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New-York tribune., 1921-09-18

bered thirteenth floor or room in the place.
The st. Regis bears with rooms labeled
13, but has no such floor
The Belmont the exact reverse.
The Biltmore and the Commodore taboo the
thirteenth floor
The Martinique the same.
We asked builder about it and were told
that many business firms declined to hire
offices on the thirteenth floor. 1t was bad
enough overcoming natural obstacles without
combating "jinx" in addition. Still, there
are those, he explained, who actually request
the thirteenth floor. With them it is held
to be lucky
Joseph Wall, war veteran, artist and cap
tain of the bell hops at the Biltimore, sheds
more light upon the dark mystery of thirteen.
Quoth Joseph:
That number thirteen hat check makes
more trouble for us chaps than you can shake
stick at. It's an actual fact that twenty
five out of every fifty balk at this pasteboard.
Give me some other number, can't you?
can't go that one,' they say, and then we've
got to fish out another for them. Sometimes.
though, we put one over on them by placing
our thumb over the one or the three when
handing it to them.'
Your servant girl, maid, domestic, call her
what you will, fires a devastating broadside
into the already tottering case of the defense.
We dropped into ap employment agency up-
town, one that specializes in furnishing help
to the most exclusive homes. The kind they
recommend must not only morally be all that
Caesar demanded Of his wife, but possess
abundant household talents as we'll, and above
all no superstitions!
when we first started doing business" ex-
pounded this broker in blue-ribbon servitors,
we had many complaints on this very score.
The class of people we deal with will stand
for some shortcomings in a maid, but the
superstitious disposition is much taboo. We
have to guard against that more than any
thing else. We kept a card index of every
one, male and female, that we are trying to
place in good situation, On these cards are
listed their qualifications, along with their
superstitions and other drawbacks. The men,
we find, have very few lunches that would
prove annoying to their employers But the
females certainly keep us on the qui vive.
What are some of these superstitions?
New-York tribune., 1921-09-18

consideration. For instance, there is a super
stitution, noted by Kipling in his story "The
Bridge Builders" that if birds alight on
bridge in the course of construction that struc-
ture is bound to be sound one.
II don't know how much credence most en-
gineers put in that theory, but have been told
there was wide publicity about it at the time
Of the rearing Of the greensboro Bridge,
opened dozen years ago. Some engineering
bodies and city officials weren't sure the giant
cantilever would be safe when completed 1t
had been remarked that swarms of migratory
birds, pigeons and even wild ducks had used
it as haven from storms at night. Myriads
of swallows even perched in secluded girder
hooks all day. One of the engineers who SUBJ
scribed to the feathery tradition at once felt
that what little doubt he might have enter
tanned as to the SPANS safety had been dis
PEELED. He had been building bridges for
years and had never witnessed the collapse of
one that had had this curious sanction Of the
birds. Apropos of this he mentioned that Au-
dubon, the naturalist, held similar belief
Also that the great cantilever over the St. Law
renee, which broke down in one Of the worsts
disasters in bridge building history had failed
to attract fedglings while being erected"
From the same source we learned that iron
workers in many instances positively refuse to
labor on the thirteenth floor of a new building.
The thirteen hoodoo," by the way, boasts
an astonishing clientage about town. This
number exacts it's tribute of respect in divers
ways. Dropping into soma of the newer Office
buildings and well known hotels without dis
crimination but merely as purposeless foot
steps carried us, we discovered that:
The new Gotham National Bank Building,
at Columbus Circle, completed in March, for
the aforementioned reason omts thirteenth
floor.
The Loew Building, at Times Square, not
yet finished, has done likewise
The Garment Center Capitol, extending all
most two block fronts on Seventh Avenue, is
another.
Likewise the Bankers Trust Building, at
Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue.
The Claridge Hotel viii not have num-
New-York tribune., 1921-09-18
By EDWARD HUGHES
illustrations by the Author

