Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1933, Page 4

OLD FIREFIGHTERS ~ HISTORY RECALLED Society of Natives Is Given PRicture of Days When Presi- ! dents Were in Brigades. Shades of Washington's fire-figh! past, when “smoke eaters” included al men from Presidents down to_paupers, were recalled by James F. Duhamel, historian of the Society of Natives, at the organization's me last night at the Washington Club. A century and more ago, Mr. Du- hamel told the Natives, their grand- fathers and great-grandfathers were firemen, whatever else they might have been professionally, for those were the ears of volunteer fire departments, cket brigades and fire-bucket ordi- nances. It was in 1802, the historian Telated, that the ordinance requiring the maintenance of a fire bucket on each floor of dwellings was passed, and this was the first organized attempt on the part of the authorities of the then youthful Capital to combat the fire inenace. Five Companies in City. At the same time, Mr. Duhamel said, there were five fire engine companies in force. The Anacostian, the Colum- bian, the Perseverance, the Franklin and The Union. In addition to these, he said, there was the Pioneer in Georgetown. And then, he added, there were no less than two dozen lesser companies in the populous neighbor- hoods, so that when an engine arrived in a given community to fight a blaze, the local company manned it. All these engines, Mr. Duhamel told the society, were drawn by men. If the motive power was primitive, so was the system by which these engines re- ceived their water supply. Prior to 1820, Mr. Duhamel said, all water came from pumps, wells and the many streams which then traversed the Dis- trict of Columbia. In fighting flames, the engine would be placed at the con- fiagration and a bucket line of men formed to the nearest water supply. ‘Thus it was that buckets of water were f;:ued by hand and dumped into the k of the engine itself. if the fire were conveniently located, the engine would be backed under a pump and while one crew of volun- teers worked that instrument’s handle to supply the engine’s tank, another crew manned the engine’s own pump- ing bars. Presidents Were Firemen. ‘The volunteer fire departments in- cluded on their rosters the Capital's elite as well as its humble, Mr. Duhamel recalled. President John Quincy Ad- ams and President Andrew Jackson are recorded as having worked as volunteer firemen, he said. The camfany rolls included, too, the mayors of the city, the narrator said. ‘The early volunteer fire departments ghared honors with the chure as the social centers of the Capltal. Each company had its own and each sponsored _excursions to neighboring cities as part of its annual programs. There was a particularly friendly re- lationship between the Washington and the Philadelphia companes. It was, in fact, from Philadelphia that the ‘Washington firemen brought back to ‘Washington the sectional names of “Swamp-poodle” and “Northern Liber- ties,” which they applied to Washington communities, Mr. Duhamel told the Natives. In the same year—1802—that the fire bucket ordinance was enacted, Mr. Du- hamel said, the city was divided into four wards. Four Griffith Coombs, James Hoban and Nicholas Voss, were made directors of fire . These gentlemen served without compensation and they were charged with responsi- bility of ascertaining that the fire buck- ets were installed and kept ready for use in each dwelling in their respective wards. At an alarm, each resident was required to grab his bucket and run to the blaze. Each bucket whs numbered and registered and after the fire they were returned to their I a resident’s fire buckets were not in place-he was fined $5 for each missing one. The first Government-purchased en- gine was housed near the Capitol, Mr. Duhamel sald, and in 1804 the munici- pal government appr ted $300 for an engine to be located at the Center Market. Provisions were made, also, to locate engines “as soon as possible” at the Navy Yard and another at the Western Market. About 1820 Daniel Haupmen of Georgetown was contracted with to-construct several engines. One of these was located at the Treasury Building and was the forerunner of the Franklin Engine Company. Status Later Changed. But time cl d the engine com- g’larnlex' status, as it did everything else, . Duhamel showed. About 1850, he said, “the fire companies had sad'y de- generated and fires and parades were nerally accompanied by riots. A riot tween the hose company from Jack- son Hall alley and the Northern Lib- erties Company in 1855 at Four-and-a- ‘Thalf street and Pennsylvania avenue re- sulted in some 50 shots being fired and ‘WoobpwARrD & proj Sometimes, | ¢4 Branded PLACED AT HEAD OF PUB- LIC ENEMY LIST. MURRAY HUMPHRIES. ‘The Winter ranking of public enemies in Chicago has accorded Murray Humphries the label