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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
BARBECUE GIVEN
NEAR

COUNCIL. Aug. 13.R-Mr. and
Mrs !. S. MeShaw, Mr.. and Mrs.
n W. Perry. and Mr. and Mrs. A.
4 Perry were joint hosts and
bostesses at a delightful barbecue
sumner Saturday evening at the
hunting lodge of the Meshaw boys,
Neon Council, on Route two, at
the Old Perry place.
After supper the evening was
snent in conversation, in songs and
oes, When "goodbyes" were
spoken. the decision was to meet
again in the winter and enjoy an
other feast, probably at Thanks
giving or Christmas. 1t is a stand
ing custom for the Perry children
10 me" twice a year, with their
families and friends, for a joint
picnic, once during the summer
and once during the winter
months.
Those present from Wilmington
we're: Mrs. V. B. Pierce, Mr.. and
Mrs. T. T. Sellers, and daughter,
Barbara; from Whiteville: Mrs.
Neil Hines and son, Ernest; from
Leland: Mr.. and Mrs. o. W. Perry,
Misses Gladys, Elizabeth and TOTE
Bell Perry, 0. W. Perry, Jr., Mrs.
l.. Nelson and son, Martin Luther
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Perry and
son, Philip: Mr.. and Mrs. Bill An
derson and son, Bill, Jr., Mrs.
Juanita Johnson and two children,
and Mr.. MINIS. From Council
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Morgan Meshaw;
Carbon and Perry Meshaw, Mrs.
0, L.. Perry, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Sherman MeshaW. l
Cayou oit,oo ~--. 1,s--
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Club Clock

The East Wilmington Home
Demonstration club win meet
Thursday, August Is, at
Wrightsville Beach for a pic
mic. Members and their families
are asked to meet at the home
of Mrs. Barnes at $3.50 o'clock
to go in a body to the beach.
The Audubon Home Demon
stration club will have picnic
at Mrs. E. A. Stands, cottage
at Kure's Beach, Thursday aft
ernoon, Aug. IS. Everyone is
asked to bring q basket lunch.
Cars will leave from Mrs. R.
L. Bostain's on Audubon Boule-
ward at $3.50 p. m.
The Wrightsboro Home DEM
onstration club will have a pic
mic Thursday, August Is, at IL
o'clock. Members are request
ed to bring a picnic lunch.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
DIAL 1911
Missionary Speaks

BLUE RIDGE, Aug. 13.-Dr. q.
Stanley Jones, famous missionary
and author just returned from In.
dia, spoke here Tuesday morning to
the members of the American Chris.
tian Ashram being held at Blue
Ridge.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
TRAVELLERS LOST

LONDON, Aug. 13.-R-Loss Of
the British mine-sweeping trawl-
ers Tamarisk and Pyrope by air
attack was announced by the ad.
miralty tonight. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
Birth Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. Roger W. Hewlett
announce the birth of a daugh-
ter, Annie Katherine, on August
II, at the Marion Sprunt annex. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
WrightsviI|e
Arrivals
- An

CAROLINA-TEMPLE - Among
those registered at the Carolina and
Temple cottage at Wrightsville
Beach are: Mr.. and Mrs. w. B.
Hunter, Burlington, Miss Cleo Hun
ter, Asheboro, Miss Billie and Der.
nice and Curtis Hunter, Burlington,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Hirst, Durham,
Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Barnes, San
ford, Claude Avent, Jonesboro, Miss
Louise Grubbs and Miss Helen Stat
ford, Charlotte, Jack Hutchinson,
Charlotte, Mr.. and Mrs. T. G. Gum,
T. j. James, Sanford, Joseph Dona-
colt, Mrs. Irene Higgins and son,
Bucky, Chapel Hill, Mr.. and Mrs.
q. M. Henderson, Lumberton, S.
Clarke, Atlanta, Ga, Mrs. r. A.
Hedgepeth, Sr., DR.. and Mrs. l.. r.
Hedgepeth and sons, Louten and
Joseph, Lumberton, E. C. Mann,
Goldsboro, DR.. A. M. Jamison, Phila-
delphia, Pa, Miss Pauline Brantley
and Miss Louise Scarborough, Ham
let, Miss Frances Bailey and Mr..
and Mrs. Palmer E. Bailey, Raleigh.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14

One nan out of every eight regis
tered for the draft in the F j r S t
World War saw actual service in
the U. S. army.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Hanson have
visiting them at their Wrightsville
Beach cottage DR.. Henry W. A.
Hanson, of Gettysburg, Pa. Mr..
and Mrs. E. j. Hanson and family,
Barbara, Mary Lou and Ed. Jr.,
of Charlotte; Mr.. and Mrs. James
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
Engagement Announced

