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Oldtime
Baseball
Teams
By John Clagett Proctor
FOOTBALL, tennis, golf and
other sports have their favor
ite- places with those who
have the time to spare for
such diversions, but none of
these pastimes will likely ever take
the place of baseball, for there is a
certain fascination about this game
which, when knowledge of its tech
nique is once acquired, never leaves
one, no matter {iow old he may be
come. Of course, other sports have
their followers, but these devotees,
sooner or later, lose a certain
amount of interest. But not so
with baseball—never 1 Indeed, the
enthusiast when he becomes too old
to hobble to an occasional game of
ball will at least read the score in
the newspaper, and especially so if
the Washingtons are anywhere near
the top. It is certainly the king of
American. sports, and is about as
secure in its position as is the Con
stitution itself.
Naturally, the oldest inhabitant
looks back to his early days of base
ball and sees much regarding the
game worthy of repeating. Above
all others, of course, he sees the
teams of his own city and the boys
W’ho used to line ’em out, and those
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that came their way when it was
their time to field the ball. And the
pitchers and the catchers, too, he
has praises for, for the battery in
the early days was just as important
to the success of a team as it is
today.
There Were Heydays.
But while the old-stager may be
Justified in praising the ball tossers
of old, he must
confess that the
present Wash
ington aggrega
tion is a fine
ball team, even
if it is at the
present time
down toward the
bottom. But
there have been
times, and not
thrilled the fans jfr
with their play
ing, and, indeed, Tom Kinsiow.
are capable of doing so again.
However, much of their best work
has been done since early in 1905
> / when the control of the team—al
ready in the American League—was
taken over by W. H. Rapley, Scott C.
Bone, Thomas C. Noyes, Henry L.
West, Benjamin S. Minor, Henry P.
Blair, Corcoran Thom and E. S.
Walsh, and who met and elected
Mr. Noyes president, Mr. Minor sec
retary and business manager and
W. H. Fowler treasurer.
Of course, an effort had been made
from 1901, the first year the Wash
ingtons played in the newly formed
American League, to bolster up the
\ club, but no one was willing at that
time or before to dig deep enough
into their pockets for the wherewith
, to purchase a team of first-class
players. Indeed, in 1904 the Wash
ington team was so poor that it dis
tinguished itself by making the rot
ten record of winning 38 games and
losing 113, an undesirable record.]
which is believed still holds good in
the American League.
First Ball Game Here.
Baseball in Washington goes back
ft long way. and there are some
bright spots as well as some dark
spots in its history. On November
4, 1859, The Star published an ac
count of what was probably the first .
baseball club organized in Wash
ington. It says: f
“A baseball club has just been
formed in this city and promises
to prove an efficient organization.
It is called the 'Potomac', has 21
members, with McLane Tilton as ;
president, Leonard C. Gunnell as
vice president and Richard B. Irwin j
es secretary. It is a good sign to
see such health-promoting exercises j
taking the place of insipid en- j
ervating amusements.”
The National Club could not have
been far behind the Potomacs, for
in The Star of May 7, 1860, we find
recorded a contest between these
teams, and the reporter was good
enough to tell us what part of the i
city the clubs hailed from—the Na- |
tional Club from Capitol Hill and,
the Potomac Club from the first
ward, which subsequent to 1820 in- j
eluded the area west of Fifteenth j
street to Rock Creek.
In the early days of the sport;
the team that made 21 runs first1
The Nationals of 1882. In foreground: William E. Wise,
Pitcher, and Phil Baker, catcher. Sitting: Frank Shriner, third
base; William Warren White, shortstop; Thomas Evans, second
base; Clay Barcley, outfielder; Aloysius C. Joy, first base.
Standing: Maurice Pierce, pitcher; Charles H. Kalbfus, out
fielder, and George Noble, pitcher.
won the game, but this one was al
lowed to go to the score of 35 to 15.
