BwiHOW Many of Them Were

Laid Out.They Are inVarious Positions at PresentTime, Some or Them BeingEntirely Hidden.WashingtonMan Has Devoted ConsiderableTime to Uncoveringthe Stortes.Has Photographedand Collected Dataon Subject for Years.Someof the Stones Are Broken Offby Plow Shares.Others Arein Good State of Preservation.

« MR.OME of them parWttlally d e stroyed.Pil ( nl i! haJ* hidden

HjiJ V j \|4: under a growth ofr i \On4 VI shrubbery, otners

|j burled beneathbuildings, and still

IHn; W Y others moved from

/VHmPNII il t*le,r oriK'nal poslwW )C h tlon . such is the

1^ v HRflh' /A present state oftbose blocks of

IJI^stone set up manyyears ago as evidences of Just where andwhat comprised the District of Columbia,or. in other words, the boundary markerssurrounding the "ten miles square."

. Erected about 130 years ago, thesemarkers have withstood many and variedkinds of weather, but still stand, at leastIn the majority of cases, as mute testimonyof the limits of the National Capital.Many of them are found only aftera prolonged search, while others can beBeen any time, provided the casual passerbyknows what he is looking at.There is at least one person in Washington.however, who has taken thetime and trouble to hunt up all thesemarkers. That person is Fred E. Woodwardof 14 S street northwest, and, In

. addition to finding the markers themselves.Mr. Woodward has accumulated, much data concerning the District of

Columbia in its infancy, especially Indirect connection with the markers.

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"One point in particular," said Mr.Woodward regarding the boundary markers,"is that a careful study of their positiontends to destroy that popular beliefregarding Washington being ten milessquare. That is not only not the case atthe present time, but has never been.TheUnited States coast survey, after havingmade thorough measurements, showedthat that statement was only true as an

approximate one. Por example, to beexact, the northeastern line extends

t 263.1 feet beyond the ten-mile point, whilethe southwestern line is almost as muchIn excess, being 230.6 feet. The othertwo corners are not exact either. Thenorthwestern line extends 63 feet over theten-mile mark, and the southeastern 70.5feet. While in no case is the distanceVery great, it shows, however, that Inpeaking of the National Capital as ten

miles square It Is. Uke many other popularterms, only approximately true."Then, too, the distance between each

©f the boundary stones on the Marylandaide is not exactly one mile, as might beexpected. The closest to one mile is inthe case of stones numbers 1 and i on thesouthwest line, the distance between thembeing just one foot snort of the mlie.Those two stones are near Benning, but

similar caae exists between stones numbers7 and 8 on the northwest line near

t Chevy Chase Circle, the distance here beingthe same. In some cases the distancebetween two stones was not intendedto be a mile, and they weremarked with the exact distance they didcover. But the measurements of nhicnI speak as being inaccurate were In thosecases where one mile was supposes tohave intervened. In one of these Instancesas many as forty feet too muchIs fornd, while In another Instance thedistance falls short of a mile by 1..8feet."-'Established by an act of Congress in

17!*>. the District of Columbia was firstcal.ed the "Territory of Columbia." Thelerm use*! on me marsers inemsetves,however, is not that, nor the present daytei: but. "Jurisdiction of the UnitedStatesin every instance. It was Maj.Pit; re Charles I/.Enfant who made the

* surveys for the seat of the federal government.and among his notable assistantswere .vlai. Andrew Ellicott, Lieut,lsa.ic Roberdeau, Nicholas and CharlesKing, the Count de Graff and Benjamin

, Banneker.*

* 4c

"P.anneker." said Mr. Woodward, "wasa free negro who was celebrated as a

mathematician and astronomer. He notonly attracted the attention of Washing-ton and Jefferson by his wonderful ability.but, on account of his knowledge ofthe exact sciences, was more than once

Paipedal Correspondence of The Star.

PARIS, February X 1»12.

