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Show THE SUGABHOVSE AMERICA IMPORTS NEW WATER SPORT i i 200 BULLETIN, Use of MILLION STAKE IN THE PHILIPPINES America! Financial Outdoor Folki. I five t ment Shown in Survey. Washington, D. C. To bicycling, San Francisco, Calif. Americas hiking, skiing, and other excursion financial investment in the. Philiptrains add the faltboot special. More pines now totals approximately than 200 devotees of the new fold$200,000,000, according to a survey ing boat pastime recently took by the Institute of Pacific Relations. their collapsible craft by rail from The figure is somewhat below that New York City to a Connecticut of $258,000,000 which was prepared river to launch a sport in American by the bureau of insular affairs in waters that has for years been pop1932 and which has since been curWVr ray bp to 1H) M wWb th NEW ular on the swift streams of the rently used in discussions relative to MMBUtaO-t-r MINERAL r LATINS German, Austrian, and French mpprand Americas interests in the islands. Alps, and in England. The present figure, the institute A faltboot fiie german word is is one that has considerable said, TOFS OIL ud OmUMM used combines many ofa importance in view of the negotiagenerally CKECKS PMoaSktaadOU Ptaviac, the features of an Eskimo kayak tions now under way for establishESTOBEO Cemur Ion. with those of an American Indian MINGS BACK "Itar&r'' Zip. Poirar. ing the future status between the canoe, says the National GeoBpdwidQui. United States and the Philippines. FILLS Stem. graphic society. OVRHAUL NesoditloM motor white The institute found the American yoo drive eoteoeeMEiy to ley op jrour chiefly composed of rubBeing in the Philippines were investments e OVKHAUL for waitinr U Mpaii. berized sailcloth, waterproof canvas far below British investments in the end eooto bet 12.96 rood for MOW mliao, Iff anr make of ear (inatallatiua 76c). and sticks, a faltboot can be folded Malay peninsula or the Dutch stake Moacjr.Hack GaaraalM, up into two or three compact bunin the East Indies. In addition, they Write or call Mr FREE SAMPLE. dles not much larger than a golfbag constituted less than 2 per cent of and ordinary duffle bags. The boat the total of American investments may thus be transported easily by abroad, according to the institute. train or motor car from home They are also just about on a par to riverside. with American investments in China Experts, in a few minutes, can and Japan, when allowance is made assemble this meager baggage into for heavy repurchases by Japanese 975 East 21it So. II y. 674 a long slim boat, with watertight investors of Japanese bonds issued compartments fore and aft, and a in the United States. cockpit in the center which will hold Comparable to China. one or two people. For an eighteen-foIn one bag may hold general character, the institute the American investments in found, one the boat folded the fabric; the Philippines are about the same curved ribs, and a longer narrower sack the paddles and sections of as those in China. The total in each country is made uq largely of dilengthwise frame. rect investments in business enterNot Easily Tipped. prises, many of which are owned by Because the paddler or paddlers 6VJ In both counsit almost on the keel of the boat resident Americans. is directly or a too, tries, part large and stretch their legs forward along American with associated Moving indirectly the ribs, a faltboot has a low center trade. not is it of gravity. Consequently Specialty The institute found that in recent easily tipped over and can ride there have been at least two rapids and small falls, breast waves years COURTEOUS - RFASONABLE shifts in the character of important would and shoot through sluices that American investments in the Philswamp ordinary rowboats or capippines." SVJ canoes. size The first has been a reduction in There is no rudder. The craft is bonds value of the 1220 guided by swift strokes of double- - heldpar Americans.government 1930 this toIn by rowers. bladed paddies held by the taled $65,000,000. By 1931 the outFaltbooting is at its best in swiftflowstanding indebtedness of the comwith sufficient waing-streams ter volume to prevent striking the monwealth had been reduced to thin bottom of the boat on sharp $48,700,000, of which only $31,100,000 was held by Americans. rocks or tree roots. The second noteworthy change, Like automobile tires, faltboots are subject to puncture. But this the institute said, is the increasing enmeans merely a ducking and a trip investment in Philippine mining at investments presSuch terprises. to shore to bail out and apply ent are estimated at $37,900,000. Watertight compartments patch. Mining Industry. prevent the frail craft from sinking. For freedom of action, and also in The sudden development of the case of an unscheduled swim, mining industry in the Philippines has been found due to the increased bathing suit or shorts is the accepted costume for. the sport. price for gold, although iron and For shooting rapids, most boats chromium are other important Philare equipped with a spritzdecken ippine metallic industries. or spray cover, which folds back Since 1932 the gold output in the from the front of the cockpit and is islands has tripled in value, the fastened around the waists of the number of gold mines has been paddlers.