At this late day it would be diffi
cult to tell who all the old Wash
ington players were or what became
of them. But the r^me Gorman we
all know, or should know, for he
was none other than the Arthur
P. Gorman who later became cele
brated as one of the greatest Sena
tors Maryland ever sent to the
United States Congress. He was
born in Woodstock, Howard County,
Md., and was educated and spent
his early boyhood days near Sav
age, in the same county, a small
manufacturing place about three
miles north of
Laurel on the
Baltimore
Was h i n g t o n
b o u 1 e vard. In
1852, when 13
years of age, he
was appointed
a page in tne
United States
House of Repre
sentatives, being
later transferred
to the Senate
side through the
influence of
Stephen A.
Douglas, subse- Senator Gorman,
quently serving as messenger, assist
ant postmaster and postmaster until
September 1, 1866, when, probably
for political reasons, he was re
moved. *
Having spent so many of his
years in Washington, he knew the
Capital like a book, and was al
ways alert to its interest and could
be depended upon for justice to its
people. Many will recall his death
in Washington in 1906, and his
hospitable home at 1432 K street
N.W., where his daughter Bessie
was married June 24, 1896, to Wil
ton J. Lambert, well-known Wash
ington lawyer of his day. It is very
fitting that Senator Gorman should
be buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, for
there was no place he loved better
than the Federal Capital.
Civil War Slump.
During the Civil War baseball
took quite a slump, since many of
the best players were scattered
throughout the Northern and
Southern armies, but whenever the
troops were assembled a good game
could be witnessed nearly every day
or so. Particularly was this so on
the White Lot grounds and in
Franklin Square.
TTnnn mnnv orm-dons President
Lincoln witnessed the sport in both
places, and referring to the latter
place what Walt Whitman said in
1863 is interesting:
“I see the President almost every
dayt as I happen to live where he
passes to or from his lodgings out of
town. He never sleeps at the White
House during the hot season, but
has quarters at a healthy location
some three miles north of the city,
'What Fools'
ANGELS’ METAL
By Ann Abelson. (Har court,
Brace & Co.; $2.50.)
Human weakness in various forms
remains a popular first-novel theme.
Miss Abelson projects her specimens
well. They are an intellectually and
morally flaccid lot, brought togeth
er against the background of a re
ligious school. One of the charac
ters, who starts as rather a bum,
becomes a thinking individual of
some promise, but before the book
ends, one of the others delivers an
emotional haymaker. Even the
priest, a rock-of-ages type, becomes
discouraged about the future.
Just why one should read another
book about what fools these mortals
be might be a point for future lit
erary psychologists to consider.
—L. M.
the Soldiers’ Home, a United States
military establishment. I saw him
this morning about 8:30 coming in
to business, riding on Vermont ave
nue near L street. He always has a
company of 25 or 30 cavalry, with
sabers drawn and held upright over
their shoulders. They say this guard
was against his personal wishes, but
he let his counselors have their way.
The party makes no great show in
uniforms or horses. Mr. Lincoln on
the saddle generally rides a good
sized easy-going gray horse, is
dressed in plain black, somewhat
rusty and dusty; wears a black stiff
hat, and looks
about as ordi
nary in attire,
etc., as the com
monest man. A
lieutenant, with
yellow straps,
J * i. \1 -r*.
iiuco nv mo *v*v»
and following
behind, two by
two, come the
cavalry men in
their yellow
striped jackets.
They are gener
ally going at a
slow trot, as that
is the pace set Bl11 wise,
them by the one they must wait
upon. The sabers and accoutrements
clank, and the entirely unorna
mental cortege as it trots toward
Lafayette Square arouses no sensa
tion, only some curious stranger
stops and gazes. I see very plainly
Abrajiam Lincoln's dark brown face,
with deep-cut lines, the eyes, always
to me with a deep, latent sadness
in the expression. We have got so
that we exchange bows, and very
cordial ones.”
