Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1925, Page 59

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO J, D. JULY Henry Donch Among Washington’s Early Band and Orchestra Leaders Rambler Furnishes Some Interesting Stories About This Musician, \Vhov Once Played in Marine Band, and Also About the Prosperi Family. a famous | Washington when | was small. He was | in. Leaving the Ma nd, in which he| ENRY man the to a music| rine I vears Done hundr "H was | Prosperi, born in Tuscany in 1787.|der's Orchestra | He studied music in Italy and studied | and perhaps other old orchestras that for the priesthood. 1 have heard |do not come to my mind. | that he was ordained, but I have no| Francis Prosperi, the first of the 1 | way to verify this. But he fought |name in Washington, and perhaps in he founded Donch's | la duel and in that duel he lost an |the United States, had other sons than Orchestra. News | ve. What injury his fellow-duelist | F'rederick. They were: Charles, John, ds of receptions | et T have not heard. Perhaps it |Augustus and James. Jim played in was furnished by Donch’s on account of this duel that|the Marine Band and then the Naval You saw Donch's Band on | Prosperi found it salutary to|Academy Band. Augustus was the | When went on picnics | ve Italy, and he was in the United |apothecary at the Naval Acade House Landing and Gly- tates in 151 nd maybe sooner. In |Charles and John were known ind in long-gone days at Mar. 1812 he was a musician in the | throughout old Washington as good Hall Donch’s Band, or orches: | | Point Military Academy Band | icians and good citizens. played for 3 Henry Donch | | Tomasco Prosperi, a brother of of chestra of Ford's The- | Francis, was killed while a soldier in wnd plaved there the night Booth | | an army of Napoleon. Anna Pros | . Weber's Orchestra played Biand and ounts Orchest parade. to W 1 tra you w i Lincoln. He played in_orches. | peri, sister of Francis and Tomasco of other old the Donch’s | was mother of the great priest who st was not became the great Pope Leo XIIL. 1| . had heard that as a family tradition 0 ye |but experience shows it desirable to progress | 20 lightly on repeating family tradi | tions unless you can pin the state ment with quotation marks on some member of the family. The Rambler checked up on the Prosperi relation- ship to Pope Leo XIII. Turning to the Encyclopedia Americana, he found this: “Leo XIII, Joachim Vin cent Raphael Lodovico Pecci, Pope 18781903, born at Carpinto 2 March 1510; died at Rome 20 July, 1903 |1 father was Count Domenico Lodovico Pecel and his mother Anna Georgetown had much to do of t. Matthew's | and Easter, and musicians for | music for | rs, London, June 25. On reaching London in the daytime, if you are seeking moderate prices, leave your suit cases in the checkroom of the station and tell a taxicab driver to tuke you to the vicinity of the Jritish Museum. In this great area there are literally thousands of hotels, large and small, and rooming houses, Dismiss the taxi and hunt a place, | You will have to pay from 5 shillings |up for room and break or $1.25, | Prosperi-Buzi. The palace in which |and, in view of the great flood of | Joachim was born was the country |tourists, likely up to & or 10 shillings | house of the family.” per But that is much better| R than the case of an American here, | NXTHILE w M recently, who was charged $15 a day | |'W “]“I"‘\n;l:”l"‘““\’;w‘ i at & downtown hotel for room without 1in MeTieo oY NAWH ek Y Yr th '1ll\¢' same hotel would have AT oar om0 been glad, outside the tourist season, | A R {o el $3.50 for the same room. OF | Sl 4 . : Uy a morning newspaper and tele- | because Frederick Prosperi, one of the | ;0 & (AICTE hewspape % celebrated Prosperi boys of Washing. |hpone some o i e e ton, was born at W Point, N. Y., in|” ‘ s angd: cates; 1834 and was in Washington when he o | was about 6 vears old. Francls Pros. One useful line of information 1s | peri entered the Marine Band, and his |from fellow tourists already here, Talk son Frederlck was a fifer in 'the Ma-|to them on bus rides and elsewhere. | rine Corps when he was a little boy. |Ask them about hotels, and be spe. Frederick went to sea in 1846 in the Cific bout prices, not merely if the frigate Raritan and served through | hote “nice” place. Often they the war with Mexico. Returning to|Will xive advice that will save money Washington, he went in the Independ- ind time. The professional travel of. ence to Europe, and that ship was as. |fices almost invariably will refer you sociated in some way with John How- |0 high-priced hotels. The rates they rd Payne. Frederick came home in |[Quote may sound reasonable, and so 1853, joined the Marine Band, playing |they are—if the hotels followed them— the flute and piccolo, and married Miss [but likely as not they will be all out Mary Ellen Cook, whose family lived [0f Such rooms when you arrive and near Marlboro, Prince Georges Coun-|SPeak English! Don't be afraid of | ty. The home of Frederick and his|small huu;l» but go see a room before ing it band and cl of stra The audiences have dwindled, but uber him when he v 1 active, and t 3 chil ren and grandchildren of his friends N e heard pir el = tell of him | stories | e FREDERICK PROSPERL that they are old-fash-| E Shar cheal ,“,“1““,’,’\\ The orchestra played in Summer at persons and | Berkeley Springs, Capon Springs and Fton, even | Oakland, Md., and when Chevy Chs hot be classed | Lake was a new “institution,” its he country is|irons danced to Donch’s Orchestra. il lmpor. | When d Jane Mosely had an inything | hesira and was making excursions tital ine | to Blackistone's Island it was Donch's fety. naso.|Orchestra. . it The Rambler has thie moment | Some musicians who were members ST a0t the | of Donch’s Band and Orchestra at O rhorated under laws of the | different times. Here they are Bunk to change human na.| Charlle Wagner, George Wetzerich, whose charter says: “It is| Herman Kahle rank Malone, Jim- et to make | Mle Joyce, Frank Cardella, T. Mac- | e Namaree, Frank Eaton, Will Haley Antonio Oliveri, Andrea Coda, Ca- millo Schneider, Salvatore Petrola, is Arth, sr Chri. jr.; Will kingham . August wroeder, John Charlie chroeder, Raymond . Fred s| Frank Lusby, Ned Stein, Ed Williams, Chris Fiege, John Elbel, Jsputa, Hen opsack, Will Toense, John Au, George Arth, Isaac Jamieson, John Prosperi, Caspar indus, Ed Winters A. Samuels, San Henry chuldt, August ecker, Hanry Donch | you re- | iddle-aged | He is consc Point Band 1 Chris. Y. They Washing that date Every clut hears +" Perhaps 7 Frmag the names of | World, State < ture, and the object Americ race more vital than the othe no time to hoe his po Henry Donch has not been He when the Among death notices March 10, 1919, was onday, March 191 E: at re. g street northwest, Henry, beloved hu: Ker, as 85 last ca came. tar i s * ox ox % Foa short visits to Z Louis Naecker, sightseeing bus parties band of the late Elise D , in hi Naecker, Louis Weber, Hen- |way to cover the 85th year. Funeral from his late Niemann, F. Schmidt, Carl Au, | there often e cheaper bus rides dence on Wednesday, March 12 i Tra Hermann Rakemann, Sol |than the most widely known ones, 30. Friends and relatives invited to | Minster, Henry Jaeger, Henry Jea- and inquiries may result in saving 10 attend. Interment Rock Creek | sle, Will Grosskurth, Fritz Boettcher francs or 5 shillings or so per ride. Cemetery. Limousine f (Balti- | and Will Jaeger. [ 1 | * % % % more, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh pa-| Some of these old music men have % | n ordering ckets throug pers please copy.) [told me that Donch’s Orchestra e o i leetebchketn dheough > ,yli‘if;]i &:.1”‘:'\ {T,’J),““, o ”p_l-)r\‘-‘ | prices, and see w will save if } by Lord and Lady Pauncefote at the ‘ie':](s“"w::xfilllr!’ Somet “lth'i;u'\hl‘y..v‘-l\ assel in 1834 British embassy; by M Bona- too much time, and you simply pay United States in 1853 e Philadelphia as his home application r Americ | parte and by the Misses Riggs. I 3 (i eetin: phares oy - have a long list of society person- ; s [P recheraes ol et e did not stay long 1 | for he was a n ages who engaged Donch's Orchestra, | but the names would make this Academy Band at the only | However, Europe are the ground. * ENRY DONCH 1 Hesse to the adopted | and made me adelphi Nav olis wier ined English is spoken so widely | Europe that no fear need be en | ed on that score. | spoken there ts in rtain Even where it is not no trouble. In res. ever, some trouble will you learn the French { names for the food you ordinarily eat | |at home, so you may order what you | want. If it is xed-price dinner, | naturally you will have to eat what l“! served. It is a good thing to want to |eat what the French eat, or the| | Italians or Germans, for a time at least, rather than what you have all |the time at home. It is part of the trip. If dining a la carte in good places, don't let pompous waliters foist expensive dishes on you that you do not want. One American | enth street southeast | Woman entertalning some friends had between G and E. Frederick Prosperi|an $18 bill by giving the waiter too was a Mason, Knight of Pythias, Odd [much leeway in making suggestior Fellow and Red Man. He was the x ok ok X first secretary of the musical union. He was in the orchestra of Ford's Tenth Strect Theater on the night of | the assassination, and after the Gov- ernment took over the building