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Show hie bulletin OLD REVOLUTIONARY ; ! FORT IS RESTORED - Through Erroneous Tradition Called Tort Nonsense Washington. Completion cf the restoration of the old Revolutionary fort, built at Morristown during its occupation by the Continental army, under the direction of George Wash- later ington, commander-in-chie- f, known as Fort Nonsense," and now one of the features of Morristown National historical park, New Jersey, was announced by A. E. Demaray, acting director of the National Park service. The reconstruction project was begun during the autumn of 1936 with CCC labor as a part of the park's educational program, which is now being developed by Elbert Cox, superintendent of the area. Mr. Cox points out that the tradition that the fort was built to keep the men busy and to sustain their morale, and was dubbed accordingly Fort Nonsense, is not supported by historical evidence. Examination of the writings of Washington and other officers connected with the Morristown encampment bears no reference to such claims, according to Mr. Cox, who sets down the history of the old fort as follows: Ilistory of Fort. When the American army under Washington took up headquarters in the vicinity of Morristown in January, 1777, Washington began the herculean task of gathering a store of supplies for the coming campaign. Little by little he secured wagons, grain, and military supplies for the use of the army; but constantly he was faced with the fear of a raiding party coming out from New York to destroy his irreplaceable supplies. With this thought in mind, orders were issued to construct a small earthen redoubt on the hill which drove far down into the center of Morristown. Once this work was completed and manned with a small artillery force, the town would be safe from raiding parties. The fort was finally completed and still no attacks had come from New York. On May 28 the army marched away towards Bound Brook, but supplies were left at Morristown as Washington did not then know whether the coming campaign was to be in the south to protect Philadelphia, or in the highlands to protect the Hudson river valley. As supplies were left in Morristown, one regiment of the army was also detailed to stay there to guard the public property. Due to the natural barriers which had made Morristown a good site for the winter camps, no attack was ever made on the town, and the upper redoubt," as it was called by Washington, never saw action. During the Nineteenth century the fort remained as a landmark of the countryside, but the purpose for which it was built soon became obscured. Bit by bit the story grew that Washington could find no work oil value to keep the soldiers busy through the winter and consequently ordered them to build the fort, which, since it was mistakenly supposed to have had no purpose, was dubbed Fort Nonsense. As the years passed this erroneous legend became the generally accepted story through the community. Once. Privately Owned. Although it was a familiar landmark, the site of Fort Nonsense was privately owned and not regularly open to the public until a few years ago, when Mr. Francis E. Woodruff of Morristown furnished funds for the purchase and preservation of the site by the town of Morristown. Upon the establishment of the Morristown National historical park in 1933, the area was donated by the town to the United States, thereby making the reconstruction a possible unit in the educational program of Morristown National historical park. The reconstruction of Fort Nonsense is based mainly upon two sources: archeological work on the site itself and old military textbooks. The archeological work revealed the position, shape, and depth of the trenches as well as the location of the two entrances and guard house. Copper plates and descriptions in French and English fortification manuals served as a means of arriving at construction details not revealed by the archeological process. After the preparation of plans based on these types of information, actual reconstruction of the fort was begun. In most cases this consisted of removing the dirt fill which had washed into the trenches and throwing it back on the parapets. Where the ruins were insufficiently pronounced to warrant rebuilding on that basis, contemporary specifications for the construction of fortifications were followed. The picket gates were made four inches thick like the originals, heavy enough to prevent the penetration of musket balls. The guard house was purposely constructed small according to the accepted practice of the period in order that the sentry on duty might not lie down and go to sleep. Aged Siblings Meet Green Springs, Ohio. Six brothers and sisters, ell more than seventy-five years of age, held a reunion at the home of Homer Young. All are children of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Young. Their ages range to eighty-sifrpm seventy-seve-n x. SPENDS 28 YEARS IN WHEEL CHAIR; HAS BIG BUSINESS First Zithers Believed Used in the Swiss Alps Genius Didnt Waite Time Complaining About Unfor- tunate Predicament. Chicago. Oscar Diezel, who has been sitting in a wheel chair since he was thirteen years old, hasn't been wasting his time fretting about his predicament. Today. 