Of the great ball players of the
past whom we regard as our ow/i
boys, none will stand higher than
Paul Hines, Joe Gerhardt, “Sadie”
Houck, Charlie Snyder, Arthur Dev
lin, Eugene Montreville, “Doc”
White and “Babe” Trott, and many
others might well be added to this
list.
*
Razing of Leiter House Recalls Regal Romance
By George Kennedy
THERE’S a love story in the
Leiter mansion whose walls
are being tom down to make
way for an apartment house
on Dupont Circle. A relic
of it was carried away by Mrs.
Samuel M. Dodek, 2930 Woodland
drive, wife of an obstetrician. She
purchased for her home the white
shell which was the background of
the balcony overlooking the palm
fllled entrance court.
That was the balcony off Mary
Victoria Letter’s boudoir from which
she greeted one of the most remark
able young men of the age when he
called in April, 1895, to take her
hand in marriage. He was the Hon.
George N. Curzon. Aristocratic
heritage and uncommon ability
caused the fountain of honors to
flow for him. He became Viceroy of
India, Foreign Minister, Chancellor
of Oxford, Marquess Curzon, Earl
of Kedleston, Viscount Scarsdale,
Baron Ravensdale, Knight of the
Garter, Lord Wrarden of the Cinque
Ports.
A Mrs. Porter who is selling the
paneling and the fireplaces for the
wrecking contractor, said that sev
eral persons who stopped in to look
have talked to her about the Leiter -
Curzon wedding—how Mrs. Grover
Cleveland was there and how won
derful the flowers were.
George Curzon.
A connection of the family visited
the house and told Mrs. Rohter
that Curzon was a fortune grabber
who had no use for Americans—in
cluding his in-laws—and that old
Mrs. Leiter was bitter about it in
her few remaining years.
However large the dot that went
with Mary Victoria. George Curzon
should have been worth it. It was
not his expectancy to the title and"
lands of his father. Baron Scarsdale.
The baron was parson of Kedleston
Church, a Norman structure built
on the Curzon manor in Derbyshire
700 years before. He was owner of
Kedleston Hall nearby, a vast Geor
gian* structure in a park. It was
George Curzon’s own worth. He was
the Anthony Eden of his day in
respect to youthful achievement in
politics. He had been the youngest
man to be named undersecretary in
the cabinet for generations and was
soon to be the Lord Privy Seal.
It was impossible for George
Curzon to be much interested in
America, even though he had an
American wife. His great interests
were in Persia and in keeping Rus
sia away from the Afghan gate and
the Pamir wall at India’s northwest.
Eight of the 10 years he was mar
ried to Mary Victoria Leiter were
spent largely in India. But there
was more than that. George Curzon
was not an ordinary person. He
wore a steel brace for a curvature
of the spine inflicted in his Oxford
days. It gave him great pain and
discomfort. He determined then
that he would not let it interfere
with the career of exploration he
had planned. He rode thousands of
miles on horse and camelback in
Persia, Turkestan and on the Pa
mir plateau, the 2-mile-high roof of
the world.
So strong was he in his sense of
i
Crime and ^\ystery
By Miriam
THE NIGHT SIDE
Edited by August Derleth. (Rine
hart & Co.; $3.50.)
Some of these “masterpieces of
the strange and terrible” qre just
plausible enough to inspire readers
with profound uneasiness. There
are tales of men possessed with
a dreadful power, invasions from
space, supernatural revenge, ad
ventures into the primitive evil lurk
ing beneath the surface of man's
conscious mind. MacKinlay Kantor,
Walter de la Mare, Lord Dunsany,
A. E. Coppard and Margery Law
rence are among the 23 experts in
the eerie. Mr. Derleth contributes
a foreword and brief sketches of
the authors.
* * * *
THE FOUR WITNESSES
By Mary Reisner. (Dodd, Mead
& Co.; $2.50.)
Is murder ever so justified that
the murderer should be permitted to
escape the punishment of civilized
society? The author answers that
one way. The reader may be in
clined to answer it another. On
that answer hinges the plausibility
of this novel of a cold-blooded mur
der.
