davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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approximately s325,ooo and to in
clude q 100000 lodge, which will
contain ofhces, dining room seating
200 guests, coffee shop, q recreation
hall, souvenir shop and other hotel
features. The plan also calls for
construction Of additional cottages
each equipped with shower, fireplaces
comfortable beds, telephones, electric
light and other hotel conveniences.
A new road connecting Skyland with
the Skyline Drive also is under con-
struction east Of the present steep
winding road. The new road, with
easier grades and turns, will skirt the
edge Of cliffs which command a mag
nif1cent view Of the Massanutten
Mountains and the valley between.
A schedule of basic rates for the
use Of these park facilities, meals and
rooms has been established with the
approval of the National Park Serv-
ice. Reservations may be made in
advance by telephone by calling Sky
land, where the main park Offices
are located The telephone number
is Luray l0-F-3.
GENERAL development of the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park
was authorized June 20, 1888, when
President Roosevelt signed the second
deficiency bill containing funds for the
purpose. Up to that time only de-
velopment necessary for protection and
administration of the area had been
undertaken. Modern camp grounds
now are under construction, and other
developments soon will be undertaken
No tourist cabins or other accom-
modations have been established, ex-
cept for few operating under tenn
porary permit. 1t is expected that
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System Well Established in Europe Has Met
With Great Success on This Continent
Since 1t Started in 1885.

supply fresh milk, butter. eggs and
vegetables, so the cooking Is very
country" aud healthful. Many hos
tells serve meals: in others you do
your own cooking.
Generally speaking, hostelers range
from high school to college age, but
the age limit is pretty elastic to
"a. Very young enthusiasts may go
along on trips In the care Of an adult
leader. Any one at all may sponsor
and lead group. applying to the
A. Y. H. headquarters at Northfield,
Mass, for passes permitting overnight
stays at hostels.
Full A. Y. H. membership entities
you to travel in Europe, too, with
many privileges and concessions. And
there are A. Y. H. sponsored trips here
and abroad in the charge of trained
leaders.
Expenses?
Hostelers generally allow 81 a day
for their budget. This covers food,
fuel, the ascent overnight charge at
. hostel and q few extras. OF course,
II you're willing to do without that
extra movie or that side trip to .
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miles. one section from Deep Gap
southwest to Blowing Rock, extending
the 59-mile section from the Virginia
line. The second section will be
southwest OF Gooch Gap, extending
approximately 8 miles to Buck Greek
Gap, connecting with sections now
under construction.
The third and fourth sections will
extend IA miles from Wagon Road
Gap to Tennessee Bald. these sec
tions being west of Asheville in the
Mount Pisgah area.
The Virginia sections slated for
grading this fiscal year in the
Roanoke-Rockfish Gap region are in
two major portions, The northern
most extends from Rockhsh Gap to
Tye River Gap, a distance of a little
more than q miles. This will serve
as an extension of the unbroken Sky
line Drive parkway system and will,
when completed, provide total road
way length Of 1870 miles along the top
OF the Blue Ridge from Front Royal
to the Iye River Gap, between Staun-
ton and Lexington. The southern
portion slated for grading this year
is % miles long. from Thunder Hill
to Black Horse Gap, and includes the
exceedingly picturesque Peaks of
Otter, which stand in comparative
isolation just east Of the main noun
tain chain. and command magnificent
views of the mountains to the west and
the rolling Virginia Piedmont extend
ing scores of miles off to the eastern
horizon.
The North Carolina grading project
between Deep Gap and Blowing Rock
will connect the 140-mile section now
nearing completion with the magnifi-
cent country between Blowing Rock
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nearby town the expense Is reduced
accordingly.
A s FOR the expenses OF the A. Y. H.
itself, these are donated by friends
Of the movement, which is financed
through their generosity. The origi-
nators Of the A. Y. H. are Isabel and
Monroe Smith. This young couple,
who are now the A. Y. H. directors,
had one lone, solitary little hostel in
Northfield Just four years ago. They
had been in Europe as guests at the
International Conference Of Youth
Hostels in 1888 and were ofIicially in
vited to bring the movement to the
United States.
The A. Y. H. has distinguished
president, Mary E. Woolley, former
president Of Mount Holyoke College
There IS National Executive Com
mittee Of eight and a Nationall Board
Of about so outstanding persons.
