Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 26, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 April 1915 — Page 9

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New York's Famous Old Hoffman House to Be Razed NEW YORK. The old Hoffman house, famous for nearly half a century, and one of Manhattan's leading hostelries in the palmy days, is to go. It will follow the equally famous Fifth Avenue hotel, the Bartholdi and the other landmarks at Twenty-third,

Third street was the heart of the Great White Way, when Martin's, at Twenty-fifth street, was almost the northern limit of the night-life district. When the original Hoffman house was built the ground cost $5,000. The plat now has been sold for $3,500,000. So much for the unearned increment. Along with the Hoffman house proper the purchaser bought the old Hotel Albemarle, now an annex of the Hoffman house, and on the site of the two will be erected a 16-story office building. The immediate success of the Hoffman house in its first days led to frequent additions, so that, up to a few years ago, the Hoffman, with the Albemarle included, occupied all the Broadway frontage, at Twenty-fifth street. In its best days, the Hoffman house vied with the Fifth Avenue hotel, at Twenty-third street and Fifth avenue, which, some five years ago, gave way to an office sky-scraper. The Fifth Avenue was the headquarters of the Republicans and the rival Democrats took up a reservation in the Hoffman. Grover Cleveland stopped there frequently and was staying there when elected to the presidency the second time. Gen. Benjamin Butler and Gen. Winfield Scott were regular patrons of the hotel. Anx outgrowth of the Fifth Avenue hotel is the fame-us Amen Corner, an exclusive organization of newspaper men and politicians,, who hold annual dinners and pull off stunts like those of the Gridiron club in Washington. Behind the elevator in the Fifth Avenue, a.ljacent to the buffet, were two seats, joining at a right angle, and upholstered in red plush. These seats were hidden from the lobby, and formed an excellent place for quiet conversation. The late Senator Piatt, former Governor B. B. Odell, the late Mark Hanna and many other Republican politicians of that day, along with Sam Blythe, Eddie Riggs and other political writers, used to meet there each afternoon for conferences. Somebody dubbed the red plush benches the Amen Corner, and the name stuck. The formal organization grew out of it.

Baby Shoppers Wander Far From Their Firesides PHILADELPHIA. After an all-day search for curtain poles, in which their wanderings led them hither and yon over West Philadelphia, two tired and hungry and discouraged four-year-olds were found, two miles away from their homes, and restored to their

anxious parents. They had no curtain poles. Early in the morning the mother of John Young, Jr., four years old, of 371G Baring street, told him to run out to a nearby upholstery shop to get some curtain poles. The junior Young went to the corner of Lancaster avenue and Thirty-eigjith street, and proposed to his young friend, Thomas Griffin, also four years old,

that they do the shopping together. After a while they forgot the errand, and wandered off in search of new excitements. As the hours wore on, the parents of both children became frantic, and notified Special Policemen Roseboro and Farmer of the Sixteenth district, also Captain Cameron's office. The special policemen scoured West Philadelphia in two automobiles, but found no trace of the four-year-old shoppers. Bravely encamped upon an old plank, hand clutched in chubby hand, two youngsters were sitting alone in a vacant lot at Forty-ninth street and Chester avenue just at sunset. Ten-year-old Thomas Dickson of Thirty-eighth street and Lancaster avenue, who thought he was doing, some traveling himself, stood still in boyish amazement as he caught sight of the pair. He whistled through his teeth, and, frowning, descended upon them with reproving 'air. After reading them a youthful riot act as to the sin of keeping one's mother waiting for curtain poles the whole day long, he notified Mrs. M. Dailey of Forty-ninth street and Chester avenue, a friend of the Young family, and she telephoned of the safety of the four-year-olds.

Burglar Is Cruelly Beaten by an Athletic Girl LOS ANGELES, CAL. When she was a student in Los Angeles high school Miss Gladys Campbell of Maple avenue, could lift a 50-pound weight; many of her boy friends have gone down to defeat at the hands of the nineteen-year-old girl when engaged in a

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was sleeping. Things started to happen With the awakening of Miss Campbell. An alarm clock thrown with unerring aim hit Hamlin on the side of the head; before he could recovef from the shock a silver hairbrush closed one eye, while Miss Campbell's fist accomplished the same purpose for the remaining optic. The handle of a tennis racket fractured a rib, and the business end of a dumb-bell served to send the intruder to the land of dreams until the arrival of the police. In order to make sure of a good job, the young lady took the sheets from her bed and bound the man and threw him out of the door to the front yard. Here he was found by the police. In the city jail Hamlin through his swollen lips has made a vow never to burgle again.

