Indiana daily times. [volume], October 27, 1920, Last Home Edition, Page 5, Image 5

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BOSTON STREET
ODDITIES, LONG
FAMOUS, TO GO
City Will Straighten Crooked
Thoroughfares and Widen
Many Others.
BUT ‘THE BAG’ REMAINS
BOSTON, Oct. 27. —Boston city officials
are working on a plan to cut a straight,
broad artery through the network of
crooked streets in the western part of
he business district'.
This would not ordinarily be a state- j
lent to cause any great excitement, for in
lie course of its history Boston has
rarely considered no less than one bun
red proposals to simplify the maze of
1 s street system.
The latest plan, however, has been ap
roved by the Legislature and is now be
>re the town eounell.
It really begins to look as if Boston
• !ght eventually see this particular
•.•reposition through.
The proposed channel would involve
he widening of some of the streets it
ould follow, and the cutting through of
cne new strips of street to make a con
ilnnous. straight thoroughfare.
It would provided a short cut through
(he district south of Boston Commons
it would attract a large amount of
traffic which now overcrowds the numer
ous narrow streets and lanes.
<* BOOKED STREETS
TYPICAL OF CITY.
Bostou still expects some day really to.
straighten its streets, and any citizen
will tell yon just how It ought to be
done.
Meanwhile the crookedness of the thor
oughfares is by-word, and a sort ot
trade-mark of the city.
A visitor can have nil the exercise and
fvcitement he wants simply trying to
find the shortest route from a hotel to
an office building.
In some parts of the most congested
shopping district, walking in a straight t
line is next to impossible,’ for the side- j
walks are so jammed with would-be
pedestrians that the only way to travel ;
with any spee.j is to wriggle in and out
among the slowly-moving throng.
Any one who becomes skilful at this
l usiness of wriggling can advance at
least four blocks an hour and at the
same time acquire a suppleness which
cimes In handy when dodging taxicabs
and wagoni.
The best place to observe traffic at
its slowest Is on Washington street,
where the narrow sidewalks are lined
with lunchrooms, theaters, office buiiu
ings. and innumerable shops, from little,
crowded stalls to big department stores.
Anything which any Bosto jan might i
want is to be found on this street, and ;
presumably ha’f the Bostonians are here
all day, struggling, always with dignity i
and tolerance, to fill np their Boston
bags so that they can seek the subway j
and the evening paper.
COP IS ONLY
SALVATION IF LOST.
One of the peculiar things about Wash
ington street is that the other side al
ways looks only half ns thickly popu
lated as the side you picked our to travel,
and. of cours- 1 . when you dodge a few
automobiles and traffic cops to cross
over, the side you were on looks more
desirable.
After hopping back and forth a few
times you conclude that the mob Is about
evenly divided.
The best course then seems to be to re
tire to a side street where navigation is
less Interesting, but more speedy, and
where you either get lost in the mate of
turnings or walk a few blocks only to
come out on a blind alley.
At this stage of the adventure only a
policeman can solve the mystery and give
you a fresh start toward the original
goal.
The traffic police are one of Boston's
most efficient institutions.
After the police strike last winter. 400
of the old force remained loyal and the
others—l,ls2 men—gave up wearing
white gloves in the day time and retired
from public life to become chauffeurs,
Innch room proprietors and watchmeu
on private property.
In their places Boston has takea on
1,200 men, all but about twenty-five of.
them ex-service men.
Most of them had been in action over
seas.
The old force ran to heavyweight,
middle-aged billy-swingers.
The new recruits are largely lithe,
young ami full of pep.
It is said that the setting-up exercises
which they take in the morning at head
quarters would have finished the old
guard for the day instead of putting them
in trim for work.
BOSTONIANS DEMAND
BAG AND FAMILY TREE.
Anew traffic organization has been
formed and at busy crossings from one
to four young traffic officers hnudle the
streams of cars and passengers with
brisk dispatch.
From the stiff, jerky gestures of the
band and arm with which one of these
officers directs traffic, it looks at first as
If he had lost an arm and was swinging
a wooden one.
Closer study of the motions show,
however, that the mechanical stiffness ac
centuates the command as no gracefully
curved gesture could.
It has been recommended that the best
way to fee! at home in Boston is to learn
to talk Bostonese, to carry a Boston bag.
and to dusk off your family tree for ready
reference.
