Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1930, Page 12

A-12 = THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1930., back as a trophy. The old stone road of the Mayas is full of them; also all varieties of the ‘bathrops, which in- cludes the dreaded fer-de-lance reptiles “Game was plentiful, there being deer, wild turkeys, doves and any num- | ber of other edible birds. The Indians |also caught fish in the lakes. The In- | dians brought in a big supply of honey. The bees there have no sting, and their | honey is easy to get. In fact, we ate |everything the Indians did until we found them picking out grubworms and eating them alive. Then we quit. “There are four lakes in the vicinity of Coba. At some remote geological | period they were atolls in the ocean | Their shores still are lined with sharp coral rocks, and we were careful while | in swimming not to cut our feet. v | “It was one morning soon after we Amid the massive ruins of Coba, hub| o, . VG0, 2%, 16T " digcovered Indians /of the religious world of the highly-| were worshiping at this ancient sarine @vilized Mayas 20 centuries ago, still| of the Mayan gods. The Maya worship Tule the ancient gods of the mysterious was, from all accounts, a reverence for Mayan race, and there still the Indian | gods of various sorts, an outgrowth descendants of men of a bygone and and refinement of sun worship. They almost obliterated civilization worship, | were really above the primitive sun make sacrifice and revere the higher | worship stage. things of life with a curious mixture of Tmodern religious ritual and ancient tri- | Finds Burning Candles. bal ceremony. | “On this particular morning I went Just returned from a six weeks' trip| from my hut early. and found before of exploration of ome of the greatest onc of the big monuments of the ruined cities of the Mayas, a city upon which town two burning candles—a curious the eyes of but few white men have | miyture of present-day religious ritual Tested and wherein lie ruins as massive | and ancient tribal rites. I do not s the pyramids of Egypt and as enig-| know whether the Indians of my party matic as the Sphinx, Robert R. Bennett, | put the candles there. a Washington attorney, who financed| " “Later I found the natives, though his own exploration party. has this to| professing various degrees of Chris- say of-his trip: i | tianity, sticking to many of the old “We left Valladolid. a thriving. mod- | relig'ous customs that have come down e .1 towr of Yucatan, at the end of a through the centuries trom the Mayas. narrow-gauge railroad, early in Janu-| They still sacrifice birds and some ani- ary with nine pack mules, CAITYING | mals at the shrines of their gods. Some canned goods and camping outfits, pass- | villages of the Indians have secured ing through the Indian villages of old statues from ancient Maya ruins “Tixualatun, Kanxoc and Chulutan, the and there is a great to-do about them latter being the last sign of human on particul-r days. habitation we encountered on our jour-| " “The 6th of January is a great day ney to Coba, the city of decomposed among the Indians, for a reason they | either will not divuige or do not know. I do know, however, that they greatly revere that date, which is known as the ‘fiesta of the three kings. -~ ATTORNEY TELLS OF MAYAN RUINS Explores Coba, in Area Where Ancient Gods of Empire Still Rule. ? Journey to Ruins. “The ruins of Coba are two days' journey from Chulutan. and the trail j"come” belief—1 did not o into. it Tuns along the side of the old Maya geeply—which is supposed to bring stone road, where there are many ruids| every’ Tndian able to come into Vallas of the Maya civilization of a bygone day, and dotted here and there with stelae, or monuments of that civiliza- tion. ‘The route we took was toward the eastern end of the stone road. the western end of which ends abruptly at the ruins of the ancient Mayan town of Yaxuna, a known but unexplored town, the site of a once large and beautiful center of life, having a beau- $iful stone acropolis and monuments. “The ruins of Coba are colossal. Huge piles of ruined pyramids flank bfllh\ sides of an enormous plaza, about 300 | feet wide, approached by terraces prob-| ably 200 feet wide. with steps and plat- forms so overgrown with huge trees and bush as to necessitate time expo- sures for photographs. Even then the Indians of my party had to clear a space for the camera, while the sun's| rays made white spots over everything. Ruins Between Two Lakes. “The ruins lie between two lakes. A | large ruined temple of stone faces the smaller lake. The top of the ruins looked like a huge' platform about 150 to 200 feet square, -nd had steps, or what might have been a staircase, lead- ing down to the water’s edge, with a dock built of stone. There was a sort | of Venetian effect to this pflrlicular‘ t. ‘w’rhere also is a gigantic amphitheater. ‘Tramping around a swampy edge of the e, we reached a location called| Mackinxoc, where there are nine huge | stelae, dated around the early Christian | era. | possible after a cold starts can—keep warm. symptoms of cold persist. “We were a dirty, thirsty crew when the lakes first came to view. and the| Indians of our party rushed to the| banks of one with buckets for water, | but upon examination the lakes proved to be full of decaying animal matter and not fit for drinking purposes. “I immediately plunged swim, but got out as quick Jakes were infested with alligators, and ig one, edging