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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23
aDE-SHOW FREAKS
Honor DEAD PAL
Throng Past Blue Mans
!, Coffin in Tears Just
i Before Dawn.

&pecial Dispatch TO The Star.
sNEW YORK. August ga strange
demo was enacted in dimly lighted
Gneral parlor on the upper East Side
fist before dawn today. The SIDE
Sow men and women, the freaks OF
9dney Island. stepped from behind
thefr hideous masks and passed the
Ger of one of their most renowned.
The face they looked Aown upon
vas that of Capt. Frederick Walters
On of Barnum's original attractions.
N'was Barnum himself who adver-
Jaed Walters as 1.-The Blue Man." TAX
Ag the name from the indigo that
dlscolored Walters body from head to
Dot. ....-
lin his death strange career came
tb an end. Here was a man who
according to his widow-might nave
had the title of Lord Granville had
chosen to wear it; runaway
captain in the Duke of Cambridges
Own lancers 1t was while soldier
ita that he received an. injury. After
ward his body turned blue. Barnum
saw him and nabbed him.
4 40 Years i'm Shows.
sFor forty years he had been in
Bfle shows, in recent years at Coney
Island. 1t was his associates at the
today to pay him tribute
e"He was a gentleman" Baron Pacci.
tie smallest man in the world. the
1pm Thumb of today, said as he gazed
Yppn the body of his dead friend.
Hpnita, the baby vamp" and the
Fince. another midget. accompanied
tie baron.
Zip. the wild man. Walters compan-
len during the last forty years, drew
lbs face into hideous lines as he
little patch of hair that surmounts
an otherwise hairless scalp-Bar-
Mans own idea for making the wild
man wilder-was prominent.
sAbomar, the giantess, lowered her
had to pass through the doorway.
Ten dude. and behind him came Car
re, the fat lady. waddling with the
sfeatest difficulty.
Freaks I'm Procession.
eLionel.- the half man: Princess
"a. the "Arclady"-she who plays
With electricity; Flosso. the king of
Gins" sleight- of-hand man, and
tbmah. the elastic man." contortion-
wer, among the mistakes of ma
tyre in that procession.
sWhen the body of Walters was
covered into the grave today it took
Tith it the secret that made him a
'teak. for learned doctors have never
greed upon the cause of his dis
-sloration. Prof. Eirchow, Germany's
Sading physician of three decades
go. held clinic with 500 other ply
Eians over Walters The professors
anclusion was that when a horse
grew Walters in India and fell upon
an. heart valve was opened. per-
citing the venous and arterial blood,
Re impure and the pure. to mix.
Walters held to this theory himself.
- Ii was four months after his injury
sat he began to turn blue.
I'm his days of illness his body as
7amed almost a blush black hue.
shen he was well. the color was
Elch lighter.
doctors at the Bellevue Hospital.
gro performed the autopsy, said that
Ne discoloration was caused by nj
sate of silver poisoning. taken in
Trough the nose when he worked in
ssilyer mine in Australia. But his
Sdow said today that he had never
zen in Australia
Copyright, 1923
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23
Planes May Lift
Scientists Above
Fog for Eclipse
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calf. August a.
To prevent clouds or fog from in
terfering with observations Of tho
suns total eclipse. here on Sep
TENDER 10. the War and Navy De-
partments have issued orders to
Maj. Gen. Henry Arnold. COM
manding Rockwell Field, and
Capt. Thomas Marshall. command
ing the fleet air squadrons, to
have airplanes and seaplanes in
readiness for METEOROLOGICAL
flights on the day of the eclipse.
If 1t becomes apparent that the
sun Will be obscured by clouds or
fog the government aircraft will
take the visiting astronomers and
scientists aloft to an altitude
where the phenomenon can be
viewed without interference.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23
Simplifed Art.

