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D. Wll.l.MM OVSTKH 1>U JOHN K. >IEKU.VKH WITH DDKR KI1.LK1) IN
VIRGINIA.
WEATHER.
Rain tonight and Sunday, with colder temperature Sundav.
CONDITION OF THE WATER.
Temperature and condition of water at 8 a.m.: (ireat Falls?
Temperature. 48: condition. 24. Dalecqrlia reservoir?Tempera
ture. 52: condition at north connection. 18: condition at south
connection. 17. Georgetown distributing reservoir?Temperature,
50: condition at influent gatehouse. 20: condition at effluent gate
house, 15.
lyong-continued unfavorable conditions
on the upper river have had the effect o>
causing the local fishermen to abandon j
their rods and 8etk the fields and i
marshes in pursu't of birds. rabbits and
ducks. The plentiful supply of game tins
season has made the sport wtih gun and
ilosj.s ? ptionally interesting.
Rejiorts from Harpers Kerry the middle
of the Ri.i, toll <>f the improved char
acter of I he river. I'rom "'very muddy
it beeame "/milky" and then it was re
ported as being "clear."
"Come lip any time." was the message i
received by John W. Hurley from Georgffj
\Y. l.eopold. al Weverton. "I was out .
yesterday and got fourteen bass.'
"What do you think of that?" asked j
Hurl< > of oin uf his fishing companions.
"Better set ready without delay," lie
? ont'nued. "The river may set muddy
again.'*
Making pr? pai ations for a trip. Hurley .
hurried away to try his luck near W'ewr- ;
ton. Knoxville and Harpers Ferry, tak- j
ing along a pun to shoot a few birds, j
rabbits or ducks, should he have the op- j
portunity Today the enthusiastic anglei j
on the river with as attractive a lot J
of bait as any Washirigtonian ever took
away with b in, but in the absence of
wireless communication with that section
of the country, nothing will be known of
the result of the trip until the angler's
return.
l.afct Sunday "Col." Hurley and VV'il
min K. Dulin went to Great Falls to in
spect flu- water ami learn if it would
soon yet in condition for fishing. They
cast tiieti lines as an experiment. Pat
r.ck Kiordan was also on hand, not that
lie hail an> idea of catching fish. but
lie wat in tin- class with his two friends. !
Th:-< e t>ass were landed by the trio.
I> William Oyster and John fcl. Merg-i
in'! hav? long discussed a p.oposed gun-1
ning trip to Oismai Swamp or sonic o.her j
place where something larger than a
s?iu;i're! or bird is supposed to be found,
and this week they spent two days in
the wilds not many miles from the
swamp.
Frank K. Raymond was about as much
surprised when lie received a deer,
weighing lJo pounds, as his friends were
when the> kilbd the animal.
"There's an express package here for j
you." was the nrst intimation Raymond |
had that his friends had kil'ed the deer.
"What i.-- it?" i e anxiously inquired
of the expressman.
"A d<er."
"Deer?" queried Raymond. "Kill it 'oe
lore you bring it in. I'm not much on
tlia' kind of deer.''
Following the heavy express package
came the two gunners. Will Oyster had
k iied tlie deer and Ins companion had
bagged two wild turkeys and a few birds.
lie went after big game." said Merg
ner, referring to his companion, "and I
was after something smaller."
Mr. Oyster got two shots the two days.
While making a stand for the game a
doe came In sight on the jump. The
huntsman tired a shot, but an unusual
turn t<?ok the animal out of lange and
permitted it to escape. N'ext came the
heavy buck, and a successful shot
brought him dow n. Friends of the hunts- j
men art anticipating venison steaks and j
roasts for Sunday dinner.
Having experienced several disappoint-!
ments because of bad weather and muddy 1
water. Inspector Robert Boardinan. as- j
si si ant chief of police, and Detective
Frank Haur tins week went to Dicker- |
sons, where they saw their old friend.
'apt. Waiters, and tried to make tliei
acquaintance of h few bass. .
"It was like old times," commented De
tective Banr. "There were'the old home
stead' by r e ianal, thf Monocacy and
Potomac rivers and Red Rock, where
'hoisaiids of big bass may have been
< aught."
