Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 183, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1928 — Page 4

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FAMOUS HOTEL TO BE RAZED IN jOf YORK Waldorf Astoria Will Make Way for 50-Story Skyscraper. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—The Wal-dorf-Astoria, one of the famous hostelries of all time, will be wrecked next summer to make way for an office building. Announcement was made Thursday that the hotel and its valuable site at Thirty-third and Fifth avenue, had been sold to the Bethlehem Engineering Corporation by the present owners, the Waldorf-Astoria Realty Company. No price was given, but it was reliably reported as being somewhere near $20,000,000. Tire passing of the WaldorfAstoria will recall what a prominent part this hotel had in the shaping of social life in New York. In reality, it is two hotels in one. The Waldorf was built in 1853 by William Waldorf Astor. Four years later John Astor erected a seven-teen-story addition, and the name of the hotel was changed to the Waldorf-Astoria. Called ‘Boldt’s Folly’ George C. Boldt, who opened the Waldorf, came to New York from Philadelphia with anew conception of hotel operation. He believed hotel-keeping was a quasi-public business and that every effort should be bent toward making the guests comfortable. When the announcement was made that there would be 350 private bathrooms in the hotel, people ?ill over the country laughed and called the project “Boldt’s folly” or “Astor’s folly.” For a time it seemed they were right, for the hotel did not prosper immediately after it was built. The financial panic of 1893 tnade it difficult to obtain patronage and on one Sunday in that year there were only forty guests registered at the Waldorf. About 970 employes were on hand to serve those, persons. One of World’s Wonders\ Soon, however, the hotel became one of the wonders of the new world. Its rose room, its Peacock Alley, the Grand Ballroom and the magnificent bar fronting on fortythird street, became the topic of conversation in the capitals of Europe. Princes were feted there: a party of Spanish grandees headed by the duke and duchess of Veragua. stopped at the Waldorf and after that the hotel had the approval of society. John Jacob Astor tore down his mansion which shared the Fifth avenue frontage with the Waldorf, and ordered an addition built to the hotel. That was completed two years later, and the name of the hotel was changed. The fame of the Waldorf-Astoria increased after the prince of Wales, the king and queen of the Belgians, and the sister of the emperor of Japan made it their headquarters on visits to New York. Plan Fifty-Story Structure Every effort was made to increase the comfort of guests. When ping-pong became a fad, tables for the game were installed; - free billiard tables were put in and the first Monday morning musical was held in one of the ballrooms. Among prominent Americans who made their New York home there were Charles M. Schwab and Elbert H. Gary. Famous artists contributed to the beauty of the buildipg. Edwin Blashfield was commissioned to do the ceiling of the grand ballroom and Will H. Low was engaged to do the murals. The purchasers announced that the building which will be erected on the site would be fifty stories high.

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Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to the police as having been stolen. Claude Mathis, 2336 South Randolph street, Chevrolet coach, from Virginia avenue and Washington street. Herbert C. Lynam, 313 North East street, Ford roadster, license 18-364 from Tenth street and Cornell avenue. Ray Lindsey, 702 Rochester avenue, Willy s-Knight touring license 618-297, from Liberty and North streets. Alfred D. Plummer, 505 North Noble street, Ford touring, license 625-208, from in front of 505 North Noble street. Muncie City Bodies Clash By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 21.—Friction has developed between the board of works and the city council. The latter body charges that it wak not consulted by the board when a Chicago engineering firm was employed to supervise construction of a $300,000 sewer.

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HONOR CHANCE’S NAME Advertising Club Adopts Resolutions in Memory of Deceased Member. Resolutions in memory of Frank S. Chance, local advertising man, who died Saturday, were adopted by members of the Indianapolis Advertising (Jlub Thursday. Mr. Chance was a charter member of the club. SEA CAPTAIN~TO /ISIT City Will Be Host Jan. 12 to Leviathan Commander. Indianapolis will be host Jan. 12 to Harold A. Cunningham, commander of. the Leviathan, the world’s largest ship, and highest ranking officer in the United States merchant marine according to an announcement made by J. A. Bousleg, general western passenger agent of the United States lines. The commodore will visit the city

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under the auspices of the United Shipping beard in an effort to stimulate public interest in the expansion of the American merchant marine. Cunningham will visit Governor Ed Jackson, Mayor L. Ert Slack-and other officials. A series of receptions is being arranged. 10 HELD AS GAMBLERS Morris Kahn Accused as Game Keeper at Grand Hotel. Ten men faced gambling charges today as the result of a police raid on a room at the Grand Hotel, Illinois and Maryland streets, Thursday night. Morris Kahn. 1540 Park avenue, was charged with being the keeper of the game and the others with gaming and visiting a gambling house. Police, led by Captain Jesse McMurtry. said they listened at the door and heard the clink of money and dice before they broke into the room.