From Art Record.
A certain painter is confined in an
asylum. To persons who visit him he
says:
Look at this; it is my latest mas
terpiece."
They look. and see nothing but an
expanse of bare canvas They ask:
what does that represent"
That? Why. that represents the
passage of the Israelites through the
Red sea"
Beg pardon, but where is the sea-
ut has been driven back"
And where are the Israelites?" :
They have crossed over"
and the Egyptians?"
"Wnl be here directly. That's the
sort of painting / like-simple and
unpretentious'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23

s-umber production in the United
xates has been decreasing steadily
snce 1907, says a forest service re-
-ert in tracing the lumber cut from
SO to 1920 1t is also a comprehen-
I've survey of lumber conditions of
Sday compared with those of previ-'
rs years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23

Senator-elect Johnson O. Min
nesoty is goin' t. learn that theirs
lot o difference in gittin' elect
ed t tn Senate an findin' some
body t do his milkin' while he's
savin' tn country. TIL Teller
that sold Ike Lark second
hand car wuz removed from TIL
calaboose t tn Jail, tn constable
fearin' group action.
Copyright National Newspaper Service)
Evening star., 1923-03-28
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Evening star., 1923-03-28
Mace Replies to Critics Who
Assail Closing of Kings Tomb
Declares Visitors Endanger Preservation,
of Relics-Objects We're in Bad
Condition When Found.

|, measures had to be taken, and the
only possible solution was to make
a hard and fast rule to exclude all
visitors. no matter what their claims
1t deprtves us personally of the pleas
ure OF showing the objects to our
friends. but the value of the material
and the obligation we are under to
exact all possible information from
1t must outweigh any other consid-
Grafton.
Work Necessarily Slow.
In an earlier communication to The
London Times published January 3I)
L tried to explain the reasons why
any archaeological work to be done
properly must be slow and deliberate
necessary. In the first place. the ma
terial is so magnificent. and the
chance of acquiring important evi-
dence is so valuable and little likely
to occur again. that to hurry the job
would be an archaeological crime Of
the first magniture. Every day new
and interesting problems arise, and
1t is only by uninterrupted work that
We can hope to solve them.
Then, secondly. the task Of record
ing is enormously complicated for us
by the treatment to which the various
objects have been, subjected. Boxes
their search for treasure, and their
contents scattered. That was bad
enough. but from the point of view of
n recorder the, action of the officials
who discovered the crime and made
a half-hearted effort to minimize its
effects was even more miSchievouS.
II would certainly have been better
for US if the objects had been left
to lie as the thieves scattered them.
Instead, they were gathered up in
handfuls and bundles and thrown
promscously into any receptacle that
stood handy.
Objects Are Crumpled.
The resultant confusion is we'll illus
trated by the state of the kings corse-
let, parts of which were scattered
Evening star., 1923-03-28
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Evening star., 1923-03-28

deal conscientiously with tho wonder
full wealth of material to which we
have fallen heirs, and we have no
right to jeopardize our chances of
making the fullest possible use of it
in order to satisfy the claims of idle
or even intelligent curiosity. 1t
would probably be safe to say that
out of every hundred people who ap-
ply for permission to visit the tomb.
forty are actuated simply and solely
by idle curiosity; twenty are moved
by a desire to be able to go home and
talk to their friends about it; five
have friends who have already visit
ed the tomb and therefore feel they
have right to do SO; another ten
put. in somewhat amazing claim
that they have contracted to deliver
lectures when they get home, and
simply cannot face their audiences
without full and accurate informa-
ton.
To none of those have we any
apology to offer for the remaining
twenty who are really interested and
whose visits we should probably en-
JOY, we are genuinely sorry. Fortu-
nately, they are not the ones who
Evening star., 1923-03-28
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Evening star., 1923-03-28
BY A. c. MACE,
Associate Curator Of the metropolitan
Museum, New York.


