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The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-12-02
Troubles BeSet
Tourist Abroad

all of this he Is mighty, and he Is q
power to be envied by many an up-to-
date potentate.
The PORTER at the Adlon In Berlin
Is said to own one Of the smartest
villas In Wahnsee, one Of the smartest
suburbs of that city.
But the Importance Of the PORTER
has increased many fold since after
the-war conditions have made a room
In hotel thing to be desired beyond
great riches. His nod and his frown are
Jovian In their might. His nod comes
only when the would-be guest can show
proof that he wired the hotel for
rooms and that the wire was answered
favorably. Otherwise, there is the
frown. 1t is a frown which may, on
occasions, be DETECTED by the proper
means. delicately introduced, or, rath-
er, rendered. 1t Is frown which may,
on the other hand remain consistently
and honestly discouraging.
Wanted-A Room,
There was. for instance, that expert
ence in Budapest. l had wired for
rooms In the Hotel Ritz, from Vienna.
No answer had COME, put the PORTER In
the hotel at Vienna had been an op-
timistic soul and had advised risking
1t. risked 1t and arrived at Budapest
shortly after 8 p. IN.
1t turned out that the advice of the
PORTER was not good advice. There
20 hn hoI Of %ho
People, the PORTER was pleased to In
form me, were sleeping in all Of the
bathrooms. He recommended another
hotel; the hotel was courteous, but II
| also was full 1t recommended another
The affair resembled the chariot race
from ben Hur," though slightly more
thrilling. Every one else In the city
seemed to be trying to find rooms In q
hotel, too. If there are traffic laws In
Budapest they are made like New
Years resolutions, only to be broken
The droschke drivers are ancient an6
ragged daredevils, who delight in zig
tagging across the paths of automo
biles and trains and other droschkes
They whiz past one another on the
bias, they clatter out from side streets
they risk, thousand times, a whe0
caught in a trolley track and utter dis
aster.
Other horses dashingly drawing 9th
err droschkes prance up behind one ant
one feels their hot breath on the necl
and they seem about to make thei
suppers off Of ones back hair. Thei
they pass, the wheels Of their drosch
kes alarmingly near. And another hote
Is reached and one races madl,
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-12-02

through the lobby, emulated by other
racing and wild-eyed travellers, only
to be told that there, too, people are
sleeping In the bathrooms.
An, a Boarding House.
At last one Jovian gentleman In the
naughty regalia Of PORTER took pity
on a lady travelling alone-this was the
fifth hotel-and telephoned to the
keeper Of pension or boarding house
that he knew. Yes she had vacant
room, the PORTER was pleased to In
form me and accepted slight gratuity
for his condescension.
We dashed again and this time the
driver carried the luggage up three
flights Of dark, draughty and oniony
stairs. The pension keeper met us at
the door, sweet but sorry. No, the
room was taken. A gentleman had
come just after she had answered the
telephone.
'But you promised" walled.
promised, madamew she repeated.
II do not promise. merely said that
at that moment there was room va
cant. There Is none vacant now."
The luggage was carried down the
dark and oniony stairs again, and an
other hetel was tried. Here there was
another porter who knew pension
and in this pension, at last, there was
haven-of a sort. 1t was of the sort
that is frequently disturbed during the
night by things with six legs.
The experience, however, is moi
unique. And because many hotels were
appropriated for other uses during the
war and have never been restored t.
their original utilitarian field, and be
cause no building has been done fol
seven years and tourists from all Owe
the world find 1t pleasant and profit
able to sojourn In these lands wher'
money is cheap-the hotel business
would seem to be pleasant and profit
able one.-Miriam Teichner In Chicag'
News.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-12-02
Lack Of Hotel Accommodations
in European Cities Stumbling
Block to Traveller.
MANY SLEEP IN BATHROOMS
Fortune Awaits Ambitious American
Who VIII Go Into Hotel Business
In Europe-Hotei PORTER
Powerful Potentate.

