Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1925, Page 47

¢ Colorful Festivities Witnessed DAY STAR; WASHINGTON At Conclusion of Stay in Lhasa First White Woman to Enter Forbidden City Says Farewell to Picturesque Land and Returns to More Familiar Scenes. BY ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL. URING the many years I have spent among Tibetans I have had exceptional opportunities to see from near the life of the different classes of peo- ple. Still, never had I penetrated so deeply into the intimacy of the com- mon folk as I did during my stay at Lhasa. The hovel where I had found shelter was the center of a small avansary, where the strangest *imens of humanity could be met. he wealthiest guests only slept under A roof; others remained in the open, All was done, said and even thought publicly I really lived as in a novel whose plot would have been situated in the slums—but what amusing, exotic slums! They had nothing of the lugu- brious physical and mental aspect of thos of the West. ragged, food was scarce, but everybody enjoyed the great luminous blue sky, the bright, life-giving sun, and w joy swept through the minds of these unlucky ones disinherited of worldly wealth. None practiced any trade or craft—they lived as birds do, on what they could pick up daily Apart from the utmost lack of any comfort, 1 did not suffer among m: strange neighbors. They never sus- ed whom 1 w nd treated me with simplicity and kindness as one of them ome had known better days. the One oungest son of a man who le wealth. He had marrfed @ well-to-do widow much older than he, and could have prospered, but idle life. drinking and gambling had led| * him to ruin. When his wife had be- come aged he had taken a concubine, | and after a time the legitimate spouse, who understood that she would end in | poverty if she kept her unworthy hus- band, managed to get rid of him in a rather clever way. She called together his and her rela- tives and declared her intention to re- tire by herself to consecrate her last Years to devotion. Her husband, she said, was in love with his mistress. She did not object to their marriage RrSsensaans wre 5 GALDEN MONASTERY, THE MOST HOLY MONASTERY OF TIBET, WHERE THE BODY OF THE FOUN DER OF THE YELLOW TION, A J ECT IS with their duel yhow, they suc ceeded in pushing the maid out of the house, and, in order to prevent her from coming back, followed her to the street door across the courtyard. By one of those inexplicable thoughts that suddenly arise in drunk- rds, the master of the house put on his wife the responsibility.of the inci (polygamy as well as polyandry are| legal in Tibet), but they would have | to leave her house, to assume all debts | that the man had made and to agree that she was free from any obligation toward her husband. In fact, it was divorce. The man consented, a deed | of marriage was drafted and he went | with his new wife | * * x ¥ | THE life of the former lovers was far from being smooth at the time 1 happened to make thelr acquaint- | ance. The husband was a good- hearted, weak fellow, but an inveterate drunkard, who nearly every day, soon after noon, lying unconscious and remained thus till the next morning. The wife more than once kept him company. Nevertheless, she was more active and of a more clever turn of mind. Indeed, her cleverness was the subject of tremendous quarrels. The husband asserted that during his prolonged sleep the woman stole away his remaining properties—house- hold utensils, blankets, etc. The wife complained that her consort had sold her jewels and gambled with the product. When she had ratsed her voice to a | pitch high enough to arouse the drunkard from his stupor—and that feat required strong lungs—a pic- turesque dialogue followed. Often the man took a heavy stick that he had always at hand, being somewhat crip- | pled on account of gout, and when the | lady received a first-rate bastinado | that left her weeping and bruised be- | fore any one had time to come to her help—for the room was very smail with only one door on the outside— and the cunning husband, who was a stout man, always managed to block it with his fat body, when, with his| long stick, he could reach his old in whatever corner she| | an, The miserable house was divided in three spaces. The entrance room was occupied b the quarreling couple 1 ave just mentioned, I had a narrow ell