Model City Built by the Lumber Companies
If Florida Need« More Land, They Make It
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order to supply the demand for lots
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dfrdt.„ m the world, which Is bu.y pumping up
beLd th. breakwater where it become, part
of the n»w causeway joining Tampa Io Tampa Beach.
nnd hazy In the distance, ending with j
the rocky crag* of th* Island of Capri, j
At »unset the colors are so rich, and
at the same time so soft. It »«•••ms
hardly possible that they are real.
The bay Is a rippling sheet of gray
find green and blue. The rocky-head
lands nnd Island* are the softest nnd
most delicate lavender. A rolling
stream of purple smoke rises from the
crater of Vesuvius and float* aero«*
ern purt of the city, the fringe* of the sky. while. In the background
macaroni on racks collecting n little billowy pink clouds catch the last ray*
of the dust every passing automobile of the blood red sun as It drops Into
the Mediterranean."
and push cart stir* up.
Famed City in
Stage Setting
One of the Principal "Jour­
ney’» End»” of World.
Washington, D. C.—“Recent heavy
storm* along the west const of Italy,
damaging shipping In the Hay of
Naples and near-by places, la of In­
terest to more than those with murine
property nt stake,” say* a bulletin
from the Washington headquarters of
the National Geographic society,
"Naples, with Its almost perfect ar­
rangement of sky, sea ami mountains,
I* one of the principal 'Journey's ends'
of the world. Anything likely to alter
this setting la of more than passing
concern to thousands of former visi­
tors, as well a* to residents.
"When the Neapolitan advertise»,
with the sloganeer'» modesty,
Napoli e |s>l muorl' (See Naples and
then die) lie has In mind, of course,
the city and surroundings taken a* a
whole The city alone, although the
largest and most populous In the Itai-
Inn ¡M-nlasula. I* a hedge podge of nar-
•nd tenement bouse*,
life iiml gaiety ; sordid,
yet possessed with a vast vitality. In
building* und monument» of historic
and artistic Interest, however,
cannot vie with the towns of centra!
nnd northern Italy.
Of Greek Origin.
Most Celebrated Bay.
"For whatever th^ city lack* tn
neatness and beauty. It* famous bny
more than make* amend*. The Buy
of Naples Is a yardstick of marine per­
fection. Few who have seen the Bay
of Naples will grant that It ia eclipsed
elsewhere for spacious nnd perfect
loveliness. It* dreamy headland* and
the incomparable contour of Vesuvius
In the center at once distinguish nnd
sublimate it. Artist* have painted It
from every angle, musicians have com
posed songs without end to It* beauty.
Writer* back up their choicest car­
goes of superlatives nnd unload!
"From the Monastery ot Sun Mar­
tino. overlooking the city, a picture
«¡awtacle Is spread. The great, blue,
half moon bny. dotted with red and
white sails, and surrounded by a
mountainous coast line, which fringe*
off Into the Mediterranean nt each
end In rocky islet*, looks more like n
stage curtain than a reality. It I*
Vesuvius that' 'makes' the Bay of
Naples It In It* distinguishing mark
from other bay»; It* stamp of Indi­
viduality. The crater rise* majestical­
ly In long sweeping curves from the
flatlands Io the enst, smooth and green
on the lower slopes, steep and 'a
rugged brown on the upper cinder nnd
lava cone. A long column of smoke
and steam curls from It day nnd night.
"From Vesuvius, with the ruins of
Pompeii at Its base, the eye follows
the curving shore line to the moun-
¡*>nln*ula, purple
tuition*
la comparatively young
among cities of the Mediterranean. In
the Eighth century B. C. Greek colon
1st* from the nearby city of Kyme
recognized the superior advantage* of
Its great half moon bay and laid the
foundation* for later Roman settle­
ment*. In time the district became
the favorite residence of Roman mug
nates. Augustus frequently resided
at Naples nnd Virgil completed »«me
of hl* moat beautiful poetry here.
