Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1922 — Page 3

MAY 20,1922.

CLAMPS LID ON IN WASHINGTON TRAVEL CHECKS Dawes Pots Crimp in Practice of Sightseeing. WASHINGTON, May 20.— Thera •will be no merry sky-larking this summer by Uncle Sam s army of workers at seashore and mountain tops at Government expense. Tour Uncle Sam has put a crimp In free travel abuses. The lid has been clamped on Government railroad travel vouchers. In other years thousands have flocked to the summer resorts on the easily procured travel slips. The young ‘•swell” or “pretty doll’’ on the Government payroll In the old days ran the gamut of “business” excuses, and drew free travel checks besides the usual pre diem allowance for subsistence while absent from Washington. Later on the usual thirty days’ annual vacation leave with pay allowed Government workers was utilised to drive dull care away. DAWES WATCHES ALL TRAVELING. Now, however, under a rigid economy drive by the President and General Dawes, director of the Budget, useless travel by Government officials or employes of any rank Is forbidden. Bureau chiefs are held responsible strictly for abuses of the free travel privilege. It Is effecting a saving to the Treasury of many millions of dollars annually. Treasury experts declare that In preceding years the Government outlay for this purpose was something In the nature of a scandal. Every Government department has Its crops of special Investigators and experts, many of whom want to gallop at will and at Government expense. Until recently officials complained that the hardest work performed by some of this class was that" of drawing their semi-monthly pay. EFFICIENCY PROGRAM. SPEEDS UP WORK. The efficiency and economy program has done much to speed up work, and to eliminate waste time and waste motion. Under reorganisation plans Government workers do not find Idleness such a Joy as In the days of old. This has iom<; through the program of reducing tl e bureaus to normal strength. It has meant a lot of trimming In personnel. Still a lot more will be done before peace time basis Is reached. Many of the Government departments are over-manned. The civil service, now under attack by Republican leaders. Is said to have installed thousands In Jobs which might easily be abolished without crippling Government work. One of the things that higher officials complain of Is the diiffeulty of dislodging civil service appointees, who hold firmly to places to which they have been certified perhaps through strong political backing. The merit system is being more thoroughly developed and, despite political resistance from the Capitol, another year will find the Government’s total personnel reduced by many thousands.

HUGE SUM TO BE SPENT ON LIGHTHOUSES Numerous Improvements Are Planned for Beacons Along Coast. WASHINGTON, May 20.—Uncle Sam will spend more than $700,000 to perfect his lighthouse service, which stands guard day and night over dangerous waters along his 7.000-mile coastline. This sum. carried In the annual Department of Commerce appropriation, provides for numerous Improvements In channels always considered dangerous to navigation. They represent but a few of numerous Improvements contemplated by Secretary of Commerce Hoover and awaiting more favorable tlrpes for construction work. An appropriation of $138,000 will be spent on Improving navigation aids at the entrance of Delaware Bay. A series of sandbars have nlways menaced navigation at this point, and many vessels have been wrecked there during mid-At-lantic stonns. While the appropriation does rot provide for removal of the bars. It does establish a number of protective devices, such as movable bellbuoys and fixed lights to mark off the danger spota to the wayfaring ocean liner. Similar devices will be placed at many danger spots In Alaskan waters, for which an appropriation of $125,000 has been set aside. The Increase of traffic to Alaskan porta has been so heavy that Congress decided the navigation Improvements could wait no longer. A series of shoals and sandbars tn Lake Michigan will also be marked, by modern lighthouse appliances under an appropriation of $130,500. Os thla amount, $06,000 will be spent at Calumet HarTSor, $50,000 off Detroit and $14,500 at Spectacle Reef. Congress also provided for New York Bay, setting aside SIOO,OOO for establishment of additional safety devices in Raritan Bay and the mouth of the Raritan River and SIOO,OOO more for Improvement at Barnegat lighthouse. Off the coasts of Florida and In the approaches to Key West, Fit., where hundreds of ships have sunk to Davy Jones’ locker in wild gulv storms, the Government will erect a score of safety devices. These navigation Improvement! will cost $50,000. They will warn of shoals and reefs, while guiding Incoming vessels to proper channels. Work probably will be started early •ext month, so that tbe improvements Will all be established before the autumnal storms. MEMORIAL TO DEAD DOCTOR Gave Life for Science in X-Ray Experiments. ST. LOUIS. Mo., May 20.—Physicians here are considering establishment of a permanent memorial to Dr. Heber Roberts of Belleville, 111., who died from Xray burns sustained during experiments with radioactive substances. Dr. Roberts began experimenting with X-ray twenty years ago and continued his researches, although the loss of four fingers, one by one. warned him of the approaching danger of death through bis work. Weeks before his demise he realized he could not survive the ravages done to his system by the burns. Summoning his physician friends, he submitted to them a diagnosis of his own cass. This was after he had rlslted sanitariums at Baltimore and Washington and had been treated according to hla own formula for relief of snch cases. Recognized as an authority In X-ray treatment. Dr. Bobarts determined to take charge of hla own cure. But the malignant burns had spread too far, and despite applications of radium, of which he possessed a large store, he could not stop the spread of the deadly toxins to his chest. Poet mortem examination of the body confirmed the specialist's dlaga—ls *f hla

