New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1928, Page 10

ANDY TRIES OUT “PLEASURE DEVICES Goes Tor 2 Ride or Two at - - “Savin Rock ° (Contributed) Dear Mary Ann: Received yeur letter asking me to tell more about the excursion to §avin Rock that I went on a ghort fime ago and the different ampse-, ments that run ragged. A couple of lads kids me into going en the “Thunderbolt.” saving that although I've got more nerve than brains | ain’t 3ot enough to rake a ride: They claims Tt's like tke trick” of riding on the rear seat of a Ford, all you gotta do is to hang oe. To prove T got more nerve than brdins I'climbs into a seat of tie “Thunderbolt,” which is a big Teague roller coaster that has one tra¥fic only. and how. It handles you with everything but care, does everything except hesjtate, and travels faster 'than a thirsty comet on its way to get a drink from the Big Dipper. As T me néars the top of the first steep in- | cline T looks over the' side and wishes 1 was somewhere else, hut as the bus wasn't equipped with fire excapes 1 couldn’t get out and walk and ‘so I hangs on. “It won't be leng now." I mutters, through teeth that chattered like a flivvet in reverse; I'm over the top and then goes down like an Eskimo's ther- mometer that's hung on an iceberg. The bus is moving fast enough to catch a fallen arch and in my mid- section they's an empty fecling as shough T ain't had a square meal rince I left the 4th grade. The breath is almost knocked outa me and I'm getting the same kind of a thrill as the guy who.climbed to the 35th. story in an elevator when the ‘bottom dropped out. Another steep hill and then a sharp curve leaves me as bruised and battered s though I'd been thrown out of one of those parties where the guest® arrive in taxis and leave in patrol wagons. My sides is aching and I'll tell the goofy world it ‘wasn't from laughing. - The coaster finally stops and T crawls out, feel- ing like I'm a hospital case and T has,to ask the spectators whether I'm still in New Haben or back in New Britain. I'm leaning weakly against a fence when ‘Noah Count comes aleng. He had walked around the park four times with a sad expres- sion on his map as though he’s lost and can’t ind what he's looking for. 1 could of told him that the hard cider stands went out of business when they moved the three mile limit nearer to the ghore but I figured that it he did find something. not listed on dinner checks I could give him a hand. in case he needed one. Anyways, he brings me over to the ° “shooting galleries.” This himho s a crack shot and can ruin complexion on a mosquito’s <A 2t 30 paces. He snuffs out a I 2ited candlé and wins an alarm ¢’'ack? which ‘he took apart to see of they was any works in it, and on fiding they was tosses it away as he’ didn’t want te take anything home that would awaken him once he got to pleep. 2 .1 tries my luck but don't rave any more than a horse radish has apced. The only way I could snuff out'a candle would be to use a garden hose. After firing a round of ammunition the target is as good 4% new, never beén touched 1 throws down. the rifle in disgudt, picks up a rock. heaves it. and ‘ores a bull's-eye. What I was handed wasn't any prizes and it cost |® two berries to square myself Jith the guy for breaking his 50 cent vase. , Next we goes on the “Virginia Reel.” This was sort of a large washtub or something on a track with ‘seats upholstered where they'll @o the most good and travels 4 zig-2ag course like the' guys that éome out of the back room of a small’ grocery store. It you ain’t dizzy when you've finished a ride it's because you're already that way and ain't acting like you should. After four rides I'm s0 dizzy that when Noah helped me outa the tub I'm stil] under the effects and does a Vir ginia reel of my own down the mid- way. Noah never laughed so much since the day I told him how | took you to a ball game and 1 say# the pitcher got knocked onta the box, vou wanted to know how far he got knocked, and did he hurt. when AN Mules Used to Conquer : Sand in Texas Fiel %1y Angelo, Teuas 13 08 $and in the semi-arid oil fuids of West Texas fs as much i ment te motor \chicles regions enjoying ' The ofl ndust motor transpor roads:are built instead of trucks now the steel casines a équepment from the well sitre, are hitched to a feet sink ankle thetr heavy leads sand trails Hard-surfaced hizhw . ognized as the oniv hope ¢ ernizing transportation buflding takes the horsé and the mul 010 sarvice. 