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MAGAZINE SECTION e | The Sundiy Staf [ e | e ~~ Part 5—8 Pages WASHINGTON, D. €, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1925. = -— “Takoma Park Is an Unusual Product of Community Effort BY GEORGE H. DACY. makes a specialty of roses. His gar f) . . .« . . AT e = ) @ n is the most be ful in Wash SR e L Suburb of Washington, With Its Remarkable Examples of Citizen Co-operation, Writing New History Continuously. | |nsion, wherone somsisers e it con complishments _of : 3 3 = o b 5 s a{xvd is cax't:\"i f'-’r» exclusively by fts o T ii‘.‘i',i?‘r'f“"'.lz'k“:si?l? Where Indians Once Camped, Horticultural Science Is Producing a Beautiful Setting for a Modern Home Area—Fine Spirit forent. ind i benti grec i march, a melting pot each fi . and g ou its scientific of dem v. with a background rich istorical jore e vl | of Harmony Shown in Civic and Municipal Improvements, Which Add to Comforts of People. A E sclepuatirenks one of America’s most successful fris ton's suburbs farmers. His bulbs are in demand all in »v often you will} over the United States. His exhibits somg new kink of com zenerally rank am has heen fostered i 3 E e = g R owings at our m or vou will motor S T e ¢ PR "t X } 3 ” x cultural expositions marvel at fts 5 £ TR < - g R * ] D 4% i 5 . pert grows Easter lili L doze he diversity [ [ 5 B A . A - % E gt . . 4 eties — outdoors as pleasurable lamentals, the = > R s S Y - Bk ¢ 3 3 " Pa vastime. inhabitants, e : < s : E - By X 3 . There is no othe able the servi cape architect who v q j R % 3 ~ - un of neig s in attempt | . $ s . . 2l 4 ng a out o And the Beeiles S 3 3 2 o i & < " T 1 LEd ) plainting grounds. One of the avers e : 8 S e > 3 i specialists of the Takoma Park Horti s >y, ¢ ultural Club is an ated to such duties He visits the homes of the different club members on reques 4 and confers with them about their ) 2 ) 2 28\ . i . 3 1 e anting campaign. He advises th r commun 2 5 A Y3 7 3 2 5 & p K 2 how to map znd a vhich have had : ey Lo K PooB , 3 2 .| | ings so that the best effects v o <a the % P s . : . < 2 1 N ‘ 5 : 223 4 % secured. He recom neg J * e VR 4 ” § o . ¢ nd combinations of 3 zives, free of charge which would be very chased from professional sources he remarkable horticultural <0 purchases sees hater nd other members in within f what is hood 11 use of man : e Tract of Takoma Parle was a pine forest . Pidture — — - | purchascs in" Turg. o Thie irict of Columbi taken 42 35&1‘5‘ a,%o. V part tion Takoma 1e accomr W Montgomer Count citizens atten in flower shows annual public tion for ieties 1 by the champion thes fi ¢ * g . = wers or pl held during the depend : o : - : - = . : . of the production season. For : le. when the roses are at thei a special rose display, attended thousands of visitors from all sec i F5% ¥ - t s of ngton, is held. Sim o . ; iy b % 3 gladiolu santhemum business > i S0 5 """”‘\' s '\',"‘m, S ar fl" in the > E - - . A vegetahla show is { visited that | i b 3 Historical mfli which \ppropriate prizes. including versi onty wo | (B E CHIONERIT . electricity 4w D 2 founder IR Takoma Par > presented to the out ot Aunder of . . lins exhibitor : Q. i, ™ , = olling hills «nd the ready : £ Tho sdey B ol o 3 s of the national new suburb. in his own thing he did - cel es of a the use of b . % T t course in horticulture « Z mported to the Takoma Park lati w town 5y 3 o 2 - Lol e de. Other demonstrations in pl of work 4 ‘ o RS\ e y Y 3 ing and propa ing are outstandin v 30 feet S ; g N : : educational factors in the horti v-foot tower £ 2 . 