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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-02-09
Feb. ), 1889

Feb. ), 1883
Last Saturday Master Howard Pull
ing celebrated his third birthday by
giving a party to number OF his
young friends. Mr.. and Mrs. Pull
ing received the little visitors and
in their usual pleasant manner ar
ranged everything for. the comfort and
pleasude of the happy throng.
Robert ~ Lafner is being doomed
for the office of justice of the peace.
He would fill the bill to perfection
and in tying a matrimonial knot, he
would surprise some of the old hands
at the business and, no doubt, would
make greatly reduced prices TO young
men.
Mrs. Anna e. McCord, mother of
Myron H. McCord, died at the resi-
dence of the latter in Merrill last
week She was almost eighty years
old.
We noticed last week that Chas. Nc
Crossen has adopted a new style Of
wearing his whiskers-in a little
fringe around his throat. Very be-
coming, but rather Hibernian, you
know.
Brad Jones' mill on the Eau Claire
has been saving for five weeks now
Mr.. Jones claims this is one of the
best winters he ever experienced for
saving timber; not one, log so far
having been cut that was frozen as
is the case very often during this
season of the year.
The new excursion Of the St. Paul
road above Merrill is great con-
venience to lumbermen working in
the vicinity where it runs through.
Carl Woessner. Jr., has assumed
control of his fathers tailoring es-
tablishment, owing to the fact that the
latter's duties as city treasurer take
up too much of his time TO allow
him to look after the business.
The regular annual meeting of the
Business Mems association. was held
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-02-09
ANTICIPATE BIG
BUILDING YEAR
LOOK FOR $1,000, 1000 IN PRO-
JECTS DURING COMING
SEASON

Ii the predictions of all retail lum-
bermen and contractors come true,
Wausau will witness its greatest year
of construction work in all history.
One prominent retail lumberman told
the editor of The Pilot yesterday that
he expected a $1,000. 900 total of build
ing projects to be under way during
the building season of 1922.
Interviewed on the subject of
Building" +. o. Crocker, of the Wis
consin Box company, Victor l.. Mori-
sette, of the Pier Lumber company
and Laurence Johnson of Heilemann-
Johnson, all expressed utmost opti-
mism. I'VE have been called upon to
make more estimates on building dur
ing this winter than ever before al
such an early date said Mr.. Crocker
"A great deal of building is being
planned upon by the office man
clerks, insurance men and others who
have held steady jobs during this
period of readjustment The laboring
man also, who has saved money, now
realizes that lumber has reached the
bottom and that now is the time to &C
ahead with the home he has been
planning"
Never Better
Mr.. Morisette declares that pros
poets for an active season never look
called upon to make more estimates
at this early date than ever before
and at the recent convention of Daw-
leyNorthern Yard men, held at the
Bells house, the greatest optimism
was displayed by all representatives
present. Il am particularly urging
young men to join the Loan associa-
tion and in this way to commence an
accumulation for the purpose of build.
ing homes. Each day finds more peo
pie realizing that this is the time to
build"
That lumber has hit bottom an(
that building boom is in full swing
for this spring, is the belief of Mr.
Johnson. "The prospects for this
spring are 100 per cent better than &
year ago for the demand for informa.
ton IS being received much earlier
than usual. Prices are averagely
fifty to sixty per cent lower than dur.
ing 1919 and 1920" Contractors also
express their opinion favorably. Franz
Seefeldt, one of the best known con
tractors in the city, told The Pilo
tkat he could see demand now tina
far exceeds that of 1921.
Among the new structures that viii
in all probability be under way dur
ing the spring are the new Elks' club
the cost of which is estimated a
$4,000; the ID. L. Plumer Memoria
hospital, estimated cost $4,000 t.
100000; First ward school building
cost $4,000.
May Remodel Temple
Remodeling of the Masonic Temple
and perhaps the addition of a two OF
three story structure to the rear o
the present building may be under
taken. An architect is to be calle(
into consultation by the trustees O
that institution at an early date fol
lowing which some decision will b'
reached The cost of such an addi
ton, it is expected, would be $4,000
or more
In addition to these large projects
several business institutions are plan
ming additions or practically new
structures.