Field workers say that before long
there will be a hostel in or near
Washington. And then the hundreds
Of young Washingtonians already va
cationing at other hostels may say:
"Next time come and visit us!''
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access to the parkway will be from
public roads at established access
points. Private roads will not be
permitted to connect with or to cross
the parkway. Under this policy. the
acquisition Of land is based upon the
agreement that the State concerned
shall furnish means of ingreSs and
egress outside the parkway to property
owners having frontage on rights of
way affected by the parkway program.
All proposals for private roads con-
Meeting with the parkway motor road
will be disapproved, Secretary Ickes
notified Gov. Hoey OF North Carolina
and Gov. Price of Virginia.
AL along the parkway recreational
areas are to be provided. affording
camping and parking areas and other
public conveniences and means for
rest and recreation. In Virginia such
areas already have been planned at
Humpback Rocks, about miles south
of Rockfish Gap at Peaks of Otter,
Pine Spur. Smart View and Rocky
Knob. The last three are in the
section between Roanoke and the
North Carolina line, scheduled for
completion by next spring Recrea-
tional areas have been mapped in
North Carolina at Cumberland Knob,
just south of the Virginia boundary,
and at The Bluffs. overlooking the
Yadkin River Valley.
A CTIVITY on the Natchez Trace
project is under way in five sec
tions in Mississippi and one each in
Tennessee and Alabama These Sec
tions average about 10 miles each in
length. making a total of approxi-
mately 70 miles now being graded.
A total Of $4,000, coo now is available
for this work by direct appropriation.
Two sections. totaling "a miles in
length, are being graded north of
jackson. Miss, and one l2-mile sec
ton is being graded north of Natchez.
A 15-mile section is being graded be-
tween French Camp and Kosciusko,
The Tennessee-Alabama sections, to-
taling 20 miles in all, extend from a
point south OF Collinswood, Tenn,
to State highway No SO in Alabama
During the current fiscal year at
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feet, crowning the greatest mountai
mass east Of the Black Hills. The
is difference Of elevation Of So
feet or we'll over mile, between Il
highest and lowest points in the par.
The Smokes are world famous Z
a botanist's paradise There are, a.
cording to the National Park Servic
l43 species Of trees. many varietir
producing giants of their kind. Varie-
ties OF shrubs are even more numer-
Gus, some Of them attaining the size
OF trees in this unspoiled wilderness.
There is mountain laurel in the
park which measures 80 inches around
the base, with one limb 81 inches in
circumference, establishing a record
for size and age. A wild grape with
stem 60i2 inches around is known.
More than 1000 different kinds of
Towering plants are known, and it
is expected that eventually nearly
800 will have been recorded. 1t is
estimated that altogether about 1000
different plant species are represented
in the flora of the park-a greater
variety of plant life than in any known
equal area in the temperate zone.
A FTER prolonged negotiations with
representatives of the Cherokee In
dians, the National Park Service has
announced, within the last few days,
the selection of the right Of way for
the final As miles of the parkway, at its
the boundary of the Great Smoky
Mountains park
The new right Of way follows a
mountain ridge loca ton through Black
Camp Gap and the Cherokee Indian
Reservation to Ravensford, where it
Joins North Carolina State Highway
No H. so avoiding the town Of Chero-
kee.
To care for commercial trafic,
which will not be permitted In the
parkway the State of North Carolina
will build a highway between Chero-
kee and Soco Gap. connecting at that
point with the parkway and State
Highway 293. This will permit con-
tinuous commercial traffic on a valley
route, rather than in the parkway,
and also will enable motorists to en-
ter the park by way Of the Indian
reservation if they desire to do so.
At present commercial traffic must
60 by way of the Tuckasegee River
through Sylvia and Waynesville.
The new section Of parkway IS a
high-level route, affording fine views
OF the Smokes and escaping contacts
with existing highways and other de-
velopments. Surveys Of the new route
now are being made. North Carolina
has agreed to pay the Cherokees for
the necessary land, which will average
l25 acres per mile, providing an aver
age parkway width Of about ! 900 feet.
North Carolina also has agreed to
turn over to the National Park Service
section Of State Highway 100 be.
tween Cherokee and New Found Gap.
at the Tennessee line.
The National Park Service has an
proved the awarding by the Bureau of
Public Roads Of contracts for the
grading of 1873 miles of the Blue Ridge
Parkway between Volunteer Gap and
Piper Gap, Va, one of the last remain
ing sections to be placed under con-
struction in the l40-mile section to be
completed next spring.
