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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
Dickinson Has
Dreams of
SPHINX Addition

n. S. Dickinson, a leading
San Antonio subdivision promo
ter, apparently is dreaming Of =
new subdivision even in the
shadow of the Sphinx for here
is what he writes on a post card
to The Lights Real Estate
Editor:
There is TO much sand around
the pyramids to make the subdi-
vision business very high class
but j believe a first class tent
colony site proposition, giving n
camel with each lot and using
a slogan Of ride your own camel
might work out pretty WE'LL
The post card carried q picture
of Mr.. and Mrs. Dickinson and
party on camels. The Sphinx
and pyramids were shown in the
background. The card was mail
ed in Cairo, Egypt.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
HARVEY P. SMITH
RUSHING SCHOOL
PLANS FOR VALLEY

Harvey P. Smith, San Antonio
architect, announces that plans for n
large school building campaign in
Brownsville, will be out about May
!. Included in the construction plans
is q power plant for schools, school
addition, remodeling high school and
building a new grade school. All Of
the buildings will be of brick, rein.
forced concrete, hollow tile and other
permanent materials.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
EVA HANSEN OPENS
PHOTO STUDIO HERE

Miss Eva Hansen will open the Eva
Photo Studio at 81 Navarro street
April "a. The studio is located in q
suite of offices on the second floor Of
aHe Of the modern buildings between
Commerce and Crockett streets.
Miss Hansen is an expert photo
Rrapher, having had 20 years Of expo
r,encs in a local studio. She has been
il q. Alamo City for the past IS
years.
This is the first studio to be owned
end operated in San Antonio by a
woman, she states.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
4 NEW ADDITIONS
FOR MERCEDES

MERCEDES, Tex, April H.
Four new city residential sections
here are being subdivided, improved,
and put on the market for homes.
Michael Malos of San Antonio pur-
chased one of these sections, and will
erect 16 houses, each to cost more than
$4,000, on his property, selling the
homes and the homesites.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
DUERLER FACTORY
PLANS OUT SOON

Bids for the construction Of the
new DueFler factory building, Camp
street at :. =. tracks, will close about
May !, according 20 Architects Hertz
and Jones. The building is u have six
stories and basement and will BE-
built Of brick and reinforced concrete.
Plans are being rushed TO completion.
6. A. DuerIer Manufacturing com
pany is owner.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
NEW FUNERAL CHURCH.

A new funeral church at Eleventh
and Colorado streets in Austin will
be built by Charles B. Cook. Page
Brothers of Austin, are architects.
The building will have two stories of
brick and concrete and will include
offices. chapel reception room, morgue,
according to the San Antonio Build
ers' Exchange. ...-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
S. A.-CASINO CLUB
BUILDING PLANS
NEAR COMPLETION

The Redwood company, architects
and builders, will have plans out for
bidders in the near future for the
San Antonio Casino club building,
corner Crockett and South Presa
streets, which will have six stories of
brick and reinforced concrete.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
SHEARER TO BUILD
FINE NEW RESIDENCE

II. ]. Shearer, realtor and subdivi-
sion promoter, will build new home
on Mary Louise Drive and Montrose
avenue. Albaugh & Steinbomer, OIL
Austin street, are architects, and an
nounce that plans will be completed
soon and that bids will be received
by invitation of the owner. The resi-
dence is to have two stories of brick,
veneer andswill be designed after the
English type of architecture.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
CONTRACTS TO Be LET {
SOON ON Library,

Action ID expected sAortly n u
awarding Of contracts for The ClsrAl
gle Library remodeling and addition;
Seutter and Simons are architects.'
Charles BRENT was low general con-
tract bidder at $44,81S; Charkls3
Brothers were low on the plumbing q,
$529; Thomas Electric Company w.
low on the wiring st $0D6, DaS1q
Heating and Supply Company wve~f
low on the heating at $3.50.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
MAJOR GLOVER NEW
REALTY SALESMAN

Major II. {. Glover, division chief
deputy Of the internal revenue ser
vice. first floor Federal building, has
resigned his division 10 accept a 20.
sition with y. II. White company,
realtors. 10 sell real estate. During
the war be was in the salvage recla
nation division Of the United States
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
LAREDO K. OF P.
TO BUILD LODGE