"Before the days of a united Italy.
Naples was the capital of the King
dom of Naples. A large royal palace,
with white marble stairways nnd a
throne room tilled with art treasures,
bear* witness to Its former Imperial
wealth. Today Naples is Italy's most
important seaport, connected by fast
steamship line* with every part of
the globe It* streets are lined with
factories, large nnd small, while the
surrounding farm district» are fertile
and productive.
"For nil I'* commercialism, dirt
and squalor, however, Naples
tremol y picturesque. Rising In nmphl
theater fashion on the slope* of the
hill* In the northeast corner of the
Buy of Naplea the city Is full of
quaint, steep i- street*, where broad
steps tftke the place of the slab pav­
ing of the downtown thoroughfare*
Following the cholera epidemic In 1881
ninny of the narrow streets and high
balconied tenement houses were re­
placed with broad avenue* nnd stand­
ard buildings.
“It Is In the remaining canyon
»treats, however, that one find* the
most typical Neapolitan »eenes. All
Naples lives outdoors—to cook,
work, to play, to gossip, and almost to
dross! Street singers with their mnn-
dollns,
ami drinks mid their colorful
bit* to the dally pageantry. Macaroni
factories line the streets of the east-
Joshua and Canute Had
Nothing on This Mayor
Copenhagen. — King Canute,
who commanded the flood tide to
recede, had nothing on the
mayor of the small Danish town
of Koege. Thia official ha* Is-
sued the following proclama-
tion :
••Cycles and motor-driven ve­
hicle* must light their lumps .TO
minutes before sunset, the exact
hour of which will be fixed by
the mayor."
TELEPHONE-RADIO
MYSTERY SOLVED
Telegrapher’»
Joke
The comparative exhaustion of forest. In other part, of th. country hu caused‘ ™
*7tM
migration* of history—the fransfer of the lumber Industry from the- Great Lake,
le, decided
Northwest, where one half the remaining standing timber of ,he “7
n view 1* given above. Is the result,
to erect a model city out there, and I^ngvlew. Wash, of whose civic center a view Is ^venaoove, is
The site, on the Columbia river midway between SeatU» and Portland, was swampy grazing land.
Ancient Treasure
Found in Sahara
Baffled
Wireles» Expert».
Coatesville, Pa.—Radio concerts
picked up from distant station* over j
nn ordinary telephone line at Brands- I
more, near here, which for two years j
had mystified telephone and radio ex- |
perts, have ended and the mystery ।
ha* been cleared up by the admission I
of Earl Davidson, a Rending railroad
telegraph operator, that the strange
reception was a hoax.
Although he declined to go Into do-
tall* a* to hi* method,«, Davidson in-
timated that he had connected a con-J
coaled radio receiving set with the -
telephone lines by means of a device
of his own invention. He lost hi* job :
a» a result of the hoax.
It was not uncommon for other em-1
ployees to lift the telephone receiver
to report a train and pick up a radio
program being broadcast from At­
lanta. San Francisco and other dis­
tant American stations. On some oc­
casion* foreign stations. Including
Germany, were heard.
The mystery drew radio experts to
Brandamore from many parts of the
country nnd the hoax was so cleverly
executed that some*of these authori­
ties believed a means of transform­
ing radio waves Into sound units with­
out the aid of a regular receiving set
was about to be discovered.
Then railroad officials became sus­
picious of Davidson. Ills movements
were watched closely, but nothing wak
revealed. Finally It was decided to
suspend him and this brought the
mystery to a climax.
Reading official* said their Investi­
gation was far from complete nnd
that others may have been involved
I In the hoax. Upon one occasion the
1 company took a group of radio and
. telephone experts to Brandamore on
investigate the
a special train
"strange phenomena." They remained
for several days, finally leaving with
the mystery unsolved.
