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" Vagabond

From Indiana—Ernie Pyle

Veteran of the Yukon Tells How a Dutchman Found "Dose Vite Horses' And Built a Fortune as a Carpenter.

VV HITE HORSE, Yukon Territory, July 12.—You know how it is when you're traveling. How you'll care very little for most of your fellow travelers, and then you'll run onto one that you feel a harmony with,

and a respect for, and you take up with him. That's how it was with Mr. Moss, coming up on the tra%a from Skagway. He went over the pass to the Klondike in 97. So when we got to White Horse I waylaid Mr. Moss and introduced myself. We walked and chatted for quite a while, and I told him I was a greenhorn and knew nothing about this country. He has told me many stories of the old days, and I hope he will tell me many more. For we will be traveling together for more than a week, as far as Circle, Alaska, where he goes “up the crick” to his dredging properties. Albert S. Moss came twice over the pass by foot. He came in 97, went back outside, and came again in 98. He went through

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the whole Klondike rush, and he was one of the thousands who didn't make a& million. But I suspect he formed a character. He has built a fine log cabin up on Mammoth Creek, out of Circle. He has considerable property up there, and & big dredging outfit is turning his land into gold-in-the-pocket at last. On his vearly Alaskan jaunt Mr. Moss makes it a sort of party with Duane Bush and Mrs. Bush. They are from San Francisco, and Mr. Bush is a gold man too. He's only 40, but he came in with his uncle when he was 12 years old and today he manages the vast gold properties of his uncle's estate. They lie adjacent to Mr. Moss’. I like the Bushes too. So the four of us got a car in White Horse and drove back up the valley to Miles Canyon.

Scene of Tragedy

Finally we stopped the car and climbed down the | bank to White Horse rapids, just below the canyon. It | was here that so many stampeders of 98 lost everything they had—many lost themselves as well. We stood and looked, and he told us a story: | “I was with some other fellows, and we got three | boats at the head of Lake Bennett. On the way down | the lake we overtook a Dutch carpenter from New York City. He had a big wooden box full of carpenter | tools. Tt must have weighed 200 pounds. He had | packed it over the pass on his own back. | “At Lake Bennett he built a raft of logs. He lashed | the tool box on top of it and came on down the lake. He was behind us. “We got through these rapids all right, but we got a pretty bad ducking, so we pulled the boats up on | shore right here and built a fire to dry our clothes { and things out. We were standing there drying when | we saw the Dutchman's raft coming through. “He got an awful pounding. We could see him | down on his knees, kneeling over his tool box with | his arms around it, gripping the logs with his fingers. |

Rescue Is Made

“We threw out a line when we saw him coming | out, and dragged him ashore. He was about half | drowned. But as soon as he got the water out of his | eyes he velled: ‘‘Vare iss dose vite horses? right here!’ “I've laughed a thousand times over at that Dutchman velling ‘“Vare iss dose vite horses?’ ” “What became of him?” I asked. “Did he go on to | Dawson?” S “Yes, he went on,” Mr. Moss said. “He was a good

Vun more and I quit

The Indianapolis

Times

Second Section

MONDAY, JULY 12, 19387

Entered at Postoffice,

s Second-Class Matter Indianapolis, Ind.

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New Warships Tax Engineers’ Genius

Two U. S. Dreadnaughts Will Be Floating Walled Cities

U. S. S. West Virginia By Ruth Finney

Times Special Writer

Cost $27,007,069

VV ASHINGTON, July 12.—When the Navy starts building its two new battleships it will be undertaking a task that embodies more kinds of human knowledge than

anything man has yet tried.

That is true of every battleship, but the two new ones are to be bigger than anything the U. S. Navy now has. What is more, it is 14 years since the Government has even supervised private construction of a battleship. The last one completed, the West Virginia, was finished in 1923. The new ships will be built at the New York and Phila-

delphia Navy Yards.

Each will cost about 60 million dol-

lars, including armament, and the job probably will take

four years. When complete each will be a walled city, containing within itself everything necessary to carry on business as usual while withstanding siege or while sailing to any part of the world. Each will have its own electric generating and distributing systems, ventilating and sewerage systems, central heating, fire and flooding systems, a plant for distilling fresh water from salt water and distributing it through the ship, a telephone system, & laundry, printing office, hospital and dispensary, dentist's office, cold storage and ice-making plant, butcher shop, bakery, tailor shop, ship's store, garage for motorboats or the Admiral’s auto,

open-air theater, public library, savings bank and jail.

and its power, determine the amount of lubricating oil required.