The Knights Of Pythiss lodge Of
Laredo, will build a new office and
club building, according 10 L. Hsr-
rington company Of San Antonio who
is preparing plans for a structure Of
two stories TO be built Of reinforced
concrete, hollow tile and feet brick.
1t is plannGd % prepare the founda.
ton for a five or ten-story building,
Mr. Harrington said.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
CORPUS IS GETTING
THEATER BUILDING

Campbell and White of Palestine,
have the contract for the construction
of a theater building in Corpus
Christi for r. and r. Theater En-
terprises Company, Dallas. The
building viii have two stories Of
brick, stone and concrete and will cost
100000.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
SAN ANGELO SCHOOL
PLANS OUT SHORTLY

Phelps & Devices, San Antonio
architects, will complete plans about
May 1 for the San Angelo school
buildings which will cost $250,000.
A new elementary school and three
additions to present elementary schools
are planned.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
MERCEDES ELKS WILL
BUILD NEW LODGE

The Elks Of Mercedes will build a
new two-story. basement and roof gar
den lodge building Of hollow tile and
stucco. IT will cost approximately
$4,000. Stebbins and Waters II
Weslaco. are architects. Bids are be-
ing received BIZ architects.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
\ ARL LAND Al {
OPENS NEW
HOMES|TES
Thurman Barrett Places S.
Tracts of Suburban
Acreage on Market.

The sale Of Harlandale's new home
site addition, Harlandale Acre Tracts
No. ), opened today and win continue
Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The
sale, conducted by Thurman Barrett,
comprises % acre tracts and % acre
and One-half tracts Of typical black
Harlandale soil, well known for its
productive qualities. Acre tracts lie to
the west and acre and one-half tracts
to the east of Commercial avenue, be-
tween Pyron avenue and Stonewall
street
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
MERCEDES TO VOTE
ON SCHOOL BONDS

Mercedes contemplates a bond is
sue for $4,000 worth Of schools in
the near future.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
MANY IMPROVEMENTS.

Commercial avenue has been i'm,
proved as a first-class street with nine
inches of rolled gravel. Every one Of
the tracts will carry reasonable, yet
protective, restrictions. The addition
will be served by electric lights and
a standard four-inch cast iron water
main in Commercial avenue will sup
ply water at low rates.
Everything possible has been done
to develop and improve the addition
and make it attractive to those desir-
ing a suburban acre domestic, where
there is plenty of room for the chill
dren, an orchard, chickens, and a gar
den of flowers and vegetables.
Prices range from $3.50 to $500 on
the single acre tracts, and from S1150
to $500 on acre and one-half tracts.
The terms will be only $40 cash and
$40 a month with no interest for the
first year. Generous discount is Of
fered for all cash and payments ex-
oaadio0 S10
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
YOUR OWN SALESMAN.

As in the case Of other domestic
openings conducted by Mr.. Barrett,
the prospective home owner will be
his own salesman, thus eliminating
expense in favor Of the purchaser.
Every tract will be tagged with a red
card showing number and price and
the owner may select his tract. take
the tag to the office on the grounds
and complete the transaction.
As the improvements on the addi-
ton are so complete, the price reason
able, and the size of the addition
limited, it is expected that the tracts
will have a speedy sale.
Evening star., 1926-03-23

is lower than the nominal tax rates of
nearly all of the cities with which it Is
compared, its .readjuSted tax rate.
which results when the confessions or
reports of the relation of assessed to
true value are figured in the calcula
ton stands well when compared with
similar readjusted rates Of other cities
1t is further demonstrated that when
the State tax rate is deducted from
the total tax rate. as it should be, In
comparisons of those Of other cities
with Washington, that city mounts
high in the list. and that when the
percentage of the tax rate applied to
the payment of interest on indebted.
ness is deducted las ii should bel from
the last figures. Washington rises
nearly to the top of the list of high
assessment cities in tax burden as
measured by tax rate.
DO not be appalled, or repelled by
the many smaIl-type figures in the
statistical table. Read first the analy-
sis of and the comment upon the table
i'm the text, and then, armed with pa.
tience. perseverance. and, if neces-
sary. magnifying glass, refer to the
figures of the table for verificatiOn and
strengthening of the conclusions
reached i'm the text.1
Evening star., 1926-03-23
COL. D. |. STONE HERE
TO TAKE NEW OFFICE
Will Succeed Gen. B. Frank
Cheatham as Assistant to Mac
Nider in War Department.

