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Evening star., 1923-05-27
Smoke Affects Bridges.

JK7HEN a locomotive is "makii:a
w speed against a grade" with is
full complement of cars and tonnasv
behind 1t, the blast from the smoke
stack may attain almost explosive
force. But no matter how many
pounds dead weight may be blown
from the stack, its corrosive and
heat effects in passing under bridges
and viaduct structures are plainly
evident These have been made the
subject of most careful study by en-
gineers.
Something over twenty years ago
the Cotton Farm Bridge" in Boston
was built with a clearance &C only
fifteen feet above the line of a rail-
way. The floor OF the bridge was
supported by hollow-tile arches rest
ing upon fanges of steel beams.
These steel beams were protected by
heavy plates and above were rem
dered rustproof by cement tiles.
In ten years the locomotives blasts
had eaten into the lead sheathing ana
the ti1inG to such an extent that much
OF the coating had fallen to the
ground and all of it had to be taken
ont
Evening star., 1923-05-27

Suddenly was tickled with a sense
of the ridiculous, and the world grin
ned back. So proceeded to become ac-
quainted with my assistants and
hamals.
TINE Glove broker was a black
l. bearded Khoja, soft in speech,
courteous in manner, and very clever
in his dealings. He wore a long
black coat, soft, fioppy white linen
trousers and sandals, and carried
an umbrella. He took fatherly
interest in my welfare, dragging me
forth to peer in darksome godowns
where pungent cloves were heaped in
hiTiocks twenty five feet high.
Breathing mysterious trade secrets
and exuding cloves from every seam
and fold of his voluminous garments,
he drifted into the Office like a dark.
brooding cloud touched with bits of
sunshine, and never came unwanted
nor stayed too long.
Ali Bhanji.' who secured the steam
ing bazaars in the interests of Man
CHcSleT lOOIHS, was dlSo d hhOJd, puI
of different sort. Ali was bumptious.
Ambition boiled within him. Dumpy
and Napoleonici (save that he chewed
alternately a stained mustache and
betel nut packed in lime), he clat-
tered up and down the stairs twenty
times a day, every time presenting a
different countenance.
Frenzied with some petty anxiety,
bursting with pride over some clever
stroke, silly silent over maturing
plan. chuckling at the latest bon mot
of the cloth bazaar, breathing for
hidden rumor with nervous dread and
delight, he filled each passing day
with novelty, and inspiration.
Claiming me as his property. he
dragged me into the bazaars to
smoke sweet cigarettes with Banians,
tell fabulous yarns to Khojas, sip
coffee with Arabs. and pass the time
of day with almost every chance-met
Zanzibari. Beaming benevolently,
his pock marked face radiating good
will. he would say. persuasively:
"Ah,' here is the house Of Jan
Hansraj. oh, how many times Jan
Hansraj, he say. You come my
house" What you think, bwanar'
Evening star., 1923-05-27

BY WILLIAM ASHLEY ANDERSON.
TN HE life Of the bazaar is a pecu-
liar thing. To the philosopher
it is mostly very broad human
comedy; but occasionally there
IS presented some tragic circumstance,
violent and ineXplicable, that leaves a
lingering memory OF color and flame
and troubled questioning. The inexpli-
cable fascinates. but never satisfies.
For instance, two sepoys, coming
away from Beyt-el-Ajaib, the palace of
the Sultan of Zanzibar. struck by a
sudden madness. turned into the ba-
zaar. At the shop OF Damoder Jerab
th,y found the inoffensive Khoja man
ager sitting OIL a stool. calm and con-
tented. One of the sepoys calmly raised
his rifle and shot the unsuspectmg man
in his fat stomach. .
Instantly the bazaar was in CULVER
ing panic. Shutters went up with a
clatter. the brass-studded doors closed
with muffled bangs, and all the alleys
scampercd to shelter like frightened
rabbits. A wet Banian-brother of
beasts and bugs, who would have
thought it as great a crime to kill rat
as his own grandmother-trying to slip
unseen down a dark, moist alleyway.
palpitating with terror, was discovered
by the sardonic gaze of the sepoy and
a second bullet flew. II struck the
Banian in the chest and knocked him
with faint whimper into a muddied
drain.
There were STRINGS, whisperings,
choked cries. tinkle of silver and
rattle of brasses behind the dark
walls. In an instant the narrow,
wet alleyways were deserted save
for few old men and women, too
stunned to move quickly, and some
children, lost in the swift panic. Four
women, coming to an upper window to
look down into the stirring bazaar.
made a pretty, colorful picture under a
Byzantine arch with a drab back
ground. They were terrified with anx-
iety for their children, but one of the
sepoy's bullets scattered them all like
brs of bright plumage
ali bhanj, who was, of course, at
hanu, saw his child in the street and
rushed out to draw him to safety just
as another small boy, seeing all doors
cicsed about him, flung himself against
Ds,arsey's great brass-studded portal,
crying out:
'Mohammed Ali Dharsey, open the
door! Open the door. Mohammed
Ali Dharsey. Help me! Open the
door: {. :.
While the little fellow beat franticauy
at the black, carved door. behind which
tes merchants wrung their lands help
Evening star., 1923-05-27

