Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1928 — Page 15

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BUILDING GAIN FOR INDIANA IN JANUARY Increase of 62 Per Cent Puts State Twelfth in I Nation. SEVEN CITIES IMPROVE Indianapolis Among Leaders, Including TwentyFive Centers. j BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times ' Gain of 62 per cent in building In Indiana for January this year Over the same month in 1927 is outstanding in a business and industrial survey of the State for the \veek ended today. In the report for the month, Indiana ranks twelfth in the forty-eight States of the Union. Indianapolis shows a gain of 171 per cent and ranks twenty-second eir.cng twenty-five leading cities of the country. Other cities in this State showing gains are Whiting, Marion, Hammond, Shelbyville, Elkhart and South Bend. James L. Farrell, United States Steel Corporation president, declared during an inspection of mills in the Calumet district that steel manufacturers expect 1928 to be a good business year. He was accompanied on the inspection by Myron G. Taylor, head of the corporation’s finance committee. A school building program is under consideration at Gary calling for expenditure of $4,910,000 over a period of eight y*vrs. The Anderson Theater and Hotel Company announces that within thirty days work will be started at Anderson on erecting a seven-story hotel and theater building. Conditions elsewhere in the State Sire shown as follows: EAST CHICAGO—The General American Tank Car Company has booked an order for 500 cars. Valumet Prospers HAMMOND—The Calumet district is feeling the beneficial effects of reviving industry, two steel companies having between them paid $1,000,000 in wages at a single pay. Bankers report increases in deposits. EVANSVILLE Employment to about 125 men will De offered here within sixty days at the auto body building plant of the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company, which recently purchased the Johann Manufacturing Company property. MUNCIE—The Warner Gear Company, manufacturing automobile transmissions, is steadily adding to its force as new machinery is installed to permit production. Orders booked so far practically assure steady operation at least through the coming summer. The Merchants Trust and Savings Bank of Muncie has bought the Durant Motor Company property, idle for the past few years, but which has been kept in good condition. The purchaser has not disclosed what plans are being considered in regard to the plant. Foundry at Peru Busy PERU—The Peru Foundry is being operated twelve hours daily and Sunday, and still is unable to keep abreast of orders. It manufactures products for use in other factories and includes among its patrons General Motors Corporation, Studebaker, Willys-Overland, Buick and other automobile manufacturers. FT. WAYNE—A printing contract aggregatinfl $450,000 to $500,000 has been awarded the Ft. Wayne Printing Company by the State of North Carolina. SOUTH BEND—The Bantam Ball Bearing Comuany, which moved here recently from Bantam, Conn., will employ about a hundred men. Erection of a $50,000 factory is unifier way. WABASH—The Swift & Cos. fcheese factory here has added machinery to enable handling 75,000 pounds of milk daily instead of 27,000. The Wabash Cabinet Company has awarded a contract for erection (of a three-story factory building. Ford May Buy Glass VINCENNES Negotiations are 'Cinder way between the Ford Motor Company and the Blackford Window Glass Company here relative to manufacture of thin sheet glass for tise in Ford automobiles. Tests of the glass are now being made at the Ford plant in Detroit. ANDERSON— I The Dwiggins Wire Fence Company has been merged with the Crawfordsville Wire and Nail Company and the Adrian Fence Company, Adrian, Mich., as the Mid-States Steel and Wire Company, which will have headquarters at Crawfordsville. The company has assets of $2,500,000. KOKOMO—The Superior Body Corporation has started production of a dump truck body, the invention of its chief engineer, S. E. Frazier. Seventy-five men are now employed on the new work. LEBANON—The Indiana Condensed Milk Company has purchased 109 acres of land nine miles east of here where is proposes to establish a model farm. GAS STATION APPROVED Eermit Granted for Building at Capitol and Thirtieth. Permission to erect a filling station at southeast comer of Capitol Ave. and Thirtieth St. was granted Thursday by the park board. Permit for a station at the northwest corner of Southerland and College Aves. was denied. It was explained that business already had entered the Thirtieth St. neighborhood.

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HE’S GOING TO VENUS—MAYBE!

