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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-15

mile west and some north OF the
Duke well, is spudding today.
The Danley No. of the Sun Oil
Co., is in the lime at $40 feet with
small showing OF gas. This we'll is
four miles west OF Ranger.
The Prairie Oil and Gas on its
Danley No. | located 4 IL miles
northwest OF Ranger, is drilling at
1920 feet. There is some oil and
gas in the hole.
The Prairie Oil and Gas Co. on
its No. | Roper, three miles west
OF Ranger, is rigging up to drill in.
The well has been flowing for two
or three months.
The Knowles No. of the Penn
Tex Oil Co., drilled two feet deeper
into the sand Saturday. Before the
storage was filled, the gauge for
| ID hours showed better than 300
barrels per hour. The paysand in this
well has just been tapped and at the
present time the well is running
wild.
The Magnolia Duke No. is max
ing Is barrels per hour and has
not yet been drilled in.
The Crescent Oil Co., onc-half
mile west of the Knowles WELL has
pulled its big pipe, and is setting O.
inch casing at depth OF 2690 feet.
The Skelley and Sankcy No. on
the Ilogg farm is making about 20
barrels Of oil per day, and 100000
feet OF gas in its first pay sand at
2,720 feet.
w. B. White of the Plains Oil and
Gas Co., has returned from the Ran
ger field,
T. Y. Mccormick, formerly SUI
perintendent OF the Allen field for
the Plains Oil and Gas Co.,, has
been promoted. and is now super
intendent for that company at Burk-
burnett.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-15

Lieut. Ernest McCann of Ardmore
has been appointed superintendent
in the Allen field for the Plains Oil
and Gas Co. to succeed T. Y. Nc
Cormick.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-15
SIS PER SHARE
LOOK WHAT RED
WITCH IS DOING

Newspaper Clipping.
ked Wich has become the new leader on the
exchanges, the stock being in strong demand at
S!o per share, with offerings ned at their min
mum. The rise in price is due. no doubt, to the
proximity OF the cOmpany's holdings to the
burk,Bridge we'll which is reported to have an
excellent showing for good well.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-15

The Plains Oil and Gas Co.
Stockton No. |, three fourths OF a
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-15

The Prairie Oil and Gas on its
Danley No. located 4 IL miles
northwest OF Ranger, is drilling at
1920 feet. There is some oil and
gas in the hole.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-15

The Plains Oil and Gas Co. is
roaming at 800 feet on its Harring-
ton No. | which is located miles
north OF the Duke well.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-15

mile west and some north OF the
Duke well, is spudding today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-15

The Prairie Oil and Gas Co. on
its No, | Roper, three miles west
OF Ranger, is rigging up to drill in.
The well has been flowing for two
or three months.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-22

would awaken the citizens interest in
the business of their city.
A city manager Is In no wise exempt
from criticism: angry citizens are ask
ing why no public improvements were
made in the first year of his reign.
His reply Is that he has kept the city's
expenditures within Its income and
that 1t was war year and that all
unnecessary public works had to be
postponed. Furthermore. he says that
the city has no excess public funds
and that It was good business not to
launch any ambitious programme OF
public improvement without having
the money to pay for 1t. The city
manager, he asserts, was put in to
give the city a business administra-
ton, not TO run the city into debt and
then ask the citizens to dig down in
their pockets to foot the bill.
East Cleveland has a population of
$4,000, an area Of three square miles /:
II has no slums. therefore no big social
problems. The city managers task
Is largely one Of administration, a
pure question Of getting the full value
for every cent OF the $165,00o that II
takes to run this venturesome little
city that went so far as to try to coll
lect taxes from John d. Rockefeller
who has homo there. They failed
l The business men who have dealings
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East Cleveland's Civic Experiment
. asst CLEVELAND, the first city

