Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1931, Page 13

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, CHESAPEAKE BAY HAS PARADISE ISLE Autos and Telephones Are Absent From Picturesque Tangier Island. BY LAURA LEI CRISFIELD, Md., July 4 (NANA) ~ Tangier Island! the very name spells romance There is perhaps no other place quite like it in all the United States. A little readymade paradise it seems to one sick of the jarring noises, the grime and commotion of city life. Tangier Island, Va. is a hilly little {xland with a population of about 1500, in the Chesapeake Bay. 12 miles (two hours) by boat from Crisfield, Md. The islanders always have made their liv- ing entirely from the water, from fish, ovsters, crabs and clams. So completely different is Tangier discovered and named in 1608 by Capt John Smith—(rom the usual conception of a small American town, even an island town, that it might well be thou- sands of miles away. No Autos on Island. No honking of horns or screech of Automobiles disturbs the peace of the | town. for there isn't an automobile on the island. The Tangiermen are just a | little afraiq of being considered back- ward because they have no motor cars. | horses and buggies or street cars, and | they hasten to point out they have none because they have no need for them Modes of transportation simply would be in the way, for the street is narrow distances are short, and they are a hardy people who enjoy walking. They have, in fact, passed an ordinance against automabiles. Neither are there any wireless stations in the town for them. You can get to any place on the island in 5 or 10 minutes, and | as for quick outside communication! with the world, it just isn't necessary Once during a ‘cold and frozen Winter the island was completely cut off from any communication with the world for almost two months telephones or no need Paint Houses Every Spring. The islanders take an infinite amount of pride in their island. Those who can afford it, paint their houses cach Spring. | Everything, including prettily dressed | little children, is bright and spick-and- span—yellow houses. with soft green or brown “trimming. shining white houses with salmon pink, blue or green trim 1t looks more like a charming toy village, a miniature Venice of newl: painted doll's housss, than anything else. The town is made up of three sections separated by canals over which are built little wooden bridges with gaps in the center for masts of fishing boats. There is Canton, the oldest sec- tion. inhabitated by Pocomoke Indians unti! 1686, when the first white settle- ment was begun by John Crockett, from the mainland The other two Ridge. and the ma part of the island wi no name While the island is about three miles wide and fou long. much | of it is not habitable, because of swamps. seations are West n and important ch seems to have Has Only One Street. The main part of town is built on either side of only street. Main h is eight fest wide and ex- | th> length of the island e houses, each surrounded d white picket fence bv a each other he stre~t. Gates, | lit by a freshlv p: and separated narrow di o following a town ordinz from the fence 1o prota ing in the street in the front vard of each home is a | well kept iawn and flower garden, most- | Iv rose bushes. some s. poppies and | hollvhocks. Also, in most of the vards. | close ta the strect, but not on fit, for there isn't room. are beautiful tall| maple trees which afford shad~ in Sum- | mer and protection fro igh =°a | winds in Win‘er | Fach home has a large back vard | with & vegetable garden for the family’s | 1se. Fig bushes and a Kiefer pear tree for Win‘er preserves are considered an essential part of the While there are several town. the water is brac Dleasant because of the low ma and most of the residen drink rain water and use it f poses, At the sid~ of each hou rain water cistern with st equipment fr children play- pumps in an <h ainin Townspeople Sensitive, There is no rinnir plimbing or gas. FElectricity f Lo for tunately for the town racent rad ness of #n softly as The front homes iz divided bv a walk. with the garden on one side and the family burving plo# on the niher. Tn the oid cdays this was the usua! custom for burials. There was no comn cemetery But during the past 30 the Tangiermen hate doveloped a dis- Jike for this custom. Theyv