added plaintively, there's nothing
here but spice and pestilence."
With this ringing in my ears, !
went overheard and sought the shore
alone, since no one had come to
meet me.
Alden, from which I had recently
departed. is a man grown gaunt and
rugged in honest strife: but Zanzibar
is a courtesan, whimsical. gay. sullen,
presenting many aspects. Warm,
rich, beautiful, concealing with dis
scmbling art Its sinister spots. 1t
lavishes it's charms, intoxicates with
its beauty. smothers with it's opu-
lence; or suddenly, after smouldering
silence, it rends itself with rage.
The screaming tornado rips its gar
ments of verdure to tatters, bony-
fingered pestilence goes leering down
its dark alleyways, fever shakes the
life out of its victims. And after
ward the bright sun sparkles upon
the rain-washed foliage, and the
island smiles again with the innocent
radiance of maiden.
i cleared the customs, pushing my
way through a polyglot collection of
followed by my dazed Lamu boy
shouldering my bag, plunged
straight into the maze of narrow
Shiny. steamy alleyways, that form
the thoroughfares of Zanzibar Town.
THE great concrete piles of ancient
= Arab structures bulked overhead
closing together in places to form
clumsy arches. Fronds Of palms, am.
bilious shoots, 1uxuriant creepers
dripping with moisture, struggled up
ward to the light. The air was heavy
with rich. sweet smell of copra and
the spicy tang of cloves.
In and out of the huge carved doors
and along the stone-paved alleys
bland khojas, wet looking Hindus
and Parsis, carrying umbrellas and
lifting their fiimsy trousers or drag
Cling hodrunks from the slime, made
Evening star., 1923-05-27

'Maharabah." he would greet me.
What is the trouble now, effendi?"
And within twenty minutes the big
godowns would be reverberating with
the shouts and songs of coolies
struggling in the glow OF huge blaz-
ing lights to clear the threatened
cloves.
Whenever 1 ran into the hadji at
the Glove market 1 spent many pleas
ant moments with him, discussing the
world and it's people. Looking
through the overfowing godowns out
to the open bay, where the great
three-masted teakwood dhows con-
Evening star., 1923-05-27

my dhow and a plaything OF the
winds-to take my chance with Kis-
met on the open seas, while my heart
leaped with life and my tongue sang
songs as old as Haflz:
'tBy Allah! wild with love I flame;
And he who loves is ne'er to blame.
Drink, mahabubie, drink"
I suggest this to the Hadji and
he smites his thigh. "Allah! Allah!
We will do this, effendi! You and !,
we will"
Oh, the nights of -Zanzibar-wiid
Evening star., 1923-05-27
ending with Kis-swahili and Eng

