The Washington Bee Newspaper, July 6, 1907, Page 8

ii IN GOULDS OF FAMILY WHO SHUN D SOCIETY. LDE of Smart Set, tatiously at Ards- Gould Says is of America Wearied is heard of Of the many mem famiiy they are the in the public prints, g few quiet, old-fash- i little heir unobtrusiveness. itially a man of who never looks his millions. He is of the social jority h ongs, in that he ows by the the weight, size and coffers. But how is due to the, wise wife? Those’ who st say it was a for- m when he wedded Goulds live with- st the year in have long since tired el; they are among our multimillion- s in our country the Alps or any of the continent can a nature lover, and opportunity to invite n this direction in and Her favorite pastime, if, although occasionally on the Ardsley tennis golf ever to resume its ng the smart set it will be ly to the influence of Mrs. id the little circle of which leading figure. Ardsley is 4 t simply drives the resident afi € sport. In this it is f Newport, sitting lazy vith its level stretches the listless ed automobile. spring and the rt atmosphere every month holster while the 400 genuinely | A HISTORIC CURIOSITY. Only Double Barre.ed Cannon in the World at Athens, Ga. Atlanta, Ga—The only double bar- reled cannon in the world is one of the historic curiosities of Athens, Ga. There is a history of unique interest that goes along with this old cannon. | Besides being the o double bar- | reled “shooting iron” of this kind ever | invented, it ceived with a peculiar idea by the inventor, John Gilleland m ec of the Mitchell | Thunderbol a local military com- pany at Athens during the war. The Mitchell Thu olts Was a company composed of too old for active service in t and was organized purely for home ¢ “nse i rel 2S. EDWIN GOULD. Mi of Famous Family Who ds a Quiet Life.) ere snap and life in The 1ce WS Cool Hudson, and it is saved | its well-wooded i inge that it has been to ¢ vy restrictions tighter , Ards} eservation from | rur tle million- | } families seeking a} ge Gould who, after | vin Goulds, said that of Ameri- said that ke only for the wealthy; cramped area of a park; as indi- id content is women with terest i » spend Frobably 1 meant was that in Vas no su tion of no rivalry of millions, mpetition in absurd en- long before the i for Europe @ lained of wearness round of the isley,” was A ven laughingly, S. of earneste: ids fair to pass the 400, if a i find refuge in so so-called elect of imitators, or rather week, through mention of headache wed by the call “Go ll, there more in thoughtless may is known to the George Gould than an inkling of such apt expre is Mrs. sion arms and decided Ardsley narch of the 2 William Payne spread of nd will th heir Long breth. rire comes will in- the sn of apoleon’s Hair. Napoleon placed in the Not- museum. It consists a f the emperor which about elie of of the odd so- | | using the new curved shox Mr. Gilleland, the inventor, believed that with a cannon of the double bar- pattern he could mow down Yankees by He had his cannon cast at the Athens foundry, and, when was hauled out he city, where a The Double-Barreled Cannon. test was made. One test was entirely sufficient to demonstrate that the can- | non was a rank failure. A 50-foot chain, with the ends attached to two cannon balls was the charge. The balls were rammed into the cannon good and hard. It was the inventor’s idea that when the cannon was fired the chain would stretch taut and cut down everything within its length. When it was prope loaded it was touched off with great ceremony. One of the balls got out a little ahead of the other, and the devil and Tom Jones was to pay. It had a kind of circular motion, plowing up about an acre of ground, tore up a corn field, mowed down saplings, and the chain broke. One of the balls killed a young cow in a distant field, while the other knocked down a chi from a log ey cabin. The members of the Thun- derbolts who went out to witness the test scattered as though the entire Yankee army had turned loose in that | vicinity That one vince the inventor barreled cannon was enough to con- that his double more disastrous test was | ! | first instance on a la to the men behind it than to the en- emy in front It was drawn back to the city and was never used again except to celebrate Democratic vic- tories, the number of times for th purpose being limited, except in state campaign: Several ars ago the old | cannon disappeared from in front of the city hall. and it was found in a junk shop, from which it was rescued, and after being mounted and placed in the little park on College avenue, opposite the fed building, where it now stands—c of the most inter- esting relics of the civil war LATEST IN LOCOMOTION. | With Curved Shoe One Can Move Twice as Fast as Without Them. London.