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. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1927. [AMARYLLIS DISPLAY, wrecrezes = FRANK W, SMITH for efficlency and accuracy than Mr Smith, whose painstaking attention to detail has always made him a model for other assistant clerks to Tollow. Mr. Smith had always been ready and willing to accommodate attorneys and | Robert Bacheller, 65, had Lived in Capital 10 Years. UTILITIES BOARD OBTAINS QUARTERS _Civilian Members and Covn- sel Occupying Office Va- cated by Traffic Director. . The two civillan members of the new public utilities commission, John W. Childress and Col. Harrison Brand, and Ralph B. Fleharty, people’s coun- sel, occupied their office today for the first time. These three officials have been crowded into quarters on the first floor of the District Building, oc- cupled formerly by Traffic Director M. 0. Eldridge and his assistants. The commission wiil hold its first business session tomorrow morning 10 o'clock. Only routine matter: be discussed, it was said. The princi- pal duty will be the appointment of secretarles for the two civilian com- missioners and a research clerk who will serve as an assistant to the people’s counsel. There have been more than 50 ap- plicants for these positio Each of the secretaries will receive ¢ of $1,800 a year. The priated for the research cle 2,400 a year. Harry N. Stull, recorder of the Citi- gens' Advisory Council, is one of the applicants for the position of research clerk. The commission, however, is giving tonsideration to five other candidates. Four of them are either lawyers or inw students. rk is LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GIVEN RARE BOOKS IN THACHER WILL (Continued from First Page) the collection in color and romance, an well as in historical material, is con- sidered inestimable. The fifteenth century books—the incunabula, or “cradle books,” as they are called, because they represent the infancy of the art of printing—num- ber 840 different editions, or more than one-eighth of the entire number of incunabula known to be owned in the United States. The 840 diferent edi- tions in this single collection include 235 that are the only copies at present | known to exist in the Western Hemi- sphere. ‘The Thacher collection begins at the early date of 1459. The use of mov: able metal types first came into prac- tical use in Germany, in the City of Mainz, about the year 1450. By the ond of the year, 14470 presses had been #et up in seven German towns, all of which towns are represented in this collection; by the close of 1480, 22 or 28 towns had had presses, of which 19 are in this collection; by 1490 there ‘were 38 or 39, of which it has 29; by the end of the century, 50 sor 51, of which it has 36. The 15 places in Germany not known to this collection are of comparatively little importance. First Was Psalter. The first book to which printers t their names and the date of pub- tion was the famous Mainz Psal- ter, printed by Fust & Schoeffer, as- sociates of Gutenberg, in 1457; the second was a Psalter of August 29, 1459; the third, dated October 6, 1459, is nted in the Thacher collec- tion—the Rationale divinorurh officio- rum, or “explanation of the divine of- fices.” William Durand, chaplain to Pope Clement IV, and holder of many other high offices in the church wrote this book toward the end of the thir- teenth century. It is an’exposition or explanation of the divine offices of the Catholic Church—a detailed state- ment of the origin and symbolic sig- mificance of all the church ritual and :its relation to the church building, and furniture. It accounts for ail the ceremonies, the sacraments, the ‘vestments, the mass, the holidays and feasts, the calendar. It has been call- ed “the most valuable work on sym- bolism that the Middle Ages has fur- nished.” The Thacher copy has an authentic personal history from the year 1775. Among its former owners were the Duke of Sussex, Sir Mark Masterman Sykes and Lord Ashburn- ham. Although Mainz was the mother .of printing, the metropolis of the art, it uced only about 200 incunabula. n or 11 presses—five of them anonymous—are its total. Of the six presses known by the master printers’ Dames, Mr. Thacher was able to get four represented by, eight books. Strassburg Was Second. ,Thé second place to know printing was Strassburg, where'as early as 1461 Johann Mentelin issued a great Latin Bible. About 26 or 27 presses ‘were established here before 1501. Of mm 16 of these presses the r collection has 13, including all the first three. Altogether there are some 48 specimens from Strass- burg, the earliest being Johann Mentelin's miniature edition of the “Speculum Historaile of Vincent of Beauvais, 1437, a pocket encycl pedia in four volumes. Mentelin did not print many books—about 35. After Mentelin's death his son-in-law, Adolf