Navy Now Has Two of World's Most Powerful Cranes
:v is the mammoth 350- ton stationary crane at the Philadelphia navy yard, with the newly completed floating
Kc.-irsarge tied up alongside. The Kearsarge recently completed successful tests, lifting 312 tons. The Kear
: . ating crane. considered a most remarkable marine development, is capable of lifting nearly as heavy a cargo
stationary crane in spite of the fact that it is much smaller.
Tragic Tales of
Unclaimed Cash
tanks Hold Many Millions De
posited by People Who
Never Ciaim Money.
ONGRESS IS URGED TO ACT
iovernment Estimates Dormant Bal
ance? at $35,000,000? In 1917, 518,
873 Persons Had Failed to
Claim Accounts.
i If, some day when the world '
[ seemed dark and dreary, you t
*crc notified that a bank was '
holding a bunch of money just *
waiting for you to come and ask t !
for it, how do you think you'd '
feci? ' j
a
\?'w York. ? What becomes of Hie
!*? who make deposits in banks
i*m"! : . u r claim the money? What be
- ?-f their relatives and connec
i-s? '
??::???? a year the banks are required
;*i:M <li rlie names of these deposi
? % n I ia many instances efforts are !
:t i'.v special investigators to find j
? ':';:<l>. Extensive search and !
H-Tk follows,' .hut in nine cases
"f *ii failure is reported. The
? . '??> in the banks waiting claiin
-'" rs of congressional commit- ,
i*; - ? Washington to whose attention
!!'? *ul j?Tt was called intend bringing .
t:.? i; : ti i r up for action with a view
?ikiiiL' use of this overlooked
?? f?"-r additional treasury funds,
rinal recommendation to con
jn^]pi7i ;,nd each year of his
luently. Comptroller John i
? W illiams urged legislation "to
? dormant balances to be
- in the 1'nited States treas
Cr.' ?' The present comptroller, D. It.
- !_?T. repeated these recom
? "lis to congress, but so far
??' lias been done.
Total Near $35,000,000.
V.'IT the exact total <>f these un
!?: j : ? *? I balances was $27,237,027, of
* *' S- 1 .<538,089 was in the city
? and belonged to 518,873 cus
' 'Hie largest sums were in
states, including New York,
'?il being $13,034,242, belonging
customers. (Jovernment ex
'-titnate that the total now
- i ? aier the $35,000,000 mark.
at the banks and special
- . t'?rs' ofticcs show that even in
' '. -(?< af death of depositors it
: i-.b finding relatives. Take
! l-M ward J. Kelleher.
; t a shoe shining establish
>an Francisco. There came
? ' ?? day in 1017 an I-olinn shoe
" insinuated that Eddy's
t "tlier things as well ? niay
? L'oods, maybe not. Eddy
? ' H. asked him where he got
The Italian didn't care for
''"'???r,. pul'ed out his gun and
? ining musr be a profitable
10'dy Kelleher left n nice
' of $30,000 cU ready set
iin-ue of relatives. Hut they
iti coining. So slow, in fact,
* j'lihiie administrator at*er do
"r> thing in his power to find
? -? v" it up. ?
? <>f his correspondents, the
- referred to Nelson II. Tun
?! Chambers street, New York,
' 'Mey who represents many of
hanks in dormant balance
Tunnicliflf unearthed many
? ?c things about the departed
, ' had served a couple of
^ ^ Sau Quentin prison for rob
, ' --der another name. He had
^ 11 1 :n the Bowery in New York
! ,M t ed the inside walls of the
ar' i ! " ii for two years. His bank
records gave his birthplace as Law
rence, Mass., while the prison record
suggested Salem, Mass. Tunnicllfif dis
covered the baptismal entry at Law
rence. however, along with those of
three other children, brothers and sis
ters of the dead man.
Advertised Without Result.
He advertised extensively in Law
rence and in Salem without result. It
was only after considerable work, ex
tended further afield, that a nephew
and niece were located in South Da
kota. They knew their uncle well and
had even offered to help him once
after his imprisonment. Bread cast
upon the waters, etc., Keileher's
money was distributed to them.
There died in* 1920 Mary McCrea,
who was born in Brooklyn in 18T>0.
Mary McCrea lias left $r>0,000 for some
one ? but who? She was the daughter
of .Tames Brickley and Bridget Chand
ler. Brickley, born in County Wexford.
Ireland, came to the United States in
1840 with his sister. Elizabeth. Eliza
beth was married in Brooklyn to John
Walsh by whom she had a daughter,
Catherine, in 1850. After Walsh died
she was married to John Lawless.
