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BARRED FROM OLYMPIC GAMES
Antwerp, May 10.?Wislander, the
all around Swedish athlete who was
second to Thorpe in the 1912'Olympic
games as individual champion has met
with the same fate as Thorpe?disbarment
from competition in the 1920
Olympiad, for his refusal to accept
the prizes won by Thorpe but awarded
to .Wislandel when Thorpe was declared
a professional, according to
Swedish athletes who attended the
Olympic ice event here.
Wislander has steadily decline to
accept the medals and statuettes on
the ground that they were not his,
but Thorpe's by right of victory and
these awards still are in the hands of
the 1912 committee at Stockholm.
For refusing to accept the committee's
rulings, Wislander has been
barred from Olympic competitions.
Antwerp, May 10?Officials in
charge of the Olympic games to be J
held in August, have so far found it
impossible to arrange a straightaway
at the stadium for the 200 meter race
the nearest Olympic equivalent to the
American 220 yard dash.
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The maxium possible length of a
straight track in the stadium is only
slightly abouve a hundred yards and
the 200 meter race probably will be
run with one gradual eiipitical curve
in the courses. ?
Antwerp, May 10.? Athlets who
wish to train for the Olympic Games
at Antwerp would find training in a
low altitude preferable. Antwerp is
only a few feet, perhaps f>, above thej
sea level and the climate generally is
about that of London?some fog and
a bit of murkiness.
As to what effect this climate would
have on athletes trained in a high
altitude, none of the atmospheric experts
in Belgiam ventures a pre,
diction. During August, at which!
time the games are to be held, the!
weather ot Antwerp iH usually warm1
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Antwerp, May 10.?If the American i
authorities consent, the American ]
army rifle and pistol will be used by I
at least one European team the Bell
gians?in the marksmanship events ]
of the Seventh Olympiad, to be held
at Waterfcio, near Brussels, July 2431.
Belgian army experts, after studying
the results of the army shooting
contests held during the pas year in ]
France, have decided that the American
weapons are superior to all others ]
and have requested the American embassy
at Brussels to secure nerniissionl
to use them. <
Much interest is attached to the
marksmanship events or this Olym- <
pir.d because pf the tests they are 1
expected to Rive wartime sharpshooting
experiences. Entires close June J
25 and practically every European
nation, as well as North and South ]
American teams, will be represented.'
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Washington, May 24.- The populat- '
ion rank of the cities will show a i
large number of changes when the
statistics of the 1920 census have been
completed. ' <
Several cities have moved up into'
the 100,000 class in which there were
5C municipalities in 1920. Some of|
! the cities of that class, whose 1920!
populations have been announced,!
have outgrown others in the same i
class while Some having less than 1
100,000 ten years ago have taken rank '
well up among the country's 50 largest
cities. 1
Akron, O., has shown the most c
growth among the larger cities. It ,
has passed eight cities having 100,000
or more in 1910, whose 1920
populations have been announced.
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all have been announced. New York,
Chicago and Philadelphia, first, second
and third cities of the country, will
continue to rank in that order but the
rank of other cities is uncertain.
Prom statistics announced some of
the changes shown in rank are:
Washington, D. C., passed Newark,
N J., Cincinnati and New Orleans.
Newark, N. J., passed Cincinnati.
Toledo, O., passed Ix>uisville and
St. Paul.
Dayton, O., passed Paterson, N. J.
Bridgeport, Conn., passed Paterson,
Nashville and Spokane.
Hartford, Conn., passed Paterson,
Nashville, Albany, N. Y., and Spokane.
Youngstown, O., passed Nashville,
Mbany, and Spokane and a number
:>f cities of 80,000 or more in 1910.
Springfield, Mass., passed Nashville,
Albany and Spokane and a numX'l1
of cities of 90,000 or more in 1910.
Camdeh, N. J., passed Albany and
Spokane.