From this is computed the size of the oil cookers, oil cooler, circulating pumps, forced Iybricating pumps, and the oil storage tanks. » » n AMPLE guns and sample armor are made and tested. At the same time, strength and weight studies are made, determining the moment of inertia and the bending moment of each section. The ship is assumed to be on a wave of its own length, first on the crest and then in the hollow, with the weight borne in the middle and then at each end. Development of new machinery during the course of plan-draw-ing frequently changes. Finally, when plans are approved, the work of drawing contract plans and detailed specifica~ tions begins. This is done by the

necessitates |

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U. S. S. Colorado.

The Saratoga

blocks from 12 to 18 inches square on which the keel is to be laid. These blocks are built up high enough to give workmen access to the bottom and to give room for launching.

Federal Housing Doors to Tenants by September

When the underwater shell plating is riveted and calked, and construction is from 60 to 70 per cent complete, the launching takes place. Once complete, the ship begins a

Project Here to Open

Carries Millions in Planes

long series of trials, starting with dock trials, continuing with navy vard trials and finally passing on | to standardization trials over the | Navy's measured course off Rockland, Me.

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Sickler Boys Spotted Opportunity Where Indianapolis’ Mule Cars Left Off, Much to Relief of East Siders,

(CHANCES are that unless you've listened to Chris Bernloehr in one of his remis« niscent moods you have never even heard of the Sickler boys. Back in the Seventies, says Mr. Bernloehr, the E. Washington St. mulé-car line stopped at the turb-table at Noble St. turned around and came back to town, leaving everybody living bee yond the turn-table to figure out his own way of gete ting to work, One way, of course, was to walk, and that’s what everybody did until Charlie and Quinton Sickier came along. The Sickler boys couldn't help hearing the kicks, because they ran the livery stable at the corner of Pine and Washington Sts. The more they pondered, the more they realized that it they had a couple of stage coaches they might not only end the plight of the East Siders, but make a pile of money, besides. They had the horses and drivers to start with—see® Well, that's exactly what they did. The Sickler stage coach started at the corner of State and Washington Sts. and guaranteed to bring you to thé Bates House corner for a nickel. It cost just as much getting back, too.

The Sickler experiment proved such a success that before anybody knew it, a number of livery stables around here tried to do the same thing. There was a stage coach line, for instance, that started at the corner of Meridian and Morris Sts. and worked west. None of them, however, achieved the style and distinction of the Sickler outfit. At any rate, nons of them scared the street car people the way the Sickler boys did.

Stables Were Plentiful

There used to be a lot of livery stables back in those days, says Mr. Bernloehr. Sam Brundage kept his on Washington near East St, and a Mr. Merrick had his at Illinois and South Sts. George Cook, Joe Luark, Jim Conaty and Horace Wood had theirs nearer the heart of town. Indeed, Mr. Wood had his right in the heart of town, because he kept his horses where the Circle Theater now is.

Mr. Bernloehr knew all these men by their first names and it was a handy .thing to know, especially on Sunday afternoons when you took your best girl for a ride. The prevailing price was $3 for a Sunday afternoon, unless of course, you knew the livery stable keeper as well as Mr. Bernloehr did.

Drivers Knew Their Town

There were times, of course. says Mr. Bernloehr, when you didn't want to have your girl with you. In that case, the best thing to do was to hunt up Peg Hamilton, Pete Eagan, George Algood or Jim Scanlon who had their hacks stationed in the first block of Illinois St. north of Washington. It was called the “levee.” These hack drivers knew every address in Indianapolis at the time, and never had to ask questions the way medern taxi drivers do. Of course, there were stage coaches in Indians apolis ‘before Mr. Bernloehr's time. For many years the J. & P. Vorhees Co. at the southeast corner of

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Bureau of Construction anid Repair and the Bureau of Engineering. General specifications fill two large volumes. In addition, some 2000 leaflet specifications are prepared covering the 65 classes of materials which go into a vessel, from abrasive wheels to zinc slab. Bids are then received. (Bids from private companies on the two new ships, the North Carolina and Washington, have been re-

carpenter, and he was at work two hours after he got | there. He got $30 a day, and worked two shifts every dav. “He didn't bother about hunting gold. He built | houses every day for two vears, at $60 a day, and then he took his poke and went back home. He was one of the smartest men that ever came into the Klondike.”

