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GHOST OUT OF PAST RISES TO IRK PUS Queen of Klondike Dance Halls May Be Witness in Assault Case. LIFE TALES ARE LINKED Former Friend of Theater King Broke With Him After Gold Rush. BY GEORGE H. BEALE United Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3.—Clink of Klondike gold and shrill laughter or dance hall girls were overtones today in the trial of Alexander Pantages, millionaire theater man, charged with attacking Eunice Pringle, 17-year-old dancer. Kate Rockwell, who knew Pantages when he was a gold mucker and a barkeeper and she was e dance hall queen in Dawson City, was In Los Angeles, it was expected she would attend the trial, perhaps to testify. Vrhe appearance of Kate Rockwell, whom he is said to have quarS utterly while they were part mad whirl of the gold boom •ould perturb Pantages, said who knew the strange story r lives. ■let Attorney Buron Fitts said ;r the one-time northland Sriancer would testify in the trial depended on developments. “Aunt Kate” at Home Now In her fifties, tall, medium blonde and with lines etching her face, Kate Rockwell is Aunt Kate to her neighbors in Bend, Ore., whence she came Saturday. Sourdoughs remember when Kate was the gayest of the gay in Dawson City, in Nome, and Fairbanks, flaunting her tinseled skirts on rough dance floors, with miners in from the icy creeks as her partners. “The last time I saw her,” one old-timer said today, “she was mushing behind her dog team over the 300-mile trail between Valdez and Fairbanks. It was the only way to get there and she did it.” Pantages, it seemed certain, will be upset by other things during the day, including probably the appearance of Miss Pringle, who was scheduled to take the witness stand and tell the jury of six men and six women that she was criminally assaulted by the 54-year-old multimillionaire. Jury Is Selected The jury, composed entirely of middle-aged persons, was selected late Wednesday after two days of bickerings. The district attorney said Miss Pringle and her mother would be among the first witnesses called. Interest in the sensational details of the trial shared with curiosity concerning Kate Rockwell and the part she played in the theater magnate’s early life. Many here who joined the Klondike gold rush remembered the pair and pieced out their story. Pantages, then 18 years old, went Into Alaska with a pick and shovel. He quickly changed to a barkeeper’s apron and later he became the premier showman of Alaska—with seats at sl2.so—gold dust preferred. Kate Rockwell had an interest in the ventures, it was said. After the Klondike rush Pantages went to Seattle and opened a show house there. He soon became a millionaire, with theaters in a score of cities. Kate Rockwell went to Bend, Ore., to live and their ways parted. BRAZIL MAN CHOSEN BY THEATER OWNERS Executive Secretary and General Manager Retains Positions. A. C. Miller of Brazil was elected president of the Associated Theater Owners of Indiana at the annual meeting Wednesday in its offices in the Chamber of Commerce building. W. C. Zaring of Indianapolis was elected vice-president and Jean Marks of Indianapolis, treasurer. Mrs. Helen Blown Keeler of Indianapolis was retained as executive secretary, and Charles Metzger of Indianapolis as attorney and general manager until Jan. 1 when the position will be open. The directorate voted to continue Its stand against arbitration of disputes between the, producers and exhibitors of motion picture films. The local deadlock began Aug. 1 when the association withdrew from arbitration with local Film Board of Trade, alleging unfairness. BUOY WORKERS KILLED Blast in Lake Superior Causes Death of Three Men. Bo United Press BAYFIELD. Wis., Oct 3.—Three members of the United States lighthouse tender Marigold were killed and four others were injured Wednesday when a Lake Superior buoy on which they were working exploded near here. The explosion occurred when the three mer. sought to install an acetylene gas cartridge in the steel biK# preparatory to late fall shipping. Cooker Blast Hurts Two Be United Pri st DECATUR, Ind., Oct. 3.—Mr. and Mrs. Richard Speakmen of near here were seriously burned Wednesday night when a steam pressure Ser exploded and sprayed them i water and steam. Physicians toth probably would recover.