Come Out Tomorrow (Sunday) Afternoon and Hear the Miami Lucky Seven America’s famous orchestra, commonly known as the Pep Producing Personality Boys, who only last week closed a two week’s engagement at the Circle Theatre of this city. The Starr Piano Cos. has kindly consented to furnish the piano for this free concert, which will be given at NORTHCLIFFE V to celebrate the successful opening of Northcliffe No. 2. Many lots were sold on the opening dates notwithstanding the rain, which kept hundreds, possibly thousands, away. This magnificent plat lies between 59th and 63rd streets, and is in the direct line of the city’s phenomenal growth northward, where values are increasing by leaps and bounds. It is on the Broad Ripple car line, and next to. and immediately south of the Broad Ripple grade and high schools and the Broad Ripple park. This beautiful addition is one of the choicest ever laid out in this city. We are proud of it, and want every one in Indianapolis to see it. We have priced the lots extremely low for this premier location, and values will steadily and continually rise with every succeeding month as the great building movement gets more under way. You all know how rapidly values are increasing on the north side. You can remember that not many years ago there was hardlv a house north of 38th street, but building has been and is steadily and rapidly pushing northward, and in a few years Indianapolis will be built up solidly to the river. Even now many of our finest homes are north of the river, and some north of 70th street.

$2 Down On Open Lots $25 On Wooded Lots, Then Only $1.50 $3.00 Weekly. After May 23 the Down Payment On Open Lots Will Be Raised to $lO No Interest No Taxes For 2 Year*

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Wa want iome good pictures taken In Northcllffe for use In our advertising. W# prefer pictures of children taken on one of these beautiful lots. Take a child to a place where It Is safe for him or her to play and take a picture. . .. . We want that picture to show how safe It Is for a child In this beautiful north side addition. No cars, no noise, no bustle, all Is serene there. Get that Into your picture and you stand a good chance to win a prize.

The Attached Coupon Is Worth $25.00 To Each Buyer of the First 100 Lots Sold And in Addition a 100% Bonus will be given on the first advance payment of $lO made at time of getting pass book or within first 5 days, and a 50% Bonus upon the next S4O paid at time of getting pass book o within first 15 days, or upon so much of such S4O as si ? ! be paid within such 15 days in amounts of $lO or over. FOR EXAMPLE: $2 down on an open lot gives a credit of $27 sl2 paid as above and coupon gives a credit of $47 $22 paid as above and coupon gives a credit of $62 $32 paid as above and coupon gives a credit of $77 $42 paid as above and coupon gives a credit of $92 $52 padd as above and coupon gives a credit of $lO7 20% additional given on entire balance paid within 30 days. Read this over again and then ask yourself If you ever before had an opportunity to get such high-class property at the above ground floor prices and on such liberal terms. Here is your chance. But you will have to act and act at once If you want to get the benefit of it. If you don’t, someone else will. You can not afTord to miss it. COME EARLY.

THIS COUPON IS WORTH $25 It I* Good for $25 In Cash to You if You are a Buyer of One of First 100 Lots Sold. Present this coupon to salesman when you select your lot and he will give you credit for $25 on your purchase. But only one coupon wUI be credited on one lot. Thla coupon wIU not be good after sale closes. . (T) 5-20 AMERICAN TOWN LOT COMPANY.