Maryland and Pennsylvania Sts., ran a line of stage coaches. On a big scale, too. They were abandoned about 1852 when the advancing railroad lines began to absorb mail and passengers.

For that matter, there is still an old stage coach in Indianapolis. It's in the stable back of the Children's Museum. They're going to bring it into the open when-—and if-—the Children's Museum gets its new building.

random, some enlightening statistics

Indianapolis’ Federal low-cost, of development in Altavista, Va.; are available.

Lockeficld Gardens, PWA's $3.- | These projects are backed | $2960,000. The project comprises 207.000 slum clearance project, will | by private sponsors using Govern-| 2124 rooms and 604 “home units.” open its apartments to tenants by | ment money borrowed on a straight Contracts for the land, general conSept. 1. Mr. Ferguson said. { v ¢ | struction and landscaping came to ept. 1, . Eg [loan basis at 4 per cent. Abou | $2,562,074, or an average cost of The rent schedule is: Three-room $11,000,000 has been lent, and no oid] er liv an apartments, $22.80 a month; three- | more such money is available. ‘

Years of work go into the preparation of plans. At the start, models are built of | California redwood, each about 20 | feet long, and are towed at various | speeds, and with various amounts | of ballast in them, to measure the | resistance offered by water to the various designs.

Mrs.Roosevelt'sDay _ -.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Visit With Neighbors and Plans for | Housing Project Occupy First Lady. |

HE PARK, N. Y, Sunday.—It certainly felt de- | lightful Friday afternoon to get into a bathing suit, lie in the sun, and then cool off in the pool. I could not indulge myself for very long as I discovered I had | to go shopping if we were going to have anything in | the house to eat, so Mrs. Scheider and I got into her car and drove down to Poughkeepsie. At 9 o'clock in the evening I went to a Roosevelt | Home Club meeting at the home of our neighbor, Moses Smith, who rents my husband's farm. They had quite a gathering. A bad thunderstorm in the early evening had forced them indoors, but every room and the porches were filled with people.

1 talked much too long, but it is rather nice to talk | to one's noighbors when vou haven't seen them in | quite a long while. One of the members of the club | had donated watermelon, so we all sat around and ate to our hearts’ content.

Yesterday we did our shopping in the morning and | at 12 o'clock a gentleman, who has been working with me on a very difficult problem in Dutchess Junction, came to report on his efforts and to ask for a little assistance. We have a group of people living there under insanitary and altogether inadequate housing conditions.

Mrs. Charles Faverweather and her two children |

| small-scale

ITH the data thus obtained are combined figures on ma-

chinery weights, prepared by the

Navy's Bureau of Engineering, and plans known as “spring styles” are drawn. These

| show arrangement of the principal | spaces in the vessel—the engine

and boiler rooms, fuel-o0il tanks,

| turrets, magazines and so forth.

The next step is a careful study

| of propellers, with models driving | hulls over measured courses to de-

termine the propeller revolutions and shalt horsepower necessary to give the desired speed. Next the steam consumption of the main turbines at full power and of the auxiliaries is computed and boiler plans are drawn on the basis of steam pressure, number of boilers required, and space available for each. When this is done the space necessary for fire rooms can be calculated. Then, in order, and each depending on the one before, the size of fueloil pumps and oil heaters, the capacity and pressure of forced draft blowers, the size of the main condenser with its piping, and of the main circulating pump and vac-

jected as too high and estimates from New York and Philadelphia Navy Yards have been accepted.) The next steps are construction of molds and patterns from which materials will be made. " n » N the mold loft of each yard the lines of the ship are laid down to full size. Then on a special flooring, called a scrieve board, is drawn a complete body plan, the lines cut in with a sharp knife. From this board are obtained data for the templates (thin plate or board patterns) which carry details such as location of rivet holes. Before the assembling of material commences the building ways have to be prepared. The ground over which the vessel is te be built is strengthened with piling, on which cross logs are bolted, so that it may sustain a great weight. Along the center line of the ship are laid large

"Merchantmen of the Air" starts on this page tomor-

row,

| are gauged so as to absorb all oper- |

ects has been undertaken identical The entire program will cost the Government about $133,900,000. Of this, 45 per cent is an outright grant; the remaining 55 per cent is | | to be repaid within 60 years. Rents |

room penthouse apartments, more | desirable because they are higher in the building, $25.45; apartments, $26.54, and four-room apartments in group houses, similar to duplexes, $27.60.

four-room

All apartment rents include steam

heat, hot water, and electric power for lighting.

refrigeration, cooking and

In some cities, housing projects

have been completed and tenants installed.