The language of Boston is not difficult
to master, though a native of a distant
States does usually have some trouble In
learning to say “bluebry” as if he meant
it, and it is discouraging when a desper
ate attempt at -the broad “a" has to be
repeated before it Is understood.
The importance of a working knowledge
of the Boston dialect is really lessening,
possibly because the New England ac
cent is being too rapidly diluted with
other brogues.
Thus, the official way of pronouncing
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127 West Washington St.
Good Clothing
For You And
Your Family
Take Your Choice
Cash or Payments—
-127 West Washington St.
Cox and Harding Under One Roof
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It has been discovered that Cox and
Harding live in the same house In Balti
more.
But these two gentlemen who possess
the same surnames as the distinguished
candidates for President are not run
ning for that office.
Tremont street has always been with a
short “e.”
In fact, the whole word should be dig
uatebed as rapidly as possible.
There have been street car conductors
In Boston who would venture to correct
any daring or ignorant passenger who
referred to Tremont with a long “e.”
Yet now. numbers of people can be
neard glibly using the long "e" unre
proved.
OLD FAXFEIL HALL
HAD MANY GI F.SUING.
A s'mi’ar vanishing tradition is the
pronunciation of Fanueli.
Old-time Boston talked about Fnn’l
hall, or occasionally Funnel hall.
But now you are directed to “turn to
the right at Fan-yon-el hall,” and no by
stander gasps or seems to notice the
sacrilege.
White you can no longer pick a na
tive Bostonian Infallibly by the accent,
you can rely pretty general iy%on the
Boston bag test.
Every ftne who lives here carries that
type of luggage known as a Boston bag
I—a leather satchel with two handles and
a flat base.
Laborers carry lunch in antique mod
el* that must have been handed down in
family wills for generations.
Women take them shopping, and chil
dren load them with schoolbooks.
A few people appear in the streets
minus this accessory, but a close in
spection usually reveals plainly that they
are strangers in town.
Boston men have no outward typical
characteristic besides the inevitable bag.
but the women are distinctive by reason
of their gloves and shoes.
It Is a safe bet that more women can
be seen wearing gloves on a warm day in
Boston than In any other metropolis.
To set out without one's bag is a mis
fortune; to forget to carry gloves is to be
conspicuous—a thing a true Bostonian re
gards with something of the aversion
nature Is said to bestow upon a vacuum.
As for the typical shoe, it is moatly of
the walking, or sensible, variety.
Ten-cent car fares and the high taxi
ratea may have something to do with
this unusual popularity of heavy shoes,
but Boston women walk aa If they en
joyed the exercise.
They plod slowly through the crowded
streets, but once they hit a broad stretch
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INDIANAPOLIS RAINCOAT CO.
Traction Terminal Building—lo 6 Wept Market St. Opposite Block’s
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Charles T. Cox is a dyed-in-the wool
Democrat, while .Marshall F. Harding,
running true to form, is a supporter of
the G. O. I*. candidate.
In spite of their Dames and different
political opinions, Cox and Harding are
on very friendly terms.
of clear road they strike out with a
brisk swing Impossible in French heels
and crowded toes.
The teetering damsel in her high heeled
satin slippers and tight skirt is not to
tally extinct in Boston, but she is not
a usual specimen, scarcely more usual
In fact than the gentleman who can now
and then he seen strolling along the
streets In golf stockings and knicker
bockers, wearing a lord of the manor
look as the protection against the gaze
of the uncouth mob.
A stranger is apt to spot such exotic
ample* in the crowd and sot them down
s typical Boston, just as the be
spectacled highbrow, botti masculine and
feminine and the mild and absent-minded
< ollege professor with white fair and
•dreaming coat tails have been advertised
to the world as the "types” to be L und
everywhere In Boston.
It is not a romantic fact, b”* the
homebred Bostonian, who popttla * the
streets In thousands, is to be
distinguished from the native of any
other large city, except perhaps for his
upiformly near appearance, his bag and
ills accent, and even the famous accent
seems only slightly obtrusive to the visi
tor previously regaled with overdrawn
imitations by his friendswit home.
Jap Sailors Fight
Chinese Importation
TOKIO, Japan, Oct. 27.—Japan Is ex
periencing at home right now exactly
what she criticizes in America.
