The Monmouth herald., January 19, 1923, Image 3

Find R adium in
Belgian C ongo
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them ia their natural haunts. .Natural­
ists have found that unless cornered
these gorillas are fur from ferocious,
and it is predicted that If protected
they will become entirely tamed."
Sea Scouts of Chicago Inspected by Pershing
SENT BACK TO SMYRNA
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Means Reduction in Pri*e of
Rare Metal From $120,000
to $70,000 a Gram.
Amazon valley await projier forestry.
In the southeast are extensive rolling
prairies teeming with game. that, with
the solution of the tsetse-tly problem,
would make excellent cattle ranges.
chance discoveries have shown
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that the mineral stores o f the country
are seemingly unlimited. Copper, tin,
gold, and diamonds to the vulue of
many millions of dollars have been
In Its Potentialities Belgian Congo extracted.
Some coal ami iron Is
Might Be Called "the Brazil of
mined and It Is believed that much
more exists. Now. when science is
Africa"— Possibilities Bare­
finding epoch-making uses for radio­
ly Scratched.
active substances, the opening up of
Washington, D. C.— "Discovery In what is believed to be the world's
the Belgian Congo o f large quantities richest radium ores caps Congo’s min­
o f pitch-blende, u radium-bearing ore— eral climax.
“ Congo is not entirely a torrid land.
a discovery credited with the signifi­
cant result of reducing the price of In the extreme east around Lake Kivu
rudium from $1110,out) to $70.01)0 a — Itself 6,000 feet above the sea—
gram— has served to emphasize the rise mountains as high as Pike's Peak.
probuble great Importance to the In this uplund region the weather is
world o f this country at the heart of delightful and the slopes and valleys
Africa when it shall have been fully are described by travelers as among
developed,” says a bulletin from the the world's beauty spots. Nearby the
Washington headquarters of the Na­ night sky is lighted by the boiling
cauldron o f Africa's Kilauea.
This
tional Geographic society.
"In its potentialities, the Belgian Eden Is the home of large numbers of
Congo might be called 'the Brazil of man's closest non-human relatives,
Africa,” ’ continues the bulletin. "Like gorillas. The Belgian government la
the largest o f South American states. considering the setting aside or a large
It Is of vast extent, covers the heart area in this region as a gorilla refuge
of a continent, is situated in the trop­ where the creatures can be preserved
ics, and has flowing through it one of from the extinction which threatens
the world’s greatest rivers, capable of them, and where scientists may study
VAST STOREHOUSE OF WEALTH
I’etroa Kublls, seventeen, lived in
Smyrna uutil the Turks captured it.
He saw the killing by the Turks of
three younger brothers; he saw ills
sister carried off by the Turkish sol­
diers; ids mother and father were torn
from him nnd he believes killed later,
and as his captors were about to thrust
him into u - bag to be drowned he
escaped nnd reached a quay under the
<) protection of sailors from an Ameri­
can torpedo boat destroyer. He man­
aged to smuggle himself on board the
steamship Asia. On arrival at New
York he was turned over to the immi­
[ gration authorities and ordered de­
ported. This means back to Smyrna.
He has not a friend In the United
States, nnd possibly none in the world.
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Faneuil Hall
to Be R epaired
Contract Let to Paint and Put
New Roof on Boston’s Shrine
of Liberty.
carrying an empire's commerce.
0
Area One-Third That of U. S.
l'crhups the vast bulk of Belgian '
Calf Fails to Carry Tail
Congo can best be understood if one
imagines the country lifted bodily nnd
Light So Owner Is Sued
set down on the surface o f the United
States. Its 901),000 square utiles would
Fresno, Cal.— Because Asa W.
cover almost exactly one-third of the
Allen failed to hang a tail light
History of the Famous Building That
urea, not including Alaslta.
If the
on a calf, Anthony I’ ohl 1ms
So Often Rang With Early Amer­
southwestern corner of Congo were
asked Justice of the Peace Asa
placed at San Diego, California, the
ican Oratory— Restoration Work
W. Smith to award him 1229X42
southern boundary would roughly cor­
Only to Bo Done.
damages for Injuries sustained
Incubator Saves Baby.
respond with the Mexican border, and
to Ills automobile.