he be | came leader of the orchestra at Ford Opera House, which had been Wall ramble look like the social register. or the blue Book, or something about which the Rambler and his readers know little. I forgot to tell you in | the proper place that the members | « Donch’s String | Quartet were Henry and his sons, Charles, John | and Willlam * "THE first child of Charles F was band is Germar ents who' was polis. Henry Donch chipel of illustrate h struments Henry Done string instr ed the saxc Naval Academy Band name was Pfeiffer—had saxophone player. sician was given a saxophone in the ing and that evening he played the band concert. The that he ed it to the sa Leader E r Before the Civil W isted in the Marine was Nav is factlity the Ra layed var by orgar * * Henry Donch was Donch, who married | a noted singer. | wshington. The second d third children, Henry and Anna, . | died in infancy. The fourth child | was Augusta D. Donch, who studied N (" music at Peabody Institute and taught _HENRY DONCH. | in Washington until her marriage to { Albert Lepper. Both are living in Washington. The fifth child was Louise M. Donch, a teacher of piano, who lives Aily home, 608 H ok treet no The sixth child was Henkyio John G h, who was celebrated | not give you the d; nd I oug Vviolinist. He played phone Will Santelmann for the rec- nal Theater Orchestra. ord, but I feel that you will not perish hllip: Sousa, when ‘S for lack of that information. ol 2 D“,‘:." cle e e Win Shefore the venth child was Wil leader. His instrument | Jle married Miss s e b h of Savannah, Ga., and called “clarionet » name in Washington. descends from ‘“clarus” through the oD SICUINEIS arel the French * inette a din utive for llo a e He plays Arine \shioned cattle | in the National Theater Orchestra and | ben | <0 a lawyer. T zhth chiid was | e b OB Donch. So as t ambler | 3¢ Dotch. forinei h Ylara did not go in for music estra, and for 40 v profession. but she company which was and still i Rambler alm . She was married to Alvin M. was an “institution of Savannah, Ga., and both hearing everyth re- | Washington. The ninth and last child | New ¥ nained popuiar for 2 od | was Frederic) ek, who died in | wi of Charle Maud, | “institution " The word fs nearly | hovhood. Henry Donch and his fam- | who is Mrs. Charles Pennock of Roch. | overworked as “national ily lived long Eighth street | ester, and Minnie, who lives in .\'m\" { | 2 | th i | usical in | thi need for a Donch morn- it in frifon i tion wife was on Sev fac * Take time master : subway routes, as the expense and energy hard work, and to the bus and will save much Sightseeing is distances between points of interest that may appear trivial on a citv map often turn out to be quite far apart. | * * x with Jo was a AL DY | tired Scala— was the the band often- of which Prosperi died January sts in Congressional Ceme- | tery. His chiliren were: Edward who lives in Washington; Frederick, ho was ass United States dis- trict attorney following the law in Washingtor vieve, now Mrs. ienry Colliflowe of W hington, James A. Prosperi, who lives in New but who comes home often;| v Was! wid . Rice rried s C. Hanson, and lving in ork; Eva, ilving in Washington, | Frederick 1881, and r liam Minnie M they live Will e | ZLastly, bring along more than you have estimated will be re- {red for the trip, as, despite all care, rices are going up, for the American tourist, at least. Say about $50 more | than you figure will be needed. And | sarn,” in advance, something of the foreign moneys you will handle. money it and i Ge is o Mr. Donch— = ar < band and or t was a mu respected that it is tired P singer, | Why Birds Are Not Stung. IRDS that eat wasps, bees and other nging insects do not depend on chance to protect them from being stabbed inside their throats by the victims, according to recent observa- tions by German ornithologists. s parlor The ote in | t ow Shelton; = When a \an starts something which likely | southeast, and in 1877 moved to 608 | York not be heard of two squares from | H street northwest. Frederick Prosperi’s Orchestra and s base, he calls it the “national” this | In one ramble you were given a| Band was an important music organ-| Shrikes, flycatchers and titmice catch Those of you who know of | sketch of the Prosperi family, and I | ization of Washington, and you re-|bees and wasps, but always crush meniber Prosperi’s Orchestra us vou | them with their beaks before swal Donch’s Orchestra and Donch’s Band | have more facts. The founder of the | know that they had local fame. | family in Washington was neis | remember Donch’s Orchestra, Sehroe- | lowing. 