COXEY FIOHTS FORjOB BILL General Still Working to Reduce Unemployment. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Tliirtyfour years after he led his famous army of unemployed on its march to Washington. General Jacob S. Coxey of Massillon, 0., is back in the capital, seeking legislation to relieve unemployment and to reduce the high cost of living. It is the twenty-fifth year that Coxey, a w|althy man, has waited in capitol corridors in a persistent effort to persuade congress that his plan to have the government authorize non-interest bearing securities for issuance by municipalities and states is not a Racialist scheme. Coxey’s bill is being conside-ed by the house banking and currency committee, seven members of which already have voted to give it a favorable report. Coxey needs four more committee votes before the bill can reach the floor of the house. To obtain these votes, he spent several weeks campaigning n the districts of Representatives McFadden of Pennsylvania, Hooper of Michigan, Letts of lowa and Strong of Kansas, all Republicans. His bill is sponsored by Representative Guy Campbell of Pittsburgh. Aside from furnishing means for continuous public works. Coxey asserts that the measure will save millions for taxpayers, because 20 per cent of all taxes is used for interest. Another benefit, he claims, will be a reduction in interest rates for commercial loans. TWO SHOT AFTER MEAL SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Dec. 21. Two men are suffering from a bullet wounds as a result of a gun battle in a Chinese restaurant here Thursday night, and one of them Zade Ollie, 36, Plymouth, may die. Earl Young, a waiter, was shot through the left leg. The shooting followed an argument which arose when Ollie attempted to cash a check to pay for dinners served a party of three of which he was the host.

ALAMO HERO’S HEIRS SEEK RICH OIL LANDS

By United Pr< ss WICHITA FALLS, Tex' Dec. 21. —Thirty-three alleged heirs of A. M. Nelson, hero of the battle of the Alamo in the Mexicon war, have filed suit in Archer county for title to one-sixth interest in 1,400 acres of Archer county oil lands, valued at $65,000,000. The petition names forty-four de-

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fendants and asks restoration of title to the land, recovery of $lO,500,000 said, to have been received by the defendants from the sale of oil taken from the lands, a receivership for the property and the oil production while the suit is pending. The suit is to be heard by Judge E. G. Thornton in the February term of court. Defendants named in the petition include Luke McCrory of Wichita Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Goodnow and J. C. White, fee owners of Kansas City. The lands went to Nelson’s widow and his daughter under the head right provisions of the Republic of Texas, after Nelson had died in the Alamo, the petition states. Thereafter the paternal side of the house died out and there being no issue from Nelson’s daughter, the property reverted to the maternal heirs, alleged descendants who are named plaintiffs in the action, it is claimed. The plaintiffs claim to be tenants in common with the present owner and ask one-sixth interest. Land involved in the action includes part of the famous Luke Wilson ranch in Archer county.

O, How She B)i Thin s Sneeinl FT. WAYNE, Ind.. Dec. 21. Homer D. Franklin has obtained in Allen superior court here an annulment of his mariage to Rose C. Gerlin last June, because she said she was 26 .veers old at the time of her marriage when in fact she was 46.

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50,000 UNDER ARMS AFTER BOLIVIAN CALL Ordered to Be Ready for War in Case Peace v Efforts Fail. By United Press ASUNCION, Paraguay, Dec. 21. Fifty thousand persons answered the call to enns In the forty-eight hours after the issue of Paraguay’* general mobilization order. The order was suspended after Bolivia had accepted the good offices of the Pan-American arbitration and conciliation conference in the Chaco region incidents between Bolivian and Paraguayan troops. President Jose Guggiari has ordered that 40,000 of those who responded be chosen as subject to immediate call to arms. By United Press BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 21—Reports iO the newspaper La Pronsa from Its correspondents on the Argentine-Bolivian border today indicated unusual frontier activity. The correspondent at Yacuiba said that “great activity of a military character” was taking place in the district. Another report from Tartagal, an important oil center where many 'Bolivians live, said numerous automobiles were crossing the frontier into Argentina. Bil United Press PARIS, Dec. 21.—The departure of Sir Eric Drummond, secretarygeneral of the League of Nations, for Geneva was hailed by the French press generally today as a final indication that the league’s activities in the Bolivian-Paraguayan dispute had ended.