RITES FOR‘GABRIEL’
DRAW BIG THRONG
.Colored Player in “Green
* , Pastures” Paid Tribute
; in Dramatic Funeral.
BY LORENA HICKOK.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 15. —ln
Harlem, where they refer to the 1930
Pulitzer prize play not by its title, but
simply as ‘The Company.” funeral
services were conducted yesterday for
a the big, genial colored man, whose
own people months ago dropped his
real name and called him after the
role he played, “Gabriel.”
More than 1,000 persons filled the
pews and packed the aisles of one of
the colored section’s larger churches,
where lor two hours and a half eulo
gies were read, hymns were sung and
rituals Intoned over the body of Charles
Wesley Hill, the “Angel Gabriel” of
“Green Pastures,” Marc Connelly’s
drama of the Negro's conception of
Heaven. Hill was killed by a taxicab
Wednesday.
The man who plays the role of Je
hovah in “Green Pastures,” Richard B.
Harrison—looking somehow shrunken
and much older today than he did a
few months ago across the footlights—
read tenderly, and in a voice that some
times broke with grief, a tribute to
“God’s right-hand man,” who helped
to create a Broadway success by usher
ing him onto the stage of the Mans
field Theater with a joyous, stentorian
command:
y "Gangway! Gangway for de Lawd
God Jehovah!”
“Adam,” Master of Ceremonies.
Daniel L. Haynes, one of the best
known actors of his race and the
Adam of the play, was master of cere
monies, and at the end of the long
service the colored players—led by the
little cherub who gets a fishbone
stuck in his throat at the heavenly
fish fry of the first act —filed tearfully
fcy the casket.
Marc Connelly occupied a place of
honor in the pulpit, with Harrison,
Haynes and several colored preachers,
while down in a block of pews reserved
for them sat the entire staffs of the
producer and of the theater in which
“Green Pastures” is playing, together
with a number of men and women
prominently identified with the stage.
But most of the mourners were of
the dead actor's own race, and at times
the service was as typical of the race
perhaps as “Green Pastures” itself is
said to be. On the whole it was a
strange, stirring mixture of primitive
emotion, naivete, and love of color and
ceremony with the reserve of an older,
northern people.
Orations and Ritual.
There were long and fiery orations,
two Masonic rituals, with uniforms,
swords and incense—all more dramatic
somehow than when used in white
. ceremonies—and a sort of childlike
expression of satisfaction over the suc
cess of their own Gabriel in a dream.
The whole service was conducted in
terms of “Green Pastures.” Hill was
never mentioned by any name other
than Gabriel except in the formal,
ritualistic ceremonies.
Two large choirs—the white-robed
choir of the church and the choir that
sings the spirituals in the play—leading
the huge audience, every man. woman
and child of which could apparently
sing, again and again filled the audi
torium with the melodies of the old
hymns, “Lead, Kindly Light,” "Abide
With Me,” “Nearer My God to Thee.”
And while white members of the audi
ence sat with rapt expressions on their
facts, colored persons here and there
would utter wild, piercing screams.
Gives Brief Tribute.
But more moving than all was the
brief and broken tribute of Harrison,
“The Lawd God Himself,” to “His
Right Hand Man.”
“No one could ever be angry with
‘Gabe’ very long,” he said. “After all,
he Just fingered his trumpet in the
play—he never did blow it. No one in
the theater was more liked than
‘Gabe.’ ”
Then he told how the pickaninnies of
the first act used to come into
“Gabriel’s” dressing room to get the
candy that he brought them when they
were good cherubs.
“You can imagine,” he said slowly,
“the consternation of the whole cast
and myself when we learned that the
last curtain had come for our friend
and co-worker ‘Gabriel.’ ”
It remained for the younger Haynes
to say farewell for “Gabriel’s” associates
In “Green Pastures.” At the end of a
recital of Hill's achievements in the
theater, Haynes bowed his head and
murmured in a voice that could hardly
be heard beyond the chancel rail:
"Good-by, old man.”
PLAYMATES TO CARRY
DEAD BOY TO GRAVE
Funeral Services Tomorrow for
Lewis Bernard Cox, Jr., Fatally
Hurt in Foot Ball Game.
Four of his play companions will
carry Lewis Bernard Cox., Jr., to his
final resting place, in Cedar Hill Ceme
tery, tomorrow afternoon.
