Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1925, Page 73

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 5, 1925—PART 5. Star Files for 1853 Give Rambler Some Entertaining Bits of History " Advertisements of “New and Popfilar Music” Mention Songs Which Lack Cheerfulness of Those of Present FEW Sundays ago bler told you the contents of | the first issue of The and republished mi tisements and news bits of 1852. In spite, or because, of its lit- erary defects and lack of originality t was a successful story in that sev- eral old Washingtonians read it, and is the old Washingtonian at whom the Rambler aims ories. 1f an ald Washingtonian applauds him or | writes @ letter to the editor that he | ought not to be fired, the Rambler | eats with content his midday slice of | pie and goes bed with peaceful thoughts ! Of course, the Rambler tries also to please Washingtonians who are not old, even though they have lived here 70 vears, and for that purpose he writes some jazzy lines and toots | the saxophone for a paragraph or so he Rambler writes and should | his fond readers turn him down he would have to go to work The ramble from the early Star was s0 poor from a literary point of view that many persons thought it | £0o0d. and the Rambler is emboldened 1o try another story in the same key. He will not the file room of The Star wit bringing out for your benefit the things he found there You remember strangely eries of T00k ¢ adver- his st av out nless that you are wrote a busi- nd he ed th etful he s neient rms the to liberty right, define ancient business m as one that 50 vears old. | oms of his friends in the history de- partment of the Washington univer- | 1 the Geological: Society protest that the word “ancient” was treated too lightly, but as they have not agreed as to what year sep- arates ancient and modern, the Ram- bler has felt free to give the word s own interpretation. He fears or, at least, he does not fear—that great scholars will differ with him, but they differed with him on so many other things that he no longer lies awake o' nights lamenting the errors into which great scholars fall The file room is one of the im- portant places in the There no other library hington | Listory so large and Tt is also & library of American and world | Listory. It approaches as near ac curacy as history ever does, and near- | than history usually does. It holds the record of millions of events for 70-odd vears, and the record of those events was made when the events befell. There are divergent accounts of the same event, but the files set down, not one side of a mat- ter, but as many sides as there are. Years after an event the files follow it and give place to memoirs of actors in it, recollections men who had direct knowledge of it, and interpre- tations put upon the event men who had only a reading %no it The files before them tives and the an was is of tell the history of t They carry biographies of men who w old when the first tila was a bundle of fresh newspape: tell what many men carri. ory of the Washl the begin what thousands able to collect fxom all sourc lating to this part of the country, from the coming of European settlers. The flles are the history of the American Capital, the progress of the sciences and the course of man. This store of knowledge is not dified and indexed so to be ready to the hand of any man, and such arrange- ment of it would be a stupendou:s Job, but it is one of thos: stup<ndous jobs which must in time be donc ¥ ¥ x ok HE patient and industrious man with a special technique uses the files for his own and public advantage. Trom the old files may write theses on many and the files, if they do not all the ma- terial for a th make valuable contribution to it. Many a man has got his reputation for wisdom or learning from the files, but rarely does one make public acknowledgment of his debt - painstaking research 1 have prepared this contribution to knowledge,” he says, and his hearers «<lap their hands. He takes all the credit. Not once does he say, “The ©old files gave me this information.” The Rambler takes off his hat to the flles and salutes them. If you think the “rambles” good reading, their writer asks you to praise, not only him, but the files _The old files do not live in luxury. They are not even embalmed in lux- ury. A new subeditor often has a hetter room than the old files. But The Star treats its files pretty well. It gives them steel shelves, off which they come, perhaps, to look at men they mever saw before. If an old file could speal the language of its print, it might say: “My type was set before vou were born. Hold me at the win- dow. The Avenue is not so grand as 1 thought it would become. Rather shabby. So many changes in the clty 1 could not find my way around. All my printers, editors and subscribers are gone. Put me back on the shelf among my friends. Gently, please; don't break my binding.” Books of 40,000 words, many of them {ll-used