OLD NURSERIES GAINED FAME Linnaean Hill in Rock Creek Park, Named for Great Botanist, Associated With Historic Events in Virginia and With Wash- ington Home for Foundlings.

By John Clagett Proctor. JOSHUA PEIRCE believed in adver- EW people In Washington, In- tising—good advertising; a com- mendable for one to cluding the members of the As- thing any in- in. And in the sociation of the Oldest Inhabi- dulge so, National Intelligencer of March 7, we tants, could tell you where 1825, find a card inserted him announc- Linnaean Hill is located, and yet it by ing the varieties of "Fruits and Orna- is an estate dating back for consider- mental Trees,” which he had for sale ably more than a century, and was so at Linnaean Hill, and these include, named by Joshua Peirce for the great to quote his announcement: • • * "a Swedish botanist, Karl von Linnaeus, choice collection of Fruit Trees, con- commonly called Linne. sisting of Apple, Peach, Pear, Nec- Linnaean Hill is now a part of Rock tarine, Apricot, Plum and Cherry Creek Park, and has been ever since Trees; with a variety of Garden Fruit, this reservation was transferred to the such as Currant, Gooseberry and with other land Government, together Raspberry Bushes, etc. A large col- Rock Creek, in 1890. This lying along lection of Evergreen and other Orna- estate then consisted of 31.817 acres, mental Forest Trees, among which are and was held in the name of Joshua and European American Balm of Linnaean Hill mansion, built in 1823. The early home of Joshua Peirce. —Star Phot o Peirce a Staff Klingle, nephew by marriage Gilead, Fir, White or Weymouth Pine; of Joshua Peirce, who built the old Norway, Black, Red and Hemlock in 1929. The Fifteenth street site Is John of Mount mansion house about 1823, when the Spruce Fir; Juniper and Arbor Vitae, S Fleming Pleasant; fact that the wording of the act de- now occupied by St. Augustine's Elizabeth, to Dr. William Mar- clared it to be a national land was given him by his father, Larch, Linden, Sugar Maple, Locust, Gay; park for the Roman Catholic Church. to Thomas Isaac Peirce, who built Peirce's Mill, Button Wood, Lombardy, Athenian, Old fireplace in the Linnaean Hill mansion. tha, Eldridge, and Anne, benefit of the people of the United The residue of Mr. Peirce's estate, to James the total issue States. recently restored. and with a Murray, Tulip Poplar Trees; va- __ Staff Photo. __—Star which included Linnaean Hill, he de- from these six descendants 63 “Our Federal When Isaac this riety of others, suitable for streets being legislators could not Peirce deeded land to John B. vised Blake and Moses children. and would not un- to his son Joshua, on October 10, 1823. and lawns; Grapes native and foreign, constitutionally, Kelly, in trust, the profits to be paid dertake to such "for natural and the Joshua Peirce, who con- Vines and Creepers, for walls and impose legislation love affection," to his wife's Joshua Peirce ducted the arbors; Ornamental nephew, THE fifth degree of descent from upon the people of New York, or any estate then consisted of 82 acres 2 first general nurs- Flowering Shrubs, for JN Klingle, life, balance to his chil- Pocahontas we find John other State, and the should rods and 28 ery in the District Rose Bushes; Green House Trees and Bolling practice perches, and it soon be- of Columbia. dren and the children of his deceased Plants, Bulbous-rooted and other marrying Martha, the sister to Presi- never have been instituted here. It came one of the best nurseries in hardy if after his Plants. children, any, death. And dent Thomas Jefferson, and in the ought to be forever abandoned.” America. Indeed, John A. Saul, who estate, in if he had no then bygone days, may be had issue, two-thirds same degree of descent we find John Francis D. Shoemaker, whose people is an authority on local nurseries, and “Also a large quantity of the Pyra- by reading what the late Louis P. of the residue as mentioned was to go son of Richard owned a of the at the or Randolph, Randolph large part park who has written entertainingly on the Shoemaker, a cantha, Evergreen Thorn, and to his own heirs (the heirs of grandnephew of Joshua Joshua fwho married Jane Bolling) marrying time it was sold to the Government, for the records of the Columbia Main's American Hedging Thorn, subject Peirce, said upon one occasion re- Peirce) and one-third to his wife's Frances still loves to visit the old haunts of which will be sold Bland, and from this union Historical Society, says it was the garding Mr. Peirce and his at reduced prices next of kin. nurseries, was bom the famous John Randolph his childhood days, and occasionally first general in the District when he stated: to persons disposed to plant largely. nursery of of whom it is said that stops in at Linnaean Hill to look the Roanoke, of Columbia. Joshua Peirce also con- "This place was known as ‘Linnaean “Catalogues of the above death of Joshua Peirce, articles, y^FTER he probably probably never loved any things over and compare the past ducted a within the limits Hill,’ and is of with can be had nursery7 city worthy special mention, prices affixed, of the Joshua Klingle took up his resi- human being with natural affection with the present. on a tract said to have included about not only because of Its subscriber at the Nursery of Mr. past history, dence at Linnaean Hill with his wife, except his mother. 