Washington Letter on parks and capital’s future
Special correspondence reviews Washington’s park system as envisioned by founders and later advocates. Describes Rock Creek Park preservation, Potomac river flats reclamation, and proposed Potomac Park extension. Notes Wetmore’s gateway bill, a six‑block purchase for a grand lawn and statues, and a Ward statue replica for Capitol front. Includes remarks by Max Glass and a Jeffersonian architectural tribute by a local architect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Wetmore
National Capital
Capitol
Union Station
Washington
Capitol Plaza
House Committee On the Library
Joint Committee On the Library
Ward
United States
New York
Not Such Fool as He Seemed Judge Jenkins Stories
A Chicago News quote recounts Judge Jenkins humor as he listens to callers and shares anecdotes about politics and independence. Other brief tales involve Rev Edward Everett Hale and a New Jersey judge with a bonneted witness, plus a quip about change in preaching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Jenkins
House Judiciary Conmitite
Chicago News
Judge Jenkins
Treas
Edward Everett Hale
United States Senate
Boston
Dr. Hale
Bonnet
Jersey
Hare
Guns in Future War and The Poniatowskis
A magazine excerpt muses on future coastal artillery and costly Krupp guns with brief notes on efficiency and waste. It also recounts a tale of Prince Joseph Poniatowski and the French senate dispute over his nationality in Napoleon III era Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poniatowskis
Joseph Poniatowski
Stanislas Poniatowski
Paris
Napoleon III
Tuscany
France
Napoleon
Poniatowski
Leipsic
Millionaire connoisseur chases collectors key pieces
J H A Klauder of Philadelphia praises old keys as works by master goldsmiths and cites Count Adolphe de Rothschild's Cellini key sold for 8500. In Everett Massachusetts a judge punishes two twelve year olds by making them pick up stones for a half hour, ending their stone throwing spree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. A. Kilauder
Philadelphia
Mr. Klauder
Adolphe de Rothschild
Benvenuto Cellini
Rothschild
Everett
Mass
Exodus from Johannesburg Despairs Spread Across City
The piece notes a mood of gloom in Johannesburg as a mass exodus begins. Young men hurry to leave for distant places while hunger looms, and workers gather scraps to join the distant journeys described with caricatured zeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johannesburg
Wide World Magazine
Japan's Population Estimates Rise Slowly
The Pall Mall Gazette reports Japan's population today around 50 million with 49,267,744 native-born Japanese in the territory ruled by the Mikado. Estimates based on thirty year average growth suggest about a two million increase per five year period over the past twenty five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Pall Mall Gazette
A Trick of the Trade at a Washington Dinner
Dr Har vey W Wiley food expert comments on filtered coffee and recalls a Kent incident about a grocer's son asked where coffee comes from. The boy replies he cannot say, calling it a secret of the business during an oral examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harvey W. Wiley
Kent
Bread Line of Hungry Fish and a Mischievous Vicar
Humorous excerpts recount a bread-crumb mishap on a summer fishing trip with a loaf tossed overboard forming a “bread line” among fish and a tale from England about a deaf farmer misinterpreting church banns as cow notices prompting a blunt boast about a gentle creature.
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Gsb
England
Joseph
Sarah
Meredith Defends Lucile Authorship Amid Plagiarism Claims
Owen Meredith refused to deny plagiarism accusations tied to Lucile. He argued that a denial would imply merit to the charges, while silence would let the book circulate and the claims fade. He valued the poem and shared passages with close friends, recounting the writing circumstances.
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Owen Meredith
Lucile
Also Mentioned on This Page
Alexander Shepherd
America
Rock Creek Park
Congress
Potomac River Flats
South
Potomac River
Potomac Park
Washington and
Georgetown
Arsenal
Europe
Max Glass
Vienna
Jefferson
Berlin
Thomas Jefferson
Carl Schofield
Urer
John
Havre
Willemshoefen
Metropolitan Magazine
Revere Beach
Railroad Street
Revere
Columbia Square
Winthrop
Suburban Gas and Electric CO
Basta Sone
Seine Gettions
Han
Iien
Rough Munn & Co
Scientific America
Twe Munn & Co
Washneton, Ig
Probate
NEW England Telephone and Telegraph Company
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