Three Hearty Senatorial Laughs
Import Animal» to Get Better
Wool.
Shiprock, N. M.—The Navajo In­
dian, a stalwart nomad of the Painted
desert, has gone far afield to Improve
“Carthage and Utica wore not the the »train of the sheep which provide
Beloit College’s Expedition first states to exploit the Sahara wool for the famous Navajo blankets.
Successful experiments with Kara­
country. We found all along the way
Is Successful.
neolithic stations, marked by heaps kul sheep. Imported from Asia, have
Paris.—An account of how proof of black stones and ancient flints. In led to steps taken to renew the Kara­
was found of the existence of an ad­ the dry river bed. Indicating that still kul blood among the native sheep of
vanced ancient civilization where more ancient trade routes had passed the reservation by the importation of
desert winds now sweep over the shift that way. These flints were the handi­ more of these rare animals.
The Karakul sheep Is the source of
Ing dunes of the south central Sahara work of man at the dawn of history
and of the discovery of "a legendary and might be 10,000 years old. We a valuable fur known .to furriers as
tomb that Is not a legend any more" found 14 in the same river bed within broadtail, Persian lamb, or Astraehan.
was brought to Paris by the Count De half an hour, showing that it was once The cross between the Karakul and
Prorok-Belolt college exi>edltlon, just a thickly populated region.
native Navajo sheep has produced an
“Louis Chapul. a former officer animal bearing a beautiful wool, not
returned from Its labors in the sun-
with the French Saharan troops, had too fine for rug weaving, ranging in
scorched desert
The expedition's leaders. Count De once seen this tomb and recalled its shades through tan, yellowish brown
Prorok and Bardley Tyrrell, a trustee location and guided us to IL There we and reddish brown.
of Beloit (Wis.) college, said their were aided in the work by natives."
The Navajo sheep owner, as a rule,
discoveries in the Hoggar country.
The count said the natives, the sells his entire clip of wool to the
whlch some antiquarians have regard- Tauregs, a white race, were hospitable traders of the reservation, regardless
ed as the “lost Atlantis" of the an- everywhere, but that they became ex­ of color of the wool. The trader sorts
clent world, had fully repaid their cited when the treasures were taken the “off” colors and stores them In
out of Tin-Hanan's tomb. The great­ the wool room.
work.
Found Old Trade Routes.
est diplomacy was required to quiet
Later the Navajo women, who are
“The primary object^ of the expedi­ them. The expedition, he said, went the weavers of the blankets which
tion—establishment of the fact that unarmed. They treated the natives have made the tribe famed throughout
In ancient time» there were Saharan courteously and taught them to sing the world, visit the wool rooms at the
trade routes between Carthage and the college and Rotarian songs.
trading posts. They select and repos­
The Libyan Venus to which. Count sess themselves of such portions of
great civilization then existing In the
Hoggar country—was achieved," the De Prorok referred Is a small stone the “off” colored wools as they may
sun-burned count said. "The tomb of statuette of great antiquity found need for weaving purposes.
Tin-Hanan (the discovery of which near the tomb of Tin-Hanan. Count
Although many attempts have been
was announced November 28) Is, I De Prorok said It may date from made among Eastern manufacturers
believe, the greatest archeological nearly 10000 B. C. The treasure to color wool artificially for weaving,
treasure Africa has ever produced. The found In the tomb, In which a skele­ in Imitation of this natural product,
statue of the Libyan Venus we found ton was discovered. Included ‘ a golden the dyed wools fall by a wide margin
there alone would more than pay the diadem dotted with stars, five neck­ to bring the prices demanded for the
laces of precious stone«, eighteen rugs and blankets fabricated from the
entire cost of the expedition.
"Tin-Hanan's tomb stands on a high bracelets, nine of them gold and nine natural product.
volcanic rock overlooking the desert. silver, furnishings of delicately carved
It is built in a circular shape with wood, a complete set of toilet articles,
Honeymoon» Pasae
rectilinear blocks, covered with Llbo- a little mound of precious stones."
