Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1929, Page 24

PIONEER CYCLISTS RECALL OLDTIMES Sixty Members of “C. Bi. C.” Attend Fiftieth Anniversary Banquet Here. " Time was turned back half a century < when 60 men gathered Thursday eve- - niny at the Cosmos Club to celebrate “ the fiftleth anniversary of the organi- Z zation of the Capital Bicycle Club, “ which once played so great a part in 7 the athletic and social activities of - Washington. Known widely by its more = familiar name of the “C. Bi. C.” this « club included within its membership an * unusually large number of young men who were destined in later years to figure prominently in the intellectual Z and business life of the National Capi- = tal. “ The 60 who met at the anniversary - dinner are not the only survivors. No- tices of the dinner were mailed to about £ 150 former members—all whose ad- » dresses could be found. It is 18 years since the club disbanded, and the mem- bers have long since scattered to many distant places. That 60 should have been present to renew old friendships and discuss the times the “C. Bi. C. was an active organization is regarded as striking evidence of the place which it holds in the memories of the men who once belonged to it. Old Vehicles are Recalled. i | Dr. Leland O. Howard, an enthusias- 7 tic member of the club in the first 10 ears of its life, was chairman of the “ committee on arrangements and toasi- - master at the dinner. He and the other wpeakers recalled the days when the - members rode “bikes” that would make . the average man of today dizzy by their mere height. They had one huge wheel . and one very small wheel, which some- “ times was in front and sometimes in Zthe rear. They had curious clicking pedals, hard-rubber tires and a set of Z handle bars which looked more like something to vault over than the ap- “paratus with which to steer such | “speedy” vehicles. | There were frequent falls and the members of the “C. Bi. C.” all had ~to learn the right way to fall in order “ to minimize the danger of injury. For “it was not like falling from the low- Wheeled bicycles of today; it was more “like falling off & roof, or out of a tree. Among the speakers was Max Hans- “mann, the only charter member pres ent, and Dr. Henry M. Schooley, who had the longest record of membership “in the club. Others who spoke at the dinner were Clarence G. Allen, Duane *E. Fox, Gen. Charles D. Rhodes, who .went in the old days by the nickname “of the “Colossus of Rhodes;” Charles F. Bacon of Boston, John J. Chickering of New York, Edson B. Olds, Francis H. Stephens, Henry L. West, Fred R. Parks, Edward O. Robinson, Dr. William *P. Morsell, Andrew W. Parker and Henry Calver. ‘When the club was organized Jan- uary 31, 1879, the charter members were Herbert S. Owen and his brother . Frederick D. Owen, Max Hansmann, L. "P. Einolf, Frank G. Wood, L. N. Je- «sunofsky and Charles Krauskopf. Mr. Calver said that he had seen the Owen - brothers a month ago in Miami, Fla, _where they were obliged to remain on Zaccount of the health of Frederick D. sOwen. Those Attending Dinner. # ‘The 60 who met at the Cosmos Club, “in addition to those already mentioned “ncluded W. Spencer Armstrong, A. . Barry Bufim Clarence M. Barrick, J. *Allen Boteler, Walter E. Burleigh, Ed- sward N. Burns, Appleton P. Clark, ir.; “Herman J. Clark, Meyer Cohen, Ben- ;jamin F. Cole, Wallace F. Crossmann, William W. Dodge, Abner F. Dunning- ton, George E. Fleming, De Lancey W. Gill, Herbert A. Gill, A. P. Greeley, -James H. Harper, Dr. Lee Harban, Al- “fred J. Henry, Dr. Garnett L. Hills, Dr. J. Bartlett Hills, Dr. Leland O. How- ard, Robert C. Howard, C. B. Hunt, Thomas J. Johnston, Robert V. La Dow, +jr.; Samuel E. Lewis, John T. Loomis, Gideon A. Lyon, Arthur S. Mattingly, ‘William P. Mayfield,”A. S. McCoy, Wil- liam S. Minnix, S. Preston_Moses, jr.; Ballard N. Norris, Prank H. Pelouze, Jesse D. Prosise, George F. Ruoff, John ..T. Schaaff, William E. Schoenborn, »Willlam T. Stockett, Henry A. Willard, “2d; John L. Wirt and Dr. William D. ‘Wirt. The first home of the “C. Bi. C." was on Tenth street pear H street. In 1880 larger quarters were rented at 412 "Eleventh street, now a part of The Star Building. Two years later sev- eral rooms were obtained in the Le Droit Building at Eighth and F streets. The club finally built for itself a fine home in 1889 at 409 PFifteenth street, facing the White Lot. There it re- mained for 22 years, which included ths most prosperous period of its ex- | istence. The club disbanded in 1811, when the Pederal Government purchased the entire block for new