Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 298, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1922 — Page 7
APRIL 25,1922.
‘JEFFERSON’ IS NEW HOTEL ON PRATT ST. Permit Issued to Owner and E. G. Spink Company, Contractor. A permit tor th> erection of the new Jefferson Hotel at 226 230 East Pratt street was Issued by the city building department today to the Jefferson Hotel Company, owner, and E. G. Spink Company, contractor. The Jefferson will be a strictly residence hotel of the same type as one now under construction by the Spink Company at 1433 North Pennsylvania street. The building will be of fireproof construction of reinforced concrete and brick It will have ground dimensions of 53x165 feet and contain sir stories. The cost Is estimated at $255,000. A cafeteria, office and lounge will occupy the first floor, all other space being devoted to residence quarters.
CHINATOWN IS CLOAKING MANY WEJRD STORIES Opium Dens Raided Disclose Sinister Conditions. NEW YORK, April 23.—Down where Mott street loops its soiled and squalid length about that untidy backwater of ten ament 8 and ramshackle Oriental shops, which Is Chinatown, the crusaders operating under Dr. Carlton W. Simon of the New York police department and Chief Oyler of the Federal anti-narcotic forces are renewing the fight against dope. For years before the death of Chnck Connors’, sol dlsant mayor of Chinatown, that forbidding cluster of buildings Jammed Into the elbow of Mott street was regarded as dangerous no longer. Sightseers have been going there for many seasons, under the Impression, skillfully cultivated by the spell of the wily tourist agent, that they were seeing the worst there was to be seen in New York, where they were merely trudging through the litter and mud of a very unkempt, but otherwise undistinguished slum. But a change has come over Chinatown since the war. Chinatown* has become again a center of the dope traffic and the raiders are finding new dens where the victims of the poppy are invited to come —at their own risk—and woo the dreams which are their only relief from the indescribable pangs that assail the addict. The tcng wars have ceased; the hatchetman no longer waylays his victims in the darkness of the dark arcade which connects Mott street with Pell: uniformed policemen may drowse on their post in the small hours when the twilight of dawn begins to reveal again the wretchedness of Chinatown, for there Is no longer the immine-1 likelihood of shots, screams. : the soft patter of felt-soled slippers and j the settlement of another sanguinary 1 debt of honor between the members of the Hip Sings, the Four Brothers and the On Leongs. For years the ehlllabers In charge of the sightseeing parties have been spieling the same old singing—this is the place where Elsie Seigel, the missionary girl, i was murdered; this is where that famous young actress who sacrificed her name to save her millionaire husband from the chair, once climbed in through a skylight. spreading pat ? in an opium- den. because the man at tee door had failed to recognize her entreaties for a few toys ■ of dope. But now the raiders are finding that ■ the dens of Chinatown have become sin- | ister, dangerous verities of anew and j menacing dope situation. Only recently one group of raiders under Chief Oyler, breaking Into a tent- : ment apartment at dawn on a Sunday morning, were fired at in the dark hallway as t.iey thunder and at the steel-barred and riveted door w i sledge hammers brought along for the assault. Two men standing by in the street before the house to prevent flight over the roof by way of the fire escape were astounded to see a woman, clad only In her uudergarments, come hurtling through the air, trying to break her fall by using a parasol as a parachute. Half a dozen captives were taken In raid* oa three apartments that morning aid the strange thing about It was that the woman was a Caucasian of apparent good breeding and the men were not Chinese but Italians. That the opium hire Is still strong for many lower class Chinese, however, wag demonstrated when one raid upon a Chinese sai'ors’ lodging house netted eleven prisoners, taken as they lay in their filfthy bunks with their lips closed over the stems of those str:sj®i dreampines. Then came the sensational raid on the quarters of Chom Chu, In Fell street, another Sunday morning visitation in which even the raiders were amazed to discover that Mrs. Chom Chu, otherwise known as "Babe” Butler, a beautiful young white girl, graduate of a New York high school, had with her ten other white girls of obviously good social breeding. Mrs. Chu and her Chinese husband were held. All the white girls produced evidence that they were legally married to Chinese and there was nothing the police could do to break up their association. Mrs. Chu is well known to a circle of quite respectable New Yorkers, including .many of her old high school associates, [and for purposes of association with them, because they can not be asked to go to Chinatown, she maintains a luxurious apartment uptown. At “Babe” Chua apartment the police were almost convinced that they had made a mistake until one of them scuffed up a rug and found beneath It a cache said to contain $4,000 worth of drugs. City of Paris Would Ban American Jazz PARIS, April 25.