at one side of it, and a dark room 1t the back sreltered another most remarkable pair. They also had lived golden days. woman of good family. band, who at the time of their mar-| riage owned some property, had been appointed an officer in the Tibetan a during the war with China en, as had been the case with his eighbor, gambling and drinking had ruined him. Complete poverty had not, however, ibated his pride. He was a very tall,| rather handsome man, full of con-| tempt for work, who assumed the dig- iified mein of a knight bearing un- deserved misfortune. Everybody ad dressed him with a Tibetan title some. vhat corresponding to our “captain.” To accept 2 humble job seemed repug- nant to the a tocratic feelings of the captain,” and as the government did not offer him a ministerial seat, he nobly took to the independent profes- sion of begging. Each morning, after having drunk 'his tea, my neighbor went out, a courfer bag slung over & shoulder and a wallet thrown on it in the way hidalgos of yore carried their cape. Staff in hand, he walked, head ect, too conscious of his superiority n to condescend to be arrogant. ptain’ did not come back home before sunset. Lunch he had some- where. He took nobody into his con- fidence about the invitations he re- ceiv He was witty enough to be pleasant. He was known all over Lhasa. People, amused by his man- ner, gave him what he requested inc dentally, as {f the aim of his daily outing was only to call as a gentleman on other gentlemen. He succeeded with that method, and his wife and his two children were regularly fed with the contents of the bags he brought back, duly filled, each evening. * ok ok % HE trouble in the drunkard’s home grew worse when a turquolse ornament belonging to the housewife disappeared. At first the latter ac cused her husband. But innocence prevailed, the culprit was discovered; she was the maid servant—for the ady of the small entrance room had 4 maid. Now, a strange question was vaised. The girl pretended she was entitied to get an indemnity for hav- ing been called a thief. That term of abuse, she said, did not apply to her, because she had not stolen the jewel: she had.found it lying on the ground n the room and had picked it up. Men acting as arbiters, as pleaders, as counsel and witness, some of them having never seen the turquolse locket. nor the girl, nor heard any- thing connected with the case, very s00n filled the house. They came early in the morning, ate and drank, and stayed late in the evening. P om my small quarters I got the full fun of these strange proceedings and of the peculiar arguments which were put forward, especially at the end of the afternoon, when spirts had infused original ideas into the brains uf the assembly. Once, when the discussion had been pectally heated, the girl and her former lady began to exchange abuses and then thféw themselves on each other. The men present got up to separate them, a rather hard task, for the infuriated females turned their nails against those who dared to mix dent, declared that she put shame on him before his guests and tried to play his usual trick, the entrance and beating her. But this time, excited by her previous struggle, she flung at him and tore his long earring (Tibetan men wear a long earring in the left ear) away from his ear, which bled. He retali- ated by knocking her on the face and she shrieked loudly. The “‘captain’s” wife ran out of her room to interfere between them. She had not made two steps on the lilli- putian battlefield when she received on the cheek a stroke that was not meant for her, and fell on a bench lling for help. Yongden was away. I thought it MME. ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL, WHEN SHE WAS LIVING AS A HERMIT IN TIBET. was my duty to prevent the man from seriously hurting his wife, so I walked in with the intention of sheltering the now terrified woman in my room. But people were coming. became impossible. “Run away quickly,” I urged the woman, protecting her re treat. She passed behind me and I never her again. ‘When the ptain” came back in | the evening he found his lady with a swollen cheek that had already begun to turn black. To relate the scene that was acted then, with the flame of a brasero for light, exceeds my power as'a writef. “Captain” had all the manner of a gifted actor; he declaimed half the night, in turn ferocious, clamoring for