We Will Give in Prizes for Best Kodak Pictures SIOO CASH ABSOLUTELY FREE For best picture taken in Northcliffe we will pay $26. For the 3 next best pictures, $lO each. For the 5 next best pictures, $5 each. For the 20 next best pictures, $1 each. THE CONTEST RULES

This contest will close Wednesday, May 24th, at 5:30 p. n. All prints must bs In our office, 004 Fletch-r Trust Building, by that time. A committee of Judges composed of three promtnent Indianapolis citizens will select the winning pictures. Take the kiddles and your kodak and maka It an errand of fun and business—go today or tomorrow. Do not delay.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES

VIEW LOOKING SOUTH FROM NORTHCLIFFE

Remember You will make $25 if you are in time to be a purchaser of one of the first hundred lots sold. Come early and bring the children and spend the day with us. Picnic under our stately forest trees. If for any reason you are unable to come, telephone us for an appointment, or mail us the attached information coupon. Act at once, while you have the opportunity. American Town Lot Company The Homeseekers Friend 904 Fletcher Trastßldg. Phone: MAin 4295

The following Is s clipping from The Indianapolis Star of Friday, May 12th: KoyErare] (“PLANNED NORTH jOF3BTH STREET Commissioners Take Steps for) I Development of Boulevard,/ i Park and Playground Sys-/ \ tem In Growing Section. V fCAIt LANDSCAPE EXPERT]} [Elliott Predicts City Will AdO \ vanoe to White River With- jf #? In Five Years. f Steps foF development or a eompre,v.T. I rr° U I a v V * rt ' Park * nd PlWound n/ r4PWIy trOW!n * Motion 0/ Indltiwiwy* north of Thtbty-eighth Jtnset. were sorted yesterday the board or pan* commissioner. olr on ff John L - Emott. city civil engineer. George e. Readier, city plan UndU,C * pa ol Cst U b ® c * H * d ,n “ consultant I the.board In carrying out thJ V- l°* ta *l*o authorised that prnS Dlslon he made in the 1928 budget Tori Ithem replacing unsafe bridges now In I [mK.OOO. a ” Rr * reraU cost - * bout| ftfwth , Ct of the) IZ *' h . * ide boulevard park and play--1 ground system Mr. Elliott declared to /ran Mi.* 01 * Important In view of the * Is, ZZJS t ‘Lr h,eh th * dty u p-ad-LmtbZ Zi cana} an * ™hlt* rjver flu ***** EUtott Wfiefd Wh IT I Üb * f° rt . h “ til * canal and this district will p~~4ta, v„, ,n thl * district at the present i , n e<l OUt that 11 W 1 be o J a AdvWc * 0f City T4prth. h fdacM!i" Ik* flv y*rs. Mr, EUlottl on IN NOW BKFORB THE BIG NORTH SIDE BISK.

63d street is paved and 62d street is being paved along the entire north front of Northcliffe. 69th is paved within three squares. Gas runs along the entire north front of the addition. Electric lights and telephone service are available. City water Is within one square. The town of Broad Ripple, with Its 2,000 population, stores, churches, bank, garages, ice plant, etc. adjoins Northcliffe. Northcliffe Is not a new out-of-the-way aubdlvtslon. It is an expansion of the north Bide, a stretching out of Indianapolis’ most beautiful and high-class residential district.

High-class building restrictions for your protection, and legal proceedings will be brought, If necessary, against lot buyers who violate them.

Take a Broad" Ripple car to Haverford avenue, whioh is the first stop after passing the High School and the last stop before reaching the Broad Ripple Park entrance, and you will be right in front of the north side of Northcliffe, or get off at 59th street and go four squares east to the southwest corner of Northcliffe. All day Sunday after 9 a. m. our automobiles will be in waiting at 54th and* College (the 5-cent fare limit) to take you to and from the property. Cars run every twenty minutes in the forenoon and every ten minutes in the afternoon. The fare to 59th street, Haverford avenue, or Broad Ripple Park at the present time is cents if you have tickets. Ten tickets cost 75 cents. Single fare, 10 oents. By Automobile—Drive north on Meridian street to Riviera Boulevard, which runs along the east bank of the Canal, then northeast on Riviera Boulevard to 63rd street, then east on 63rd street, past the Broad Ripple High School, to Haverford avenue, which Is the first north and south street west of Broad Ripple Park, then turn south on Haverford avenue into the addition. Here is a wonderful opportunity, not only for a homesite, but also for quick profits. Grasp it while you may, before it is too late. Don’t be a regretter. COME—RAIN OR SHINE

t INFORMATION COUPON AMERICAN TOWN LOT COMPANY, 904 Fletcher Trust Building, Indianapolis: Without any obligation on my part will you please send me full particulars about your Northcliffe Addition. Name ........... ...—...... Address __ Phone T-^5-20.

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Bargain Prices: $495 $950 Wooded Lots, $750 sllsO A Few Higher. At these extremely low prices these big, beautiful lots and the few remaining lota In our adjoining Norwaldo Addition will soon be gone.