Well supplied with the choicest bait
nall kinds, the two anglers reached
IMckerson's Monday night. Early the
?e\t morning they were on the river
wending th? :r wa> to Red Ro-k. They
v ere out two days, but failed to get
many i'.sh and there was a reason.
Inspector Hoardman landed the largest
.?f tii ? e *.sh that were caught in two
0:1 s ,i bass that weighed three pounds?
and t ie fishermen blamed the high water
and "'it the tiois? made by gunners in
the vicinity for their poor luck. On
'h nuri' miIi of the Monocaev sports
men %v?'c shooting rabbits and birds,
t;:* season in Frederick county having
? ened November 1. In Montgomery
county, south of the river, it does not
ooen until Noveniber lO.
"There- are plenty of bass in the two
rivers.' said Baur, "and it's only a
case of the water getting lower before
they are caugh". When the river gets
about normal it is an easy matter to
pick the fish from the holes, but when
'he water is high the fish scatter and
it is difficult to find them."
Shortly before the water got muddy
?lustin Morrill Chamberlin and Mrs.
<'liamberUn spent several days at Capt.
Walters. They made several successful
catches, landing something like seventy
five bass.
- ? ?
Fred R. Walker, captain of the launch
Florence, and his crew, composed of
Frank Raymond, who was recently re
ported to have dropped dead; Warren H.
Gotwald, E. Edward Grimes and A. H.
Ahadale, arranged a fishing trip last
week, and down the river went the jolly
fishermen.
Piscataway creek was the destination,
altiiougli the crew knew full well that if
fish were not biting in old Piscataway
the captain would not be satisfied to re
main there long.
"There was not much fishing." Kay- i
mend admitted, and he told the story of:
h?w he had caught an eel. the only catch
made: "bul he ^ure did stay some long." i
he said.
The craft dropped anchor in the creek j
Saturday night and remained there until
the next afternoon, most of th# time on
a sandbar.
A misunderstood message, shouted by a i
good Samaritan to Capt. S. J. Kubel, !
aboard his launch, the Louise K., made i
it appear that Frank Raymond had been
drowned
"And it was only two weeks ago that!
they had him dropping dead." Capt. j
Kubel remarked. "How long ago was i
he drowned?"
"I didn't say drowned " explained the
one who was looking for assistance for
the fishermen, "I said aground."
"Who should worry?"
High tide came along siortly after
ward and the craft floated olT the bar.
"And Frank Raymond came home with
his 'round fish." " commented a member
of the party.
Last Sunday the Bertha A. had aboard a
party of anglers who had anticipated do
Inx a clean-up in the line of fishing in;
Piscataway creek. Capt. Warren Wright '
had the boat in fine trim Sunday morn- (
ing. the more enthusiastic anglers In the !
party having go* a good supply of bait, j
and the fast craft was under way in ;
ample time to get the fishermen on the
creek early enough to catch the morning
tide.
"The tide was about all thai was ?
caught." one of the disappointed fisher
men remarked.
Detective Jim Springman went along to
locate the fish, but he found quite a dif- ?
ference betw een locating tish and crooks, j
and when he returned he admitted he j
had been unable to furnish the goods.
I had promised llsh to so many
friends." he said, mournfully. "Too bad!"
William Stewart, Ned Kittrun, Lucien
Davis, George Moore and George Hobbs
were other members of the party. The
weather was fine and the water was all
that could be desired. There were fish in
the river, but why they passed by the
attractive bait was a matter the anglers
could not understand.
Saying he was going to make "one more
effort" to catch, Capt. Wright m.tde a
cast and caught a bin bass.
"The worst part of the trip." said Jim
Springman. "was that we saw other fel- j
lows pulling in rockflsh."
Fritz and Kate. Norman Prultt's j
prize hunting dogs, are laid up for re
pairs. Their master and Albert Chap
palear had them on a gunning trip in
Virginia for two days, and the faithful
animals enabled the sportsmen to get a
hunch of more than five dozen quail, a
few woodcock and some rabbits.