Col. David L. Stone. recently in
command of the 9Th Infantry at JEFF
ferson Barracks. st. Louis. Mo-. has
reported at the War Department for
duty as executive assistant to Assist
ant Secretary MacNider. He fills the
vacancy caused by the recent promo
ton Of Gen b Frank Cheatham.
Col. Stone is from Mississippi and
was graduated from the Military
Academy in 1898 Assigned to the
Infantry. he also has served details
In the General Staff Corps. the ad
jutant generals department and the
Quartermaster Corps. During the
World War he served as assistant
chief of staff with the A. r. F.. part
of the time in the Sd Division and
later in the Cd Army. He was
awarded the Distinguished Service
Medal for exceptionally meritorious
services, particularly during the en-.
gagements near Chateau-Thierry and
in the advance to the Ourcq River In
1918. He has held the rank of colonel
in the regular establishment since
July, 1920.
Evening star., 1926-03-23

statements the actual percentage re-
lation Of assessed to true value Of
taxables, the Texan being about twice
as accurate in his estimate or admis-
sion in this respect as the Illinoisan.
But since the nominal tax rates.
though twice as high for the Illinoisan
as for the Texan. do not prove that
the tax burden Of the 1llinoisan Is
twice as heavy as that of the Texan,
or heavier i'm any percentage what
ever, so the fact that the nominal tax
rate of the Texan is about twice as
high as that of the Ohioan and the
Washingtonan does not prove that
the Texan is bearing heavier tax
burden by any percentage whatever.
The same lesson is taught when we
compare the nominal tax rates of the
Illinois and Ohio cities.
who believes that such Illinois cities
as Chicago (S4 nominal rate; AZ on 100
per cent basis), East st. Louis (9030;
45.I5), Joliet Q02.S0; 5l.40), Evanston
uOS. 20: 54.1W and Oak Park u16.7O;
5S.45) are taxed either twice as heavily
or four or five times as heavily as
such Ohio cities as Cleveland (21.9O),
Cincinnati QS.92). Toledo CD and Co
lumbuS (20.30)?
Evening star., 1926-03-23
WAR ON FRAUD CHECKS.

Aroused by the numerous arrests of
those engaged in Haunting worthless
checks throughout the city. officials
of the Police Court have planned
stringent campaign to break up the
prevailing epidemic of law violators
of this nature.
Harry Butterfeld, charged with five
separate counts of passing bad checks
and a grand jury case growing out OF
one of the transactions, pleaded guilty
before Judge John T. Mcmahon. and
was given a straight Jail sentence OF
$50 days each on two of the counts
and $500 or $50 days in default on
each of the remaining three. On the
grand jury charge he was held on a
bond OF So 200.
According to the evidence OF Head
quarters Detectives Pat O'Brien, c.
y. Trammell, J. II. Fowler and r.
Livingstone. ButterfieId passed worth
less checks ranging from SIG to SEQ
on various coal dealers, stores and
real estate firms.
Recently James G. Smith. charged
with IL cases of violating the check
law, was sentenced to three years and
a half by Judge Mcmahon.
Evening star., 1926-03-23
MACREADY FLIGHT
SHORT OF RECORD
Barograph, CaIibrated Here.
Shows He Missed French
mans Altitude Mark.

