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Show CACHE AMERICAN. IKJAN. UTAH New Years Day in the Nations Capital r Diving to Death By FLOYD GIBBONS dive right into this one with Diver and Adventurer Walker Kayes of New York City. And remember that we're not only diving deep down Into the treacherous currents of the St. Lawrence river were diving head first into the River of Adventure, too. What was Walker Kaye diving for in the St Lawrence? Sunken treaiureT Nothinf of the aorL It isn't alwaya the glamoroua job that furnish the big thrill. Diver do a lot of prosaic work in between LETS those treasure hunt you read about, and Old Lady Adventure haa habit of piling It onto the lad when theyre doing a routine job and are least expecting it. Walker wai inspecting bridge foundation (or a railroad. In August, 1933, he wai looking over the underpinning! of the famous Victoria bridge which span the St Lawrence at MonlreaL Went Down in Dangerous Current. A typical scene in the days when Mr. and Mrs. American Citizen called stantly shocked not only members of the diplomatic corps but his as well. is New Unusual Refreshments. In fact one of the most unYears day celebrated more in usual New Years Day recepaccordance with In American history was tradition than in the nation's tions held during his administration when was the and it was unusual because of capital. Time served. It the refreshments people of virtually every American city observed the custom came about in this way: When Jefferson was a candiof "keeping open house on date for President one of his January 1 and "paying New most ardent supporters was the Years calls." But modern days Rev. John Leland, a Baptist min(and especially the whoopee ister, long a resident of Virginia a but at that time living in Cheshera) changed all that. After ire, Mass. He knew what JefferceleEve New Years riotous son had done for religious liberty bration, the average celebrant in the Old Dominion and to show didnt feel much like making his appreciation he determined the rounds for formal calls the to aid Jefferson's election in any Sunday he next day. So this custom, like way he could. One announced from the pulpit that so many others of the every person who owned one or good old days, gradually more cows was invited to bring one days supply of milk to a went into the discard. owned by Capt. John in Washington, cider mill However, Brown, a veteran of the Revoluwhere precedent is a fetish and tion. tradition a vital force in everyAs a result a great quantity milk was brought to the mill day life, this custom has sur- of and Leland announced that a vived longer. It has been modihuge cheese was to be made fied somewhat, of course, but from it. When this was done, the among some Washingtonians, minister mounted a block, led his people in singing a hymn and especially the "Cliff Dwellers that he was dedi(old residents) it has been kept then announced this cheese, the greatest alive in much the same form as cating the world had ever seen, to JeffIn the past. erson to whom it was to be prePerhaps one reason why it has sented. Then the question arose been so little changed is that as to how this huge cheese was the annual New Years Day re- to be transported over the 500 ception at the White House has miles which separated Cheshire served as a model for other and Washington. But Leland was open houses. Established as a equal to that task. He waited symbol of the fact that there is until there wans plenty of snow no barrier between the sovereign on the ground. Then he placed people and their elected leaders, the cheese in a sleigh and drove this custom of throwing open the it himself to Washington. Of its doors of the Executive Mansion reception there a contemporary to the public on New Years Day newspaper account said: The Mammoth Cheese. was observed by almost every President from Washington down Washington (Federal City), December Yesterday the great cheese arrived to Hoover. By that time it be- 30. in a wagon drawn by six horses, hand came apparent that, praisesomely decorated with ribbons. This worthy though its intent might wonderful piece of curd is a present of Cheshire, which this be, reception, imposed from the Republicanto ladies Thomas Jefferson, Massachusetts, upon the President the ordeal of in the Republican President of America! It shaking hands with thousands of measures 4 feet 6 inches diameter, is 1 people within a few hours, was foot 6 inches thick and weighs 1,250 too great a strain upon the Chief pounds. We understand that the President Executive and when President means, in a few days, to invite all the Roosevelt entered the White members of both houses, of both parties, to partake of this American cheese, ac House the custom was regretfully but very wisely abandoned. Began in New York. It began in New York when that city was the seat of government. George Washington was accustomed to