Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1927, Page 6

CONGRESS LAUDS LATE COLLEAGUES Senators Cummins and Mc- Kinley and Representative Flaherty Remembered. The late = mina, Rep am R nose, wh ot Servant and St lowa, Noted Public Senators § art. Rep Togized servant with nrds and a do efforts towar o enduring monume The late Illinois Senator, Senator Deneen. Repub served, was praised by his co #s a “zealous, sagacious, we statesman and a courteo: voted friend.” Representatives Pay Honor. .Others who spoke at the services were Senators Warren. Wyoming: Moses, New Hampshire; Capper, Kan- Shortridge, California, all Repub- licans, and Overman, North Carolina and Harris, Georgia, both Democrats. Members of the California delega- tion, including Representatives Mrs. Florence B. Kahn, Curry, Welch, Swing, Barbour, Lineberger and C: ter, all Republicans, spoke at the Fla- herty memorial, as did Representative Kopp, Republican, lTowa, and Fair- child, Republican, New York Deneen Describes Work. Senator Deneen told of the work ©f Senator McKinley when he was & young man interested in the de- velopment of water works and other public utility services, including the construction of the McKinley Bridge over the Mississippi River at St Louis. His political career was marked with the same close attention to Gov- ernment affairs as he had devoted to his private enterprises, Senator De- neen stated, and his faithful service on important committees had great influence in shaping public policies. Making of Friends. “Senator McKinley had a re gift for making friends,” Senator Deneen stated, “and few of his colleagues ‘were better known in either house than he. He was kindly disposed, had unfalling consideration for others and took a delight in rendering serv- ice. Courteous, affable, just, indus- trious and well informed, it was a pleasure to work with him. His per- sonal qualities and characteristics endeared him to his collegues. His firm tralts of character wil long be cherished and remembered by those who served with him here. “‘Senator McKinley not only loved to render services to those with whom he worked and came in contact, but he loved to help others. Not even his personal friends knew the full ex- tent and variety of his benefactions. Having a boundless zeal for service, he wished his wealth to be of service, and truly the activities and influence which he set in motion will have no bounds. “‘Senator McKinley had a long, active and usetul life, full of services and honors, and his memory will be cherished by those whom he met and with whom he served in all parts of flabie de- 7 | THE EVENING MAN CHANGES FACE OF EARTH BY BIG ENGINEERING PROJECTS _Observer on Moon Could ‘See pyr;aniids. Great Wall of China, Cities and Stretches of Highways. M a river in Ponneyl ficlal w0 that its W oused for t sKivmish in v My has man busied him T his o work would otches of our o8 W N 1 show the world most of the t structure: cops. should he two sides are in sl 1 ohserver could prohably t other old engineering Great Wall of China 00 miles over moun . Few canals, prob: ppear to such a hypotheti from the moon, since they d be indistinguishable. for the st part, from natural streams. “The terrestrial observer who secks evidences of man’s reshaping of the earth will find them on every hand Qn our own continent and in Europe, especially, a veritable network of 7 vs and roads lies over the country side. There are few but that are spanned b; d made by dams to stand and deliver water irrigation or power to be turned to any use that man’s whim may dic. tate. A goodly number of our hills and mountains have been honey- «combed by the shafts and galleries of mines or pierced by railway tunnels Man has even burrowed his way unde: great rivers to make way for transit lines, railways, vehicles foot passengers. Cities Are Never Finished. “Every great city is itself a huge and never-finished engineering task. There are few residents of New York or London or Paris who would not be surprised, if cross-sections of their city could be laid bare, at the com- plexity of its underground facilities, its multiplicity of subways, water tun- nels and pipes, wire conduits and sewers. Above ground buildings are constantly being erected and demol- ished, railways repaired, pavement laid. Galveston, Tex., owes its con- tinued existence to a great granite sea wall; New Orleans to its levees. Venice and Leningrad rise in large part from a multitude of piles driven into mud banks, and other cities in various parts of the world must credit engincering skill for their sites or for thelr protection, “One of the most striking debts of a country to engineering is to be found in The Netherlands. The coun- try’s name itself hints at the story: nearly half its area lies below the level of the sea, which is kept from engulfing the lowlands only by hun- dreds of miles of man-made dikes and sluice-gates, And only constant watchfulness and work keeps this below-sea-level country habitable. Em- bankments must be patroled and re- paired constantly. Seepage continues night and day and pumps must be kept eperating continually to lift millions of gallons of water from the lowest catchment basins to canals high