revenge, then full of pathos, telling of the suffering of his dame; and again, straightened to his full height, his head nearly touching the low roof, speaking of the insult done to his honor. The man to whom that rhetorlc was anding before | KEPT IN A MAUSOLEUM QF LID SILVER WITH GOLDEN DECORA- ddressed lay on a broken couch, more | than half unconscio and “captain,” | who was himself far from being sober, ended his soliloquy by denouncing the degrading habit of drinking. i * k% ¥ |INEXT day the ‘captain” took Yongden aside and declared his not an animal, but a man conscious of the part he Is playing. It is sup. posed by the Tibetans that the lamas expert in magic have the power to transfer to him the causes that would attract to others illness, poverty death, misfortunes of all kinds and deliver them into the hands of evil spirits. So, each year a_voluntary |intention of asking me as witness in | Vit calleq T Kong Kyt syaipy |the case he meant to introduce in | D e e e tion Tor the biack | (the KIng of impurity). is charged with ord o reparatic K the iniquities of the ruler and his sub- | cheek Inflicted to his wife. The young | jects and sent to sandy Samye, whose {lama tried to induce him to give up | | neighborhood is a true miniature Sa- | his idea and offered him a little pres-| oy’ |ent. He took the money, but remained | “Tha Jure of a considerable profit obstinate; his wrong wasto be avenged | induces some poor fellows to risk the land T ought to help. < |adventure. There may be a certain When Yongden, reported this con-|amount of scepticism in their mind versation to me I felt much annoved. | 3hout the demons and the danger of I would have to appear before Sev-|becoming their prey, but, more likely, eral people who would like to hear |the Lus Kong Kyl gyalpos expect to about the journey of pilgrims like us, |be able to secure, with a high hono. who had visited a large number of fumy some lamas, still cleverer holy places. That meant long talks|than those who put the people’'s sins and Yongden and I would be, of on their head, who will cleanse them course, questioned about our mative|and keep the demons away. How- land. It might turn out badly for our | ever, either on account of the credu- incognito. | lity ‘that they are not capable of en- We were drinking tea silently, won- | tirely shaking off or for any other dering how we could avoid these dan- | cause, these human apegoats’ gerous meetings, when the door | often die prerhaturely, suddenly or in opened—in Tibet, especially among |mysterious circumstances or, again, common folk, one does not knock at|are affected with strange diseases. A the door nor ask in any:way pere-|former Lus Kong Kyl gyalpo died mission to enter a room or a house.| during my stay at Lhasa, the day be- A man stepped in. After the usual | fore his cessor was to be driven polite greeting, he told us that my|away to Samye. nelghbor, whom I had helped to es-| T did not fail to roam through the cape the day before, intended to di-ftown during the week that preceded | voree her husband, and wished me to [ the sending away of the -scapegoat: appear as a witness to testify about|to see him collecting the tax to her husband’s brutality. As in the|which he s lawfully entitled by ,the previous case, I .endeavored to per-{government. He was dressed Ih & suade the man to aliow me fo remain |good Tibetan robe and would not neutral, for both the husband and wife | have been recognizable but ,for a had been obliging, and I .did not want | black yak (Tibetan long-hafréd ox) to say anything agalnst' either of |tall which He kept in his hand. i them. But that was useless, and he |entered the shops and ecirculated in retired, saying that he would insist on | the market, requesting money or of. my evidence being heard. ferings in kind. We decided to leave Lhasa for a| If one tried to escape at too little week, going to the great monastery |cost, Lus Kong Kyl gyalpo remon of Galden, where are the massive gold |strated briefly with him. Had he mnot and silver jeweled tomb of- Tsong|obtained what he wanted he would Kappa, the founder of the yellow-hats | have waved the yak tail above the sect, and many other interesting|head of the miser on the threshold of sights. That journey was far from [his house, a gesture of curse that being unevenful. would have had the most terrible con Yongden, when wandering alone |sequences through the monastic city, met a man | Al were giving liberally, it ap- gvho had known us well for a long | peared, for I had not the opportunity time. - He, of courses, inquired about | to see Lus Kong Kyi gvalpo flourish. me, and the lama told him that I was|ing the enormous, hairy k_tail still in China and that, his pilgrim- [Still, once & discussion arose.. T was age ended, he would go back to me.