Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1926, Page 79

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Ways of “Sure-Thing” Race Tipsters Watched by Keen-Eyed P.O. Officials Although There Is No Federal Law Aéainst Business of Selling Tips, Use of Mails to Defraud May Bring Offender Under Discipline. MARCH 17, 1926—PART 5. Rambler Finds the Fenwick Family Was Factor in Early District Life Documents Offer Means of Tracing the Relationship Between This Line and the Houses of the Queens and the Brookes. ; everything under was discarded One day her eve fell upon an ad- | vertisement which read something | like this: “Ever bet on the ponies? Get our wonderful system and make very day a winning day.” She read {on and on of the fortunes that had been made in a minute (fiction all of this, as far as we know) by the worst ORACE DONNELLY, solic- Heaven and earth HE I Q | itor of the United States Post | the phrase, “First Families of District,” is not azreeahle to the mbler and he fears | that crammar vultures may rend him for ucing it He ad- | % methods mits that there ouzhi to he not more | 3 A ] race tipsters than any oiher persor than one “‘first nd to indicate that ! \ 3 in the country, yesierday made a il sl bl startling expose of “sure thing” bet- agains® hie taste for accn '“;"‘," iy ot " s th Enm nlaiae SR | Judge Dounelly characterized the as ow) by Etora i 157 e A et ol s whid A SiEdline ot O U Ko e M write fo the editor and ask thy the horse races as being sheer guesswork : | thoroughbreds et s | The Post Office Department, he said ; 3 - o SR T not tell you the name of the first fa 8 aetermindtl ;o proteot thetgauiviy ' 3 : | quaker - ancestors. woula et el | public of Washington and other sec- raved Iur(";flhm \inide families weve here wh District | tions of the country from crooked ners." That's what the e iy s P bt race-track tipsters, who use the mail . hat's wha B Vel i, ant ol to defraud thousands of ‘“suckei e v . e not. to call ne do charse me daily | Superba.” first; “Sure Thing.” sec with disloyalty 1o F 1. 1 will class | M R ond, and “Good Night,” third. Just Bl oE b, 1t ost Samiiee ratnel G e aoratione or lnaten | then, as the fates would have it, along Distriet. ke il loitor: repllsd’ that while. thes ar comes a racing enthusiast with more Manv of these families—I _think Tt v e e enthusiasm than money. He was allwere related in 1791 or became | KL (bw. Giher. lorge citliks wiaben thoroughly inured to the art of losing related when their scions came to the | ; e but he always expected something to Families that mayv have | \ : 3 : oot turn up” the next day or secondteenth | ? : > o asboiienl onk et hessolRItas Miss Lorraine found a fountain of - ot varsiand andy - of the department that there is no explanation in him. He could explain Virginia had 1. intellizent | -} | 3 5 s & Hedral leav oguinet: mise-trask: thos | everything so beautifully, he knew and well behaved children who fell \ s 3 Te liokerer he ounlsived W o |all the jargon of the turf. pooiroom in love with children of first e fraud practiced by the tip- nd those modest little cigar stands ilies. and their children, on bec fors tho Post Ofes: Departhisnt can that hide behind their veil of seeming tainted with ancesiral pride. ¢ prosecute them for fraudulent use commercialism many a financial trans me upon complaint of thei fon thut has to do with “mutuels. The Rambler's proble You put up $5 and lost £10° and all dangeronus. the res of it True. his conversation | was as full of “ifs" as a porcupine of vestriction prohibitinz race-track needles, and the wild tales of his pos- tipping. It is true the Disiriet code : 3 : ‘ sible winnings hinged more or less on of laws prohibits the o tions of 3 Z 3 3 3 f my horse had only gotten in bookmakers, but nevertheless bets on SR ill. he was an enthusiast. and it is ces are taken. In some in- enthusiasts who contribute the spice stances the District government is | of life. even if most of the time some- Bowerless in its efforts to cope with | : | body élse has to pay the piper. existing_conditions i . . il ; ¥ | Office Depuriment, who prob- ahly about the horse Knows more employed by acy. If he wasn't what her have ap- sther man- the mysterious omething