There were no children. Catherine
married, also in Brooklyn, but tha
name of her husband is not known.
About 1S7'S they went to the Pacific
coast, and It is believed her husband
died and that she married again.
Returned to Ireland.
Bricklev is known to have returned
to Ireland In 1804. where he erected
headstones to his parents and rela
tives. but he came back to this country
and died in 1870. His daughter, Mary,
married Samuel McCrea, who appar
ently had money. Efforts by Nelson
TunniclifT to trace the rightful claim
ants for the legacy have so far met
with no success, but it Is thought that
many will remember Elizabeth Buck
ley Lawless, who used to keep the
little candy store at 100 Bocrum place,
Brooklyn.
Another $28,000 goes a-begging with
the death in 1018 of Harry Allen Hast
ings. , He was born in Oneida county,
New York, in 1801, and it is known
that his mother's maiden name was
Allen. Not much else is known. Hast
ings was a waiter in Cornwall-on-the
Hudson, and later served at the old
Delmonlco's In Beaver street. He left
$28,000.
But for romance and detective work,
the Bowery Savings bank case of the
Cullmann account is hard to beat. In
18G1 Frederick Collniann or Cullmann,
a turner, of 425 Fifth street, opened an
account with the bank which in 1808
was transferred to Eliza Cullmann. In
the passing of years the account be
came dormant and search for Cull
mann. was fruitless until one day a
William Cullmann appeared on the
scene saying he had been struck by
the similarity of names in the adver
tisements.
His father, a prosperous pipemaker,
had died suddenly and the shock had
rendered his mother subject to fits of
Insanity. She kept the family together,
however, until one day after an attack
in the street she was attended to and
taken to an asylum. The three chil
dren, William, Charles and Franz,
were sent to city Institutions, cared
for until proper age and indentured
to various parties. Thus the family
was scattered.
Names Found to Agree.
The names of the children agreed
with the beneficiaries namei In Cull
mann's account, but unfortunately the
Cullmann who had come to light could
not remember the address of the fam
ily during the year previous to 1873,
except that they lived in a house on
the East side, opposite a graveyard.
Examination of city maps [Wealed
that one of the addresses fitted this
description exactly. His mother's
name, also, was Eliza. An old wallet
belonging to his father, whose name
was written on the flap, bore a distinct
resemblance to the signature on the
Cat Summons Policeman
to Aid in Kitten's Rescue
London.? A cat, helped by a
policemnn, succeeded 'n rescu
ing her kitten that had fallen
down a well at Alton, in Hamp
shire.
The distressed cat attracted
the attention of a policeman,
and the faint cries of the drown
ing kitten explained the moth
er's agitated antics and cries.
Two efforts made to save the
kitten by lowering a bucket
failed.
Then the constable lowered
the mother cat by a rope. Her
natural aversion to water van
ished in her desire to save her
kitten, which was raised ex
hausted to the surface^ firmly
but gently held In its mother's
teeth.
account opened by Cullmann. Sundry
other documents, marriage certificate,
etc., served to connect his mother with
the account.
Cullman was deeply moved when he
learned that the amount involved was
over $1,100. "If only we had known
this, the family would never have been
broken up," he said. He was advised
how to proceed, take out letters of ad
ministration, etc., but three years later,
in 1901, the bank still held the account
and wrote asking him about it. He de
dined to have anything further to do
with the case, saying that it only re
vived memories for him which he
wished dead. Ilut he was willing to
let Mr. l.iddle of the bank clear up
mutters.
IJddle discovered early in the case
that Eliza, with the cunning of the
insane, had an account with the Met
ropolitan Savings bank for over
000. The account read: "Andrew
Miller or Eliza Cullmann, in trust for
William, Franz, Charles, Mary." Cull
maun had not previously mentioned
his sister, but at mention <>f her name
he remembered her as being on Kan-.
dalPs island with the brothers. After
the children were indentured to differ
ent parties, Franz and William ran
away, returned to New York and
eventually found each other.
Mother Cured.
? In the meantime the mother had
been discharged as cured, and she and
the two boys were reunited. I?ut an
other attack of insanity sent Eliza
Cnllmann back to an asylum. It was
therefore up to Liddle to discover
Eliza, the mother, and Charles and
Mary, the other two children. From
police records he found that Elizabeth
Coleman (an easy mistake in the
name) was admitted to the asylum at
Ward's island in 1874, and that she
died at Hart's island in 1885.
From Randall's island he was as
sured that t lie records did not show
any trace of there ever having been
four such children on the island. P?ut
William Cullmann stuck to his state
ment, and a persona) visit to Randall's
proved that he was right. The record
was brought to light showing that Wil
liam, thirteen; Franz, eleven; Charles,
nine; Mary, seven, were committed to
the island June 1800. The records
also showed to whom they had been
discharged, and this gave a starting
point, although it seemed hopeless to
find the other two after so many years.