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NOBODY LOVES ’EM Girl Clerks Dodge Fat Women

BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Oct. 3—ls you are a fat woman, even a stout woman for that matter, you likely will be snubbed by the saleswoman the next time you go to buy a dress. And don’t blame the saleswoman, either, because she likely has been instructed to pay as little attention to you as possible, says Frances R. Donovan, psychologist and school teacher who just has spent a summer working in a New York department store gathering material for a book

But the fat woman, particularly that fat woman with slim ideas; the old woman, and the “price no object” shopper are something else again. "If there is one commei* more often heard in the dress department than any other, It is ‘I hate to wait on an old woman,’ ” said Miss Donovan. “It is not a matter of years, but a mental attitude to which the saleswoman objects. The old woman is fussy; she can see a dozen things to find fault with that any other woman never would discover. “I didn’t wait on an old woman or a fat woman if I could help it. I found out that the familiar way to avoid her was to act as though I suddenly were struck blind when she loomed up.” #OO THE blindness of Miss Donovan and other saleswomen was in accord with the policy of the store and was not mere intentional laziness on the part of the girls in the department, she continued. “The merchant must sell his goods,” she said. “He can not afford to have the time of his sales force wasted. Saleswomen are instructed that three dresses of the right size and color are the limit that should be shown to a customer.” * The “price-no-object” shopper, said Miss Donovan, is a nuisance,

because most of the time she hasn’t the price to buy anything. But the fat woman —ah, she is the worst of all. “The struggle cf flesh is fought every day in the selling of dresses,” she said. It is the expected thing for a woman who is a perfect 46 to ask if you thing she can wear a 38 and to be willing to compromise only to the extent of a 40.

“Usually just to prove how solid human flesh can be, the saleswoman attempts to incase a 46 woman in a 40 frock, but she never gets it any farther than the shoulders. “Fat women like bright colors and youthful styles, but the manufacturers seem to have taken it for granted that when a woman is more than forty-two inches around her chest, she doesn’t care what she wears. That is base libel.” And as for fat women being good natured, Miss Donovan snickered* “I have yet to see a fat woman displaying a good nature in selecting a dress,” she said.

LOOPHOLE IN LAW PROFITS C. C. SHIPP

Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts, declared today he will conduct an investigation into the allegations of law dodging in the Indianapolis public schools to buy C. C. Shipp ventilating and heating supplies. Orr asserted his board never had approved the method employed by EMMELMAN TO TAKEFURLOUGK $214-Month Inspector of Bridges to Aid Party. Wayne Emmelman, Marion county’s $214-a-month “bridge inspector” and “captain” of the George V. (Boss) Coffin Republican political organization, voluntarily has taken his name from the county payroll for one month, probably to attend to political interests, it was revealed today. Emmelman’s temporary resignation has been submitted to County Auditor Harry Dunn, effective until Nov. 10. The city election will be held Nov. 5. Although the county’s employment list until last spring provided for no such post as bridge inspector, county commissioners, who are Coffin cohorts, provided Emmelman a “berth,” the duties consisting of inspection of newly constructed bridges. Since the appointment, one bridge has been built. Meanwhile, Emmelman has been actively engaged in county politics. He is secretary of the city and county organizations. ‘TAG’ WITH WIFE AND GUN BRINGS ARREST Police Take Hand in Game, Putting Robert Van Hook in Jail. Robert Van Hook. 28, of 3125 Jackson street, is in the city jail today because he played tag with his wife and police played “crosstag.” Neighbors called police Wednesday night and said Van Hook was chasing his wife around the house with a revolver in his hand. When Motor Policemen Jack Alkire and Fred Staggs arrived Van Hook quit the game and ran. ; After a mile chase, police "tagged” ; Van Hook for a jail cell and a vagi rancy charge. I . Paris Auto Show Opens ! Btt United Press PARIS, Oct. s.—With France and : the United States vying for numerical superiority in the number of exhibits, the twenty-third annual t automobile salon opened today at ! the Grand Palais. The exhibits totalled 1.020 automobiles.