—Emile Massard, municipal councillor of the city of Paris, <l<v not like jazz music, nor does he care very muen for foreign musicians. He has therefore appealed to the city to put a stop not only to jazz, but to forbid too many foreigners from playing any so-t of music. In the archives of the city hall he has found an old law, duly passed by Parliament, which forbids more than 10 per cent of any musical company being of foreign nationality. He says he Is merely defending the interests of French musicians who have been driven "Into the woods” by American and Hawaiian jazz artists. Hotel to Have Radio Concert ATLANTA, Ga.. April 23.—The first hotel radio outfit in the South will be Installed here shortly by a local hotel on Its roof garden for entertainment of its guests and their friends. The outfit is said to be one of the most complete In the country. It is said to be of receiving mess- v -s from any Bart of the world. Eleven hundred people T-an be accommodated at the roof garit.-n entertainments, which will be free to the hotel's guests and their friends. All the important events of the day will be announced, and concerts, sermons and political speeches will be heard. J-OST VOICE FOCR YEARS. MANCHESTER, England, April 25. Lieut. Frederick Holman, who lost his roics when gassed in 1918 by the Germans, suddenly recovered It while trying u speak to his dog.
Church Society in Play \ CONVENTION \ Jb m ' * COMMITTEES \ * DO BIG WORK l . League of Women Voter! I. 1 —"■'&£* Lobby Is Rased on Small I \ Group’s Efforts. ■ ’ - By CONSTANCE DBEXKL P '■: < • "Jr'-m BALTIMORE. April 2ft —As Is eusto S •' unary In many women's nntlont.l conven /i : t <. *> * JW. tlons. the League of Women Voters' thin J V annual convention is paying particulai ■ attention to the Importance of commit \ tee meetings. ; One shoul 1 stop to 1-ok find listen be A. -K • cause the discussions In these committee! / .-/ ' •'s'; have a dl.-tinct bearing on what Is terraet f ; .- , - • ;1 in ome quarters the most powerful lobbj >y. : - . I in Washington. ' 1 That Is to say. these committees dlsousi policies which /irr> translated Into resolu V s' tlons to be presented for adoption, mod Iflcatlon or rejection by the full couven
AtM,ve— MISS ELFRIEDA BECKER AND MISS ESTHER KREMM. BELOW —ARTHUR BECKER. The Christian Endeavor Society of Zion Evangelical Church will present a play, “George Washington Jr.,” Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursduy right In Social Hall, corner of North and New Jersey streets. The .eadlng parts are taken by Miss Elfrleda Becker, Mhn Esther Kreinm rnd Arthur Becker. Others Included in the cast are: Miss Lena Merkt, Carl Ziegier, Lawrence Broeklng, Ralph Broeklng. Merle Elchorn, Miss Julia Ann Merkt, Miss Marie Ziegler and Miss Hilda Farlerger. A small admission fee will be charged, the proceeds to be used to carry on missionary work of the organization. TIMES CARRIERS VISIT CARNIVAL Doors of All Attractions Are Open to Newsies. About 500 carriers and street boys of the Indiana Dally Times had a big time as the guests of Con T. Kennedy and his carnival organization last nieht. The boys were the guests of Mr. Kennedy and the second the boys appeared wearing special Times’ carrier badges, the doors of every show and ride were thrown wide open. The boys marched, to the carnival lot, opposite the city hall. In a body. The Royal European Wonder Midget* won first honors, the eight tiny mites giving an entertaining program of singing. daclng and burlesque boxing that pleased tl.e audiences Immensely. The Hawaiian villne featured the Nanzlanazu troupe of natives of Honolulu w ith dances. Biliy Edwards, wrestler and his athletic arena was crowded all evening. Edwards with u corps of wrestlers met all comers. The Sainaoof Troupe in the Russian Theater are a troupe of twelve, wit a picturesque Russian costumes and a program of native dances. The Congress of Wonders has La I.a Cools!, billed cs “Half Woman and Half Man,” who lectures and entertains, while other freaks and curiosities are to be seen Inside the canvas walls. Mysterio, the illusionist baffles and bewilders with magic feats and there are other entertaining features. Members of the National Disabled Soldiers’ Eeagus, under auspices of which the week's engagement is being given, acted as ticket takers at the booths and shows and are cooperating with the Kennedy management to make the affair a success. The carnival engagement will close Saturday night.
