What the Arctic Regions Look Like From the Air
Tla> is the tirst photograph of the Arctic regions to be uiuile from an airplane and shows Fowl island and the
insula of Albert, first of the Danes islands, approximately 400 miles from the North pole.
Did Shopkeeper
Defied Progress
+
yside's Famous Merchant Who
Objected to Modem In
ventions Dies
lew York. ? "Johnny Hope's dead!"i
hut's what everyone II Bayslde was
me It was echoed for many miles
Z on Long island as .he news
ead. For John Hope, seventy, was
hist survivor of an older, gentler,
not less busy time along the shores
Little Neck bay and lie hinterland,
the day he died John Hope ran the
t ?f general store that really in
ued the eye of the discriminating,
s probably the last store of Its kind
[he city of Sew York.
1 still stands at Bell *nd Park ave
js In Bayslde, but big. old-fashioned
jtters are on the doors and the kero
ie lamps 110 longer glitter on tinware,
ins sister, Miss Annie, and his
pger brother. William, held the
leral In the lamp-lit rooms above
i store. They will not continue the
ilness. Their brother made a very
isiderahle fortune and they will not
on with the tradition.
Lnd Johnny Hope's was a distinct
iditlon. When the old store is closed
is expected that a branch bank or a
iring picture theater will occupy Its
iuahle site. That will be the definite
fthat Bayslde is no longer a coun
(village, but a suburb of New York.
I Had Real General S*ors.
lohuny Hope was burn in Oreat
Ik, of English and Irish stock, 70
ts ago, and 40 years ago he had
?far enough along to :*et up in busl
I for himself. He bought the build
|nt Bell and Park avenues, which
b then was a real estate office, and
leeded to build around it a country
le that sold literally everything.
Kceries, dry goods, hay, feed and
In" were all that were mentioned
Ihe sign. But the windows showed
? modesty of such a declaration,
mere are just two concessions to
lernity in those windows. One is a
Imos bottle and the other a cocktail
ler. The latter, his nephew, Gene
Be, declares, must have been foisted
lolmny by some slick drummer. For
Lny himself never either smoked or j
Ek. Aside from those two conces
m. however, there are nothing but
tilers of boyhood on the farm.
Ire are halters of rope and leather,
ftr pads, lanterns, cut glass parlor
Ks. old willow china, vinegar cruets,
Br pitchers of glass and of pewter,
Beg graters and kerosene cans ? the
? the grocer used to plug the nose
Blth a potato.
?side the welter Is even more con
Bg to the untrained eye. Bottles
Betrhup stand on an old-fashioned
B case of ribbons. Lanterns In
Br hags and hams In sacking hang
B the ceiling. Bolts of cloth are
Bed on shallow shelves above the
Be and flour bins. The candy case
Bull-day suckers, sticks, jaw bre&k
I licorice strings nnd all the old
Briles Is just beside Johnny's desk,
lending belief to the tradition that he j
was not above blandishing a child with
a gift, thence for a well delivered mes
sage or order.
No Um for Cash Register.
The desk itsqlf is the same one with
which Johnny started business ? one of
the high ones with a stool behind it
and a big thick ledger on top. He
scorned a cash register. And he did
a strictly cash business. It was thus
that he said he was always able to
compete with the chain stores and the
other modern inventions that ltae the
main street on either side of him. He
had neither telephone nor electric light.
"I like the lamps," he used to say,
"and so do lots of people, and I'll have
no telephone because the way I want
to do business is for cash right across
this counter."
He was an intelligent Tory In other
ways, too. He fought hard against the
widening and paving of Bell avenue.
"And I was right," he said not long
ago. "There's no place to hitch a team,
nobody stops to buy. Look at them
scooting through."
Right up to the last he retained a
big share of the custom of the town
and the surrounding country, however.
