Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1925, Page 59

THE JULY: 12 Hunt for Members of an Old Family + Ends Up in Pages of City Directory Rambler Gives the Beginning of His Story of Nicholas, Frank and John Pistorio of the Musical Family Well Remembered by Washington. THE PISTORIOS, A FAMOUS OLD MUSICAL ORGANIZATION OF WASHINGTON. | sehoc Ameriva gan JRIO is a name of ame in Washingion. Persons lived in Washington | torio girls long will give a gentle start or | Robinson.” 1 ct in some other way when | at all the Why is the Rambler. have not read the Ram misic told him I was looking up Prof. | she asked. \d he said, “One of the Pis-| “Then you rried @, man named|bler?” “No, the paper is so large that | looked in the directory | I have time only to look at the inter Bradshaws, Bradstreets, | esting things.” “That doesn’t take | the name in print. Perhaps | Bradleys. etc.. but none lived at East | long it? Well. the photo sitting on the shady porch with | Capitol and Eleventh street. Going!graphs and advertisements are good. Star, will call to Ma, work- | there I disturbed a good many persons | If you like this Rambler, bring him kitchen. and sav: “Ma. with inqu for Bradshaw up to dinner some evening. but tel The Ran has =0t | street, Bradley., or a name phone me. so that I may put on the hold of Prof. Pistorio.” Ma will come | Finally I went into Hoyi L | best china. just as thoyfh we use it from the kitchen. wipinz her hands | store and ed Hoyt every day." Such is fate. “The best her apron. he will focus her | was puttin \ preseription concerted schemes men lay for specs on this page and say: “Well, T|reflected at great depth on Bradshaw, | die fast away.” (See Benham's do declare! Why. his orchestra fur- | Bradstreet. etc.. but gave it un. “I|of Quotations” under nished the music at Jane's | am looking one of the danghters| In the Washinstor wedding. and Ma had I said. Hoyt's eyes|is this: Nicholas Pist their en wedding, in 1570, Pis he said. 1 used B near Eighth southe torin’s stood the front with John Pistc torfo, musician, hoards IS near the Mastodon Office of the “Know | southeast: Frank and serenaded them. here Robin- | boar near Kighthysoutheast. On hem into the parlor this page of the directory is an ad em with fruit cake vertisement which may sur your and when ¢ family across the street (East Capitol), | memory t. Clond Hotel. corn picnic at_the | No. 1021 Ninth &.od ¥ streets. opposite Patent Bladensburg Spa it_in Pen- It's a4 100 to 1 shot but I'll take it,” | Office and Masonic Temple and one cote Woods?—Prof. Pistorio’s Band | said the Rambler. After ringing up|block . feom tieneral Post Office De went along with us in one of Knox's | the folks in 1023 and 1019 he got the [partment. The F street cars commu six-horse omnibuses: and when Aunt | right house. A lady said she was Mrs. | nicating with the Capitol. Executive Susie gave a strawberry social in her Mansion. War and Navy Departments sarden, where the Monster Hotel and the B. and O Railroad Depot pass stands now, it was Prof. Pistorio’s the door. Mrs A. Pollard, proprie- Band that furnished tress.” Yes, ves,’ In the director: lasses I remember when I entries: “Nicholas courting Sallie before | (Nicholas Pis nd John met you. we went on a pienic to White musicians and band leaders House Landing the steamboat southeast; Frank D. Pistorio Arrow and danced the lancers, schot Walsh and Co.), 807 I southeast tische and Virginia reel to the music vatore Pistorio, 528 of Pistorie’s Orchestra, and . * % Here Sammy Smith, jr., proud sefon of the family, butts in and diluvians something that happened since three-toed horses pranced the Avenue? Nobody dances the lancers now. no steambs stop at White House Landing—the ain't no landing there—no man who i€ up-to-date silver dollar about the steamboat Arrow, and those ancient orchestras didn't have a saxo phone tooter em. knew nothing of the bazoo and never plaved ‘Red Hot Mamma' or ‘T Was the First to Kiss Her Good Morning and the Last to Kiss Her Good Nizht Pa:—Well, Sammy, them Aays when a man could live heing killed