ending with Kis-swahili and Eng
lish:
"Juma- -moja, watu vote wata-
cuja hopa! Shahli Shaplin! Cheka-
cheka-cheka: Satterday night,
Larf-larf-larf-larf!
And the babel of languages sud
denly becomes harmony. Each un-
derstands all and all understand to
the depths the great roar that shakes
mainly boots, stick, little Bowler
hat, a moustache and a. vitalizing
spark-suddenly appears on the
wall, trips and lands en- it's chin
amid California scenery.
This i5 the common meeting ground
for all the world.
The man / most liked was Hadji
Mahomet bin Ali, pure blooded
Arab from the Yenan. There was
no compromise about the Hadii; he
had solid, downright character,
bluff, direct manner, formed his
opinions after brief consideration,
and acted with decision. He was
hamal contractor, engaged in sup
plying stevedores, hamals and women
to sort and clean cloves and copra.
drag the stuff in carts from end
to end of the town. load it in barges
and stow it In the holds of the big
ships swinging in the roads. To
carry on this work successfully, he
had to have keen perception, initia-
tive and a profound knowledge of
the native latorer.
NFTEN at night, when the most
~ costly roof in East Africa sud-
denly became porous under a beating
rain, threatening the destruction of
thousands of sacks of cloves, 1
would send a messenger-old, black,
blear-eyed Belalli. in a nightgown,
sandals and red tarbush; Belalli,
pensioner. and once about the best
ivory expert on the Black Continent
Il would sed him searching for Ma
homet bin Ali, scurrying through the
drenching downpour, as anxious over
the cloves as a parvenu over string
of pearls. Presently into the dark
ness of my room would come the
hadji silent and grave, his black
beard dripping moisture. his smoul-
dering eyes steady under the sop
ping turban. the hilt Of his dagger
cleaning with The wet.
Evening star., 1923-05-27

TSNvY rises in me. /, too. should
IL like to sail these seas, master of
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with sm ileI
revolving table set six inches high
ar ON which tie food IS placed to
be ~vuae around for hePirsS.
1--WE were eating on that table
jast ht aut bc Ht,si
autograph written on it-July -,
1921, Gee Ford >aia
Ford, Edison and EirestoHe ~
malued on ihe flont %reh tor some
slime after they had passed the
casket watching the crowd enter
ia1
General Dawes. former director Of
tle budget. entered with DR.. ana
Mrs. Boone. Or. Boone was one
Of the President physicians in his
LIST illness.
Constant efforts were made to
speed up the line of mourners. They
were sent in two abreast with sold
lers every few feet dosing up the
ranks aud saving: Please do not
stop rs you pass the casict.
\ crouch is man who has had
to work every August.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-08-10

that went from Washington to Al
aska with Mr., Harding, win gather.
and afterwards the coffin viii be
carried for the last time from the
father S house by the same honor
guard Of young men Of the army,
navy and marine corps, who have
borne il since it was carried from
the Palace Hotel in San Francisco
n week ago today to be placed in
the funeral train for Washington.
Late this afternoon the cortege
will move through the still, tree
shaded streets, between the lines
Of friends and neighbors, on to
the opened gates of Marion GENE
terry it will take its stately way.
There viii be no pomp, no bright
trappings of display of grief. For
he who passes by is just Warren c.
Harding, citizen of Marion.
Behind the gray hearse in which
the casket will be borne, will come
the honorary pall bearers who are
the members of the cabinet, Sena-
tor Cummins, Speaker Gillett of the
House. Calvin Coolidge. now the
first citizen of the Republic; for
mer President Taft, now chief JUS
tice, and other members of the su-
prcmc court; wives of tho cabinet
members and great host of men
and women occupying humber posi-
tlons under the government or hav-
ing no official position at all, Will
follow.
-.-- Majority Just Plain Folks
The vast majority of the thous-
ands who will accompany that
gray hearse will be just the plain
folks Warren G. Harding loved and
who, because he loved them and
so plainly showed it, loved him in
return.
Within the barriers at the ceme-
terry z space has been roped off for
the chief mourners. Then there is
= place for the hundreds of floral
tributes, rendering homage in the
name of foreign governments, and
millions OF Americans.
Slight changes in the funeral pro
gram were announced today.
4 PRAYER at the house before the
start for the ceremony was added.
The Rev. Walter A. King of
Columbus, former pastor of Mr.
Harding 5 church here, will utter
this PRAYER.
The Rev. W. 2. Anderson, Metho-
dist Bishop of Cincinnati, Will de-
liver the beaediction at the vault,
according to the revised plans.
The choir of Trinity Baptist
church of Marion of which Mr.. and
Mrs. Harding were members, will
sing Lead Kindly Light, = one Of
the hymns Warren Harding learned
to know and to love when he lived
in Marion Rev. George NJ. Ian
dis, pastor of Trinity church, viii
then read from the scriptures, DR..
Jesse Swaak, pastor of Epworth
Methodist Episcopal church will
pray. The casket VIII be placed
within its niche in the vault and
the choir will sing, "Nearcr Ny
God TO Thee Later the c&sket
viii be put in a heavy stone con
tainer, which has been brought here
from Baltimore. 1t win remain in
the vault until it is decided what
sort Of memorial shall hc erected. =,
- No Military Show
Although there are 5000 troops
Imperial Valley press., 1923-08-10