Where there were perhaps 20'
homes constructed last year, it is es
timated' by those familiar with thu
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-02-09
NEW SUPERVISOR
ALL PREPARED TO
PASS THE CIGARS

When Alderman Borowitz en-
tered the city council chamber
last Tuesday evening, he was
positive of election to the post
of supervisor, so/very certain
that he had purchased a box of
cigars to pass around and that
he had written out his resigna-
ton as alderman to make possi-
bic the acceptance of the new
office. His Judgment proves
proved correct.
But there were several ball
lots before Alderman Borowitz
was chosen. He was finally
elected, however, Immediately
handed in his resignation and
thereupon opened up the cigars.
They went the rounds and all
lighted up.
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-02-09
conference OF
CREDIT EXPERTS
WILL HOLD CONVENTION
AT CITY HALL NEXT
WEDNESDAY

The Normalcy conference of the
State Credit Mems association will
be held next Wednesday, February Is,
at the city hall, when 200 prominent
business men from throughout the
state are expected to be in Wausau.
The occasion is considered an import
ant one among manufacturers and re-
tailers and a program of sound ad-
dresses on topics of commercial i'm
port has been announced by G.. E..
Parker, in charge of local arrange
ments.
Registration will take place at the
Bells hotel. following which the del
egates vii repair to the city hall
for the morning session. Mayor Emil
Flatter will give an address of well
come.
Commercial Failure
George p. Ellis, of Ellis, Austin &
Company. Oshkosh, is the first speak
er on the program, his subject being
The Commercial Failure-What Caus-
es 1t? How Largely Preventable p
Frank LaBudde, cashier Old CONNER
cial National bank, Oshkosh, will lead
a general discussion following. At
10:30 O'Clock c. e. Parker of this
city, is scheduled to talk on "The
/! financial Statement" and general
discussion has been arranged which
will be led by John Rose, cashier Kel-
logg National bank, Green Bay, and
tC. G. Kruger, cashier First National
bank, of this city.
The noon recess will end at 200
p. m. when "The Credit Manager" will
be the topic of Wm.A. Hastings, cred
/ it manager Of the French Battery and
/ Carbon company of Madison. Mr..
Hastings talk will include discus
sion of this position in a business en-
Eterprise, the training necessary and
the prevention of failures and the
making of better merchants. Glenn
S. Custer, of the Burgess Battery
company, Madison, will lead general
discussion.
Moral Risks
'The Moral Risk is the second top
/ ic of the afternoon, the speaker to be
A. o. Benz, of the GlasgowTubbs COM
pany, Fond du Lac. Wis. A. p. Baker
secretary of the Fond du Lac asso-
citation of credit men. will lead the
discussion THE Relation Of the Bor-
rover to His Banker from the Bank
er's Viewpoint" will be VIM. x
Adams subject. Mr.. Adams is as
Asistant vice president Of the First
Wisconsin National bank of Milwau-
kee. Oscar Matz Of Milwaukee, will
conduct the discussion.
A reception will be held at the Hotel
Bells parlors from six until seven
o'clock, a banquet to conclude the
program at 700. W. B. Cross, presi-
4 dent of the national association, OF
Duluth, will speak on Association
\ Ideals" and J. III. Tregoe, of New
York, the secretary-treasurer of the
national organization, will offer an
address on IA Business Survey.
i field that 500 to 400 homes will be
built this year. This is considered a
fair estimate, not exaggerated.
1 When this boom commences il
means the employment of hundreds
of workmen, carpenters, bricklayers
and all others associated with the
building trades. Plumbers, painters
decorators and allied trades will be
exceptionally busy. Their occupation
will eventually mean business fol
those retail establishments handling
| furnishings of all kinds.
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tury. Their slaughtering, it has been
roughly computed, involved some 35, 100000
lives, Asiatic and European. And the
boards of the Great Khans, Ghengiz Khan,
Ogotai Khan, Mangu, Baty and the others,
were successively laid with their dead
bodies in the catacombs of the imperial
family.