Already sharp controversy has

| arisen as to whether they actu-

ally accomplish the purpose of

| providing better living conditions

for slum-dwellers. It has been frequently charged that the dwellings, when completed, are still far too expensive, notwithstanding the millions of dollars the Government has provided. Each of the 51 all-Federal projunder

financial arrangements.

| which all-Federal pro | | built or projected include Atlanta, | | Atlantic City, Birmingham, Boston, | Buffalo, Cambridge, Mass.; Camden, {N. J.; Charleston, S. C.; Chicago, | Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbia, S. | C.; Dallas, Detroit, Enid, Okla.; Ev- | ansville,

Cities besides Indianapolis

Ind.; Jacksonville, Fla.;

| Lackawanna, N. Y.; Lexington and

| Louisville, | Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Montgom- |

homa City, Schenectady, Stamford, Conn.; To- | ledo, O.; Washington, D. C,, Wayne, Pa. [Gite | der construction in Puerto Rico and | City’s

Ky.; Memphis,

ry, Nashville, New York City, OklaOmaha, Philadelphia,

Projects also are un-

| the Virgin Islands.

| |

| ation and maintenance charges, and

All told, the 51 projects planned in these cities will provide quarters for 21,700 families. If all available money is used ($133,900,000), it will mean the the Government will construct homes costing $6170 each for these families, and recoup only a part of the invest. ment. The whole program, however, is intended chiefly as a “demonstration” and as an example of what states and communities can do toward provid-

in | jects have been |

Miami,

and |

The average monthly rental fixed | after completion was $5.82 per room, excluding hot water, heat, light, cooking and refrigeration services, and $7.33 per room with these services included. On the basis of $5.82 per month and 100 per cent con- | tinuous occupancy, the project

| would yield an annual return of 5.49 | per cent on the total investment. With all services included, a four- | room apartment would cost $29.32 monthly in “Techwood Homes.” , n ” n NE of the most-discussed of the all-Federal projects is ‘“Harlem River Houses,” in New York Negro district. This de- | velopment will comprise 1940 rooms for 574 living units, The Federal allotment is $4,219,000, and contracts already have been entered into involving the expenditure of $3841,990. The land alone cost $1,118,940, If the entire allotment is used, the project will involve spending $7350 per home unit, The units will rent for $7 per room, including heat and hot water, and for $8.42 per room including light, refrigeration and fuel for cooking. . ‘These rentals will produce an an-

A Woman's View By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Modern Girl's Idea of Marriage Is

In Need of Revision, Feminist Thinks.

HE other day we read one modern girl's idea of marriage. It went something like this: “Marriage for love alone is adolescent nonsense. No girl has a right to marry until the man proves by his record what sort of husband he's going to be—and whether he can maka good by himself in a highly competitive world before assuming the responsibilities of mare riage.” Well and good, Miss. But suppose the boys bagan asking the same recommendations—where would the girls be?

If the modern young woman had to prove to tha man that she could take care of his house, cook him meals which were fit to eat, and market for groceries without being cheated out of her eyeteeth; if she had to show him she could select the right cuts of meat, and save the scraps for soup stock, and fix up edi ble leftovers into tasty dishes—how many girls would get husbands?

Mighty few, I'm thinking. The fellow who wants to marry so he can have a charming night-club com= panion, or a high stepper on the dance floor, or a good-looker at the end of his table, is in luck these

| : the 5 ing better living quarters for the came down from New Lebanon, N. Y. to swim and The type of main drive selected, [wo repay the 55 per cent. | “submerged one-third” through |.eont of the total allotment. have lunch, and Mrs. William Brown Meloney came - 8 > = local housing authorities. A four-room unit with all services

over from Quaker Hill, so six of us sat on the porch . N addition to these all-Federal| picking two completed projects at | will cost $33.68 per month. Side Glances IL § :

uum apparatus are computed. nual revenue of $162,960, or 3.86 per | days. But let a boy hope to get a helpmate, somebody

to keep his house and mend his clothes and have his supper hot, and he’s generally not only doomed to disappointment, but will be regarded as one who has insulted the fair sex.