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CONVENTION COMMITTEES DO BIG WORK League of Women Voters Lobby Is Rased on Small Group’s Efforts. By CONSTANCE PRKXFX. BALTIMORE, April 2ft.—As Is customary In many women's national conventions. the League of Worueu Voters' third annual convention Is paying particular attention to the Importance of committee meetings. One should stop to I'ok and llrten because the discussions In these committees have a distinct bearing on what Is termed In ome quarters the most powerful lobby in Washington. That Is to say. these committees dlscusa policies which >iro translated loto resolutions to be presented for adoption, modification or rejection by the full convention later In the week. , What’s that got. to do with Congress? the uninitiated may ask. Just this, the League of Women Voters was the organ-, tzer and Is considered the leader In the women's joint eonressional committee 1n Washington. That committee, made up of representatives of some fifteen women's organizations which Interest themselves in bills In Congress, meets once a month, but Its enemies nre very active in between times consulting and Interviewing Representatives and Senators. And thlr meetings once a month nre more In the nature of a comparison of notes, so to speak, so that cooperative effort of women's organizations muy be obtained. That's the story of the much maligned, or often praised (according to one's viewpoint) of the woman's lobby in Washington. ft* Inspiration find the very reason for its heltig, comes from just such conventions as the one of the I.eague of Women Voters. Therefore the charge the woman's lobby Is a group of self appointed women claiming to represent millions of women, but in reaitty representing only their own Ideas la false. So far as 1* possible, as will be seen from the method followed at this convention, the woman's lobby lc Washington has the backing of the women of its member organizations. That Is one reason for women'* lobby—the women's Joi it congressional committee moves so slowly, and Is often out of touch with what Is actually going on In Congress. I or Instance, at the committee meetings, though the ultimate aim Is to translate theories Into legislation, the resolutions shot far off the mark In many respects. The subjects discussed at the meetings wre first decided upon months ago at a meeting of the national board of officers, then sent on to State chairmen of the league and ail chairmen of State committees, for them to discuss at all local leagues before those leagues aend delegatee to the national convention. Therefore, one can see how subjects actually up In Congress at the moment get no attention whatever. In this system there Is something wrong, because as It stands, Congress does not get the benefit of the Judgment of these women on what It Is doing. The trouble largely is that women In the smaller places, or the fai-off large cities, do not yet see the direct connection between Congress and their affairs.
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EXPLAINS LINCOLN PARENTAGE
Dr. William E. Barton, of Oak Park, 111., Is recognized as the greatest authority on Abraham Lincoln, lie hue, spent much of Ills life delving Into original sources of Uncoln biography. Dr. Barton is the author of several books on the raUsplltteir President. The two host known are “The Paternity of Abraham Lincoln” oml “The Soul of Abraham Lincoln.” By WILLIAM E. BARTON. Abraham Lincoln lived and died not knowing whether his parents, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, ever had been legally married. Those who knew him Intimately believed that this haunting uncertainty was one cause of his periodic melancholy, a sadness so deep that wheu he was in its black possession, 'gloom dripped from him as he walked.” lie made some ineffectual nttempts to learn the truth, and gave It up; he learned nothing, and his iuquir.y started ugly rumors. lie thought he could find the record of the marriage of his parents in llardlu County, Kentucky, in which be was born, and at whose county seat, Elizabethtown, hjs parents were living when his older sister was born. The records showed his father's second marriage, that to Surah Bush Johnston, but not his first marriage to Nancy Hanks. LINCOLN GIVES IP HIS SEAIt! 11. Abraham Lincoln gave up the Inquiry, and there was what was called a “sig-
Left—Dr. TT. E. Barton, who has Jnt uncovered the fart* about the marrlnre of Uncoln’* parent*, and, right, photograph of a drawing of Jne*e Head, who married them. This drawing, the only one known to exist. Is In the Durrett collection.