1 |ot the 1925 . PART Washington Took Army Command At Cambridge as British Citizen Events of 150 Years Ago—Welded Colonies as They Prepared for Armed Conflict With Great Britain and Separation From Old Country. BY DONALD ALEXANDER CRAIG. NE hundred and fifty ago on July 3, 1775 George Washington of Vir- ginia took command at Cam- bridge, M of an irregu- lar body of colonial militia, consist ing at that time mostly of New Eng- landers, whom he found holding a strong force of regular British troops inside Boston. He had been unani mously elected commander-n-chief of the American Army by the Conti nental Congress at Philadelphia on June 15, 1 having been nominated for that important post by Thomas Johnson of Frederick, Md., whom he later made a member of the first Board of Commissioners of the city of Washington. Thomas Johnson was 43 vears old when he nominated Gen. Washington, and he was in his sixtieth year when he became a of Wash- ington City already had been highly honored by the colony and the new State of Maryland and by Pr dent Washington, and he was pro ably the most distinguished Mary- lander of the time President Washington, on January 24, 1791, directed him and the two other city commissioners—Daniel Car- roll of Maryland and Dr. David Stu art of Virginia—to survey the new Federal District, to accept or buy land on the eastern side of the Potomac | River, and to provide suitable build- ings to accommodate Congress, the | President and the executive depart ments of the new Government But that is another story Just one year and a day after Wash ington drew his sword under a great | elm tree at Cambridge and placed | himself at the head of the Continental | Army the same authority which had | adopted those ragged militismen and raw volunteers and made them an army adopted a Declars pendence. The war, which had begun | as a struggle to maintain the rights of the colonists Englishmen, be- | came a war to uphold the inalienable | rights of man and to establish a new | years | nation on the earth This is the one hund vear since the outbre can War of Independe the trouble with the RBritish ment had been brewing for prior to 1 Notable anniversaries are occurring this year—anniversaries of events on this continent which were important that they have fixed themselves forever in the mem- | ory of Americans and stamped them. seives indelibly on the pages of world history After Gen. Washington delphi on June 21, 7 to his post of duty in New England, a messenger brought him the news battle of Bunker Hill, which had been fought on June i7. He knew that it was not vet much of an army that he had been appointed to | command, but when he was informed | of the gallant conduct of the Ameri- cans in that unequal and desperate engagement he was immeasurably en- couraged ‘The liberties safe!” he TTHESE events, skirmishes a Concord, which prece. but the prelude to tk the American Revolut reached its climax of Independence 0th annivers: fittingly celebrated by a great interna. tional sesquicenter osition at Philadelphia next 1t ended only after man *s of strug- gle—years in which there were many discouraging defeats and_only « onal victories to keep the heart in Washington’s army Between the opening skirmishes in Massachusetts in the Spring of 1775 and the surrender of the British Army under Cornwallis to the allied Ameri- can-French Army under Washington at faraway Yorktown, in Virginia, on October 19, 1781, was a long series of events whose memory is affording all the people of the United States, and pecally those of the States on the Atlantic seaboard, opportunities to re- | new their pledges of patriotism. From Maine to Georgia the people | of the thirteen original States are not forgetting. All other patriotic Ameri- cans are joining with them in body or in spirit as they celebrate these anni- ries this year, or prepare to cele- hrate them during the next few yvears These memorial celebrations are not only stirring the blood of Americans but they are bringing back to the recollection of the world the most fa- | mous_instance in history when colo- | nial dependencies defeated their par ent state. They are recalling again | the creation of a Nation which—only | a century and a half later—wields the greatest influence in the formula- tlon of world opinion, and which is potentially, if not actually, the most powerful Nation in existence. By a similar coincidence, 4, 1826, will be both the 150th anniver sary of the Declaration of Independ ence and the 100th anniversary of the | deaths of two former Presidents of the | United States, who were outstanding | figures in the revolutionary period— | Thomas Jefferson of Virginia and John | Adams of Massachusetts. | Jefferson wrote the Declaration, and Adams was a member of that commit- tee of unusual men who strengthened several