Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 91, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1920 — Page 5

ANTIQUES? THEY MAKE’EM IN COLORADO Homes of Ancient Cliff Dwellers Reproduced for Eager Tourists. EVERYTHING REALISTIC By FREDERIC J. BASKIN. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 25. —The great and only Industry in Colorado Springs Is the entertainment of tourists. A few bricks and brooms are made somewhere witihn the city limits, but such small enterprises fade into insignificance beside the large and highly organized business of selling nature to the public. Colorado Springs itself is not spectacular, but it is attractively located at the base of the mountains; is famous for its healthful climate, and is the most comfortable habitat in the Pike's peak region, which also includes Colorado City, Manitou, and a vast stretch of gorgeous scenery. Where the original supply of sceneery runs short, moreover, anew supply has been provided by various scenic production companies, so that there is enough to keep the sightseer busy as long as his money holds out. Among the principal points of interest in this region, for example, are the historic ruins of the ancient cliff dwellers, located at Phantom Cliff canon, at Manitou. These are not original. In scattering our southwest with their mysterious dwellings, the ancients failed to foresee the future tourist demand of this particular area and neglected to build here. But a few enterprising twentieth century business men have. They have reproduced as accurately as possible the cliff dwellings of the Mesa Verde national park, at an alleged cost of SIOO,OOO, and are now gathering large returns on their investment by exhibiting the new-made ruins at the price of $2 a glance. Upon climbing the steep road leading up the canon, either by motor, burro or foot, the tourist first beholds an adobe Indian dwelling of the type built by the present-day Pueblo Indians. It consists of two floors, connected not by stairs, but by crude wooden ladders. The first floors contains the inevitable curio shop, with some unusually interesting Indian relics and the second floor is occupied by a Pueblo Indian family, which is employed by the scenic production company to Indianize the atmosphere and amuse the tourists. Here the visitors are organized into sightseeing parties, if they are not already so organized and conducted by a guide—a young lady of pedagogical appearance, carrying a small switch for a pointer—to the neaby cliff dwellings, built under the overhanging ledge .of Phantom Cliff. There are eight curious houses in all, connected with small, crumbling passageways and perforated with tiny, mysterious windows and doors. They are built of stone. According to the guide, the only difference between these modern ruins and tbe ancient ones is the plaster used on the walls, Tbe ancients used some sort of an adobe mixture for mortar, which could not be analyzed by the reproducers, so they were compelled to use cement. THE GUIDE HOLDS FORTH. •‘The cliff dwellers/' says the guide, holding up the expedition for a brief historical Spiel. “were a prehistoric peo- i p!.- whose origin Is unknown. “They left these traces of their ex j istence in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. “Archaeologists have solved many of the l“ading mysteries concerning this long vanished people, but many baffling features are still to be explained. “Notice the small size of the doors and windows. “These lead us to liPlieve the cliff dwellers were a pigmy people, probably not more than two and a half or three and a half feet In height—an assumption which has been borne out by several skeletons recently excavated. "On the wall of this first room, you will see an example of their ancient heiroglyphics. These have never been translated. “The rock containing them, by the way, is original, having been brought here with the rest of the materials. “This,” continued the guide, as she led tbe party through a small pas-age-way, “is the milling room, where they gronnd their meal. “Ton will see by the specimens on the floor that they used stone implements, living in tbe Stone Ag.-*. “Over here is a niche in the wall, evidently used to hold their implements, showing that they were orderly.” Again the party lowered Its head In proceeding to the next room, which contained one of the cliff dweller's curioug T-shaped doors. “The Hope Indians also use this same T-shapejl door in their dwelling,” explained the guide. “Here is a strange stone box. Scientists think that It was a fireplace, but when it was excavated it contained no signs of Sre. “The next is a sepulchre, three stories high, where the ancients buried their dead, laying the bodies on their right side. “When the third floor, which was used first, was Ailed wtih the dead and their personal property, tbe aperture was soiled, and the second floor opened as a receiving morgue. "The dry climate and the airtight room are supposed to have had a mummyfying effect upon the dead, for many of the cliff dwellers have been excavated in mummy form. FOUND CRUDE FURNITURE. “Next we come to the Balcony house, which Is larger than most of the dwellings. “When this house was excavated in the Mesa Verde, it contained a rough mattress and a crude form of bedstead. “The cliff dwellers were just beginning to moke furniture when they became extinct.” Tbe round watch-tower of the Mesa Verde is also a part of the Phantom Cliff ruins, and the speaker’s house has likewise been crowded under the rocky lodge, porch and all. There is also a model of one of the prehistoric storehouse, where the ancients stored their grain. In connection with the ruins is a small museum containing specimens of the cliff dwellers’ handiwork —their baskets; water pitchers, sandals, turkeybone needles, toys and bone buttons much like ours. There is also a mattress made of rushes of the kind that was found in various excavated houses, and a couple of prehistoric skeletons. The latter show tbe cliff dwellers to have been flat-headed, a state which they achieved by attaching a heavy weight to the back of the head of each infant cliff dweller and keeping it there until the head attained the proper form. They also had flat noses and projecting teeth. The skeletons in this museum, moreover, are not small, but of goodly si,;e. Asa matter of fact, the cliff dwellers were probably about the same size as the modern Pueblos, who are supposed to be their direct descendants. It is true that the two differ in many (particulars, noe of the most obvious being the fact that most of the presentday Pueblos build their houses of sunbaked bricks, or adobe, whereas the ancients, used cut stone. But both are agricultural peoples, both