that read S < LR ps riile fiels the s age. ated as secor families of the D the fam ming imed milie hard and novant that he t familv, If he od with first 1 s Bie i wo i In Washin, ere s law eannot pick out the iy jagainst horse racing. but there is no nd fa gels a se a firs family will come of Pennsylvan streei to see that any family rate families of of that family agent and sav The Sunday St step more The Rambler finds it uncomfortable el vt down to the corner and Bleventh and if he says was one of the second. | the District, the adies | will eal the route | to him Never lot | ail my = avenne e R ally he persuaded the financially ' OLD HOUSE ON THE So-called “tip sheets” are sold at embarrassed ,mrl to part with her last —_— hundreds of newsstands in Wash- $8 that he might win for her some- ington. There are exclusive tele- thing like $37 from the one best bet of graph “tip” services advertised and the day. On paper it figured out beau- <old for $25 the subscription. Indi- tifully, and she really felt as if she cated in the tip sheets “telephone had the money in her hand and waved sepecials.”” which mean that the pur- good-bye to her friend. the tipster. chaser of one of these racing papers | | The best bet developed an inferiority {may call a given telephone number | | complex apparently, as the horse was ifter a certain hour and et the “hot | A (reported an “also ran ones.” : g 1 5 : : Broke. Lorraine. whe still found Then there is the wizardry of the ¢ { ascination plaving \he r]u‘:v‘:l]c: individual “handicapper He pre- turned to * betting.” Her sys. fers to make his own selections from tem worked. and, according to Solici the “form” displayed by the horses tor Donnelly, it is the only one in in previous races. Here the damage which e any faith, far a- is self-inflicted horse-race betting goes i the actual running of Glanems down horse races is concerned, Washington for the first r stands aloof. The passing of old Ben- on Jane Brummel ning race track. near the District She picked that line in Northeast Washington, termi | memory of the 1 nated that. preferred to d Here the story is told of how Wash. than take fa ame horse “raceless.” The friend. the I” tract of land bought for Mount Olivet {ald track was the scene of many thrills next race D Cemetery was part of a Fenwick farm {for Washingtonians who followea tion. She wis ! and lookinz up the matter he found | horse racing nearly re of vears | man, so he the deed, August 31, 1857, from Fd-lago. It wasa profitable track as well, | the second ward Fenwick and his wife Mary |and old-time followers there still tell oven|ion also Caroline of Washington County. to |storie how @ group of supporters she | senting & man who knew a lot abor Timothy J. O"Toole, John B. Byrne, |of less successful courses just outside to|finance. and Care Free she pick Edward A. Knight and Nicholas R.{of District limits cleverly circulated It for “show,” 1 it represente which name vas mentioned | Young of Washington City. The land | propaganda which induced local mer- more | (he state in she would like Gt i il e itk 3 sold was rt of a tract known as |chants to believe the place x magnet she read it the d | he. sy e e ‘ : Younghorough, containing 39 acres | for the money of p ive custom of it. The principal motif to| Dead Loss Samillcs & longer than. the mermiber , s and 15 perches, together with build- |ers. Finally Washington merchants speak, seemed o he that if you could | the third race b Bt oA ey ings, improvements. rights.” ote. The |obtained a petition prohibiting the keep on losing long enough you would | Pathetically that ot he ol Taxiiee | bart obithe ] price was $10,000. The deed describes | “sport of kings" in the National Cap- | finally win enough put one on|ventures had brouzht B 6 JeinEDI | the land as on the west side of the |ital. easy street. It appeared strange to, The names in the ot Ssh ol i S hat | turnpike road leading from Washing-| In the campaizn launched by the her feminine mind that. brushing | not interest her or remi %0 prove to ol famitle ton to Baltimore. There is mention of | Post Office Department against the | aside the fact that you had lost, you |thing special, so she 1 e wolitea heor 50a a road “leading to Edward