Mary was discovered, married, liv
ing at Yalesville, Conn. Charles was
found by means of photographs and
advertising throughout the whole coun
try.
There are lighter sides to the game.
One woman found not long ago In New
York told the bank officials that she
had not applied for her dormant money
because she had lost her bank book
and thought the money went with It.
Another woman did not call at her
bank for 23 years, being afraid her
husband would get the money and
spend It. One book had been forgot
ten because the children had been al
lowed to scribble all over It. Other
books have been discovered in old
trunks after 30 or 40 years. There is
a story, tragic or otherwise, back oi
every one of these unclaimed balance*
i
IK MIL
V FOB OFFER
RESOLUTION IS PASSED BY ONLY
ONE DISSENTING VOTE
IN HOUSE.
ANTI-KU KLUX BILL RESGUED
House Reconsiders Action and Places
Secret Order Measure Back
on Calendar.
Raleigh.
Henry Ford's proposal for the pur
chase of the Muscle Shoals, Ala., pro
ject from the Federal Government
came up on the floor of the house here
in the form of a resolution to ask
Congress to support the project passed
by a record vote of 106 for and 1
against. ? ?
Drawn out debate preceded the reso
lution's passage, featured by a tilt be
tween Representative Owen, of Samp
son, and Cowles, of Wilkes, both Re
publicans. Mr. Cowles cast the lone
negative vote.
Representative Whittaker of Guil
ford County, who voted against the
Milliken bill for regulation of secret
orders when it went to its defeat on
second reading, brought the bill back
from the dead by his motion in the
House to reconsider and the almost
unanimous support of the motion.
His motion to -reconsider was tol
lowed by a motion to table the first
motion by Representative Ray, of lila
con County. On a call for the a^es
and nays, the motion to table was de- i
feated 70 to 38. .
The Hoke County Scotchman's bill
carried the serior Number 27 and
has been pending for four weeks he
fore the Committee on Agriculture/
It came back with a favorable re
port and Mr. Patterson wanted it put
on its immediate passage in order that
the North Carolina delegation might
have the moral support of the General
Assembly in Its attitude toward the
leasing of the project to Henry Ford.
Burgwyn of Northampton couldn't
see any use of it, and he moved to
table it. Five minutes later he with
drew his motion and supported the
resolution. It had a lot of support,
coming as it did as a measure to re
lease the farmer from the oppression
of the fertilizer industry by making
cheap nitrates. Everybody seemed to
be for it except Mr. Cowles, the Wilkes
Republican. ? ;
Minority Leader Owens bristled up
when Mr. Cowles took the floor against
it and began a retaliatory speech, re
membering perhaps the Cowles repu
diation of his leadership when the
road bill was up. Mr. Owens made a
noHe speech. He declaimed of the
need of the farmer for cheap fertilizer,
and he knew that if Mr. Ford could
bring automobiles within the reach of
"us poor farmers," he could do like
wise with nitrates. I
"But why not let Congress pass on
It," Mr. Cowles interjected. "We
don't know anything about it down
here, we don't know what the contract
stipulates."
Mr. Owens went to say how he re
garded Mr.; Ford as? a wizard. Mr.
Patterson got the floor back to say
that he had heard some folks allege
that this was a part of the Ford-for
Presiriert propaganda that is at work
in th* State. He denied it vigorously.
There are plenty of men big enough
to be President, but only one to de
velop Muscle Shoals/ he insisted.
-Mr. Cowles kept gefcing up to de
clare that the House didn't know any
thing about it. 'The opposition of the
Republican party was injected into
the discussion. Somebody demanded
a roll call to show where everybody
stood, and when it was called, Mr.
Cowles occupied the negative side of
the call entirely to himself.
A period of calm ensued after the
passage of the resolution, broken only
by occasional motions to have bills
put right on the calendar until the
Houso came to the Parker bill prohibit
ing the marriage of ^irls under the
age of 16. There was considerable
perfervid drator about the glory of
womanhood generally, but eventually
the House settled down to the practi
cal aspects of the bill.
The point was debated at some
length, and the bill, passed in amend
ed form provides that no girl under
the age of 16 without the permission
of her parents, or except in unusual
circumstances may marry. Opposi
tion to it was never entirely overcome.
The Saunders bill sets forth In legis
lative form the recommendations of
the State Agricultural Society for the
transfer of the State Fair to the State,
and the appropriation of $25,000 an
nually for the maintenance of the fair.
