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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
8. A. PROVIDES
BIC VARIETY
Of PLANTS
Flowers, Shrubs Prove City
Leading Horticultural
Center.

Should it be desired to plant row
of shrubs from San Antonio to Medina
Lake there would be enough varieties
growing in the city parks to provide
for one every thre. feet.
And there would be some left over,
according to Joseph Kunisky, foreman
of the city nursery in Breckenridge
Park.
This is just one Of score or more
reasons that San Antonio can chal-
lenge any city in America as being
the greatest plant growing locality
in the country.
Crepe myrtle, a popular flower
which originated in Japan, grows per-
haps more rapidly in this climate than
any other plant. Many of the bushes
in the parks spring up seven and more
feet in less than a year, Mr.. Kunisky
says. The crepe myrtle blooms the
same year it's planted also.
PLANTS THRIVE.
Japanicun shrubs and trees and
althca are other Japanese plants
which thrive in San Antonio's fertile
soil.
Practically every kind Of rose will
bloom here if given the proper care.
The La Franc rose from France and n
wide variety of roses from Italy,
Germany and other European coun-
tries also do well here.
Dahlias and gladioli. both of which
originated in Germany, take root
rapidly in San Antonio.
A number of plants which are found
in Florida have been brought here
with a high degree of satisfaction, Mr..
Kunisky declares.
PALMS DO WELL.
The chaster tree and cape jasmine
are two which do exceptionally we'll.
Palm trees also are one of San
Antonios chief attractions to lovers
of plant life. The Shamrock date palm.
native of Asia, the Washington palm
and the small Mexican palm all flour
ish in this climate, according to Mr..
Kunisky.
The mock-orange, brought over to
the New England states from old
England, blooms in over a score of
cOlors.
The salt cedar, a small shrub found
on the Pacific Coast, also grows here.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
AUTO CRASH HURTS
MAN AND WOMAN

Fl. NJ. Mckinney, 521 North Pal
metto street, and Mrs. Alena Cideo
Rockdale, Tex, were injured early
Tuesday morning when the automobiI.
driven by Juan Cid2o, her husband
collided with that of Mckinney al
Pine and Houston streets.
At Robert r. Green hospital il was
said that Mckinney may have broken
his shoulder. while Mrs. Cideo's in
juries consisted mostly Of bruises.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
'A|R-SECkNESS'
COMMON IN
FLYING
Pilots and Passengers
Frequently Experience
Discomfort.

People who find in the constant roll
Of a sea-going vessel source Of inner
discomfort that propels them to the
side of the ship, also will find it con-
venient to hang their heads over the
side Of the cockpit of an airplane if
they spend much time in the air.
Experience has demonstrated to pi
lots of the Air Service that those who
are susceptible to sea sickness also be-
come sufferers from air sickness when
flying.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
POLICE START HUNT
FOR MISSING MAN

Missing from his home since Au.
gust 5, J. B. Fisher. 132 Krempkau
street, is the object of a police search
instituted Monday night at the re-
quest of Mrs. Fisher.
Fisher went to work on the morn
ing Of the fifth, saying he would
be home early that afternoon"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
POLICEMAN BREAKS
UP FRIENDLY GAME

Negro employees Of an all night
garage sought to forestall the bore
dom of idleness Tuesday morning.
Companions we're not lacking, two
of them being white men. There were
seven men in the party.
One Of them had a pair Of dice and
all of them had some change.
Patrolman Arnett passed.
The game ended.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
FORT WORTH BOY
REPORTED MISSING

Robert A. Thomson, Company d.,
Second Engineers, Fort Sam Houston,
reported to police Tuesday that his
brother, W. G. Thomson, is, had dis
appeared from his home in Fort
Worth.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25