in toward me, re- ceived an explosive rifie bullet in its| @are head from my companion, Crawford Johnson. “The word Coba means in Maya 'dP-[ composed water,’ and we can vouch for the authenticity of the name the city derived from its lakes. Killed Huge Rattlesnake. “Johnson also killed a ‘crotatus terri- ficus,’ the Central American rattlesnake, #bout 7 feet long. He brought its skin cold, or sore throat. almost instantly. The WHOAREYOU TO SEEK MY two or three tablets of Ba dolid on that date or get some repre-|difficult to imagine how they handled With the Indians happy and friendly, sentative there. The merchants, plant- | the immense blocks of stone that went much can now be found out about their ers and other business men of the|into the building of the religious edmces‘ ancestors. country recognize the date. but cannot | or will not tell why. Jungl: Over Everything. “Coba is vigin soil for the explorer. White men had been there before us, but they had left no trace. The great | growth of the jungle was over every-! thing. The stagnant water of the lakes, without outlet and fed only by, the accumulations of the rainy season, lies there just as it did when the Mayas built their temples about it. The rot-| ting matter of the days gone by gave| the town its name, and the rotting water of today bears ample testimony | as to the appropriateness of. the name. ! “The surface of exploration at Coba | has not been scratched. What those ruins can tell the explorer I cannot at this time say, but that they do have a| tale to tell is evident. “There is no evidence left of the commercial life of Coba. It is not be- lieved to have been a trade center, but rather a meeting place for religious | emissaries from all over the Western There M: For COLIDS We all catch colds and they can make us miserable but yours needn’t last long if you will do this: Take yer Aspirin just as soon as . Stay in the house if you rm. Repeat with another tablet or two of Bayer Aspirin every three or four hours, if those You retire, and keep bowels open. If throat is sore, dissolve three tablets in a quarter-glassful of water and gargle. This soothes inflammation and reduces infection. There is nothing like Bayer Aspirin for a And it relieves aches and genuine tablets, marked Bayer, absolutely harmless to the heart. . BAYER ASPI Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid World of the time of the Maya affiu- ence and civilization, on their way | along the system of stone roads to the | sacred well at Chichen Itza, the heart | of the Mays religion. “Thousands of people must have lived at Coba. I do not care to estimate the number of people who lived in the town in its greatest days. The thatch houses of the Indians of today last but a few vears. and it is easy to presume that| the dwellings of the residents of Coba were eaten up by the voracious jungle in a few years after it was evacuated. Temples Not for People. “The temples and pyramids of Coba were not bullt for human habitation. ‘They were structures put up purely for religious purposes. How they were built no man knows. We can only sur- mise that a tremendo® amount of slave those gigantic buildings, of which only the remains now are to be found. The yas. from what we can learn today, labor went into the construction of | | | iad no knowledge of the use of the wheel, nor did they use domestic ani- mals, and without those two aids it ls‘ ’ Take a good laxative when pains IN of Coba.” Mr. Bennett was accompanied on his trin into the jungle by Mr. Johnson, also a resident of Washington, the son of Charles H. Johnson, 2517 Connecticut avenue; a skilled Indian guide from Valladolid and ‘gt Indian workmen. The explorergll 1s loud in his praise of the work o §f 1 American company seeking chicle wovide America with chewing gum. “They have monev from tk try. Twelve y »ught business and tates into the coun- ago it was as much as a_man’s iif B as worth to go into the Yucatan fungle. Years of oppres- sion had left the Indians hostile and savage. Today the Indians are gentle friends, It has been the knowledge of the value of money and which of the white man's goods could be of use to {him in his native country that has brought_about this change in the In- dians. They have worked, sapping the zapote trees of Yucatan for chicle, and have earned money with which to get trinkets and necessities. They have realized that with money they can buy things to make life easier and happier. Then, too, the present-day white man is treating the Indian better. A “There is a great field for exploration in Yucatan, a field that is almost virgin | to the explorer for this very reason. Sunday Excursions $3.50 Philadelphia $3.25 Chester $3.00 Wiimington AND RETURN SUNDAYS _ March 9, 23, April 6, 20 SPES TRAIN Leaves Washinston. . ..7:30 AM. See Flyers or Consult Axents ALL STEEL EQUIPMENT Pennsylvania Railroad American & Foreign Power Company Inc. Gold Debentures, 59, Series due 2030 Mr. Bennett explained that according to existing records Coba thrived as a city until about 1613, when the Spanish conquistadores broke down the rem- nants of the Mayan empire and scat- tered the Mayas to the jungles to re- turn to savage life. Al B. Griffith, vaudeville entertainer, will be the principal feature at the meeting tomorrow night at the Associa- tion of Oldest Inhabitants at the Old Engine House. Known on the stage as “Griffo, the man of many noises,” Griffith has a large circle of acquaintances smorg the older citizens of Washingon. Mexican Envoy to Italy Resigns. MEXICO CITY, March 4 (#).