Fenwick's | crooked tipsters a routine for con- | must bet even more the next time a deed which o recorder house, and said road dividing sald | ducting investigations is in effect. A D3 of success built on the of deed is in ',fi'x':l T{"“L‘ the land mow owned by | 5 R pillar loss sounded shaky to her teresting and it is also an interesting h B. Sweeny. | o , # | Dockethook Women never do understand higher RN GL G AL AN & el 3 TH6 Eambler joolked. d " HEN a complaint comes to us,” | pocketbook. iever dounders . fact that one <hould find a deed in the e docked abidse Ik e A\ sald Judge Donnelly as he be- | Casting about for a means of mathematics—at least most women recorder deeds aflice office Ychard M. A. Fenwick and his wife T i do not and Mme. Curies are scarce. de deed | Cavinia 1. Fenwick to Laura Burke, | an to explain the procedure of Uncle [to her income, she cherished the lo not : X eeds a new building | Cawaa Fonmime K o aaura Burke. | §am in rounding up racetrack tip. |of a quick road to fortune via the race | Euclid himself would have found difi- Charlie s [0 Martin and Winfred Martin. of | Sters. “we hold their mail and suggest | track. The lure of one advertisement | Culty in proving all the abstract and Fisher and T b e g P I them that they come and identify |caught her eye. It read intricate financial theories of profit the District « | Charles County, Benjamin I. Fenwick | ¢ them L0 GOl I TR ot and loss contained in that innocent aatiser and his wife Mary E. to Ebenezer “"'l““'““"f"" order Lot b Come all ye show-me HOURIE 1ok patanIsY s 2 3 o wenezer | evidence of their reliability. {ng Thomanes;. plkers enoug sking pamphlet. G 5 tedbird all of Washington County. | *Vid : SHI ases, ! he 1 o . Pheltl s ere the keen-eved solicitor dis-|for a prospectu of » Lorraine figured on and on until The deed ted %, 1854, VAR . 5 " *;:: b ol o MeQuire, | jysed some of the fctitions names | Baar 1t contem. fove here desk, the carpet and even the and from and ¥ 3 < |R W, RO MPSOD under which experienced tipsters op- | great chance (o I CANY AHO. Fot couch were showered with pers Sihens, Hie Tonng. oniginal el i <" g 3 | Simms, Philip Fenwick to James S T grea e easy and ge . I others, h ing. original | Fenwick. and many other - Pomoiol | erate. Usually they call themselves |gujck egotiating u certified check | Covered with cabalistic tracings ap. | raine to the proprietor, o X W Young deeds in the period of 1850 to 1857, Oue | 50me high-sounding title such as “—— | i, qifficult compared to winning every | bearing under these head traight. | Loss wins aking it for cranied that 1 have your | [Goed T scanmed was from. the T | Syndicate.” or news or publicity bu-|day with this system. No bubbles | Place and Show." like chess | horse!™ permission to re: rt of the deed to I scan as o o rean, he said rthi AL x i har Aves e e < S ki Charles J1. Stonestreet, pidsident of | "giidom® o they show up.". contsn P]..Z”‘h',’:,’f guuanteed n\:-v:vlnns {“I o “,,]”,' i e A b sy ! : . i DR e : y, & ; sure. Come on. Now - chance, | More figures and tracings s iosh, Dead Loss wo Sllyate ik Georgetown Callege nVesine tofyeq the solicitor. “We veen (SRS &5 SO SR (CNOW 8 Yourichamee. LS o 1€ lass g B o e e et Edward Fenwick s ¢ his | Richard M. A. Fenwick a lot fronting | first time we catch them that the |G it wl fent. ok trs still clung to the theory | Mol ebadniidal Lo wife, Benjamin I ko and Mary onirel streat Hetwden Cland D inortslvinils are. not. to: e ke Wi aRtRNal s B5 7 0% D Tor ek ayatemn KE| ot et i . Fenwick his icholas . ol TRt ] QS e of thie deetll vae pHllingapiaiiont (of theln mepkseER AHEMIETE T RSE (7 100 e aniL shied S TEALY Seee she was Young, Parke ¢ e fohanna | [ -5 o o7 2% sod. and condlderation) $ST404. |16 tney. peratat in thelrizipesiiniincwll g o OGS MR 0€ ar ol G IR AR Nl Tt his wife, Al B Peter | Names of «ome buyers of land from | send them to the penitentiary pay still more. This she signed with | you bet a little on erecy” pornat i Casanave, W Eliza the Fenwicks were Timothy Callahan, | ~‘“These tipster cases do not compare | P4V tlll more. This she sicned with | you bet a little on every horse, no e L it ] John Kean, John J. Sager, Ruckner {mportance with sme/ofk e bik | =, 8 2 SR T HE COMsE: She would be ter which horse came in, you were FRELISE his o Bayless, William B. Todd, Michael | fraud cases we handle, but they are a | %! P R A ';"‘]"_fi“;"" und to win. However, even her im Anna Maria Rendamin McQuire, James Deggle, Thomas | pestiferous lot, like a swarm of gnats |00 tfe human face wh e er | practical mind: saw: that if ‘one’'won Saiine, Clament “'”m"l Hogans, Michael Dooley, James E.