public bufldings. The day of the old “bike” had gone. ‘The automobile had made it a “back number.” In the list of the club’s presidents the following names occur; Max Hansmann, the first president; C. E. | Hawley, Dr. Leland O. Howard, J. West Wagner, John M. Killits, Rudolph Kauffmann, James Q. Rice, Walter S. Dodge, Francis H. Stephens, Edson B. Olds, Harry N. Low and Thomas Brad- ey. First Race in 1880. The first annual race of the “C. Bi. C.” was held in June, 1880, at lowa | Circle, a quarter-mile being marked ' 191, feet from the inner curb. With police assistance and fine weather, the event was very successful and drew a large crowd of spectators. The quar- ter-mile was won by Will Chester. The mile and 5-mile races were won by J. McK. Borden. Races were held again at Iowa Cir- cle in 1881 and 1882. A cinder track was laid out in Athletic Park, at Ninth and S streets, in 1883, at a cost of $3,000, but it proved to be poor ground for a race track and fast time was im- possible. Several racers had bad falls on this track. Here the 2-mile race was won by Frank Howard, a brother 1 of the presiding officers at Thursday's dinner. The club had its captains, and drill squads were trained. Exhibitions were given on the street in front of the old Arlington Hotel, on Vermont avenue between H and I streets, and on New York avenue. The drill squad made trips to Philadelphia and Baltimore to give exhibitions. The high wheels of | the early years were more picturesque, | if less safe, than the “safety” models, which later came into use. g Among features of the club activities were the “runs” and tours, in which groups of members took part. In 1882, Mr. Allen, Mr. Hansmann and Warren Seeley spent three weeks touring in the Shenandoah Valley, going by way of Harpers Ferry as far as Natural Bridge, where residents said they were the first bicyclists they had seen. Week End Runs Popular. Week end runs to nearby points were the regular thing. Favorite points were Rockville, Sandy Spring, Sugar Loaf Mountain and Frederick, in Maryland, and various points on the Virginia side of the river. Great Falls was also a favorite goal for week end runs. The first bicycle riders to make the run from Washington to Boston were Mr. Hansmann and Mr. Schooley, who accomplished the feat in 1879. The club developed many “fancy riders,” of whom Rex Smith was gen- erally conceded to be the best. Among the early feats by club members was a xide down the steps of the Senate wing of the Capitol by Herbert S. Owen. He rode & 54-inch high wheel, and finished 1 the performance without mishap. | via the Yucatan Peninsula to Cristobal, THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. FEBRUARY 3, 1929—PART 1. | | | LMY WELCONES CHANE 10 FLY Glad to Go to Central Amer- ica on Official Mail Inaugural. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, / Fla. February 2.—Col Charles Lindbergh welcomes the oppor- tunity to fly again into Central America, he said tonight as he laid his final plans to pilot the inaugural Pan- American Airways mail plane from Miami to Panama. He is scheduled to leave at 6 o'clock Monday morning for Havana, proceeding from there through a number of Central American countries Canal Zone. The flying colonel was hesitant about revealing his plans for the future. He said he was unable to give informa- | tion as to a reported aerial tour through South America in his capacity as tech- | nical adviser in_charge of routes and equipment for Pan-American Airways, Inc. “T would welcome the opportunity to go throuzh South America,” he declared Besieged by Thousands. Lindbergh was _bes today by thousands of spectator American Airport here, where he was the guest of honor in ceremonies pre- liminary to the opening of the air route. | During the afternoon he made six flights carrying passengers As the principal speaker at thel luncheon given in his honor at the| company's airway station, the trans- atlantic fiyer said aviation could be divided into three stages: The organi- zation and operation of flying com- panies for mail and passenger traffic Within the limits of the United States: organization and - operation of traus- ! portation service by air between North | America and South America, and simi- « lar- features in regard to air service across the ocean. First Stage Passed. | The first stage. he said. had been accomplished, while the second is in the progress of completion with the inau-) guration of service to Panama. Officials of the airways company and of the city of Nassau, Behamas, headed | by Gov. and Lady Orr of the British | Islands, attended the luncheon. Col.