parts of it and reported it unanimously to the Continental Con- gress for adoption They died on the same day—the Fourth of July, 1826—on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the im- mortal document they helped to frame, Jefferson at the age of 83 and Adams lacking only four months of being 91 ars old. While next year will be the great | vear for the celebration of the 150th anniversaries of critical events of the revolutionary period, the anniversaries occurring this year are not being over- looked. Already have heen celebrated in Massachusetts the anniversaries of Paul Revere's ride to warn the Ameri- cans of the approach of the British, and of the battles of Lexington, Con: cord and Bunker Hill. PR ERHAPS the most significant event whose one hundred and fiftieth anniversary takes place this Summer was that at Cambridge, Mass., on July 8, 1775. It spelled disaster for the British government’s efforts to put down the revolt. It was concrete evi- dence to the excited colonists, to the wrong-headed British government, to the worrled people of Great Britain and to the interested observers in other parts of the world that the American colonies would present a united front against the British arms. The first clash of arms had occurred in New England, but from far south in Virginia came the man who took command of the army amid the ac- claim of the patriots and of hurrfedly forming volunteer companies all the way from Maine to Georgia. Washington was a gentleman plant- er of the 0ld Dominion and one of the richest men in the colonies, but no man in America had éven then demon- strated as great military skill as he. His gallant conduct when Braddock’s British veterans were defeated by the French and Indians had not been for- d and fiftieth of the Ameri- | although | govern- | 10 vears | s0 left Phila en route of exclaimed. * %% the country are e memorable Lexington and d them, were great drama of n. That drama in_the Declaration on July 4, 1778, the which will be N THE OLD PHOTOGRAPH ARE HENRY DONCH, WILLIAM AU, FRANK SCHROEDER, CHARLES THIERBACH. SR.; CHARLES THIER- BACH, JR.; F. FELGER, JOHN DONCH AND WILLIAM DONCH. THE LAST TWO ARE LIVING, gotten. When Thomas Johnson of Freder- ek County, Md.. which then com- prised Georgetown and the site of the tion of Inde- | AN OLD PRINT OF WASHINGTO! present city of Washington, nomi nated Washington for commander-in chief he was elected without any op position, on motion of John Adams egates to the Continental om all the colonies forth the colonists were simply Marylanders, Virgin ians, Pennsylvanfans, etc.; they were Americans. Washington rapidly be of the rank and file and o the troops of the and Southe began to pour Massachusetts, We can catch something of the spirit of those | times when we recall, as one among hundreds of stirring occurrences, how Michael Cresap, a frontiersman of n Maryland, raised a company 0 ackwoodsmen from far as the wilderness of the Ohio corn, with what they easily procure in huntin, Washington w 43 ears of age when he became the commanding gen eral of the Continental Army and en- no | tered upc a career which made his name the symbol of all that is noble in public service and the inspiration f the oppressed peoples of every clime name which grows brighter and inspires more reverence the years since his death increase who live in the city of * o ox * versaries of that period which we can celebrate as pecullarly our own There was no city here then. The was woodland and swamp, with here and there an occasional culti- ne the idol | rs of Middle as site GEORGE WASHINGTON AT THE AGE OF 40, ABOUT THE TIME HE TOOK COMMAND OF THE ARMY. REPRODUCED FROM THE PEELE PAINTING™ River 1oCaPL, Cresap's company lett } vated fleld and farmhouse. George- Frederick, Md., July 18, 1775, and |, . & sl % marched 550 miles to join Washington | (0P Was scarcely more than a busy at Cambridge, arriving August 8. |Village. The war was fought on other Some of his men had traveled more | fields. an 800 miles on foot- through the But who should take a deeper in forests and over the mountains before | terest in this long series of stirring they even reached the rendezvous at | celebrations elsewhere in our country | than the residents of the city which Frederick. They must have been great curiosi- | »wes its very existence to the suc- ties to the New Englanders when they | cessful culmination of those events which began 150 vears ago—the city marched into camp, painted like In whose exact location and whose name dians, as was the custom of many | hunters of those days, armed with |are due likewise to the man who tomahawks and long rifles and clad in | guided the destiny of the Thirteen deerskin Hunting shi and