The Detroit times. [volume], August 14, 1912, AFTERNOON EDITION, Page Page Seven, Image 7

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HIM SCIENTIST SMS
HE HIS FOUND GARDEN OF
EDEN AFTER LONG SEARCH
Spot Where Adam and Eve Met
Beneath Tree of Life
la Found
IS JUST NORTH OF US
Sir William Willcocks Substan
tiates His Statement With
General Data
THE BIBLE BAYS:
And the Lord Qod planted a
farden eastward In Eden; and
there he put the man whom he
had formed.
And out of the (round made
(he Lord God to grow every tree
that la pleasant to the Bight,
and good for food, the tree of
life also In the midst of the gar*
den, and the tree of knowledge
of good and evil —Gen 11:7-9.
The Garden of Eden la no longer
an elusive Paradise beyond the reach
of man.
The exact spot where Adam first
met Eve can be located on the map
and Included, hereafter on the globe
trotter's itinerary.
The wonderful story of the tempt
ing apple and the wicked serpent may
now be recounted In the very place
where It Is said to have happened so
man thousands of years ago.
The long search for the original
Garden, where every fruit and flower
and animal first came Into being, Is
ended, according to 81r William
Willcocks, the British student of geo
graphical reeearch.
Despite the conflicting chatter of
the übiquitous land-boomer and the
more serious student of Biblical geo
graphy, Willcocks declares that he
has situated the bona fide Garden of
Eden Just north of Ur at the ancient
junction of the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers, in what Is now a part of
Asiatic Turkey. The city of Ur exists
no longer, but Its location Is well
known.
81r William substantiates hlg state
ment with a general description of the
country around Ur, which be main
talus la so beautiful and ao verdant
tb&t It might well have been chosen
for the earthly paradise of the first
inhabitants of the world.
He pictures the trees which shelter
ed the Garden; the vines laden with
luscious fruit and the carpet of green
beneath the feet
Any one, however, who expects to
find large, Juicy apples growing in
the Garden of Eden will be disap
pointed. Modern scholars, anyhow,
say that the fruit which Is translated
“apple” In the English version of the
Bible was really some other kind of
fruit The apple, as w e know it. Is
thought to hAve originated far to the
nor fV i the Caucasus mountains.
• ’a »,te of WlJlcocka * Eden Is
warm, and the few Inhabitants are
described &« lazy, scantily clad, poor
and Ignorant, In spite of their great
inheritance.
Around this garden spot Is ft great
stretch of uninhabited desert. The
country was fruitful, rich and power
ful In the days of the old Chaldeans,
Assyrians and Babylonians, and con
tinued so until comparatively modern
times. The city of Ur was the capital
of a great kingdom, thousands of
years before Christ. But now the old
Irrigation ditches have vanished, and
there is only the sun-baked land and
squalid poverty.
European engineers, however, de
clare that by a proper system of Irri
gation the whole region may be made
again to blossom.
The Garden of Eden itself has been
saved by Its nearness to the Eu
phrates river. Sir William points out
that Its preservation proves Its an
cient fruitfulness, and that It was
geographically an Ideal apot for the
human race to live In Its Infancy.
POINTS TO SUCCESSES
IN CITY OWNERSHIP
Police Justice Edwara J. Jeffries,
candidate for the Democratic nomina
tion for mayor, pointed to the public
lighting commission and the water
board, Monday night, as example* of
what municipal ownership can do, and
he urged that the greatest civic im
provement the city could make would
be t oown and operate its own street
cars.
Judge Jeffries addressed three
meetings during the evening in Har
rnonla ball Russell and
Bradshaw's hall, learned and Beau*
bien, and lathers’ union hall, Mon
roe-ave. and Brus’n-st. In all three
places tho mayoralty candidate was
received with great enthusiasm.
Calling attention to the brevity of
the last street railway strikes, Justice
Jeffries said the reason w’hy it was
settled so quickly was because when
the men quit, the company found it
self up against a proposition against
which It could not do anything, and
he said if the people would band
themselves together nnd show Just
as decidedly that they mean business
the D. U. R. would come to the city’s
terms.
HELD UP BY FOOTPAD;
POLICE NAB SUSPECT
Harry Rumlngton, of No. 453 Ly
caste-ave., a driver for Towar’s cream
ery, was held up at the point of a re
volver on Bagley ave., near Second
ave., at 1 o’clock. Tuesday tnornlng.
but as the footpad pressed the weap
on against Rumtngten'a body, Rum
lngton flashed his lantern in the rob
ber's face, and the latter took to his
heels, as badly frightened as the milk
man.
Patrolmen Johnson and Erke were
hailed by the exc'ted milkman, and
arrested Paul H. Melsel. 21 years old,
who says he has no home. Metsel
was running through the alley, and
deolared that he was after a man who
had assaulted him, but the "stall"
was not successful, and he was taken
before Rumlngten, who promptly
Identified him. Fie was taken to the
-antral station, charged with attempt
ed robbery.
The revolver which he used had no
oortrldcaa la 1L
SITE OF GARDEN OF EDEN, LOCATED
BY SIR WILLIAM WILLCOCKS
CLUBMAN AND PRETTY
STENOGRAPHER MISSING
Suicide Theory in Put-in-Bay
Mystery Not Credited—
Ruse, Wife Says.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 18.—With
the families of both William E. Shiv
ley and Miss Ruby Carr declaring that
the discovery of their clothes In a
rowboat at Put-ln-Bay was a ruse,
frieuds of the wealthy clubman and
bis pretty stenographer today dragged
or patrolled the beach In hopes of
confirming or disproving the suicide
theory. Since Shlvley met Miss Carr,
a year ago, he twice left hls family
for her. Last week they disappeared
again and In support of her belief
that he has not killed himself, Mrs.
