New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1927, Page 11

RUNNING HOUSE IS DIFFICULT TASK Harder Than Piloting Boat, Woman Skipper Says New Oorleans, La., Aug. 26 (P— Plloting a household is much more difficult than directing the progress | of & Mississippl river steamer, de- clares Mrs. Blanche Leathers, who has done both successtully. Mrs. Leathers is the only regular- 1y licensed woman captain of a Mis- sissippi river steamboat. “The worst I evey heard on the | river in my years of association | with men was a little clean curs- | ing,” she says. “Women are much | worse than men.” | Capt. Leathers directed the ac- tivities of the steamer Natchez, | fourth of that name. It was a di- rect “descendant” of the Natchez which made the memorable race | up the river With the Robert E. ! Lee. | Jetferson Davis was a passenger on her boat on his last trip to his Mississippi plantation. He gave | her, a bottle of rarc Madelra wine | with the parting injunction the | wine should be opened in honor of | her first child. | River steamboating was in its heyday during the period in which | the Natchez moved ‘maje€tically up and down the stream. Gamblers | made regular trips with the cotton | planters, who were their greatest | prey. Capt. Leathers saw fortunes | won and lost aboard the boat. Plan- | tations were mortgaged, she says, to pay debts to the “gentlemen of the green cloth.” The Natchez also had its bar. | Here Southern gentlemen sipped mint juleps or drank their whiskey | straight. Many dinner parties with dancing to the accompaniment of banjos and guitars took place on| the Natchez. | But there was a serlous side to the life too. Passengers, some- times numbering 500, had to be looked after as well as crew and | boat. Once she brought the Natch- | ez into New Orleans with 5501 bales of cotton aboard. Wrecks | and near wrecks came into her ex- | perfence. With the denfhnd for more spee transportation and the growing popularity of railroads, business slumped and the Natchez finally went under the auctioneer's ham- mer. After the death of her hus- band, son of the captain of the first Natchez, Mrs. Leathers quit the river. She now regards the world quietly from the comfort of | her home. But times are not like they once were on the great, rolling Mississippl, she regrets. \ Russia to Celebrate | Tolstoy Centenary | Moscow, Aug. 26 (P—Russia is making great preparations to cele- brate the approaching hundredth anniversary of Leo Tolstoy's birth. | The Tolstoy Museum in Moscow, which up to now has been loc: in a wooden building, will be tr: ferred to more spacious and hetter | premises by special order of the | Council of People’s Commissari The Council also decided to pur- chase all manuscripts, notes and drawings concerning the famous writer in erder to increase the ex- isting Tolstoy collections. | The house which Tolstoy and hl!‘ | have disappeared family oocupied during their stay in Moscow from 1882 to 1901 will be restored and the furniture of the rooms carefully copied. Tol- stoy’s country house in the Tula province will be repaired and re- stored exactly as it was at his | death. | JAPANESE FACING BUDGET PROBLEMS Worst Economic Conditions in History of Island Empire Tokyo, Aug. 26 (P—The Tanaka government, confronted with the | worst financial and economic con- ditions in the history of Japun, must soon begin the compilation of the Ludget for the next fiscal year. With an unfavorable trade balance last year of more than 229,000,000 yen, and the prospects exceedingly gloomy for the present one, the cabinet must face the almost impos- | sible task of finding money where there is none. | Officials of the ministry | of finance admit there is no prospect for any substantial increase in rev- | enue. Last year there was an in- | crease of 70,000 yen in revenue, but | officlals doubt if any increase at all | can be expected this year. Moreover, no substantial help can he expected from the surplus re- serve. There is a balance of 10,- 000,009 yen in the hands of the treasury but this must be reserved for emergencies. The whole of this surplus, according to the esti- | mates of the treasury officials, will before the end ! of the year. | The surplus expected from 1926 | is estimated at 100,000,000 yen. | Out of this about 90,000,000 yen | will have to be reserved to take care of additional expenditures tor} 1927 and 1928. The third channel through “hlch‘ the Government can hope to find | money for new enterprises is the | flotation of a loan. The govern- | ment has already decided to raiso | approximately 150,000,000 yen mainly for the purpose of making up the loss in revenue due to the transfer of the land taxes from the treasury to the prefectural govern- SR Mt s o neidetalle doubt whether the government could raise any larger amount, in view of the prevailing depressed | financial condition. | In the meantime the are compiling estimate® and some lave decided upon costly ‘new en- terprises, as part of the expansion policies of the Seiyukai govern- ment. | The war office plans a system of anti-aircraft defenses in Tokyo, Osaka, and IKyoto, reconstruction ot army barracks and payment of | increased subsidies to motor car and aviation schools, and to con- cerns bulding automobiles for the | army. | partments Filipino Boy Pleases | Banker With Fiddling Washington, Aug. 26 (P—A Fil- | ipino boy fiddled so well for a bank- | cr that he now has a valued gift. | Erneso Vallejo climbed on a | stool to be in view of the audience | when, at the age of four, hc be- | came the violin prodigy of Manila | music hall. | Mischa Elman, on a concert tour, | “discovered” him and prevailed | upon the government of the Philip- ] Y08 pines to send him to New York to study. That was three years ago when Ernesto was thirteen. The young violinist arrived lni ‘Washington recently with his treas- vre. “This Landolfus,” he explu(ned,l a gift from Mr. Henry Selig- man, the New York banker. He® liked my playing so well he gave | me this. It's sweet. The con- | noisseurs says it's 300 years old.” Chicago’s Chinatown | Moves From Old Home | Chicago, Aug. 26. P—Chicago's chinatown is moving. | For fifteen years, it has been es- tablished along Twenty-second Street near Archer Avenue, but in a few years, the Chinese will be | at home on South Wentworth ave- | nue to Twenty-third street. Widening of Twenty-second street necessitated the move. The On Leon Tong, an associa- | tion of merchants, began the trek | by building & new headquarters | south of Twenty-second street on the west side of Wentworth avenue. The building, a four-story struc- | ture, will cost $500,000, and will | be opened in October with elaborate ceremonies. This is the second move for the Chinese Colony. Vanderbilt Must Delay Cupid Usual 10 Days Parls, Aug. 26 (P — William K. Vanderbilt, jr., of New York was denied an application to dispense with the usual ten days' notice of marriage by the government au- thorities who decided they had no | right to act in the matter. He must, | therefore, publish the usual notices | of marriage in the mayor's office of | the 16th ward. | Mr. Vapderbilt had filed his ap- plication in order to secure secrecy ! for his contemplated marriage to Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton, jr., of Philadelphia. | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | TheArtof Hospitality | HEN Mr. Mercury threat- ens to climb out of the thermometer and stifling heat hangs heavy, then is the time that delicious Iced YUBAN proves itself a boon to the wise hostess. 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