- An inflated cushion and greatly increased, and the speculaback pads absorb some of the shock tive wave of gold mining stocks of the bounding waves, for faltbootgives the islands all the atmosphere ing in rough water is like riding a of an old-tigold rush boom. The Filipinos, according to the inbucking broncho. Get River Complex. stitute, intend to use their gold In Europe the sport has ad- mines and rich deposits of chromvanced to such a stage that many ite as a bargaining power for desired trade relations with the United rivers have been completely charted and special guidebooks issued States. Other American investments in for faltboot fans. Devotees say that after a day in the islands spread through a wide range of enterprises such as public a faltboot one gets a river comsugar refineries and planplex. No two rivers, of course, are utilities, and merchandising generever alike, and 'white water' gen- tations, erally has the greatest appeal. When ally. rapids are encountered both skill and nerve are necessary to get Alien Population of U. S. through without a spill. Yet padFound Smalleat in Yeara dling on canals and tidal rivers also has its charms and its periods of The alien popWashington. lazy ease. The boats draw amaz- ulation, estimated at about 4,250,-00- 0 ingly little water and can be hanpersons, is now the smallest dled almost as readily as a canoe. since the early days of the ReAs to wild rivers in general, ex- public. It will become less, say pert paddlera get to be like moun- officials, as aliens here become nataineer!. 'You do not climb a turalized and new immigrants are mountain after the first six debarred. 14,000-foAt the turn of the century 1,000,- mountains to behold the East world at your feet, or for the sake 000 aliens a year were coming in. of stretching your muscles,' they Now the figure is less than 200,000, contend, but to see how near you consisting chiefly of travelers or can come to breaking your neck students on visits. No immigration without breaking itl quotas have been filled for many Thus the experienced paddler years. d Toe Dancers cares not a whit whether he is apThe decline in number of aliens African antelopes, known as proaching a medieval walled town, has been especially marked since are also called toe dancers, because of the or if peasants are haying along .quiet the World war. In 1920 the alien characteristic habit they have of fertile banks, is but is there water population numbered 7,430,809 and sure to cap- by 1930 it was down to 6,284,618. ahead which poising themselves on the rocks in size him if he pretty careful and Current estimates show a further isnt . re-in which their feet a position semble those of a ballerina. They skilled? There must be the sound shrinkage of nearly to shoot, Officials say that future immirank among the smallest and most of rushing torrents, rapids on a and dam yes, whirlpools bring gration may exceed the low figures Interesting of antelopes, standing let him of recent years, but that.it is likely lunge over itl less than two feet at the shoulder. to be more than offset by emigraExtremely nimble, they climb tion, naturalization and an increasin the mountains with great Will Salvage Cruiser on ing death rate among aliens already sureness and of foot, speed, agility Which 400 Died in 1915 here. 'while in downward leaps they safe- The mystery of the Glasgow. ly negotiate gaps of thirty feet from cruiser Na- 14 on Lost Ship Return one rocky ledge to another, stead- 'sinking of the 13,500-to- n ied upon landing by their cup- tal as the result of an explosion in to Find Selves Buried d Cromarty Firth in 1915, drowning hoofs. shaped 400 men, women and chidren, may Misaki, Japan. Fourteen men, be solved when the Stockton-on-Tee- s bearded and gaunt after 68 days saladrift at sea, returned to this little company Shipbreaking begins on Attaek Indians Unjustified operations as soon as weather fishing village to find that funeral Probably the most atrocious of vage services for them had been oball the unjustified attacks on Indians conditions permit. An attempt to salvage the war- served two weeks previously. Indian by Americas sanguinary ship was made a few years ago, but Hope for the men had been abanfighters was the Sand Creek (Colwas abandoned work because of doned the after their fishing boat, on November massacre 29, orado) strong current. Tairyu Maru, had been missing 1864, in which 900 soldiers swept The sinking of the Natal was one nearly two months. They were resinto this peaceful village of Chey-- j of the great disasters of the war. cued, their food and water gone, murenne and Arapaho Indians and and their parents attended when a fire burning on the Tairyu's dered and scalped 300 men, women