Nashville, Tenn., and Albany, N. Y.,
passed Spokane, Washington.
Many a wife takes all the joy out
:>f payday when she phones her husband
to stop at the grocery on his
way back from the bank to buy a
pound of sugar.?Detroit Journal.
In France the doctor's claim on the
estate of a decreased patient has precedence
of all otherfc.
NOTICE
City taxes and licenses
are now due and the Citv
rreasurer is prepared and
ready to issue receipts for
same. Pay early and avoi^
the rush.
W. D. ARTHUR,
City Treasurer*
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MILLIONAIRE'S
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Model Town of Biltmore, Erected by
George W. Vanderbilt, Sold and
Thus Vanishes Pictures of
Rural Emprier?Commerce
Replaces Utopia.
The model town of Biltmore, N. C.
built by the late George W. Vanderbilt
in connection with his magnificent
country estate near Asheville, ha?
been sold to the Southern railway
and two individual purchasers. Sc
crumble the dreams of men, says the
Kansas City Star.
How vast a scheme Vanfderbit conceived
estate, no one will ever know
Prom 1892 until his death in 1914 he
made it his life's work to block togethes
120,000 acres of mountain land,
grub out the forests, plant trees, pipe
water, build roads and level off a
mountain peak for his palatial home
Biltmore house. The project cost him
more than $10,000,000.
Two years'after his death his widow
transferred to the government 50,00C
acres of the estate for a nation forest
reserve. Now the model town of
Biltmore of rural empire begins tc
disintegrate. Did Vanderbilt dream ?
fool's paradise on these North Carolina
hills 'He is dead; the dream is
dust and ashes.
On a rainy day 30 years ago, Vanderbilt's
private car was on a sidetrack
at Asheville waiting to take the
young millionare back to New York
After a short stay he had become disgusted
with the wet weather, the sky
line the hotel, with everything. He
was to leave on the morrow. During
the night the skies cleared and the
next morning young Vanderbilt, rising
early, watched a North Carolina
sunrise. *
Standing ort the piazza of the Battery
Park hotf] he looked away to the
north and saw the peak of the Roar
mountain in Tennessee 60 miles away
Southward 'was the grim outline ol
Ceasar's Head, a mountain in south
Carolina BO miles away. To the south'west,
dim in that blue haze which
gives to this mountain range its name
was the Georgia line, 90 miles away.
To the east, standing bare and bleak,
and reflecting the sun's rays from its
snow crowned summit was Mount
Mitchell, the highest peak east of the
Rocky mountains.
Remodeled Mountain.
George Vanderbilt looked again and
watched the sun come up over the
peaks of the Blue Ridge mountains
until it seemed to set the whole dome
of the sky on fire, coloring every
cloud to a bright copper hue and kindling
the heavens writh long shafts of
golden light. His bewildered eyes took
in this brilliant scene, and when he
had had his fill of it, he canceled the
order for his private car and began to
look around for a homesite.
He came first upon the estate of a
wealthy Southerner and offered to buy
it. The Southerner refused all offers.
Then Vanderbilt searched the country
side until he found the site he wanted
and began to negotitate for the
land. Some he got ior $5 an acre;
other tracts cost him much more, for,
when it was learned that a Vanderbilt
was buying prices went sky high.
the center of his holdings was a
high mountain. The peak of this
early pile was not intended to hold
the kind of a building George wanted,
sa he set about correcting the error of
nature. He sliced off the top and
added the earth and rock of the removed
portion to that which was left,
making a broad plateau. On this plateau
he built Biltmore house.
And what a "house" it was! To say
that it cost more than $2,000,000 and
contained 90 rooms gives only a
sketchy outline of it. It was?and is?
the finest cquntry mansion in all
America, a paradise in the mountains,
a "Chateau of the Skylarks." It stands
upon an esplanade 700x300 feet, bound
by retaining walls of solid masonry
and crowned by a coping of finely
dressed stone. The outside walls of
the palace are 375x192 feet. In architecture
it suggests some of the
famous chateaux of the Lorie; yet it
is no slavish copy. It has an individ':y,
a personality all itsNown. It
is considered by many to be the
crowning work of Richard M. Hunt,
one of America's foremost architects.