dom that stunting fails to leave very
sick man in the rear cockpit.
Stunt flying, however, is not neces
sary to produce air sickness. Flights
in the great Martin bombers that are
too unwiedly for any of the more dis.
tressing stunts, frequently cause ali
sickness. The big ships have a roll.
ing motion very similar TO that of 4
ship at sea, and the effect of this mo.
ton is exactly like the other in case
of persons easily affected by seasick-
ness.
1t not infrequently happens that two
pilots go up in the same ship and at,
tempt to make each other sick by con.
tinous stunning. At such times the
man in the front cockpit has a Slight
edge on his companion, as the real
cockpit is farther from the center
axis upon which the movements or the
plane operate.
PILOT HAS ADVANTAGE.
The man who handles the controls
has the advantage over the other as
he is able to anticipate the movements
of the ship and to be prepared for
them. Both sometimes admit consid
cradle discomfort after the experience
is ended.
Two Kelly Field pilots some time
ago assembled in a plane well adapted
to stunt flying and proceeded to give
each other some thrills. One of then
carried a small sack of candy in his
hand when they took off and put a
piece in his mouth as they left the
ground. When they returned to earth
more than half an hour later, he de.
clared that he still had the same piece
of candy in his mouth. The antics of
the plane had been so absorbing that
he had had no opportunity to think Of
eating.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
Batting Us

From Meehan, Wis, comes a re-
port of a pike biting off a section of
a boys finger. We fear this is an
attempt TO lure fishermen to Nee
han.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
Travel By Mail

MRS. Emily Erred. Mrs. Alice Cool
dy. and Mrs. Efhe Hufford, and the
two children of John Z. Matthews
Robert and Jane. arrived by mail
yesterday" - Bloomington Und)
World.
Must have required lot Of postage.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
Make Il Last

Government experts are going to
find a way to reduce the cost of
printing currency. II they will plan
TO make it last longer, too, we'll
rejoice.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
What's in a Name /?

Brave Miss Helen j. TheOharis
marched 10 the altar at Baltimore
and became the bride Of FOiis A.
PappagianacopoulOs.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
Cooled Him

"Is II hot enough-?" he started,
As the Precipitation rolled;
Then the fellow he was asking
Swung and promptly knocked hi
~ cold.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
Subtle Promise

Henry Ford predicts in an interview
the passing OF jazz and shimmying.
We find in the latter expression a
subtle promise OF a ney model Ford
car.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
Watermelon Knockout

When two women began fighting
at Bisbee, Ariz., a bystander ended
the battle by busting a watermelon
over the head of one combatant.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
As Quick Exit

"Our open door policy in China
will pay for itself if it provides a
quick exit from that country when
things get too hot" says Farmer
Drybottom.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
Warning

New York dispatches announce fall
fashions will call for the display OF
more leg and less neck. We want TO
issue a timely warning that there
isn't much leg left to display.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
Not Related

One of the Chinese generals in
the newest uprising in China is
Yam Sen. He is not related to Sen
Sen, of Chew Chew fame.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
II !: ::
Andrew Dies in Margaret's
Arms After Plunging Off
Cliff in Car.
CHAPTER XIII

Shadows crept between them in the blue gloom of the
taxi The wind rushed shouting down the road unloosen
ing pillows of darkness.
Margaret felt the wind in her heart, sweep in with
cold in and out with cold and dark and utter desoaon
She touched Nora Lees hand, turning dim face that
wavered like pale despairing light, Il knew-ah
knew. Why did let him go?"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
BIG SHIPS ROLL.

Pilots amuse themselves by putting
their planes through all kinds Of rolls
and loops to see how their passen-
gers will enjoy the treat, and it is sci,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
SQUAT ON HILL.

Through the rolling columns OF
smoke, one sees, perched upon the OPP
posite hill, the composite ramshackle
houses of the squatters.
Their rusty tin roofs peer through
the blue smoke. Sickly flowers peep
out behind broken fence palings. A
NANCY dog YEARLY chases tired chick
ems. Women with babes at breast sit
on the large rocks in front Of their
houses and gaze down into the valley
below, among whose battlements of
old cans, bottles, and iron, their men
work, seeking to salvage something
that may be sold for food.
There are neary 100 souls in this
village, and some 20 houses. Beyond
the village, and looking back in the
direction one came, the city of San
Antonio silhouettes itself against the
haze.
Far to the left, the twin water
tanks Of Fort Sam Houston are seen.
Then houses, houses, and more houses.
The downtown district. Tall office
buildings, one side Shrouded in shad-
ow, the other burning in the late aft
ernoon sun. Then the houses Of the
exclusive north side. st. Anthony's
College, its red brick contrasting
against the green background Of trees.
Far to the right, a lone church.
The evening sun goes down. The
buzzards circle and spiral overhead.
now flecks in the blue, and now huge
shadows in the suns rays. Ths men
leave their work, and troop across the
glass and tin to their homes. Hollow.
ly, the bell in the church sends out its
evening echoes. A red lantern burns
in one Of the squattcr homes. And
lost dog, sharply outlined on a nearby
hill, bowls out his last ululation %
the down.going sun.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25