ChildrenYear's New a party on the ship, and deck was seen from the Taisei was The children. later and tragedy were watching a film when the ex- Maru. On man had died of expocondemned by a congressional committee. Colliers plosion took place. Only a few were sure and another of the original saved. crew of 16 was seriously ill. At j Weekly. The ship lies six miles from In- the time of rescue the Tairyu Maru was 650 miles at sea. vergorden in sixty feet of water. The mourning of the families was Book Weighs 63 Pounds to gladness when a wirechanged Watches Once Small Clocks Cleveland. Carl Smith, who likes less flashed word that the ship had ; Watches originclly wire small scrapbooks, made one of last been found. The crew's return to clocks and were worn hung from Crcat Lakes exposition. Justyears comMisaki was tl. i.casion for a three-da- y the girdle because they were too pleted, 'it weiglis 63 pounds. celebration. large for the pocket. OVRHAUL - LEITHEISER GARAGE - ot two-seate- r, SUGARIIOUSE TRANSFER Furniture Our Phone: Hy. . Broadway and 2nd ot Four-Foote- klip-springe- four-foot- ed one-thir- d. 1 to 24 on Clock Started in U. S. in 1884 The system of numbering the f, hpurs of the day from one to twenty-fouforas generally regarded eign, is of American origin, early records of the American Society of Civil Engineers disclose. The society itself and one or two other scientific organizations used it for some time and meetings were announced at 20 o'clock. Prior to 1883 American railroads operated on local time, based on local meridians, and clocks in cities no farther apart than Chicago, St. Paul and St. Louis differed so much as to make it difficult to follow timetables. By 1881 the confusion became so great all over the country that the American Society of Civil Engineers appointed a committee on uniform standard- time. This committee set up a tentative system of hour meridians and circulated a questionnaire among railroad officials of the United States and Canada to determine their reaction. Largely as a result of that work, the railroads reached an agreement on hour meridians in October, 1883, and put it into effect the following month. The numbering of hours was sugfrom one to twenty-fou- r gested at the same time. The societys committee next sought to establish an international standard or base meridian, from which time could be figured by hourly intervals throughout the world. Together with other interested groups the committee brought the attention of congress to the need for Yuch an arrangement. As a result President Arthur was authorized in 1884 to call an international conference to discuss the subject. nations were repreTwenty-si- x sented at the conference and it was then that the Greenwich meridian was selected as the base. The one to twenty-fou-r system was also apin England proved and was adopted the following year. ' The United States, however, never followed suit, despite the fact that a great number of railroad managers approved the plan. The American Society of Civil Engineers soon ceased to meet at 20 oclock, and now the American system is far better known abroad than at home. . - FaltbooUng Offers Thrills for FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1937 Don Hardman "On Site 1st Sugar Mill West of Mississippi River" GASOLINE GAL. Try Our Speedy Service1 99 Motor Oils I non-ski- i ) . 76-to- ; ) ! n i of New York by LL STEVENSON Lights Down on Cedar a street, housed in d building, is a restaurant that dates back to as era when New York was really new. It was in 1800 that an Englishman by the name of Porter began business in that same building and on that same site. Cedar street then being known as Queen street. Three other owners followed him and then came Harry Kramer, the present proprietor, who has been there for years and years. The cash register has been there even longer. It bears the serial number 1,000 and was purchased 82 .years ago. The employees also have had long terms of service. Lizzie Dohrman, a .waitress, has been there 31 years. The cobwebs that hung from the rafters, Kramer avers, are the same that Berved as decorations when John Paine boarded back in 1002. . - three-stor- y, slant-roofe- there Many Species of Herbs of Value for Medicine There are in the United States more than 250 species of roots, barks and herbs of value in the manufacture of drugs, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. They range from the common dandelion to the almost extinct ginseng, golden seal or snakeroots. Leaves from the deers-tongu- e plant are used in flavoring smoking tobacco. Roots and bark from the 'sassafras bush are used in making medicinal tea and perfumes. One wild herb is necessary in the manufacture of a silverware polish. The business is regarded as important by the government, which issues bulletins on the drying of medicinal herbs and the growing of ginseng, golden seal and the mints. Many common plants regarded by most people as weeds, such as mullein, jimson weed, yellow dock, burdock and pokeweed, have a