Museum, New York.
Inndon Times-Ncw York Times. Copyright
By arrangement with the Earl Of Carnarvon''
BY Radio 10 The Star.
LUXOR (via London), March 2S-
Criticism, open and suppressed, has
been rife about the closing of the
Tutankhamen tomb and laboratory
TO tourists, and it may, perhaps pc
we'll to state the case from the
workers point OF view. To put II
bluntly, constant stream OF visitors
constitutes a really serious menace
not only to progress of the work, but
to the safety of the objects them-
selves. In the laboratory, for IN
stance, with which l am myself more
particularly concerned, the space
placed at our disposal is long but
extremely narrow, and we have been
obliged to arrange work tables and
trays of objects in a double line
row ganGway between. The place is
crowded with antiques. many OF
them in extremely fragile state, and
We who work in il have to exercise
continual self-restraint, lest by a
ha@ty movement we knock against
table or stumble over Il trayful OF
objects on the floor. The movements
OF strangers in this narrow space
aGd considerably to the risks. and
minor accidents--such as the jarrinS
Of delicate objects or the passing
sweep of skirt over Il precariouS
geld leaf surface-are bound to
occur
Dangers Are Many.
That is one of the dangers. An
other, though less obvious. is quite as
serious. We are dealing with a mass
of material which far exceeds any
archaeological discovery that ever
has been made. and II is no eXaggera-
tion to say that we simply are showed
under with an accumulation of work
which must he done. and which it is
imperative to do quickly. Serious
damage can be wrought by atmos-
pheric change and it is very neceS-
sary that preservative treatment be
applied at the very first possible mo-
ment after the removal of the OBJ
jects from the tomb. Our time. more
over. is limited. We have already
more in the laboraroy than we can
possibly digest III the short space that
remains of the present eXcavating
season. and ii is important that no
increase of work should hamper US
in the critical task of dismantling
the tabernacle and clearing the burial
chamber when we resume next sea-
son.
IT is hard for an individual visitor
to realize that the half hour he
consumes can make much difference.
but If he will calculate on that basis
the time taken up by even ten visit
ors in the course Of 4 day-if we ac-
ceded to every request 1t would be
nearer fifty than ten-he will see how
small a portion of ones working day
Is left for actual work. The position
became so serious that desperate
Evening star., 1923-03-28

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quality. Sizes 1872 to IS.
Evening star., 1923-03-28
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Evening star., 1923-03-28
objects Are CrumpIed.

The resultant confusion is well illus
trated by the state of the kings corse-
let, parts of which were scattered
Evening star., 1923-03-28

through two boxes and all over the
floor of the chamber.
Robes and other garments, perhaps.
give the most trouble of all. 1t is easy
advanced stage of decay, with a gar
ment that is open or folded. but when.
as In the present case. it has been
crunched to ball or mixed carelessly
with several others, and perhaps a
sandal or two rolled up into the bundle,
the difficulties of dealing with it are
enormously increased and only infinite
patience and prodigal expenditure Of
time will enable one to extract from 1t
the details of shape, size and decora-
Jects will lie fiat, and a reasonable
amount of care will suffice to secure
the pattern and arrangement. Here
nothing lies fiat. The bead ornamen-
ing, inextricably mixed with that of
another. Collars; necklaces and other
pieces OF jeWelry were punched and
thrust into the, corner of box. One
of the most elaborate and important
pieces of beadwork was thrown care
lessly upon pile of irreguarly shaped
Jars. into the open mouths of which,
as the thread disintegrated, large por-
tions of it slid.
Recording Takes Time.
The recording alone of thousands Of
objects from the tomb will take more
time than one cares to contemplate. To
that must be added the preservation
treatment of the more delicate pieces
sorting, assembling and reconstituting
ten o: scattered objects--chari-
OTIS, for example-rethreadin Of bead
work, hundreds of detail photographs
required to make the record complete,
the packing and the transport of OBJ
jects to the river.
Only one who has excavated him
self will fully understand how i'm
possible it Is to fulfill these various
duties satisfactorily in the face of
continual Interruption; and they are
duties, let there be no misapprehen-
sion about that. We owe it to the
past no less than to the future to
Evening star., 1923-03-28
SWALLOW, FREED
IN WALES, FOUND
IN SOUTH AFRICA
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Wales.
March 2S.-News has reached
here that ringed swallow
which was liberated from Lang
harne, neighboring village, has
been picked up dead on a farm
near johannesburg, South Africa,
5000 miles away.
This is the first time actual
proof has been obtained of
swallows fight from Wales to
South Africa.
Evening star., 1923-03-28
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Evening star., 1923-03-28

will not take an unreasonable view,
and will realize that by exercising
patience until it may be possible to
see the objects in a museum or read
about them in publications, they are
Evening star., 1923-03-28
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Evening star., 1923-03-28

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lars of the $500 quality. hut the
faults will not interfere with
wearing qualities.
Evening star., 1923-03-28
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Evening star., 1923-03-28
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themselves rendering a very genuine
service to archelogy.
The rights of busy people are not
recognized by loafers.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-18
ROW In BALKANS
Jugoslavia Complains About Activity
of Bulgarian Irregulars.
By the Associated Press.

