Dayton tribune., October 15, 1925, Image 7

Flame« Do^roy a New York Pier
Mexico’s New Bank to I miv » Paper Money
Above Is shown the new United
Bank of Mexico. Ju»t formally eatab-
ll»hed by the Calles government, with
crowds seeking entrance to the build­
ing. For the first time in years paper
money Is to be used In Mexico It will
be Issued by this bank nnd 1« backed
Si eur during tlie bill fire that wr« Led the F uhmm Bermuda pier at Fifty-
fifth street uud the Hudson river, New York.
Many Claimants
for Old Estates
Some Seek Ancestors’ Prop­
erty, Others Money.
New York.—The recent court action
brought In Washington. In an effort
to dear the title of an Inch and a-
half «trip of land held by nn asylum
for 58 year« 1a only one of a aerie«
of Inwault* Involving old estate« and
wllla made «core« <d year« ago.
A «uit which bore «trlklng «Imi-
larlty to thia and .which waa llkewl«e
brought up In the nation'« capital
about a year ago Involved a claim
for property In Maryland and the Dia-
triot of Columbia worth hundred« of
million« of dollar«.
Str«. Nellie
brake Pascoe, the plaintiff, «aid that
Ju»t before her father died he told
her of the po««lblllty' of her becom­
ing Immensely wealthy and gave her
document« «bowing that what are now
the I'latrlct of Columbia and Prince
George'« county were at one time the
property of Jamel Anthony Dmne II.
wtio came to America with Lord Bal- |
tlmore'« party In WM.
Aereaga Not Known.
brane, according to one of the pa-
per«, bought land In the nelghltorhood
of Beltsville. Md., and «etlled In
Prince George'« county. How many
acre« tld« property Included 1« not
definitely known, but It was «upposed
to tuke ln*part of Washington, and
It alio extended five mile« north and
ten mile* west. Although no Infor­
mation exists that would throw any
light on Just how the land got out
of I’rune s possession. It Is believed
by the claimant that "squatters" took
It.
Although Waahlngton Ims had Its
«Imre o^ such rases, It cannot com­
pare with New York city ns the eläim­
iini»' paradise. It Is estimated that
nt leaat one suit la brought every year
in nn effort to recover old Manhattan
estates. In July, 1924, a New Jersey
woman, eighty-two years old. an­
nounced that she Intended to try to
obtain n portion of the bind supposed
to have been left by Annke Jims Bo-
gardus. This myth, like many oth­
ers of Its kind, originated In the tales
tlint ancient estates remuin unsettled
on Manhattan island
The myth, however, had It« Incep­
tion In rent history, for Anneke Jan«
Inherited the bind from her first hus­
band. Roelo Juns, who purchased It
In 1038. According to this story, she
left the property under n IKI year
lense to Its occupants, with a clause
Hint It would revert to her heirs when
the period expired. A will is su|i-
pnsed to have been made, but actually
the property was transferred to the
governor of the province, and later
Queen Anne presented It to Trinity
church.
Oth«r Claimants.
n will fight extending over thirty-eight
year* by finally e«tHtdl«ldng her right«
an legitimate daughter of Georg? M
Chapmaif, who died In 1887.
Another aged woman early thia year
obtained, at the age of ality alt and
after waiting near IS year«, *5^42 left
hereby an aunt. The money had been
placed In a bank to her credit, but II
waa brought out at the tidal that the
niece had not known of the deposit or
of the existence of the book among
her aunt's effects.
Electrician«’ Union
Bans Cursing on Job
Montreal.—The modest claim of the
"well-bred captain of the Pinafore
that bad language or abuse 1 never,
never use," shortly may be the proud
boast of the workmen of the Montreal
Light, Heat and Power company, If
the efforts of R. Blanchett and W. P.
I.avertue, president and secretary of
tlie electricians’ union, are successful. I
In a communication to the company
they announce that the union has re­
solved to place a ban on the use of"
bad language by its members, ‘‘while
on the Job" and they ask that the com­
pany co-operate in the enforcement
of their resolutions.
The public Is being asked not to
Irritate workmen or tempt them to use
"cuss words.”
Two more claiming« for Manhattan
land were lured in February of the
sitme year, when u woman In the
S«u|h wrote to E L. Brook», assistant
solicitor of the Title Guarantee and
Trust company,,In regard to ten acres,
now densely populated, which she
thought she hnd a right to claim. The
other claim was concerned with nn
area In Greenwich village. Including
Kick Causes Stroke
Washington square.
Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. — Laurence
Other ancient lawsuit« based, how­
ever. on stronger evidence, such ns a Heaton, twenty-two, son of a farmer of
deed or will, have lately been fought Elberon, is In a local hospital, suffer­
and won, after tunny years of liti­ ing from paralysis on the right side,
gation costing thousands or millions caused by the kick of a horse. The
of dollars. In December Inst, for fn- boy was harnessing a team when one
■tance, a woman nt eighty threw won of the horses gave him a vicious kick.
Shows That Winds
Blow Up and Down
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Accident to Shenandoah
Due to Vertical Blast.
Waalilngton.--Tbat winds tdow up
nnd down ns well ns horizontally was
forcibly brought home to many people
for the first time by the destruction
of the Shenandoah. Fur from being
unusual, such “vertical winds" lie at
the heart of some of our best known
weather phenomena, according to a
bulletin from the Washington head­
quarters of the National Geographic
society.
"Every flash of lightning that you
sec, or that you hear as thunder, and
every pellet of hall that falls Is
probably due to n ‘vertical wind,' ”
au.d) the bulletin.
“These are the
fruits of rather violent upward and
downward blasts. If you consider ns
well the gentler riving and fatting
currents - the ‘vertical breezes,' let us
say you must take pretty much the
whole field of weather for your
sphere.
Important Weather Factor.
“Practically every surface wind,
whatever be Its direction or speed. Is
moving along to replace air whlcW has
risen, t'louds, too, are built by rising
ODD TREE BRINGS EIGHT-YEAR-
OLD CHILD A NICE NEST EGG
air.
The elusive little circles on
weather maps that denote 'lows' and
'highs' are in final analysis the repre­
sentation of upward nnd downward
air currents. Where cold nlr from
the upper regions flows down it com­
presses the surface atmosphere and
produces a 'high' ; where the nlr, be­
cause of heat. I» rising. It relieves
the pressure and forms a ‘low.’ Most
weather phenomena are due to the In­
terplay of forces between 'highs' and
'lows,' which bring In their train
changes in wind, temperature and
humidity.
"The most «pectncular of the effects
of ‘vertical' winds are thunderstorms.
As the tracer bullet marks the flight
of projectile» for a marksman, so the
great, towering ‘thunder head' marks
the upward rush of tlie Invisible wind.
Often -these thunder clouds may be
seen growing before one's eye. Sel­
dom Is the growth slow and orderly.
More often It is violent, and the up­
surging clouds appear to boil madly.
Thunderstorms are usually local ar-
falrs and the wind that has rushed
upward must come quickly earthward
again to restore the atmospheric bal­
ance. In the rear of thunderstorms,
therefore, strong downward currents
are usually encountered. It was such
an upward nnd then downward rush
of nlr, apparently, that played nn Im­
portant part in the destruction of the
Shenandoah.
Where Lightning Comes From
Gets $6,000 for Early Redden­
ing Apple Limb.
Mulllca Hill. N. J.—Through a
quirk In the process of the evolution
of an apple tree, nn eight-year old boy
here Ims on deposit for him In the
bank 80,000—a sum that lias been set
aside to give him n college education.
A biological sport 1« the term lior-
tlculturlats nnd agriculturists apply to
the chance production tlint gave the
boy the money.
“Peculiar," said
neighbors nround here, casting a pass­
ing look at the valuable apple tree.
Recently the biological sport, or nat­
ural phenomenon, ~ came In for Its
share of acclaim, when fruit growers,
farmers, agriculturists and horticul­
turists from many states Journeyed to
the farm of Lewis Mood, several miles
outside of Mulllca Hill.
Almost 1,000 persons gathered In
the 50-acre orchard to look at the
phenomenon that appeared on Mood's
farm. A graceful, low sweeping ap­
ple tree, with Its limbs heavy with
the burden of green fruit. In appear­
ance like nny other npple tree.
At first there seems little difference
between this tree nnd hundreds of
trees in the orchard, except that It Is
confined in n wire cage. <‘loser ob-
nervation reveals a splash of red
among leaves nnd the green apples
that hang from the hough.
Then It Is seen tlint one of the
limbs has apples already red. while
nil of the other apples on the tree are
green.
For that one limb, on which the ap­
ples color three weeks In advance of
nil the other apples on the tree, n
western nursery firm four years ngo
paid Mood the sum of 8*1.001). Now
with grafting to other trees the firm
will be able to supply thousands of
fruit growers with small trees of the
early* coloring fruit.
Eleven years ago Mood found rod
apples on one limb of a tree bearing
fruit still green. He called In neigh
bors. They thought nothing of It. but
lie realized the commercial Impor­
tance of the development. Apples
that developed a rich, red color be­
fore they had ripened could be picked
at once, kept through the winter nnd
sold nt n higher price In the mnrket.
He got In touch with the nursery­
men from whom he had purchased the
tree.