64 acres. This, of course, must have the scenes of business activity and Thomas Levering, near the Poet Office Laura T. said to have been At this time it might not be amiss been before the streets in the out- the great beauty with which it was in Washington; of Mr. Edward M. Klingle. to mention once a Baltimore lady of refinement, whose the occasion when John lying parts of Washington were opened adorned by its original owner, Linthicum, Comer of Bridge and Fishing maiden name was Gay, and who was Rolfe returned to England in June, up, and the center of his but because of the future utility to High Streets, Georgetown, or of the city plant with which it could be so proud of her descent from the In- 1616, Pocahontas, or Mrs. Re- was somewhere in the neighborhood applied. following persons who as agents wdll (Continued dian Princess Pocahontas, that she becca Rolfe, his wife, when King From First Page.) of where once stood the "Mr. Pierce was one of those citizens receive and forward orders; Mr. Ab- Washington in James was to be raham always kept hanging her parlor disposed quite angry Hospital for Foundlings, 1751 Fifteenth whose character and industry adorn Coates, Philadelphia; Mr. that Is exercised In atock portraits of Pocahontas ana with him for daring to marry an judgment street northwest. The the of our Robert Sinclair, Baltimore; Dr. Wil- King principal part of early history’ District. He while raising, the size of fish may be con- liam Powhatan. imperial princess, today the his town nurseries extended from had the advantage of a good educa- Pitcher, Fredericktown, Md.; siderably increased and much better Without looking up the facts re- British crown seems to be all upset Fourteenth to Sixteenth street and tion and soon became, by reason of Mr. John Bradock, Rockville; Mr. results obtained.” James our. garding the ancestry of Mrs. Klingle, because a former King and present points from R to T street. his taste and talent, a horticulturist Thomas Swann, Annapolis; Mr. John “A area of will furnish it may be taken for that she duke is going to marry, according to given ground of national and Shaw, Va. granted But a word reputation a nursery- Leesburg, forage for just so many cattle, and just about the old Lin- was descended from the Indian prin- the English view, a little out of his man who conducted an extensive busi- “All orders from a in- when more are added it meana less haean Hill home before telling more distance, cess. through Dr. William Gay, who station. Then America furnished the ness. The and reservations of food of the Peirce family. parks closing cash or referring to some married princess royal, whereas, in the per capita. The seme rule the Elizabeth, the daughter of present city were, to a great extent, near, who will become applies to fish, and no more should person re- John Bolling, who married Mary instance, this country is only furnish- 'T'HIS is a old residence, ! stocked from Linnaean Hill. for the be placed in a body of water than the picturesque sponsible payment, will meet Kennon. It is known that Mrs. Klingle ing a simple, plain, but apparently fully in with the station I'lt will be remembered that about i with prompt attention.” natural food will maintain. Young keeping did try to perpetuate the name "Gay” delightful lady, with ancestry that of a of means, 1856 the camellia was even bass, crappie and sunflsh require country gentleman i introduced ; by naming a daughter Lillian Gay Bea- might lead back to this very As stated, it was erected in into this country. This of natural food, and it is for this reason 1823, the species PEIRCE is said to have trice Klingle. In this connection a Indian princess. or that any fish should be re- walls being of blue stone similar to ! Chinese Japanese shrubs was first JOSHUA list surplus been in partial of the descendants of Po- Of the descendants of Isaac Peirce, into born Philadelphia about moved to other waters in which a that found throughout the park area, i imported Europe by a German cahontas and her John in Francis D. husband, living Washington, of suitable and like the stone Jesuit about 1739. It is one of the 1795 and died at his homestead on supply food is available.” with