Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1931, Page 10

Ai—10 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 4, 1931—PART ONE. , CTZENS 0 WEET TOMORRON NEAT Nine Associations to Convene “to Take Up Various Sub- jects of Interest. Discussion of further development of the John Eaton School, review of the activities of the association for the past year and the mapping out of a compre- hensive program for the ensuing year will constitute the principal business at the regular meeting of the Cathedral Heights-Cleveland Park Citizens’ Asso- ciation, tomorrow night, in St. Alban's Parish Hall, Wisconsin and Massachu- setts avenues. Eight other citizens’ as- sociations are also scheduled to con- vene in monthly session tomorrow night. Others to Convene. Taxation for 1932 and the question of the abolishment of alley dwellings will come up for consideration at the meet- ing of the Dupent Circle Citizens' As- sociation, to be held at 4:45 in the Mayfiower Hotel Other essociations scheduled to meet and their piaces of meeting include: Forest Hills Citizens’ Association, Ben W. Murch School, Forty-seventh and Davenport streets; Kenilworth Citizens ‘Association, Kenilworth School; Manor Park Citizens' Associati-n, Whittier School, Fifth and Sheridan streets; Sixteenth Street Highlands Citizens’ Association, Sixth Presbyterian Church, Fourteenth and Kennedy streets; Washington Highlands Citizens’ Asso- ciation, Congress Heights School; Ta- koma _Citizens’ Association, Takoma Park Public Library, and the Progres- sive Citizens' Association of George- town. Two Meet Tuesday. The Columbia Heights and Devon- shire Downs Citizens' Associations will meet Tuesday night, the former at the Columbia Heights Christian Church, 1435 Park road, and the latter at the hall at 3923 Windom place. Following a brief business session, the Columbia Heights' program will be de- voted to entertainment and refresh- ments. Officials of the local govern- ment, the District Commissioners, presidents of a number of citizens’ as- sociations, and others prominent in civic circles are on the honored guest lst. STEEL PREDICTIONS ARE CONSERVATIVE| Unknown Soldier. COMMISSIONERS GREET BOYS’ CLUB MEMBER OFFICERS ARE INSTALLED AT G. A. R. CAMP SESSION Initiation Xno fll.ld at Meeting of Organization—Patriotic Societies Represented. Installation of officers and initiation of new members featured the meeting Friday night of the Maj. Edward R. Campbell Camp, No. 6, the fourth camp of the Grand Army of the Republic to be organized in the District. T~ meet- ing was held at the Pythian Temple and was attended by more than 200 members of the various patriotic so- cletie: afiliated with the Grand Army. Newly elected officers who were in- stalled by Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, past départment commander, are: Adolph J, Schippert, commander; John B. Hess, senior vice commander; C. L. ‘Williams, junior vice commander; Will H. Rogers, treasurer; John J. Ragan, The camp |Edward R. Campbell, past commander in chief of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, now an active mem- ber of William B. Camp, No. 30, of this city. A T Some of the items in the London Zoo's bill for 1930 were six tons of nuts, 50 tons of herring and whitebait; one ton of canary seed, 25,000 eggs and 20,000 pounds of condensed milk. Oar. The repair of your watch does mot_complete the trams- action between us dut estab- lishes our obligation to ful- AUl our guarantee of service. Burnstine’s Jewelry Store 927 G St. NW. the District Building yesterday on their way to Arllnflm; George Hahn, 13 years old, the club’s spokesman, is shown oath for better citizens, with Commissioners Luther H. Reich elderfer and Herbert B. Crosby looking on.—Star Staff Photo. Fifty representatives of the Boys' Club of Weshington, celebrating the organization’s tenth anniversary, , where they laid a wreath , stopped at on the Tomb of tl above leading the boys in reciting their BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Court manners were quite amusing to Angelica Singleton, daughter-in-law of Martin Van Buren and mistress of the White House during the last two years of his administration. “Pranca, the Minister from Brazil, came the other night, accompanied by his suite,” she wrote to her ‘mother. “Collins, the porter, announced them and in they came, bowing to the ground. Franca made his speech to the Presi- dent, turned to me and presented Mme. Franca’s compliments and made a bow | also his suite—retreated to the door, | Trade Authorities Refrain From Long-Range Forecasts—Sea- sonal Trends Analyzed. Special Dispatch to The JURGH, January 3.