They came East to see the
phenomenon, and tour years ngo pur-
chased the limb for *6,000. This sum
Mood immediately put aside for the
education of ids son. Lewis, Jr.
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“rntll comparatively recently the
origin of the tremendous charges of
electricity In a thunderstorm baffled
science. Now it Is pretty generally
believed that they are caused by the
upward gusts of nlr—that these nre In
truth the dynamos of the sky. The
building up of the electrical charges Is
supposed to be brought about by the
gusts bleating raindrops to pieces, the
smaller fragments carrying negative
charges upward while the large drop­
lets with positive charges remain be­
hind. Hostile forces are established
nnd when the strain becomes too
great it is relieved by a lightning
flash. When the negatively charged
upper cloud floats away before the
strain is relieved the flash Is to the
earth.
“ ‘Vertical winds’ nre also credited
with the production of hall, nnd their
onlonllke structure hears out the the
ory.
Raindrops carried upward by
the less violent gusts, according to
this hypothesis, nre frozen in the cold
upper air.
Sinking In the boiling
cloud, they acquire more moisture on
tlie lower levels nnd nre again cur­
ried to the freezing region. On the
number of skyward trips made before
they escape from the boiling cloud
nnd full earthward depends the size
of the hailstones."
Peaks of Pacific
not Really Dead
have been melted in the snow that
fills the crater.
These caves, sheltered from the
winds and warmed by the escaping
Tacoma, Wash.—Ice-crowned vol­ steam, have often proved of advan­
canic cones along the Pacific coast tage to persons scaling the peak.
generally are presumed to be dead.
Owed Lives to Warm Caverns.
Scientists, however, agree they are not
Stephens and Van Trump, the first
merely burned-out shells, but that It white men to conquer Mount Rainier,
is entirely possible they may erupt more than half a century ago, un­
at any time.
doubtedly owed their lives to these
Mount Rainier and Mount Baker in ¿team caves. It would have been Im­
Washington. Mount Hood In Oregon possible for them to have retraced
and Mount Shasta nnd Lassen peak their steps In tlie darkness, and they
In California are individuals in a could not have lived through a night
great series of volcanoes that extends on the summit without blankets or
In a circle for 10.000 miles or more other protection If It had not been
around the North Pacific ocean In for the timely discovery of the warm
both North America and Asia.
caverns.
There waa a time. In the opinion of
The steam on top of Mount Rainier
the scientists, when these peaks were Is so hot that it will transform a pan
in violent eruption at the same time, of snow to boiling water In ten min­
so that a chain of fire bounds the Pa­ utes. Eggs can be cooked If placed
cific coast, for the five peaks are so In the hot pumice of the crater.
clbse together that any one In erup­
tion could be observed from its near­
est neighbors.
Might Again Burst Out a«
Volcanoes.
Lassen Alone Now is Active.
Since 1914 Lassen has been In fre­
quent eruption, and ft Is regarded as
scientifically established that not one
of the volcanoes can be called dead.
All except Lassen have been quiet
for several thousand years. In the
opinion of expert reckoning.
During the last century there have
been several minor eruptions from
Mount Rainier, the mightiest of the
five volcanoes. It has been hundreds
of year« since the great peak blew off
a half mile of Its top and scattered
volcanic ash to a depth of hundreds
of feet over what now is Washington.
Almost every year faint earth­
quakes are recorded on Rainier, and
steam still Issues from the crater,
which is half a mile across. This
steam Is so Intense that great caverns
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Name Winnipeg Street
for 3 Heroes in Block
Winnipeg, Man.—The bravery of
three Winnipeg warriors who fought
with the Canadian forces during the
World war will be Impressed upon
posterity with a permanent memorial.
It was recently discovered that
three of Winnipeg's sons who earned
the Victoria cross had lived on the
same street within a block of each
other during peace times. Residents
of the street petitioned the civic au­
thorities for permission to change the
name of the street to “Valor road.”
The request was granted, and a memo­
rial lamp has been unveiled at an
Intersection of the newly named
street.
Only one of the three returned at
the cessation of hostilities, Lieut. Rob­
ert Shankland. The other two, F. W.
Hall and Leo Clark, paid the supreme
sacrifice.
Abused by Parents
Island Pond, VL—Charged with
abusing their son in such a manner
that he could not walk or talk, Mr.
and Mrs. John Merrill were held for
trial when arraigned in court. The
child was placed In the home of a
neighboring family and will live.
NEW YORK MAN HANDS OUT
$25,000 FOR RARE STAMPS
Collector Now Boasts Best dealers predict that several more
deals of this nature will be made soon.
Revenue Specimens.