which the S Rolfe, might prove of interest. Shoemaker is probably the oldest, streets of most beautiful of cultilvated flowers. The Bureau of * Washington were once April 11, 1869. He was the youngest As is quite well known, this unusual having been born November 8, 1858. Fisheries receives How generally it was favored 15.000 macadamized, before asphalt and ce- through- child of Isaac Peirce. His wife's couple had only one son, Thomas He was born in the old stone house approximately applications for out that is not known to fish about 70 ment pavement came Into general country me, who was born in 1615. An called Clover to the west of annually, per cent of maiden name was Susan A. Rolfe, Dale, use. but certainly in it was Coates, which are for the so-called “warm- Washington Corner of the drawing room at Linnaean Hill, showing the uncle, Henry Rolfe, educated the lad Peirce or Shoemaker’s Mill, and was much admired, and was and she was the daughter of a Mr. water” such as bass, The walls are 24 inches thick, and appreciated old Hermitage wall paper. —star Staff Photo. in England and, when presumably he the son of Peirce Shoemaker and species, crappie to such an extent that the most Coates, a cashier in Girard's and the 30 there is a double-deck veranda or per- Stephen had grown to manhood, he returned Martha (Carbery) Shoemaker. Peirce bluegills, remaining per on the south side fect specimens were sold as high as $1. Bank of Philadelphia. She was a cent being for various species of trout. porch of the build- THIS to Virginia, where he is said to have Shoemaker inherited the mill prop- Its has, widow at the time of their will he devised his estate $300, and George Ruston, son of There Is not much ing, embellished with a cast-iron popularity however, passed marriage JN acquired wealth and distinction. His erty from his uncle, Abner Cloud difficulty meeting away, and the rose, our American and died January 10, 1861, 74 as follows: The notes held Maria Rhodes, $300. the requests for trout. James Informs railing of scroll work in grape design, aged by wife was Jane Poythress. by whom he Peirce, and at the time of the death Beauty, like American skill and years. At the time of Mr. Peirce's The northern us. for this can be incubated into which is entwined a wistaria vine Amer- him and made by his nephew, J moiety in square 206 left one child only, named Jane Rolfe. of the former owned 800 acres of land species ican in of considerable and ingenuity, has full sway. death the National Intellegincer said: he left to trustees to hold for the who in and troughs of running water and fed age beauty. On Peirce secured on of was born in Virginia, married around Rock Creek Valley. Klingle, part on artifical food until the north side an addition was "Mr. Pierce cultivated the camellia “Mr. Joshua one of the benefit of the children of Helen B. Col. Robert in 1675 and died Louis P. who died in large enough made Peirce, 207 Bolling Shoemaker, 1916, square (between Fourteenth and then wife of Dr. James Phil- to be distributed. But it is much about 1843, and the difference in the in great variety and quantity. The oldest citizens of Washington, died Phillips, the following year, leaving but one a brother to Francis D. Shoemaker, Fifteenth and R and S streets north- etc. more difficult to fill the requests for stone then used is easily detected large conservatories, built of stone, yesterday afternoon at his residence lips. child, a son. John Bolling, born in was one of the most aggressive of the large and small mouth bass, the when compared with the original part yet standing near the residence on at Linnaean Hill, near the city, in the west) amounting in all to $14,100, he One of the principal charities was 1676. Thus it will be seen that, for the many supporters of the Rock the south of 75th of black bass, the crappie and the blue- of the building. The main entrance side the hill toward the year his age. Mr. Peirce was left in different amounts to in leaving lots 24 to 37, in the square three generations (Thomas Rolfe. Creek Park project, mainly from a Abagail gill, as these fish are nest breeders is on this side of the and city, have been crowded with bushes well known to our citizens bounded by Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Jane Rolfe and John there truly patriotic and 29 house, here gener- Shoemaker, widow of Bolling) standpoint, David Shoe- R and must be raised under mora or Is a very large iron scraper to one densely covered with the bloom of ally, having for many years been and S streets northwest, to William was but one child born to perpetuate years ago made a number of good this maker, and her son. Abner C. P. less natural conditions. side of the as a reminder conspicuously beautiful flower. engaged in the propagation of