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GEORGIfINCLOCK
ORNAMENT DF
REALM
Collectors Ever Seeking Fine
Old "Grandfather” Time
' pieces, Says Connoisseur.
A. genuine "grandfather” clock of
the Georgian period in a long case
is an ornament of which anyone
should be proud. Collectors and
i art lovers are ever on the alert for
these fine old pieces of rare crafts*
manship. ' ' ' \
To. collectors and connoisseurs
the most desirable period of the
long-case clock is from -1700 to
about 1720. This embraces th a two
Styles of marquetry and lacquered
'wprk, although lacquered work con
tinued to the middle of the eigh
teenth century. The marquetry
decoration of iße long-case clock
was in keeping, with contemporary
tables and cabinets, or it was lac
quered in ■ rich colors in “Chinese
taste” to keep touch with Oriental
But concurrent with the age of
marquetry and' lacquer was the
great walnut period. The delight
ful veneer of burr-walnut In .Queen
Anee days in cabinets and chests of
drawers and other important pieces
of furniture did not neglect the
elock-case. The gnarled figure of
the walnut was essentially a proper
decoration tp apply to the clock
case. • „ .
The simplicity of construction of
the Jong-caso' clock, and its proud
record as a perfect timekeeper gave
it the supremacy over ail other
clocks, ’’’he grandfather clock runs
for eight days. Its construction is
so simple that when needing repair
it need not'bp jsent to a specialist.
It has no delicate parts io con
found the bro-dncial maker. Hence
pahn Jpecial'
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mean to you better quality—bigger variety, greater econ
omy than ever. -Because they mean greatly increased I
volume to us. Style abreast of the minute! Value topping any
thing ever offered Washington Men and Women!
Two of Many Two of Many
Men’s Oxfords Women’s Styles I
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Toney Tan, Black Calf p atent Le at h er , Brown
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Tan, Red or Black Calf Airedale, Jack Rabbit, Racquet.
Black Suede, Black Satin or I
Patent Leather. • I
At All Our' Stores'. ;
But in Smaller Variety I
at “City Club Shop” 7th & K Sts.
414 9th St.
“City Club Shop” 1914-16 Pa. Ave.
1318 GSt 233 Pa. Ave. S. E.
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Senate Passes Bill
For Baseball
Memorial
The bill providing a me
morial to the national game of
baseball to be erected in the
District of Colombia was
passed by the Senate yesterday.
The measure, which was in- -
troduced by Senator Pepper of
Pennsylvania several months
ago, authorizes the American
League to erect on public lend
in Washington a suitable me
morial! to baseball, the design ‘
to be approved by the Fine*
Arts Commission.
The White House 'grounds,
the Capitol grounds and sev
eral other pieces of public park
property are excepted from the
land available for'the erection
of. the memorial. , *
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it’ has lasted two centuries andi
more as a standard English clock.
Veneer had become an established
technique. Woods with fine figure
served as panels laid on wood of
lesser rarity or decorative import
ance. Oak was a good foundation f
for walnut veneer. Earlier, walnut'
was laid as a round on oak and
the marquetry design laid on the'
walnut. But in the burr-walnut
period carefully selected ■' walnut
sheets were employed to decorate
surfaces of bureaus and clock-cases.
The age of walnut is synonymous
with* Hogarth.
purr-walnut clock-cases are not
so frequently found as could be
wished. The burr-walnut panels are
marked in a series of knot-like
rings, obtained from the gnarled
roots of the walnut-tree. The pe
culiar pleasing effect bf this and
other mottled walnut is heightened
by the mellow effect time always
gives to these walnut examples,
which cannot be produced with any
appreciable success by modern imi
tators. In “Old Clocks and
Watches and Their Makers,” by the
late F. J. Britten,, there is a list
THE WASHINGTON TIMES » Natitmd. Batty ♦ THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1924. ’
KIWANIANS ARE
TO MEET IN
DENVER
Special Trains Chartered to
Carry Crowds to World
Convention.
» • •
.?• By International News lisiisa
DENVER, April 3. Preparing
to entertain between B*ooo and 7,000
Kiwaqians and their friends during
the Kiwanis international convent
tion to be held in- this city June
16-19, inclusive, Kiwanis has , al
ready opened convention head
quarters hero, and a staff of work
er?, under the direction of H. O.
Hoeppner, convention director, ia
busy arranging a program of ac
tivities for the visitors.
' Reports already at hand show
that seventeen special trains have
been chartered to carry Klwanians
to Denver, originating as follows:
* Chicago, 4; Ohio,’ 2; Minnesota,
2, and one each from California,
Utah, the Pacific Northwest, Mon
tana, West Virginia, New England,
Pennsylvania, eastern Canada and
Michigan. x
One of the Ohio trains wul be
the “p/esidential special,” carrying
International President Edmund F.