and with only three facts, all of which are wrong, are given finer bindings than old files. The janitor has mno reverence for them. The library assistants, when they think of them, think of them as of men 2| Sister Sue,” “I'm Not Angry, the Ram-| Star, | ONE OF THE FILES OF THE EVENING STAR, SHOWING A Day—Slavery in Maryland. EVEN IT Taae COPY OF TEMBER 26, 1853. THE PAPER FOR MONDAY, SEP- | der why in thunder the man who | takes down December, 1833, or Oc-| tober, 1861, “doesn’t put ‘em back where he got 'em.” The young re- porter or the copyreader pulls down, when he must_an old file with some- thing other than a tender and caress. ing hand, vet these old files are the work of generaflons of reporters, edi- tors and printers, Reading the file of 1833 for old-firm matter, the Rambler saw advertise- ments of ‘“new and popular” music for sale at the music stores of John . Ellis, the Avenue between Ninth and Tenth, and Mrs. Win on Sixth near Louisiana avenu The titles are not so cheerful as song titles today. Here are the names of popular songs in 1853: “Lament of the Blind Orphan Girl,” “The Old Churchyard,” *“Honest Hearts and Willing Hands,” “I'll Pray for Thee," Happy Birdlings,” “Sister's Wed- ding,” “Thou Art Gone From My Gaze “Willte, My Brave.” “Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad,” “Days of Childhood,” “The Flowers Are leeping, ' 'Old Bob Ridley,” *Poor “Lightly Hill ‘Quickstep ‘The Old Banjo," * “Mary Vale, “Etty “Maggie by My Side” and “What Are the Wild Waves Saying.” * k¥ * QNE of the “leading early Washington was liam Easb Several yeal perhaps 10-—the Rambler this man and his famil Rambler's memory Is in tun Easby was a marine architect and shipbuilder at the nav yard and also opened and long conducted a ship-building yard on Windmill Point, which came to be known as Easby's Point. The Rambler cannot take time to refer to those ancient stories, but he believes he placed the Easby hip vard where the warehouse and yards of Littlefield, Alvord & Co. are | at Twenty-sixth street and the Po tomac, not far from the northwest | corner of Potomac Park. The Easby home was in the square bounded by Pennsylvania avenue, E street, Eighth and Ninth streets southeast. The Rambler's recollection is that the big brick house had been one of Tenneclif's taverns and that there “refreshment for man and beast” was being served in 1796 and maybe two or three years before. Capt. Easby improved the house and made the square In which it stood a garden. He named the prop- erty “Warwick” Part of the house is standing. Before the automobile age it was a lager Leer and other kinds of a saloon and In falr, warm weather Washington people would sit_on benches near the saloon and in the shade of trees of the Warwlick garden. The last time I passed the place it bore signs of oil and gasoline. The house of Warwick is now a gas station and auto repair shop. In The Star of September 17, 1853, the Rambler read this public notice: “Twenty dollars reward will be paid to any person who may give in- formation that will enable me to con- vict the villain or villalns who ma- liciously broke off the heads of two of my maple trees on the west side of square 925 on the night of the 16th instant. WILLIAM EASBY. “N. B. I have prepared a few pills of lead which will not be exhibited in homeopathic doses. It is supposed We Sail,” ‘Sweet Mi “Bunker ippi.” citizens” of pt. Wil- ago— wrote of 1f the Capt heavy and hard to handle, and won- e S PUNNEORED, | 7S5 A that these pills when administered in LT LR R LYY free y 4y | dulgence accordance with the Canon law to those who may be detected in the In- of a too common disease, Populabundus, will cause a radical cure.” The shows by the streets dic District _plat book square 925 to be bounded Avenue, E, Ninth and Tenth southeast, and Harper's Latin tionary shows populabundus an jective meaning “laying waste, de vastating.” Piney Point as a Summer resort as a going concern in_the siang but not literal sense in 1853. The fol- lowing “ad” was in The Star in July “Piney Point Pavilion, run by William W. Dix, formerly proprie- tor of the Fountain Inn, Baltimore. This agreeable bathing place and quict retreat for those in search of health and rational pleasure, having been leased by the undersigned, with a view to the purchase of it, if suc- cessful in his efforts to accommodate the public, was opened for the season on Wednesday, June 15. A seine will be daily drawn for the accommoda- tion of the place and the amusement of visitors.”” The advertisement gives the schedule of the steamboats stop- ing there, the Powhattan running between Washington and Potomac landings, Osceola between Washing- ton and Norfolk, and Columbia be- tween Washington and Baltimore. x k% % J¥, the Fall of 1553 Little Falls bridge was being rebuilt. References in acts of the legislatures of Vir- ginia and Maryland and other papers show that where two spans of Chain bridge cross the river there was a