The Times Yo Yo Contest Being under 18 years of age, I desire to enter The Indianapolis Times City Championship Yo Yo Contest to be held subject to the rules of the contest board. This blank must be In the office of The Indianapolis Times not later than 6 p. m. Oct 10. Prizes, places and dates will be announced later. Name Address ~**W

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on feminine psychology. “I got all the material I needed and more, too,” Miss Donovan added. She learned among other things that business women and young girls are good customers because they usually know what they want and moreover are in such a hurry that they seldom waste the saleswoman’s time.

the school commissioners in getting around the S2OO limit in purchasing materials without bids. The method was diclosed at the hearing on school tax budgets before the state tax board this week. Phil Zoercher, one of the tax board members, produced orders written day after day in July, 1928, for the purchase of Shipp heating supplies from the Central Supply Company for in amounts just under the S2OO limit. These materials were used at School 63, cost $2,330 and were never open to bidding or contract. Orr stated he will confer with field examiners, who handled the school accounts, regarding this transaction. He cited the original Indianapolis school law, passed in 1899, which forbids just such procedure. But Ure Frazier, formerly business manager of the schools and now a board of accounts field examiner, pointed out the law was changed in 1923 to make the procedure legal. Under the amended statute, school officials can make as many purchases under S2OO as they desire without advertising for bids. Previously the law limited such purchases to one a year from a given firm. So Shipp fixtures likely will continue to be purchased “just within the law” so' long as the present school board remains in office, it was pointed out. VAMP GOES ON STAGE Theda Bara Finds Wiles Out of Style on Silver Sheet. By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 3.—Theda Bara, original movie vampire, is staging a comeback, literally and figuratively. Miss Bara, who in real life is the wife of Charles J. Brabin, screen director, will appear in the title role of a vaudeville sketch opening at a New York theater soon, she announced when she passed through Chicago. “My style of vamping is not in vogue on the screen now,” she said, “so I am returning to the stage.” ROTARIANS .RAISE FUND Convalescent Unit Will Be Added to Riley Memorial Hospital. Dr. E. T. Thompson, administrator of the James Whitcomb Riley hospital, has been authorized by the , joint executive committee to begin ; a study of hospital convalescent secj tions throughout the country and to make recommendations for anew convalescent section to be added to Riley hospital. Rotary Clubs of the Indiana district will provide funds for the building and members are now engaged in completing the subscription fund of $250,000. Hugh McK. Landon, chairman, said today. “A waiting list which sometimes has reached 276 children indicate the great need for the new unit.”

