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1110 COUPLEIMr. and Mrs. Christopher, 414N. Hackberry St., Celebratethe AnniversaryOLD HOME IS SCENEChristopher Was GoverniSantonio Many Years Ago.Fifty years ago November 22,1862, in a little adobe house on the ’corner of Houston and Navarro streets, Mr. and Mrs, N. C. Christopher were married. Friday evening,November 22, 1912, at their home, 414 North Hackberry street, whereMr. and Mrs. N, C. Christopher, who celebrated (heir golden weddingthey have lived for the past forty-1 ■Bt'lvM’sary Friday.seven years, surrounded by theirchildren and grandchildren, theycelebrated their golden wedding an-nlvsfiry. ^Five daughters, all married, with 1families of their own, one son, mar-1ried too, and fourteen grandchildren, with many friends of a lifetime gathered at the old couple’s home and In loving remembrance made merry for the night. One daughter, Mrs. Chris Schneider, of Silver City, N. M., after an absence from home for eighteen years, was present at the golden anniversary and home-gathering celebration.Old Home Is Scene.The adobe house, built in the old-fashioned style with very thick walls, low ceilings, small windows and doors, where all but one of the children were born and reared and where the old couple have passed forty-seven years of their married life, was the scene of the celebration.In the front room that opens directly into the evergreen and arbor-filled yard, the young people danced while the old people watched the scene. On the wooden mantel-plece ticked a gold and agate clock in a high glass shade, brought over from Germany by the grandrmother sixty years ago.Mrs. Christopher is German, but Mr. Christopher is an American. He was born In Newark, N. J., eighty-one years ago. When he was twenty-two he came out to Texas, which was a railrosdless and Indian-infested country at that time, He wasnext morning announcing that the umpire ought to be lynched.The Cuban fans took this assertion so seriously that Mr. O'Brien was visited by a well-equipped lynching party, armed with ropes, end enthusiastically shouting for a sight of the official dancing on thin air, and only the interference of the ruraleg saved the baseball man.Wrong Impression, j This, of course, Is an extreme case, but the United States none the less i is a receiving station for all of the raw human materials of the world. They come to the melting pot of Ellis Island, Imbued w-lth the ideaMember Will Attempt to Re-store Parliamentary Dignityof Webster’s Day.most intelligent men of the country —for they are likely to class members of congress as such—are In the habit of passing the lie, of making accusations, and of Indulging in language which is fighting talk withLIST OF EXPLETIVE §1 red-blooded men th« world over, itbids fair to give the immigrant awarped and totally erroneous idea of What Americans really are andWill Show Lawmakers Just j what principals they really advocate.How Slangy They Wereat Last Session.WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 23. Congress is usually the doctor for all things of public interest, buta brave Indian fighter and finally . „ ..became the government wagon mas-* 'hen tntt body meets next monthter in the early days. At that time there was no Fort Sam Houston. Tha United States troops were stationed at the Alamo and on the property now occupied by the federal building.Mr. Christopher was the government wagon master when he was married fifty years ago. On fine days he now sits on a bench In the arbor and looks across to the present imposing army post on the hill.Remembers Her Voyage.Mr. Christopher has kept in touch with progress and the news of the day even to his old age. He has been a subscriber to The Ban Antonio Light ever since the first issue was published.Mrs. Christopher was born in Hamburg. Germany. When she was but 11 years old her father and mother embarked in a slow vessel for the new and untried world. The slow and stormy voyage has never been forgotten. a * -It took us three months, saidsomebody is going to quote the old motto, Physician, heal thyself, and endeavor to restore to the debates in congress something of the dignity that was apparent in the days of Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay.Just outside of the chamber of the house of representatives there stands statues of a score or more of orators whose words have been perpetuated as examples of parliamentary language.Yet inside of the chamber tooSo, as a matter of fact, if the congressman who plans giving congress its little object lesson in the expletives which have been used on the floor, makes good with his plan, It will do much toward bringing back the days when parliamentary discussion and debate was an art; when repartee depended on verbal finesse, and not upon the weight of Billings- j gate which the opposing debaters could summon.Probably no feature of the International