—Business jons of steel producers have been decidedly fewer and shorter than usual, and from the viewpoint of the steel market reporter with a background of experience and adequate statistical rec- ords they may be pronounceéd remark- ably conservaiive in the circumstances. 1t has been the reguler, virtually the invariable thing, for steel demand to begin increasing immediately after the turn of the year, whereby not merely tion and shipments would run markedly January buying, but January produc- above the showing of December. A distinct February improvement over January, according to the plain statis- tical records, has not always occurred, hence 8 prediction that steel ‘would improve - in February rather than in January . @ppears to be particularly ill-timed. March improvement over February, again, has regularly been well merked and occasionally the scasonal improvement runs to April. The poorer December has been, the easier it is for Janusry to experience a rebound. As to actual rates of steel produc- tion, there is less accuracy than preci- sion in some of the estimates made lately by various authorities. One does not.“always _know whether a percent- rate, although named precisely, is fi:m to steel ingot production or to the average operation of finishing de- ts in general. Steel companies nqunu{‘me the latter basis, and the mumen -are generally made guard- ly. Price prospects in steel could hardly be more involved or interesting. There is the short range prospect of a sta- bilized market recently developed, in- ducing confidence on the part of buyers as to early commitments, and according to steel market practices there should be slight advances for second quarter to Kkeep the ball rolling. With light opera- tions, scme of the finished produets need advances from their present levels merely. to avoid actual losses. Currently, increased steel demand may be taken for granted. tically everything has been shaken out and & seasonal trend is in order. (Copyright. 1931.) Gem-:—flri ish Radio Clash. Radio listeners in Britain are com- plaining that the new Muehlacker ‘oroadcasting station in Germany is interfering with the reception of Brit- ish programs. They say that the trans- mitting power of 70 kilowatts is too | midnight and talk of nothing but bowie made another bow—so did his suite.— then opened the door, all bowed in concert and vanished.” Soeial Sidelights Curious. Many curious sidelights on social and official life in Washington are found in the letters of Angelica to her mother and sisters, just secured by the Library of Congress in the correspond- ence of the Singleton family of South Carolina. She came to Washington with | the family of Senator Preston of South | Carolina and married Abraham Van Buren, son and private secretary of the President. Since Van Buren was a widower she presided at all social func- tion at the White House. Thus she described a New Year re- ception: “The President advances near the door and there stands like a martyr, working off his arms. He presents first one hand until it is nearly shaken off and then he puts it behind him and ;efl&l‘.lt while the other performs its She had come to Washington fresh from an exclusive Philadelphia finish- i%eschool with many misgivings about T bustling, dissipated city.” But a few weeks later she wrote to her sister: | preconceived notions about the heartlessness and worthless- ness of the society of this great metro- polis, I find it a mighty pleasant place, thronged with high-bred belles and proper and agreeable beaux, native, for- eign and mongrel. I suspect that the stake chiefly played for among the | younger part of the community is a | husband or wife, 2s it may be. Matri- mony, as I take it, is the very end and aim of very many who profess to be mere lookers on. “But such things I believe to be pre- ordained and, credit me, the mate designed for me by the director of our destinies has not yet crossed my path.” Had Many Suitors. | | She had many suitors that didn't| suit. One prrsuaded her to accompany | him to a presentation of “Othello.” Her Southern blood rebelled at seeing a| white woman married to & Moor and she | resolved” to talk all during the play and not listen.” A S-nator from Ohio played court to her, .but, she wrots to her sist'r: “I can't like him. He has an unconquerable propensity to stay until | knives, - drinking, and ducling.” A Georgia gentelman took her to the theater. There was a “Mrs.