Funeral services for the 12-vear-old
boy of 202 Eleventh street southeast,
who was fatally injured in a foot bali
game Thursday, will be conducted at
the residence by Rev. H. E. Hunter,
minister of the Gospel Sunday School
of southeast Washington, at 2 o'clock.
The boys, all chums of the dead lad,
who will be pallbearers, are George
Charnley, Lem Jones, Gardner Perks
and Johnson Hardy.
Lewis Cox died at Casualty Hospital
Saturday night following a re laps- that
came after the lad seemed unproved
from the injuries he received Thursday
Lewis attempted to execute a flying
tackle on an opposing player, who “was
racing for a touchdown, when he miss
ed his target end crashed in his head
long dive into an iron post in Lincoln
Park, which maikcd the goal. The boy
sustained head injuries which resulted
in his death.
Besides his parents. Lewis is sur
vived by two brothers, Edward, 38. and
Joseph, 17.
MRS. ELIZABETH T. MOON
DIES IN CALIFORNIA
Body of Wife of Quartermaster
Corps Reserve Officer Being
Brought to Washington.
Mrs. Elizabeth Irwin Moon, 58 years
old, wife of Lieut. Col. John B. Moon
of the Quartermaster Corps Reserve,
who is an attorney with the claims
section of the Internal Revenue Bureau,
died in San Jo6e, Calif., Friday, ac
cording to word received here.
The body is being brought to this
city. Funeral arrangements are to be
announced later.
Mrs. Moon and her daughter. Miss
, Jean Moon, were on a visit to Mrs.
Moon's sister. Mrs. L. E. Lenzen of San
Jose. Besides the daughter and sister,
she leaves her husband, another daugh
ter, Miss Marorle Moon, a junior at
Willikm and Mary College, and another
sister, Mrs. R. E. Brook bank of Rich
mond, Va
r. The home of Col. and Mrs. Moon is
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Seventy-four years old, of 2947 Mills avenue northeast, who last night was rescued
from the sightseeing steamer which exploded off Miami. Mr. Coe was accom
panied on the trip by his son, Mayne R. Cce, also of Washington and a chemist
in the Department of Agriculture. The elder Mr. Coe makes his home in Miami
during the Winter, while his son was visiting him. Both reported to their wives
here today that they were safe.
CHAPIN, FAMED EDITOR, WILL LIE
BESIDE WIFE HE SLEW IN FEAR
End Comes in Prison He Entered in 1918.
Rites Are Planned Without
Religious Phase.
A stone slab as hard and unyielding
as the character of the man himself is
ready for the final entry In the ledger
of life of Charles E. Chapin, quondam
brilliant city editor of the New York
World, whom death found, strangely
enough, in Sing Sing prison, Saturday
night.
The stone stands in the eaves of a hill
in Glenwood Cemetery swept by Decem
ber winds.
At the top is his name, then a space
where will be graven "Died, December
13, 1930,” the end of his story.
Below is written: "His wife, Nellie L.
Chapin. Died September 16, 1918.”
There lies under the stone he erected
the wife he slew, as he said, to keep her
from suffering want; a mad act that
crowned a career with tragedy, and that
sent Chapin into the numbered ranks
of felony.
Mother Also There.
There, too, is the dust of his mother
and a brother, long dead, and in that
company Chapin will dream away
eternity.
Twelve years ago, the newspaper world
which knew him so well was stunned
when Chapin, noted for his "hard-boil
ed” factors, ended the life of his wife
with a bullet, explaining simply that he
was in financial straits, and feared for
her future, for he was than a man of
60. He had intended to kill himself
also, but courage failed, he said.
His sentence was 20 years to life;
Sing Sing received him, and there he
became 69,690.
Then came the stories of the man.
He hated trivial news. Irvin Cobb's
celebrated quip—“I hope it’s nothing
trivial," made when, as a reporter under
Chapin, he heard one day that the city
editor was ill, is recalled.
Chapin’s instructions to a reporter
who had suffered at the hands of a man j
Chapin had sent him to see were: "Go
back and tell him he can’t intimidate j
me.” Still another: A reporter on a
beat in midtown, got acrcss the river
from outlying New York late one mom- 1
ing, and seeking to shield his tardiness
called up to report that his beat was
“quiet.”
Checked Up on Report.
"How about the story of the flood,”
Chapin asked, in effect.
"What flood?” queried the puzzled
reporter.
"There must be a flood,” Chapin said, !
"for that’s the only way ferry boats
could get up in the middle of New
York ”
His quick ear had caught the sound
of a ferry boat whistle while the re
porter was telephoning.