—It is claimed that anyone represent- ed in the illustration can move twice fast as he can by king in the ordinar. manner, the hoe causing | the steps to be led in length. The contrivance is the result of muc experimenting a of many modific tions of desig new “wa n skating, not takes less time to learn ti and the weis the is eS Curve Shoe for Fast Walking. more than that of s Fitted with a broad sole, the curve shoe provides the best means for traveling over a sandy soil. It is fastened to the foot and calf by three hooked buckles. The consists of the curved shoe itsel fe holder, and a leg rod with ankle joint, The wear- er of the shoe uses the ordinary move- ments of walki In place of the steel touching the ground, the curve is set down and the step is completed motion the curve shoe at a by a forward roll of sole. When the sole rolls forward a spring is tightened, and this swings the shoe forward when it is raised in readiness for another step. Models i ild ave b made for a few an hour after his | £°° children have been shillings. \ 1 i SE EE | night's res | where * van passin IN SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD GAVE ROAD TU AFRICA | JAMES STEVENSON, SCOTCHMAN, DONATED $25,000 FOR WORK. Route Lies Between North End of Lake Nyassa and South End of Lake Tanganyika, Distance of 211 Miles. London. — James Stevenson, a wealthy Scotchman, gave $25,000 to build a road between the north end of Lake Nyassa and the south end of Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa about 25 years ago. He was con- vinced that nothing would help more to develop Africa than good highways. It took two years to build the road, and it was well built. Its length is 211 miles. Apart from the great use- fulness of the road the white men there have always said that it has been a powerful civilizing agency. It has helped to accustom the na- tives of that densely populated region to work for the white, and to use calico and other European articles. The work of construction was the scale of the in Central laborers now and engage in between the two native utiliz tion of labor rained road service 1. Many alc the sport tran t lakes. is known as the Stev- enson road Chrapkovs an offi- cial in the German service, who re- cently veled over the road, has written an interesting account of it. He though nothing has been done to maintain the road built 25 years ago, it is still, with the sin- gle exception of the road between Vic- toria Nyanza and Tanganyika, the best says that highway in Central Africa. As noth- ing has en done to maintain the road, it now covered with grass, but travele really an ad- as th getation has helped he rom washing, and it t for the feet of the car- riers, who dislike to walk on thos e there i stretches ¥ for no grass, it is as hard a me and hurts their feet The usefulness of the road is proved by the fact that porters carrying 60 pounds on th backs make an ave age of 20 miles a day, while the usual i ten miles. The ro through British ter has erected journey ti passes en tory, and the gov rnment a station every 20 miles where cara- ans may spend the night. There is f at each tion to put all the freight under cover, com- fortable brick and concrete houses af- ford c ions for a good » are cookhouses the caravan are the neighboring le for the clean- ex the meals of prepared. One chiefs is held respons liness and good order of. each station. He receives a monthly salary of a few | shillings from the government, and a few yards of calico from each cara- the route. Strar Bird ts Shot. Knoxville, Tenn.—Inhabitants in the | region of Zion's Mill, Lee sounty, Vir- ginia, are greatly puzzled over the dis- covery of a strange bird in the moun- tains near by by J. F. Witt, a mer- chant of that place. The bird is of great size, measuring nine feet from tip to tip. The feathers are perfectly white, except the tips of the wings, which are black. Its head and bill are 18 ine length, ity webbed feet are inches across. A great pouch under its bill holds a gallon of water and this gives the idea that the bird must be of the pelican family, found in south- ern waters. It is supposed that the bird was driven to the north by a storm and lost its bearings. It will be brought here, mounted and exhib- ited. i the ocean bo! } ste ————— NAMES SHIRT WAIST INSPECTOR. Mayor Busse, of Chicago, Appoints Fe- maie Garment Critics, hirt-waist inspector” is the latest addition to the city hali pay roll. Just what the remuneration and the duties of the inspector are to be no one ex knows, but because Mrs. Ida Cre disple: d with a 6 vent shirt she purchased ai a state street department store, the in- spector was appointed. Louis M Featherstone, whose knowledge of the secrets of the construction