receive prominent government officials during the day and Mrs. Washington presided over a levee in the evening. The custom was continued In Philadelphia with the levees attended by both men and women who enjoyed the refreshments provided by the President and his wife, However, there was little handshaking and at the close of the affair the President usually gave a short speech appropriate to the occasion. The first New Years reception held in the White House in Washington was that of President John Adams and since the President's House or Palace, as it was then called, was still unABRAHAM LINCOLN finished, it was held on the second floor, in the oval room. Al- companied with abundance of American though the public was invited to biscuit and American porter. This wiU this affair, the same formality, be indeed "the feast of reason and the of soul." which had characterized the lev- flow "We are all Federalists we art all ees held by George and Martha Republicans! And Washington, prevailed. partake of this AmeriWith the elevation of Thomas can cheese they did at the New Jefferson to the Presidency the Years reception, after the Rev. formal nature of the New Years Leland had presented it in person to Jefferson who made an apDay reception s changed radically. Although a member of the propriate speech in reply. He Virginia aristocracy, Jefferson then cut off a piece, which he was an extremely democratic asked the minister to take back gentleman, so much tHht he con to the good people of Cheshire By ELMO SCOTT WATSON else in the Nowhere long-standi- at the White Douse for the annual New Year's Day reception. with his compliments. When James Madison became President his vivacious wife, Dolly Madison, did a great deal of entertaining and their New were lavish displays of hospitality. The same was true of the Monroes and their receptions were especially happy affairs because this was the era of good feeling. Adams Is Poshed Around. But the receptions given by John Quincy Adams were not such happy affairs at least, not for that rather prim New Englander who was much harassed Years reception so great and so unruly during this administration that Tyler found it necessary to have an extra detail of police on hand to I aaid that Adventure alwaya hit you when you're least expecting It. Maybe I'm wrong In thta case. Walker knew be was going to have trouble with the Victoria bridge el ana spot anyway. I waa Inspecting the pier on the Montreal aide, he says, and at thli point run a treacheroua rapid which had taken the live of two bridge worker only the previoua summer. The nosea of the pieri reach too far out from beneath the bridge to enable ua to lower a protecting tcrcen to atop the current. AU we had to work with was a small platform, just large enough for two men and the diver, built on the nose of the pier down close to the water. The pump, worked by hand, wai up on the bridge and the air line passed down the pier. A short iteel ladder was lashed to the platform to enable me to descend. That's the picture. Now watch it move. Walker, looking like tome strange sort of robot in hit rubber suit and round ball-lik- e ateel helmet la ready to go down. It is eight oclock in the morning a he steps onto the ladder and little does he realize that at twelve noon four hour later he will still be down under the river fighting life and death batUe with a racing tide. Step by step he goes down, hugging the ladder to keep from being swept downstream. Now his helmet vanishes under the surface, end we dive down after him to see what happens. The current U always less at the nose of the pier, says Walker, so I planned to examine that first, then attempt to come up along the side of the shoulder. After looking at the nose, I started upstream, lying flat on my stomach to resist the current. I had moved about six feet when, suddenly, I was struck with locomotive force. A cross current had caught me and was whirling me eway from the pier out toward the middle of the stream! d handle the people. However, he was luckier in their reaction to this innovation than was one of his successors. Later a storm of protest was directed against James Buchanan because of the "gantlet of policemen who surrounded the White House tor his reception. There was good reason for having the officers there, however, for it is recorded that in the crush at least one pocket Helpless in the Boiling:, Foamy Water. was picked and other disorders In an Instant I was spun around like a fishing troll crashed marred the occasion. by tons of roaring water. It all happened so quickly that the tender had no chance to anub the line. The Day of the Proclamation I was utterly helpless. I couldn't see, for the water was a boiling One of the most important New of foam, and I could no more control my movements in that mass held Years Day receptions ever than if I had been a chip of wood. But helplessness wasn't current