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Many Craters
on Unimak Isle
Often Causes Great Confu¬
sion in Locating Various
Eruptions.
Washington.—While America faces
a coal shortage this winter, prospec¬
tors In the interior of Alaska are anx¬
iously awaiting the end of summer
like weather, so the risers may fretr/e
and they can make their way out.
Unusually high temperatures for No¬
vember followed the reported activity
of Mount Shishaidin, a volcano on
Unimak island.
“Unimak island, the largest of the
Aleutian ‘stepping stones,’ is a focus
of volcanic activity second only to the
Katmai district, scene, in 3012, of one
of the greatest volcanic eruptions the
world has known,” says a bulletin
from the Washington headquarters of
the National Geographic society. “Al¬
though it lias an area only a little
larger than Rhode Island, so many
craters occur on Urimak island that
tiiere is often a great deal of confu¬
sion as to the location of the various
eruptions reported.
Fujiyama’s “Double.”
“Mount Shishaldin, the peak recent¬
ly, reported active, is the most strik¬
ing and beautiful of the eleven major
craters of the island. It lias one of
the most nearly perfect cones in the
world, seeming to float suspended in
the air above its cloud-girt base. Be¬
cause of its white symmetry it 1ms
been called the moat formidable rival
of' the celebrated Fujiyama. Fortu¬
nate, however, is the visitor who lias
sefn tills Alaskan queen in all her
beauty, for most of the year Unimak,
amj the rest of the Aleutians, are en¬
veloped in a heavy blanket of fog and
iow-lying clouds.
“Despite Unimak's size and its sep¬
aration from the mainland ‘panhandle’
of Alaska by only a narrow strip of
water, It is of little importance. There
are no good harbors around its shores
"Cod fishing on the great banks to
the south of the island, which are
similar to those of Newfoundland, and
the mining of small quantities of
sulphur and pumice stone are the
principal Industries. • The Inhabitants
are mostly the remnants of the orig¬
inal native tribes found here by the
Russians in the Eighteenth century.
"There is no tourist trade, partly
because tiiere are no accommodations
for them, but mainly because the
beauties of the Island can he seen
to advantage with binoculars on ship¬
board. West coast steamers bound
for Nonie and other places on the
Bering sea, or for the Arctic ocean,
pass almost around the island, for the
narrow strait separating it from the
mainland is not as safe as Unimak
pass, the strait between it and the
rest of the Fox group.
"Like its sister islands Unimak is
in general desolate and scraggy along
31s rocky, grass-covered lower slopes.
It Is treeless, and, except for its
heavy rainfall and fogs, has n de¬
lightful climate. Summers in Unimak
are cooler than places farther north,
while in winter the weather is milder
thiHi that of Tennessee or Kentucky,
twenty degrees of latitude farther
south. The warm Japan current, which
sweeps up the const of Asia and
around the Aleutians, gives it a
January average of 30 degrees above
zero.
“Grasses of all kinds grow in abun¬
dance on the lowlands all year round
but the climate Is too damp to ma¬
ture grain. Although the soil is rich,
being composed of a vegetable mold
mixed with volcanic ash, ttie land is
rugged and tiiere are no places where
farms of nny size can be made. Small
though the island Is, the interior has
never been thoroughly explored, and
reports of a lake of sulphur in solu¬
tion there have never been confirmed.
On Direct Route to Japan.
"Unimak and other islands of the
Aleutian chain, believed to be the
route by which man first migrated
to the Western hemisphere, should be
better known to the world at large, for
they are on the shortest route be¬
tween our northwestern states and
Japan. The great expanse of the
Pacific and the curvature of the eartli
place Yokohama almost due northwest
of Seattle, if one follows the most
direct path.
WATER POWER DEVELOPED AT
GREAT RATE IN FIVE YEARS
Projects Involving 24,000,000 H.
Listed by Government, Says
Power Commission.
Washington.— 1 The last five years
have witnessed the greatest water
power development in the United
States, according to the annual report
of the federal power commission.
In the five-year period ending June
30. 1923, the federal power commis¬
sion lias received 521 applications for
power development and 100 applica¬
tions for transmission lines. Eliminat¬
ing duplications, the applications for
power projects will Involve when built
an aggregate estimated installation of
24.000,000 horse power.