II Asst CLEVELAND. the first city
r. in the United States to adopt
the plan of having a city man.
ager in lieu OF a Mayor and thereby
banning politics from the administra-
ton OF the city, has just completed its
hrst year. There Is division of opln-
ion as to whether the plan is a success
or not.
Many claim that under a city man
ager the interest OF the citizens Of the
town have taken an attitude Of at Is
the managers business to run the city,
so why should we worry about the de-
tails of policies: mind your own busl-
ness and let the city manager mind the
city's." This public apathy has become
30 real that many of the citizens are
already advancing the proposition that
1t would be well to have a few candi-
dates for public office just to keep the
people in mind that there is really
such thing as a city government
These men declare that thara is
nothing like the old get out and
sling mud" to keep the voter awars
c. NJ. Osborn. the city manager n
his first annual report, 1ust unfinished
comments on this public apathv a.
expresses the hope that the resume q,
his first twelve months achievemsnt,
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with the city manager administration
are all strong for 1t. They all agree
that they are treated more business
like and that the manager system
eliminates the political personality an
gle for contracts Bids are studied,
accepted or rejected simply on their
merits. they say; they get much
quicker action and are paid much
quicker.
In regard to applying this system
to large cities, students Of East Cleve-
land are reluctant to express their
opinion. They realize that a healthy
and lively interest in municipal az
fairs Is essential to the maintenance
Of good government. and the apparent
lapse OF all interest whatsoever that
has come over most OF the citizens of
East Cleveland has caused many of
the students to refrain from drawing
hasty conclusions. They ASSERT that
the attitude Of municipal Indifference
Is only a temporal condition, brought
about by the decision to give the city
manager free. full and unhampered
control Of the city affairs to show Just
exactly what he can DO In his FIRST
term OF ONCE. They also ascribe q
large part OF the indifference to the
natural reaction from the strong par
tisanship that was developed here by
numerous bitter factional hghtA
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FIRST to resume It on the Eastern sea-
board.
~There also, like 10 think, We are
in q position TO do Q public service OF
some value. You know the present
condition Of building operations
throughout the country. II you cross
the continent you can hardly look out
Of the car window without seeing an
addition being put on q private house
or new barn going up or carpenters
busy on some other little job. But cap
ital is waiting. IT'S cautious. It's loath
TO engage in big building. The ricn
think costs will presently drop back to
the antebellum level
well, they won't. II doesn't require
seer 70 realize that. Costs are going
to stay up. they're going TO be stanil.
ICED where they are, or thcreaocut
And the quicker capital psrceives II
and gets back into activity for growth
end progress and prosperity--and. By
no means incidentally. for general en-
ployment and contsntment among the
people--the better for all concerned.
The nation Is enjoying phenomenal
advertisement from the war. The time
to take fun advantage Of II and safe
guard the future 10 now.
An Instance OF Tfmfaity.
Unless you had talked. a. I have.
with business men the country over
during these last few months you could
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-22
Problems of the Way We Walk

The styles OF our clothes have been
responsible for some very interesting
ways of walking. In fact styles OF
walking are easily TO be traced to the
sort of skirts we wear. Or is 1t the
other way around? Do we submit to
extremes in skirts according as we are
willing to give up the privilege OF TAX
ing comfortable. normal steps?
This is not the first time we have
hobbled. But the hobble OF 1919 Is Just
little different from the hohble OF
1913. For one thing, we are not so
docile about 1t. We cannot accustom
ourselves to It. for We have gone un-
checked and unhaltered for so many
seasons. So this seasons hobble is
characterized by something that re-
sembles hop. skip and a jump. We
make valiant effort as II We hoped
any minute to be able to step forward
unchecked and finally abandon our ef-
forts 10 progress entirely. Then we
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-22

that they did not find 1t necessary
either to kill off the Indians or to
amalgamate with them
There are forty or more old Spanish
families in Costa Rica which are much
intermarried. and in them the rule Of
the nation has been vested for several
generations. Gonzalez was OF that
bI eed. and so is TInoco. both OF them OF
pure Castilian descent and OF a much
higher type OF man than the usual
Central American ruler and politician
! Such an experienced observer as
Frederick Palmer has called Costa
Rica the one real republic OF Central
America and the most peaceful, the
happiest and the best governed OF all
the republics In the South" Its build
ings, hospitals and national institu-
tons are modern and up to date, and
Its banana and coffee plantations are
we'll and carefully tended. The war
affected the trade OF the country con-
s'derably. but travellers recently from
there declare that in. spite OF this
Costa Rica remains the most prosper
Gus of the Central American countries
and real exhibit which justiies the
Monroe Doctrine.
This unusual Central American
country was discovered by Christopher
Columbus in 1902, on one OF his later
voyages, and he was so impressed by
specimens Of gold shown, to him by
the natives that he named the country
Costa Rica-gold coast. A few years
later Spain created The kingdom OF
Guatemala, which then included the
whole OF Central America and a por-
ton Of Mexico, Costa Rica became a
province OF this old Castilian kingdom
and remained such until the revolu-
tionary period Of lslo-1s2B. when
1 Spain lost the greater part OF her
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-22
.. M. LihhARD WHO Is TO BUILD
a GIGANTIC HOTEL E,z NEW YORK

