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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04

Richard H. Scobie has resold for
Adolph Won Oehsen to a client for cash
the northwest corner of Grand Boule-
ward and Concoursc and 184th Street,
nve-storY apartment, three stores. on
Samuel Cowon has sold 1873 Alexan-
ger Avenue. q four-story store build
Tho Frangella Realty Company has
90 soid for Mrs. 7. Lynch to Mrs. M.
;n:pn o the thrce-farnily house at
10y East ls0th Street; for Charles
Dietrich to Nj. Dolrin the two. fnmi I
house at 915 Oak Tree place. and for
william Malarky to francesca d'Amico
Street. LOU
4, Clarence Davies has sold Tor Cor
nslia .. Dsan and others 1889 College
avenue. !sS feet north Of l0bth Street.
= thrss-aamily brisk house. on is1 "a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
.l6-Story Building
For Seventh Ave.
And 35th St. Corner
James F. Ogden, Music Roll
Manufactures, to Erect
Structure, Part of Which
Company Will Occupy


James F. Ogden, president Of the Al
toona Music Roll Company, has leased
from the estate of Anna Loughran
DAILY, through John R. & Oscar l..
Foley and j. Arthur Fischer, the prop
erty at 4e2, 464, 4e6, 46S Seventh Ave
nue. and 2O9-11 West Thirty-ffth
Street, being the northwest corner of
Seventh Avenue and Thirty-fifth
Street. plot 85x100. covered with six
five-story buildings
+ The term of the lease is sixty-threc
years, and the aggregate net rental for
the term is said to be $2,50O,OO0
MT. Ogden intends to demolish the
present buildings and erect on the site
sixteen-story mercantile building.
part of which will be used for Offices
and showrooms for his own COM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04

IhIs - tie United States Expre Building
Of Rector Street. and Tniy Place Elias
cehsn president Of the Corporation VA.
reported hsn th the 600
End the rsnta derived tbs
dsvcs that the Of
statsd The vus IT the nd the
hsasss jasss Syh
udns t3zsooo H. rent return
asash - $4,000 yssA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
new INTENTION HENxHv7WE
MARzNE RzZDZNG At M7zERT
$1,000, 600, 900 to
Be Invested in New
Buildings This Year

Residential, industrial and other
b sud din -. contracts aggregating ST..
Missouri and north Of the Ohio rivers
in 1920, as compared with $780,
100000 in the same territory during
1919.
Statistics for years back show
that only two-thirds of construction
planned Is ever undertaken. Working
on this basis, Franklin IT. Miller,
head of the +. w. Dodge Company,
has arrived at the above estimate
for actual construction work this
year. the total value of proposed
building filed during 1919 being
$4,000, 100000.
Contracts awarded for building In
New York City total $269, 1857 900.
Residences (15,1e7) including dwell
ings, apartment houses dormitories
and hotels, s149 ,453 900; manufac~
turing buildings 5000, $25,847 900:
miscellaneous (2.241), se4, 467 900.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04

me ABOVE Illustration the building Fred E
'encn company builders and ~
hrn corner Of ad.on
Street The property bought evsr
weeks ago through Lawrence Blake
the site will b undertaken a viii b pobe for
company to started The occupy .
ssm have Ah4 AssssA aasA 90 sS
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-19

