The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-23
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
WHO'S NEWS
THIS WEEK..
BY lemuel F. Parton
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
NEW YORK. - Possibly better
~ than "horse and buggy" days
would be "square-rigger" days as
a phrase of poignant retrospect.
Sea Ancients of nostalgia in the
Stou Engines amazingly expert
:, SoJpo press stories and
!" ot Na 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 a 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 $780,
100000 chain-store fortune. That's
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
SIS, 1000 getting the Conrad in racing
trim.
One doesn't think of a demon
squash player as sailing man, but
Mr.. Hartford was 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
Otd Gofers square-rigger race
Dream About than in anything
Yardarn, Days l he has ma do done St,. or
many an old gaffer dreaming he is
out on the yardarm in 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
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.
d ARON KONSTANTIN Won NEU-
u RATH, German foreign minis
ter, asserts the right and intention
of Germany to organize Nazi units
abroad. The dec
Nazis Abroad laration comes at
Organize to the peak of a
Iy..,- drive by the reich
DUCK lA"e' to solidify and in
doctrinate its minorities in all
European countries and to unite
Germans everywhere behind the ma
tional socialist regime.
In this activity, Herr Won Neurath
seems to have displaced the frenetic
Rosenberg, of whom not much has
been heard lately. The foreign min
lister is of the ancient Junker clan,
close in with the monarchists and
the army, of aristocratic feudal
background, and his new ascendan-
cy is interpreted by some observ-
ers as an indication of the increas-
ing dominance of his allied groups,
as against the newcomers who head
the Nazi party.
He stems from pre-war Germany,
hefty, ruddy, stag-hunting aristo-
crat, of an ancient Wuerttemberg
dynasty, with slicked gray hair and
close-cropped gray mustache. He
was a student of law, entering the
consular service in 1900. Serving in
many foreign capitals, he was am
bassador to Rome from 1922 to 1890,
and formed a warm friendship with
Mussolini, whom he characterized
as the ideal ruler. He dislikes pub
lie appearances and rarely makes
2 speech or grants an interview.
INX1HEN the President Hoover
w was hit by an airplane bomb,
Admiral Harry E. Yarnen assumed
emergency command of all Ameri-
can shipping in
Kuies Are OH Far Eastern wa
When .JoDs tiers. Since this
cl.rI. isn't a real war,
's" just what he can
do about such random shooting isn't
quite clear-there are no rules to
govern the present situation-but, at
any rate, he's riding herd on our
ships and doing the best he can.
In the Boxer uprising, at the turn
of the century, he was an ensign
on the u. S. S. Yorktown. AS Amer
lea pursued her manifest destiny, I"