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The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-01-08

The following is an estimate of the
probable expenditures of the Parish of
Natchitoches for the year 1920 as
adopted by the Police Jury of the par
ish Of NatchitOches.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-01-08

eleven 11:0O o'clock q. m. in open ses-
sion Of the police jury at the court
house. Natchitoches, Louisiana, The
police jury reserving the right to re-
ject any and all bids.
For further information concerning
said bonds, or the proc, edings leading
thereto, apply to Miss Addie Tauzirl.-
Secretary Police Jury, Natchitoches.
Louisiana. or James r. Salter, Presi-
dent, Police Jury, Cypress, Louisiana.
Thus done and signed at Natchitoches,
Louisiana, on this the 9th day of De-
cember. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
For Committee Rooms

Georcc T Mara hoe r,odo ,,lo,,.
to take ADVANTAGES Of tboso % ro,pnIIl9 i,af@ll9
adiuncts TO tbo frn Tho,. ,,.:I II'3l -
used bv sucb bod;os &c 4Lo ca o.
mittee on Resolutions and +ho C0,,
mitteo on Credentials. ona +bo W.
tional Committee rooms tbero.
selves will be here
"While the main hall is NOT orito
so large as we should Drefer il -
be for our purpose" remarked NV,
"the rest of the accommodations IN
the Exposition Auditorium ranoo
far in excess of what we had ever
hoped to find at our service"
The main platform is extensive
The press platform will be Of tho
same size as tho ono IN Ch;,oc.o o,,l
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
A Native Funeral

"Presently there comes the sound
Of a church chant, plaintive, majes-
tic; at the bend of the road choir
boys appear and priests in black ca
nonicals, and then a funeral on foot ::
the plain coffin of unvarnished pine
borne aloft by six bearers, followed
by men, some of them kinsmen of
the dead, draped in long weeds of
mourning; then a company of wom-
en-, with heads bowed and faces hid
den behind thick Grape wells, all
swathed alike in immense black
hooded cloaks that lend them the
archaic silhouette of the weeping
females you sometimes see in frieze
on medieval tombs. A grave and dis
NAL progress that might have issued.
from the remotest corridors of time.
''After vespers, at the hour when
the suns lengthening rays redden
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
A interior uieW of the hall in San Francisco iu 2chjch
the Democrats 2cuI nominate their conddate for PreSl-
dent. It's seating capacity is placed ot 10 200
been planned for a long time past

been planned for a long time past.
More than this, they are now being
effected, and by June %, when the
convention will be opened, whatever
ight cause for complaint there may
70 will have been remedicd.
Mara himself may be quoted here
a support of this assurance on so
-1portant a point. When asked to
ate his opinion about it, he said:
Il must say that l welcome the
opportunity to reassure the Demo-
Gratis and the public at large on this
question. The Panama-Pacific Ex-
position Company has mapped out
an expenditure Of no less than
$500 to improve the acoustics Of
this big hall, and in order to meet
the convenience of the convention.
actuated by that determination to
do what can be done on behalf of tae
convention, which is so widespread
people of all political lcanings
in San Francisco, this company has
for some weeks past had in hand a
partial expenditure Of this alloca-
ton, to the extent Of $4,000. The
chairman Of the committee on acous-
tics, John Britton, and a well known
San Francisco architect, G. Albert
Lansburgh, have the work we'll in
hand"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
The Crowd Expected

Estimates of the number of Wis
ltors who will be drawn to this center
for the convention range variousl-
from Al 500 to 0,000-the formo
being the estimate of Postmasto
Charles W. Fay, chairman OF I'll
Committee on Arrangements, an
the latter that of leading hotel me-
Including the 1900 delegates al
alternates, the sixty officers arf
members of the National Committee
and the correspondents, reporters.
clerks and attaches, those officially
and semi-ofiicially connected with
the meet will number around 500,
IN Fay's opinion; then there will be,
he estimates, 10000 persons, com
prising most of the members of Con-
gress, the various candidates and
their camp prominent members
Of the party and the families and
friends of the delegates, the re-
naming 10000 being people at
large. A housing committee to
deal with the flood of applications
for accommodations beginning to
break thus carly, was organized by
the executive committee of the
Northern California Hotel Associa
ton as far back as January Q. and
on that date this body conservatively
estimated that in excess of 500 res
ervatlons had been made by news
papers, press associations and con-
ventlon delegates On behalf of the
hotel men it was announced that
there would be no increase in the
hotel rates and that the association
would prosecute vigorously all who
might be guilty of 'hold-up" tactics.
The visitors are thus assured of fair
play
Mara himself declares that the
housing accommodations, both in
hotels and apartment buildings, will
be found to be better and more rea-
sonable in rates than any other con-
ventlon city has hitherto afforded.
There are great number of Glass
A hotels in San Francisco, and the
city abounds in apartment houses,
a fact to which reference has al
ready been made
po,;Jo, Ln..: ~ -
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