looking front ONCE man. for instance,
about whose real qualifications they
know nothing. They assume that 1t
doesn't matter. the hotel game being
Inherently hit or miss.
Now. you know. II they did but stop
to think, they'd realize that no bust
ness can be unduly hazardous in which
rates can be raised or lowered to con-
form with costs. Take the restaurant
II strawberries are out OF season and
only dollhouse berries or Southern
grown are to be had the cost is high.
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either give up walking en'F'E
abandon our tight skirt in favor q o"'
that is wider, though not 50 i'sN''"'
able.
At the spring resorts where Woas"
have In other seasons prom'naI'' "
show their own and to see other W..
mems new apparel and WaeTe oI.y
those who were too weary or too "vn"
to walk resorted to the wheel cD".,s
it has been noticed that there were ~
cidedly fewer promenaders among W,
women and an unusually large 6eH'an
for the wheel chairs, The anS"e. 80
not far TO seek, No matter 70" WIZ.
ing, nay eager you may be 10 wa" :, -
your ankles are shackled you can ~
It.
But there is nothing at all new aooa ".
the hobble step. In fact the sN.I. :.
tight as to force women 10 takA MIA
ing steps seems to have been aailH'''
since the dawn Of history.
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estern Builder Introduces New Hotel Ideas Manhatta