Fighting the same thing in
principle that American labor fights in
California, the seamen of Japan are grad
ually organizing to coinbat the importa
tion of Chinese sailors to man Japanese
merchantmen.
J EVEN lI.E (Ot RTS.
Q. What countries have juvenile
court*? D. C. L.
A. The first Juvenile court in the world
was established in Chicago In ISTO. Sin* >*
that time, similar courts have been estab
lished In England, France, Belgium, Got
land, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Ger
many. Russia, Austria, Hungary aua
Spain.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1920.
CHICAGO BOOZE 1
' SIFT CLEARS':
‘Mike de Pike’ Heitler Said to
Have Confessed, Impli
cating Others.
CHICAGO. Oct. 27.—Indictment and
arrest of the principals in the alleged
“million dollar booze ring,” which is
said to have flooded Chicago and its en
virons with contraband liquor since the ;
eighteenth amendment became effective,
was believed appreciably nearer today
with the arrest an 1 reported confession
of “Mike De Pike” Heitler, notorious
chieftain of the underworld.
Details of Heitler's alleged confession
hare not been made public, but his rev
etations are said to involve politicians.
Federal officials and policemen in one j
of the most elaborate lawbreaking ma
chines ever uncovered.
Prohibition agents and Internal revenue
men are alleged to have acted as agents
of the ''ring” and railroad clerks, express
company agents, distillery representatives
and professional "runt runners” are said j
to be implicated.
Much of the revenue derived by the
conspirators, it is said, came from the
seizure and resale of liquor already once
disposed of.
According to statements of Saloon men
some stoeks of booze changed hands as
often as six times without any refund of 1
money to victimized purchasers.
Heitler surrendered last night after be- ,
lug sought by the Federal authorities for j
weeks.
He is kept under heavy guard and wIP.
probably lie arraigned today.
Information he has given authorities,
it is declared, will form the basis of
possible indictments of dozens of mep
said to have grown wealthy through
traffic In Illicit liquor.
POLICEMAN SHOT
BY LIQUOR THIEVES
CHICAGO. Oct. 27.—Louis Woetar, a
policeman, wgs shot anil probably fa
tally wounded early today in a pistol
battle with liquor thieves whom he sur
prised. attempting to roll a warehouse
owned by a wholesale drug firm.
‘Should Not Live Lie
for Sake of Tradition’
LONDON, Oct. 2*. “The English idea
of marriage is about the lowest tn tha
world," said Mrs. G F. Abbott, traveler
and lecturer of prominence.
The general sentiment of the nation at
the moment seems to be that the relax
ing of the divorce laws Just after the
v ar. In order to den! with mlsmatlngs
in that time of trial, was a step too
rapid and that tightening of the InWs is
necessary,
"The great thing is recognition of the
truth that a ntan and n woman should
mold their own Utcs and not live a lie
for the sake of tradition.” commented
Mrs. Abbott.
NEW HAVEN RAILROAD GETS AID.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—The Inter
state Commerce Commission today au
thorized the New York, New Haven A
Hartford Railroad to issue $2,000,0*1
worth of 7 per cent promissory notes,
the proceed* to be used to reimburse
tile road's treasury for money expended
to obtain equipment. The road also was
granted authority to issue and pledge
5:1,300.000 worth of equipment trust notes,
of which $2,800,000 are to'bear interest
at 7 per cent and the remainder at tl
per ceut.
GIRL, 13! MAN, 28, MISBINO.
CHICAGO, Oct. 27 Esther Whitney, 15,
who confessed to her mother, Mrs Julias
Whitney, 1511 East Sixty-Fourth street,
an Infatuation for a man 28 years old, has
been missing from her home since Mon
day.
Mrs. Whitney told the police she
warned Louis Heath, 28, CBl5 Darnell
avenue, that she objected to his atten
tlotiii to the girl.
Defends British
Rustom Rustomjee of India, .former
editor of tlie Oriental Review, who is
touring this country lecturing on condi
tions in his native land.
While not a Loyalist, Mr. Rustomjee 1*
not opposed to British rule In India be
cause he believes India Is nipt yet ready
for self-government because there are *o
many races, religions and castes hostile
to each other.
Mr. Rustomjee says there are forty
eight different races, seventy-nine differ
ent language* and twj> thousand different
sects in India.
He believes that If the British should
withdraw from India the conditions there
would be worse than those in Russia and
Mexico.