Behind the walls of Sing Sing Chapin
became little more than a memory, kept
alive by occasional stories by Cobb, who
wove a group of magazine articles about
a fictional city editor, for which Chapin
was generally credited with having been
the inspiration.
Later on Cobb went to Sing Sing and
spent a day with Chapin, and in an
other magazine story gave to the world
the tale of the labor of love that filled
Chapin's last years—the cultivation of
a magnificent flower garden in the
prison grounds.
Old Fire Was Gone.
But Chapin was growing old, the old
fire was gone, and his oft-expressed
wish was: "I want to die, I want to
get it over with. Three years more
would have brought a parole, but he
had no interest in that.
He had been ill for a long time. In
recent weeks this Illness grew more
pronounced, and Saturday night the
end came. Due to congestion in the
prison, he had been quartered in an
upper room of the death house, and
there he stayed, unwilling to be moved.
Lewis E. Law'es, Sing Sing w'arden,
and his close friend, w'as with him at
the end, and to Lawes, Chapin, accord
ing to the Associated Press, handed a
sealed letter arranging for his burial,
effects, and for the care of his beloved
effects, adn for the care of his beloved
gardens.
Had Been Fighting Death.
"I have been fighting death nearly
a year,” he wrote, "and now I feel I
have about reached the limit of my re
sistance.”
“I desire to be buried by the side of
my wife in our family plot in Glen
wood Cemetery, Washington. D. C. My
sister, Marion A. Chapin of Washington,
holds the deeds.”
He expressed a desire to be buried
in "the least expensive casket obtain
able.” and he “expressly desired” that
no service be held either here or in
Washington.
“I hope,” he wrote, "that you will
find sufficient funds to my credit here
to cover the expenses."
Chapin made few bequests. There
was little enough to bestow. “My gar
den books,” he said, "are to be used
by whomever you assign to carry for
ward the garden. The contents of my
office and the radio there I give to
Mr. Halpin (a prison officer). The
contents of my room I give to Everett
Herriott (a male nurse i . who has been
very kind to me through my long ill
ness. He is very deserving.”
Thanks to Warden.
With a word of thanks to the warden
"and the members of your fine family,”
the letter closes with the signature,
“Charles Chapin, 69,690.”
When the anonymity of Sing Sing
swallowed up Chapin, there were two
left to grieve, a brother, Frank and the
sister. They never saw hint again, but
a family closely knitted /ms they, did
not allow tragedy to separate them, and
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C„ MONDAY, DECEMBER 15. 193 Q,
there was a constant exchange of
letters between the Chapin home here
at 30 Rhode Island avenue northeast,
and the prison.
Chapin, acoording to his sister, never
touched on his prison life, but always
spoke of the things which they had
known and loved together.
And as he went, he left a legacy of
pride, for it was with pride that the
sister today spoke of his newspaper
work.
Praised Him as Brother.
She understood “Charley," and there
never was a better brother. He didn’t
really belong to any church any more,
though he had affiliated with the
Baptist faith as a young man. Forms
of religion no longer meant anything
to him.
“Just so It was God, that’s all that
mattered to Charley.”
So, there will be no funeral service
when Chapin's body arrives here—some
time today, or perhaps tomorrow—with
William Halpln, a prison guard, who
was his friend: “Just a simple burial,
for Charley would have wanted that.”
The Chapins—mother, daughter and
two sons—came from their home in
Illinois years ago, and established a new
home here. So it was, when the mother
and first brother died, they found their
resting place in Glenwood, not far from
the home.
Reported Funeral First.
Then the wife took her place beside
them, and today, the earth was being
made ready for Chapin.
When Chapin was a youngster start
ing out in newspaper work his first
assignment was a funeral. A couplet
that the minister recited at the grave
never left his memory:
“Oh, how dark, and drear and lone
would be this world of mortal bliss,
I “If wandering through that radiant
zone, we should not find the loved
, of this."
Those who knew Chapin best know
he had no doubts.
PATMAN IS TO SPEAK
Texas Representative Will Address
Fleet Reserves.
Representative Wright Patman of
| Texas, himself a former service man
and well known as an advocate of legis
lation sponsored by veterans, will ad
dress the Fleet Reserve Association at
a meeting tonight at the Soldiers,
Sailors and Marines’ Clubs, 1015 L
street.
Following a record haul of herrings
recently, the fish were sold in Deal,
England, at two for a cent.
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This fitted traveling kit is the
answer to uhat •will please him.