now h two cemeteries and are verv sen about the homes plots, which the h refuse to have re In all things thes tive people. fearing critici t They are proud. an €n, of their town, and ar having it appear in wr The very lack of raff tories and the simplicity and the compar 1 have been on Tangier feel apologetic abon They cannot know the r gives a city person to watch women_in’ their pre c sunbonnets. saunteri to the grocery stol of a group of .ttle ei faces almost hidden by So intense is their [ tsiand appear in the have passed a citv ding phetog aphing Two New Yorg cameras for di The apporatus the men boarded th: mainland At _Cri-fi anger of the Tangiermen they pushed one photographer hoard som> of rete peace. the as sy great over- Hospitable to Strangers. We were allowed tn photogranh fown only after a to Sheriff N man Parks, anther to the town ¢ George Parks, and aft ing of the five momber oW cil, at_which the photographer himselt an able orator. After his ad- dress to the Town Cou il and a geth- erina of townsmen, it was decided that we might make a tour of the town if accompanied by the town clerk on the promise that we would “shoot” on! those things he consider-d fit subjects At our approach women snatched off their bonnets and ran as if a scourage were spreading. In spite of fear and sensitiveness, they are an extremapy friendly and generous prople. | Childrén along th sirccts shy- v handed us roscs. Adnits did the same, once thelr fear had been moved. After we had been there two hours we were invited into two homes for dinner Capt. Patrick Henry Benson (all the men in the town are captains), 76-year- | old fisherman, offerrd us his home, free, for the Summer. if we chose to vaca- | tion on Tangier. At 6 c'clock in the | morning, “Cap'n Henry” was out clip- | ping_his rose bush, having already caught his fish for the day and sent them off to Crisfleld. All English-Speaking. They are an English-speaking and . said to represent the purest Eng- lish atock now existent in the United States. They also are sald to speak the oun- roved {1 lits | Stockton Tangier’s Main Street Eight Feet Wide FAIRFAX COUNTY OFFICIAL SUICDE |Elton R. Holbrook Kills Self in Bath Room of Home. By & S1aff Correspondent of The Star FAIRFAX, Va, July 4—Elton R Holbrook, deputy clerk of the Pairfax Court, shot himself through the temple yesterday morning and died several hours afterwards. Mr. Holbrook had | been confined to his bed with a painful illness since last May, and it s belleved that at the time he fired the fatal shot he had become mentaily deranged. He had walked up & flight of stairs and procured an old Army revolver which was kept on the upper floor. Then he walked to the bath room and sent & bullet through his head Mrs. Holbrook was in the garden when the shot was fired. She and neighbors found him lying at the head of the stairs. Mrs. Holbrook had been en some of the boxwood for which the Holbrook grounds are famous to give to a neighbor for transplanting Mr. Holbrook b bee intimately ntified vith the life of Fairfax Coun- ¢ which he wes a native. He was born October 2. 1874. For more than 40 years he had been employed in the office of F. W. Richardson clerk of the court At the age of 14 he entered the clerk’s office, On October 12, 1894, 10 after reaching his twenty-first v, he was appointed as deputy clerk by State Judge D. M. Chichester a positicn he filled until last May when his illness became acufe. He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Martha Waggoner Wiley of Fair- fax. to whom he was married October 2. 1901, and by one son, Frederick Wil- and three brothers, Harry and of Fairfax and Linwood of Washington He was a member of Henry Mas<onie Lodge. Fairfax Council Order of Fraternal Americans: Fa rfax Camp. Mo Woodmen of America Funeral 2 have not been his uncle. mer n ngements | completed yet Reichsbank Officers to Confer. BERLIN, July 4 (@ The general oard of the Reichs k will hold a cial meeting lomorTow, it was an- ced late today The purpoce of the reported, would be t meeting. it was dscuss the gen- the results details of | which are e by that ti G st Englich and of a nature al- N h-speak- eminiscent irerian period singsong. while understodd. s noticeably e poetry of a “litel boke written In 1405, in the pu most { ing cou of th Th more similar to nakit of eloquence. hich one finds Unto the ympnes maisters dere. Gowere and Chaucere, that on steppis 5 rhetorike Tie poetry of the a musical (hymns) of my whil they were lyvand fve as poets leureate. > are many remarkable things There is no hospital. for is needod. These hardy seamen families are not often sick. Gladstone is the only doc- isiand. While cities have salaries for doctors who sep peonle well instead of cur- they are ill. the l:\.rv!