Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1928 — Page 16

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BRIDGE ACROSS GREAT CANYON READYIN JUNE Span at Dizzy Height Will Open Great Scenic Area to Autoists. 11-H United Frees FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Dec. 7. Dwarfed by the immensity of the Vermillion and Echo cliffs not far away on either side, and by the sheer depth of the chasm below, the first hihgway bridge ever constructed over the great gorge of the Colorado river is being completed 140 miles north of here. The bridge crosses Marble canyon, which in effect is a continuation of the Grand canyon, although the canyon proper does not begin until some miles below. It will be dedicated in June, 1929. It is located six miles below historic Lee’s Ferry, which for half a century has been the only direct means of travel between Arizona and Utah and the only vehicular crossing of the Colorado in all the several hundred miles of gorge cut across northern Arizona and far into Utah. Nearly 500 Feet Deep. Marble canyon at this point is nearly 500 feet in depth, the yellow river winding through vertical walls of red and white stone. The bridge itself is 467 fe* 1 above the low water level, and is declared by engineers to be the second highest highway span in the world. Although there is nothing particularly unique in the design of the bridge, which is of deck-arch type built of steel and concrete roadway, its construction was attended by unusual problems. All material had to be trucked from this city, the nearest railroad point, and the only practical way material could be transported to the north side was by cable, after the south half of the towering arch had been completed. Great Help to Tourists Highway officials of Arizona and Utah consider the Grand canyon, Marble canyon or Lee’s Ferry bridge, as it is variously called, one of the most important tourist developments, in the southwest in recent years. It will make possible the first allyear through highway betwen the two states, connecting several transcontinental routes, anc will make accessible to through '.ravel many Uttle-visited scenic spots.

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How Many Cars to Handle Holiday Jam Is Real Arithmetic Vexer. If the little boys and girls will get out their abacuses (Chinese computing devices) they will learn how Frank J. McCarthy, chief clerk of the passenger department of the Indianapolis division of the Big Four railroad computes how many extra cars will be neede'd at Indianapolis for Christmas travel. About the only thing that isn’t figured in is the price of cheese in Kamchatka. In the first place, he must have files running back for a nine-year period. Then he takes the bank clearings for 1928 and compares them with clearings for the last nine years. Then he compares population for the same period. This should give the average condition of business in Indianapolis and tell the railroad how many persons have enough money for trips to the old homestead Saturday Heavy Day. Then, declares McCarthy, he flndsh out on which day he may expect the heaviest traffic. This year Christmas comes on Tuesday—which makes the Saturday before the holiday the heaviest travel date. Now, how has the bulk of the GIRL SAVED BY DOG FROM AUTO KIDNAPER Goes at "Gas Hawk’s” Throat; Mistress Escapes. By United Press OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 7.—A placid little spaniel trotting lazily along with his mistress turned into a tornado of an enraged dog here when kidnapers threatened Helen Ruth Moss, 15. The girl was walking along a highway near the edge of the city when an automobile stopped and a man asked her a direction. Pretending he was deaf, the motorist motioned the girl closer to the car and when she responded seized her and started dragging her into the machine. The man, however, failed to reckon with the spaniel. In an instant the dog was at the man’s throat and continued to battle until the grip which held Helen was loosened and the girl was able to run away from the car.

travel during 1928 compared with that of 1927? Well, there hasn’t been so much travel. Business—despite prosperity reports—has not been as good. "In fact,” says McCarthy, "all computations show that in 1927 we sold 1,000 extra trips over our normal schedule. “This year we expect a decrease of 10 per cent, which will give in but 900 added fares. "We estimated that on Saturday before Christmas approximately 300 fares will be sold to Chicago. "That means we have to tell our general office in Cincinnati to have extra locomotives and notify the Pullman company that we shall need extra parlor cars.” Fourteen Cars Is Limit The rule on the Big Four is that when more than eleven coaches are used on one train, two locomotives must be used; and when the train reaches the proportions of fourteen coaches, anew train must be made. To have sufficient parlor cars for the Chicago trips in the afternoon two sleepers, which usually are kept on siding until the night trip, will be put into use as parlor cars and then cleaned within an hour and sent out from Chicago as sleepers. Thereby proving that the postmen and the shop girls are not the only persons glad when the Christmas rush is over.

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FROWNS GREET NOTED AUTHORS IN HOME CITY Cabell and Glasgow Are Names to Be Hushed in Richmond. By Times Special NEW YORK. Dec. 7.—James Branch Cabell may be the most significant figure in American literature in the eyes of the nation’s intellectuals, but in his home city, Richmond, Va., “his books never are discussed at the monthly literary luncheons of the Woman’s Club.” Ellen Glasgow may be a bright star in the national , literary firmament, but it makes no difference to her Richmond neighbors. "They cannot sanction her forays into realism and satire.” These are the glimpses of two of

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America’s outstanding literary figures as their native city sees them, presented by Eudora Ramsay Richardson, herself a native Richmond writer, in an article published in the Bookman for December. Another Richmond author of note, Margaret Prescott Montague, "is about as unknown to the rank and file of Richmond’s population as she is in the declares Miss Richardson. The masses of Richmond simply

ignore the little group of a half dozen writers who have brought the city literary fame, she says. But to those who regard themselves as the pillars of Virginia society and culture, Cabell, Miss Glasgow, Mrs. Montague, Emily Clarke, and the others constitute a menace to Victorian traditions, “and Richmond, you know, is made up preponderantly of conservatives,” she explains. When Carl Van Doren, editor and critic, speaking before the Richmond Women’s club , called Cabell’s “Jurgen” the greatest contemporary America nnovel, there was a significant stillness, then a thin trickle of applause, relates Miss Richardson. “The audience had not meant to be rude,” she explains. “They just couldn’t be certain that it was proper to applaud a book that surely was not nice, or it wouldn’t have been banned.” Nevertheless, her Bookman article notes, when "Jurgen” temporar-

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ily was banned, Cabell’s Richmond audience quickly was increased; When Miss Glasgow, In "Barren Ground” and “The Romantic Comedians,” pictured a lowly-born governor of Virginia and a southern gentleman whose ardor was aroused by women of lower social levels, Richmond was shocked, relates Miss Richardson. "That the critics were unanimous in their praise was small comfort to Richmond,” she says. “There still are subjects that pice people should not discuss.” Hoosier on Hoover’s Ship P.U Times Special FREMONT, Ind., Dec. 7.—Edward Duffey, son of Mrs. G. W. Blauser, of Fremont, is a member of the crew of the U. S. S. Maryland, on which Herbert Hoover, Presidentelect, is making a South American trip. Duffey was graduated from Fremont high school in 1926 and enlisted in the navy the same year.

DEC. 7, 1928

KINGFISHERS GO FISHING Three Birds, Unknown In Grand Canyon, Pay a Visit. By Science Service GRAND CANYON, Ariz., Dec. 7. —The Grand Canyon national park has received a visit from three belted kingfishers, a species that previously was unknown among the bird life of the park. The three birds were observed by park employes along Bright Angel creek, on the north rim of the canyon. Their visit in this region indicates that they followed a tourtuous path of the Colorado river through a semi-arid region where it must have been a difficult matter for their sharp eyes to perceive food in the muddy waters. Bright Angel creek with its clear water, trout, and native minnows, afforded an excellent resting place for these traveling avian fishermen.