hundred years old, which were taken
by a soldier from the Czarina's
apartments, are also in the collec
ton. The old-fashioned design Of
the engraving as well as the shane
of the bracelets bespeaks their an
tiquity.
Included in the historic curios
are a knife, fork and skewer, said
to be among the first made in Eu-
rope. The short ivory handles are
oddly engraved, and all three show
beauty of design and proportion
These were among the curios at
the Winter Palace.
Two heart-shaped boxing irons are
other objects of interest in DR.. Find
lays collection, not for their
beauty but for the use to which
they were put in olden days, With
one of these in the palm of each
hand, two combatants often decided
the issues between armies-a GUS
tom which at least prevented great
sacrifice Of human life.
Two towels, about three wards in
length, with deep borders sugpes-
tive of Turkish design and color.
complete the collection. The towels
are more than two hundred years
Old and in excellent condition. In
speaking Of them Dr.. Findlay re-
terred to the custom in Russia of
never touching the embroidery on
towels; only the plain cloth is used
for the purpose for which the towel
is intended.
In telling Of the purchase Of his
treasures DR.. Findlay said:
1r November, 1917, the great
Bolshevik revolution started and
Kerensky fled to Finland for his
life and many Of his Cabinet were
assassinated. The reign of terror
started with thousands killed in
Petrograd and Moscow. Over A.
900 troops were not paid for months.
Trotzky and Lenine, both of whom
met many times, as we'll as Keren-
sky, gave permission that the SOL
diers might clean up the wine cellar
of the Winter Palace for one week.
No one was safe on the streets of
0etrograd during that week. Then
followed the permission given to the
soldiers to enter the palace and take
whatever they could carry away
u burlap bag"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
I Iotel Men Are Under Solemn Prom
iseNot to Advance Their Prices
for the Visitors

the housing scheme, and that is the
handy Capitalization that has been
found possible here. If one were
to walk circle around the area
sheltering the delegates and alter
mates, for instance, one would COM
plete the distance in thirty minutes,
and this area is right in the busi-
ness heart Of the city and within
fifteen minutes walking distance Of
the Auditorium.
Comprehensive entertain ment
plans are afoot. The men folk will
be cared for by committee headed
by Mayor James Rolph jr., Senator
James D. Phelan, Postmaster Fay
and Attorney Gavin McNab; the
women folk by a committee of which
the principal officers are Miss Mary
Fay, Mrs. Charles Donohue (presi-
dent of the Democratic Women's
Club of California;, and Mrs. An
derson Reid The two committees
number some 250 persons. Organ
recitals will be given with the instru-
ment in the Auditorium-one of the
grandest organs in the world-and
these will alternate with concerts
provided there by two bands.
In especial honor of the women
who, by the way, will find two re-
ception rooms at their service at the
Auditorium and another elsewhere
IN the city at a place not yet Sc
lected, there will be concerts, ban
Guets and balls at the leading hotels
and cafes. Many of the celebrated
California barbecues and breakfasts
will take place out of doors. Ex-
cursions will be held to such world
renowned pleasure and beauty re-
sorts as the Yosemite Valley, the Big
Trees, Lake Tahoe, Desolation Val
ley and the Glen Alpine region,
Mount Shasta, the Geysers and
Petrified Forest, Santa Cruz, Mount
Tamalpais and Muir Woods and
around San Francisco Bay itself
one of the worlds finest bays.
The Los Angeles Chamber of
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
HOMER s. CUMMINGS,
4 X chairman Of the Demo-
cratic National Committee

tee (headed by Postmaster Fay,
the Palace Hotel will be the bust
ness center of the convention. This
hotel is historic in that it was the
center of great happenings in the
city's growth in the mining days,
when kings Of gold sat upon their
thrones in its lobby, issuing their
bonanza edicts that gave the world
a delirium. When its palm court,
rose room and grill are thrown to-
gether some two thousand persons
can be seated therein as in one room.
One Of the features of the hotel is
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
The Spanish Win

