Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1935, Page 25

ROADBEDS BOUGHT BY BONDHOLDERS W., B. & A. Security Owners in Position to Operate Short Line. The Washington terminal and ht station, together with all the other terminals and roadbeds of the ‘Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Flectric Railroad, were purchased by the company’s bondholders when the properties were sold at auction in An- mpoul yn'ndny, according to an ted Press dispatch from that clw ‘The purchases paved the way for continued operation of a portion of | tion. the line running from Annapolis to Baltimore, if approved by the court, but no statements as to intention was forthcoming from the bondholders. Rails Sold for Scrap. In addition to the sales to J. J. Quinn, who bid for the bondholders, the rails and other properties were sold to scrap metal dealers. The Bondholders’ Committee ac- quired ‘he Washington terminal at Twelfth street and New York avenue [with a bid of $250,000, and bought the freight station at Fifteenth and H streets northeast for $50,000 together 'with the roadbed from Baltimore to the District of Columbia line at Seat Pleasant for $10,000. Other real estate bought by the committee included: West Street Station, Annapolis, $16,000; College Avenue Terminal lot, Annapolis, $250; roadbed from Annapolis to Fort George G. Meade, $6,100. The com- | mittee bid $5,000 for the outstanding capital stock of the Terminal Real Estate Co. of Baltimore City and had no competitors. It was the purchase of the old route lof the Short Line from Annapolis to Baltimore by the boadholders which loffered a way for the continued oper- ation of trains between those two points. Buy Route for $1,000. Their committee purchased the Jroute for $1,000, subjecl to $1,990,741 jin 5 per cent mortgage bonds held by he Pidelity and Maryland Trust com- [panies of Baltimore as irustees. The bondholders’ purchases will, if ratified by the court, give them the [Bladen Street Station in Annapolis, the single track right of way from Annapolis to Shipley, and the old ight of way of the Short Line from Shipley to Baltimore, together with 21 cars. The old rignt of way could [be repaired, it was said, by the laying of some new metal and the building of several bridges. Before its consoli- dation with the W, B. & A, the Short Line made its Baltimore ter- ninal at the Camden Street Station. The bondholders also bid in the [Howard and Lombard Street Station, [Baltimore, subject to ground rents ag- gregating $1,578, for $100,000. The Scott Street Substation, Baltimore, nt to the Nathan Block Co., Nor- folk, Va., scrap dealers. EAGUE IS EXPECTED T0 REACH FUND GOAL wo Groups Attain Quota in Montgomery Drive, Which Ends Tuesday. pecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md,, June 15—The anvassers in the annual financial ympaign of the Montgomery County Social Service League, which has been n progress several weeks and which loses with a dinner at the Baptist hurch here Tuggday evening, are re- doubling their efforts in the closing flays. Those in charge express themselves ps confident that when all reports are n it will be shown that the goal of $11,000 has been attained. According to Judge Thomas M. Anderson, chairman of the committee in charge of the drive, both Gaithers- burg and Washington Grove, the first communities to submit complete state- ments, exceeded their quotas, and equally gratifying reports from most of the other localities are looked for ‘Tuesday mnight. TWO DISTRICTS GET VOTING MACHINES Montgomery Commissioners to Provide $10,000 in Annual County Budget. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 15.—The annual budget, soon to be formally adopted by the county commissioners, ‘will, it is stated, contain an appropria- tion of $10,000 for purchase of voting machines for Bethesds and Wheaton districts, as authorized by the last Legislature. Similar appropriations are planned for next year and the year after, which, it is stated, will be sufficient to provide the contemplated number of modern voting contrivances for the two districts. Installation of the ma- chines will, it is stated, prove an economy move in the long run. No “Bawling Out” Commander Tells Maryland Police Wright Holds Classes and . Instructs Officers on Evidence. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, June 15—Maj. H. Wright, superintendent of The major; & prominent member of the Baltimore bar, instructs the State in the gathering of evi- when they appear before a judge. “Remember that you are prosecu- tors, not persecutors,” wmqu{m . “You \ THE . SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 16, 1935—PART ONE. America Luring Tourists Change of Old Order Is Blow to Riviera and Monaco. BY ALBIN E. JOHNSON. Special Dispateh to The Star. ONTE CARLO, Monaco.