‘The Fireworks Will Be Nice, ’ Savants Are Agreed

&■ /C W U 1 ical engineer and astral aeronaut. Just how he’s going to get off the ground at Miami Beach, Fla., or keep going for the 67,000,000 miles twixt there and his destination is not quite clear—but he says he’s going to start nevertheless.

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SPEAKS ON FAITH Bishop Francis Gives Noon Lenten Sermon. Faith is the originating source of scientific achievements and is the foundation of society and business, Bishop Joseph M. Francis of the Indianapolis diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church, declared in his concluding noon Lenten sermon at Christ Church today. “Because he believes that certain results may be achieved, the scientist will spend years in experimenting,” Bishop Francis said. “Christian faith is faith in a person. It- is not an intellectual apprehension of certain propositions: it is not satisfied by the recitation of a creed. The earliest discples of Christ left all and followed Him because of their faith in Him. “Creeds were formulated to oppose error concerning Christ, to safeguard the truth which the church had received and to which it witnessed. They are valuable. As valuable to Christnity as the Constitution is to the United States.” WELBY HUNT EXPECTED TO TAKE STAND TODAY Prepares to Accuse Hickman of Slaying Druggist. By United. Press LOS ANGELES. Feb. 24.—Welby Hunt was expected to take the stand in his own defense today and testify that William Edward Hickman was the actual slayer of Ivy Toms, Los Angeles druggist, for whose murder he and Hickman are on trial jointly. Hickman and Hunt each have blamed the other for killing Thoms, who was shot when the two youths battled with a policeman, who iterrupted them in the hold-up of the Thoms store.

LOVE LIKE RADIO, WE DON’T KNOW HOW DARNED THING WORKS, SAYS GEORGE ADE

This Is the fourth of the series of answers by famous personages to Will Durant’s assertion that man is incapable of love after 30. BY GEORGE ADE WILL DURANT says that no man, and presumably no woman, above the age of 30 is capable of falling in love. When he talks about “love” probably he means the nerve-racking, soul-de-vouring, devastating kind of passion which needs an asbestos covering. He means the hysterical infatuation of a Camille for an Armand Duval or the moon-struck ravings of a Romeo for a Juliet. What Will is trying to say is that any one who arrives at the age of discretion gets over that kind of temporary insanity. If so, why worry about it? Did you ever live in the same house with someone who really was in love? Didn’t you feel sorry for the victim? Isn’t it depressing to see a

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Hundred Workers Escape Death in Arkansas Shaft Explosion. By United Press Fl’. SMITH, Ark., Feb. 24.—Between fifteen and eighteen miners were reported trapped in the Mamoa Mine Company’s No. 3 shaft at Jenny Lind, eight miles south of here, in an explosion today. One hundred miners escaped. About 125 men were at work in three shafts at the time of the explosion, company officials said. The explosion, thought to have been caused by gas, happened in Mine No. 18. Mines. 18, 14 and 3 of the Mamma Company all connect with No. 18. The trapped miners belonged to the No. 3 crew. Rescue crews began work immediately, removing debris in the shaft in an effort to reach the trapped men. Claud Spigel, State mine inspector, and W. E. Templeton, president of the company, were in charge of the rescue work. Persons at the scene of the blast said the pntrapped men were caught in a rear recess of the mine. Some believed all had been killed by the explosion. MAN HAD 1,300 ‘GIRLS’ Arrest of Berlin Swain Shows Many Duped in Love. By WE A Service BERLIN. Feb. 24.—Women, 1,3(f0 of them, in all parts of Germany, are trying to forget the same lover. Following the arrest of Franz Liefke, handsome and gifted with a “loving” tongue, letters began coming to police headquarters from hundreds of whom he had duped into love affairs. Franz’ game was to become engaged, widows preferred, obtain a loan of money or jewelry and then absent himself on the pretext of pressing business in some other part of the country.

grown person biting his nails, looking wild out of the eyes, talking verbal chocolate sundaes and gurgling into the telephone twenty minutes at a stretch? It is hard work to make any intelligent comment on Mr. Durant’s observation, because no one really knows what “love” is. There may be one genuine brand, but the market is flooded with imitations. Love is something like the radio. We know that it is here and in operation and popular, but we don’t know just how or why the darn thing works. u an TTyHAT commonly is known as ’ ’ “love” is a sudden ambition on the part of some person to acquire a proprietary interest in sometning which seems attractive and deisrable. It is the same kind of yearn which you feel when you see a dandy new type of car at the automobile show.

