of a_common no- menclature, or list of equivalent names, in English, Spanish, Portu- guese and French, alphabetically ar- ranged, of all articles of merchandise on which iniport duties are levied in the American countries. 8. The adoption of certain rules tending’ to Secure uniformity of in- voices, manifests and other commer- clal documents and to facilitate the transaction of business; and make it uniform in the customhouses of America. 9. The creation of an association, under the title of the “International Union of the American Republles,” to be represented in Washington by the International Bureau of the American Republics, for the prempt collection and distribution of commercial in- formation. 2 10. The consolidation of all port tonnage @ue, to_be levied and col- ched Accordlng’-ie-certaln Mnilorm l;l:u into a single onme, to be called West Pointer, but had come up from the ranks. Harbord, an enlisted man in 188 was only a major in 1917 after 2: years of service. The seriority rule was the stumbling block in the wa of faster promotion Thus, in 1891, when he had been given his first commission as a second lieutenant, he could only look for- ward to an ultimate majority in c: 30 officers younger than he in vear but older in rank, died or left the service. *ox ok x HE Spanish-American War of 1598 | caused the addition of five regi- ments to the Cavalry arm of the Army, presenting him with the possi- bility of some day being a lieutenant colonel. .Then the Army reorganiza- tion under the Wilson administration, further enlarging the personnel, brought hopes of a colonelcy. But the immediate result of the reorgan- ization was only a° commission as| major. The Harbord who proceeded to ‘the “War Department on Gen. Pershing’s request carried with him the recollection of 14 years just prier to the promotioni which he had spent as a captain- And, mixed with this, was the consciousness that he was now 51 years of age. He was shown into Gen. Pershing’s | office and— “Harbord,” said the general, “I'm The commander-in-chicf thought a bit. “This may make some difference he said. “The chief of staff ough to speak French.” He paused, the ddded “However, I'll take you over i some capacity anyway. Tl talk with you later.” History will record that Gen. Har bord went to France as chief of staff innocent of French, and continued through tho war without acquiring more than 3 smattering of 3% Whee he saw Gen. Parshing after their first conversation the chief of the expeditionary forces secms to have concluded t Harbord, speaking | only English, would make a bette man for the job than any of his French-speaking officers. There is a story told that the major himself made n statement to this effect to the general. If he did, no bit of egotism could e entere into his claim, as any one who ever has known the man will testify. Ce tainly Gen. Pershing knew him well enough to have accepted such a declaration as a statement of fact anc not a boast (Copyright. Radio Ticking. ticking of a watch which was adeast by radio from Havana was distinctly heard at the home of Clayton B. Straw at Wast &0l0g 1o-France. They'ra sending -Hopkiuton, Ny & ”