Early Action on Sams Bill.
Early action by the Senate is ex
pected to be taken on Senator A. F.
Sams' bill to amend the State Consti
tution so as to limit North Carolina's
indebtedness, it was stated in General^
Assembly circles. The measute wa3
Introduced last week and has been
under consideration of committees.
Owing to the attention now centered
on the financial condition of the State,
the Sams' measure is the subject of
much d'scussion, along with bills to
provide sinking funds for the bonded
Indebtedness.
Sale of Treasury Certificates fit a ty.
More than ten million dollars worth
of Treasury Savings Certificates vera
purchased in the Fifth Reserve Dis
trict in 1922, the exact figures being
$10,512,893, according to a statement
just received by Postmaster W. B.
Dunman from Treasury Department
officials. In North Carolina the sales,
through postoffices amounted to $1,
515,143 with a per capita of $.63 for
the state, while the Raleigh postoffic?
is credited with $54,250, or a per cap
ita of $1.81.
Postoffice sales throughout the dis
trict were distributed as follows:
West. Virginia, $3,061,968, per capita,
$2.47; District of Columbia, $1,014,350,
per capita, $2.31; Virginia, *$1,744,460,
per capita, $.82; North Carolina, $1,
515,143, per* capita, $.63; Maryland,
$607,533, per capita, $.45; South Car
alina, $569,277, per capita, $.36. In
addition there was sold through the
treasury at Washington $657,255 and
through the Federal Reserve Bank at
Richmond $1,342,907, to purchasers
scattered over the entire district, mak
ing a grand total of $10,512,853, or a
per capita of $1.15.
The above sales were nearly ten
times what they were for the previous
year, 1921. The increased showing
may be explained, -in part, by the large
number of War Savings Stamps, Se
ries 1918s which were exchanged for
the new treasury savings certificates.
Many reinvested the proceeds of their
war savings stamps they had held for
five years in these new certificates
which are similar to war stamps ex
cept that they are issued in denomi
nations of $25, $100, and $1,000, and
may be bought for $20.50, 82 and 820,
respectively.
The postmaster urges all holders of
1918 war stamps, who have not done
so, to present their stamps for re
demption or exchange immediately as
each day of delay means a loss of in
terest on their investment. Exchang
ed for the new certificates, which
have five years to run, but may be
cashed at owner's option at values
increasing every month, the invest
ment again possesses earning power,
as the savings certificates begin to
bear interest the day they are issued.
Seventy-two New Lawyers in State.
Seventy-two of the ninety-five ap
plicants who faced examination for
license to practice law in North Caro
lina were successful, according to an
nouncement by Edward Seawell, clerk
of the Supreme Court. In addition
there were five applicants under the
comity act, all of whom were granted
license.
Ninety-five applicants registered for
the written examination held Monday
by the Supreme Court. Two of the
applicants did not appear and, one pa
per, because of failure to meet re
quirements, was not considered. Re
jections totaled twenty, leaving sev
enty-two more men who are now quali
fied to practice law in the state.
Give Short Course for Electricians.
To enable electrical metermen of
this and adjoining states to obtain
training in the installation, testing and
adjustment of watt hour meters, the
Department of Electrical Engineering
of State College will offer a special
course beginning March 5 and con
tinuing through March 10.
The entire teaching staff of the de
partment will be available for this
course and in addition the Westing
house Electric and Manufacturing
Company, the General Electric Com
pany, the Sangamo Electric Company
and the Duncan Electric Manufactur
ing Company will co-operate by send
ing experts to explain special features
of their meters.
The .college will make no charge
for tuition, but there will be a small
fee, nor exceeding $2.50, for instruction
sheets and paper. This will be re
funded ,Prof. W. H. Browne, .ft*., states, 1
if the student brings a rotating stand
ard for his own use. The student
should also bring his own load box.
Board may be secured at .the col
lege dining hall for $1.00 per day and
a limited number of rooms in the col
lege dormitories will be available,
without charge, but the occupant will
be expected to furnish his own bed
clothes.
The course of study will include
lectures on the fundamentals of the
electric current, the principles of op
eration of meters and the methods of
testing and adjusting. The greater
part of the time, however, will be
given to actual practice by the stu
dents in installing, testing and ad
justing meters under the supervision
of meter experts.
The assignments given will be in
dividual and designed so far as pos
sible to fit the needs of each student.
Instruction in signal phase and poly
phase meters will be offered as well
as in direct current meters, if de
sired. If it is found desirable a course
in alternating current principles will
also be given.
According to Professor Browne sim
ilar courses have been given with
much success in various technical
schools throughout the United States.