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, OCT. 3; 1920

TIMES ILL STAGE CITY YOYO MEET Thousands of Children to Participate in Six District Contests. FINALS AT THE INDIANA Winner Will Get 3-Day Engagement on Stage of Theater. Thirty thousand Indianapolis boys and girls can’t be wrong. And 30,030 children are playing with the new toy, the Yo Yo. Every school yard and each playground has its group of children constantly practicing the many tricks and stunts that the Yo Yo can be made to do. Among this great number of children are many who have gained proficiency at manipulating the toy and to encourage recreation The Indianapolis Times today announces a grand city championship contest, with prizes for the winners. Co-operating with The Times are neighborhood theaters and the Indiana theater, the stage of which is to be the scene of the grand finals, the winner to be given a three-day engagement there. Elaborate plans for the city-wide contest have been made by the contest board and every child in the city from a day to 18 years old is eligible to participate in the feature contest of the year. City in Six Districts The city has been divided into six districts and a park in each district will be the,- scene of the district elimination contests on Oct. 12. Four winners of the district contest then will engage In the semifinals on the stage of the district theater the night of Oct. 16. The winners of the district finals then will compete in the city finals on the Indiana stage Saturday night, Oct. 19. Runners-up in the finals will be awarded trophies, as will the grand champion, who also will be the recipient of the three-day theater contract. To be eligible for the contest, fill out the entry blank on this page and bring or mail It to the office of The Indianapolis Times not later than 6 p. m. Oct. 10. Must Sign Blank If you have not presented a blank to the contest board, you will be ineligible to compete in the district finals, Oct. 12. District boundaries and contest places are as follows: District I—From Fall Creek boulevard north to city limits, west to Northwestern avenue and east to city limits. State fairground. District 2—From Fall Creek boulevard south to Washington street west to White river and east to the Monon tracks. Riverside park. District 3—The southwestern and western sections of the city west of White river. Rhodius park. District 4—South of Washington street and the Big Four railroad, west to White river, south to city limits. Garfield park. District s—South of Michigan street, west to the Monon tracks and South East street, north of the Big Four tracks. Willard park. District 6—North of Michigan street, between the Monon railroad and the city limits. Brookside park. In event that any child desiring to enter the contest has not a Yo Yo, he may obtain one by clipping a subscription coupon in The Times, having it filled out, and then bring or mail it to The Times. - Only the original Flores Yo Yo may be used in the competition. STRIKE IS POSTPONED New York Market Teamsters Give Employers More Time. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—A strike of market teamsters and chauffeurs threatened for midnight, was postponed until late today by the drivers’ union pending the outcome of a meeting of the Merchant Truckmen’s Association. Union officials said the men would not fralk out until their employers had had a further opportunity to consider their demands. Despite the assurance, fear of the strike caused numbers of commission merchants to cancel orders for shipments of perishable fruits and’ vegetables. CAR THEFT SUSPECTED Man Arrested at Columbus, Ind., With Auto, No Title. Police today received word from the sheriff’s office at Columbus, Ind., of the arrest of William Garrett, 20, pf Indianapolis, for driving a car for which he is alleged to have had no certificate of title. Garrett was driving a roadster with a license 48-745. Records here show the license was issued to Andrew J. Simpson, 1750 Morgan street. Simpson'told police the car was stolen from him Wednesday. Police to Attend Meeting RM Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 3. R. V. Hinshaw, police chief, and Captain Everett Anderson of the Bloomington department will attend the Police Chiefs’’State Association meeting to be held at Terre Haute, Oct. ,8 and 9. Hinshaw also expects to attend the sixteenth general assembly for law observance and better enforcement called by Governor Harry A. Leslie to be held at the state house at Indianapolis Friday and Saturday, Oct. 11 and 12.

Ohio River Canal Opens Vast and Rich Section to Commerce

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This sketch-map gives an idea of the magnitude of the $118,000,000 Ohio river canalization project, which provides cheap transportation of commodities to and from points along the 1,030-mile route from Pittsburgh to the Mississippi and beyond. It opens anew gateway to commerce between the

LIQUOR INQUIRY AFTERJRAQEDY Federal Agents Take Hand at Bloomfield. By United Press BLOOMFIELD, Ind., Oct, 3.—An investigation into liquor conditions in and around Bloomfield was resumed here today by combined federal and county authorities. Three men already have been arrested and taken to Terre Haute, where they are being held for federal court. They are John Ploutch, Worthington; Harry Smith, Linton, and Robert Patterson, Bloomfield. Ploutch and Patterson are charged with possession of liquor and sale to minors. Smith is charged with possession. The investigation was started early this week following the fatal stabbing of Delmar Olphant, 18, a high school athlete, by Wayne Lucas, 35, a paid prohibition informer, during a near-riot Sunday when a mob sought reprisal against Lucas for allegedly having told officers of prohibition law violations. A coroner’s inquest into the stabbing returned the verdict that Oliphant had “been stabbed by a knife in the hands of Wayne Lucas.” The defendant is being held in jail here until conclusion of a grand jury Investigation, to begin Monday. DR. L. M. ROWE DIES Retired Last Fall After 45 Years’ Practice. Last rites for Dr. Louis M. Rowe, 68, who died Tuesday at his home, 5501 Carrollton avenue, after a long illness, were held at 2 p. m. today at the Kreglo & Bailey undertaking establishment, 2233 North Meridian street. Burial was In Crown Hill cemetery. One of the oldest members of the medical profession In Indianapolis, Dr. Rowe retired last November after practicing for more than forty-five years. He was, a graduate of the Illinois university and was a native of Columbus, O. Dr. Rowe was a member of the Meridian street M. E. church and of several medical societies in the city. Surviving him are a step-daugh-ter, Miss Etta L. Martin of Indianapolis, and a nephew, Eugene C. Rowe of Chicago.