,,ma with margin indexes like big die
tionarv Senator Capper heads the com
mittec on agricultural interests; James
p Garfield. civil service and retirement;
Clifford Rinchot and Dan {. Jackling, con
servation: Frank Nanderllp, banking ana
currency and imitation; Everett Colby OF
New Jersey, federal and state rights
Helen Rogers Reid, wife of the editor OF
the New York Tribune, high cost OF ny
ing: Representative Gillette, lmmlgra-
ton; r. j. Caldwell, industrial rela-
tions; George Wharton Pepper, industry
and commerce: John NJ. Switzer, lnsular
possessions; former Senator Beverage,
law and order; General Goethals, mer-
chant marine; Representative James w
Good, national econmy; George Il. lock
wood. postal service; William Allen
White, social problems: Ogden Mills,
taxation; Frederick Freylinghuysen, war
risk insurance.
The foregoing names are printed at the
top of the various reports showing that
each conducted the QUESTIONABLE on the
subject assigned. The reports are to be
made public III "a few days. The series
of questions have already been made
public. They are far reaching and eX-
haustive viii Hays and his associates
are quite proud of their work. At least
they have endeavored to find out what
the people would like to see written in
one party platform. 1t is not extreme
neither socialistic nor reaetionary, but a
sort of middle-of the road program. 1t
now remains to be seen what the eXpe-
rieneed politicians do with this card in
dex of public opinion when the Repubh
can national convention meets next
month
Significantly enough, none of the Re.
publican aspirants for the nomination
has had much to do with the platform
They have refrained from announcing
any programs of their own except il
general terms. But the work of the
platform committee will afford text
book for all candidates.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-19

of their sub committees to the members
of congress who are to help draft the
Republican platform at Chicago The
are in pamphlet form and cover
every subject of Importance except the
peace treaty and league of nations,
blanks of which members of the senate
are drafting The unofficial platform
committee conducted mail canvass,
sending printed form broadcast asking
every conceivable question. The queriesI
were not fphrased suggestively but in q
way that would bring out a variety of ii
answers.
1t doesn't make much difference what
anvonea thinks of the Republican party +
or the views that have been summarized
in the big report brought here by VIII
Hays as a fair reflection of American
public opinion But the fact sis that
heretofore platforms have been made in /
the excitement and haste of committee /
meetings at the national conventions
and the conventions have usually adopted |
plank after plank without much debate.
| The assembly is usually too large to per-
nit of lengthy discussion.
Both the Republicans and Democrats
| have not infrequently been embarrassed
by the patchwork of committees on plat
| forms. Candidates have had to stand
on these platforms when they usually
had no part in framing them The Re-
publicans have introduced a novel plan.
| They have attempted to use the months
/, before the convention to get true chart
| of the desires of the electorate Instead
of leaving the subject to members of
congress who,a are often too close to legis-
lative tangles to get a good perspective,
the Republican national committee has
gone to the factory and the farm, to
employer and employee. Every delegate
probably will have copies of the volume
before the convention begins.
The Democrats of course point to the
futility of the whole business, contend
ing that all the material can be found
in the daily newspapers and magazines
and that even If condensed into platform
planks, the machine politicians of the
Republican party wal make the platform
as innocuous and inoffensive as possible.
: But the Republicans who have worked
3 on the plan are not so sure that the old
line bosses who pull the strings are going
to be able this year to brush aside So
: monumental a piece of research work as
| has been done by the unofficial commit
tee. They hope, and privately they in
: sist, that no body of politicians viii be
able to ignore the work of the platform
committee if public opinion should get
4 solidly behind it.
VIII Hays is shrewd leader. He has
). used the progressives in the Republican
e party to draw up series of platform
:, planks. He is counting the widest pub
T licity He hopes to get the Republican
: party committed to these progressiv,
), principles so that no group of conserva
tives or standpatters can defeat the eff
g forts of the progressives. A conserva
r tive might even be nominated. but tn,
j. platform will breathe forward lookin.
doctrine.
It Some eminent men have colaborate,
: IN making the series of reports all o
(which have been printed in single vol
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-19
DYE OLD, SHABBY
OR FADED FROCK
Diamond Dyes Make Used Apparel
Stylish and New.

Don't worry about perfect results
Use Diamond Dyes" guaranteed to give
new, rich, fadeless color to any fabric
whether it be wool, silk, linen. cotton or
mixed oods,-dresses, blouses, stock
ings, skirts, children's coats, feathers,
draperies, coverings.
The Direction Book with each package
tells so plainly how to diamond d We over
any color that you cannot make a mis-
take
To match any material, have druggist
show you Diamond Dye" Color Card
Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-19
PLATFORM DATA
FOR REPUBLICANS
Great Mass of Material Col
lected By General
QUESTIONABLE
COMMITTEE is
IN WASHINGTON
Trying to Frame Platform That Re
fleets Deliberate Public Opinion -
Shrewd Work BY Chairman Hays of
National Committee.
Bv DAVID LAWRENCE.
Copyright by The Reformer.)

