The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-28
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Ru PAUL HARRIsON

New York The most valuable private garden fin the world, per square foot, now is at the corner of Sixty.eight street and Fifth ave- nue. A high board fencC without a single crack or knot-hole sur rounds the little, plot, but bus-top riders can, and do, look down into It's exclusive greenery. This and the adjoining mansion, built seventeen years ago, were in- herited by ciendenin J. Ryan from his father, the late Thomas For tune Ryan. The garden site, about 100 by 120 feet. cost $l,25O.OOo and a lot more before the hole left by the basement of q demolished building was partly filled with ini- ported earth and the whole thiag terraced and planted. The taxes on 1t are about $40,000 a year. A passing glimpse reveals 1t as q rather formal affair. with some marble benches, Eravcled walks and grass, q few shrubs and a half
 dozen lonely little trees.
 For Jumbo
 Circus notes: Take 1t from their keepers, elephants don't like pop corn and really care little for pca-
 nuts. The very choicest tidbits are bananas, apples, carrots, hard candy and lump sugar, in that | order. If you're confirmed | elephant feeder, ask the bull-men | which of their charges will speak" for morsel. It's very satisfying | to the human ego to have an ele- | phant trumpet at command. | Or you can toss dried catnlp in the | tiger cage and be thanked by an l ingratiating rubbing against the | bars and q burst of purring that
 sounds like a buzz-saw.
 Dire Plot Falls
 Because Broadway's sporting crowd has been part of the gay
 side of life in Havana during tho winter months, and because poll | tical warfare is waged down thcr l in typical American gangster fash ion, tho main street has been coR- 1 ming the Cuban headlines lately. 1 Also 1t has been listening to ah | amazing story just brought back by certain Maphattanite who | spent several months in the
 island republic.
 The tale goes back to last Octo- l Der, and concerns the strange noe turnal activities of q little band | of anti-administration terrorists. | one midnight, carrying spades and several cases of dynamite, they crept into Colon Cemetery and as- sembled at family burial plot marked by the name of Bcllo. Then. each man to prcassigned task, they scattered in 30-foot radius Fabout the Bello monument. only | flx.t. tAI Al silent work among the marble tomb
 stones.
 Holes were dug. bundles of dy-
 namitc buried, and sod replaced
 without trace. Carefully con- | ceaIed wires Tod from each charge to a distant point. The plotters
 checked every detail and were sat | isflcd. The touching of single | switch 1000 feet away would blast
 this mined area from the face of
 the earth.
 Some time later band of as
 yassins slew the speaker of the Cuban senate. who also was ain in- innate friend of the president. And hero the diabolical cunning of tho scheme is revealed; for the
 speakers name was Dr. Clemente
 Bello. His bullet-ridd1ed body
 would be inferred near the Bel!o
 monument. To the graveside would
 come not only Machado but prac-
 tically every high government off,
 cial hated and feared by the revo- Ilutionists. Tho dynamite would do the rest.
 At the eleventh hour the whole
 plot was revealed by a cemetery
 attendant who knew that other | wise he inevitably would be lm-
 piicated and executed.