Under Plate Glass.
Kntering the main floor from the
terrace, the visitor is struck by the
beauty of the winter garden. This is
an octagon space, 24x25 feet, its plate
rlass roof supported by 12 large curved
ribs. To the west is the salon, 40
feet in length. To the north of the
garden and the corridors surrounding
it is the banquet hall; beyond it the
breakfast room, and still further
north, the kitchen wing.
The banquet hall has a celing 75
feet high, and is lighted only from one
end and from the ceiling, the remainder
of the wall space being reseved
for tapestry hangings. It is 72 feet
long and 42 feet wide with one span
and a dome ceiling. Three colossal fire
places are at the western end, and an
organ loft, with a balcony for musicians,
at the eastern end.
Another feature of the main floor
is the living\all 60 feet long and 80
feet wide, running op to the top story,
i Under the main hall is a swimming
pool of exactly the same dimensions.
, North of the living room is the tapestry
gallery 75 feet long, where three
large panels have been built into the
wall to receive rare works of art. To
the south of this is the library, 60 by
40 feet in dinrvension. This is trimmed
in deep red Numidian marble and
' contains bookcases filled with literary
treasures.
Emerging from the library, the visir
tor finds himself on the library ter,
ranee a plaza 35 feet wide which leads
'down to the south terrace, which is
more than 300 feet long and contains
a bowing green. The ports cochere,
, the gun room arid tlie billiard room
, are to the east of the banquet hall.
On the upper floor, reached by the
famous circular staircase, are a he[
wildering succession of sleeping
t rooms, exquisitely appointed. There
are 20 bath rooms so arranged that
( every sleeping room has direct access
to one.
, See Only Extension.
, Of the external apointments. the
most interesting is the 'rampe-douce."
Through this remarkable structure of
masonry runs a stream of limpid water,
that finds its exit through the
mouths of half a dozen gigantic black
( iron terrapins. Spouting thence, it
rushes away in a little stream and
over artificial cascades into an artificial
lake.
On the posts of Biltmore house are
marble figures of mythological creatures,
half women and half lion, that
were imported gy George Vanderbilt
from Rome for the decorative purpose
they serve. To the average visitor
that is. one who has a permit to drive
through the Biltmore estate, the rampe-duce
aifil the lion ladies are the
only objects that piay be closely inspected.
^o stranger is permitted to
, come within 100 yeards of the house
1 itself.
Tennis courts, flowers beds acquatic
i gardens and an outdoor swimming
pool complete and external ensemble.
One would suppose that this earthly
paradise made a playground only for
New York's millionaire "four hundred,"
but strange as it may seem,
Mr. Vanderbilt's guests more often
were literary or artistic folks than
the merely rich. Edith Wharton Ford
was often a visitor. Vandcrbilt himself
was a quiet, introspective
character with a literary turn of
mind.
It was to house-the servants and
overseers of his 120,000 acres estate
that Mr. Vanderbilt originally planned
and built the town of Biltmore. But
it soon outgrew the original idea.
Persons of considerable means seized
the opportunity to rent the "model
cottages which Vanderbilt constructed
Soon the colony grew to a town of
two or three thousand persons. In
many ways it was a remarkable little
i village. Vanderbilt himself was mayor,
common council and law maker.
He laid down two or three cardinal
principles for conduct, as follows:
1.There shall be no dogs nor chickens
in Biltmore.
2. No servant employed within the
town shall sleep therein.
The first law is self explanatory;
the second, Mr." Vanderbilt believed,
would solve the difficulties of the servant
problem by making it difficult for
housewives to bid against each other
for the services of the help. Both rules
worked splendidly and Biltmore never
knew what it was to haVe domestic
strife.