WASHINGTON, May 10 Entirely
apart from the question of what the
Republican national convention may do
with the voluminous report of the spe-
cial committee of policies and platforms,
yesterday may be said to mark an epoch
in the evolution of the party platform.
Will Hays, chairman of the Republican
national committee, and his right bower,
State Senator Ogden L. Mills of the New
York Legislature, came to town and ex-
hibited to a roomful of Washington cor
respondents the results of months of re
search on public questions. Later these
two individuals submitted the 20 reports
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-11
WELL ENDOWED BY NATURE
Mountain Goat Thoroughly Equipped
for Life in High Attitudes Amid
Snow and Rocks.

'The mountain goat is, equally At
home on rock, ice, nov or meadow,
and 1t lives in bands Of two to twenty"
says DR.. William T. Hornaday, writing
of "'The Rocky Mountain Goat at
Home" in Boys Life. cts big black
hoofs have chisel edges for ice and a
center of rubber cushion for slippery
rock. In steep climbing the front Of
the hoof digs in like a garden trowel,
and in going down steep places the
rear dewdaws make wonderfully effec-
tive brakes. The heavy coat of fine
and dense white wool is impervious to
dry cold, but the wet and cold rains Of
New York winters quickly put noun
tain goats down and out. In the East
they must be sheltered from all cold
rains, or they contract pneumonia and
die. OF dry cold they can endure any
amount. .
I'm the matter of food, we must say
that the goat is herbivorous, and ex-
plain that it feeds on a great variety
of mountain plants, according to sea-
son. On the SUBMITS they find very
little real grass, but they find pull
satflla ard other queer pasture plants
that are literally just as good In the
spring they feed ON the wild onions
that grow abundantly in their home
pastures. which imparts to their flesh
a strong onion flavor"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-11
CLIMB THAT REQUIRED NERVE
English Workman Went $50 Feet In
Air to Make Repairs to Marconl
Wireless Mast.

The Morning Post of London gives
the description of a climb performed
by a workman in the employ of the
Marconi company at their works in
Chelmsford. A short time ago the
highest part of a wireless mast $50
feet high, higher than the cross on
the top of st. Paul's, was broken by a
gale. How vas it to be repaired?
Ladders were out Of the question. But
the difficulties did not daunt one of
the wOrkmen, who noticed that the
mast was made Of manifestations
bolted together and then fitted one on
top Of the other. He asked, and was
given permission, to try the climb. He
made himself a belt, at the two ends
of which were rings that would slip
over the ends of the bolts. Thus
equipped he started to mount on high,
the bolts being his only means Of
support. On the first day he swarmed
up 200 feet, fitted the tackle, and
descended to earth, for it was too cold
to proceed farther. On the second day
he a hoisted up the 200 feet, and
then, hand over hand by means of his
rings and bolts, he got to the top Of
the mast, where he effected the neces-
sary repairs. The last $50 feet Of
climbing was done in an hour. The
mans name was Post.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-11
ARABS SKILLED IN AVIATION
Their 2echanIeians Said to Have Been
Peaeers in the Art In the Sec
ond Century.

The Aisle Arabe has some interesting
sideliehts on the early history of avi-
alton, 80 far as it concerns the Arab
ace. According to this paper, 1t was
at the end of the second century, and
the beginning Of the third, that the
Arab race began to be Influenced by
the Greeks and Indians. 1t was in
Bagdad that the mathematical and
mechanical arts first began to make
their appearance. With the coming Of
these different studies the horizon Of
the Arabs became enlarged. 1t was
about this period that the grand
Caliph Haroun al-Raschid SEM his
famous clock to Charlemagne, emperor
Of the Franks.
Amongst. the various crafts from
which the Arabs drew their culture
was, strange as it may seem today,
that of aviation. AT the head Of this
section was the celebrated Arab
mechanician Abbas Ben Farnas, the
first known pioneer Of the art which
Bleriot, Farman and Guynemer have
since made famous, unless one should
include in such the young Icarus of
Greek legend.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-11
Memory System,