|too far to hear the words, but I had | Our old acquaintance then invited him | no doubt about the subject. The fu- to drink ‘tea, but Yongden declined, |ture “scapegoat” grew impatient and saying that he did not feel well and |half raised his hand holding the would call on another octasion. He ; strange weapon, but then several men | auickly rejoined me, and as, happily. | we had finished visiting the various | shrin monaste: the plac At Lhasa much tea and spirit had been drunk, but the two cases were still pending. A new period of festivi- ties was soon to begin and the arbi- | ters had postponed their meeting till |after they were over. That circum- ance relieved me completely from | my fear, for I had decided to leave Lhasa the day follgwing the great ser | pang pageant. satisfactorily, for I heard them laugh- and the country around the |ing. we made haste (o leave| Lus Kong Kyi gyalpo collects his tax at the doors of the wealthiest, the highest in rank, as well as af that of the peor, and the product of it is a veritable fortune for a man of a low station in life, as he always is. * X *x % ‘WONDERED if he would visit my hoste'ry, but he must have thought really aot worth_his trouble the beg- gars who lived “there and the few copper colns he might have gathered G e 3 . he did not appear. Anyhow fate HE day had come when the an- nual ceremony of driving the “‘scapegoat” out of the town was to take place. The Tibetan scapegoat, unlike that mentioned in the Bible, is and the strange ,personage extended his hand toward me. Out of fun—I wished to see him moving the back tail—T said, “I am a pilgrim who has come from far away. I have no He only looked at me, sternly saying: “Giv But I have nothing,” ‘I replied. Then he lifted slow]: doing at the market, and I would have enjoved the sight of the waving of the yak tail on my head, but for two well dressed ladies who stopped him, saying hastily: “We will give | for her!” They put a few small coins in the hand of the man, who went his way. “Atsil mother, you do mot know,” the two kind women told me: “had he lifted that tail on your head you would mnever have seen your country again. The day when Lus Kong Kyi gyalpo was to be driven away a dense crowd assembled along the way that the { Dalal Lama. would follow to go to the Jo Khang, where he would preside over the ceremony in which the “scapegoat” would be charged with the impurities of the people. That vear, according to his horoscope, was a critical period of his life, and, so, as a supplementary protection, think- ing perhaps, in all humility, that the weight of his own errors was alone sufiicient to constitute the load of a man, the lamaist pontiff had secured a private “scapegoat.” The official Lus Kong Kyi gyalpo was to run to Samye as usual when his colleague would turn northward and reach the first pass on the Mongolian road. Soon the representatives of the clerical police armed. with saplings (readers must not think that my im- perfect knowledge of the English language makes me write that word for another; they were-really young thin trees about 10 feet long) began to maul the mob in order to clear the way for the kingly lama. The scene was very much like that I had wit- nesced the evening of the butter torma festival, but on a much larger scale. I cannot relate all the comical inci- dents of the chase—people who let fall, some belongings, fleeing women who fell down, children dragged cry- ing. Nevertheless, evervbody was merry, even those who were hit and must have felt their bones aching. People were penned Hke catfle in a large open place and allowed to breathe a little, under the strict watch of various kinds of policemen. armed with whips, enormous straps made of plaited leather strings and the saplings already mentioned. At intervals some one ran, shout- |interposed themselves and all ended | caused us to meet once in the street | his arm as T had seen him | D SEPTEMBER Rambler’s St 6, 1925 ory of Sousa Career - Takes Him