Paris. Sept. 1S.-Premier Poincare
is making an effort to bring about
the settlement of menacing contro-
versy between the Bulgarian AMI
Jugoslav governments over the infiltra-
ton of Bulgarian irregulars into Jugo-
Slav territory.
He has suggested through the
French minister at Sofia that the
commission authorized under the
agreement of Nish to draw up an ex-
traordinary treaty should meet at
once. 1t has been agreed by the two
governments that the commission
shall meet in Sofia, October l.
The Bulgarian government three
DAYS ago complained to the inter al
lied mission at Sofia that JugOslavia
was massing troops near the Bulsar-
ian frontier. The Jugoslav govern
ment the same day made representa-
tions to Paris that the activity of the
Bulgarian irrcgulars had greatly dis
ouieted the Belgrade government. The
French government made the susgees-
ton for the meeting of the. commits.
sion. which was accepted by both
SidaS
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-18
EAGLE PASS BRIDGE
CARRIED AWAY BY
RIO GRANDE FLOOD
Hundreds Line RiUer and
Watch Structure
GiUe Way.

Eagle Pass. Tex, Sept. is.--The
center portion of the international
bridge, spanning the Rio Grande at
this point. was carried away by flood
waters at q O'Clock Monday evening.
For the past ten days the concrete
structure has withstood the onslaugh,S
of the high waters. but Sunday night
il became apparent that the bridge
destruction was simply matter OF
time and all traffic was stopped ut
midnight on that date.
A mighty crash heralded the de-
struction of the bridge. which was
witnessed by hundreds of persons who
lined both sides of the river.
A huge cable. containing light and
power and phone wires, snapped when
the crash came.
The river rose at the rate OF one
inch an hour all day Monday and Mt
last reports was still rising.
Messages from upper border point
tell of continued rains over the Rio
Grande watershed.
Del Rio reported the river at a
standstil Monday evening out addl-
tioml flood waters are expected 70
cause further rises as high stage III
the Pecos river. which flows into the
Rio Grande 30 miles above Del Rio.
is reported sweeping down toward the
Gulf.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-18
WILL STOP RAINING
Forecast Calls for Showers to End BY
Wednesday.

Unsettled weather with scattered
showers is the forecast for Tuesday
night for San Antonio and vicinity.
Wednesday will be partly cloudy and
cooler. Maximum temperatures VIII
be from s. to 50 with light to mod
crate southerly winds which are ex-
pected to shift into the northwest
some time Wednesday.
The weather map Tuesday morning
shows a high pressure center over
Nebraska and South Dakota which
rras sent temperatures down IN that
section. There was a killing frost at
Sheridan, Wyo:, with a minimum tenn
perature of 80 degrees. Denver re-
ported AZ degrees Tuesday morning,
Helena. IS; Santa Fe, A, and ANA
rillo. IS. 49,,
This high pressure area is a little
too far east to reach San Antonio but
it will bring cooler temperatures and
stop the rainy weather. A well-de-
veloped low pressure area is entering
the United States and following in Its
path.
the state Monday and Monday night
with Kerrville reporting 80; Llano'
$50; Nacogdoches, .; Valley juno
tion. .; Uvalde. so; Hondo. 90;
Palestine, 2.24; Taylor. 1.62; Austin,
81. and San Antonio. 40. Freder-
icksburg also reported heavy down
pour.
The Colorado river will rise moder-
ately at Marble Falls, according to the
daily river bulletin.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-18
TONS OF CONCRETE
BURY 3 WORKERS IN
IL FEET OF WATER
Span of $4,000, 900 Bridge
Under Construction
Gives Way.