——there, | dnfid 50 indecently low that Mr. D. could not attend to the party, so excited and shocked was he that a Georgila girl should so conduct herself.” ‘Then rumor began to connect her hame with the son of the President. At first she denled it. | “A certain young lady,” she wrot,” | “told the major the other day that it | the hearts of his father, his two AMUSING CAPITAL SOCIAL LIFE | SHOWN IN SINGLETON LETTERS | Correspondence of Van Buren’s Daughter-| in-Law, White House Mistress, Obtained by Library of Congress in Collection. brothers and himself were united sh2 great with a wave length differing by only four meters from that of London. German government. officials answer by declaring that England is now ap- parently having the came inconvenience from the Muehlacker siation as Ger- mans in the Rhinelond have had from the Daventry. England, station for a long time. They rafuse to change the wave length. i 2 SR Birds’ Songs Tell Time. Clocks are not necessary to give the | time in the morning if one understands | the songs of the birds, according to a German naturalist who has just com- | pleted a schedule of offerings by feath- ered so1 . He says the chaffinch | sings at about 1:30 on Summer mom-i ings and the blackcap calls an hour| Jater. Between 2:30 and 3 o'clock the | quail give their call, while the hedge sparrows are heard about 30 minutes | later, The blackbirds are next, fol-| Jowed by larks, the bla: mouge, and finally between 5 snd 5: Styder@ Litile IPORAT: 607 13th Street (Between F & G Streets) Anchor Ber Testh PEST FOR 15 YEARS FIT TIGHT - TEETH WITHOUT PLATES s suowx AND BRIDGEWORK $5 Teeth Extracted. §1. Piates Kepal Over 408 Seventh Strect Over Woelworth's & and 19 MID-WINTER Of Both Men’s and Women’s Shoés -CLEARANCE Choice of Entire Pair a Regular Snyder & Little Shoe Women’s 12.50 to 18.50 Grades 985 Except o few styles 1085 || Unusual Values, This, Clearance at the New Store 607 13th St. (tetween F and G S:z.) i il il Stock and Every | World Famous | J & M Shoe for Men 985 and 1285 | (Two styles 22.50 wow 17.55) the First Mid-Winter could place them on the point of her | needle. Rude—to say the least.” Later she wrote: “Don't be alarmed, there is no danger, h the major devotes himself to me whenever we meet. You know his father is a non- committal man and I rather think the major is still more . Anyway, I like somebody else better the major. But don't be alamed. He is oblidg=d to leave here on Wednesday, forever probably.” | Maj. Van Buren's rival for her .heart | was a young Englishman named | She tells of their horseback Vivian rides through the countryside near Washington .and. their picnics up - the Potomac. way was clear to th: White House. Here was the manner of love-making in the Washington of 1838: “It is quite the fashion here for the beaux to wait the arrival of the ladies at the door, armed with bouquets. But the most beautiful and rarest which has been given me I took with me on Fri- | day night. It was a tea rose of at| least four inches in diameter. Every one exclaimed and all the beaux were | anxious to know from what garden it | came, as they thought they had scoured exery greenhouse within 10 miles of the city.” Official Society Gay. It was a gay era in official soclety, | with many visiting dignitaries to be entertained. She had “invitations for | every night in the week, sometimes two or three of an evening” when the Prince of Joinville, son of the King of France, was being entertained. And WHAT DOES 1931 when the soberness of Lent descend>d upon the city, society turned to “tableaux vivant” for entertainment, with wives of Senators and diplomats dressing up to represent heroines of Sir Walter Scott's novels. The beaux all told her she looked just like Rowena in “Ivanhoe.” Then she entered the White House as a bride and the carefree days were over. She had charge of the invita- tions, and it was a complicated busi- ness to address all the dignitaries by exactly their right titles. “They compare notes,” she wrote, “gnd if one is deficient in any form, they write post-haste to their govern- ments to complain of a breach of eti- quette.” From that time on, her letters are & continuous record of sickness and worry, which reached a climax in the defeat of her father-in-law for re- election by William Henry Harrison, whom she hated, mostly because he was an abolitionist. 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