of the shirt waists is above reproach, is the first waist “peekaboo’ and other said to be “inspector.” is appointme yor Busse and the cther heads of the city hall are too gallant to see one of the fair sex in trouble. Monday afternoon, being bargain day, s. Cross purchased a_ shirt st that After racted her attention in a store. taking it home her idea changed, and she returned it and asked that her money be refunded. A polite refusal followed, with the ex planation that the waist was slightly soiled. If Mrs. Cross would pay t have it laundered the company would be glad to refund the difference, she was told Appeals to the manage of the they gave the store proved fruitle same rep Ha t Mayor > in trouble, him her story and I will appoint a special ‘shirt wast or,” he exclaimed. “Here, Featherstone, you know all about shirt don’t you? ’ replied th unsuspicious t was made because | } | | | | | | Featherstone. “Peekaboo, fa and | pla Linen, calico or silk, Plaited- | “That's enoug You are now the | shirt waist inspector for the | k into this.” OLD CUSTOM FROM GERMANY. Goshenhoppen Reformed Church Dec- } orates 2,000 Graves. Pennsburg, Pa—A_ religious ob- vance altogether new in south- tern Penns 3 and probably conducted for the first time in the United States, took place the other day at the New Goshenhoppen Re- formed church. It was a service in memory of the dead, and the principal | feature was the decoration of 2,000 graves in the graveyard with flowers. The idea was su ted to Rev. C. M. De Long, pastor, when he visited Nuremberg, Germany, some years ago. One Sunday in June nearly the whole populace assembled in the cemeteries, placed flowers on the es and then attended ice. All afternoon and next morning un- til ten o'clock the members of the con- gregation brought great quantities of flowers to the churchyard and placed them on When the time religious. s the graves | wild career wa | ioned chair | home ANDIT'S SON AT BAR JESSE JAMES, JR., TO PRACTICE LAW AT KANSAS CITY. 8 ness to Enter of Quits Pawnbroking Lega! Profession — Receipt Diploma Happiest M of Life ment Kansas City, Mo.—Jesse James, Jr., only son of the famous bandit whose stopped 25 years ago by a bulllet from Bob Ford’s revolver in St Joseph, has opened a splendidly furnished office in the Schutte build- ing and will practice law in Kansas City. Jesse, Jr. has been a resident of Kansas City nearly all his life. He wrote a book about his father, and the ast few years has been running a pawnshop. “When [ stood on the platform,” Jesse said the other evening, “and re ceived my diploma from the Kansas City school of law, [ experienced the | proudest moment of life—except- ing, of course, the day I! ried.” Attorney James spc was mar- from a cush- in the parlor of his neat on Elmwood enue. On a table before him were half a dozen av evases crowded with white and red 2s, which he had received at his graduation. On a piano at his back ood the class picture Jesse didn’t say anything about his winning an honor prize at his gradua- tion. Nor did he tell that he learned his law by night study after working long hours by day in his pawnshop. “I have quit the pawnbroker busi- ness,” Jesse continued. “I am going to practice law. I took the state ex- amination at Jefferson City last June, and have been dipping into the law a little since I! like the profession and have done well at it for a be- ginner. | suppose my father wonld say I am rather old to start in my life work. | am 31, you know.” Je: he had ery stopped rather abruptly, as if started to more than he JESSE JAMES, JR. (Son of Famous Bandit Who Is Now a Lawyer.) he was at father a 4, only an e, Jr., is to is a good place for a lawyer I gC to stay here. T t ts al in my practice fo a hali never ma specialty iminal practice ‘The t enough mone n that class of ‘ Fe n who commit acts of violence ha on! The mone is in corporation law and will cases.” Young Ja received some notori- ety hir in the bandit line a few years a n he was ar od charged with Iding up a aT train a mil from K where members of the J used to operate in eari evidenc 3 James » warrant his strong en arrest | was r to secure a corivic tion After a trial lasting several weeks James was acquitted. Gov. Critten | den, to whom Frank James laid down his arms wh the last remnants of arrived for beginning the services the great expanse of flower-decked graves presented a scene of rare beauty. An appropriate sermon was | sached by Rev Mr. De Long. Says Sea Leaks Cause Quakes. Montgomery City; Mo.