asked Sam Forrest and Tom Olphant, who
help Sam II. Harris with his productions.
Il should say they are" vouchsafed Mr.
Oliphant, "and new superstitions are bobbing
up all the time, it seems"
And they're mighty in their respect for
the old ones, too" added Mr.. Forrest
THAT one about saying the last line of
play during rehearsal, the tag line they call
it, still holds good along Broadway You never
hear any actor utter the tag line at re-
hearsal. In their opinion it is an unfailing
augury of failure for the piece.
II remember once, though, when William
Gillette held the tradition up to scorn
Strangely enough, Mr.. Gillette was unfamiliar
with this pet belief of the playerfolk and the
tag line was a reply to his own last lines.
1t was during the first rehearsal of the piece
and when Gillette had pronounced his last
words he maintained a dramatic posture
awaiting the tag line reply.
'Pardon me- said Gillette, addressing his
mute colleague, but did not quite catch your
last line.'
why, of course you didn't returned the
other, you don't want the production to be
failure, do you, Mr.. Gillette?'
Ihe rest of the cast hastened to explain
the significance of the tag line omission,
but Gillette insisted that if his own success
and that of the play hinged on such flimsiness
he'd quit the profession. The last line was
spoken that day. The play, while success.
was not the 'howling' one predicted. OF course
the tag liner had his own notions as to the
cause"
Perhaps the last place you'd expect to en-
counter superstition is in unromantic, rule
of-thumb engineering industries But it's
there, just the same-al twentieth century
stuff, OF course. This from one of the consult
ing engineers who is employed by leading
construction company on Park Row:
I'VE engineers have our 'hunches' the same
as other folk Why shouldn't we? We,re
human. Bpt don't think we are Influenced
by them as much as workers in other walks
OF life. Machinery, mathematics and blue
prints are dependable enough for us, but once
In while some weird fancy receives amazing
New-York tribune., 1921-09-18

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New-York tribune., 1921-09-18

Why, some of them are old ones, some are
new, others neither of us have ever heard Of"
Business of pulling out card index draw
Tor our edifcation. "Here is one who had q
mania for running up stairs two steps at q
time, but who always descended one step at Q
time, no matter how urgent the need for
haste. This one insisted on shutting all
gates she found open when out with tho
baby. Here is one who habitualy stirred
up row when asked to go back to the house
for something she had forgotten. A sure
omen Of impending bad luck, she said it was
But it could partially be dispelled by sitting
on the ground, she affirmed, and this she al
ways did. Her employer tired of this
twaddle, naturally.
The tide Of immigration from eastern and
southern Europe, according to one who prac-
tees criminal law, has lately been respon-
sible for some 'grotesque revelations of super
stition in the criminal courts of this city.
Several years ago. confided our infor-
mant, zone Of my clients had the seeming IN
New-York tribune., 1921-09-18
: A CENSUS OF SUPERSTITIONS

Well, it has, and great deal too For in
stance, the tradition that dams, bridges,
aqueducts and buildings are made preterna-
turally sound by immuring a living human
being within them still endures in many
Christian countries. Scarcely an old castle
stands in Europe that boasts not legend Of
this description. The habitual custom was
that a child should be selected for this pur-
pose, and the wandering bands of gypsies are
popularity accredited with the furnishing of
the infant victim. So, by this token you can
easily perceive this custom of depositing
gold coins, papers and other valuable objects
In the foundation stones of modern public
structures is without doubt survival of the
ancient superstition.
Further evidences Of this sort are most
common among the Chinese. AS the con-
struction Of the Siberian Railway neared the
northern boundary of the Mongolian Empire
and surveys were made for it's running
through Manchuria to the sea, an awful hub
bub was created in Peking by rumor that
the Russian Minister was to make applica-
ton to the Empress Of China for 1000 chill
dren to be buried in the roadbed under the
rails In order to strengthen it. 1t wasn't SO
many years ago, In rebuilding bridge which
had been swept away several times by water
IN the Yarkland, that eight children, pur
chased from the poor people at a consider
able price, were buried alive in the founda-
tlons This new bridge was firmly fashioned
OF the best material and has since resisted
the force of the strongest floods. The
superstitious Mongolians, however. do not
attribute it's soundness to the masonry. but
to the homage paid the river god by the
sacrifice Of the infants"
These arguments smacked of plausib,litv
and provoking intimacy with the subject in
hand But that sally about New Workers. be-
ing the super-superstitious humans ranked
Could 1t be possible that your nimble-witted
practical Gothamite, surrounded bv the most
astonishing creations of twentieth century,
science, was victim Of belief in weird mystic
interpretations? And, if so, what were these
twentieth century superstitions?" We de-
cided to investigate
Are actors superstitious, and if SO what
new whims Of the sort harass them?n wa
New-York tribune., 1921-09-18

agreement
Of rrnutua ii the
1922 debated
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through and n
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no n Q nor nainthe Estates.
Make clear discrimination racial
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New-York tribune., 1921-09-18
AY1NG the cornerstone Of a public
edifce, with its accompanying cere-
4 mony of architectural oratory and

