Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1925, Page 4

WOULD GROUP U. . ENGINEERING WORK National Council Wants All Building Jobs Under De- partment of Interior. ‘With the twinfold aim of elimina- tion of waste of milllons of dollars a year and of reduction of unemploy- ment during periods of industrial de- pression, the American Engineering Council will embark this year upon a Nation-wide education campaign de- signed to concentrate in the Depart- ment of the Interior all the engineer- ing and public construction enter- prises of the Government. Changes to ba asked by the organized engi- neers will go along with the plan for reorganization of the Interior De- partment, although there will be sev- eral departures from the reorganiza- tion plan Urging the appointment of four assistant secretaries of the Interior to handle and administer all public construction, public works and archi- tectural matters and all work having to do with administration of the p lic domain, the engineers propose a th;\( many of the activities now cen- 1 of Lieut. Col. . G in charge of v\uhln \.uxldln\ parks, be trans- ferred to the Interior Department. Would Transfer Offices. The engineers would place the office of public buildings and parks, the des dings, the Rock Parkway Commi; the office of the architect of the Cap- partment. ce has recently za nd its duties en- He is now director of public ngs and publis rks, and all nment buildl have been under his i e buildings Col. Sher- c engineers place in the Interfor Depart- provides that the s of the Interlor and the as- Mrs. Bettie Van Metre Saved Northerner, Won South’s Hate. Later Received Honor From Vermont for Heroic Action. The last chapter of a romance that had its inception in the closing days of the Civil War, a story of how a Virginia belle faced bitter criticism and virtual ostracization before rhe would desert a wounded Yankee lleutenant who had been left in an abandoned farmhouse to die of starvation, was written in Berry- ville, Va., last week, when the heroine died at the age of S81. She was Mrs. Bettie Van Metre, a member of an old Southern family whose @ons fell in the service of Robert E. Lee. Her act of mercy, always unrecognized by her friends in the South, was final- whose leglons the young lieutengnt was fighting when he was shot down. Since then Mrs. Van Metre's heroism has be- come the inspiration for several works of literature by prominent authors. Slave Brought Wood. Mrs. Van Metre was scarcely 20 years old and & bride of a few months when the incident that the later to surround her with glory occurred. She was living on her husband's planta- tion mear Berryville when a faithful old slave, who had refused to accept emancipation, crept into her room one day and whispered that “dar was a Yankee ossifer erdyin’ fer want o' water an’ bread in de nex’ plantation.” Accompanled by her faithful family retainer, she drove to the farm, which had been deserted when its own hurried to the aid of the Confederacy, and found Lieut. Henry E. Bedwell of the 11th Vermont Light Infantry on the verge of an agonizing death, locked in a barren chamber on the top floor of the crumbling homestead. Only a few months before her own brother had died before the Northern guns at Gettysburg and her husband and_another brother had been sent to Fort Delaware In captivity. Brush- ing aside the grief the war had brought into her own home, she had the room made more comfortable and called in her family pbysician to at- tend the man. Defied Many Dangers. For two weeks the young Southern #irl nursed the Yankee office: and day. Often she had to ride 20 miles to Harpers Ferry through dan v | gerous country for medicine and sur vision also be made ecretary for public tal for an archi- jomy and indust s Reported. gical dressings. Finally she was re- warded by seeing the enemy lleuten- ant recover to the point where he could besgin his journey back home. v | Fearing he wouid be captured and killed by the guerillas, she smuggled | | him out of the Confederate lines herself. Upon reaching Washington, - Lieut Bedell t Secretary of War Stanton of how fe had been saved by the and as a reward her er were ordered cleased from son immediately She and her hu d then accompan- ied Licut. Bedell to his home in Ver- nt and remained t e of the r own plantation to face virtual m for years go the Legislature of d a resolution thank- e for her coura- the life of a was given a . Wastingtons Siadriast Rest aurant ‘“" $o 1 Thomas Circle A Special Brooke Johns Gala Night Tonight! SOLVENIRS — to take away— and favors galore. BHOOKE JOHNS, former Folliea Star, will be the extra featore with bis inimitable en- tertaining. dancing until 2a. m. eMeyer Davis' Jamons \ Lz Paradis Band. Will Lecture Tonight, 8 O’Clock, Dr.D. H. | Of Washington Sanitarium | “How to Live Twice as Long and Twice as Well” Capital-Memorial Church, 5th and F N.W. Public Corgially Invited. Preparing for Big Demonstration | Sanitarium Methods of Cooking for Home Capital-Memeorial Church, 5th and F Sts. NW. Tuesday, 2 to 4 P.M. Mrs. Dr. Kress. Assisted by Samitarium Stag KRESS COLORFUL CIVIL WAR ROMANCE ENDS IN DEATH OF WOMAN AT 81 Iy rewarded by the State of Vermont, in | _ r night| | re until the{ 8 war, when she returned | ¥ BN THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 1 RO MONDAY, 'APRIL 6, 1925. | MRS. BETTIE VAN METRE. tumultuous reception throughout New England when she went North to 1eceive the resolution from the hands | of the governor and was accorded State receptions in many large cities, including Boston Since then, all the participants in that Civil War romance have died Van Metre's husband died four ago and last Wednesday , passed away. Mrs. Van M as well known in V has & nephew livin Kayser of 4429 Ninth she frequently visited S MEN'S SUITS LADIES’ SUITS . whom wounds PIN 801 11th N.W. | nication probabl | conditions of th i llIlIIIl|lIllllll|I|IIIl|l||I||I|IlI[I|||l|Illl.’iIImlllllllllllllll!IlU C Cofponfiun ood lean oal o IlllllIlIIINIlLu\lllllllllIlI[IIIIIIIIlI\IHllIlI M il]llllu‘ 2 ¢MW&“WM i S DLER PRESIDENT TO REPLY TO PERU WITHIN WEEK Communications Exchanged Tacna-Arica Award Likely Soon to Be Mnde Public. on under an e two governments in order to clear up any |\ubllt‘ mlxum! crstanding on the pd Todification or nd voting in the two pro Departu dent of | SLIP COVERS, $35.00 or & few days will make 3PIECE OVERSTUFFED SET Cushions separate, using best $35.00 Belgian linen, for UDERS 3308 GA. AVE. N.W. 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