"Birds were plentiful," the gunners
say. "but the rabbits had be-en killed oft
by the hundred and had become scarce."!
"But we were not looking for rab
bits," Pruitt said, "and our dogs seem
ed to understand that it was only the
birds we wanted, and paid all their at-j
tention to them."
The gunners were in Virginia about
twenty miles from Fredericksburg.
Their gunning was done early in the
morning and late in the afternoon, the
dogs being permitted to rest during
the middle of the day. So eager were
the animals to find birds that the trips
over the fields fagged them out. and
hospital treatment was necessary when
they reached home.
Being no long "water "In," and hav- !
Ing landed a big bass with Arthur
Kenna's "hoppergrass," George S. Wat
i son. Chief Wagner's clerk, has decided I
I to pay another visit to Cainotop. This
j time Capt. Jacob Stulz of the Fire- j
tighter is going to take the chief clerk
i and a party of friends to the favorite
fishing shore in his launch Marie.
Arrangements have been completed
'for the party to leave h^re in the
afternoon, spend the niyht at Camotop
as guests of Dr. Charles Barnwell Rob
; inson, and get on to the iver earlv
enough to g<>t a string of buss, if the
j possum hunt, scheduled for the night,
is terminated long enough before day
break for the sportsmen to get a nap.
! Senator Mark Smith. W. H. Holmes. T.
M. Robinson. Fred Schafhlrt. Kugene
I Watson. O. 11. Moxley. Arthur Kenna
; ami George S. Watson will compose
i the party.
Mack Sparrough is doiii* considerable
fishing in the tidal basin this fall and the
past week he caught a number of big
ifish. He was at the basin Wednesdav
i afternoon long enough to land five bass,
i one weighing 4\ pounds
"1 went back Thursday," said the fish
erman, "but was unable to get in my ac
customed place. There is a rock bed
near the flood gates and fish are usually
found there.
' Many of the regulars know of it." he
added, "and some of them are usually
there."
Thursday afternoon the angler landed
three nsh, and. as usual, a "whaler" got
aw ay.
J. E Buckingham has ariauged a trip
THE ECONOMICAL HUSBAND
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?By MacGill
we should have
a sleeping porch
Dudley they re
50 healthful .
mrs blntts had
one made and
it only cost 5.
A BOLLY g.ood idea, but mr.d.
isn't paying any buchs
' assure you fours truly
will build it
HIMSELF.
mercy me
dudley dud50n,
vvhat kind 6f
a roof did YOU
put on this
alffalr. it's ,
lcawnfiit \ ' ,
but dudley, must
we CLIMB over
this sill evetv*
time vs/hen VVE
wish to come
out here. ? j
have A little patience
mrs o- and i'll put a
door IN there
the lns*de isn t
finished yet BUT
that'll all come
in time.
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; to Annapolis for tomorrow, yesterday's
i'mail having brought him the cheering
news that rockfish are still to be caught
there.
"Big ones are being caught," he said.
The veteran angler always goes where
he thinks the big fish are to be found,
having recently caught a fourteen-pound
rockfish near Bryans point. Buckingham
has arranged a trip for a party of friends
for next week, he says, and a great catch J
is anticipated. '
Capt. Billy Hettinger was on the river
two days this week. When he found
ducks were plentiful enough to furnish
good sport lie laid aside his rod and went
to the marshes and blinds with his gun.
"I got fifteen mallards and three marsh
ducks, ' he said, "but saw no canvas
backs. It is a little early for the choicest
variety to come to this section."
Capt. Hettinger was on the river early
in the week and the weather was cool
enough to make it comfortable.
Warwick Furr visited friends in Vir
ginia one afternoon this week and went
to the woods for an hour. He took only
five shells with him. not expecting he
would run across much game.
"I had hardly reached the woods." he
said. "before a rabbit ran across my path
and I got it."
When he returned he had used the five
shells and had three rabbits and one bird
to show for them.
Detective Fred Cornwell was at Aquia
Creek. Va? Tuesday afternoon. He had
a wait of two hour.^ for a train, he later
explained, and in order to pass the time
he procured a piece of twine and a fish
hook.