®F you drop a twenthe

Paris sidewalkyou can be arresting

the street withpaper.even if youthrow it In the gutam

tho cf root c cidpu »llf« irilttppayHUQ U4J V **V- www, ..^ o «,

fountains, benches or promenades of allpapers, printed or non-printed; prospectuses,envelopes, pasteboards, boxes, fruitskins or vegetable residue; but, In particular.it is a law against the millionsof advertising handbills, which, skurrymgIn the wind, spread everywhere, to betrodden Into Ignoble muddy-whlte-andcoloredstains, soiling the beauty of theParis street.No longer do poor fellows make a livingon street corners thrusting on the

negligent public the printed proposals ofdentists, moving pictures and pedicuresSuch handbills may still be distributed.the communication of written or printedpape.s Is one of the rights of man which

, the revolution bled for.but since the newlaw the public has a comic fear to acceptthem.

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The French government wishes to en\courage art In street advertisements.When pictorial posters are artistic thepublic taste is soothed and uplifted; foreignvisitors And the beautiful streetsfree from a note of discord. But, note,the native poor are even more concerned"The stree. is the parlor of the poor,"

says the poet Rostand. "The rich, Intheir automobiles, can hurry through dirtystreets and shut their eyes to advertisingvulgarity; but when the poor have

VDAJ)tnT

LlNEtleanlng hbavlljrKo One Knows "Wip£ableto point out errors hitherto unnoticedin the 'Nautical Almanac.' "

It was almost three years after theDistrict was established by Congress thatthe boundary stones were placed it was

January 1. 1708, that in a report to theCommissioners of the District Maj. Blllcottstated that "It is with singular satisfactionthat I announce the completion ofthe four lines comprehending the Territoryof Columbia These lines are nowopened and cleared forty feet wide.thatis, twenty feet on each side of the lineslimiting the territory.and In order toperpetuate the work 1 have set up squaremilestones, marked progressively fromthe beginning on Jones point to the westcorner, thence to the north comer, thenceto the east, thence to the place of beginning,except as to a few places wherethe mile3 terminated on a declivity or inthe water; in such cases the stones areplaced on the nearest firm ground andthe true distance in miles and poles Ismarked on them."On the sides faclnp the territory Is

inscribed 'Jurisdiction of the UnitedStates'; on the opposite sides the nameof the state.Virginia or Maryland.andon the fourth side are Inscribed the yearand the present position of the magneticneedle at the place."

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This last statement Mr. Woodwardseems to think a little inaccurate, as inall Instances he found the date of theyear an<L.the magnetic variations on oppositesides. As to the stones themselves,Mr. Woodward describes them as

being of fine sandstone which was takenfrom quarries near Aquia creek, Va.,which had been leased 'by the UnitedStates government. Each marker is one

foot square and two feet high, not includingthat portion imbedded in theground, that also being two feet. Thetop, beveled on the four sides for fourinches, forms the frustrum of a pyramid.It is Mr. Woodward's belief that thestones were sawed, and not cut, as manyof them still show the marks of the saw.Each stone is inscribed with the word"mile" or "miles," and also numbers fromone to ten on each of the four lines or

sides. There are forty stones all told,twenty-six of which mark the divisionbetween the District and Maryland, andthe remaining fourteen the division betweenthe District and Virginia.Those which divide the District from

Maryland Mr. Woodward has classifiedaccording to both condition and position."There are fourteen of these stones in

good condition," he said, "while, on theother hand, six are in such a poor stateor preservation as to neeo otners snortiy 1to replace them. One, for instance, is \worn totally smooth, two lean badly and «one even stands In the waters of the 1Potomac. These stones have come to stheiT present condition more or less ithrough the work of the elements, but. fnevertheless, there are ten which show tsigns of scars inflicted by the hand of tman. As for their location, there are ceight which are found in the dense woodsonly after a difficult search. E3ght othersare in cultivated gardens or fields, whilefour more are In open ground or pastureland Three are set in what Is now prac- itically the roadside, and one of these is \en'Wv vo'd o' lettering.""While the original "ten miles square"

