Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1929, Page 4

GAPPER T0 SPEAK AT D. C. BANQUET Assogiation-of Oldest Inhab- itants to Hold Program December 7 l Benator Arthur Capper of K-nul.! chairman of the Senate District com- mittes, will be the nnnclgll speaker at the annual banquet of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia December 7 at the Raleigh Hotel, it was announced by Washington ‘Topham last night at a well attended meeting of the organization The principal subject of last evening's session was “The Beginnings of Chevy Chase,” with Edmund Brady, attorney, ! discussing the development of this sec- tion and surring up much discussion, | not only concerning Chevy Chase, but| also the growth of the street railway | system in Washington. H Senator Frank L. Greene of Vermont | contributed, through a letter written to | Fred A. Emery, vice president of the! association, an expianation of the say- ing “Wake me when Kirby dies.” uch interest was evoked by remarks of A. N. Harmon, confirmed by other | members, that there is a pane of glass | in the house occupied by the superin- | tendent of the Washington Zoo on which it is believed President Andrew | Jackson scratched “Old Hickory, 1828,” | when he was guest of President John | Quincy Adams. Tribute to Foresight. Tribute was paid by Mr. Brady to Prancis G. Newiand, tormer Represent- ative, later Scnator, of Nevada, and to Senator Stewart of Nevada for their “vision” ana persistence in pushing the | development of Chevy Chase against | odds. Senator Newland “poured” money into the Chevy Chase Land Co. for 35 years “without receiving a cent of divi- dend,” according to the speaker. Ex- plaining that it was a commercial de- velopment, Mr. Brady said that never- theless the success achieved in the owth of the suburb would not have en possible without his “vision” and Tesources. Discussing the development of Con- necticut avenue, and explaining why it takes a turn at Chevy Chase Circle, Mr. Brady said: “The first scheme was to buy up farm lands extending through an undeveloped country on each side of a line which would be a direct pro- longation of Connecticut avenue, as it exists in the City of Washington. The intention was that this line should be 8 direct connection through to what is known as the Georgetown and Rock- ville turnpike. The surveyor who was to run this line did the unwise thing of flagging the line clear through into Maryland and to its proposed final point of juncture. The result of this was that certain active real estate men bought large acreages of property at the upper end, which they afterward speculated on in a large degree by re- selling to the land company until it 80t to be 5o much of a tax that the company ¢ cided to abandon its origi- nal intenticn and to deflect the avenue &t the point where you now find Chevy Chase Circle, and from there on extend finally developed here, Mr. Noyes ex- lained, through changes. The Capital tion Co, started with a cable car, he said, but the cable house burned. ‘The comj went ahead with under- ground el 1 work. “The result is,” concluded Mr. Noyes, “that we now have a harmonious sys- tem over the whole city.” Following. Mr. Noyes, Max Kohner, a member of the association, recalled the “fight” which The Evening Star had made for underground instalia- tion and declared that if it had not been for this fight Washington might have had poles “up and down F and G streets.” He said, Ve can thank our president for all he did in this matter.” Club Founding Recalled. In his discussion of the history of Chevy Chase, Mr. Brady referred to Club, predecessor of the present Chevy Chase Club. He said six members of the present organization were charter members of the Hunt Club: Edward J. Stellwagen, Dr. Joseph H. Bryan, Montgomery Blair, Thomas J. D. Ful- ler, Henry May and ‘W. B. Hibbs. Mr. Brady predicted that the ‘“real self-sacrifice of Senator Newlands in building up Chevy Chase will be recog- nized by some appropriate memorial to him at Chevy Chase Circle.” The solution of the When Kirby Dies” mystery was pre- sented by Fred A. Emery, in the form of a letter from Senator Greene. In sup- port of his theory, the Senator had written to the dramatic editor of the Billboard and received a reply in part as follows: “About 1839 a prominent New York actor, J. Hudson Kirby by name, had a theory that an actor worthy of the name should save his strength during the early scenes of the play in order that he most certainly would be up to snuff for the climactic scene at the end. In following out this theory, according to the story, Kirby was inclined to be overeasy up until the gory episode at the end of the play. he being most gen- erally associated with tragic offerings. As a result of this, playgoers familiar with his work would turn to their neigh- bars during the early stages of the per- formance, with the remark, ‘Wake me up when Kirby dies.’” Old Map Presented. Henry L. Bryan presented to the as- soclation an historic old map of the United States dated 1834. Mr. Duhamel presented to the asso- ciation an interesting picture of & “fine