ferry as early as 1750. Then a wood bridge was built. A road passed over the rocky flats now crossed by sev- eral spans of Chain bridge. The wood bridge was broken down by flood and ferry service was renewed until another wood bridge was built. There was a succession of short wood bridges and ferries and in the 40's (consult the Rambler index for the date), the Chain bridge was built. The narraw part of the river was spanned by a suspension bridge, the wood floor and rails being suspended on four chains instead of wire cables, which later came into use. The Chain bridge was wrecked by flood and the road from the north end of It across the flats was often under water. The short bridge and ferry systems al- ternated until the building of a wood bridge on stone piers from the canal to_the south bank. In the late 70's the stone plers wers built highr and the iron su- perstructure you know was built. In former “rambles” on District bridges will be found much matter with the dates concerning early bridges and ferries preceding the Chain bridge, the Chain bridge itself and its suc- cessors, none of which was a chain bridge, but cach of which was called “the Chain bridge.” The Rambler be- lleves that the following advertise- ment in The Star during September, 1853, refers to the building of the first bridge from the canal to the Virginia shore: “Wanted {mmediately at the Little Falls bridge three miles above George- town 25 good stone cutters. Wages £2.30, $2.40 and $2.50 per day. Also 25 good laborers, wages $1.25 per day. George Thom, Captain Topographical Engineers in charge of construction, Little Falls bridge.” The Rambler has written much of slavery in the Potomac Valley and has told you how slavery in Mary- ad- | land was being softened long befors the Civil War and was passing as it had passed in States north of Mary- land. Before the Civil War some of the “best families,” there being more |than one *“best” family, and many {other kinds of family would not seil a slave, would not separate a slave family, would not sell a slave to be taken out of the State. Feople were treeing slaves by their “last will and testament,” and writing in their wills |that “my brown boy Charles” or “my black woman Tilly'” should be set free “on reaching the age of 30 years” or three vears after my demise Sentiment against “the institution” was growing. In the tobacco counties of Maryland where slaves were nu- merous there was a sentiment against selling a slave “off the place” and some plantations were hard put to feed and clothe the master's family and his slaves. With many families slaves were a Mability. After eman- cipation many negroes stayed on the place and continued to live in their “quarters,” the chief change in re- lations between them and their for- mer owners being that the ex-slaves “worked a pa'cel o' groun' " on shares and generally the shares didn’t amount to much. The negro trader was & lawful business man but his social status was low. The change in senti- ment was not brought on by abolition propaganda in the North. Catholic priests and Protestant ministers in- fluenced their congregations toward kindness for slaves. * x * ok FEW ministers were free-spoken against slavery but their in- fluence was not extensive. There no doubt of the legality of It had Scriptural warrant, the Constitution recognized it, the State law sustafned it and it was part of the practice of the people. Most persons held there was no wrong in owning a man or woman but they came to feel that it was wrong to {ll-use that man or woman. The Rambler never heard of a slave owner in Maryland who belleved that a negro was not a human being. Read the following advertisement in The Star of September 17, 1853: “Five thousand negroes wanted. 1 will pay the highest prices in cash for 5000 negroes with good titles, slaves for life or for a term of years, in large or small families, or single nogroes. I will also purchase negroes restricted to remain in the State that sustain good character. Families never separated. Persons having slaves for sale will please call and seo me, as T am always in the market with the cash. “JOHN M. DENNING, Yo. 18 South Frederick street, be- tween Baltimore and Second, Balti- more, Md. (Trees in front of the door.) You see, even this hard-boiled negro trader in 1853 advertised “Families never separated.” You also catch the notes, “Negroes restricted to remain in the State” and “slaves * * * for a term of years” The point which the Rambler makes is that slavery was waning in Maryland when the war of 1861-65 came on. Before writing the Lansburgh story the Rambler went through The Star files for about 20 years, beginning in 1860, and among advertisements in that year were those of Mrs. Wins- low’s soothing syrup; Edward Hall pure old rye for $2 a gallon at 40 Loulsiana avenue; C. Gautier’s saloon, Avenue between Twelfth and Thir- teenth; H. O. Hood, jewelry, 333 Ave- nue; T. J. and W. M. Galt, wood, coal, ranges