"While a considerable number of ap¬
plications are undoubtedly for projeets
that will not he developed for many
years, and some perhaps never,” says
the commission, “yet the aggregate of
projects reasonably certain of con¬
“The American world flyers remem
"ber Unimak as part of one of the
most difficult stages in their globe
circling trip. Port Holier, the com¬
munity to which Major Martin made
his way on foot after his plane
crashed, Is about 150 miles farther
east. The district presented the same
pitfalls for aviators as Unimak, con¬
ical peaks and sharp ridges rising
suddenly out of dreary fog-hidden
tundras and marshes.
“In addition tb Mt. Shishaldin, Uni¬
mak lias several other exceptional
peaks. Pogromni Volcano, the rnile
liigh sentinel of Unimak pass in the
western part of the island, today is
but the broken shell of a vast crater
which is said to have ’burst’ in 1795.
Otiier violent eruptions are reported
between 1S27 and 1830. Lately it has
been a very well behaved volcano.
A thin, slow wisp of smoke is a con¬
stant reminder, however, of its lurid
past. The Isanotsky peaks are cred¬
ited with a* violent eruption within
(he last century, but, ns is the case
with so much of the rest of the his¬
tory of the island, tiiere is no eon-
Has Apartments
to Suit Moods
Kept in New York or Neces¬
sity, Man Finds One
Home Bore.
New York.—Tiiere is at least one
man in New York city to whom the
saying “variety is the spice of life,” Is
more than a mere phrase. Further¬
more, he obtulns all of his variety
within the confines of the city. For
present purposes it serves to dub him
Mr. Trotter.
After a youth of roaming from one
corner of the world to another, circum¬
stances compelled Mr. Trotter to stay
constantly in New York. Such a re¬
striction on a born ronmer naturally
proved irksome. In ids own words,
Mr. Trotter was “about to bust” when
an Inspiration came to him that solved
his problem.
Mr. Trotter, it should be explained
at the outset, is of a whimsical In¬
quiring nature and ids wanderings
were marked more by amused curi¬
osity than high adventuring in the
manner of soldiers of fortune. He
sauntered rather than strode during
ids travels and in Ids quiet way man¬
aged to penetrate the local life
wherever he went—ignoring and show¬
ing his disgust of the alien colonies of
his countrymen.
With such a background of activity,
lie naturally began to chafe when he
was confined to a single place—even
when It is as big us New York. Life
ordered Itself into an inexorable rou¬
tine and sameness; there was plenty
to do but it was essentially alike no
matter how much the scene might
change from day to day.
Twitted by Friends.
“I was fast becoming a boor,” ex¬
plained Mr. Trotter the other day.
“My friends twitted me about being a
rolling stone who would eventually
find settling down superior to wander¬
ing about. And they always wound
up sooner or later with that bromide
that, after all, variety Is the spice of
life. Right now I am glad they did
because it finally led to my inspira¬
tion.
“I am not a man of great means but
I am fixed so tliat I needn’t worry. I
had been living in a comfortable hotel,
where there was nothing to be desired
from the point of view of service or
surroundings. But it took me just
about a month to exhaust all of the
observations that there were to be
made about the place. I penetrated
all of the surface life there and a
great many of undercurrents, at least
all that were interesting to me. It was
like reading one book repeatedly and
not a very exciting or deep book.
“One night a friend called on me to
chide me for not going about more
with the gang. Gadding, lie called it.
struction in the near future involves
more than twice the water horse power
in operation when the federal water
power act was passed in 1920.”
In the last fiscal year applications
for 80 power projects were filed, in¬
volving an estimated installation, nf
built, of 620,000 horse power, and 22
applications for transmission lines. In
the year IS permits and 53 licenses,
with an estimated installation of 1,700,
000 horse power, were issued.
At tlie end of the fiscal year tiiere
were outstanding 70 permits and ISO
licenses, aggregating 8.745,000 horse
power. Eighty-three projects, with a
prospective installation of 2,640,000
horse power, had been completed or
were under construction, 10 of which,
with a combined installation of 197,-
500 horse power, had been started dur¬
ing the year.
Eugene Field had eight children.
CLEVELAND COURIER, CLEVELAND, GEORGIA.