5 o2 - & 4 L ral improvement o nique structure s 8 0 g : . ' B ¢ 2 » | Lectures by experts durl ‘}r« \'nl‘mmlnfl‘\ B A X e’ : : £ 3 - r season on various impor k. Later it } bl ol " : Lo v e 2 : 1 in garden management and plant pro fire engine H P A A { 4 duction are invaluable. o 5 ? i : . S 234 Excellence and uniformity in com- equently very || | it 3 et " 5 unity planning and planting are the tiptop observa- || © S g AR % ; 3 >l i kevs to what the Horticultural Club a fine view of the . S 4 - s R S : s im effected in the activeness of It aided in the : b3 " % ? p : H akoma Park lawns, homestead: ctive purchasers || i ¥ § . ; > - ot | e R | parkways and parks. In the new L of the section | 5 e A ‘ s g A e s - 5 . 4 || sections, where tree planting has been balcony. - It was| 2 o o R baiernd 7 %4 7 o 7 ARt S - s & - : ‘. . jinaugurated on a co-operative and electr lights at | i o - g i 2 o g B | community basis, several blocks of landmark of country- | i ¥ 7L B 3 i ' 18 il ! | ' consecutive curbside have been plant Electricity? Wash. : \ 4 v % 4 4 4 ed to the same variety of trees— inhibitants may rise | g g e AN - 3 . . 4 ¢ 26" | notably pin oaks. This neighborly in rder when they read | it : § X g 9 # : f . 5 terest in tree planting will be reflected e that Washington had ¢ v 3 = : % ‘ % ; St 3 3 in the natural beauty of potential light system in those early ; ’ < { 1% " o 2 . H < # streets and avenu Washington True enough, but Takoma Park| T L 21 S ? : G i g 4 3 R ranks as one of the finest cites in Rec score vears old tell | %y W BT a0l R 3 e 5 % e 4 ¥ | the world in its tree development— Mo ¢ County’s first| 4 s A s X 7 - S . - an example of standardized forestry Al system - g s T PN o o i = hich has made for uniform munic avhip. you have heard about the| G - o LA . / s Y- . pal beauty along our leading stree old mill out Takoma Park. | ¢ ol : - Aia . i L ¢ 4 = s "3 3 - and avenues. Takomn Park is fol nt as one of history’s earliest | . ' : ‘ s % 3 o s : D s 3 - lowing in the tracks of George Wash ca in that se ; & i s s e o il B % : A P, ! g ington’s namesake in so far as it is has that < s % 5 e SR, striving to engender systematic and icted of brick imported from Eng " S SN — % R 5 tandardized street planting and ourb during pre-R tionary days. | s i : SR A ide beautification. no foundation for such | % : : - : of the matter is| | | . : o o S AR L was built long before | 3 & e e % ; . . 1 . ” 37 Photographed Telegrams. ted her first clvie tea| | LS s 2 < haail . & % | t is was built of Maryland | ck, made In a local kiln close to| . - P o 4 i BELINOGRAPH, the system of o rairuion o { 31 p i gommunity, denter atTakoma ark. o sending photosraphs of autn Thers the ruins of the mill stand to Gfl_berts 10(5 dazb-w, a& p graphed telegrams by wire, is becom- For many years, the grist mill, with : ¥ ing popular in Europe, says the Popu- it ponderous water wheel was a — The name suited Mr. Gil-| were inferior, 5o far as street-car serv-| Park residents have hitched their|the status of w‘?‘mer;hi:ngwrz\"sd&g e 2 3 i e U5 -~ o lar Science Monthly. The cost of send. .hub lof| Toonpraduction activities in|| SHrimy. Dhesmatne istited B O o I R Tial s lconbernied || carcyallifn thetr tids to glomy. | Those Within four months | SEETELT . 3 5 ; i e sl ou sl Mongoniary aud huince GaorgesiCbuo C 8 Cars drawn by horses brought pas-|suburbanites have mastered the se.|Club increased to 50 members, and S - by, ¥ {been reduced in France to 25 cent: ties. “Wheat zrowers for miles azound | it- i ¢ of namesake | Sensers ah tan a5 Brightwood. They | crets of team-play. They have solved | now is one of the outstanding rean- . : & 3 : e asinmranceita Sbicents brought the Vo o mill whose | g o aome Park le @ Sort of namesake | had_ to make the rest of the trip to[the riddle of mass formation. “All[izations of Tal oma Park. It has|| g : i 2 for this new type of telegram. Mes- Wheel was tur by e mums il e Facoma’ is an Ore.