Mr.. Linnard's liberalism would /.
popular with all guests OF the c,,..
he was likely to cater to in Manhatt.s
"oh, I dare say 1t wouldn't" he "A.
mitted, cheerfully. I'VE shant fors.
II on any ones attention. The r,sp,,'
Of our employment policy will sn.ss
for themselves, trust. I've Learn.
q great deal as a hotel man about ~.
views and feelings Of guests who ren'
resented the so-called vested inters,,.
and perhaps when our guests are NJ,
attending board meetings and h.ws
leisure to abserve the workings q, ~.
Linnard they'll be curious about then,
and our example, in a humble wsn
may set going currents Of thousS,
that will result in good.
prohibition and the hotel busin.,..
/ would rather not 60 into that VA.
extensively just at this time, but VA,
may say for me that we are not wo,-
ried about the effect Of prohib,,,o,
and that our experience has justIn,S
confidence that a hotel whose r..-
taurant business is on a solid bad,
need not suffer when the reyeppss
from its bars are cut off,"
Began with n Boarding Hou,.
Mr.. Linnard was born at Cav
May City, N. J. He went West !,
youth and began his career In noin,ns
and then in building. The hotel bus'
ness looked better to him, SO he mA,
q third beginning, starting with
boarding house In Pasadena in order
to learn by. experience on a small
scale. His FIRST hotel was the ala
Casa Grande in Pasadena, now clo,ss
and torn down some time since,
He conducts the MARYLAND in Pas,-
dena, which had 1875 rooms capacity
when he took hold Of It eighteen year,
ago and now has 500, with eight acr.
OF bungalows. His other Pasadspa
hotels are the Huntington, large N.
sort hotel, and the Green.
| In San Francisco he has the Fir.
mont, built by two New York women
and leased and managed by Mr., LIN.
nard, and the new and greater edition
Of the famous Palace. The Original
Palace, which he says was the aryt
| really BTCdt hotcl III tno WOTlO, was
destroyed in the fire Ut is bad form
to say the earthquake) Of 1906.
His other hotels are the Belveders IN
Santa Barbara, the Alexandra and u.
So. 100000 California, the latter strl
under construction, in Los Angeles
and the Ambassador in Atlantic City,
His home il and will continue to BE-
in Pasadena IF I should announce
that was going to live East my
friends out there would probably jump
all over me-" he says.
He Is married and has a son and
daughter. Both his son and his son.
n-law are associated with him h!
business. He plays all the golf he
can find time for and exhibits a De.
voted golfers good brown tan. ~ had
no trouble getting good insurance
rate at So" 1t must have been not
long ago.
He quietly avows an ambition, or
rather the intention. to make the Lin.
nard the worlds finest hotel. As for
it's distinctively American character
he feels that the inauguration Of an
American era in the American hotel
business 10 something of a patriotic
duty.
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mainland possessions in the Western
Hemisphere. The Kingdom thereupon
became separated into five political
Observation-Disclosures, Honduras, Sal
vador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. In
1921 they renowned their allegiance
to the Spanish Crown and became in
dependent States.
For many years Costa Rica was I'M
der the rule Of a dictator. Don Braulio
GARLIC. and after his death In 1S47 she
adopted her constitution, which has
several times been modified. The coun-
try has an area of about $4,000 square
miles, which makes 1t about half the
size OF Pennsylvania or about the same
size as West Virginia. The lower levels
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was the first country to recognize the
rev Government OF Tinoco, and his
opponents always contended that this
fact proved that he was really pro-
German and that Gonzales was pro-
Ally.
Tinoco's offer of aid to the United
States during the war put this coun-
try in something OF an embarrassing
position. 1t had been the policy OF
Washington not to recognize Central
and South American Governments
that came into power through revolu-
tons. and that was what Tinoco GER
tainly had done. although the revo-
luton was a very peaceful one as such
things go.
The Senate took up the matter and
II was finally referred to a sub-com.
mittee of the Committee on Foreign
Relations. and there 1t has been ever
since. This country ignored the offer
Of the Costa Rican Government, al
though President Tinoco went ahead
and did what he could to aid the Allies,
interning German subjects and deliv-
ering belligerent addresses by the
score. Up to a few months ago Tin
oco's Government had been recog-
n'zed by twenty-three countries. al
though not by the United States.
Probably the secret OF the success
Of Costa Rica in keeping herself 80
free from revolutions for many years
Is that she Is the one country between
the Rio Grande and tine countries OF
South America where the population /,
preponderatingly white. The Costa
R'cans are also probably the most
vigorous people Of Central America
descended from the original Spanish
immigrants who were fortunate
enough TO settle a country In which
the Indian population was small, &C
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THE Central American Republic
of Costa Rica, which has been
- considerably in the public eya
Of recent months because Of the revo-
luton against the rule Of President
Federico Tinoco and the reported land
ing OF the United States marines there
to preserve order and guard Ameri-
can interests, has been cursed by re-
volts and revolutionary movements far
less than any other countries lying
south OF Mexico and north of the Pan
anna Canal As a matter Of fact, until
the revolt against President Tinoco
broke out Costa Rica had led a peace
full and prosperous existence for sixty
years, with no sanguinary revolutions
and no foreign wars except the brush
with Walker, the American filibuster
who included Costa Rica among the
Central American countries he at
tempted to subjugate.
True. President Tinoco came into
power on the crest of a revolution, but
1t was compare lively a peaceful one.
1t was all over In a few hours. and the
then President Alfredo Gonzalez had
been ousted with the loss Of not more
than five or six men killed and no
property damage whatever so far as
available records show. Tinoco always
declared he revolted against Gonzalez
in January. 1917, because Gonzalez was
pro- German. while he was. and want
ed his country to be. extremely pro-
American and pro-Ally. To prove
this he subsequently--in September
ts17--declared war against Germany
and offered the American Government
the use Of Costa Rican ports and
waters for American and Allied war
shipA On the other hand, Germany
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-22