at every crossing automobile; them was the days you could go. into Schwing Clark’s or Osborn and Hoban's srder a plate of oysters without giv ing ten-dollar tip the waiter them was the days vou could go into Hancock's Shoomaker's and— Sister should things feel <peak porch per with program Ma Pistorio Brother Sammy ahout it Give Pop. and read Ancient history Ane. Ain't I right Sister Annie:—1 print these when F simmon tree: room o there. Pist music came to and married Miss Anne Rea who have : Salvatore The Brooklyn Nicholas, of was a brother of Rambler il when he believes he will they Pa hix Sunda the here see does. means o carry this over next Sunday Fag be able to hand you his notes of P in Brad like it mb's drug while he Hoyt torio, father and sons he has zathered about and Emmanuel Masari directory listed under and probably being vertisements, in the Antonio J. Baptist Andrew . southwest: William ( Daniel B. Immich northw Donch and Son, 608 H northwest: R t McKennev, 1105 Rhode 1sland northwest Frederick Prosperi ifth south east; Gaetano Repetti. 527 Sixth south east: William . Shin -k, 725 Sixth northwest; Julius Stein, 456 H north wesi: Florian Trautman, 231 Third west: John Wagner and Son, 209 First northeast: Franz Waldecker, 737 Seventh northwest: Louis F. W. Weber. 725 Seventh southeast, and Peter Wittestatt, South Carolina ave nue and Eighth southeast and also notes ank Cardella In the 1880 “Musicians those having ad directory 528 Fifth south 1112 Sixth same 20 Kighth were Sister for when musician John Pis Eighth Pistorio, music g0 d to ad Band where Building is now and Pa invited and Ma served and sherry cobblers Sabbath school gave a out’ in dres ard He knew nothin anybody around son?" 1 asked Hoyt said, “There's a Robinson named ian, s 12 or was sout Pa, rubbing his of 1880 are Pistorio says thes and Son Pistorio), 815 K (W. F. sal eve D ought to interest pgens advertisements on the page luy-omike ante talk vou. They are of Rhine agents for heer, 413-415 Res 604 vou about Edward Abner. importer and French wines and sole Ehret's N. ¥ Ninth st. N.W.° taurant and Penna. Ave Baltimore and hours Geo. lager oseph Platz, No, opposite Dining B Potomac Depot—Meals Philadelphia and Eng lish ale on draught™: “Albert Pike and on (Luther H. Pike). attornevs and | counsellors-at-law, 602 D street N.W “The finest of imported Sherries di | rect from Spain, Sweet Catawba, Port and Muscatel at Xander's, 911 Sev enth street”; A. L. Barber and Co Business Properties for Sale or Rent— Proprietors of Le Droit Park.” One finds Nicholas Pistorio in the Washington directo far back in the 50's when he was in the Marine Band. He was born in Red Ideas in China PARIS strong T come in days. France war 1 Morocco, and like n nd and the States, has prectous interesis at stake in China, where something like war is beinz waged on foreigners. with a civil war behind it At Shanghai English marines have had to be landed along with American marines 1o fight beside them against | their student Soviets leadipg the populuce |China from misery to the ecry. “Cha ¥ang ven, cha!"|civil war. They have been built up + (Kill the foreigner, Kill) Ly the white races on Chinese soil Red Cantonese troops. led by ut they have heen the business cen N Cofcers. have captured Canton (ers for all the trade of the Chinese (China's second largest city, with a people. And_ all the business men population of over 1.000.000). and|amens the Chinese and all the settled France has to he ready with !rm\n‘:j"“"""“ know it, and they know that from Indo-China." a vi-’mn own ruin wonld follow that of Hiere in Paris we are inclined to|luropeans and Americans among listen to Dr. Legendre. who was!so|them. long a resident among the native Chi- | The Soviets may have failed in nese, and has spent his life thinking | their propaganda for the time being, About what thew are likely to do in|but their missionaries are proclaiming the world, He does not take the trou.