Digging a few worms the detective
went in search of a fish, thinking he
might succeed in getting a small perch.
He was su: prised at catching two pike
and a bats, anud he now intends to. re
turn witl* good equipment and bait.
"Doc" John W. Harrison and Drum
mer, his three-legged dog. are having
sport on the doctor's farm above Great
Falls. When the animal met with an ac
cident several years ago its owner would
not listen to a suggestion that it be
killed.
"Drummer." he said, "has been too
faithful a friend and companion to be
killed." and he proceeded to get the best
treatment possible for the injured animal,
and although the dog is handicapped, its
owner says it is one of the finest bird
dogs in the country.
FOR NEWYORK MILITIA
Efforts Being Made by Those
Interested to Enlist Support
of War Department.
In an effort to enlist the support of the
federal government for a movement to
establish an aviation division of the New
York state militia. William Bouldin, "d. :
one of the leaders in the movement, called ;
at the War Department today to see offi- ?
j c-ers of the Signal Corps.
Headed by Mortimer Delano of ttse Aero |
| Club of America, a group of New York men i
, interested in aviation have been trying!
for some time to get their aviation divl- j
slon mustered in as a part of the New ?
York state militia. They have taken the |
I stand that if New York starts such a
I movement other states will follow, thus
j furnishing the government with a num
: her of well organized aviation corps to
i fall back on in time of war.
First Squadron Organized.
The '1st Aero Squadron of New York
j City" has been practically organized, with
Mr. Delano as the commanding officer of
; the entire division and Maj. Beckwith
| Havens in command of the New York
j squadron. Most of the officers chosen
, for the squadron are already members
| of different militia organizations, and
! several, including Mr. Bouldin, hold pilots'
| licenses as aviators.
The maximum complement, for each'
j aero squadron, as outlined in the pre- |
? liminary plans, calls for sixteen officers. !
j forty enlisted men and eight mecha- I
; nicians. The second and third squadrons i
! are now being formed, and it has been '
planned to organize another at Albany
and a fifth at Buffalo.
' "We have been working un our plans j
for some time," said Mr. Bouldin today, j
"and we now have everything in shape.
New York politics are so mixed up at
present that w< do not know exactly
when we can get action by the legisla
ture. We want the assistance of the
| War Department in our work because we
feel that If such a movement can be
once started it will be sure to grow and
help the government u gn at deal." v
GOV." GLYNN TO RETIRE.
Under No Circumstances Will He
Be Candidate for Re-Election.
NEW YORK, November H.?Martin
Glynn. Governor of New Yoik, issued a
statement here yeitenlay afternoon, say
ing that under no circumstance* would^he
be a candidate for re-election. He assumed
the governor's chair nfter William Sul
zer's impeachment.
"There is more honor in being an effi
cient governor for one year." lie said,
"than an indifferent one for eight. My
one ambition is to give the state the best
administration that it Is in me to give. I
feel that T can do my best when I put
away all thought of the future."
Little Stories
y& Bedtime
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By THOitNTON W. BIHUESS.
(Copyright, 1U13, by J. G. Lloyd.)
Sammy Jay Protests.
When Saminv Jay reached the place
deep in the Green Forest where Paddy
rhe Beaver was hard at work building
a dain so as to make a pond, just for his
own use. ho didn't hide as had the little
four-footed people. You see, of course,
he had no reason to hide because lie
felt perfectly safe. Paddy had Just cut
a hip tree and it fell with a crash as
Sammy came hurrying up. Sammy was
so surprised that for a minute he
couldn't lind his tongue. He had not
supposed that anybody but Farmer
Brown or Farmer Brown's boy could
out down so large a tree as that, and it
quite took his breath away. But lie
got it again in a minute. He was boil
ing with anger anyway to think that
he should have been the last to learn
that Paddy had come down from the
north to make his home in the Green
Forest and here was a chance to speak
his inind.
"Thief! thief! thief!" he screamed in
his harshest voice.
Paddy the Beaver looked up with a
twinkle in his eyes. "Hello. Air. Jay!
