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23 , THE SUNDAY CITIZEN. ASHEVILLE, N. G, APRIL 1, 1217. Tin Safe Sound Conservative ! . rx v The Battery Park Bank, doing business in Asheville for more than a quarter of a . cen tury, reaches all classes because it conducts its affairs on a safe and conservative basis. It counts courtesy, too, among its chief assets, no volume of desirable business being too small to receive the most careful consideration and attention. The Bank's dealings with its thousands of customers are conducted in the strictest con fidence. Our service does not stop with the receipt of your deposits; we are always ready to tender advice and suggestions in the matter of investments, new enterprises, etc. After twenty-five years of tireless and unremitting effort, we believe that we have built up in this city a financial institution that yields to none for safety, sound prin ciples and business acumen. On this basis we respectfully solicit your patronage. . BATTERY PARK BANK- Capital $100,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits Over $220,000.00 Interest Bearing Certificates Issued if Left Three Months or Longer NO LOANS MADE BY THIS BANK TO ANY OF ITS OFFICERS OR DIRECTORS GUfJS FOR THE U. S. Great Arsenal at Watervllet is Busy Twenty-Four Hours a Day. THIS YEAE UABES ITS CENTENNIAL Has Always Supplied Uncle Sam's lighting Forces . ' With Guns. pointed a board of ordnance officer to determine which of the aroenala, Watertown, Watervllet or Frankford, wu beat fitted for large run making. The deolalon favored Watervllet, and step were taken to prepare Watervllet for the manufacture of cannon. March tO, 1181, congress appropri ated 17,000,000 for the erection, pur ehaae or manufacture of necessary building and equipment for a gun factory at the arsenal, subsequent appropriations have amounted to be tweea 1, 000,000 and $3,000,000. The first work at the new-f un factory was an eight-Inch gun completed In the latter part of list. The first twelve Inch gun was completed In February, 18v- X BEAD STUFFED FROM CATARRH OR A COLD Mat TROT, N. T- March It.K glare ef light coming from a etrinr of mammoth workshops stretching along the banks of the Erie canal near this elty tells the passerby that these are busy night as well as busy days at the Watervllet arsenal, where uncle Sam makes the largest and most powerful guns intended for the pro tection of our shores from an attack by the enemy. Never before In the history of Watervllet has the ma chinery of the big workshops hummed a livelier tune than at present. Hundreds of additional J worker have been taken on during me past lew weeaa ana for the flrst time within the memory of the oldest employe tne great plant Is being op erated at its ruuest capacity. Noratng New. -' war activities ere not new to Watervllet. which haa been engaged in turning out guns or other equip ment for the United states military and naval force for a round one hun dred years. The present year. In fact, mark the centennial of the Watervllet arsenal In name, al though an arsenal had existed on the came sit several years earlier. It wa In the early part of the War of 1IU . that the flrst land for the arsenal wa purchased, it waa then nuw tm arsenal near AJDaay or --tne .arsenal at OlbOonsvllle," ana was used a a warehouse for the storage oi munition, in hit it became the Watervllet arsenal. The flrst batldmg were erected for tha storage of ammunition and the manufacture and repair or small arms and Infantry equipment. la 114a the arsenal had 100 employee. During the Civil war It had as many as 1,000. At time It wa nsea for Ul store f cannon and small arm, and the manufacture and repair of equip ments, etc r ' Beat Locate. la If SI an act of congress appoint ed a cosnmlanioa of army and aery officer to determine which navy yard or arsenal weald be the beat location and beet adapted for the establish meat of a government foundry. The board recommended each aa estab lishment at Watervllet. Congress having failed to appropri ate Ute Baceeaarr fuade to carry ejt the recommendation of this board, tk secretary of war, March. 81. HIT. P 8a r Cream Applied in Nostrils Opens Air Passages Right Up. Instant relief no waiting. Tour clogged nostril open right up; the air age of your head clear and you can breath freely. No more hawking snuffling, blowing, (headache, dryness. Nd struggling ror br-ath at night; your cold or catarrh dl&vptara. Oat a small bottle of nly's Cream Balm from your o.rugglst now. Apply a little of this fragrant, antiseptic, healing cream In your nostril. It pen etrate through every air passage of the head, soothe the Inflamed or woolen mucous membrane and relief comes instantly. If s Just fine. Don't stay atuffsd-up with a cold or nasty eatarrh. Adv. iimimmmtmnimmnmm NEW, STYLES ARE BASED ON ART OF THE ANCIENT INDIANS mmiii:mmiiiimnii)mniiiniii:i)niiimniiniiniiiiiiiiiiiirtt To be really up to date this season one must be some 2,000 or 1,000 years behind the styles. And leet a young matron on her afternoon promenade down the Broadwalk at Atlantic City or the beach at Newport make the fatal mistake of believing that her new frock or sport suit is really new, let the news be broken here and now that the design of the fabric and pos sibly even the style of the garment once graced the form of some Indian girl in Yucatan or Peru. For the flrst time American design ers are turning; to one of the oldest forms of decorative art, and the most popular designs for the season will be drawn directly from the hand work of the ancient Indiana of North and South America. Not only will the de sign for dresa fabric be taken from this source, but even models for gar will bear the distinguishing- mark of that period. Back of the whole movement to give to modern dress designs a touch or the simple art of ancient Ameri cas stands the American Museum of Natural History. American design ers of woman's dress goods and gar ments were Invited to make