- ime ago. quite simply d the system i1a doctor is paid a salary. which b from coor to door ea¢h monih yunt varies. depending on the in the family. ts¥and. them after a_long Some Take a Chance. “Where there’s nine head.” said Capt W. Thomas. who runs the mail {7 and from the mainland ence day. “vou pay him $5 a month families take a chance and only him when they are sick.” tor. Rev. H. B. Kelso, is paid v of $2.500. They pay by what 1 as & budget system. Each one contributes as much as he can for the pastor and mage. There always is enough left over for the upkeep of church, of which they are very proud. There is no fire department on the Jand, for there is seldom a fire. Real- izing that & fire could ouickly wipe out the whole town. composed entirely of frame houses, the greatest preventive sures are taker The police depaitment consists of a lone sergeant, who spends most of his ¢. Houses are left open there are few robberies, and Ve been but two shootings, the 2 the last 63 years. b ihe North American aber Alliance, Inc.) John Ko every Some a3 1s kni 27th Year The Washington College of Music 2107¢09 S St. Potomac 1846 offers Summer Courses in all Ap- plied and Theoretical Subjects. Distinguished Faculty in residence through the Summer. Credits gained in Summer study may be applied on courses leading to Diplomas and Degrees, The facilities of the College Build- ings offer cool and aftractive sur- roundings for Summer ¥tudy. » | Elected D. C. TEACHER MADE N. E. A, OFFICER. Chain of Elevators Are Only Assets Left of $25,000,000 Spent on Project. Special Dispateh to The Star OTTAWA, Ontario, July 4- From Winnipeg ccmes word that the Western wheat pools are passing into voluntary liquidation and that this great experi- ment. begun some five e. Th rupt According to the best Information the pools will hand over to the three prairie provines everything that they possess in the way of these con- iting chiefly of a chain elevators. It vill be all that the provinces will get for the $25.000.000 which they ad- vanced Tottering for more than a year, and saved from collapse only by the inter- vention of the pro the crash of the pools has come finally through the refusal of the Canadian banks to ac- cept the indorsement of the three prairie provinces for further loans to the pools. The banks, it is undersi would not accept the provinces unless they we cked by the Dor s Dominion gov t backin vears ago, soon pools, in other SS EDITH LOUISE GROSVENOR, Teacher at Business High School, who was elected a vice president of the National Education Association at its annual convention at Los Angeles ves- terday Miss Grosvenor is an official delegate to the sessi"ns from the Dis- trict of Columbia. was not forthcoming. The inescapable Post Office Head l)l'ups‘ Coolumoiinm |~ s o womeihar tagic anding to S what began as a brave experiment Office. “Too Bu Three years ago the pools were on th rnme crest of prosperity. with fair skies and clear seas ahead. Buoyed by their suc- cess, and caught in the general wave of optimism. they made vast expenditures bought and built elevators and created a gigantic overh Now. less than three years later. the whole edifice has crumbled about their heads, (Copyiight, 1931 POLICE SCARE BANDITS An attempt to rob Erlebacher’s store 1210 F street. was frustrated yesterday morning by the timely arrival of police radio cars summoned to the scene when the would-be burglars tripped an elec- tric alerm The whistles of the radio cars answer- Ing the call are believed to have scared off the robbers. A rear window, opening on the fire escape at the second-flon level, had been foreed open with a crow- bar. The place was not entered Publicity Given When Cabinet Also Blamed Hobby Brown Entered By the Associated The pots and kitchenette of pans in ofce- that onee famed cook General Brown, hang idle The stove adds no calory to the Sum- mer heat. The s'nk stands empty of hes No smell of his famous chicken paprikash has permeated Post Office Department halls for a long, long time Time was when Brown's culinary the Postmaster savory D. C, JULY 5, 1931—PART ONE CULPEPER WINNER Broken Glass Takes Chal- lenge Plate—Thousands at Close of Show, Special Dispatch to The Star. CULPEPER, Va, July 4.