Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 62, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1924 — Page 6
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FEW CIVIL WAR , TELEGRAPHERS Tff RELATE OLD DATS Only 77 of 1,500 Veterans Survive Today—Reunion in October, NEW TORK, July 21.—Telegraph operators who served the Government as members of the United States Military Telegraph Corps in the Civil War numbered about 1.500. Today only seventy seven of them are registered on the rolls of the association of survivors, which is to hold its anual reunion in New Orleans next October. The dean of the Civil War telegraph operators is David Homer Bates, who is summering in Allennurst, N. J. When in the city Mr. Bates lives at the Ar.sonia. He was manager of the War Department telegraph office and cipher operator from 1861 to 1566. Mr. Bates is the only survivor of the four cipher operators stationed at Washington during the war. Saw Lincoln Daily There were no telegraph connections in the White House at that period, and when President Lincoln wished to hear from his armies in the field or to send orders or inquiries to the generals at the front, he would walk over to the War Department building. Thus it happened that for four years Mr. Bates saw Lincoln almost dally, for in that period the Preeident spent more time in the War Department telegraph office than he did in any other place except the White House. One of the cipher operators in the office had met Lincoln in Illinois during a political campaign before the war. and at Lincoln's request had explained the principles of the telegraph. He was deeply impressed at the time by Lincoln's interest in this comparatively new development of electrical science. Lincoln, encountering his former preceptor in the War Department several years afterward, gave him a hearty welcome. Lincoln at the Telegraph Office The War Department telegraph office was a convenient retreat for Lincoln, and he often spent hours in this haven, safe from “the pestering office seekers," as he once told one of the operators. Here he; wrote the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, seated at the desk of Maj. Thomas T. Eckert in the cipher room. At critical periods of fighting the President would lean over the shoulder of the operator taking the dispatches and when the cipher was being transferred he often followed the process word by word. His custom on entering the room was to go to the file' of translated telegrams and. starting where he had left off the previous day, he would go over every dispatch carefully until he had completed the sheaf. Then he would write out in his own hand the messages he wanted sent, seldom dictating them, but putting them into neat written form for translation. At the outbreak of the war, Andrew Carnegie, a telegraph operator earlier in his career, was superintendent of the Pittsburgh Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, under Thomas A. Scott, vice president of the system, who became assistant secretary of war. On April 22. 1861, Carnegie ordered Bates and four other telegraph operators to Washington for service in the XTnited States Military Telegraph Corp l- ,. The first time Mr. Bates met Line*,ln was when he delivered to the Piesldent the message announcing the shooting of Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth of the Fire Zouaves, the Eleventh New York. Cipher Code Confusing The cipher code used throughout the conflict, was drafted by Anson R. Stager, and was developed by Thomas T. Eckert, later president of the Western L'nion Company: Mr. Bates and others. When Charles A. Dana, as assistant secretary of war, went to the front, his dispatches to Washington often sent the cipher operators to the dictionary, for they frequently contained wordsmot familiar to the ordinary eye. The Confederates had a cruder cipher system, based on symbols, and laxcoln was interested in watching th 4 translation of such of their dispatches as were intercepted by the Union forces. The work of the Telegraph Corps is shown by the official report at the end of the war. From first to last. 15.389 miles of field, land and submarine lines were 1 u:lt by the organization. These pioneers Laid the foundation for cipher and telegraph work in later wars. Nothing like It had ever been done before. The Gettysburg Invasion One of the most widely known telegraph veterans in the United States is Elias Wirt Hale Cogley. now living in retirement in Parkersburg, Pa., who passed through New York a few days ago on his annual summer trip to Montreal. Mr. Cog ley will be 80 in December, yet his eyes are as keen and his cheeks as pink as when he vas the captain of army news service. Like many others of his craft. Cogley was under fire in the Civil War, although he was not technically in the service of the United States.
Tough Luck! By Times Special MT. CARMEL, 111., July 21. —Fred ( Hein has a car, the sides of which he tries to keep well polished. The car was left In front of his place north of the city the other day. A leghorn rooster walked up to the side of the car, saw his reflection and immediately became hostile. As his feathers ruffled up those of "the other rooster” did also. Then the “fur began to fly." Hein objected to the operation and settled the “argument” with a shot gun.
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POLICE SEARCH FOR BANDIT TRIO Piggly-Wiggly Manager Is Robbed of $311.24. Police are searching for the bandit tno who held-up Victor Lane, St)6 N. Delaware St., manager of a Piggly-Wiggly Grocery at 2303 N. Talbott Ave., Saturday in front of 2221 N Talbott Ave. and escaped \tuh *311.24. Mrs. W. L. Hoy. 2222 N. Talbott Ave., saw the men get out of a small coupe and accost I-ane, tyut trees made sidewalk dark and she did not know what was cccuring. No trace of the colored man who '-scaped after entering a residence at Si 7 Fayette St., and choked Ethel BUckmore, sleeping on a and we:.port has been found. Nothing was taken. Theft victims reported to police: Leroy Rober. 645 Arbor Ave., money changer containing sl2; Otis Stimbens, 810Vx N. Illinois St., can dy and tobaccos, $10; Mike Tierney, 736 W. New York St., automobile accessories. $52: Indian Refining Company filling station. Arlington Ave. and Washington St., pay phone taken; Standard Oil filling station. Fall Creek Blvd. and Thirty- Eighth St., gasoline: Dr. W. H. Craig, 1420 N. Alabama St., home entered and S2O taken; Fred Down, 826 Prospect St., $3.30 by pickpocket: Frank Rqjv, 914 E. Vermont St., watch, s4o.