Evansville,
lnd.— A
lively
little
the southeastern corner would fall at
His automobile was damaged,
youngster weighing but one and one-
the southern point of Texas. Forming
says I’ohl's complaint, when it
Faneuil Hall it to be painted ■
half pounds came into the world the
a very rough square, its northeastern
collided with one “ young black
and repaired to prolong its life.
other morning at St. Mary's hospital
corner would lie at Des Moines nnd its
cow or heifer at night, wrong­
Unpatriotic vandals, from time
here.
Although born three months
northwestern corner in Yellowstone
fully, carelessly and negligently
i prematurely, the baby Is living, und
to time, have attempted to con­
pork.
allowed to stray and roam upon
vert various American shrines
has every chance for normal develop­
"But though this comparison gives
the road unaccompanied by nny
! ment. according to the physicians. The
to commercial purposes. What
a good idea o f Congo’s great size, its
person and without any lantern
do you suppose would happen if
life of the child Is believed to have
latitude and climate are different from
or light or anything to warn the
someone proposed to sell the
been saved by use of the hnby incu­
those of the states covered.
I f it
public of its presence."
"Cradle of American Liberty?”
bator recently Installed In St. Mary's
were shifted to the Western Hemi­
hospital maternity ward.
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sphere in its true latitude it would lie X -------------------------------------- -—
Boston.— Boston, the city of land­
astride the Amazon and would cover
marks, has a hard struggle to pre­
most of the Guianas and a large slice
serve them. Every once in u while
o f northern and central Brazil.
some adventurous individual proposes
“ What is now the Rclgiun Congo '
to divide Bunker Hill into building
has had an unusual history. Living­
lots, to roof over Bullfinch street for
stone nnd Stanley put the country ‘on j
a garage, to make u recreation pier
the map.’ Soon afterward, in 1882.
of the fish dock, or to melt down the
an International committee organized
statue of I ’uul Revere for nickels for
a government, called it Congo Free
use in the subway. Much proposals of
State, nnd selected King Leopold of
Belgium to be Its ruler. Many irregu­
Doctor Farrington believes lie has unpatriotic vandalism ure vigorously
larities In the administration of the Field Museum Expedition Brings found one or two minerals hitherto i resisted by the surviving old Boston­
ians nnd are ultimately defeated, hut
region were alleged to have resulted
unknown to science.
Back Interesting Specimens
from this personal rule, nnd In 1908
The five-pound topaz Is one of a not until there bus been a contro­
From Brazil.
Leopold ceded the territory to Bel­
large number of enormous semi-pre­ versy with the vandals on one side
gium. A year later King Albert came
cious stones obtained by the scientists, j and the Boston ancients on the other.
to the Belgian throne, reforms were
but Is small compared to a 20-pound The latest proposition— It Is going
pushed in the Congo and a new con­
topaz which they saw at one of the through all right, ull right— Is to paint
st riiotive era began.
mines. The giant stone was valued and reroof historic Faneuil Hull, de­
"Measured in dollars nnd effort ex­
at about $75 a pound. Cut up and scribed by Wendell Phillips ns “ the
pended, much has been done to open
polished
a first-grade tojmz Is worth cradle of liberty” und by Ralph Waldo
Scientists Tell of Mountains of Iron
Emerson ns “ the forum , of freedom."
up the Belgian Congo. Fleets of gov­
from
$o
to
$10 a carat.
Ore of Finest Quality for Steel
Peter Faneuil was o f French de­
ernment as well as private steamers
Visit Diamond Mines.
Manufacture— Vast Gem
ply the several navigable stretches of
Diamond mines were visited In the scent. He was a merchant in Boston,
Fields Visited.
the Congo and the lakes. Railroads
region of Dininnntina. 500 miles north and lie believed with Thomas Jeffer­
have been built around the various
of Rio Janeiro, In the renter o f a vast son that where there Is no free speech
Chicago.— A topaz weighing five diamond Iioarlnc area. The stones can there Is no freedom, where the voice
regions of rapids and falls, and are
being pushed into the interior, and pounds, remarkable not only for Its he mined only in the neighborhood of of the patriot is muffled the hnnd of
laid to connect with British and Por­ size but for its clearness, is among water for washing the coarse earth the elector is shackled, and there Is
tuguese lines at the borders. Scores the specimens brought back to Chi­ away. The diamonds are found in no liberty in the land.