Included forty markers, sixteen of thesewere taken outside of the District when (

ti '' i < Slui s ced'd back to V'irgi da ithat portion lying west of the Potomac, iConsequently, only those markers which t

ris to Fightan hour of leisure the street is their parlr.rci 1/n tmiuuiim W7V> xr hq Hf itfl Wtliis

auiviu, ItlUOCUlll* 1* »'J « " O

with ugliness and banality?"The author of "Chantecler" as advertisingspeciadst need not astonish you,

the astronomer Poincard, cousin of th<prime minister, has even analyzed theprinciples."Pictorial advertising has two objects,

says the sublime mathematician"First, to attract attention; second, totlx an obsession, a haunting of the mind..But in order for th- obsession to o«

fruitful the memory must connect theadvertised object with the haunting pictureand certain other details, as itsuse, its place of sale. etc. There shouldbe no subconscious effort to forget, aswhen the impression is ug:y, distastefulor merely banal."Whence the mathematician concludes

for simple beauty and harmony to producelasting returns in posters.Also, if posters be really admitted to

tne coining salorH such philosophy of advertisingwil. become part of the art critic'sbaggage. The merits not of a massagecream or a mincemeat, but the obsessingbeauty of ltoubille's or Leandres posters of them, will obtain solemndiscussion. It will be well worth whileto order an art poster.The idea is, of cou se, to give a special

bali in the sa on to the mbsterlv afflcheswhose color-harmonies and subtle surprisesand discords in right measure aremaking the P ris streets look again likea flower garden, where they are notspoi ed by the others." The salon hasalready admitted new art Jewelry, decorativehouse furniture, book bindings andeven women's gowns exhibited for theirartistic decoration! Poster maquetteshave been admitted to the department ofdesigns. So It is only a step to fullsizedcolor-printsYet the great advertisers of Paris have

nothing to learn from the American,whose vogue was necessarily temporary.Habitually they use entire pages, halfpages and quarter pages to advertisethe'r current business.The dally paper is the great field of

Parisian advertising. Pictorial postersare used periodically to obtain effects ofsurprise and novelty.The idea of a poster salon Is not new.

Every now and then a great #Arla adver-

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i^GHTH MILE STONlT^ylON Southwest line.UBattered ^/"Weatkep-o '

Ahd Chipped $X TheHand or man

iivide the District from Maryland are alow rightly boundary marks for the Na- s:ional Capital, of which there are t-wen- bty-six. ii"The line of boundary stones begins b

ess than half a mile above Chain bridge, I>nly a short distance from the bank of hhe canal," continued Mr. Woodward, a

'This, the first one of the Maryland side, .3s marked number 4, as the three pre- iireding it were placed in Virginia. This tirst marker on the Maryland border isme of those which is set at a greater ti stance than one mile from the one be- s

'ore, and is so marked. Whenever the a

snd of a mile was at a point in the wa- ter, for instance, the surveyors had in- a

structions to go ahead or backward, and tilace the stone on Arm ground. This v

was done in this case, and the stone li10Q ra the wnrHQ 'Allies 4 and 100 P.* S

rhe stone itself Is in the woods, and, tlithough it leans sightly, is In compara- t

ively good condition. The stone is ahout Fme and a quarter miles from Glen Echo, 1<ind two and a half miles from Cabin o

Tohn bridge It is da'ed, as are all those h>n the Maryland border, 1792."The next marker is located in an an- h

dent wood only a short distance from the t:nlet of the rece ving reservoir of the Pvater supply of the District An inter- isisting fact concerning this stone is that itt is marked by bullets. These may u

dmply have been the result of sports- isnen, but Inasmuch as both Fort Mans- tileld and Fort Simmons, earthworks d'rected for the defense of Washington, Cvere near, they may be soldiers' bullets a

lating back to the civil war. c<

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" s<"The northwest stone marked 8 is also ti

in Interesting one. It Is almost a ml'e 11:o the east of Chevy Chase, and perhaps S

nore than any other stone in the series is-urrounded by what was the universal t]:ondition at the time of Its erection. Themmedlate v.cinlty bears almost the ap- t«searance of a primeval forest, roads are oit a considerable distance ajtd travelers V