| Lindbergh attended a banquet tonight ) for forces of the company. He is guest at the Joseph H. Adams estate on Belle Isle, which adjoins the | Hoover pre-inaugural home in the J.! C. Penney estate. | e Alabama Speaker Is Dead. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Februar (#).—J. Lee Long, speaker of the Ala- bama House of Representatives and for many years a promineni political fig- ure in this State, died today. feats accomplished by members of the These are only a few of the many ‘ “G Bl G in the dgys whep bigycle riding was popular—the days that were ; remembered d celebrated by the 60| men who gatfered at the Cosmos Clubl‘ Thwsday eve “Rotten Smelling and Tasting” May Denature Alcohol “Denital,” a petroleum product, which was described by Dy. James M. Doran, prohibition commis- sioner, as “rotten smelling and tasting,” is being considered by the Prohibition Bureau as a new denaturant for alcohol. “Denital,” according to Dr. Doran, contains nothing save pe- troleum derivatives and _ its properties are somewhat similar to a denaturant now in use, “al- dehol.” Three-ofurths of 1 per cent by volume of “denital,” ac- cording to Dr. Doran, should be sufficient to discourage the hardi- est drinker. But even if the taste and odor can be withstood, the compound has another prohibi- tion virtue. It is nauseating. $250,000 BOND ISSUE MEETING IS CALLED/| Frederick, Md., Authorization Measure for Pres- ent State Legislature. Special Dispatch tc The Star. FREDERICK, Md, February 2.—A special meeting of the mayor and board of aldermen has been called for Mon- day night to draft a bill to be presented to the Maryland Legislature for author- ity to issue city bonds to cover munis pal street, sewer and water improv ments. The Legislature will be asked to sanction a $250,000 issue. Mayor Lloyd C. Culler is also ex- pected to make known th2 personnel of the newly created zoning commission, which will make a survey of the city's building situation and submit recom- mendations for a zoning ordinance. el i RS oo PO Floor, Bridge Table and Boudoir LAMPS Both imported and do- mestic novelties and staples, UNDER 2 5 % PRICE Silk, Georgette and Parchment Shades Buy Electrical Appliances Here Where They Are Guaranteed Glis Home Stectiic Shop Just Below F 517 10th St. Main 6549 Officials to Draft| SENATE SCHOOL BILL- CONFEREES NAMED Blaine, Hastings and Copeland to Meet With House Members to Study Measures. Conferees were appointed by the Senate yesterday to meet with a similar group from the House to consider the bill which has passed both branches in different form, to regulate degree con- ferring institutions in the District. ‘The Senate conferees are Senators Blaine, Republican, of Wisconsin; Hastings, Republicar, of Delaware, and Copeland, Democrat, of New York. The motion for a conference with the House was made by Senator Capper. Under existing law, a_group of per- sons may establish an institution and confer degrees merely by incorporating under the District code. The purpose of the pending bill is to enable the Board of Education to pass upon ap- plications for licenses of institutions izeking to confer degrees in Washing- n. PA I N “MURC i I A NX'__ F WITH THE CAPITAL BICYCLE CLUB 50 YEARS AGO AND TODAY Upper: Reunion dinner of the Bicycle Club at the Cosmos Club. Center: The celebrated Cow-boy Band. At right: Clarence G. Allen. Lower left: Mr. Allen, L. Warren Seely and Max Hans- mann. Lower right: The late Rudolph Kauffmann. REFORM PROSECUTOR STARTS TO PRISON Elected in “Bloody” Williamson County to Clean Up Area, Sen- tenced for Violating Dry Laws. By the Associated Press. DANVILLE, Ill, February 2.—Arlie Boswell, the “reform prosecutor” of bloody Willlamson County, tonight was en route to the Federal Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan,, to begin serv- ing a two-year sentence for violating the prohibition laws. Boswell, who was elected two years ago on a clean-up platform, was con- victed recently along with a number of aides of conspiring with Charles Birger, gang chieftain, recently hung for mur- der, in connection with Birger's liquor operations. Sentence was passed today. The others convicted are Hezzie Byrne, former chief of police of Johnson City, Ill.; Pete Salmo, nlleged bootlegger of Williamson County, and George Bell, former coroner. A final plea for leniency—not for himself, but for his aides—was made in court today by the former State's attorney. Crash Victims’ Bodies Recovered. LOUISVILLE. Ky, February 2 (#).