Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1928, Page 88

BY CAPTAIN DINGLE, Noted Writer of Sea Storics. T noon of a certain day ‘a cable- gram came through to Halifax from, the office in New York: “Sydney — St. Pierre northern cable down. Proceed to repair.” That . message cost 33 cents. The ¢able through. which it passed cost thirty-five hundred. dollars a mile, that part of it which lay in deep water: the shore. ends, heavily .armored to with- stand the rough usage of the sea break- ing against the land. cost much more. And the message was delivered aboard « a compact little steamor lying ready, ith all her 60 men, through weeks of &xming idleness, for just that sort of message to come. + Six hours sufficed to - and recall men on leav 4 hours were usad up at the fuel ofl sta- | b0 on: then to sea on a night as per(ecv.‘ a moonlit calm could make it. with | g all hands sure of a homecoming in throe .days at most. . Part of the log . might be quoted: ! . 10:30 am-—Passed Devils Island. , Fine weather 5 { 1 p.m.—Cranberry Island bearing 214 degrees. .Fine weather. 4:30 p.m.—Thick fog set in. ‘That small ‘item in a cable ship's log ! —Fog set in"—may change a_quick jo! . o a long one: may upset all plans of " many mep; will surely caus> the ship's .miéward anyiety after a few.days of it; . or. as shall be shown. may on occasion save a life. In any event, let fog settle cown hefore the grapnoj has hooked the cable and the job is held up until the waather clears.” | “Put down a mark buoy,” is the order, and overboard goes a 400-weight mush- room anchor, mooring an 1,800-pound ' buor to mark the position of the ship whon stoppad for fog. And theteafter, right up to the moment the fog Mfts, the ship is kept nosing up to the flagged and lighted buoy, day and night, by ‘watch officers, whose only dread is los- _ing touch. In the “engine room an engincer stands by each engine without ceasing, . hands< @pon siarting léver, eyes on the electric télegraph dial from the bridge. It is Yiere, standing by the mark buoy in a fog riear the cable grounds, that deck and engineer officers, firemen. | | | | | It Often Takes M dock, ranging from 10 to 50 pounds in | weight, die on the slippery .decks in three hours. The steward fills his ice | chest. The Blucnose carpentez. thrifty | man, heards his own catch, splits them | and waits for the sun to come out to | ldry them. He bas friends at home. A | i salt cod is a botter home-coming gift to | | some than a plug of hard tobacco. At noon and then at midnight the | fog is thicker than ever. But toward 8| in the morning watch there is a | clear patch. The ship picks up her | and steams full spced for her | By 8:30 o'clock the fog comes | again, and down go the buoy and th Ashing lines together Now the fog clears aga!n before a ising wind, and the course is shaped for the position approximately deter- mined by the shore stations. The steamer is small—less than 500 tons: shc has a mass of machinery right on top_of her nose. The breeze hardens into a gale. Drifting down wind comes more fog, snd the blare of the siren | is now opposed by the roar of the s and hum of wind in the derricks a funne! guys. The ship is s0 near | her work that she is kept going: and soon the s2as begin Lo lick at her. Dub- les leap in through clearance ports. A spray leaps up from somewhere nea: | the port anchor and slaps against the | bridge windows like a handful of shot. | At 10 knots, she dips her bows deeply | into every running surge. And the seas grow higher. ‘There is a whine now in all the gear.’ The bos'n and his mates and leading seamen and deck hands go about the fore well deck. lashing the heavy buoys sacurely. A all cataract pours over the forecastle d. and then a grinning crest lifts above the rail, filling the well-deck so that the lashings of the big buoys crack. Those buoys are capabie of floating a weight of ncarly two top: wien they themsclves are floated b incoming water lachings need to be stout. If one of the unwieldy things 1 { cab! * helmsmen and lookouts are the soul of bursts loose—well. a cable ship carrie; % ;)éx;:l‘:n‘l.": ;;ul h;\ul that soul well tried.,an eflici surgeon. nds. who later on must sweat g, again a mark ‘buoy” goes down. and dodge broken limbs in the cable ang for another afternoon and night | tanks while coils of devil-possessed cable | the ship must hang on to that martk. | - Dl‘::‘e“::‘c’:;‘n’:n‘ghes;l;i; 02:; u;-c-;:‘enl’v‘&_‘.n is not very hard when visibility 1s | s . - good: but there is fog again, stalking So-can electricians, jointers and others | gown wind in whirls, like gray wraiths whose work comes to a peak when the | of derision mocking man’s efforts. i fauity cable is hauled aboard. 