BOGUS BILLS ARE IN CIRCULATION HERE Crude Photograph of New Currency Used by Counterfeiter. Undismayed by the government’s efforts to make the new currency hard to imitate, somewhere in Indianapolis there is an ambitious counterfeiter with a supply of bogus new style $5 bills. First of the bogus bills, a crude photograph of the genuine bill, was turned over to Charles Mazey, secret service operator, by the Sixteenth Street State bank, which received it with a customer’s deposit Wednesday. Mazey, in warning the public to watch for more counterfeits, pointed out the bill apparently had been photographed and then tinted, it is shorter than the genuine bill, the portrait of Abraham Lincoln is indistinct and silk fiber is absent. BOY PRODIGY ENDS LIFE # Parents Blame Study of Philosophy for Student’s Suicide. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3.—The parents of Meyer Switzky, 16, high school prodigy, blamed the youth’s study of philosophy today for committing suicide. Although a devoted student of the phlosophers. from Plato to Heine, young Meyer failed to find any useful purpose in life, his parents said. He tried three times to commit suicide before he succeeded. Taking a -22-caliber rifle from the schqol rifle range Meyer shot himself through the head. i

coal and iron districts and the agricultural sections in the midwest and south. At the upper left is shown a towboat with its fleet of barges. President Hoover and the steamer Cincinnati, which will carry him from Cincinnati to Louisville Oct. 22, are shown below. Mr. Hoover will make a radio address from the steamboat.

Hoover Will Dedicate Huge Engineering Project on Oct. 22. By KEA (Service CINCINNATI, Oct. 1. The $118,000,030 Ohio river federal canalization project, opening anew gateway to commerce and transporting millions of tons of freight yearly on its winding 1,000-mile waterway trail and which links the industrial districts of the east with the agricultural districts of the Mississippi valley, at last is completed. On Oct. 22, President Hoover formally will dedicate this gigantic engineering work, which, by means of fifty movable dams, has made possible a minimum stage cf nine feet of water all the way from Pittsburgh to Cairo, 111., where the Ohio meets the broad Mississippi. Puffing along the picturesque Ohio today are 500 steam, oil and gasoline propelled towboats and several thousand barges, carrying coal to feed the roaring blast furnaces in the Pittsburgh district; transporting iron, steel and other commodities to markets near and far—serving a territory greater in extent than Germany, and the home of 15,000,000 people. Completion of this vast canalization project, called by engineers the greatest example of dam and lock construction in the world, constitutes an important step in the federal government’s plan to utilize the nation’s waterways on far more extensive scale. A river pageant, starting Oct. 11 at Pittsburgh, with a historical display of the progress of navigation and appropriate addresses, will begin the program for celebrating the completion of the canal project. One of the finest packet boats ever operated on the Ohio, the steamer Cincinnati, known as the “Queen of the Western Waters,” will be the flagship of the fleet w’hich will travel from Pittsburgh to Cairo President Hoover will accompany the fleet on at least part of its voyage. He will go aboard the flagship at Cincinnati, Oct. 22, for a trip down the Ohio, three dams, to Louisville, where the new sl3 coo OOP navigation-Power dam will be inspected. While there. Hoover will make a radio address from a steamboat on the subject of waterways, accordin'* to tentative plans. GAS TAXES INCREASE Gain of 55 Per Cent Registered for Month of September. Once more state gasoline tax collections have gone over the previous high, the September report in the sttae auditor’s office shows. Total for September was $1,852,908.82, a 55 per cent gain over September, 1928. There were 43,322,570 gallons sold this year and 39,693,509 last, a gain of 6,729,070 gallons. A total of $131,998.98 was refunded this year and $56,856.21 in September, 1 RADIO STORE LOOTED Sets and Lcud-Speaker3 Valued at $1,093 Are Stolen. Someone in Indianapolis today is “hooked up” to receive the play-by-play report of the world series. Early today thieves broke open a back door of the Pearson Piano Company’s branch office, 624 College avenue, and stole six radios and seven loud-speakers valued at $1,093.