Real Dare-Devil FAYETTE D. PRATT. Fayette I). Pratt, the Syracuse aviator, aims to take the place in the public eye formerly occupied by the daredevil Locklear. Pratt, who served a year and a balf In the aviation service during the war, was among the first American aviators to walk on the edge of a plane and to stand on his head at the top of a machine while it was traveling seventy-five miles an hour. He plans to tour the country and thrill the crowds not only by the same feats perfomed by the late Locklear, but by several of his own. build the same sort of doors and windows—small for defensive purposes—and both use the same general form of architecture. THIRTEEN TRIBES. There are. however, thirteen different tribes of modern Pueblos, each of which speaks a different language. On their great feast day. which occurs once a year and which is attended by all the tribes, the language spoken is Spanish. The Hopl tribe is believed to have more in common with the eliff dwellers than any of the others. The Indians at Phanton Cliff are from Santa Clara Pueblo. What they think of their ancient ancestors they refuse to say, but they add politely that they like the tourists. The family consists of a man and his squaw and five children, including a young pappoose, six months old, who. in popularity, really outshines the cliff dwellers. All the tourists want to shake his tiny, brown hand and to photograph him. “Moses," said his mother proudly (the young chief's name is Moses) “has his picture taken ICO times a day.” After each sightseeing party has been through the eliff dwellings It is led to the curio shop and shown various strange curios for sale, including some deadly Indian clubs, with which th--equaws of early days were wont to visit the local battlefields and kill the wounded. There Is also an Indian maiden's wedding dress, made of leather, in which an Indian maiden is oecasionall.v married near the cliff dwelling ruins, as a special attraction to visiting tourists. In the midst of examining these relics, the sightseers were startled by a sudden war whoop, and there on the front walk, just outside the curio shop, aye gathered the smaller members of the Indian family. clad in red and green war apparel, feathered head-dresses and moccasins, brandishing tomahawks and capering about in a ferocious fashion. Seated on the doorstep Is their father, also much painted and befentbered, beating a tom-tom to their antics. At last, after several rounds of dancing and yelping like coyotes, the children pause, and, entering the curio shop, sedately pass their feathered hats to the delighted tourists. Too Much Wild West Gets Youths in Bad Special to The Times. COLUMBUS. Ind., Aug. 25. Francis Noblltt, 17; Amos Berry. 16; Robert Randall, 17; Everett Miller. 14, and Paul Blue, 17, all of Indianapolis, who left that city Sunday In quest of adventure in an automobile they are believed to have stolen, were placed In Jalli here Tuesday night after they had confessed to robbing the Roberta home near here end burning an automobile belonging to C. B. Cooper, proprietor of a garage at Seymour. In the machine driven by tbe boya, which they had abandoned when it would no longer run. the officers found five volnmes of wild west stories and tales of thrilling adventure. From the Roberts home the boys took three watches, other jewelry and a quantity of clothing, nil of which was recovered by the officers. The youths confessed to tbe officers that they had committed thefts In Indianapolis before leaving that city. Youth, Trying to Sell Jewelry, Is Arrested Wlmn, it is charged, Earl Sturgeon, IS, of 1503 Montcalm street, attempted to sell some Jewelry last night he waa arrested and charged with burglary. Sturgeon, the police charge, is the man who broke the window of the Park Jewelry Company, 140 West Washington street, yesterday morning and stole S3OO worth of Jewelry. Sturgeon tried to sell the Jewelry, the police say, at a pawn shop on Indiana avenue.