0"'3 the | "1y the testing room two electricians -siewards never know rest for ‘these ;jay with a maze of delicate instru- cabie ships live well, and stewards must ‘work that men maj eat. E - & w ARD shy must the ship heave-to with & mark buoy down, and not simply steam slowly ahead as other is.. He can announce without leaving * ships do? Because the cable ship has the instrument board that the fault 15 no landfall open to sound or sight. She |already on board the ship. And that ‘seeks a slender thread of copper wire, |is more important than may be imag- inculated with gutta-percha and ar- ined. Faults in a cable are not al- mored with steel wires and jute, lying A Ways outwardly visible. They range all &t the bottom of the 8ea perhaps for 40 | the way from a “pin prick” made by years past. It is no bigger than a 8 worm thal has got inside to the “broomstick: if may be buried under a'gutta-percha without making an ex- Tathom of mud or grown solid to a ternal mark. to a complete break in -yocky bottom through sheer mass of |which the armoring wires are tangled “ marine growth. and snarled up as if twisted in a vise. So the ship lies there in the fog. But that moment j8 not yet. During Boon the three days in which all hands | the night the gale rises to a climax in -expected to be back at the dock are.a squall of windy rain; by morning the m. ‘The storekeéeper has long :(ncefflnd has died 10 a mild. fresh breeze t told to prepare a lot of fishing |and fog blankets the sea again. But lines -against just such an emergency. the breeze keeps it moving in lanes, and | “Presh fish is not a bad Buftress for it is decided to make an attempt to/ dwindling food stores. Soon every man |grapple the cable. Down go the snaky | .with any fishing keenness in him is | Gifiords, three sections of them. The . §iggling a cod line overboard. while the | towline is placed under the dyna-! drifts past in and ovérhead mometer wheel; which records the the foghorn blares. ments bewildering to a common sailor- man. It is from there that word goes up eventually. that the fault is found. The electrician can tell the master with- | /in & small fraction of a mile where it | T | strain on the grapnel. If it either fouls ' During the hours when fish are some obstruction or catches the cable ‘eaught ‘the cable ship rather resembles | desired the heavy dynamameter wheel Three hundred cod and had- | will suddenly jump up to a&s much' as THE SUNDAY, STAR, WASHINGTO D. C. FEBRUARY 12. 1% “Rescue of Man Near Death Varies Routine—Piano Playing and Radio on Réturn. 80 or 100 hundred: s, “Stop her!” in a hurry and heave in the towline. The ship steams at moderate :peed at right angles to the track of the cable. Forward the master studies the equality of the strain, watching the dynamometer whenever there is a jerk Afler an hour of towing the strain remalns at a steady 14 hundred-weigh The ship stops and in com=s the grap- nel rope, while a dozen men down be- low work like galley slaves colling it down. This robe is of wire, and if there is a kink in it at the next lower- ing of the grapnel—well, the surgeon has his busy moments. * 5 2 % "HIS is now the fifth day of what seemed certain to be a three-day job. It is less easy to get a cheery good morning out of the master. The grapnel goes down again. In 20 min- utes it comes up, empty. The fog is creeping along again, evening is al- ready passing into night. The mark buoy has been left where the first low- ing began and the ship once more sticks her nosc to it, while the crew start up a sing-song aft, snug in their main-deck ~quarters, musical with a rented piano. The Old Man-—wio is not an old man, but a young master AS IT COMES NEARER THE LONE OCCUPANT S Then it's 'mariner with a war record—gathers in | rag of sail, as gray as the outlook from | for St. Pierre, Miquelon. his cronies for a bridge table. In the morning there is still fog. | There is a bothersome sca, too. The mark buoy at times is all but carried lunder by the drag. In all the gray | wasie of s»a and fog. with fleeting | glimpses of a sky as gray, neither sight | nor sound of anything but tumbiing | waters breaks the ghostly quiet. Men €0 to fishing again. On the bridge the master and one or two officers scan the prospects. Now and then a watery sun peeps through overhead. ‘There is no horizon visible and no genius has yet ised a orac- ticable artificial horizon for use at sca. Nothing to do but k2ep nosing to the mark buoy until the weather clears or run in and sight the land, securing a new departure tain; and