Edward Stern, head of the Econo­
mist Stamp company, .announced that
New York".—In preparation for the he had purchased the well-known col­
International stamp exhibition in this lection of United States revenue
city In October, 1926, many of the stamps owned for many years by W.
lending philatelists In the country are S. White. The White collection has
making efforts to complete their col­ long been known as one of the best
lections by the addition of rare specl- In America.
Its outstanding feature was the as­
tnens.
sortment of unperforated pairs and
This effort toward the greatest pos­
sible perfection whereby the owners blocks and the extremely rare second,
third and fifth issues with the head
may carry off some of the coveted
of Washington Inverted. The value
medals has already led to the sale of
of the collection is placed at approxi­
several old collections and stamp
mately *25,000. Mr. Stern has been
making a specialty of revenue Issues
for some time and now boasts that it
Is the most complete in the world.
One of the biggest prizes in the
White collection Is a fine copy of the
three cents, green and black, of the
fifth revenue-stamp issue, having the
experience,
for
later
she
was
reported
Abandoned in 1923, Still Men­
off the coast of Portugal, and In Oc­ Washington head Inverted. Only five
ace
Shipping.
tober last off the coast of Africa, near copies of this error are known, worth
*2.250 each. There is a fine copy of
the Canary islands.
the Inverted head error of the 15
Washington.—Men who go down to
If tl^e Governor Farr has continued
the sea In ships are speculating about to remain afloat, men conversant with cents of the third Issue, valued at
the early appearance tn West Indian oceanic conditions believe it would *1.000, and a similar error of the 20
waters of one of .he most noted dere­ likely be carried by the northeast cents, second Issue, valued at *425.
There Is also a block of fifty of the
licts of modern thm«.
trade winds and the north equatorial
While the Navy '.epartnient's hy­ current across the tropical north At­ one-cent playing card stamp, the per­
drographic office co.aiders It unusual lantic, and probably will be next forated variety, valued at *500, the
largest block known.
in these days of rapid radio commu­ sighted near the lesser Antilles.
nication and special const guard pa­
trol for a derelict to remain afloat
Cattle Thieves Sell Steer
longer than a week, the four-masted
QUITS JOB TO WED
British lumber-laden schooner Gov­
to the Man Who Owned It
ernor Parr has been roving the high
Brooks, Alta.—Arrested In the act
sens fortnearly two years.
of skinning a stolen steer, two farmers
The last, definite report received of
In the Brooks (Alta.) district were
the Governor Parr’s whereabouts was
recently sentenced to two years less
In October of Inst year, when she
one day in Lethridge Jail, with hard
flouted crewless down along the coast
labor.
of Africa, but the British steamer
Their arrest was the result of detec­
Tortugero late In July sighted a dere­
tive work by a local constable. who
lict 3iX) miles northeast of the Virgin
received Information which led him to
Islands.
believe that one of the pair who had
been for some time suspected of rattle
If this proves to be the Governor
Parr, which seems likely, It will be
killing was about to deliver beef to a
hotelkeeper. He watched the suspect’s
the first derelict on record In the hy­
place for two days, and when the two
drographic office to cover practically
accused left the place one evening
the circulatory drift of the North At­
with a car. the constable followed on
lantic.
horseback, but had to return, not be­
The Governor Purr set sail from tn
ing able to keep track of the car In
gramport, N. S.. for Buenos Aires on
the dark. The two returned at 1
September 27, 1923. She encountered
a. m. With a carcass of beef, and were
rough seas and lost two of her masts.
later In the morning arrested with the
On October 3, 1923, the American
beef in their possession. The stolen
steamer Schodack took off the crew.
steer turned out to he the property of
Floating In the transatlantic ship­
the hotelkeeper to whom It was being
ping lanes, with a cargo of a million
sold.
and a half feet of lumber, the dere
Hot was picked up by the coast
guard cutter Tampa early In January. (
Gets Sacred Monkey
1924. and was headed for Halifax.
Washington.—A member of the sa­
Due to roui^i weather and the weight
cred monkey family of Inola was In­
of the waterlogged vessel, the dere­
.» summei qum toms« romance stalled at the Washington zoo recent­
lict was cast adrift.
came to light when Miss Margaret ly. The monkey, scientifically known
In August of last year seamen from Carr, assistant cook at the executive ns a langura. Is held to be highly In­
the British steamer Zarin sighted the mansion, announced her Intention of telligent. He resembles a dwarf, with
Governor Parr nnd boarded It, setting leaving to become the bride of Jerry wrinkled face and a mantle of white
It afire. She apparently survived this Kelly, chauffeur for Frank VV. Stearns. hair.
OCEAN DERELICT HAS BEEN
AFLOAT FOR TWO YEARS