500 more ram relying mo tion. har de alonz fime e MASTODON TUSK KOUND wton, 0. Aug. 15 (I'l') - One of the largest mastodon tusks ever f6und in this_ part of the country wag unearthed near here by work man who were hlagting in 4 gravel i Tha fusk was ahout wight feet long and was 22 inches in etrcum ferenge at fte hase BUS SERVICE EXPANDED New Orleans. La. Aug. 18 (I'P) —Toyriets who w to travel, tn 3nd from New Orleans via bus almost any scction of the country ore naw afforded these 1 through .the recent inauguration of 2 Bus sertice between New Orleans and, Memphix, Tenn. At Memphis the line -connects with trans-conti- nental services. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1028. LS DISAPPEAR | WEEKLY IN PARIS Police-Receive Several Thousand « Reports Every Month Paris. Aug 15 (UP)—"Paris, the Pog of Missing Girls,” might be a suitable fitle for a new hestseller. According to the Pans prefecture of volice. there are more than 100 girls “disappearing” in the French capital | every week. Some are found, some 10 not want to he found. The task of the IFrench police is not an easy one. It has now been | dicided into.two sections. In the | e of abduction or similar crime, | he “judiciary police” is charged | with unraxelling the mystery, If. | on the other hand, the case is ap- | parently one of deliberate evasion, | “disappearances” are in the | minority. Several thousand reports | are recoived every month of missing persons. Some are Iocated in jails and hospitals, some are idengfied in | the chilly cellars of the Istitut | Medico-Legal, as the official morgue is known The remainder -are us. | ually 1o be found victims of white- slavers, enticed either into houses in | the worst quarters of Paris .or al- | *ready on their way to South Amer- ltea and India, the two , countries | which now pay the highest prices for | European womanhood. | ' The French police sav the situa- | tion here is no worse than in other | .countries. They regret, however, that there is no active organization | | the WALSH 15 ALLIED WITH SMITH EAWP | Teapot - Dome Prosecutor Is| Helping Al 3 Albany, N. Y. Aug. 18 W)—'!;he banner of the veteran senatorial investigator, . Tom Walsh of Mon- tama, flown for a time on a' separate standard in last summer's battle for the demacratic presidential | nomination, was hoisted higher than | éver today in the cam of Gov. Smith. Walsh came to town yesterday, to get better acquainted with the man he opposed for a time in the pre- convention struggle and to talk over political situation in general. He had not been in conference ap hour at the executive mansion be- fore he prepared a two fisted at- tack agains republican stand- arq bearer, ossailed one of his for- mer senatori:l collcagues: for bolt- ing his part. and praised Gov Smith as a 1ian who would intro- duce a "humay element” at Wash- ington. Like Gov, #mith, the Montana senator is a Catholic but an ardent dry. In his fight for the nominas tion he had the support of William G. McAdoo, Gov. Smith's famous rival at the -Madison Square Garden convention four years ago, but after his failure in the California primar- 1es he withdrew in favor of the New York governor. In this statement, Walsh said- the €lection of Gov. €mith “would in- _——r—-:W — H. P. Whitney's Victorian and Reigh Count Await Their First Meeting Today. . Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Aug 15 (UP)—H. .P. Whitney’s Victoriap, winner of the Preakness, and Mrs. John D. -Hertz's Reigh Count, win- ner of the Kentucky derby, today awaited their first meeting in the Travers mid-summer derby for three-year-olds. Although five other colts fwere named for the Travers, Victorian and Reigh Count figured to make the race a tw orse event. Betting odds slightly * favored |Reigh Count. The Kentucky derby | winner probably will go to the post an even money choice. Chick Lang | will ride Reigh Count. . . In his last’" workout Wednesday Reigh Count did a mile and a'quar- |ter in 2:10. The same'day Victoriin | won the Champlain handicap, a mile |and a furlong in 1:51. 