rare M. Shuster and William H. Clagett, the Indian blood of Pocahontas, and suggestions regarding the develop- step, just Shoemaker: Abner C. Simonton of trees and in trust, to hold a this on ment of the some of which have Sudden changes in temperature to clean your shoes before entering "Linnaean Hill was not only the plants and was the owner them for site for yet, from time they became park, Elkhart, Ind., a nephew; Mrs. Frances the season and other the Within the of scene of a and of a square of ground near the State the erection of a hospital for found- quite numerous, for John Bolling since been carried into effect. during breeding doorway. memory large profitable busi- Shoemaker, wife of Edward Shoe- "to be erected factors that the hatchery cannot con- many, when Washington was a mud ness, but the grounds were Department, which he used as a lings by some associ- (born 1676), died 1729), through his Indeed. Louis P. Shoemaker was artistically maker of Georgetown, and Elizabeth trol make the of station hole, and the branch of his nursery at Linnaean ation, society or institution,” which with Kennon, had six output any nearly every residence in the treated, plants, rare flowers C. Ould, wife of marriage Mary intensely interested in all public mat- Henry Ould. he should uncertain. Also, the spiny-rayed city was with one of these and trees were so Hill.” provided not be under the children—Maj. John Bolling. Jane, ters, and in those equipped beautifully arranged He did not his particularly per- are forget former slaves control of one fishes, especially the basses, preda- scrapers, which was secured to the that the was converted a Mr. Peirce left no issue. any religious sect or Mary, Elizabeth, Martha and Anne. taining to his native District of Co- side place into and left to Gibson and in their Jerry Nancy the John of tory habits. When confined of the first step of the or horticultural and rural where His will is dated persuasion. However, buildings Maj. Bolling, the fourth in lumbia, and shortly after the Federal porch stoop perk, August 22, 1867, Rhodes an of $48 a in small water areas will devour the annuity year, while were not and until born in 1700 and they at the front door of the people of the National but was not completed opened descent, died Sep- Government had acquired title to the dwelling. Capital apparently signed until the following their own outright gifts'were pro- 1887. For many years it was located tember 6, 1757, married young. Toward the top of the north front sought pleasure, recreation and in- October of that year, the witnesses be- vided Elizabeth, park he said: for: To Thomas .Rhodes, $300: at 1751 of the house, the date “1823” struction. Fifteenth street, on the land daughter of Dr. Archibald Blair, and "This land was the has been ing James B. Dodson, Joseph W. Anthony Rhodes, purchased by SPITE of these handicap*, how- $300; William left for this Mr. Peirce, but is recorded as had carved, which may be as "Large sugar maples, white Nairn and R. purpose by having 19 children. Government in 1890 at a cost of over IN accepted pines Townshend Dodson. Beckett. $1,000; Marla Ruston. ever, the bureau 100,000 the and rare trees $400; In more recent years this The five sisters of a million produce* date of its erection. Even today, yet adorn Linnaean The executors were John B. Blake Ellen property Maj. Bolling dollars, half of which Con- Webster, $400; Charles Eugene was sold and the or more or three the stonework in this Hill within the limits of the and 1 hospital moved to married as follows: Jane, to Col. gress the of the advanced fry, 10,000 building is in park.” Moses Kelly. son required taxpayers Rhodes, of Charlotte Rhodes, ! 4610 street northwest Richard a remarkably good condition, and a Forty-second Randolph; Mary, to Col. District to pay, notwithstanding the and four inch flngerling bass to the stone arch over the main entrance acre of water when proper facilities does not show the slightest indica- i are available. The total area the tion of giving way. TRANS-OCEAN AIR TRAVEL PLANS SURVIVE HINDENBURG HORROR bureau has available for breeding ^JNTIL a few years ago, the walls purposes is 600 acres, and from the of this restricted area there « of this old building were covered output are hundreds of thousands of acres to With a heavy growth of English ivy. be stocked an im- This has all been removed, and today annually, obviously the bureau is the walls are bare and possibly lack possibility. Wherefore, some of their earlier charm, but, hopeful of securing more breeding acreage to the increasing de- generally speaking, except for a slight supply mand for this of modem touch here and there, made particular species fish. necessary through deterioration, the game structure is about as it was when first The