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By RALPH H. MAITLAND , United Press Staff Correspondent COLUMBUS, 0., Feb. 24.—G00d wishes mingled w'ith serious doubt and a share of utter cynicism in the whole project, expressed by two leading Ohio astronomers, will accompany Robert Condit, of Condit, O', when he starts from Miami, Fla., on his rocket journey to the planet Venus late this month. Dr. Jermain G. Porter, director of the observatory at the University of Cincinnati, who is a mild little man and hates to discourage any project in the interest of science, doesn’t exactly condemn the proposed flight, hop, voyage or whatever sort of trip people make in rockets, but he is rather doubtful on several points. To begin with, says Dr. Porter, the distance from Miami Beach, to the closest part of Venus is about 28,000,000 miles. Dr. Porter lays no claim to comprehensive knowledge of pyrotechnics, but he did advance the belief that it would be a signal engineering achievement to construct a rocket with power to carry it that far. n u n OF course, he pointed out, after traveling 15,000,000 miles of the distance, more or less, the gravity of Venus would do the rest. However, another obstacle crops up right here, as obstacles will. Should Condit’s conveyance deviate an inch from its selected course, his chances of reaching the much sought planet would be rather null, not to say void. In such event. Dr. Porter says, the rocket would shoot past Venus and meander about the universe for several million years. That is, if it didn't collide with some other heavenly body such as the sun or one of the stars. And another thing: It seems that Condit has not arranged for a fireman to maintain a fire beneath his rocket after it passes beyond the range of the earth’s atmosphere. It has proved that the ether throughout the universe will not support flame any more than it will life. nutt WHICH leads to the question, ‘what will the prospective trans-universal aviator use for air? The problem of food is comparatively simple, inasmuch as he might be able to pack enough condensed milk, sardines, and things into a rocket to last fifteen years —if the rocket is large enough. But air?—Dr. Porter shook his head gravely, saying nothing. Prof. Edmund S. Manson, of the astronomy department of Ohio State University, wasn't the least bit optimistic about the project, and seemed to have no scruples about discouraging ambitious rccket hoppers. a * u '"IITHY the man is absurd,’ VV said Manson:- “His rocket is absurd. The whole plan is absurd. “He has about 28,000.000 miles to travel where he will have no oxygen to breathe, and if he takes enough along to survive the trip, he won’t have any when he gets there. And if there is no oxygen, there are no inhabitants,” the professor pointed out. However, in the face of all untoward incidents, both astronomers agreed that the starting of the rocket from the earth would make a lovely fireworks exhibition. OLD ‘PROF’ AIDS HOOVER Former Teacher Is Candidate for • Delegate. By United Press SALEM, Ore, Feb. 24.—Levi T. Pennington, the man who taught Herbert Hoover how to spell and other things of that nature, has launched a campaign to assist his former pupil toward the Republican presidential nomination. Declaring himself for Hoover, Pennington, president of Pacific College at Newburg, Ore., today filed his announcement of candidacy as delegate-at-large to the Republican national convention. The attached platform expresses the hope that he may have a part in nominating the man he taught as a youth. Local Company Buys Bonds By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 24.—A $152,000 bond issue of the Ft. Wayne school city has been bought by the Fletcher American Company, Indianapolis, at a premium of $9,931.

And the "love” which wells up in your heart will cool down when the varnish is worn away and the transmission fails to work. Suppose that people over 30 are not capable of red-hot devotion. What of it? If you will hang around the divorce courts you may discover that most of the busted romances started out with he and sire being simply crazy about each other. Crazy and didn't know it. He thought he was gettmg an angel who had skidded on a cloud and dropped down from heaven, instead of an over-indulged flapper with a temper like a cross-cut saw. She thought she was getting Sir Galahad, in Oxford bags, and found out, later on, that she had drawn a mental defective with a vaudeville sense of humor. Probably sixty per cent of the marriages are due to the fact that certain men get tired of