A middle-aged s%uburbanite Y e
taken on his Saturday afternoon stroll
by a young married friend whom he
knew was taking a memory-training
course, inquired as to the progress
made. Doing fine !" was the reply.
Fill your pipe from my pouch and I'll
tell you while we perambulate." But
the last word was hardly uttered when
he made a right-about-face and re-
turned at the double on his tracks. In
the evening the middle-aged man
called to return the pouch. Thanks"
smiled the owner. you'd wonder why
I left you so abruptly. Law Of associ-
ation-worked beautifully. The word
tobacco followed by 'perambulate'
reminded me of something" "Impor-
tant?' "Well-yes. Don't breathe a
word to the wife. I'd left the peram-
bulator outside the ~tobacconist's and
the baby was in it !'-Manchester
Guardian. r., II
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-11
Mark Twain's Imagination.

Mark Twain had such a vivid imag-
nation, such a brain for embroidery,
that it was a difficult task for him to
tell a straight story just as it hap
pened-he could make up one that
vas so much better. We all know that
Albert Bigelow Paine. working on
Mark Twain's Life" found it neces-
sary to discard much If the autobio-
graphic material Mark Twain had writ
ten. Investigation, talks with men
still living who knew the facts, simply
proved that the tales were not so.
And Mark Twain was no liar. He had
a glorious, almost superhuman, imag-
ination. AS he approached threescore
and ten he said, as quoted in the
Life" "Whpn I was younger I could
remember anything, whether it hap
pened or rot; but l am getting old,
and soon I shall remember only the
facts."-Wflliam w. Ellsworth, "A
Golden Ase of Authors"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-11
Insect Life in Winter.

In the dead wood of the old snags
are many Insects that live through the
winter regardless of how cold it gets !;
creatures whose weak bodies seem to
defy the frigid temperature. Pull off
a bit of old bark from a snag and note
that there is life beneath it; little peo-
pie that try to scurry for cover when
their home is wrecked. They arc not
SO agile as when the weather is warm,
but they are not in a state of torpor.
The fish do not hibernate during the
winter. Some species find homes in
holes or beneath rocks and roots and
get along very well without food dur
ing the cold weather, but they are not
torpid like the bears and groundhogs
that hibernate. Most of the fish swim
about in the cold water and gather a
living in winter just as they do in
summer, but none of them require so
much food when the water is cold.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-11

Because II preserves the fine spirsk
Of national service called into being
by our participation in the war.
Because, through the Junior Red
Cross, it develops among u children
that spirit Of idealism. and inter
national friendship which il essential
to the future peace Of the world
Because it provides a preparedness
against disaster-local or internatisn-
al--snd, with it's experience and "a
%cilities, stands in readiness to succsr
victims Of such calamities.
Because it carries to those, who
through misfortune arr unable to care
for themselves and families, the help
that is needed to tide them through
their difficulties.
because the American Red Cross
is an expression Of American citizen
ship.
because it c~onserves the morale and
family interests Of those men whs
serve in our ~peace-time military and
naval forces.
Because ia q word, it stands for al
that IS best in American life, and is
a tie that binds you to America.
and with Americans everywhere-for
service. &c.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-11
Facts About Corn Culture.

The tribes of North America saw
the possibilities of corn and fastened
its evolution. There has been cross
breeding by white farmers, yet, as a
matter of fact, the corn culture of the
present day is practically as it came
from the hand of the Indian. He has
adapted and modified it to various sec
tons of the country by a process of
careful selection.
Recently 1t occurred to some scien-
lists that despite the drawback OF the
weather the Mandan Indians of the
North were raising corn. An expedi-
ton made a study Of the agricultural
methods of the Mandans, and it devel-
oped that for centuries the farmers Of
the tribes had been developing a hardy
corn. The seed had been selected from
year to year from stalks which showed
no effect from frost.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-11
In Praise of violets.