bureau distributes the fry in built. four especially equipped railroad cars The interior of the building has from its hatcheries in various States also undergone replacements, but not to the public waters of virtually every State in Union. These cars enough to detract from its age or to the travel about give it in the least a modem appear- annually 50,000 miles. They ance. Unfortunately, several of the a5e equipped with both steam and mantels have been removed and electric air compressors for forcing others substituted in their places, air into the fish containers to renew the oxygen supply. The fish are car- but the old atmosphere is still there, The which Graf Zeppelin, note holds the record for lighter- ried in Insulated compartments and and although the drawing room and than-air commercial The Brazilian Clipper, four-engined flying boat of the Pan- craft. ~Underwood & Underwood Photo. each car Is equipped to carry from the banquet room have been papered, American Airways. —Pan-American Airways Photo. 250 to 325 of fish. a very old design has been used. In regulation pails :• Most of the bureau’s hatcheries now the former, the paper shows a large Pioneers Persist Lakehurst Remem- use automobile trucks to make de- gray basket figure on a dark blue Despite Tragedy, Writer Believes of Load and Questions Pay liveries of de- background. Immunity fish, but while State bering the Millions of Miles and Flown liveries can make use of trucks, most This is said to have Passengers From Dwarf Over design been Danger Dispute Comparative of the bureau's distribution schedules from used copied paper in decorating in and Planes. call for such long hauls that trucks the walls of the Safety by Dirigibles Merits of Hermitage, Andrew Airships and Airplanes. would be impracticable. Jackson's celebrated home near Nash- In the applications filed with the ville, Tenn., which was used more Alice than-air craft before the Hlndenburg bureau, which contain formal re- recently in the reproduction of Old By Rogers Hager. developed by the Standard Oil Co. of largest planes projected at present, went down. for New Ten more quests fish for stocking purposes, Hickory's historic mansion, erected Special Feature Jersey. passengers Martin states that is Correspondent of Any thinking man or woman has a although there a of the waters In front of the White House, and from The Star and could have been carried with this new complete description eye-witness of lively interest in this greatest of all no reason, from an engineering to be stocked is asked for and the which President Franklin D. Roose- the Hindenburg disaster. gas, but the Zeppelin Transport Co. challenges to natural phenomena, the boats to haul bureau specialists determine from velt reviewed the inaugural parade HE anticipated adding more mail and ex- standpoint, why flying tragedy at Lakehurst has conquest of the air. Accidents take this a suitable and the num- on up to 300 cannot be built with species January 20 a few months ago. as press instead, and keeping to its newly people not, might perhaps have a toll that extends far beyond the ber suitable to the area. Instruction* established quota of 70. She had suc- present knowledge. The lag now is The banquet or dining room has been expected, put a quietus immediate source of trouble. People in engine construction, but for caring for the young fish and for been on the cessfully completed 135.000 miles of promising similarly treated, except that the controversy about ulti- forget the millions of passenger miles planting them are sent with each travel on 21 trips and had carried 1,150 developments are ahead In this field. main figure in the paper is a large mate efficiency in types of aircraft for flown without loss, day after and day, On her 18 It is impossible, in so short an delivery. blue peacock. Thus design comes over-ocean travel. The dead Hinden- passengers. projected trips remember only the time of fatality. this area ere this she was to to article, to go into the aerodynamic While streams In from Upper New York, and is known burg has joined the long and illus- All aviation suffers. year expected begin factors that favor one of craft as stocked with trout in March, in the as trious return a comfortable margin of profit, type the Gov. Gore paper. All old list of martyrs to aerial prog- * of against another. Capt. Hinen told Rocky Mountain regions trout are homes of this character are fascinat- ress. but from the of Comdr. Charles over the average coat $28,000 per lips of her tor- picture distributed to 'J'HE The her sister me, however, that day at Lakehurst, from May October. to the writer, but the that tured victims has come the to Rosendahl’s as trip. LZ-130, ship, ing thing cry go set face he came Black bass fish are which the German has that he believed