3 HOOVER HEADING - - WESTWARD AGAIN \Gives Several Iiformal Talks— No Stinday Campaighing Hoover Train En Route to Grand nyon. Ariz., Aug. 18 (®-—Reluct. antly leaving his staté of his adop- { tion, Herbert Hoover today was | troduce into our national- councils | i ‘his birthpl Wes for the supervision of young girls at | 'o1uce ¢ | heading for his birthplace at West railroad stations and in the subways 'such as exists in England and the United States, * | ARTIFICIAL SKULL N Had Been Declared “Dead” Once by Physicians - 4 | Torento. Aug. 15—Norman Doug~‘ las Ellis of Toronto was “killed" by | an electric shock a little over two years ago. Then doctors removed about 60 | square inches of the “bone of -h skull, leaving his brain exposed from | about an inch back of the hairline | in front to about an inch above th hairline ‘at the base of the neck But today he is alive and well | doing a man's work and enjoyins the, best of health | | This apparent double miracle can be explained by two factor 1 First, the conscientious ENis' fellow workmen, who employ- work of | . | distinction with n ‘the senate | be lived up d artificial respiration ‘after a doc- | distinction with me in ‘the senate | t P : the .republican | the contest ahzad will be carried on | 10 resonc tor had pronounced him dead from | electrocution, and who thereby 're- | stored a life that sremed to have already departed. | Sccond. an amazingly skiliful job | by doctors on the staff of the To- ronto Genéral hospital, who found a | way to construcf Almost an entire artificial _skull for him ENis’ * case is one of the mosi astounding in medjeal annals. Tt was on May 21. 1926, that he | was electrocuted. An employe of the | Eugenia Falls Hydro-Electric com- pany® h& was working in a pow e | house beneath an exposed copper | line Parryimg clectricity tq the extont | of 5.000 horsepower, which rupplied | 28 Ontarib towns, He was climbing | a stepladder beside a horizontal row of iron pipes: the ladder slipped | and he stepped up on the pipes to keep’ from falling. This brought his | head in contact with the wire. There was a blinding flash as a | miniature thunder bolt leapeq feet to the ceiling and burned out | a big porcelain insulator there. The | mils in ENlis’ shoes were welded to the iron pipe by the heat, and he was left suspended in mid-air. ,Fel- low emploves got him down and called a doctor. The 25 townss were | pinnged into darkness. The doctor pronounced Ellis dead. | But the power house workmen han been trained to employ resuscita- | Jlion methods, always, after an ac- | cident, no matter how hopeless the ontlook. They did so; and. after 45 tes, Ellis began to breathe and regained conseiousnese, | He wae taken fo a hospital for | ment. « At first it seemed that his troubles were over: then necro- | rotting of tht bone tissue. in . -ogressed er, after 11 were compelled to cut | of his skull, approxi- | inches lone and to save his life 1amste i attendance aid vould never b Skin from his thigh was graft- 1 nter his exposed brain: but there | 125 no hone under at Cot Away Skott 3 Then came the second miracle With a Ellis ol 25 | m stirred si. or n Thi Tinaly Fronthe howey the doctors a awav a pices mately ten six incheg wide Brain that able ta leave his et extreme care was taken mething artificial skull was fitted mnto place monld on nnique of head it wa congtructed hakefite light and trone. Tt il presto’ The new, behind the back of the A few we pital and returned to his ioh power The him Iame he Fliis was himeelf azmn skull retends from hairline in in ineh front tosthe 1a6t the | 1t the electrinity log slis ago he houze 1ghtiy can s wall N as ever i | it other- | it work, and dis- “nergy and stamina the acciden: wig o u to s a he 1s as w Irives hig ear to and from ind mueh had Plays 18 he IS el sknll hetor his artifi ana SSBId g h nearance know that his all the other no on head is he not st like Toronte Dr. R 1, Gabs o the operatin who in Fillis, no reason why live to a ripe old hit 4 sharp blow Gaby it Wil probably Kill him: oth/rwise he can €0 his daily rornds without ever thinking about, his artificial skull of 1y Ellis that there not shonid T he ver on the head Dr <ave, fsomething of the MAN LIVES ON " . | voters | tic | going human element sadly lacking under the regime of Coolidge and Mellon.” 