Shlviey today pointed to the following
note left by her husband:
Good-bye. You will never hear
of me or see me again. I wish that
I could start things all over
again, but wishing Is useless. I
can't.
Mrs. Shlvley and her two sons,
both over 18, objected to hls atten
tions to Miss Carr, particularly to her
almost continually using bis automo
bile. “I only bad two or three rides
In the car," said Mrs. Shlvley. Shlv
ley sold the car, retired from a lucra
tive contracting business and resign
ed prominent fraternal connections
Just prior to hls latest disappearance.
HERE’S HOPING, GUS.
FOR THIRTY-TWO MORE
General Manager A. A. Schantz, of
the Detroit A Cleveland Navigation
Cos., on Tuesday, celebrated the thirty
second anniversary of hls employ
ment bv th« company. He first went
. v-, ~ - **y a*.,
by ability and Industry to the general
management of the big ateamshlp
concern.
It happens that Aug. 18 of the year
when Mr. Schantz began working for
the D. A C., fell on Friday, and he re
futes completely the superstition so
persistant In steamship circles that
13 Is an unlucky number.
Mr. Schantz has seen the D. A C.
grow since hls first connection with
It from a 8500.000 concern with three
boats to Its present rating of $4,000,-
000 and Its big fleet of eleven of the
finest steamers on fresh water.
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POLICE FIND BURGLAR
CROUCHING IN CLOSET
Carl Streitle:*, well-known to the
police, was found crouching In a
closet In the loom of Maurice Wil
liams, No. 148 Lafayette-blvd., late
Monday night, when the flying squad
ron from central station raced to the
house In response to an alarm from
other roomers in the place.
When captured, Stretier wag dress
ed in Williams’ best suit of clothes,
with Williams' money in the pockets,
and he also had Williams' diamond
and pearl rings.
Other roomers In the house had
heard the burglar for some time, and
their search for him drove him Into
Williams’ closet. Williams, retiring
early, refused to aid In the search, as
he was too sleepy, he said. He was
astonished when the burglar was
found.
Hast ness-1 Ik* Prlatta*. No fuss and
no fiathers. Th« plain, naat kind that
looks right. Timas Printing Cos., ’I
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DOPE FIEND HILLED 81
OVERDOSE OF MORPHINE
• Broeffle, Young Dentist.
Wrecked Career With
Drug Habit
Enslaved by cocaine, to which he
became addicted while practicing
dentistry, only s few years ago, Wil
ber Broeffle, 26 years old. died of an
overdose of morphine, which he took
as a sort of antidote, to stay hls crav
ing (or the other drug, early Tuesday
morning.
Broeffle had descended from a prac
ticing dentist to a waiter at River
view park, and lived with hls young
wife at No. 505 Congress-st. east. A
week ago, she told the police, she in
duced him to quit the use of cocaine,
but It had been a hard battle for him,
and he was a nervous wreck.
While she was away from the
house, Monday evening, he obtained
some morphine, to quiet hls over
wrought nerves, and In hls craze for
drugs, swallowed enough to kill sev
eral men. He was found dead In bed
when his wife returned home.
Coroner Rothacher la Investigating
the case. Broeffle’s relatives live In
Amsterdam, N. Y.
Arthur Allen, 36 years old, ended
his life with carbolic acid In hls room
at No 608 Woodward-ave., Monday
night, while despondent over the loss
of hls position as bartender In the
Berghoff hotel. Hls wife and Step
daughter found his body and notified
the police.
Allen came here from St. Louis,
two months ago.
NATIONAL GUARD GOES
/ INTO CAMP WEDNESDAY
N, £ .
. ... detachments of the
Michigan National Guard will leave
for Ludlngton for the annual encamp
ment, Wednesday morning, on two
special trains. Troop B, of the First
cavalry, and their horses, will leave
the Union station at 7 a. m., and at
7:30 the second train will set out
with the two Detroit battalions of the
First Infantry. Two battalions of the
Twenty-sixth United States Infantry,
stationed at fort Wayne, will also at
tend the camp under command of Col.
Booth.
ALTAR NEARLY CHEATED;
GROOM SAVES BRIDE
LANIGAN, Bask.. Aug. 13.—Miss
Elsie McFarlane, Is in a critical con
dition today as the result of her nar
row escape and the death by drown
ing In Watrous lake, near here, of
Mayor R. L. Hood, of Lanlg&n, to
whom she was to be married tomor
row. Mayor Hood dived Into the wa
ter and succeeded In reaching the
girl and supporting her until help ar
rived. He was so exhausted that he
sank when Miss McFarlane was lift
ed Into a boat which came to their
rescue.
GOLD STRIKE GIVES
WASHINGTON FEVER
Aug. 18.—The
“gold fever” struck Washington to
day, when geological survey ordered
an expert Investigation of gold strikes
made In the Hoag mining district In
Modoc county, California. Reports
reached Washington that the district
promises to be a “Second Cripple
Creek.”
“It Is Wilson versus Wall Street”
—Governor Chase S. Osborn
JLetroil Simcs
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e
Street, is for the unbossed Wilson. It was one
of the first advocates of his nomination; it is the
only Detroit newspaper supporting his candidacy.
If you are for Woodrow Wilson and Wood
bridge N. Ferris, you will want THE DETROIT
TIMES through this extraordinary campaign.
It will contain editorials that will help you con
vince your neighbor that Gov. Wilson and Prof.
Ferris are the logical reliance of all progressives
in nation and state.
In its news columns THE DETROIT TIMES
will report the progress of the campaign fully and fairly. Every
party and every candidacy and every issue will get a square deal.
The Times has become famous tor its terse style and large type.
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