Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1925, Page 57

ILLUSTRATED., FE MAGAZINE SECTION he Sunthy Stad ATURES FICTION AND HUMOR Part 5—8 Pages WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 1925. [_uxuries Provided at D. C. Camp for Recor BY WILLIAM EDMUND CHRISTIAN. | HE Wash will dia 1sed half mil eason gton tourist camp it is estimated, spend 1 in Washington cent more than this over they per last year the expectation 1 dollars of expenditure zainst §300,000 last s s 1 wpon These are the figures given by A. | one of the officials of the \utomobile Assoeiation ful canvass of the situa estimate seemed. on the But it is im estimate to represent Montgome \fter a sible \ conservative for any ry over, it is estimated authority, two and a half dollars will be spent lion tourists rand total, 15 10 exper will moy m thod } any nd beyc elusive. i No me been found natically | problem newhat sug scattering total of such »e hindered personal and les that enter obscured by the of this country and le. Six mil n C. Lon the National Further 1king ex Automobile As imate is based upon which have been this season of v money ntless other intang His tions made wild an not entirely un in their mi though | emingly heless, tional ba fowls of the ind never nt, r ling ha ery concern nd-fro emergings of the nooks and cran nd valleys and plains zoing and coming, so would seem i the auto. n law at work,’ in the hith these tour- replied with saying that lines of traffic in Win- | and and the flow of main_lines Gulf Coast into Flor- such pro n States, | »ping into the Gult sippi and North ing and coming Asheville and kin he ind the spilled ov 1 ssumin; 1, with lanes = sh Pinehurst ed points, Second of traffic the line sources “alifornia | two big movements | ach of the Summer | inued, “the current of traffic realized a distinct northern movement three cen ters of distribution highly competitive. These in Winter. With the months is as with all three three are () land States, from Conne (b) Lakes region, in-| ummer resorts of Michigan, | and Wisconsin | Northwest, which is real- | growin; bs of Summe America. ‘This hub in-| Oregon and the State | with Denver as a gate- into this region. In recent years, would seem this territory h gained in appeal to tourists ! The development of good roads, of | had an important | ation. As an | I need only note the | North Carolina and | t the :m\\\n:‘ henandoah Valley of | ruthe also the | accessible. l newly recog enandoah Iv one of th | ouring i 1des Colorado f Washington has also on »pment in heast in & We must tourist n st erto nd bloc sts out fi he wonderfu New England that she, too, it er here interrupted Mr, M lifornia omery Flori- | vou give me movements | of Can tourists went and 1,000,000 to | California is now | for more. the choice of | hotels, s. One nd s have and 15,000 irance has been nt tourist will used at a reasonable that roads, points, ites are being busily his well being and his tr is not taken of the w_investors, of un- ofitable results from upon new places own satisfaction to him, better s hailed suld be drawn to ich of the people influence) who be- another during f these busy For in their 1, what_is lier entente among folks tions causes the honey to he more common ps overni ized and h This means or of all here | | | | ad i | \ saying among wise that schools and the most impor- t aids to new communities or | nation. Both of these will nd toward good results from the | ittrition of the little towns unities with the strangers ! coming from every the automobile, in after all, be the real at finally to get it of one another h one another, and another into a common yrtation are continuad and cox Maybe will whers this sense melting everybody is acquainted w welded t Americanism! mention,” added Mr. Montgomery, “that of the two and a half billions of dollars from the next season, Florida is counting on getting half a billion of it and California an- other half billion. The Northwest will perhaps come next to Talifornia Florid: is calculated long-distance | will this show an in crease of 25 per cent over last season. In this statement consideration has been siven to these facts In the past 12 months $1,000,000,000 | has heen spent on road building and inaintena: and It trips that pew roadway e | year | Col camp the concessionaire, i | ) |s | by the Federal Govern-la matter to be reasoned with, Neatl_\' Twice as Much to Bk: Spent in \Vashing!on Tl’ns Year by Campers as \Vas Left hy Last Year.s Visitors—~Billions in Total of Expendi- tures for All Parts of Country—Real Melting Pot Is Provided b_v Resting Places Along the Way——Twenty States chresented in Local Camp at One Time—Congress Appropriation Gives Means for Increased Accommodations in Washington—Stories of the Visitors. 