Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1931, Page 39

THE EVENING rSJ}'AR. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 193I. SONGS ACCOMPANY PRAISE OF FOSTER Oldest Inhabitants Hear John| Clagett Proctor—To Re- paint Engine House. Music resounded through old Union | Engine House last night as John Clagett Proctor sang refrains from “My Old Kentucky Home” and “Old Black Joe” to illustrate his address on Stephen Collins Foster, the composer, Not only was the Association of Old- st Inhabitants treated to the unusual experience of hearing thelr vice presi- dent sing unaccompanied, but several membars became so imbued with the eeling of song that they joired in with | 2dr. Proctor in the choruses. | “Composers 50 years ago did not have o resort to titles such as ‘That Little Thug Called Love’ an ds _that Bicentennial was postponement of the printing of the list of members of the assoclation until December of this year, with the provision that the list be dated 1932. There also would be included a picture of the old Union Engine House and a brief sketch of the history of the assoclation written by John Clagett Proctor, vice president and chronicler. This list would be made available at the sixty-sixth annual dinner in December. Washington Topham, James F. Du- hamel, J. Eliot Wright and Mr. Proctor all discussed plans for the coming Bi- centennial, and reported they had pledged co-operation of the association at a recent meeting called by the presi- dent of the Federation of Citizens’ As- soclations, Mr. Wright announced that ‘Theodore W. Noyes, president of the as- sociation, had continued the committee of four to go forward with the asso- clation’s plans for the Bicentennial. Billy Patterson Recalled. Further light on the mystery of the old saying, “Who struck Billy Patter- son?” was shed at the meeting by A. C, Harman, a member of the association, who read a letter from an advertising firm which had made reference to the old saying in'a recent acvertisement. “In the year 1878," wrote G. M. B | ford Co. concerning Billy Patterson, “Ed | Coffee, a famous sportsman of the pe- | riod, opened a saloon at the corner of Sixth avenue and Thirtieth street, New York City, which district was part of what was then known as ‘Satan’s Cir cus,’ because of its general depravity. “Ed Coffee's saloon was named the ‘Star and Garter,’ and enjoyed immedi- ate success because of the popularity of the head bartender, Billy Patterson, who is described as a rotund ans jovial gen- fus who was one of the really great drink mixers of the age. It was boast that he did not have an enemy in the world and that he could concoct a drink which would make any man his abject admirer. It was considered a great honor to Lave Billy Patterson, in person, prepae a_beverage. “When Billy Patterson was finally struck down by a mysterious assailant, who attacked him with & slungshot one night as he left the side door of the ‘Star and Garter,’” continued the story, “the circumstances caused so much = somment that it gave rise to the famous query, ‘Who struck Billy Patterson?’ " Mr. Proctor remarked, following the | 3% Financial Secretary Mahoney closed the meeting with what he said was a story” about the old days, and his friends caught big reading of this letter, that in his opin- fon the old saying about “Billy Patter- son” was “an old story in Washington in 1878. He thought it had originated here earlier, when some “Baltimore thugs” came over and caused a fight in his | the National Capital. Two pictures, including peri sketches of the White House and the Wnited States Capitol Building in the forties, were presented by George B. Jackson, a member, while an old picture of the residence of Sir Edward Thornton, Brit- ish Minister, on Pennsylvania avenue, in 1869, was recelved from Jesse D. B. Peters of Tampa, Fla., former resident of Washington. J. Eliot Wright, recording secretary and treasurer of the association, enter- You Paint for Protection e members with an interesting of reminiscences of his boyhood shad with thelr bere hands ia the canal, . ‘Two new members were elected, John N. Auth and Joseph A. Boyle. Oorzrhnw metal in the service of man. Anlfnlh’n Cat Problem. le turn their the pvemmeof nt _is| They mlnon revert to ‘ways and means of extermi- | wild state multiply rapidly. BEAUTIFUL nating, or at least controliing them. A So many domestic cats have gone|Pest of predatory cats and dogs invari- wild in Australia and have become such Ibwm an extended & menace to bush birds, poultry and|fooq economic . 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See them today , 4 » you'll be sure to want one of these pretty plants ‘o brighten up the home at Eastertide. ermitted - - — - vs of Jake Budd | = v said the speaker. | “We received our musical education when a song of merit could become pop- ular without a vulgar title or suggestive ‘words.” In those old days, Mr. Proctor said, and sing songs of Stephen Foster. In | @n address praising Foster the musi- cian, Mr. Proctor said “His melodies are S - o9 that few people realize he had studied | 0 1 he wes fa- | |Chest. Cuticura Healed. maliar with the n e cl al works of | Mozart, Becthove T | “The trouble started on my other branches: understood Pirr h and six_months old. Small pimples German, painted in water colors, was a | s seunimt andiwiote allthis] | D ouwoULED)PRMRM S SRl sore, and even bleed. ‘Works Still in Demand. The works of this composer, the speaker said, were still in demand today would not have becn at the | his cronies used to meet on _the corner | %0 sweet, so simple, 8o unpretending Pimples on Face and was & man of considerable versatilty 11 | | baby’s face and chest when he was wWords and the music of his songs.” at music stores. ‘The association decided, upon motion of Washington Topham, to take two steps looking forward to the Washing- to:.‘lilcenunmn.\ heretnext yx“{h 'nl:; repainting of the outside of the ol . Union Engine House was authorized, to- Soap, be was completely healed. gether with improvement of the lawn (Slgsd) Mrs. Louis Parnell, Box and fence about the property. John R. 94, Buffalo, Ohio. Mahoney, financial secretary, suggested Use Cuticara for every-day tollet that the name of the As(:jd‘nhonu?( o . 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