hygiene exposition, held in Dresden last year, says the Baltimoreoften during the past decade there |Sun- attracted more general interesthave been sounded accusations openly impugning the motives and veracity of public men, and the short and ugly has frequently beenpassed.Last session a member designated a prominent government official as a refrigerated vulture of the dead. That accusation Btands upon the pages of the congressional record for future generations to read.This same member has been un-the little old lady. We went from sparing ln his vituperation and hasHamburg to Liverpool, and then on and on forever to New Orleans. There we changed to a sailing vessel and after a time landed in old Indianola. The yellow fever was very bad, so we packed up our belongings in six wagons and came to Ban Antonio. It took us six weeks. You see the' clock on the mantelpiece. We brought that with us. Wedding Feast Enjoyed. Presents were given to the oldcouple by their affectionate children and grandchildren, and a regular wedding feast was prepared. Besides the friends and grandchil-heaped Insults upon men in public life, safely protected by the constitutional provision that safeguards athan the Undosa artificial surf bath. The receipts from the sale of tickets and especially of spectators’ tickets were unexpectedly large, amounting sometimes to $450 ln a single day. Asthe cost of operation was only about$40 a day, it is evident that the artificial surf bath may be made a very profitable as well as a very beneficial institution.The idea of generating waves in still water by alternatively submerging and with drawing solid bodies of appropriate form and dimension originated with Hofrat Hoeglaner of jIi!1Imember of congress from the conse- ]• i ]quenees of anything he may utter German patent for a wave-producing 1during a debate on the floor of either house or senate.Champ (lark Admonishes,Just before the house adjourned, it was necessary for Speaker Clark, a parliamentarian of the old school, to admonish one member for what the speaker considered the intemperate use of language.“It used to be regarded as bad .. %dren, ranging from four months to j t®**® ^orL on/L Ifine 8ummer weather would be re-elghteen years old, who were pres ““apparatus, which was subsequentlypatented in the United States and many other countries. The first experiment in the production of an artificial surf bath by this method was made in 1905 in a concrete basin built in Lake Stamberg.The bath could be used only in summer, and, although it was very well patronised on clear, hot days, it was evident that long periods of]]1Ient at the celebration were the daughters and son, Mrs. Chris Schneider of Silver City, N. M., Mrs. joe Vander Stratten, Mrs. Herman Schmidt, Mrs. Arthur Speer and Mrs. Henry Steingruber and Charles Christopher, all of this city.to impugn the truthfulness of an-. qlllrlt;sd ln orderto pay the operat-other on the floor of the house. I5utjjng expenses and provide for amor-those times appear to have passed, jtmition and fair interest on the ini-The most powerful single unit electriclocomtivet that have been designed up to the present time are now being built for a Swiss railway. These locomotives, tensaid the veteran congressman.For some time past the tendency has been to bring the expressive butsometime objectionable language ofthe street to the floor of both the house and the senate.Pinhead, is the epithet applied by one congressman to a newspaperman who had written a story totial outlay.It was left for the Dresden hygiene exposition to demonstrate that artificial aurf baths can be madejf:1ttJ1In number, weigh 108 tons each, total, which the member did not suu-and have a weight on their ten drivers (adhesive weight) of eighty-five tons. They are capable of developing 2500 horsepower at a speed of fifty miles an hour, with a possible increase of speed to seventy-five miles an hour, for an uninterrupted run of one and one-half hours, and can exert a drawbar pull of eighteen thousand kilogrammes from the standstill,As a matter of fact, while members of congress rarely pass the lie cne to another, they frequently charge falsification to men outside of the government service, and, protected by their position, they areprofitable by constructing them ln such a manner that they can be used throughout the year ln ail sorts of weather. The directors of the exposition had decided that the department of sport would not be complete without a large swimming bath ln which swimming races could beconducted.The constructor of the bath, Herr Recknagel, suggested that it be provided with a removable roof, and also with apparatus for producing ar-safe from being called to personal i tificial surf. This plan was finallyI1ic5I
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San Antonio, Texas, US
Sun, Nov 24, 1912
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