eldest fire wagon-a pumper acquired
in 1856.
Now they are used to draw the only
two horse-drawn engines remaining in
the local department.
The roses, on an average, go to 10
fires each month, according to Phil
Wright, fire and police commissioner.
When there are no fires the horses
are given an hour of exercise daily.
One of the old engines, needed for
street work, is drawn by a tractor,
Commissioner Wright said.
TO BUY TRACTORS.
Tractors which travel at a rate Of
10 miles an hour will be purchased for
both engines soon, which will mean
the passing the the fire horse from
the local organization, Commissioner
Wright said.
The remaining mounts will be turned
over to the park department where
they Will spend the last years Of their
lives at lighter work.
Names Of the five horses were de.
rive from the following city officials ::
Fire and Police Commissioner Phil
Wright, former Commissioner Albert
Stoves, former Mayor Clint Brown and
former Chief Theodore Bunk" Weyle.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25

, "You couldn't know. Moth
er, your face is so frightened.
But you didn't know"
"Of course not! Of course,
not-how could l know"
She leaned forward and
tapped the window. Hurry
drive more quickly"
After a moment she said calmly :
1--WE will be there first. 1t will be
hours before anyone can come from
Fairdale."
A nurse met Margaret in the hall.
Mrs. Meadows-yes, you may come. "
HE is not dead?"
"Not vet
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
Faithful Fire Horses Still Serve
City After Ten Years of Activity
Old Equipment Gradually
Discarded With Advent
of Motor Vehicles.

Ten ycnrs CT service finds this
equine quintet still working for the
San Antonio fire department.
Since the invention of modern fire
trucks the old horse-drawn apparatus
has given way, little at time, to
the more efficient equipment.
The fire horses have passed with
the old engines. Now only five-a lit
tie slower of step and with most Of the
old fire gone from their eyes-remain.
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CONTINUED on Page is, Part p.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
DRAW ENGINES.

Tiey are kept at Fire Station No,
) on Mason street. Until recently,
when the truck was traded in on a
more modern one, they drew the city,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25

W ~ AA<Afos
Everything seems warm and cheer.
full as one rides out on Bushnell place.
Large homes, with ample green
grounds, and wide driveways on which
roll powerful imousines, are on either
side. The asphalt reflects the rays of
the afternoon sun.
A dip, a curve, and-wilderness
A rutty road, heavily incrusted with
large boulders and mesquite stumps,
offers resistance. Malevolent mes
quite trees fling gnarled branches
across the road. Broken bottles, old
cans, furniture, tires, appear. The
"Squatter's Village" is not far ahead.
Suddenly the hill ceases its rise.
Here is a plateau, and beyond, a
sheer drop of 200 feet into a jagged
valley Of thousands of broken bottles,
flashing prismatic reflections into the
sun,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-25
NOW
At HOME IN
Bic CITY
DUMP
Driven From Breckenridge,
Homeless Settle in
Salvage Wilderness.
By HENRY BRENNER.

Silently, with downcast eyes and
faces lined with care, they have left
their tin-roofed homes, surrounded,
with broken fences and garbage mid
dens, burning heaps whose smoke
throws a blush curtain over the deep
cleft in the rock quarry-humbls
homes on foreign ground, but homes,
nevertheless.
Civilization has driven them away.
Forced by the city to leave Brack-
enridge Park, where they had been
"squatting" from time immemoriai.
dark men, with their emaciated wives
and sickly children, have set up a viii
lage in "Squatter's Valley" north OF
San Antonio, between Bushnell place
and Breckenridge Park.
HAUNTED VILLAGE.
In the warm afternoon haze, pune
tuated by rolling columns of dark
smoke and burning cinders, through
which buzzards soar and wheel, flap
huge wings and drop a sheer 100 feet
to burning garbage heaps, upon which
they perch with red eyes and glover
at the passersby like birds of evil,
there is an atmosphere of mystery.
"Squatter's Village" is haunted.
Haunted with the shades of men
who sought treasure and never
found it.
Haunted now by living men who
earn their meager bread by picking at
garbage heaps and by odd jobs.
Haunted by the spirit of a people
which still wishes to be near its old
homeground, although it never owned
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I &C. $yEI.Ge:2.1r1I.CC ~ eh(>r.

he average temperature for San An
,nio yesterday, Aug. "a, was 81 degrees
Evening star., 1925-07-04
FOsdick Delegates Seated.