Union Trust Company
Buy Park Bonds at Par
The T'nion Trust Company was the
successful bidder for $150,000 worth of
4 per cent twenty-year year park board
bonds, sold to provide funds for thp
purchase of the Woodstock County Club,
on Maple road, west of Northwestern ave
nue, City Controller Robert H. Bryson
announ-ed today.
The bonds were bought at pir.
The park department will base the club
property temporarily to the Woodstock
County Club, getting an annual r.-nt.il
equal to the interest on the bonds.
it Is understood the club Intends to
buy another site farther from the city
limits.
LOYAL LEGION TO MEET.
The annual October meeting of the
i Commandery of the Loyal Legion will
be held this evening in parlor B of the
Columbia Club, beginning at 8 o'clock.
The meeting ts knowh as the Inheritance
Members' meeting, and is in charge of
MnJ. Maurlee Tennant. Music will lie
furnished by the Jackson orchestra.
Sale-All"Wool Ulsters
and Ulsterettes
For Men and Young
o.its furnish additional proof (if
One model with muff pockets is illustrated.
There are a number of others — '*sKl *
SPECIAL AT $25.00 *** J
THE Wm. H. BLOCK CO.
Scientists to Hunt
for New Narcotics
NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—Dr.
Busby, dean of the 0.-11001 of Pharmacy
of Columbia I'nivcrslty, nnquncos that
a party of American scientists will cx- !
plore about 1.000 miles of the Amazon i
Isislli next year, beginning in January.
In searcl# of new drugs and narcotics.
Dr. Ilusby is to be the leader iff the
party, and one of the members will be
Dr. David Starr Jordan of Leland Stan
ford JUinior University, wbo will study
fishes and reptiles.
Muncie Official Gives
Bond at Newcastle
Special to The Times.
.NEWCASTLE, I ml., Oct. 27.—Gene Wil-
Hams, ex-prosecuting attorney of I)ela- j
ware County, indicted with Court Asher |
of Munde and Halford Johnson of Ran- j
dolph County, charged with robbing the <
Spiceland Bank on Feb. 2d, 1920, gave j
bond ho the sum of $3,000 Tuesday after
uoou
The bond was signed by George W.
Millikan of Muncie and George Ruff of
ttiis city.
Secretary Colby to
Receive Irish Body
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—Secretary
| Colby has decided to receive jjfficially a
: delegation asking recognition of the
Irish republic, the Bureau of the Friends
I of Irish Freedom announced today.
Headed by Frank P. Walsh, former
i Joint chairman of the labor board, the
: delegation will be received by Secretary
| Colby at the State Department at 8
| o’clock tonight.
The committee will consist of .James K.
McGuire, former mayor of Syracuse. N.
Y..: Eugene Kincaid, former member of
i Congress from New Jersey: Joseph Mc
! Garrity. Philadelphia ; John W. Goff, New
York, and others of prominence in the
, Irish cause.
DE PAT’W MEN EXPELLED.
| GREENCASTLE, Ind., Oct. 27—Six
men were expelled from De Pauw Uni
versity Tuesday because of an attack
they are said to have made on another
I student. With one exception, those ex
' pelled were freshmen.
SAYS WIFE IS POLYGAMIST.
SOUTH BEND. Ind., Oct. 27—Marry
ing three men, all of whom are now llv
• log. without becoming divorced from any
!of them. Is chatged by Otto Zipper
; against Eila Zipper, who seeks annul
ment of their marriage.
COt NTERFEIT DIMES OFT.
HAVERHILL. Mass, Oct. 27 Counter
feit 10 rent pieces arc In circulation in
Haverhill, in the hands of merchants and
! others. The pieces are so cleverly made
that detection Is difficult.
TIPPED AS ITALIAN AGENT.
ROME, Oct. 27 Senator Rolandi Rlcct,
j according to the Popolo Romano, will
In- appointed Italian ambassador at
Washington.
Y All STUDY OPENS FRIDAY.
Ed Hunter, advertising Instructor of
, ttie Y M. C. A. educational committee,
will open the course of study at the Y.
Friday at s o'clock.
THE BASEMENT STORE
New Envoy
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BARON RAYMOND DE WAHA.
Baron Raymond de Waha is the first
accredited diplomatic representative from
the grand duchy of Luxemburg to the
United States.