[which nettle us with their stings. It latinaa ‘-”"‘vl"" "‘ b “""T“!"f"“ nd lost 99 times, something Eh ite Eoia: Johnson, ~Martha A. Lincoln, | is amazing. however, how many per- | Planned that if all went well she Wwould break and that the one winning S et s George T. Langley, David A. Hall and | sons permit themselves to be swindled | WORld Inelude a Httle "’n;"} '_‘I"l“"" would not suffice to cover the 99 Catherine and Elizabeth Windsor. by these ‘artists’ who are always offer- | 200Ve the percentage of her winnings [losses. So the system which promised :.N‘;y':{,",,- ?”‘,\-“'”' oA The first Fenwick the Rambler |ing a ‘sure thing.' About the only 1 repre finds in Washington records was |sure thing in their schemes is that it L. . Gold in Hills Near Here, But Difficult to Mine Young, heirsatlaw and legal Tounme, heirsa i ind e ‘mm“a” George Fenwick of Montgomery | costs the individual something to find SSanined of Detley Woung, orlsinal County who, on April 14,1794, bought | out how they operate. hereinafter enumerated in the City of from John Threlkeld of Montgomery | “We found out that hundreds of porelanier shumerated (n (it County a lot_in Threlkeld’s addition | tipsters operated in New York City George W. Young of the said city of to Georgetown for 50 pounds current |alone, and most of them in the best George W, You money of Maryland. On July 25, |business sections of the citv—they “Having heen 1794, Bennett Fenwick bought from |have offices in the immediate vicinity ineHaving heen » David Burnes for 140 pounds of |of Times Square. on Park Row and clalme staked out in Rock Creek Park Supreme Court of Maryland money, lots ‘16 and 17 on |on Broadway. Entire buildings in before that section was developed by No. 73, December the west side of Eight half way be.|certain sections were occupied by the Government. Federal authorities No. 73, Decem tween ) and E streets northwest. [ them. Some of them have no perma- are said to have experienced difficulty the subse There i< a record of agreement be- |nent address, but operate from pool In obtaining possession of these prop. they. the — tween Bennett Fenwick and Samuel [rooms. Often they migrate with the Sruies from their owsers. _The gold ia heirsatlaw and | Elllot. Jun, dated July 1, 1795, by |races to Kentucky. New Orleans, | Stll present in the park, #e added. hefraatlaw and which Fenwick “agrees to make, burn | Maryland, to Saratoga and Canada |adorned with an appreciable amount | The museum curator alen cinted titled to and nd deliver to Elliot by the 22d of [and to the Northwest. of the precious metal in nugget form | that when a large “Al" of ground was fitled 0 and eptember next, 70,000 good merchant-| “Tip sheets are sold at thousands|as well as in quartz belng made near where Massachu oo e able bricks, the size of moulds to be [of newsstands in New York and Bal-| Geologists admit it and a number of [ setts avenue (rossos Rock (resk o real. the same as are now generally used by | timore, and in many of our large cit | amateur prospectors of the District | number of good sized musgets mers o Mr. Young and others. and also |ies the throngs of men who study the |and nearby points in Marvland and |found. Hle said an old ospector desirous to dig a cellar on the lot. making [racing reports posted on the outside of | Virginia have proved fit. typically Western in appearance, used desirons the ~ corner of _Fourand -a - half | news offices vie in number with those | Nuggets. small and large, and gold- | to sift and wash the earth at (he coea and N streets, sald cellar to be 6 |who stand to cheer the big league base | bearing pieces of quartz are being|of the fill as the fortyniners did 1o feet in depth and to be ready in every |1 11 scores. j: found quite frequently in the vicinity | managed to support himself for some. respect to raise the foundation.” Fen.