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Thousands of Youngsters Spend Vacations
in Attractive Places Under Supervision
of Carefully Chosen Parents

night guests in the A. Y. n. hostels;
the figure for 1888, thus far, is 20, 900.
The old hostel chains and loops"
are being enlarged, and eight new
ones are being added throughout the
United States.
The International Youth Hostel
Conference for 1910 will be held in
Northfleld, Mass.-yet few years ago
there wasn't a single hostel from Los
Angeles to Manhattan.
In many department stores through
out the country-for instance, in New
Yorks largest one-there are little
hostel shops where you may get
equipment and information.
A PROGRAM of orderly national
= development" has been launched
by the A. Y. H. This places field
workers In charge Of various districts.
They see the leaders Of each commu-
nity-ministers. physicians, the on
GERS Of social and business groups
and secure their backing. Then
they see II they can dnd . couple who
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total width Of 1900 feet under COM
plete or partial Government control.
Within this area no commercial de-
velopments are to be permitted and
within the 800-foot right-of- way
natural parkway development will pre-
vail. There will be grade separations
at all principal highways and railroad
intersections. AS in the Blue Ridge
Parkway, no private roads will be
given access directly to the parkway.
MANY fine old plantations and
Colonial mansions exist along the
Natchez Trail. Where these come
within the right-o -of-way they will be
preserved and restored, if necessary,
as examples of the early development
of this historic region.
The Natchez Trace dates back to
the earliest known historical records.
1t existed in the time Of De Soto and
that notable Spanish explorer is be-
lieved to have travelled along parts
OF the trace. then, Of course, merely
an Indian and game trail through
the vast forests of the South. How
long the Indians used it is not known
definitely. 1t was Of great antiquity
when the white men first travelled its
well-beaten way. There is pre-
sumption, from native artifacts found
in the vicinity, that the trace may
have been used by prehistoric Indians
and that it may even have been, at
some remote age. trading road be-
tween the great Indian civilizations of
Mexico and the less civilized tribes of
Eastern North America.
The National Park Service has been
given $4,000 with which to survey the
Oglethorpe Trail Of Colonial days,
from Savannah to Augusta. This sur
vey now is IN progress with view to
a development similar to the Natchez
Trace and Blue Ridge Parkway.
Should the Oglethorpe Trail and the
Natchez Trace be connected eventu-
ally this connection would probably be
extended to the Great Smokes Ma
tional Park and so north to the north
ern end of the Shenandoah National
Park, making an unbroken motor
parkway from Front Royal, Va, to
Natchez, Miss, and east to Savannah.
There are no definite plans as yet,
however, for connections between
Augusta and the mountain parkway
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according to plans announced by
Mason Manghum, president of the
Virginia Skyline Corp. There now
are within the park accommodations
for approximately 800 persons in liv-
ing quarters. There will be quarters
for about 1000 persons by next year,
he said.
Under its contract with the Ma
tional Park Service the company is
ready to spend approximately $1,000
900 for projects already planned. Ad-
ditional cottages are to be construct
ed at Skyland. and the initial units
Of a large cottage hotel are being
constructed at Big Meadows. A cot
tage is to be built at Dickey Ridge
Lodge, 5 miles from Front Royal.
The largest part Of the program is
for improvements At Skyland, to cost
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foot trails. chief among them the
Appalachian Trail, extending from
Maine to Georgia. The system Of
trails is 50 extensive, Park officials
say, that a hiker may spend every
week end for two years on walking
trips in Shenandoah National Park
without going over the same ground
twice.
A DDIT1ONAL accommo modations for
park visitors are being provided
all the time. At Skyland is q former
vacation resort maintained for nearly
half century under private man
agement. 1t has been taken over
intact by the Government and now
Is being operated under concession by
the Virginia Skyline Co., which is
under contract to develop additional
public accommodations throughout
the park as they are needed.
The company was required under
the terms of its contract, which be-
came effective March l., 1887, to spend
minimum of 100000 at once and
to be prepared to make available up
to approximately sl,0O0,000 more if
necessary to keep pace with growing
public use of the park.