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ACCUSED AUTO BANDIT ESCAPES PRISON WARD (Continued From Page One.) the detective, from whom he attempted to asrape Just as he was about to enter the police headquarters building. Meyers planned the escape from tho hospital ward carefully and Captain of Police Harley Reed declared that he had ontslde assistance. It is believed the bandit escaped in an automobile after leaving the hospital. The windows of the detention ward do not have bars across them, being guarded only by heavy Iron screens These screens are fastened with an iron clamp which Myers had no trouble in breaking. Two patrolmen are detailed to guard the prisoners In the detention ward at the hospital, one- being on duty during the day and the other on duty during the night. Patrolman Joe O’Connor was on duty at the time Myers escaped. He was not in the room at the time, but within less than ten minutes after Myers had made his get-away, William McGee, a soldier from Ft. Benjamin Harrison, notified the patrolman and a telephone call was sent to police headquarters. McGee is in the hospital suffering from two bullet wounds, received when, it is alleged, he attempted vo “black Jack’’ Arthur Merritt, negro night watchman at the Federal foundry, 502 South Harris street, early Sunday morning, and was on the cot next to that of Myers. Two days ago Myers tailed Patrolman Albert Scribner, day man at the hospital detention ward, and asked for his shoes, saying that he needed exercise and that It hurt his feet to walk barefooted. The request was granted. For two days Myers had walked about the detention ward. After Myers' disappearance, it was found he had used a pocket knife to pick the lock of tbe shackles. How the prisoner obtained the knife haw not been learned. Myers is not the first desperate prisoner who has escaped from the detention ward of the City hospital, and following eat h escape the attention of the board of public safety has been called to the fact that there were no bars across the windows and that It was almost impossible for the patrolmen to safely guard prisoners. BOARD FAILS TO TAKE ACTION However, tbe board of public safety failed to act and the escape of Mycre, accused automobile bandit leader. Is the result. James Forest, alias Clifford Spencer, negro, and Ralph Rlchwtne. ex-convlcts, are alleged to have been the other two members of the automobile bandit gang, and they are in the Marion county Jail awaiting trial. Forest was arrested In a stolen automobile at Illinois and Maryland streets after a patrolman had recognized the machine as tbe one used in a 6erles of holdups by three bandits. Rich wine was arrested In his room In the south part of the city a few hour* later. The men ore alleged to have held up and robbed a candy store on Sixteenth street near Delaware, a Standard oil tilling station on Capitol avenue and North street and on the following morning committed the bold daylight holdup at the Case Bros.' drug store, 2152 Central avenue. There were also a series of dairy lunch room holdups which the police credited to the gang of which Myers was the alleged leader. GETS S3OO FROM JEWELRY STORE A window smasher used a padded brick to put a hole in a window of the Park Jewelry shop, 140 West Washington street, at 2.30 yesterday morning. Jewelry valued at more than S3OO was stolen. R. B. Goldsberry, proprietor of the shop, told the police trays containing eleven ruby rings, four white sapphtr* rings, ten assorted ladles' rings, two lavnlleres, five gold pocket knives, a gold knife and chain, and one watch had been taken. Lewis Lloyd, night watchman at the Gem theater, gave the police a description of two prowlers whom he had seen loafing in the lobby of the Park theater a few minutes before the window was broken. Elisa Holies, night clerk at the Oneida hotel, 216 South Illinois street, left the office of the hotel a few minutes early this morniDg and when he returned S7O was missing from the cash drawer. A negro porter was also missing. Burglars entered Max Rudenberg’s dry beer saloon, 57 Indiana avenue, early this morning and carried away seven cartons of cigarettes and forty packages of chewing gum. Bud Jenniugs, negro, who has a barber shop In the same room, told the police sl2 was missing from his cash drawer. 8. D. Goodall, rooming at the Y. M. C. A., told the police a suit of clothe* valued at SSO bad been stolen from hi* room and H. O. Thompson, living In the same building reported a watch missing. Chester O. Rice, manager of the Jamerson Clothes Shop, second floor of the Merchants Bank building, reported to the police that two suits of clothes had been stolen from his shop. Verna Hinkle, 17, 1307 University Court, awoke at 1 o’clock this morning end saw a man disappearing through the door of his room carrying a pair of tip j-o-rs. Hinkle found his trousers In the rear yard of his home, but a purse containing *l3 was missing from a pocket. A burglar entered the home of Arthur Meeker. 518 West Court street last night and $2!).75 was taken. E. G. Darnell of Crnwfordavllle, a guest at the Bates hotel, reported he left a typewriter on top of the safe in the hotel office yesterday afternoon and when he returned the typewriter was missing. It was valued at SSO.