I see you haven't any better manners
than your cousin who lives up where
I came from." said he.
"Thief! thief! thief!" screamed Sam
my. hopping' up and down, he was so
angry.
"Meaning yourself. I suppose." said
Paddy. "I never did see an honest
Jay. and 1 don't suppose 1 ever will."
"Ha. ha, ha!" laughed Peter Rabbit,
who had quite forgotten that he was
hiding.
"Oh. how do you do. Alt'. Rabbit? I'm
very glad you have called on me this
morning." said Paddy, just as if he
hadn't known all the time just where
Peter was. "Mr. Jay seems to have
gotten up on the wrong side of his bed
this morning."
Peter laughed again. "He always
does," said he. "if he didn't he would
n't be happy. You wouldn't think it
to look at him. but he is happy right
now. He doesn't know it. but he is."
Sammy Jay glared down at Peter
Rabbit. Then he glared at Paddy the
Beaver. And all the time he still
shrieked "Thief!" as hard as ever he
could. Paddy kept right on working,
paying no more attention to Sammy.
This made Sammy more angry than
ever. He kept coming nearer and
nearer until at last he was in the very
tree that Paddy happened to be cut
ting. Paddy's eyes twinkled.
"I'm no thief!" he exclaimed suddenly.
"You are! You are! Thief! Thief:"
shrieked Sammy. "You're stealing our
trees!" . . -
"They're not your trees, retorted
Paddy. "Tliev belong to the Green
Forest and the Green Forest belongs
to all who love it. and we all have a
"HELLO. MR. JAY. 1 SEE YOU
HAVEN'T ANV BETTER MANNERS
THAN* YOUR COUSIN."
perfect right to take what we need
from it. I need these trees and I've
just as much right to take them as you
have to take the fat acorns that drop
in the fall."
"No such thing!" screamed Sammy.
You know, he can't talk without
screaming, and the more excited he
gets the louder he screams. "No such
thing! Acorns er?? food. They are
meant to eat. I have to have them to
live. But you are cutting down whole
trees. You are spoiling the Green
Forest. You don't belong here. No
body invited you and nobody wants
you. You're a thief!"
Then up spoke Jerry Muskrat. who.
you know, is cousin to Paddy the
Beaver.
"Don't you mind him." said he. point
ing to Sammy Jay. "Nobody does.
He's the greatest trouble maker and
thief in the Green Forest or on the
Green Meadows. He would steal from
his own relatives. Don't mind what
he says. Cousin Paddy."
Now, all this time Paddy had been
working away just as if no one was
around. Just as Jerry stopped speak
ing Paddy thumped the ground with
his tail, which is his way of warning
people to watch out, and suddenly
scurried away as fast as he could run.
Sammv Jay waa so surprised that he
couldn't lind his tongue for a min
ute, and he didn't notice anything
peculiar about that tree. Then sudd?n
Iv he felt himself falling. With a
frightened screarp he spread his wings
to flv, but branches of the tree swept
him "down with them right into the
Laughing Brook. You see. while he had
been speaking his mind Paddy the
Beaver had cut down the very tree In
which he was sitting. Sammy wasn't
hurt, but he was wet and muddy and
terribly frightened?the most miser
able looking Jay that ever was seen.
It was too much for all the little peo
pie who were hiding. They just had
to laugh. Then they all came out to
pay respects to Paddy the Beaver.
TEST OF ISHAH SHELLS.
Planned to Recover Projectiles After
They Have Been Fired.
At attempt will be made shortly at In
dian Head, Md.. to recover four twelve
inch shells after they have been fired a
distance of four or five miles. The pur
pose is to determine in what condition
the shells leave the gun. They are of the
'Isham type, constructed to carry a high
explosive material within compartments
which, it is feared, will weaken the shells
and thus make them break up before they
leave the guns. The naval authorities
hkve not yet been convinced that it is
safe to fill the I sham projectiles with high
explosives.
The theory upon which the gun is built
is that a greater damage will be done by
explosions on the outside of armOr than
by piercing it. as the projectiles now in
use do. It will be difficult, if it is possi
ble, to recover these twelve-inch shells
after they have been discharged from the
gun. It is proposed to fire them from
Indian Ifead to Stump Neck, a distance
of about five miles. A soft target will be
constructed so as to prevent any damage
to the projectiles after they leave the
gun.
