Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1937 — Page 15

THURSDAY, NOV.

25, 1937

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Present Civic Leaders Were School ‘Cutyy 3S, ‘NY A Learns

In repairing and refinishing old public school desks, NYA workers reported today they found the names of several Indianapolis civic and business leaders inscribed in furnis Shing s of classrooms where ‘they once attended school, ——— i —— The desks also reveal that girls | desire to carve than primary pupils. are harder on desks than boys and At present there are 69 boys em=-

school furniture repair shops at 16th and Yandes Sts, and in Brightwood. They are under the supervision of the School Board's Buildings and Grounds’ Superintendent. Four of the youths, accompanied by = skilled laborer, work in schoolrooms after classes have been dismissed. They clean and refinish an average of 42 desks, two teachers’ desks and eight chairs and cabinets in one afternoon and night. All furniture “hospitalized” Is given soda baths, and varnish and

] is scraped, the broken parts glued | WwW D M . . f and loose bolts tightened. The wood Man ho rove ansions Ot is then sanded, stained, varnished and shellacked. Sipe ; anomer Nh ew or wenn ssl Fifth Ave. Is Now Bankrupt A A rb I pr. NEW YORK, Nov. 25 (U, P).—Benjamin Winter, who convinced LODGES TO ENTERTAIN | the Astors that $40,000 a night was too much to pay for lodgings, started bekah Iodge 749 are to entertain residents at the I. ©. O. F. Home | The Polish immigrant, who ran

der track, Work on other city high Lodge 852 and Southeastern Re-| estate fortunes of the boom years, © titioned for bankruptcy, listing lia-

now refinishing the Shortridge cinThe Southeastern I. O. O. F.| the slow upward climb again today after losing one of the great real in Greensburg Sunday.

bilities of $8,500,000 and no assets,

He blamed creditors who refused to |

wait. “I got up once when I didn't khow the language or customs,” he said, “and ‘with all the additional experience I'll get up again.” Mr. Winter became known as “the man who chased the mansions off Fifth Ave,” in 1925 when he purchased the Vineent Astor home for $2,700,000 and sold it for $3,500,000. He said that Mr. Astor laughed at him at first until he exhibited figures showing that the little time

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| averages $40,000 a night for taxes land upkeep. Mr. Winter then purchased the mansions of other wealthy families, selling them for business sites,

[Watch and Yewelry Repairing *

Ta VEL S 4 WEST MARKET SI) Main Springs, $1.00 Stems, 50c

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{an idea up to $60,000,000, has pe- the millionaire spent in New York

that older pupils have a greater ployed by the NYA in two city

stain are removed. Then each piece

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