— Workers late today recovered from the wreckage two more bodies of victims of a head-on collision between a passenger and freight train near Henderson, Ky., yesterday morning in which five train- men and an express employe were killed. Bodies of four were brought here today for burial. # S AUTOMOBILE, LIABILITY, FIRE, BURGLARY AND TORNADO INSURANCE Thos. E. Jarrell Co. Realtors 721 10th Street N.W. Main 766 o’ Make the shortest month in the year the bright- est! “Murco” Paint Products are as gay as a valentine . . . are easy to apply and wear well! E. J. Murphy Co., Inc. 710 12th St. N. W. Main 2477 ORATORS CONTEST SCHDDLS INREASE Officials Believe Total Num- ber Enrolled Will Exceed Those of Last Year. With the recent enrollment of 15 more Washington, Maryland and Virginia schools, the total number of secondary schools competing in the Sixth Natiosal Oratorical Contest in The Star's area has been increased to 58, it was an- nounced last night by Miss Louise B. Proctor, contest manager for this news- paper. When the current canvass of the area is completed this week contest officials believe that the total number ot participating schools will be greater than last year, when 63 institutions were enrolled here. . Six of the most recent schools to enter are in the private and parochial school {ll;t(rlct,:dstll)‘( are in the Maryland dis- rict, and three are listed in the district. They are: S Private and parochial—Emerson In- | stitute, Woodward School for Boys, Immaculata Seminary, Holy Cross ; Academy, St. Patrick’s High School, and the Academy of the Sacred Heart. Maryland — Washington Missionary | College, preparatory department, Ta- | koma Park; Laurel High School, Sur- | rattsville High School at Clinton, Baden High School, Bowie High School and |lh? Mechanicsvilie High School. ! h\fl/]i{gg]l;h—xases}:et?n High School, Mar- 3| ichool and | et Elen Falls Church Prepare for Orations. While their enrollment is = { nounced today, the students oble ir:i‘)s: r&;f the schools already have begun in earnest to prepare their 10-minute ora- tions with which they will bid for the right to enter the national finals here yin May and, by virtue of that compe- tition, the big prize of a 12,000-mile tour of South America next Summer. | The entire third and fourth year classes at Emerson Institute are preparing speeches as regular class work under Paul Bansfield, principal and teacher of English. Similarly, the junior and senior classes of Immaculate Seminary | are working on thelr speeches in class. | sister St. Ignatius, superior, and chair- man of the faculty contest committee of | that school, and Miss Isabel Mullins, | dramatic art_instructor, are directing the work at Immaculate. The English classes of all four years at the Wood- St. store only. delivered, Sale. ward School, under Harold La Fonte, | English teacher and contest chairman, | are preparing their contest bids in class. The students in all the English | classes at the Holy Cross Academy are writing their speeches at present. St. Patrick's School, which only this year was made a high school by virtue of the addition of a third year, which next year will be extended to four years, will assign contest speeches as class work this week. Thirty students, including two (lasses and individual volunteers, have been assigned contest orations at the Academy of the Sacred Heart. Other Preparations Under Way. Similar intensive preparation is un- der way in the State schools which have just entered the contest. Three of the Maryland schools, Surrattsville Bowie and Mechanicsville High Schools, have assigned contest oration prepara- tion to their respective entire student bodies. By inferclass competition the flelds will be reduced until a single champlon of each school will remain for the group phase of the contest, scheduled to get under way next month. The second, third and fourth year English students of the Washing- ton Missionary College are enrolled in their entirety, while the junior and senior classes in the Laurel and Baden Schools are working under assignment. ‘The entire student body of the Falls Church High School has received the oration assignment, while the juniors {and seniors of the Marshall High School are enrolled through class study. |SENATE GROUP FAVORS FLOOD RELIEF MEASURE Robinson Proposes “to Reimburse Four States on Mississippi for High-Water Toll. By the Associated Press. Indorsement of the Robinson bill to appropriate $3,658,000 for flood relief in four States along the Mississippi River was given yesterday by the Senate agri- culture committee. The bill was ordered reported for Senate action after a hearing in which Representatives of Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas told the com- mittee of damage done to roads and bridges by floods which rushed down the valley in 1927, inundating wide areas in all four States. ‘The only obstacle apparently in the way of passage of the bill by the Senate was an_unfavorable report from the Budget Bureau. ‘The fund, as apportioned by Senator Robinson, Democrat, Arkansas, author of the bill, would be divided as follows: Missouri, $258,418; Mississippi, $628,000; Louisiana, $967,582, and Arkansas, $1.