IT you want work, read the want col
umns of The Star.
SH! *? S <? *?> By Webster
ROORQLP LOOK.
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HIKE'S SOMETHING-To
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NOW,Slfc.,PERHAPS YOU will
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your, coat!
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HOLDING UP CONTRACT
PENDING AN INQUIRY
J War Department Receives Protest
Against Award for Building
Mausoleum in Arlington.
|
1 War Department officials are endeavor
ing: rt> settle the controversy that has
arisen between the bidders for the con
struction of the mausoleum to be erected
in th? Arlington national cemetery in
memory of the victims of the destruction
of the battleship Maine in the harbor of
Havana in 1898.
Officers of the Quartermaster Corps,
who considered all the bids, recommend
ed the award of the contract to Norcross
| Bros, of this city, at their bid of $44.W?7.
using Troy white granite asd Vermont
white marble, the latter being for the
interior lining.
Approval Withheld.
Acting Secrelary Breckinridge of the
War Department, to whom the matter
was submitted for final action, withheld
his approval of the recommendation. He
was influenced to that course on repre
sentations made by Frank I.. Wagner
of this city that he had submitted a
lower bid than the Norcross Bros., and
therefore was entitled to the contract. It
was shown that Wagner submitted seven
bids in which the price varied according
to the class and quality of the granite
used. The bid on which he claims to be
; entitled to the award amounted to about
i and called l'or the use of Con
necticut v\ hlte granite and Vermont
white marble.
The report of the quartermasters shows,
it is said, that they were influenced al
most entirely in the selection of the Nor
cross bid by their belief In the superior
quality of the Troy granite as compared
with the other classes of granite offered
in competition for the particular purposes
of the mausoleum. In < xplanation of that
view, it was stated that the approved
plans call for carving in the granite the
names of the two officers. - V sailors and
twenty-eight marines who were killed In
the Maine disaster, and the stone selected
was regarded as best adapted for such In
scriptions.
Claims Granite of Equal Quality.
Contractor Wagner then made the claim
that the Connecticut granite which he
proposed to use was equally as good as the
Troy granite for that purpose. Thereupon
he was called on to carve one or twe
names on the sample of Connecticut gran
ite submitted by him with the under
standing that if the demonstration sup
ported his contention the contract to
build the mausoleum probably would be
awarded to him:
Col. Clem is handling the ease for the
Quartermaster Corps. It is expected that
1 the matter will be settled next week, but
if that is found to be impracticable, under
existing conditions, entirely new bids will
be invited for the work.
BUYS VIBGINIA FABM.
William Corcoran Eustis Purchases
Seventy-Five Additional Acres.
Special Correspondence of The Ktor.
LEESBFRG,. Va., November 8. IJtl.'J.
William Corcoran Eustis has purchased
the Adams farm near here from the heirs
of James Adams. The farm adjoins the
Oatlands estate, owned by Mr. Eustis,
and contains seventy-five acres of land.
Keen interest is felt here in the efforts
of W. F. MeKimmey of Lovettsrille.
Loudoun county, to erect a monument
01 memorial 'to the late Col. E. V. White
of this county. Col. White served with
conspicuous gallantry as leader of
I White's Battalion of the Oth Virginia
Regiment during the civil war. Mr. Me
Kimmey, though not a member of the
battalion, was a Confederate soldier, and
has headed the list toward the monu
ment with a contribution of $.10. It is
probable that the n\onument will be
erected on the corner of the courtyard
square.
George J. Shoemaker, a native of Lou
Jo'un e ounty, died at li?s home near
Poolesvllle. Md. Thursday. He was In the
fifty-sixth year of his agf\ and is sur
vived by a widow and one daughter. Miss
Mary G. Shoemaker.' Interment was in
I'nioir cemetery. Leesburg. Elder H. If.
Lefferts officiating.