old mansion,” which, he said, no one yet had been able to identify. As soon as some members of the associa- tion identified it, he said it would be propriately labeled, and hung in the gallery. Other features of the annual banquet of the association, as reported by Mr. ‘Topham, included music by George O'Connor and Matt Horn, a poem by John Clagett Proctor and inyocation by Rev. J. Harvey Dunham. New members elected to the associ: tion were: Harry S. Welch, Edwin Graham, Fred Schuler, Samuel Prescott and Fred S. Gichner. - Washington Topham reported re- ceipt of information of official records from the War Department, showing th: the old Winder Building, which the founding of the Chevy Chase Hunt | Wake Me Up THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. ‘C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, MINSTERS WIFE CFTED VOLINST Mrs. Eric Louw Has"Made Lifetime Study of Instru- ment—Also Plays Piano. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. With the arrival in Washington of | Mrs. Eric Louw, wife of the newly ap- pointed Minister from the South Afri- can Union, the Diplomatic Corps has | again added a gifted member to its group of talented women. Mrs. Louw is an accomplished mu- sician, playing both the piano and the | | violin, although she assures you, that | > violin is th> instrument to which | devoted most of her time. 1 really made a lifetime study she sal having started | my studies when I w. n vears old. | It had been my intention to take up the | violin professionally, but I married in- | stead,” she added with a smil>, “How- ever, I am keeping up my music as much as it is possible, and, although I no longer have the opportunity to practice the six and eight hours of my student days, I manfige to continue playing both the violin and the piano.” Although Mrs. Louw modestly denied that she also sings, it has been learned from “those who know” that she has a remarkably sweet voice, playing her own accompaniments on th» piano. Most of her musical studies were pur- sued in the Conservatory of Music of Grahamstown, South Africa, where Mrs. Louw tells you that she frequently gave as much as six hours a day to her violin practice, and two hours to the study of I piano and harmony. Violin Is Heirloom. ‘The violin which she has brought to ‘Washington is an heirloom, inherited from musical ancestors. Contrary to previous reports that the wife of the Minister from the South African Union was an Englishwoman by birth, Mrs. Louw tells you emphat- | ically that she is a real daughter of | Dutch South Africa, having been born and brought up in the Eastern province, and educated in South African cities. Her first visit away from her native land was not until four years ago, when her husband was appointed as the first South African representative to_this country with headquarters in New York, at which time she accompanied him to that city, where they remained for three years. “At ‘first, I was terribly homesick,” reminisced Mrs. Louw, “but soon I learned to love New York, enjoying in particular its concerts and its music.” “You know,” remarked the Minister's wife, “it is quite curious the way the average American, as well as European, thinks of South Africa as a land o lions, mines and “tom-tom” dances. The fact is, the leading cities of the been the center of a friendly argument at the last meeting of the association, had never been constructed for a hotel as had been claimed at the meeting by some members. Henry L. Bryan paid tribute to two members who died since the last meet- ing, Harry O. Hall wnd Dr. Benjamin South African Union, such as Cape- town, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and others, are quite as modern and up to date as the cities of America and Errope. I have known many Ameri- cans, in particular, who said they felt s0 much at home in Capetown, as it | reminded them so much of their homes. 1929. MRS. ERIC LOUW. 'HOOVER WILL ACT ON FOREIGN POSTS Complete List of Diplomatic' Nears Completion. By the Associated Press. | A complete list of new heads of American diplomatic missions number of Seuth and Central Amer- | lcan countries is expected to be ready | for action by President Hoover within a week. Among those who are reliably re- { ported to be remaining in the South in & | | American fleld are Alexander P. Moore. | | Ambassador to Peru; William S. Cul- | bertson, Amb ¢pr to Chile; Robert Woods Bliss, Ambassador to Argentina | and Edwin V. Morgan, for the past 17 years Ambassasdor to Brazil. George T. Summerlin, former Minister to Hon- duras, has already been appointed Min- ister to Venezuela; Leland Harrison former Minister to Sweden, has been appointed Minister to Uruguay, and Sheldon Whitehouse of New York, Min- ister to Guatemala. Harry F. Guggen- }étl‘l’n has been named Ambassador to uba. President Hoover is known to be keenly interested in the development of the American diplomatic service in the | South and Central Americas ever since his Latin American tour of last year and has been particularly interested in the question of the promotion of or | diplomats of the American foreign s ice to responsible positions. | __In the appointment of Summerlin and | Harrison the President showed an in- | clination toward the foreign service in | his first two choices in the Latin Amer- | ican field. Members of the | service have expressed the ho) | since Mr. Hoover came into office | he would see fit to make further pro- motions to responsible positions for the service. ‘The South and Central American po- sitions which are now open to the President for designation of new Min- isters or an indication that the incumbent will remain are Colombia. Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia, Panama Honduras, Nicaragua, San Salvador and Costa Rica. ? —Harrls-Ewing Photo. WQMAN AUTO STUDENTS sald. “Somehow, South Africans =l-| and I have frequently heard Americans | say the same thing when they were in | South Africa.” of her children. said, duties may be, I always see that the | children receive a s feel at home in the United States The Minister and Mrs. Louw have The selection of their school has not | “No matter how busy I am” she | Wit “nor how_pressing my officigl | boa certaln amount of | Final two ous, Jun, 10 youte oid, una lige| Freseutation of “Yorch Wearers | Martin, 5 years old. The Community Drama Guild will yet been determined, but Mrs. Louw | hold its first meeting of the new sea- is a devoted mother and gives much son tomorrow night at 7:45 o'clock in personal supervision to the upbriuging | the -Franklin, Administration Building, |at Thirteenth and K streets. Final arrangements for the presenta- tion of “The Torch Bearers,” at McKin- DRAMA GUILD WILL HOLD | TO CONTEST FOR PRIZES | SEASON’S FIRST SESSION written Examination on A. A. A.| Courses Will Decide Recip- | Arrangements Made for o ients of Awards. { Woman automobile drivers attending the two courses being conducted by the American Automobile Association will contest for cash prizes totaling $100 in a written examination to be held by the | association at a mass meeting of the two classes. prior to the annual gradua- tion luncheon. g November 14 and 15. Dr. De C. Croissant, chairman of the O s exch lesson of the course mow being asked. A board of judges will examine Eight outstanding questions, one from ! taken by 700 woman drivers, will te | PROGRAM ANNOUNCED FOR ROSTER CEREMONIES u Presentation of War List to Be in Cireuit Court Room in Rock- ville Monday. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., noon in connection with presentation to the county commission ers by the Montgomery County com- mittee of the Maryland War Records | memorial. official restar of the to the public and will start at 3 o'clock. Cemmission of t B 3:en Green Purple Black Burgundy Suede “Vagabond” Suede bags to metch. £6.50 November 7.— Miss Martha Sprigg Poole, chairman of Missi i i |the committe¢ in charge, has an- ons in South America | nounced the program to be held in the Circuit Court room here Monday after- the formal men from. Montgomery County Who served. in the World War. F. Prettyman, Krnldnnt of ery County Assocla- Ghriet Episcopal Charen, nick, rector of ureh, Rockville, will deliver the invocation; Dr. George E. Lewis, chrirman of the committee, will present the roster; Harold C. Smith of the local bar, former State commander of the American Le- glon, will read the names of those of the county who received honors; A. Doug- Ias Farquhar of Sandy Spring will read the names of those of the county who |gave up their lives and Dr. Jacob W. | Bird of Sandy Spring will give a talk on “How Can We Show Our Appreci- ation?” - | According to Miss Poole, the meeting will probably consider a county war The exercises will be open Fashion Now “Looks Daggers 19 . —and this chic new “Vagabond” Pump is audaciously “holding up” the Mode’s high- ways. Tiny dagger and chain on its broad, mask-like strap add a piquant touch of originality. $12.50 . my time each da: | ley Technical High School, November Mrs. Louw remarked that her life in ' 14 and 15, were made last night at a London, where her husband was high | meeting of the board of governors at commissioner until recently, was of a|the Pranklin Building. particularly arduous social nature. The | It was also decided to carry out the Ministér and Mrs. Louw were in the | following program of _plays: English capital for eight months, dur- Honeymoon,” February 28 to March 1; ing which time Mrs. Louw was present- | “Gas.” a comment on modern industry, in W. Summy, whom the speaker praised st B Sen Byuas. “For example,” she added, “the mod- ern dial system of telephone has been in use in our cities for. a long time. Our public buildings and hotels in the Iarger cities are very much like those in this country apd I do not know a | Pl in the world where one can travel | the papers and announce the vpnner.k, at_the luncheon. The afternoon class will meet tomor- row at 2 o'clock in the Y. W. C. A. Building, at Seventeenth and K streets. while the evening class is to meet in the Wilson Normal School at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. C. H. Zahn of De- in a northerly direction straight on as for faithful