Build World’s
Biggest Hangar
Apple Seed, 12 Years in
Girl’s Ear, Is Perfect ♦
Iowa Town May Become Another Klondike
Muthlas, W. Va.—Au apple
seed was removed from the ear
of Miss Neva Sherman, this
place, where It had lodged 12
years ago while playing when a
child. She said at that time
the seed caused her much pain
und tiiat her mother, with some
household Instruments as a
probe, thought she had removed
the seed, as the pain stopped.
About two weeks ago the ear
began to pain her much und Dr.
E. K. Miller of Hurrisonburg,
Va., found the seed and removed
IL The seed was as firm as Lite
day it lodged in tiie ear 12 years
ago.
Running lengthwise through the
hangar is a rullroad and three trolley
slots technically described as docking
rails. The dirigible about to enter the
hangar will be cable-fastened to these
rails, which extend on a 1,500-foot run
way at either end. and guided to its
berth.
Under the roof among a network of
steel rafters, five monorail cranes sup
Monster Doors Are Opened and Closed port movable platforms which enable
by an Electric Motor—Structure
workmen to repair an aircraft after it
Would Cover Three Ordinary
has docked. These rafters are so far
above the floor of the hangar that the
City Blocks.
workmen resolve themselves into mere
• • •
New York.—America’s first great specks.
So large are the glass windows In
terminal for giant aircraft Is nearlug
the sides and the roof that Individual DISEASE SPINS MAN LIKE TOP
completion at Lakehurst, N. J.
The structure, the largest of its kind motors ure necessary to open each
A few weeks ago Bernard Smith, a farmer living one mile southeast of Graettlnger, la., was digging a hole to set
on earth, Is 803 feet long, 264 feet window.
Peculiar Ailment Also Causes New a guy wire through a layer of from 6 to 8 Inches of dark-colored gravel. He could see the glistening of mica and
wide and 195 feet high. Some idea of
was positive the layer contained gold. He j-ushed some of the gravel to Des Moines and Chicago, and the essay
York Patient’s Eyes to
its immense size may he gleaned HORSES ON WANE IN CITIES
report showed that the gravel will run $26.92 per ton, $21.50 being in gold. Since then there lias been a great rush
Roll Wildly.
from the fact that if set down in a
of gold hunters to Graettlnger, and the place promises to become another Klondike.
The Illustration shows the
city the hangar would occupy three Chicago Had 30,338 In 1920, Against
main street of the town and, at the right, Mr. Smith at the hole where he found the gold.
solid blocks. Its doors at each end
New York.—Although the doctors ol
68,122 Ten Years Ago, According
stand more than 175 feet high und are
the Kings county hospital are accus
to Census.
264 feet wide. A 16-story skyscraper
tomed to all sorts of medical and sur
could be pushed through tiie space
Washington.—A marked reduction gical cases, one that lias created In
disclosed by the doors when they are during the lust decade in the number terest in the institution is that of Ed
opened.
of draft animals employed in the ward Keller, aged forty-nine, Wood
Tiie hangar is officially known as largest cities was shown by the 1920 haven, L. I., who Is believed to be suf
the United States navy airship hangar, census. Figures made public by tiie fering from Meniere's disease. At in
and represents tiie latest word in con census bureau allowed 56,539 horses tervals the patient has attacks of ver
struction for buildings of tills type. In New York city, compared with 128,- tigo and everything about him seems
It is planned to have it ready in the 224 in 1910, and 30,388 in Chicago, to revolve, with tiie result that the
Dutch and Scandinavians have earned
early summer to house tiie two giant against 68,122.
patient spins like a top until he fulls.
a lot of money. Tiie South Ameri
dirigibles now under construction, the
Figures for other cities Included: During these attacks -Ills eyes roll
People Have Lost Every Sense of Dignity and Their Whole Charac cans are rich. .And all this shows that
ZR-I, building at League island navy Philadelphia, 19,472 and 50,461; Haiti- wildly and the pain Is excruciating.
they should come to tbe help of Aus
yard, Philadelphia, and the ZIt-2, near more, 7,378 and 15,346; Boston, 10,-
Although little is known of tiie dis
ter, French Journalist Says— Country Has Come to
tria. The Austrians think that only
ing completion in England. Tiie trans- 093 and 23,007; Pittsburgh, 6,023 and ease, It Is supposed to be due to a
fair. They do not expect otherwise.
