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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1922)
A S. Fine Site of Woman’s Foundation Buildings Mountain Light Is Like Aurora Curious Electrical Display in North Carolina Excites In terest of Scientists. ONCE THOUGHT TO BE PHANTOM Suddenly and Without Warning Light Sometimes Blazes Out on Crest of Mountain, Moves Down Side and Fades Out. Declared to be more than 000 years old, this giant oak stands on the property of the Woman's National Foundation In Washington, where a group of buildings will be erected for various women's activities. The Institute, which Is backed by some of the leading women of the country, will cost $5,000,000. Troubles Beset Tourisit Abroad ------------------------------ Lack of Hotel Accommodations in European Cities Stumbling Block to Traveler. MANY SLEEP IN BATHROOMS Fortune Awaits Ambitious American Who Will Go Into Hotel Business in Europe— Hotel Portier Powerful Potentate. Vienna.—A fortune Is awaiting any ninbitious American who will come to Europe nnd go into the hotel business. There are, of course, complications In the way. Building materials are high, though when the exchange rate Is con sidered not so high as at home. Lalior demands high wages, according to the German and Austrian standard—but that standard leaves the skilled work man earning, according to American values, considerably less than $1 u day. Again, there nre Inevitable stumbling blocks In the way of government tax when a piece of land changes hands. Also the International money condi tions which have caused Germany and Austria to become beloved of English, American, Dutch, French. Italian and Scandinavian tourists may change be fore new hotels cun he built, though it doesn't look ns though they would. At any rate, eliminating unexpected complications, the hotel business to the eye of the ln y n m n now loo ks as if It must pay better than any other In the world. Sleeping in the Bathroom. It Is more or less difficult to get n bath In any German or Austrian or Ilttngnrlan hotel nowadays, bemuse all of the bathrooms are being used for bedrooms. Not that the guests sleep In the tubs, no, they merely sleep In beds or cots that have been added to the tistml bathroom furniture, and they count themselves rnther fortunate than otherwise because, while they are en joying the use of the bathroom as a sleeping apartment they likewise pre empt the use of the tub. I slept in the bnthroom myself In Munich, und It wus very comfortable. Building additions, redecorating nnd renovating in general. Is now too ex pensive for the average German or Austrian. Private dwellings nnd public Institutions alike show rather distress ing wear nnd tear. Hospitals In partic ular are shabby to a point where their executives bemoan that they are un sanitary. Private apartment houses are spotty as to paint and dangerously raveled ns to stair coverings. Hotels nre uni versally, however. In a state of newly painted smnrtness and are being bmve- |y remodeled and redecorated. Hotel Portier Is All Powerful. The hotel portier always In Europe has been n dignitary of considerable prominence. In his admiral's coat, hi« linguistic ability, his infallible knowl e d g e of train schedule* anil thenters nnd that omnipotence of his in playing chess—with vacant moms os hi« squares anti guests as his pawns—In #— ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ all of this he Is mighty, nnd he Is a power to he envied by many an up-to- date poteutute. The |>ortier at the Adlon In Berlin is said to own one of the smartest villas In Wahnsee, one of the smartest suburbs of that city. But the Importance of the portler has Increased many fold since after- the-war conditions have made a room In a hotel a thing to he desired beyond great riches. His nisi and his frown are Jovian in their might Ills nod comes only when the would-be guest can show proof that he wired the hotel for rooms and that the wire was answered favorably. Otherwise, there Is the frown. It Is a frown which may, on occasions, be deflected by the proper means, delicately Introduced, or, rath er, tendered. It is a frown which nm.v, on the other hand remain consistently und honestly discouraging. Wanted—A Room. There was, for Instance, that experi ence In Budapest. 