Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1933, Page 4

Queen of Trail PROWESS AS DOG MUSHER HELPS WIN TITLE. INHABITANTS HOSTS O NATIVES SOCIETY History of Old Fire House Neighborhood Is Read by James F. Duhamel. 2 The Society of Natives of the Dis-! trict of Columbia was the guest last night of the Association of Oldest In- habitants at the latter's quarters in the | old engine house at Nineteenth and H streets, and before the meeting was adjourned the Natives had heard much of the lore of the old fire-fight- ers who protected the city in its younger days. The Natives agreed at their last| meeting to accept the invitation of the Oldest Inhabitants to hold their May meeting in the engine house. Hence, following a welcome to the visitors by | J. Eliot Wright, secretary of the Old- est Inhabitants, the Natives proceeded | with their regular business as though| cparacterized as one of the best dog they had been meeting in their regu- mushers in Alaska, Jane Sexton Jones lar auditorium ip the Washington Club. | was elected “Queen of the Trail” by the In_ welcoming the visiting society’s| Pioneers of Alaska. She is the daugh- | members to the engine house, Mr. ter of the United States marshal st ‘Wright pointed out some of the old | Nome. —A. P. Photo. | ‘Washington relics on display there. The | S Northern Liberty Bell, on the ground | floor of the building, he explained, was + for the old structure and final the first bell to toll at the time of Lincoln's assassination and funeral. Likewise it rang to announce the sur- render of Gen. Lee to Gen. Grant. Spied for Smoke. Reviewing the difficulties of the vol- unteer firemen, Mr. Wright said that when flames were discovered persons would run to the engine house nearest the scene of the fire to ring the bell. Members of other fire companies, hear- ing the bell, would run to their re- spective headquarters. phones to communicate the location of the fire, My. Wright said that spy glasses were used atop the engine houses to spot the location of smoke ‘or flames so that their apparatus, too, could be hauled to the blaze. James F. Duhamel, historian of the Society of Natives, used last night's meeting to read a paper on the old en- gine companies and the history of the neighborhood of Nineteenth and H streets. The section of Washington ying between the Executive Mansion and Georgetown, Natives, was developed rapidly and many of the houses erected prior to 1800 still are standing. Prominent among these early structures, he re- lated, was a market at Twentieth street and Pennsylvania avenue. A section of L this structure was assigned to house the fire engine, but soon, he said, the density of building made it necessary 0 move the engine house nearer the center of the population. $o it was, in 1834, that the engine house in which the meeting was held last night was erected. And this building, constructed for the definite purpose, housed the Union Volunteer Fire Department, which included in its membership some promi- nent Government employes and army and navy officers. ‘That section of the city also accom- modated most of the foreign embassies and legations, Mr. Duhame! said, and ‘many of the buildings formerly used by he foreign emmisaries are now business % places on Pernsylvania avenue. Used as Armory. After housing a hand fire pump for 0 years, Mr. Duhamel said, the Union Volunteer Fire Company was disbanded " at the opening of the Civil War and the building then was used as the : armory for a newly organized militia ! company. About 1863, however, the Federal Government installed a hors drawn steam fire engine called the Hibernian, in the old engine house. In 1867 a new. engine house was con- structed on K street between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets and the Union Engine Company was quartered there. Then the old house, the one in which he natives were meeting last night, was converted into a public school. ~Fol- lowing its vacancy by the school, the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia made nfpl!uuon ly it was conveyed into the hands of that organi- zation by act of Congress. During the business session, which embraced the reviews of Washington history, the Society of Natives indorsed * the pending old-age pension bill for the District of Columbia. Mr. Duhamel introduced the resolution calling for approval of the bill, pointing out that he, as a New York State Senator in 1911, introduced the first old-age pen- sion bill in that State. After some opposition to' the measure had been talked down by its proponents, the soclety adopted Mr. Duhamel’s resolu- tion and thus became, he said, the first organization .in the District to indorse the measure. The society also voted to membership William S. Jones, George B. Jackson, !A:lnn E. Callahan and Eugene H. Up- on. As he presided, Dr, Clarence A. Lacking tele- | he told his fellow | SLUMENATEN PLANS ARE PUSHED }Stupendous Project to Set Building Industry to Work Is Seen. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, May 20—A stupendous slum-elimination project that would set the building industry to work re- constructing blighted areas of America's “Steel Crescent” was envisioned by L\dlddle Western housing experts yester- ay. | " Their plans were being pushed as| congressional hearings opened on the {administration’s $3,300,000,000 public works program—a program that in- | cludes loans for rehousing projects to | Irid_cities of their unsightly areas. Proposals to make Cleveland the “laboratory” for the giant rehousing experiment advanced nearer concrete form yesterday as Councilman Ernest J. Bohn went to Washington to plead for speedy approval of loans for local rehousing” projects. Holds Cleveland Ideal $pot. Bohn, chairman of the Joint Civic- Council Committee on Rehabilitation | of Blighted Areas, will argue that Cleve- land is the ideal place in which to start | such an experiment as an example to | other cities. Eventually, said John Millar, Chicago housing expert, it is hoped to set a $300,000,000 project of new construction in motion in industrial centers of the steel and industrial belt from Chicago to Pittsburgh along the lower edge of the Great Lakes and including Clevs land, Detroit, Toledo and Youngstown. Cleveland would start the ball rolling :i(h $30,000,000 worth of slum elimina- | on. A national conference of architects, realtors, city planners and social work- ers to unify various plans will be called next month, according to Walter R. McCornack, architect, and one of the leaders in Cleveland’s plans. ‘The State Work .Project Committee will call & conference soon to co-ordi- nate plans of Ohio cities for participa- tion in the Federal public works pro- gram. Cincinnati and Cleveland groups already have applied to the Reconstruc- n Finance Corporation for loans. Would Aid Property Values. There would be the double goal of stimulating the building industry and | of replacing the ramshackle homes and dingy tenements found on the fringes of every big city’s business section with modern apartments and dwellings to rent to those with meager incomes. Those leading the movement argue that in addition to the social improvement, nearby property would increase in val- uation. Three reasons were pointed out by | Millar, who has attended conferences | | here, why Cleveland has been suggested | |as the first experimental center. A réal property inventory has ‘been com- pleted, the city is far advanced in so- | cial surveys of its seven slum areas, and | Ohio was the first State after New York | to adopt & housing law setting up a commission to supervise limited divi- dend corporations with the power to ac- | quire land for their purposes by the | right of eminent domain §Ta000000 ART - SEEN AT PREVIEW Most Valuable Collection Ever Assembled Shown at Chicago. the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 20—The Chicago Art Institute opened its doors today to a preview of the most valuable collection of world famous paintings ever congre- g:xt.cd»the $75,000,000 Century _of rogress Fine Arts Exposition. The public will be admitted Monday. Five hundred works of art, including | historical masterpieces, have ~ been 10aned by 31 art museums and more than 200 private collectors. Under the surveillance of heavily armed guards, and sometimes in private failroad cars, these priceless treasures, were shipped from Europe and the four corners of the United States. Troops to Escort Painting. ze of the exhibit, Whistler's “Mother.” will not arrive until May 29. Loaned by the Lcavre in Paris through the Museum of Modern Art of New York, the $1000,000 painting will be escorted by Federal troops from the rail- 10ad station to the institute. Already hanging on the walls in com- pany with the Chicago Art Institute's own “Assumption of the Virgin" by El Grego, valued at $1,200,000, is Titian's “Venus and the Lute Player” from the collection of Lord Duveen of | Tondon. It is valued at $500,000. With few exceptions the paintings are | American-owned in keeping with one of the objects of the exhibit to show to the world that American museums and private collectors have in the last few years acquired an astonishing number | of the world’s masterpieces. Three Loaned by Widener. ‘Three outstanding paintings are from the private collection of Joseph E. Wid ner of Philadelphia. They are: Weighing Gold,” by Jan Vermeer; trait Bust of a .Lady,” by Landi, and X.:};mm Di Credi's “Portrait of Him- “ The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is represented and so is the Toledo Museum of Art. Smith College at Northampton, Mass., sent Courbet’s “Toilette of a Bride,” and the Phillips’ xrmm’ifll Gallery at Washington en- usted one of its prizes to the exhibit. BEER STEINS.DEPICTED ON CHURCH WINDOWS Relics of Old Saloon Held Appro- priate for Room Where Unfortunates Come. By the Assoclated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 20.—The wew windows at the Open Door Bap- ust Church have a shady past, Rev. Ben Cox said Thursday, but he has decided to allow them to remain. The trouble was that the pastor did not notice the beer steins pictured on the windows when he struck a bargain with a wrecking company. Imagine his embarrassment when the windows arrived, each designed with two foaming beer steins, their handles entwined. Dr. Cox admitted he was puzzled as to what to do until a happy thought struck him: “I decided it was appro- priate that windows from an old saloon be used in the room’ where I preach to so many unfortunates,” he explained. Between 75 and 100 free meals are served daily at prayer meetings of the Open Door Church. WOODWARD & LoTHROP 10th, 11th, F and G Streets Phone DIstrict 5300 Next Week A Special Opportunity to CHECK UP STAR. WASHINGTON, D. (. SOCIAL INSURANCE FIELD ACTIVITY IS EXTENDED American Association for Old Age Security Announces New Program. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 20.—The Ameri- can Association for Old Age Security has decided to extend its activities to the entire field of social insurance and | campaign for laws to care for the un- employed, sick and indigent, is was| announced at its sixth national con- ference Thursday. The organization will be known in the future as the American Association for Social Security, Inc. Abraham Ep- stein, executive secretary, announced new laws for old age security enacted in 1933 covered a population of more than 14,000,000 and that a total of 52,000,000 now protected in this country, He said 24 States now have some | sort of old age security plan and the ! is due exclusively to the restrictions on battle was “more than half won.” WooDWARD & 0™ UT™F AnD O St Corseted SATURDAY. [TALY CONTINUES | 10 GET U. 5. CASH Emigrants Here and in South s America Sent Large Sum Back Home. ROME (#).—Remittantes from Ital-| jan emigrants, particularly in North: d South America, remained in 1832| at approximately the high level reached | in 1931, despite the depression. A report by the Association of Italian Corporations and the Fascist Confed- eration of Industries put the total re- mittances for last year at 307,000,000 lire, which is a reduction of only 15.- 000,000 lire from the previous year. The report says that this reduction foreign exchange transactions enforced Lorugor MAY in South American countries. This is one of the points the government here has been hoping that the Argentine mission headed by Ambassador Mexia ‘would solve. “The average check from the emigrant is 1,850 lire. Some of these go directly | to relatives, others into savings banks. At the end of 1931 emigrants had a total credit in the postal savings banks of 2,693,000,000 lire. These remittances are regarded here as a kind of “invisible export” which mn;:‘e&I hIL ";gm ‘bm.ddf ‘They, urist expenditures in | # ly and passenger fares and frei e Lt podtnind Proe. charges on Italian_steamers, urve‘srt\;; ATHENS, Ala., May 20.—A new move givs Ttaly a favorable total trade bal- | toXree two of the nine colored men in ance, although her visible exports are | the Scottsboro case was made yesterday less than her visible imports. as Judge Thomas E. Horton issued 2 o it Writs of habeas corpus to bring them CORNWALL AWAITS WALES | 20, 1933. MOVES TO FREE TWO IN SCOTTSBORO CASE Defense Files Writs of Habeas Corpus on Behalf of Wright and Williams. tog! into Morgan Circuit Court at Decatur on June 1. 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