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re few indeed. But as hard as was this betone to lind, number 9 must take the Wianner as far as obscurity is concerned stin the case of those on the Maryland isorder. In a secluded part of Rock Creek Ar*ark away from the beaten paths and .thilidden in a trackless wood for a third of Mi

mile, number 9 .is found. Despite its taijeclusion, too, it is in poor condition, be- ofag scarred, chipped and slightly tipped nilo one side. thi"The one following this !s, of course, anhe corner stone at the north end. This, *

tanding erect, is In what Is alternately tricornfield and a pasture. Not on y open in

o the elements, this stone has been cas open to travelers, and a generally bat- haered condition tells of the work of both boreather and man From this stone the" a[ne runs northeast, making the first <jiftone encountered that wh'ch Is in a cul- to<vated field belonging to Mr. Blair Lee, on fnhe estate once owned and occupied by th<'rancls P. Blair. This, marked number 1, Wcfans at a decided angle, and, unlike the mjth-~rs, ?s marked in the singular 'mile 1' rflinstead of 'miles.' ne]"Takoma Park Is the scene of the next Thalt, where No. 2 is found, this time in ea,he fence line of Col. James KnlfYen'sropertv. The worse for wear, this stone "of> considerably mutilated and the letterrgdefaced. The next one of more thansual Interest Is No 5 on this line. This u5 about a quarter of a mile from a ..

raveled road, standing in a truck gar- hejen. It is |pcated southwest from the jt>]ueen's Chape! road. This stone is at ,Qfn ancle of forty-five degrees, and, ac- mording to an old fragment, has been so vai3r the past thirty years. The only beixplanation would seem to be that at »erame time a tremendous storm, such as jnchat which destroyed Minot's Ledgeghthouse In 1851 or the great gale of rereptember. 1809, might have swel'ed the amttle ditch at its base to a stream power- toul enpuyh to wash away the sand and thttius displace its original position. for"The next stone In this line too, is In- Va"resting. This, No. 6, is at the wayside letf one of the o dest roads between stcWashington and Biadensburg. having atx

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en in existence prior to the time whenashington was planned. And theangest part about it is that the stonein a comparatively good condition,

lother point concerning this stone isat it is the second one p aced on theiryland border, which oovers a dlsnceof more than a mile. At the endthe mile flows a little stream, runlginto the Eastern branch, and so

e stone was carried to firm groundd marked '6 Miles.10 Poles.''Of all those stones marking the Dlscton the Maryland border none isa better condition than No. 7, and itn be safely said, too. that none Isrder to find. One authority on theundary stones says of it: 'It is nearlymile from the B adensburg road andflcult to' find without a guide.' -It>k me the better part of two days tod it. and at last it was discovered in? line of a barbed wire fence in a thickmd. It is about three-quarters of ale east of the reform school. The eastrner stone, like those at the other corrs,is larger than the intervening one.is one stands on a level marsh and Isally seen for some distance *It is about> feet south of the District line stationthe electric and steam railroad at theesapeake Beach junction. It is inod oondition and the inscription isIte legible.'From this point the boundary stonesgin to mark the last line, ending atnes point lighthouse, in Alexandria,those on this line No. 3 deserves tirst

mtion. This is on a slope of an openley overlooking Oxon run. Instead ofng two feet high, as are the other inmediarystones, this one is forty-threehes out of t''e ground, thirty-seven ofitch are finished, while the other sixnaln rough. It stands in a garden,d is leaning slightly. 1 am at a lossexplain the size of this stone, exceptit it may possibly have been intendedthe west corner, near Falls Church,

.., and that a mistake was made in thetering. This seems probable, as the>ne at the west corner is but two feetove ground, making it the same height