NEW POLICE SHIELD
This new shield has been adopted
by the Chicago police for the war on
bandits and every station is provided
with the equipment. The shield is
bullet proof, easily carried and allows
full vision.
firmation. Their appearance suggests
a long period of erosion rather than
frequent activity.”
I told this friend in as kindly a man¬
ner as possible that the activities tliat
were offered thus bored me. He final¬
ly said that I was incorrigible and
then ended up with the same old bro¬
mide-well, after all, variety is the
spice of life.
“After lie had gone I got my hat and
stick and went for a walk. Tramping
the streets at night soon filled me
with what the French call the home¬
sickness for elsewhere. I felt u nos¬
talgia for my hotel. I didn’t want to
go back to it tliat night but tried to
persuade ntyself that I should recon¬
cile myself to my fate. I wandered
farther than I thought and suddenly
found myself very tired. My hotel is
in the Seventies and I was away be¬
low Fourteenth street. There was no
taxi in sight or I would probably have
gone home. Instead I espied a faint
sign In ttie deserted street which said
Hotel. I remembered tliat this par¬
ticular house had been quite fiinious
in its day before New York moved up¬
town. I knew also that it clung to
its traditions and that it was perfect¬
ly clean. On the spur of the moment
I went in, paid for my room and spent
the night tiiere.
Idea Is Born.
"The next morning when I woke np
I was bewildered about my surround¬
ings, but at the same time it spurred
my old inclination for inquiry. I was
curious about everything; the people
In the lobby were different from my
daily associates. I tried to figure them
out. Thus the idea was born.
“Purposely prowling about for va¬
riety is not my way. It smacks too
much of the tourist and superficial.
My solution was simply this: I hunt¬
ed up residences in various parts of
the city in which I could gratify my
moods and my curiosity nbout the
lives and ways of places and people.
The very rich have homes in town, on
Long island, In the Far West, in Palm
Beach and elsewhere. Why not apply
the same principle to New York city?
i have, and I have found it one of the
most interesting adventures of my
long career. I needed my hotel ad¬
dress for business and social reasons.
Accordingly I maintained my quarters
there and kept most of my things
tiiere, but I now* have four other
places in different sections of New
York to which I can go at any time
tliat the mood strikes me.
“It gives me a whimsical amuse¬
ment to start a day and never know
in which one of my residences I will
spend the night. And in eaeli section
l have a different circle of friends or
acquaintances. Somehow none of them
have ever crossed each other's paths,
disproving that other saying 'the
world Is small after ait,' while at the
same time it proves that variety is
the spice of life—if you live it.”
Believed to Have Found
City of Lost Cherokee*
Lincoln, Neb.—What may have been
the habitat of the legendary iosf tribe
of Cherokee Indians for which the fa¬
mous Chief Sequoia lost his life in the
search In 184S, has been uncovered
in Richardson county. Neb., by E. E.
Blackman, curator of the State His¬
torical society museum.
Professor Blackman found the re¬
mains of an ancient Indian city, to¬
gether with several pieces of pottery
and many chipped flint tools, different
from those made by tribes hiflierto
known to have inhabited that region.
Unearthed articles bear_ unmistak¬
! able signs of Cherokee origin, Mr.
Blackman said. This led him to be¬
lieve it possible that the site was once
the location of the lost tribe which
legends say split away* from the tribal
home in southeastern United States
and pushed across the Mississippi, nev¬
er to return.
Don't get the idea into your head
tliat a baby cuts teeth; it's the teeth
that cut the baby.
National Amateur Golf Cup Destroyed in a Fire
Tiie national amateur golf championship cup, which Robert T. Jones took back to liis club at Atlanta, Ga., was
destroyed by the fire that ruined the East Lake Country clubhouse the other day. The ruins of the building are
shown above. The lost trophy was thirty years old.
Glorify Both Living
and Dead Emperors
Hue, Capital of Annam, In¬
teresting Place.
Washington.—“Hue, capital of An¬
nam, where an emperor recently died
and another was crowned, may be
considered the heart, though not the
metropolis, of French Indo-China,”
says a bulletin from the Washington
headquarters of the National Geo¬
graphic society.
“Annam is less completely under
French control, officially, than any of
the other states with which it is as¬
sociated in ttie territorial group
known os French Indo-China,” con¬
tinues the bulletin, “but Annam and
the 12,000,000 people of Annamese
blood really constitute the chief fac¬
tor in this region of French influence.