| Takoma Park on foot, following short-|as one and one as all” they work to- | specialized {n sucmmadtsisies women i e - / d » g sages need not be translated for trans- Tivena Ty Mt Ooeisolh e enriy | Bon Tuditn word. These Western ved.| cut paths through the woods. The |gether. It dissensions arise they o | form. imikration, mothers’ pensions S e ; J : ; mission. One hundred words can be ” y d 1 : st vailroad station was at Lamond, | ironed out at home and not broa , imm . : written easily on a form and er, in honor of Sligo County, Ire-| skins first used it in the designation of | flrst railroad stat i b R conservative | and the like. Today the club has : R 2 ly lorm and go as D o ; - g and was finally moved to Takoma |casted. And in a quiet, conservative Toc ; < ME s A 1ani. (hist Bixthpiace urated the | Mot e, o ol | Fark ‘and established thers as the | manner, Takoma Park continues to|about pmembers meatsl iniiha iy g R e i G ament of ek Bt ho r | oA sy Hents b islafionsi] contratidenct srow end o do {hings which astonish [ libracy, bes wet ec s008 S0 2o T B exactly as he wrote it and the recefver fabilitated the venerable mill, which | ferred to as meaning “exalted” or| It you visit Takoma Park pe sure|other communities. SLX{‘j foot tower o % K P mental in getting the State of Mary t'z‘!‘nn;lder:lty the sender by his own } run down at the heels through | “high place.” The legends of the Ore-|to make a trip to the spring at the i B (a0 riomieta ipan & = ure. P e o et et the | junction of 1Sim and Poplar stree(s.| YIS, citizen servioe clubs have e oid: lcg cabive Moreover, the transmission 1s de- er wheel rnessed its power | venerated Mount Tacoma as their | This 200.vear-old spring has a v s e = b i rical energy | “nourishing mother” whence came|about two gallons & minute. No water " “helped. The Takoma Park ;’ n::( Ciths ey stanis and thel Campie &t . With which to illuminate the new | thelr drinking water supply as well as | in all Maryland can surpass its output | zens' Association was born away back | Girls are the leading Juveril SR o000 110 cottlement of Takoma Park | hoes, spades and shovels in their door- Prdficial B guburh. Th came o pass that[some of the wild game which they|in chemical purity. The spring has|in 1888, and has always stood for Women Voters has been most effec-| has been extensive, diverse and cos-|vard gardens, battling against weeds Lrtificial utter. Takema Park read by electricity while | used as food. been moderized and piped to the curh-| 0 1ocs and forward march maneu-|tive in the political education of the|mopolitan. and the evil effects of surface-soil BUTTER which contains no milk MWashingtonians were still using ofl| - Although the Analostan Indians who ! side, where it runs clear and coldlyo s “rrhe Carnegie Library, the first)local wives and mothers, aunts and| The Takoma Park Horticultural | evaporation. SRR s Jamps once camped in the neighborhood of | through bubble fountains. branch library in the Washington dis: | daughters, It has taught the ladies | Club, with 250 members, is a logical ¥ but s said to be palatable, nutri Takoma Park probably named the| Far back from the banks of the| rict, the school and the elevated | about their duties and rights as citl- | outgrowth of the location of agricul- 'WHEN sclence goes out to garden | tious and cheap, is being prepared by PARK? A queer name | locality, this name was evidently of | Sligo, in the depth of the darkest| rajlroad sing are all successtul| zens, and has educated them concern | tural sclence in that suburb. It has it avolds the pits and stumbling |a European chemist, according to Pop. Washington suburb you little historical significance, and hence | woods, there was once 4 cave even|projects which the citizens' assocla-|ing ‘the need for certain State and| effected the wonderful planting trans-| |\ < G0 S T FE 850 B A T S EReRY OO N Ahere s tory con-|has been forgotten in the passing of | today mentioned in children’s storles|tion fathered. The organization now | national reforms. formations which have made Takoma ! (h the christening party.