The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-05
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York.-Occasionally this column has brought to light some trifiing but odd bits of information about prominent hobbyists such as the fact that Mrs John D. Rockefeller, Jr, collects modern art that Roland Young, the movie fellow, goes about buying up jade and livery penSuins, and that Gene Tunney collects rare wallpapers.
 This column could have spared itself a lot of trouble had it dis covered-as it finally has done--E-.. that there is a man named o. e, lobbyists. MT Lightner also fs editor of the magazine, "Hobbies." which is read by collectors of vir- tually everything. Well, here are a few of the cdd pastimes of peo- pie whom the chief lobbyist is,, able to recall offhand: .ss
 Arthur W. Townc of Syracuse;:~~ N. Y., collects data on Siameses[ twins Arthur $. Carruthers, aa Rochester banker, collected rail-1 road locomotives until his family persuaded him to stick to engine models. o. T. Caswell, in Winona, Minn, has gathered more thana 250,000 postcards. Mrs c. A. Car+ pentef has spent 25 years collect- ing 1920 quilt patterns. Mrs Dor-a othy Gaffey, of Chicago, has madesf quilt from tho autographs of.s famous women. Collect Your IhOUSh:ts! no.
 Paul Perussina, San Fran
 cisco police officer, has probably. tho largest collection of prize flight -se CTS pictures. P. A. Belanger goessa
 in for dictionaries of postage-s stamp size. while George Heine-'s mann prefers tiny Bibles. Russellg K. Neville collects caves: that is.s' he gathers data about them and visits them when he can. Antona. Alexander, a Michigan farmcr, hass% an amazing amount of miniature furniture carved from cattle boncs.se Lily Davis. girl in Kansas. col-@s lects convention badges, and Miss Stophanie Martin, here in New York specialiZes in airline bag-~ gage labels. George Estay got to-s9 gcthcr 10000 pieces of hardwood.
 \. F. Carter collects cross- .s
 bows. and J. M. Hughes has n s-
 fine assortment of death war;
 rants for Salem witches. .s
 Captain John Veatch, in Evans-''' vile, Ind. collects daguerreo-@f types, and among them is said tosf be the only existing likeness of ' Betsy Ross. Sidney Ham of Guth- rie, Okla, collects violins. and J. F.. Brill has q barn full of old z cameras. James A. Murray has gathered up all the desks which belonged to Julius Rosenwald. ~ Norval Stewart goes in for doors knobs. Rachael Day likes sun dials. 2. a MT Lawton has acquired hun dreds of sets of false teeth, and l.. E. Romaine is partial to all kinds of odd lighting fixtures.
 A man up by Cape Cod. w. W. Bennett. will travel anywhere to-, get the log book of some old whal-s- ing vessel. Comic valentines ares the passion of a fellow in Ship pensburg, Pa. Louis Gardella cole. lects glass hats, and when a Mrs Ross Jones died recently in.+ Brownwood, Texas, she willed 4 daughter. D. A. Pierson has saved z. 30,OO0 paper match covers, ands A. V. Anderson has the largest. private collection of safe-cracking :. tools, 1blackjacks and such. He is4, a former warden of Kansas peni- tentiary. -
 King George V has Q hobby of raising Australian love! birds. Her., bert Hoover is getting together an rsi enormous World War library. And Rupert Hughes, the novelist, is q ,. string saver. The aforementioned MT Lightner, besides collecting, lobbyists, also collects shrunkenar Jivaro Indian heads. % [