3 “I believe,” "he added. “that a republican struck a responsive chorus when he said he was going to vote for Smith because he want- ed to see a emile in He and the demolratic nominee | in agreement ' on some questions “widely | considered Walsh said, but he thought."it wer vain to' look fo a candidate with convictions representing millions of who likewise have convic- tions and agreeing with them all on {all_questions.” The most that can be hoped for, he believes, is ‘that he shall be with them on fundamentals—that on the whole he shall be*found more satis “factory to thgmr than his pponen After praising the goverpor's gen- the White | | Branch, Iowa, where he will spend |a day ang night amid’ boyhood: scenes before beginning in earnest | the task the rcpublican party hes set for him His dast day 1in Cahfornia ‘gave | him his first real taste of political | campaigning and it appeared not | only that he liked it, but also that he would surprise.even his chosest: friends a§ to his ability as a stump speaker hefore election day; 5 Four Other Speeches Booked 'for only a single that at Los Angeles. tial candidate was called upon on four other occasions 4nd he res | sponded with well chosen phrases which went to make up what some peech, the presiden- i of those accompanying him regard- | {ed as even better efforts than come l'of his prepared talke S His feHow Towdns, now residents of Long Beach, disrcgarded Hoov- jality as “irresistible” and his intel;,| er's expressed 'wishes and called on lectual pro clear, tack agamst the republican presi- dential candidatq and the demo- cratic bolter without mentionjng their names, . Apparentty refirridz to Semator Ow s as “refreshingly former of Okiahoma, Montanan aszerted that “an honored but more or less errat frem the west who ved with has gone ‘oversto Pariy by reason of Gov. Smith's af- tiliation with Tammany— werfully or decidedly aligning ifmself with an orgdnization * that avidly avails Mellon michin-s in Pennsylvania all threc of which made. contribu- tions of moment to the choio: of candidates with whom my friends casts his fortune “If one is to-be judged hy his poli. HOOVer had an’engagsment to meet | “regardic al asscciates, houw publican nominee esc nation?” he asked, 2 st ip the abinet with Fall .and Daugherty without ever, raising his- hand to thwart their villanies while they were being perpetrated or raising his voice in condemnation of them after they were exposed. i “The chocking iniquities of two other official associates, Forbes and Mellon, escaped his notice if they were not shicided by his tolerance. As remarked by a shrewd lady in a letter mafle public by the press, ‘It from his vantage point he didn’t know in a general way whdt was .on, he hasn't had enough 1o be president United States' Walsh was an ‘overnight guest at the executive mansion With h departure, Gov. Smith wiped his en gagement list clear for,the week a far as conferences were concerned* Tonight he will attend a dinner to be given in his honor by the neivs. apermen assigned to cover his campaign AN The goternor prefers nine -holes of golf and a Little fresh air to hy ried week-end trips out of town for a fresh water swim, s0. , weather permitting, he will relax a little on the links. Otherwise, he will “*Just hang around-the house.” shall the e condeni- of the Fashionable Suburh g0, Aug. 15, (R—Dignified 2 north short suburl he number.of million- airts that may live on an acre, has been (nformed by sicentists that the ar wajer the inhabitants found objectionable tastes like fish not because of fish but the: - fish 125t as they do because of the Cater . “Not a in a gallon,” E5DErts who tested samples The o water is fud of 'diatéms, desmids and algas, the experts sid 2nd the suburbanites tilted their JN0Ses cvar 0 slightly Thé des- mids, diatoms and .aigae,’ the ex. verts hurried <o cxplain, _under th. microscope look like prickly goose. herries and sreen’ golf halls, but arn harmiess to humans and food for the fish.