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as the others, which form the mile and trnot the corner stones. m

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"No. 7 in this line once stood, it Is safe ^to say, but is now entirely buried. This ccis located at the side of the Livingstonroad on the side of a small stream flow- £ing into Oxon run. Hardly more than ^two inches of the top are visible. The frstone coming after this one is found Tonly after the most strenuous search, as P<well as a long walk. It is reached by ct

no roads nearer than a quarter of a ^mile, while the District poorhouse is aabout as far distant. No. 9, the last of ccthe stones bordering Maryland, is found stin the waters of the Potomac, below the atmouth of Oxon run. It was probably asplaced on firm ground, and is at what' siwas once known as 'the lower ferry' toUpper Marlboro, now the landing forFpx's terry. That the distance was shortof a mile is attested to by the factthat the stone bears the inscription, '8 M. w

291 .P.' " ItAlthough the remaining sixteen of the w

forty boundary stones are no longer inwhat, properly speaking, is the Districtof Columbia, one at least of them Is »<the most important of all, being the first b;one put In p'ace. This is at a point sjnow occupied by Jones point lighthouse.The spot was known solely as Jones "

point at the time the stone was erected, fiThis occurred April 15, 1791, and no gbetter idea of the occasion can be gatheredthan from a newspaper account of j<the event itself, which Mr. Woodward «*

discovered among almost forgotten files. itThe article appeared in the Massachu- ysetts Spy, a few days after the stone e,had been put in place, and reads: f,"On Friday the 15th inst., Ii91, the

Hon. Daniel Carroll and Dr. David Stew- nart arrived in this town to superintend t,the fixing of the corner stone of the fed- reral district."The mayor and the commonality, to-

gether with the memDers 01 ine amereni b(Masonic) lodges of the town, at 3 o'clock "

waited on the commissioners at Mr. *

Wise's, where they had arrived, andafter drinking a glass of wine to the fol- ^lowing sentiment, 'May the stone whichwe are about to place in the ground re- °

main an immovable monument of the wis- P

dom and unanimity of North America,' ~

the company proceeded to Jones pointin the following order: "T"L The town sergeants. °

"2. The Hon. Daniel Carroll and the q

mayor. 9,"3. Mr. Elllcott and the recorder. J1"4. Such of the aldermen and common °

council as were not Free Masons."6. The strangers."0. The master of Lodge No. 22, with

Dr. David Stewart at his right and the a

Rev. James Muir at his left, followed bythe rest of the fraternity in their usual 01

form of procession, and lastly, P"7. The citizens, two by two.11

"When Mr. Elllcott had ascertained the a

precise point from which the first line ?of the District was to proceed, the mas-- 31

ter of the lodge and Dr. Stewart, assist- "

ed by others of the brethren, placed the 4'

stone, after which a deposit of corn, °*

wine and oil was made upon it.* u;

* - 8<"Then Mr. Mulr said, among other b]

things, 'May this stone long commem- alorate the goodness of God, in those un- Ncommon events which have given Amer- tcica a place among nations. Under this oistone may jealousy and selfishness beforever buried. ei" 'From this stone may a superstructure

l Exhibit oftiser, seeking new talent, will offer in an Mopen competition prizes that aggregate tc1111A-rfriin!a uhnf hn mlffhf ihnvA tn nav n.n th

afflche specialist for a studied maquette.The Friends of the Paris Street also, an A

esthetic society that seeks to abolish C;eyesores, is -now proposing to establish lysimilar prizes in poster salons, where the stjury shall give their votes rather to har- inmonious beauty than to "shock." h«

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ycEvidently all are not of the Poincare tii

advise. A. recent competition in which of"macaroni, noodles and pates with an egg .

