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Show •• ~· • THEJORDANJOURNAL,MIDVALE.UTAH ... Scenes at Inaugu ration of New York's Mayor ! &lCDT/ ! .~~~~"~(?.~~~~~~:?.~ Red Beard, First Great Pirate Building Planes for Flight to North Pole 1 I Is m; oltl us history. The firs1 P TH.\CY savage mnn who hollu\red out u log with fire and puddled around in tlli> precarious craft prolntllly fell a vktim to the tir~t act of piracy when he met nnotlJP.r savage traveling on a log on whil'h be hall spent no labor. From time immemorial the Med iterranean sea was ravagE-d by ptratt> fleets which malle Asia ~IInor and thE' islands near It their headquarters . from 11·hieh they dashed out for t•aids on the ships of Home. There is the story of the IJirates who captured the youn).! .Julin,; Caesar anu held him for rnnsom for six weeks, during which time the future consul lived on exeellpnt term~ with his captors. lie tnld tl1em thai he would one day crucify them all, whereat they roared with laughter al But It was also u In the above pictures are shown the official group at the Inauguration of James J. Walker as mayor of New this pleasantry. rork, when he was shaking hands with his predecessor, Mr. Hylan; and the police motor cycle escort of his honor matter of record that he l:ept Ills word Piracv In the :\Iediter\'l\nen n contln lined up 1futslde the city hall. ued lo~g after Home had fallen, nnd early in the Sixteenth century it gave • to history the first outstanding pirate leader, the famous Rarbarossa or "lletl Beard." Hed B!'ard's real name wa~ Uruj, and he was the sun of a Turk Ish t·enegafle and a Christian mother lie was born on the Island of Lesbo~ in the Ae;:ean sea, a stronghold of thE' ~leditenanean pirates, among whom he ravi<lly rose to a place of accepted leadership. But feeling tJ,e need for a more con· ,·enient base from which to conduct Ills OJlerutions In 150-1 Red Beard establl~=;hed his 'headquarter s at Tuni~ and became the first of the Barbary cor,;alrs whose raid~ went unclleeked until some youthful commanders of the United States navy taught them proper re8pect for the freedom of the seas. H<>d Beard had It conwnient arrang~ ment with the sultan of Tunis whereby that eminent ruler was to be given onelifth of all the booty he took in return for royal approval and protection when it was needed. One of his first exploits was the capture of two gulle~·s belonging to Pope Julius II, which had sailed from Genoa, and the richness of the loot from this expedition showed the sultan that he had made no mis- The touch added by King Winter to Philadelphia 's famous Logan circle fountain on the parkway. The three take In agreeing to a partnership with bronze figures represent the three streams flowing throug!l tho city-the Delaware, Schuylklll and Wissahickon . In Barbnrossa. the background are siLhouetted the city hall and the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul. The next year the pirate chieftain showed his daring by capturing a Spanish ship wlt!:J 500 soldiers on WELFAR E EXPERT board and in 1512 the Moors Invited him join them in their neyer-ending war on Spain. They attempted to take the town und port of Bujeya, hut after eight days' fighting, during which Hed lost an arm, the attack failed. Although Barbarossa be('ame rich and powerful after he hn d captured the town of Algiers, where lie set himself up as sultan, his embroilment wit? Spain proved his undoing. Charle~ -.,;. :;ent an army of 10,000 men to Aigters, <lefea ted the cor,;n ir and lled Beard was k!llell In battle. Founta in m Philad elphia Beautified by King Winter The giant Fokker planes which will be used on the North pole flight to be commanded by Capt. G. II. Wllklus of Australia, which will begin about next March from Alasl,a, are being constructed at the Atlantic Aircraft corporation's plant in Hasbrouk Heights, N. J. The !llustratlon shows R. B. C. Morduyn and Captain Wllkin!l Inspecting one of the motors, and the captain with a camera he will use during the flight. • Parade of the Mummers m Philad elphia .. Polar Ship No~ in Tropic Seas t; Gorgeous exhibit of the Silver Crown club that was a feature of the annual Mummers' parade In Philadelphia . Mushing Tried by New Englan d Women ! "WINDY BILL" •I - A Royal Practition er of Piracy in the role of a patron R OYALTY of piracy has never been so un u~ual, Dr. Elizabeth a trained yslcian and e.'Lpert In psychiatric work, Is now being used to deal with th~ difficult cases of the Boston welfare societies that deal with estranged 11arents and unruly children. It is believed that Doctor Sullivan will be .able to s1nooth out many family diffi-culties and steer many children to the right path. Doctor Sullivan Is a ~aduate of Tutts college medical 1 sch.ool, has att'ended the Harvard 1 Me{lfcal school In bacteriology