London.—Lydia Lopokova, Russian
"The expedition packed up 46 cases
Berber Inscriptions. These have been
turned over for translation to Abbe J. of these marvels.” Count De Prorok dancer, who married Prof. John May­
B. Chabot, vice president of the said, “and presented them to the gov­ nard Keynes, thinks honeymoons have
gone out of fashion. “Busy folks have
French Institute. The tombs of 15 ernor general of Algeria."
no time for honeymoons,” she says.
nobles, or amrads. surround the base
“The night after I was married I
of the tomb.
danced as usual." A dissenting de­
Barber
Falls
Heir
to
"Tin-Hanan was the ancestress of
points out that Lydia has
Half $200,000 Estate butante
the Tuareg line of kings, whose rule
been married twice and her second
was that of a matriarchate, that is, the
Quincy. Cal.—John L. Cook, barber, husband is an economist.
succession descended through a female opened an important-looking letter
side. Legend appears to link her with from New York recently and found
Now Wear Smocks
the great goddess of the Carthaginians, that he was heir to one-half of the
York—They’re wearing blue
Tanlt, and with Athene of the Greeks. estate of his father, the late Frederick
The tomb resembles the so-called Cook of Hanover, Germany, and that denim smocks in Wall street now.
•Christian's tomb' at Algiers, but is his share would be something like Every attache in one broker’s office
better preserved.
$100.000. The other half goes to Mrs. has one from the partners down to
‘ — Mo., messenger and the boys who post the
"We began digging halt way be­ G. W. Krutchfield of - -
Huntsville,
quotations.
tween the base and the top, driving the barber’s sister.
into the heart of the structure and
then downward until we struck a pas-
sage leading into an open chamber
filled with dried dates, wheat and
food stored ages ago. There were
Jean Reilly, pink and proud with
eight chambers, of which we explored
the cup that tells the world she is the
only the treasures of the queen.
best baby In Greater New York, hav­
•
Soldiers Guard Tomb.
“French soldiers are now guarding ing won that honor on her birthday
the tomb, which the French govern at the Health and Food exposition
ment has declared a national menu nt the New Madison Square Garden.
Baby .lean Is seventeen months old.
meut.
Best Baby in Greater New York
f*
Match Ignites Water;
Mystery Stirs Town
ft Birds Find Sanctuary
h Where Pilgrims Landed
Plymouth, Mas*. Bird* arc to
have their own sanctuary here In
Plymouth, where the Pilgrims
landed. A strip of land known
as Plymouth Bench, extending
two miles out from shore, which
was a natural landing and rest
Ing place for water fowl nnd
shore birds for centuries before
the Pilgrims came, will continue
in undisputed possession of the
bird* In the future. The land is
the gift of Charles A. Purlnton
of Marblehead to the Federation
of Bird Clubs of New Englund
It will be posted against hunters,
guarded In breeding seasons, but
otherwise open to the public.
NAVAJO INDIANS
IMPROVE SHEEP
Judging from the laugh these staid »olon« are having someone has Just
told a good one. The gentleman enjoying himself on the left Is Senator George
Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania. Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin
Is doing his laughing In the center of the group, nnd Senator Frank B. Willis
of Ohio is on the right.
Seattle, Wash.—Flames from
a pool of cold, salty water, in a
canyon near here are attracting
much attention. Water In the
pool sometimes sinks almost out
of sight. Then it rises, troubled
with the gas passing through It.
If a lighted match Is thrown In
while it Is turbulent, fire rises.
At times the eruptions are
particularly violent, throwing
out rocks and sending flames 100
feet high.
A short distance away flames
play for over two weeks at a
time over water which bubbles
up between rocks in a stream.
Although rumors of “water
that burns" had been spread by
Indians nnd hunters, the place
was inaccessible until recently.