The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 30, 1926, Page 11

PLANS OCEAN HIGHWAY ALONG SPANISH TRAIL Proposed Ocean Driveway Over Island Beaches to Be , Longest, in World Arkansas P; Texas, Oct. 30.— (#)—Swashbuckling gentle men, whose business instincts led them far afield when Spain was in her » glory, have supplied Coli} Sam Robertson of Brownsville, Texas, | with a romantic background for an ambitious adventure. ocean driveway along the low lying islands off the coast of Texas. These strips of land stretch for hundreds of miles up the-coast from Browns- ville and lie within sight of shore. Drive On Island Beaches The proposed ocean driveway will be the longest in tke world, and when it is completed, autoists may drive from Brownsville. to Corpus Christi, Texas, over the island beaches. Pirates of the Spanish main have cast their glamor over this stretch of sand. More than 400 years ago, - tradition says, a fleet of galleons, laden with the pirated treasures of the Montezumas, set sail from the New World for old Spain. ‘Scene Of Buried Treasure A tropical disturbance cast the fabled armada about, drove it out of its course for days, and finally wrecked the fleet on the Texas coast, a five days march north of the Rio Grande. More than 300 survivors are said to have escaped by making their way overland to the Panuco river, now the shipping outlet for the Mexican oil fields near Tampico. This treasure is supposed to have been buried somewhere along the course over which the pleasure caravans of modern America soon are’ to travel. Occasionally coins have been picked un in one of the sandy hills near the shore, and much sporadic searching has been ” Colonel. Robertson is building an aimed to have stumbled t_of one of the Unable to finance salvaging 0} tions, Muely made an attempt, it id, te id some record of av been sunk at the spot where he founds the flotsam, | but ‘overed nothing authentic to connect his find w the fabled treasure fleet. Within a stone’s throw of the pro- posed ive, the wreckage the suy treasul still } according to tradition, but the waves that have avoided countless other attempts of 15th and 16th century pirates to transfer the wealth of the New World to a crumbling Spain. Chicago’s Society Women in Business » Oct, 30,—A)—When thi former Gladys Wallis | announced her return to the stage in a theater leased for her by her husband, Samuel Insull, the utilities mag: nate, she attracted attention to thi extensive pilgrimage of Chicago's wealthy or socially prominent wo- men who are turning avocations to profi f Mrs, John Alden Carpenter, wife of the manufacturer who turned his talent tc composing, has struck out ~ for herself as an interior decorator. Mrs. Swift's Antique Shop Mrs, William Swift, whose father is Mark Morton, salt and sugar magnate, and whose husband is a member of the family of packers, owns with her sister Virginia an antique shop. Another unmarried sister, Jane Morton, sells motor cars. While Kellogg Fairbank prac- tices law, his wife Janet writes suc- cessful novels. Philip Brooks Maher designs skyscrapers while his wife, the daughter of A. A. Michaelson, University of ~ Chicago scientist, serves a downtown department store as gift secretary. irs. How- ard Linn, whose husband is presi- dent of the National Aeroplane company, makes interior decorat- ing pay her a bent. Runs Ready Wear Store The wife of Volney Foster, manu- facturer and public oHiby. director, amuses herself profitably with a women’s ready-to-wear shop. Mrs. David Adler, another architect’s wife, has sent her first novel to the publisher. Even Daphne Field Kelly, daugh- ter of Stanley Field has felt the urge and is compiling # cook book containing the recipes made famous for generations in the family of her mother, that of the Baltimore Browns. ’ Huge Business Rests Lightly on Peeress London, Oct, 30—)—Ludy Rhond- da, director of great companies, peer- tive worker numerous so- for cqual franchise and the betterment ‘of women, is one of the calmest and most serene women in all id. Great responsibilities rest ,.80 lightly on her shoulders that her tranquility is seldom ruffled. Society, in the popular use of that term, has no attraction for Ludy Rhondda. She has always been too busy to fritter away “her time, but she is never too busy to:lend a hand in any movement for the betterment of women. Trained by Father 2 >». When Lady Rhondda “was asked hew she came to enter the business world, she replied: “Simply because was my father’s only child. He tained me as if I were his eldest son ag -well the heir to his estates. Since his death I have devoted my- self to his business concerns.” 