service as treasurer of the far as the Jones Mill road. association over & period of years. Dedicated to Public. “The avelnue was dedicated to the ublic as a gift from where the Million- ar Bridge over Rock Creek now stands to the Maryland line with a CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ‘TODAY. Kit Carson Corps, No. 11, W. R. C, width of 150 feet. "At the same time that this handsome dedication was be- ing made by the land company the au- thorities of the District were condemn- ing Sixteenth street and paying several million dollars in doing so. ~After. hav- m; officially designated Connecticut avenue, the question of its improvement Was most important, and the land com- pany, feeling that if it waited until such time as the Government itself should open this thoroughfare it would not be an economical lure, there- fore concluded to do t) heavy grading at its own cost and expemse. A sum of $480,000 was spent to cut this avenue out at the width indicated.” _The development of the street rail- W2y was sketched by the speaker from the time the land company acquired the charter of a road from Thomas E. Wzggaman, which was tc have run out through Woodley lane, but which was {u;ver built. Congress later changed e charter, it was explained, to alter te 5o that it could go out through e ticut avenue and bring persons nto Washington for one fare. The company, it was explained by the ulpeflnker. bought the rights of the Love k: lerground system and built what was I’“own as the Rock Creek Railroad, crnnuu down Connecticut ossing Rock Creek by the fron Cal. Yyert street bridge, constructed at the' expense of the company, down Eight- | :;‘mh street to Florida avenue, where e overhead trolley was abandoned ; :gd transfer made by a street pit to! Ine underground Love system, which turn ran to Sev Florida, avenue, the termipus c0 04 Difficulties Experienced. Difficulties experie nced, however, Yy wheel was run, finall; caused a change in the s . ystem, :;eplléned, Engineers finally r;rv:'io::; o able to the soff iron rafls upon mnlch_r; sliding contact w N e old copper cable ex; :?rl‘ed Summer, contracted in lg:ng’elg‘g the line was tied up so much that ch;nng:; were necessary, er attempted under, - ;for;n kdwlg;cl?’ failed campleu.;‘;’u:s; .{:- ames F. Duhamel as havi ?}:\s:md out near Howard Univer:l?f iy t cars, he said, were to be Ppro- pr ed by a long screw revolving under- EL:;':d'c:r mIl;r lbtml’ hung from the > and lowered POWer was needed. Another systers re- bered to by Mr. Duhamel as having en abandoned was one in whch each long undergroun ::lcoleif)nwnrfi;dp along from uclfion Ig copper eable, which wi Put up in sections, b i Fight Is Related. - W. Noves, president of the associ- ation, reviewed the “severe nnl::“fl- perienced in Washington when trans- Pportation passed from the horse car to rapid transit. The problem, he ex- plained, was to make the change with- out passing throuzh the stage nf ove head trolleys in the city limits. Ex- periments on underground work made on the Rock Creek Railway and on a similar road between Pittsburgh and Allegheny City both proved faflures at first, he explained. The Philadelphia syndicate which was urging an over- head trolley in Washington used these effort to change the law here against overhead wlrfs. because they claimed for underground systems a “demonstration of com- mercial impracticability.” Mr. Noyes related his personal experi- ences in visiting the underground cable street rallway systems in Europe, and writing for The Evening Star accounts of what was being done there, in Buda- pest, in the Netherlands and the suburbs of Paris. In Budapest, Mr. Noyes ex- plained, the underground cable seemed to be & success in spile of more ex- treme cold in Winter and heat in Sum- mer than prevailed in Washington. ‘This was an answer, he said, to the argument that underground = svstems were commercially impracticable, Traction Ideas Fail. A storege battery electric car in the Netherlands running out of The Hague had proved impracticable, Mr. Noyes explained, because the batteries were too beavy. In suburbs of Paris a com- pressed air car was tried, but, while successful in Paris, proved unsuccess- ful in this country. Mr. Duhamel recdlled rides on the experimental compressed eir street car i Washington. « Bhe undergrour 7 Jic system was will hold its regular meeting this eve- ning. President Charlotte Cary will be present and there will be annual inspec- tion, Miss Sybil Baker of the District Com- munity Center will speak at the Park View Platoon School Parent-Teacher Association this evening at 8 o'clock. A card party will be given by the Na- tional Review Woman's Benefit Asso- ciation, 1750 Massachusetts avenue, this evening at 8:30 o'clock. Public invited. A planoforte recital will be given to- night and tomorrow night at Baptist Church, Pifth and Q streets, at 8:30 o'clock. A dinner and bazaar for the benefit of the Ladies’ Ald Society and Alpha Bible class will be given at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Eighth and B streets southwest, this evening and tomorrow from 4:30 to 7:30 