of No. 1 on the list compiled by police. -Humphries is busy these days trying to beat a chayge of carrying concealed weapons. He was seized with several other hoodlums last November in offices in a downtown Chicago building. Thus far he has ob- tained several continuances on "that charge. Photo. & number of aeople being wounded. Another altercation between these two companies took place in New Jersey avenue above the railroad depot when the Northern Liberties were escorting a visiting fire company to their house.” This last row, Mr. Duhamel said, re- sulted in the disbandonment of both companies by the mayor. However, it was the Civil War that doomed the volunteer fire companies, for it was during that period that the National Government introduced three steam fire engines to the District and these were manned by regular Army soldiers. In 1864 the city itself bought five steam engines and organized then the paid fire department. Follo Mr. Duhamel's lecture a of entertainment was present- the Society of Natives under the chairmanship of Mrs. Ella C. Robinson. The performers included Mrs. Edith Hoffman Jones, soprano, and her pian- ist, Mrs. Jewel Downs; an instrumentai trio, Mrs. V. Museilh. cellist; Miss Martha Davenport, violinist, and Miss Rébecca McKinney, pianist, and Paul Garber, tenor soloist. THOMAS PROPOSES U. S. MINE CONTROL Socialist Leader Urges Federal Ownership of Coal Properties to Stabilize Industry. —A. By the Associajgd Press. FRANKFORT, IlL, January 21.—Nor- man Thomas, Socialist candidate for President in the last general election, ‘yesterday advocated Federal ownership of coal mines and address before 500 here. Purchase of the mines, the Socialist could be prominent citizens, | years Gillis, the issues. Questioned as to what position the Socialist party held on the mine union controversy in Illinois, which in the last year has resulted in the death of eight persons and injury to & score of others, Thomas replied: “I am speaking on socialism; miners can seftle their own controversy.” He criticized yesterday the action of the authorities in sending troops {o the Taylorville mine area, where several weeks ago four persons were killed and many wounded in a factional fight be- tween progressive miners and the work- ing miners of the United Mine Workers’ Union. The State, he charged, is spending more money in one day to kesp the military in Taylorville than to keep poverty out of the homes in this State. HELD IN LARCENY House Boy Accused of Disappear- ing When Sent to Bank. Facing a charge of larceny after trust, Robert Clark, colored, 19, was held for grand jury action under $1,000 bond by Police Court Judge John P. McMahon today. Georgia Trarback, 1708 I street, who employed Clark as & houseboy, said that the youth disap- peared after she had given him $106 to deposit in a bank. Clark was arrested in New York. He pleaded not guilty. LoraroP 107 U™ F ann G S7n THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JAN Non-Committal Attitude of Roosevett May Block Moves at Present. By the Assoclated Press. cates. Senator Wheeler, Montana, Democrat, said remonetization of silver was among subjects he discussed with Mr. Roose- velt, but the Democratic chief- tain had not “committed himself.” From the House went leaders of the unofficial Farm Forum to acquaint Mr. Roosevelt with their objectives, which give a first-row place to inflation. They were Representatives Sumners and B i o usby of p] Louisiana and Arnold of Illinois, all Democrats. No Definite Word. ‘Thirty members of the forum have indorsed Busby’s bill for a $3,000,000,000 Would Fix Rates According to Currency Depreciation in Exporting Country. though they men- |comes Roosevelt and his s Democratic §Toup browgat BAck 0 mocraf t definite word. Y i Meanwhile, the Busby bill seemed locked for the session in the Ways and | Be Means Committee, with Representative Rainey, the Democratic leader, again affirming “there is no chance of infla- tion this session.” Busby had wanted his bill transferred to the Banking Committee, but the powerful revenue group refused. “We decided that it was properly be- fore our committee and should be con- sidered in connection with tax legisla~ tion at the special session,” Rainey said. Still Hope for Aztion. Nonetheless, the drive continued on Capitol Hill for obtaining quick action under the new Administration. Chairman Steagall of the House Banking Committee said his group would consider soon his bill for a billion-dollar issue of Treasury notes supported by Government bonds and the remonetiza- tion of silver. Steagall described his plan, which would establish the policy of using as money all the silver pro- ‘would not insist upon if some other could be found to obtain the same effect. CITIES LEADING WAY IN SCRIP MOVEMENT ‘Various Municipal Projects Pointed Out as Washington State Weighs Currency Program. By the Assoclated Press. SEATTLE, January 31.