There was a sigi^on one of) the rafters
j of his maze of a store which reads:
' All Preserved Food }
J $hou!d Be Boiled j
J Chicago. ? 'Medical science J
0 knows no cure for botulism, but 0
\ lives may be saved by boiling J
0 home-preserved foods. Dr. John #
\ C. Gelger, epidemiologist of the [
t United States public health serv- '
0 Ice attached to the University of \
* Chicago, warned recently. He *
J called attention to eight deaths \
* within two weeks throughout the '
1 country, which he attributed to *
J that poisoning. *
$ It is not possible for the inex- #
* perlenced to detect the spoilage, {
* either by sight or taste, Doctor #
J Gelger warned, and the only J
0 safe method Is to boll the food 0
{ before using it. J
4
? j
"If you don't see what you want ask
for it."
And few tilings were asked for in
vain.
"If I couldn't get a thing in Johnny's
1 knew I couldn't get '.t any place,"
said a womnn outside the store. "And
his prices were as cheap as any store
here or In New York. He said he never
bought anything but the best, and I
believe he was right. I never got any
thing unsatisfactory in his store In all
my life."
Johnny made a considerable fortune.
Nobody knows how big It is yet. But
K among his early customers were many
wealthy New York families who had
country estates near Bayside.
COY SCOUTS FIND LOST
I INDIAN CAMP AT YONKERS
Death of Woodchuck Reveals
280-Year-0ld Secret
New York. ? Arctomys Monax was a
forest woodchuck, lean and thin as the
woodland law says one should be.
Last Tuly he mysteriously disappeared
from Rocky Lonesome Forest, Yonk
ers, where he and his ancestors had
been curators or keepers of the secret
location of the lost Indian village site
of Armeperahln.
The Museum of Natural History
troop of boy scouts, with a cabin near,
interested in archaeology, never dls
| covered the site. When any of them
approached it was Mr. Monax's duty
to scurry squealing from the knoll In
the black dirt of which were the
relics, arrowheads, worked stones, etc.,
noisily down through underbrush to a
thicket and into his- hole.
For 280 years the Monax family had
kept the secret. Even Bolton's his
tory does not fix the location of Ar
meperahln, though It tells how Direc
tor Kleft of Fort Amsterdam sent En
sign Hendricks Van Dyck with sol
diers in March, 1643, to wipe out the
VVeckquaeskeck at Dobbs Ferry. De
ceived by an Indian guide he reached
the vicinity of Armeperahln, lost his
way In Rocky Lonesome, and returned
to Manhattan without firing a shot.
The Indians deserted Armeperahln,
leaving the woodchuck In charge.
Arctoraya, short legs, grizzly yellow
gray coat, and black gloves on four
feet, was. a faithful curator until he
discovered that bread and other waste
foAd purloined from the scout camp
was good. Then like Adam In Eden
he grew fat and slothful. He disap
peared, to the sorrow of the scouts to
whom he represented the wild .animals
once In the Sprain woods. They hunt
ed vainly, and broke camp.
Recently the Appalachian Mountain
club's New York chapter, following
Van Dyck's war trail in the' rook fast
nesses, solved the mystery by finding
under sere brakes beside a rabbit path
a pathetic little heap of bones, all
that was left of Mr. Monax. Grown
fat against wilderness law, apoplexy
overtook him. The door of his hole
closed with golden leaves, no scurry
ing decoy to lead them away, the Ap
palachian folk went up the knoll where
a quick eye detected a stone-pecking
Implement, and the secret of 280 years
was out. And new, maybe, the
Museum of the American Indian,
Heye Foundation, will excavate ther$
and ail because Mr. Monax ate forbid
den food.
Dictionary Stops Buflet.
St. Paul. ? A pocket dictionary and
a spectacle case carried in his vest
pocket stopped a bandit's bullet and
saved the life of Robert Volgtman, po
lice detective, when he grappled with
a bandit.
10 STATES CLAIM TOWN
WITH MINERAL RICHES
- I
ley, Wis., Declared to Be
Rightfully Michigan's.
|, Mich? On the arm of the
Hey 't-nerul of Michigan, the town
orley, Wis., notorious in Its past,
ushered before the Supreme
1 of the United States. Born to
rtety the days of the north
try* "rum rebellion," Hurley,
fthel v>s, is deslrtd by Michigan,
Wisconsin just as firm in flght
toe attempt to remove the town
'ts Jurisdiction.