Judge Freeman offered a resolution
to declare the Park Avenue church
ineligible to accredit delegates to this
convention" because the congregation
had supported modernism tenets in
calling Harry Emerson Fosdick to its
pastorate. The delegation was seated
yesterday, 912 to 364, after fundamen-
talists had waged opposition.
The Freeman resolution was made a
special order of business for today.
Fundamentalists put in a motion to
rescind refusal of the convention
Thursday, 742 to 574, to require rigid
belief of missionaries, but failed by
lack of a two-thirdS vote.
Rev. Harry Stone of Portland intro
duced a resolution to create a COM
mittee of five on cooperation and con-
formity in Baptist work and policy.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
PROGRAM FOR SUMMER.
Schedule Announced for Nativity
Chapel Beginning Tomorrow.

At the Nativity Chapel the Sum-
mer schedule of services, 1880, 10:30,
g. will begin tomorrow. The church
school will continue through July,
concluding with an outing July 2S
at Glen Echo. The school will as
semble at 8 am, the senior depart
ment at 9:45 am. All the scholars
will attend a service of worship in
the church after the class period is
ended, when one of the clergy will
conduct the service with a short in
struction. Every Sunday holy COM
munion at 7:30 am.
The Annunciation Chapel congre-
CATION is worshipping in the Con-
gressional Cemetery Chapel for the
month of July. A lawn fete is to be
held Thursday evening at $500 Penn
sylvania avenue southeast, adjacent
to the Randle Highlands Post Office.
An effort is being made 10 raise funds
to build a chapel on the site at
Thirtieth and Pennsylvania avenue
southeast, recently donated by
Arthur E. Randle. The workers are
in charge of Rev. Enoch NJ. Thomp-
son, under the direction of the Bishop
of Washington.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
MANY CAPITAL r. .cT0RS
ON SUMMER VACATIONS
Pulpits Will Be Filled During Alb
sence by Assistants and
Visiting Ministers.

A number of rectors of Epis-
copal Churches in the city left dur
ing the week for their Summer vaca-
tions. Their pulpits will be filled
during July and August by the as
sistant ministers in their respective
parishes or by visiting clergymen.
Very Rev. F. j. Bohanan, dean of
Easton, will be the canon-in- resi-
dence at the National Cathedral and
have charge of the services during
July.
Rev. William Curtis White will be
in charge of services at st. Mar
garet's Church, Connecticut avenue
and Bancroft place, during July, Au
gust and September while the. rector.
Rev. DR.. Herbert Scott Smith is on
vacation. Rev. Mr.. White is living at
29O1 Connecticut avenue. There will
be no afternoon service at st. Mar
garets Church during the Summer.
Beginning tomorrow. Rev. A. Ellis
ton Cole of Bowling Green, KY. win
have charge of the services at ST.
Philips Church. Laurel, Md, which
is at present without a rector.
Rev. William o. Cone of Goldsboro
n. c., will preach during July at
Pinckney Memorial Church, Hyatts-
vile, Md. Rev. Charles l.. Monroe
the former rector. resigned his pas
torate to be effective July Is.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
HOLIDAY HOUSE SERVICE.
All Souls Rector Will Preach al
Vacation Home.

Rev. H. H. D. Sterrett, rector of
All Souls Memorial Church, will be
the preacher tomorrow afternoon at D
o'clock at the open-air service on the
lawn at Holiday House, the vacation
home of the Girls Friendly Society
of Washington, located near Mount
Vernon, Va. These services are held
every week during the Summer. local
clergymen of the Episcopal Church
officiating.
The new chapel at Holiday House is
beginning to rise above the ground
and to be a feature of the landscape.
The chapel is badly needed for serv-
ices in inclement weather. and is be
ing erected by funds contributed by
the members of the society and their
friends. During the coming week a
few of the candidates who for the last
two weeks have been enjoying the
pleasures of Holiday House will re-
main over for another week of re-
freshing country air and food.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
DR.. HERSON TO CONDUCT
BOTH SERVICES SUNDAY
Pastor of Hamline M. E. Church
to Leave Monday for Two
Months Vacation.

