Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1938 — Page 10

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- (GANANOQUE, Ontario, Aug. 16.—Capt.

.-Ycapt. La Sha hunts

. ¥ will

.£ been taught these

- you never even left the dock.

; / - v . : # From Indiana = Ernie Pyle Even if the Boat Never Left the

Dock, Capt. La Sha's Sightseeing’ :

Trips Would Be Worth the Money.

Danny Ea Sha is the Fred Allen of the Thousand Islands. He isn’t on the radio, but if you shut your eyes and listen, you'd swear you were tuned in on+“Town Hall.” Capt. La Sha (pronounced La Shay) runs tourists around the Thousand Islands in his big speed boat. The trip would be worth the money if Here's how Capt. La Sha operates. He runs out into’ . the river a little ways, then throt-. tles down his motor, turns around, | and says: : : “See that lighthouse over there j on that island? And see that rock shoal about hundred yards away,

with a pole on it? A lot of people , ask what the cage on top ‘of - the |

“wy pole is for. : ® © «well, up in this north country: in November it’ gets to snowin’ and so bad the

blowin’ :.and rainin’

mariners can’t see the lighthouse Mr. Pyle . 8b night. So they bring a boy out ; ? <1 from Gananoque and put him in’ ! : e on top of that pole. n e sects there ED and LoDIS tip a lighted candle to guide the mariners. In the daytime he sells the Ladies Home Journal, which tells all about light house keeping. " That's the way it goes all through the trip with Capt. La Sha. 1 asked him when we got back if he Qised fhe same jokes all the time, and he said that some! trips he didn’t use any. : 1t seems sometimes you get a whole boatload of sour-pusses ‘Who wouldn’t laugh at anything. One of the preliminary feeling-out jokes 1s when you get %o a string of tiny islands, connected by small rustic footbridges. : {whe house on the island farthest away from the big house,” says Danny, “was built by this Montres] man for his mother-in-law. That island has a idraw-bridge on it.” If they laugh at that, Danny ‘goes ahead. ge $ Capt. La Sha has been a river man all his life. Je says the biggest bbat: day this little river town - ‘ever had was the day of the Armistice. At that Yime Ontario was dry but New York State, across ‘the river, was wet.

i ‘Everybody Headed for New York

i As soon as word of the Armistice came, half the %own made a rush for the river front. Within a ew minutés every boat in town was on its way across Sthe river. They went out so fast and in such droves Shey ran all over each other. One boat ran smack fino the side of a big freighter out in midstream, jand sank itself. ;

# Everybody got tanked up good, and one big fat |

whole barrel of ale the 10 miles iback to Canada in a rowboat. He had it covered up iwith hay, as a disguise.” He got within yelling disStance of shore, at which point he stood up, fell

fguy tried to row a

" ‘fgverboard, turned the boat over, lost the ale, and very

inearly drowned. 3 ; f Our boat ges through a narrow channel, all grown up with reeds along the shore. You see sa little unpainted shack, and 2 sign which says “Bait i—5 cents.” And Danny will say: : * «Opn the left you now see the home of Popey ithe Sailor. He catches bait for the fishermen. Notice ‘all the spinach -he has growing along the banks there.” 4 Born o, In the wintertime when there aren’t any tourists, foxes and traps muskrats for a 4living. He is so tender-hearted he can hardly kill fenything. rs aT ©. He says that Sometimes he'll ctoh a: fox asleep #in the snow, and hell stand and look at it’ a little “while with his gun all ready, and finally he'll go {#shooo” so the fox will wake up and have a chance ito run. : : £ Our boat passes a string of little islands with well“kept lawns and houses on them. The captain turns “and says: * wrhose are owned by a couple of men from * Brooklyn who are interested in dentistry. Notice all ithe WBridgework between the islands!”

My Diary

: By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt - -

3 First Lady Makes Preparations for 3 Husband's Arrival at Hyde Park.

i YDE PARK, Monday—The heat has returned to 3 us today and I am afraid that Mr. Gray, who “has gone to New York City, will find, it very un- ! comfortable. Mrs. Gray and I took him to an 8:30 I train, then we returned to a leisurely breakfast. 1 “went over to the big house a little after 10 o'clock “to get my horse and give the necessary orders in : preparation for my husband’s arrival. ; # We have hada caretaker in the house since my * mother-in-law went to Maine, but on Thursday it really have to be in running order, for food < enough for a big household must be on hand. When : 1 am over here at the cottage, I almost forget what i it means to start a really big house going. But with * such able people to do all of the work it is only & i question of remembering what needs to be done.