| “It is difficult to detect the wily, |of Great Falls, and jewelers in George- | time in this way, Dr. Hough sald wick contracted to make and deliver |crooked tipster, who has no claim at [tewn will tell you that the finders| Clinton Tribby. who has copiected the brick for $6 a thousand and to|all to reliability. He often uses white |drop in their establishments every|a jewelry business in G orgetown for many vears, is authority for the state ment that zold is being mined today in the vicinity of Great Falls. One man of rural appearance came Into his store several months ago with a lump of gold “the size of a cigarette box." Mr. Tribby asserts. “I offered him Ninth and Water families Ninth, I and | is that 414, Eighth, | far vas the first puthwest: | bought by Catholic G and H|most of the land through 166, Sixth. | Washington-Bladensburg, Bunker southwest. | Brentwood and Queen Chapel roads (St Dominic’s Chureh squarel: No. 467, run v owned by Quecns, Middle. Sixth, Seventh, I and (i streets south- tons, Brooks and Fenwicks and there No. 471 ixth, Seventh. K and | was no doubt re ionship between he streets southwest; No. L M. | Brooke, Middleton, Thomas, Gilpin, Water Lukens, Ellicott. Chandlee. Knight. Canby, Stabler, Peirce, Pleasants, Hallowell, Osburn, Moore, Kirk, Bowie, Hammond. Scott, Duvall, Palmer, Moore, Magruder and hundreds of otl nilies in Montzomery and Princs Georges Counties and the Dis. trict way back in the history of Washing- | west: No. 391, H ton, the tax office made mistakes in |streets; No. 412, Eighth 0 d line berween first and sec . 5 A i aine heiween fArst and sec | the tax bills. It seems to have con- | F streets southwest of & firet family who owned 300 acres | (racted the habit in the youth of the [ Ninth. G and i £ 1 3 2 itv. But be that as it may, No. 438, Seventh of land and es who were oA prr e streets thwest o Seventh, E and ¥ to the named. My a Middleton piece of land University and which the Hill, lated strests Eighth No. stre v dozen sty ind not well taught i the i nd wn ond vho lived have a i ™ g classies, members "[HE Rambler is considerate enouzh 1s 1o helieve that only three or fou of his one million readers get any kick information out of the num hers of those squares. A few persons in Washington know that squa [have numbers. but if there is one of |s you in the large aundience this morn- | ing who knows the number of the square he lives on. 1 hope that extra- ordinary person will step to the plat form and receive a medal. Tens of thousands of Star readers live on the squares mentioned in that old deed. small lot and who were qu ), There never had sheriff or Jim ¢ on a maid i mind west L Sixth and our-and reet nd xth, L and M and-ahalf, W Nos. 505 and | Arsenail ground and-a-half, ¥ and Four-and-a-half, G and my cld friend Jim. He o hn was high the county amed thing did know a things en i »nd Algernon had plepty of an- 1 W pictures. Algy poor once he was in ancestor v hanzman of know a hd randa-haif, Sixth, M. Four-anda-half, | reets: No, O ‘and now has as 1 not about ancestors hut deal about there waz my ol RBozhedze, 4th cestral p piis We had such brains that an aristocrat. [ HAVE it first show in 5 Selt-infic he list of horses orraine’s eye fell among the rest as her first choice, ir ld gallant wh in a garret rather from his illustriou nce of W In the )genes caught her atten n search of an hon wis her first choice 1 riace. Alexander Hami took her fancy rep 504, 1 P ostreets: art of the Third. Four: 540, Third, sty N i interasting iter [ 506 e : o . ave H | * o ok K | "THINKING of the Fenwick family POST OFFICE DE- TRANGE SCHEMES OF THE fine n vou knew NT, WHO TF TIP! the Eambler recalled that the first | she had pledged just as an evidence of good faith and appreciation. She could hardly the packet when it settled down with study out her way seemed very invoived having brought her to Washington, and peace kept her here, by use she had gotton accustomed (o the sight, but never to the thrill, when she heard | the loud whisper in u theater loge “There's the President.” And there was a certain attraction about that mystic Treasury warrant, even if only for $56. the Ist and 15th of the month, that no