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mT'S the age of “bobs.” Will Paris, near Edinburg, reports three of a Utter of dogs born with bob tails. Mrs. A. B. Andrews of Hamilton, Ohio, drove to Garret, Ind., to visit her brother, Henry L. Wehrly, jeweler, and found him dead. I" TLI MILLER, night watchjhi nmn at Bluffton, is game. 1 1 * He arrested a motorist for failure to have lights. Recognized him then as his son-in-law. Son-in-law will be prosecuted, says Miller. After this, Lawrence Pugh, farmer, near Portland, will nail down loose boards in his kitchen. Police say they looked under them and found a forty-gallon still. j-, ETERSBIJRO. like Missouri, r* says, "You can’t kick my ■ dog around.” George Keifer didn’t like it when a bystander booted his hound in a dog fight and tackled him. Crowd separated belligerents. Crows are wearing even deeper black at Clinton. Postmaster Herman Goodwin, Frank Dunlap, J. W. Slattery and R. M. Pentreath bagged fifty-two. John Stroud, deaf-mute, at Elwood. couldn't yell when his brother Louis took his car, so he struck him with a pair of pliers, police say. Louis may lose the use of his arm as a re- , suit. mOSEPH LUCAS, guard at the Indiana State farm, had 'to stand out in the hot sun j for hours when a swarm of bees adopted his hut for a home. Although living a few miles apart, John Q. Thomas of Marlon and Dan Kelley of Sims, who fought shoulder to shoulder in the Civil War, met the other day for the first time in fifty-nine years. Neither knew the other man lived in Grant County. BAD STOMACH MADE GOOD John F. Cooksey, Indianapolis, Iwd., teacher. Now "In Perfect Condition,” Thanks to Todd’s Tonic, Which Has the StrenpthBuilding Qualities of Rare Old Wine. i “Bad attacks of indigestion led to serious stomach trouble T had no appetite. could hot sleep at night and lost weight. Then I tried Todd's Tonic. After onlr five bottles I have gained ten pounds in weight, mr appetite has | increased and I am now in perfect condition Todd's Tonic is a wonderful medicine, in everr wav.” JOHN F. , COOKSF.Y. 2033 Ashnell Ave., Indiau. : spoils. Tnd. Member K of P. Todd's Tonic, with its wine-like flav- ; or is most pleasant to Sake. See Mr. Glubok and he will courteously explain the merits of this wonderful tonir to yon at Haag’s Cut Price Drue*. 114 N. Penn. St 55 Virginia Are.. 302 Mass. Ave., Slfi X. Alabama St.. 53 S. , Illinois St.. 27 S. Illinois St., 103 W. Wash. St.. 136 X. Illinois St. TODD’S TOXIC LAXATIVE TABLETS—“A Dot? ! at Xieht—Makes—--1 Everything Right,”—Advertisement.
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Love Notes Play Game of Hide and Seek; Alma Rubens Sheds Buckets of Tears
By WALTER D. HICKMAN yOVFi letters play a merry gf:me of htde-andseek. Ever hear of such a thing? That .'s what happens in a movie version o' the stage product, "Listen Lester.” The idea seems to be, "Bufon, £"■?'' Button, who has the love letters of ~Jj Colonel Dodge? if j That is the plot £ ‘ of “Listen Lester” ' flpH. both In the stage e ’•*s*B? version of this .:f ’ musical tom.'ly snappy old Santa Claus who learned ALEC FRANCIS the lesson that a man should learn to write a love letter until he is at least 70. His love notes to one Arbutus Quilty caused him a bunch of trouble. The Colonel became tired of his trailing Arbutus, but this woman clung to him until she landed a Cupid an 1 arrow right into his heart. But this is not accomplished until the Colonel's love letters had changed hands many times. Alec Francis :s cast as the age<t*but sporty Colonel and Louise Fazenda is Arbutus. Others who assist are Eva Novak. Harry Myers, George O’Hara, Lee Moran and Dot Farley. I think it is rather a hard job to make a movie comedy out of a musical comedy. At times you feel that
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a chorus will come on any minute, but it doesn't. The movie director has done a rather good job in developing the scenes where the love letters change hands many times. Rather jolly but polite fun. Mile. Spider is not such a dangerous dame at that. You arrive at this conclusion after seeing IJolhurst’s new nature picture, “The Spider,” at the Circle this week. Tolhurst, after years at hard work, has been able to film Mrs. Spider while she spins. This is a marvelous accomplishment. These films will be priceless to the schoolroom. The splendid thing about ToJhurst and his nature movies Is that they are actually interesting as entertainment. The Circle this week is introducing another orchestra, Flnzel's Arcadia Orchestra. Their program includes “Indian “The Rosary,” ‘‘Mandalay,” "Lots of Mamma” and a novelty number, “Animal Fair.” At the Circle aJ,I week. •V -I- -IREVIVAI, WEEK OPENS AT APOLLO THEATER The Apollo this week is trying out the interesting experiment of having what is known as Revival week. The plan is to introduce each day this week a Famous Players-Lasky picture which has been released some time ago. Some mov e fans may have seen all the pictures billed for the week, but this w.ll give a chance to see some of the pictures which have made box office history. Under the Revival week schedule, the Apoljo today is presenting Mary Pickford in “Stella Maris.” The biil includes a Ben Turpin comedy, “Yu-