the airship of and other spiny attracted his attention most when he forward, even in the moment of their down from the cupping tower at government the future would even sur- distributed from May to November. went this District resi- sacrifice. announced it will finish for service as supplant through early personal Nothing could Lakehurst to take charge of the rescue While the some to face ships ih ocean travel. He pre- bureau hope* day dence, was the old-time fireplace, have brought the issue of work, and of Anton Heinen, quickly as possible, will be somewhat airship Capt. dicted that the time was not far be able to distribute its game fish at which measured about 6 feet long by versus airplane more and former chief test for the larger, and following ships, already poignantly pilot Zep- be the legal catchable size, as is done in are to to distant when they would built and 4 feet and 6 inches high. dramatically home to the public mind pelin company in Germany and now planned, expected carry up a number flown by the hundreds and that in- of States, this objective has than this signal failure of the one at civilian adviser to the on 150 passengers. This early home of the Peirces and Navy lighter- ital would de- not yet been realized, as It requires the moment expense correspondly the is now Mr. when the other is poised than-air craft, wringing his hands as from three to five of fish food, Klingles occupied by Heavier-than-air ships are handi- crease and with added size pay load pounds to begin its own take-off he was back from the and Mrs. C. Marshall Finnan, Mr. pioneering pulled danger capped by their fuel weight on long, would increase until would plus constant and assiduous care for \ over the they Finnan the of Atlantic—a failure which is zone by a sailor, is one that will live a year or more, to one being superintendent non-stop voyages. Pan-American’s serve as the cheapest of all forms of produce pound the National and when accepted merely as a spur to further in memory with the other Flames write to the career of trout. Capital Parks, along “finis” proud of the great German Martin Clippers carry as little as a transportation. The Secretary of the they moved in about six months endeavor. kaleidoscopic scenes of that terrible dirigible —Wide World ago, Hindenburg. Photo. single ton of pay load on the San Navy’s statement, a few days later, However, there are plenty of the one did not know The grim determination to carry on Thursday a week ago. Be- thing they anything evening Francisco-Honolulu leg of the Pacific that would continue on the right size waiting for you in streams in the face of to study about was this large country fire- disaster, keep faith side it, it is necessary to place the in and near this season. Air Corps recently told me: “We are will decide the route, and burn a weight of gasoline Durand report means that the subject Washington Mr. Finnan sus- with those who believed and the remembrance of another of winning place. However, paid group pAYLOAD equivalent to the of one pas- is still much alive. And, if you catch "the trout that got of driven the of weight very England, pected there must be one of this kind price belief, is a very human and faces around the wreckage of a great continually by nightmare the Atlantic, but that does not in the last senger for each hour of flying time. Italy and France may have written away’’ Chesapeake year, In the and after a careful in- understandable trait. It has also a crash victim. These of obsolescence. moves so mean house, brought airliner, Building that planes will be eliminated by Their total extent of passenger and off all somewhere down around Mount Ver- us a except fairly small, non-rigid spection and sounding out the walls, along bitterly weary road from men are moved by the horror of the fast that one set of non, you can blame it on the flood 1 planes is scarcely airships or the other way round. It crw capacity under their fuel-carry- or semi-rigid motorized craft for the uncovered our and will moved the human this one, which had been beginnings probably moment, by tragic is 15. The new delivered before they are out of date. is too soon to do more ing needs Boeing fly- time being. Russia may move slowly. sealed and over and drive us on to goals we cannot even loss, sickened the of their than guess the plastered per- by retarding now built for Pan- We could ing boat, being Germany and the United States, it fectly hidden from view. But it was visualize at present. Realism and not years of patient effort and devotion. spend every cent the Gov- outcome. The prophet is too often American, is expected to carry a top would seem, in spite of disasters, still Antelope Plentiful. Immediately restored as it is now. sentiment, however, concerning its But there is not one of