"% ;> on rne small strip of land
-Mi. h! -an claims as Its own, de
fttct that the land, situated
^ itn 1 Viius counties, has been
tonsin territory since 1830. Mlch
fCoutention, as presented to. the
? ? 'iirt is. that the boundary
I vtH-ii Michigan and Wisconsin
w'.'^he^ originally as "through
of th? main channel of
the Montreal river." Later it was dis
covered that the original surveys were
Incorrect ; that the river branched.
Michigan asserts that, the correct
boundary is in the west branch of the
river; Wisconsin, the east branch.
The territorial acquisition that
would result to Mlcnigan, if this
state's contentions are recognized by
the high court, would be small, in
cluding besides the land In the two
Wisconsin counties, several Islands In
the Menominee river and Washington
Island In Green Pay. Valuable cj^pos^
Its of Iron and coal, however, make
the disputed terrain a tempting t)one
for the two commonwealths to wfangle
over.
Michigan's bill of complaint charges
that Wisconsin has refused to settle
amicably the boundary dispute. Wis
consin is required to file answer by
January 7.
Michigan officials have 4 explained
fh? nresent court action Is not as
much directed to the extension of the
territorial limits as It Is to the settle
ment forever, one way or another, of
the boundary argument.
Girl Flyer Astonishes
Experts by Bold Leap
Paris. ? Mile. Denyse Collin brought
confusion among the ranks of the avi
ation laboratory experts recently when
she landed successfully from an air
plane flying more than 100 mile3 an
hour with the aid of a parachute
weighing only twelve pounds.
"These little parachutes are highly
dangerous. The mere shock of the
cord when they unfold Is given by the
dynamometer as 1,500 pounds, which 19
enough to kill any human being," said
the experts.
Dublin Giant Police Fbrce No More.
Dublin.? The Dublin metropolitan
police force, composed of some of the
tallest police in any force in the world,
has passed out of existence.^ Many
members have retired, while others
have remained with the new organiza
tion which took up its duties recently.
/
is.
HEADJIHT HUH
OPPOSITION TO THE LADY OF
BILTMORE'S POLICIES UN
AVAILING.
CARR WANTEU A PLATFORM
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Governor Morrison Leads the Vander
bilt Forces at Agricultural Society
Meet.
Mrs. Edith Vanderbilt was reelected
president of the state afir for a fourth
term at the annual meeting of the
North Carolina Agricultural society.
Her election was without opposition,
but there developed disturbing ele
ments that threatened for a time to
make the journey of the presidential
bark a rough one.
Word had gone out that Mrs. Van
derbilt would be seriously opposed by
a faction of the society which pro
posed nominating Captain W. M.
Saunders, of Smithfleld. It developed
as the clouds grew lower over ,the
meeting, however, that the opposition
wasn't to Mrs. Vanderbilt but to poli
cies which were threatened. And, fin
ally, it turned out that even the poli
cies, "matters at issue," as they were
called, were concurrend in by the op
posing factions and that the real dif
ficulty precipitating the excitement
was the manner of settling these
"matters at issue" in connection with
the presidential election.
Preceding the meeting, the "mat
ters at issue," which proved to be a
resolution putting the society on
record as opposed to the removal of
the fair ground or the opening of a
street through the property, had been
agreed upon by those centered cn the
reelection of Mrs. Vanderbilt and by
those determined upon the "issue."
j But when the time for electing of
ficers came up, those determined upon
the issue demanded the adoption of
the resolution before the election and
the committment of the president to
them.
"We must build a platform and put
our candidate on it," declared General
Julian S. Carr, leader of the "insur
gents,'' who demanded the introduc
tion of the resolution first.
"We dont' need a platform to run
the fair on and I am satisfied the per
son we are going to nominate is go
ing to run the fair in good faith and
with respect to the society'? wishes it
she is elected," replied Governor Mor
rison, leader of the Vanderbilt forces,
i who gained the floor to call General
Carr out of order.