"And still the game goes on, con-
tested with savage valor, with str
ring alterations and vicisstudes'
still the ball whistles through the
air, hits the wall with a smack ano
rebounds-all this at such a pace
that the eye can hardly follow iS
mad career; still the crier utterS
his long, drawing notes, and tne
quivering spectators grow more
frenzied as the end approaches
until at last the Spanish team WINS
by a few points, Just as the suns
red light suddenly goes out. Slowly
the gathering disperses; some fe"
linger yet while in the old grave
yard; there beneath rough graniS
crosses-graven only with Ga"
and with some such uncouth, strangV
syllabled Basque name as Martic''
baita, Mendiburu or Ondicota-Oe'
tween the eternal hills and ths
eternal sea, sleep the forbears o.
those who but a moment since we'e
so transported by their game o.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Basques a Strange Race

NDER the title "a Basque
b Sabbath" a French cor
~ respondent of "The London
Times" describes the "pelo-
ta," the ball game native to North
ern Spain, as played by two rival
teams, one Basque, the other Span
ish. He writes:
"a friend of mine had been de
scribing to me that strange Basque
race which, half in France, half in
Spain, clings to the abrupt slopes Of
the Pyrenees from Biarritz and
Bayonne as far as the boundary of
what used to be Cantabria.
"'All said and done, he concluded,
what do we know about the
Basque? There are some who main
tain that they derive from an
1berian tribe, the Vascons; others
hold that they are the descendants
of navigators who sailed from the
other side of the world and stranded
on this coast-Japanese and Mexi-
can words do indeed occur in the
Basque language; others, again,
profess to believe that they must be
the last survivors of Atlanta,
the legendary land engulfed by the
sea thousands Of years ago. But,
no matter what their origin, they
are sturdy race and fercely pre-
serve their type, their tongue, the
gloomy fanaticism Of their worship
and their mysterious traditions
Il thought Of these words as one
rough Sunday morning, with a high
wind shredding the gray clouds be-
tween the pointed teeth of the near
by Pyrenees, l contemplated in a
Basque village a swarm of men
clustered about the circle of the old
church porch. Nothing but men
the oldest among them especially
perpetuating very pure type of the
race; shaven faces, broad, rugged
features, long eyes, deep under
beetling brows, noses also long and
somewhat arched, jaws salient from
a powerful muscular neck, and those
square-ported shoulders that look
hewn out Of granite.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

nets and the women, with eyes more
languorous and lips more scarlet IN.
der the black mantina, come and sit
down in the space set apart for
2eloto, which in these villages lies
next door to church and cemetery.
The Champions
"And 10. here are the six cham.
pions-three Basques and three
Spaniards-a attended by crier in red
cap and white trousers, who calls
the strokes in a Basque singsong or
lifts to his lips for triumpha
flourish the trumpet that he wears
slung in a bandolier.
The players, without more ado,
fasten each to his right wrist q
leather glove terminating in long,
narrow wicker basket hooked like 8
claw-the clistera, with which they
are to catch and throw the ball.
"And now the game starts: of
goes the hard little white ball, whis-
tling as it hurtles through the air
and with hollow smack it hits the
wall; then it rebounds, and the play
ers, marking their quarry with ar
eager eye, swoop violently upon it in
full flight or delicately retrieve It
as it skins level with the ground
until at last one or the other Of them
lets it fall dead and loses his side a
point.
Each of the two teams has its
peculiar type and style, and Of these
attributes each of the two captains
looks the incarnate sum. Pepe' Tie
Basque, lean and supple, a dry, tense
figure without a particle Of super
huous flesh, without one gesture too
much, without any words at all, light
on the very tip Of his cord-soled
shoes, deadly true and keen as me
steel blade. Only an occasional
twitch of face or arm silently minllc'
his hope, his vexation or his joy.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

to be the last word in telegraphy,
These typeWriter-lke Instruments,
operated by experienced girls, punch
holes in a paper tape which passes
through transmitting machine
sending electrical impulses over the
wire to New York, Chicago, St.
Louis, Dallas, Los Angeles, Seattle
or wherever else the destination
may be, while at the other end of
the wire the message is struck off
word for word on an automatic
typewriter.
So delicately synchronized is the
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

