Carbon County news., 1937-09-17
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WHO'S NEWS
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BY Lemuel +. Parton
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a phrase Of poignant retrospect.
There was touch
Sea AncIe11tS of nostalgia in the
StOLD Engines amazingly expert
cnD press stories and
q" ' - beautiful pictures
of the Newport getaway of the Con-
rad and the Seven Seas-the only
seaworthy square-riggers left in
America-on their recent race to
Bermuda. Both boats have Diesel
engines, for emergencies, but they
stow all that, and it is perhaps a
bit tactless to bring it up now. This
is machine age holiday.
With all its shortcomings, the
power age does enable some people
to make enough money to get away
from it once in a while. Young G.
Huntington Hartford, owner Of the
Conrad, is the inheritor Of a $780,
100000 chain-Store fortune. That's
a good beginning for anyone who
wants to voyage back into past ep-
ochs-whether his taste Is for old
houses, old prints. old ships, or even
a horse and buggy. Simplicity
comes high. Mr.. Hartford spent
$4,000 getting the Conrad in racing
trim.
One doesn't think Of a demon
squash player as a sailing man, but
Mr.. Hartford was a squash racquets
wizard in his undergraduate days at
Harvard, in the class Of 1888. He
is the only son of Mrs. Henrietta G.
Hartford, of Newport and Charles
ton, getting about a lot, having a
wonderful time and probably not
wishing you were here"
He takes hand in all sorts Of
sports, and probably stirs more
envy with this
Old CATERS square-rigger race
Dream About than in anything
IGrdnrn1 D6yswill do. He starts
many an old gaffer dreaming he is
out on the yardarm in a gale, and
that-according to the Prophet Joel
is as it should be, providing the
young men keep up with their vi
SionS.
Mr.. Hartford bought the Conrad
from Capt. Alan Villiers, Australian
book sailor who sailed her all over
the world in his literary argosy. She
had settled down in the valhalla Of
old ships at Brooklyn when Mr..
Hartford brought her to life again.
The ship was built more than so
years ago by the Danish govern
ment, which later used her as a
training ship. Her proper name is
the Georg Stage. She's a proud,
staunch old ship, with two full suits
Of sails, decks Of teak and two brass
cannon on the poop deck. She is
100 feet 8 inches on the waterline.
. ARON KONSTANTIN Won NEU-
ORATH, German foreign minis
ter, asserts the right and intention
Of Germany to organize Nazi units
4, a, abroad. The dec
VGzis Abroad laration comes at
Organize to the peak of
ET:.1. drive by the reich
to solidify and in
loctrinate its minorities in all
European countries and to unite
Germans everywhere behind the ma
ional socialist regime.
In this activity, Herr Won Neurath
eems to have displaced the frenetic
rosenberg, of whom not much has
,een heard lately. The foreign min
ster is of the ancient Junker clan,
lose in with the monarchists and
he army, of aristocratic feudaI
and his new ascendant
y is interpreted by some observ-
rs as an indication of the increas-
ag dominance of his allied groups,
S against the newcomers who head
he Nazi party.
He stems from pre-war Germany,
hefty, ruddy, stag-hunting aristo-
rat, Of an ancient Wuerttemberg
ynaSty, with slicked gray hair and
lose-cropped gray mustache. He
as a student of law. entering the
onsular service in 1900. Serving in
lany foreign capitals, he was am
assador to Rome from 1922 to 1880,
nd formed a warm friendship with
whom he characterized
) the ideal ruler. He disIikes pub
c appearances and rarely makes
speech or grants an interview.
XTHEN the President Hoover
" was hit by an airplane bomb,
dmiral Harry E. YarneH assumed
nergency command of all Ameri-
. can shipping in
uLes Are OF Far Eastern wa
Then Japs ters, Since this
:uLx Okla isn't real war,
'S'' just what he can
, about such random shooting isn't
1ite clear-there are no rules to
'vern the present situation-but, at
y rate, he's riding herd on our
Ups and doing the best he can. !
In the Boxer uprising, at the turn
the century, he was an ensign
the u. S. S. Yorktown. As Amer
a pursued her manifest destiny"
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