nlfleant reserve'' In his conversation about his parents. lie dieved In them, bnt hs dfil not know. It would have cheered his heart could he have known the truth which this story contains. In 1575, William F. Booker, county clerk of Washington County, Kentucky, found In i-ls ri-cords ft marriage bond datod
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Continuing Our Remarkable Sale of GINGHAMS At 1 7 l /zc and 23 1 /2c Thousands of Yards More Added to Oar Stock A LARGE local manufacturer wanted to clear his shelves of piece goods, he offered us his surplus at prices greatly under the present market prices. Our first consignment of 35,000 yards has been backed up by a further lot of 25,000 yards; there is plenty of gingham for all inquirers, at lowest prices, all clean, fresh, new merchandise, in most desirable patterns. 71 Different Patterns —All Sorts of Checks and Plaids
June 10, 1506. between Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, and also a return of sixteen marriages alleged to have been performed In the years 1806 and 1807 by Rev. Jesse Head, a Methodist minister, including that of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, Juno 12, 1806. Bnt who was Jesse Head? Authorities In the Methodist Church could find no record of him, and it was freely charged that this fecord was a forgery, trumped up to give color of legality to the irregular relations of the parents of Lincoln; that there had been no man named Jesse Hoad, or if there were such a man, he was not a Methodist preacher. After a search of years, in which I have been aided by Joseph Polln, county attorney of Washington County; L. S. Pence of Lebanon. Ky.. and Miss Mary A. Stephenson of Harrodsburg, Ky., I am able to give the facts In full. The CJouru.il of the Western Conference for the years 1800-1811” has recently been published In Nashville, and It shows what is, so far ns I know, the only ecclesiastical record of Jesse Head. On Oct. 2, 1805, Bishop Asbury presided at the conference hend at Anthony Huston's In Scott County, Kentucky, and Jesse Head was reported as a deacon. Os the legal status of his authority as a minister, there Is this record, discovered by Mr. Pence, In a list of courtsmartial of the militia of Washington County from 1791 to 1812: “May 25, 1798, Jesse Head, returned as delinquent, Is cleared off muster roll, he having a license to preach accord-
| lng to the rules of the sect to which I he belongs." 1 This settles both his legal and eccle--1 slastlcal status. To tell how the other Information was dug up In many and ; remote places would be too long a matj ter for this story. I But here aro the facts about him: Jesse Head s home was on Rond Run, now known as Lincoln Run, in Wash
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Ington County, Kentucky. He was neighbor to the Lincolns and Berrys, and it was probably this fact, and no denominational relationship, that caused him to perform the marriage. He was a cabinet maker and a justice of the peace. Year by year Jesse Head turned In his lists of marihages performed, a dozen or more at a time, not by calendar years but In convenient groups. His last signature on the Washington County records Is dated Oct. 10, 1810, when he signed the court order as “Justice of the peace.” At that time he had given up his home in the village and was living on his farm. But his name immediately reappears, and that on the records of Harrodsburg, the oldest town in Kentucky. He bought a lot there In March, 1810. On Oct. 11, 1811, he was elected to fill a vacancy on the town board. He continued one of the town trustees until 1815, when he resigned ; and apparently lived out of town; but he was re-elected In 1819 and again at intervals until 1827. Frequently he presided at the board meetings, and often (jeted as clerk, many pages of the records being In his handwriting. NEVER IVAS REGULAR PASTOR. He seems to have done a good deal of preaching, but never, so far as any records thus far are discovered, as regular pastor. At one time he preached statedly In Lexington, but does not seem to have lived there, unless It was In one of the Intervals In which his name disappears from the Harrodsburg records. He had a carpenter shop opposite the courthouse, and was within "easy reach of couples coming to secure their marriage licenses. It Is reported that Jesse Head was a strong opponent of slavery. I have not been able to confirm this report. He was an opponent of