28 years later, Mr. Diezel has built himself a business, gotten the equivalent of a college education, become an accomplished musician, is an artist of no mean ability and a mechanic of amazing ingenuity. It is this mechanical ability which has made his home a place of unusual interest to his friends and business associates and at the same time has made living as convenient for him as it is for anybody possessed of normal facilities for getting about. Mr. Diezel runs an insurance agency in his office which is located in the basement of his home. Stricken with a bone disease when he was in the seventh grade, he was forced to quit school and was told he must spend the rest of his life in a wheel chair. I decided to make the most of it, he said pleasantly. I'm trying to support myself with my insurance and notary fees. The goings been tough, but Im still here 28 years later. Desk Attached to Celling. He was sittirg in his chair at an unusual desk, the legs of which went to the ceiling instead of the floor. I contrived this so I could get the wheel chair under it without trouble. On his desk is a typewriter which he uses for stenography work, another sideline. A row of buttons at his fingertips turn on lights and lock doors electrically. No use in pushing myself clear over to the door to lock it at night, When Im through he smiled. work, I just press the button and the bolt snaps into place by electricity. An Inclined runway from the ground level to the basement floor level permits his chair to go in and out doors easily. Before going on the runway, he pulls a rope which opens the door. Outside, he inserts a key in the lock and the bolt clicks electrically. There are no runways or inclined r level of platforms to the the house which is built on a cement foundation placing the floor about five feet above ground level. Designs Own Elevator. Mr. Diezel has designed an electric elevator to make the ascent from his office to his home. The elevator, constructed by his father, is located in a corner of the basement under a bedroom. When he presses a lever, a red light flashes in the bedroom to warn any of the family which might be walking around. Then a section of the floor begins to descend into the basement. descent coming to Its a basement floor level. Mr. Diezel wheels himself on the elevator plat-- , form, takes hold of the controls and ascends. It's a machine age, he laughed, when asked how he happened to contrive all the gadgets to help him about. Also, I have a lot of spare time on my hands. Part of it I put to building things like these you see here. Part of it I put into my business, part In study and part in recreation. first-floo- six-fo- ot Game With Paper Dolls Will Teach Deaf Pupils New Orleans. The pupils in seven New Orleans public schools this fall will learn their lessons by a scientific paper-do- ll game. Miss Ruth Proctor, who teaches handicapped pupils from six years old to high school age, will illustrate a new lecture on how Jennie Germ can creep into milk and transmit tuberculosis. In the game will be the milk sprites Pat Protein, Sherman Sugar, Fred Phosphorus and Walter Water who fight against Jennie Germ. The children will watch the teachers lips as she tells the story and will watch the paper dolls enact a play. The children also will see how the lighthouse of health is built, progressively, by the Exercise Rock, the Sunshine Stone, the Pebble and other components. Getting germs into the Body Castle is part of the progressive game. Only two gates of entry are open to the germ the Nose and Mouth Gates. Each child will have a germ which will try to get by the gate. But the owner of the Body Castle can foil the germs, when carried in by the hand, by washing the hands! Another germ hidden in milk can be stopped by having the milk pasteurized, and so on. Pictures will be used almost exclusively at first. The teacher will form the syllables of simple words with her lips, encouraging pupils to do likewise. Plenty-of-Foo- d Blaze Turns Tables on Fire Department Members of Madera, Calif. the Madera fire department were so busy fighting a brush fire they didnt see that their truck was afire until too late to save it. They hitchhiked back to their station. September 15, 1933 Tliursil.iy, By I.. L. STEVENSON A zilher is a harp-lik- e instrument, with the strings stretched over the fcu-J- ir g board, and yet it is not a harp. You pick the strings like a guitar, and yet it is not a guitar. You get pianoforte music out of it, and yet it is not a piano. It is light enough to carry under your arm and you place it flat on the table when you play it, advises a writer in the Los Angeles Times. Its origin is somewhere back in antiquity, nnd piobably the first ones played in the Swiss Alps, the mountains ef Tyrol or the hills of Bavaria, were patterned after the harp with ju?t a few strings. The standard zither has five strings for the melody p'aerd parallel over a series of frets that will give as many rs four octaves. These are ployed guiter fashion with the fingers of the left hand, and plucked wall a pick on the right thumb. The four fingers of the right hand roust also control as many as 21 Every night in the year an average of more than 5,000 New Yorkers and visitors to New York are provided with costly