Takes Role of Mother to Boys in U. S. Navy INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Mrs. Emma Ellis received another letter the other day from one of her boys. She gets letters of this kind every day and answers them quickly. The letters are from boys in the navy who have no ttiothprs. and they write to mothers

In Indianapolis who have adopted the young bluejackets by mail. The idea came to Mrs. Ellis half a year ago, but no one save the mothers, commanding officers in the navy training camps? and the sailors themselves knew about it until recently, for Mrs. Ellis did not seek publicity. "I knew how lonesome motherless boys in the navy must be,' said Mrs. Ellis. "I wrote to several com

manding officers in the navy training stations asking for names of boys who have no mothers and it no would like to correspond. The list has steadily grown. I never choose a mother to write to these boys until I have learned to know her personally as t good Christian woman, well educated, who can feel deeply. She must be an accomplished letter-writerone who can really inspire the boy. given over to her Mrs, Ullis has many letters from commanding officers who say die is starting a work that should spread throughout the country, These letters, have come from the Atlantic and Pacific.

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Broadway and Fifth avenue into that bourne from which no superannuated hotel returns. With the passing of the Hoffman house, famed in song and story as well as in the hearts of the millions who have in times past made the old place their temporary home, there will he nothing left but Madison Square garden -to remind the oldtimers of the days when Twenty friendly boxing bout. If all of this had been taken injo consideration by Joseph Hamlin, burglar, before lie attempted to enter Miss Campbell's room, he would not be in the city jail waiting for the swelling to leave his eyes so that he might view his surroundings. He did not know, however, just where he was going, and climbed over the transom of the-room in which the young lady SHALL I WRITE" TO

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r Marino Can Point to. Record of Great Distinction In the History of the Country. Instead of "telling it to the marines," according to the popular saying, the government is now telling it to the peoplo who know all about the army and the navy, but comparatively little about the marines. Yet marines served under John Paul Jones, they raised the flag over Tripoli, helped capture the city of Mexico, entered and fortified Chapultepec, were foremost in our troubles in the far east and at Guantanamo. To tell the people all this and also what the marine is, the government has now an advertising bureau, which sends information directly and which in six months has been so successful that the old way of paid advertising has been discarded. The corps numbers 340 officers and 10,000 men, and there is not a vacancy. Attention of boys, city and country, is brought directly to the corps by photographs from life at recruiting stations, and literature that is "live" and readable. On enlistment, recruits are first drilled as infantry soldiers, then field artillerymen, and members of machine gun companies, j For landing service and defenders of the naval advance they are taught the use of portable searchlights, wireless telegraph. They find ranges, place submarine telegraph lines, handle torpedoes, build and destroy bridges, mount ships' guns and so on. All of which it is apparent is a range of duties far wider than that of any .other arm of the service. In short, the marine corps is for the first time perhaps becoming really known, and the knowledge shows what a high place it occupies. WANTED SERVICES PAID FOR Indian Had His Own Idea as to Recompense That Should Be ' Awarded Him. A reservation Indian was disconsolate over the breaking of his ax handle. He laidxhis misfortune before the "farmer" of the reservation, who, through pity, .took a new handle from his private stock and adjusted it to the ax. The "farmer" then noticed that the ax was shockingly dull, so, motioning the owner to turn the grindstone, he expended a half-hour's time in sharpening the blade. When the rehabilitated ax was given to the Indian he was childishly gleeful, but still lingered about, indicating by his action that some feature of the transaction had not been adjusted. Tho farmer was a little annoyed, and called to an interpreter. "Ask the old fellow what he wants now," he directed. After an exchange of grunts and gestures (the interpreter announced, He wants twenty-five cents." 'Twenty-five cents! What for?" For turning the grindstone." The First Touch of War. We did not encounter any battleships on the way over, but I caught a rather poignant glimpse of the war as we drew up to the Prince's landing stage in Liverpool. Long before any regular conversation was possible we saw a well-dressed woman on the dock. An Englishman with a voice worthy of the Bull of Bashan began to shout questions at her. "Have you news of Fred?" The woman nodded. "Good?" The woman shook her head. "Is he captured?" She shook her head. "Wounded?" Again she shook her head. And a woman aboard who stood- beside the strong-voiced man fainted. I don't know whether she was Fred's wife or mother. From a letter to the Outlook from Arthur Bullard. Largest in the World. A plant laid out on a very extensive basis for the leaching and electrolytic precipitation of copper is being constructed at Chiquicamata, Chile. The ore body to he worked in this vicinity is in excess of 200,000,000 tons, says the Electrical World. The first unit of the plant now in course of construction has been designed to treat 10,000 tons of ore per day. The refinery will have an output of about 335,000 pounds of copper per day. Energy for separating copper from the ore will be transmitted to the plant from a generating station on the coast over S5 miles of line at 100,000 volts. No Desire to See the Late Lamented. "My nephew, Wendell K. Pettifer, is going to be married next week to a widow over in the western part of the state, who comes of a fine old family and is blessed with six interesting children, auburn hair'and a very superior manner," stated Grout P. Smith, the unpopular pessimist. "Although I am invited to the wedding I shall not attend; I prefer to remember poor Wendell as he was in life." Kansas City Star. Classified. "Is that dog a pointer?" asked the ticket agent at the village station. "No,"' replied the weary hunter who was returning to the city with an empty game bag, "he's a disappointer He's Smelt Them. Church They say that the New York market loses a million eggs a year by breakage. Isn't that enough to make one hold his breath? Gotham Hold his nose, I should, say.