The case may be had in black or
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COURAGE IS REPAID
IN BUSINESS SLUMP
| Report Relates Failure of
General Expectations
for Recovery.
By the Associated Press.
The rewards or courage, initiative and
enterprise In business—"typically Amer
ican”—were etched again today on the
the world business map.
It was the success of those industries
that refused to be downed by depressed
conditions which Julius H. Barnes
chairman of the National Business Sur
vey Conference, singled out in a survey
which related the failure of general
“sanguine expectations” for quickened
trade by the end of the year
The new report covered, for most
lines, 11 months of the year. Retail
trade was off 7 per cent, postal receipts
still below 1929, foreign trade continued
to decline. 31 per cent less new capital
was floated than last year and short
term credit continued abundant, but
about 2 per cent cheaper.
The public’s rejuvenated saving pro
pensities were reflected in Christmas
saving funds exceeding $600,000,000 of
which 38 per cent was calculated to go
into holiday spending, and new life In
surance written at a rate leading to a
year’s total of $18,500,000,000, $1,000,-
000.000 higher than the average of the
past five years. Savings deposits of all
kinds were higher and the life insurance
companies held almost six billions of
mortgage loans.
While collections were holding up
wei,, installment buying was being cur
tailed and a higher rate of delinquen
cies appeared in agricultural sections.
The construction industries were way
off, a more than half-billion drop in
private construction swamping the
$200,000,000 increase of public works
and utility expansion. Sympatheticall,
cement production dropped 20 per cent,
, lumber output was down, brick ship
ments were 50 per cent below last year
and plumbing and heating supplies
registered a production decline of 30
to 60 per cent.
Reduced car loadings were coupled
with substantially increased railroad
capital expenditures. Electric consump
tion was pulled down by the industrial
decline, though domestic and commer
cial use increased. Gasoline refineries
ran at two-thirds capacity, coal was off
pig iron was 30 per cent lower, steel
, mills operated two-thirds capacity and
automobile production went down 23
per cent, with foreign sales off 43 per
■ cent.
Miscellaneous industries shewed sim
liar drops, but improvement was de
! veloping in the textile Industry, partic
ularly cotton, during October.
, The year’s total magazine advertising
; expenditures were approximately un
; changed from last year. Radio, which
lost in sales, showed a large advertising
increase. •
Foreign conditions were summed
> thus: Some improvement in Great Brit
* . Germany, China: unchanged in
, Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada and
i Japan; further declines In the rest.
JOHN F. CLARK DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
i Veteran Mail Carrier, Native of
Washington, Will Be Buried
Wednesday Afternoon.
John F. Clark, 68 years old, retired
veteran mail carrier of this city and
?Ani v t, W^Lhinfirtonlan ' dled at his home,
3009 Georgia avenue, today after a long
illness.
Mr. Clark was for a number of years
a letter carrier on Capitol Hill and in
Brightwood, D. C. He entered the mail
service 45 years ago and was retired
three years ago. He was a member of
the Mail Carriers’ Association and the
Mail Clerks’ Association.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Belle C.
Clark: three sons. Joseph F., John A
and Harry H. Clark, all of this city, and
two daughters, Mrs. Emma Weiselogel
of Tulsa, Okla., and Mrs. Marie Tom
linson of this city.
Funeral services will be conducted at
the residence Wednesday afternoon at
2 o’clock. Rev. Dr. George Fiske Dud
ley, rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal
Church, will officiate. Interment will
be in Congressional Cemetery.
HERSEY TO* NAVY POST
Comdr. Mark L. Hersey, jr„ son of
the famous retired Army general who
has just returned from a tour of duty
with the United States naval mission
in Brazil, was named today in naval
orders to take over an assignment in
the Office of Naval Intelligence at the
Navy Department.
Comdr. Hersey was formerly com
manding officer of the Reserve de
stroyer U. S. S. Able P. Upshur, which
until recently was at the Washington
Navy Yard, for duty and training of
reserves of the National Capital and
Baltimore.
C. C. MOTHERSEAD,
1 FORMER PAGE. DIES
f Western Union Executive
Had Stirring Experience Dur
ing Presidential Trial.
Charles C. Mothersead, 76 years old,
3 who was a page in the Senate when im
. peachment proceedings were brought
e against President Andrew Johnson, died
at his home here Saturday after a brief
s illness* He resided at 718 B street
.j southwest.