entertainment without having to pay admission fees. For these free shows stars of stage, screen, and radio are emfees. Exployed, some at and maintained are studios pensive theaters leased. Radio is the host All the public has to do, or as much of the public as can be accommodated, is to obtain tickets. For a number of programs, the demand and more bass and contra-bas- s is so heavy ticket requests have to rings placed to the right of the be made at least three weeks in strings. And playing that melody advance. That has brought a new for the accompanimany strings kind of ticket scalping. Speculators, ment reo,uires some dexterity. through various forms of chiseling, The zither was probably only a at obtain ducats and peddle them instrument in the early from 25 cents to a dollar each. but as time went on they adddays, True, the tickets bear a warning ed more and more strings to get against sale, but that makes no difeffects and it got so compliference. For the less popular pro- better the number of strings had cated that grams, tickets are distributed here to be decreased. Then there were and there. Since they are free, different kinds of tunings of the ziththere are always takers. er, the Viennese, the Bavarian, and Bohemian tuning, and so on. The In the not so far-odays, studio standard tunings of the melody Usuaudiences were limited indeed. are a, a, d, g and c. ally chairs were provided only for strings Occaand their friends. sponsors sional visitors, to whom it was desired to show special courtesy, were Coral Stone Is Used for Bermudas Winding Roads admitted. For the general public, there were barriers. Instead of being Bermuda is a foreign country with invited to come in and see the show different customs, different currenfrom a comfortable seat, the public cy, different climate and an atmoswas invited to stay out. Radio lis- phere different from that of any teners set eyes on their favorites American metropolis. only when they broadcast in public. Bermuda roads have a special apSometimes radio performers were peal. Made of white coral stone, used to lure trade. It seems but they vind along the shore line or only a short while ago that one of cut tniough hills; Typically Engthe earlier teams filled a big res- lish, the road builders avoided taurant on the nights they broadcast straight stretches, so that there are from there. But despite lack of not half a dozen places on the isaccommodations and other draw- land where one can see 500 yards backs, studio audience? started to down the road. grow. Then came the accommodaIsolated and small as Bermuda is, tions. it has a unique background, Bermudas parliament was the first repIn its quarters in the RCA Build- resentative body in exing, the National Broadcasting com- istence, with the sole exception of pany has 10 studios each capable the English parliament. Hog of seating from a few hundred to coinage, once in circulation there, 1,500 and 1,500 seats are far more was the first colonial coinage. Berthan the total in many a Broadway muda remained loyal to her king theater. Pages and ushers are nec- even when Cromwell was protector, essary to direct ticket holders to for Bermudians are a sturdy and an the proper studios and to keep them independent people. in line. Also to keep them from St. Georges, quaint capital of the smoking. During 1937, the total island before the seat of government number of show attendants was was moved to Hamilton, abounds in The number, of course, historical interest. The oldest town 781,037. would have been greater, but even in the western world, it boasts the with repeat shows, it was impos- oldest church in the western hernia sible to take care of all who wished Here are the narrow streets to attend. The repeat shows, most sphere. the Irish poet, Tom Moore, roamed. of which go on late in the evening, Here are the ruins of the attract as many as do the earlier ment storehouse plundered governin 1776 shows. g Bermuby dians. The supply of gunpowder The Columbia Broadcasting comthey stole and shipped to America pany leases three theaters and aided the Americans in the war for maintains studios for audiences in independence. the Barbizon Plaza and on the New Amsterdam roof. Audiences during the past year totalled approximateAreas of the States ly 1,000,000 persons. In 1935, the In the following list the figures total was 636,396 and in 1936, 791,687. represent the square miles of the That accounts for about 60,000 more states: Texas, 265,896; California, a year. Also, there are the various 158,287; Montana, 146,997; New independent stations with their stu- Mexico, 122,634; Arizona, 113,956; dios. Nevada, 110,690; Colorado, 103,948; Wyoming, 97,914; Oregon, 96,699; Meanderings and meditations: A Utah, 84,990; Minnesota, 84,682; Idaslowof barges slipping long string ho, 83,888; Kansas, 82,158; South Daly down the Hudson . . . With a kota, 77,615; Nebraska, 77,520; little tug puffing importantly ahead North ' 70,837; Oklahoma, Dakota, mid. the . . aid another nudging dle barge like a collie dog herding 70,057; Missouri, 69,420; Washington, 69,127; Georgia, 59,265; Florida, A barefooted girl skipsheep 58,666; Michigan, 57,980; Illinois, ping rope on the broad deck of a 56,635; Iowa, 56,147; Wisconsin, scow . . . Wash flapping in the Arkansas, 