|throughout Asia: ‘From Shanghai to ble lightly | Tangier, in Caleutta and Bulgaria, see “In the foreign press,” he says,|how imperialism is crumbling. and ‘they are calling this movement local: | China. like India and Java, Asia like just a strike. How can we hide from | Africa, are escaping from the Eu purselves what is really happening? |Topean voke. Our time has come, Yere is an immense country in a| ~To speak in terms of business state of anarchy. and this is being ag-| What is all this coming to? If the | zravated by a hot. stubborn propa.|Bolshevik revolution succeeds in up- canda. How real its success is may |Setting all Asia. the rest of the world e xeen from what is going on among | Will be in for a period of ehronic want. the tens of thousands of students. It [ There was never such a business up. j¢ in the nature of a Chinaman to |®etting in the world as that will be, imitate some one, and now he has “We mizht well make up our for his model and fnspiration—the | minds to it. Democracy and Bolshe- Bolshevik. * |vism are face to face in every conti- “This i a real [nent and the fight is to a finish= They think ahout it. Bolsheviks are not |can never be reconciled and one must society talkers, and they use ®every |perish at the hands of the dther. The means. and never stap their efforts to | United States is threatened quite as dominate the world. It is mot only |much as Europe. in China that they have their hold. What about Japan? Drl Legendre To all that . to 900,000.000 lanswers: “Japan desires order and souls ses of men ready to be- |peace. And perhaps—Japan will be lieve, Bolsheviks come. our chief help. But the time has come “In China, this new idea succeeds |for us to choose—Liberty and progress with two classes of society—the stu- |or allowing ourselves to be pushed dents who represent Young China, |back’into servitude. and the lower masses of people. That is why the propaganda is going on to open acts, Shanghal has an enor- Rooms. cares a and street was the without by an when and and NICHOLAS PISTORI0. Were you Tillie Pistorio? knew Tillle very well.' She did not know where Tillie lived. She said. “There’s a Robinson in the hext block—the 900 block—who married one of the Pistorio girls A zood clew “Thank Rambler the best of Mount Pleasant and Anacostia. I be lieve the accent 1 put in “I thank you so much” must have impressed the Reaching Tenth and rang all the bells until he house next the corner 403, A pretty girl eame Aoor Are vou Mrs. Robin No. 1 am Miss Rohertson Inoking for Tillie and Jozenhine The girl brightened snd von know them?" “No, he Rambler.” The 1< perplexed. She did not know Rambler. «Fame! Robinson “No, but 1 ess a to when FRANK D. PISTORIO. Annie not speak The neight down in about Papa dear of such might cellar it. but part ads vou vulgar hear vou don't front the pa radio Tads it Capitol 1 Prof. 1 came to of Ninth vou <aid with e in Circle much, ceent Sheridan s the Go that of Give st things 2 the the of the in July mors of Paris all has real France United | nations in China: the withdrawal all foreign soldiers and marines—and even the suppression of the com panies of volunteers which have jus saved Shanghai from pillage and mas me TRANGE war these so and the and Another 15t to us the 1 thinz - N L i had for their Foreigners thi al Not the Ramt little Sister don't another thing funny page. | son?’ vourselt. | = stale Annie? why pa things that hap. street was full o and huckleberries they can just well fill their vith fresh up-to-the-minute some of which never happened her Right These icthysaurises the good old days sopsoozle the 1900 Death none Boxers in battle But they gospel talk Chinese know. these immense &n concessions, to also me the is a e had Di The do. ths well as cities, with have saved and danger in said I'm 1y the “ “What Gold? a pers fore pened per when pazes news all fame? transcien e An empty bubb shining trouble (See Benham's el under “Fame.") Miss Robertson said that her mother was Emma Pistorio, that she died lonz ago. and ‘that her aunts, Tillie 1nd Josephine live at 1401 East « tol street. She said, “They are get ting ready to go away today and if I were vou I wouldn't go to see them | now No." said the Rambler, I am