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Show V THE PROVO POST ' FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1922 MILLION VISIT THREE SHRINES Figure Yearly Total in Pilgrimages to Washington and Lin-coMemorials. in MAIIY CLIMB BIG MOHUMEHT Big Share, of Queet In National Cap. Ital Make Trip to Mount Vernon Recently Completed Lincoln Memorial Popular. Washington. More than - 1,000,000 persons make pilgrimages each year to Washingtons home. Mount Vernon, the beautiful Lincoln memorial and the Washington monument, the latter In the most popular of ' the three shrines among visitors to the national capital. Visitors .numbering 34,113 went during July to the top of the Washington monument, located a few hundred yards south of the White House. More than one-fift- h of them clambered up the 808 steps In order to see the memorial tablets on the various landings Inside the shaft. The remainder rode to the top In the electric elevator which has a capacity of 80 persons. More than 0,250,000 people have visited the top of the monument since It was opened for observation purposes October 9, 1888. No entrance fee Is Isnt there someone you Charged. Lincoln Memorial Popular. The Lincoln memorial, recently completed and opened to the public, was visited by 81,883 persons during July. Located in Potomac park, directly west of the Washington monument, It Is rather. inaccessible for pedestrians; . visitors usually go there by automobile. On a recent Sunday 2,000 persons were recorded as entering the great building. It Is rapidly becoming a shrine for tourists. No entrance fee Is charged. , Washington's old home at Mount Vernon on the Potomac river In Vlr- ginla, 18 miles from Washington, long has been the mecca of pilgrims from every part of the world, who go by steamboat, electric train and automobile. Kept as nearly In Its original state as possible by the Ladles Mount Vernon association, it is a delight to all Americans. During July approxl-matel- y 29,000 persons visited Mount Vernon and during the year admissions numbered 288,000. The proceeds of a entrance fee help keep the esfirst-clas- s condition. In tate The house where Abraham Lincoln '"died, located opposite Fords theater thla at B18 Tenth atreat. Northwert, visited many shrine by Is another city. tourist It was bought by the United want to make happy? Everyone will know OCTOBER 14th is Candy Day Mother, wife, sweetheart or the kiddies will be - 20-ce- nt looking for Candy on Candy Day. States In 1896 for $30,000. WOMAN Mrs. A ONCE RICH, 6 sett e Calxablna 1 VAG Unable to Dont Disappoint them! After Unfortunate Find Relative Foreign Marriage. i New York. Mrs. Clsette Calzablna, , once a woman of wealth and position, according to the report of a probation officer, was arraigned In Essex Market court on a charge f vagrancy. Patrolman Reilly of the Mercer street station arrested her when he found her sleeping in a hallway at 124 Macdougal street. The probation officers story was to the effect that Mrs. Calxablna was born of wealthy parents In Denver and that after studying music In New York and European cities she married an Italian, who deserted her. Then she was not able to find her relatives, the misfortunes of her married life having weakened her mind, the officer said. Magistrate Ryttenberg adjourned the case and sent the prisoner to the Waverley home. i thlrty-flv- Whom will you make Happy: 4 r MISSING LINK HUNTERS SAIL . by Captain Salisbury Accompanied Men Picture Motion Daughter and Leave for Malay Peninsula. San Francisco. Capt. Edward A. Salisbury, scientist, left San Francisco on a steamer for the Malay peninsula, where he will search for what has been termed In science the missing link. were Accompanying Capt. Salisbury cola lieutenant M.b. Cooper, formerly onel In the aviation corps of the United States army; Duke Zeller, experi-of enced explorer; Edward Burghard Columbia university, New York; Miss the explorers Dorothy Salisbury, motion two and picture mem daughter, had Captain Salisbury said rumors ocean .from come across the Pacific white time to time about a tribe of archithe of Malay men In the Jungle tails. pelago who had short, vestigial Feed Convicts on 17.7 Cents DallyWar to : Ossining, N. Y. According of feedden Lewis E. Lawes, the cost prison for ing prisoners at Sing Sing for each August was 17.7 cents a day and man, or 5.9 cents a meal. Pastry sev menu In the pudding are Included eral times a week. Eel. 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