Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1931, Page 23

LSSCONSTITUTON OPENED T0 PUBLE Famed Old Warship, Re- stored to Service, Begins Career Anew. the Assoclated Press. BOSTON, June 15—Old Ironsides, jmost famous of the world's seaworthy hips, pride of the American Navy n its earliest years, was thrown open to visitors Saturday. ~ For a week visitors will be allowed to inspect the venerable craft, which will be commissioned once more on July 1. Here is what visitors at the navy yard saw today: A stately black wooden warship 204 [feet long with three gigantic masts raking the sky, masts with great yards and furled sails and a maze of rigging. Sixty-eight tons of rigging and 6,000 of canvas were used in outfitting old mam according . to. Lieut. John A. Lord, veteran naval construc- tor, to whose skill the rebuilt Consti- tution is a monument. Masts Present Problem. And _incidentally, those towering masts will be a problem on the Consti- tution's cruise along the coast. Three masts, fore, ‘main and mizzen, with the mainmast the tallest, rising 188 feet above the waterline. Few bridges are high enough to llve them clearance. Brooklyn Bridge %00 low by perhaps 50 feet. All around, scowling from 52 poi holes on two decks, are the muzzles of old, black cannon—24 pounders and 32 pounders. On the spar deck (the topmost as the visitor steps aboard) are the old double wheel (one man cannot be ex- to handle the old ship), rows of 'k guns, with rammers, spongers, extractors, shot, and leather powder and water buckets .~ A mighty windlass, the it , coiled tarry Tope that smells wholesome in the salt alr, the great bowsprit thrusting out ahead of the bow—all these are to be ®een from the spar deck. Has Captured Guns. On the gun deck below are long rows of black guns (me apparently captur- ed from the British they bear the British Royal Insigna and the letters GR, meaning George Rex). Battle landers hang from the ship's sides. In the cabin are hard, springless bunks, mahogany-fitted lockers for captain and *commodore. ‘Hung about, here and there, are * stoves,” iron lantern-like conm- vances in which shot heated in the great galley stove on the gun deck are to provide warmth. An there are grog tug and water bucket and the great chains for the 5,400-pound an- Down -nothermhc of steps is the g! steps ‘The U. 8. 8. Constitution, restored by the schcol children of America, was painted by the late C. Myron THE ' EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ROSENFELD, DRAMATIST - OF DECADE AGO, DIES Native of Richmond Wrote Many Plays and Was First Editor of Magazine Puck. By the Alsociated Press. NEW YORK, June 15.—Sydney Ros- enfeld, prominent playwright of a dec- ade and more ago, died of heart disease in his sleep yesterday at his home. He was 75. He wrote and adapted many plays during his long career. He collaborated in many others and wrote the librettos of several comic operas and musical plays. He was the first editor of the magazine Puck. Some o( his works were “The Giddy ~A Man of Ideas,” ‘“The :!;‘i‘nmmr of Syria,” “ Vanderbily Cup,” *A desson for Wives,” “Virginia Runs Away” and “Forbid- the sick bay in the | den. bow and room ror the crew’s hammocks, Tows of state rooms for various officers aft, the carpenter shop and the old brig with its leg irons, handcuffs and cat o'nine tails. Here and there are shafts leading down to the magazines below. Head Room Is Scarce. Head room is scarce, almost non- existent on all the decks but on the lowest, the orlup deck, one must crouch a8 he moves. Here one may see the 95 tons of cobblestones used as ballast, He was s former president of the American Dramatist Society and of the National Federation of Theater Clubs. At 15 he began writing boys’ stories and in 1874 produced his first play, a burlesque on “Rose Michel.” He was born in Richmond, Va. In 1883 he married Miss Genie H. Johnson of London, who, with a brother, sur- vives him. A funeral service will be held tomor- Tow under the auspices of the Actors’ some of the barrels containing 48 tons | Fund. of fresh water, and the space where once was stored 8,000 gallons of rum A brave ollvxlw ship, is f‘he Constitution, 85 per cent renewed, of white oak and live oak, copper fastened within and ‘without, and copper sheat she still ;-"rdu the atmosphere of forgotten TS, Government aid in the district in the Dominican Republic affected by the hurricane has reached the $10,000,000 mark. CAPITAL MA.N HONORED PROVIDENCE, R. I, June 15 (#).— Brown University today conferred 10 honorary degrees, including doctor of laws: John R. Mott of New York, world secretary of the Y. M. C. A.; Sir Henry W. Thornton of Montreal, president of the Canadian National Railways. Doc- tor of sclence: Ambrose Swasey of Cleveland, inventor; Leon E. Trues- dell of Washington, statistical expert of the Bureau of the Census. DIVORCE BILL VETOED Pennsylvania Not Yet Nevada Ri- wval, Gov. 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