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Gun Fired by Accident Kills Newcastle Boy Special to The Times. NEWCASTLE, Ind., Aug. 25.—A shotgun dropped from the hands of Paul Adams, 16, roiled down an embankment and was discharged, killing his stepbrother, Robert Howell, 7 years of age, late Tuesday. Tho boys, with two companions,! stopped to rest along the right-of-way of the Union Traction Company. The heavy gun slipped from the hands of Paul Adams and when about ten feet away It exploded, sending the full charge into the boy’s body. WHERE IS GAS TO COME FROM? (Continued From Page One.) Gray streets, and has a frontage of 270 feet on Washington street, extending back about 800 feet to the Pennsylvania railroad. It la understood the consideration toi the factory site will be more than $50,000. The General Electric Company la represented by the firm of Fleber & Reilly, and Crawford Fairbanks, owner of tho land, Is represented by Emory Crawford. The deal Is negotiated through the Indlanaoplls Chamber of Commerce. It Is understood tbe General Electric Company proposes to build a finishing plant of three stortes with basement, at a cost of more than $1,000,000, to employ about 1,200 persons, In addition to a glass works that will consist of two stories and basement at a cost of about $750,000, employing about 500 persons. The factory will manufacture miniature Incandescent lamps and automobile lamps, with t capacity of 100,000,000 lamps a year. Another branch of the lamp works It at Ft. Wayne. Man, Caught by Crane, Dies in Few Hours SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 25.—Elmer Quer of Knox, Ind., waa fatally Injured here Tuesday morning when he was caugfct in a steam crane at the Oliver Chilled Plow company’* plant. The man’s clothing became entangled tn one of the cog wheels on the crane and his lower limbs were crushed. He died a few hours later. $42,000 Given for Richmond Hospital RICHMOND, Ind., Aug. 25. A group of persons whose names are not made public hare donated through the countv commissioners the sum of $42,000 for the construction of a hospital at the county tuberculosis saultarlum, six miles south of here. The institution is the gtft of a pioneer citizen of this county. The donors of the latest gift propone to give $50,000 tn liberty bonds, the present value of which is $42,000, providing the county issue* to the donors bonds to the amount of $50,000 bearing per cent Interest, the donor* to receive the Interest until their deaths, when the bond issue woutd be liquidated. The commissioners have asked for a legal opinion to see if tho terms of the offer can be carried out. "DANDERINE” Stops Hair Coming Outj Doubles Its Beauty. A fair -ents buys “Dandertne." Aft** tn application of “Danderine'* you css not find a fallen hair or any dandruff, besides tffff hair show* new Ilf*, rigor, brightness, tnore color and thickest-. Advertisement.