in the White House was that of in the mind of the diver is the worst of it. An January 1, 1863 and it was sig- the danger of the suit inflating and thought blowing up like a balloon if the head nificant because of a momentous the rest of the body. The minute I began to event which took place immedi- gets knocked lower than roll, I jammed my head against the air release valve to deflate the Abraham afterwards. Linately suit. I must have done it with too much force, for the small, brass coln had drawn up his Emanci shaft of the valve bent and would not work properly. In the meanit read had pation Proclamation, time, I was hurtled downstream and wedged into a rock fissure which, won their for to his cabinet and had the moment, saved my life. approval of this document which Tons of water were pounding against Walker, knocking the breath would commit the government out of him and threatening to crush his body. Then, to his horror, he irrevocably to the destruction of found that, water, trickling in through the broken air valve, was slowly H. William noon At slavery. filling his suit. He began trying to communicate with his tender. The of state, Seward, secretary roar of the water made the phone useless, and when he tried to signal Linto brought the proclamation by jerking the line the current made it almost impossible to feel the coln for his signature. jerks. From the all but unintelligible signals that did come through, I have been shaking hands Walker gathered that his tender wanted him to move down with the since 9 oclock this morning and current and be hauled in at the back of the pier. He fought his way out of my right hand is almost para- the fissure. lyzed Lincoln told him. If my Ilis Suit Inflated and Blew Up. name ever goes into history it be was picked np by the roaring water and , Instant In an will be for this act, and my whole came. His span around like a top. Then the dreaded blow-u-p soul is in it. If my hand trembles feet shot up in the air and his head down as the suit inflated when I sign, all who examine like a balloon. His helmet banged against the rocks. Water the document hereafter will say around inside it. He was worse off than before. And splashed he that He hesitated. Saying current there was the imminent danger that his in terrible that look who but those signed e would part. slender upon the signature on that hisThat line, says Walker, was tied around my chest, and the force toric document now say that it The corselet collar was forced was written as boldly, as firmly of the current bent me backward. against my neck, strangling me. After what seemed hours, a heavy rope and as unfalteringly as any ever was was taut as a violin string, and all they sent down to me. The signed A Lincoln. to do was loop the rope around it and the force of the current carried had S. Like Buchanan, Ulysses it down. But now I realized that I was very weak and everything deGrant was also severely crition getting that rope around me and securely tied. It took me pended to cized by the public in regard hour to get that rope tied in a simple clove hitch, and then I an half the New Years reception but for was completely exhausted. I gave a jerk on the rope to signal the a different reason. Because of for the breaks, and waited. the death of Mrs. Belknap, wife tender, prayed Safe After Four Hours Struggle. of his secretary of war, he cancelled the function. Thereupon I didnt mind dying so much, but the loneliness was horrible. After Washington gossips declared it an eternity I felt strong jerks rr. the rope and realized I was about was a bad breach of international to be pulled in. It was now or never and I had about an even chance good manners for the President of getting out before the suit burst or I was broken in two by the curto slight the foreign diplomats, rent But it was a strong, steady pull much steadier than I thought poswho desired to pay their respects sible. Then, suddenly I was out of the water safe again. My men had to the head of the American borrowed a winch from some telephone linemen working on the bridge, and it was that which had pulled me out with such an even, rapid pull. nation, simply because of an unIt was a surprise to Walkers tenders to see him alive. He had been fortunate tragedy, even though it was in the Presidents official under water, fighting for his life, for FOUR HOURS. A few minutes longer, and he would have drowned drowned inside his suit by the family. My boys faces were chalk water that trickled through the air valve. World War Aftermath. "but my own, blue from stranguWalker came I out, when says, white In 1903, during the administramust have looked worse than any of them." tion of Theodore Roosevelt, the lation, WNU Service. to was eager especially public the because attend the reception Columbia University White House had been extensivePygmies Plentiful The date from which Columbia Contrary to popular