Rusch, carried on the business, but did not put his name in a single book. He was the first printer to use Roman . Two of his books are in this collection—parts of the “Speculum of Vincent of Beauvais.” There are most interesting inscriptions in the two volumes of Rusch’s “Speculum.” Each reads, “Magister Conradus Ansarg, chancellor of Ratisbon, presented me to the monastery in Undensdorf in the year 1478.” The British Museum has other books with the very same inscription. If the inscription is au- thentic and accurate, and there is no reason to doubt it. then these two m'kl" were printed ‘“not later than ‘The Thacher collection has 26 Cologne books from some 13 of its 33 presses, including the most important, beginning with that of Ulrich Zel, Cologne’s first printer. ‘The Thacher copy of the Summa of Thomas Aquinas, printed by Sen- senschmidt and Frisner in 1474, is one of Nuremberg’s great books. Mr. ‘Thacher notes that Dibdin calls this one of the finest productions of Sensenschmidt’s press, and he adds, “This is certainly a noble volume.” Has Ptolemy’s Geography. The Thacher collection has also one of the 48 books issued by Sweynheim and Pannartz in Rome, a book of Lenten sermons; and it has two printed by Pannartz after their partnership was dissolved. It has besides an edition of Ptolemy’s Geo- graphy printed by Arnold Bucking in 1478, for which Sweynheim engraved the maps, and an edition by Petrus de Turre, 1490, in which the plates of Sweynheim were used a second time. About one-fourth of the Thacher oollection is given up to specimens of the presses of Venice. Among them s some of the best work of the most famous printers, from Johann & ‘Wendelin of Spefer and Nicolas Jen- son through Erhard Ratdolt and Torresanus down to Aldus Maputius. Next among Venetlan printers to the great Aldus himself, no doubt the fame of Nicolas Jenson is most widely spread abroad. He was a Frenchman. His work was of such excellence that it brought him a considerable fortune. [ive .years after he began printing the Pope made him a count. He used a beauti- fully clear Roman type, much 1 in modern times, but not & leon III. Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. Jardine, of the amaryllis show of the Depart passed. To this day one will find certain fonts in use among printer: including the Government Printin Office, called Jenson type. The Thacher collection has three of his book: C: the work of Aldus the Ly er collection has Theodorus Gaza's “Introduction to Greek Gram- mar” and one of the volumes of h great edition of Aristotle. \ Great Greek Lexicon. Another great book Lexicon of Suidas, printed by a Greek, Zakharias, a C Rhethymno, who printed four n the last two years of the the first of the four. nd head- pieces in red had the ¢ William_ Morris of Kelmscc owned this copy. The colophon shows that the work was issued under the patronage of Anna, daughter of Lucas Notaras, Duke of Constanti- nople. The art of printing, however, owes more than mere patronage and finan- cial._support to women, for quite a number of incunabula were actually printed by them, and Mr. Thacher ob- tained at least two of them. In Flor- ence a convent of Dominican nuns, Apud Shnctum Jacobum de Ripoll printed 70 books. The nuns' them selves worked as compositors with some occasional help from printers from outside; their confessor acted s treasurer and overseer. Some of their business accounts have survived and show very interesting facts as to the profits made. Their 70 books are chief- ly religious and devotional, though some of them are not. Another wom- an printer was Liga Boaria, who pub lished an edition of Alexander Gallus in Venice, 1492, of which a copy is in this collection. Through the terms of Mrs. Thacher’s will, the Library of Congress comes into the possession of fifteenth cen- tury books from the presses of Ger- many, Italy, Switzerland, France, Hol- land, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Eng- land Sweden and Portugal—S10 dif ferent editions 920 volumes from 530 . presses; books written in Latin. Greek, Hebrw, German, Dutch, Bohemian, Italian, French, Spanish and English. Columbus Material “'Vlluable. O very especial importance is the printed material relating to Columbus, to the early explorations of America and to early cartography. These groups aggregate upward of 800 vol- umes. To name only a few of these works, significant among them are the May, 1507; September, 1507, and Strassburg, 1509, editions of Wald- seemueller’s “Cosmographiae Intro- ductio,” in which the suggestion was first advanced that the newly discov- ered continent should be called Amer- lea; Fernando Gorgas' “America Painted to the Life,” London, Noah Brook, 1659; Peter Martyr's “Historia de I'Indle Oceidentali,” Venice, Nicolas Monardes’ “Historia Med| covery were use his work on the ntinent of Amer- fca,” published in 1896 and