Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1926, Page 10

10 OLD GITY OF YORK PRESERVES PAST City, Proud of History, Has Ancient Wall and Famous Medieval Church. ations at York, ancient Roman devices for apulting huge stones, call atten tion to a city which preserves many =ouvenirs of medieval times, as well as the early period of Roman occu pation, says a bulletin from the head- quarters here of the National Geo- graphic Society “One duty of the policemen of York: today is to clear the anclent walls of pedestrians at nightfall and lock up the gates. On these walls one may stroll around the older ci which today is but the core of Yor walk of nearly three miles. In doing so the visitor passes the “hars,’ or gates, such as Micklegate Bar, which still disclo arms of England, France and : Once this gate seldom was Wwith- out a gruesome decoration of heads of ‘traftors; here hung the head of the elder Duke of York, consigned garet to dle. with the com England, re- vealing “Off_with his head and set it on York gates; So York may overlook the Town of York. of the ancient of mnarrow, tor- *“*Another evidence efty is the network tuous streets. some too narrow for an amomobile to enter. and some with upper stories projecting so far over the pas that only in midday does a ¢ shaft of sun- Nght 1 the paving » Wear Lights. “At night the lighting also is dim, and this fact accounts for an un- nsual piece of equipment which the policemen wear. A belt supports a contraption which puzzles visitors until they learn it is a fashlight which the policeman turns on in pa- troling the darker bywavs, and it s« worn Instead of carried, so he =tfll may have both hands free to deal with offenders. 11 the world knows about York- minster, largest medieval church west of the Alps. famed for the mar- velous color of its stained glass win- dows; for its choir and nave, where, pertectly exemplifying the Gothic suflding, the whole welght of the ~ault rests on a few plers, leaving all wall space free for windows: and for other windows where monkey musiclans are portrayed, and. more curfous still, a monkey funeral is deplcted. “One may climb to the tower of York-minster, 180 feet above the street, and survey the reason why York was located on its present site by the Romans. Tt is at the head of tidewater of the Ou ssuring fresh water, and also permitting ships to ply there from the sea. Not ships of the present-day British navy, of course. but the light vessels of the Roman invaders, so small that | they were drawn up on the beach by night “Tt was less t the birth of Ch probably first came stantine the Great was proclaimed there, and the Roman town became one of the four Britaln camps hold- | ing the rank of Colonia. For en tirely different reasons this suprem acy was attained again in medieval England. By the roads of that time, a8 by rail today, York is about half- way between London and Edinburgh, Jience in the constant fighting be. tween England and Scotland the city was of high importance. Now. there are more than 50 cities jn England larger than York: once it was the second city of Britain. King Resented Indifference. es York was the nd. except Lon lord mayor. It its privilege of - unfo itself and elects Kings found it politic akespeare’s King Henry the ©' tells how Edward the Fourth was proclaimed there; John, on the other hand, fined the vitizens heavily for not giving him the reception he believed his due. “Besides its beautiful church, York s for a pudding, for a relish, ilroad station, and its most famous ‘citizen,” perhap is a myth- jcal character. For it was in York, Tefoe records, that Robinson Crusoe was_born. “The rallroad station is unusual for s siz nd also bec it ix built on a curve. York ens hold that they have access to more places with out change of trains, from this sta- tion, than from any other place in he kingdom, not even excepting Lon- don. n a century after that the Romans to York. Con- being its own sheriff, to visit there. In rden Country “The assoclation of food with York 18 not surprising, for the outlying country resembles one huge vegetabio farm ry fractional acre of the rich, fertile soil is used; some tenants have even rented patches along the yaflroad rights-of-way. so that the pas- senger approaches York seemingly hrough gardens of cabbage and beans nd grain. “The strawherries of Ingland are famous: those of York are of excep- tional size and flavor. And to pour over them there come, fresh from numerous dairy farms, milk and ream, borne to one’s door in a large can set into a two-wheel cart with a 1iny platform behind, on which the driver, usually nds as she drives from ho “Through the speed automobiles, when they hocked by the huge carts bearin: ogs of beer to the scores of | he ‘pubs’ of York do duty fountains. Women : visit them, and the probrium about a voung gallant ha and his lady fair have been to a motlon picture show, ng her one of these ‘pubs’ for a glass or stout and listening to the excel. | lent musical program which many of them put on to attract late evening trade. York's conservatism stops | short, however, of permitting dancing in its ‘pubs.’ 18 HELD AT MIAMI, FLA., IN DOPE-SELLING PROBE 50 Expected to Be Taken in War on Peddlers and Addicts—Two Prisoners Women. g to house. ancient 1 Press. Fla., September 11.