Arras and his party from Columbus.
Convention headquarters here an
nounced that to date sixty-nlne
hotels have allotted 2,500 rooms for
the use of visitors during the con
clave.
of some ten thousand names of
clockmakers, so that examples com
ing into the possession of collectors
can readily be checked by this list.
But the fact, that a maker’s name
is not in this directory does not ex
clude him from recognition as a
master.
THE CONNOISSEUR.
The Alibi |
Artists
A .Skeleton Record of
Cases Tried By
Judge Schuldt.
—Donabf McDou<<U—
Nice Man.
“When I was crossing Eight
eenth street at V yesterday
afternoon, your honor, I was
struck by the nicest man I
svAfr ■ ’
"What's this, a 'masher’ case’’*
“Oh no. He Wasn’t that kind.
I mean he kocked me down. He
ran into me with his car.”
Crosswalk Needs Arnica.
“Where were you struck?”
“At Eighteenth and U streets.”
"You have already testified to
that. You don’t understand what
I mean. Where did the car hit
you.?”
“On the crosswalk."
Non-Partisan.
"You don’t quite understand
yet. What part of you was struck?
Which side of you did the ma
chine hit?”
“Neither side, your honor.”
Ohi
“How fast, was his car going”
“I don’t know. I didn’t see
the car dt' all. It was coming
from the wrong direction for me
to see."
Doctor Cppid.
"Were you .knocked uncon
scious?;*
“Not 1 quite, your honor. He
jumped out so quickly, picked me
up so gently, put me in his car,
arranged .me so comfortably, and
was almost crying while he drove
me to the hospital, and sent me
such beautiful flowers, that I
really hope you won’t take any
action against him. I wasn’t hurt
very much.”
“Huh. $25.”
Up to the Driver.*
“He Was running down Eight-'
eenth street at California tn a
Ford delivery truck with no mon
lights on It than an iceberg. I
hailed him and he said, ’How can
I make the lights go when my
battery is run down?'
Strives to Plesse.
“While I was talking to him the
lights blazed up and he said, ’Well,
that’s too much for me.’ I gave
him a ticket for $5 and he said
that was too much for him, too.
So I gave him one for |19.”
Power of Money.
Boob: “It’s a strange tiling,
your honor. The switch was on
’ all the time, but the lights didn’t
show until the officer started to
make out the ticket.”
New Arabian Nights.
"The. court has often heard
stranger ones. $5.”
Saves s Second.
Motorman: “I was* crossing
Twelfth street on Rhode Island
avenue yesterday morning, your
honor, at about eight miles an
hour. The defendant was com
ing down Twelfth street and
speeded up to beat me over the
crossing and took the left front
corner off my ear. <
They Always Get ’Em.
“I put on the brakes and jump
ed out to get his number, but'he
was somewhere around Sixteenth
street and going strong before
I reached (he street. I gave a
description of the man to the
first policeman I saw, and identi
fied the defendant at , Number
Twelve precinct last night.”
Alibi Rattle.
Boob: “It’s a five-ton steel
truck, your honor, and has a
loose tail gate. When I go over
a bump in the road it makes
more noise then a three-year-old
Ford with busted hood-clips. So
if I did hit that street car it
just seemed to me like an extra
loud rattle. But I thought I’d
missed it by about five feet, as
far as that’s concerned.” ,
Don’t Overwork It.
* The court: "You’ve missed It
by about S2O as far as the collid
ing charge is concerned. There
is no > doubt that you hit the
street car, but there is douot
that you knew you hit it, and
the charge of leaving after collid
ing is accordingly dismissed."
ILIONSIEAR OF
LIBRARY’S
SERVICE
Dr. George F. Bowerman.
Addresses Club’s Weekly
Luncheon.
The Public Library, its branches
and its relation to the business life
of Washington was discussed before
the weekly luncheon of the Lions
Club in the New Willard Hotel yes
terday by Dr. George t*. Bowerman,
librarian. . -*'*
Dr. Bowerman pointed out that
the library here is an institution
| which renders invahdrole service to
the business men of Washington.
He said the industrial section of the
library contained business informa
tion of ail kinds. ' .
Librarian Bowerman closed his
talk by telling the club membeAi
that he hoped soon to see twenty
five branch libraries In operatipn
in Washington.
I The club elected eight delegates
to the District convention to be held
jin Frederick, Md., April 29. They
were Jamos Schick, George Lewis,
I the Rev. Dr. Dudley, Robert Mc
l Keever, William Miller, Caleb O’Con
! nor, Roger Whiteford and Dr. Rob
ert Lamb.
