Show 0 of J WALTER NEW YORK TRUMBULL dr frans frana blom the eminent arche of tulane university regards his recent trip through the mayan J country of luchtan lu Yu catan citan on which he was by a party of sightseers as the most successful he be ever made dorothy dix a member odthe of the elpe dI tIon proclaimed the maya ruins finer than anything she bad ever seen in greece taly or egypt which was gratifying frans blom ione Is one 0 of f the most interesting scientists I 1 have ever known perhaps because he is so enthusiastic and alive he helas was born in denmark and as a you youngster served his time in the danish navy HIs bis father a manu fac tried to put him in business but bis his talents lie ile in that direction he wanted to travel and managed to get to mexico exico just ju stasa as a revola i tion was in progress which made educated labor scarce and wages good it was as a surveyor and for an oil company that he first encountered ancient indian ruins these i made him an arche archaeologist archeologist first for the mexican government later for haryard harvard and still later for the carnegie institution forthe for the past seven years he has been connected with tulane where he be has assembled in the museum a striking central american collection and also a remarkable library containing some of the oldest milyan I 1 manuscripts known 0 V I 1 had a highly interesting luncheon with some circus people the other day as the gueston gue guest of frederick darius carlu benham just how he happened boget to get in with the big tent dwellers I 1 dont know except that freddy benham knows known everybody and is likely to be found anywhere during the war you could find him all over france when he went to braden military academy it was to prepare forcest for west point but when his family famili permit him to accept an offer to try out oui with a major league baseball team he be got a bit discouraged dIscourage a with higher education and the moving picture bustness business although not as an actor in 1010 1910 he returned to military life by enlisting in the french ambulance service several of his bis family had been army men imen including his bis uncle gen henry darius benham who commanded the new york engineers in the civil war freddy benham trans berred from the ambulance service to the foreign legion where he became associated with some trench mortars hei he was wounded and went to a hospital from there to ito officers scho school olat at fontainebleau Fontain bleau from there to aviation school somehow peace found him working as a war correspondent he got in to see the signing of the peace treaty came home w with th herbert bayard swope some generals and a pack of police dogs and has been beem busy ever since new york Is a city of paradox at a pa park rk avenue restaurant you pay rio cents for half a grapefruit A big department store Is advertising a three piece sport suit for there are places where the subway runs on a high trestle cars which cost ten and twenty thousand dollars wait outside for owners who are shopping in five and ten cent stores 11 I 1 know a cellar restaurant which probably Is more expensive than I 1 any of the roofs 0 the museum of the city of new york Is one which I 1 haye have ne neer ver seen although I 1 intend to see at it soon I 1 understand it Is to have models cfall of all the famous old ol time manhattan bars that of course would include models of the hoffman house bar the bar in ile the fifth avenue i hotel the noted knickerbocker bar above which was maxfield mural of old king cole and big tim Sull sullivans lans bar on the bowery 0 1932 bell syndicate service |