Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 246, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1922 — Page 5

doosier Schools to Honor Taking of Fort Sackville at Vincennes by General George Rogers Clarke

The schools of Indiana 'will celebrate •morrow the 143rd anniversary of the ’ptnre of Ft. Sackville at Vincennes by ?n. George Rogers Clark. The obsevice is sponsored by the Sons of the merican Revolution who are endeavoring impress on the people of Indiana the °irt this State played in the Revolutionary War. The capture of Ft. Sackville i'ok place Feb. 25. 1779. t< Over 3,000 papers and pamphlets recltthe career of George Rogers Clark t-tve been sent to school authorities * j roughout the State in connection with ai observance of the anniversary. The Jimphlet recites in brief the story of Clark. The committee of the Sons of the Revolution in charge of the memorial are William Allen Wood, chairman; Ellis U Graff, the Rev. Jean Milner, Edward W. Warner, Charles L. Barry and Robert L. Moorhead. At the dinner of the Sons of the Revolution at the University Club yesterday in celebration of Washington’s birthday. Dr. John Oliver of the Indiana Historical commission, spoke on Clark's achievement. HISTORY OF FAMOUS EXPEDITION. The history of George Rogers Clark’s expedition into Indiana is a romantic and thrilling one. In May, 1778, Clark, with 150 men, went from the head waters of the Ohio River down to the place where Louisville now is situated. Here the first unfolded his actual plans to his men. Some deserted when they learned what was before them, but a number of settlers Joined the company, so that 153 men started down the Ohio on June 24 of that year. They landed ten miles below the mouth of the Tennessee River and marched overland 120 miles to Kaskaskia, which was situated on the Mississippi River, some miles south of the present location of St. Louis, but on the Illinois side. Kaskaskia and the neighboring fort of Cahokia were taken by "'irprise, surrendering without bloodshed, is SL >r ‘ AMERICAN FLAG sOtut* OSIEB SOIL. is his >’ B n est move was to enlist the ,i at the French priest. Father , an able and upright man who I power among his own people, and l him with a few other Frenchman . ..icennes in an attempt to win the French settlers to the American cause. This was successful and the American flag was then first raised on Indiana soil. It remained over Ft. Sackville at Vincennes from July until December, when, in the absence of an American garrison, a company of British soldiers again took possession. In January Col. Francis Vigo brought news of the reoccupation of Vincennes by a British force under General Hamilton. Three courses were now open to Clark; he could retreat to a safe/ position; he could remain at Kaskaskia and risk being attacked by superior numbers from Vincennes and Detroit in the spring; or he could make an attempt to accomplish the seemingly impossltle feat of surprising the British while they were com-

Women Watch Interests as Budgets Are Pruned

Epecial to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. BY CONSTANCE DREXEE. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—1n spite of the panic which has seized Congress and the President and his Cabinet because of the soldier “bonus," watching the Appropriations Committee is a favorite indoor sport just now. Women's organizations with head\arters in the national capital are partly anxious that their own pet bu,h * e 'iu the Government should not be ,p o l of a few thousands while milbillions are obtainable for the Navy and other purposes. *!!' children's and women's bureaus in -At department of labor are the special objects of women's solicitude. Happily, even the slashing economy of General Dawes has spared the appropriations for these two welfare functions of the Government. In fact, the proposed budget for the fiscal year of 1923 rather augments than decreases those items over 1922. That was done at the request of the secretary of labor, upon estimates furnished by Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the children’s bureau, end Miss Mary Anderson, 'chief of the women in industry bureau. Salaries remain the same, but the chil-

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. -if < ' mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmai GEORGE ROGERS CLARK. Until the centennial year of the admission of Indiana to Statehood, the State did not have an authentic picture of George Rogers Clark. The Sons of the Revolution then had a full-length portrait painted by Otto Stark, which was hung ia the Indianapolis Public Library building. A reproduction of the portrait is shown above. fortably resting in winter quarters. With characteristic swiftness of thought and daring the 26-year-old commander chose the last. RECAPTURE OF VINCENNES. # On Feb. 15 he and his command came to the two forks of the Little Wabash, whose bottom lands were flooded. Five miles of icy water lay before them. There were no boats. They built a rude canoe and a small raft for the baggage taken from the pack-horses, waded into the