in town there viii be no show Of
armed forces at any time during
the day. The boys in khaki, youths
most of them, are here for the sole
purpose of handling crowds and
supplementing tie local police
force.
Some of them camped during the
night on the fair grounds at the
edge of town, but others bivouack-
ed in the back yards of the Harding
ncighbors where the citizens strut
ted among stacked rifles. Thev
were strung all along the line OF
people waiting to enter the house
and at some places they held the
people back by forming human
chain. Others were posted at the
ends of the streets to direct those
who came into town in 4 steady
drove, and tell them how to get to
the end of the line.
As the morning advanced this
line grew in length until it extend
ed from the how past the office
of the M star, where Mr..
IIa ua- 40 work as editor.
When the funeral hour approach
ed the people grew restive, fearful
they would be disappointed and not
get into fine house. The line NOV
ed faster and faster.
Many Special Trains
Special trains arrived in the city
every few minutes and hunbeds Of
people swarmed from these trains.
The Erie railroad alone had thirty
special trains.
All over the land Mt the funeral
hour of 3 p. m, life's fevcred rush
will be stilled to IA scmblance of
death as men and women pause in
their work to pay the last tribute
Of silence to the nation s fallen
chief.
In many communities the entire
day was observed in mourning and
PRAYER and nowhere will the usual
amusements and gaieties be indulg-
cd in.
Many trains will puff their way
out of Marion 5 quiet precincts by
the time the sun goes down, carry
ing back to their appointed tasks
and destinics those who came to
bury the dead.
The father and the widow will re-
Imperial Valley press., 1923-08-10

turn to the silent house on East
Center street where the vines will
still twine on tiie porcn ana the
nasturtiums make vivid splash
against the green of the grass. The
lawn viii still be worn and dusty
with the marks of countless feet.
The air win be heavy with the
lingering scent of flowers. Nero
ries still will 5e thronging those
old walls.
Out under the quiet sky Warren
c. Harding will lie at rest.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-08-10
BY LAWRENCE MARTIN
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent)

kOO1teu freSS SIaII tOICeSpOUueNCJ }
MARION, O., Aug. lo.-The dust
of Marion 5 first citizen will be
laid today in a place of rest.
Warren C. Harding via pass
through the quiet streets of his
home town, and win . ceremony as
simple and brief as though he had
never been aught save an honored
citizen of the place, will be given
TO God for eternity.
The nation 5 greatest viii be 1t
the. tomb but they viii stand there
no higher than the lowlicSt man in
Marion.
Warren G. Harding was the M
tion 5; today he is Marion : and
with love $, privilege his widow and
aged father and his friends and
ueighbors have claimed the right TO
lay his body away with their own
hands.
\ column of people standing four
abreast stretched nearly 4 mile
down East Center street from the
Harding home, began moving past
the casket early today. At $50 a.
m. the line was five blocks long,
waiting for the door to be opened.
$4,000 Pass Bier
Twentv-four thousand, according
TO estimates of army officers handl-
ing the crowds, looked upon the
dead face of the president yester-
day. They kept passing until an
early hour this morning. There
was no sound except the chirping
of crickcts and the shutfling Of
feet.
The weather was clear early in
the day but later the Sky became
overcast. A salute of q guns will
be fired as the cortege enters the
cemetery and three salvos Of ar-
tilIery Immediately after the cere-
mony
Military outposts en- roads around
the city reported that the incoming
crowd was swelling every hour, Col
umns of cars moved into Marion
three abreast on every highway.
Many people who had slept in their
machines, or camped in the fields
around the city, joined the incom-
ing throng.
Thousands more. were trooping
into rickety buggies and Surveys
and on foot. Some of the dust Gov
cred pilgrims looked if they had
tramped milo with them
were gailv .aN.. smart looking
women from the big cities, laugh
ing aud chattering with their escorts
rs though it were a lark. Hundreds
slept in the lobbics of hotels and
were up at dawn to join in the
struggle for food in the restaurants.
some of which ran low on pTovi
sions.
Those going through the house
were admitted by a side door where
soldiers stood to assist the twisted
cripples, the doddering old folks
who stood i'm line hours before even
getting within sight of the build
ing.
Endless Line Passes
The line filed into an old fash
ioned, rather small living room
with bay window. In times pd-t
it was the scene of happy family
reunions, when Mr.. Harding came
back from Washington for visit.
Today it was crowded with flow
ers, dimly lit and on the right of
the column Of mourners stood cas-
ket on a low catafalque. The guard
Imperial Valley press., 1923-08-10
View President
Comes TO Pay
Final Tribute
lContinuea from page u