Entertaining these views, which
of radio stations have been set up and cago by I*r. Oliver C. Farrington, beds totally different from those in
now fling their messages where in the curator of the department o f geology South Africa, the matrix being a j were those of men considered revo­
past savage drum signals alone were of Field museum, w-ho has just re­ quartzite composed of sands washed j lutionists in his day— for the Ameri­
can colonies were then under the con­
beard. The -Belgians even have a turned from nn expedition to Brazil.
from older lands.
The expedition traveled 2,000 miles
trans-Congo airplane mall service
The sernl-preelous stones In the trol of England— I ’eter Faneuil cher­
which rushes European mall across through the diamond, gold nnd pre­ State o f MI iihs Genies ore found in ished the idea of presenting to Boston
the country twice a month on the ar­ cious stone fields of the South Amer­ coarse granites or pegmatites so de­ nn appropriate meeting place where
rival of steamers at the Atluntlc port ican republic, covering more thnn 300 composed that the gems ran be mined the views of patriotic colonists could
be fearlessly expressed. With the high
o f Bomn, at the mouth o f the Congo. miles through the mountains o f the with a shovel.
State of Minas Geraes on muleback.
Contains Gorilla-Haunted Eden.
The expedition visited Morro Velho sense of civic duty which has always
The specimens obtained include gold mine, the deepest mining shaft marked New England and Is, In fact,
"But with all this activity, the sur­
face of the Belgian Congo's possibili­ gold, diamonds aquamarines, beryls, on earth. Its lowest level is 7.000 ! one of Its chief titles to the reverent
ties has barely been scratched. Enor­ emeralds and topazes, besides a num­ feet below the surface. At this great tribute of all patriotic Americans, he
mous tropical Jungles like those of the ber of minerals of the rare earths. depth the temperature of the rock is attended a public meeting and offered
117 degrees Fahrenheit, making It So build at his own expense a market
necessary to maintain an elaborate und to present It to Boston. There
refrigeration plant on the surface to were reactionaries and progressives
in that day as well as this, and the
force cold air down to the miners.
The deeper the shaft goes, however, j Boston reactionaries protested against
the richer the ore found, so the addi­ what they called the "public monop­
tional cost of mining is more than off­ oly” of n market which would “ drive
out of business” a number of small
set by the returns.
dealers or hucksters who were “ dead
Iron Ore Common.
Iron ore of the finest quality for agin’* the innovation, to use nn old
steel manufacture is so common In Newr England phrase still current.
A vote of thunks was given Peter
this district. Doctor Farrington said,
that his party rode for d9v after day Faneuil but Ills proposition to con­
over mountains, va lley nnd plains of tribute n market, at his own expense,
solid Iron deposits. Manganese, alum­ to Boston was adopted by n majority
inum and other valuable ores were of only seven votes. Whether encour­
aged by the vote of thanks, or ad­
also found In abundance.
The Brazilians o f the Inferior were monished by the slender majority of
almost uniformly friendly and willing seven, Peter Faneuil enlarged his plan
to give every assistance to the scien­ of a market and coupled with It the
tists. Doctor Farrington reported ex­ Idea of a meetjng place, so the two
cept in one town, w here he was nearly were built together.
Such waa the origin o f Fanetifl
mohbed when a rumor spread that he
Intended to buy a gold mine which Hall, years before the opening o f the
was to be sold at auction. The na­ Revolutionary war and more than a
tives objected to a fore'gner obtaining century before th^ anti-slavery meet­
the mine and spent most o f the night ings which made the old building a
In a demonstration In front of the very plllnr of forensic fire for those
house where he was staying, shooting. ; who wished to see blotted out for­
exploding dynamite cartridges, sing­ ever what John Wesley called “ that
execrable sum o f all villainies com­
ing and shouting derisively.
American automobiles, typewriters, monly culled the slave trade.”