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EUROPE AGAIN IS SWAYING ON BRINK OF WAR (Continued From Page One.) withstand the shock of the latest disclosure*.” Reports from various sources continue to reveal the magnitude of the Russian defeat In Poland. At no point on the 500-mtle front have the reds been able to make a succesaful stand. In addition to tbe 99.000 prisoners already unofficially claimed, Warsaw advices today said a red army of 60,000, west of Mlava, was negotiating for surrender. KERENSKY SAYS REDS ARE BROKEN. Alexander Kerensky expressed the belief in an interview here that tho bolshevik forces, are so shattered they will be unable to present a formidable front again for at least a year. In fact, he said, this may be the "death blow of bolshevism, since Lenine and Trotsky depend on the army for their hold on the Russian people.” Unconfirmed reports were received from anti-bolshevik sources that several serious outbreaks have occurred against the soviets in various parts of Russia, particularly the southern regions. A Brussels dispatch said Foreign Minister Hymans had resigned because of the Belgian cabinet’s refusal to permit

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transport of munitions for Poland across Belgian territory. Premier Delacroix tooi vver the vacant portfolio. The reds are retreating over the entire battle front from the east Prussian frontier to the Stryj river in Galicia, in the region of Mlava tho Russians have bean making a futile effort to stem the Polish advance between the Vistula and the east Prussian frontier. The Poles have captured Osgowlecz and Grajewo. The Polish vanguard is nearing Grodno. Thousands of Russians have fled into En*t Prussia, Heavy street fighting Is reported from Bielostok. Gen. Weygand, head of the French military mission, who played a prominent part, In directing the Polish counter offensive which saved Warsaw and defeated the Russians, has left for Paris. The number of Russian prisoners is now put at more than 75,000. ANATOLIAN PEOPLE INDORSE BOLSHEVISM CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 25.—Islam officially has indorsed bolshevism. Anatolia, in a proclamation signed by tbe Nationalist chiefs, points out to the Anatolian people that the principles of bolshevism do not conflict with their faith. Mohammedanism, the proclamation adds, is founded on the principles of

democracy and therefore Mohammedans are injolned to accept the bolshevlst principles, which are pictured as being truly democratic. Asa result of the pro-bolshevist propaganda in tbe Moslem world, the nationalist movement gradually has submerged in the greater campaign of Islam, allied with the soviets against the allies. 14 OF 15 PEACE TERMS REJECTED LONDON, Aug. 25.—The Poles have rejected flatly fourteen of the fifteen P(-ace terms presented to them by the Russian peace delegation at Minsk, according to advices Irom Minsk to ;ha Dally Herald today. The Russian demand for demobilization Is reported to be the only one that the Poles accepted. The Poles are said to have refused to discuss the Russian demand for railway cessions end arming of Polish workers. The Poles hold that the frontier lino cirnwn by Earl Curzon, the British foreign secretary, is unacceptable. SAYS *GREATER POLAND PLANS’ ON BERLIN, Aug. 25.—A newspaper correspondent who has Just returned from Upper Silesia and Warsaw, declared today that ambitious plans for a "greater Poland” are being matured by Polish

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leaders. The Poles, it is said, will extend tlulr borders in every direction as far as possible. The correspondent attributed the recent disorders In Upper Silesia to the Intense nationalist spirit of the Poles who, elated over the victory over the Russians, are looking for a revival of the glories of the ancient kingdom of Poland, although the modern country will be democratic in lta political character PARIS, Aup. 25.—The advancing Polish troops are* expected to reach the Polish ethnological frontier during the day, it was announced at the Polish legation. Polish cavalry is approaching GTodno, 155 miles northeast of Warsaw. The United States has warned the Poles against crossing the ethnological frontier, which was mapped out by the allies on Jhe basis of nationality. PASTURE LAND ON INCREASE. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Aug. 25.A r decrease in cereal acreage and an increase in pasture land acreage Is shown in a survey of Blackford county being made by O. W. Mansfield, county agent. Tbe cause, It Is believed, is the shortage of farm labor and the high price of farm machinery.

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