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No. 51--The Man In The Velvet Mask
Copyrtjftr, 1921, by The Wheeler Syndicate, inc.
.iintP'.np snori ol me cow who
, d ,'ivtT the moon. The cat ."
one of these were every div
!; round eats." It was never
a t take a prize at a cat show.
.it wealthy people have given
vi-asons for refusing to sell busi
d 1st riot property which was eager-
. ht by many buyers, borne tim
man who owned a building in
l.v.iy just below Times Squaoe
I'ontraot stipulations that none
;t prospect ivo buyers would lease
r rtain businesses. His list be
w rh aviary and went right on
;!'.c alhabet to zylophone dea!
:jpping so U-w lines of business
ror.e would t:iko the place.
above the Times Square sectiaa
dway an aged property owner
a vacant five-story building that
.ifMP.obile sales house wanted to
The papers were drawn un.
when the interested parties had
v, d to sign it. the automobile
s- Tative remarked that his eon
was iroing to put "a nice electee
,n the roof." The owner laid
his pen and said no electric signs
u.'irc: on top of his building. The
wis not closed and the building
: ,, 1 empty for six years when
nv!':( i' died.
! t)i i: PENIKI) CONTINUANCE.
20. John rop
on trial Mond?v
on charges of
with the killing
vsr-nvilio. Sept.
itu-rney. placed
Frank Rawlins
in connection
Tsc H . Hickman on September
- denied a 30-day continuance !;y
.Judge Simmons after the Stat?
i ii would nolle prosse tho
count in the indictment, whicn
1 Popr with planning the rob
:" tae theater of which Hickman
. i miser.
"On Thursday, the 18th of Sep
tember, 1698 at three o'clock of the
afternoon. M. de Saint-Marks, gov
ernor of the chateau of the Bas
tile. arrived for his first entrance
into office, coming from his govern
ment of the islands of Saint-Marguerite,
having brought with him
in his litter a former prisoner of
his at Pigneroi. whom he obliges
to keep himself always masked and
whose name is not told "
So read the entry upon the register
vm. mo .oiisune, practically the only
authentic record of one of the most
mysterious characters in history the
man in the velvet (or iron! mask whose
iueniuy nas neen a subject of discus
sion and conjecture by countless novle-
isis ana historians during the past three
centuries.
Who was he this man whose face
must be forever hidden from the world?
Of what crime was he guilty or
suspected?
Who had sentenced him to a lifetime
of imprisonment, with the added tor
ture of perpetual silence and the hiding
or nis teatures?
There can be no authentic answers to
these questions, for research has never
uncovered the real facts connected with
the strange prisoner, but there are a
number of clevely substantiated reports
about the masked man which point in
a number of directions.
In the first plac. it is evident that
the prisoner was of royal birth, because
it is recorded that even he governor of
tne prison had to stand with his head
uncovered in his presence and that
he was accorded many liberties not
unusually granted to those iminurred in
the Bastille. Again, though history
usually refers to the prisoner as "the
man in the iron mask" und Voltaire
gives a number of supposedly authen
tic details about the mecal face-covering,
another brief entry in tht Bastille regis
ter s'ates that the mask was of velvet
and not of iron, thus disposing of at
least a portion of the torture to which
the prisoner ;s supposed to have been
subjected.
Finally, the records of the prison
rlso state that the man mystery re
mained within the grim walls for five
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years, two months one day and that his
burial was attended with as much se
crecy as life had been only M. de
Saint-Mars and Louis XIV. being cog
nized of his final resting place.
So much for the known facts, f.w
and unenlightehing as they are- The
first attempt at the explanation of the
mystery came in to publication of a
sedics of anonymous ' Memoirs", some
fifty years after the death of Louis
XIV, when it was definitely stated that
the masked prisoner had been the ille
gitimate pon of Louis by the beautiful
Louise de la Val'iere and that he had
borne the title of the Due de Vermandois
being sentenced to a lifetime of secret.
imprisonment for daring to strike his
half-brother, the Dauphin.
In his "Century of Louis XIV.", Vol
taire also attempted to explain the mys
tery by stating that the prisoner was
Louis' own half-brother, the sdn of
Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin,
sent to the Island of Saint e Marguerite
and later transferred to the Bastille
because of the danger inherent in his
pretensions to the throne of France
Still another authority reverses this
theory by declaring that the man in
the velvet mask was the rightful .ouis
himself and that the Grand Monarch
was none other than the son of Anne
and Cardinal Mazarin who ruled for
more than seventy years solely by vir
tue of his deception and the imprison
ment of the real monarch. Others--and
among them Dumas lave assumed
that the prisoner was the twin-brother
of Louis, imprisoned in order to avoid
the complications which would have fol
lowed any attempt to distinguish be
tween the sons, either as to features
or as to the precedence of birth.