[STATE G. 0. P. DECLINES TO RAPJACKSON Action on Demands Made for Resignation Held to Be ‘Outside Province.’ ADAMS STIRS STORM Committee 0. K. Is Given Watson; Senator May Enter Ohio Race. BY ROBERT BEARD The Republican State committee gave clear indication that it will not be embroiled, with its consent, in the State-wide demand for Governor Ed Jackson's resignation, when it politely picked two flies from the ointment of party peace at Thursday's meeting at the Severin. This was the outstanding political development of the week. The trespass upon a session intended solely for adoption of a resolution indorsing Senator James E. Watson’s presidential campaign was accomplished by communications from Thomas H. Adams, Vincennes publisher and Republican insurgent, and Arthur K. Remmel, editor of the Republican Ft. Wayne NewsSentinel. They dared the committee to call upon Jackson for his resignation, in light of evidence presented in the Governor's trial on a charge of conspiring to offer a bribe to former Governor Warren T. McCray. Outside Committee Povinee A half hour’s “due deliberation" brought the report that by unanimous vote of the ten committeemen present, action demanded in the letters was “entirely without the province of the Republican State committee.” The pronouncement, although anticipated. was regarded as significant, in that a score or more of influential Republican editors throughout the State, to say nothing of the Democratic journalists, accepted the committee's refusal to interest itself in the Jackson matter as a reply to one and all. Further, it was regarded as an officially approved rule of conduct for such Republican candidates for public office as court the esteem of the organization. Certainty of Adams’ entry in the race for the Republican nomination for Governor gave promise of bringing a cross-fire on Jackson, the Republican organization, and political corruption. The barrage, to date, has been directed almost entirely from Democratic lines. Nothing for Adams to Lose Four Republican gubernatorial candidates already in the field have been guarded in their remarks, mindful of organization approval. Adams, it is agreed, has nothing to hope for in this direction and so nothing to lose. The committee’s resolution warmly indorsing Watson's presidential aspirations and the Watson-for-President banquet at the Columbia Club served to convince many skeptics that the senior Senator's presidential efforts are sincere and not intended primarily to capture the Indiana delegates to the national Republican convention. Simultaneous with the filing of Watson’s name for the preference vote of the State in the primaries. M. Bert Thurman, Watson's campaign manager, announced plans are under way for presenting Watson’s name in other States. Thurman goes to Washington Sunday to confer with Watson and his capitol friends along this line. May Enter Ohio Race West Virginia and Ohio are considered as the most likely States for Watson’s primary entries. Thurman indicated the Ohio campaign, if undertaken, would be directed so as not to embarrass the cause of Watson’s colleague. Senator Frank B. Willis. The Ohioan is understood not to oppose an effort by Watson, Lowden or Dawes for second choice votes. The Washington conferences also will include the advisability of entering Kentucky, Missouri and Oklahoma, where, Thurman declares, Watson has a substantial following and where the absence of primaries would make it necessary to work for delegates to State conventions. Believing the Republican presidential situation bears strong symptoms of going into a deadlock in the national convention, Watson supporters believe the veteran Hoosier Senator is in a position not to be underestimated.

clubs, hotels, boarding houses or parental supervision, and exactly the same number of women, above the age of eighteen, want to prove to their friends that they can if they want to. When the experimental male meets the determined female, and they come to an arrangement, the common explanation of their getting together is that a “love affair” has developed, whereupon Cupid drops his bow and arrow and rolls around on the ground in an epileptic convulsion. tt an \ VERY large percentage of the happy marriages I have observed from the side lines were framed up in a business-like mood, by persons well above Mr. Durant’s age limit. I am not claiming that the people who entered into these partnership agreements were capable of the kind of love made famous by Abe-

View of Central Shrine

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How the central Shrine of the Indiana War Memorial looks today.

Kiss Last Kiss Colman and Banky Firm of Screen Lovers to Be Separated.