Vienna.-A fortune Is awaiting any
ambitious American who will come to
Europe and go into the hotel business.
There are, Of course, complications
In the way. Building materials are high,
though when the exchange rate Is con-
sidered not so high as at home. Labor
demands high wages, according to the
German and Austrian standard-but
that standard leaves the skilled work
man earning, according to American
values, considerably less than 81
day.
Again, there are inevitable stumbling
blocks in the way of government tax
when piece Of land changes hands.
Also the international money condi-
lions which have caused Germany and
Austria to become beloved of English.
American, Dutch, French, Italian and
Scandinavian tourists may change be-
fore new hotels can be built, though 1t
doesn't look as though they would.
At any rate, eliminating unexpected
complications, the hotel business to
the eye Of the layman now looks as If
1t must pay better than any other in
the world.
Sleeping In the Bathroom.
It Is more or less difficult to get a
bath in any German or Austrian or
Hungarian hotel nowadays, because all
of the bathrooms are being used for
bedrooms. Not that the guests sleep In
the tubs, no, they merely sleep In beds
or cots that have been added to the
usual bathroom furniture, and they
count themselves rather fortunate thar
otherwise because, while they are en-
joying the use of the bathroom as Q
sleeping apartment they likewise pre-
empt the use of the tub. slept in the
bathroom myself In Munich, and 1t wa.
very comfortable.
Building additions, redecorating ant
renovating in general, is now too OK
pensive for the average German o.
Austrian. Private dwellings and public
institutions alike show rather distress
ing wear and tear. Hospitals in partic
ular are shabby to a point where thei
executives bemoan that they are un
sanitary.
Private apartment houses are spott,
as to paint and dangerously ravele'
as to stair coverings. Hotels are uni
versally, however, In state Of newl
painted smartness and are being brave
ly remodeled and redecorated.
Hotel PORTER Is All Powerful.
The hotel PORTER always In Europ
has been dignitary Of considerable
prominence. In his admiral's coat, hi
linguistic ability, his infallible know
edge Of train schedules and theater
and that omnipotence of his in playin
chess-with vacant rooms as hi
squares and guests as his pawns-i
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-12-02
Home, lust Erected,
Burned to the Ground

Stephen A. Long, carpenter
Of Margate City, N. j., camped
In teEt I'll summer with his
family that they might save
enough to build a small bunga-
low. Long built the home before
and after his days work, recent
ly completing the bungalow.
The knowing" was quite an
event and the family went to the
theater at night as little cele-
bration. When they returned
they found blackened ruins. The
fireplace at the end of the coy
living room had thrown off d
spark that fired the building,
which was not insured.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-12-02
One Lone Trout
Stops Coal Mine

London.-Close to 600 men lost
a days work this week at a col
liery In Lanarkshire through q
trout choking the water supply
for the boilers. The cage could
not be lifted to the pithead.
as the boilers were not working.
After a great deal Of trouble the
cause Of the breakdown was dis
covered. The trout weighed one
pound and six ounces. Work
was resumed next day.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-12-02

Peru Is planning to spend several
million dollars to give Lima and sew
eral other towns fresh water, sewers
and other sanitary improvements.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-20
BORAH BILL IS IN
UNANIMOUS FAVOR

WASHINGTON, May 20.-Adoption OF
Senator Borah's proposal for a three
power conference on naval disarmament
as an assistant to the Navy appropria-
ton bill is expected late today in the
Senate.
The roll call is expected to show the
Senate almost unanimously in favor Of
Borahs plan, which simply empowers
the President to invite conference with
this Government and the governments OF
Great Britain and Japan, the purpose
being to discuss a plan for a five year
program of naval armament reduction.
Japan feels the initiation Of a dis
armament movement should rest with
Great Britain or with the United States
ard her government win not take the
lead in such a step, 1t was learned from
a well-informed source here.
The japanese government, 1t was said,
is determined to have a navy strong
enough to cope with the force which any
enemy might concentrate In the far east.
This is declared to be the Mikado's
attitude toward the agitation for. a naval
agreement among the three principal
naval powers-Great Britain, the United
States and Japan.
To carry out this policy, tie present
government of Japan is understood to
feel that their navy must be constantly
iEcrea sed to keep abreast Of the other two
major naval powers.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-20
TO QUASH
$15,OOO,OOO SUIT
Litigation Centers on Cuthbert
B. Lowry Estate.