4 5 5 g A Family from Rochester NY. o S e during the Summer, Touring Tie boy wml st have nis lessons. With rare acumen Col. Sherrill set |sanitary cots and mattresses. Blankets about to put the situation in order. [may be rented. He secured the services of one of | The season is supposed to be inclu ‘he ablest and most eflicient young |sive of March and October, but last officers of the Army. |y it extended beyond October. In three months, under this officer, | Under the progressive persistence of | approximately $14,000 gross was|Col. Sherrill an appropriation of turned in—and a sizable proportion’$30.000 from the recent Congress will vas used for improvements and for |be used partly for new administration wroducing a model ¢ 1. For, when [buildings and recreation house, for ‘ol. Sherrill took hold, the camp, if |macadamizing roads and draining the not accurately dismantled in appear- | lower section of the camp. ment, the States and On the Lincoln Highway $60,000,000 has been spent, while 40,000 miles of have been constructed municipalities. HE Washington tourist camp, sit uated in Potomac Park, came last under the general direction of C. O. Sherrill, officer in charge »f public buildings and grounds. As far as could be learned siz this | s -e, was at least frazzled at the| The camp is flooded at night with 7 zes and a disconsolate-looking scene. | modern arc lights, all inaugurated un- New sections were laid out and |der Col. Sherrill and his efficient young leveled with the steam roller. ,Tents ant of 1924, and is policed by of- were placed, with wooden plafforms, of the Federal parks force, who, electric lights soline_stoves, etc far, have preserved order and Sign: were placed, the lavatory | guarded against any serious loss. facilities were made sanitary, in * ok kX addition to the elaborate rest '”'””\‘M-\Kl location and baths, etc.. in separate buliine s camp, which hitherto seem to have s been unknown to the average citizen of Washington, T happened to hit upon able time, ganstuson you hap, the camp manager, as a young chap, the ADAEEr, A8 will sta out a week. They were all keen as a kildee, and as courteous and - Ahon 3 wed 2 new flush 1 st : s Kk 2t Wel dressed, had mor and were ol informed as he was keen. He|ovidently of the good families of the f0ld, me; much Liste it > o States. they hailed from. is name is Edward Slegel, and 1| Next Mr. Siegel called my attention found him wonderfully adjusted to | to the sanitary condition of the camp. the demands of his difficult job. “We realize,” he said, “that these His first impulse, I was glad to note, people come from all sections of the | seemed to be to la!lkhal“t'hemedutca» f:;‘;mt\l\’v{m'.‘:,a[m’:u?:).-“ru:gerfi).;nu':fiz'“0‘“' it ORI AR ks pasrs Grom re: March, 528 cars and 1,584 per es' reading room, installation of | tional advantages of the Washington ashing! ; s | New - Jersey: - tle Goodalls, With & Sons: April, 1,633 cars and 2,600 ber- g:llnllnp and oil, completion of new |camp. He spoke of the 150 school- ‘:::: this i3 their first impression, and | party, from Massachusetts; then these > 1,900 cars and 200 | comfort and shower bath house, laun- | boys and schoolgirls who had been | U o eanliness ane o sanitary |harties: Zackarin, from Kentucky: |dry facilities (which are furnished |taken care of during the week then |conditions appeal most strongly 10 | Stone, from Texas; Stephens, Trom show- | free), modern washtubs, hot and cold | just passed.® Two busloads of these | persons of intelligence and refinement. | pennsylvania; Thomas, from Cali- money | water, inclosed vards for drying |boys and girls had come from Michi- | These points are duly weighed. fornfa: Mr. Proper, from South Da to | clothes, erection of 30 tents, modern |8an that morning: two busses from; “In addition to the fine drainage, |kota; Bradley,.from Illinois; K. Wil radio outfit and cinder yudrls.]umkl(‘tl“’\'?l"-fi the day before. Late durm.l:lrhere are showers, hot and cold. The |llams, from Indjana; Torreiter, from | daily the last week 40 hoys anl girls only expense the people have as_fo | Colorado: Dr. E. H. Redenor, Wiscon- This season, therefore, opened rich | two husloads—~had come from Con-|laundry is soap; the rest is free; we |sin: C. B. Taylor, Florida; J. E. Pat- with promise. The tents are 50 cents | cord, N. C. even furnish the washboards. terson, lowa; M. F. Dascom, Michi- a night, §2,00 a week—wood flogrs, “These parties,” sald Mry Siegel, “The garbage cans are emptied ang, o Frank Dewey, Minnesota; R, » had previously been operated under the concessionaire system. It | was learned, moreover, that under