* germ: said GANDS ACTIV Greeee, Aug Py Athens Followi candidates for parliament 122in have bLecome active manian nam-d Nicoletco and his cre Kdnapped at Grevena. releasetd but the pri- are demanding a ransom of 200000 drachmae (ahoyt $62,000) his IRV brigands A Ru- for vife allowan =n .of Chanes 1. This recened 500 pounds a year from pin-makers and handed , this eum ove rto his queen for her private purse, name of a k to monarch wifels Walsh directed a bitter at- | *ability | Learns About Diatoms | g the recent release by t './)‘ the | him for a talk, and his fellow Cali- fornfans at Pasadenadid likewse, | To the vast crowd at’ the last named city he expressed’ his dishi at leaving Ualifornia, hut said be | had been called to a‘task in the }wrlm'man‘r~ of which * he lnew | every Califorpian’s heart went out |to him. “The moral and intellec | fornia is sweh,” he a, said, “that if it o by the contenders | upon the highest ‘planc of American | thought ‘apd fecling.” | - Dignified Campaign | Thus the nominee veiced publicly | itself of the aid of the Vare and | WhAt he has said privately Several | ventive times that so fat as he is concerned ,and the big bill machine in Tilinois, | the campaign will be free from per- | sopalitics .and will be conducted [ upon a level in keeping with dig- nity of the office of the president. I+ * Swinging ingo Arizéna early today republican county chairmen at Wil- liams and' fo confer with them at, | Grand Capyon, where his party Swill | £pend the aftrrnoon ond evening | leaving midnight tonight fof Albuquerque, N. M * Thosa accompanying, Hoover will have six hours for an inspection of the great gorge through which the | Cotorado Tiver plunges, but the | nominee’ himselt will remain at the hotel dischssing the political .out- | look in. Arizond, as he has inspected | the CAnyon several times. Since the _administration of this state is democratic, Arizona officials did not join.the candidate to ac- company his across its borders. In New Mexico, Hoover will be joine] ) ator Bronson Cufting and { other republican Idade eral discussion of the political out- look there . . With Williams | Canvon his only tean standard brarer w no public address’ in he has .announced ‘he 2 nome in New o as he goe through t n Monday. ‘He has wed political -talks en the Sabl 2 Grand the republi ana_the stops. False R:art‘ Hints at | Death of Col. Lindbergh | , York, Aug a Year has passed dine | 4 Lindbergh e Col. Charles gainid world-wide by, his flicht to Paris he’con- finues today 19 be possibly the big gest single figure in news, This was (i1dly demonstrated fo n apers throuzhout the country the last days when ‘successive Trumors swept the country that he had been Killed or had met aith rious’ injury. Newspaper office from the Pacific to ‘the Atlantic coast and in Cuba were deluged | 4ith telephone calle from persons mation of the reports. ndbergh; meanwhile, was in anciseo.on bisiness, and yes- terday. when the, rimors tvere at their heizht, he had not even left the groug ¥ Earth Has Lit{le Cause To Fear Meteor Falls : York. Aug. 10 (P—How little there is to worry about from meteors striling the ground ~ when the. carth rasses through the expect- | ©1 shower of them in mid-August | own by the that normaliy abreut cne million nieteors per hour strike the earth's seeking conf New - Harlow | Notes from Lin tiahly dzily _about much largely ‘It has beén re exttmated that the catch of meteorie bodies s fhirty million. Perhaps as thirty tons of matter, iron cauzht by the at mosphere every twenty-four hours.” The fwo commenest motaltie con stituents of meteors are iron and | magnesium. HORSES INRACE | A4 "Its important rs for a gen. | (A—Altholigh | 1stronomical belief | earth’s | NIGHT CLUB FOLKS CALLED TO TESTIFY Patrons Summoned a5 Witoests _in New York ; ¥ New York. Aug. 1§ (P—Wealthy ‘patrong ©f exclusive New York night clubs will be compelled to appear before a federal grand jury and tell what they know about the alleged | sate’ of liquor in 26 indicted resorts. Subpéenas have been served on 125 persons, said to be prominently known on Park avenue and in the { financial district and many more re- | main to be served. i [ Those subpoenaed in this latest move of the prohibition authorities, |to dry up Breadivay were mamed to | federal agents in the recent grapd jury investigation' of night ‘clubs. The grand jury completed the first stage of its investigation by indict- ing managers, owners and employes of 26 night clubs.. including Texas Guman‘and Helen Morgan, promi- nent night club hostesses. The inquiry is to be resumed on Monday' morning. The identity of those subpoenaed is being carefully guarded. every