Tax Collections Net $3,380,050.09.
Actual net collections from all
sources during the first year of the
operation o fthe new state revenue
act ending June 30, 1922, totaled $3,-'
380,060.09, according to the report of
the revenue commissioner transmit
ted in a special message to the gen
eral assembly. Collections for the six
months period between July 30, 1922, '
and December 31, 1922, were given at
$367,699.15. ' j
Difficulties in having the measure '
printed were given as the reason foi i
the delay in making the report.
? BOY ?
SCOUTS
i?s> '
(Conducted by National Council of the Boy
Scouts of Ameriea.)
BOY SCOUTS AND OTHER BOYS
"Fifty thousand boy scouts judi
ciously placed in Chicago would vir
tually put the delinquent department
of the juvenile court out of business,"
says Judge Victor P. Afnold of the
Juvenile court, Cook county, Illinois.
"The scout program provides for the
growing boy the opportunity of learn
ing by doing, fills in his leisure so com
pletely that he seldom has the oppor
tunity or inclination to associate with
questionable companions, or to do any
of the hundred and one things that a
real American boy can do when time
hangs heavily on the hands. It is the
most perfect program ever given to
the boyhood of the world, training
for citizenship through service."
Scouting's powerful Influence in
character training and citizenship
building is recognized by observing
people everywhere.
The prevention of juvenile delin
quency and the respect for law and
order that the boy scout gains Is a
wonderful result of the training.
Scouting has completely turned around
the old idea that boys and police are
natural enemies. Today the boy scout
stands for law and order, and Ls the
policeman's co-worker and friend.
Troop 96 of Minneapolis l*as
the privilege of holding Its meetings in
the First Precinct Police station, and
the police official in charge of the dis
trict declares that "The scouts know
the police as their friends and help
ers."
Boy scouts have acted under direc
tion of the police in practically every
city of the country, in directing traffic
during congestion, in assisting chil
dren across streets, in patrolling at
parades, and in performing first-aid in
times of emergency and disaster. The
boy scout movement is converting "the
gang',' into groups of healthy, whole
some boys, and directing their energy
to community welfare and service to
others.
Guardians of public safety in offi
cial co-operation with the police is a
new role which scouts of Greater
New York will soon fill, if plans mature
which are now under consideration by .
officials of the New York police de
partment and officials of the Boy
Scouts of America. The boys will
have opportunity to qualify through
certain regulated work, as municipal .
aides. A method will be worked out
whereby scouts will in turn be per
mitted to do community work. Honor
awards will be given to scouts per
j forming outstanding work in cor^mu
j nity safety.
SANITARIUM HAS TROOP
i Scouting Is for every boy. There
are troops of boys with all their fac
ulties and troops of deaf, dumb,' blind
and crippled scouts. Sick or well, "a
boy is a boy for a' that," with the
same hopes and ambitions.
At the Westfield (Mass.) Sanitari
um for Tuberculosis, a most success
ful troop of 75 boys is in operation.
The patient scouts hail with glee
their instructors when they come to
the sanitarium, and because the scouts
have the entire week to study up, they
have become very proficient In all tests,
passing except hiking and swimming
which are beyond their strength, and
keep their corps of examiners verf
busy.
Authorities say the program has
meant much to boys in their illness,
because of the emphasis on cheerful
ness, thought for others, out-of-door
life and its incentive to a boy to keep
physically fit, mentally awlike and
morally straight.
When a scout is cured, the sani
tarium keeps In touch with the local
scout executive, sees that the boy gets
Into a troop In his home town, so that
he will continue his out-of-door life,
and become what scouting would hav?
him, a sturdy man fitted for citizen
ship responsibilities.
GOOD TURN FOR DALLAS
The Dallas scribe marked up an
other civic good turn when he record
ed among recent activities, the as
sistance the scouts rendered at the
City Fair association, in delivering
over 25,000 bulletins advertising the
sale of thrift tickets sold for the pur
pose' of erecting a manufacturing and
automobile exhibition hall.
BOY SCOUTS DO GOOD SERVICE
Troop 1, Huntington Park, Cal., re
cently distributed 5,000 pieces of school
literature and 3,000 Parent-Teachers'
association notices.
BOY SCOUTS' GOOD TURN
Good turns by radio are a specialty
with Troop 5, Providence, R. L Re
cently these boys Installed a radio set
in the largest ward of the Rhode Is
land hospital, and shifted the aerial,
from time to time so that all the pa
tient* could in turn be entertained.
At Christmas time the boys repeated
this good turn, and in addition In
stalled a set of tfe?ir own construc
tion in the children's ward, and pre
sented it to the small patients for
their own use