and latrobes, northwest cor- ner Twelfth and C; Dr. H. Peradeau, professor of music; Drs. Loomis and Hills, dentists; Willlam R. Riley & Bro,, dry goods, Market Space; T. Po- tentinl, confectioner, Avenue between Tenth and Eleventh; James S. Top- ham Southern Trunk Manufactory; J. Rosenthal, “ladles’ homemade shoes, Market Space; Joseph T. K. Plant & Co., paperhangers and upholsterers, 350 D; Mr. Sands, ambrotypes; Steam boat James Guy, Luclen Page, pro- prietor; T. H. Spiers, planos, Elev~ enth, south of Avenue, ‘next door to the Theater”; Andrew J. Joycs, car- riages, Fourteenth and Guire & Co., auctioneers Loeffler, “lager beer brewe: York avenue between First and S ond; Mrs. Heller, bonnets, Market Space; Noerr's bakery, Eleventh and E; M. W. Galt & Bro., jewelry, Ave- nue, four doors west of Brown's Ho- tel; Taylor & Maury bookstore, Ave- nue between Ninth and Tenth; Shil- lington's bookstore, Odeon Building; J. Cookman Adams, professor of mu- sie; W. G. Metzerott. music store; C. Snyder, stoves, “Philharmonic Hall, south side Avenue, next door to Star Office”; Taylor & Hutchinson, dry goods, Louisiana avenue, opposite Market Space; K. C. Woodley, ambro- types; the Herndon House, F and Ninth, P. G. Murray, proprietor; Jesse B. Wilson, groceries, Avenue be- tween Sixth and Seventh; Perry & Bro., dry goods, Perry Bullding; B. H. Stinemetz, furs, Avenue between Twelfth and Thirteenth; W. M. Shuster . & Co., dry goods, Market Space; Clagett & May. dry goods. Avenue between Ninth and Tenth, and James' Y. Davis, “late of Todd & Coy, e was slavery. Jewish Community Center Here Culmination of Years of Effort Half-Million-Dollar Structure on Sixteenth Street Will Have the Character of a National Institution Although Intended to Serve the Local Community. HE half-million-dollar struc- ture rapidly growing up on the corner of Sixteenth and Q streets, to be known as the Jewish Community Center, will be the culmination of 1) vears of Jewish endeavor in Washington, the final step in the evolution of so- cial service throughout the United States and a contribution to the welfare of the entire community. As the ultimate d lopment of that basement congregation of & dozen eager-eyed Jews and Jewesses in 1911, and as the realization of a dream which, despite financial diffi- culties, flaggingk interest, and even opposition, persisted .in the minds of ts sponsors, the Jewish Community Center is indeed the culmination of Jewish ideals and enterprice in Washington. As the particular protege of a body of soclal service experts and con- sultants for all Jewlish social organi- zations in the coun namely, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Jewlish Community Center is verily the re- sult of years of national sociul serv- fce experiment 5 As an_institution purpose is to promote American cul- ture and ideals among all who wish to imbibe them, the Jewish Commu- nity Center ix traly civic impor- tance and service, Fourteen years ago when 12 Young men and women flocked to the base- ment of the home of Sarah Roberts, now vice president of the Young Women's Hebrew Association, with ideas and suggestions for forming a “Y,” they had no conception of the large proportions their nucleus would take. They were merely a group of young people whose athletic and so- cial inclinations demanded an outlet. At that time the only possible satis- faction for them was at the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations, where the limited facil- ities made their welcome a sacrifice for the others. They needed their own recreational center, but, unfortunately, financial incumbrances wrecked all their at- tempts to maintain one. The less than 1,000 Jews in the community had not yet discovered the need for such a project, and until 1917 all the ardent juniors could afford was three hours in Flynn's Hall, an old con- verted residence on K and Eighth streets, every other Sunday after- noon. © At these sessions they planned minstrel shows, encouraged athletics and arranged for intercity debates, which were judged by members of Congress. These debates were evi- dently not futile, for the five original incorporators of the Young Men's Hebrew Association, David Wiener, Frederick M. Pelzman, Joseph Stel Joseph L. Tepper and Louls E. Splegler, are now local attorneys. * % ¥ % NTIL 1917, the problem of these young men and women had been to provide themselves with enter- tainment. Then came the war, It transformed a purely personal move- ment into an altruistic one. The problem now became: “Who is to afford recreation to the hundreds of Jewish men and women in the service of the Government? Where will the homesick, unacquainted young men and women spend their evenings?" The “Y" had to answer. The com- munity had to be talked to. With the help of'a few local merchant the first real hewdquarters was pro- cured at 1349 Pennsylvania avenue, now a chop suey restaurant. It was maintained, lamely to be sure, with the co-operation