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kon Jake.” On Tuesday Thomas Mejghan will be seen in “The Miracle Man.” From inquiries made of me I feel that "The Miracle Man” will do the biggest single day’s business at the Apollo during revival week. That picture made a dqep and lasting impression upon the movie public. It will be interesting to note what is the favorite picture of thjs Revival ( Week. It is not necessary to give a review of these pictures, as most of us ;•$ well acquainted with them and what they have accom plished. I will try to keep you posted the way Indianapolis chooses its favorites.' -I- •!• -IFRED THOMPSON ON VIEW AT THE ISIS For the first half of the week Fred Thompson will be seen at the Isis in “The Silent Stranger.” Bill Includes a Pathe comedy, "Tne Minute Egg.” Thompson is cast as Jack Taylor, who has the job of rounding up a gang of mail robbers. Jack cleans up the gang after much adventure and wins both fame and the hand of the girl he loves. On Thursday “Tucker’s Top Hand” will be the chief offering. •!- •!- -I* \LM \ TURNS ON THE WARM EMOTIONAL SWITCH Aima Rubens was told to turn on the emotional switch. That she does in "The Rejected Woman.” Alma is cast as one of those mountain darlings who is in her element during a snow storm, provided she is in a cabin with a rich young man. The rich young man is played by
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look about him. Alma as Diane Duprez falls for the romantic bunk that Conrad as John Leslie puts out. This all happens in the mountains. But New York is vastly different from the woods in Canada. When Diana arrives in New York she soon realizes that she hasn’t the fine duds, meaning clothes, to land her man. She becomes one of those virtuous
I plotters. She must have fine clothes if she is going to land her fish. So she accepts money, loads of it, from a wealthy man. Diane goes to Paris an decks up fit to kill. She becames quite a young bird. At heart, Diane is just one of those cheaters we see so often on the movie screen. She is false to the man she loves to the extent that she doesn’t tell him that her sudden wealth is made possible by a check book of a man. When she- lands | her rich prize, the truth comes out as the man who wr 'a the checks arrives on the scene to collect a little interest. Hubby, as usual in all melodramas, thinks bad thoughts and drives his wife out of his country palace. It is here that Miss Rubens sheds buckets of tears. No need to tell the ending. Everything ends so lovely, j Gosh. I wish it yvere that way in | real life. Asa heroine. I care not ! for Diane Du Prez because she is • not real. I still think that Leslie \ should have allowed Diane to stay [in the mountains and sob her eyes j out for being just a little silly. But | remember that you and myself and | a bunch of others have been accused jof ordering the happy ending. So
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what can the poor.director do? “The Rejected Woman” is the chief offering at the Ohio this week. The bill includes “One Ghostly Night” and music by Gabe Water’s Southland Orchestra. a At the Ohio all week. J .]. .!. .1. HARRY CAREY TOPS NEW BILL AT SMITH’S Harry Carey in “The Lightning Rider,” announces as a different sort of a Western picture, is the chief offering this week at Mister Smith’s. Bill includes a comedy and a news reel. The story of “The Lightning Rider” concerns the efforts of a sheriff to capture the Black Mask, a night rider. The cast includes Virginia Browne Faire, Leon Barry, Bert Hadley, Franes Ross and others. -!- -I- ' Other attractions on view today include: Jack Wyatt and his Scotch Lads and Lassies at the Lyric; the Wolverine orchestra at the Palace; “\bie‘s Irish Rose” at. the Capitol; The Broken Wing” at the Murat, and “The Last Warning” at Erigiish’s. BOYS’ RECORD PRAISED Indianapolis Lads at tamp Roosevelt Do Good Work. Alexander Stewart, 233 Penway St.; Richard N. Farrell, Fifteenth St. and Central Ave., and Billy Franck, ay of whom are spending the summer at Camp Roosevelt, educational training encampment on Silver Lake, Ind., are making excellent records. Although Franck has been in school but a short time, his instructors report his academic standing is splendid. All the boys arid highly commended by Maj. F. LS Beals, commanding officer. Many boys who were unable to go for the entire summer are registering for the second and third periods, which begin July 21 and tAug. 4. The camp closes Aug 16.
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