and ' ~'dlatrics, and has been the resident physician at the Massachuset ts re!ormatory for women. ,. The Roosevelt, Peary's North pole ship, arrived at Los Angeles harbor from Seattle recently, after a 17-day fight with Pacific gales that would have sent many a good ship down. She Is on her way to Miami and Cnpt. W. F. Sporman's Christmas bride Is accompanyin g him on the 5.000-mlle trip. The vessel and the Rklpper and his wife are shown In the illustration. ·Canad ian Houses of Parliam ent RED MAN IN CHURCH I -rhls American Indian, Red Fox St. James, or "Skiuhushus ,'' has been or· dalned as deacon of the Anglican Unlversa! church by Right Rev. George WJnslow Plummer, bishop of that c!kurcb. Red Fox Is known aa a lecturer on Indian Ute. He was born Clb the Montana plains and educated ~ Carllaile. In s1x months he w11l be a prleet. < 1 , 1 . I i j ! An interesting photograph of the New Canadian houses of parliaillP'II u Ottawa that have just been completed ut a cost of $12,000,000. This bnildHIC: replaces the one destroyed by fire In U16, and Is believed to be one of tl.e llneat sothlc structureiJ in the world. I but few monarchs bnve engaged In the practice themselves. An exception to this is the case of An;;ora, sultan of 'rlmor, East Indies. Angnru llourlshcd in the days when the East India company was a power In internatlonul affairs. But Angora, unimpressed by its importance, refused to allow the company lo station gar risons on Timor, and the mighty com pany marslmled Its forees, overran ~is !,;land, and drove him 1nto his ch1ef town, also named Angora. Burning for revenge, the sultan turned pirate and set out to sea in a fleet of five prows and several galleys. IUs lirst capture was a brig, commantled hy Captain Hastings, a relative of the famous Warren Hastings. Hustings was carrying dispatches from Calcutta to the British general besiegin:; An gora. \Vhen the pirates swarmed aboard his ship he threw the dis· patches overboard to prevent their selz·,tre. l•'or this; he was promptly hanged Rnd his crew sent as prisoners to Angora, where they were poisoned. The sultan's next capture was the Edward, a ship of the East Indln com· pany, wlwse crew was also poisoned. Next he defeated a veRse! ,;ent out by the government to capture him and followed this by attacking a ship from Burma, with whose ruler he had al· ways been upon friendly tl'rms. The sultan d1·owued every person on this :;hip, except one woman. llis next victim was a ~Inlay pranm, the erew of which he shackled and threw overboard by way of varlet~· in m• niPr. 'l'hen he snlle!l into Bomuay harbor, anfl limlln~ the garrison uujn epa red, ensily· captured tlte fort, blew it up und snilefl away with a load of rich booty. Shortly ai'l erwanl he SPi%t>d <ln En~li3h pn!'l:l't, the St. Georr;e, tor· turE<l tliP !'aptaiu to death, all!l forced the crew to jt>in his H'I., it.:e. llv tl'is tlu'.e the wails of the East Infli-a eompt:ny harl forted the British go1 ernment tu net ion. One of It,; gr•·atest ships. the Yictorious, was sent against the sultan·plntte , !Jut It€ ,.lipped pa;;t the man of·wm· out f'f tLe harhor of Augnra at ni~'It niHl stH'<'<'.ss f1111)' mnde his way to Trin•·oulall'f! in Ceyluu. There lie ret.red from further piratical practke unu the East In· dht compuny del'ide!l thnt It wouiu be well to let well enough alone. So the sultnn-pirate rounded out his days lu peace, und his career Is an lnten'sting one !n that it proves that not all pirates finished up at tl.e end of a rope. However the fact that he was a royal pirate way have bad 10n1ethlng to do wltb that. i Wllllam Woolfson of )!alden, lila~ is the champion bitch hiker of Boston nniver:;ity. He follows the tenms tu II any city where they may be playing. 1 He Is president of the Barnstormer 's ' Dramatic club of the college of bus!· ness administratio n and president of the 0 . T. R., which Is an organiza::->ociety womeu of New England have adopted "rnushing"-r aclng over tion of collegiate hoboes. From his the ::;uow trails with dog teams-as one of their winter sports. Miss Clara experience In 2,1500 miles of "hikEnebuske, one of the enthusiasts, Is shown here tightening up the straps ing" he says, "Never try to stop a fllv· for a practice run. ver going up hill." They call him "Windy Bill.'' l Home of Eugene Field Tom Down . FAILS AT SUICIDE \, r··< ;,(·r~ han! <il·~·trnye(l the fm·mt>r home of Eugene Field, the famous Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, former wife el•i:w·pa·s fll>t't, at 4:!4:.! Clarendon avenue, Chicago, where the poet lived at of Harry K. Thaw, attempted sulcld4 u,,, t:''lC of his !IC'nth in lSD:l and where his famlly resided until recently. tn Cb!cago by taldq polsoll, but her l.trs. l'it•ld uow live.; In Tonmh~J.Wk, Wis., and the children are married. We waa saved.. |