basis" must be introduced to the publicbrought forth "some 280 colored poster ]amaquettes judged worthy of hanging for trthe jury and sightseers. aiOf these thirty frankly exploited the cc

grotesque, as broken eggs with faces, at

slobbering macaroni; fat negro cookswith vast grins messing in glutinous sa

masses; hens dressed like waiters, skur- litrylng with a dish of that "egg pate"; a thhorrid comic sailor all stuck up with lestringy noodles, and Mariane, genius of vt

the revolution, seated as a servant girl Inon the knees of President Fallieres, ev

dressed as a chef. :}JTwenty-six other broadly comic designs iti

* » 1 Ai««A Un.lnameu- liie mci mai rans ii«*o uu i>aie»i

on good taste. Indeed, one of the priseswas awarded to a comic negro boy carry- ]ing a box of macaroni up a rickety lad- tj,iler, crossing a stream in which a wide- R,mouthed crocodile waits to gobble upalike the dark meat and the vegetarianspecialty. liiThirty maquettes exploited the chic, the T1

smart and the pretty. Eighteen went in w

for classical and ideal. And the remain- a\

der, over 100, were divided between what N<might be called ideas.such as an aero- beplane soaring beyond competition or thefour races of humanity struggling for a 1box of noodles.and the truly decorative thschemes which make the charm of the temodern posterpaster In Paris. 1Among these, Cappiollo has explained nn

nis principles: ve"Above all," says Cappiollo, "I seek cli

the unexpected. I try to hold the eye caof the promenader by oppositions, plays yoml light and shade, color and black. m<

'irst Mile Stone on SoT. E.

ise whose glory, whose magnificence,hose stability, uriequaled hitherto, shallstonish the world, and invite even theost savage of the wilderness to a shelterider its roof.'"The company partook of some liquidtfreshment and retired to the placeom which they came, where a numbertoasts were drunk."

No stone can be seen at this point toty.however. It has been there forore than fifty years. In 1855 a governentlighthouse was built at this spot%td a few years later a sea wall wasected, which completely covered thenindary stone. For a great many years:en the fact that it really was beneathle stone wall was not definitely known,r. Woodward, however, has finally obdnedabso'ute knowledge about the mat;rfrom the Bngineer Corps of the Warepartment. A report on file in that ofce,made by Mr. Sinclair in 1884, on theiangu ation of the District, mentions alark made on the face of the wall whenle stone was covered in 1861, the time: which the sea wall was built. Thisis thought was solely for the purpose

' locating the stone should it ever be>menecessary.This report Is further strengthened bystatement made by the lighthouse

iard, to the effect that "an unverifiedatement paces the stone under theont steps of the keeper's dwelling."hen, too, the lighthouse keeper himselfjssesses a plan made by a railroadimpany, which shows the District lineltting directly through the center ofhat is now the steps the line makingdiagonal cross through the southwest

irner of the lighthouse. Both of theseatements point to the same locationi that contained in Mr. Sinclair's report,5 the mark is found on one of the:ones directly above the top step.

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As far as the location is concerned, itas chosen by George Washington, with,

is thought, the Intention to includelthin the limits of the District the cityc Alexandria. 1 ne exact lucamy ror me

ines point bodndary stone was obtainedy using the Alexandria courthouse as a

larting point. From this a'line was run

ue southwest for one-half mile, andom there southeastward until the marInof Hunting creek was reached."The stone marking the lirst mile fromones point," continued Mr. Woodward,is found in an open held. It was orlglallyset in a garden, but' about eightears ago was dug up and carried to thedge of a field by the side of a highjnce. thus taking it about 225 feet from:s proper location. This, as is the casedth all those stones dividing the Disrictfrom Virginia, was set in place in191."The stone which marks the secondlile from Jones point has not yeteen located. This is the sole excepion,aside from that at Jones point,s the others have not only been loated.but photographed. This stone?as probaoly placed on the east sidef the Alexandria and Leesburg turnike,and was more than likely verylose to it. To all inquiries as to theication of the old stone the same an«rerwas received.no one re ne.neredhaving seen one. One personuestioned, however, said that a peuliarcondition was known to exist inhe vicinity of where the stone shoulde. This he called 'creeping downill,' which was in reality a movelentof the surface earth. This, Ifrue. may account for the disappearnceof the stone."The next stone Is the first of thosei the Virginia border, whicli waslaced short of or over the one-milemit. This mile, however, ending inravine, the stone was set further