enough to carry it into the sea. ““Canals were among the earliest important engineering projects under- ient and the world.” MRS. CRABTREE EXPIRES. Native of Pennsylvania Spent Most of Life in Capital. Mrs. Priscllla Crabtree, 62 years old, widow of Thomas Crabtree, died in Georgetown University Hospital ‘Wednesday, after a long illness. Mrs. Crabtree, a native of Penn. sylvania, had lived in this city nearly all her life. Funeral services were conducted at her late residence, 229 K street, this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Inter- ment was in Glenwood Cemetery. She is survived by three sons, Thomas Crabtree, jr.; Edward Crab. iree and William Crabtreey seven daughters, Mrs. Amy Fitzgerald, Mrs. Rhody Smith, Mrs. Mary D. Trigg, Mrs. Cealey Sparrow, Mrs. Naomi Harrison, Mrs. Jeannette Brewer and Mrs. Ellen Horrigan; a brother, Cornelius Harrison; a sister, Mrs. Betsy Young, and 12 grand- children. PARIS ARTISTS CAN COOK. Exhibition Discloses That Pointers Also Excel With Pots. PARIS, February 28 (P).—"Good cheer,” in a culinary sense, us a sub- ject for painting brought out so many and such a variety of canvases at a recent exhibition that critics were led to discover that Parisian painters fre- quently are as great artists with the pot as with the brush. Two reasons are given for the in- terest of painters in cookery. Most of them began their career on a diet so thin that they ever afterward apprecl- ated Heeply the good things of life. Nearly all of them, likewise, have found in the brilliant color effects of light on fish scales, unplucked game birds and wine jugs such excellent studies that they unconsciously have come to think of food as important. ALUMNI TO HOLD BANQUET Dean Laycock to Address Dart- mouth Graduates Here Tonight. Dartmouth College alumni, from the classes of 1869 to 1926, will hold an annual banquet in the La Fayette Hotel at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Dean Craven Laycock, coming from ¢ Hanover for the banquet, will speak on cotemporary phases of under- graduate -life. Willam Mather Tewis, president of George Washing- ton University, also will speak as £uest of honor. Willlam J. Wallis, instructor at Central High School and president of the Dartmouth alumni here, will pre- side. Those present will include John H. Bartlett, Assistant Post Master Gen- eral; Senator Moses of New Hamp- shire, Prof. John M. Mecklin and Prof. William A. Robinson of the Dartmouth faculty. Prof. Mecklin is author of “The Ku Klux Klan." Mrs. C. ?H I?iz;mr Dies of Burns. Mrs. Lilllan Leizear, wife of Charles H. Leizear of Chillum, Md., who was severely burned at her home several days ago, died ut Providence Hospital vesterday. Funeral serv- ices will pe held at St. Peter's Church, Second and C streets southeast, Wed- hesday morning at 9 o'clock. Inter- ment will be at Colesville, Montgom- ery County, Md. (AR The Athentans of old began the year in the month of June. taken by man. Near the dawn of history some 6,000 years ago great irrigation canals that were virtually artificial rivers existed in the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers ir Mesopotamia. They were demolished by Mongol invaders 700 years ago, but traces of the huge channels still re- main. In Egypt a ship canal connect- ing the Nile and the Red Sea was dug 2,000 years before Christ. In the fifth century B. C., the Chinese began their Grand Canal, finished 17 cen. turfes later.” This 850-mile waterway is the oldest and longest boat canal in existence. Dams Are Recent Devices. “All the earlier canals were inland, Not until 1869 when the Suez Canal was completed, did the world possess an interoceanic waterway. Its only rivel has been the Panama Canal, opened in 1914. These two waterways between the oceans, one costing $127,- 000,000 and the other more than twice that much, probably deserve to rank at the top of the world's engineering achievements. “Dams are relatively recent devices in so far as large streams are con- cerned. No word of dam-building operations of any magnitude has come to us from the records of the ancients. Large dams were built in Spain in the latter part of the sixteenth century and in France and Spain in tHe seven- teenth and eighteenth. In the nine- teenth century dam-building spread to the rest of Europe and Great Britain, North Africa, Asia and the United States “Two of the greatest dams are in Egypt. The Assouan, across the Nile, is 1% miles long and 113 fey The Sennar, across the Blue Nile, i the longest masonry dam in the world —9,900 feet, or nearly 2 miles. Its hefght is 128 feet. The longest of all is the earthen Ashti dam in India, which is 12,709 feqt in length. It is only 58 feet high. Present Greatest Highway Era. “Road construction received little attention from the ancients and did not become an important activity until the advent of the Romans. When the Roman Empire died road- building died with it, not to be gal- vanized into life again until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The present is the greatest road- building age that the world has seen. Each year many hundreds of millions of dollars are absorbed in the con- struction of highways, chiefly in the United