this system a goodly profit went to whose outlay was, | id, comparatively nominal. | All this seems to have been changed | when, in September, 1924, Col. Sher- | rill took charge, the profits having been put back into improvements The 1924 season extended well alon toward December. and the figure here given will show the growth of the camp since its opening in 1921 “Thieo, isnnes wers fanished bYy: Caph W. L. McMorris, under whose super vision, directed by Col. Sherrill, the camp Is now operated There were 1,964 cars and 6.220 per- | ons during the season of 1921; 6 cars and 20,294 per: in 1922 cars and 40,900 pers in 1923, 14,248 cars and 41,395 persons in “are simply closing up their vear's | cleansed every other day and the cans hooling by an educational trip. The | burned out with oil and straw.” boys have instructors with them, and | *‘What kind of oil?” I asked. the girls their chaperons and ma-| ‘“Automobile oil,” said Mr. Siegel. “It is good for the purpose, though it is refuse oil. This keeps flies from hatching, and kindred trouble: “Yes, there are some mosquitoes, caused by tearing the old cantonment down. The grass on the eld site is now being cut and the whole layout cleaned up by Capt. Cox." Now, Mr. Siegel,” I asked, for a snap question, how States are represented bv the mped here this morning”” e a it was & came in their own busses,” continued Mr. Siegel, “and used them here, generally. when they availed themsely the big local shtseeing husses. This Concord bunch stayed about a week, spending day, and_the balance except of further quest into the and workings of this a it looked, after said Mr. Sie as a patient Jooks of hlood has to his face Tt a reason | after the | | brought a | | many i cars [HIE improvements under |c of the by Col the the super- ai- showed voung officer, 1, | rosy outlook this 1924. | year these items: Refitting and fur The figures for this season so far [nishing store, recreation lounge room, vision moment or tw “About twenty, and here they are: | Kit Carson, New Mexico (alone in the | show business); the Ramers party of g4 | rected alwa basis for 14, Sherr a the figures bulk of the does not seem in well, the receipts therefor have gone to the physical improve. ments of the camp.’ For at the tin: of its taking over by Col. Sherrill m formation is that the liabilities wer ed up A | Turning to his cards, he said, in a| | B. Potter, New Yor! L. Mosley, Asheville, N. C., and more.” “How many cars?” 1 asked, “One hundred and twenty-five here today. These 125 cars have about 300 capacity.” “How much is the average money spent by these people?” “I should say,” replied Mr. “about $20 per day for average number.” * ok % Siegel, four—the THE auickness and the seeming ac curacy of these replies showed well for a man who had taken charge only th the start of the on. Ho Siegel? “The sick are comparatively nil, but we have our physician, Dr. Crisp, on call all the time. It is surprising what good health the tourists have. Since March we have had to call him only three times But, outside of we have firstald Kits ready al for accidents.” our mail service “Mail is delivered here three times -, through Col. Sherrill's office, however. 1t is handled the same as mail i to frequency. But the city refused to give us direct March about the sick here, Mr. d Tourist Stream service, lto col { The before us, forms, two while the tions 0 we had to have it carried Sherriil's office. b 0 tents spread like a camp and each had wooden plat cots and two mattresses, whole expanse of the sec- looked the typical ‘spotless town” in cleanliness. ““Are all these people sure bent 1 asked. “I should princ for pleas- ure and the educational results. Most of our visitors are pretty well fixed in the world, and the greater portion of them seem to be elderly people. They have led a busy life, have laid away a little money, and are now joving the fruits of their hard labor and these elderly people seem to have la better time than the young folks “There are restrictions. They g0 and come they please, and we never have trouble A copy of the camp is given them upon arrival. How “Two days, THE perso visitors colored, novel an o | Two youths lads, had | started four months ago to work | their way from Mammaroneck, N. Y |to California and back Their p | but they dect from then | of working | They came | They ¥ |ers and a place they that was that they Siegel g visions, them hc One of the solely on pl en no rules your season?"” and twenty-five long hundred replied Mr * * well-to-do. ke any money the adventure rents to the camp strapped bo of crack- eans. The last < Richmond, and place, they said, get work. Mr nd some pro- them, and sent the them 35 looked