: dren’s bureau is given a total of $321,040 instead of $271,040 for 1922. The salaries and personnel remain the same, but $lO. 000 are added to expenses and $40,000 “for investigation upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life.” The women's bureau is given SIOO,000 Instead of $73,000. The National Woman's Trade Union League is particularly interested in thl3 item. Letters have gone out from headquarters urging members to ask their representatives in Congress to remove the low limit of salary placed upon its expert last year. “As ft consequence of this rtducilon (imposed on no other bureau in tilt Government) the women's bureau ha- lost six of its most valuable employes curing the year, who resigned to accept positions in outside employment at better salaries." The National Women’s Trade Union League, which has a very active legislative secretary here, is also agitated about the Sterling-Lehlbach reclassification bill for the civil service and has secured five other women's organizations to go on a committee to support.it. Referring again to appropriations being watched by women’s organizations

freezing water, which came to their waists and sometimes higher, and, carrying their rifles and powder horns above their heads, proceeded over the bottoms till they reached the channel of the river. They swam the over the channels, loaded them again, and went on to a hill, where they spent another night in this waste of water. Having had nothing to eat for two days, they were in a deplorable condition and serious situation. They set about making more canoes and had the good fortune to capture a canoe carrying Frenchmen wtio had been sent out from Vincennes on scout duty. The Frenchmen added to the discouragement of Clark's men by telling them chat the whole country around Vincennes tvrr under water and that it would be impossible for them to reach the fort. Clark, however, pushed on until he reached the Wabash. Fortunately, one of his men shot a deer, which provided them with meat and put new heart into them. Nevertheless, some of the French creoles gave out and wanted to return. Other men took to the Idea and the enterprise trembled in the balance. In the company there was a tall Virginia sergeant 6 feet 2, on whose shoulders Clark placed his drummer boy. To the sound of his drum the men plunged again into the Icy flood. There were two days more of struggle and hunger. Then they captured a canoe paddled by Indian squaws, and found in it a quarter of a buffalo and other provisions. Now they were near enough to Vincennes and Ft. Sackville to hear the morning and evening guns. Clark next surrounded the fort, which covered about three acres on the river's bank and whose walls were fortified with several pieces of artillery and swivels, threw up a slight breastwork in front of this gate of the stockade, and announced his presence by a rifle fusillade. A British sergeant was seriously wounded and the seventy-nine well-kept, well-fed, welldrilled British soldiers began shooting away in every direction, ignorant of the exact location and strength of those attacking. The Americans kept up their rifle fire so effectively that the British were unable to use their mounted guns. “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.” Hamilton, known as the 'hair-buyer general,” because be is said to have paid ! the Indians for the scalps of settlers, | wished to make terms with Clark. The i latter demanded an unconditional surI render and gave the British general one i hour In which to make up his mind. During the hour a party of Indians, friendly to the British, appeared with scalps of settlers at their belts. Clark had them captured and then killed them with tomahawks in full view o% the gnrj rison. The garrison was thoroughly j frightened and Hamilton surrendered, j This was on Feb. 25, 1779. The next ! morning the British marched out and doj livered their arms to the Americans, and ; the American flag was raised for the sec- ' ond time on Indiana solL