What is established fact Is the visit of
the two men OF Yarkand, in Kashgar, to
the tombs. Their tale as was set forth by
Russian authorities in Bokhara, who took
it down, reads like chapter out Of the
Arabian Nights Entertainment"
These two men belonged to a caravan
trading from Yarkand to Cherchen. on the
river so called, and the towns bordering
the Liu Sha Desert in Turkestan. Not sat
isfed with their treatment, however they
left II at Khotan and set out by themselves
to return to Yarkand. They lost their way
among the mountain defles, and after
wandering for three days among the deso-
late gorges found themselves following
narrow track hewn in the rock between
beetling cliffs. After traversing the deep
and gloomy dehle for a considerable time
they came to a great cave. with numbet
Of huge images set in row in front of its
heavily sculptured portal
They entered and discovered a number
Of ancient tombs, and by every tomb lay
innumerable objects of great value. They
averred they saw more than sufficient prec-
ious stones alone than many camels could
carry. They brought away all they dare
burden themselves with, refilled their
waterskins and retraced their steps. max
ing careful observations as to the situation
of the mouth Of the rock hewn path and
the defile, and left heaps OF stones as
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Lost Treasures Of Ancient Khans Reappear

~ UT of India there comes new evil
dence that legends of the treasures
of the once omnipotent Khans OF
the Mongols are no myth. During the last
few years many large precious stones, in
Guiding medieval turquoises from the
Syr Daria, one of mid-Asia's great rivers,
together with rare Asiatic ornaments and
pieces of Tatar worked gold, have been
filtering into India from the northward,
and it is certain these could only have
been obtained in the tombs of the Khans,
which have been lost to ken for five GEN.
turies and more Lost and found-to be
lost again.
Some eighteen years ago few pieces of
Tatar work gold and a small quantity OF
quantity cut precious stones we're obtained
in Bokhara by the Imperial Russian au-
thorities from two men of Yarkand, who
had chanced upon the great Mongols'
tombs. 1t is understood that these in
every respect Of craftsmanship resemble
the singular rarities which have been com
ing out Of the State OF Nepal without any
adequate source being ascribed to them
Central and southern Asia have innumer-
able traditions OF lost treasures lying in
the graves of forgotten emperors and
kings and hidden in the ruins OF the lost
cities and under the desert sands and in
ancient and forsaken temples. But great
est OF all are these which tradition and
story in Ferghanistan, Kashgar and Turk
estan have handed down-the treasures of
the lost tombs of the Khans of the Mon
gols or Tatars. They who ravaged Europe
in the thirteenth century from Dantzic in
the north to the Adriatic in the south
and the Rhine in the west. Their lootings
impoverished Europe for more than cen
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Eternal Night Has No
Terrors for Blind Actors

1t is reasonable that we who have never
known relentless darkness should fail to
understand. We are bound to be amazed.
We recall some incident when the dark
ness was impenetrable, when we had
neither fiashlight nor matches, and when
we groped hopelessly and for long time,
feeling afraid and helpless in the black
ness.
1t is very easy for one to lose his bear
ings on a dark night. 1t was a tremendous
feat in childhood to let the blindfold stay
tight and to walk ten feet and pin de-
tached tail somewhere near the outline of
a muslin donkey hung upon wall. Then
every person must at one time or another
have missed his judgment OF distance and
bumped into a chair in dark room simply
because II was seven PAGES nearer than IL
should have been.
The Blind Players Club will present two
plays during the first week of April in the
Brooklyn Academy Of Music To any one
who wants to see the miraculous will be
offeret proof that his impression Of the
handicaps OF blindness Is somewhat awry.
The blind do not go helplessly and un-
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Dancing is another accomplishment OF
the blind, more easily understood, perhaps
than acting. It was found that 1t could
be carried past the point of recreation
and taken up seriously, so that folk dancing
by blind children and interpretative
dancing by older blind girls were introduced
as a part of the dramatic program given
Before the rehearsal Of the plays the other
day they were practicing for the Greek
dance and the Moth dance, that will be
presented at the Academy of Music next
month, and 1t was possible to study the
methods by which they are trained.