No City Treasury.
They fined a drunken man |6 once
within the confines of Biltmore and
had a hard time disposing of the
money because there was no city
treasurer, Vanderbilt always paid
the bills. The town was quiet and
clean, the soul of order and refine-,
ment.
It is this little town that the Southern
railway and Messrs. Sinclair and
Stephens have purchased from the
Vanderbilt estate. Biltmore house
still remains in the family a tribute
to the lavish genius of one of America's
most picturesque millionaries.
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tenn.
Edwards is too wet to ever get the
i nomination.
Cox, of Ohio, is lined up with the
moneyed interests and has for his
staunch and open supporter the Wall
Street candidate of 1916.
Mr. Bryan cannot accept the nomination
unless the Republicans nominate
an out and out whsikey advocate,
and Mr. Bryan cannot believe
they will make this mistake. /
The nian. is not in sight yet and
when he does come into sight he has a ,
hard job before him.
Mr. Bryan is on th$ resolution committee
of the convention and his idea
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vi tnv pin ?ui in is vo write into it endorsement
of prohibition and enforcement,
immediate ratification of treaty
with reservation as agreed to, immediate
and strenuous drive on profiteering,
prohibiting federal reserve
banks for restricting credits by raising
interest rates, "which is the Wall
Street banking method" and detrimental
to legitimate business and hard
on the consumer. He says this platform
will suit the South and West,
and with a strong man nominated the
Democratic party will stand a fighting
chance. He was not talking for
publication and told me a great many
more things that I will tell you upon
my return.
ff you care to do so you may use
any part of this l^tt^ for publica- '
tion within your discretion as to
what part should be published.
My train is now ready to leave and
I must close.
Regards to all my friends.
Very truly yours,
F.'j. Parham.
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LETTER FROM F. J. PARHAM 1
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Asheville, N. C., May- 28.
Dear Mr. Rice:
I am on my way to Paris, Kentucky
and to the state of Illinois in the in* ?
terest of the hog business, and am
still advertising Union, Vnion county
and Sardis farm.
The second person I met after getting
op the train at Union was Honorable
William Jennings Bryan, on
his way from his Florida home to
Asheville, where he will spend a few
.days, then he goes to the Presbyterian
assembly and on to tho Republican .'
convention to get all the dope that
will help guide the old Democratic
convention in the framing of their
platform.
After talking with Mis Bryan for
nearly an hour, I thought possibly I
had better excuse myself and go to
the smoker. However, I had not been
there long before he came in and invited
me with some, insistence, to take
lunch with him on the din^r, which of
course I did.
He asked about Union arl its people,
and of course I gave him a brilliant
outline of what wo were doing
and he is thoroughly aware *-hat Union
and Union county people are up
and doing and as the .suyir.j goes,
"wnat l am talK;ng about." He
knows that Union county has a national
reputation for producing the
best red hogs in America and that
they afe raised on Sardis Fatm," and
this fall we are going to reach out for
an international reputation by sending
one to South America.,
His views on national politics, as I
gathered them, are brief t these:
Hiram Johnson, Republican, cannot .
be nominated on?account of his socalled
progressive views. He is foo
fast for the party.
Wood cannot be nominated on account
of his being a hardened military
man.
Herbert Hoover cannot be nominated
because the Republican party
will not stand for his ideas.
They must find a compromise dry i
candidate and in Bryan's opinion
Sproul (please correct if I have mispelled
his name) governor of Pennsylvania,
is the nominee as htf fills the
compromise bill.
Democrats-^-Palmer cannot be nominated
on account of his failing to
use the laws he had at his command
and if not adequate, he failed to pass
the buck to congress asking for laws
that would suppress the middle man
and profiteer. ,
McAdoo is in the President's family
' and the people would resent a family
! affair.
Wilson vrill nrvf a air a KJtvl