A fifth theory is that the masked
man was James do la Ciehe, son of
Charles II. of Kngland, who disappeared
shortly before the man in the velvet
mask first made his appearance at
Sainte-Marguerite, but this statement is
founded mainly upon the conjunction
of dates rather than upon any direct
evidence. Apart from tnis mask and
the fact that he was of royal birth,
history is as silent as the sphinx about
the strange prisoner probably the
greatest individual enigma in all the
annals of European courts.
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Washington, Sept 20 Development, of
commercial flying in this country to a
plane of safety comparable to that in
rail and water transportation depend!
upon government regulation of avia
tion, according to analysis of the air
traffic t situation prepared for Secretary
Hoover by the Manufacturers' Aircraft
Association.
Mr. Hoover has begun a study of th'3
commercial aircraft problem in the
light of the possible establishment of a
bureau of aviation to regulate travel
by air. Legislation before Congress
would put the control of this means of
transportation into his department J
should the Government decide federal
regulation advisable.
Lack of federal control, the associa
tion declared, was one of the main
causes of accidents in the air which
give rkse to the belief that flying is
extremely dangerous one of the sever
est handicaps to thed evelopment of
transportation by air. There is also
lack of official machinery with which
to obtain authentic information relative
to flying accidents.
However, . the association reported,
during the first half of 1921 there was
but one flying fatality for each 232,142
miles flown by civilians and one injury
for every 62,000 miles flown. During
the six months, the association said,
there were 40 serious accidents in civil
flying, resulting In the death of 14 per
sons and the injury of o2, out of a total
of 1,200 commercial aircraft which flew
an aggregate of 2.250,00.0 miles.
All of these accidents except five, the
association contended, were due to de
ficiency in the requisites of safe flying
which could be enforced by government
regulation. These requisites, the asso
sition stated, consist of a machine
sound aerodynamically and structural
ly; an engine of sufficient power which
operates satisfactorily: air ports and
landing fields sufficiently close togethe
er to insure gliding to safety, nation
wide forecasts specialised and adapted
to the needs of flyers, and nation-wide
charts of air routes. Government in
spection and enforecemnt of regulations
making these requisites effective, the
association asserted, would reduce the
danger of flyiner to the minimum.
Five of the 40 accidents, the associa
tion reported, were due to unkonwn
causes" and in such cases it added gov
ernment authority is necessary to ob
tain the information which will permit
of learning and correcting such causes.
Stunt flving, the association contin
ued, was responsible for 50 per cent of
the deaths and injuries, hut a system
of government control limiting this
menace to aviation to a certain areas,
it continued, would generally over
come it.
Danger of collision in, the air, the
association said, was not grreat. provid
ing levels of flisrht for aircraft under
. ,,.,jt i . i t
way are estanusnpa ana oDserveu aim
providing stunt flying is controlled.
The only collision reported occurred
during a stunt performance.
MORALE OF TURK
SOLDIERS GOOD
Do What They Are Told
Without Question ; Officers
Very Friendly.
Headquarters Turk Nationalist Army,
Sept. 20. The morale of the Turk
soldier m a sealed book to any out
those who have lived long with htm.
It may be summed up this w.ay. If
told to kill, he kills: if told to advance,
he advances, and if told to retreat, he
retreats.
Seldom noisy, singing only now and
again monotonous airs, taucing nine
after the manner of people who live
in a country of vast distances, his en
thusiasms and his depressions of spir
it don't show in his face.
The officers seem a different breed.
Polite, anxious to oblige if they can
do so without too much exceeding or
ders, open to flattery and willing to
believe protested good intentions, they
will put themselves to all sorts of per
sonal inconvenience to satisfy requests
of the stranger or guest.
Under the Nationalist government,
where the organization is such as o
eret nromnt answers, of "yes" or "no,
to anv reauest. the stranger believed
to be friendly has his way made easy
But if he is believed to be unfriendlv
then he is sent the Quickest way
home, or if his intentions are regarded
as dangerous he meets with the harsh
treatment ever lurking in the Turk,
and especially reserved for those who
have violated his confidence.
One of the curious sides to the pres
ent war is the propaganda campaign
against the British, regarded as polici
cal enemies, yet for whom the Turks
have often a high personal regard, es
tablished through pre-war relations.
This resrard is frequently returned py
the British.