of the B'nal B'rith, a Jewish independent order; the Jewish Welfare Board and the newly born Jewish clubs, which rented the “Y" space, but never had the funds to pay for it. The influx of Jews and the meager- ness of these quarters made a change imperative. Milton Strasberger, then judge of the Municipal Court, and David Wiener, president of the “Y,” obtained & two-year lease at their present headquarters, Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue, at a reasonable rate, because their work dealt with ex-service men. But in 1920 the Jewish Welfare Board, devoting itself exclusively to the wounded war veterans, ceased its ald, leaving the ° supporters dispirited and disarmed. They sur- veyed their dull, drab dwelling plice where two dozen Jewish organiza- tions had to conduct their business amid the tramp of the Boy Scouts and the jazz emanations from the social hall; they observed thelr well chosen books buried under a layer of dust because of the conglomeration of activities In the so-called reading room; they saw their inkless stands and waterless sponges—and were disheartened. And so Jewish activities in Wash- ington might have dled out or drag- ged on had not the idea of a Jewish Community Center germinated—an institution which would offer Jewish organiaztions a home; which would alleviate their conflict and rivalry; which would bring together Ortho- dox and reformed, Zionist and anti- Zionist; which would express the totality of Jewish life, not a cross- section of it; which would establish unity in community. These are the ideals with which the bricks of the magnificent building are being laid. * %k ¥ % essential OW that we have traversed the path from basement to mansion, let us sce why this center has been built on the highest rung of the social service ladder. When the idea of a Jewish Com- munity Center was born no local at- tempt was made to make it feasible. In 1922 the Jewish Welfare Board was invited by tie “Y” to make a survey of the needs and facilities for such an organization. With 80 social service institutions of experience be- hind them, the Jewish Welfare Board studfed the community. They saw that the need was appalling; that the facilities could be made. So they started the job of rousing approxi- mately 14,000 Jews from their inertia, of educating them to the desirability of the munificent project; with the re- sult that by November of 1923 $238,- 000 was pledged by the community for this enterprise, making it the most successful * institutional cam- paign of this city. Then the Jewish Welfare Board did what it had never done before. It supplemented its efforts with a §50,- 000 pledge to characterize this, not as a local organization but as a ra- tional Jewish center—an institution not designed primarily to lodge the stranger or house the overnight hiker, such as a “Y"; nor for the poorer classes. who need the educa- tion and uplift supplied by the rich, such as an educational allfance, but a gelf-supporting institution for all— the solicitous parent, anxious that his children learn the history of their forefathers; the tired business man, who needs some gentle exercise after the office routine; his good wife, who must enlist the aid of Indian clubs and trapeze bars in her war against flesh and middle age; the ambitious youta, who must get his education by extension courses in the evening; his gay sister, who requires whole- some social influences for her leisure the harassed housewife, who escapes from her pots for a genial hour at ainby tha STapdn ARCHIEECT'S DRAWING OF THE NEW JE ISH COMMUNITY (! father, who finds here a haven himself and his cohorts. Such is the all-embracing service experiment to be conducted here, To carry it through, 2 most representative board was chosen for the Jewish Community Center; also an executive director who had helped to erect local Jewish institutions in Trenton and Baltlmore was drafted for the project. rmerly on the fac- ulty of New York University, Maurice Bisgyer has gained a reputation for his knowledge of institutional finances. In their diversity, the board mem- bers are representative of every type of Jewish cltizenry: Harry King. president, of civic prominence; Miss Aline E. Solomons, of the oldest and most aristocratic Jewry in Washing- ton; Rabbi Abram Simon, first vice president, of the American Reformed for social- it is a Jewish community center, t use of its gymnasium, for example, will be offered to the Board of Educa- | tion, so that the boys who are crowd- | ed at school may have the advan of the unlimited athletic facil here. Though the doctors and nurses of its clinic will be Jewish, their ail- Ing babies may be complainants in the Irish or other brogues, as well as the Yiddish dialect. The institution whose parent re- sorted to an Irish hall. and whose chosen neighbor is the Scottish Rite Temple, will not be bounded or tarian in any respect. In fact, a man of Irish descent was employed to ex- tract the