far from home and it's near din. ner ti You know, I have no fear |in going through the wildest country looking for stories, but 1 am afraid to get home late dinner.” The voung lady, though Still a mis: understood at Book of Quotations™ 3ro sian Sis! about call Sammy on cuckoo what 1 are It's B ipi- WAS pale cast brow b her the the of thought sickled on and drawing my mellow it which the society editor darling aides—a little way n hall—have written vicious letters to the janitor I was thinkin how T might my fuiae as an author and I my fandral fountain pen: “Old Faith ful, let »8 put into t some * = thoughts. ameae ‘ideas!” and the ..hl‘q,mnw”m later pen leaked aether zoh of ink on the (O oot yge #O0 U chaste page. R turned and looked at gntlidie. camenit me with an Epression I had never | L, 19 M ({0 ol seen in its fact Before and said: “Don't | & The dire 60 i1, Father! Readers will ery out in | there. he Prapaan 1 at the innovation Do it if 3 Dle s D § know how." whispered a dusty | facking in plot Tk motile on' my desk. . tReaders | thrills. but usually ~on’t notice it. Readers wouldn't e g g In iden I it broke down the froni | (hese names: il @ shooting off Roman candles That b = g ma be,” said Old Faithful. leaking pane ‘“I(l”‘\ they ‘are Tillle and another of ink. “but you will Then these naues:. Migs S LR i L orio, 2442 Twentieth strect | el ideas alone. Just feed 'em flatt. | NOrthwest. and Domingo Pistorio, 807 udes expressed In long words of | I street southeast 4 fatin descent rolled into sentences |, MWhen I got home to dinner she said ™ et Ciamgled up in the wiia | You look tired,” It is impossible to hrubbery amd . they will - shout | deceive her. 1'have dome it several | Literature! literature: Renew my |times. but never got away with it— | <ubscription! “’;?} il ,;'“‘ “’I"‘;. m»",‘“”"‘,h“ Btarios. Orehestont o2 o | said, ve been walking.” “Why | e T R e atg | didn‘t you take a taxi or bhone home | mous population—a million and a half hecurred to the Fambler-he went |for the car? Have I had you alkthese |in the Iuropean concessions, alone. oot ton the: Navy Yard: £o° consultl ¥ without lighting in you some | There students and workmeW have his ofd friends, Charlie Biondi and of intelligence “Wejl, imybeen “only Ipsttummehie ol s SRR Mike Stanisci. They remembered the I said, “it looks better for the |ized conspiracy. How can you doubt Pistorios, who lived on E between Sth | Rambler to walk than ride.” “The |it? K and 9th southeast. and recalled the | Rambler?” she %aid, an inquiring look | _First, ‘there is the immense quan- hames of the children, Frank, John,|coming into her expressive eyes—I [tity of pamphlets, tracts, papers. “What has the | which have already been seized In the ©mma, Tillie and Josephine. They [hope she sees that. bad forgot the Christian name of | Rambler-to do with it?" “Did you not | concession schools. Then we have the demands of the so-called strikers. Do he ood old musician known over | know. my dear, that I have been writ- Washington and part of our brother | ing the Rambles in Tha Star for 20| you think they could ever come from | States at Prof. Pistorio. They said |3 “What are the Rambles?” | Chinese brains? They demand rillie had married a Mr. Bradshaw,}she asked. puzzled. “Why, my dea “The abrogation of treaties and name like that, and lived in | they are ahout—they are about’— | debts toward other nations, which, in apartment house at Bast Capitol | “Oh, ves. I recall that one of the |they say. has been imposed on the wand 11th. neighbors asked me some time ago | by despoiling capitalists; the abolition I met John Schroeder in a lunch who the Rambler was, or I believe 'of the rights and privileges of other sitting in my room with my pipe and .. Ao add to for said to the almost intel me that 1 directory to are recorded is really_often blication tather | ic flashes and aining a num the directory are Bradshaw. widow | 1101 East Capitol: | widow of Willlam to might as fact—we had bes goh Six Million Pens. 