The victim is not a good man. A
self-made millionaire with a lust for
power, William Handley considers
Carey Raymond his worst enemy.
Carey has the quiet confidence, the
perfect manners of a man born to
the purple. Carey is the murderer.
Ottenberg
Since the reader sees the murder
being committed, revealing the iden
tity of the murderer is telling no
secrets.
Four persons know Carey killed
Handley — the faithful butler,
Carey’s ward and sweetheart, the
girl’s brother and a former Gover
nor. If they admit Carey was not
at breakfast with them, he will be
arrested for murder. The former
Governor justifies perjury in as ar
rogant a piece of rationalization as
ever flowed from author’s pen.
Since crime never pays in this
department, the author’s antisocial
concept is somewhat startling.
* * * *
THE DAY HE DIED
By. Lewis Padgett. (Duell, Sloan
& Pearce, Inc.; $2.50.) «
Caroline can’t figure out what Is
happening to herself. Plagiarized
pages begin to appear in her sto
ries. She finds herself forgetting
things. Drugged with barbiturates,
living in a kind of helpless fear,
she blames her troubles on her per
sistent ex-husband, Ray Kerry. Ray
is the last person she wants to see
but apparently other people are very
anxious to find him. One of them
is the strange cultist, Mollie Hatha
way. Another is Pete Wynekoop,
an ex-newspaperman who is now
just a confirmed busybody. Then
there's the innocent-looking subur
ban couple. Caroline’s fears crys
tallize at the first murder. By the
third she guesses the culprit, but by
that time it’s almost too late to
save herself.
The author of "The Brass Ring"
pulls out all the stops on this one,
running the gamut from a fake
seance to a body falling out of a
wall. He has the reader almost as
eroerev as Caroline before the rie
nouement, * * * *
MANILA HEMP
By Elinor Chamberlain. (Dodd,
Mead & Co.; $2.50.)
Maura Blake hoped for security
and a home when she became gov
erness at the hemp plantation in
Camarines Sur Province, the Philip
pines. Earthquakes, typhoons, even
an artfully curled dead snake in
her room might have been endured,
but not murder. The death of her
predecessor as governess and of the
pretty Pilar left Maura fearful for
her own safety—as well she might
be. considering the two narrow es
capes she had herself. Capt. Aquila
of the local sleuths and two men
who care get in each other’s way,
but the harried heroine escapes with
nothing more serious than two
broken legs ar.d a bout with the
sinister fever tree. Better than av
erage writing by an author who
knows her setting.
* * * *
MURDER AT CALAMITY
HOUSE
By Ann Cardwell. (Arcadia
House, Inc.; $2.)
At one point, even Lee asks herself
if she’s responsible for the murders
that make life pretty uncomfort
able around Ashton Park. As far
as the local police chief and the
New York detective are concerned,
the young war widow is'the No. 1
suspect when a handyman is mur
dered. It looks like they're right,
too, after a bed-ridden uncle is mur
dered and the poison is found in
Lee s drawer. But Hero Peter Cald
well believes Lee is the real victim,
and he’s almost proved accurate.
Lee is alternately tragic and given
to wise-cracks, which doesn't help
much to sustain the terror. The
murderer isn’t too obvious.
*
"The house of Curzon and the house of Letter were joined," said The Star on the day of
wedding, and now the house of Leiter is being torn down.
duty, rectitude, ability and his ca
pacity for unremitting industry, that
he was an overbearing man, resent
ed by many. Men less extraordinary
have been devoted to their wives
and negligent of their in-laws.
The Lelters.
The Leiters had come rrom Chi
cago about 1890. Levi Zeigler Leiter,
Mary Victoria’s father, was a de
scendant of an 18th century Calvin
ist Dutch immigrant to Maryland.