pecuniary pledges from the reputed affluent race. Frank Hogan was the chairman of the campaign dinner at which $125,400, more than half of the total subscription, was pledged.” Along with Mr. Hogan are M OF THE NEW JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER. Jew; Rabbl J. T. Loeb, of orthodox Jewry; Rabbl Louis J. Schwefel, of the conservative Jewish group: Charles A. Goldsmith, treasurer, of the successful business men; Mgrris Garfinkle and Jacob Heckman, of the nationalistic Jew, zealous of Zionism and Jewish welfare; Joseph A. Wil- ner and Mortimer King, of the liaison between the aristocrats and the masses, and Morris Cafritz, of the voung men whose initiative brought recognition. * % % * BOVE all, the Jewish Commu- nity Center will be of civic im- portance because its physical, men- tal, religious and moral training will bé given with one purpose—to pro- mote true Americanism and good citi- zenship among the Jews of Washing- ton. Moreover, the privileges of the in- stitution will be open to all. Though b the Boyle Robertson Construction Co., B. Stanley Simmons, the architect, and R. D. Thomas, publicity man. Of the 2,600 subscribers, with be- quests ranging from 50 cents to 5,000, not a few were non-Jewish. The following letter, which accom- panied a donation from a local com- pany, is an example: “I have the pleasure to inclose here- with a check for $250 from the as a subscription to the building fund of the Jewish Commu- nity Center. “I have many times noticed when- ever a subscription list goes around to promote some meritorious public enterprise or to finance a charitable undertaking that Jewish contribu- tors generally head the lists both ‘in number of subscribers and in the amounts subscribed. It seems to make no difference to the Jewish peo- | pleas ple what the enterprise is, so long as the results promisa some kind of good or help to some one. “I have so of the marked ish people ure to monial, to t Jewish Commur “Wishing for you your building effort that you shall carry am cordially yours, Another letter worth quoting 1s from Mina C. Van Winkle, chief of Washington’s policewomen, wt “Herewith is my pledge toward th fund that will achieve a need for th city. I wish it we rore, but the little it is is given pleas- ure and in full' sympath h th movement.” The last letter youngest and smallest proves conclusively t Community ( “Inclosed y the new bt pool. Last Summer and, after playing in kids sure wanted there was n 1 am so gl will be one, so are f earned the money on go for my mother. I am Yours' truly, peen struck with the Jew- me great as a testi fund of the that it gi ubseribe success in nd in the work on through it, I comes from criber. 1 the Jewis vie utilit i 50 cents for a swimming the stre a cold duc 10 vears old HE building nated winner of the buflding comm: of some of the fir It is strictly classic limestone and g ir with the meighboring monumental buildings, the Scottish F Tem and the Ca itute frontage of street and a depth o street, it rises four stories above the street. Its main floor is a proached from Sixteenth street by a serles of granite steps 30 feet wide from which springs a limeston: balustrade running along the outer edges of the building The main lobby, two storles in height, with floor and walls of blach and gold marble, leads directly into the .auditorfum, 22 feet high, tre in the Adams period, and seating 1,100 people. As a ballfoom this spa clous auditorium will afford amble ex pansfon to the cramped pat z of the “¥'s” social 1 The large stage with a opening of 30 north and south by \g room ar emergency stairs, will Le a joy to t dramatic performers whose efforts at the “Y” were disparaged by the lac of a curtain, entrances or e light ing effects and scemery. A also the audience. Balconfes or promenades overio the auditorium. The mezzanine tains a large lounge, a meeting ro a library and a coffee house, treated in Dutch colonial style. The wall of this rendezvous will ring ever evening after 9 o’ with importan questions of the hour. One int tual organization of the Jewish el the “Elis,” and their “Elijahs,” fa nine counterparts, await the cor tion of this portion of the building breathlessness. On the floor above the auditorium will be a series of class and clul rooms; a lodgeroom for men and women, a hand ball court, and ar approach to the roof garden of red tile, with a balustrade, vet not ex posed to the str Below the main equipped gymnas with six tables, four bowling alleys a men's lounging room with a red quarry fireplace, 1 severel game rooms. Below these, in the basement are the men's and women's lockers and showers, basket storage rooms and a 60x20-foot swimming pool, steri ized with ultra-violet ray equipment * itself h. s been desig Sta mons held 1 d designer the competition lesign keeping on 124 fee prosce ked on the oy floor is a ful a billlard room ... TURNING THE FIRST SHOVEL-QE EARIE AR, NASBINGION S JEWISH, COMMUNITY, GENZER.