'O keep its patrons supplied with writing implements for next year the Post Office Department will fur- nish 6,185,000 pen points for distri- bution to the Nation's 52,000 stations, says Popular Mechanics. The pub- lic will also be provided with 480,000 holders to accommodate the great volume of nibs. The pens are almost every style so that a point may be found on the post office desks to suit practically any writer. For the same period of time at least 900,000 quarts of writing fluid will be required to keep the inkwells filled and 500,000 large sheets of blotting paper will be used up. e | its { |salvaged broken 1925— PART - Is That Beneath Surface of Ocean Salvaging of Treasure Which Has Found Lodgment in Davy Jones' lLocker Is >ame for Men Who Like to Play Against Heavy Odds. BY ROWLAND THOMAR. )MEWHERE on a flat 10:acre field piace piece. Return at night i to Aind the coin. By the time you hive succeeded—if von ever do—vou will appreciate the difft culties of deep-sea hunters who search for sunken valuables. A ship. in pro- portion to the vast expanse of ovean, is smaller than vour coln was in pro- portion to the 10-acre field. It was just a few weeks ago fhat treasure hunters left New, York on the steam trawlers Spray and Foam (o search for the gold ship Merida, sunk | in collision off the Virginia Capes some 14 years ago, and supposed to have carried something like $5,000.000 in coin and jewels to Davy Jones’ locker with her. These same trawlers made a preliminary search last Fall and it was reported thai they haa actually located the hulk. If those reports were that the trawlers have now to steam right to that spot any hesitation or blind groping. adventurers have already been far | luckier than most of their kind. They can congratulate themselves that the | hardest and most discouraging, as well as the costliest part of their all job is behind them. Ordinarily locating of eepi in open waters is cult undertaking its contents and buoyed featuras p-cent d try less a correct, so been without | the able ki submerge vastiy than the And the water need or o im perable handicaps on the Capt. J. F. 5. McLeod will testify. Capt. McLeod right now is as much retired” #s a man of his habits of mind and body can be. He is on the active list. But for vears on end he was the boss wrecking captain of the Merritt, Chapman & Scolt Corpora tion, known the maritime world around for their exploits in this field of enterprise. He was commodore of their stout-ribbed, sirong-armed fles of dredgers and sweepers, floating derricks and wrecking lighters. pon toon barges and towboats. He has ships and their goes from the shores and floors of a the seven seas, from the Azores to the South Sea Islands. from the Gulf of cence Rio. and what h know about the job no mar but insu- searchers of New York knows Conservatively speaking McLeod explained, “I've four experience that putting your finger or 1ken runs from maybe 93 per cent up to 100 per cent trific better, of the work. Until you've looking for them you can hard they are to find ANP P three the baffling hunts in Capt. MeLe well stored memory were stage in the deeps of the open sea narrow and comparatively waters of New York Harbor perhaps the most elusive prize he ev went groping for was hidden D lly within a stone’s throw of Statue of Liberty. 1t was during the World War. (o per ingots worth almost $1,000.000 and destined for the munitions f of the allies were being taken de the harhor as a deck load on a-lightc Just off Bedloes Island, in broac light. and with of craft about her on all she came collision wlith vessel listed sharply sides nother hung on her b for a moment as her deck into the water, then tur upward and went floating ward the Narrows First, off. nothir simpler” than the copper. Even at war prices. $1,000.000 worth of it made a sizable lumn like 1,500 tons. And there r evewitnesses thorough seamen and watermen whose experienced eves had marked the exact spot of the acciden ver one hem was confident he could lower a diver into the midst of the drowned ingots the first shot. The only difficulty was that every of them insisted (he diver should be seni down at a different spot. But