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The growth, prosperity and advance
ment of any community, village or city, de
pends largely upon the enterprise and co
operation of its citizens.
This bank realizes its duty in this re
spect and its resources and experience are
available at all times for the promotion and
welfare of legitimate enterprises. ,
Resourses $400,000.00
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The same old thing. If the ice
man doesn’t get it, the coal man
does.
At that, jazz might be the means
of putting grand opera on a paying
(basis.
An assessment that pleases every
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foody is something else ’again, says
Ray Dyson.
An Arizona man went to the gal
lows laughing, but he didn’t come
back that way.
Seward has one of the best water
systems in the Territory.
| ERNEST TORRENCE FEATURED
IN "THE SIDE SHOW OF LIFE”
One of the many highlights in "The
Side Shows of Life," Herbert Brenon’s
William J. Locke’s gripping story,
“The Mountebank,” at the Liberty
Theatre tonight, is Ernest Torrence’s
superb characterization of the chief
character. The performance he gives
in this picture lives. Only Torrence
could make such a man stand out as
a worthy successor of Bill Jackson—
the role he played in “The Covered
Wagon."
This picture has all the dash and
color of circus life. Brenon has given
the entire production a de luxe mount
ing and that means the last word in
settings, backgrounds and costumes.
Anna Q. Nilsson is featured with
Mr. Torrence. She is the titled Lady
Auriol Dayne with whom the clown
falls hopelessly in love; as usual Miss
Nilsson gives a capital performance.
Neil Hamilton who has the prominent
juvenile role in D. W. Griffith’s Amer
ica heads the supporting cast which
includes among others Louise La
grange, Maurice Cannon and Efifie
Shannon.
“The Sideshow of Life" is more
than a motion picture. It is a slice
of life itself.
PICTURESQUE RICKASHAW
IS NOW UNTAXED IN JAPAN
TOKYO, Jan. 5 (#»)—Efforts to pre
serve the picturesque richshak from
extinction, due to the increased popu
larity of automobiles in Japan, prompt
ed the Tokyo prefectural government
to announce that hereafter rickshaw
men would be exempted from paying
taxes on their conveyances.
There are 7836 rickshaws in Tokyo
Start the New Year Right
SHOEPACS THAT ARE “SDRE-PACS”
The new Goodrich Brown Ribbed Sebek with light tan
leather tops; improved, seamless heel protecting back,
durable brown rubber bottoms, rubber heels and crepe
rubber soles are Shupacs of real comfort. Ideal for hunt
ing or mushing. Light, comfortable, yet serviceable.
Goodrich Sebek 12-inch Tops, at $7.50
Also Mam ‘ Hunting Boots” Cloverdale Eureka Tan
orcas, Chwerleaf Mushing Overs, Ball Band, “Vac” Yu
kons, and Goodrich Black Ribbed Drivers. /
For hard usage we recommend Hi-Press White Ribbed
Shupacs and U. S. Northwest Hecla Shupacs.
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“QUALITY FIRST”
and 3222 in the suburbs. Owners of
these vehicles in the city have been
required to pay a tax of 50 sen for
each rickshaw with an additional tax
of 150 per cent. Those in the su
burbs were taxed 60 sen with a 150
per cent surcharge.
■Slates are no longer used in the
schools, but they come in handy for
elections.
Save the dollars and the dividends
will take care of themselyes.
PILLARS OF FIRE BY NIGHT;
FIGHTERS OF FIRE BY DAY
Unique and Ornamental Water Towers of Coral Gables
to Serve as Guiding Beacons for Florida Airways
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HO ever heard of a water
tower with real claims to
architectural beauty?
Usually one pictures wa
ter towers as gaunt, spin
dle-legged and unlovely affairs of
steel, rising from a smoky maze of
manufacturing plants.
But Coral Gables, the remarkable
new Florida city that has sprung
up within the past three years near
Miami, had one problem that de
manded water towers, and another
that required that their traditional
hideousness be done away with.
Both problems were turned over to
H. George Fink, architect,* and he
solved them in a novel and effec
tive manner. In addition to elimi
nating the homeliness of the usual
water tower, he created two strik
ingly handsome structures that
serve as water towers, observation
towers, and ornaments which have
added tremendously to the charm
of this Old World city of the Amer
ican tropics.
Subterranean Water Supply
The §torage-tank system was tfip
only logical solution of the water
.supply problem. When the city
was being laid out it was found
that less than a score of feet below
the beautiful pine and palm-tree
woodland a stream of clear, pure
water flowed through coral rock
Tests showed that this water could
be reached easily by drive wells
and pumped up to big gravity tanks
from which it could be distributed
by pipe lines to the entire city.
The tank idea was the only fly
in the ointment. Already Coral
Gables had begun to take on a
very unique and distinctive style
of Mediterranean architecture. To
put up spindle-legged, steel water
tanks would have spoiled the whole
effect.
Fink solved the problem by
building the tanks and supports of
steel and then building around and
over them towers of coral rock,
stucco and imported Spanish tiles.
He equipped one of them with a
beautiful glass dome, which, when
illuminated at night, sends up a
broad beam of light into the heav
ens. Both were equipped with ob
servation balconies with ornamen
tal iron railings, and these bal
conies also are lighted at night.
* Even the oldest residents of
Coral Gables, who had become al
most thrill-proof, gasped with won
der when they first saw these tow
ers illuminated. The much talked
of water towers were wonderful to
behold.
Of All 'Round Utility
The general usefulness of these
unique water towers is a striking
feature. Equipped with the very
latest electrical pumping machin
ery and tanks, each capable of stor
ing water to supply a large area of
the city, their first function, of
course, is the supply of water. As
observation towers, where visitors
and residents may look out over
miles of the richest of all the Flori
da country, they are in constant
use. As architectural and orna
mental creations of sheer beauty,
they are also extremely valuable,
particularly in this setting of Span
ish and Italian type homes and
public buildings in a landscape of
graceful palms, Caribbean pines
and all the luxuriant foliage of the
American tropics.
The more elaborate of these
towers, with its illuminated glass
dome, will be used as a landmark,
a guiding beacon for the Florida
airways now being planned. This
tower also has a sun-dial on its
southern wall, overlooking a gar
den that would do credit to some
ancient Moorish city.
As the city grows her problem
of water supply will be solved sim
ply by the erection of additional
towers of types similar to those
shown in the accompanying photo
graphs. They will be so placed as
t» meet the needs of the rapidly
growing community and so de
signed as to harmonize with and
help beautify both the residential
and business districts.