here, the sum voted for the SheppardTowuer maternity and infancy bill came too late to be Included In the budget sot 1923. However, with the good will of the Administration and the huge vote in favor of this measure, Mrs. Ellis Yost and others of the Sheppard-Towner committee profess no anxiety that the amount will be forthcoming from the Appropriation Committee. Most of the money will go to the States to promote hygiene of maternity and Infancy, but a small part will be retained for administration by the children's bureau. Another item of great Interest to women. the sum for the bureau of education, remains the pitiable amount it was last year, namely $146,960, but it is arousing little excitement one way or another because either the new reorganization plan or the Sterllcg-Towner bill will change the status of education in the Federal Government in the near future. As for the huge appropriations for the Army and Navy which loom in the budget about as big as they did last year, women are giving vent to thetr feelings through the national council for the reduction of armaments, with which most of them are affiliated. The council has a representative, Mrs. Raymond Morgan, attending such hearings of 'the Appropriations Committee which are open to the public. Statements giving facts and figures prepared by the council will soon be ready for distribution.—Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1922.

Highways and By-Ways of LiP OP New York

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—The problem of social relief in New York City, with all of its religious, racial and economic elements, has reached the important stage where Roman Catholics, Protestants and Jews are working together. Bird S. Coler, commissioner of public welfare, is the genius of this miracle with, his inter-denominational child welfare and hospital committee, on which serve six Protestants headed by James H. Post; six Roman Catholics headed by the Rev. Robert F. Keegan, secretary to the archbishop, and six Jews, headed by Arthur Lehman. “We are advocating for individuals to support their own religious organizations first,” said Commissioner Coler, “but for them to do their non-sectarian charitydirectly with the city. For instance, Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady, active in Roman Catholic circles; Mrs. Sydney Borg, active in Jewish charity work, and Mrs. Willard Parker, Jr., active in Protestant circles are each of them social workers for the City on Welfare Island our new name for Blackwell’s Island. The number of social service agencies in Greater New York is about three thousand, which does not include churches, schools and the fraternal societies. The amount of money raised and expended annually by the agencies is estimated at $50,000,000. New York City itself, through its budget, gives annually about $8,000,000 to $9,000,000 to the different religions. The first street car in New York City was operated by the New York and Harlem Railroad Company upon Fourth avenue, Manhattan, In 1832. Twenty-eight years later the total street traffic of what Is now Manhattan and the old city of Brooklyn, was 50,830,000. The total traffic for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1921, was 2,491,909,178. The tremendous Increase In sixty-one years is a reflection of the phenomenal growth and development of the metropolis. With the multiplication of transit facilities the habit of using them has grown proportionately; the per capita travel in 1800 was '43, and last year it was 137. The street railroads of the city, Including subway, elevated and Surface car lines, have in actual use for transporting these millions of persons nearly two thousand miles of single track railroad. To-carry the passe ger traffic the street railroads of New York use about thirteen thousand passenger cars and have on their payrolls about forty-eight thousnnd employes. All of the foregoing Is information of interest in connection with the announcement of the bureau of valuation of tho transit commission that the New York transit lines were really worth Just $465,680,154. The valuation was based •upon the original cost of the properties, and the extent of the slashing is shown by the fact that the companies carried the properties on their books for $791,- ; 450,839, which amounts to a 40 per cent i cut. The city of New York ttself has InI vested ft total of $293,000,000 in subway construction . This includes the expendil tures for the first subway as well as the dual syste.m, and also includes the cost