after the Merritt Scott Corporation had explored every one of the score of cations indicated by these expert nesses. the copper was still missing Only after they had plotted the off Bedloes Isiand into a number <mall squares and had divers their way over every square foot of the surface of each area. consuming + whole vear in the process. was the lost metal found Capt. McLeod has eves of gray Scot's i which twinkle with dry humor from nnder their weatherbeaten lids. Here's a question for you,” he said we were lucky in a vear to find heap of copper which had to be somewhere inside a circle not half 4 mile across at the outside much luckier has the Merida ex heen if it has been able to hook onto her wreck Iving in 20 or 30 fathoms of open water off the Virginia Capes inside a cirele | that st have been 10. mavhe even miles in diameter? For not very likely that when the Merida was struck her officers had their posi- | tion closer than something bhetween 5 and 10 miles.” Another hunt which trouble hefore it ended was for a_harbor tug sun! close to Blackwells Island in the East River. Before they would pay off the | insurance on her as a total loss the underwriters demanded proof in the | form of wreckage, and divers zroped through the inky and swirling waters of the tidal stream for weeks before m ends ed m shat of that could something bad been Chapman painstaking! To. & area of grope I that iving over how pedition so soon gave infinite | successfully | in collision | | accurately determined THEORETICALLY ALLOWS A BUT THE PRACTICAL WORK- 300 FEET. WITH GREAT DAN. A NEW DIVING ARMOR. WHICH DIVER'TO GO DOWN 1.000 FEET. ING DEPTH IS STILL LIMITED TO GER ANYWHERE OVER 100 FEET. 1p her 1 THE SPRAY, ONE OF THE TWO STEAM TRAWLERS NOW SEARCHING FOR THE APES 14 YEARS ACO SUNK IN COLLISION OFF THE VIRGINIA « coast of of a ind-new zed hulk. or a thousand Virginia ng hound for The position ocean South ce chen child's scattered coal, or of America seemed to be and the ing company called in very foot of ocean hottom for around was swept painstakingly no trace of her has ever bheen covered Down at ware,” Capt and jewels nly salvag sscie lay. But Capt. McLeod has entional ideas of al-difficulty of a careless locomotive the end of a y the Hudson at once, hut buried itself mud of the bottom of floundering was At once. | T miles b what constitutes which ran off er on the Jersey completely in the soft Only after several instance the mouth of the Dela MeLeod added. “there’s story of a British man-of-war, carry ing the pay for the fleet, that was sunk in the mouth of the river during ' days slit throt the TON SEARCHER OF THE SPRAY. did of a job Oh ne her the conver science h. man. Ther ets dowr ottom. If together anc with = dept working de more than difficulty and d feet. 1 work the dive sure by shee and lifelir clambe i cising hose GOLD SHIP MERIDA jarring while crav prying wa more careful I've see himself schooner and under n a man vound her Fountain of Youth. 'I‘m: Medica SeEma fountain o heen found Hopkins Sch method free capable only is a kent and The place color But there's a fro | fully, the | pothesis brain from the transformation they grow that fhe o applies to tadpoles. W Are the hefore the tadpnla of ezzs hatching at labor anterior lobe the h that is cut it was explained at the yecently. the thyroid sland develop properly and the tiny mains_continually vounz | By feeding them’ bits of cut away putting it in with them, the laboratory said, the silvery color vanist the development into a bl goes on—only, however. the gland they lack them. When this supply stops stops. means a zl away. With this gon laborator does ne tad v the the water gland or —— Roof Playgrounds. SCHOOL in Southampton land, has its playground on roof. The fact that the zreat ocean liners from this port be seen from the roof is made tribute to the study of practical raphy. On a larze map the roof miniature veseel course of the ports of the world, and from this a slaborate geography schieme, based on actual observation, has been built up. Enz he sailing of to con follow ships to seagoinz e