1 had wired for rooms In the Hotel Itltz, from Vienna. No answer had come, but the portier In the hotel at Vienna had been an op timistic soul and had advised risking It. I risked It and arrived at Budapest shortly after l* p. in. It turned out that the advice of the portier wus not good advice. There was no room to be had at the Itltz. People, the portier was pleased to In form me, were sleeping in all of the bathrooms. He recommended another hotel ; Ihe hotel was courteous, but It also was fu ll; It recommended another. The affair resembled the chariot race from “Ben Ilur,” though slightly more thrilling. Every one else In the city seemed to be trying to find rooms In a hotel, tis>. If (here are traffic laws In Budapest they are made like New- Year's resolutions, only to be broken. The droschke drivers are ancient and rugged daredevils, who delight In zig zagging noross the paths of automo biles and trains nnd other droschkes. They whiz past one another on the bias, they clatter out from side streets, they risk, a thousand times, a wheel enught In u trolley truck and utter dis aster. Other horses dashingly drawing oth er droschkes prance up behind one and one feels their hot breath on the neck und they seem about to make their suppers off of one's back hair. Then they pass, the wheels of tlielr drosch kes alurmlngly near. And another hotel Is reuched and one races madly Centrifugal \ One Lone Trout Stops Coal Mine ! London.—Close to 000 men lost J a day's work this week at a col- t Mery In Lanarkshire through a j trout choking the water supply for the boilers. The cage could not be lifted to the pithead, as the hollers were not working. I After a great deal of trouble the j cause of the breakdown was dis- , covered. The trout weighed one j pound and six ounces. Work I was resumed next day. I • through the lobby, emulated by other racing and wild-eyed travelers, only to be told that there, too, |**ople are sleeping In the bathrooms. Ah, a Boarding House. At lust one Jovian gentleman in the haughty regalia of u portier took pity on a lady traveling alone—this was the fifth hotel—and telephoned to the keeper of u pension or boarding house that he knew. Yes, she had a vacant room, the portier was pleased to lu- form me and accepted u slight gratuity for his condescension. We dashed uguiu und this time the driver carried the luggage up three flights of dark, draughty and oniony stairs. The pension keeper met us at the door, sweet but sorry. No, the room was taken. A gentleman had come just after she hud answered the telephone. “But you promised,” I walled. ‘Tromlsed, madume?" she repeated. “I do not promise. I merely said that at that moment there was a room vu- cunt. There Is none vacant now.” The luggage wus carried down the dark and oniony stairs again, and an other hotel was tried. Here there was another portier who knew a pension, and in this pension, ut lust, there was hnven—of a sort. It was of the sort that Is frequently disturbed during the night by tilings with six legs. The experience, however. Is not unique. And because many hotels were appropriated for other uses during the war nnd have never been restored to their original utilitarian field, nnd be cause no building has been done for seven years and tourists from all over the world find It pleasant and profit able to sojourn in these lands where money Is cheap—the hotel business would seem to be n plensnnt nnd profit able one.—Miriam Telchner In Chicago News. Peru Is planning to spend several million dollnrs to give Lima nnd sev eral other towns fresh water, sewers and other aanltury Improvements. Washington, 1». C.—“Tired protes tors and business men who sought surcease from their sorrows in the mountainous regions of western North Caroltnu have during the past few summers given up some of their mucli- needed hours of sleep to chase what most of them believed to be nothing more than a phantom, or the witch fires of some maker of mountain dew, but the Brown mountain light Is now coming Into Its own as an accredited electrical phenomenon," says a bulle tin of the National Geographic so ciety, Issued from Ms Washington, 1). C., headquarters. “Brown mountain lies 17 miles from Blowing ltock In the Blue mountains In Ihe western part of the stale, and, though plainly visible from the resort, is In an uninhabited and sparsely wooded section. Suddenly and with out warning u light sometimes blazes out on the crest of the mountain, slow ly moves down Its side and then fades out; sometimes it seems to rise from the top of the mountain und hang sus- |iended tn the air where It fades. A Wra.th of Infinite Variety. “It has as many whims and moods as a temperamental artist, sometimes appearing several times during one night, now statlonury, now slow, again swift in Its flight, and sometimes It cannot I k * seen for a comparatively long period of time, hut It usually is most active