the nearest land, Miquelon, is no sort of a neighbor in foggy weather. The master glumly orders a continua- tion of mark buoy watching. When a man has fastened his two human eyes upon a floating speck, with a_threadilke pole above and a wis) of sodden bunting and & lamp which may or may not be dead—on a mark buoy, in fact—those cves are likely to falter wh'n another tink speck crosses thelr line of vision. Thus e futtery | GNALS WILDLY. the bridge, escapes the watch officer, as it does the bridge lookout, until it is suddenly And clearly scen not a mile to | windwaid and coming down wind like a frightened gull. It is flying from an open dory, the s»a3 are hzndiing the small boat roughly. As it comes closer & lone occu- pent signals wildly, trying to douse hi: | ragged salls, keep the dory from broach ing to and spllling him and signal the steamer at the same time. Now the dory s clearly visible. Half full of vater: an emply water keg floating be- tween thwarts, some scraps of raw fish or fish bait perhaps, a crooked pole of a mast and sprit. a fish club and gaff and the'man, whiskered, dirty, soaked with salt water and fish slime and wear- ing the look of one who has kept ren: dezvous with death. When he had twice missed the line thrown to him, it was seen that he had only one working hand. Then a sallor from the ship went down a line, tum- !bled into the dory, made it fast and helped the castaway up the pllot ladder. Somebody steered him toward the doc- tor. but before he could be urged one fathom from the rail he knelt and a kiss that carried conviction T Drawn by €. W. Anderson Picking_up the man decided the master. The weather was breezing up again. Before 10 miles had been steamed a small gale wes blowing. Besides, the ship could do Iittle outside while ghe weather, gre werse, and with another fresh depar- ture, chances of picking up the cable would be brighter. . 'I‘HE castaway spoke no English. A compass found In his dory bore the name of a Lisbon firm. On the dory the name “Alcyone” was roughly paint- (ed. While inquirfes were sent out for ruch a vess~!, Doc poured whisky into the man while examining his hand. It had be'n torn somchow. but the real damaze was done by the man himself cutting at the festerinz flesh With fingers indicating the cays and a repetition of the words, “No asua! No monge!"” he contrived to make known ,that he had been adrift four days from his schooner without water or food. And on arrival in St. Peirre that | confirmed. His schooner, the Alcyone, | had salled for Portugal two days earlier. | after reporting the loss of a dory and {man. He went out of the cable steamer with a new outfit of clothes, $17 and » { kissed the deck—a resounding smack of | properly dressed hand. | As he went over the side, he was any Days of Tl and Danger to Find a Break in Service Due to o 'Héle No Bigger Than aPin-Head. dory. He cast one eloquent look at it, then at the crowd. Both hands, sound and wounded, went to his mouth, turned palms out, thrust away from him as definitely as human _gesture could thrust, and with cheeks puffed out he exhaled wind in a mighty: “PHOOH!"- never relinquished more eloquently or more completely. St. Plerre just then suffered from the | temporary closure of rum running ac- | tivities off the United States coast. |One might step from side to side.of | the inner harbor on vessels’ decks. - The waerehouses were bursting with . liquor. ! Five dollars a case for fine Scotch, if one would .take 100 cases, was the eager offer of one frantic agent. The day of the cablg ship’s visit was «the first time the sun had appeared in | 90 days, and then it appeared only-to iset. ‘The gale outside blew hard until 1 night. steamer to be anchored nside the small, land-locked harbor. Luck may or may not exist. Cable men belicve it does. Morning broke fair and fine. The pilot was aboard at | daylight, and outside there was neither | fog mor rough sea. After leaving the pilot five hours’' steaming brought the {mark buoy in sight again, and again the grapnels went down. | By 10 o'clock at night the ground was so completely raked over that doubts regarding the accuracy of the position originally laid down began to rise. Up came the graonels. Full speed ahead for sight of coastwise lights. Soon after midnight lights could be seen and identified; from them bear- ,ings were taken, and again out for the {cable grounds. Twice in the next 13 hours. the ship steamed thwart the sup- . posed line of cable, without result; and a school of grampus frolicked around her in their superbly lazy way, as if grinning at a joke they knew all about but wouldn't