Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1929, Page 35

foreign countries. Up to recently, however, an actual ship had been lacking, but such an en- ergetic and enthusiastic person-as Mrs. Knowles could not be content with this state of affairs, and, through the gen- crosity of her sister, Mrs. Young of Milwaukee, an adult’ member of the WORLD AT A OF WONAN LEADER Mrs. Knowles of London,| American Born, Heads School for Children. society, she has been able to purchase an old three-masted clipper, which has been brought up the Thames to Charing Cross and moored there. bottomed clippers of Whitsable and more than 50 years old, is to be used as the London clubhouse of the associa- tion and has been appropriately chris- tened The Friend Ship, Clubroom in Ship's Hold. = Dl e A ough she is only 100 fect long tafl_Correspondent of The Star an 3 feet wide, her hold has been e ransformed into a clubroom which will LONDON, January 10.—Mrs. Ruth | acccmmodate 100 members. In addi- Knowles, American-born wife of the| tion, there are officers’ quarters and BY JOAN LITTLEFIELD, Al the | and 5 t ip, one of the last of the round- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1929. main_ uniouched. At the prow is a | large, brightly painted figurehead, rep- | resenting a woman, whom Mr. Knowles | has called “Peace.” I Although things on the ship are by | no means “straight” yet, the parrot— a wonderful blue and gold bird with | a roving and inquisitive eye—is al- | ready aboard. ~She will be joined | shortly by a West Highland terrier, a cat, a tortoise and a monkey. One cannot help wondering how this | somewhat mixed family will agree, but | hey are already well known to the members of the organization, as_their | adventures are recounted each month in “The Friend Ship,” the magazine | edited by Mrs. Knowles, and the chil- | dren will no doubt be hugely delighted | to meet this miniature zoo in real life. | Plans Motorboat Trips. In addition to having this permanent’ clubhouse, Mrs. Knowles is going to ar-| range motorboat trips to the docks for stories and cuttings about ships and | black and white clipper style, will re- ‘ land cruising centers” on the sea and’ important rivers in Europe, where chil- dren can be accommodated for about £1 a week and thus have an oppor- tunity. of seeing strange countries and meeting the children of other lands. 1t is rumored that there will be an exchange of parties of children be- | tween England and the United States. (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- paper Alliance.) HUGE RAIL TRAFFIC TOTAL BERLIN (P).—The latest official sta- tistics indicate that the German federal | railways are the largest inter-urban | transportation undertaking in the world carrying approximately 2,000,000,000 passengers each year. The daily average is 5.500.000. Of this number only about 36 per cent pay full fare. Members of the Reichstag, for example, travel free of charge. Former officers and _soldiers WHITE HOUSE MEETING headmaster of Tonbridge School, is a friend of whom all modern children should be proud. A little less than a ago, feeling | it ‘was desirable for the youth of z nations to know eacl other betler, M Knowles founded the Friend Shi; Children’s Organization. The obje was to teach children, through t Jove of ships and adventurous journey more about other countries and the peoples. Already there are 40,000 mem- bers in different parts of the world, in- | cluding Chile, China and the South’ Sea Islands. The organization secks to keep ever. thing as nautical as possible. All mem- bers are treated as if they belonged t a ship’s crew, First they join as ord nary seamen, later, through prow rising to ablebodied scamen, coxsw: and quartermasters. All members over 18 are known as ancient mariners. Children Divided Into Crews. The children are split into | sbout a dozen, and over each crew a| quartermaster, ‘elected by its members, holds sway. The crews ihen meet on a week, to play games, sing seacha | listen to lectures and infor: about other lands and to make up ship's log, which consists of interesting | | two tiny cabins, found for a libra: for exhibition: and wood-ca v of travel books and of painting, drawing ther work or their ts of the aining. Knowles, s to be n exactly the old tea and brothers or world may d “My little or the * it 0 [t beautiful wool clippers. She was once in the West Indian fruit trade, and the steps ieading up to the captain's deck are built of timbers taken from the quar- n's celebrated flag- ip, the Victo) Mes, Knowles called her assistant, a blue-eyed, brown-faced sailor with s rich brogue, the children’s ideal of what a seafaring man should be, who showed me proudly over the clipper. Her masts are not up yet and the ‘(‘]ubrmm is at present bare, save for a narrow seat built round it, but in the tiny timbered skipper's cabin a bright fire burned in the old ship’s stove. 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Solenberger & Co., Inc., Winchester, Virginia Page Power Co., Luray, Virginia Walter Trobaugh, Harrisonburg, Virginia TO FIX MEMORIAL ROAD President and Commission to De- cide Mount Vernon Highway Route January 19. ‘The route of the memorial highway to be built between Washington and | Mount Vernon will be decided upon at | a meeting on January 19 at the White | House of the commission, of which President Coolidge is the head, which planning for the celebration of the 0th anniversary of the birth of George Washington. nator Fess of Ohio, the executive ! O 0 0 in charge of the preliminary work inci- | dent to this celebration, during a call at the White House yesterday discussed with the President the various matters relating to the commission’s activities. He informed the President that the highway commission which has been mapoing the course of the Washington- Mount Vernon boulevard has completed its report and it will be ready for con- sideration at the next meeting of the George Washington Birthday Commis- sion. —.————r “Cannon Ball” Bak.* drove from New York to Chicago, 840 miles, in 18 hours 59'2 minutes, an hour less ‘han the fastest trains cover the journ: |FEDERAL ARCHITECTS the association. Methods of standard- ization are being taught and lectures are open not only to the students al- ready enrolled but to the public. The school is located in the old G. A. R. Building, adjacent to Poli's ‘Theater. ‘M‘emberis‘hip is m:xrnwlng in thewug- ciation, whose aims are to promo e Cosmos Club Saturday welfare of the several hundred archi- Night tects in the Government service and to L raise the standard of architectural ‘The annual dinner of the Associa-|offices of the Government. tion of Federal Architects will be held | at the Cosmos Club Saturday night. Motion pictures of construction of the New York City subway will be shown, through the courtesy of the Depart- ment of Commerce, An architectural school has been es- tablished by the association and volun- teer instructors are from the ranks of PLAN ANNUAL DINNER Association Will Hold Banquet at —_— £ 3,000 Russian S. ps Closed. LENINGRAD (#)—Heavy taxes and continuous troubles with hired workers have caused the closing of 3,000 private shops during the past year. There were 1,240 new government shops opened, but these failed to meet the demand. 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