? "That gentleman ought to be tne
last to talk about electing officers
before adopting a platform," call, d
out Gen. Carr, pointing to the gover
nor and referring to his experience in
political conventions. " call for a
vote, and if there are more hand
clappers than Jule Carr men, then I'm
licked." ,
l
Farmers Make High Average.
Twenty per cent of the' farmers of
the state this season averaged one
bale to the planted acre of cotton ac
cording to a statement issued here
by Frank Parker, agricultural statis
tician for the state. Tn commenting
on this report Mr. Parker said that it
was a remarkable record and one
which had been possible only because
of unusually favorable conditions and
care.
The cotton crop in North Carolina
as of December first was more than
nearly completely ginned than in any
previous season, accord ng to the re
port. It also was the cleanest picked
and graded in the history of the state,
and second, if not the best, in yield
per acre.
This season, acording to Mr. Par
ker, was the first time that the crop
on this date had been practically en
tirely picked. With the value of the
lint and seed placed at $175,000,000
the crop for the first time took sec
ond rank among the cotton states in
crop value. Texas, an empire in It
self, being the only state to lead North
Carolina.
Mr. Parker attributed the success
this season to unusually favorable
weather conditions and the fact that
the weevil was ineffective in most
sections. The fact that the earliest
large setting of boll took place in
1923 also aided. The cotton leaf
worms, which usually may hurt the
crop, arrived In September, but the
crop was in good condition so that
when the worms stripped the plants
of foliage the only affect it had waa
to acuse the bolls to grow the larger
and the faster. The usage o? fertiliz
ers was approximately 462 pounds to
the acre cultivated. In the northern
belt the acreage devoted to cotton
was increased over last year.
Five Hundred Find Jobs.
Five hundred and thirteen men and
women found jobs through the State
employment service during the past
week according to the weekly state
ment issued by M. L. Shipman, direc
tor. Registrations numbered K25, re
quests for help 653 and 579 were rc
fererd to jobs. Wilmington continues
to lead the State in reported place
ments with a total of 158. Other of
fices report: Asheville, 97; Charlotte,
"?01, Orsensbcro. 37s Raleigh, 54; and
Winf.toD-Sc.lem as
Takes Census of the Deaf.
With the object of taking a cenats
of the deaf in the state bo that the
work of the bureau may be broadened,
J. M. Robertson, chief of the bureau
for the deaf of the Department of
Labor and Printing, addressed a com
munication to all county superintend
ents of education in the state urging
their co-operation with the bureau to
the extent of furnishing the names of
the deaf children in the schools to the
department.
Mr. Robertson in his letter assert
ed that the bureau was Aesiroii of
having a record of all deaf persons
so that when work arose that might
be given to them he would be able
to get- in touch. He askcrtk that the
school children be urged to help the
this work by reporting to their teach- 1
ers those whom they were acquaint
ed with who were afflicted. *
The bureau has been doing pioneer
work in North Carolina in securing
employment for the deaf. Since its
organization this year on authority I
of the 1922 general assembly; scores;
of deaf persons have been placed on
employment 'and in every case the
work o>f those persons has been re
ported as excellent in quality. The
bureau also has extended its work
to aiding the families of those af
flicted and many appeals for such
aid have been answered and assis
tance rendered. M. L. Shipman, com
missioner of the bureau, is co-operat
ing closely with Mr. Robertson in
his work and is rendering to him all
assistance possible for the depart
ment to give. *
Names Delegates to Dry Convention.
Governor Morrison appointed forty
delegates to attend the Anti-Saloon
League Convention to be held in
Washington, D. C., January 12-16.
I The delegates are:
W. L. Poteat,' Wake Forest; W. T.
Shaw, Weldon; C. G. Morris, Wash
ington; C. H, Ireland, Greensboro;
| W. A. McGirt, Wilmington; Mrs. N.
Buchner, Asheville; N. W. Brown,
Hillsboro; Col. R. E. Mason, Char
lotte; A. M. Scales, Greensboro; Rev.
W. M. Gilmore, Raleigh; Judge John
A. Oates, Fayetteville; B. L. Umber
ger, Concord; Z. V. Turlington,
Mooresville; J. H. Separk, Gastonia;
Rev. F. S. Conrad, Charlotte; W. C.