to Various Communities March King Advanced to Fame Through Service in Widely Scattered Musical Organiza- UT, my dear,” I'said meek- ly, “these plans make no provision for a goat.” “A goat!" she sald with " a head-toss that would give kneeshakes to any mar- ried man, “there will be no goat.” “But, my dear,” I said in terms of plaint, “how can there be a perfect home without a goat? “There will be no goat in the new home.” She spoke icily at times and warmly at other times, because it is hard to speak icy and speak warm at the same time. “Harry,” she said, “I have got to overcome your ancestral fondness for a goat.” A ‘But, my dear, a_ goat is an ador- able and an odorable pet.” ““There’ll be no goat. You may have a Persian cat or a Pekingese dog, or something fashionable, but I will not permit you to have a goat. Haven't I brought you up to the point where you will eat pickied olives, grapefruit and avocado pears instead of calling for fried onions and mashed turnips?” “Yes, my dear.” 5 faven't I taught vou not to wear your napkin as though you were go- ing to shave? Haven't 1 taught you to take your soup without disturbing the neighbors? Haven't I almost broken vou of your Hubit of saucering vour tea and blowing on it when ngers are at the table?" . (es, my dear.” javen't T done everything in my power to make you a respectable and presentable husbang “Yes, my dear.” . only last night at dinner when Gen. Bugle spoke of boar's head and {3 grouse being fit for a king, and Adr#iral | Davit' Keelson said that roast swan and spitted venison were his favorite dishes, you broke into the conversa tion and said that your favorite dishes | were heminy and chittlings, scrapple, corned beef hash and pigsfeet! I was so mortified that I will never take you out to dinner again. Never! Couldn’t you have put on an air of elegance—just have put it on—and sald, ‘My taste runs to caviar, braised woodcock, grilled’ pea fowl and East- ern Branch strawberries?” That would have sounded so much more North- west than corned beef hash a1d pigs- feet! Why, Harry, you haven't had any crackling bread and chittlings since you lived on Piscataway Creek! There” will be no goat at the new home, and you must learn not to say ‘the front yard’ when you speak of the lawn, nor to say ‘the spare bed room' when you mean the guest chamber, and 1 wish you would for get the word ‘parlor’ and say ‘the living room or drawing room.’ When my friends are talking of their an cestors who came over with Lord Baltimore, please, please do not tell them with such a puffing show of pride that your ancestors helped to —_— ing orders; the arrival of the Dalai Lama was announced, everybody, women included, had to take their hats off, and those who delayed were soon acquainted with one or another of the lamaist policemen’s weapons. Thanks to my short size, I escaped thumps ‘and thrashings during the hours I stood there. When danger threatened, I always managed to find shelter between a group of tall Tibetans who acted as a protecting roof over my head. * R THE Dalai Lama passed at last, rid ing a beautiful black mule, ac- companied by a few ecclesiastical dig- nitaries, all, like himself, dressed in religious robes, dark red, yellow and gold brocade half covered by the dark red toga: they wore a Mongolian round hat of yellow brocade edged with fur. The general in chief rode before him and some horseguards clad in khaki went ahead and at the rear. After Lus Kong Yyl Gyalpo had gone through the ceremony at the Jokhang I saw him hurried out of the city. He was clad in a coat of white goat fur; he wore a black yak tail as headgear, and held another one in the hand; his face was painted half white and half black. All along his way the crowd shouted and whistled. More ceremonies weré performed to bring back to the city the yangku (wealth and prosperity) that might | have gone, following in the train of the impurities carried by the “scape- goat.” The sun had set before all was over. A town whose inhabitants had been cleansed in such a way and to whom unlimited prosperit; was promised could not but be joyful: so was Lhasa that evening. Everybody was out doors, chatting, laughing and es: pecially drinking. The most hideous beggars, deaf and dumb, blind, eaten up by leprosy, rejoiced as well as the wealthiest and the noblest citizens. I met acquaintances—I had made a few who did not suspect my