mere pay envelope could ey A fly in the Washington ointment came, though, just the time prices got higher Lorraine could mot make the a her fort nightly expenses me leave any | thing over for twisted hairpins, scent | ed rice powder. a new rouge stick now and then. not to mention certain nece sities quite beyond any £56 fortnightly the. o zive all the District a these stories. You remem ber—if have read the Rambles and of course you have read those in wait to tear came. Then pencil and pad to fortune. the families as von cause o which R fan es S0 rded her she wa I her guesses f thot to ame 1 Lo guess 1 was a intoher is my horse, can pick a wi It 100-t0-1 shot, but ir system of mind hetting that onl: meant to her that she would win 10 times uch money, and it adde« to_Des " other attractions, The next day she rushed away fron her desk A few minutes to get the rcing special. Across the front page was a huge banner, “Dead Los Hundred to One." Zoody.” exclaimed wonderinz newsie. That was my Then recollection amid of tself melly win and heir h ve in chare ind e folk Write the ‘You doubt tod: an't your heir help. is a is Brocke is he Loy “Deas horse: my came 1 e the fille nd less, that d p atic, veen | i S system. It and oun llluminating Oil From Nuts. JFROM the Philippines comes the 1 of an commercial value, primarily battling and RBrent port oilbearing m Yo in man facturing, but also as an Tradition Timinatine ora | Young, | Mary C. | oil. has it advent of petroleum the naiives of the islands used the oil from the as a luminant of kerosene the vegtable has fall en into disuse and the only iraces o it are the old implemenis with whick it was manufactured, still in the pos session of the older inhabitants, | The nut is procured from a large |tree bearing brown pear-shaped fruit, the kernels, or seeds, bearing more | than 45 per cent oil. The method of | extraction is simply one of drving, grating and pressing, the resultant oil being thick and dark As the oil does not dry not adapted for use with in the manufacture of soaps it is an excellent substitute for cocoanut ofl Extensive experiments have been con ducted with the oil for iNuminating purposes by the Philippine Bureau of vience. The abundance of the seed promises a valuable and paving indus try for the islands In case the furthe experiments hear out the those already made. that ore th Since 1ation advised the dey the Term. ind helieving on of the United States, | iS5, and of | the Cirenit woresaid, | part as | - atives cqnitably en Gold! Pure, unadulterated gold languish- ing in its natural habitat for want of a prospector! Mississippi may or n not have her diamonds, but nobody can deny | that Washington and its environs are decision of Distriet first eser ROAD NEAR COI S’ OLD HOME. uranda-half, H and 1 streets; wur-and-a-half, T and Thinking that it might interest you of the right ‘and that it might delude you to think _Four- b described [of me as a hard-writing Rambler. I | reets: No. 543. Third, Four-and-a sald for taxes due | have looked up those squares in the . K and L streets; No. 544, Fou the said City | District plat book. Their numbers half. L and M streets 548, in ind being willing and | and bounds follow th~ Arsenal grounds. There were also to the said party | N¢ 5 between Eleventh and |ahont 230 city lots in many squares George W. Young, | Twellth, B and Little B streets north- [east of James Creek to where the west, occupied by the wholesale | Pennsylvania Avenue Rridge crosses Young, | market: No. Pennsylvania avenue, | the Kastern Branch Wash. | E. Fourteen nd Fifteenth sireets | That deed of 1854 shows that there Washington Young |northw . D, E, Thirteenth [ was relationship between the Youns, the following squares: |and Fourteenth: No. 328, D, Ohio ave- | Brooke, Brent and Fenwick families | 328, 353, | nue. Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets: (and ir ent Rambles it was made $ 467, | No. 356, Tenth, Eleventh, G and Water | plain that the Queen, Brooke and \ 508, sets southwest; No. 383, Ninth,| Brooks tamilies were related. The 548 and | Tenth, Virginia avenue and B streets | Rambler knew all that, but he likes | southwest: No. 389, Ninth, Tenth, F [to show you the records that prove and G streets southwest! No. 3980, [it. 1 believe that it can be shown Ninth, Tenth, nd H streets south- ' that the Middleton family was re well paints, it is | but Posse the foll Wl convey ond part he known to ington s of € Nos 389, 471, 530 about lots in squares of 600, 700, 800, 900 and 1000 One thought of the Rambler is that ed to George W citizens of old conve the results o dig the cellar for 30 cents a cubic |envelopes for mailing his tips without [now and then with fine samples from foot. a return address upon them and mails | their “‘workings." The old Fenwick wills recorded in |them from various places so that his| But don't bother to join in the gold the District are: James Fenwick, | operations will not be detected. rush. There is none.” The cold fact 1806; George Fenwick, 1811; Ann Fen. fany tipsters state on their ‘litera- i3 that Washington's gold is so elu- wick, 1816: Mary Fenwick, 1822; Rich- [ ture’ that they do not want letters |sive, so carefully sealed by Mother ard Fenwick, 1829; Tereas Fenwick, [sent them, but suggest that their(Nature in her bed of rocks. that it 1839: Thomas Fenwick. 1847; Edward | clients use the telegraph and express |really isn't worth the trouble of ex- - Television Perfected? HE international race for the per 391, 196 i, 438. 466, | 5 | st 540, fection of television—transmission wire or wireless of an animated has been won by Great Britain, by scene Fenwick, 1857: Philip Fenwick, 1363; Mary C. Fenwick, 1865; Mary Helen Fenwick, 1868: James Fenwick, 1872, and Benjamin Fenwick, 187 The Rambler meant to give you in this story such informatien as he has obtained of the Brooke family, but as his typewriter clicked from line line he thought the Fenwick notes would touch the memory of many and friends of the Fenwicks, one of the very old families of the Potomac country Volcanic Deposits. 'ORTS have been made with re. spect to the results of physical, chemical and biological studies of the sh deposits in the Carib count St. Vineent, the eruptior ‘nnd 1903, | The deposits, which range in depth from 14 to 18 inches, consist of |coarse, sandy types. They show small | contepts of organic carbon and nitro- |gen, ‘are extremely deficient in cal. | cium carbonate and contain moderate jamounts of available phosphoric acid and potash. They give evidence of a | moderate activity of putrefactive bac- | teria. Nitrogen-fixing _orzanisms f Aeotbhntior yhe are s masact: Wi o possesses appreciable nitrogen fixing land ammoniiying power, but no nitri fying power. Considerable v of laid down at the time of of sofl, 2 to | grandchildren, collateral descendants | |on every < of the Soufriere in 1902 | the progress has been made in the conversion of these sterile ash deposits inte fertile companies to forward their money or- ders. They even use big rubber stamps in red ink for marking their sheets. ‘Do not mail anything to me. Telegraph or use express.’ But it Is so much easier and simpler to send checks through the mail that they re- ceive money in that fashion even against their expressed wishes. “In spite of their swanky statements as to their utter reliability, trouble al- ways comes to tipsters through their clients. The methods of some of them are so crude as to be absurd. For in stance, many of them send out tips horse entered in a certain race and the next day they acclaim it from the housetops that they picked the horse which won the race. they do not mention that the other horses they picked didn't win. “No matter which horse wins, the tipster 1s bound to make a handsome | profit by such a method of procedure. And, of course, the complaints from those who didn't win reach the post office too late for us to do anything about it, but we try to protect them even from themselves in the future by eliminating as many of the dishonest grafters as possible. o J¥ this connection there are many in- stances of pangs produced by the fascination There is a tall tale. from the of playing the ponies. all tim- ers, of a Washington maid who would a-betting go. Miss Lorraine was not her name, but it will serve. She halled from small hamlet in Pennsylvania. the war of | course, one they picked did win, but | $300 for it,” he added, “bu aughed tracting, according 1o those who know. {at