Big Meadows, approximately in the
center Of the park, is being developed
as the first permanent camp ground
for automobiles and trailers. Cabins
operated on a hotel basis, comfort
stations, water, fireplaces. tables and
benches are being provided Three free
picnic grounds have been established
at ElkWallow, miles north of Pan
Drama. Sexton Knoll, S miles south
of Panorama. and South River, 3
miles north of Swift Run Gap Each
has parking space for 80 to l20 auto
mobiles. Picnic grounds have water,
sanitary facilities, fireplaces with free
wood stacked nearby, tables and
benches. At Hawksbill Gap, 13 miles
south of Panorama, a Temporary au-
tomobile camp ground has been estab-
lished At = spring which provides
ample pure water.
A cCOMMODATIoNs for tourists
will be nearly tripled before the
opening Of the 1899 camping season,
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and Little Switzerland. At Blowing
Rock the Blue Ridge parkway will
connect, upon completion Of the 185-
mile stretch from Deep Gap, with the
existing United States route 22l, ex-
tending around the shoulder Of Grand
father to Linville. Eventually the
parkway will replace this section Of
22l. following the same right of way
around Grandfather.
IN ADDITION to the grading and
surfacing now under contract. over
passes and bridges are being con-
structed at intersections of important
State highways across the mountains
to provide grade separations and make
possible unbroken traffic flow along
the parkway.
Under policy announced by Sec
retary of the Interior Ickes the only
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the park will be dedicated in June,
1899, although plans are still in
definite.
At present the Great Smoky Park
is composed Of approximately 100000
acres owned by the Government in
fee simple When completed the
park will contain nearly 100000 acres,
or 6875 square miles, almost equally
divided between Tennessee and North
Carolina The greatest length Of the
park, east and west, is 81 miles and
the greatest width, north and south,
19 miles.
For SO consecutive miles the noun
tain crest in the Smokes is more
than 5000 feet in altitude, and there
are within the park is peaks more
than 5000 feet in altitude. the high
est being Clingman's Dome, 6,642
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thousands of tons more of equipment,
1t has become increasingly difficult to
get them into town and set up on time.
A parade would mean a couple of
hours more work and delay.
Also, traffic in most towns has be-
come too heavy for them. Parades
bring complications and accidents and
in recent years damage suits became
too frequent.
Another old-time circus institution
that has passed is the paper war"
when the advance billposters from
rival shows met in the same town and
went after each other with buckets
and brushes
1t used to be common for one
shows crew to swoop in and plaster
its name all over another circus
24-sheets, cover them up or rip them
down altogether.
But time has brought dignity to cir
Gus competition and tempered the zeal
Of the bilposters. Shows nowadays
keep pretty clear OF each others
routes, and when they cross confine
themselves to restrained "Wait!!"
posters.
ON THE lot one of the favorite di-
versions when the show Is over.
as in most other places, is gathering
around and reminiscing about "the
good old days"
Twenty-Five and so years ago, the
common thing was the grit show,
designed to gyp the public going and
coming - short-changing. crooked
gambling concessions, pocket-picking
and even out-and-out robbery.
The classic announcement: Ladies
and gentlemen, we have Just been
advised that there are several pick
pockets at work in the crowd Kindly
make sure that your money Is safe"
was the cue for dirty work. Everybody
grabbed for his pocketbook, tippins
OF the dips just where to reach.
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least IS miles more will be placed in
construction with funds already avail
able.
Practically all of the Natchez Trace
Is being constructed along an entirely
new right-of-way, following closely the
line Of the historic trace" Of early
Indian and pioneer days. For this
unique parkway. the Federal Govern
ment is acquiring an average of 100
acres per mile in fee simple and is OBJ
tanning zoning control over additional
50 acres per mile. This means that a
right-of-way averaging 800 feet in
width is owned outright by the Fed
eral Government and that. in addi-
ton, it exercises control over an addi-
tional strip 200 feet in width on each
side of It's right-of-way, making a
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By Mary Fisher.
of merry, healthy
American youngsters are
spending their vacations this

"HOOSANDS OF merry, QeAlLny
American youngsters are
spending their vacations this
L year in manner to which
President Roosevelt has given his Of
fetal blessing-youth hosteling.
1t may surprise you to learn Just
how many thousands. For although
Washingtonians learned much about
the hostel movement-it's old in Eu-
rope, but new here-when the Ma
tional Park Service made a study of
it in 1885, few realize how tremen-
dously it has grown. BY leaps and
bounds" is a trite old phrase, but 1t
fits the case.