ack, ar.d accordingly marked '? miles92 poles.' Nothing hut a stump relalnsof the next stone, southwest Nothe entire top having been broken

f by a plow. It was in such a conditionlat its location was impossible to find,ntil the farmer on whose ground it wasItuated was called into service."The fifth stone from Jones point isroken off, too, leaving but the stumpid a few inches of the finished portion,o. 6 Is the second of the Virginia stonesbe plavd at uneven distances, this

le heine marked '5 Miles 304 Poles.* "

And so the list goes on, through theitire forty.Mr. AVoodward has picked up ma^iy inArtistic

Oiy first effoit is to excite curiosity; but

fix the impression on the mind, I do>t hesitate to be even eccentric."It Is, of course, artistic eccentricity.good example is his "La Cruz del

a.mi>o" poster, in which an inordinatefatcellar boy of the renaissance. Inrange bright clothes of blue and shingpink complexion yellow straggling1.1 r, maudlin smile and closed eyes, likdl>eiitillc swine, holds up the Seville

>verafe. You forget with difficulty this>ung Palstaff; but the subtle thing isle "impression of antiquity." I knowno more striking example.

Grun is an equally high-priced spealist.According to Grun, a posterlould, first of all be a poster.not andseape nor a comic picture. He hasled to follow the luck of various types;id the experience of advertisers, asmmunlcated to Grun, is particularlyjnlnst the comic poster."A poster should be seen from far."tys Grufi. "It should be light tinted or

jilted up with oppositions which producele same effect. Its color may be viont,but this is not necessary; theilues often take the place of color,nagination and fancy, all you please,'en audacity so that the basis be solidid the construction stands firmly ons legs."

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But this is technical talk. Grun citese American Bradley and Louis J.hoad as among ttie first postermasters."Evidently," says Grun, "we cannotnit the pictorial poster to mere beauty,le piquant the sprightly, the chic, theItty and even the humorous aid to'Oid monotony, and are unobjectionable,evertheless, the beauty of the street is ,coming a vital consideration."The beauty of the street!Paris is, perhaps, in greater danger >

an American cities, because Paris ]ndencies are retrograde. iPifteen years ago the artistic poster jide a great success in Paris. Adrtiserswent in for it almost exisivelybecause it was novel and be- ]use it gave them civic credit. Every (

ung painter and many old and fa- tjus ones, like Zlem and Carolue- s

UTK^TEST LINEWoodward IN SIEARJteresting facts along with his collectionof pictures. For instance, a previouswriter on the boundary stones says otone that "it was broken off below theground, and the top was lying sonictwenty-five feet away from the base. '

When Mr. Woodward made his searchlie found the stone upright and in propeiposition. But the previous statement wasnot proven a fallacy, for a cartload orstones showed where some one who realizedthe value of the boundary- -markershad carefully reset the stone.> Anotherstone is spoken of as having fallen"wi.h a caving bank." lav for some timewhere it fell, and finally disappeared."This stone has been found and reset, notIn its original place, but near It.There is another bit of interesting fact

concerned with this particular marker.From this point the view of Washingtonis particularly beautiful. March 2». 171M.Gen. George Washington, accompaniedby the three commissioners, Daniel Oarroil,Dr. David Stuart and also ThomasJohnson and MaJ. Pierre C arles L'Enfantand MaJ. Andrew Ellicotl, rode overas much of the line as could be readilyreached. When the spot was reachedwhere this marker stands, approximatelyspeaking.Maj. D'Bnfant said to Gen.Washington as they reined in theirhorses:

"Sir, the line crosses where we are nowstanding. Look at the prospect!" .

