Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 93, Number 30, 3 February 1923 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY, FEB. 3, 1923.

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BANANA SHIPS FLASH NEWS OF APPROACH TO JUNGLE WORKERS

A day or two before one of the bis banana ships steams into its port of supply, news of its approach is flashed to th jungle by wireless, says Newton Fuessle in The Outlook. This flash of news through the drowsv

tropical air is picked up by tlegraph

and teleDhone. and is at once trans

mitted tn the nhintations and their

OUtDOStS.

Suddenly the waiting banana land

resolve themselves into switt ana orderly action. Cutting orders are terse

lv issued. Glittering blades chop the

fruit hunches from their trees. Ox

carts and freight cars are" made ready,

and in a few hours' time trainloads

of bananas, numbering 20 to 40 cars, are winding their way to the waterfront to meet the approaching ship. Not a moment is permitted to be lost between the time the fruit la lopped off the trees and the time it goe3 aboard ship for its journey to the tables of the world. Back of the voyages that scores of big, modern refrigerator ships are making to the tropics is a story of the conquest of obstacles that few enterprises have ever been compelled to face. Penetrate Jungles These fruit-growers have penetrated regions where organized industry had never been known before. They have taught thousands of natives efficient team work. They have given, steady jobs to thousands of drowsy natives who were never on a payroll before. They have cleaned up jungles that used to be death-traps, have cleaned up mosquito-breeding swamps and

marshes, and have sent forth an army

of doctors to rout out disease. They have built houses, bakeries, laundries, water systems, and electric light plants for their workmen, and have strung telephone wire3 through the wilderness. The banana trade has developed a new soldier of fortune, for this business requires courage and wits and stamina of a hard quality and large dimensions. From the financiers at their desks In Boston and from the mariner on the bridge, down to ditchdiggers and dock laborers, the tropi

cal fruit industry has no room in it

for weaklings. Between planting and harvest a ba

nana plantation is subjected to all

manner of hazards. Excessive rains

may cause rivers to overflow, and may cause great losses. A hurricane may cause a total loss of the crop. Even

windstorms blowing only 20 to 30

miles per hour often prove highly de

structive, especially where the fruit is about ready to be cut. A drouth may

seriously retard the crop. Ravages of

locusts and other insects sometimes

occur.

The fruit trees of the north bear fruit year after year, but the banana

tree bears only once, a single bunch,

and is cut down when the fruit is harvested. Seed bulbs, or "bits," weigh ing from three to four pounds each,

are planted, and it takes the tree from

12 to 15 months to bear.

After the banana's journey to the loading dock and thence into the hold of the ship, a still stranger drama of

modern science enacts itself. Through

out the ship's dash through tropical

waters for its northern port the temperature in the hold is kept at about 54 degrees. The fruit is cooled to the

required temperature by refrigerating apparatus. The air is passed over brine coils, which cool and dry it, and it is then circulated by fans through the fruit holds. The same careful inspection and rigid temperature requirements attend the fruit on its journey by rail to the final point of distribution; and the ripening occurs only in the banana rooms of the jobber.

Lafuse-Immel Reunion

At Liberty Thursday LIBERTY, Ind., Feb. 3. The an

nual meeting of the Lafuse-Immel re

union will be held at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. John Gavin, Feb. S, at 1

o'clock in the afternoon. The follow

ing program will be enjoyed: Music, phonograph; song, Beulah Land; invo

cation; recitation, Luanna Lafuse; reading, Mrs. Morris Lafuse; reading, Mrs. Nellie Kitchell; song; reading, Mrs. Lora Lafuse; reading, Perry Lafuse; history of Smith and Immel families, F. F. Oddington; business session. Irvin Lafuse is president of the organization and B. F. Coddington is secretary.

A CLOSE-UP OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN From "The Cortlands of Washington Square," by Janet Fairbank (BobbsMerrill). The president etood at the door of the second parlor, with a secretary beside him who gave him the names of his callers. Ann's first impression was of his extraordinary height, for he tow

ered over the people about him, and then the amazing charm of his face caught her; tragic, humorous, distinguished and kindly; she adored him at first sight. He was obviously bored at the tiresome ceremony of handshaking, but as obviously determined to go through with it with painstaking courtesy; he had a routine of greeting, "1 am charmed to see you here," he said.

over and over, concern.

with a look of grave

Births

LIBERTY, lnd. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dorsel are the parents of a daughter.

McKOIN RETURNS EAST MONROE, La., Feb. 3. Dr. B. M. McKoin, ex-mayor of Mer Rouge and one of the leading figures in the Moorehouse parish kidnapping case, left yesterday for Baltimore on receipt of permission from Attorney General Coco, and will resume his pont graduate work at Johns Hopkins university, r

THORN REMOVED FROM LEG COLUMBUS, Ind., Feb. 3 A thorn which penetrated the leg of Timothy Lockard, of East Columbus, more than two years ago, was removed after suddenly inflaming Lockard's leg and causing great pain to him. While

clearing brush, Mr. Lockard noticed a

flight sting, but the lameness which came later was thought to be rheumatism until an examination disclosed the thoin.

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