He had been a partner of Marshall
Field before the Chicago fire. His
three daughters married English
men. Margaret married the Earl
of Suffolk and Berkshire.- Nancy
married Col. Colin Campbell. His
son Joseph gained notoriety in 1897
when he cornered wheat in the Chi
cago market, a corner that showed
a $7,000,000 paper profit and re
sulted, when it was broken, in a $10,
000,000 cash loss, which Levi Leiter
paid. Joseph Leiter died in 1932.
His family continued to occupy the
house until Pearl Harbor. Then the
Government leased it for a war
agency.
George Curzon did not enter the
Leiter house until the eve of mar
riage. The courtship was in Europe.
They met in a London ballroom in
the summer of 1890. He was 31; she
19. At the end of the season he gave
her an amulet, an Oriental charm to
ward off evil. She had a pearl from
her necklace “the only thing truly
my own” made into a stickpin for
him—“emphatic of the tear I shed
in leaving London.’’ There began a
correspondence that was constant
during their long separations in her
remaining 15 years. The letters
were made available by Lord Curzon
to his biographer, Lawrence J. L.
Dundas, Marquess of Zetland, who
had served as his aide de camp in
India.
Washington Debutante.
Her pictures show that Mary Vic
toria was a beautiful young woman
with dark hair, large eyes, long
lashes, regularity of feature and
splendid carriage and figure. Her
letters show that she was a young
woman of intellect. She was soon
playing a minor'role in the haute
politique of the day in her corre
spondence with her distinguished
English admirer. It would be hard
to find a Washington debutante of
this day with such interests. Lord
Salisbury, she wrote, had sprung a
surprise in asking arbitration on the
Bering Sea case. She had not seen
Mr. Blaine since, but she would write
as soon as she talked to him. James
G. Blaine, the Secretary of State,
was the Leiter’s landlord until fire
in January, 1891. drove them out of
his big house where the Riggs Bank
Branch now stands on Dupont Circle.
Curzon was much disturbed about
the report of the fire, although Mary
Victoria was in New York at the
time. There had been some panic
among members of the family and
the servants, she had apparently
written him.
"How is it that people ever lose
their heads?" he wrote in answer.
“I am sure alarm, excitement, dan
ger would steady me. One might be
afraid and deadly afraid—that is,
according to one's nature, but I do
not understand loss of presence of
mind or mental distraction."
She wrote him what a Russian
gentleman of high station had said
in Washington about the Russian
Forward party's intentions regarding
the Pamirs. He replied that the in
formation was “very valuable—con
firms from high quarters the sus
picions I have had for some time.”
She wrote from Baden Baden on
French reaction to British im
perialism.
Constant Travel.
Both were traveling constantly...
He was out of the cabinet, for the
Conservatives were out and the Lib
erals in. A November, 1892, letter
from Washington reached him in
China on his second trip around thc
world—“We are going to Egypt or
the south of France for the winter,
returning in the spring to get into
the new home.”
Their .paths crossed again in Paris
in March, 1893. He was completing
his globe encirclement; the Leiters
were on their way home. The two
dined at the Hotel Vendome. His
proposal was entirely unpremedi
tated, he told his biographer. He
“had not the slightest anticipation
of what would be the evening’s'
issue.” ,Even a Curzon can forget
himself.'
He told her there were two years
more of travel in the schedule he
had set for himself and asked her
to keep the engagement secret. She
assented. The next two years could
not have been too pleasant. She
was one of the most courted young
women in international society. Her
parents wondered what was wrong
with her. She finally told them
after a year.
' Courtship.
The engagement was like the
courtship, They met again for a
few days in London more than a
year later—in June, 1894. He broke
his journey across Europe for the
boat to India to see her a few hours
in Paris on August 4, 1894. But al
ways the correspondence continued.
Three weeks later at Bayreuth sne
dispatched a letter to follow him to
India—“Lohengrin with that lovely
bridal music was beautiful and Nor
dica made an enchanting Elsa." '
She was reading all the books on
India she could lay hands on—Max
Muller's “India,” Sir Alfred Lyall’s
"India” and the “Life of Lord
Lawrence,” by Sir Richard Temple.