precaution bethg taken against having witnesses fore- warned iy time to dodge the deputy marshals and other process servers ‘The customs service also intro- duced a new wrinkle in prohibition enforcement last night by searching all the men among the 4,000 vVisitors who had-gone -down to the Ile De France to bid goodbye to departing travelers. « Two guads stood at the exit gates to the French line pier-and slapped |¢he pockets of visitors as they left {the <hip just béfore sailing time. So “var as_ known no liquor was found. HYDROPHOBIA SAID TOBE PREVENTABLE Chicago City Health Board Head P s Vs T 18101 Mia s a4 pieveatable | DI Arucid . naegel, Calcago cout- | uss.oner of Meascy, o oan.aracte | Weiden tor the Guogas * Memonia | lpstitute, Lhat hydrophobia discuse 15 | ues where po - Hydropho- dla . cay 1sa p shown 1 evunu- reguiation of the dg ation 15 11gidly, enroreed.” L. ol writes. Since most cases | ihe dusc nimais, Lept - gowg by thes. stiict moasuies to control democrat | Mual statura of the people of Cali. | them are | s ¥ more humane to | » under Supervision than who.cgue’ Lilling. dur- |ing the terror et an ouibreak of [anadness.” Muzzhing dog. the “health direc- tor $5, 13 the smost eitectiye py measure He listed” other avabluble conirol muuns as the mse ot the leash and systematic de. stiuction ot homeless and .wand {ing dogs. : v to treat a deg he continues, vhether the dog s rabud. 5 a_ physician | doctor will el and -dress she | wound properly so that the possi- | bility ot infection inciuding rabies, | Will be lessened. s “Second, the dog should be cap- | tured alive, it possible, and placed | under observaticn. In case the | dog is Lilled, the head should be detached without being mutilated and forwarded to a labovatory where an . examinition for rabies will be made, “Third, if the dog is known to be rabid, the Pasteur anti-rabic treat- mient should bk started at once by the physician. If rabies develops in the dog during the observation period, or it thé diagnostic exam- ination of the head shows the pres- | ence of rabies, the FPasteur treat. ment should be started at once upen learning either .ot these facts, bite intelligent] 5 of ! thought to be “Warst, call The In case rabies cannot be. positively | ruled qut, even be - definitely though it | established, it may | still be a saple to take this pre- caution. The treatment itself is harmiess,” n the last cannot five ‘months of 1927, more deaths from rabies in Chicago: than'occurred in the combined years 1915 to 1926, Lr. Kcgel reports. He says in. | tormation has been reccived that rabies in epidemic form is prev: lent in many other cities and sec- tions throughout the United- States and that full cooperation is essen- | tial if the disease is to" be eradi- | cated were Ex}.edifit; Unearths Jewelry of Old Race Alinncapolis! Aug. 15 (F—Neck {laces and bracelets that hedecked warriors and maidéns of a people Who dived in New Mexico centuries | before the Aztecs swept out of the northwest to rule Mexico have been found in the Mimbres valley of New Mexico by an expedition from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The | Jewelry was mafle of serhl-precious | metais | The party sought traces of the Mimbres race, It Was in charge of Albert E. Jenks, University of Min- nesota anthropologist, and had adquarters at Hurley, N, M. {Germans Arrested for Selling Trade Secrets Ludwigshafen, Germany, Aug. 18 Charged with selling " industrial secrets to the French Dye industry, Fritz Hellmann, . Richard Mueller and Franz Schwarwaeltier. em- ployes of the German dye trust, are under arrest The authorities say the men act- ed as business spies in dye wor'.s | here and at Oppau and possibly tn | the Leuna Works near Halle. Their activities were alleged to have be- lxun' in 1927, -Some of the most important Gorman business secrets were'said 10 have been betrayed by them. 0L bling ar- due to dogs and since ¢ Was. Gilbert learned the whole LESS INMIGRATION - . BUT MORE CITIZENS Restricted Immigration Laws En " conrage Fofeiguers To Be Natur- ‘alized Eearly - Chicago, Aug. 15. (M—A greater desire to Lecome citizens of their adopted ‘country has increased the number of naturalizations, although immigratiori laws have sharply ' re- duced the number of persons com- ing into the United ‘States.” Figures