By WILFRID FLEISIIER
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
Paris, Sept. 20. The sum of 156.000,
francs has been paid for a single postage
stamp, a little square of blue paper
from Hawaii with a large figure 2, dated
1851.
It was only one of the famous col
lection of the late Duke Ferrari de la
Renotiere which yielded- in one day's
sale at the Hotel Drouot, the fabulous
sum of 1,100,805 francs.
The Ferrari collection was conceded
the finest in the world. The late Duke
had inherited a large fortune from his
father, an Italian financier, and is said
to have spent 200,000 francs annually
m buying stamps. Ferrari was or
German birth, and his collection was
confiscated by the French government
at the outset of the war in 1914. It
is now beinug auctioned off at intervals.
the proceeds being placed to the credit
of the German indemnity bill.
Tne Duke was completely absorbed
in his collection. Such was h:s pas
sion for stamps, that it is said, that
although a confiimed bachelor, ho was
at one time induced to advertise, fr
a wife on condition that she bring him
a one penny Mauritius 1S47. lie naa
willed his collection to the German
government.
The entire collection was value! by
experts at from 30,000 to 50,000,
000 francs Stamp collectors have come
to Paris from the four corners of the
globe for the sale.
The lot that drew the highest bid was
others brought from 12,000 to 30,000
francs each.
The highest bid for a single stamp
heretofore recorded was 99,500 francs
for the 2 pence blue indigo Mauritius,
bid at a sale here in May, 1920.
CAN'T MAKE ANATOMY
MODELS IN NEW YORK
New York, Sept. 20. Van Eouchaute,
who makes stucco models of the hu
man anatomy for the leading medical
colleges, soon will return to Belgium be
cause he can't find quarters in New
York at the right price and because he
ra.n't obtain the nroDer heln here. In
a pair of stamps from English Guiana, his work, he says, long training is re-
veiLiccii i. ceiiLS uiacit uu puut. miircwl nnd ho has heen unable to nnr
tne vertical l cents black on
dated 1S50, and nost .marked. These
went to an Alsatian tobacco dealer for
10,000 francs. This bid for two little
bits of tarnished paper on which ever
the picture was indiscernable under the
post mark, is the highest ever recorded
at a public sale.
A set of 2,000 Uruguayan stamps,
valued at 40,000 francs, brought 111,000
francs. The 2 pence blue indigo of
Mauritius was bid 60,000 francs; the
4 cent black on blue from English
Guiana, with the letters E. D. W. went
to Mr. Caspary, the American collec
tor, for 44,500 francs. A number of
any one wining to serve me appren
ticeship.
Col Bouchaute revolutionized the art
of making anatomical models. The oh
models were clumsy, heavy and often
inaccurate.
Commissioned by Bellevue Hospital in
this city, the Belgian set out to pro
duce models hat should be light, abso
lutely accurate and perfectly colored.
He succeeded after years of painstak
ing work and infinitesimal acactitude in
making the models so nearly perfect
that it was difficult to tell the differences
from the original organ.
LESS UNEMPLOYMENT
IN MANY INDUSTRIES
"Washington, Sept. 20. The number
of persons employed in nine major in
dustries showed increases in August
over July while decreases occurred m
five, according to figures made publje
Monday night by the Department of
Labor. Steel and iron industries, w.'th
97,902 persons employed in July, in
creased to 102,698, or 4.9 per cent.
Manufacturers of hosiery and under
wear, who employed 26,739 in July, had
28,200 employes in August. Men s
ready-made clothing employes, who
numbered 32,593 in July, had increased
to 34,313 in August. Boots and shoe-5
increased from 60,307 to 63.200 during
the month. The automobile industry
showed the largest decrease, dropping
from 78.908 in July to Y4.2S3, in au
gust. The next largest decrease was
in bituminous coai mining, wnicn drop
ped to 21,415 in August from 21,754 in
July- . .. . . . . . . '
In eleven of the rourteen industries,
the amount of money paid to employes
increased in August over the amounts
paid in July. In iron and steel this in
crease was 15.4 per cent, in men s
clothing 12.7 per cent, hosiery and un
derwear 12.5 per cent and in bitumi
nous coal mining 11.9 per cent. A de
crease of 3.7 per cent occurred in the
automobile industry, 2.2 per cent m
cotton manufacturing and 1.3 per cent
in woolen manufacture.
POKER GAME FLUSHED.
Salisbury, Sept. 20 Policemen Julian,
Eagle and Mills made an unusual ar
rest when they flushed 11 men play
ing poker at -night in an uptown of
fice. The men made a substantial
contribution to the school fund when
their case was called in county court
Monday.
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