Announcement has been made of the
rnairiage of Miss Bessie Cockerille and
Charles Benjamin, both of lx>udoun
county, Wednesday. The ceremony was
performed at the. parsonage of the
Methodist Church Rev. W. M. Waters
officiating.
Edward Nichols, attorney-at-law, and
president of the Loudoun National Bank
of Leesburg. has been invited to become
a member of the American Bai Asso
ciation.
The Auction Bridge Club was enter
tained Thursday afternoon by Miss Pike
! at Elvoit. The top score was made by
Miss Rebecca Gray Harrison.
Mrs. Truman A. Parker was hostess at
a tango party Friday afternoon, at her
home in the suburbs of town
Mr. and Mrs. William Beale Hibbs
have closed their country home, Gray don.
and returned to Washington for the win
ter months.
Bill to Grade 13th Street.
Representative Cftry of Wisconsin has
introduced a bill to grade and improve
18th street northeast from Monroe street
to Bunker Hill road, now known as Mich
igan boulevard. This is in accordance
with the plans of the fire chief to iBftk*
13th street a fire run.
APPLES OLD AMD MEW.
By Frederic J. Hatkin.
The apple grower* of the country have
set apart November IS as the national
apple day for this year. On that dav
every man. woman and child In the coun
try is requested to eat one or more ?v
pies and. if possible, to g;ve on?" *?? some
one else Just how the millions of ap
ples needed for this purpose are to h?t
j secure 1 does not appear, hut the ?ppl?
1 growers will make every effort to ha\ ?
' them upon the market in abundance for
I that day, however s'.iort the supply may
sun afterward. The apples of the coun
try re never of quite so ldph a' qualitv
as they are this season This fact i?
well proved by the number of perfect
specimens of the different variet <??
which are being exhibited thts month in
? the numerous apple shows and agricu.
j tural exhibits which arc l?eing held in
almost every state. ,
T.ess than a generation ago she apple
crop of the country leached over
oOO barrels. With such abundance the
1 food value of the crop w hs underestlmat
ed and In many localities apples were a
drug upon the market. Then the crop be
KM 11 to decrease until one year It fell he
low barrels. By this time the
demand "had increased and the shortage
in the crop became a source of great un
I easiness. The prices of apples began lo
j .soar until they reached at least three
times their former \alue and even when
the crop increased a little the demand
still continued to exceed the supply.
Tiie Dcpartnun' of Agriculture set
about some expert rinoiuvh work as t<>
the cause of the decreased crop and tin
means of bringing I: up to meet the de
mand. The cause- of the decrease ha\f
not be?n determined and probably will
not he. because so many conditions ont? r
! into it. A large number of tine old or
chards which had yielded heavy crops
died out and were not replaced. Mhhv
apparent --hanges in ? ilmatie conditions.
, although denied by weither authorities.
1 were responsible for early trosts in loral
| ities where they were on e unknown. The
I trees planted to replace old ones were not
j well selected and consequently did not
; yield their expected ( 'up. Kach season
i some especial reason develops for short
age in oije or more of the best apple sec -
tions. and most of these reasons are not
readily over ome. The ravage* of new
insect pests in many parts ot the country
have destroyed millions of bushel* of ap
ples annually.
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As a result of the expert studv given,
it is believed that most of these adverse
condi tions can
Control of Pests now be Controlled
_ _ ... With the matur
Is Now Possible. - tty t|U, t,ees
which have been recently planted la:ger
crops of apples may be confidently looked
for within the next, few years and the
superiority of their quality seems assured.
While men cannot change the weather,
they can overcome its bad effects by pro
tective measures. -In the great apple re
gions the growers no longer leave an
orchard of budding trees exposed to the
late spring frost. They temper the air
of a chilly night by burning fires, using
crude petroleum as fuel. This causes a
black smoke which settles as a cloud over
the trees and the frost is prevented. The
cost is trifling In comparison with the
! value of the protection and the use or
1 these orchard lamps Is now- becoming gen
eral. A few years ago a Missouri farmer
spent SS.UuO one 'spring upon lamps :uid
oil to burn in his on-hard of ??*?1
I In the fall lie sold his crop f<-r
j The adjoining orchards, being ui i protect
I ed during the spring frosts, produced no
apples.