when the sky is clearing after a rain. Those who have studied it In all Its guises say that It often Is not unlike the star from u bursting sky-rocket, though much brighter, und that It Is sometimes red nnd sometimes yellow, due probably to the condition of the atmosphere. “Scientists were at first prone to cavil at the stories which came out of the mountains with the tourist«, think ing perhaps that locomotive heud- ligbls or wily mountaineers were play ing tricks on active Imaginations, but today Dr, W. J . Humphreys, physicist of the I'nlted States weather bureau, nnd other meteorologists of note, ln>- tteve that there occurs around the mountain's crest a brush discharge of lightning, similar to the famous Andes lightning, or the St. Elmo’s lire, which gave rise among the ancient Greeks to the myth of Castor and I'ollux. That glow which accompanies the slow discharge of electricity to the earth from the ntmosplicrc, in south ern climates, during thunderstorms, seen on the tops of nmsts, spires, or other pointed objects was named St. Elmo’s fire by sailors after one of I Heir patron saints, because they felt tlint when the sign appenred they had nothing further to fear from the storm. Compared to Andes Display. “Perhaps the most remarkable fea ture of the electrical discharge which takes place either from the earth to the clouds or from the clouds to the earth around Brown mountain is that It Is silent. The same thing Is true ■f the electrical displays In the Andes, which have long been known to scien tists and travelers In the South Amer ican continent as the Andes lightning. It appears us u silent hut very lumi nous discharge of electricity along the CTvst of tin1 Cordillera Beal in Chile, In u region where thunderstorms are practically unknown. “Its visibility Is sometimes very marked, having been noted by the for met director of the Meteorological and Geophysical Institute of Chile, while lie was out at sea, more than 800 tulles from the head cordillera. The actuul discharge, in which the mountain acts us it lightnlng rod be tween the clouds nnd the earth, re sembles a glimmer, hut Sometimes the flashes which take place at the point of origin art* strong and powerful, then gradually diminish in Intensity and finally disappear Into the night. The light flashes over the mountain from late spring to fall, and tlie dis plays grow less brilliant us one goes farther smith. “The same phenomenon lots also been noted lit the Swiss alps. One observer, after a long period of hot and dry weather, reported that he had seen a succession of semi-circular flashes which shot up from a moun tain In the Bernese Oberland. occa sionally lighting the Jungfrau group. Such displays are notable for tlielr likeness in appearance to the aurora, except that they do not reach such heights." Third Boy Found Hanged In Barn. Chicago. — Anthony Szknlny, the third boy to have been found banged here, was discovered suspended from a rope tied to a rafter In the barn In the rear of his home. The body was found by a playmate. No reason Is assigned for any «if the suicides, ns they have been pronounced by the police. QUEEN OF COTTON BALI. Miss Eleanor Cameron of Waco, Texas, In her “coronation robe,” ns queen of the Texas cotton palace ex position bull, nn Internationally Im portant event In Waco. The robe was modeled after a Seventeenth cen tury Spanish gown, nud is vulued at $3,000. Family Leaps From Firs. Danville, Ky. Leaping front their front porch to the limbs of a Ins* In the yard, Mr. and Mrs. C. II. Hudson and family escaped after Hatties had cut off the stairway. Mr. Hudson lea|M‘d front the porch to the tree nnd bade the others follow him. Nebraska Mates in Big Demand Omaha Sheriff Who Accommo dated One Applicant Is Del uged With Letters. SHOW TERSENESS AND STEED Lonely Ones of Both Sexes Eager for Spouses From the Plains— Letters Come From Almost Every State. Omaha.—All the widows in New Y’ork und a lot lit other states as well seem to be limiting for Nebraska husbands. And half the widowers in New York and a lot in other states us well seem to be on the lookout for Nebraska wives. Sheriff Mike Clark of Omaha has about n bushel of letters on Ills desk. And the letters are rolling in on Sheriff Clark ut the rate of about fifty every day. Two months ago Sheriff Clark found u husband for Widow Dunham of Newark, N. J., who had evolved the theory that all she Imd to do to get a husband was to write to some Western sheriff. She picked out Omaha. Anil sure enough. In about litre»? weeks she was married to Albert Henry Thomas, a railroad man of Ottmlin. Her