Shortly after his arrival in Washing
ton be left for visits to Chicago, Du
buque and St. Louis, where there are
more immigrants from his country than
there are inhabitants of the grand duchy
itself.
The Baron Is grateful to President
Wilson for the latter's advocacy of Lux
emburg's autonomy in Paris and expects
io see the President before he returns
to Europe.
Baron de Waha's diplomatic excursion
is only temporary.
He expects to return to Luxemburg
soon, where he Is minister of agriculture.
Charles E. Hughes to
Speak Here Thursday
Charles Evans Hughes, Republican
candidate for President in 1916, will
speak at a luncheon at the Columbia Club
Thursday noon.
He stops in Indianapolis while en route
to Terre Haute to deliver a Republican
address tomorrow night.
Mr. Hughes will arrive about 11
o'clock since he must leave for Terre
Haute at 2.
Albert J. Beveridge will speak at Tom
linson Hall Friday night in the inter
cats of the Republican party.
He speaks at Ft. Wayne tonight and
at South Bend tomorrow.
SON LIVES IN INDIANAPOLIS.
ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 27.—Mrs. John
Gaines, 70, was found dead in,bed at her
home hern Tuesday noon. Coroner Sells
said death was due to heart disease. A
son, John Gaines, lives In Indianapolis.
SALESMAN SHOOTS WIDOW.
KANSAS CITY. Oct. 27.—Mrs. Myrtle
Brown, at. a widow, !s dead at a hospital
here from wounds received when B. F.
Thurman, a motor car salesman, shot
her and committed suicide.
WOMAN SPEAKER
PRAISES LEAGUE
Says Straight Democrat Vote
Is Straight for Pact.
•
“When Senator Harding said in Balti
more he hadn’t a single constructive idea
on the League of Nations he told the
truth for the first time in his life.” de
clared Dr. Rowena Mann at noon today at
ehe League of Nations headquarters.
Dr. Mann was introduced by Mrs. Mar
tha Marson, Marion Connty organization
chairman, who said a straight vote for
the Democratic ticket means a straight
vote for the League of Nations.
Dr. Mann who comes from a Repub
lican family, will speak Jonight at the
Odd Fellow hall under the auspices of
the Democratic women of the Second
ward.
Dr. Mann sadi, although Senator
Watson’s mind is so badly abused he
cannot tell truth from error, he should
not be blamed, because he is getting old.
“When we take away war we must put
an organization in its place and so
forty-seven nations were asked to Join
this association whose rules are the
League of Nations; forty-three have
Joined, those outside being the United
States, Turkey, Mexico, Russia and the
Republican party.
“Since 1918 Congress has done nothing
but endeavor to hinder the President."
she asserted, terming Senator Johnson
“an old chap who doesn’t understand
tvhat he is saying.”
“If President Wilson had brought the
ten. commandments they would have
kil'ed them because they were trying to
kill Mr. Wilson and the Democratic
party, and they would sell their own
souls to bring about a Republican elec
tion next month,” she said.
In discussing labor problems. Dr.
Mann said the laboring men of the coun
try are for Governor Cox because they
know if Harding is elected neither he
nor Mr. Lodge, but rather the trusts
will be President.
She laid stress on the economic boy
cott, saying Republicans nevet; mention
this phase of the pact.
“Before Mr. Taft got lassoed to his
party he said no country in the world
could stand an economic boycott more
than two months. "
“Let us disarm the world and give
the militaristic money that boys and girls
may go to school,” she said, "for the
lengne makes war impossible as far as
human power can make it.”
Say State Tax Board
Estimate Too High
The case of the Chicago & Erie Rail
road Company against the State Board
of Tax Commissioners has been taken
under advisement by Federal Judge A. B.
Anderson.
Attorneys for the railroad company say
a valuation amounting to approximately
six million dollars in excess of its cash
vnlue was placed on the property by the
State Tax Board, which included certain
items the law does not authorize.
RFSS TRADE OUTLOOK GOOD.
LONDON, Oct. 27. —The prospect of
reopening of trade between Britain and
Russia was not ended by the expulsion
of Kameneff from England. It has been
helped, if anything.
Such is the contention of the Evening
News, which, being owned by Lord North
! eliffe, has never been friendly toward
any sort of rapproachement with the
\ soviet government.
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