Look Upon Help From Abroad as Matter
Atluntlc Hight of tiie lutter is sched 12,845; Cincinnati, 5,031 and 13,901; condition of the semicircular canal I d
With the allies, especially those of
uled for late in July or early In Au Cleveland, 4,924 and 16,839.
the inner ear.
the entente. It is quite another mat
of Course
gust, and tiie Navy department plans
ter. The entente had dared to refuse
to have tiie hangar completed for
the credits requested? What a pity
service before the airships ure ready
New York.—An Interesting picture help pitying the naivete of the peo its prisoners were not allowed to
to sail.
of conditions in Austria Is given In the ple in England and other countries starve during tiie war! The entente
Giant Mooring Mast a Feature.
following article written for tbe New who send money for the children who does not want us to Join Germany?
Incidental to tiie hangar is a gigan
York Herald by W. John Lenglet, a are supposed to be dying In the Well, we shall do so without its per
tic mooring must to which great
These advertisements are mission. The time will come when we
French journalist attached to the streets.
dirigibles may be tied when it is im
Japanese military mission in Vienna: only a speculation on the good faith will ally with Germany to fight the
practicable to house them Inside the
After having been a year In Austria of the public; and tbe public who entente.
huugar. Tiie must Is so constructed
I have come to the conclusion that the subscribe are robbed twice over; first
That is the reasoning of the Ger
that the giants of the air will be
country specializes in the art of beg of their confidence; secondly, of their man-Austrian, who the pre-war Ger
lives of luxury, are living a hand-to-
moored, bow on, and will swing in
ging nnd insulting. These two faults money.
man declared was just good enough
the direction of tiie wind, thus avoid Russian Countesses Also to Be moutli existence. The possessions combined have been brought to such
I do not suggest that the commit to black the boots of the German
which
they
once
had
and
that
escaped
ing tiie dungerous force exerted by
Found Holding Jobs as
tees
who
Insert
these
advertisements
confiscation by the Bolslievlkl clutter a height that the people have lost are not acting in good faith, but that army.
high winds.
Typists in Riga.
I have experienced moments during
up tiie shelves of second-hand deniers every sense of dignity and their whole they are themselves victims to the
Tiie result of experiments with the
which the Austrian absence of char
in these cities. Diamonds, other character.
Lakehurst mooring must will deter
This is specially clear to the for exploitations of tiie Austrians and acter has been made clearly obvious.
mine the policy of the Navy depart
Jewels, fine tapestries and the count
journalists In Austrian pay, who are
I returned in the company of my
ment in erecting similar mooring
less costly knick-knacks of a luxuri eigner who stays a good deal in Vienna. determined to get as much sympathy
The
foreigner
who
merely
passes
wife and one of her friends one eve
masts nt various ulr stations through
ous civilization have been sold by
through brings nothing back but a for Austria and as much money as ning from Baden, a little mountain
out the country, sucli as Chicago, St.
these refugees to get bread.
remembrance of more or less gay eve possible out of the foreigner.
ous place, where one goes for week
Louis, Kansns City, Denver, San Fran Well-Educated People, Unaccustomed
The correspondent was present a
At one time tbe Austrian was In ends. As my companions were Eng
nings and of fantastic figures of worth
cisco, Seattle, New Orleans, Atlunta,
few nights ago ut an entertainment
to Work, Now Anxious to Do Any.
need of material help. Tills help was lish we talked English. The tramcar,
Columbus, O„ and San Diego.
for the benefit of these refugees—all less currency; but be who has to live
thing to Save Them From Star
given him so generously that lie ex capable of carrying about forty, pas
The new airships nearing comple
members of the old Russian nobility. there and take part in the everyday
vation—Property Gone.
pects It to go on forever.
sengers, presently filled up. Once on
tion are of such lnrge proportions,
Some of the more fortunate had ’life of Vienna, especially if he take
Mulcted by Drivers.
the trouble to look deeply Into the
the way a man standing up, a typical
each being 700 feet long and 85 feet
saved
their
evening
clothes.