after me rejoicing oddest things was the of Mr. Anderson, an elderly ntleman, with fe. A gasoline stove caught fire and his hands were so severely b d as to_be put out of commis: He Id not use them even to sign a check, and (most rprising) cc get any money that advanced by Mr. Siegel ks would not take “his had to wait until he could name with his left hand the banks with travel- case { The b mark scrawl He his A h. 18 wandering about the camp without food or money. He was overhauled, |and by a picture in the paper. | He urned to his people in | Philadelphia. He said he was “just seeing the world." iful little young husband vou was found aimlessly girl-wife, with said it was her second visit: that they were then nly taking their second honeymoon! | They were the Kunklers of Cuyahoga | Falls, Ohio Two husky young men from Colorado, McLean and Kubitz had spent a ‘veek and were happy on their way to New York, Atlantic | City, New Epgland, Canada and back | home! | Kit Carson from New Mexico— |long hair, wife and self, giving a | wili West show in towns to make | their way! High-heel boots, brass- studded, red mole-skin jacket, and flowing scarf of red! | Sunday: Seventeen school boys, to |stay four days! - | Some unusual and interesting side- | light, seemingly, to each one that | was observed! | The tourists fall in together, nat- | urally, in the general recreation room, | where they meet at night and swap | varns. They have singing, too, and | many of them play surprises on’ their musical insrtuments. The ladies’ rest roc couches and separate phone booth. The radio is modern, with a five- tube set, and loud-speaker. It covers all points in the United States—and those sitting around in the recreation room often get their own homes! Under this management of Col Sherrill, the $50,000 appropriated by Congress and available July 1 will be spent for the betterment of the camp in many ways Spacious and level, the camp is fringed by the trees and river, in eye-shot of the Lincoln Memorial, with its lake, and the Tidal Basin! Every prospect pleases The beauty of Washington cannot be seen to better advantage than this camp—the Capitol, the shington ~ Monument—and at night, in its effulgence, it looms as “a city set upon a hill, which cannot be hid! The Secret TH teachers 1, adjoining. has of Color. E secret of the cause of color and of why dyes dve is to be found, according to Prof. Julius Stieglitz, in the “dance” of two tethered electrons attached to a carbon atom. This orig- inal theory was explained and illus- trated in one of the sectional sessions of the recent Franklin Institute cen- tenary, says Scientific American. Prof. Stieglitz dissolved a white powder in a glass, and by adding to the solution liquids which were equal- 1y colorle the contents of the glass changed successively to yellow, to red, to brown and to black, while the lan tern projected on the screen the carbon chains and rings of the structural symbols of the dyes produced What was happening, it appeared, was a 100 ng up of a pair of elec- trons belonging to one of the carbon atoms so that they could vibrate in tune with the light waves received by the substance. The waves at the violet end of the rainbow spectrum were easlest to ab sorb, and the light that was left to be perceived by the eye belonged to the red and yellow end of the spectrum By giving the electrons a little greater | treedom of movement they were able finally to respond to all the wave lengths and so to absorb all the light thus leaving the liquid black and opaque. This phenomenon occurs be cause the color that we attribute to an object is not the color that it catches out of the light and holds, but the color that it rejects and returns to our eyes. Now, according to the Stieglitz theory, all dves and pigments are so constructed as to have a positive atom which hort of electrons closely ad jacent to a negative atom possessing & surplus of planetary electrons, and the pull of the positive atom on these elec- trons sufficiently detaches them from their allegiance to the negative atom to enable them to vibrate to the stimu- lus of the passing light waves just as the strings of a piano ‘“echo” the sound waves of the air. Gas Found in the Sun. ROF. FREDERICK SLOCUM, di- rector of the Vanleck Observatory at Wesleyan, tells of the discovery of a new gas as the result of observa- tions made during the recent eclipse of the sun. He says the vapors around the sun are visible only at the time of a total eclipse and sclentists have concluded as a result of their observations that they have discovered a new gas Prof. Slocum said they are not vet ready to announce what the gas is or to discuss its probable qualities, | I