After making out various necessary lists and giv--.ing a few directions, I came back to find Mrs. Gray : anf Miss Dow very anxious to find their way into < the swimming pool, for that is the one really com- < fortable spot on this hot day. Miss Dow is an ex- * cellent swimmer and, what is even more rare, she is + an excellent teacher and has helped all of us imi prove our swimming since she has been here. In ¢ addition, last evening after supper with us, she played =the piano at Mrs. Gray’s request very beautifully for © over an hour. She and I insisted on ending up the 3 evening with hymns but I don’t think we were entirely: i popular with the rest of the party, who felt that i the singing was not as good as the playing had been.

: Brother's Article None Too Simple

* My brother has written an article on one phase ‘of education which appeared in this week’s the * Connecticut Nutmeg. I am sure he could write 4 many articles on various angles of this subject. I 2 gather from him that he does not think either £ geometry or algebra are of much use to us, at least % to most of us, because of the way in which we have subjects. I was never much of a + mathematician. I can keep four checking accounts # moderately straight; but that is about as far as I can 3 go and it is neither my geometry, which 1 studied i briefly, nor my algebra, which I studied for a longer £ period, that helps me. : ; In a few short sentences my brother suggests the thing which we really should know about each difficult subjects. When I finished reading, back and reread and found that I unde ‘him just about as well as though he had been ex“plaining Greek! So if algebra and geometry are ever = going to be of real use to me, somebody will have to explain them to me rather more simply than he does.

Bob Burns Says—

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Here is a scene

By Daniel M. Kidney Times Staff Writer 3 'VV/ASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—“The last of the Barons” is the way Washington cliff dwellers some-

Bowman after visiting Sunset Hills, his 4000-acre feudal-style estate in nearby Virginia. ! And when Mr. Bowman rides to the hounds in his pink coat, accompanied by his two stalwart sons, A. Smith Jr. and DeLong, on some of the finest mounts if George Washington's hunting country . voday, everything is in the best “Virginia gentleman” tradition. eo 3 Yet is was a modern vehicle that made this setting a ‘reality. For the fortune with which this vast estate was purchased by Mr. Bowman came from pioneering in Indianapolis bus lines. Seated on the wide veranda of the ancient mansion of the estate and .sipping mint-juleps made from whisky which he now manufactures on. the place, Mr. Bowman doesn’t mind a -bit ‘telling of his Indiana adventure. : His eyes twinkle as he relates the story of how he instituted the first city-wide, co-drdinated bus system in the country in Indianapolis¢ in 1920 and of the “sevenyears war” with the street railway

company. which finally netted him a half million in cash.

: ® ” » Te original Bowman investment in the busses was $65,000, he says. Parts played in this little drama

by street railway company officials now dead; members of the Indiana Public Service Commission,

recalled in detail. “Back in 1920 you couldn't go into the market and buy busses as you can today,” Mr. Bowman explained. Lo, “So I had to have mine made to order. Mayor Shank thought it was a good idea: to have some new transportation in the city and his City Attorney, James Qgden, pointed out that there was no law - either for or against them. “Both agreed [to keep quiet while I ordered .35 or 40 busses made and then, without any advance notice, they . appeared on

. the streets. Finally five or six of

the principal highways were getting 15-minute service and 4minute service during the rush hours. “That Circle in the heart of the city was made to order for my dus operation. People liked to ride them and always knew they could pick them up there. So I

from the very day we started operation. . :

“At first the streetcar company

Indianapolis Bus Pioneer

times refer to A. Smith

and the late Mayor Shank all are.

“never ‘lost a cent on any line’

| on the 4000-acre feudal-style estate of A. Smith Bowman, organizer . of Indianapolis’ bus system. In the background is the Bowman distillery.

Shown here is the staff of the Fairfax Hunt. From left to right ‘are Capt. C. R. P. Rodgers and John Finerty, joint masters; Claude Hatcher, huntsman;

7 was inclined to laugh at this competition, but the busses finally became so popular that the company took the matter of permits up with the Public Service Commission. “It was decided that our busses were not a public .utility. We were permitted to continue operation, but not to expand. Meanwhile the streetcar company began running busses on our routes also, but the fight had been such that the people seemed to stick with us and wait for Bowman busses.” ” ” ” HEN the streetcar company bought him out for a half million in cash in 1927, it also

assumed about another half milhon of obligations, Mr. Bowman said. : His son, DeLong, then about 12, was a great lover of horses and farm animals and agreed at once with his father that what the family needed was a farm, Mr. Bowman .declared. To help the cause along the boy found the