origin—and, willing or unwilling, was hurried into a restaurant and there I had to show myself up to the circumstances, in eating a large quantity of various fine Tibetan dishes. I must confess that I did not find it hard in the least to submit to that trial: Tibetan cooking is not to be despised. The day that followed saw me perched, afnong many, on the rocky spur of the Potala, to 100k at the great pageant called serpang marching past. Never did 1 see a more original, more wonderful spectacle. Several thou- sand men in a flle marched around the Potala. They carried hundreds of multicolored, huge silk flags, hundreds of embroidered banners and state um- brellas. Dignitaries proceeded slowly under canopies surrounded by clerics holding tapers. Sometimes the proces- sion stopped, and then boys danced. Couples made uj: of a man carrying a big drum on his back and another who behind him beat the instrument in time went through-graceful evolu- tions, and many others followed. _ Religious and profane _eleménts mixed harmoniously at the sound of all kinds of music—some solemn, including, in the orchestra, fifteen- foot-long trumpets, carried by sev- eral men, whose deep vibrations filled the whole valley—and some charm- ing when the turn came for the Mon- golian musicians. Elephants walked gravely, escorted by fantastic paper monsters after the Chinese fashion that performed all kinds of antics. Then, again, among warriors of yore clad in coat of mail and the priestly servants of their temples, came the local deities whom I had already seen the day before. 5 The pageant moved in 4 fairy scene. Under the blue luminous sky and the powerful sun of Central Asia, the in- tensified colors of the vellow and red procession, the variegated bright hues of the érowd's dresses, the shin- ing whitish distant hills, and Lhasa lying on the plain at the foot of the huge Potala capped with glittering gold, all seemed, men and things, filled with light and ready to burst into flames. Unforgettable spectacle which alone would have repaid me for all fatigue, all dangers that I had faced to behold it. * ¥ x % I LOOKED somewhat different when I left Lhasa from the beggar who two months before had reached the forbidden city. I had promoted my- self to a more respectable station in the social hierarchy. 1 was, now, a lower middle-class woman, owner of (Continued on Fourth Page, tions, Including Marine Band in This City. SOUSA NEIGHBORHOOD ON SIXTH S'l;l}EET SOUTHEAST. rector” of the Marine Band, in 1889 as conductor” of the band Frank Pearson, Mrs. Annie Roemer- | Kasper, R. J. Dustan, Miss Chrissie | Holmes, Miss Myra ~Charles, Miss| When the news was out lora M. Holden, Miss Mamie Bre-|John Phillp was to leave the azzi, Miss May Van Arnum, Mrs.| Marine Band and shington, The . E. Pyncheon, Miss Lillian Norton, | Evening Star, July 1892, printed | Miss Bertha D. Lincoln, Mrs. E. G.|what follows: “Professor Sousa leaves Randall, Miss Clara Rosafy, George | here to take personal charge and lead S C. T. Belt, Miss Eulalie | ership nt military band dig the Washington Canal and build | the Baltimore and Ohlo Railroad.” “Yes, my dear.” * o x | 3 reason for this monologue is | e making ready to move. I have been moved twice in 50 years, and this flitting from place to place | t] W is upsetting my nerves. Farther and | | farther 1 have been led from the fair | plains and lovely hills of Anacostia |Always, West, West! The next move | will probably land us at Cumberland. | afy, here i @ girl Who comes to see us. 1. M. Roach, e is Louise. Louise has often said: | qarry Toarson, always read the Rambler and 1|t | D : don’t care one hurrali who the gran o the World's Fair, as many people im | children of Jim Jones were or who | Magruder, F. M. Newman, Henry 2 agine, and as vet no engagement has they . but when the Rambler | Jordon, Joseph Jouy,:W. G. Penney, | fc.i®do with the fair people. The ot fon It Hokloe e <BO; J. Gaulfeld, Sam Kennedy. M!28|stock of the organization is held ver the foregoing .- hu“’_r' E. F o e “Y largely i ew York and the company Louise. v . gr. W. E. Williams, J.