of the Chicago district of the buread of immigration, which comprises ' Illinois, Michi- gan, Wisconsin, Indiana and Iowa. show that ' mofe aliens have been naturalized ‘in’' the past 10 years than in any previous decade. Before immigration laws re- stricted the influx of Europeans, aliens often waited 10 to 15 years to take.out their papers, says Fred J. Schlotfeldt, immigration direc- tor here. Few now wait more than three' vears. Fear of being deported and the |increaseq activities of Americani. zation agencies are reasons for the’ changed practice, Schiotfeldt be- ileves. (GIL ROBINSON OF ' CIRCUS FAME DIES Noied Showman Passes Away at | Age of 84 Years Cincinnati, Aug. 15 (P—Gilbert James Robingon, the = congenial [showman who used to sell fickets, ispense concessions agd superintend {the care of animals for the famous jcircus troupe that bore his family {Hame, is dead at his home here in| !his s4th year, . | “Gil" Robinson left behind him the memories. of one of the most | familiar figures. of the show world |in his day. He had taken to author- |ship after his retirement from the big top some years ago, had writ- |ten one book on the history of the |circus in the United States and had |all but completed another when [death intervened. .The youngest son of John G. Rob- | mnson, who founded the show, was |born in the environment of sawdust | |rings, of swinging acrobats and dar- |ing barcback riders. He was rear- {ed in the same environment. learncq | |the business with John G., finally :mlmqmshod to his sons and remain. jed with it until he was prompted to jretire and settle here. | Like the general handy man that | bag of ‘tricks and he probablly |tormed more functions than | other person in the troupe, | He arranged the lot rentals and | jawarded the concessions in advance, | When the outtit, had reached its des- | tination and, in the midst of the | | curious on-l00kers, the animals un- | der’ his care had been unloaded. Gil | |scanned the sky, sniffed the air-and |took stock of the weather, In fact, |the whole outfit depended on him |entirely for that. If he said, “Up| | with the big top™ the big top went |up. Or, if he had a fear that the | | wind might wreck the great canva; |canopy he advised against raising it and his advice was followed. | DBut once the good-natured .Gil- |bert “was outwitted by the elements |and a storm of sizeable proportions |blew up. The wind tore down the jtent in which the animals were sheltered and the frightened menag- erie, led by an elephant, started from under the fallen canvas to |stampede the circus grounds. Rob- |inson went after the herd. Waving {an umbrella in the face of the ele, phant-that was leading the pack, he brought them to a halt and quieted them. Years after when his advancing age had brought him here to seek a home, he visited a training school {for circus riders in Cincinnati. He noticed that the pupils were saved | from many a fall by a swinging arm or crane with a rope attached, which maneuvered over the horses. | He looked at the contraption in | disgust and remarked: : | My old man made us ride with- out a contrivance of that sort. And he had boards laid all over the ring 50 that he would know it when we | fel. Robinson’s peregrinations took him to every country of the globe. He boasted he had visited - every [town, efty and village claiming a opulation of 500 persons or more, from Portland. Ore. to Portiand, Maine, and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes. He chuckled gleefully every time he related to some new-found friend that his five brothers and sisters and himself were all born in different states be- cause the circus always was on the move. He was born in Virginia, The Robinson family was noted for ifs elopements. John G., the | founder ran away and married. So did John F., brother of Gilbert. and |“Johnny" Robinson, third of the direct line, . Gilbert made 1t unanimous by eloping with Emma Lake, who was a famous equestrienne with the Rob- inson circus. Scientific Touch - Requires Vacuum Chicago. Aug. 18. UP—A hand may feel a table, the wall: it may draw music from the pfano; it may hurt after an encounter with a hot stove, but scientifically it has. not touched them. R Sciemce contends, says Dr. G. L. 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