—With 2 of them women, in cus-| ing narcotic By the Asso MIAMI 38 persons tody on charges of viola . and $5.000 in otics confls- | cated, Federal narcotic agents here «aid last night they would have 50 pe cons under arrest before the drive, | which started Thursday, ends. | The wholesale round-up of alleged peddlers and addicts resulted from four months of investigation, the| agents sald. The arrests were said | 1o be directly connected with evidence | UNCOV d at T: pa last month. Three of the men under arrest are | being held on Sta rges, the others «n Federal cou liminary hear- | ings for those held on Federal charges will be held before United States Com- misstoner John R. Spitler here today o . i TAke most other teachers, experiance s« apt to be unpopular duting school THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SEPTEMBER 12 U. S. CHEMISTS DOUBT BREAD HAS HIGH | ALCOHOLIC CONTENT| Report That Dry Leaclers. Church People and Other Law-Abiders Consume Over One-Half Per Cent The story that a certain very prom’ nent Washington dry worker sumes every evening stuff with an al- coholie content far over the limits v the Vol stead law probabl a fabrication, pur«- and qinu\le it lent aurhority. is the wicked allega- tlon that on the| White House din ner table is served a homemade prod- uct of much tency to innocent ard distinguished | guests. It is also un- likely, the best au- thorities in the field maintain, that the bakers and housewives of Washington are no bet- ter than home brewer: These nasty rumors s report read before the Ameri Chemical Society meeting at Philadel- Dhin the past week. Prof. Nicholas Knight and Violet Simpson of Cornell College, Mount Vernon, lowa, reported on an analysis of 12 samples of ordi- nary bread, both bakers’ and home- made. They found. it was reported, that the aleoholic content varied from 6.4 to 1.9 per cent. The larger quan- tity was present in homemade bread, the researchers found. Now bread with 1.9 per cent alcohol in its composition would be just 1.4 per cent above the limit set by I and dangerously near the 2. manded by the most moderate wet The very lowest alcoholic content re- ported by the investigators, 0.4 per cent, would Just barely get under the wire, 1% iooked like scandalous golngs-on— W. C. T. U. leaders and church people actually engaged in making the vile, soul-destroying stuff in their own kitchens! Figures Believed Stretched. But the Bureau of Chemistry of | the Department of Agriculture is doubtful of the figures and believes that only under extreme circum- stances, indeed, will innocently man- ufactured bread ¢ its makers liable to condemnation by the most ardent dry The chemists are not prepared to urge upon Congress a rigid prohi- bition law for the products of the baker. 2 Bread undoubtedly contains alco- hol, it was admitted at the food products division of the bureau. Al- cohol, carbon dloxide and glycerol are certainly produced by the fer- mentation of yeast and sugar, a necessary process in bread making But the authorities on the chemi try of bread making always have put the probable amount of alcohol in the completed product so low that it never has been considered worth while to make a test of Washington bread. In fact, the alcohol in ordi- nary bread is so slight it is difficult to detect except by a long process. The latest tests In France reported by Willlam Jago, English chemist and the foremost authority on the chemistry of breadmaking, place the content at 0.0753 grams of alcohol to 100 grams of bread, or less than a tenth of 1 per cent. In country dis- tricts, where potato yeast is used, a IF IT'S CHEAP ELSEWHERE—IT’S CHEAPER HERE. WE COMBINE QUALITY AND PRICE Responsible people anywhere in Washington, Maryland or Virginia can buy on weekly or monthly payments. Make the first payment to suit your convenience—take 18 months to pay the balance. con- | po- | Stuff Daily Decried. practice almost discontinued in United States but still in vogue in continental Europe, the content might run considerably higher. Most of. the alcohol disappears in the baking. Only that is retained in the finished product which remains | imprisoned ‘in’ the dough after the hard crust is formed. This might ary with the speed of the baking and the intensity of the heat used, although both these factors are prac- | tically constant for bread making, it | was said. The amount of sugar and ! veast used also would have some ef- { fect, it was stated. This Method Expensive. | Of course if anybody deliberately Iset out to make bread with a large 1lcoholic content it might be possible to do so, it was admitted, but th2 proc- jess would be more troublesome and expensive than compounding real whisky. The Bureau of Home Economics of the Department of Agriculture was likewise unconcerned over the report. It advises housewives on bread mak- ing. but leaves most of the chemical work to the Bureau of Chemistry. But until the figures reported to the | chemists in Philadelphia are confirmed or proven false the finger of suspicion will not stop pointing at many | estimable persons. The Bureau of Chemistry pointed out, however, that the same suspicion might attach to those who eat. over- ripe fruit where there has been some opportunity of fermentation where the alcoholic content probably would be higher than in bread. The bureau does make many tests for alcoholic content. under provisions of the Pure Food and Drugs act, and sometimes finds an illegal amount in varlous confections. But it is in- clined to let the Nation's bread alone, confining its activities in that respect to the properties of various flours, veasts and other substances which g0 to make up the staff of life. ROAD LOSES $1 ,000,000 TO COMPETING BUSSES Erie Officials Say New Tunnel in New York Will Make Further Cut in Income. he Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 11.