- 804,000. It would reimburse those | States for money spent in rebuilding roads and bridges. many of which were destroyed in the high water: the season! A smashing, WICKERSHAM HITS ' ATTITUDE OF U. 5. | Declares Nation Owes Japan Debt for Bad Manners of Some Leaders. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, February 2.—The United States owes a debt to Japan for | the “bad manners of some of its political leaders,” George W. Wickersham de- | clared at a luncheon here yesterday to initiate the woman's campaign to raise funds for St. Luke's International Medical Center in Tokio. More than 1,000 women attending the | luncheon heard an outline of the plans of the national woman's committee to | raise $1,000,000 of the $2.656.560 sought in a nationwide campaign headed by Mr. Wickersham “Seventy-five years ago we knocked on the door of Japan and insisted on | coming in,” said Mr. Wickersham. “You can therefore realize what an obliga- tion we are under to Japan, because | since that time our roles have changed. | “We are now largely shutting the door of this country in the faces of our friends. We must not do that with our | Japanese friends because it isn't reci- | procity. We owe it to them to go out | with the hand of friendship. We owe it | to them to make expiation for some of | the bad manners of our political leaders.” Pointing out that St. Luke’s is in no sense a purely sectarian hospital, but an institution where the best medical science and care are extended to all who seek it, Mr. Wickersham said: “It is essential that the hospital be | rebuilt and that it be the best expres- sion of the best thought and medical organization that we in his country know. We would like the money to be given by a large number of persons as a manifestation to the Japanese people of the interest in them on the part of American people, because our Japanese friends have reason to doubt if we, as a Nation, are animated by friendly feeling toward them.” . Man Accidentally Shoots Self. William S. Plummer, 35, of ‘2814 | Evart place northeast, accidentally shot | himse't through the left hand and leg | Jast evening as he was handling a 45- | caliber automatic pistol at 1418 North Capitol street. He was taken to Sibley Hospital. A Sweeping Wind-Up of the Shoe Sales! 'HIS is the very last Hahn “Clearance News” of sweeping CLEAN- UP of REMNANTS—at our 7th St. store—that spells ECONOMY in capital letters for thrifty shop- pers. Three days longer—but we advise you to get here as early as you can tomorrow ! Wonderful Savings on Classy Women’s Shoes for 3 Days Only! We've gathered at our 7th St. store—from all of our stores—a great group of short lines for final clearance, at $2.95. street and evening shoes—in and leathers. this price! These, also, at “Areade” Store Many of these shoes sold for two to three times that price! Included dress, all popular styles You'll want three or four pairs at $2.95 At 7th St. Store Only 50 pairs women v rer and gold kid eve- ning slippers, that were $6.50 to PR e T Small sizes in women's $6.50 and $7.50 “Pirate” Boots. Women's genuine $10.75 P i) SPT0 “Swanky " Bgots—fashionable and useful for cold weather........ . . $3.85 Women's $3.50 to $5.50 automatic slider galoshes (at all our stores)..... 52,45 Women's hou se to $E50Vih it slippers that were 98¢ e e e T Radical Young Reduction on Folks’ Shoes Clean-up of nearly our entire stocks of children’s, misses’ and growing girls’ Goodyear Welt High Shoes. Tan or Gun Metal Calf and Patent Leather—some with colored were $3 to broken sizes, lot. tops. 500 prs. that $6. Some styles but all sizes in the Great savings opportunity. At 7th St. Store Only Sale of infants’ laced boots—sizes “First-Step” blucher 310 Feoansencnnecy 81 Sale of remnants of children’s long stock- ings—junior spor sports socks—at half price........ ts socks—boys’ novelty half or less than 19¢ Closing out warm sheepskin, wool lined moccasins at a third of their original prices, Children's, 49¢ Men’s and Women's, 89¢ THIS Sale (with exceptions noted above) at our 7th No charges, no goods no ex- changes during this