mocca- | Colonies which became the United of their depar-| States of America? Still, if no battles and other famous ture from Frederick says: “They need nothing except water | events of the Revolutionary War took AN OLD PRINT SHOWING WASHINGTON TAKING COMMAND OF THE ARMY. Wash- | HEADQUARTERS AT | | | | | | Congress | so many mas AMBRIDG | from the spring, with a little parched | place in what is now the T Columbia, the pe of ginia and Maryland of Georgetown and o land w a city ple near! nd the resident the forest ar fterward became interest i going on. The join the colon money and othe: cause any names s appeared « Continenta of the great events irred not far awa rernon, on the Potc miles below e the great com steamboat carry erchants boost ginfans stopped town, Va., where »f the Revolutior The independence -d at Philadelphia Yorktown, soon to the British gov The pres. s was then ate whicl role in the mac River, on fev the present city, ¢ mander-in-ck ing Washing for the trade of few days ago at Yo the final success c was _ attained which became z f: be recognized by ernment and ail the ent site « It was at n of Mar: noon on Decer atification of Annapolis, capita Washington, ter the £ peace, en Continenta g and re s comman signed his der-in-chief of the army. “Few trage er drew so man tears,” wrote the editor of the land Gazette in the flowery st the time, “from so ny beauti eyes as the 1 g manner in whicl ency took his final leave o 3 —the day before Christmas—Washington, accompanied by his wife and the two Custis chil dren, traveled by carriage across the southern Maryland peninsula, where Washingtonians are dispor ing themseives during the vacatior period this Summ They took t over the Potomac River a few south of the present site of ngton, reaching home on Christ eve. At Mount Vernon a part of old friends and neighbors walted to welcome them young lady from Fredericksburg, Va., who was one of the guests, left her written impres slons of that Christmas day ‘All_Christ afterncon,” she wrote, “people came to pay their re spects and duty. Among them were stately dames and gay young women The general seemed very happy, and istress Wash was from day break' makin g as agreeal as’ possible for evervbody.” That is the charming picture of the end of the drama which began elght vears before, when Washington un. sheathed his sword 150 years ago this month, without knowing —but not fearing—the consequences, under the elm tree at Cambridge, so far away from his pleasant home on the Po tomac Air Turbine. N a New Jersey meadow tract there is a windmill that rotates on a vertical axis and is known as an air turbine. The blades or sails, made of heavy canvas and brought about automatically, come up to the wind edgewise to the sheet The sheets are held to the outside of the frame by metal clips that straighten out and release the sheets in an excessive wind. This allows the sheets to rip or blow away entirely, thus leaving the metal frame intact in every part Each tier of blades is termed .a unit and is calculated to generate five or six horsepower per unit in a 25-mile wind. A tem of automatic brakes is installed to regulate the speed of the machinery Locates the Pain. VAGRANT aches and pains which often afflict the stomach and are hard to identify may now be accur- ately located and classified by an in- strument resembling a miniature seis- mograph, the devise with which earth- quake tremors are recorded, according to Popular Mechanics. The pain find- er, devised by Dr. W. C. Alverez of the University of California, is said to | register the course of such {lis in al- most any part of the clearly reveal every step of the di- gestive processes. By the recorder, the passage of food through the di- gestive tract can be closely followed, and the exact spot and instant of the setting up of any trouble definitely learned in a few minutes. The instru- ment, called the multiple-electro-en- terograph, is said to obtain its data by means of a pendulum swung in a vacuum tube and marks its records with a needle. bdomen and to Stronger Than Steel. THIN jet of water may be harder than steel. Several such Jjets exist at the new turbine station at Fully, Switzerland. ahe nozzles from which they issue are about 134 inches in diameter, and the water, the pres- sure of which is nearly two tons to the square inch, is so rigid ghat a strong man armed with an iron crowbar would be unable to drive it through this jet of water. Make Elastic Gl;ss. 'WO Austrian chemists have suc: ceeded after years of patient ex: perimenting in producing elastic glass, It is made of carbomide and formalde, hyde, and has all the properties of glas except its hardness. Its ine ventors el their material “Pellopas.”