There are about Il hundred different
species of violets, of which there are
five species in England, and a few sub
species. One of these is the viola tri-
color, from which is descended the
garden pansy, or Love-in-Idleness.
But in all the passages in which
Shakespeare names the violet, he al
ludes to the purple sweet-scented vi
olet. of which he was evidently very
fond, and which is said to be very
abundant in the neighborhood Of
Standardization. For all the eight
een passages tell of some point of
beauty or sweetness that attracted
him. And so it is with all the poets
from Chaucer downward-the violet
is noticed by all, and by all with at
fection.-Christian Science Monitor.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-11
The Groundhoq.

Nobody knows where the grounding
got it's "!ep' as a weather f%orecaster,
but belief in it's powers in this regard
seems to be very ancient.
1t is a kind Of marmot therefore
related to the prairie dog) and makes
its home in a burrow 20 or 30 feet
long, which descends obliquely four or
five feet, and then gradually rises to a
large round. chamber, where the
grounding family sleeps and brings up
the young ones.
In the daytime the woodchuck (as 1t
Is otherwise called) never gets far
from it's burrow. When angry or
alarmed 1t makes a. chattering noise,
or sometimes utters a shrill whistle.
It's bite Is severe, and it will make q
desperate agl* against a dog.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-11
NOW, WHAT WOULD you D0
New Yorker Saw Only One Way &
Settle Problem Of street-car Eth
quette Confronting Him.

A business man who was raised far
enough away from New York still t,
say "ma'am" when he speaks to o
strange woman was recently confront.
ed with a new angle Of one of tho
major transportation problems of city
life.
His theory is that since woman have
sought and found equal opportunity in
business and in politics, a tired man
should have an equal opportunity in
the seat lottery on the way home at
night. It isn't a fixed rule, but he
has the exceptions to it pretty well in
mind. He will not take a seat If there
is a woma standing near it. He will
yield his seat to an elderly woman,
and-this is a cardinal exception-to
a woman with a baby.
But he did not have the answer
ready the other night when he looked
up from his paper to find clingfng to
the strap before him a handsome
young woman with a poodle under her
arm.
The hero Of this experience is a
quick thinker, but also set In his con-
victions. OF course, he reasoned, a
dog isn't a baby a woman who will
carry one on the subway In the rush
hour isn't a "tired working girl ;" If
I gave up my seat to a woman with a
baby I should be doing only what is
right, but If I give my seat to this
woman with the pup every man in the
car will laugh and I shall feel silly
myself.
Being q diplomat he got off at the
next station and waited for another
train.-New York Sun.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-11
KNOW NOTHING or DYSPEPSIA
Esklmos Apparently Able 70 Digest
Anything in the Form Of Food,
Without Cooking u.

There Is at least n native ace of
America that is little troubled with
dyspepsia The Eskimo seems to defy
all laws in this relation and to thrive.
He eats until he is satisfied, and it
takes much to satisfy him, II, indeed,
he ever is satisfied. He eats as long
as there is a shred Of the feast before
him. His capacity is limited only by
the supply.
The Eskimo, it further appears, can
make no mistake in the manner Of
cooking his food for the very simple
reason that he does not cook it. Nor,
so far as the blubber or fat Of the Arc
tic Is concerned, is he worried about
his manner Of eating it. Indeed, he
may be said not to eat 1t at all. He
cuts it into long strips an inch wide
and an inch thick and then lowers the
strip down his throat as one might
lower a rope into a well. Notwith-
standing all this, the Eskimo does not
suffer from indigestion. He can make
a good meal off the flesh and skin of
the walrus, provision SC hard and grit
ty that in cutting up the animal the
knife must be continually sharpened.
The teeth of a little Eskimo child
will, it is said by those who know,
meet in a bit of walrus skin as the
teeth Of one of our own children would
meet in the flesh of an apple, although
the hide of the walrus is from half an
inch to an inch in thickness and bears
considerable resemblance to the hide
Of an elephant. The child of the Arc
tic will bite it and digest it and never
know what dyspepsia means.