Arguments on the motion OF the de-
PENDANTS to dismiss the Sl5000,000 ssit
filed by Thomas Lowry and five other
heirs of the late Cuthbert b. Lowry
against Stoughton A. Fletcher and the
American Creosoting Company, were
heard before Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger
In Federal Court today.
The heirs claim that certain patents
owned by Lowry covering processes used
in creosoting railroad ties etc, have been
used illegally by the defendants and that
the title to them was obtained by the
defendants from the rightful owners by
improper means.
The defense bases its motion for dis
missal largely upon the statute of limi-
tations of six years which it claims has
run against the heirs, and upon laches
or failures to prevent within a reason
able time.
Charles G. Middleton and Alex Z.
Humphrey of Louisville presented the
argument for the American Creosoting
Company; Judge Quincy A. Myers made
brief statement for Mr.. Fletcher while
John Becker of this city and Jay Harlan
of Danville, KY presented the case for
the Lowry heirs.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-20
TEN CONTRACTORS
ON ROAD WORK TOLD
TO GET NEW BONDS

Ten contractors who have contracts to-
falling 50. 225. .19s for the construction of
State highways have been ordered by the
highway commission to obtain new bonds
because their present bonds are with COM
panies which are either insolvent or are
not deemed by the commission to be
financially responsible, Lawrence Lyons,
director of the commission, announced
today.
The bonding companies involved are the
Lion Bonding and Surety Company of
Omaha Neb.s the Chicago Bonding and
Insurance Company of Chicago, and the
American Bonding and Casualty Com
pany of Sioux, City, Iowa.
PERMITTED TO CONTINUE
BY DIRECTOR WRIGHT.
The contractors were permitted by L.
H. Wright, who recently resigned as di-
rector of the commission, 20 continue to
build roads under their worthless bonds
giving the State no protection whatever.
Furthermore Mr.. Wright authorized the
payment to these contractors of so per
cent of the price of the roads as sections
were completed. The companies affected
already have been paid a total of $3.50, ,565.
Had any one of these contractors failed
to carry out his obligations the State
would have had no possible way of re-
covering and could have lost hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
The attention of attaches Of the high
way commission was called 80 this situa-
ton by the Times, May 10. The fol-
lowing day Mr.. Wright was supplanted
by Mr. Lyons, who took the situation up
with the commission.
AUDITOR DIDN'T
KNOW OF CONDITION"
At the time the condition was called
to the attention Of the commission Mrs.
Helen Norton Freeman. who was then
auditor. and who was supplanted hs
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-20

WASHINGTON, May 2O-The Amer
lean people paid official tribute to Nine
Curie today.
The gray-haired little French woman
who has been hailed the Queen OF
Scientists" arrived in Washington this
morning She was met at the Union Sta
tion by a distinguished group of women
headed by Mrs. Nicholas W. LOngworth
Mrs. James Wadsworth, Jr., wife of Sen
ator Wadsworth of New York, and Mrs
Marshall Field.
Mime. Curie went Immediately to the
home of Robert Woods Bliss, third as
sistant Secretary of State. where she
rested until she went to the White House
to receive from President Harding the
gram of radium to be presented as a gift
from the American people
The presentation took place in the
presence Of officials OF the United States
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-20
MASTER BOMBER
AND s NABBED
Chicago Police Say Kerr's Con
fessiOn Reveals Extensive
Terrorist Plot

CHICAGO. May 2O.-Here are the
prices for bombings and sluggings,
according to the confession here to-
day Of Andrew Kerr, Chicago's mas
ter mind.
SIuggings, S25 to $50.
Bombing, with two sticks of dyna-
mite. 5000.
Bombing, with four sticks of dyna-
mite. $500.
81 always went along too see the
union wasn't cheated" Kerr said In
his confession. according to police.
CHICAGO, May 2O.-Chicago's master
bomber" charged by police with having
dealt death and destruction in a hundred
labor disputes, was arrested here this
afternoon. The prisoner, Andrew Kerr,
member Of the engineers union, is said
to have made a complete confession, in
volving eight alleged confederates.
All eight suspects were arrested.
Police declared Kerr revealed a list OF
fourteen laundries which were to be
bombed In the next fortnight and addi-
tional list Of nine laundries which were
to be wrecked and their nonunion engi-
neers "slugged." The confession, police
said, revealed the most deliberate terror
lHL plOL III tue CLllu6 duHdlS VI tue -hAu-
die West.
Detectives, securing terrorist" haunts,
following Kerr's confession, arrested AL
bert Peterson, business agent for the
engineers union; Joe Bangara, an al
legged killer; Thomas j. Corcoran,
treasurer of the International Joint La
Dor Board Sam Gibson, former l. w. w. ;
Joe" Bush, an explosive expert; Charles
Berrigan, an alleged "slugger"; James
Sweeney, a gunman, and Harry Soup"
Bartlett, a dynamite expert.
In his confession. police said Kerr
named Peterson and Corcoran as insti-
gators and directors of the bombings ana
sluggings. He |also charged Peterson
ISSUED and ordered all payments" 10 the
bomb squads and killers"
The money, Kerr charged, was actually
handled by Corcoran, treasurer of the
International Joint Labor Board.
The confession, detectives said, was a
dramatic story of "hired assassination"
and '0ought terror" Frequent refer
ence was made to the l. w. W. and to
noto rious anarchist characters.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-20
BERNAUER CASE
NEARING CLOSE
Prediction Made That Jury
Will Retire Late
Today.
Special to The Times.