“ The Hall.”
sewing machines and other mechanical 1
Faneuil Hall, which Is In Faneuil
What «is believed to be the largest lump of coni ever mined has been appliances were very common In the
placed <-n permanent exhibition In the ba£ment of the Utah state capttol on InterM*. and American movies enjoy Hall square and which rid Boatonlans
request o f the secretary of state. It wa* mined at the King mine of the almost a monopoly, he said. Rven the •till describe as “ the cradle of liberty,”
Western Fuel company at Mohrlard, Utah, weighs 22.000 pounds and is five i remote villages have their movie the- ! Is by all odds the most Important
feet by ten feet in dimensions. It cost about 12.000 to mine and ship to the ^ aters, where the American screen | and historic public meeting place In
capital. The photograph shows the five horses and truck which were required favorites are shown. Wild West films j the United States. The first Faneuil
Hall was bnllt In 1742 and was pri
to haul it from the railroad station to the capitol.
were the moat popular.
D iscover T w o
N e w M inerals
f
General Pershing, during his recent visit In Chicago, Inspected the Sen Scouts of that city, a well-orgpnlzed body
of lively hoys, He is here seen looking them over w 1th Tho mas Keane, portmuster of the Sea Scouts.
INDEPENDENCE HALL RIVAL
marlly a market.
The plan of a
“ second story" (there were no second-
story men In those days) wus an after­
thought. When Boston accepted the
building, It was provided that It should
he culled Faneuil Hall “ forever." The
first Faneuil Hall was a structure only
100 feet long by 40 feet w ide. It was
partially destroyed by fire In 1761,
only the walls remaining, but was re­
built In 1702, fifteen years before the
teglnnlng o f the Revolutionary war.
Part of the funds used in rebuilding
were raised by a lottery.
The second building was formally
opened March 14, 17tWI, and It was the
patriot, James Otis, who dedicated
the hall to “ the cause of liberty” In a
fervent speech. In Faneuil Hull were
held ull the town meetings and. In the
stirring days before the American
Revolution, the nutrlot orators o f that
time were heard In “ old Faneuil”—
though It was not very old then. The
building which was only about half
the size of the present one. was two
stories high and so remained until
1805. Then, under the direction of
the architect Bulflnch, It wus enlarged
nnd Improved. Its width wus Increased
to 8ft fe e t; u third, tory was ndded ;
the “ hall" was made 78 feet square
and 28 feet high ; galleries resting on
Doric columns were put In nnd a
large platform wns built for the ora­
tors, for distinguished citizens und
for members o f committees.
On the rear wall hangs an oil paint­
ing representing Daniel Webster ad­
dressing the United States senate on
the occuslon o f his celebrated reply
to Hayne. It Is by Healy and Is in­
teresting because o f the portraits In
the picture o f some of the leading
New England men of that period.
Other portraits hanging on the walls
were those of Washington (by Stuart),
Funeuil (by Colonel Henry Snrgcnt),
Hancock (by Copley), Suiuucl Adams.
John und John Quincy Adams and
Warren (all by Copley), Commodore
ITeble, John A. Andrew. Abraham
Lincoln and Edward Everett by
modern artists, all copies, the origi­
nals having been removed to the Bos­
ton Fine Arts building.
In other, eurller and perhaps better
days the orator with ids harangues,
arguments and appeals held the cen­
ter o f the stage— w hen that stage wus
Faneuil Hail. He was to the public
sentiment of Ids dny what the news­
papers, the magazines nnd the licnt
sellers (the newspapers especially)
ure In tills dny. Some of the greatest
orators und ugltutors of the country
were heard In Faneuil Hall.
The hall wns never let for money,
but was and 1s at the disposal o f the
people wiienever a sufficient number
of persons, complying with certain
regulations, ask to have it opened for
meeting purposes. The Boston char­
ter rontulns, or did contain, a pro­
vision forbidding Its sale of lease.
()u the upper floor o f the building was
for years ttie armory o f the “ Ancient
und Honorable Artillery company,”
the oldest military organization In the
country and one of the I och I Institu­
tions of Boston. Until Boston became
a city. In 1822, the town offices were
in Funenll Hall and it was the place
of the regular town meetings.
Practically
every
distlnguiahed
American, and certainly every impor­
tant orator who hud a message to con­
vey to the people o f this country, has
either attended a meeting in Faneuil
Ilnll or has spoken from Its platform.
A few years ago Theodore Roosevelt,
seeking at that time delegate! In his
support for the Presidential nomina­
tion, spoke in Faneuil null In advance
of the Republican convention in Chi­
cago. The auditorium waa densely
crowded, so much soi. In fact, that a
large number o f those standing in the
rear o f the hall could not see Colonel
Roosevelt, though they were able to
hear him.