Schenectady, y. V, Sept. 49,
Search was continued today beneath
a fallen span of the Great Western
gateway for the bodies of construc-
ton superintendent and two workmerI
who were killed when false work gave
way and precipitated them into the
Mohawk river with go cubic yards OF
concrete.
A dozen men were pouring wet
concrete into the false work form
ing one half the span.
Suddenly the mass sagged and drop
ped into l. feet of water.
Most Of the men hung from sup.
ports and clambered to secure ground
but three fell into the water under the
concrete.
Construction of the Great Western
gateway. a $3,000,000 structure, was
begun q year ago.
1t will carry across the Mohawk
river the state highway extending
from Albany to Buffalo and is
scheduled for completion two years
hence
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-18
PRINCESSES ARE ILL
Younger Daughter Of Italian King
About Out Of Danger.

Turing Italy. Sept. 1S.-Eneourag-
ing news rs TO the condition of the
Princesses Mafalda and Giovanni, sec
ond and third daughters of King Vie
tor Emmanuel. was received shortly
before noon today from Racconigi,
where they were taken i'll LAST week.
Princess Giovanna is now reported
out of danger. while the slight i'm
provement noted in Mafalda's condl-
ton is continuing.
Both are being nursed constantly
by the king and the queen. The queen
has not left the bedside of her uaush-
tiers, even refusing to rest at night;
Her extreme devotion has caused
fears that she may injure her own
health.
Senator Professor Pescarolo, the
widely known Italian physician. after
visiting the princesses today, mace the
following statement:
"Princess Giovanna has form oil
typhoid less grave than that from
which Princess Mafalda is suffering,
The latter has delicate constltu-
tion and less power of resistance.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-18
HOME wEATHER FOR TOURISTS.

Chicago; Temperature, IS; raining
fourteen-mile wind from the southwest
lowest temperature in last - hours, SIS
highest. 20.
kansas City: Temperature, Sc: cloudy:
fourteen-mile wind from the northwest:
lowest temperature in last 81 hours, S.;
highest. -
New York: Temperature. IS; cloudy;
less than ten-nile wind from the west
lowest temperature in last "a hours. So;
highest. IS.
st. Louis; Temperature. IS; cloudy;
fourteen-mile wind from the south; low
est temperature in last "a hours, 6s;
highest, So.
Washington: Temperature. IS; parity
cloudy; less than ten-mile wind from
the southwest; lowest temperature in
last "a hours. As; highest. ~.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-18
GOVERNMENT TO
SUE BETHLEHEM
SHIP COMPANY
Would Recover Alleged
Ouerpayments on War
Contracts.

Washington. ID. C.. Sept. ts.-Fail-
ing to reach a settlement by negotia-
tons, the Shipping Board has in
structed its legal department TO pre-
pare suit against the Bethlehem Ship
building Corpora ton for the recovery
of about S2,500,OO0 alleged TO have
been overpaid under that firms war
contracts.
The Bethlehem company. which
launched more than 200 ships under
government contract, has received
compensation estimated by the board
at about Is per cent of the contract
fetal. YN
Claim for approximately $500.
0O additional was fred by t"c COM
pany under the so-ealled economics
clause" which arranged for a div;s:oH
between the government and the CON
tractor OF any savings effected by the
latter.
The shipping board has now taken
the position that this clause can have
no weight in court. since the con-
tractor. by strong moral inference il
nothing more, was bound TO conduct
the work on as economical basis as
humanity possible.
This position is said TO have re-
ceived the endorsement of the de-
partment of justice.
A large proportion of the thousands
of emergency ontracts contained this
or similar provisions.
If sustained in the court. the point
raised by the board may throw open
for legal review scores of war CON
tracts involving hundreds of millions
OF dollars.
In brief. the issue is said TO be
whether the government cannot limit
the amount of profits TO be taken by
a corporation or individual in return
for emergency services.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-18
| LEGISLATORS HOLD SECRET MEETING
YOUTH SHOT DOWN
WHILE SURROUNDED
BY FOUR FRIENDS
Fatal Wounds Inflicted
With Gun When He
Answers Summons.

Kansas City, Mo-. Sept. 1S.-Po-
lice are seeking the slayer of George
Richter, %. who was shot and fatal
ly wounded in front of his home here
late last night when he answered a
summons at the door.
A man fired two shots from a shot
gun and fled.
Richter died two hosrs later with
out rcgaining consciousness.
Four persons. who had called in a
motor car to take Richter TO party,
saw him slain.
Among them was woman be-
lieved bv the police to have been the
cause of jealousy upon the part of
the slayer because of her preference
fer Richter.