Sunset Hills estate advertised in

a Chicago newspaper and soon the family moved there from Indianapolis Both wife are Kentuckians from the Lexington Blue Grass country. * Looking into the history of his > newly man found that if originally belonged to Lord Fairfax and that one of his own great, great ancestors was a nearby neighbor. Four Bowmans were officers under George Washington and all came from Virginia, One of them was the only officer killed at the capture of Vincennes by George Rogers Clark. : "Col. Abranam Bowman founded the Kentucky branch of the family and much of the family furniture, handed down through the generations, came from his Blue Grass country estate, SE

Included is an ancient settee . upon which General Lafayette sab

and talked to Col. Bowman on a

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the elder Bowman and his

acquired estate, Mr. Bow- .

- operation,

‘TUESDAY, AUGUST 16,1988 _

president. Mr.

visit to Kentucky after the Révo- | Col. Bowman Was | staff during the:

lutionary War. on Lafayette’s war and his picture now hangs in the Corcoran Art Gallery.

After reciting some of this

family history, Mr. Bowman Te=

turns to hi¢ own latest venture

sand points “out that it too has

historical precgglent.

“Abraham Bowman had a still

‘on his. Kentucky estate, but George Washington had the first commercial still in America right here in Virginia,” he says, - 2 8 8 LTHOUGH the thought that prohibition was here to stay when they came to Sunset Hills, they now own and operate the only private distillery legally licensed in: Virginia and perhaps the only one thus: owned ted in the entire United States. Their production is commercial. Sunset Hills produces most of the corn from which this bourbon whisky is made’ and the dairy herds_and vast numbers. of ‘cattle .and hogs consume the mash byproduct. Originally the herds were the principal business of Sunset Hills. But with five or six warehouses filled with nearly a million gallons of liquor they have been relegated to a poor second place as. a revenue producer, Mr. Bowman admits. Rent However he is now stocking the

- place with 1000 hogs and expects

to produce his own brand of hams from a formula which also is a family heirloom.

Family tradition in such erafts-. manship counts heavily with the

Bowmans and that is why Casey J. Wilken, scion of a famous dis-

tilling family of Kentucky, was.

put in charge of the distilling they explain. Entrance to ‘Sunset Hills is along a three-mile private woodland road. { dogwood in ‘ season borders one

Center of the vast ] . Bowman's sons, A. Smith Bowman Jr., is shown with his dog. | ;

DeLong Bowman, whip, Hunt, his estate ‘being ideal

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Owns Vast Feudal-Style Estate in Virgin

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- and A. Smith Bowman, helped organize the Fairfax

for fox hunting.

“side of the road, while on the other are no. less than 100 acres of holly. ’ : . White-washed wooden fences ring ‘the pastures where the ‘thoroughbred ' cattle and horses |, graze. EE ]

~ jincluding a small village with a * , postoffice, station, express office, i telegraph office, a church and formerly a ' one-room schoolhouse. . The Washington & Old Dominion Railroad runs along one side of the. estate for four miles and is used for shipping by the various Bowmen enterprises. . Sew ‘ABOUT 250 persons are emL ployed and most of them + live on the estate. Besides . the corn, alfalfa and other ordinary farm products, 50 acres is devoted to production of Kentucky bluegrass and Mr. Bowman. boasts that ii is better than that produced down at Lexington. At any rate, it was good enough "to have beef selected for resodding the White Eouse grounds. The mansion itself was built 70 or 80 years ago from brick made on the estate, as vere most of the other buildings. It has 22-inch walls with-an- air-space in the middle, which makes it ideal both for winter and summer. Located on the highest hill, the great house is surrounded by ‘ancient trees and for two and one-half miles back of the house is a primeval forast. Springs provide clear cold water used for the swimming

house. A second large house, built of "wood, is but a short distance irom the mansion. It is used as a guest house, when large parties are held at the estate, and contains a huge ballroom. This place also was headquarters of the Fairfax Hunt when Mr. Bowman was Master of. Hounds. He helped organize the

2. - : “There ate abott 40 buildings sattered hoi . the - estate, -

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Washington

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* By Raymond Clapper Social Security System Perhaps +s Largest Unfinished Monument - That Will Be Left by Roosevelt.