—Numerous ‘Washington citles today are issuing self- redeeming scrip or plans for producing duced in the United States, as “an ef- | 5P cla fort to expand along sound and cone servative liges.” L Representative Somers, Democrat, of New York, chairman of the House Coin- age Committee, also was drafting & new silver bill for the gradual remonetiza- tion of that metal on a strictly domestic basis which would not rely upon foreign action to become effective. CONTINUED PURCHASE OF LAW BOOKS URGED Federal Bar Council Adopts Res- olution for Appropflntiom‘ for Library. A resolution . to con- ir urging Congress | families, who packed a small dance hall | tinue the appropriation for the purchase of foreign and domestic law books for the Library of Co was ad last night by the Executive Council of priations, " which tions for the Library. The association also forwarded to Chairman Bingham of the Senate Econ- omy Committee s statement of its ob- Jections to section 14 of the ding economy bill, which would al the keeping of personnel recopds by the Civil Service Commission -and these records kept by the personnel of- ficers of the various departments and It was announced arrangements are being completed for the organization's annual dinner February 17 in the May- flower Hotel. ARRESTED AS “CON” MAN Ohio Prisoner Said to Have Jumped $17,500 Bond in New York. COLUMBUS, Ohio, January 21 (®). —Arthur Carter, 46, an alleged confi- dence man, arrested after an 18 months’ search, will be held here pending the arrival of & United States deputy marshal. Authorities sald Carter jumped bond of $17,500 in New York City in July,. 1931, when he was convi of using the malls to defraud. He was sentenced to serve five years in the Atlanta Fed- eral prison. Federal agents said they were seek- ing two men assoclated with Carter and the latter's wife, the former Mar- jorle Gaines of Spokane, Wash. perity. “Look at Tenino, where the chamber of comerce issued wooden money,” say g & Spotiy there. Lok &% Raymens, s ere. A ¥ gvymr money’ was used. Look at Blaine, which is using wooden nick- els and dimes.” dians crossing the United States laining: be- unemployment scrip which would be paid for wark on xubuc projects and ‘would be legal for 60 mmc St maedfiuooo'éhn; woul [y 000, ?-w bond issue mxecunry and woul® lopted | pay for itself. New Yorker Hurt in Oklahoma. MUSKOGEE, January 321 (A)— Hnrynun:.‘u,mhflolmnw FASTnalmllet...theSk; Queen slithers down the snow- frosted mountain. “Smooth work!” ‘That’s what you say. Smoothness is everything . . . in an athlete or a cigarette. That’s what ‘makes OLD GOLD a better cigarette. Wonderful flavor, without rasp or | AT U Akt Y 21, 1933. Scrip and Barter in Trade AMERICA’S NEW MONEY SUBSTITUTES AT WORK. Oats for & haircut! Real estate for coonskins! and barter exchange needs money. The above shows some of the new “mone; to ald in 4 (Thy 1o the Arst of ¢ series of articles Jm’u ke widerorsad woe ot herlyt Sorter e eacs Ll BY J. B. BRACKETT. EW YORK, January 231 (P.— Unemployed Americs is making & new “money”—not silver colns or greenbacks—but scrip used to build up barter. Products worth millions of dollars are being “swapped” in the United States and between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 in some form of scrip money now is in circulation, according to the estimates of Jacob Baker, operations director of the Emergency Exchange Association. About 150 groups are formally organ- ized to facilitate this swapping which has sprung from cross-roads to the status of a real aid to the unemployed. their further development, Baker Senston envisage. the possibiity of Na- of Na- tionwide interch: of g possibly the use of “m;xeyn"lo{ n:; various exchanges among themselves ald the . _Other economists doubt the system will reach much be- yond local boundaries. , lawyers lfl::lflflll bringing together idle er idle men “Idle” which the men want, but John e n ‘were Kirkiang Clack, prenident of the ‘New s through lack of | scrip After a certain amount York State Board of Bar Examiners; Leland Olds, assistant chairman of the New York State Power Authority; Stuart Chase, ecomomist, and Frank g‘nnhun. Princeton University econo- ‘The association is alding in the de- velopment of in the East; is correlating information for guidance and vide for exchange of goods and services ameng exchanges in different local- ities throughout the Nation. Barter starts with the simple swap- ping of, for instance, wheat for flour; or & few hours’ labor for food. As more individuals seek to fill their needs in this manner, a group of them will or- ganize mutual exchange for the purpose of finding all possible exchanges that exist in a neighborhood. To this ex- change, individuals may bring food, and ommmubororomnmmy need. Thus in Los Angeles a