Mrs. T. H.. Williams, of Acme,
announces the engagement of her
daughter, Elizabeth Johnston, to
A. o. Burns, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
r. G. Burns, of Delco. The we'd
ding will take place in the early
fall. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14

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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14

Halle Selassie of Ethiopia has
been called 'Mr. Tafari" while in
exile. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Snead, who
have been spending their vacation
in Linville, have returned to For
est Hills.
Mrs. Sam Sweeny and daughter,
Martha, who have been visiting
Mrs. Carl N. Dunn in Maxton,
have returned to their home on
Masonboro Sound.
Mrs. Margaret S. Stroupe has
returned to Wrightsville B e a C h,
after attending the P.-T.-A. meet
ing in Chapel Hill.
Mrs. W. T. Cheatham a d
daughter, Miss Deloris Cheatham,
who have been visiting at Wrights-
vile Beach, will leave today for
their home in Burlington.
Miss Laura Gordon has returned
to her home in Spray after be-
ing the weekend guest of Miss
Nancy Lyncn.
Mrs. c. H. Croft and daughter,
Mrs. E. c.. Burkett and children,
Wayne and Muriel, r returning
to their home in Hopewell, Va,
after visiting Mrs. G. c. Pierce
and friends here.
Little Anne Rutledge has re-
turned to her home on Wrights-
vile Beach after spending several
weeks at Niagara Falls and at
Cleveland.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Irving Corbett,
who have been visiting Mrs. Al
bert Perry in Linville, have re-
turned to their home on Chestnut
street. Their daughter, Miss Mary
Corbett, who has been attending
a houseparty in Linville, has also
returned to the city. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14

Seven cities impose municipal
cigaret taxes. 4
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-05
Hotel Week
Is Observed

Hotels of Tacoma and the state
Of Washington. which are a part
Of the 10000 hotels of America
whose $1,000. 0O0. 900 business-or
Uncle Sans Seventh son"-are
inviting the public to help cele-
brate National Hotel Week, now
in progress.
The second anniversary. the
celebration Of which started Mon
day. Ia being held TO call attention
to the important role played by
hotels in the civic. economic and
social life of the country. The
slogan this year is-'Hotels: An
Asset TO the Community; A
Service to the Nation"
While tourists spend nearly
$50, DOC. 900 a year in the state of
Washington. national surveys
reveal that only Is per cent Of the
tourists spending is done with
the hotels. Retail stores get 81
per cent, restaurants IA per cent,
garages. gas and oil six per cent,
theaters 10 per cent, and railroad
and local transportation 10 per
cent.
OF every dollar retained by the
hotel. the survey figures reveal,
SO cents Is spent for local pay
rolls, 20 cents for food. beverages.
cigars, etc, 2S cents for sundry
supplies and services. seven cents
for real estate taxes and eight
cents for depreciation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-05
Saga S Staff Hopes
To Get Hiqh Rating

Members of the staff of the
Pacific Lutheran college annual,
Saga, which was issued just be-
fore graduation exercises at the
Falkland institution, hope it will
receive a high rating from the Ma
tional Scholastic Press association.
Three hundred and fifty copies
of the s6-page book were printed.
1t contains aerial photos made by
Myron kreidler from a plane.
piloted by Jackie Wall. student
pilot at P. l.. C. Editor of the
Saga was Caroline Hoff.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-05

lights; as he leaves office, he can
point to an addition Of 4,94s orna-
mental lights and only 317 bracket
lights total of $685. lights.
The departments water GUS
toners Increased from 1885
TO S2,868 In the 20 years.
Throughout Davisson's long ad-
ministration, his department divis-
ions continued to increase business
and as he steps aside for a younger
man, he leaves the city's utilities
pounding out new peak records far
ahead Of quantities sold in any
earlier years.
He goes out with most Of his
programmed work comp lie / e d:
Green river gravity system has
been almost entirely rebuilt, the
South Tacoma deep wells system
is completely modernized with con-
tracts now virtually finished; the
belt line facilities for tideflats
switching and passenger service
has been modernized and trackage
extended 10 new Industries.
Spent and Earned
While in office Davisson spent
$35. 7ss, ess.ss for plant extensions
and improvements. not including
expenditures 30 far this year; but
his utilities during that 191S-1939
period produced gross revenues of
$56,473.9S3.7s. The light depart
ments revenues alone totaled $40,-
211. 900.
Those utilities have paid the city
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-05