* Leonard W. Do Gast. David
Barry and Thomas Brahany were
name* qßarnates.
REFORMER RAPSi
GDNDITIONSIN
CAPITAL
Lord’* Day Alliance Official
Claim* "Wicked D. C.” Is
Worse Than Paris.
"Washington is more wide open
than Paris or London. The con
ditions there are a disgrace to
America.”
This declaration from the lips
of Harry L. Bowlby, general sec
retary of the Lord’s Day Alliance,
yesterday afternoon in Brooklyn,
Now York, at a conference of the
alliance is causing considerable
humorous comment about ths city
today.
Traveling salesmen who have the
reputation of learning more about
a city's "underworld” in five min
utes than its oldest inhabitant
learns in a lifetime have unfail
ingly dubbed the District “a hick
town." Notwithstanding this, after
dinner.-' speakers have adopted
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SIOO ISN'T MUCH FOR THE FINEST
HART SCHAFFNER & MARX
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"We’re not talking about the SIOO ' that may I
be much or little to you But SIOO for our . I
best suits is very reasonable; the alb wool fab' I
rics are so fine/'from the world’s greatest I
weavers; the tailoring and style so good But I
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Wicked Washington” as a fttsh
ionabM topic and 'appear to take
great pleasure on dwelling on con
dition? which not .only do not exist
now but never did.
Major Daniel Sullivan. Prohibit
tfon Commissioner Boy/Haynes and
the District Commissioners -did not
disclose today’whether they would
dignify the' latest absurd utterance
by calling for. specific information
from Mr. . Bowlby or simply let
It pass ah a sample of Character
istic statements' of "blue law",
officials. . . .... 1
- MV. Bowlby in his speech which
is presumably accufhtely quoted
in the 4BaaY*B Brooklyn Dally
Eagle gives the "comforting” in
formation that .. “we are going to
better* conditions there (Washing
ton) soon.” ■ .-’■f' 1 ’’
Unwittingly these expounders of
"Wicked ’Washington/’ many ot
Whom haVe never more than passed
through the National Capital ate
doing nothing' more than boost
the clty’s hostelrtes which benefit
by fleeting visits from men and
women' who take the statements
as truthful and come here-.to "have
a fling.’ r 4 :
KHIq Hlmwff for Love.
NEW YOpJK. April A-—Because
his protestations of love for Mrs.
Anna Herger Glynn, Yonkers,
failed to impress her, Carmine
Apicella, twenty-?lx, a ; law clerk
and constable, shot and wounded
her and then killed himself outside
of her home. Mrs. Glynn probably
will recover.
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CHARGE GOULD
ffl WIFE'S
MILLIONS
Executors of Estate Sue to
Obtain Sum Reported to
Be >2,012.000.
TRENTON, N. J., April 2
Charges ? that the -late George Jay
Gould withhold thouaaned of dollars
due the estate of fils first wife,
Edith Kingdon Gould, were made in
i chancery court today by the execu
, tdrs of her estate, Jay Gould and
Charles P. Noyes, of New York.
They allege .that In 1910 Mrs.
Gould borrowed M,080,000 from her
husband on an agreement that he
1 waa to Invest it In stock of the Pa
cific Express Company- of Ne
braska. The interest was to be
paid from the dividends and the
balance placed to trust for Mrs.
Gould, according to the alleged
agreement.
The bill of complaint declares
•Hhere was reason.to believe” Gould
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HEARSES SENT AS HOAX
BY EASTON JOKESTER
EASTON, Pa., April »—Two under
takers’ wagons drove up in front of
the home of Abraham Kalfin, 406
Bushkill street. A little later sev- -
.era! newspaper reporters arrived
to get the story of the "death.”
Then there were other inquirers, for
no one was known to be ill at the
house. '■•■*.
After considerable confusion it was
learned that all the trouble wan
caused by an April fool joker, who
called the undertakers, they to turn
notifying the newspapers of their
call. ,
A. H. HARPJR ELECTED '
BY OLDEST INHABITANTS
Albert H. Harper was elected’vice
president of the Oldest Inhabitants’
Association to succeed Anthony'
Gaegler, deceased, at a meeting last
night n Union engine house.
Edwin E. Ellett, Frederick H.
Kramer, James E. Porter, Almus R. >
Speare, Leroy D. Waters, and Wil
iam R... Brown were admitted to
member "hip- Theodore W. Noyes
presided.
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collected 1420,000 dividends in the
first year of the agreement and that
the company,, still in process of dis
solution, paid Gould $2,012,000.
All this, .in excess of Ch« origins 1
loan and interest at. 6 per cent,
it is. claimed, belongs to the estate
i of Mrs. Gould, but has never been
paid.
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