Marriage for love alone isn't the only adolescent nonsense we tolerate; marriage for profit alone might be called the same thing.

and tried to forget how hot it was by talking about projects, so-called “limited divi- | .

thinzs which interested us and by eating a very light | dend” housing projects are in course | S ING OF SAF TY —- AE,

lunch. | eee After lunch Mrs. Meloney and I had a nice talk to- | gether and then Mrs. Fayerweather and TI had a | lengthy’ discussion about two projects in which she is interested in her county and which are very akin to some which interest me here. For a week, beginning July 17, there will be an arts and crafts exhibit and sale from 2 p. m. to 9 p. m. every day in New Lebanon to show what their people are able to do in the way of handwork. It was after 4 o'clock before everyone went home and put on riding clothes and went for a long ride in the woods. The sun was still pretty hot and the flies were not pleasant for either man or beast. However, the horse didn't seem to mind any more than I did and when I got back I had a swim in the pool and a quiet evening at my desk. This morning we started early, very early in fact, to picnic with some friends and got back in time for a ride. My thoughts keep flying out to the Pacific Ocean and I hope against hope that good news may still come of Amelia Earhart and her navigator.

Walter O'Keefe - | sharp stick; but when you do it

] fellows | LL. CAPONE must be having a hearty laugh » - i Ny are chasing the little these days. He was the first great tax- - : " ww avoider. Al incorporated a rym-runner. 3: off ; ; Semator Adams (D. Colo.) —In the It must make him mighty proud to know that he first place, no money is being cut was & pioneer who blazed a trail that’s being fol- off. lowed by America’s best families. However, there's no fear of our leaving the country to live in Europe. to dodge taxes than bullets. I think Congressman Fish went too far last week when he pointed the finger of criticism at Mrs. Roosevelt for not paying a tax on her radio earnings, every penny of which went to people in want. Everybody should be proud of our First Lady not only because of her generosity but also because of her intelligence. She knows darned well that there are other worthy charities in America besides the Government.

‘Heard in Congress—

New Books Today

ETWEEN them, Petya and Gavrik knew Russia, Petya, well-clothed, well-fed, well-loved, found, at 9 years of age, the world a vastly exciting place,

Gavrik, son of a fisherman, saw another world-= | a world where work and hunger were always present, | where his grandfather was arrested and beaten by | the police, where his older brother came and went on mysterious errands for the “Committee.”

The Russia of 1905, as portrayed by Valentine Kataev in PEACE IS WHERE THE TEMPESTS | BLOW (Farrar) is Russia seen through the eyes of these two boys. Neither understood all they saw.’ Of the revolt of 1905 they knew little; yet they saw the desperate fighting, and felt themselves sure rounded by strange forces. In the story of their adventures there is something idyllic, something of the bright world that lay in Petya's sunny eves, And there is, too, something of the sense of onrushing events which culminated in the revolution of 1917.

” Nd "

RESUPPOSING a general knowledge on the part of the reader of some dozen writers, Ford Maddox Hueffer (who appears in the title page as Ford Maddox Ford) presents them to us in PORTRAITS FROM LIFE (Houghton) as he knew and loved them —or not —and as they knew each other in real life, That Mr. Hueffer knows his material we are quite assured from his previous high standard of writing. We are doubly convinced when he shows us such men as Stephen Crane and W. H. Hudson as human beings with all human weaknesses, and makes us realize the genius in them which makes them write masterpieces. As these gentlemen were influenced by their pres decessors and contemporaries, they in turn are leaving much to influence modern thinking and writing. Wa know, too, along with Mr. Heffer, that from their ‘ masterpieges will come some of the classics in litera

PICCOLO

DON’ Some Yous TLIKE PLAYERS IRRITATE OTHE

SAXOPHONE PLAYERS...

RILL-BILLY MUSIC 2 MAKES SOME FOLKS BITE | THEIR NAILS |.

BOT THEIR MUSIC \S SWEET COMPARED WITH THE SOLO OF THE AUTO HORN TOOTER. WHO THINKS HE CPN START THE STALLED CAR AHEAD BY

Senator Lewis (D. Tl.) —Then, to what object is my able friend addressing his splendid philippic this afternoon. ; Senator Adams — 1 have en-| deavored to explain it. Apparently, | / I have not been successful. I will say | / to the Senator that the purpose is

Pp 4 rd i 4 to carry out the statutes of the A KC — = Dll = RE ¢ le - _ RN TROLS TO BLASTING HS

| United States, which the Senator has had such a large hand in mak- | “I know, dear, you're going to tell me you won ‘the bridge prize | _ Sen: HONKER! | i. : that are t || aad Whaddon ul oe A i an Gen,

millionaires | It's easier |

Senator Lewis — And doubtless