BY DAN THOMAS XEA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 24. Wanted: A lover and a heroine. Apply at the offices cf Samuel Goldwyn. The lover's job will bp to woo beautiful Vilma Banky. The heroine's job will be to accept attentions and kisses from Ronald Colman. In other words, it seems that Colman and Miss Banky have kissed their last kiss. This couple, known as the most popular team cf screen lovers, have been separated. Goldwyn, who controls the destinies cf these two. has decided that it costs too much to make pictures co-starring them—their salaries are prohibitive. Further, he believes that either is big enough to carry a picture alone. There may be another reason, too, since it is a known fact in the innermost circles of filmdom that Colman and Miss Banky cannot get along at all. Their love scenes appear very real cn the silver sheet, but between shn f s they're just as apt. to be throwing things at each other as not. As yet, no steps have been taken to find new partners. There are a couple of good jobs open for somebody.

HIT-RUN CONVICTION PUTS SIOO IN FUND

Police Chief Claude M, Worley today turned over to the police pension firnd a check for SIOO, received from Jerry Dalton, treasurer of the Western Union Messenger Athletic Association, “in appreciation of the good work of the department in capturing the hit-and-run driver who killed one of our members recent’ In e meantime, Glenn Kirkpati Tipton poolroom operator, convicu-d hit-and-run driver, is in the custody of Sheriff Omer Hawkins, waiting to be taken to the Indiana State prison, to which he was sentenced from one to ten years. Worley wrote the following letter to Dalton in acknowledgment of the check: “I wish to acknowledge receipt of your check for SIOO. payable to the police pension fund, as a reward for apprehension and conviction of the hit-and-run driver who recently killed one of your members, Allen Campbell. “I want to thank you on behalf of the police department and myself, and to assure you that this department is at all times ready to co-

lard and Heloise, Francesca and Paola, Venus and Adonis, and those two underworld lovers immortalized in song, viz:, Frankie and Johnny. Mr. Durant probably is right in suggesting that most alliances among persons above thirty are marriages of convenience, prompted by a lonesome longing for companionship. The man wearies of sitting all by himself in a restaurant and the old maid decides that a husband will be more of a protection to her than a police dog, because a police dog can not be depended upon to bite intruders, while husbands have been known to. Mr. Durant would have played safe if he had said that there can be no “true devotion” after the age of fifty. We send a man to jail for drinking a glass of claret with his dinner, but we permit him to go and take out a marriage

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NORRIS BATTLES | TO USE SHOALS Asks U. S. Control in Attack on Private Firm. i By Times special WASHINGTON. Feb. 24. The j country is being deceived by. propaganda relative to Muscle Shoals. Senator Norris told the Senate Thursday in urging adoption of his plan for government operation. This propaganda is being circulated in behalf of the American ; Cyanamid Company, Norris charged, and the American Farm Bureau Federation is being misled and deceived. The Cyanamid company wants to lease the shoals for fifty years, ostensibly to manufacture fertilizer, although Norris says the Cyanamid | process is obsolete and water power • is not as necessary as cheap coal for manufacture of fertilizer. When ten years ago he introduced as a dream for cheap power for the South, has not been compromised into a limited government operation plan that even Norris is not satisfied with, he said. Senator Black of Alabama said he did not want the Alabama Power Company to get Muscle Shoals. He said that power company was the only one in operation in Alabama and had already put practically ail Alabama's municipalities under franchise for so many years that they could not buy from the Government if they wanted to.

operate to the fullest extent in matters of this kind. “Every member of this department was on his toes to assist in clearing up this case, as we all realize that these messenger boys are the making of future citizens. The writer, himself, at one time followed this vocation.” ABANDON 3-YEAR FIGHT TO CONTROL INFECTION Doctors Fail to Cheek Face Disease on New l'ork Boy, 10. liy yp.A Service ■ FT. WORTH, Texas. Feb. 24. After a three-year fight to control an infection in the face of a boy, now 10, science has quit the case as hopeless. Bill Mattingly, one-time prize baby, lies in his bed almost unrecognizable even to his mother. Four major operations and treatment by fourteen doctors have failed to stem the tide of the disease. Three years ago the boy bumped a pipe in his father’s tin shop. Bone infection set and now arm paralysis is robbing him of his only pastime, sketching.