The latest Of the determined stru.
giles by Lieut.. John A. Macready. vet
eran Army Air Service altitude pilot
to wrest the world record for altitude
from Lieut.. Jean Callizo, French re
serve aviator. has ended in failure IN
fact, Lieut.. Macready did not surpass
the official American record he made
January %.
The Bureau OF Standards Official
celebration of the barograph carried b.
Lieut.. Macready on his flight at Day
ton, Ohio. March 13. and made public
today by the War Department, shows
that the American airman reached an
altitude of 37.579 feet. The French
pilots mark is 1856 feet and Mac.
ready's record of January 20. which
still stands for America. is 3S.704.
In order to be recognized as the
holder of the official altitude record.
Lieut.. Macready would have had To-
reach 100 meters. or 300 feet. in excess
Of Lieut.. Callizo's peak. under the rul-
ings of the Federation Aeronautique
lnternationale, the world governing
body.
The Bureau of Standards received
the barograph from the NacreadI
II. +. Ifendrickson of the aeronauti
cal instrument section had "ruf
tests and cross checked the results
| 10 the satisfaction Of the experts. The
bureau also held out little hope tha:
the unofficial reading of the bare
graph, 39.025 feet. made March 13.
would be higher after celebration.
Lieut.. Callioz's record was made o.
tober 10, 1924. at Nillacoublay. France.
with a GourdOu- Lesseure monoplane
Hispano Suiza motor Of 300 horse
power Lieut.. Macready flew spe-
cially built McCook Field plane know
as the COS, fitted with a 400-horse
power Liberty engine and a super
charger.
Lieut.. Macready is scheduled fog
duty in Panama beginning July l.
and as far as could he learned toda
he Will make another attempt before
leaving McCook Field. if the weathel
conditions permit. If he still is vi
able TO beat Lieut.. CalliZo'S mark. the
task will be turned over 10 some other
Army pilot after the former world =
record holder takes up his new duties
Evening star., 1926-03-23
DEPOSED BISHOPS PLEA
PROTESTED IN COURT
Episcopal Church Treasurer, Sum-
mon ed in Case, Asserts DR.. Brown
NAMED Wrong Defendant"
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. March 23-An effort
was made in Supreme Court yester-
day to show that former Bishop Viii
liam Montgomery Brown named the
wrong defendant in asking the courts
TO restrain the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the United States from de-
posing him.
William w. Skiddy, who as
treasurer for the Protestant Epis-
copal Church in the United States. :"
was served with a summons in
Bishop Browns application for an in-
junction, filed request to have the
service Of summons set aside, assert
ing that he is not treasurer of the
church. He said the church has no
such officer, and. moreover, owns no
property, makes no contracts, and
incurs no liabilities. It is solely a
religious association, he contended.
and the power of its presiding bishop
is spiritual. but does not include the
powers of business executive.
The church, he said, has no power
to depose any bishop. that authority
being vested solely in the bishops
themselves.
Mr.. Skiddy also asked that a tenn.
porary stay granted Bishop Brown by
Justice Nathan Blur be withdrawn
Bishop Browns application IS on the
Supreme Court calendar for hearing
Thursday.
Evening star., 1926-03-23
Less Accuracy Not More Taxes.

principal crossing by the local rail-
way company show that cars have
been halted by trains at one crossing
alone for more than six hours a week
and no delay under five minutes was
recorded in the check. Railroad traf-
fic. as we'll as all other traffic, has
been growing by leaps and bounds.
Huge Economic Loss.
In a survey for the grade-crossing
abolition scheme of 1924 the en-
gineers found a huge economic loss
resulting from delays at grade cross
ings. For IA principal crossings
alone out of 100 or more the annual
loss was capitalized by the engineers
and estimated at s2,837,000, of which
only $7OS,000 was the capitalized
wages of gatemen.
A crossing that a few years ago
was a lonely boulevard over which
Travelled a few persons on sightSee-
ing trips developed into the worst in
Louisville from a hazard standpoint.
A check by the engineers showed
that 12S trains and 12,17S vehicles
now pass it daily. The total delay
per day due to passing trains Is
2,440 minutes.
Merchants Damaged.
Recent tests of air in the down.
town section Of Louisville show that
it's air is fourth in volume OF dust.
The test was made by company IN
stalling air-cleansing apparatus. ana
was part of a national test. One or
the reasons for this high dust con-
tent-and 1t means SCOT, outpourlngS
of blast furnaces, exhaust fans, street
dirt etc.-was ascribed to the circle
of industries around the main part
of the city, due primarily to the pelt
lines without which there would oe
no industries.
Industrial plants have invested mil
lions of dollars in the last rev years
to remedy this condition. one nrn'
alone has appropriated 100000 to eX'
pertinent in q cinder catcher to pre-
vent suits for damages threatened by
merchants whose stocks OF goods SUI
fered from the flying cinders. Esti.
mates made by the Louisville RetaAi
Merchants Association placed the an
nual damage from SCOT at $780, 900:
Mr.. Jenkins said that the industrial
value gained in some sections or the
city by belt lines or extensions OF the
lines have beeen offset by the losses
due to the consequent lowering or the
value Of residential property.
Mr.. Jenkins views of the situation
are supported by other Louisville folk.
While the belt line made Louisville a
business center, Mr.. Jenkins said, and
! promises to make it one, of the best
Evening star., 1926-03-23