And there. In full view, stretchedGeorgetown, evtn then half a centuryold, surrounded hy hills.Nor has Mr. Woodward's task been devoidof the queer experience. Durljui

the time he was locating and pho'ographlngthe stones bordering on "VWVirginia side there was a humorous oon~sensus of opinion. All the men frithwhom he talked regarding the position ofthe stones were of the opinion that,.rli£was surveying the line for the purposeof taking the Virginia portion back fhto

rvi»t~i.u«i. . i..Hie 1/IBUIII utmii. Willie me w omen »rillof the opinion that a survey was being,made for the purpose of building anotherelectric road into Washington.

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But perhaps the most unusual occurrenceconnected with the entire projectwas a charge which was made againstMr. Woodward following his trip everthose stones bordering on the Marylas*!line. He discovered that the north cornerstone, at Woodside, Md., was 116 feptout of the proper meridian, being too farto the west. The charge against himwas that he had proven illegal a mar-

riageperformed more than twenty yearsago. It seems that a couple desirous ofbeing wed had secured a minister whocould perforin the ceremony only onMaryland soil, and the party had, therefore,gone to the north boundary stono,the ceremony having taken place on thestone Itself. Unfortunately for those concerned,Mr. Woodward had proven themarriage performed within the Districtlimits at the same time he had discoveredthe marker out of an exact alignment.The accumulation of the data ci ncerningthese stones by Mr. Woodward representsabout three years of work. Duringail that time Mr. Woodward Jevefced

his spare time to hunting up tne bound,arymarks, making several trips to thesame spot when the stone eluded .IBssearch. In thai. time he not only domicileda very keen pleasure In las task,but as keen an enthusiasm. Today hean enthusiast on the subject, and more

than anything else hopes to see all tnestones either renewed or fenced in withiron, or some sue;' step taken as will insuretheir permanent preservation for thegeneratU ns to come.Particularly in the matter of the Jonespointst< ne, the initial one, is he Interested.After entering into the matter

with the lighthouse board and the EngineerCorps of the War Department heobtained permission to dig out '.e stonenow buried under the sea wall. T e onlytwo c» nditions imposed were that themoney be furnished from some sourcethan out of the funds of the two bodiesand that no damage be done the wall.Mr. Woodward's idea is that a nichecould be dug around the stone in sucha way as to make it visible, after whichiron gratings could be plar.-d in frontand. If necessary, an iron plate be laidabove it as additional strength to th«wall overhead." This, accord.ng to Mr.Woodward, would require but littleninnoir a nil in no war dajiiaire the sea

wall itself.

ties S>Duran, had "done their poster," andart was to be brought home to thepeople by this democratic start.There were art auction sales of early

examples. Poster shops and specialistsgrew up. Collectors of posters bidagainst each other; bought impressionsbefore the letter, and employed consultants.In cities of South Africa andthe American middle west the barsand billiard rooms of social clubs werehung with "Paris posters."Alas! the novelty wore off. Postercollectingproved a bulky undertaking.

The young artists who had made themwere not specialists, and their subsequentproductions lacked "go." Theartistic poster faltered. ,

And for years its fate trembled Inthe balance.Even today, when real art specialists

have raised It to new heights, theposter of sweetness and light has stillto win Its permanent triumph. GoodJudges say that it will succeed, becauseit produces the greatest advertisingreturns.But has the municipality a right to

tear down ugly posters?Can the Paris Salon boost beauty In

street advertising?These are other stories.But they have stopped hand hills

HTRUI.TNfJ HIM! Ml

The Climax.THERE is a story about Col. Rooseveltwhich Illustrates well the snowball-rollingpower of gossip.Mr. Roosevelt, some years ago, helped

two boys to launch a boat at OysterBay. The episode passed from mouth tonouth, then from newspaper to newspaper,growing enormously, till at last Itreached its climax in a Japanese Jourtial.This Japanese Journal declared that Mr.

Roosevelt had swum three miles out toi capsized sailboat and then bad swumhree miles back again through a ragingsfca with four "boys on hie back. e

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