Cook Is Inspired by ‘Tea ; Thinks He's ‘Scarface AT

tu United Press Syracuse, n. y., occ. 3. Life as a camp cook and metal polisher was a bit too drab for John Kelly of Buffalo, so he came to town Wednesday night to “oil up.” . A half dozen or so drinks later. Kelly decided he must be A1 Capone, Chicago gang leader, and also be • whoever murdered Arnold Rothstein, New York gambler. Ke walked into police headquarters here

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SOLDIER KILLED IN AUTO MISHAP Private Wiley W. Holman Hit by Car on Road. Traffic accidents claimed one life and injured three persons in and near Indianapolis early today. Wiley W. Holman, 30, of Todd, N. C., a private at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, died at the fort hospital this morning from injuries suffered Wednesday w'hen struck by a car driven by C. F. Terris, 5016 Winthrop avenue, on the Pendleton pike near the army post. Holman, with another soldier, was walking on the pike when the former stepped in front of Terris’ car. He was taken by passing motorists to the army infirmary. Terris was not arrested. Mrs. Beatrice Wheatley, 19, of 414 Terrace avenue, suffered a lacerated throat, and head injuries, and W. L Pettigrew, 40, same address, received chest injuries, when Pettigrew’s cai struck an auto driven by Daniel Snodgrass, 32, R. R. 1, Box 132, near Troy avenue and Madison street. Mrs. Wheatley and Pettigrew were taken to the city hospital. Snodgrass suffered cuts and bruises. He was arrested on charges of assault and battery, reckless driving, and improper auto license plates. SENTENCED TO LIFE Pleads Guilty to Attack on Tiny Girl. On his plea of guilty before Criminal Judge James A. Collins today, Carroll Batty, 31, county infirmary, was sentenced to life in state prison for an attack on a 3% -year-old girl. POLICE TO BE TRIED ‘Third Degree’ Case to be Heard Oct. 16 at Bloomington. py Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 3. Three members of the Bloomington police department, facing assault and battery charges as the result of alleged “third degree” methods used on Lewis Smith, 18-year-old high school student, have entered pleas of not guilty, and trial has been set for Oct. 16. , The accused men ar||werett Anderson, night captainJMm Patrolmen Homer Terrell andTscott Davis. FEW ATTEND REUNION Only 13 of 1,116 Who Enlisted at 39th Infantry Event. PM Tfmr* f-'rrrinl NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Oct. 3.—Of the 1,116 men who enlisted in the Thirty-ninth Volunteer infantry in August, 1361, only thirteen were present at the forty-sixth annual reunion held here. Seven of this number were residents of Hamilton county. A few are living in the west, but it is estimated that not more than thirty of the veterans are still alive. The Women’s Relief Corps gave a supper for the veterans, who at night held a campfire. W. H. Stern of Noblesville, Is president and Mrs. O. A. Somers of Kokomo is secretary and treasurer of the reunion association.

and told the desk sergeant so. An ambitious, but half-asleep police reporter, managed to grasp the words of the boasting drunk and, within a short time, the story was abroad that “A1 Capone had confessed to the Rothstein murder.’’ Meanwhile, Kelly continued his snooze in a cell at headquarters here, unaware he faced arraignment on an inebrietj'^Hrff^