Henry Clay and was a good, hard-hitting Democrat. In 1830 he edltted a newspaper, called the American. Harrodsburg had a Whig paper called the Union. The two papers were not on good terms. There exists but one likeness of Jesse Head, a drawing In the Durett collection, which I have been permitted to photograph. llow accurate It Is, I do not know, but It Is the best we have. JINGLE GIVES HEAD'S DESCRIPTION. The only description of his personal appearance of which I know Is a Jingle which appeared In the opposing newspaper: “There lives a man in our town Who walks the streets In a dressinggown ; Ills nose Is long and his hair is red, And he goes by the name of Jesse Head.” Jesse Head was a brave man. He had frequent controversies, and wns a straight out hitter in argument. One day a man with whom he was on bad terms stood watching him as he passed toward the courthouse, and after Ilead had gone by. fired a shot which missed the minister. Head at once turned back, and confronting the man with the smoking pistol said, “If you fired that shot to kill me. you are a coward; if you did It to frighten me. you are a fool.” Jesse Head died March 22, 1842, In his 74th year. He was burled In Harrodsburg I have just visited Harrodsburg, and the grave of Jesse Head la unmarked. He died poor. He did not prosper in wordly affairs. When the commissioners were appointed to make an Inventory of his estate, they found that all that he had poasessed belonged to his son, who had bought It In at sheriff s sale. This present article builds no monument to Jesße Head, though he deserved one; but It attempts to rescue from oblivion an honored name, and one that stands in Intimate association with that of Abraham Lincoln.—Copyright, 1922.
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Low Prices on Lingerie of Very Nice Quality
Gowns of soft nainsook, plain tailored and hemstitched. With built-up shoulders. At 85<. Gowns of soft quality nainsook with short kimono sleeves; embroidered, scalloped and lace trimmed. At fI.OO, ?1.25 and $1.50.
Small-Baby Things We list a few things your baby may need at this time. These are of nice, soft quality, and moderately priced.
Light weight cotton shirts of fine quality, with long or short sleeves, front buttoning—so<*. Soft merino (part wool) bands—so<*. Waterproof pants, in large, small and medium sizes—50^. Japanese quilted robes and quilts, plain and embroidered. Fiona 92.45 to $6.95.
* ‘Exquisitely Figured Mahogany and Walnut” The Pooley Phonograph pictured here, is indeed the highest type of the artistic blending of a musical instrument into flue furniture. And the tone seems truly inspired by the beautiful case —rich and mellow, with a carrying power found only in the more scientifically made instruments. Wednesday Only we will sell this Model No. 250, equipped with sis record albums, for $115.00 $5 down balance $2 a week. —Ayres—Victrolas, fifth floor.
Fashionettes For Prettier Coiffures When you dress your hair early in the morning, are you sure that it will remain in the same state of perfection throughout the day? Or when you arrange your hair before going to a dance, will it be as charming at the end of the evening as when you started? These questions only the use of Fashionettes can answer la the affirmative. Fashionette single mesh nets should be used on all ordinary occasions; only when engaged in active sports or motoring is the double mesh ad-, vised. Price, 150 each, or two for 25C. —Ayres —Street floor. Tokolon Beauty Sets One is more apt to be thoroughly groomed when everything necessary for one’s grooming is in one small place. Hence the advisability of being armed with a Tokolon beauty set. Each set consists of face powder, eau Japora, a cake of soap, Sautonex and perfume—. the box. Special—Non Spi for perspiration —only 350 the bottle. —Ayres—Toilet goods, street floor.
Envelope chemises of naln* sook, trimmed with lace and with built-up or strap shoulders. At 85^. Chemises of nainsook and crepe, plain tailored or with embroidery. Built-up or strapshoulder. The crepe in white or pink. SI.OO and sl=so. r-Ayres—Lingerie, third floor.
Beacon blankets with nursery figure and flower and% signs, in pink or blue —at So4‘. Domet morning wrappers, with pink or blue shell-edge and stitching—at 45<*. Domet diapers, 27x27 inches and of good quality—s 2.25 the dozen. Knit booties —25c to $1.25.
—Ayres —lnfants’ dept., fifth floor.
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