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edifce, with it's accompanying cere-
- mony of architectural oratory and
layman masonry, never fails to at
tract a spellbound assemblage.
Your orator-mason, upon recent occasion
Of the kind in upper Broadway, had done
with his debilitating defamation and paused,
trowel in hand, to insert in the cornerstone
the pedigree paper Of the structure to be,
along with some gold coins and other
precious objects. There was prodigious
craning Of onlookers' necks and strained ele-
walton Of. bodies to tip-toe vantage. All save
an individual of serious mien, who, with arms
akimbo and unbent neck, viewed the proceed
ing with mixed contempt and amusement.
Just another proof" snapped he, ssthat
people in general-and we New Workers in
particular--are as superstitious--yes. even
more so-than our ancient Aryan ancestors,
with their belief in necromancy, witches, love
philters, changelngs and the like!
Perhaps you think" continued the know
ing one, this ceremony of the cornerstone
laying has nothing to do with superstition.
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
PIONEER HOME
 SEVERELY CRITICISED BY
 LEGISLATIVE COMMIT! EE

Jurcau. April. 3l T hc jo'nt legs lat VI committee waicl recently visited the Pioneer Home at S:tk, today rem dcrei . report severely criiioi.'ns the TnanPcmcnt and stating shat he husi- ness conduct of the institution is d'- pl:rablo The rcpor: declares that the law creating the hrlsd of trustees of tho institution is loosely d"aWE ani dors not provide for the employment or , specific officer but leaves all tn. details of management and appoint ment in the hands of an unsalaried hoard which. the report says. has vtr- tually surrendered control to the sup erintendenL an officer unknown to the klw In the View If the committee. full detailed report should be required
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23

biennially of the accounts of the in stitutim to date. showing the out standing ;ndebtedness and reasons for non payment of accounts
 The report concludes with n recom- ineardation for amendments to the law which will c,ue the aileged defects and abuses umier the present act.
 As a result of the severe condemnn- ton of the Home officials. Governor Riggs yesterday addresssd letter to the legislature criticistng the report for condemnirg the hoard of trustees without giving them a chance to he heard in their own defense. The gov erns communication was to a commit tee aud a hearing will probably be granted the trustees.
 Charge Big Graft Nnme Flu Accounts
 Rep. Ross of Fairbarks charged
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
APPOINTMENT
 RAISES STORM

Washington, April. 22-Colonel Harvey, whose appointment as Amer ican ambassador to Great Brita in brought about a secret session of the Senate a week ago. was openly at tackled on the Senate floor yesterday.
 It was asserted that "the appoint ment will be regarded by millions of patriotic Americans as a crowning af- front to the invalid who recently Va cated the White House."
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
WEEKS NEWS OF D0lnGS
 OF ALASKA LEGISLATURE

yesterday in the House that an inves- tigatJon of the report of the Territorial Treasurer showed gross fraud and gis,ft in the influenza expenditures in the Second and Fourth Divisions and moved the appointment of Il House Cum,nittee to investigate. Represen- Second. f'rame of the Th1rd and Cole Of the First Divs',:s were appointed on the ccrsnittec. wAith is now In d. ing hearings. Tor NeuJnan and Gov. Riggs were Lefore tfe committee s.v- eral hours yesterday. Chairman Ross stated last night that thorough in- vestigation of all the expenditures will he made and appropriate action recom- nlemded. An accountant has been en. gagged by the committee and is scruu- niziny the vouchers. Most of the al- legged frauds tn the accounts are charged to Nome. On their face the accounts look Dad for somebody who will ni,,babiy he informed of some severe criticism if not more.
 All Xiii ds of reports are coming from Washington relative to the gov ernorship appointment hut Wicke-- sham's telegrams to local supporters show every confidence in his ultimate victory
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
DEVELOPMENT HIGH
 GRADE ORE BODIES