—Com- petition by motor busses carrying commuters to and from New Jersey towns to this city causes the Erfe Railroad and its subsidiaries a loss of more than $1,000,000 a year, officials of the road fold the Interstate Commerce Commission today. \ The figures were presented at a meeting of railroad officials and com- missioners to discuss the need of Federal control over motor transpor- tation, Immediate action was urged by the Erle officlals, who declared that with the completion of the New York-New Jersey vehicular tunnel the railroad { would suffer still greater losses. A well.known psychologist has just pronounced that women who resemble their fathers are usually more intel- ligent than women who resemble their mothers. When a girl resembles her mother, he says, she becomes too {effeminate to be Intelligent. the | AMERICA MAY AID OLD POLISH CITY Restoration of Brest-Litovsk, ‘Scene of German-Soviet Pact, May Result. American funds have been offered for the restoration of another war- ravaged European city, Brest-Litovsk, Poland. according to a news report from Warsaw. | Brest-Litovsk. which is famous for the separate treaty which represen- tatives of Soviet Russia and Germany signed there, today consists of a fine railroad station and practically noth- ng more. 50,000 people were laid waste and the large refugee population lives princi- pally in caves and huts. “Before the war Brest-Litovsk was one of Russia’s most important trad- ing centers and fortresses on her eastern borders,” says a_bulletin of the National Geographic Society from its headquarters here. Center of Communications. ‘“‘Compléte _restoration of Brest- Litovsk would mean recreating a city busy with buying, selling, carrying and transferring the products of a large argricultural region. Railways from Odessa, Kiev, Moscow, Warsaw, Vilna and east Prussia Intersect at the lonesome new railroad station. But Brest-Litovsk is more than a rail center. Tt lies upon the inland water- way from the Baltic to the Black Sea. A canal east of the city connects the Mukhovets River and the Pripet River, which are, respectively, tips of waterway arms reaching from the north and south toward each other. Thus the city is served by a well-nigh perfect tem of communi- cation extending in all directions. “Brest-Litovsk lles 100 miles due east of Warsaw. Normally half its population was of Jewish blood, and it long has been a Jewlish stronghold. Tt never developed an industry, but depended instead upon commerce. During the sixteenth century the synagogue of the city was regarded as the first in Europe. “Grains, hides, soap, wheat and timber were the staples of its exten- sive trade. The lumber in which it dealt was floated in great rafts down to Danzig. Flax, some of which went to Ireland and Belgium to make Irigh and Flemish linen, was extensively grown in the country surrounding the town and formed another important article of its trade. Forts Covered Four Miles. “The famillar geographic reason for the existence of a town—namely, two rivers meeting—gives Brest-Litovsk its excuse for being. The navigable Bug_and Mukhovets Rivers join, and at the point of confluence once stood the city fortress. Older fortifications of the city and covered are miles. The defenses were the pride of Russia. “But the World War showed what history had been reporting for years— that Brest-Litovsk was far from in- vulnerable. It was first mentioned in anclent documents on the occasion of its capture by a_Polish monarch in 1020. Next Casmir the Just of Poland bullt_a tight castle. Princes of Gall- cla, Viohynia, Lithuania; grand mas- ters of the Teutonic Knights, Tartar chieftains and kings of Poland held 'and stormed the city in turns and, going out from it, gathered spoil from the countryside. “All of Brest-Litovsk history, how- ever, records no such high moment as 11t experienced in 1917. Things looked black for the allies. Russia, which A ten-piece Dining Room Suite of warranted finish and construction, such as would be sold else- where for $165.00 you =z Junior Lamps advertised higher prices: You buy the Junior Lamp here for. You buy the Bridge Lamp here for RRRRRR RS S $6.50 $4.50 buy here for. .. You have seen these Bridge and at much [ $135.00 A four-piece Bedroom Suite with entire finish and construction fully guaranteed, such as would be sold elsewhere for $175.00, you buy herefor............. 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The vessel spent several days at Montevideo over the Urugua national holiday, and is now Iying in the port of Buenos Alres until its de- parts for Chile in time to be in the port of Valparaiso during the Chilean independence celebration A company of British sailors and marines from the Colombo formed a guard of honor while the commander placed a huge wreath at the foot of the monument to Admiral Brown, Argentina’s naval hero. As a result there is widespread newspaper pub licity on the British interests and | the history of Argentine and Brit- ish relations. It has been two years since a cryiser from the United States visited Argentina. Nothing would bring the United States and the South Ameri- can populaces closer together than visit the South American s on every respective national independence day. Their independence has been inspired by that of the United States whose vernment also has been largely copied by them. 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