Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 216, 11 September 1922 — Page 16

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, SEPT.'ll, 1922.

VISITORS HISS INTERESTING NOVELTIES BY THINKING MAPS ARE DULL OUTLINES

WASHINGTON, D. C Sept .11. '"So maay people come to my door !and read the sign 'Maps and Charts' and turn away." P. L. Phillips, chief of the Map Division of the Library of Congress made this remark, and he made it rather sadly. There is as much of the picturesque in Mr. Philip's division as in any part of the great library. But the public thinks of a map as a dull, abstract outline of a country. So, more often than not, visitors pass by and miss seeing the map with the picture of the onelegged man holding his foot over him like an umbrella. This attractive novelty is Just inside the door. It is possible that if he were outside, Delow the sign "Maps and Charts," the one-legged gentleman might stimulate the public imagination and Mr. Phillips -would be swamped with visitors. But sideshow advertising is beneath governmental dignity. Mr. Phillips has perhaps gone as far as this dignity permits when he placed a swinging of quaint old sixteenth century maps just inside his door. The one-legged gentleman Is in thi3 collection of valuable old vellum charts. He is sitting blissfully in the shade of. his huge foot in Ethiopia, a region about which very little was known when the map wa drawn. In another of these maps a man with a neck like a camej is set down somewhere in northern Europe.

These freak humans were not put

there in any spirit of levity. The

map makers. of the sixteenth century depend on explorers and travelers for information' about distant countries

just as mao makers do today. Some

times they were deceived. Travelers

exagerated or reported weired tradi

tions as facts. -Sir John Mancevuie,

famous traveler of the fourteenth cen

tury. i3 responsible for the one-legged

man. Mr. Phillies points out that

Mandeville's botfk of travels contains

; the same picture that the map maker

used a couple of centuries later, nian

deville added a description to his pic

ture, written in the quaint old English

of his time: '' Quaint Old English "In Ethiope ben many dyverse folk: and Ethiope is clept - (called)1 Cusis.

. In that Contres ben folk that han but

- o foot: and the! Ron so fast that

it is a marvalle: and the foot is so

- large that it schadewethe alle the Body azen the Sonne, whanne thei

wole lye and reete hem.'

: The man with the long, curved neck

is another concoction of some explor-

er. He adorns a 1559 sailing chart of the coast lines of the world. The

' maD makers of that time often dec

' orated their work with pictures of this sort, showing the natural exhibits and

Interesting features of the different

countries. This chart shows an ex-

cellently drawn elephant, a cameli " deer, unicorn, and other animals in

.' Africa, for instance, and in Europe ' the principal cities are . marked by

their coats of arms and a tiny view

of the city over the shield. Each of these views is no larger than a 25-

cent piece. Yet the towers and battlements of each city are distinctive. t The different countries are marked ; by pictures of the rulers sitting-on canopied thrones. The apparel of the " kings and the colors and style in which they are drawn are strongly suggestive of the royalty on a modern deck of playing cards. 1 This was a map of 1539, a more colorful and fanciful affair than our current maps with their dots for cities and wavy lines for mountains. Yet this map Is scarcely considered old by cartography experts. A map made - after 1550 is comparatively modern.

This is logical when you consider that the Romans made charts in planning

u. s. pioneer Slakes motorless plane rise from water

ion has saved" the, Government billions of dollars.

When the United States was bar

gaining for Alaska, the boundary line

was in dispute, and maps from the Library of Congress showed the original line to which the Russian territory

extended. Another time, Mississ

ippi and Louisiana had a controversy over an island in the Gulf of Mexico.

It was an insignificant island that

no state would have thought of argu

ing over until it became known as a fine place to catch terrapin. Library of Congress maps were sent for -to

show 'old established boundaries.

Lately Newfoundland and Canada

have been disagreeing over their

boundary line and men were sent

down to Washington to study the map material of the finest collection in the western world. These are a few

random instances, showing the use to

which the Government maps are put.

Maps are sent out of the building

only for Government use. The public

can consult tne material in me li

brary. People out of the city often use the Map Division, however, as a source of information. They write to ask the status of Danzig; how to pronounce Baluchistan; and where to find Risinia on the map. There is more interest in maps now than there has

been for some time, and the division is kept busy. Maps of Siberia and

Russia, which were rarely consulted

before the war, are now called lor fre-

The United States collection may De

somewhat smaller than those of several European Governments, but our map division dates back only to 1897.