They
Ttlga, Latvia.—It is nothing unusual
What do some guilders, francs, dol German, started a propaganda against
In diameter, ns large ns many of tiie in Riga to liave a Russian princess were in sharp contrast to those that henrt of things, Is certainly convinced
that side by side with a certain misery lars or pounds matter to tbe foreign foreigners, and pointing to us desig
great oceun liners, that the munner of ns your stenographer. At least a busi had n ot
“docking” them presented serious ness man can ucqulre the service of
Here and there were men in coats in the lower middle classes and priva er? “Na, ja, aber mit thren Valu- nated us ns English or Americans,
problems In engineering, but it Is be a countess In that capacity. Almost of one color, trousers of another and tions among the upper classes, there ten I” (Well, with the value of their He mixed himself up in our conver
lieved that the Lakehurst hangar will every diplomatic or consular mission tan shoes or high boots. They danced exists among the new rich—"schleb- money) . . • and as the value of sation. He Insulted us offensively in
go far toward solving many of these in Itlga lias ut leust one princess or with women as variously clad—some ers”—an Indifference to all the inter outside money Is better than Austrian German.
problems.
The whole compartment, consisting
chic, In latest models, some In shirt ests of Austria which is hardly believ currency, why should not the for
countess working as typist.
able.
eigner help Austria? At least that is of all sorts and conditions of trav
Door Leaf Weighs 800 Tons.
If the supply of princesses and waists and skirts; still others In
The
"schleber”
may
be
the
middle
how the Austrian reasons. He never elers, supported this man. Vulgar
First in importance cnme the ques countesses full there remains a large frocks so obviously homemade or re-
man of business transactions, or even asks himself who created this situ coarseness succeeded to the Insults
tion of doors to tiie hangar. Each leaf
mnde
that
the
poorest
shopgirl
In
number of other well-educated people,
the business man quite simply. The ation in his land.
and Jokes. Everything and all were
of the two doors, there being two
most of them unaccustomed to work New York would sniff at them.
“schleber” Is also the “bucket shop
In all classes you meet the same passed in review, the allied govern
leaves to a dour, is made up of 800
Fat
Bank
Rolla.
but now unxlous to do anything to
keeper,”
who
speculates
illegally
in
phenomenon.
For instance, If you ments and their chiefs, even Presi
tons of steel and corrugated asbestos.
The cnsual stranger dropping into
save them from starvation. Men who
exchange, who leads the frelhandel take a taxi, when you arrive at your dent Wilson was not forgotten. In
These leaves are supported on con
have been general managers of big Riga or Iteval for a day or two would (free commerce), and It Is be who door the driver asks you smilingly
crete trucks which in turn rest on
fact, he was spoken of most of all
Russian factories are now glad to never find this poverty. Instead, lie piles up. bundles of bank notes, a for twice the amount you ought to
wheels tiie size of those on a freight
because these people took me for an
would find cafes, open all night, where
take
any
kind
of
decent
honorable
em
single
one
of
which
he
will
not
spend
pay. If you protest, he says “But, American.
car. Tiie leaves are rolled apart by
Then they went on to
foreigners, lucky because of tiie low
a 25 horsepower electric motor. If ployment to earn their living here.
rates of Latvian or Esthonlan ex unless it bring him the equivalent In sir, wliat does It matter with the val more personal matters—ourselves, our
Downfall Complete.