3 Z NJ n Err Announcement
Tuesday that there Is no infantile
paralysis here has resulted in
another change in the program for
the high schools graduation exer-
cises.
IL was decided today the exer-
cises will be held at p. m. We'd
nesday in the school gymnasium
instead Of at $50 p. m. on Spar
tan field, as previously announced.
Admission will be by ticket only.
The program is as follows: Musi-
cal selections and professional by
the high school band. directed by
w. j. Peterkin; invocation, Rev. A.
jackson Bales; "Vesper Hymn.
and THE Lost Chord" Junior
Spartan chorus; award of ]. NJ.
Layhue Memorial, Lester C. Nit
chell, and scholarship awards by
Superintendent Wade Calavan.
Other Speakers
Dorothy Conant will be the first
speaker with her salutatory ad-
dress. Safe on First; Now Score"
which is the motto of the class.
Paul Johnson, valedictorian, has
chosen as the topic Of his COM
mencement address. "Cut the Suit
According to the Cloth"
Rev. J. Warren Hastings of Sc
attic will deliver the commence
ment address.
Il Love Life" by the Spartoni-
ans; presentation of class by Wade
Calavan; awarding of diplomas,
Harold d. Foster; Now the Day
Is Over" Spartan chorus, and
benediction by Rev. L. c. Shultz,
will conclude the program.
To Be Graduated
Members of the graduating class
are Peggy Adair, Martha Ander-
son. Marion Antonius, Mary Asa
hara, Georgiana Atkinson, Mildred
Bengtson, Dorothy Besancon, Bion
Bierer. Betty Biggs. Bob Bouick,
Donna Bowen, Gordon Brazda.
Dick Bunner. Jack Burns, Nancy
Carslay, Dorothy Conant. Irene
Conlon, Glenn Curtis. Wayne Egg
CERT, Harold Foster. Clifford Gar
rett, Arthur Garrison, John Cor
ham. Tom Gorzelancyk, Juanita
Guerrero, Stella Harrison, George
Bernhard Helling, Crystal Hirch-
ert, Adeline johnson, Irene John
son. Paul Johnson. Robert Joyner,
Mike kamachi, Dick Kammeyer.
Robert Kelley, Donald Kellogg,
Gloria Kent. George Komoto, Gwyn
Larson, Oron Lott. Helen Lund-
berg. Helen Lyckman. Frances
MacLean, Pauline Martin, Kiyash
Matsushita. Kenneth McChesney,
James Moceri, Tom Moceri, Mitsu
Mort. Bessie Mungh. Elsie Myers.
Tony Mylnar. Beulah Nelson. Pete
Okubo, Jim oNeill, Shirley Owen,
JOY Paige. Neona Peoples, Dolhe
Poland. Annabel Post, Albert
Raguse.
William Ransom, Donald
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general fund more than $4,000. DOC
in gross earnings taxes; and since
1888. have paid the state more
than $550.000 in gross earnings
taxes. Water and light depart
ments have paid the general fund
$4,000 in rentals. have paid 1852.
600 for services of various city
departments that cooperate, and
the light department has paid
school districts hin which its plants
are located some $4,000.
Light and water departments
have met all bond obligations when
due; on its s25.oO0.Ooo plant, the
light utility owes less than 4.O0O.-
600. approximately half of the
plant value having been paid for
out of the power revenues.
Lowest Rates
Throughout his term, DAWSON
kept Tacoma before the world as
having the lowest electric light and
power rates of any city in the u. S.
Rate reductions OF some kind were
made on an average about every
three years through his % years
as head of utilities. Accordingly.
Tacoma has been a jump ahead of
other public and private utilities in
announcing rate cuts.
Here's the rate reduction chro-
nology after DAWSON took office:
January, 1928. first and last step
rates on commercial lighting;
June, 1925, residential, commercial
lighting and general power rates
reduced; 1929. contract power rate
provided to encourage largest in
dustries; August, 1881. minimum
power service charges reduced;
January. 1888. residential rate de-
creased to make lucent per XVIII.
rate available to more users; July,
1886, commercial lighting rate re-
duced; January, 1899, residential
rate further lowered and simpli-
fled; street lighting rate cut from
1 cent to Il -cent per XVIII; July,
1899. commercial lighting rate
lowered and new low rate author
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-05
{. P. S. TO Hold
Summer Classes
Aviation Course
To Be Included