whatever use of the collections of the museum they cared to, and the result haa been surprising. One ribbon company has spent 136,000 putting on the market designs copied directly from Indian exhibits. Previous to the opening of the great war American fabrlo makers had three courses that they could pursue in obtaining designs. One was to steal outright Paris and European designs; the second was to buy them at a tremendous expense and the third waa to have their own design or go a half and half policy of adopt tng and Inventing. There was little or on distinctive American school. Europe furnishing all our Ideas ot styles and designs. With the advent of the war Paris ceased almost over night to be the fountain head of style and design. The men whose clever art had made the standards of the world were busy on the front and new designs could neither be bought, borrowed nor stolen by tne American mills. Boon for Designers. It was at this moment that tne fer tile department of the American Museum of Natural History stepped Into the breach and pointed out a new road to tha unhappy fabric designer. "America ha a native art of her Own, older and more lntrlnsicaiiv beautiful than the oldest peasant art in Europe", declared M. r. o. rvaw- rord, research associate in textiles. Her In our own land we have. with the exception of the Exvntlans. the oldest decorative art In the world, tl Is an untouched gold mine to the mAerlcan designers who will have the nerve to hark their artistic judgement. It Is a new art even enough it be twenty centuries old. Come all, ye doubters, and be convinced." It took Mr. Crawford a long time to interest the American mills. The new designs would be radical steps and It would take courage and more tnan a little faith to put forward such unusual departures as wepjld result from going back to thia primitive American art. But the manufacture era were desperate and finally last rail sent their designer to Mr. Craw- rora a department to Investigate. As a result a number of American mills, including Belding Brothers, Cheney Brothers, H. R. Malllnson. Joseph Berlins and company, Revi sion and Blssell and John Wanamak- er, presented to the spring trade number of very beautiful fabrics fashioned after designs unearthed in tne ancient collection In the museum. Designs From Siberia, For the most Dart tha deaiens used In the art of the Indians of Yucatan and Peru were followed, but much was copied from the Indians of the Amur River tribes of Northern 81 beria- The results of these experi ments are now on display in the mus eum. PUTTING. OUR REORGANIZED ARMY ON THE MAPI gfr - m -ivl 1 Hera are tha tlx head of our army and their commands, according to tha new distribution of the trar department. Tha department commanders are: MaJ.-Gen. Heater Liggett, west, headquarter at San Fran eieco; lUJXtaa. John i. Pershing, eoathwest, head inarters at Sa Antonio; MaJ.-Oea. Thomas H. Barry, central. headqearUre at Chicago: Maj.-Oeo, Leonard Wood, aoatheast, headquarters at Charleston: MaJ. Qmm''' rTkl"" Bu' Aaadqvarters at New York; MaJ.-Oea. Clare ac r. Edward, north east, hr-d-' oaartorg at Botrtoa, . . Home or tno designs cooled were circular disc set in backgrounds of solid colors, one representated the Interlocking of sand and water in Lake Texoco in the valley of Mexico: another the sacred flower of Inca, the ruling tribe In ancient Peru, taken directly from a Peruvian pancho In the museum: a third was an Axtec snake design and still another an un usual basket design from Pueblo with the break in the clrle so that the evil spirit might escape. Designs of stripes were also adopt ed In considerable numbers. Some of these were taken from Aatec gar ments, while others were drawn from pots found at Lake ntlcaca. In Peru, the highest large lake in the world. One of tho Interesting parts of the exhibit of the- modern goods was a case of ribbons ' designed by Etnll Speck and manufactured by Johnson Cowdln Company. The art of tha Navajo, the Yucatan, the Indian of Pern and the Koryak tribes of North ern Siberia were copied and combin ed by Mr. Speck. Slmnlenes fai Dranerr. The movement back to America's ancient and original art has expanded to include more than the fabric max er. Today the Fifth avenue designer and exemsrve tailor and milliner are turning to thu? fundamental and na tural expression of color and form for inspiration. Even In the rough gar ments fashioned from the skins of animals and decorated with highly colored beads ran be found a certain slmplenee lu drapery and beauty in design that will prove valuable to the American artist. Beside the cases showinr the fa. brie displays, a number of Interesting permanent exhibits have recently been added to the museum. Among tnese is a fur coat made by the Kski mos or Northern Alaska and present ed to the museum by Mrs. E.- H. Harrlman. Likewise Interesting Is the skin of a ttmarau. a native buffalo presented by Franklin R. Harrison. The accessions also Include a Nava jo blanket and eight North American Indian baskets, the gift of Mrs. Paul Morton. Mm. Morton la also the donor of a realistic brenae statuette done by Herman A. MacNellL the American sculptor. Other new prise are an Indian wan-mum belt and a sacred apron and headdress made of the bone of the hirh nrlseta of Tibet. This last la th gift of Mr. W'tllam Tod Helmuts. THE OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE BY COIIDQ Ther Knew. "Children." said the kind old gen tleman, who waa addressing the school, "how many of yon can ten m whst It was that Napoleon' soldiers used to rail hlraT No body answered. - "Think a namnL tittle '" Still aa reply. "'Little core . " "A mtle corpulent shouted the ahlldren. Chicag-o New, ' - -ryi. HQtt. 1 "Don't want - """"ffiJS TO BOTHC. "YOU UfgUy TW9AJ, tgSS ACT TODAY You have been thinking about calling up the AsEe yille Laundry and sending them your work. Attend to it today. Phone 2000
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