|noiqs a New York charter. Chicago | “The sertous work today is to|W H. L. Boteler, Joseph P chosen as head pursue the story of John Philip Sousa. | Smith, W. B. Roberts, Warren W. Goourit i then Ene itk John, as you were told last Sunday, | Brooks, D. M. Ogden, R. R. Stratton, T e rirter aF = o left Washington, played the violin in | E. G. Randall and Lawrence Hazard. will spend comparatively little | theater orchestras in Philadelphia and | % oxx in that city. The organizatior | New York, became leader of a theater | TOHN was a figure in Washington. | Will make tours from She end of the* orchestra and went traveling with M. A ¢ to the White | COURLTY to the other, and I thoroughly ch's Orchestra. John's friends | Most of us went to the believe will prove a big success. ‘fix“(;{]\a):;:;}:l; heard splendid stories | House and Capltol on Summer after.| Tour years ago, when the Rambler [ of his success and these were talked |noons to hear the great band and (was writing of the Sousa family he over in the Marine Band. John was | watch the leader, so polished in ap-|told you that John Philip married making mon The Sousa home, at | pearance that he seemed almost var-| Miss Jane Bellis of Philadelphia, anc the southeast corner of Seventh and | nished. He was tallored and barbered | when the couple lived In }\la_shlnj,’l;:n E streets southeast, had become old- | to the ’steenth power. No F street | there e three 5 Sdtea Jlchn fashioned, but Antonio and Elizabeth | sheik today is more punctilious about | f Qllm,[ jr.; Helen :})n; i rég = Sousa would not move from the place | the cut of his coat and pants and the e family worshiped af ris in which they reared their family.|brush of his hair than John P. wa gle | to have its headquarters in Chicago = ?g‘:,‘,?; :{;’,}:’affi'\" There has probably never been a mili Miss Kate Curry, Miss | tary organization in the country which Miss Anita Ulke, Mrd. | has given more pleasure than the Ma Miss Mamie Larman, | rine Band. Speaking of the big band . Mrs. D. M. Ogden, Which he will lead, Professor Sous M Forsythe, Swill | said: “The new band is not being 3. Welsh . B.|Planned with any special reference to M. V. Bennet Liilte’ Rosa Je: W lines are dedicated to‘ rters on rde and | time Church, avy Yard, in which Jd;‘hn »sefe 1 was christened in 1854. John's brother John sent home the money - make } He \;(ore a beard, but l(l.lxrlll:uz(-‘ldd)'\‘t' i Géorge’ Wia Dlaying the: triks b ol over the old home. Carpen O | e e ing inloss he | cymbals in the Marine Band when oo wits Seeathechonris an. S ;, oo matache. and they thoueht & John became ledder, and soon after the jolsts and scantiings they bullt | Bad & mustache: Seaitening. o' |that he was made librarian. He mar. brick walls " e ] Direstory hon. | Tied & Virginia girl, and after leaving Henry Fries succeeded Francis| The first Washington Directory hon | pang went to live at Phoebus, Va. Scala as leader of the Marine Band | OF'nE Jobin PRIUD WItA WS mOHCe WAS | near 01 Point, and died there. John's |in 1871 and Louts Schneider succeeded | that o . 2660 - Saveath street | Drother Antonio married Miss Can Fries. Schneider's term was drawing | Fonse, SuSican, 000 Sevete76 on. | dace Cohill, daughter of Henry Cohill to a close and the commandant at |Southeast.” The directory of 1876 en.| ¢Sy heast Washington. “Tony” was | “the garrison,” having heard many Tth_ St f}“ 'valofli ';";;:s C‘ff"' ot | @ Government clerk in Washington | times of the success of Antonio’s boy | Tth S ) ;\’ A “nwal;';”“ | was interested in ic and sports, | Tohn, ‘called Antonio, veteran trom. |in the directory. He had le Tine" |and wrote a good deal in newspapers | bonist in the band, to his ofice and | ton to‘hseek :‘ éf":"‘:‘: - ":9"1‘;;'(’;‘ | about sports. He died in Colorado in isked if he thought that John would |town through which Chestnut, Market, | sgay 1575, and his swidow and four |take the leadership of the band.|Broad, ‘”“"'l e, N g here | children—Allen, Lael, Marriam and | There was correspondence, and John | Streets e d el oot o eal) | Parker—were living in Washington came back to Washington and put on fflrflmfle: cat ’hh,“" e Gen. husle| when the Rambler wrote of the the uniform of leader of the Marine | liked by worthy men as enk ugle | Sousas in 1921 | Band. In the matter of John Philip | likes boar’s he“d;‘;" A!;im"“‘ o Bl i T T g usa’s appointment the Rambler *Fhlfd‘ s g e Felt Cuts the Cost ds an account in The Evening Star, | tennlal Exposition was In profitab € uts OSL. | October 1, 1880. Part of the account | SWIng ‘-'md‘ ths TC;nZ f)ldd owaad| ST cutting in construction of tells of the troublé in which Leader | WO°E SURCRE “he CIIE Houss o | “A4 