(Anton Scherrer. Is on Vacation)

AY, JASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Roosevelt will ¥¥ leave many monuments. He will leave ‘public works all over the land, monuments ‘like the Triborough Bridge in New York, the two gigantic bridges in San Francisco, and literally thousand of other public improvements much needed, but which would not have been built ‘without the help .of the Roosevelt relief and recovery programs. Roosevelt will will also leave the largest public debt’in history, not ~~ to mention the most enormous’ assortment of book, magazine and newspaper denunciation 2 | that has .ever been devoted to any human being. SELTaty He will leave. some other things, unfinished monuments, still to be improved—stock markét control, Federal protection of wages and hours, and perhaps the largest monument of all, the social security system which: is Sires on soeivity s social ty i“ organization has .spread its <M Clapper monumental files and equipment over acres of office building space in Washington and Baltimore, handling records of more than 40,000,000 persons, the biggest bookkeeping ‘job in all history. In the case of social ‘security, more than any other item in thé Roosevelt program, there has been strong support of the objective and intense controversy about the method. Had Roosevelt waited to find some plan acceptable to all, nothing would have been done yet. He insisted upon a start of some kind—and it is this success in getting things started that is the mark of Roosevelt's achievement, rather than the perfection of details. If you wait until every last detail is perfected and until every last critic is satisfied, you never act. : :

. In social security other countries had acted long before and the need here had been recognized for years. It remained for Roosevelt to act. But in this instance he did not resort to quick-baked rubberstamp legislation. He assembled a committee of ex perts for preliminary study which lasted for months, House and Senate committees held hearings running for weeks and listened to everyone who had anything worth-while to suggest. Finally out of all this mass of material a law was drafted, thrashed over in both

houses thoroughly and sent to Roosevelt, who signed

fe | it Aug. 14, 1935.

Fairfax Hunt and the estate itself has miles of bridlé paths through the woods; with ekcellent jumps, which mske it one of the best for fox hunting in this fox hunting section. ; 4 "sn # Wie of the Bowmans the Virginia magazine Down Country, James L. Lucas said: “Hunt breakfasts were held at - Sunset Hills to which the pinkcoated hunters would return from the chase to be joined by hundreds of local gentry and official,

diplomatic and residential Washington.

“On Sunday afternons one might find a goodly portion of the smart officialdom of Washington. Since a slight injury of a few hunt sessons ago, Mr. Bowman's two sons have taken over in large part the management of the estate. And Mr. Bowman will tell you with some pride and with a smile at himself that they manage it better than he did.” Both sons are Princeton University graduates. His successful bus- line -promotion in Indianapolis has not changed Mr. Bowman's ‘partiality for land as the best long-term: investment. ST “I have owned farms in five or six states and in Canada and .always made money on them,” he says. : Soi ste in the country is a good er ea Spin

"TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

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ministration? . EES 7—What is another name for shooting stars? ; » » » 2—Yes.. :

Described as ‘Cornerstone’

‘Even after this. exhaustive care, Roosevelt knew the. legislation was not perfect, nor complete. In { the act he described it as a “cornerstone in a structure which is being built, but is by no means complete.” . : Thus far he has resisted Republican attempts to drastically change the act. He insists some time must elapse before the operation of the law will make clear just how it should be changed. Congress has created an advisory committee representing emplayers, employees and the public,-and this committee is ene gaged in a continuing study of the operation of the

| new social security system. _ _°

“It is preparing recommendations which probably will be considered by Congress next winter. These would extend old-age insurance coverage to agricultural labor, domestic and other groups now excluded and extend benefits to aged wives and widows of cove ered workers and to the young children of those who die before reaching 65 years. - In the offing is the possibility of some kind of health insurance, after the pattern of the present unemployment compensation. "Nobody knows what will develop. But it is a safe guess that social security machinery will expand rather than contract. : ! : a

Jane Jordan—

Wife Must Learn Adolescent Love Is Curable Malady, Jane Declares.

DE JANE JORDAN—I am a married woman 21 years old and I have a baby 1 year old. I have been married five years to a man whom I thought I loved. Although I thought I was happily married, E know I never can be again, for I mef a young man three months whom I really do love. He told a friend of mine that he loved me, too. He also has ‘hinted to me I can never be happy where my husband is when E love this other man. I just can’t make up my mind what to do. I go to my husband and tell him abou this man or what? ; HEARTBROKEN. Answer—Give yourself a chance to get over it and don’t take yourself so seriously. Many married women have been attracted to other men at some time or other during their marriages but most of them have less faith in the durability of these attractions than you have. | 0 The trouble with Jou is that you married before through several spells of lovesickness. in love & half a dozen times and lived to tell the tale. They know from experience that adolescent love is a curable malady. sake don’t tell your husband and get : | Besides you don’t know that this other man’s feeling for you is any more than skin deep. ~. Stick with your husband and child. ‘That's where youre needed and wanted. EE

t he loved me. I at least know that