tell. Once more the ship ran into the land | Gwnership of a seagoing boat was | It was good for even the stout hour cut and test. Then the fault w found to have passed inboard, and : hands hung upon the verdict from th testing room. . And here comes the queerest thir of all_queer things in cable work. T} fault ‘that had kept a ship at sea fo: 10 days, that had puzzled the cabl: men because of its evasive position that had saved a man’s life when fus about gone; this fault was not to b detected_on the surface of the cabir at all. Two apparent breaks were e amined, ‘o find the core intact, befor this actual fault was found. And the thing that put a whole cat: out_of business, stopping importan traffic, causing all kinds of trouble a delay, chanced to be one of those fault | which might be put into a museum ur, der glass and remain for years withou: any soul ever seeing what it was ther- for. ‘There was not the slightest trac- of entrance in the outer member. O; in the gutta percha was there a ti scratch, not big enough to stick a pir into; but there had entered a meas)- bit of worm—an embryo toredo—and | had gone through the gutta percha an blet water into the core. | And the reason for the delay in find ing the cable is obvious. There was 60 | per cent of slack in the orizinal lay !ing. The cable runs into a wide cu: That alone tells a story of the weather of 40 yeats ago, when the old cable wz laid by a ship boasting few modern appliances. % It took 90 minutes to cut out the fault, splice on a piece of new cable. put on service to stand the water and tear of the ocean bed and start paying out again, back to where the other end of the broken cable was buoyed. Then both ends are on board again, and the culmination of all cabling jobs be- | gins—the final splice. | P | "THERE Is more tradition—sentiment | if you like—about this final splice | than any real thrill. It is not harder or different, from the first splice after picking up. { ~ But when all is done and the finished | job goes back into the depths from | which it was dragged, the men give a { cheer. That is tradition. When a job has taken 10 days, and the actual re- pair takes only 4 hours, the cheer is likely to be a weak “Hooray!" and a fervid, sotto voce: “Hope a whale gets i | for a fix. And again she ran out, al- ways a bit more away from the line where the cable was supposed to be. |1t was at 2 o'clock that at last the| dynamometer suddenly shot up to 50 hundredweight strain. Then interest seethed through the ship again. The | cabie was hove aboard by the power-! ful winches until two men, slung over the bows on bosunl';! tfi‘“i’l clapped 2 | stopper to each s the grapnel. |- | Then the cable was cut and the mz{gg"-& i L '.’:".:."-f ?;u B TG oward St Plere,” was the | QU it has taken overlong ' report. _But over radio comes something That meant the fault was in. the | SIich tells o difierent siory shout the other direction. The St. Plerre end of e euk " » companion ship which handles the deep the cut cable was buoyed and dropped | COMPEROR e b sending and -the ship started heaving in the talls ot troahle:> She Bas caught it £nd of the cable toward Sydney. | ;"g ‘hurricane. Her boats -are swept RETA | away.. Buoys have broken adrift. The ship has been swept so badly that her 'HIS cable was laid in 1873. and this ' saloon. captain’s room. engine room was the first time it had been and officers’ quarters are flooded and sighted since. There might have been smashed. Her helmsman, in his snug a thrill in watching that ancient rope | Wheelhouse, has been swept away on come to the light of day had it not| the wreckage of the bridge. Her fourth happened that it had lain in clay as| officer, diving for the helm. has his white and preservative as white lead | scalp taken off by fiying port glass. for a great part of its track. At that,| Only an accident to the engine room it came in covered with sponges, sea | telegraph which allowed the engine razors, little clams, baby shellfish of room indicator to fall, to “stop,” by all sortr, and the covering of the cable | sheer gravity after the wire had parted. that had lasted all the years fell from | made the engineers stop the ship and the core as it came over the sheaves. | thus save her from doonr But those are matters for Sargasso| The cable ship reaches her dock st Sea expeditions. Cabling is a business ' midnight. But her men are wondering | of service. The fault must be found, | about that other ship out there in the ,ond after five heurs of slow steaming, | Atlantic. They know her men. They gathering in the old cable tenderly, the | are all likely to be friends. There