She had done the same about
Persia and Korea. His book on
Korea was selling well. He had a
$1,500 credit with his publisher.
Prom it he bought her a present
“fairly won by the sweat of my own
brow.”
His Korea book had “gone to Du
pont by mistake,” she wrote from
London. She wanted to borrow the
book from B— H—, but she feared
“to re-arouse suspicions which I sue-,
cessfully allayed the summer before
last at Newport. Now she says, ‘It
is a great pity you and George
Curzon didn't hit it off.’ I smile, but
I want to laugh.”
Curzon had left India for the
Pamirs with Neville Chamberlain
and others on his “last, wander.” It
was a period of dread for her. His
health was not too good and the
northwest tribesmen were not
friendly with pucka sahib in those
days. He came back. The engage
ment was announced in Washing
ton in March, 1895, on his arrival in
Engiand.
“Clever of you,” wrote his friend
Lord Pembroke, “to get engaged to
Miss Leiter from the top of the
Pamirs. You must tell me how it
was done.” ■>
Curzon arrived in Washington In
April. The marriage was at St.
John's Church on April 22. Every
one was there. Lord Pauncefote, the
British Ambassador; Henry Adams,
the Misses Patten and Mrs. Trux
tun Beale.
“The house of Curzon and the
house of Leiter were joined today,”
wrote the enthusiastic reporter for
The Star. And now the house of
Leiter is being torn down.
Two years later they went out to
the India of Rudyard Kipling. Cur
zon had been made -viceroy and
Baron Curzon of Kedleston by
Queen Victoria. As Vicereine Mary
Victoria had the homage of 240.
000,000 persons expressed with
oriental obeisance.
India meant separation from her
husband much of the year. When
the heat would start the plains
steaming in March, the wives of the
British raj were sent to Simla in
the mountains.
She wrote him, “Oh! I miss you
and miss you and have to keep on
the jump not to cry.”
Some of his letters from the Gov
ernment House in Calcutta were 16
pages long, written in a fine hand
on large sheets of paper. Hers were
longer.
A “Subtle Influence."
Friends began to notice an ele
ment of tact appearing in Lord Cur
zon's public statements and ad
dresses. Lord Zetland attributed it
to "the subtle influence she brought
to bear on his masterful and some
what overbearing nature.”
In a crisis caused by Lord Cur
zon’s particularly recalcitrant at
titude over “a matter of principle,"
Lord John Hamilton, Secretary of
State in Council and Curzon's bass,
wrote Mary Victoria asking her help.
"No one has ever had his own way
in India as much as George,” the
letter said.
The appeal to Lady Curzon failed.
She would have been of more help.
Lord Zetland wrote, had ‘‘her critical
faculty not been dulled where he
was concerned by an admiration so
great as to render impossible of be
lief that he could be mistaken.”
She saw, India as no American *
woman has seen it—from port to
port in the viceregal yacht "Clive,”
tramping miles in the forests of the
foothills of the Himalayas while her
husband shot tiger after tiger. There
is a photograph of her standing be
hind one that must have been 8 feet
long. She visited the Taj Mahal
while her husband directed plans
for its restoration.
In the Delhi Durbar of 1903 to
celebrate the coronation of Edward
VII she played the leading role in a
setting that Hollywood with all its
millions could never duplicate. Her
entrance into the walled city was in
the howdah of an elephant capari
soned with ornamentation of which
the trappings in the Ringling parade
are but shoddy imitations. The
cannon brayed its 21 salutes. The
Indian cavalry dashed bv her in re
view, every rider seemingly trying
to break a photo-finish. The maha
rajas and maharanees, with jewels
of quality and quantity never seen
in European courts, awaited to re
new their vassalage in the great
hall of the moguls, the Diwan-i
Khas. But the cynosure of all eyes,
as she walked across the court to be
enthroned, was Mary Victoria Leiter
Curzon.