FORD MUSEUM TO BE OPENED ON OCTOBER 21 'The America That Was’ Will Enthrall Thousands of Sightseers. NOTABLES TO ATTEND Everything That Entered Into Life of Older Days Is on Display. Bi/\EA Service DETROIT, Oct. 3.—A solid tenacre section of the “America that use dto be” will be thrown open for used to be” will be thrown open for who is In a large measure responsible for the “America that is now.” Henry Ford's $5,000,000 museum of American antiquities will be opened in the presence of notable men. President Hoover will be here, and Thomas A. Edison, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of his invention of the Incandescent electric light; Harvey Firestone, Mme. Curie of France, and many others. Ford’s museum Is an amazing thing. It covers more than ten acres on the Ford estates in Dearborn, and it includes—well, practically everything that any one interested in the America that used to be possibly could want to see. Famed Buildings There A great many famous buildings stand here—-buildings moved for hundreds of miles from their original sites, erected exactly as they were before. Thomas A. Edison’s famous Menlo park laboratory, in which the household electric light bulb was devised, stands here, with Edison’s original laboratory equipment Intact. Both were moved from New Jersey and re-erected. Nearby Is a two-story frame house—Mrs. Jordan’s boarding house near Menlo park, where Edison, Samuel Insull and other engineers lived in the early days. This house was the first building In the world to be ignited by electricity. Not far away are the machine shops in which the electric dynamo was invented, and nearby is the laboratory that Edison used for forty years in his experiments at Ft. Myers. Fla. Red Sclioolhouse Saved Standing off to one side Is the little red school house which Ford attended as a boy in the little Scotch settlement near Dearborn. Not far off there is the postofflee which the people of Phoenlxville, Conn., built in 1803. Luther Burbank’s office, built at Santa Rosa, Cal., is there, too. A little farther on are the old Lor anger saw and grist mills from the River Raisin, near Monroe, Mich., beside another grist mill built in Haverhill, Mass., in 1798. * Also present Is the old Caleb Smith blacksmith shop, immortalized by Longfellow, brought intact from Uxbridge, Mass. The buildings, interesting as they are, constitute only a small part of the museum, however. Many Vehicles Exhibited In one section there is an amazing collection of vehicles, showing types of practically every form of transportation ever used In America. There are the colonial g gs, the ancient caleche of the Pilgrims, the old mail coaches of Revolutionary days, the famous Conestoga wagons and prairie schooners, the Concord coach, the Pennsylvania buckboat that used to be called the “Adam and Eve Wagon,” because it was built for two. Besides, there are the first American light spring wagon, the phaeton, the ordinary buggy, the victoria, the rockaway, the racing sulky, the ox cart, the light sleigh for winter use —and, of course, the first of all the flivvers, quaint and angular with its high wheels,' its kerosene lights. Its tiller and its exposed fly wheel. To finish this collection there are samples of modern automobiles. Locomotives on Display Ford's collection of locomotives is no less complete. One part of his museum looks like the roundhouse of some historically minded railroad. Practically every type of early locomotive is represented here, together with modern ones. Adjoining the locomotive exhibit Is an exhibit of threshing machines. Historians say that Ford has a sample of every kind of threshing machine ever used in America, from the primitive flail down to the most modern motorized machine. ’ There is also an exhibit of plows, from the affair used by the New England colonists to the huge gang plows of the wheat belt, which cut fourteen furrows at once and require a 300-horse power engine to pull them. Following these is an aviation section, in which every type of airplane is represented. Rubbing elbows with it Is an exhibit of, literally, scores of sawmills, both waterpower and steam, large and small, representing all periods of American history. MOTORMAN ATTACKED Woman and Man Struck Carman on Head With Pop Bottle. Harry Unversaw, 114 West North street, motorman on the English avenue street car line, reported today to police a man and woman assaulted him Wednesday night as he stopped his car at English and Hamilton avenues. Unversaw said the wi -nan struck him on the head with a pop bottle. H could give police no es-i-tiaa o fm* tjfiyft Airijirk'.-