Rev. DR.. Joseph r. Herson, pastor
of Hamline Methodist Episcopal
Church, Fourteenth and Emerson
streets northwest, will have charge of
both services tomorrow. AT the morn
ing service he will administer holy
communion. At the evening service he
will continue the series of sermons on
Great Poets" his subject being "Haw-
thorne, His Vision and Message"
The Sunday school meets at 9:45
am. The mems Bible class now meets
in the church, with DIR. w. w. Weir
as teacher.
DR.. Herson leaves Monday on his
vacation, the major part of which will
be spent in the northern part of Maine.
He will return about September L.
During his absence his pulpit will be
filled by prominent ministers.
The work on the new church at Six
teenth and Allison streets is progress
ing rapidly. The roof is being put on,
and-the plastering is we'll under way
Plans are being perfected for dedica-
ton services, which will be about
Thanksgiving.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
BAPT|STS TO MEET
HERE NEXT YEAR
New Move Made to UnSeat
Delegates From New
York Church.

8 SEATTLE, Wash, July 4 R).-
Washington. d. c., was decided upon
yesterday for the 1926 convention OF
the Northern Baptists.
The committee recommended that
the 1927 convention be held in San
Francisco and the convention the year
following in Providence.
The tendency of the church 20 avoid
discussion of economic subjects has
made labor hostile, the intelligentsia
uninterested and mildly contemptuous,
youth apathetic, terminS its own
members insincere.
Christianity is not a theory to be
is the doing of those things that Jesus
them"
Scores Financial Plans.
The Rev Hanley contended the as
sertion that economic discussion was
out of place at religious gatherings
was untrue.
Laymen should not leave the ad-
ministration of the financial affairs of
the church entirely to the pastor, he
maintained.
"All too often the minister Is a man
of finance, a doer of chores, who,
when it comes to preach the gospel
has an empty heart, a soul impover-
iShed."
Places for social contact in the
city where men and women can meet
and find Christian mates" had been
neglected by churches in the past, the
Baptist city planning committee re-
port ed.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
PASTOR WILL RETURN.
Rev. c. r. Stauffer to Preach at
Both Services.

Rev. c. r. Stauffer will return from
the organized Bible class conference at
Frederick, Md, where he delivers an
address this evening to occupy the
pulpit of the Ninth Street Christian
Church, Ninth and D streets north
east, tomorrow. The morning sermon
will be Christian Freedom" and the
evening at 7:45 o'clock will be win
ming the Game"
Anna Moreland and Hilda Koontz
of the Ninth Street Church are at
tending the missionary conference at
Chambersburg, Pa, this week. dele
cation from the eight adult organized
Bible classes of the Sunday school, of
which d. l. Coakley is superintendent,
is in attendance at the conference at
Frederick, Md. Robert l. Williams.
Matte Belfield and Roberta Harrison
will represent the young people of
Ninth Street in the young peoples
conference of the Christian churches
of the Chesapeake area to be held next
week at Lynchburg, Va.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
REV. DR.. LAMBETH NAMED
CHURCH BOARD MEMBER
Mount Vernon Place Pastor Re
Gently Appointed to Aid Temper
ance and Social Service.

Rev. DIR. William A. Lambeth, pas
tor of the Mount Vernon Place Meth
odist Episcopal Church South has
mept as a member of the General
just received notice of his appoint
Board of Temperance and Social
Service of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. His appointment was
made to fill the vacancy created by
the death of the late Rev. J. II. Light
A meeting of this board has been
called for next week at Lake Juna-
laska, n. c., and Immediately after
the evening service. tomorrow, DIR.
Lambeth is to leave for the meeting
He will return early Saturday morn
ing.
DR.. Lambeth will occupy his pulpit
at both services tomorrow, taking
as his topic, at IL am. christianity
and Patriotism" In the evening, at
z O'Clock. he will preach on Mary
Magdalene."
Rev. w. A. Mckee assistant to the
pastor, will preach to the junior
church at II o'clock, and in the alb
sence of the pastor will conduct the
Thursday evening prayer meeting.
The drive last Sunday in an effort
to meet the church's quota in the
centenary movement came somewhat
short of meeting the goal, but be-
lated subscriptions are expected to
put the church over the top.