me and went out, ,u._\-g'ngphlpmkxv?nu‘v S Fo Rl he could get a lot more than that for it Maybe he could. too. It was a heavy piece of gold. which he had melted together from several smaller pieces. It was the real stuff, all right He told me he dug it out of his place ‘up the countr * o ow % Tribby sayvs who visits the corgetown about once u week, n old guitar and who come into his store a number of times to show him pieces of gold he had found “on his place.” The old fellow arefully refrains from telling the eweler just where “his place” is lo -ated, however. He has told the jew- eler that he got the gold “in his front yard. Max Sacks. son of Tsaac Sacks, the lor. told a Star reporter that his | or pursuing other vocations or past ! tather was cured of gold mining after | times. Somé of it is the reward for | he had sunk a lot of his hard-earned {much patient rock crushing and old-|savings in a project on the old Bur- fashioned placer operations. | dine estate, near Great Falls. There Dr. Walter Hough, head curator of | was gold to be had on this place, all | the National Museum, has shown con- | right. but getting it out of its natural | siderable interest in the golden qual-|hiding places was a disheartening ity of the earth near this city and has | task, Mr. Sacks explained. There was examined quantities of the . metal | no machinery of the proper sort avail | brought to him by local prospectors. | able and most of the mining was of | Dr. Hough declares that there is a |the pick-and-shovel type. vein of gold-bearing rock extending| “That gold up there is valuable, it | through the District and nearby Mary. true. But it's mizhty tly also. (land and probably on into several!My father would advise every farmer Southern States. It is not present in | who wants to 2ol to stick to sufficient quantities, he said, to justify | farming and be prosperous. 3 commercial operations. | From which it appears that most of Dr. Hough recalled that many years ' the gold hereabouts was born to blush ago there ware several geld mining unseen for many years to come. ’ Isaac Sacks. retirbd Georgetown tai- lor and former prospector, is one of a number of persons who have learned that mining gold is an expensive prop | osition. He put a lot of his money in a gold project on the Marvland side | of Great I'alls a number of vears ago, | only to find that tailoring was more | profitable. Another and more preten- | man, tious venture not far from the Sacks | of “mine” also passed into history sev-|carrying leral years ago. Numerous other ef. | forts to mine gold around the Capital | |on a commercial scale have met de- | | feat. | In spite of these sporadic failures a stream of gold found on Maryland and irginia farms persists in trickling fts | | way to local jewelry stores. Some of | it is picked up by men hoeing in the | | corn field, fishing along small streams Mr. there is M street another district | a seek has | 1ccording to the London Post. Within a few months, it is declared a central television station may be erected John L. Baird, who has perfected television after years of continuous re- search, has been giving practical de- monstrations here. When he speaks before the transmitting apparatus in his laboratory his words can be heard and the movements of his face clearly en in another room. His lips may be seen enunciating each word, and shadows change with changing expres sions. As soon as the government permis sion can he obtained a limited number of televisors will be constructed and sold by a company already formed for the purpose. Baind declares his invention does not resemble in any way the telephoto | graphic transmission of photographs {or_still pictures. The essential thing about television |is a living scene, viewed the instant it is taking place. | Frozen Eggs. | [RGGS kept cold storage in a | 7 frozen condition nearly nine i vears have been found by the Burea | of Chemistry of the United States De. | partment of Agriculture to retain | practically their original viiamin-A potency. From the rosults of this ex- | perimental work it seems that freezing 1eggs and keeping them for long peri- ods in cold storage causes but little, it any, deterioration with respect to this vitamin, in for