Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1926, Page 34

34 THE D. C. SONG CONTEST | BRINGS RESPONSE any Submitting Words or Music on Invitation of National Federation. == fThe contes: announced last week £or words for an official seng for "“‘3(1‘.-:2;"\‘ Gapital of the United States has al ready met with many responses of ep-.operation, according to the National| Rederation of Music Clubs or the | anspices of which the contest is heing | held. Every resident of the District] whe is interested in the musical de-| v#lopment of Washington is urged by the federation to do his share in inter-| egting those who may have special thlent for writing either words or ngusic. It is announced that practieally all the States have their own Stata songs| which are used at all meetings of aj 16cal as well as national charaeter. | No prize will he offered for thie| #dng. as the award of choice alone is ebnsidered an honor for any Ameriean eitizen. Manuscripts must be sent wn- | eigned, but with name an sénder inclosed in sealed envelop and postage inclosed for return. The com- niittee cannot be responsible for lost manscripts. The judges will he selected by the Commissioners of the District In col- Iaboration with the District of Colum. bia Federation of Music Clubs. Should n6 manuscript be submitted that is dgemed worthy of the award, that/ award will be withhsld. The poem best typifying the spirit of Washing-: ton and having the hroadest appeal will be chosen. The song contest will be launched immediately upon the cholce of a poem in connection with the rules governing the song contest. | The contest for the posm eloe September 15, 1026, Pnéme shnanl have one or twn verses with or with cut chorus. Manuseripte should he| sént to Mise Beatrice & Goodwin, | céntest chairman, 5 West Lenox street, Chevy Chase, Md. d addrese ot{Pasted that no further liv | taking up the polar gage. Desolation There are only ice and water in the | region of the Pole, wastes that make the reason totter and send anguish through the soul: there is only desola- GREAT SUSPENSION tion, there is not a filling station where a car may get a ration of the gas that makes it roll. And the Pole itself ix missing: there is not an up- with some bunting on it kissing all the breezes fore and aft; there Is nothing there I akers heating on the frozen acres of the ice, | even fakers could not handle | Span Linking Pennsylvania and New Jersey Dream of Hundred Years. right shaft raft. There is nothing good, ting, In that waste of f floe, 5 vet more people, at this wi ng, plan | to sall ahove the snow: Byrd and |By the Asociated Press. soaring, bravely, | PHILADELPHIA, July L—A Avhere the lce 18 dream of 100 years came trus today \d a legion more : more | when Pennsylvania and New Jersey ave all knowledge | 41104 hands in dedicating and for- pwiedge that's beyond all | fron ", hing (o traffio the greatest grindin: will price, since thoss famous heroes 1 5 i Eheoded in their airships o'er the lce; | SUsDension bridgs m the ‘world. now we know the Pole is hidden in a | Since the Jevsior she; nine. Sta by dcehonss ridden, where the bilz: |(eenth century tthe SinnAbItSnts ot southern New Jersey and of Phila- delphia urged a bridge across the his. toric Delaware, but A disinclination 10 go to the great expense always blocked the project. And it was left to a decade when construction costs were nover higher to put through the plan and buflding the great | structure, As _it stands, the bridge cost $37,- 71. Thirteen workmen lost their during its construction. aards come vnbidden, and the knowl edge should suffice. 1t is idle now to hover over that unholy shore, for there’s nothing to discover that will add to polar lore: and of those who g0 a-salling, some will perish, sadly | failing, and the people will be walling since they journey back no more, ow the curfain has heen severed and we've seen the empty stage which the || strong_men have endeavored to dis- | ver for an age: since this telumph | 1 [ cMHEE G TN bridge over has been tasted. let it in our hats be | ¢4 pelaware between Philadelphia be wasted | 5nq the sea, 100 miles distant. The | span between the main plers is 1,760 feet, the longest of its kind in the | world, and the length of the whole structure from th and Race | streets, Philadelphia, to Sixth and | Tenn streets, Camden, fs 9.570 feet, WALT MASON. (Copyright. 1926.) —— CIVITAN CLUBS ELECT or one and lhrea—lllunr(nrdmlrn.s The | brid, Montreal, Ci 5 0 feet DR. H. ACUFF PRESIDENT friats *\ 3t " o' e cantnaver S | type. | Knoxville Man -Succeeds Judge 6,000 Vehicles An Hour. | The new bridge has a width of 13§ Marshall of Ohio—Meet Next | faet. Tt in wide enough to accommo- | date six lines of vehicles and four Year in Nashville, Tenn. | lines of trolleys or high-speed transit By the Associated Press. | cars. It also has two footwalks for PHILADELPHIA, July 1.—The In. pedestrians, each 10 feet wide, erected tarnational Civitan Ciubs, in annual | above the readway on either side of convention here, vesterday elacted Dr. |the structure. Engineers have fig- Herbert Acuff of Knoxviile, Tenn., as|ured that the bridge will accommo- presigent. He will succeed Judge Car-|date 6,000 vehicles an hour outside rington Marshall of the Ohlo Supreme | the four tracks for trolley or high- Court. | speed transit. Neal B. Spaher, Knoxville, Tenn., When completed, the Brookhm e was elected executive secretary, the only salaried position in the organi- bridge across the Fast River was one of the wonders of the world. Its gndod present a story in themselves ach contains 18,666 wires of t tenths of an inch in thickness. The ends are imbedded in great concrete and steel anchorages. The cables are draped in graceful curves over two immense steel towers, one on euch side of the river, and each 385 feet high. The main plers upon which the colossal towers rest are composed of solld concrete faced with Georgla granite, and go down to solld rock far below the bed of the river. Tolis to Be Collected. Authorization for the construction of the bridge was given by the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Legislatures about eight years ago, and actual con- struction began January, 1922. The cost of bullding was divided by New Jersey assuming half and the State of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadel- phia the other half. Tolls will be collected from all ve- hicles crossing the structure, but there will he no charge for trians. A force of 45 patrolmen will police the bridge. e was constructed under the supervisfon of a hoard of engl- neers of which Ralph Modjeaki, famed a8 & builder of great bridges, I8 chair- man. The other engineers are George S. Webster _of Philadelphia Lawrence A. Ball of New Jersey. Mr. Modjeski 18 the son the late Mme. Helen Modjeska, famous in her day as a tragedienne. Brazil than Women of legal freadom United States, but the women of the TUnited States have wider soclal free- dom. have greater women of the pedes. | EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, | | | D. €, THURSDAY, SHEEHAN QUITS AS EDITOR| Montgomery, Ala;, Journalist Sells Interests to V. H. Hanson. MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 1 (®. —V. H, Hanson, publisher of the Montgomery Advertiser and the Rirmingham News, yesterday became sole owner of the Advertiser through purchase of the one-fourth interest held by Capt. William T. Sheehan. Capt. Sheehan retired as editor and Grover (. Hall, associate editor of the Advertiser, succeeds him. Mr. Hall will be succeeded by Osburn Zuber. Capt. Sheehan, widely known edi- tor, will retire on ‘account of ill health.. He has been identified with the Advertiser for 26 vears. PP Sir John Herschel ‘holl‘hl it prob- able that the aun was inhabited by nge organisms which were the URELY, there are 100,000 Washingtonians who will gladly send one dollar or more to honor the living and the dead of the 26,000 from the District of Columbia who served their country in the armed forces In_the Great War. 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