An enthusiastic young officer
wrote her, "The moment your pea
cock feathered dress moved across
the court was the zenith of the
sheer beauty of the whole time."
She saw India, but at what a
cost! Mary Victoria was suffering
from anemia. "India slowly but
surely murders women,” she wrote
during a vacation In England. “I
suppose many humble and Incon
sequential livers must always go
into the foundation of all great
works, and great buildings and great
achievements.”
In Calcutta.
Her arrival in Calcutta on March
7, 1905, was the signal for a spon
taneous demonstration. Indian
troops turned out and escorted her
to the Viceregal Lodge. But she
had not recovered. It was Only a
rally. After bearing Lord Curzon a
third daughter, she died in July,
1906.
News
By James Waldo Fawcett
Visitors In town this week end for
the American Air Mail Society con
vention at the Raleigh Hotel are:
M. O. Warns, president, Milwaukee;
Fred L. and Earl H. Wellman. Brook
field, HI.; Miss Laura J. Le Vasque,
Newton Centre, Mass.; L. B. Gatch
ell, Upper Montclair, N. J.; J. P. V.
Heinmuller, New York City; Marcus
W. White, Worcester, Mass.; Louise
S. Davis, New York City; Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Long. Harrisburg, Pa.;
Edward R. Markoff, Richmond, Va.:
Mr. and ,Mrs. W. R. McCoy and F.
W. Kessler, New York City.
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address in each case in name of
sender, courtesy Station Manager,
Northwest Airlines, Inc., Tokyo.
The projected Gold Star Mothers’
stamp (which, by the way, ought to
take into account Gold Star Fathers,
too) may be printed in gold color,
the American Bank Note Co. doing
the production job instead of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Mrs. Mary McCullough, postmaster
at Boswell, N. Mex., writes that
credit for'the neat and clear ma
chine cancellations originating in
her office really should go to C. H.
Austin, chief dispatch clerk, who
has spent 35 years “working con
sistently and efficiently” In the
service.
The design for the stamp in horn
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roid Ironsides”) still is under fire
even among the Post Office Depart
ment and Bureau of Engraving and
Printing personnel obliged to work
over it.
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Jame» W. J. Stedman will pre
side at a meeting of the Depart-;
ment of Agriculture Stamp Society
in Room 124, East Wing Admin
istration Building, Thursdaf even
ing at 6:15, and will exhibit por-;
tions of his collection. Later an,
informal exchange of duplicate;
stamps is to be staged.
Local collectors attending the'Pre
cancel Stamp Society convention
August 22 to 24 included: Edward;
S. Conger, Ellery Dennison, Major
James T. De Voss, Lt. Col. Crawford
L. Donohugh, Mrs. James T. Earn
est, C. C. and Barbara Fisher, Dr.
G. G. Frazier, Will Goodwin, Mr.;
and Mrs. Ernest A. Grant, H. E. F.1
Hawkins, George W. Hawse. Joseph
A. Herbert, Jr.: Jack Hester, T.
Russell Hungerford, Jackson A. and
John L. Kessinger, Bernard Kirk,
Dr. Frederick L. Lewton, Mrs. Grace
Lovering MacKnight, E. L. Marques,
James P. Oxenham. J. O. Peavey,
Mr. and Mrs. B. Eugene Raleigh,;
Victor Rotnem, John P. Simpson,;
r. Sinto, Mr. and Mrs. Irving W.
3mith. Ralph E. Smith, E. J. Stan-1
brough, William M, Stuart, Mrs.
Emily W. Suess, Warren C. Sum-;
Tiers, Joseph L. Taylor, Dr. and
Mrs. Chester R. Taylor. Charles
H. Vaughan, Max M. Wiggins, Mrs.
Mabel Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Ver
XU. iiouu.
Additional out-of-town registrants
were: Lou E. Bennett, Bethel,
Donn.: Lester E. Fetter, Wilmington,
Del.; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Lev
erage, Elsmere, Del.; Hix Long, jr.,
Baltimore; Robert F. Nicodemus.