SHELBYVILLE. Ind, May 20.-It IS
the opinion here that the case Of Carl
Bernauer, on trial tor the second time
for the murder of Samuel Eaids, an In
dianapoHs storekeeper. on the night OF
Oct. p, win so to the jury late today.
In a statement made Thursday by
Ira Holmes, Indianapolis attorney for
Bernauer, the attorney DECLARED that the
defense would show that Bernauer was
not near the place where the murder
occurred or anywhere in the vicinity !;
that the defendant spent the greater part
of the evening with Mae Marshall at her
room at the Broadway Hotel, after which
he went to room IN the same hotel oc-
cupied by himself and Jack Marshall.
Attorney Holmes indicated that an at
tempt would be made to fasten the mur-
der Of Eaids on Charles Jones, who is
held in the Marion County Jail, charged
Jointly with Bernauer, and on Bob New
gent. Mr.. Holmes stated that Jones had
a As caliber revolver on the night of the
murder and that he and Newgent had
first made the suggestion Of robbing the
Eaids place.
Attorneys for the State were successful
In having the testimony of John Meyers,
a nightwatch, given at the first trial
of Bernsuer, read to the jury Thursday
afternoon. DR.. T. V. Keene of Indian
apolis testified that Meyers is in such a
critical physical condition at Indianapo-
lis that Ii was impossible for him to tes-
tify. The court overruled the objections
of the defense to the introduction of the
evidence given at the first trial and it
was read
Meyers was standing on the opposite
corner from the Eaids place when the
shooting took place and testified at the
first trial to seeing two men run from
the place.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-20
PLAN TO WIDEN
14TH STREET UP
Now Only 20-FoOt Roadway
Between Meridian and
Illinois.

Plans for the opening and widening OF
Fourteenth street from Illinois to Me-
ridian streets were ordered by the board
of public works today. The street now
is only twenty feet wide. Enough
ground will be taken along the south
side Of the present thoroughfare to make
the width correspond to that OF Four
teenth street east Of Meridian street,
The board confirmed resolutions for
the vacation Of the FIRST alley north Of
st. Clair street from a point 120 feet
east of Healing avenue to the first alley
west of Healing avenue. the vacation Of
the first alley east Of the Belt rail-
road from st. Clair street to Healing
avenue, vacation Of Kealing avenue from
Pratt street to a point 179 feet south,
vacation Of the FIRST alley east Of Oh
ney street from Pratt street to a point
1S7 feet south, vacation Of Ewing street
from Pratt street to a point 1S4 feet
south, vacation Of the first alley east of
Ewing street from Pratt street to a point
ISL feet south, extension and opening
OF Lawton street from State avenue TO
the first alley east, and for local sewer
in Hiatt street from main sewer in Miller
street to point 40 feet south.
/Pinal action upon resolutions for the
vacation OF the second alley north of
North street from Temple avenue TO Ru-
raj street and for vacation OF a severn
teen-foot strip on the east side Of Senate
avenue from South to Merrill streets w94
postponed to May p.
Pins were ordered for the perma-
ment improvement OF the first alley west
of Tacoma avenue from the arst alley
north Of Brookslde Parkway to Sixteenth
street.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-20