them that will ernment has to spare and still need confounded out of # his own mouth In of 72 passengers and crew with a see hope for the future. Perhaps the extinction application, is a vital and practical not fly again tomorrow, that is turned antelope, facing nfcre.” the struggle between science and na- cargo of 5,000 pounds, to fly at an solution will lie in a joining of two 'J’HE who erected this method of honoring it and It back for a moment from their not so many years ago, once more PEIRCE, giving single It Is, therefore, in the commercial ture. The best 200 miles hour and in the realm JOSHUA authorities; that is, the approximate per national intelligences is a common sight in Western sec* building, was not only a foremost impetus. objective. field that the real must development least biased ones, feel that planes will have a 5,000-mile cruising range. of scientific knowledge beyond the tions of the United States. and progressive nurseryman, but he It is one of those moments when an In the last however, when forward, its as it the analysis, go earning way goes. continue to carry passengers who are The swiftest flight Hindenburg war-engendered suspicions of the Protection by State laws, control of was also a very good financier, and assay of our position becomes neces- all possible efforts have been made Fifteen million is but dollars being spent in a hurry, that over-ocean hoppers made was at 180 miles per hour, put. estab- when he died, his will Is the predators—mainly coyotes—and disposed of a sary. dirigible to continue, for safety, progress in the air will de- in the United States this year our for will that was before a 90-mile tail wind. Is not so much by looking speed get it in heavier The battle of the air lishment of Federal refuges, says the good deal of property, Lin- and to grow in size and Is pend on one including power? factor—payload. Money commercial airlines using planes. Part than-air craft, but that the great bulk Involved In whether we fly with wings Bureau of has saved naean in Biological Survey, Hill, which his day was quite the fast flying, heavier-than-air makes the mare in the of that is for new more craft, go, homely the and luxuri- of cargo shipment, the largest numbers MARTIN'S announcement or soar in an inflated envelope—it is the pronghorn. In the Nevada, Ore- likely a much more beautiful as land and to it also QLENN place plane flying boat, phrase; makes engine wheels ous ships being delivered to all the of travelers will on the more that we reach at the earliest go leis- of a plane he could build now, possible gon and California antelope district than It is now, for it must be re- emerge dominant because of this revolve and for the fam- buys gasoline companies currently; a substantial urely with its moment the point where there is no it is rre membered that lighter-than-alr, ability Is old but estimated there at least 10,000 after the death of Mr. disaster? Is public confidence car. Aviation must make a to the of next If the demand existed, news, justi- ily profit part goes completion to cruise distances far beyond the longer danger of disaster and where pronghorns, as compared with the Peirce and his nephew, Joshua Peirce fied in either form for He trans- oceanic or, in the end, cease to be. Govern- year’s ships, such as the DC-4 of reach, as yet, of present planes. it makes a useful comparison. normal profits can be earned and a dwindling thousand that existed there Klingle, everything was allowed to or are we before our transport, time? ment subsidy could keep it alive for a Douglas and the substratosphere Boe- The was of a that this trans-Atlantic flying return to the traveler of tomorrow's in 1921. Of this number run and It Hendenburg capable says approxi- down, generally takes To the last short time, but no on a question, first, apply government ing; still more substantial part to payload of 21 tons, to which it had boat would be capable of transport- world be made in the form of inex- mately 4,000 range in the Hart Moun-w more time to restore than It does to Pan American's matchless over-water earth could continue to carry the ex- the experimental and research been announced she 150 at two and a half echeduled air destroy. pro- would this year ing passengers pensive, comfortable, tain section of Oregon. Wyoming hag safety record; add almost a million pense of such a burden without some gram carried out In direc- add an with a to farthest An being many additional 1,500-pounds capac- miles a minute cruising speed, transportation the comers probably the moat antelope—about idea of the magnificence of this passengers flown all safely by lighter- return. A highly placed officer in the tions. ity because of newly purified lifting gas pay load of four tons. These are the of the earth. 10,000. «