man-power were needed to open the
change, and local profiteers tossed fat pleasures or goods. The Interest of ids ue of yqur money?” So far he is clothes, everything was analyzed and
Tiie condition of these Russian ref bank rolls of almost worthless rubles country? He laughs nt it ns at a very polite; but if you maintain your ridiculed. Tiie most revolting things
doors, It is estimated that 1,500 men
ugees who have found shelter in the or marks to wniters who count only splendid Joke—the starving children refusal, and you only pay the amount were said by tiie best-dressed men,
would lie cnlled on.
can be looked after by foreigners. He registered on the taximeter, with a and women joined in with degraded
Naval experts calculate that the Infant Baltic states shows how com in hundreds or thousands.
giant doors can be rolled wide open plete lias been tiie financial downfnll
An American correspondent who ad can eat white bread nnd be does so certain tip—let us say 10 per cent— delight The tram conductor laughed.
Within 13 minutes and Hie entire proc of the Russian nobility. In Riga, Ite- vertised In a Riga newspaper for n without scruple. He can drink cham showers of abuse follow you into I pretended not to understand. The
ess of housing one of tiie dirigibles val und other Baltic towns princes, translator able to read, write and pagne at 3,<XM) crowns a bottle. He your house.
only thing to do with these brutes.
will consume approximately 40 min burons and counts und their fumllles, speak fluently English, Russlun and provides his wife with mngnlficent furs
At a restaurant the bead waiter is I even beard somebody make a sug
utes.
accustomed for decades in Russia to German, and with some knowledge of and precious Jewels. He knows no very cringing when you give your gestion to throw us out of the tram
Lettish, received 51 replies by mail. duty but that of spending tiie money, orders. At the end of the meal, how at the next stopping place.
The starving children of Austria ex
The corridor facing his room In the which he has gained by exploiting his ever, when you ask for your bill, he
hotel was filled with men and women countrymen in pleasures and luxuries. starts by making mistakes—to his ist mostly In tbe Imagination of those
He is the unmoral being who has own advantage, of course, w hich. by who earn an easy living by begging.
seeking to apply personally for tiie po
sition. Most of them were so well sprung from the Austrian soil since chance, you may find out and have As a matter of fact, one does not see
the bill changed. Then you give him more slckly-looklng children in Vienna
educated that they could qualify not misery spread over the land.
10 per cent as a tip. The head waiter than In any other large town. If
Tha Vatute All Important
only in the four languages mentioned
but In others as well. They were
When the little bourgeois or shop goes away and sends you the service help were given to the children of the
either out of work or receiving such keeper smells the foreigner, he imme waiter. Another tip required. Think poor, of the unemployed, of the de
small pay In their present employ diately sizes up his “Valute.” You are ing yourself very generous, you with mobilized soldiers without means of
ment that they were anxious to treated in accordance with tiie value draw from the table when you sud subsistence in England, America and
change.
of your national currency and the shop denly hear the “buttons” exclaim: France such charity would be put to
Among the applicants were a for man tries to convince you that If he "Damned Frenchle (or any other na a far better use.
Waste of Coal and Light.
mer colonel In one of tiie most aristo charges you three times as much as tionality, which this future head
In order to save coal, France and
cratic Petrograd guard regiments, a Austrians art charged he is still waiter considers you), not a single
England ordered the dancing saloons
dozen other former officers, two men rendering you a great service: “Was heller for a tipi”
I must except the large restaurants, and thenters to be closed earlier in the
who had been managers of big Rus macht das denn in Ihre Valute?”
sian factories, nnd many other well- (What does it matter compared to the staffs of which have been em evening. Austria did nothing of the
educated people.
the value of your money?) This be ployed before the war in other coun kind. Everything was illuminated a
It did not
comes as familiar ns the greeting you tries. These are satisfied with 10 per la glorno till midnight.
Killed a Deer Illegally.
get when you go Into a shop. If you cent on the bill. However, one can matter if her subjects paid 8 kronen
Stroudsburg, Pa.—A hunting party are good nntured you will simply not go continually to the big restau a kilogram for coal and her factories
rants with the present htgli prices.
were obliged to stop work for lack of
composed of Moses, Ernest, Levy, Alva accept this as part of the business.