, A year ago Mr. Mothersead was re-
J tired from the service of the Western
' Union, after 61 years and 5 months of
i continuous employment. At 75 years
j of age he was in robust health
which was a product, he told friends,
t of regular habits and plenty of sleep.
; Active until a week ago, when he be
* came 111, his death was a shock to many
friends.
1 Career Was Notable.
" As a boy of 14 Mr. Mothersead came
1 to the Capital from nearby Alexandria,
Va„ his native city, and shortly there
■ after became a page at the United
5 States Senate. After a brief period of
1 service he entered the employ of the
3 Western Union, in July of 1868, only
■ three years after victorious Northern
a troops had paraded down Pennsylvania
- avenue before President Grant. He rose
e in the company’s service to the posi
-1 tion of manager of the credit and col
e lection department.
f Mr. Mothersead enjoyed a wide ac
quaintanceship In official life and on
3 the occasion of his retirement he was
- paid tribute by his friends in and out
-of the Western Union Co.
y Funeral Rites Tomorrow.
i He was a member and past noble
s grand of the Metropolitan Lodge of Odd
s Fellows. He was married to Miss Laura
, Virginia Garrett of Washington, in
June, 1879, and Is survived by her. A
- daughter-in-law, Mrs. Garrett L.
r Mothersead: her two children, Charles
s and Ellen, also survive: and in addition,
0 a brother, Lewis F. Mothersead, and two
sisters, Mrs. D. P. Collins, and Mrs.
1 Katherine Laskey. All reside In Wash
i ington.
Funeral services will be held tomor
-1 row afternoon, at 2 o’clock, at St.
. Mark’s Lutheran Church, at Eighth and
s B street southwest. Interment will be
in Congressional Cemetery.
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bia University, officially welcomed Prof. Albert Einstein to New York City at a
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HOP OF 12 SEAPLANES
IS HALTED BY WEATHER
Italian Aviators Planning Trans
atlantic Plight to Brazil Port
Facing Adverse Winds.
By the Associated Press.
ORBEmSLLO, Italy, December 15.
Adverse weather today forced postpone
ment of the start of 12 Italian sea
planes on a flight to Cartegena, Spain,
first lap of a transatlantic flight to Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil.
The postponement, announced at
midnight, is until tomorrow or Wednes
day, depending upon Improvement of
flying conditions over the Mediter
ranean. There was still a heavy wind
and rain here today.
The 12 seaplanes will fly in three
squadrons, Gen. Italo Balbo himself to
be In command of the first group of
four planes. Route of the flight will be
along the Mediterranean and African
const to Bolama, Portuguese Guinea,
from where the transatlantic part of
the flight, to Port Natal, Brazil, will
be attempted.
Will Soon Have “Ho Bananas."
The banana-growing industry is
threatened with utter destruction by
a fungus known as the Panama dis
ease, and the result will be serious, for
the banana is one of the most nour
ishing of fruits.
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AGAINST MACHADO 1
Business and Professions
Asked to Join Student Plea
for His Resignation.
By the Associated Press.
HAVANA. December 15.—Havana'"*
business and professional organizations'
and labor groups are being asked to
sign a referendum Indorsing student de
mands that President Machado resign.
The National Confederation of Work
ers, which compares with the American
Federation of Labor in the United
States, has called a special meeting for
a vote on the referendum, while tobacco
manufacturers, shoemakers, printers,
newspaper men and others are meeting
today to take action on the protest.
Meanwhile the government Is moving
against signers of a manifesto of stu
dents and teachers of the National Uni
versity. Many prominent lawyers,
physicians and politicians said to be ‘
on the list have left for the Interior
to evade arrest.
Gen. Eugenio Molinet, secretary of
education, announced that not only *♦
would all teachers of the university,
provincial high schools and normal
schools who signed the manifesto be
arrested, but their accrued salaries
would be withheld.
The government investigation of
Communism and seditious activities has
struck a hitch with resignation of the ‘
two special Judges empowered to pass "
on all charges. Dr. Saladrigas and Dr.*"
Queseda, both of whom said so many
; personal friends and relatives had been
brought before them that they preferred
not to act.
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Blind Eight Years, Now Sees.
For the first time Mrs. Christopher
Gavin of Stockport, England, has Just
seen her daughter, now 4 years old.
Eight years ago she was stricken blind,,
after an attack of rheumatic fever.,-,.*
"I was practically blind when I mar--*
rled my husband five years ago and
when our baby was born,” she said.
“It was a great Joy to me when I
recently found my sight was returning
and I could see the faces of my hus
band and daughter.”