The presidential train left Wash
ing;on last night and sped west
dard without incident. President
Coolidge wore a, #smbre BLACK,
aoub.a breasted suit and a big green
peaked cap. lie had been up late
last night but was astir carly this
mourning.
Mrs. Coolidge wore a becoming
black gown. She Is accompanied
10y Mrs. Frank w. Stearns, wife OF
tha Boston business man who is
confidential adviser Of She Pre>i-
dent, and Mrs. Edward T. Clark,
wife of the President s secretary.
Maior CoupaL acting physician TO
tho President, personally inspected
,he food abo3rd the dining car. Hr
ard the other aomplimonted ofli
eialS oB arrangements.
No Speeches. No Cameras
President Coolidge said he would
make no speeches ~ stations whore
tho traiH was scheduled 70 stop. He
arrcd pnCtooral lhcrs.
The mourning 20, erInea- special
moved ea through 0hia, passing
Akron n 10:2a a. la.
The pr Siacnt arose 81 a.
The army aHd navy cffic's #'s#t'
are dressed ia tAe hril a>. mi
forms an ul3a
ihr seEX-csss s,--ssss. ,..-,.,.=,.-...
Imperial Valley press., 1923-08-10
ALL INDUSTRY,
SHIPS AT SEA
STOP FOR RITES
(Continned from Dago y

Theaters and all other amuse-
ment places in New York have sus-
pended FOR the entire day. Several
other cities followed suit. while in
neme theaters VIII remain closed for
only part Of the day.
All Traffic Ceases
Street car service. automobile and
ali other traffic win bc suspended
for from enc 20 five minutes in
Washington, Kansas City. Portland.
Ore, Madison, Wis, St. Paal, 81.
Louis, Oklahoma City. Pittsburgh,
Wilkesbarre, Pa, New York. Chica-
20 and many other cities. In De
froit All street traffic win pause
for one hour
Nearly every railroad east of
Ohio VIII halt its trains for one
minute. Many roads in the west
WIZ do likewise.
All evening newspapers in New
York have suspended publication
for the day. Newspapers in MANY
smaller cities arc rot publishing to-
day, while in others only carlv eli
tions VIII be issued Where the
evening papers do publish. there
will be complete suspension Of ac-
tivities 1T the time Of interment.
Sports WIZ Pay Respects
sPort win pay It's respects to the
memory of the late President hv
suspepaing activities on evars. 4sielsa
for the whole day or 4 part Of the
day during which the funeral ser
vices are being held. Perhaps the
most Outstanding tribute vii he
paid by the Jockey Glib which-has
ordered the race trae45 IT SsfatAga
closed all dav Inst5nres liaVe been
few and far between in the past
when the tracks were cloSed for
any reason.
There VIII be no baseball. All
parks Of the major end hlianr
leagues wiz be closed in accord
anee with orders issaea liy .f'pRIFnis-
sioner lands. Semipro and sand
lots also win be closed. on the order
Of city officials in every prominent
community.
or one hour during WulEh the
services are being conducted golf
crs viii set aside their clubs. tp
meet the wishes Of J. F. Byers,
president of the United States Golf
association, Of which the late Pres
ident was an honorary. member.
Play in al important tennis tour
naments has been called off and all
the leading clubs VIII close their
courts to members as the tribute Of
tennis. Dwight T. Davis. president
of tile United States Lawn Tennis
association asked that activities cn
every court he curtailed during the
whole day ard suspended entirely
during the funeral
No boxing win he permitted in
Ncw York seate on orders OF the
boxing commission Supervising
bodies in Massachusetts, New Jcr-
sew and Connecticut as wei as
many other states, issued similar
orders.
Battling beaches and pools in the
vicinity Of New York VIII not De
closed, bat no championship con
tests and exhibitions by stars viii
be permitted.