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Washington Plate for White House Collection WASHINGTON. The White House collection of presidential ware received a valuable addition when Miss Mary Curtis Lee, daughter of Gen. Robert B. Lee, contributed to the collection a plate of the George Washington Cincinnati dinner set. In many respects

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of an eagle in gold suspended by an olive branch from a deep blue ribbon edged with white, and on the breast and back of the eagle were symbolic scenes encircled with patriotic mottoes in Latin. After the society was established the French officers presented Washington with a handsome insignia studded with precious stones, and the ribbon bore the words, "Presented in the name of the French soldiers to his excellency, General Washington." It was this which Lossing confused when he wrote in his "Mount Vernon" that the French officers presented Washington with a Sevres dinner set bearing the Cincinnati decorations. A glance at any piece of the Cincinnati set shows that it is not china at all, but Cantonese pottery, and it is a well-founded family tradition with the Washington and Curtis descendants that the Cincinnati dishes, of which there were originally breakfast, dinner and tea sets, were presented to General and Mrs. Washington by the American officers. Soon after Miss Lee came to Washington this winter the subject was broached to her again, and as she chanced to have one of the plates out of storage she decided to present it to the collection. It is a medium-sized dinner plate, with the deep blue mottled border and gold lines of the Cantonese ware, and in its center is the figure of Fame holding a trumpet to her" lips with one hand, while with the other she bears aloft the insignia of the Society of Cincinnati. During a call upon Miss Wilson at the White House Miss Lee presented the plate to her for the collection, and it was placed, in the cabinets in the lower corridor of the mansion.

"Life Buoy" Prevents Loss of . Gold on Warships WITPI American cruisers in foreign waters taking gold for the use of American citizens, and with the recent return of General Funston from Vera Cruz to Galveston with approximately $1,000,000 in gold aboard the transport there has arisen considerable in

terest in the navy's method of handling gold and of safeguarding it so that it may not be lost. Gold, or other specie, but usually gold, on shipboard, for the reason that it is current the world over, is stored in bags of such stout material that should a heavy bagful be dropped from considerable height the bag would not split open. The bag, of course, is locked and the material of

which, it is made must stand the most rigid tests, so there can be no danger of the loss of the precious stuff should a bag be dropped from the side of a vessel to a pier or dock. Another possibility of loss is presented in the danger of a small boat being overturned during a heavy sea while transshipping the metal from shipboard to land or land to ship. This contingency also is guarded against. To each of the bags used for the transporting of gold is attached by a long chain a floating buoy large enough to support the maximum capacity in gold of the bag to which it is attached. Thus, if a launch taking ashore a consignment of gold should be capsized or sunk, the gold would not be lost. If the water be very deep it will not even go to the bottom, but will hang suspended to the length of the chain attached to the- buoy. Thus, the only way the gold taken aboard by the Tennessee could have been lost would have Ueen in the sinking of the ship.

He Understands the Feelings of the Turks Now A WORLD-FAMED sculptor, who makes ".is homehere now, held up his hands appalled the other day by the magnitude of the r.ocial activities of the womankind of Washington. "Overwhelming! Exhausting! How do you manage it?" he cried. "Every good

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merry-go-round, while "papa pastes his pants with pins," because the womanfolks are so rushed. You call avidly on army and navy women on Monday and on the judiciary. You call on the representatives on Tuesday, on Mrs. Marshall, who is a class to herself, on the wife of the speaker of the house and on the cabinet women on Wednesday. The senatorial sisterhood pre-empts the business on Thursday afternoon. Friday and Saturday in days gone by were wont to be monopolized by diplomatic dames and (Ramsels. But the "dips," these parlous times, are "layin' low and sayin' mithin'."