is a cable was cut and tested again. Fault | gloom over all. What will the full re- caught in jt!” But the job is done. True, a fog is over the sea again, and three buoys have to be picked up. But finally this is accomplished and the ship starts homeward. There is to be a midnight docking, all going well. Aft, the men sing and keep their piano twanging. The wireless operator has fixed a loud- speaker to his set and there are con- { steamer at once got under way iasked what he wanted dons with the 5'll in the sea. Heave in agaip. In an | port be? James of Noted Americans Associated With Kalorama’s History _BY JOHN CLAGETT PROCTOR. . LTHOUGH Kalorama, or ‘Wash- called, has been a noted place SR e s ey In- yet it y in- -at present from the fact tha: | for the Chief Executive to liv when he retires from his high office | -into civil life. .While the late President Warren G Harding - was representing the State of | Ohio in the United States Senate, he purchased a home at 2314 Wyoming avenue, a few blocks north of Mr | Hnover's residence, and it was here that he resided when he was nominated a Chicago for the presidency on June 12 | 1920, apd, jndeed. it continued o b ‘his rum until he moved into the White on March 4, following. Mesnwhile, Mr. Wilson, anticipating his retirement soon o follow after thr | election .of his successor, purchased on | December. 17, 1926, 2340 B street, jus! | 2 few gdoors west of the Hoover home, | ‘where he lived in retirement until hi death on Pebruary 3, 1924. It war fiom his £ street residence that the | body of the Democratic war Presiden’ was borne Lo Mount Bt Alban and pisced in Bethiehem Chapel. Mr. Wilson wes npot. the only ex- President who resided in Kalorama, o Chief Justice Taft of the United State: Fupreme Court had preceded him | there, and, indeed, stll vesides at 1215 yoming avenue. This beautiful home sands on ihe northesst corner of ‘Twenty-third street and Wyoming ave- b nue &nd only a stone's throw from where Mr. Harding lived Another prominent Republican, in 2001300 1o Mr. Hoover. who also is Lving on Kalorama Heights 1s Senator william B Borsh, who resider st 2139 Wyoging dvenus R { ALORAMA s one of 1he historic places in the Diswriet of Columbia , Many s grantiather and grandmother ptill Lving here, can recadl when as it 1le children tiey aitended in the Bum- mer Ume Bundey school pienics in Kalo- yams wouls, wnd & reference here u Ve enormous cans of lce cream, Lhe hugh rope swings and the large omnl Sirses WHICH WOk \hem % e grounds undoubtedly bring smiles W men eworn face, ws Lthey refiect upon pr good old duys of long g which nonever yewrn egein At u very esrly dete Kalorama be Yonged vo Anthony Hulmesd, sn Eng Vehmen, snd one of the original pro wiors of Jend welected for the Feders! cpitml 14 was he who erecued tho winel house on & commending emi e wnd called 1t Juck Hil) wat origipslly @ Uset calied Mite, wna sr suckh wes granted 64 1o Jyin Langworth. U thep Zined Eome 600 peres wnd the piit LoOf Florids svenuse and within Vi oty Liier wie Jater given the na af “Saines nis Park,” the paime wndos vk i v Vo eaied At the olher proprietors under certai eondition: 1o 1he Feaers) Government iy Kabmems wes cplled ook Molimead bt thix name did Mi Barlow h b Belair, bt dat con the nubtn ol places Uen h « ait id ssne, b decidea upon the | fiom the Oreek 1 the beginmsig bt s way t Me Kl wans scsnig fne view wot opelied Coloruina, i Uie Tuim gave senent epeling Iy 4948 o 3195 Holmesd sold Ve vkl Lwuse end wlil 40 mares of f Bt who hef by e g iueis U Liekd by Holmead when | A DEAWING OF KALC superintend the erection of the publi buildings here His career was un hon oteble one. He was w distinguished Jawyer, und during the period of the Amtrican Juevolution rendered vil service W the cause of Independe He was a member of the Association of the Freemen of Maryland, whie cided in July, 1775, 0 throw off (e proprietary - pover and wasume pro- | Visional government. Later he useisted | i framing Uhe constitution of Many Jend 1716, and subsequently served in thie Bate Assemibly, and in 1184 war | at u delegate to the Continentul | } Congre | Although his poljtical career was a: a tesident of Maryland, yet his birth i was in Prince Willimm County Virginia his father having been a Beoteh Kpiscopal clergyman who seitie | i thet Hiave in 1736 In 1028 it mey i Fseem iidiculous, hut 1t 18 true neverthe- | Jews thst thie chedit of the Genegal Government wa¥ zo low while Boott was one of Lhe commissioners that his own | bond was required from the Blute of | Maryland for money lent o complete the public baldings | Beng the son of w Beotchimen, he | nwturally snenived some of his tither Boeotch thnift, and ax evidenge of b hie d6 sadd Lo hwve udspled Lo his o uee w5 n kichen door step Lhe 1e) keystone of the then new K sliat bridge. On Ui his hwme wis chlseled hut elnee even stone will wepr onl, (his Snecaiption wiso finally vanished unde Ve trewd of mnny feel Allhough Gustayvis Kool was thiilly yet be wan gud peiticplarly for tunste . his b snents, o8 we might well Judie Siom w detier dited JRAMA MADE IN 1880, May 3, 1802, snd wiilien by ‘Thomus Jefferson and addressed o Joel Barlow, then residing 1 Parts purt reads There 15 most lovely seat ndjoining this ity on w high hill, commanding s most extensive view of the Potomac—now for sele, A suburh ouse, gardens, etc., with 30 or 40 acy of ground It will be sold under circum- stinges of distress, and will probably go for the half of what IL s coul It wes bullt by Ghoavus t, who is dend - bunkrupt. Beott died here m Warhington in 1801, most likely @l Kanlornma Barlow was not quick evough snd the property wiss bought i by Col Willium Augustine Washington, nephew of the st Prasident, und who remodeled the Cmangton and mude ndditlons which | ndded 1o 1ts utiity and attractivences 7, Gol. Washington was not so ‘with the place that he felt obljgea to keep It In the face of a good Ter, 41 W 1607 he sold It W Joel Barlow 108 4140004 mere bayatelle, wher, we recall that the Harding how not nearly so good & bullding wn the Hoover home, sold tn 1921 for some thing Nike 86b.000. Of courne there was i IGNL difference In e of oyer 100 years, but the difference even al Chut SUrikes one ws belng a very whie uhe wrlow was & distinguished diph and poel wnd was glad of the opp ity Lo purchase Knlorame, wheie conld entertaln, whi Jis nieshs pere mitbed bim 10 do, wid 1L wis while y- Tng heve (iat he winle Wia faimous poen W Columhing ™~ After takhig * on- ceseiun of The progerty he punde many Jnprovenients, wcting upon the wdvice The Jetter an | of Labcte, the architect, and Robert! Fulton, the inventor. Fulton was for quite a while his house guest and some say it was during this time that he triec out the mode] of the Clermont on Rock | Creek, nearby. As a matter of fact | there is not the slightest real evidencc 12 prove this statement, although it L undoubtedly true that he did give dem- onstrations in Rock Creek in 1809, be- | fore members of Congress, of his in. | | ventions of harpooning and torpedo | attacks. During Barlow's ownership | President JefTerson was a frequent | guest, As was afterward President Mad- ison, Noah Webster, one of his school- | { mates. also came to visit him here. and | in 1824 when Gen. Lafayette visitec | | Washington he participated in its hos- | pitality. | In 1811 DBarlow was sent as Minfs. | ter to France in the hope of preserving peace, our country then being appar- | ently ‘on the verge of war with that | country, and the premises were leasec to M. Serurler, the French Minis After nine months of diplomacy he | invited by Napoleon, then absent {rom Parls on his Russian campaign, to mee | him at Wilna, Poland, where the treaty | would be signed. Barlow set out for Wilna, but upon reaching this place | found the French Army in full retreat |on that town from Moscow. Becoming | involved in the memorable retreat, hc | was overcome by cold and privation an¢ ;fllt‘d in Poland on December 24, 1812, His body wes never brought back to this | country, although his name appeared |on the tomb which stood it 1802 where Is now the Intersection of Massa- chusetts and Florida avenues. In Mrs. Cora Bacon-Foster's well written story of Kalorama, which she read some years ago before the mem- bers of the Columbia Historieal 8o- (elety, a cony of the Inscriptions on the |tomb s given, and they are here re-| | peated Sacred to the Repose of And the Meditation of | JOEL BARLOW Patrlot, Poet and Philosopher Lies burled In Zarniwica Poland, Where He Died | 24th Dec. 1812 Act 33 Years 9 Months RUTH BALDWIN ‘AI‘UA)W Hin Wife Died 20th May 1818 Ael 62 Years the the Dead Living ABRAHAM BALDWIN Her Brother Died & Benator In Congress From Georgin 4th ch 1807 Acl 52 Years His ory Needs No Marble His Gountry 15 His Monument Her Constitution His Cireatest Work Mar M | GEORGE BOMPORD Colonel of the Ordnance of the United States Died 25(h March Ael 00 Years HENIY BALDWIN ROMFORD Hix Hon Hept Oth | HENKY BALDWIN, Ansoclate Juatle of the Bupreme Court Of the United Hiates Died Aprll d1st 1844 Acl 04 Yewrn LR 'O this tomb were conveyed the body of Commuodore Hlephen Decatur aft- er hin death followlng his duel with Commadare Baton in 1620, nd here It reposed untll 1846, In whioh