sale value. Often the root gatherer supplements his income by picking up and selling Indian relics, wild ferns and other plants and rare stones for rook gardens. d, President Pierces Wife Franklin Pierce, fourteenth Presi- dent, the Northern man with Southern principles, married Jane Apple-to- n ti Hampton in his home state of New Hampshire. She is said to have been a woman of intelligence and the highest ideals, but Inclined to melancholy and a variety of nervous afflictions. She had three children, all of whom died before her. The tragic death of the last, a boy of thirteen, on January 6, 1853, less than two months before her husband became President, made MrS. Pierce an invalid during her stay hi the White House. The Pierces were returning from Boston to their home in Concord on a Boston & Albany train; an axle in the car in which they were riding broke and the car rolled down an embankment. Neither Mr. or Mrs. Pierce was seriously hurt, but the boy was killed. Habits of the Crow Most of the crows success as a marauder can bo traced to his gregarious instincts. The popular belief that a flock posts sentries to warn of danger never has been authenticated beyond argument, but individual birds always will give the flock warning before they wing away from a suspicious object. Crows steal eggs from other birds, but they never molest those of their own kind. They steal nesting material from each other, however. Female crows usually lay five eggs, on.y rearing one brood a year. Both male 'and female take turns sitting on the eggs. Literary Digest. De Soto at Havana Ferdinand de Soto was the first commander of the great fortress at the entrance to Havana harbor. The passage was once blocked by heavy chains which stretched across the channel from LaFuerga to El Mor-rthe forts on eithei side. These chains could be 'raised or lowered at will and- held enemy ships at bay while the forts poured shot and Shell into them, o, - Lubricant 21st South aiid 11th East ; up-wa- rd Tubes Accessories Tires - iron-wee- Service Each day a little coterie of men prominent in Wall street gather at-scarred and bare table in the old restaurant. Should they desire to communicate with their offices, they do so by means of a private telephone hidden under the table. J. Pierpont Morgan, the elder, was a steady customer. For many years women were not' served, which probably was just as well since belles of other days might have been shocked by the quaint place where their husbands took their lunches. But for prohibition, there might still be barriers. Because Kramer observed the law strictly, his business suffered to such an extent that to keep going he had to permit feminine trade. Now ladies are welcome and the little old restaurant is still going strong after 137 years. No New York policeman wears badge No. 1. The reason is that policemen's badges are reassigned when the wearer dies, retires or leaves the force, and are continued in use until they wear out. The last wearer of shield No. 1 was Walter W. Barry, who retired in 1933 and who .BOW ..Jives in Ln Anla. Hyland 8715 kae no. a was assigned to Raymond A. Adams, then a probationary officer, last March. Policemen are superstitious concerning their badge numbers. No. 2 was worn for 12 years by Edward M. Barry, no relation to the Barry of badge No. 1, who is now a sergeant, and who holds that the number is lucky. No. 13 is considered lucky by its wearer, Robey R. Boothby, while Philip P. Dampman, Jr., who wears 1313, never thinks about it so long as his pay comes regularly. Broadways newest free show is a big electric sign. It is a different kind of electric sign since instead of simply showing or flashing a scene, it gives a complete show which runs about 10 minutes. Two thousand electric lights are used. If the advertiser so 'desires, the show can be changed daily. Three writers are employed to prepare scenarios for the sign. Over on Sixth avenue, theres a big establishment crowded with all kinds of gadgets connected with housekeeping. Its one store I do not like to enter for the simple reason that usually I come out broke. Looking in the windows costs nothing, however. Sometimes I wonder what Clarence Muse does with all his spare time. Since the first of the year he has played in three motion pictures, has had starring roles in two radio programs, and has given a concert in the Philharmonic auditorium in Los Angeles. And it hustled me today to get this one chore done. He calls Subway eavesdropping: her his dear wife hed oughter. She costs him all be makes. Influence of Nasts Cartoons Thomas Nast remains the dominant figure in the history of American caricature because the influence of his cartoons has never been surpassed. Not only were they an important recruiting factor for the North in the Civil war and also responsible for the overthrow of the Tweed Ring, says Colliers Weekly, but they introduced the donkey to typify the Democratic party, the elephant to represent the Republican party and the tiger to symbolize Tammany Hail. (1840-190- 2) |