Defense Wins in Congress Self, Not National CONGRESS has so taken to heart the subject of defense, national and otherWise, that W. K. Sixsmith says he, -Representative W. W. Rucker and other prominent members of the house, got the consent of Speaker Champ Clark to start a congressional

ing points of order he may retire to the athletic quarters and punch the hag or get his torpid circulation in activity by a few whirls about on the flying rings. Statesmen whose digestion is imperfect may spend a half hour on tho parallel bars and develop an excellent appetite. With still other statesmen busy with the chest weights, or the Indian clubs, or the stationary horse, it is conjectured that there will be such a spectacle as evtn "Billy" Muldoon never dreamed of. i

this is the most valuable piece in the collection, as the Cincinnati china has more historical associations and is better known than any of the Washington china. The Society of the Cincinnati was founded at Annapolis November 21, 17S3, by the American and French officers who had served together during the Revolutionary war, and Washington was made its first president. The organization adopted an insignia

9 J Tti$ Turk, the sculptor laughed, goes down on his knees, on his prayer rug, the first thing every morning and thanks God that he is not a woman. When I see you women wearing yourselves out in this social strain, I understand the feelings of the Turk." So, "Sister Susie's sewing skirts for soldiers' and Nettie's knitting knickknacks, only in the interstices, if there ever are any, in the social training school. These representatives, it is said, feel they are developing their mental powers to the detriment of physical prowess and believe punching the bag or medicine ball practice will remove pudginess and restore the athletic contours of years ago. According to Mr. Sixsmith, arrangements have been made to devote a room in the capitol to athletic exercises. If a member gets tired of mak

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Dummy Figures Used as Batter and Catcher. Really Ingenious Device That Seem to Have Practical Points Electricity Is the Motive Power of the "Players." A machine for practicing baseball, devised by an Ohio inventor, has two life-sizo figures that take the part of batter and catcher. An electric motor puts "life" into their movements. Rods, levers, joints and springs contained within the bodies of the dummies cause them to maintain automatically The Baseball-Playing Dummies and the Mechanism That Makes Them Work. their end of the game as batter and catcher. Here is how it is done: In the abdomen of the catcher dummy is a plate which when hit by the baseball thrown by the player who is practicing closes an electric circuit and causes a bell or buzzer to ring. The catcher's arms and hands ara mounted to move in and out on a horizontal plane. The batter, on the other hand, moves his bat up and down. To practice with this machine you take a position about sixty feet from the dummy batter and throw at his bat, which extends over the homo plate; if the bat is hit, you can jot down one on the score card. Or, land the ball in the abdomen of the catcher, hit the registering plate and ring tho electric bell, and a strike is credited you. If the ball hits the batter or catcher elsewhere than intended, a foul is counted. The inventor insists that the dummies are not unlike natural persons in performing their functions, although some players might not approve of the mode of "catching" the ball described. Rostand on theJar. In a delightful corner of the Pyrenees a number of temporary hospitals have beer? established. Quite often a certain visitor of note comes to these little hospitals, bringing to the wounded some small comforts, among which, arc tobacco, cigarettes and chocolate. He is clothed as a common soldier, although he wears hanging from his neck the cross of a commander of the Legion of Honor. This is Monsieur Edmond Rostand, poet and playwright, the hermit of Cambo, who thus prefers the uniform of an infantryman to the flannel jacket of the mountain proprietor or even the green coat of an "immortal." Not all of his "clients" know who is this distinguished visitor. One of them describes him as "a man who has not much hair on his head and writes pieces." M. Rostand has become fat. Our soldiers are getting fat. All the letters from the front certify this. M. Rostand has done likewise and has done well. Le Cri de Paris. Spooning Is Defined. "Spooning" in the public playgrounds of Pittsburgh is to end if plans of W. F. Ashe, superintendent of the new city bureau of recreation aro put through. Instead, dances under proper supervision and other healthful social activities will he carried out. "What is understood as spooning," Mr. Ashe says, "is justifiable only when it is the expression of the love of a man for the woman who is to become his wife or the woman for the man who is to become her husband. In young boys and girls it should bo discouraged. We shall have choral societies for the boys and girls. Dancing and music will provide the substitute for spooning." Mail From a Shipwreck. Echoes of the tragic fate of the Empress of Ireland still come over tho waters. For example, a lady who was at the time visiting in Canada wrote to her sister in England. The letter never arrived, but the sister came back in due course. And now, all unexpectedly, her missive has been delivered, stamped with the words: "Recovered by divers from the wreck of the Empress of Ireland." It speaks well for the quality of the mail bags when one says that the letter shows scarcely any trace of its eight months' immersion in the bed of the St. Lawrence. Pall Mall Gazette. With Precaution Lacking. The Chicago bureau of safety tella how men blasting a stump broke a. charged light wire on a pole. Th wire fell to the ground. The foreman sent a man to the lighting company to order the necessary repairs, but did not place a guard over the wire. A man took hold of the wire and wu killed. '"Safety first" requires that thoughtful precautions should be taken to avoid such fatalities.

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