New Britain herald., 1925-12-18

N house, sans the latter's high rents, con. descending janitors and other prover blal nuisances. has been brought to light
 by archaeologists of the American School of Research excavatng the desert Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico
 Buried deep under the mouldering antiquity ot It's 10000 years of silence, Chettro Kettle the com munlty residence of Il race long disappeared has barred It's massive roofop, its fve.foot walls and thousand rooms in answer to the probing finger of science poking beneath the arid waste
 This monster structure, rescued from out of the centuries of oblivion, represents an ancient cul ture that reached high degree of perfection. It covers two acres ot ground and Is pieced together with more than fifty million pieces of carefully quarried stone.
 Every bit of masonry was eXquistely shaped and laid into the walls to make smooth and harmonious decorative surface, Thousands of logs, poles and additional slabs were also used in the construction
 FROM DEAD FORESTS
 These must have been carried from distant for. ests, now razed by volcanic other disturbances. Tons of mortar mixed to weld the aboriginal apartment house together.
 All this evidence stamps the primitive Chettro Kettle dweilers as prodigious workers. It is be- ieved they were occupied almost 300 years in cree. tion of their monster home.
 Chetro Kettle, the "Rain Pueblo" with its fine curvng facade, its inner towers. it's immense sanctuary and half dozen smaller kivas, or cere' monia vaults is at once the most remarkable and hr,d nf Ranging from one to three stories high, 1t runs full zoo feet in length, a quarter of mile around and, undoubtedly. gave shelter to thousands who "wcre at home and receiving" in the dim heyday of the past.
 Now, only abandoned fields. dry, primitive rri, gaton ditches, deserted atars. stairways carved into the sheer, beetling cliffs, lesible picture writings and other relics remain mutely to tell of the extensive activities of the prehistoric people who once tread through Chettros halls and from which all the glory is fled.
 HIGHLY ORGANIZED LIFE aa These mudcaked mementos present graphic evidence of race of great cultural development who lived highly organized. social and religious life archaeologsts who made the find believe. Life as it was in the Kettle Chettro Is being pleced together from these remnants that in re- markedly preserved manner have wthstood the onrush!ng march of the centuries riding heedlessly over the site of this burial ground of vanished race
 As though bulded in anticipation of the needs of later century, which found them too late to copy dainty "llltchenettes" within the communal ruins would turn the modern architect green with envy, so compact are they laid out in conjunction with other rooms Of the parlor, bedroom and bath type On the cooled hearthstones of some of these falry.like cookeries, traces of buffalo. elk deer. bear smaleared corn pinon nuts and roots. com posing, probably, the leftover abundance from series of great feasts celebrated before whatever destroying fate descended upon the banqueters, have been found by the investigators.
 Bits of yucca and rabbit fur remain to describe this ancient peoples costume
 Two esh-hlled pits large enough to roast whole venison when all the Kettles apartment dwellers gathered in mass pow.wow for observance of re- leious rites were excavated near one of the sacred kvas.
 The ancients of Chettro had no footmen to guard their doors against unwelcome intrusion or enemy attack.