States, Europe and the colo- nial possessions of the great powers, “Tunnel boring has had both ancient and modern aspects. The Kgyptians diig tunnel entrances to temples and tombs, or hollowed the latter bodily from the rock. The Greeks, as'early as 500 C., are said to have constructed galleries in mines. The Romans anticipated the modern world, using tunnels to con- duct water supplies, to drain lakes even to carry rouds through ob- ting ridges. Extensive tunnels re first built in Europe, after the era, in the seventeenth entury, when portions of canals were arried through tunnels. The nineteenth and twentieth cen- turies heightened tunnel building by the demands of cities for water sup- plies, land for frrigation and the needs of railroad construction. The largest tunnel in the world carries the Rove Canal of southern France for 412 miles through hills. Its bore is 72 feet wide and 47 feet high. The longest of all tunnels are of relatively small bore and are for carrying water. Two of the New York City water system and one in the new San Francisco water system are approxi- mately 18 miles long. A tunnel drain- ing a mine in BSaxony is almost exactly the same length. The three longest railway tunnels in the world are in the Alps. Loetschberg is 8 city | | m St Gothard, River Carvied in Conduit engineering viver acros t comploted in 1of more than §20.000,000 | The latest gio physical inven ton i the engineering fleld, the rail @ rank upstart beside the high and the I-has probably be come inextent and « the leader i man's structures, even sur + the hard surfaced the world. The first crude railway was built little more than a century ago. w there are | more than 250,000 miles of railway in the United States and more than 350,000 miles in other countries -a | total or more than 600.000 miles for the world. This vast extent of steel roadway would wrap around the 14 at the equator 24 times. To bufld it there has heen expended be tween §50,000,000,000 and $75,000, 000,000, most all railway construction in- voives the solving of important en- gineering problems—spanning rive filling valleys, cutting through rids and tunneling hills and mountains he most difdlt and outstanding engineering facts of this sort have been accomplished in pushing rail- ways through the Alps, the Andes and the Rockies. One of the most acular bits of railway -engineer- as the construction of ‘the rail- *the line that a string of islands and dividing _channels from tip of Florida to Key miles offshore.” mall It wa o8t passing in miloa; road system of traverses spans their the southern West, more than PHILIPPINE BANK CASE IS ARGUED IN MANILA Directors’ Attorney Charges Action Is Bid for Power Between Wood and Native Leaders. MANILA, February 28 — Argu- ments in the quo warranto proceed- ings filed by Gov. Gen. Wood, seek- ing to oust three directors of the Philippine National Bank appointed by Senator Quezon and Representa- tive Roxas, ex-officio members of the board of control, and to have his own appointees installed in their place, were heard today in the Philippine Supreme Court. Francisco Delgado, attorney for the three members against whom the proceedings were directed, electrified the court somewhat by declaring the present case was not really the issue between the government and the bank’s shareholders and directors, but that it was rather a struggle be- tween Wood on one hand and Quezon and Roxas on the other for power. Arguing in behalf of Gov. Gen. Wood, Fred C. Fisher denied it was a question of Wood against Quezon and Roxas, and said it was a ques- tion of whether the Legislature has a legal right to name any one to per- form executive functions, W. A. BARRON IS DEAD. Famous Egpglish Coaching “Whip"” Had Prize Horses. LONDON, February 28 (#).—-W. A, Rarron, one of the world’s most fa- mous coaching “whips,” and well known to American coaching circles, is dead at the age of 59. Mr, Barron had a famous team of chestnuts with which he won 73 con- secutive first prizes at various horse shows. He was known particularly to American tourists in England from the fact that daily during the Sum- mer he sent two old world coaches, with a scarlet-coated hornblower, from London to Hampton Court. Seats could he purchased by tour- ists, but it is understood that Mr. Barron's expenses for the coaches far exceeded the income and that he ran 1Pom purely as a sporting proposi- tion. Mr. Barron was one of the mem- bers of the board of managers of the Stock Exchange. Marriage Licenses. rl:l'! licenses have been issued to the e G. Spencer of Fairlee, Md.. and Leonora Joice of this city. Jerome White and Dorothy L. Butler. John L. Johnston of Cabbt. Pa., Dorothy Dais ot this city, gl obert H. "Lacy an M. ey, both of "hurln(!