(From Anchorage Times)
 Development work conducted by the Naslia Treadwell Gold Mining Com pany on their Nixon Fork holdings. disclose large ore bodies of high grade ore. according to G. F. Kiroy, who is in Cordova and who spent sev- cr;al days at the mines on his; way to the coast.
 On the properties under option over twenty five men are at work, and, though hampered by lack of mechfn- cry the holding company is doing ex- cellent work Air compressors shipped in last summer lay idle through lack of fuel. the shipment of gasoline being on the steamer Panama which is frog en in one hundred miles below Mo Grath
 Owing to the complex nature of the ore. which contains high values in gold. silver and copper. it's treatment will be an item of considerable ex- pense. However on one of the pro- perties whose ore is less refractory. an experimental cyaniding plant will he installed this coming summer.
 On the west fork of the Nixon where many prospectors are digging, a ledge assa wing ihigh in silver has been un- covered. Its extent is not yet deter mined. Many locations have been made and supplies are being rushed in from McGiath to further development.
 Old-tirners are paying much atten- tion to quartz properties this winter. Charlie Worden. of Klondike fame. is located in the Russkln mountains some IS miles from Kolmakoffskv. With q crew of our men he is develop ing a promising looking ledge which runs high in gold. silver and copper values.
 The placer fields of the Innoko dig gings will practically all be dredged, according to Mir. Kilroy who repre- sents the Union Construction Com- pany of California. His company will install a dredge on Canes Creek this coming summer whilst the Plume Dredge Company will put a big ma- chine on Yankee Creek. Active min ing will be conducted in the McGrath section and the general outlook is good.
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
FRIDAY (TELEGRAPHlC)
u. S. REFUSES TO MEDIATE
 IN PREPARATIONS

Washington, April. 21-The Amer ican government has refused the re- quest of the German government that President Harding mediate the ques- tion of repaivltions between Germany and the Allies and fix the sum Ger many is to pay.
 The United States has agreed. how ever. that if the German government would formulate such proposals re- sarding separations as would present a proper basis for discussion, it would bringing the matter to the ats tention of the Allied governments. Sec retary of State Hughes so replied to the German appeal today after con- ference with President Hardins.
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
NOTED WASHINGTON
 PIONEER DEAD

Seattle. April. 21-J. F. A. Bull finch, aged S4, resident of Seattle for 57 years and grandsm of Chas. Ba,- finch, the architect who lesaened tire capitol building at Washington, D. C. died her today.
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
CEASES PIONEER
 OFFlciAL-IS SUED

San Francisco April. 21-R. A. Gross, secretary of the Pioneer Min ing and Ditch Company. operating at Nome, has instituted a suit against Jafet l-jndeberg. former president of ed him down and chased him about until he agreed to resign his position.
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
PIONEER COMPANY ENJolNEO FROM TAKING
 CROSS RESIGNATION

San Francisco. April. 2l-An in junction has been issued here restrain ing the directors of the Pioneer Min ing and Ditch Company. owning valu- able Alaskan mining properties. from accepting the resignation of R. H. Cross from the board. The latter claims he gave the resignation as result of Jafet Lindeberg threatening to kill him. ..
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
HUGE METEOR
 STARTLES GEoRGIANS

Macon. Ga. April, 2l-A huge met cor passed over central and southern Georgia last night and greatly startled the residents by showering red hot metal mostly heavy iron, over a wide area to an accompaniment of deaf ening explosions.
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
5olSHEvikI TO KEEP
 BIG STANDING ARMY

gihns. accoIyiEng to the newspaper Isvestin of Moscow, which has just published the decisions ot the tenth Communist conxress. has .le- cided to keep up a formidable stand ing army and to replace all non-Cosn- munast officers by Communists. and 10 arm the war fleet.
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
ATTY cEN'L REFUSES TO SEE ATTORNEYS FOR cRoNkHITE
 MURDER SUSPECTS

Washington, Apra. 20-Attorney General Dausherty. who is conducting a personal inquiry relatve to the charses against Rosenbluth and Poth- fer in connection with the killing of kajor cronkhite. today refused to see thssr a1SoEsey's.
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
LANDS IMPEACHMENT CHARGES
 TO DE DROPPED

Washington. April. 21-The i'm peachment charges against Federal Judge Landis will be dropped. it was stated l. congressional circles today.
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
CANADA TO APPOINT
 AMBASSADOR TO U. S.

Ottawa. Can. AprdA 22-The pre- mier announced today that Canada will appoint a Canadian Minister to the United States.
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
EARTHQUAKE JARS
 LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles. Apra, 21-An earth quake shock uf considerable violence occurred here at 7:3o this morning. AL though severely shaken. the city sus- tai1lesi apparently little damage.
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23

one to sec me.
 II used several remedies without success. For three months this trouble lasted and l read of CuticuTa Soap and Ointment and sent for free sample. purchased more and after six weeks I was healed and l only used three cakes of Cuticura Soap and one box oi Cuticura Ointment. :" (Signcd) Mus Ola B. Guthrie. Box a. bawson. N. Mex. March 22. 1920.
 Daily use of cuticura Soap. oins. mem and Taleum usually prsvsnss skin troubles.
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The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
Cuticura Healed Red Pimple. Over Face, Neck, Hands
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 would scratch them until they bled and ! could not sIeep nights. I was really ashamed for any
The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23

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