In 25 years Mr. Phillips has made it

the most perfectly organided man col

lection in the world. He had been in the Library of Congress when it was in the Capitol building and he

took charge of the new division from

the beginning. He has catalogued it,

written volumes of descriptive indexes for reference use, designed a convenient method of keeping pamphlets for ready reference, and a cheap method of hanging maps from a rack on manila paper instead of charging the Government for expensive mounts. Exactly how many maps the collection contains is unknown. Many maps are made up of a number o separate sheets. One set alone, the Sanborn maps of 10,000 cities an1 towns In the United States, contains 400,000 sheets. And this series 13-only one item in the Government collection.

There are 5,000 atlases, dating from 1556 to the present It took four thick volumes to describe and index these atlases. It took another volume to list the maps applicable to the World War. This was printed in 1918. If it were brought up to-date it would probably be several times as

thick. New war maps and revised

maps of Europe are being printed ev

ery day. The world doesn't change much, but there is always something

new in maps. -

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Glenn Curtiss in his flying boat glider on Long Island Sound.

Glenn H. Curtiss. one of Amer-

lea's pioneer airmen, is the first

man to glide from the water in

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motorless plane. Curtiss made 1 used weighs but 150 pounds withhis tests at Port Washington on out the pilot. The flight lasted

Long island bound. The slider l nine seconds.

Jiggs and Maggie Will Tour World

Everybody up three long cheers loud on the bass drums! Jiggs and Maggie are going to tour the world, beginning about Oct 1, "Their creator, George McManus, is -vj.,-, t ftart them on a trip around the globe in this newspaper.

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their roads, and that records of map3ls scientifically - cr.vi wntnHpq tffnr I combined within S4

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. Christ. Some of the most interesting maps in the Library of Congress, to ; Americans, at least, are not old by this standard. A rare and unique map of this country is one showing the names proposed by Jefferson for new states, in 17S4. What is now the north central . and northwestern part of the United 4 States was beginning to open up, and , Jefferson proposed an ordinance to parcel it of and name it. He suggest- ; ed in his ordinance such names as Sylvania, Assenisippia, Polypotamia, Cherronesus, Mesopotamia, Michiganla, Saratoga, Pelisipia, Illinoio, and Washington. Most of these names were never taken seriously. One crit

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Greek, Latin, English and Indian perhaps was never seen before." But

" the next year a publisher printed a

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Showing the public its entertaining exhibits is not. of course, the main

? function of the Map Division. Mr.

Phillips has in his charge one of the

largest collections of maps in the world, and the material is put to important uses. He says that his divis-

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In all the history of American fun making nothing has ever been imagined like this trip of America's two best known comic characters to all those cities -of the old and new hemispheres of which, since their fame has preceded them there, they are al

ready citizens by affectionate , adoption. For the sun never sets on Jiggs

and Maggie. There are newspaper readers, old and young, in Chin and

New Zealand who know them as well

as the readers of The Palladium

In starting bis celebrated characters on their world Journey, McManus is

putting into pictures a plan he has entertained these several years and which will be the product of his own

journeys in many lands and among

various peoples of the earth. For the

father of "Bringing Up Father" is

an ardent traveller himself.

For a dozen years he has spent a

portion of each year in making firsthand acquaintance with the li&s and people of countries other than his own. The trip of Jiggs and Maggie around the world will be the reflection, in

part, of what he has seen and thought on his world wide travels.

In following his series day by day.

readers of this newspaper will be tak

en to the Hawaiian Islands and China

io japan, xo me fninppines, R.orea and Siam, whose King, Rama, is an enthusiastic Jiggs fan. and occasionally sends a letter to McManus thanking himtfor some special moment of

relaxation afforded by the cartoon, in

the press of the affairs of state. Jiggs

and Macgie will visit the Taj Mahal in India, the pyramids and temples in

Egypt, the sacropolis at Athens and

the forum and coliseum at Rome. See Bull Fight. ' They will be present at bull fights in Madrid and old Seville, will try

their luck at Monte Carlo, will disport

on the beaches at Biarritz, Ostend and

Deauville, and will embark for Ameri

ca on the last lap of their journey having touched all the high spots in

Paris and London from the green shores of Ireland where Jiggs shall have hunted the native corned beef and cabbage to its lair. The trip will afford endless play for the unique " humor and sparkling phi

losophy which it invariably of the essence of every McManus picture. In the adventures and encounters of Jiggs and Maggie all across the world there will occur situation after situation which will be uproariously funny, and in which the famous characters will conduct themselves with all their customary drollery and shrewdness and kindliness. To journey with Jiggs and Maggie will be to put away your cares end absorb for a few minutes every day the spirit of wholesome fun and happy laughter. Also to take a memorable trip with keen guides and counsellors and see the world through the trained eyes of one of the world's sagest wits and satirists. KEEPS RESORTS OPEN BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio, Sept 11. Owing to unusually hot weather, summer resorts and beaches ht Indiana Lake remained open past the regular season.

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