John W. Williams, declared she knew
nothing of the condition of the compa-
nies which were on the bonds of con-
tractors. The auditor of the commission
has possession Of the bonds of all the
contractors and is supposed to see that
they are what they are represented to be.
The Lion Bonding and Surety Company
has been out of business for some time
and it is understood that under the old
administration the commission required
some contractors who had bonds with
this company to give new bonds while it
did not require new bonds of others.
The Chicago Bonding and Insurance
Company went out of business in Deem
Der, 1919, according to the State Insur-
ance department. This company was
taken over by the American Bonding and
Casualty Company which later failed, the
department records show.
AMOUNTS PAID
ARE SET OUT.
The construction companies, the amount
of their contracts and the amounts they
have been paid are as follows:
Riath & Riley Construction Company,
$24S000, paid S1S4,653 Marion County
Construction Company, $2S3,000, paid
$50 900; Carpenter Construction Com
pany, $26o,OO, paid S92,OO0; George i.
Miller, $4,000, paid $4,000; Becker &
Enyart, $274, 900, paid $3SOO0; Wabash
Construction Company, $444,3 800, paid
$4,000; E. C. Wright, $9,979, paid S5, ,439 /;
National Concrete Company, $57 1874, paid
So, ,657, and on another contract $751;
SS5, paid $34, ,669, and the Federal Paw
ing Company, $4,000, paid So, 147.
The Federal Paving Company, the Ri
atk & Riley Construction Company al
ready have provided new bonds and the
other companies have notified Mr.. Lyons
that they will furnish new securities at
nnca
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-20

! Government, foreign diplomats and other
distinguished persons.
Mrs. Harding and a notable group OF
women, including Mrs. Charles Evans
Hughes. wife of the Secretary Of State,
and Princess LubOmirski, wife Of the
Polish minister, assisted in the presenta-
ton.
The gram Of radium, which cost $780,
600, is the smallest gift ever presented
to q nations guest.
Tonight at a meeting to be held at
the National Museum, Charles D. Wal
colt and other noted scientists will pay
tribute to the famous French woman.
The French embassy viii entertain in
Nine. Curie's honor tomorrow and Sun
day night she viii be the guest Of the
Polish legation.
Nine. Curie is accompanied by her two
daughters, Irene and Eve. and Mrs.
William Brown Meloney Of New York.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-20
EXPECT SENATE
VOTE TODAY ON
DISARMAMENT
Predict Speedy Success on
Measure to Cut Down
Powers Navies.
MOVE IS MET FAVORABLY

The United States was expected to-
day to take the first step toward
naval disarmament
A vote was scheduled on Senator
Borah's proposal empowering PresI-
dent Harding to invite Great Britain
and Japan to confer with this Gov
ernment on a five-year program Of
naval building reduction.
Indications were that the Senate would
adopt the measure and that favorable
action would later be taken by the House.
Well-informed observers believed that
Japan would welcome a naval holiday"
providing it were initiated by either the
Unietd States or Great Britain.
A similar attitude by Great Britain
was reported in United Press dispatches
from London.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-20
COPS RAID HOTEL
IN BANDIT STYLE
Rip out Alarm System to Nab
28 in Chicago.

CHICAGO, May 20-A police vice squad,
posing as bandits, surprised an extensive
bell alarm system ks the fashienao'e e
Boulevard Hotel, on Michigan boulevard,
early today and arrested twenty eight
persons in sensational raid. Three pre-
vious raids on the IOstelry had failed
when guests" were aroused by the bell
alarms.
Detectives, garbed in plain clothes,
rushed the hotel in bandit formation.
They ripped out the alarm system while
a surprised clerk was guarding the cash
register. TheI. they went through the
hotel making arrests.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-20
W. D. BOyce Home From
6 Months in the Antip0des
Says People of Pacific Lands
LCOk to y. S. for PrOtec-
ton From Japan.

CHICAGO, May 2O.-"AustraIia. New
Zealand. the Philippines and all islands
of the South Seas are looking to the
United States to save them from being
gobbled up by Japan" W. D. Boyce, pub
Usher and globe-t trotter, declared here to-
day on his return from a six~months
trip through the Pacific.
Japan has frankly admitted to her
own people that she secured the Marshall
and Gilbert Islands for strategic pur-
poses and not for expansion of popula-
tion," said Mr.. Boyce.
The publishers son. Ben Boyce, has
led an expedition into New Guinea
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-20
10 TO 20 YEARS
FOR BURGLARY
Fred Brock Gets Stiff Sen.
tence Today.

= Fred Brock, indicted on a charge Of
breaking into the store of Leo Ettinger,
at 40S Indiana avenue and stealing goods
valued at $500, today was sentenced from
ten to twenty years at the Indiana State
Prison by Judge James A. Collins.
Leslie Logan was fined 81 and costs
and sentenced to a. year on the Indiana
State Farm on a charge of burglary and
grand larceny. Peyton Moore, alleged
aecomplice, was found not guilty.
william Robertson was found not
guilty of a charge of receiving stolen
goods
Purvis Johnson, who was charged with
false pretense, was discharged when the
court sustained his motion to quash the
indich.,ent.