"W e can’t see you. Colonel," a few
of them called out. At the front and
on top of the table on the platform
where Colonel Roosevelt was speaking
was an American flag draped, and one
enthusiastic
partisan
exclaimed.
“ Stand on the table I” Quick as a flash
Colonel Roosevelt exclaimed. "Remove
the flag and I will do so. ! cannot
stand with my feet on the American
ting.”
The first floor of Funeuil Hall as
now used, and ns always used. Is a
market, the assembly hall or meeting
place occupying the second floor. This
U iin old English arrangement which
was borrowed for Boston when Funeuil
Hull was first built. Since then, tho
old building has never been seriously
changed architecturally.
The new work to he undertaken Is
the complete fireproofing of the build­
ing. This Includes a now floor of re­
inforced concrete under the market
In the lower story, an extension o f
the sprinkler sjst *m, the providing of
a “ water curtain” for the exterior, und
the introduction of a fireproof stalr-
wuy us nn exit from the quarters of
the Ancient nnd Honorable Artillery
company. The roof, which lias not
been repaired for 23 years, Is to be
put Into good condition und the pres­
ent unsightly and ramshackle awnings
over the sidewulks are to be removed
and a new awning of Iron nnd glass
(In simple Uolonlul design) substi­
tuted.
Work of Restoration.
All the paint will be cleaned off
the brick, mutilated stonework re­
stored. the white trim repaired nnd
the building left in its natural red
brick (with white trimmings) sub­
stantially us It appeared when It wns
first constructed. The Boston firm
of architects In charge o f the altera­
tions, which are more In the nature
of a restoration than of Innovations,
Is ('ram A Ferguson, and the expense
will not be large— wusteful municipal
expenditures have not been the rule
In New England—even for the most
vuluahle landmarks in Massachusetts,
the one rlvnl to Independence hall In
Philadelphia.
Mr. Cram, one of the architects
supervising the repairs, said recently
that If any one ;n Boston proposed
the sale o f Funeuil Hall, the people
of Boston would build barricades In the
streets nnd fight to the lust gasp to
prevent such nn outrage.
Every one knows the story of Daniel
Webster and the Boston "silver top.”
There existed for many years a branch
or division of the Whig party, the
members of which were culled “ the
Conscience Whigs,” They regarded
the slavery question hs still an open
one for popular discussion and for
remedial legislation. The other Whigs,
known ns "the Cotton Whigs,” did not.
In New York, the older members of
the Whig party were known us the
"Silver Greys” ; less reverent persona
called them "the SnufTtnkers.” In
.Massachusetts they were known as
“ the Silver Tops" on account o f the
white hair of many of the older mem­
bers. It was an era of whiskers and
beards; there were no, or very few,
bnld heads.
Daniel Webster was a Whig, but de­
siring to propitiate and gain the sup­
port of the Cotton Whigs of the South
In his aspirations for the Presidency,
he made a speech in the United States
senate In Washington which gravely
affronted the Conscience Whigs and
prompted John G. Whittier to write
that fierce denunciation o f him In
poetry, “ Ichabod.” By the Boston Sil­
ver Tops % Daniel Webster was re­
garded ns a backslider, a traitor, a
recreant and as having “ gone over to
the South.” On the day of his funeral
one Silver Ttop met another on Boyla-
ton street and asked him whether he
wns going to attend Mr. Webster's
funeral.
“ No, sir,” aald the other
Boston Silver Top tersely; *T will not
attend It, but I approve of It."
While New York was languishing
nnder the tyranny of an alien govern­
ment. 8,000 miles away, and Its more
prosperous Inhabitants were Indulging
In social convivialities, the voice of
Boston was being raise I In protest
against the Injustice o f English rule,
and the nearest echo, a faint one, waa
to he heard in Philadelphia. Boston
was at that time at the head o f the
patriotic procession in the North, and
Faneuil Hall was the platform upon
which the revolutionary patriots In­
voked the anpport of the friends of
freedom throughout the world to re­
sist the annitnulatcd tyrannies re­
cited In the Declaration of Independ­
ence.— Earnest Harvler In the New
York Times.
The largest sum ever won by an
owner In the course o f a single rac­
ing season In England waa won by
the duke o f Portland with his two
horses, Donovan and Ayrshire. The
amount was In excess o f i-'K-YDOO.
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