called the most sumptuous bibliograph! and cartographical work on the dis y and naming of America that ha appeared in English, and used his monumental work, “C Columbus, His Life, His Work, Remains as Revealed by Original Re ords,” in three volumes, published in 1903 and 1904. Among the original materials Mr. Thacher printed in this work, a n- panied by English trar tracts from Peter Marty the two Genoese lives by Senarega from Muratorl, lite from his “‘Psalter, versions of the Toscan siderable extracts from “History of the Indies,” the “Jour) e, the Santangel in facsimile and trans- s and translations of Torrea memorand the third voyage from Las C: letter to the nurse of Prince John, the “Libretto” in facsimile and tion, the Porras and Mendez narr: relating to the fourth voyage “Lettera Rarissima” in facsmile and translation. The material acquired by Mr. Thacher in accomplishing this work Is part of the bequest to the National Library. Relics Are Included. With these books relating to Co- lumbus are two small lockets, one the shape of a sphere, the othe f a cross, inclosed 1n el each locket containing n ments of ‘bone which M considered worthy of being descri as a part of the true remains of Co lumbus. The documents upon which he based his opinion certify ths fragments were taken in 1877 from o leaden casket inseribed with the name and title of Columbus, by the engincer Castillo, then in charge of repairs in the Cathedral of San Domingo. The autograph collection of royal documents includes an_officlal docu- ment signed by Henry V in 1450, and there ave letters also from Richard I1I, Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots, Elzabeth, Charlcs 1, Cromwell, Charles. 11, Anr jeorge 111 and others. The ok documer is signed by ng of i'rance, In 1374, The poleonic group has two letters signed by Na poleon and letters from his father | ner Lee Quecn, printed i ma 1 dr: n and duplic Outlines French Revolution. The second set of Thacher manu- is in thef nature Revolu lhese original papers aph letter signed . Tontesquieu dated 740 and ending w utograph letier ‘Hereditary Emperor ¢ to Josephine dated ranged in ters of Voltaire, ) L Rousseau, Buffon, Diderot and d’Alem- bert, Turg aurepas, Beaumarecl Marie Antoinette, du B Rochefou- cauld, Lafayette, »eau, Dupoht de Nemour: nd, t de Lisle, Thomas ) W liams, Marat, David Robespierre, Barras and every other man and womah known in his- tory to have played an active part in the French Revolution. The collection of 1,660 books on the French Revolution, accompanylng these manuscripts, contain numerous cotemporary of offical publ- cations, controversial pamphlets and political journals, in.sets, as well as journals of lat sue. John Boyd Thacher was born at Ballston Spa, N. Y., September 11, 1847, and graduated cum laude Wil- liams College in 1869, and engaged in manufacturing in Albany until his death in 1909. nection with public affa member of the Albany PBoard Health, which he helped to organize In 1883 he was elected as a State Ser ator on the Democratic ticket. From 1886 to 1858 and from 1896 to 1898 he of Albany. He was ap- pointed by Président Harrison to rep- resent the State of New York at the World’s Columbian Exposition, and was made chairman of the committee of awards. In 1896 he was nominated by the Democratic party for Governor of New York, but declined to run. He was prominent in Masonry, widely known as a publicist, and yet more videly known as a historlan and col- or. In 1872 he married Miss Em- Treadwell, daughter of George Curtis Treadwell of Albany, whose grandfather was the last of the Puri: tan governors of Connesticut and a member of the Colonial Congress. SURRENDERS IN SHOOTING Husband XKills Estranged Wife, Then Walks to Policeman. ioting his wite through the the French Ar- 7 walked up to Trafic Policeman John , on duty three bloc 7 wing th A he had 30. closed that the cou- ed, but had had s ilted in a_quarrel the shooting. armed . himself, ying out his pistol in a wapdshed in'the rear of his home, at 3 Morton st ent to his wite's house and shot her. Roi St Sl Dried mushrooms constitute one of BEACON INN Calvert St., Bet. 15th and 19th N, our SE FOOD DINRERY A St RS A Eaually so Our 3t it Lactobacillus Acidophilus Call our product “1. (Trade M For intes(inal Ask your ‘phycician ahout NATIONAL VACCINE ANTITOXIN INSTITU Phone North 89, 1515 U St. N, SAVEYOURHAIR Once lost it can seldom be re- covered. Don’t become bald, Save your hair by daily use of Druggists sell it - Barbers apply it. Prescription ; Over a Miltion Times f druggists established in New York s ago has reniled a ¢ ! nti countries, ionmore hana id forit from fore mous Rheumatism nre- 1, taken three cription w 1 ps rhepmatic pain and quickly umes a day Carlo Bonaparte; his mother, a Bonaparte, Josephine, Marie Napoleon II (“L’'Aizlon”) and Nap Besldes, cuced are letters elicves painful musbles and stiff, swoilen joints. Locsidrugsimagverymhorecon you, o1 t it fo . Price btk AN 8 Thied Avaft X.C. - | knights’ NewbrorHerpicide Remlsaahe;maflsn; z" n Rheu: = PRIVATELY SHOWN Mrs. Coolidge Guest of Mrs. Jardine at Preliminary Exhibition. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, women of the Jinet and diplomatic corps, and 400 | | others prominent in Washington so- ¢ ciety, were guests today of Mrs.| William M. Jardine, wife of the v of Agriculture, at a private xof more than 1,100 amaryllis wide varlety of coloring, ibition house of the de- partment, at Fourteenth and B preliminary to the four- mual free amaryllis show of the department, which will open | its doors to the public tomorrow porning at 9 o'clock. In the show tais year are quite a number of new scedlings propagated by the depart- ent, which have come into bloom for the first time this r. White Amaryllis Shown. The annual amaryllis show, inaugu- rated by the late Edward M. Byrnes while he was superintendent of the department greenhouses, has become one of the most it society events of the § season, as well altracting Nation-wide attention m flower lovers and florists. One of the outstanding feats of the Gov- ernment experts two 3 to produce a white amaryliis, whic had never before been achieved. There are several of these plants in | thi " rnment _scientists also iccessful in producing o cr range and variety of coloring of blooms than can be seen any- {where clse. In fact, the amaryllis shows here have never been equaled wywhere in the world. Native to South America. amaryllis, known as “the star flower,” is native to | South America, but the Government { experts have developed strains that thrive in a large section of the | United States. | The particular difficulty that has {been encountered by the department deners, however, has been to get ich a large number to bloom at the ime time. The CHARITIES BENEFIT IN MRS. GROFF’S WILL Leaves $300 to One Sister and In- come of $12,000 Trust Fund to Nephew. The will of Mrs. Lillie M. Groff, who died March 4, was filed yesterday for probate. She gives $300 to her sister, Jennie Fey of Akron, Ohio, and $1 to two other sisters, Alpharetta Crawford and Daisy D. Hyde of Balti- more. Her household effects and $500 are left to a nephew, C. L. Hyde, who is also to have the income from a trust fund of $12,000—the fund at his death to be distributed among church societies in Springfield, Mo. The remaining estate is devised to the Washington Loan & Trust Co. in trust to distribute the income among the Salvation Army, the Bible Hall Mission and the Home for Incurables. The trust company is also named as executor. Bequests: of $3,000 each are made by the will of Mrs. Charlotte M, Cosby by her will, dated November 16, 1923, to her three sons, Spencer, Frank C. and Arthur F. Ci . Alma Johnson, a maid, is given $100. The remaining estate is left to the sons. Spencer Cosby is named as exegutor. By the terms of the will of Mrs. Annie N. McCullough, who died March 2, a bequest of $200 is provided for the purchase of a tombstone on which she wishes inscribed “Faithful Unto Death.” Mrs. McCullough was the widow of Rev. George W. McCul- lough, and she gives a portrait of him to Rev. John E. Briggs, pastor of the Fifth Raptist Church. Legacies of $100 each are made to Annie R. Hunter, Nellie Mason and Willie Byrum. The remaining estate is devised to the Washington Loan & Trust Co. to sell and to distribute the proceeds among the Fifth Baptist Church, the Columbia Assoclation of. Baptist Churches and the Northern Baptist Convention. o Batavia, Java, has just put into operation its first electric tramcar. A Bank with old-fashioned notfons of in- tegrity——combined with _the most up-to-date facilities. o The “Federal-Am erican” EST. 1879 Colds | The utmost help One Felp has proved itself the ut- most for a cold. It is so efficient, so quick and complete that we paid $1,000,000 for it. That way is HILL'S. It does four things at once. It stops the cold in a day, checks the fever, opens the bowels, then tones the en- tire system. It has won millions by proving that nothing else compares. Don't rely on lesser help, and don't delay. Learn now how much HILL'S means fo you. Get Bed Box Price30¢ UININE with gortrait | profit to the owners on the Robert Batcheller, 65 years old, re- tired Boston shoe manufacturer, who had made his resigence for the past 10 years while in Washington, at the Stonelaigh Court _apartments, died yesterday at the Breakers Hotel at Palm Beéach, Fla. He was a bachelor and was a mem- ber of the .Metropolitan and Chev Chase clubs. No immediate relatives survive. Interment will take place Saturday in Boston. AGE-HERALD IS SOLD IN BIRMINGHAM, ALA. F. I. Thompson and Associates Dis- | pose of Paper to E. D. Dewitt, Formerly of New York. By the Associated Press, BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March ningham Age Herald - tods D. Dewitt, formerly gen of the New York Hel * the Age-Herald from Frederick . Comer and Dondld 1 mai has Publishing Thompson, B. Comer. The transfer of the new to become effective immedia the purchase p while nounced, “repre aper 1s ly and not an- 1dsome invest- ment,” the newspaper No change i of the Age-H Mr. Dewitt sa Themy or policy to Mobile, active ma and the E two latter also publishes Journal. mpson gomery D. C. MEN HEARD IN TRIAL OF GORBY Verdict Expected Today on Charge of Attack on Mrs. Hamilton in Virginia. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 9—R. P. Burrs of the Department of Jus- tice, Isadore Hamlin and Andrew L. Bricker, connected with bus com- panies, were called this morning to testify in_the trial in Federal Court of Allen L. Gorby, charged with vio- lating the Mann act and attempted as- sault on Mrs. Augusta L. Hamilton July 14 last. The woman, who was beaten and held under restraint for four hours, according to her report to the Wash- ington police, testified yesterday. She said she was lured to the scene of the attack on the Government reservation in Arlington Courty upon Gorby's statement, that he wanted her to act for him in a real estate transaction. A verdict In the case is expected to- y. BANDIT PLEADS GUILTY. Joseph Fried Admits Aiding Rob- bery of Mrs. Williams. Joseph Fried, one of the six bandits who broke into the home of Mrs. Caro- ilne C. Willlams, 1 Sixteenth street, March 7, 1926, and robbed. her, pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon be fore Justice Hoehling in Criminal Di- vision 1. He was remanded for sen- tence. Joseph Davidoff, who was arrested at the time of the robbery, is serving a term of 30 vears in the penitentiar: McCormick Medical ~ Glasses Fitted College Eyes Examined Graduate Dr. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Phone Main 321 409-310 McLachlen Bldg. 10th G Sts. N.W. | no clients DIES AT AGE OF 0 Assistant Clerk of Supreme Court of District Had Long Service. nith, an assistant clerk Court of the District ment in the Frank W preme about two cen il of the erved the months Notifiea tar n 1o Chief Justice t of Frank E. k of the court It is with a sense of bereavement,” e at the request of nce to your honoi . death of Frank W. Smith, an sistant clerk of your court, who serv ed with marked / efficie and un swerving loy v for mor of a century. You will be sur to know t g was in his year, for : se which, Jaid him low v ) ‘months 0, as he went in your ¢ had not pass MeCoy at th Cunningha dise himyonl son a pe daily ave have thought he his sixties. Gave First Case. me firs ted to the bar, ago, and at that time ushed to my office. When the historian reviews the ) this court he will be surpri copyplate entries made by Smith. I move that an appropri entry be made in the court's rec of the passing of Mr. Smith.” Chief Justice McCoy directed entry in the minutes declared all the justices are saddened by the news of Mr. Smith's death. An appropriate ent said the chief Jjustice, would be, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” He was all of this, declared the court, and was “alwa a perfect gentleman.” Mr. Cunningham, who was present when the agnouncement was made, stated that during the 25 ¥ he had been associated with Mr. Smith no assistant clerk had a higher record For quick relief use Anti-Kamnia— America’s original pain-banishing remedy. 1or 2 tablets almost immediately end rheumatic pains and soothe the nerves. Also “Frank Smith gave my fter 1 cord 1 by the | Frank | the itful ibed by formore than 35years. 25millicnsusedannually. Sold by everywhere. Packed in vests pocket tins—25 cents. A-K on every tablet. 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SouthernDairies e wharf. fice of the supervising ury, which on with where he . returning rsury 7 Justice Charles C. Cole was ed to the bench of the e Court he made F 'k in 1593 and he has acted in pacity e Smith sister for many wrles Town, ho survives him. sister, Mrs. John L. L. L ral services will be held Friday | at St. Alban's 2ev. Dr. ¢ he church, honorary dece: d 4 t iltiams F. tz, Capt. W. L. H. Jamerson Chamber and John 5 € E.| Hanan Shoes Exclusively at The Hecht Co. . W. A. Moss of Great Yar sngland, who has just cele the fifty-fifth anniversary of rriage, is the last woman sur. THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Will Be Glad to Explain Its Plan for Making Loans to PAY YOUR TAXES Call by and Ask for Information MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Tredsury 1408 H Street N. W. «Character and Earning Power Are the Basis of Credit” Are you tying up the most expensive pair of hands in your office? Fatigue is as effective as a cord—no one knows this better than your stenographer. 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