Its Sunday evening concerts in the
palm court, where the finest classi-
cal numbers are rendered.
The Democratic delegates and
dignitaries and the leading news
paper men will be housed at the Hotel
st. Francis, the magnificent edifice
twelve stories high on Powell Street.
stretching over the entire block be-
tween Geary and Polk streets and
fronting Union Square. The Fair
mont Hotel, an equally splendid
house on Mob Hill, stretching over
the Mason Street block from Cali
fornla to Sacramento Street, has
been specially selected for the ac-
commodation Of the women folk and
of those prominent men who will be
accompanied by their families. The
women will be delighted with the
Fairmont, for it makes truly an
ideal holiday home.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
e Pacific Coast to Play Host to Democrats

to organize the city in advance.
Mara has been busy on the job for
the last four months, and is satisfied
with the results. With six assist
ants is installed in Offices in the
Exposition Auditorium, where Cum
mings will have his head location
during the convention. 1t is in this
structure that those charged to make
the rudder wherewith to steer the
Democratic ship for the next four
years will hold their deliberations.
Therefore little information about
it just here should not be considered
amiss.
For the Panama Exposition
Built at cost Of S1,25O,00O by
the Panama-Pacific Exposition Com
pany for the special use of the
many congresses and conventions
that met in San Francisco in 1915
and afterward given to the city as
a permanent memorial Of the ex-
position, the Auditorium covers a
complete city block that forms one
side of the Civic Center. The block
is bounded by Grove. Larkin, Hayes
and Polk streets, and the city pro
vlded the ground for the purpose
at an additional cost of $7O1 900.
To the left, as one emerges from
the building, is the magnificent City
Hall, and opposite, across a broad
plaza, is seen the Public Library.
The main hall of the Auditorium,
in which the actual convention will
be held, has a seating capacity of
10000. It's ceiling, or, rather, roof,
scars to a height of four stories
In addition to this hall there are
ten smaller halls, each with seat
ing capacity Of 400 or more, and
nineteen rooms suitable for COM
mlttee meetings or gatherings of
small convention sections, each capa-
Bile of seating from 80 to 1926 peo-
pie. Wide corridors run around
the main hall on all four Of it's
sides-corridors that are really in
door promenades. A balcony capa-
bic of accommodating several thou
sand people overlooks the main hall
from three sides, and of this a good
deal Of use will be made.
This giant piece of architecture
already has accommodated many
most notable gatherings; and within
its walls speeches have been de-
livered by some of the worlds big
gest and brainiest men. Expansive
though the main hall is, there are
no doubt many people in this coun-
try who are Of the opinion that &
seating capacity of 10000 will moi
be found equal to the occasion.
And 1t is a fact that it falls short
to the extent Of some $4,000 seat
spaces Of that which the Democratic
party was ablo to Secure in st.
Louis four years ago and in Balti-
more eight years ago. But it is
important to bear in mind as against
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

"a by the Gar of Russia, as a
A N love token for the Czarina
the first time the royal
couple visited Paris after their we'd
ding, baptismal bowl LOO years
old, from which all members of the
royal family were baptized, several
bracelets belonging to the Czarina
and number of other intimate trim
kets owned by the unfortunate
Czarina and her daughters are now
In the possession of Rev. DR.. John
Logan Findlay, pastor Of Old South
Church, Worcester, Mass, and are
stored away in a local bank for
safekeeping.
These articles were all purchased
by the Rev. DR.. Findlay from rum
crazed soldiers Of the Kerensky re-
glne as they staggered out Of the
great Winter Palace, in Petrograd,
heavily laden with all kinds of prop
erty owned by the Czar, the Czarina
and her children.
The soldiers had looted the palace
from the cellar to the roof, and
seeped to take especial Joy in the
various trinkets and baubles found
In the apartments OF the Czarlna
and her unfortunate daughters.
The ancient baptismal bowl is
small, of silver, with an exquisite
flower design on its exterior, which
Is carried out on the centerpiece
inside the bowl. The flower motif
l. inlaid in gold leaf on a rich, old
blue enamel background, with the
petals of the flowers, which number
hundreds, set in pearls and other
precious stones. Tiffany, of New
York, recently valued this treasure
at $4,000.
The most gorgeous object of the
collection is the large fan. The long
white feathers are mounted on care
fully selected mother Of pearl sticks.
On one corner Of the fan is q coffee
stain, the story of which was told
to DR.. Findlay by Tatiana, the sec
ond daughter of the Gar, not long
before her tragic death. The stain
came upon the fan at a reception
which the Czarina attended, and
The was greatly distressed at the
accident, which, however, does not
fleet the valuation Of the fan, which
tiffany put at $1,000.
Two quaint silver bracelets, six
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

multiplex that eight messages can
be sent by this means Simultaneous
ly over the one wire. 1t is the
multipleX that the Western Union
will depend upon to handle all the
press dispatches emanating from
the convention. The Morse or hand
system will take care of messages
to and from the smaller cities and
"tanks."
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