story got Into the ne\vspap«*r*— nnd Sheriff Clark thereby g ot his foot In It. For every widow around the Deroulede Statue Unveiled in Metz Is a Wonder Home- Just Erected. Burned to the Ground Stephen A. T.ong. a carpenter of Margate City, N. J.. ramped In a tent all summer with his fnniily that they might save enough to build a small bunga low. Long built the home tiefore and after his day's work, recent ly completing the hnngstow. The ••moving'' was quite an event and th'e family went to the theater at night as a Hltie cele bration. When they returned they found blackened ruins. The fireplace at the end of the cozy living ro«m had tfci T «park that fired the building. , which was not Insured. ‘ 3 I.leutenant Colonel Olmstend demonstrating to a l>nrty nf govemment of ficiala s new centrifugai gun at S<»glrt. N. J . Flring 1.2H0 ahots a minute, thè gun rtddled a Steel target. The harrel of thè gun Is slx Inrhes tn length, sult- M . lia rthou. Freni b minister of w t tr, recently unveiled a statue of Paul ably machlned for minimum alr reatatance, wlth a bore n f fiO-100 nf an Inrh from thè muzzle to thè center. In actual flring thls barrei may be revolved p e rn u le fle , the great French patriot, at Metz. The big bell of tbe cathedral, and flring take place at frora 4.000 to 16.000 revolution* per minute. Thls wlde which Is seldom used, as Its vtbrsttcM are believed to endanger the safety of range of speed resulta In aa eguali/ wldcgfange of penetratlng power at any the tower, was rung on this occasion, Tbe statue stands on a pedestal built by the Germans for a monument to the Emperor Frederick HI. gjven dlstunce. - country who rend that story Immedi ately wrote Sheriff Clark for a hus band. And every widower and every old bachelor under whose notice the article came wrote the sheriff to find them wives niiiong the hundreds of women who had written him for hus bands. Show Terseness and Speed. Mrs. N. Brick ley, 7 East Brouilwny, New York, wrote one of the shortest, right to the point letters of them. “I am looking fur a husband; can you do anything for me?” she asks the sheriff. James George, box ¡lilt, Mount Ver non, N. V., Is also very laconic In Ids demands: “I want a wife; put me In touch with ono, quick!" he writes Sheriff Clark. Charles Olsen, 71 Wnodhull street, Brooklyn, Is not quite so terse. Ills letter to the sheriff says: “I nm n machinist, n former chief engineer on n Dullish ship. I want n home again, but don’t know a woman whom I can ask? Please send the names of several win» want husbands." Sheriff Clark sent him the names of half a dozen or so, Avery O. Wooden, 1228 Page nvenite, Boehester, N. Y„ writes the sheriff he Is twenty-seven years old ami Unit he wants n young widow. Charles Byan, Clifton Springs, N. Y\, told Ihe sheriff In* is n farmer, but that he Inis taken two years in a medi cal college and expecta to complete his course. He wants n wife. Peter Grub, box 270, Erie Ilnllrond Y. M. C. A., Hoboken, N. J., says In his letter: "I sc«* where you have lots of wives to give away. Give me one.” Thnddcux Stargeskl, "!*!) Waverly ave nue, Newark, N. J„ Is delighted with the prospects. "Ju st read the Joyful news of an unlimited supply of let ters front females wanting husbands,” he writes Sheriff Clark. "I am a gradu ate electrician. Send me some letters.” Wants a Sensible Widow. “Your name sounds gisid to me,” Frank Byan, tillo Lenox avenue. New Y'ork, wrote to Sheriff Clark. "I want a sensible widow." Charles F. McDonald, 283 West 147th street. New Y»>rk, Is searching for an uncle who disappeared thirty-five years ngo. The uncle's name was M. O. Connor. An estate in Irelnnd cannot be M'ttled until he is fou n d . “Help tne find tny uncle and I’ll marry any worn- un you w o ut me to marry," he tells Sheriff (la rk . Miss S. Mornnd, 382 St. Mark's (•lace, Totnpkliisvllle, Staten Isla n d , New Y'ork, is Just ID years old, anil "has holies,” she writ*** the sheriff. " I have the v«*ry h i g h e s t Ideals of West erners,” she says In her letter. Miss Bita C. Wuleker, 2lli West L street, I « a j« : ' I bear jm i have a supply of married men on hand. I want to settle down to home life. I mu a trained nurse, 40 years old, brown hair, gray eyes." George Muir, DM Wc«t Thirty-ninth «tract. New Y’ork, has a real reason for wanting to get married: “I have nose bleed and the doctor soys if I can get married It will cure the trouble,'* he wrote Sheriff Clark. New Jersey "bids” number more than 100. le tte rs from practically every state In the I'nion are Includisl In that bushel of letter* which stun ts on the aherUTs desk.