DECATUR HOUSE TO BE ON VIEW Will Be Opened for Benefit of Naval Historical Foundation. Historic Decatur House, the home built on Lafayette Square in 1819 by Commodore Stephen Decatur, hero of the war against the Barbary pi rates, will be thrown open to the public Friday and Saturday for the benefit of the Naval Historical Foundation. President and Mrs. Roosevelt have accepted an invitation to act as spon sors for the benefit, along with other Government leaders and Mrs. Trux tun Beale, owner of the house. Each year Mrs. Beale has offered use of the old residence for two days to a worthy cause. Proceeds of this year’s benefit will be used for the founda tion’s work of collecting and preserv ing naval literature, relics and pic tures. Decatur was the first dwelling con structed after the White House on Lafayette Square. Commodore De catur, who built it for his bride, lived to enjoy it only for a year, because in 1820 he was mortally wounded in a duel with Commodore James Bar ron at Bladensburg, Md. He died in the residence. Cannon to Be Displayed. The cannon that Decatur captured from the Dey of Algiers during his encounters with the Barbary pirates of the North African Coast will be brought from the Gun Factory and placed on exhibition in the old house during the benefit. The Marine Band will play on Fri day and the Navy Band on Saturday afternoon from 3:30 to 6 o’clock. Ad mission tickets will cost $1, with tea in the garden 25 cents extra. They are on sale at A. A. A.' headquarters and all hotels. Doors will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Two rooms on the first floor, the dining room and the library, and three drawing rooms on the second floor will be open, together with their his torical relics, paintings, pictures, tro phies, medals and early last century furnishings, all directly connected with three famous naval families, De catur, Truxton and Beale. Mrs. Beale is descended from the latter two naval families. The list of sponsors includes Speak er and Mrs. Bankhead, Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Swanson, As sistant Secretary and Mrs. Edison, Chairman Walsh of the Senate Na val Affairs Committee and Mrs. Walsh, Admiral Leahy, chief of naval operations, and Mrs. Leahy, Maj. Gen. Holcomb, commandant of the Marine Corps, and Mrs. Holcomb: Admiral Andrews, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, tnd Mrs. Andrews, Ad miral and Mrs. Joseph Strauss, Vice Admiral William L. Rodgers and Mrs. Robert Giles. Capt. Chester Wells, U. S. N„ re tired, is in charge of general arrange ments. Served Under Truxtun. Commodore Decatur saw his first active naval service under Commo dore Thomas Truxtun, hero of the United States’ undeclared war with France from 1798 to 1801. Truxtun won undying fame when, as com mander of the frigate Constellation, he captured the French frigate L’ln eurgente on February 9, 1799, In the West Indies. A year later he won a victory over the French frigate Ven geance. Truxtun lived to see his youngest daughter, Emily, marry a Virgin ian, George Beale, a paymaster in the Navy, who won a medal from Congress for gallantry in action in the Battle of Lake Champlain, Septem ber 11, 1814. Their son, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, later gained fame and fortune and in 1870 purchased the Decatur House. The commodore died in 1822, the same year his grandson was born here. Edward Beale married Mary Edwards, daughter of Representa tive Samuel Edwards of Chester, Pa., on June 27, 1849. He was appointed a midshipman at the Philadelphia Naval School on December 14, 1838, by President Jackson. He was com missioned a past midshipman in 1845, was with Commodore Stockton in California during the Mexican War and served with the land forces in capturing the State for the Union before Gen. Kearney and his forces could arrive. He later was a witness for Col. John C. Fremont when the famous Army court martial of Fre mont took place at the instigation of Kearney. Brought News of Gold. As a courier for two year* after the Mexican War Beale brought back the first authentic new* of the gold discovery, carrying eastward a bag of California gold as proof of his message. On this trip, he crossed the continent through Mexico at the risk of his own life. He resigned from the Navy as a lieutenant In 1851 after 15 years’ service and entered busines* in California, where he made his fort tune. He surveyed three important wagon and railroad tracks in the West and helped President Lincoln retain California for the Union. In 1878 President Grant, a friend of Beale before the War Between the States, appointed him Minister to Austria. Edward Beale’s son, Truxtun, born March 6, 1856, in San Francisco, in* herited Decatur House, which is now owned by his widow. Historic House Open to Public This Week The dining room of the Decatur house. The Truxtun Cup, on the table, was presented ta Commodore Thomas Truxtun by Lloyd’s Coffee House of London, for his services in the unde clared war against France from 1798 to 1801. The two pitchers on the mantel were presented to Lieut. Edward F. Beale, who purchased the house in 1870, by his colleagues in the Indian Bureau. On the side table is a glass urn givenJjy Henry Clay to Truxtun Beale’s grandfather, Samuel Edwards, member of Congress from 1819 to 1827. WOODWARD SCHOOL’S ANNUAL DANCE HELD Senior English Class Msmbers Present Play, “The Valiant,” With Large Cast. The annual banquet and dance of Woodward School was held last night in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium at 1738 G street. James J. King, headmaster of the school, presided, with George A. Lewis, chairman of the Educational Commit tee, acting as toastmaster. Page McK. Etchison pronounced the invocation and Dr. Allen Stockdale addressed the students. Members of the senior English class gave a play, "The Valiant.” Those in the cast were Gilbert Rauh, North Longfleld, Charles Joyce, Martha Anne King, Buck Middleton and Albert Heitz. Fred L. Dawson was chairman of the Committee on Arrangements. Electrical Wonders to Be Shown. A miniature electric train that obeys the human voice, the use of light beams for voice communication and “visible sound” will be among the elec trical wonders to be demonstrated be fore the members of the National Press Club Wednesday evening in the Press Club Auditorium. The (demonstration is from the Gen eral Electric House of Magic put on at the Dallas and Chicago expositions. "Vogue Qualify CLEANING Known in Washington as the Best for Over 20 Years" •-• Now ... Have VOGUE Renew Your SPRING CLOTHES For Only LADIES' DRESSES, COATS AND SUITS Exeapt Fancy and Ladiac' 2-Flaaa MEN'S SUITS AND TOPCOATS Coats plain CLEANED AND PRESSED 1744 Columbia Rd. N.W. 1735 Conn. Ave. N.W. 826 Bladenaburg Rd. N.E. 1418 Wi*. Ave. N.W. 324 Third St. N.E. 3707 34th St. (Mt. Rainier, Md.) 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