Part OF the Tacoma quota oil
10000 sviators for which the
Civil Aeronsutics authority has
just called will have an oppor.
tunity for training in the Colleg,
OF Puget Sound school.
DIR. r. L. Powell director Of the
summer school. said the ground
school classes insugurated last fall
under sponsorship Of the Civil
Aeronsutics authority. will be con-
unued through the summer to &C.
commodate students who desire
to prepare for aviation.
Students may register for the
school next Monday, June 10, and
classes will begin Tuesday.
This years summer school offers
courses equivalent in method and
character to those of the aca-
demic with classes planned for
those who desire to make up work
or advance in their professions.
Special attention will be given this
summer to public school music
under the direction OF Andrew
Loney. supervisor of music in the
LaGrande, Ore. public schools.
Other members Of the music staff
are Mary f. Smith, music super
visor in Franklin grade school.
Tacoma, and two members of
the college conservatory staff
Lena Sanders Running, voice: and
Erich Koker, methods in stringed
instruments.
The school also offers courses
in art and design, astronomy. BIZ
ology, chemistry, education. geol-
ogy, guages, mathematics,
physics, sociology. dramatic art,
religion and home economics.
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Reincke, Ella Reno, Earl Rice,
Jean Rosli, Merlin Rosin, Elsie
Rossback, Jean Rutledge, Charles
Sader, Donald Sader. Arnold Sand
land. Howard Schoffen, Nawako
Semba, Tomiye Semba. Russell
Shuck, Theda Skoglund, Emily
Smith, Irene Solway. Lawrence
Spencer. Erwin Steele, Blanche
Stroeve. Ida Suffer, Antonio
Svenock, Dennis Tanaka, Mary
Tompkins. June Warwick, Edna
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-05
Hearing on Marine
Bill Is Completed

WASHINGTON - T he h ouse
merchant marine committee has
completed hearing on a bill pro-
viding for intercoastal and coast
wise operation Of steamships re-
moved from transoeeanic runs by
the neutrality act ban on travel in
European belligerent zones.
Bon Geaslin. representative of
the Waterman Steamship Corp.
suggested an amendment which
would limit the type of vessel to
be put into domestic runs TO ships
Of $4,000 tons or more. The amend
ment would make possible the op-
Grafton Of the passenger liners
Manhattan and Washington and
the America which is soon to be
launched.
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lied for commercial cooking, bak-
ing and heating.
Every reduction produced great
er sale of energy and more rev.
enues; many millions of dollars
saved buyers of electric current.
Whatever sacrifice the department
made to lower rates. it was more
than offset in a few months by
greater income and profit to the
department, the city and the state.
Ira Davisson today is just plain
Citizen Davisson. retired BUSH
ness man. residing with his wife
and family at the same modest
two-story home they have occu-
pied rs years or more at 923 So.
Sth st. That is the monument he
loves best. For his public service,
he can always find close at hand
those other monuments: The great
concrete dams at Cushman, the
whirring turbines. the long span
across the Narrows for the Cush-
man high tension line, the new
steel and concrete pipe line from
Green river, the new South Ia
coma wells, the absence of UNI
slightly poles in the downtown dis
trict, the twinkling lights on every
street corner and in every home,
the hum Of factory wheels and ma
chinery. In these he can find the
of long. hard job
complete at last, so far as he is
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-05
Unemployment
Problem Is Solved

OTTAWA-The war has cut
down the number of unemployed
in the federal capital, particularly
in technical, stenographic and
clerical services. Since Sept. 1,
more than $500 persons in the
three classes have been called to
work, while hundreds of additional
craftsmen have been employed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-05
Main Street

Goinos, Comings and Doings
Of Tdcomans as the Re-
porter Found Them.
Fred Myer. trying to explain
his figures-Mr. and Mrs. Els
Ronbeck leaving for Los Angeles
to visit their son. Ellis, the well
known violin student-Ed Young
discussing house plans-Ed and
Jane Stilwell returning to Sacra-
mento. Calf. after brief visit here,
but promising to be back here
in August-Fred Shoemaker hurry
ing down street-Harold Wood
worth hurrying to city hall
Barney McFarlane vacationing--
Assessor Fred A. Smith pausing
for drink of water-Marty Pursuing
and family down from Bellingham
and visiting friends-Guy Melton
planning another trip to dentist
o. NJ. Pitzen, T. v. Northstrom
and W. A. Richmond in a huddle.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-05