Frederick, Md.; George P. Swan.
Wilmington, Del.: and Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Tolman, orange, Conn.
Costa Rica is the latest country tc
'cash in" on the popularity of
Franklin D. Roosevelt by issuing
stamps in his memory.
A portrait of Confucius, the phi
osopher. is slated to appear on a
new stamp of China.
The plane shown on the 10-cent
black airp06t stamp released in
Washington exclusively yesterday is
i Martin 3-0-2, 40-passenger twin
engine airliner, the first completely
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new postwar craft to be approved by
the Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion.
Japan has brought out a stamp
in tribute to Baron Mitsu Maye
shima, founder of the national
postal system. ‘
The new 15-cent airmail stamp
is an attractive label. First-day
figures for it are: 383.354 specimens
sold and 230,338 covers postmarked.
A “pin-up girl” stamp was Issued
by Brazil for the Inter-American
Defense Conference <at Rio de Ja
neiro. It is a 1.20-cruzeiro blue label,
showing what the Brazilian postal
authorities describe as "an allegori
cal female figure” reclining on a
globe.
The Information Service of the
Post Office Department is distribut
ing gratis a pamphlet entitled “A
Brief History of Air Postal Trans
port.” For copies address Douglas
[Wolf. Room 3411. Post Office De
partment Building, mentioning this
notice.
While the United States continues
to avoid paying philatelic honor to
Francis Scott Key for his “Star
Spangled Banner,” Chile marks the
centenary of its national anthem by
producing a 48-centavos green stamp
bearing the portraits of Eusebio
Lillo, who wrote sthe words of the
song, and Ramon Camicer, who
composed the music.
The Collectors’ Club of Washing
ton will meet at 1012 Ninth street
N.W. Tuesday evening at 8.
Modernistic notions or art nave
hft the stamps of Austria, formerly
among the most notably beautiful
in the world. A set of six semi
postals intended to raise funds for
the relief of prisoners of war shows
the unmistakable influence of dys
genic radicalism. The human faces
are perversely elongated in a hide
ous fashion. /
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Thomas Dunbabin, director. Aus
tralian News and Information Bu
reau, announces the release of a
series of three handsome stamps for
the sesquicentenary of Newcastle,
"the Pittsburgh” of the Australian
Commonwealth. One of the set
shows a portrait of Lt. John Short
land, Royal Navy officer, discoverer
of the estuary of the Hunter River.
The others depict a scene in the
Newcastle steel mills and a scene at
a coal-loading dock. Denominations
and colors are: 2-Hd, carmine ted;
3-V4d, dark blue; 5->4d, sage green.
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1 Coins
7 Bestow
liberally
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14 Cherry red
15 Greedy
16 Norse god
18 Venerated
one (F.)
19 Zero quantity
20 Greek letter
21 Fish
22 The tortured
turf
24 Note
25 Short napped
28 Pile
29 Essence
d’orient
32 Bestow as an
inalienable
possession
34 Glassy
35 Feminine
name
36 Harden
37 Bird '
38 Pronoun
39 Climbing
pepper
41 Crown
43 English river
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24 Obese
25 Fiery
26 Bird
27 Headlong
dispersion
from panic
29 Shade of
green
30 Border
31 Medieval
shield
33 Indefinite
number
34 Experienced
36 Feathered side1
of the , j
mandible of aj
bird
39 Rule made by
a corporation
to govern its
members
40 Point not to
be passed
41 Restaurant
42 Declare
43 Food staple of
the tropics
45 Blur
46 Nautical term
47 Repair
52 Preposition
54 Note
44 Mohammedan
priest
48 Greeting
49 Axillary
50 Adistar.ee
51 Soft hat
53 Ascended
55 Heretofore
56 Cleared, as
profit
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birds
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country
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5 Verb form
6 Belonging to
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poet
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goddess.
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