| time. Nature has combined with the | as the “cave of the runaway slave.|hag 700 members. The Gommunity| Originally Takoma Park was largely | Park the most beautiful little city in | flower growing diversion for the most| He uses waste fats and tallow, first cted with the christening Party: | residents of Takoma Park in convert. | Once a rough rock cave in that neigh- | Teague is the Marylandside civic or-| a settlement of Government employes | Maryland, and one of Washington's|of us. Agricultural sclence knows|washing them into small peces and e e besutitul suburw ap.| ing the locality into a fairyland of | borhood was used as a refuge by a|ganization. Tt is three years old and | from the Department of Agriculture— | most delightful suburbs. This club, | just when and how and where to plant | melting them by steam in wooden. sex ound, naturally beautiful soburt 2F | flowers—ftting . vestments for this | Virginia slave who escaped from his| f now working for & new School as experts, sclentists and clerks who de- | without question, is the champion|and how to cultivate the crop and 'sels. Acid soda is then added and the peiately. The GUber: tract of890 [eraited niace:” master. one of the Maryland chain of public|sired to live in a democratic suburb, | gardening organization of its kind in | when best to harvest. It would be|substance boiled for several houre o8 fiad fotmeriy. heen Sa.pust $o€ cas not until 1890 that Takoma| The stories and legends in Takoma | {nctifutions. Where they could have large lawns,|the world. Its roster includes names |a 100-per-cent activity, with splendid |after Which it is strained. througer old Grammer Farm. The first PI,'k“‘,;Q"",m‘;,’t‘ed a charter by the|Park are many and varied, for this| "4 gozen years agd ten ladies began | plenty of flowers and ornamentals,| which are famous in international | returns guaranteed, were it not for|flannel and churned. Ol or sour milk L it font. One. day, while | General Atsombly of Maryland, B.|lyear-cld suburb is the offspring of | to’meet together once weekly during | vegetable gardens and poultry yards. | hortlculture, ~agriculturs, pomology, | the frequent deflections of the weath. may be added it Gesired, but they are e e dta"x' M, | ¥ Glibert was elected the first mayor, | a historic section of Maryland. the Summer months on their various | In fact, the agricultural influx into|entomology, animal husbandry and|er man and the conspiracy of invisible [ not necessary. By adding a small dibiis T RS S S e OB S e L S e U et i ol S e morning _gatherings [ Takoma Park became so great that | other forms of scientific food produc- | insects, parasites and funei to gum|quantity of honey the taste is &= s ey e| of six aldermen, selected at large on | than the acoomplishments of organiz-| were very informal. The purpose was | it looked as though Uncle Bam would | tion. After officé hours during thelup the machinery and frustrate the |proved, and the artificial butter is said arding a h:n’nnw nfl:nnle‘ 0“""”‘_ vears for two.vear terms.|ed common sense. At least that ia|to lnvs:tyum- the laws of the Dis-| have to move the entire department|Sprinz and Summer months von will hest laid plans of men. to keep better and go 10 per cent *y- “ited " Mrs. In those daye tran<portation facilities’ the guiding star to which Takoma. trict and Marvland as they affected out that way. In recent vears, how- find these experts wiclding rakes and ~ One of these scientific gardeners ther. 4 L} The Boy Scouts and the Campfire clared to be very rapid.