AMERICAN A MID-OCEAN MEETING SONOMAbound for Sydney, Australia, meets her sister ship JRA,” in the South Seas in order to effect the transfer of two stowaways $1.00 A YEAR 35 CENTS A COPY The <»American Qonsular ^Association OFFICERS WILBUR J. CARR Director of the Consular Service Honorary President HERBERT C. HENGSTLER. .. .Chief of the Consular Bureau Honorary Vice President Consul HORACE LEE WASHINGTON President Consul TRACY LAY Vice-President Consul DONALD D. SHEPARD Secretary-Treasurer Consul TRACY LAY Chairman Consul FREDERICK SIMPICH Vice-Chairman COMMITTEES EXECUTIVE Consul General NATHANIEL B. STEWART Chairman Consul General DEWITT C. POOLE Consul General EDWARD J. NORTON Consul EDWIN L. NEVILLE Consul TRACY LAY RECEPTION Consul General EDWARD J. NORTON Chairman Consul FREDERICK SIMPICH Consul EDWIN L. NEVILLE Consul FRANK C. LEE Consul LOWELL C. PINKERTON BULLETIN STAFF Consul FREDERICK SIMPICH Editor Consul ADDISON E. SOUTHARD Business Manager Consul HAMILTON C. CLAIBORNE Treasurer The American Consular Association is an unofficial and voluntary association embracing most of the members of the Consular Service of the United States. It was formed for the purpose of fostering esprit de corps among the members of the Consular Service, to strengthen Service spirit, and to establish a center around which might be grouped the united efforts of its members for the improve¬ ment of the Service. BANSDELL INCORPORATED, PRINTERS, WASHINGTON, D. C. LLETIN PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN CONSULAR ASSOCIATION VOL. V, No. 3 WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH, 1923 Fifth Centennial of the Discovery of Madeira By Consul Stillman W. Eells ADEIRA has just celebrated the five hun¬ (the southern cape of Portugal) in the warship dredth anniversary of its discovery. “San Lourenqo” “to discover new lands in the The actual date of the discovery of ocean.” They sailed under the white flag with Madeira is unknown. There is one story that the red cross—“The Cross of Christ.” The date Robert Machim, while eloping with his lady love of their sailing was during the latter part of the in 1344 (according to some writers 1370), was year 1419 (variously stated 1420, 1421 and driven by the sea to the shores of Madeira. It 1422). is now believed, however, that it was on the Island Arrived at Porto Santo, their attention was of Porto Santo (one of the islands which now called to the bank of fog which ever rested to comprise the Madeira archipelago) that they the west of the island. Determined to investi¬ were wrecked. Here the story runs the bride died gate this phenomenon, they sailed towards it and and after a period of mourning Machim built landed at what is now known as the Bay of Ma¬ himself a boat out of a tree and sailed to the coast chico, named after Tristao’s title. The island it¬ of Africa. self was named by Zarco “Madeira” on account Another opinion is that during the reign of Al¬ of the thick woods with which the island was fonso IV the Spanish admiral, Manuel Pessanha, covered. (Madeira is the Portuguese word for in a voyage to Africa, discovered the island in wood.) The fog was simply the clouds above 1351. This land is also believed to have been the high mountains of the island. Porto Santo. Thus was Madeira discovered. It is said, although not duly recorded in history, It is interesting to all Americans as it was at that Machin while in Africa told of his discovery Porto Santo that Christopher Columbus married of an “island in the midst of the ocean” to the the daughter of Perestrelo. They lived prior to Spanish pilot, Juan de Morales, who repeated the his voyage in Funchal and it was here that, history to his companions, among whom was Joao through information furnished by his father-in- Gonsalves Zarco. law, he conceived the idea of a western continent It is pretty well verified that by the beginning and here that he planned his voyage of discovery. of the fifteenth century the island of Porto Santo On the evening of August 2, 1922, having been was inhabited by persons of Italian, Portuguese invited by several prominent citizens of Funchal, and Spanish nationalities. a large public meeting was held at the Theatre During the reign of Dom Joao I, Bartholomeu Manuel de Arriaga to plan fitting celebrations for Perestrelo, Donee of Porto Santo, Joao Gonsalves the historical event. Zarco, Donee of Funchal, and Tristao Vaz Tei- The “Festas” took place during the week from xeira, Donee of Machico, having made many ex¬ December 29 to January 4. citing voyages to new coasts, set sail from Sagres They opened at 1 o’clock on the first day with [67] „ AMERICAN (^ONSULAIL ^WLLETIN a Te-Deum in the Cathedral, after which a pil¬ grimage was made to the tomb