o'clock. James E. Walker Post, No. 26, Amer- ican Legion, will hold a special meeting this evening at 9 o'clock, in lieu of the regular meeting on November 14, nec- essary in order to perfect Armistice day arrangements. FUTURE. The regular monthly meeting of the George Baldwin McCoy Unit, American ‘Women's Legion, will be held tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. at the Church of the Covenant, Connecticut avenue and N street. An original “A Summer’ by Mrs. James Shera Mon the Metropolitan Memorial M. 3 Church tomorrow evening at ‘clock. The Imperial Male Quartet will give sev- eral musical selections. The Rowac \Club will have charge of the book review meeting under the De- partment of Education of the District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs at the Mount Pleasant Library Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Meeting of St. Gertrude's Guild the home of Mrs. E. T. Kilkoff, 33: Fighteenth street northwest, tomorro afternoon at 3 o'clock. Alpha Delta luncheon tomorrow. Hotel Gordon, 12:30 p.m. The Big Sisters of the District of Co- Jumbia will meet at St. Patrick's rec- tory tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Strayer College will hold its annual Fall dance for its students and alumni Saturdey evening at Meridian Mansions, 2400 Sixteenth street, from 9 until 12 o'clock. Tllustrated lecture by Branson De Cou on “The Northern Wonderlands of the Midnight Sun” at Willard Hotel tomor- row evening at 8:15 for benefit Epis- copal Church Home. VIRGINIA ZONING HEARING T0 BE AT HUME SCHOOL Session for Highlands District Changed From Nellie Custis Building, By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va,, November 7.—The Fubhfl hearing for the Virginla High- [ands precinct, which is scheduled for Friday night by the Arlington County Zoning Commission, will be held in the Hume School instead of in the Nellie Custis School, as has previously been announced, it was stated today by A. J. ‘Webb, secretary. ‘The Hume School is located on Mount Vernon avenue, Arlingion Ridge, and affords one of the best views of the city that is available in this section, & facc that is to be taken advantage of by a large number of ciiizens who are p{lnn\nl to offer strong objections to any plans that the commission may have for the further development of the underlying territory into an industrial area | According to Miss Gertrude Crocker, operator of a (eahouse that is patron- |ized by officinl Washington, she and a number of other residents have explicit faith in the pla:s of the National Cap- ital Park and Planning Commission for the development of at least a part of this section into a park and will o any move that will make it haidoe :ir the Federal Government to carry out these plans. moving picture entitled Travels” will be presented omery -‘t Third | 7} lace as comfortably and as Wreasonably as | is possible over the railroads of South l Africa.” Speaking of the reasonable railroad fares, Mrs. Louw was asked how living in general throughout the South African Un‘on compared to that in this coun- . Her reply wa: u"hr the Tmulewfl South Africa is a paradise. ffs dre plentiful and reasonable—the domestic problem is unknown, and schools are as fine as can be found throughout the entire world. A young man may take up any rofession he wishes,” she continued, “and complete his entire course with- out leaving Bouth Africa.” Although women are vitally inter- ested in politics, the feminine world of South Africa has not yet obtained the vote. “Women work actively during politi- cal campaigns,” Mrs. Louw explained, “assisting materially in the financing, | or urging their men acquaintances to vote for certain parties, but they do note vote themselves. “There is a certain agitation carried on in the Union now among women who desire the vote and I shouldn't be surprised if it arrived soon.” Two Languages Official. The South African Union is a bi- linguel country and both English and “Afrikaans,” as the South African Dutch is called, are official languages and are taught in the schools. Mrs. Louw, the minister and their two small sons k the two languages fluently. o ns” is not so formal a lal as the Dutch of Holland,” ex- plained the minister's wife. “Until very recently, Holland Dutch was used throughout South African churches, but now the younger ministers are using Afrikaans. Work in translating the Bible into Afrikeans is now being un- dertaken.” This is Mrs, Louw's first visit to| ‘Washington. “I know I am going to be very happy | ed at court, making her bow to fort-on-the-Rhine given to Manchester College at Hunt- ington, d. here and already Yeel at home,” she @be Fveniny Htar B o ABOVE SIGN s DISPLAYED t By i AUTHORIZED STAR BRANCH OFFICES | | “Around | : a Star 01d Bible Given College. A German bible, printed at Frank-| in 1668, has been Roofi .05 PR $1% v Alse a Complete Stock 3—Branches—3 § MAIN OFFICE-6™ & C.Sts. S.W. CAMP MEIGS-5™ & Fla. Ave.N.E. BRIGHTWOOD-592| Ga Ave.NW. ADVERTISENENTS [ Receivep HERE E:tlcw & Tate’s Pharmacy—326 E. Cap. 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