In the first place, it was evident that
every girl in the line had good sense OF
rhythm. Beyond all else that is what they
depend upon. In this instance two or
three sighted, or practically sighted, girls
were put into the dance, although this is
not absolutely necessary. In any compli-
Gated figure where the turning and whirl-
ing of the dance confuses the sense of di-
rection the merest touch from one of these
guides serves to keep the blind dancers in
position. AS for the details of the dance
the pointing of toes and bending Of bodies
seemed to come naturally even to those
who had been blind since birth and could
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took for his route one of the old and now
unused lines of travel much in use between
China and mid-Asia during the ages Of the
Mongol Empire; 1t is a southern route by
Kashgar and Khotan, and goes through
the desert to Lob Nor and thence east
ward to Sha Chou and the Great Wall Of
China. Whether Spaulding and his men
reached the lost tombs or not no informa-
tion is definitely forthcoming
Rumor in the bazaars of Samaracand,
Bokhara and Kashgar had it that he sue
ceeded in getting to the Great Khans' rest
ing place, secured some of the treasure, and
set out to proceed to Nepal, where the ex-
pedition was murdered to a man. The i'm
perial authorities, however, arrived at
different conclusion-that he and his men
had died in the wids OF the Dapsang at
the hands OF trackers.
!. But whatever the place OF Spaulding's
disappearance, together with his expedi-
tion and however their doom came about
this is certain. Only since the intrepid
Englishman and his men went beyond
our knowledge have the Syr Daria tur-
quoises and jewels of medi@val mid-Asia
and other regions, together with Tatar
gold work, found their way southwark out
of Nepal into India.
1t has been deducted that the treasure
tombs of the Mongol Emperors lie, approx
mately, sixty to seventy miles northeast
of the Kashgar border, on the way from
Yarkand to Khotan, deep amidst the rugged
primeval mountains which have witnessed
the beginning Of things and where the
eagles and torrents alone make the defiles
echo.
The secret Of mid-Asia remains a secure
secret still.
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have had no visual conception of either
symmetry or grace.
The industrial handicrafts are an equally,
important If less spectacular branch OF the
work carried on by the Committee on the
Blind. They include hand sewing, machine
sewing, weaving, rug making, basketry,
cement pottery, inclosed pottery, brush
making and medicine packing. These in
dustries were going on in various parts OF
the headquarters, at $50 Schermerhorn
street, while rehearsing took place in the
main hall downstairs.
A girl who had never seen was seated
at loom weaving an intricate pattern into
fine thread material, sightless women
we're stitching aprons with an almost un-
canny regularity. Rows of stitching kept
their even distance from edges and were
less unruly than with many a sighted seam
stress. Blind shopworkers have made as
much as s27 in a week from their work
and every regular worker can count on
some weekly proceeds from the salesroom
conducted by the committee in the head
quarters, with entrance on Lafayette street.
number OF blind girls have shown that
they are not ineligible to the ranks of COM
merce, and class in dictaphone, type
writing and commercial training has been
established for them. Some have already
proved the success OF the venture by enter
ing New York business Offices and putting
the thing across.
In the lists of the blind is one young
woman who prepared herself to teach
music and was then deprived of her sight.
She is now making her living by teaching
blind pupils. A young man 20 years old.
who has lost his sight, is studying music
and intends to make IL his profession.
The sight OF the blind Is being recog-
nized and developed to-day. They are
showing capacities that were latent until
the twentieth century dragged them to the
light together with other unknown quail
ties. The successes of the Blind Players
Club Of Brooklyn represent the high water
mark in their progress.
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guide. Before they again picked up the
regular caravan route to Yarkand they had
to throw away the greater part of their
treasure trove to save their lives, so weak
ened had they become through privations.
When they reached their native town
they had some little idea of the value OF
their discovery, and thinking to better
themselves by 1t and realize higher price
for the precious articles they proceeded
to Bokhara, by way of Kashgar, Osh and
Kodjend, keeping their tale to themselves
and the jewels closely concealed.
At karavansarai in Bokhara they came
in contact with noted English traveller
and explorer in middle Asia-Henry Spaul-
ding, to whom the so-called Cradle OF the
human race" from Bokhara to Kashgar
was more familiar than the green and
pleasant lanes of the country OF his birth
Spaulding coaxed their story out of them
and on examination of the jewels they had
and with their permission brought them to
the notice of the Russian authorities. To
him the discovery appealed with irresisti
BILE force, and he had no trouble in arrang-
ing an expedition though great dificulty
was experienced in overcoming the fears OF
the TWO men ana perSuadlng them TO act
as guides. All central Asia had been
dreaming for centuries of the treasures In
the lost tombs of the Great Khans. The
inner world OF the Bokharan bazaars
buzzed with the widest stories Of the i'm
mensity of riches now discovered. The
matter appears to have been bruited in a
certain strange underground, for the i'm
perial officials warned Spaulding that the
expedition most certainly was going to its
doom. However it started.