year It was removed W KL Peter's chuvohywrd In Philadalphin - You, of course, remember hin toast which will live ANY gen- crations 1o come. 1L wi thin: "Our country! I her intercourse with for clign nations may shie always he in the Vht, but oup countiy, Hght or wiong.” THE LODGE AND E Baldwin, Mrs. Barlow's eld- | | trom | | completion b United States Henntor from Cleorgln, | . oy T ot TSl | tme. feeling that w farewell ball would | Lovett est brother, was the first to be burled I pepy, " the tomb, his body being removed thero | Aier¥Ard. moved to Phila Rock Creek Cemetery upon its Baldwin was a distinguished He was a Revolutionary patriot, served as & member of the national con- | stitutional convention. It Is sald the original draft of the Constitution wans | found among hix effects after his death. | The French Minis M. Seru only occupled Kalorama for a short while, an Mra. Barlow returned hore and | took posasssion -{nln of the premsles in | 1813, and here she continued to reside | until her death in 1818, In the follow- | ing year the mansion was oocupled by | Henry Middleton, a member of the Houne of Representatives from South Carolll but upon his lens appointed Mintster to Russia he turned the prop- erty over to Baron Frederick von i Cireuhme, Arst Miniater (rop frussia and who had married the governess of the family of Gov. Middicton After (he death of Mra Harlow the eatate went o her husband’s own nephew and adopted son, Tom Harlow, who sold the property soon afterward | to Henry Baldwin, Mia Harlow's roth- er, who immedintely tiansferred 1t to Col. George Homford, st ohlef of ord- nance, United Htates Army. Col. Bom- fprd was a brother-in-law (o Mrs. Joel Harlow, having marvied her slater, and here the Homfords resided for nearly 30 years. In 1846 the estate, which then In- oluded D1 acres, and which extended from Woodley lane and Rock Oveek Florida avetie, orossing the oreck at atreet, was sold to ‘Thomss R Lovett, as trustee for his mother, for 46,000, In this sale Homford veserved the aeve about the tamb, but this provision was evadod und the bodies 1eposing there were fually removed to Rock Oreek Comeolted AL (he beghining of the Ol War, bocame apparent that the (ove crnment wolld need a hospltal o gon taglons and oruptive diacases, and, (e manaton belog pleasantly situated, waa 'RANCE TO KALORAMA, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH MADE IN 1882 { leased from the Lovett family, who soon delphia. 1t ed to be a hospital until 1866, when it was given up by the War De- | Those In charge at that bo the proper thing, dectded to do so THE DOG DERBY. JHILE In England the term “the reag Derby"” {5, of course, gencrally ae cepted to mean the great horse racing event, there is another “derby.” that of dogs, which 1s almost as interesting as the bigger event. Lancashire is the great eoursing county.of England, al- though In most of the northern coun- tles there are few, it I3 sald, who can resiat the allurement of greyhounds in rsull of @ have. Ho 1t happens that he annual dog derby draws thousands of keen and exclted sportamen to Alt- ar, where they may command a good view of the atvuggle for the Waterloo cup Pieseaiiior the compeéting dogs there 15 0 cnrd bearing ity oumber — These cards are drawn alternately from two Jugs, the antmals deawn together betng Palred agatnat each other “The dogs, usually 64 1 pumber, ave divided nto W1 couples, runntng 33 cowrses. The 43 winners run 10 courses, wnd so the process of elimination o *Inuu untit hero shall vemain only o dogs to unrmu e final strugale for the oup The prises arve woll worth striving Iwsnuh wa the winner receives 3,000, 1 addition (o & handsome col- lar, on each lnk of which & engiaved the name of w former winner. ‘The run- el -Up geta §1,000, the thivd and fourth, 2300 oAl W the emalning dogs Mer auma, until (he total stakes of SH.000 ave exhausted s a losing game | play wgalat pur N oyards a ) And a0 her only ohance 15 dody HUt her pursuers ave implacable and, turn and dodge as the hare mav, 1 s only a faw seconds onve e critival stage of e 1o 1 the have to o Cal cover azed and the ‘property subdivided ito aliding lots. On approximately the spot where the toric old home stood for so many rears a home was erected by William A. Mearns. It is now the home of E. v s:!eu--nn and i numbered 2301 S ireet. E LIVING reminder of the days when Anthony Holmead sold his home to Gustavus Scott is the dwelling stilt standing on the north side of S street facing Twenty-second street. This ola home dates from 1785. Just prior to the World War the building and site were bought for erecting here & German