entrance through the lobby and among
the Offices, 30 that here too guests may
be In the hotel but not Of II, at their
pleasure. Every suite, even to the
smallest, will have its own foyer.
THAT 10 the germ Of our distinctive
idea The rooms Of the Linnard will
be luxuriously large, with ceilings at
q height moro Characteristic of fine
old Southern mansions than Of the
usual low ceiled hoted room. and
cultivated taste. not gaudiness. will
rule the beauty OF their appointments
and decorations. Naturally It couldn't
DO and will not try to be q cheap hotel
but figured on the basis Of the cubic
foot the rates. I believe, will not be
found inordinate.
"A residential hotelf II you mean
q hotel entirely taken up by perma-
nent or reasonably permanent guests
that isn't what we contemplate.
We shall have such guests. The
domestic service situation in New
York has occasioned q great demand
for permanent homes with the service
provided, and understand there IA
now but one hotel In the city which
offers such homes and the waiting
hst OF Apphcants TOT them !" 40 ions
as inc hst Oh canoiaAtes ,or memoer'
snip IN some enciusIVe eiuos AZ soon
| build q hotel Of this kind applications
| began 10 reach u.s. IN some lew IN
stances the arrahserhent mas peen
mAoe eho inc desires Oh the Iu.ure
permanent guests arc oeihs met N
me MOO. piahs y, tneH suites. wv
shalI not % q. hDerty Ior some TINS
nAAe PuDAo 'ns naAhes VI theSe
guests.
I'm cneeriuly ready 70 preo,ot tha'
.hers VIII DC oo1en efnuia,ions Q.
.ne LAhharo idea as soon as tne note
mas oeen open iohs enousn 10 Demon
s'ra'e its speciai ueeiuihesa
erspocuVe pians Oh tne Duiiohs
VIII no. DC nhisnea ioI TWO or tnre'
~eehS' ,m III. pians WIN no. De uhti
er. INC srcniteo's are warren
we'nore' VINO uesisneo tne Conimo
oore, inc Diitihore' inc vahoerpht an'
tne fa.z among o'ner ne" fork no
teis' Work wiz DC pesun IN angus
ana nnisneo, Mr. Linnaro hopes. 0!
.ne nrsu OF 'ne year OF early IN lsso
lhs Du,Hns WIN oe seven.eeh storie'
nsn. Inc esunate OF tne cost o
puioihs 10 e''ooo'ooo' inc cost OK I'M
si'e was ahiouheeo as $i'oV''''o'
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s.T HE trouble with American
hotel planning as see II"
L said Daniel NJ. Linnard.
has been tendency to aim for enor-
nous size and the outward appear
ance of luxury, ecurins these at the
cost Of genuine comfort and refine
nent. Also hotel builder after hotel
builder has simply carried out IDEAS
that originated in Europe. The hotel
which I am to build in New York will
not be the city's largest, not by half.
But it will offer comfort and refine
ment in, all the words imply. the
scheme Of 1t is distinctively American.
and as the FIRST high class homo hotel
for transients 1t will be an innova-
tom to New York"
Mr. Linnard IL one more Western
invader Of the Manhattan hotel field.
At the moment Of writing his first
Eastern enterprise, the Ambassador
is being formally opened in Atlantic
City. For a Manhattan site he has
bought and is clearing part of the
block between Park and Lexingto ton
avenues and Fifty-first and Fifty
second streets. The property. formerly
occupied by the F. & NJ. Sohaefer
brewing plant, has the entire Park
avenue frontage, with ITO feet on
Fifty-first street and thirty eight on
Tifty-second.
The new hotel will be Mr.. Lin.
nard's tenth. He means to give 1t his
name.
1T won't be an apartment hotel
he said. Strictly speaking. no such
thing exists, and don't like the de.
scription. which suggests some grea'
garish pueblo Of twelve and nfteer
room suites, with all the appointments
of a private home, but also with al
the cares, including kitchen and ser.
wants quarters. The Linnard ia e
offer the privacy and the comforts Of
q private home, minus the cares.
Bungalows as Satellites.
with our hotels in the Vest
hereinafter, where Mr.. Linnard 4
speaking, our" as a rule, mean
my; he seems to have a constitu
tional dread Of the self-assertive pro
nouns-"we have been building sur
rounding groups or colonies of bunga
lows, some Of them costing $50, 900 an,
$4,000 each. The California In 10
Angeles, for instance, will hav
twenty-one acres Of ground and fift,
bungalows besides the main f1ots
building, The whole will be conducts
on the home hotel plan we shall intro
duce to Manhattan, though here, O
course. detached accommodations ar
impossible, and all must be under on
roof.
Guests occupying the bungalow
will be served with meals from tn
hotel kitchens-unless they happen I
prefer the hotel dining rooms an,
restaurants. Except for q privat
maid or valet, II the guest wishes I
bring one, they will have no servic
anxieties. The life and gayety of
FIRST class modern hotel-a resor
hotel, in the case OF the California
will be there at their disposal II the
elect to partake. II they prefer pri
yacy. seclusion. they will have 1t, wit
their own approaches and exits indie
pendent of the main building.
THE Linnard in New York, will no
be altogether a hotel Of several roor
suites. We shall offer a considerable
number Of single rooms with BATH
But the entrance to ones suite O
room will be distinct from the mai