—Dr. Jefferson , astronomer of the United at Mare I i now in this city vis his old yhood home, says he has discovered the common cause of earth which give: th rise to s crust. chief danger of e agitations is along the seacoast. ‘It seems to be clearly proved,” said Dr. See, “that the earth is not contracting, but that the effects of cooling of the globe are insensible. The earth may be slightly expanding. San Francisco is not likely to have another earthquake in a hundred years.” be’ out m that I the Thomas | 1 Observatory | ~—the leakage of | He | the old James ¢ went out of exis! ence, has t r al inter in young J ny years, and at the time of his tria! came to his sup port It was m throug forts of Gov Crittende S exonerated of the train robbery brought aga Shortly h rial James took up the w at the suggestion of the due to the < that the 0 to-day a member of the bar and Cervantes Shakespeare DIPLOMAT’S SONS LIKE SIRE. | Robert, Gasper and Eliot Bacon All Stars in Athletics. | Boston.—It is rare to find three , brothers in the same college at the same time, all of whom are prominent in the same branch of sport, and it is still rarer to find in them the sons of a man who while at the same college was an athlete of such marked ability that his reputation is still familiar to the undergraduates of his alma mater. This distinction belongs to the Ba- | con family, which for two generations has been prominent socially and in {athletics at Harvard. Robert Bacon, the father, who is assistant secretary of state, was graduated from Harvard in the famous class of 1880, in which President Roosevelt was a member. While in college Mr. Bacon was a. member of the varsity crew, and of: the football and track teams. He is: best known, however, as a splendid: ROBERT BACON. (Three Sons of This Diplomat Are Star Athletes.) oarsman, and his footsteps. Robert Lord Bacon, the oldest son, who is a senior and the captain of the varsity crew, prepared, like all his brothers at Groton. In his freshman year he was a member of his fresh- man football squad, and captain of his class crew. For the last two years he has rowed at stx on the varsity Like his father, he is a man of mag- nificent physique, and a very powerful oar. He is also making a very good crew captain. He is very popular, and at the recent class election he was chosen chairman of the class commit- tee. Gasper C. Bacon, the second brother, er, also went in for football and boat- ing in his freshman year He played his sons all follow in end on the 1908 freshman class foot- ball team, and was a member of the class four-oared crew. He is not as strong as his elder brother, but, like him, ar, and la year and t season he has in the second varsity In his sophomore year he was ent of his class, and he undergraduate dur rowed eight elected steadily is one of the three members » Harvard athletic com- mittee Eliot C Bacon, the youngest of the three brothe lid not play football, } but ha steadily to rowing. He tre freshman crew, and was rece elected captain. In the cla rac spring, and at the American Healey at Philadelphia, Ba- con pro himself to be one of the best two-mile strokes Harvard has duced has splendid rhythm and snap d at the same time the judgment which is absolutely essen- tial te ne good stroke oar. He is looked upon by many prominent boat- the most promising oars- Bacon family. man ¢ DOUBLE-DECKERS IN LONDON, “Two-Story” Cars Are Popular With English Tramway Patrons Brooklyn this country, where it the height of our d no opportunity ffic managers to trolley, so much lish. Our English of the outdoo: A London Double-Decker. anyway, and when on an old London ; bus they wanted to be on the roof where the air and the view were freer. The upper-deck bus, now ceeded by the motor omnibus in Li don, is the forerunner ouble deck trolley car in land. But, for that matter, the old London horse cars | of the It per s of the mc re: | had tv « also, and may have ‘ 1 weldeues all literary | contribute this ver-deck habit. A 23, 161 hould | Among finest ¢ of this type tt th f the two | are the new Ises in or, | Electric tramway ny Um e re and | deck incl n B whether | each end upper deck a large they ever h f eact just | platforn he acc ,odation of as Burns ar r, who born | Smokers n the kled, to use | oa £4 Carlyle’s fine phrase bright par- | What Success Means. ticular stars in opposite f nents, | man who accumulates riches at and neve mi i thei 8 It € of others has a does not ap that Shakespeare , » his Hfe. He has knew any Spanish, and as the earli 1 art, warped translation — Shelton’s — of “Don ated his better im- Quixote” began to ear in 1612, | $ elf that might after the author of “Hamlet” had re-| have been a power for good lies at tired to Stratford, and was finished .ishapen and lifeless. in 1620, he is not likely to have come | an who overrides friends, under its influence It was “The | conscience to better her Knight of the Bur g Pestle” which soci neial position, is not a first betrayed this. self or to anyone else,