em- bassy building. but time changeth ali things and the building has not yet been erected. The old butlding is still Ay of money. The story that the bricks used In its construction came from Eng- land is. like similar statements made re- garding so many of our other old build- ings. purely bunk. A search of the neighborhood might even reveal the brick kilns where the bricks were actu- ally made. So also can be discounted the statement that Anthony Holmead ctood here on his front porch and said good-by to the Indians when they were driven from this vicinity by the white settlers. It is doubtful if an Indian was in this vicinity even a hundred years prior to this Larzily Rock Creek still flows on, bu the landscape is a far different one what it was a few decades back. ¢ Lyons mill s not to be seen. nor do the swimming holes in Summer ring with the merry laughter of boys taking & dip outside the reach of one of Lieut. John- son’s mounted squad Imagination neve mare can picture old Kalorama. To th | Younger generation ft is more beau A it is today. for as has been satd NAT) what the eves do n ‘on Christmas eve. and it came betng the last of Kalorama Mansion, for the east wing was entirely gutted, | In 1872 it was rebuilt and entirely re- furntshed by the tha owner, Qeorge In 1889, seven years after the see the heart doe {not grieve after. and since they hav {never seen the stately oaks and the I beautiful wooded hills and vales, or thy beaten paths and the cool shady sp how could they be expected to apprect ate the splendor their eves have hew looked upon. However. to the other gen {eration, thase of the more mature wge Ralorama s not near so beautitul now and never will be Owned, occupied and visited by Revo | tionary patriots. even by Thomas Jet ferson, the author of the Declaration o Independence. and James Madison {another stalwart of American lderty {the very atmasph. - of the place secn k\ermulnfl with American fréedom —an it surely is & charming place to lve leven for presidential candidates.. Buildings Cause Winds. ()Nl‘ may learn many iateresto things about alr currents and WAy storms develop by watehing i the frst day of the meeting seelg the Movement of pleces of paper or per 132 At and (e 16 second heats de- | haps Bis DAU as 1 & whitled about th LOlded On e second and thivd days | street A varlety of miniature wing the remaining cup heats are tun. as | starms are caused by the high builittng well ay those for the Waterloo purse | of our elties or the forms of stivel: and piate consolation prises competed | which well repay study for by dogs beaten o the first two ! On & hot day. when the air & per tounds iy by day the excitement | fectly quiet, the atiosphere as 1t be Brows as (he alvuggle narrows down. | comes heated tends (0 rse ak g th until it veaches 1ts olimax o the Thind | sides of rocks or bulldings, and it | and last day of the meeting, when four | travels high ehough 11 develops tnlo ¢ [ ogs only are left (0 Aght for the big | strong wing. which descends mv\‘lh o\C Prize Pasite side and plays queer pwangs. Much money chunges hands as the ! A amall whirtwind & often produce. vesult of the three days’ coursting 10| DY Ehe action of wind wgainst & come 1 contended that so mueh as $100.000 | fred by several bulldings As i has beon won or kb over o single | WL ravels down & stivet, sspecially NeNE TR (0, ¥Ry TaTge suims ave | DAFOW alie, 1t Tapidly tcreases i vels | wnnually spent by the owners of the iy A Hible will spill e the st dogn Rennels there wte Whith are satd | Svets bt the matn aieam wilt Ao 10 voat from S10000 (0 $30.000 & yvear | on ‘uhrllu. e im - Otaerve thy AR I WS anee repated that the Tate | Wind stuike dgamst the side of & hig Col North Spent fore (han $330.000 | Bullding and wotice how 1§ “Jushivns O e AprE - His Tewaid Wil rsoand | out i all sides. splitting W wmany ap (hat stands WAbEAt®n. he won (e | ourrents. apg (race thase (1 thae v COVEted BIue FIBBON ML (mes 1N SUe- | Lo st \-u\ be sute to held ghtly o ceRaive yeams YOUE BAT I the weant e 2 death of Mr Lovett, the mansion was od, before ane of the dogs has the g s jaws. 1t {3 not, however, alwayy the killing dogs that win The verdict goes to dog that scores the mast points, in “speed.” “the go-by.” “the turn,” “the wrench” and “the Kill.” The “go-by™ s the term used to designate that stage when w dog, starting a length behind his rival, passes and leads him by a length: “the turn® when the hare doubles at w vight angle or more from [ her former course to dodge her put- | sue and the “‘wrench,” when she | turns at less than a vight angle i Thus one course suceveds another, !