Take few statistics, to illustrate
this. They always back up enthusi-
astic, general statements so nicely.
When the National Park Service
made its survey. there were only IS
hostels in the United States. Now,
in 1898, there are 200. Only 1,750
youngsters held American Youth
Hostel passes in 1886: now the number
Is 5000. There were only $500 over
Evening star., 1938-08-01
F STREET STORE
SAFE YIELDS $797
Wonder Clothes Firm Is
Robbed by Cracksmen.
Experts Suspected.

Gaining entrance through a root
trapdoor. yeggs blew open a safe in
the Office of the Wonder Clothes
Store, 1912 street NV, over the
week end, and escaped with $797.
The robbery was reported by the
store manager. Sol Goldberg. 1884 Up
shur street NV, who said he discov-
cred the safe had been blown when he
went to the store yesterday.
After viewing the damaged safe, the
door Of which was torn loose by the
blast, detectives said the work" ap-
parently was done by experts.
Gold Watch Overlooked.
The yeggs overlooked about $500 In
checks and a gold watch.
Only a few cases of petty crime
were reported during the last "a
hours.
One of the victims was Mary Hayes,
909 First street NV, whose home
was broken into and jewelry and
other valuables aggregating $25I
stolen.
Nine Youths Held.
Meanwhile. police are holding nine
youths, ranging in age from l3 to is,
in connection with the looting of a
number Of weighing machines in the
basement Of the National Press Build
Ing.
Six Of the boys were arrested in
Bethesda when they were seen dis
playing a quantity Of pennies. The
other three were picked up in Hyatts-
vile. Police said they possessed more
than 400 pennies.
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Operation Hats
Morgan Heirs
FarmingStudy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. John
Pierpont Morgan, Sd, 21-year-old scion
Of one Of Americas most famous bank
ing families. was convalescing today
from an appendectomy which cut
short his study Of Middle Western
agricultural conditions as farm
laborer.
Stricken while working incognito
on the 100-acre Omer Addison farm
near Knightstown, young Morgan was
brought here last night for an emer-
gency operation. Hospital physicians
described his condition today as still
good"
DR.. John I. Waller, Knightstown
physician and surgeon, who performed
the operation. obtained permission
from the youths parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Junius c. Morgan Of Glen Cove,
Long Island. Mrs. Morgan was ex-
pected to arrive here today.
The youth, as publicity shy as his
grandfather, ]. P. Morgan. jr, was
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NEW BREED OF CANARY
BEING DEVELOPED HERE
Bird Is Similar to One Which Died
Out in England, Says Retired
Navv Captain.

A new canary breed is being de-
veloped here by q retired Navy cap
tain, who has been working for seven
years mating the Yorkshire with the
American Hartz Mountain bird.
The new bird is larger than other
canaries and is similar to a breed
which died out in England more than
200 years ago, Capt James A. Callan
said as he exhibited his new variety
at the show of the National Capital
Canary Club at Atherton's Pet Shop,
6l9 F. street NV. More than 100
birds are on display.
Capt. Callan said he would have to
work three more years before he would
be assured his birds, known as the
Callan Crestshire breed, would not
revert to original type.
E. M. Jameson, owner of the bird
which won prominence last year by
whistling Yankee Doodle" was
awarded the ribbon for the best bird
In the show yesterday.
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But Horse Never Smokes.

CARDIFF, Wales R)-Tinker, .
tobacco-chewing 2l-year-old South
Wales pit horse who won't start work
in the morning until he has had his
"quid," won the veterans prize at the
royal show here. He has worked un-
der ground Is years.
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known as Jack Morgan" to farmers
in the neighborhood. They described
him as "a willing hand, but . little
green"
The Nome nugget., 1938-07-11
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Probate Court in and for the Port Clarence Precinct, Sec ond Division, Territory of Alaska.
 In the Matter of the Estate of
 H. J. CHRISTENSEN,
 Deceased.
 NOTICE is hereby given that by order of the Probate Court in and for the Port Clarence Pre- cinct, Alaska, the undersigned has been appointed Executor of the estate of H. J. CHRISTEN- SEN. deceased. All persons hay ing claims against said estate shall present them with proper vouchers attached, within six months from the date of this no- tice, to the undersigned Executor Such claims shall be presented to