When two taxpayers OF different
cities begin to compare tax burdens
the impulse is almost irresistible to
, match these nominal tax rates as set
forth in the first column of the table,
as if the tax rate were the equivalent
of the tax burden.
On the assumption that tax rate
and tax burden are synonymous a
startling proclamation is made by the
figures of our table, which declare that
whereas Oak Park, ILL.,, pays $116.10
per thousand of tax rate; Charleston,
S. c., $9S.75. and Chicago. IN. sS4;
Houston. Tex. pays only $45.15; Ell
Paso, Tex, s43.50. and Beaumont.
Tex. S4070:
Cleveland pays only s21.9O; Cincin-
natl. s1S.92; Toledo. Ohio, sci. and
Columbus. Ohio, 5000:
Winston-Salem, \. c., $3.50, and
Washington, SIT.
Reduced to Absurdity.
Who believes that the Illinois tax
payers are taxed twice as heavily as
the Texas taxpayers and that the
Texas taxpayers are taxed twice as
heavily as the Ohio taxpayers; and
that the Chicago taxpayer is taxed
five times as heavily as the North
Carolina and District of Columbia tax
payers?
The accuracy Of the comparisons is
not any more convincing when the
legal ratio is taken into account and
all of the rates are put on the 100 per
cent basis.
Who believes that the Illinois cities
of Chicago (84 nominal rate; AZ on 100
per cent basis. East ST. Louis (9O.30;
45.15). Cicero (95; 47.50). Oak Park
016.70; $3.50, Decatur (94.40: 47.70).
Evanston 008.20; 54.10) and Joliet
QO2.80; 51.40) are taxed twice as heav-
lily as the Texas cities. San Antonio
(41.70; 20.S5). Dallas t40; 20). Houston
t45.15: 22.5S). Fort Worth (42.10; 21.05)
and Ell Paso 1880; 21.75)?
Less Accuracy Not More Taxes.
Every one understands that the diff
ference is not between the actual
weight of the respective tax burdens
of the Illinoisan and the Texan, but
between the degree of accuracy with
which the Texan and the Illinoisan
officials have approXimated in their
Evening star., 1926-03-23

industrial cities of the South, 1t has
brought tremendous problems which
will take many years and millions Of
dollars to correct. He said belt line
at Washington would be nothing short
Of a sacrilege.
If there is any reason for construct
ing new lines in Louisville all effort
will be made to place them so far
beyond residential sections that they
never will cause nuisances
Evening star., 1926-03-23

Continued from First Page)
ed for extension of streets, water
mains, sewer connections, new trunk
sewers, police and fire protection, elec-
trio power line extensions, new alleys,
sidewalk and street lighting systems,
which is proving a hardship on all
city departments and the private utili.
ties. 1t has been found difficult to pro-
inents. Some residential sections near
railroads were practically abandoned.
Travel Is Hindered.
The idea of the homeseeker now is
to get far enough beyond the CRIME
and dirt of the belt line railroad area to
be free of it entirely. In the older sec.
tion of the city, the railroad belt lines
have been so constructed that they
have cut off main arteries of travel
and this results in detours being made
TO the newer residential sections. This
throws an unusual traffic on the few
through streets and has reached the
point now where widening of streets
must have to be resorted to in order to
furnish relief.
Louisville's belt lines are roughly
in the form of a figure 8. Inside these
two circles are few sections fit for
good residential areas, and these are
being threatened by the expansion OF
Industries. The railroads are practi
cally all at grade, and the economical
loss of time and the danger of con
flagration due to the stoppage of traf
fc at these crossings became such a
worry that the electorate voted $5,000,.
600 worth of bonds to eliminate this
added nuisance.
Fight Over Grade Crossings.
To this sum the railroads have con
sented to add about S9,500,00Q to elimi
nate grade crossings at main arteries
alone. Officials of the city thought
that the greater part of the job had
been accomplished. This, they have
learned after IA months of wrangling
was far from the case. Owners of pri
vate property have interviewed to de
mand damages, because of the lower
ing OF streets or for raised structures
alongside their plants or property
and the whole matter still Is in a
state Of chaos with conditions at grade
crossings becoming daily more Of e
menace and Q problem.
Recent checks Of delays at ont
Evening star., 1926-03-23

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 23.--Men who fail
to pay their alimony would be put 10
work at some occupation which would
not interfere with union labor and the
wages they earn would be given 10
their wives and children, If a bill no"
being drafted by Superior Judge Jo'
seph Sabbath is enacted into law.
Announcement of the judges blli
Yesterday disrupted the Alimony Ciub
of the county jail, composed of men
who have chosen Imprisonment rather
than to support their estranged wives
and families, and threatened 10 per
ceptibly reduce its membership OF 81.