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of real estate purchased for rapid transit construction. In 1870 the twin cities of New York and Brooklyn decided to connect themselves by a bridge over the East River, erecting the Brooklyn bridge at a cost of $25,093,000. Since then three other passenger bridges have been hung across the same waterway, and the city’s total Investment in East River bridges is $97,959,000. The Harlem River, making the northern boundary of Manhattan, Is spanned by seven smaller bridges, which represent an aggregate investment of $17,165,000. Thus the taxpayers of Gotham hare spent on bridges $115,124,000. In operating a ferry line to Staten Island from the foot of Manhattan, the city of New York has another investment of nearly $7,000,000 In water front property, terminals and ferry boats, and the same appurtenances for the municipal ferry line from Manhattan to ThirtyNinth street, Brooklyn, cost more than $5,000,000. Big figures always rule when calculating the cost of the greatness of a big city. Kokomo Man Invests in City Real Estate Purchases of Indianapolis real estate aggregating $130,000 have been made by David C. Jenkins of Kokomo, who will move to this city within a short time The property involved in the transaction consists of an apartment house and two duplex dwellings at 933-943 North Meridian street with a frontage of 112>d fe*t and a depth of 125 feet, and the home of ! O. It. lies at Central avenue and Thlrtyj Sixth street. It was sold for $40,000. Tho i Meridian street property, which belonged t to Fred Cline and L. H. Lewis, grought $90,000. Tells of Handling Freight One of the miracles of modem freight handling, which touches the problems of Indianapolis and other Booster shippers is described In a booklet upon the "Manchaster Transfer” which M Wolf, general agent for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, 527 Leincke building, is distributing. The transfer is a station located on the Lehigh Valley Railroad eighty-eight miles east of Buffalo and consists of accommodations for transferring, 10.000 less than car load shipments every twenty-four hours, thereby jserviDg as a vast clearing house for ail less than car-load freight shipped each day from the East and that for the East received from connections at the Niagara i “frontier.” I I IMPROVEMENT CLUB TO MEET. ! The Southeastern Civic Improvement j Club will meet tonight at McCaslln Hall, Hoyt and State avenues tonight. Steps for the promotion of a playground and community house will bo taken and the great railway situation will bo con- . si doted.

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Air Expert Says Breaking of Control Cable Was Not Wholly Responsible for the Disaster to Dirigible Roma

BY WEBSTER K. NOLAN. Copyright, 1922, By International News Service. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. —Breaking of the control cable of the semi-rigid dirigible Roma was responsible for the disaster, only because the vessel was flying too low. Lieutenant Colonel Allesandro Guidonl, air attache of the Italian embassy hero informed the International News Service, The ship was purchased from tho Italian government and Colonel Guldoni was one of the negotiating officers. Had the cable snapped while the premier greyhound of the air was sailing at greater altitude, the vessel could have been glided toi earth with engines throttled, the toll of dead would have been zero and the giant flyer would have been intact, Colonel Guidon! declared. SOARED TOO NEAR EARTH. “The Roma courted catastrophe In skirting the earth,” the Italian expert declared. Colonel Guidonl is thoroughly familiar with the technique employed In the construction of the Roma, as he had studied it la the making in Italy. “The danger in flying too low was never more forcefully demonstrated than in the sad fate of the Roma, the loss of whoso precious human freight is felt ; most keenly by my government and by m.v people,” Colonel Guidonl said, j Great commendation was given the ; command and crew of the Roma by Colonel Guidoni, who asserted he knew most !of them personally. “I am firm in my belief that the accident was uot caused by the failure on the part of the command i to execute their difficult task in the most | expert fashion," Guidoni said. “They : could have done nothing more than they did, considering the height at which they were flying. There whs no time and no use in shutting off the engines; there wag not enough distance between the ship and the ground to right her in time. Had the charged transit wire not been struck there would have been no fire and no explosions. Had they had greater distance to fall they could easily have righted the ship. BREAK OF CABLE | MERE TRIFLE. “The transit line was the cause of the horror; the mere breaking of the eleva-, tor cable was a trifle. I had such great faith in the command of the Roma tha* I still feel there must have been some sensible and necessary reason for the , Roma flying go low over uncleared terrain. It might not even have been necessary for the Roma to have gilded to earth after the control cable broke. Such au accident could have been handled by mechanics in midair." Italy has completed plans for the Nft--1 poll, sister ship to the Roma, Colonel ! Guidoni said. There will be a slight difference in the new ship from the Roma 1 in that Napoli will be somewhat larger, possess slightly greater power and her envelope will hold three million eubllc set of gas. The general styles of the Napoli, however, will be Identical with i that of the Roma. j The Napoli is being built for the exJ elusive use of the Italian government.

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