1 “She has been an advocate of wom- en's suffrage and the opening of all professions to women, from girlhood. Much has been attained and at pres- ent she is concentrating on obtain- ing absolute equal . fran artes T tl SATURDAY! OCTOBER 30, 1926 done. Signs Off Old Armada Several years ago, a man by the| f. f H. Muely of Corpus 3 lock any doors of complete. still barred,” she believe As an opponent of protective legis- lation for women engaged in indus- y, Lrdy Rhondda thinks men and ‘women ,should be equally protected. | Fathers as well as mothers should be {protected as the health of both par- ents has a great effect upof children born to them, she declares, Does Not Fear Parliament Asked if she intends to stand forj Parliament, she replied that she “hoped to get into the House of Lords on my right as 2 peeress.” “But do you not find the politi- cians, particularly reformers, are lost when they get into the House of Lords?” “I believe that women will be to influence progressive legislation even in the House of Lords, and we ure preparing a vigorous agitation to get the Peeresses Bill pasted next} session,” Lady Rhondda. answered. In addition to headitig the Pcer- esses in their battle against ions, Lady Rhondda is ver the movement to get th all English women on practically th same terms that men have it. She is not a political speaker, although she appears occasionally on the plat- form, and is strictly nonpartisan in her political work, BATHS OF OLD CROWN HEADS -OPEN'TO PARIS They’re Anchored Nea r| Chamber of Deputies Dur- ing Summer Months quality (?)—Pari take a notion to bath can splash around in the same bath: patronized by the courtiers of Char- les the Tenth, and later by the or Napoleon HII himself. These baths, known: as. the Deligny,” are towed up thé Seine | spring and anchored in frgnt of the Chamber of Deputies, In winter the are tuken down the rfver and out « Paris, in order to avoig the heavy | stationing tax, Built tn 1801 The Deligny Baths, Turkish in de- sign, were built between 1801 and nd are among the few open air baths that have remained. in. P since the coming of modern plumb | At one t the great fashion both sports, giv The reign of Tenth was ishing time for the Only the aris now of the old 4 on the wi A cntafulque intended, legend says, convey the remains of the first poleon from Havre to Paris, when body was brought home from St. as built at the baths. But! and Napol- had to be brought overland | c. one in in the Deligny | in of the Fi F fF 1 pba N lea peror’s ¢ Jeostume, MOODY CHURCH | 1S BUILT FOR’ COMMON FOLKS Edifice Is One of America’s Truly Distinctive Pieces of . Architecture Chicago, Oct. 30—()—Erected by 4% congregation whose scroll counts not _a single wealthy patron, a mil- ion dollar Romano-Byzantine edifice stands near downtown Chicago as one of America’s truly distinctive pieces of church architecture. It is 1 memorial to the internation- ally known evangelist, D. L. Moody which will celebrate its first anni- versary on November 8, Thrift and Simplicity Colossal yet unpretentious it repre- sents the desire of its congregation and pastor, the Reverend P. W. Phil-} pott, to embody in a building the strong and — kindl: personality of Moody, the simplicity of his life, the economy of his organization and a friendly and wholesome atmosphere in which would live the motto of his church, “Ever Welcome to This Hou: of God are Strangers and the Poor. Six stories high and with exterior and interior of red brick and terra cotta, the Moody Church is semi- circular with a huge half dome cover- ing the church proper. To the right is a two-story office and Sunday School annex Architectural Beauty Arches in brick relief “arranged above and below Jarge windows of the same style are the only exterior or- hamentation, and on the semi-eircular side ten arched doorways lead from a ete plaza to a ‘curved foyer rrounds the wuditorium, To the rear, the church drops away to two _ story height with a row of arched doorways extending the width of the church, above which row of arched windows wh long foyer, Above the curved main-floor foyer is a second foyer surrounding the balcony, and on both foye: doorways lead to a of concentrate upon pastor's plat- form and choir. The choir is banked in a high arch which is flanked by the pipes of the organ. eat lunettes, each fontaining #4 arched window, pierce the side of the massive dome to flood the church with Aayllehts wail. at night main fixtures each seven in diameter and sixteen feet high are used, There are seats for 4,000 in the auditorium. 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