The selection of trees is important to
the development of a good apple crop.
It is now recognized that a variet} whUh
reaches perfection In one part of the
countrv mav fail in another. The aj.pie
specialists are succeeding in propagating
varieties of apples suited to < very cli
matic condition. Apple propagating plants
? are being conducted at scores of cx
t periment stations. As a result, the De
i partment of Agriculture has i?e*Mi
, to supply a list of the apples best suited
to all parts of the country. Two or
three varieties seem to nourish generally,
hut they do not produce a uniform qual
ity of fruit In all localities.
Among the apples quoted as being corn
merciailv valuable in most pa its of the
country is the deceptive Ben l>avis. which
looks so luscious and usually tastes so
flat. The Department of Agriculture has
been experimenting with the Ben Davis
and is now of the opinion that this va
riety requires an unusual amount of
warmth to ripen he fruit. It has been
found that Ben Davis apples produced
in the southern states are far more pal
atable than those grown in the north,
and it is believed that by cultivation in
a selected locality this well known apple
may become as valuable as its appear
ance indicates.
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The localities in which certain varieties
reach their highest perfection may be
widely separated.
Where Varieties for instance, the
_ , _ . Yellow New ton or
B-each Perfection. Albemarle reaches
its highest quality in two difTeren
regions?the Piedmont section of Virginia
and North Carolina and along the north
western coast, especially in Oregon and
"Washington. It frequently yields satis
factorily in other places, but in these
two regions its perfection seems assured.
The Baldwin Is the perfect apple of-cen
tral New York, although this is upon tn??
lists as well adapted to a number of
other regions. The Ozark region of
Oklahoma. Arkansas and Missouri is fa
mous for the quality of Its apples and a
number of new varieties have originated
there, but the apple which is favored
there is the Winesap. regarded bv the
Ozarkers as the finest fruit on earth.
The apple-growing regions of the coun
try have been greatly extended within
the past few years Formerly the apple
was looked upon as a northern fruit.
Now it is grown with commercial success
as far south as Georgia, and even in
northern Florida a number of private or
chards are producing apples of excellent
quality. A southern writer claims that
apples are fast becoming one of the im
portant crops of Georgia. The four chief
horticultural crops of that state are now
apples, peaches, cantaloupes and water
melons. Formerly peaches took the lead,
but within the last ten years tt* peach
crop has been falling ofT and the apple
crop has increased proportionately
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' According to the census of KU<?. there
| were 151,325,844) apple-bearing tr?-?'s? In tli??
country and ?>*?,
i Yield Too Low. not t-ear
? Experts Declare.
; millions have been planted since then
i and that the number of bcarlns; trees lias
increased. Vet the average yield at ap
ples Is less than a bushel tfl^a tre'? The
present apple crop is expected to hp
proximate 4O,'*0n.<MIO barrels of three and
h half bushHs. For several years this
iiait been the approximate crop. .Apple
experts c-aim that the average yield for
a mature tree should he at least three
I bushels. When this is reeched the United
States will be not only aWe to supply all
: of its own apple needs, but to ship mil
: Hons of bushels to Europe.
The age at which h tree begins to bear
J differs with the varieties- Yellow trans
parent apple trees in some orchards have
begun to bear fruit as young as threw
years, but some others do not bear in
any noteworthy quantity until they are
ten or twelve yiars old. Despite some
of the record tree*, of the great north
western orchards, the greatest number of
exceptional crops have been taken from
orchards which iiave been cultivated for
a quarter of a century or more. The
Piedmont district of Virginia and North
Carolina produces millions of bushels an
nually. but less attention has been be
stowed upon the crop from this region
because it has been so Ion* established.
The age average of the apple tree is
quite as indeterminate as any other mat
ter connected with it. In the eastern
states thousands of trees are still hear
ing good fruit which are known to l>e
over a century old. Tourists who visit
Canada are sometimes invited to eat ap
ples taken from the apple trees under
which Evangeline and Baall plighted
their troth at Grand Pre over a century
and a half ago.
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