Dowd, Charlotte; Dr. W. A. Harper,
Elon College; W. T. Love, Gastonia;
Mrs. T. W. Bickett, Raleigh; C. H.
Mebane, Newton; Rev. W. L. Hutch
ins, Lexington; R. F. Williams, Burl
ington; Rev. W. B. North, D. D., Bur
lington; Rev. Claude C. Jones, Greens
boro; Prof. F. S. Blair, Guilford Col
lege; D. E. Henderson, Charlotte; R.
L. Davis, Jr., Raleigh; John C. Mc
Bee, Bakersville; C. S. Wallace, More
head City; Miss Emily Guilford, Ra
leigh; Rev. T. A. Sikes, Greensboro;
Virgil S. Lusk, Asheville; Rev. W. W.
Orr, D. D., Charlotte; J. E. Swain,
Asheville; J. R. McCrary, Lexington;
W. E. Harrison, Rockingham; J. Lee
Choate, Huntersville;. T. T. Thome,
Rocky Mount.
Governor Pardons Man. '
? The first full pardon grated by Gov
ernor Morrison recently went to
Buck Griffin, of Davie county who was
convicted in March, 1921, of burning
a tobacco barn and sentenced to not
less than peven years and six months
in the State Prisons
The prosecuting withess whose
barn was burned, according to the
statement in the Governor's reasons
for the pardon, has become doubtful
of the prisoner's guilt. J. J. Hays,
socicitor, and Judge P. A. McElroy,
who tried the case, recommended the
pardon.
At the same time, Goevrnor Morri
son commuted to a fine the prison
sentence imposed on William U. Hat
ty, of Randolph county, ?pnvicted in
April, 1923. Hasty was sentenced to
twelve months on the roads of Cabar
rus county for assault. Because of
serious impairment of ^e prisoner's
health, Judge J. L. WebPand Solicitor
Z. V. Long join in the recommenda
tion for clemency.
Under terms of the Governor's com
mutation, the prisoner must pay tht
prosecuting witness assaulted $500.
Forges Ahead in Automobile Taxes.
The auto license department of the
Secretary of State has collected mora
license and gas taxes in the first five
months of the fiscal year begun on
July first last than was collected dur
ing th$ entire twelve months previous,
according to a statement by Secretary
of State W. N. Everett.
Since the influx of license and gaa
taxes begad' last July there has been
very little let-up said the Secretary
and a large tforce has been employed
in handling )this matter alone. Five
and a quarter millions have been col
lescted since July first as compared
with four and a quarter miliions dur
ing the entire twelve months period
preceding that date.
Mr. Everett had estimated that
seven millions would be paid into the
State Treasury as a result of the li
cense and gas taxes and in his state
ment he re-asserted his belief that
this mark would be reached.
93 Whiskey Plants Seized.
Salisbury (Special) ? Ninety-rhree
moonshine whiskey manufacturing
plants were captured and 2,503 gallons
of whiskey poured out during the
month of November by Federal pro
hibition agents operating in North
Carolina^ acocrding to A. B. Coltrane,
state enforcement officer with ^Lead
quarters here.
In addition to the stills and whiskey
107,345 gallons of malt liquors, 5990
gallons of wine and 688 gallons of
mash were destroyed during the
month
! BOMfiS M tite 11
I TAR HEEL STATE |
o NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA <>
!I TOLD ' IN" SHORT PARA- |
\l GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE |
Raleigh. ? Salvation Army quota of
$3,000 was raised with tfce other half
practically assured by committees who
had not finished territory, and by es
tablishments collecting donation*
from employes.
'High Point. ? Appointment of local
chairmen throughout the state for the
North Carolina part in the national
movement to raise three million dol
lars for a Harding Memorial is to be
made by J. Elwood Cox. of this city.
- Asheville. ? The last will and testa
ment of Dr. J. M. Crawford, of this
city and Weaverville, practicing phy
sician who died several months ago,
has been filed for probate at the coun
ty courthouse. Dr. Crawford left prop
erty, real and personal valued at
about $100,000.