dwellings seemed to have reached Schneider was Involved, but that does | Chestnut, street was getiing anclent. | i furthest extreme when recognized not belong to our story. Here are a | but the Confinerial matched the FUfth | o, zineers and authorities on building few lines from The Star of that date: | Avenue in the Monongahela Fouse in | Practice witnessed a load test applied “The published statement that Com. | i, BISion, the Monongabela House I | g a concrete partition wall made of { modore Jeffers, acting Secretary of | TAUISDULER and the Talmer fullof | f€lt. wire reinforcement and cement |the Navy, has appointed Mr. John | C]‘F"- % fl;"m(f;““‘ gh Wt v"‘m | mortar, shot into place instead of laid usa leader of the band is incorrect. 4;“”};}9 v Mansion in the bark wag | UP OF poured, that was twice as great There are several names mentioned | Strawherry Mansion in the D ohes [as the load ' the ordinary 2x4 stud | for the vacancy, among them William grfi;:“v; i" wg"e it ‘h:“wd :fl | housing partition is required to carry | Thierbach, who has been in charge lh‘m oktrs. Mot I:»r e ] modern construction, writes Allen of the ban since the suspension of | [ 7 tro ToEs. FHOS OF AN THUS s ‘-I-A Beals in the Dow Service Dally | Prof. Schnewder; Mr. Petrola, an old [ 41078 came to the Watout Building Reports. _ { efhber of the band, apd Mr. John F. {ipyeater. - THo . Carncross. Minstrel|os s pio ,‘){];’h"‘f”fi‘,’“fsth‘;m'}:: e e s 1 X iyvage won n ol Institution. 800 | nastholy B Tartitions e e @nd bas hegn for. sume years & mem- | g o Zimmennar, father of the:Dres | am toars Do o e ber of Hossler's Orchestra and Band | ot cqerioi 7 [Cler O (08 PIES | b space provided | i i i of Philadelphia coming_prominent in the Show busi. | vequire rauch s anee in 1he el dohn was chosen leader of the hand | jces The Philadeipita Record Bulllk | tors. and o the Gemaetret e |in 1880 and remained with ft untl | {izS (00, S OGRML PSS | ture, and at the demonstration it was |1892. " Sousa marches followed one an- | yi¥ S5 £00 Tl T | et T Sete e Rl | other in succession, or, for the benefit | o = E¥ e "0 Oice and Broad | ‘;d“,‘r e pounds of the Rambler’s learned readers—all | greai Station were building. Green | stde an {0 tHe suyings elfaited | of them are—the Sousa marches came | 419 Dooner were operating one of | house construction by the ex ordine. Sousa was also Writing | tne famous eating houses of the city, | process varied, but in each case they | sones for W ..«m?mn’:} Singers, and | anq Dooner was getting ready to build | were considerable. The appearance or -rettas, some of which were “put | hjs celebrated place on Tenth street |of the wall was identical with that of on: by the gay hoys and beautiful | nearly opposite the Mercantile Li-|the apartment house, which. made it girls called “local talent.” One of |prary, John Philip was playing the | possible to save the cost of one entire those operettas was “The Queen of | yiglin' in Philadelphia. coating of plaster prior to painting. or Hearts.” John wrote the music and | The Washington director of 1881|papering. = The hollow character of SECSRS: huer S tie dibeatto.. Tt was John P. Sousa, leader, Marine | the walls insures perfect freedom from but on at Albaugh’s Grand Opera ving at the old home, Seventh | dampness and insulates against cold House Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- | und , with his mother Elizabeth, his |and heat alike. Conservative specta day evenings, April 12, 13 and 14, 1886. | father Antonmio and . his tors conceded that the test was suf- | Jack Armstrong of the surveyor's of- | George, Antonio and Louts. ficient to establish the practicability fice in particular and ‘the District | the directory gave it “John P. Sousa, |of a:new method of dwelling house Bullding as_a whole loaned me the |jeader, Marine Band, 420 Eighth street | construction that could put homes program, and from that creased and | S.E." ' In 1883 John was at 204 Sixth | built by that process entirely out of Year-worn paper I copy the names of | street southeast. That was John's | competition with those built in the the young, bright and happy people | home -until he left Washington. In|late national housing emergency by who sang “The Queen of Hearts": 1886 the directory entered him as “di- | established processes of construction. SOUSA'S CHILDHOOD NEIGHBORHOOD, SEVENTH STREET SOUTHEAST.