—The resignation of Bernardo Gastelum, Mexican Minister to Italy, was an- nounced here yesterday. The name of his successor has not. been made pubiic. | 17, of the Mattapan st | Augustine Abren was TWO GIRLS ARE SLAIN BY REJECTED SUITOR Wedding Ends With a Third Wounded—Accused Man Is Given Beating. By the Ascoclated Press. LOWELL, Mass., March 4—Two girls were shot to death and a man wounded in the leg here Sunday, allegedly by a rejected sutor of one of the girls, whs Saturday was a bridesmaid at a wedding here. The suitor himself late~ was beaten over the head and taken unconscious to a local hospital The girls were Angelinn Roderiguez tion of Boston . of Lowell, sister John Pita as_accused , suffered a the skull, and shot in the leg. As police reconstructed the affray, | Miss Roderiguez was stand ng on the | of the bride of of New York Ci by police of the possible fracture of 74 get rid of it by rubbing on plenty | “have of those linger Yyou one | of BaumeBengueé. Then cover with wool or flannel cloth—~and your ‘ cold won’t linger much longer! ‘ At your druggist's or send 10c. to Baume Bengue 101 ask for 'Ben.GaY | ENCU wheRen snoover 4 W. 31st St., N. for sample To be dated March 1, 1930 The following informalion has been summarized from the leller dated March 3, 1930, from Mr. Floyd B. Odlum, Vice-Chairman of Am.ricin & Foreign Power Company Inc., copies of which may be oblained upen request, and is subject to the more complele informalion conlained therein: American & Foreign Power Company Inc., incorporated in Maine in 1923, controls difectly or indirectly a diversified group of companies supplying electric power and light and other public utility services in Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Costa Rica and in the International Settlement of Shanghai, China. The company also has a one-half interest in the Tata Hydro- Electric Agencies Limited of Bombay, India (which company manages certain hydro-electric companies in the Bombay district) and owns min- ority interests in companies in five other countries. Operating subsidiaries served as at September 30, 1929 a total of 724 communities, including 699 supplied with electric power and light service, 8 with manufactured gas, 11 with water, 41 with transportation service, 49 with telephone service and 39 with ice. Total population of the terri- for colds ‘aches & pains $50,000,000 BUSINESS tories served by such subsidiaries is estimated in excess of 11,000,000. Consolidated earnings of the company and its subsidiaries for the EARNINGS | runi board of a park:d auiomobiie outside an apartment house ncre last night. In the automobile were the Silva girl and Abreu. While they were talk- ing Pita rushed from the house wth an automatic and shot fi'st Miss Roder- iguez, then the girl and finally Abreu Then he ran back into the house again. Angelina was killed and Matilda dled in the house a few minutes after she had been carried in. 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The above statement, which includes earnings applicable to American & Foreign Power Company Inc., shows consolidated net earnings of the company and subsidiaries, for the twelve months ended December 31, 1929, of $26,101,921 which, after deducting annual interest charges of the sub- sidiary company obligations about to be sold as referred to below, is equal tomore than 10 times the annual interest requirement on these debentures. Actual net earnings, before deducting interest, of American & Foreign Power Company Inc. (not including undistributed earnings of subsidiaries applicable to it) for the twelve months ended December 31, 1929, were $19,177,829 which, after a corresponding deduction for interest on such subsidiary company obligations, is equal to more than 7 times such interest requirement. Proceeds from the sale of this issue of $50,000,000 Gold Debentures, 5% Series due 2030, together with funds presently to be received from Electric Bond and Share Company of approximately $37,000,000 in payment in full of its subscription to Second Preferred Stock, Series A ($7) of the com- pany and in addition of $16,000,000 (plus accrued interest) in payment for the purchase from the company of a like principal amount of subsidiary company obligations, will be used to retire all existing interest-bearing indebtedness of the company (which does not include substantial contract obligations not now due incurred in connection with the acquisition of certain properties, the earnings of which have been included in the above statement of earnings). Of the total gross earnings of subsidiaries for the twelve months ended Decgmber 31, 1929, approximately 75% was derived from electric power and light service, 18% from transportation service, 4% from manufactured gas servjce and 3% from other sources. EQUITY SUPERVISION $13,533,283 $26,275,566 92,811 1,558,834 $13,926,094 $27,834,400 288 1732479 $13,223,206 $26,101,921 $2,500,000 Based on current quotations on the New York Stock Exchange and the New York Curb Exchange, the indicated market value of the company’s outstanding preferred and common stocks and option warrants (the quotation for the common stock being approximately $93 and for the option warrants being approximately $69) is more than $650,000,000, without including any value for 3,667,376 option warrants issuable upon full payment of subscriptions for preferred stocks. 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