In few places are the old forms of
oriental magnificence maintained as
completely ns in the Imperial estab¬
lishment at Hue. Until recently the
palace was forbidden ground, and it
is still far from easy to obtain access.
Like Fairy Palace.
“Inside the palace wails is a rich¬
ness and an elaborateness seldom en¬
countered outside fairy tales and the
settings of extravagant stage presen¬
tations. There are picturesque gar¬
dens ; paved courts, where on occa¬
sion the 10,(XX) mandarins of Annum
strike their foreheads in unison on
ttie ground before the emperor; dim
corridors of countless columns with
their huge perfume burners sending
up continual clouds of incense; and
exquisite rooms of intricately wrought
ceramics and gold anti sliver. Open¬
ing into the emperor’s state rooms is
the great Golden Door, through which.
In addition to the sovereign, only the
extraordinary ambassadors may pa% 5 .
“Lavish festivals and displays take
place within this fairy land of luxyry.
The most charming and characteristic,
perhaps, are the children's bullets, in
which scores of dainty, costumed
youngsters go through elaborate steps
and postures with bright fans in their
hands and a lighted, colored lantern
attached to each youthful shoulder.
“Outside tlie palace enclosure Hue
is less appealing. The ‘metropolitan
area’ of the city is In large part a
collection of native villages clustered
in the shadow of the great palace
citadel walls. Across the river Is the
French residency with its Gallic
western atmosphere. For a long time
Hue was little known, and as the seat
of an important country, Its size was
exaggerated. Its population Is only
00 , 000 .
WIN A FINE TRIP
A
id
Miss Irene Mitchell of Chicago (left)
and Miss Geraldyne Dyson of Spring
field starting on a trip around the
world which was awarded them in
connection with tha Illinois Products
exposition of 1925.
“The town is in a tropical region
in a latitude corresponding to the
southern extremity of Mexico. It lies
near the mid-point of the long double
curving coast of French Indo-China, a
few miles from the sea on the Hue
river. Built on a fiat, the city itself
has little beauty of form or setting;
but it would lie difficult to find in the
tropics more beautiful environs than
it possesses. Only a few miles away
rise the mountains from which the
Hue river flows, and even closer are
lower wooded hills and valleys.
Numerous villages are all but hidden
in a mantle of green; palms, bamboos
and scores of tropical vines and
shrubs. Carefully kept paddy fields
alternate with wild regions of under¬
brush, and scattered about the coun¬
tryside are Innumerable graceful
pagodas.
Masterpieces of Landscaping.
“Tlie most remarkable* feature of
Hue Is the famous tombs of the
kings, which lie in' the charming pine
and banyan-covered valleys and hills
a few miles from tlie city—true cities
of the dead, far more attractive in
setting than that of tlie living. For
eacii departed ruler of the past sev¬
eral centuries a large area has been
developed as a resting place and
memorial for himself, his wives, chil¬
dren and servants. Tiiese developed
areas are in two parts. One's a beau¬
tiful group of gardens, lakes, summer
houses and a memorial hall. The lat¬
ter is fitted with the furniture from
the departed emperor’s apartments.
The second part is a vast enclosure
nearby, usually a series of terraces
above the gardens,,In some unmarked
spot of which the body of the em¬
peror lies. The reigning emperor vis¬
its each of these garden tombs of his
ancestors annually and makes obei¬
sance to their spirits.
“The notable structures and gar¬
dens extend from the end of the
Eighteenth century to tlie present.
The earlier of these are exceedingly
STATES DOUBLE COST OF
OPERATION IN SEVEN YEARS
Expense of Government Takes
Big Jump.
Washington.—Tremendous increases
in costs of the state govern
ments during recent years are shown
in a summary of financial statistics
of governments of the 48 states is¬
sued by the Department of Commerce.
The report discloses that the cost
of maintenance and operation of the
general departments of the state gov
ernments more than doubled between
1917 and 1924; that ^otal expendi
tures, including outlaws for permanent
improvements, such as road construe
tion, almost tripled during tlie same
period, and that tiie net indebtedness
more than doubled, due fo bond is¬
sues for highways and the soldiers’
bonus.