Commerce intends to give q -.
quet to all those attending the ~.
vention from the Los Ara.3. WI
region. The Oakland Chambe, ~. :.
Commerce and other east bav bo4;..
are making some arrangements ~ ~,
San Francisco chamber and a mns' ~
tude Of city clubs have many e,s5.
rate schemes Of their own % n.g
Girls as | shers
Californian beauty Of still :.
ter character viii smile unon =,
men folk, for 800 girls, chosen eon.' -
ly from the University of CaliforrI.
and Stanford University By Edv,,s
Martin and Frederick Supple rts.
former being president Of the Nv;
versity of California Democr.s.
Club and the latter president Of 4.
analogous body at Stanford. ~
being organized as usherettes tm
the convention. These young ladies
will show the delegates into tne co,
vention, and the fellow who obserrs.
that he is to sit at a place not opi.,
50 promiscuously situated as +.
would like will think again s.s
thank his lucky stars that ne Is 81
fortunate as 70 have been favored
with any old corner at all upd.,
such circumstances.
Most of these girls, too, will N
Of Democratic sympathies. Mara
has been really overwhelmed with
applications for usherette positions
Never before was a man 50 ponn.
ar with the fair sex. The usheret..
affair, Of course, is but anotbe,
manifestation of the tremendous IN.
terest which the women of Cali.
fornia, who have had the vote since
1912, feel in matters political OF
otherwise exciting to their local pa,
triotism.
Mr.. Cummings will arrive at San
Francisco at the head of the com.
mittee on arrangements on June 8.
1t is probable that the convention
will last from June 2S to Inde.
rendente Day.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Promise Wire Service

The telegraphic and telephone ar
rangements are being pushed ahead.
Special telephone booths for Off
cial, semi-oflicial and public use are
being fitted up at the Auditorium.
also at the National Committee
headquarters in the Palace Hotel.
Newspaper representatives will find
their requirements in this direction
specially catered. for. Eastern
criticism has been heard Of late to
the effect that San Francisco will
be proved incompetent to handle the
enormous volume Of press dispatches
and other wire matter; but the traf-
tic engineers Of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, whose word
ought to be good enough for rea-
sonable people, say that there is no
need to regard this criticism in
other than a light vein.
The ordinary national convention
does not give rise tc more than an
average of 100000 words, al
though the Republican National
Convention Of 1912 broke all rec
ords, more than 100000 words
being filed for transmission. The
multiplex department Of the new
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

been available, not excluding even
the Coljeeum in Chicago, has such
splendid array of side halls and
rooms for office and sectional COM
mittce utilization.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Delegations Not Separated

Beyond these three places Mara
has engaged three thousand rooms
for the delegates and alternates, at
thirty other Class A hotels, and he
claims so to have mapped out his ar
rangements that in 80 per cent of
instances there will be no divisions
of delegations-for instance, the
New York delegation will be kept
together at one hotel, and so on.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Plenty for Entertainment

When the great cities were fight
ing one another for the honor of be-
ing chosen for the convention San
Franciscans last January promised
the conference 100000 for expenses
and said that $4,000 would be
forthcoming for entertainment ex-
penditure, and even another $4,000
if necessary. With the convention
drawing near, there is not the slight
est doubt in California that every
dollar required to do the thing on
lavish scale will be found, and found
without trouble. The Republicans
themselves, for the credit of their
city, have announced themselves
ready to assist the Democrats on
this occasion in any direction that IS
open to them.
Having the goods" in the shape
Of scope and facilities for the big as
sembly, commercial and industrial
standing and potentialities, scenery
and climate and a hundred -and-one
other adjuncts, the people here are
preparing to make the utmost of so
unique and important an opportunity
to send abroad the glad tidings of
the fact through the convention Wis
itors.
Promptly after the selection Of
the convention city, Homer s. Cum
mings, chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, sent his assis-
tant and personal representative,
George F. Mara, to San Francisco