‘lxe;}llhav‘?yr o g "] ) . Wilmer Cli N . both of Charles Town. W. Var oot Richard H. Green. ir.. ‘of Mount Rainier. Md, and Dains 3. Demipeey “of thiy clty. o0 Price of Clicago, iretel M. Knoetzen of Jersey S5 A 5 The Flour Mother used to use— Made the way she liked it. If your dealer cannot supply you, Guard Against “Flu” With Musterole Influenza, Grippe and Pneumonia usually start with a cold. The mo- ment you get those warning rub on good old Musterol, Musterole relieves the i plaster without st you feel a warm tingle ng ointment penet the y soothing, cooling sensa- tion and quick relief. Have Muste- role handy for emergency us: It may prevent i . in milder and p5RARBRASEANNRRERERE STAR, CHEMIST EXPLAINS AGING OF PAINTINGS Finds Oil in Modern Paints Lowers Tone as Years Pass By. LONDON, Februnry modern ofl painting in tone while those of t ¢ indetinitely Interesting question n I masters 15 heen mmittee London Its mpmbers, f chemlstry’ to the a 4 recently given the inswer in g paper rend before the Roval Society nd this answer it s ¥ to know that “refractiv is the amount of ray of liKht undergoes as it from one medium to another index" d sse dif. LRARREEL QGRS 5= WASHINGTON, | famou nd MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23 28, 1927. ferent density; and the greater the difference in refractive index between two media the creater is the amount of light reflected from the surface | tween them | Prof. Lau experiments show [ that the lowering in tone of oil pie. | tures 1% due not only to the natur | vellowing the linsced, walwat poppy 1 employed, but t that its refractive index increases as it gets olde The refractive index of linseed oil rise very rapidly as the oil s drying, and thereafter much more slowly, hut persis A com paratively small increase ve ctive index of the ol causes a per Iation of tone in white um yel L and more mge in Now the piinter h centuries | the ience of lght, and et their method of painting - handed down {trom earlier times—obviated the dan vors due to di ation. In thos was the practice, heginning s white gesso panel, 1o lay in and white, and even color, i like with 1nd other centh and ignorant of Lyeks the t wixte were days in me + thin ments ¢ this unde these conditions the active index of the corrceted the fowering lits vellowing, becans oil on ageing of tone due to t was |reflected from the bright surface be- | { low. { | %t modern painters”” say Prof. | Laurie, “‘desire their pictures to be durable as those of the old master must take into consideration the anges whic the oil undergoes and modify their methods accordingly.” BOOKS ON HOW TO EAT CHEESE ARE PUBLISHED Year-0ld Structure. | By the Associated Press " | BERLIN, February 28.—Prelimi. rary repairs to the 900.year-old May- | ence Cathedral, which next to the | Cologne Cathedral is perhaps the most | famous in Germany, have revealed | that the ravages of the weather are greater than at first belijeved. The most urgent repairs will cost nearly @ quarter of a million dollars. The | west tower is sald to be in danger of crumpling. { The Mayence Cg 781009 In th [ | |Should Be Served Before and Not | After Dessert. Sweet February 28 -Cheese, nted. fragrant and old, f heard of in France, The coneerted movement the friends and defenders of good old ripe camembert, to get their rights on the menu eards for the 748 different Kinds that ave liste One and several articles have | appeared lately to instruct the public In the eating of cheese. There is i . fon among connefsse that women should continue th ditional hosti toward the loud- | smelling varieties and that every one | doesn’t " know that cheese alwa | hould be. s jefore and not after | the sw thedral was built | twelfth and thir- centuries fires partially de- | the edifice and necessitated | extensive rebuilding. It has six to 265 feet in height, nine chape rteen altars. " is | makin and | g | . P | Wagon Driver Injured. T. B. Fitzwater, 27 years old, 1335 | Twelfth street, driver of a Thomp- |son’s Dairy delivery wagon, suffered hroken leg and minor injuries early this morning when an axle of the vehicle snapped. The accident oc-| curred at Seventeenth and U streets. | Fitzwater was taken to Emergency Hospital. M Une LOWSA cAnother, Week YOU can come in again tomorrow and select Lifetime Furniture at the remark- able price reductions. will remain in The low sale prices force all this week. Assortments of Lifetime Furniture are now at a new peak. Variety and smart new pieces almost store-wide. startle you. Reductions are It’s all our regular Lifetime quality, too--- which means that apologies are never in order, regardless of what standard of com- parison may be used. - Savings this week are worth while. 'Now is the time to buy and save. MAYER & CO. Seventh Street Between D and E LC PRICIN CATHEDRAL DECAYING. |BORAH TO MAKE ADDRESS. | . Weather Playing Havoc with 900- | Will Be Principal Speaker at Idaho Society Banquet. Senator Borah is to be the principal speaker at the annual banquet of the Idaho State Society at the Roosevel: Hotel Saturday night at 7:30 o'clock. Other members of the State delegatio: in Congress will attend and A. H. Con ner, Federal supervisor of prison: to act as toastmaster. Mr. Comne was formerly attorney general of the State, One feature of the banquet will he the Idaho baked potatoes. A program: of entertainment and a danee il follow the dinner. Idahoans in Was! ington who desire to attend the ban | auet are requested to communicato with Dr. W. N. Johannessen, the Farragut, a member of the executive council of the society. This great bank THE FEDERAL-AMERICAN Ts a Member of the American Bankers Association 13 IRLLRERRFLLRRRLLLALLILLNNNL