You are treated In the same way coal.
Ladlee nnd Perrv Pine was fined S.'sal
Worse things exist, for the Austrian
I and casts for killing a deer out of sea has brought the art of begging to such by the shopkeeper and other people
While In most lands one does one’s
son. The men were accused by J W. a pitch that he has made the whole who have put themselves Into public best to produce, the slightest Incident
Hornbeck and Emmet Ste«4e, game world believe in him, and the whole service. The method is only varied here creates a strike. People take
wardens. MoseS nnd Ernest l-ndlee world—England and the United States according to the education they pos the most futile pretext to have an ex
pleaded guilty to the charge at once at the head—allows Itself to be fooled I sess. In short, the foreigner in Aus tra day of rest—and all the same they
nnd paid their fines of $100 each and
Committees liave been formed—Aus tria must allow himself to be bled have the courage to complain!
costs. The other three appealed from tria has been helped on every side— from every vein If he wishes to live
Nobody deprives himself of pleas
the summary conviction until their her children have been sent to every In peace.
ure. One Is prepared to do without
Since the note of the French gov anything except enjoyment. It is not
cases were heard before Judge Samuel country to be nourished and cared fo r;
E. Shull, when the appeal was dis and when they come back from these ernment, In the name of all the allied true that the people who go out In
missed and they were also Ant'd $100 countries, dressed In new clothes and governments, threatening to withdraw the evenings are all foreigners. List
Improved morally and physically, their all help from Austria in the event en to the languages spoken in the
each and coats.
parents s a y : After all. It Is not much of her uniting with Germany, the dancing saloons and cafes. Viennese-
. . . you see, the clothes are not hatred felt by the rescued for their German and pure German predomi
Yawn Dislocates G irl’s Jaw.
New York.—Anna Noli, twenty chic; the stuff is not of the best quality, rescuers rises to the surface. Every nate. Look at the lines outside the
years old, a stenographer employed In and the food, well, they do not trouble conversation between an Austrian and theaters where German plays are be
a foreigner Is full of underlying bit ing produced.
Austrians certainly
Manhattan, started a long and sup much about food over there.”
The conversations which form the majority of the frequenters.
The first ahot at an enemy craft In 117 years on the Great Lakes, was posedly healthy yawn.
However, when one of their chil terness.
fired I11 Lake Michigan near Chicago, when the destroyer Wilmette turned
When It cerne to bringing the yawn dren conies back, they do their best to the Austrians hold among themselves Look also at the rows of taxis around
her guns on the German submarine C-97, which was assigned to the United to a healthy cloee, however, something send another over to the same condi in public places, regardless of the the football field on Sundays, when
I have seen
States by the terms of the armistice. Thirteen shots were tired altogether, went wrong. Office assistants, perceiv tions . . . that means another strangers within their midst, are full two local clubs meet.
of unimaginable Insults. Their hatred more than 500 of them. It Is not the
but one would have been sulficlent, as the first shot, fired by the same hoy who ing she needed aid. summoned an am less to bother about I
fired the first American torpedo In the late war, was a direct hit. The Illus bulance surgeon and he took her to
The man who lives in Vienna and does not extend only to the allies, but foreigner who pays 2.000 kronen or
tration shows, above, the firing of that first ahot, and, below, the submarine Volunteer hospital, suffering from a reads advertisements In the English there even exists resentment against I more to drive to the place where tha
dislocated Jaw.
papers about starving Vienna cannot their beneficiaries, tbe neutrals. The game goes on.
as tbe shell exploded.
Navy Air Terminal Will House
Two Giant U. S. Dirigibles
Now Building.
MANY WONDERFUL FEATURES
A
Austria Specializes in Art
of Begging and Insulting
Princesses As
Stenographers
NOBILITY IS DOWN AND OUT
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German U-Boat Sunk in Lake Michigan
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