Payments for maintenance and oper¬
ation of the general departments of
the state governments in 1924 amount¬
ed to *1.301,465,253. or SO per capita.
The per capita cost in 3917 was §4,19.
and in 3923. $8,3.7.
Total payments for 1924, including
maintenance afid operation of public
service enterprises, interest on debt,
and outlays for permanent improve¬
ments. amounted to $1,513,628,021, or
nearly three times the total of 1917.
which was 8517.503,220. * The total
In 1923 was $3,310,332,798.
Of the total payments in 1924, 66.2
per cent was for operation and main¬
tenance of the general Ue-partments;
0.7 per cent for operation and mainte¬
nance of public service enterprises;
3.7 per cent for interest on debt, and
29.4 per cent for outlays for perma¬
nent improvements.
The total revenue receipts of the
state governments £or 1924 were $1,-
^ Tax on Women Urged £
to Give Farmers Relief §
Victoria, B. C.—Taxing worn- £
en to relieve fanners was pro- t>
posed by the agricultural com- j? $
mittee of the provincial iegista- §
ture in a recommendation made
to the Hon. Dr. D. J. Mac-Lean, i
minister of finance. %
The agriculturists would im¬
pose a poll tax on women earn¬
ing more than the legal wage
under tlie minimum wage act.
The proceeds would make tax¬
ation relief for the farmers pos¬
sible, the committee pointed out.
elaborate and have much in them to
remind one of Fontainebleau ami Ver¬
sailles. It is likely that their build¬
ers were influenced by French officers
then in the employ of tlie Annamese.
The later tombs are of native archi¬
tecture. Botli types are striking and
artistic, and make up one of tlie most
beautiful groups of roya! tombs In tlie
world.”
Flintlock Made in 1765
Used by Hunter in Maine
Oakland, Maine.—Hunting in the
woods of Maine with a flintlock is
something quite out of keeping with
this advanced age, but that is what
Capt. John G. W. Dillin of Media,
Pa., skilled rifleman and noted big
game hunter, has been doing of late.
Captain Diilin. who has a record of
40. seasons of limiting in the woods
of Ontario and his hoifie state, has
been the guest of Walter Welch, and
with Benjamin Libby as guide, they
went to Sandy Beach plantation.
Tlie flintlock with which Captain
Diilin roamed through the forest was
made in 1765 and figures in a tragedy
in which its owner, Christian Kauff¬
man, shot and killed an Inflian who
was kidnaping ids neighbor’s daughter
in Berne township, Berks county, along
the Blue Ridge mountains, about 1770.
The rifle remained in tlie Kauffman
family until about eighteen years ago.
This type of weapon was called tiie
Kentucky rifle by Daniel Boone after
lie made his memorable trip over the
mountains into Kentucky in 170!X
370,066,018. This was $301,713,633
more than the total payments of the
year exclusive of the payments for
permanent improvements, but $143,-
562,003 less than the total payments
including those for permanent im¬
provements. In only 21 of the states
was there sufficient revenue to meet
all payments during the' year.
The net indebtedness continued to
increase and in 1924 was $1,183,467.
I 433, or $10.63 per capita. In 1923
the per capita net debt was $8.72,
! and in 1917, $4.93. Bonds in 1924
1 were largely for highways and for the
j payment of soldiers’ bonus.
For 1924 tiie assessed valuation of
property in the 48 states amounted
to $131,333,557,565. The amount of
general property taxes levied for state
purposes was $36S.OS3.710. The per
capita levy was $3.31 for 1924.
Monte Carlo to Have
Rival Gambling Resort
Paris.—Monte Carlo is threatened
with a rival in the nearby Mediter¬
ranean. Next spring a new city is to
be built outside Valletta, the capital
of Malta, Paris has learned, and Pre¬
mier Ugo Pasquale Mifsud of Malta
is quoted as saying that no expense
will be spared to make the new gam¬
bling eenter without an equal in the
world.
It is reported the Maltese Monte
Carlo will have theaters, grounds for
various forms of sport, ultra-modern
hotels and a sumptuous casino, with
roulette and other forms of gambling.
To Fight Chauffeurs
Paris.—Pedestrians have organized
to protect themselves against the tyr<
a nny af chauffeurs.