—Several thousand spectators flocked to the Cul- peper Fair Grounds this afternoon to witness 13 interesting horse show classes and a 5-event racing card. The twenty-seventh annual horse show closed after two days. The Culpeper Challenge awarded each year to the hunter judged superior in type, conformation and per- [ formance during the show, went to an entry from Mrs. D. N. Lee's Middle- burg Stable for the sixth consecutive | time in as many years. Broken Glass, | Mrs. Lee's bay gelding, captured the | coveted honor this season, assuring his | owner permanent possession of the trophy. The champion won the class | ror middle and heavy weight hunters | yesterday and scored in today's color- | ful Corinthian competition. Cathode Ray Triumphs. Reserve in the hunter championship was awarded to Miss Elizabeth Nesbit's | Cathode Ray. The 6-year-old chestn . | from her Warrenton stable hung up an | in_both days of the, of | The toll of victories in- | enviable record meet, leading the points scored cluded blues in the large open hunter list in number and the lightweigat hunter events Fri- | day and first prize performances in the ladies’ hunter and free-for-all handi- | cap hunter classes today | pressive series he added also & second place in the Corinthian. | Tip, & black gelding owned by E. E. | Adamson of 6101 Fourth street, Wash- ington, won the closely contested touch and out class this morning perb, careful performance to triumph over 16 other horses that had gone over | al. Tip also took clean in the first t ! cap Two horses were left at each of the first two starts the barrier in was more than half an h getting under way. at least a dozen bad breaks being made. Five of the field raced a half-miie lap at one time be- fore discovering that the getaway was not officially sanctioned. This finally was won by T. M. Waller's Cautious lena, which came from be- hind on the back t finish that earned a 3-length margin of contest and Vedette snared the teeplechase and held it ng challenge old Barnes Sammy Mack, which crossed the lin: t in the sim- flar contest yesterday Radio, veteran of the Culpeper course. came in third. one notch below his showing ihe day ead early in the end, despite a st the steeple whip a the crowd excited onlooker through the rail onto ack 1n fror of the horses tance of bystande:s saved him The s Class Surpr Ada Cla half-bred yea E L Redmon Mands); third 1gs-— First second _Oh entry (Paul e s Happy_ Warrior _ CIVIL SERVIC ear-olds a B Piepare now and " REDUCED SUMMER RAT! 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Class No. 4; thoroughbreds for year- lings—First, Doreway (H. H.-Norman); second, entry (Mrs. C. C. Rumsey). Class No. 13; road hacks, shown at walk, trot and hand gallop, then over a 314-foot jump—First, In the Way (Miss Julia Whiting); _second, (Miss Doris M. Blondell); third, My Guess (Dr. Willlam B. Newcomb). Class No. 15; hunters; horses 4 years old and under considered; conformation and general promise, 50 per cent; jump- ing over 4-foot jumps, 50 per cent; 3- year-olds, over 3!,-foot—First, Gull Dale (Mrs. D. N. Lee); second, Port Light (E. L Redmon); third, Betty Hammond (Chilton Farm). Class No. 11; saddle horses: open to all—First, Mistress Ann (Anthony and George Rives); second, Chinque Pin (Anthony and George' Rives; third, Love Token (Miss Allen Potts). Class No. 23; jumping class; touch and out; if no horse goes clear, no prize |awarded: jumps, 41, feet, to be raised {in event of a tie—First, Tip (E. E Adamson, Washington, D. C.). Class No. 21; free-for-all handicap; 3-year-olds, to' jump 3!, feet, green | horses 4 feet. blue ribbon winners 4!, | feet; performance only counted, way af going and form considered—First, Cath ode Ray (Miss Elizabeth Nesbit); sec- ond, Tip (E. E. Adamson); third, Quick Silver (Miss Julia Whiting) Class No. 24; hunter champlonship, known as the Culpeper Challenge Plate. donated by the business men of the town for the best hunter in the show, {judged by tvpe, conformation and per- {formance in the show; all blue ribbon | winners _eligible he plate must be | won three times by the same exhibitor | before it becomes his permanent prop- erty Class 19; ladies’ hunters; shown over To this im- | iving a su- | the reserve In the free-for-all handi- | The | third race, a three-quarters of a mile | in | irn for a driving | jumps not’ exceeding 4 feet; conform: Sal Y, N event | Blunderbus | | tion, 35 per cent: performance, 50 per }wnh and manners, 25 per cent; ridden by ladies—First, Cathode Ray (Miss | Elizabeth Nesbit) : second, Squiffy (Mies Edith Nesbit); third, Duchess o' Dare (Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Corley) | hands and under 14';, judged and children’s ponies and ridden by chil- dren under 14—First, Question Mark (Miss May Ferneyhough) ; second, Frosty | (Anthony and George Rives); third, Sweetheart (Miss May Ferneyhough). Class No. 9; jumping ponies, 12 hands and under 14';; over 6';-foot jumps: child riders under 16 years—FPirst; Fros- ty (Anthony and George Rives); sec- | ond, Smiling Through (Jjoseph Cotter): third, Sweetheart | hough), Class' No. 20; Corinthian class: open to all hunters; horses ridden in hunt- ing colors; conformation counted 25 per cent, performance 75 per cent; in and out 21 feet. 4 feet in and 4 feet out—Pirst, Broken Glass Lee); second, Cathode Ray (Miss Eliza- beth Nesbit); third, Chipmin Farm). Races. Pirst race—First, Gay Braech (B. M. Everhart Bros.): second, Pull Time (Mrs. M. W. Carter); third, Chanca | {Mrs. E. Bemphill). Second race—Pirst, Corella (Leith Bros.); second, Rosy Jester (Furr Bros.): third, Part Time (C. W. Byers) Third race—First, Oautious Iena (T M. Waller); second, Racing Star (J. T. Harris); third, Columbine (Mrs. Jane Dickenson). Fourth race—First, Capt. Saufley (Leith Bros.): second. Jack o' Clubs (J. T. Harris); third, Maj. Findley (M H. Everhart). Fifth race steeplechase, 2'; across the country and on track--Fir: Grand Vedette iT. B. Gay): second Samm Mack (Harold Barnes); third Radio (H. R. Ke: L/ Jul furnfl;% Class No. 7; ponies, animals over 12 | (Miss May Ferney- | (Mrs. D. N.| (Chilton | miles 'CALIFORNIA GROWERS HIT RAIL RATE HIKE Three Organizations Say Increase Would Ruin Many Pro- ducers. | By the Associated Press. | LOS ANGELES, Juiy 4—Three or- ganizations, claiming to represent all California and Arizona fruit and vege. | table producers. today disclosed the grounds on' which they hase their opposition to the appligation of West- ern railroads. now pending before the Interstate Commerce Commission, for A 15 per cent increase in freight rates. As ‘proposed. the report pointed out the increase will cost California and Arizona growers approximately $22.- 500,000 annually, which, coupled with the’ prevailing low prices for produc: will cause ruin to many sgriculturi On the other hand. it will augment, the Annual earnings of the railroads to the |extent of between £400.000.000 and $600.000.000, the statement sald Most of the increased revenue west of Chicago, the growers declared, would accrue to the Santa Fe, Union Pa- eific and Southern Pacific systems and by no stretch of the imagination” ean these lines be considered in di-a distress, it was ascerted. despite e 25 per cent decrease tn date tms yer in carload shipments of all com- modities. Traders of China are complaining that thev cannot keep track of the mony new taxes being imposed by Just a Few Illustrations of the Many Values in Our July Discount Sale—/'.iberal Credit as Before SIMMONS COIL SPRING DA-BED $19.95 complete with cretonne covered mattress .. Walnut-Finished Chest 4 Drawers $7.95 & A ) i $8.00 Allowance on your old Refrigerator on the purchase of any Re- frigerator in stock. U 4157 St NW.— BETWEEN D:E *9 JINE 100 MOHATR A FULL SIZF PIECES (not skimped or shoriened to ower the cest FOUR-LEG SOFA ‘the t three comn_ cow not the but of springe CUSHIONS TEMPERET STRUCTION 5 type. TEMPERED cn REVERSIBLE nes ot high- - MOHAIR’ Walnut Veneer and Other Cabinet Woods rror on Good pring All cotton mattress vanity, bed are all large ¢ o mfortable 10-Pc. Dining Room Suite The maior pieces are walrut veneer on hard- wood. 60-in. buffet, large dining table. china cabi- net and enclosed server 5 side and 1 host chair upholstered jacquard velour, in SIMMONS Mwlin:i‘u:rl:un. in full $6.95 GRweaateeaicen $6.95 s All-Cotton $6.95 Spring, all sizes. . $1.00 Deliver- Walnut-Finished Dresser