license after he is so old that he has to be propped up during the ceremony. Irving Berlin knew what he was writing about when he composed that song entitled “Don’t Wait Too Long.” But when Mr. Durant insists that the fires of love burn themselves to ashes before any man or woman is thirty years old, he is making a bold declaration which he never can prove. I have seen boys and girls well beyond thirty in action when they were in condition and feeling well and if it was not real “love” that possessed them and made them act so looney, I’ll say that they were giving some great imitations. They thought they were in love, whether they were or were not, and it seems kind of low-down of Mr. Durant to come along and tell them that they were simply suffering from high blood-pres-sure. (Copyright, 1928, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

MEMORIAL TO BE ENCLOSED/ BY f'.i Laying Stones for Tower to Be Started Within Few Weeks. CALL FOR BIDS FRIDAY State Shrine Will Be Second to Lincoln Memorial at Capital. i Outer construction of the Indiana War Memorial shrine building will be completed and the beautiful structure fully enclosed by this fall, according to members of the memorial commission today. Stonework on the building is rapidly nearing completion. The task of laying stones forming the lower will be started in two or three weeks. Bids for bronze work on doors and windows will be advertised for at a meeting of the commission Friday Plans for interior finishing of the building have not been adopted. This work will probably not be concluded until 1932. Os World Note The shrine will be one of the most beautiful structures in the world. I Its only equal as a memorial, archiI tects agree, will be the Lincoln Memorial at Washington, D. C. The building will tower 210 feet above the street level. At the very j top will be an observation platform, ; which is within eighteen feet of ; the height of the Soldiers’ and [ Sailors’ Monument observation plali form. The monument shaft reaches ! 285 feet above street level. Construction of the shrine has been an object of interest to many : thousands of persons. Work Baffles Public A familiar query has been: “How are they going to get the stones on the top after they take down the four big cranes and interior steel construction framework?” Contractors explained that the huge stones for the tower will be lifted to the top before the framework and cranes are removed. Then a boom will be constructed through the top of the open space left for the platform and stone lifted into place by the boom. The framework, which must be demolished before the building can be completed, cost approximately $40,000. Cost $12,000,000 The entire plaza, buildings and real estate, will represent a value of $12,000,000 to $15,000,000, commission members said. The shrine, when completed, will contain an auditorium seating 500 persons and various other rooms which may be used by recognized patriotic organizations in the first j basement and first floor of thebase. I The Indiana Historical Commis- ! sion will have its offices, a historical | library, exhibition room and nearly j one-half mile of wall space in the first floor and basement corridors for display of battle flags, now kept at the Statehouse. An imposing shrine room dedicated to the flag will be located ! above the first floor, with a ceiling [ 100 feet high. j An elevator will reach nearly to the top of the building. Not an imperfect stone is used in the building, only the best Indiana I limestone quarried being accepted. lAn idea of the immensity of the building may be gained fom the fact each of the twenty-four pillars weigh sixty-five tons. Companion Buildings Eventually the plaza, extending from New York to St. Clair Sts., will contain only five structures, the shrine, in University Park, an obelisk 100 feet high, surrounded by ponds, north of the shrine; the American Legion building on Meridian St. at St. Clair St., already constructed, and a companion building to the Legion building, to be constructed at a later date, on Pennsylvania St. near St. Clair St. The remainder of the space will be a beautiful landscaped park. Corners of the block enclosing the obelisk, which is to be started soon will be beautified with shrubbery, and will have German guns used in the World War as trophiees on each corner. The Memorial Plaza was created at the 1920 legislature special session by an act providing for a sixtenths of a cent State levy for twelve years, from 1920 through 1931. Levy for $4,000,000 The levy will produce approximately $4,000,000 by 1932. Nearly all the five blocks plaza is now owned by the State. The two blocks from St. Clair St. south to North St, were already State property. The City of Indianapolis purchased the one block from North St. to Michigan St. and presented it to the State. Marion County purchased and presented to the State all of the blocb from Michigan St. to Vermont St., with the exception of sites of the First Baptist and Second Presbyterian Churches, which will be purchased probably within the next year. University Park, from Vermont St. to New York St., already was owned. Block from North St. to Michigan St., now being demolished, included the old Propylaeum, the Chalfont building, first apartment building in the city, and the old Harry S. New home. The old State school for the blind will not be vacated in less than eighteen months because of delays in construction of the new building north of the city.