7fcedt Waf aayt-lne
council found itself with a vacancy
to fin at the head of the light and
water department. They picked
Davidson who had been chief dep
uty U. 8. marshal and didn't know
. kilowatt from an erg.
It didn't make any difference
he knew business, and anyway, It
was an emergency appointment
effective only until the next gen.
eral election in 1920.
DAVIDSON won as q candidate In
the 1920 election and he won every
election at four-year intervals until
this spring Of 1910 when time and
the tide Of opposition votes caught
up with him.
Rare Record
But AZ Ira-they called him that
through the years--swept his desk
clear Monday and stepped out into
private life, he completed a record
Of public service rarely duplicated
IN any American city.
II II written in stone and steel.
IN dollars spent and dollars saved,
IN vastly increased resources and
vastly reduced rates to home own
ers. small business firms and huge
Industries.
A. head Of the utilities, he
directed the construction Of
much Of the clty's present
Hight and power and water
faci1ities-factors which have
brought millions Of dollars Of
investment In private Indus
trial plants In Tacoma, MILL
Ions Of dollars In payrolls,
thcunands In new population.
In these days Of astronomical
figures. 1t takes big figures to
create m Impression. Just to
sketch . picture Of what Tacoma
has gained during Davisson's ad-
ministration of his department,
let's look at these comparisons:
Growth Of Utilities
When he took office in 1918. he
was placed at the head OF a de-
partment operating one hydro
electric power plant with a capac-
~ Of $4,000 horsepower; two
c,shman hydro plants and two
steam plants since constructed
bring ths city's power production
capacity to 2o2,500 horsepower.
He took over alter depart
fnent with s. million gallons daily
capacity in the then comparatively
new Green river gravity system
and . few old South Tacoma wells:
since then the departments facili-
ties have been increased to e2ls
million gallons daily with compile
ton Of contracts to be finished this
month.
The hight and power department
had 1885 residential customers.
zoos commercial customers and
l.146 industrial customers In 1918;
IN 1910. the patronage had grown
to 34,87S residential. 3,S03 COM
mercial and 1928 Industrial ac-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-05

Wedgewood. Doroth by Wetrick.
Bessie Windsor, Arthur Wood. Kay
Yamaji, Yoshiko Yonemura, Sunni
ko Yoshihara. Mary Zehnder. Carl
ton Ziemer. Paul Zoller, James
Leslie, Henry Merriman, Yuriko
Ogasawara,
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counts-the latter including the
addition of some of Tscoma's larg-
cts industries. Then an addition
Of $4,000 residential accounts.
Brighter City
When DAWSON was appointed.
Tacoma streets were lighted by
Isl ornamental and 2,275 bracket
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-05
Another Display
OF Wild Flowers

A new display of wild flowers,
all gathered the past weekend in
the Snoqualmie pass area. is being
shown at the Tacoma public
library this week. Among the
blossoms gathered along the
original puncheon road over the
pass are goatsbeards, Canada dog
wood, May flowers. linneas, elm
tonia, tiarealla and star flowers,
predominantly white.
1t is planned by the librarians
to have wild flower displays every
week throughout the summer
again this year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-05
Utilities Show Amazinu
.Growih Under DAWSON
Figures Point to Strides as
22-Yeor Administration Ends
BY c. n. MAYHEM

BY the of democratic government citizens of
Tacoma have Just dropped from the payroll who will
celebrate his s0h birthday July g. His is Ira
Davisson and since 1918 he has been the cy commissioner
Of utilities.
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18
UNDERPRIVILEG
CHILDREN ARRIVE IN
CLAYTON FOR STAY
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never been away from home be-
fore, and are in many ways very
underprivileged, but only one child
was slightly undernourished, ac-
cording to Mrs. Comegys. Cards
are sent out by social agencies to
the chairman, giving the back
ground, family and health of each
child. Each is given a thorough
medical examination before being
sent out to homes, and the social
workers see to it that the children
are clean and clothed before they
are sent to the country. Many of
the hosts are necessarily making
some personal sacrifices to enter
tain these slum children" stated
Mrs. Comegys, "but the return in
satisfaction is great" The chill
dren are a never ending source of
amusement, according to Mrs.
Comegys. One little boy, on ar
rival, demanded to be returned
home Immediately, but has since
become quite happy One little
girl was wonder-struck at having
q room all to herself. Are we
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18

children or for contributions in
money which may be used to help
others to receive children. THE
length of time over which the chill
dren must be cared for obviously
cannot be determined. You must
be prepared to keep them until
they reach the age of 16 or until
they are able to return to their
homes" folder sent out by the
Committee, stated. Under present
plans, England will carry on a
wholesale evacuation of children to
Canada. The United States Com
mittee will then cooperate with
Canadian authorities to bring Sc
lected children to homes offered in
his country. 1t is not possible to
determine how soon these children
will arrive. Present indications
point to some time in July. The
committee isno W receiving appli-
cations for these children. Appli-
cation blanks for this purpose may
be secured by writing to the Unit
ed States Committee for the Care
of European Children at 215 Four
tn Avenue, New York City.