— America is calling, for the first time in history, to Europe's tourists. By steam. ship ‘loads Frenchmen, Bel- gians, and even Italians, are “seeing America.” Niagara Falls, the Empire State, Radio City, -the Washington Monument, and even Grand Canyon, are entering the French language just as Rue de la Paix, ‘Mont Marte, Champs Elysees aad the Louvre -and Eifel Tower were, & few yesrs ago, the American trade mark of sophistica- Paris, and the Riviera, just ain't what they used to be! The depression has hit the Riviera with a vengeance. Ithu)m.l(mu Carlo even harder. For generations the Casino of the smallest principality in Europe has lured pleasure seekers. The click of the ivories or the whirl of the wheel at the roulette tables had been irresistible. Gambling Crowds Cheap. ¢ ‘Today it is still almost impossible for Riviera addicts to keep away from the gaming tables at Moute, Mentone, Nice, Cannes or across the Italian frontier at San Remo. The still appear, b\lt it's a cheap crowd that responds o the announcement that: 'Admluionl Free.” Even the almost unbelievable fact that the syn- dicate relinquishes, over specified periods each day, the “zero,” the one oumber on which the bank always wins, isn't increasing the Casino's clientele—simply because the people aren’t here any more. From one end of the Cote d’Asur to the other—from Bandol and Mar- seilles to Cap d’Antibes and Mentone —it is the same story. And tourist propaganda doesn't tell it—empty cafes, shuttered hotels, abandoned shops which formerly catered to the foreign tourist trade, and dried up “American bars.” ‘To put it in dollars and cents one need only quote the leading newspaper of Nice, the Eclaireur du Soir, which announces sadly that while foreign tourists spent in France, in 1927, more than 12,000,000,000 ($800,000,000), in 1934 they spent less than 2,000,000,000 ($133,000,000). The largest part of this loss is borne by the French re- sorts of Deauville, Biarritz and the Mediterranean, chiefly those of the latter region. Paris also has taken an awful wallop, especially her hotels and luxury trade. Various factors are responsible for the wholesale desertion of France and her resorts by foreigners, especially Americans. The British started the exodus about two years ago when the pound sterling left the gold standard. With around 70 francs instead of 125 to the pound the remittance men (people who lived off small incomes and pensions) who cluttered the Cote | It _was cheaper to pay income taxes in Eng- | d’Azur, began to clear out. land than to stay on the Riviera with their depreciated exchanges. Besides the French prices were slow in com- ing down and deflation—such as exists —did not really start until the dollar also was depreciated. Today, with the dollar seldom rising above 15, it is literally impossible for the average tourist—and it is the tens of thousands of “average tourists” who spend most money in the long run— to stand the gaff. Hotel prices have tumbled—in the first-class and de luxe establishments. But it is too late. Most have besn forced to close down or curtail their staffs to such an ex- tent that they no longer have the at- traction of the old days. Only one de luxe hotel in Cannes, the Queen Resort of the Riviera, is anywhere near meeting expenses, and that only be- cause it was built in pre-war times and consequently is undercapitalized. Similar in Paris. The situation in Paris resembles that of the resorts. Again, according to the Eclaireur, one de luxe hotel in Paris lost 10,000,000 francs in 1933, while four others lost 8,500,000. What the small shops, where foreigners bought the little luxuries in the line of jewelry, perfumery, lingerie and silk unmentionables, engravings, etc., have lost is incalulable. Their shuttered windows with the telltale signs, “Bail a ceder,” speak eloquently—and trag- ically. Official statistics also offer an ex- planation. In 1928 the revenue from the gaming tables of the French re- sorts (and roulette, the most popular wheel of them all was not permitted to spin except in the principality of Monaco) was 414,440,000 francs, in 1930 it dropped to 338,071,000 francs, by 1932 it had decreased to 161,000,000 francs and last year, despite the intro- duction of roulette, it had dwindled to 155,000,000 francs. In 1927, according to governmental reports, there were recorded 2,500,000 people entering France as “fourists”; in 1934 there were less than 700,000. English and American visitors to Cannes declined by more than 60 per cent. German tourists are non-ex- istent, because of the ban against taking marks out of the Third Reich. The “refugees,” who have taken the places of Americans in Mont Parnasse and Mont Martre and at the “cheap places” on the seashore, are liabilities rather than assets. They add to the already 1,000,000 unemployed. There are those who believe that the tourist trade will come back. But others sorrowfully admit that it will take another generation, or another war, to bring again the “good old days.” In isolated instances hotels and communities have arbitrarily stabilized currencies and fixed prices. Monte Carlo, for example, offers 74 French francs to the pound sterling, regard- less of how low the British money sinks on the international exchange: Beaulieu has gone 6 better, offering 80 francs for sterling. Dollar quota- tions run similarly. ‘The French government also, yleld- ing to political and business pressure, has made a beltud attempt to hold British lords and American million- aires, . for- cxample—have not_opened them for seasons. ‘when they do come south, they pu:. up at hotels, thereby dispensing with and avoiding tired of walting for another war and more American doughboys and folded up & few months ago. And the other American newspaper, the New York Herald of Paris, appears, but retreats ;:unenadly into six pages- on slack s, TWO ADDRESS MEETING ~ GF VIRGINIA MAILMEN Second Quarterly Session Is Held by Southwest Association in State. By the Associated Press. WYTHEVILLE, Va., June 15.