belief, pygly remodelled and the crowds which turned out to see the new mies are quite plentiful in the university marks its existence is decorations were among the world. Several races live in equa- October 31, 1754, when a charter Iswas granted by George II, under largest in history. During Presi- torial Africa and on the Pacific dent Wilson's administration the lands, says the Washington Post It the name of Kings college. During traditional functions on January is thought that a race of pygmies the Revolution its operation was suseven lived in Europe at one time, pended and in 1776 it was used as 1 were discontinued but they were resumed in 1922 by President giving rise to the tales of elves, a military hospital College activThe ities were resumed by act of legisHarding. The reception that year goblins, gnomes and fairies.means lature, May 1, 1784, under the name was notable for the fact that it word pygmy is Greek and was the first public function since the distance between the elbow of Columbia university. The site has the war at which German and and the knuckles of a man of been changed three times and consists of 174 acres lying between Austrian diplomats were present. average size. Homer first used the word to describe a tiny race of 116th and 120th streets, Amsterdam During the Harding, Coolidge men dwelling in a far southern land, avenue and Broadway, New York and Hoover regimes the crowds, Africa. city. In 1896 the college was rewhich lined up on the White probably organized as a university. House grounds on New Years Assault and Battery to shake chance Day for the An assault is an unlawful attempt Writing in the Sand hands with the President and the or offer, on the part of one man The resourcefulness of a school First Lady of the Land, often with force or violence, to Inflict a teacher in Huron county, Ohio, numbered as many as 6,000 per- bodily hurt upon another. A bat- proves the early worth of the saying that sons. Because of the fact that tery is a wilful and unlawful use Where there's a will there's a way. greeting such a large number of force or violence upou the person The teacher, Joseph Dana, was not strain useless upon a imposed of another. The actual offer to use equipped with paper or slates or the man who carries the heaviest force to the Injury of another per- pencils for writing, so he Just Inanthe nation our in burden son Is assault; the use of it is bat- structed his pupils to trace letters nual reception was again omitted tery; hence the two terms are com- and figures in the sand. In this way administration. by the present monly combined in the term as- the children learned spelling, gramWestern Ncwspsper Union. sault and battery. mar and arithmetic. ever-prese- THOMAS JEFFERSON the by political situation of the times. At one of these levees Mr. Adams was pushed about for more than two hours, says He a contemporary chronicler. stood in the center of the center room and most pathetically shook hands the whole time. In the ladies corner it was all chat, flutter and graceful bowing. In the hall a band was planted to keep the nerves of the company in the proper degree of agitation. There was talking, squealing, promenading, bowing, drinking coffee and sipping liquors. When Old Hickory Jackson became President, the riotous scenes at his inaugural and the reception afterwards were indicative of what would likely take place when the public was invited to the White House on New Years Day. But King Mob seems to have behaved pretty well at those affairs, for there is no record of any unusually disorderly scenes to mar the receptions. Perhaps the presence at these January 1 functions of Jacksons favorite cabinet minister, Martin Van Buren, secretary of state, who was a fine gentleand extremely formal, man toned them down. Certainly when Van Buren became President the formality and decorous behaviour upon which he insisted gave the receptions a new dignity. They Were Well Shaken. d But though the public may have become when they visited the Executive Mansion, these receptions were still something of a trial to the President and his family, as witness this plaintive letter written of President John Tylers daughter-in-laThe first of January, 1842. is passed, never to return, and I am nearly to going off with it. I never felt so tired in all my life as I am this evening, standing up for two hours and shaking hands with 1 don't know how many thousands of people. Such big fists as some of the people had, and such hard shakes as they gave my poor little hand, too! On great, hearty countryman gave me a clutch and a shake that I almost expired under. But couldnt help laughing when Fletcher Webster whispered to me, "when taken to be well shaken. Eventually the crowds became life-lin- ? OU who will b more enthusiastic than ever after making realities of these three new styles. 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