Wilmington.? Mayor James H. Cow
rli, of Wilmington, who has been
frequently spoken of recently, espec
ially in press dispatches out of Wash
ington, as a possible candidate for
Congress from this district in the
next election, has no idea of enter
ing the race.
Wilmington. ? After January 1, 1923,
Wilmington will be, one of the few
cities in the south to possess a real,
full-fledged police woman, whom
Mayor Cowan has agreed to place on
duty after having conferred with a
number of local organizations inter
ested and Chief of Police C. C. Cash
well. . v .
Charlotte.? The proposed bond issue
for two million dollar* for improved
school facilities was defeated io an
election here. Fifteen hundred and
seventy votes were cast for the Issue
and 207 again. There was a registra
tion of 3,360, making a vote of 1,681
necessary to carry the ifcsue.
Goldsboro. ? At a meeting held in the
Goldsboro Chamber of Commerce
roms consisting of a committee from
the local Rotary Club, the Kiwanis
club and the chamber of commerce,
definite plans fo rthe 19924 annual
Automobile and Industrial Exposition
were made.
Charleston. ? Bob Matthews, Mr.
Matthews, Mr. Sunday's secretary, an
nounced that an Invitation had been
received from Winston-Salem, N. C.,
for the evangelist to conduct a cam
paign in that city, and Billy has agreed
to meet a delegation from the Twin
City directly after he opens his cam
paign in C&iarlotte.
Elizabeth City.? An examination of
what may be accomplished in this sec
tion in the raising of poultry is to be
found in the Jennings' poultry farm.
This business was established about
three years ago in earnest, although
poultry had been raised as a side line
for some time. This year the firm in
creased their equipment wtih the 1,000
egg incubators and brooders to match.
Ahoskie.? After bringing their pris
oner within the town limits of Ahoskie
from Philadelphia, Sheriff Bismark
Scull and Deputy Oscar Britton stood
In the passenger coach of Coast Line
train No. 42, which pulled in at 5
o'clock and saw their man, Walter
Thomas, dive headlong out of one of
the windows of the passenger car,
take the glass pane with him as he
leaped, hit the ground below appar
ently without injury and make a com
plete get-away.
Kinston.? The state agricultural au
thorities' plan for a million pecan
trees in eastern Carolina deserves to
meet with success, according to Lar
mour Jarrott, of Kinston. He is the
biggest shipper of pecans in North
Carolina, it is believed. "The (fifty
thing standing between the plan and
Its realizatfon is work, aside from
the capital involved," according to
Parrott.
Raleigh. ? Caught under the wheels
of an automobile moving at 40 miles
an hour past the home of his grand
father on the Central Highway 12
miles east of the city, little James
Bunch, five-year-old son of J. T.
Bunch, was thrown fifty feq? along
the pavement, receiving injuries from
which he may die. The automobile
did not check its speed. l
Hickory. ? The city of Hickory sold
$340,000 worth of bonds at premiums
and interest rates which, according to
Bruce Craven, who prepared both is
sues, has set a record for municipal
paper in this part of the. state. For
the issue of $250,000 high School serial
bonds the city got a premium of $4,
116 from King, Rigby and Company,
of Detroit, who bought them. The in
terest rate ty 5 1-2 per cent.
Greensboro. ? The Guilford County
Tuberculosis Santorium will be ready
to accept patients about January 1,
according to Dr. J. L. Spruill, super
intendent. The sanatorium is located
at Jamestown, between Greensboro
and High Point.
Rockingham is rapidly developing
into the cotton manufacturing center
of this section of the state. The thir
teenth mill for this town was conract
ed for last veek, this new mill to have
25,000 spindles and 800 looms. It is
to be known as Mill No. 2 of the Han
nah Pickett Company; -
Monroe. ? H. B. Marsh of Marshville.
prominent business man, committed
spicide here by drinking poison. His
body was accidentally found in the
barn on hia premises by a servant who
was looking for eggs. By his side
was an empty two-ounce bottle that
Vnd rnntained carbolic acid.
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