—Hal C. Tyler of Radford, and Clemens 1| Divers of Hampton, Va. vice presi- dent of the National Letter: Carriers Association, addressed the second quarterly meeting of the Southwest District Letter Carriers’ Asso- ciation here tonight. ‘The meeting opened with a ban- quet at the George Wythe Hotel and m(ol)wadhrynmlnmulion. K. J. Childress of Roanoke, president of 15 | the District Association, presided. The sidewalk cafes and clubs reveal the difference by day and the deserted es of Oannes and Nice at night are mute evidence of dead cities. ‘The signs on the kiosks where news- papers are sold still carry the adver- tisement of the Chicago Tribune— hangover of the A. E. F,, which grew - *“4 HEARD ABOUT THE remarkable economy of the new Delu before 1 put in my erder” Them aldassare, Yonkers, N. Y. rfnmnnoe of the Dodge is more convinc- getting more =S meilen “regutar driving—you know—in town and out in the country, too.” The Trew Motor Company, 1526 14th St. N.W. Duke & Otey Motor Fred Motor Company, 1365 H 8t. N.E. address of welcome was delivered by Town Manager R. W. Arthur. Forty-seven persons including-wives and guest of members attended. ‘The Roanoke Chamber of Commerce in- vited the association to hold its Sep- tember meeting in Roanoke. The mem- bers discussed a proposed constitution and by laws. ARTISTS' COLONY PLANS AWAIT0.K. $250,000 Sought of Relief Funds for Site in Vir- ginia Near D. C. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., June 15.~Plans for an artists’ colony, to be started as a project for the relief of needy artists, but with provision for expa: sion into a greater center of Ameri. can art, are awaiting Federal action upon a request for a loan of $250,000. Virginia will aid in acquiring a site somewhere nesf Washington. The colony would begin with 100 artists, who would have five acres and s five-room bungalow each, the cost of construction to be repaid over a 30-year period. The National Soceity of American Art, which has indorsed the proposal, would aid by selling annually through chapters in the ‘major cities certain of the paintings of each artist, the proceeds fo'be applied toward retire- ment of the loan. W. G. Conant, & director of the so- ciety, who has worked on the plan [ —— with Wilbur C. Hall, chairman of the Conservation and Develop- ment Commission, with the friendly interest and advice of former Gov. John Garland Pollard, asked that the State donate 500 acres for the start of the project and options on- 2,000 additional acres for expansion. “We want to plan for homesteads for 100 of the most needy and best qualified of our artist members,” Mr. Conant said. “When the men and and PREACHER WILL HANDLE FIVE SNAKES AT SERVICE Virginia Holiness Divine Says He ‘Will Play With Serpents in Kentucky Today. ST. CHARLES, Va,, June i5 (®.— RACING DRIVER KILLED r‘hihdclphh!: Dies After Goes Through Inside Rail. LANGHORNE, Pa., June 15 (#).— Prank Hildebrand, 26-year-old Phila- delphia racing driver, died in a hos- tonight a few hours after his through the inside rail dirt track during a -up for tomorrow’s races. Car Clllrf as Tonolr--—l’olv Vd-- Dodge Sedan (J'loor) now mly “’0‘— To-nll Sedan (Hoor) 2 lllvdut-d now onb ‘7‘0' SHOPS TO BE BUILT' Shenandoah Supervisors Provide $600 for Construction. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW MARKET, Va, June 15.— Workshops for students taking man- ual coursos will be bullt at New Mar- ket, Woodstock and Toms Brooks schools this Summer in time for the opening of the Winter session. At a meeting of the County Board of Super- visors of Shenandoah, $600 was trans- ferred from the county fund to the school fund for that purpose. ‘Two hundred fifty dollars was ap- propriated by the bosrd toward the county health unit. Seventy-five dol- lars was given the New Market Fire Company to assist in modernizing fire apparatus. Fashion Mystery in London. ‘Who placed orders for $100,000 worth of German fashions when a Berlin firm held a style show in a swank Mayfair hotel in London this Spring? This is the question vexing London. There was much patriotic ecriticism when the show was announced, and fashion experts declared the German productions were in no way superior to British and the prices were no less. 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