From subsequent inquiries made by the
Russians, Spaulding 1t was ascertained,
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II ~
sight-of subtle power of vision
not physical nor material - as
vivid as our own? 1t is almost impossible
to believe. Yet the evidence points out as
clearly as sight itself that the blind do see.
The Blind Players Club of Brooklyn in
action would convince the most skeptical
that the sightless actors and actresses cast
in its plays are at no disadvantage because
of their sightlessness.
The precision and the confidence with
which these players move through their
parts prove that they see every incident
of every play they give. They do not see it
as we in the audience see The figures
vividly photographed on their minds are
perhaps not the same pictures as are
flashed through the eyes of the seeing and
reproduced. But they are as real and as
true as the material visioning, and are as
effective.
1t is interesting and amazing that these
blind players can move through the in
tricacies of melodrama as freely and
with as infallible exactness as any actors
on the stage; that they can gel the subtle
nuances, the scarcely perceptible yet mean
ingful gestures and glances that are woven
through the proper execution of every play.
The timing is exact Every response,
spoken or acted, is done as precisely as the
most self-possessed actor on a Broadway
stage could do it. The cues are often not
spoken ones, as in any plays, but these
blind actors never miss They can act
with finesse that would satisfy even John
Drew himself who said that a drama
might be made or ruined by handshake.
Say, for example, one of the scenes In a
play being acted by the Blind Players re-
quired just that-a handshake Neither
OF the actors sees the hand of the other
coming toward him; neither can depend
upon his sight for the execution OF the
movement at exactly the proper time and
at the same time. Yet they do not miss
hre. The handclasp comes surely and con.
fidently-so well that ii is difficult to imag.
Inc the actors blind even though you are
informed beforehand that they are.
Why doesn't the leading man beseech
the unyielding walls, not knowing that the
leading lady has crossed to the other side
OF the room? How do they know that
they are looking at each other at the crit
ical moment, that they are picking up
their tea cups and not the ash trays?
How is it that they never seem to grope
for anything; that they walk upright and
self assured that they can reach out for
the tea cup and directly find the handle?
1t must be that they do see
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certainly into things. They manage about
as well as the rest of us and see a good
deal more than some of us. Before and
during rehearsal Of the Blind Players
there was much that was enlightening.
II had to come and rehearse instead of
finishing my ironing and making GRO
quettes for dinner" protested the leading
lady. Il promised my four brothers that
we would have croquettes tonight"
This was Miss Margaret Smith, gay.
pretty, totally blind, who presents the
tragedy of the Chinese small wife in a
two act play. She plays opposite Miss
Helena Klein, the tall "leading1nan," who
strolled smiling and bantering to where
group were standing together, and dis
played poise that seemed out of keeping
with her total blindness. Her one vulner-
able point lay in mention of the deep
dimples that always war with her clear
tenor voice in the male impersonations.
Other players were arriving, talking,
hurrying up and down stairs and to other
parts of the building for properties, doing
everything quite contrary to our concep-
tion of those who have not our kind of
sight A girl, blind from birth, was at the
piano, her fingers caressing the keys into
one tune and then another with no hesita-
tion. Another girl was bringing objects
from some shelf or drawer and placing
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nlazing Grace and DeftnesS of SightleSS
Amateur Players in Charity
Operetta StartLe AudienceS---SkiU of
Experienced Artists Quickly Acquired

left thirty degrees to find what he is seek
ing. His head must turn to the right and
his eyes must drop when he addresses the
leading lady at a certain juncture. These
are the things that course through the sub
consciousness of the blind actor. But be-
yond all that there is something else, the
thing that keeps him from taking his
PAGES in circle or zigzag and from
mixing his counting up with his lines as
sighted actor most certainly would II
he were suddenly blindfolded, the thing
that augments his mathematical calcula-
tions and turns an almost into an exactly
in his movements-the unknown sense OF
the blind, the sight without eyes.