53,335; North Carowind on the deck of the last in line 52,426; Alabama, 51,998; New lina, I envy barge people their life Mis. . . Sliding through waterways York, 49,204; Louisiana, 48,506; 46,865; sissippi, Pennsylvania, from the Great Lakes down to the Virginia, 42,627; Tennessee, sea . . . No hurry . . . No fuss Ohio, 41,040; Kentucky, 40,598; . . . . . . Only an occasional worry Homes traveling right along with Indiana, 36,354; Maine, 33,040; South A living earned with Carolina, 30,989; West Virginia, them Maryland, 12,327; Vermont, plenty of time for meditation . . . New Hampshire, 9,341; Massato out turn Or that Reading 8,206; New Jersey, 8,224; chusetts, scennovel . . . and ever changing 4,965; Delaware, 2,370; Connecticut, A . white . excursion big ery Rhode 1,243. Island, . . . the river steamer hurrying up An orchesflying gaily Flags All tra playing dance music Founding Cleveland, Ohio decks crowded . . . City prisoners Cleveland, Ohio, was founded in out for a day of freedom . . . With July, 1796, by surveyors from Cona tired homecoming. necticut, who represented another WNU BeU Service. C Syndicate. company, which had bought a broad strip of land along Lake Erie. This Bluebird Defies Mails land had been claimed by ConnectiCHILLICOTHE, OHIO. The myscut by right of its old British chartery of the missing letters from Mrs. relinquished rule over James Woods mail box has been ter,tobuttheit had federal it government, and in nest A a solved. bluebird, having had sold the land to the Connecticut the box, didnt want letters clutterLand company. The company, in ing up its home, so they were tossed turn, resold farms and town lots to out. folk in Connecticut, New York, and elsewhere, and these settled the city and the region around it five-figu- re r--t five-string- ff Webster pronounces it the second syllable accented and the g sounded as in go. When the Spaniards founded the city in 1781, the name given it was La Puebla de Nuestra Sonora la Renia de Los Angeles, which, in English, is The City of Our Lady the Queen of Angels." Los-an-gel-- JBB'uau.mnmMmnv Buy Only GOOD COAL Call Hyland 2520 Name Alcasar From Arable Words The name Alcazar is from two Arabic words al qaer and its significance is the castle or the fortress. Its introduction into western languages was due to the Moorish occupation of Spain. CASTLE GATE CLEAR CREEK ABERDEEN KING COAL Agents for Sentinel Stokers Prepared Stoker Cool Too Generous With Words We are generous with words, said Hi IIo, the sage of Chinatown, "lORR and sometimes scatter them discriminately without waiting to tie them into packages with threads of meaning. in- Iirvv Call It Day of Dupes Frenchmen call November 11, 1630, the Day of Dupes because it was the day Cardinal Richelieu foiled the enemies who nearly had succeeded in removing iilm from royal favor. CO. lly. 2520 law-maki- WHITE PORT Paradise ADSCATE L QUART (Amber Sweet) Code No. QUART 947 Code No. 970 GALLON Code No. GALLON 948 Code No. 977 .77 American-sympathizin- ... 56,-06- 6; pffe SWEET ALCOHOL 24,-17- ... BERKELEY, CALIF. Rattlesnakes, brought here for the annual convention of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, went on a hunger strike, probably because they did not like the name of the society. To keep them from dying before the society closed its discussion of them they were forcibly fed by thrusting a syringe, filled with hamburger, eggs and milk down their throats. 0; Brothers-in-La- w " is reThe term stricted by many authorities to mean the brother of one's husband or wife, or the husband of one's sister. Benjamin Ilardin Helm, an American general who married a sister of Mary Tndd. was not a brother-in-lacf Abraham Lincoln, but he was Mrs. Lincolns brother-in-laHowever, popular usage ignores this restricted definition and extends the term to include the husband of one's wife or husband's sis-broLher-in-law- w . BY VOLUME Wild Game, Red Meats or Lamb o .... Disgusted Snakes Go on Hunger Strike WINES Paradise-Sautern- 6; 9,-5- ... 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WINES 20BY VOLUME Served with CODE NO. 810 Paradise 818 Faradlsn 827 Paradise 828 Paradise ... 45,-12- ?MtHELENA(AUWlA BIKEGUABROJ.CELIAW The platypus, a mammal that lays eggs, whose scientific name is Ornithor-hynchanatinus Shaw, is a native of eastern Australia and Tasmania. It lives in rivers and digs burrows in the banks. It feeds on shellfish, water insects and their larvae, and other small aquatic creatures which it procures from, the mud of the It is especially river bottoms. adapted to this mode of life by the duckbill - like development of its mouth, and by its broadly webbed feet. Its burrows are from 20 to 30 feet long, and have a nest chamber at duck-bille- d, ( web-foot- ed us the end or at theside of the tunnel, t states Colin C. Sanborn, curator of, mammals, Field Museum of Nat-- 1 ural History. In the nest, lined with! grass and reeds, the female lays, from one to three eggs, which the, alone incubates. The young are not! nursed for some days after hatching, but are held against the mothers abdomen by her tail. The platypus was first described from a single specimen in 1799, but it was not until more specimens were secured that the existence of such a curious mammal was fully credited, - i |