of the discoverer. Subsequently the foundation stone of a monument to Zarco was laid in the Avenida Manuel de Arri¬ aga. During the week of festivities there were balls, fireworks display, athletic games, fairs, ex¬ hibitions of art and crafts, etc., ending on Janu¬ ary 4 with an historical cortege. Funchal was tastefully decorated in Manuelian style, and at the entrance to the city an “Arch of the Discoverers’’ was erected. At night the whole town was ablaze with electric lights. The committees asked the Consuls, as well as all business houses, to decorate by day and illumi¬ nate at night their buildings during the centennial week. Noteworthy among the decorations of the Con¬ sulates were the French, British, and American. Over the gateway of the French Consulate ap¬ peared the arms of France in electric lights. The British Consulate had on the front wall of the building the Union Jack made of colored elec¬ tric lamps. Over the roof of the American Consulate ap¬ peared “500“ in figures one meter in height, the five being in red, the first cypher white and the second cypher blue. The garden wall was lined with Japanese lanterns electrically lighted alter¬ nating in red, white, blue, red and green, the colors of the United States and Portugal. The Consulate being situated on a hill overlooking the town, the effect was very favorably commented upon. WITH REFERENCE TO GENERAL IN¬ STRUCTION, CONSULAR, NO. 801. “And when they bore me overmuch, I will not shake mine ears, Recalling many thousand such whom I have bored to tears. And when they labor to impress, I will not doubt nor scoff; Since I myself have done no less and—sometimes pulled it off. Yea, as we are and we are not, and we pre¬ tend to be, The people, Lord, Thy people, are good enou 4i for me!’’ Index under: Kipling, Rudyard. Photograph by Perestrabos. Kitbag, Pack up in. WINDOW, COLUMBUS’ HOUSE, MADEIRA Oh, Oh, Oh. [68] RECENT PROMOTIONS AND Vice Consul de carriere, Class 3 to Class 2: Howard Donovan, Robert R. Patterson, Hiram NEW APPOINTMENTS A. Boucher, Charles I. Graham, Edward P. Consul General, Class 3 to Class 2: Carlton Lowry, Earl L. Packer, Albert Halstead, Jr., Bailey Hurst. Carlton Hurst, Rollin R. Winslow, Frederick L. Consul, Class 1, to Consul General, Class 2: Thomas, Harold Shantz, E. Talbot Smith, Rich¬ Horace Lee Washington. ard B. Haven, Harold S. Tewell, Robert Y. Consul General, Class 4 to Class 3: DeWitt C. Jarvis, William I. Jackson, Sidney E. O’Donog- Poole, Albert W. Pontius (deceased), Claude I. hue, Francis H. Styles, Henry R. Brown, Edward Dawson. Caffery, Willard L. Beaulac, Fletcher Warren, Consul, Class 3, to Consul General, Class 4: Harry J. Anslinger. Homer M. Byington, Tracy Lay, Clarence E. Consular Assistant to Vice Consul de carriere, Gauss, Frederick T. F. Dumont. Class 3: Herbert S. Bursley, Christian M. Consul, Class 4 to Class 3: Addison E. South¬ Ravndal. ard, John A. Gamon, Henry P. Starrett, Louis Vice Consul and Clerk to Vice Consul de car¬ G. Dreyfus, Jr., George S. Messersmith, Theo¬ riere, Class 3: Curtis T. Everett, Harry L. Trout¬ dore Jaeckel, Thomas D. Bowman. man, Harvey Lee Milbourne, Winfield H. Scott. Class 5 to Class 4: Keith Merrill, Felix Cole, Vice Consul de carriere, Class 3, first appoint¬ Ernest L. Ives, Paul Knabenshue, Irving N. Lin- ment: John McArdle, Joel C. Hudson, Granville nell, J. Klahr Huddle, Samuel W. Honaker, O. Woodard, George R. Hukill, E. Kitchell Far- Thomas H. Bevan, George K. Donald, Hamilton rand, Fred C. Eastin, Jr., Richard Ford, Charles C. Claiborne. W. Lewis, Jr., Alfred D. Cameron. Class 6 to Class 5: Harry M. Lakin, Henry Consular Assistant, first appointment: William B. Hitchcock, Thomas M. Wilson, S. Pinkney H. Wright, Paul Bowerman, Arthur F. Tower. Tuck, Jr., Coert du Bois, Erie R. Dickover, David Student Interpreter to China, first appoint¬ B. Macgowan, Carol H. Foster, Homer Brett, ment: George R. Paschal, Jr. Charles R. Cameron, Avra M. Warren. Class 7 to Class 6: Alfred T. Burri, Walter A. Adams, George Wadsworth, Romeyn Wormuth, LEST WE FORGET Karl de G. MacVitty, Cecil M. P. Cross, John “No promotion shall be made except for Corrigan, Jr., John G. Erhardt, Dudley G. Dwyre, efficiency, as shozvn by the work that the George Orr, Monnett B. Davis, W. M. Parker officer has accomplished, the ability, prompt¬ Mitchell, Clinton E. MacEachran, Herbert O. ness, and diligence displayed by him in the Williams, Fred R. Robinson, Marshall M. Vance. performance of all liis official duties, his con¬ Consuls, Class 6, first appointment: Norman duct, and his fitness for the Consular Serv¬ L. Anderson, Alfred W. Kliefoth. ice Vice Consul de carriere, Class 1, to Consul, (Paragraph 10 of the Executive Order of Class 7: Charles B. Hosmer, John F.