jobless man went out to a farm and worked for & of such trade, a barter y” circulating in exchange is needed, parts of the Nation, issued value. There is no legal money in the transaction. In Hawarden, Iows, the city govern- employed of each note were 36 squares. Before each transaction the holder of the money had to fix & 3-cent stamp, pur- chasable from the local government, before the money could pass. ‘When the money had been used 36 times, it could be redeemed for $1 in legal currency from the ocity govern- ment, the extra charge being for costs. It all the $300 turned over 36 times, it would accomplish $10,800 worth of business. Here there was no barter, but a pos- sible extension of the movement, sug- gested by Baker, would be to add Hawarden's stamps to the barter tokens as used in Inwood. This gives the money double value—in goods, and in legal money. It could be exchanged at any time in full value for goods, and after & year in legal money if fully ped. The National Development Associa- tion in Selt Lake City, Utah, has one of the largest of the barter movements. It uses plain barter scrip, without stamps, and does an estimated $20,000 a month business. Scrip also is used Los | in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where Arthur consultants, for the | ganizal L Dron o by bite . . . Mildness that’s neyer flat. ‘Delightful taste, with throat-ease. Add it up for yourself! Better to- bacco, plus proper aging and curing. The answer is honey-smoothness. Morgan, president of Antioch College, has organized an exchange which has in circulation about $1,000 in scrip. Haircut 5 Cents in Price War. GRAVITY, Iows, January 21 (P).— Tonsorial treatments hit & new “low” here as a result of a barbers’ price war. | Business was brisk when the barbers | | announced a price of § cents for a ' shave or ” - : CABINET FORECASTS GENTER ON THREE Glass, Walsh and .Davis Stand Out as Candidates After Parleys. By the Associated Press. Senators Gl of Virginia and Walsh Sionans asi. Norosn T Davie with President-elect Roosevelt yesterday. Mr. Roosevelt is known, to have dis- cussed cabinet prospects with the three mdmoth;n Jbelmre he Thl;e‘umcd his southwart ourney. incoming President plans to give much of his time at Warm Springs, Ga., to con=- sideration of the cabinet which will ,ma the Government during the next u:r dy finite im) i e pression was gained by Mr. Roosevelt's intimates here that if they are willing, Glass may become Secretary of the Treasury, Walsh the Attorne) General and Davis Secretary of State. Significance was attached to the fact that Davis participated in Mr. Roosevelt's conference with President Hoover on the PBritish war debt. It will be the next Secretary of State who will guide the American policy during these negotiations. Glass Acceptance Seen. At ome time it was indicated that Senator Glass, who, for a time, headed the Treasury in the Wilon Admin- istration, preferred to remain in the Senate. Associates understand, howsg ever that if Mr. Rooevelt desires him to handle the Government's financial affairs again he will accept. Walsh told newspaper men he had discuszed cabinet selections with Mr. Roosevelt, but deciined to discues whether he had been offered the At- torney Generalship. He smiled broadly when questioned and.said, “Of ‘course T can’t discuss such matters.” Previously the Montanan, who presided over the Democratic National Convention that nominated Roosevelt, indicated he pre- ferred to remain in the Senate. The appointment of Daniel J. Tobin of Indianapolis as Secretary of Labor was urged on Mr. Roosevelt by William Green and Matthew Woll, president and vice president of the American Federa- tion of Labor. Tobin is president of the Teamster's Union. Shirfey is Mentioned. Associates of Mr. Roosevelt affirmed the general belief that James A. Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, would become Postmaster General. They also suggested that Swager Shirley, formerly Representa- tive from Kentucky and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, had been tendered the position of director of the Budget Bureau, and that Daniel C. Roper of this city had been offered the post of director of Internal Revenue. Roper was director of the bureau in the last Democratic administration. Talk about W. H. Woodin of New York, president of the American Car and Foundry Co., as Secretary of Com- merce was revived. Woodin is accom- panying Mr. Roosevelt's party on its visit to Muscle Shoals. The name of James M. Thomson, iblisher of the New Orleans Item and bune, has put before Mr. wRoosevelt for the post of Secretary of ar, Retired 0il Leader Dead. TULSA, Okla, January 21 (@).— Charles H. McCready, retired, former president of the McCready Off & Gas C’o,, cled yesterday. He was 69 years o Romember this:—OLD GOLDS are FULL-WEIGNT AMERICA'S SMOOTHEST CIGARETTE