Show 4 2 A m e i ia lefta pip A MA ja J Y S aa R PW W Z N M rz A e rzel 4 VW V W Z W ma 4 ga za f ara e dy by ELMO SCOTT WATSON IA americans if you were velle V asked to make a list of thein willit would you include in it the indian would no head your our list for the red red muns name has bep become ome inseparably connected with that phrase no matter how much the indian andian buremi nt at washington gion may bigue official state statements ments to the I 1 that j alio amerlean american indian findlan Is not only not hot decreasing in numbers b ut Inc increasing th then en you d probably include the lie buffalo the heath lien hen the prairie hen the lie prong horn antelope the elk and the grizzly bear war all of whom are periodically reported as threatened with extinction and ns as periodically y reported as sved until it la is dini cult to know just what their status Is but there Is another group of vanishing americans whose fate seems seeing to be more definitely sealed scaled by the forward march of modern progress than any anny of the above for icing being things they cannot be provided by nature lovers levers with sanctuaries wherein they can propagate their kind belonging us they do to conditions in our national history that are gone forever they are arc from the american scene and while a few specimens may be found in various places you will search in an for them in most localities tiet that were their natural habitat just as in 6 the e case of th the e first list of vanishing americans an indian leads the list in this second list lie ile Is the cigar store indian the sign symbol and guardian aarel of the cigar store it is easy to understand why this la Is so for tobacco originated in america and it was only natural that the aboriginal american the indian should be adopted ns as an appropriate symbol and images of him put in front of places where tobacco was cold bold kut but lie origin of this tribe of indians Is wrapped in almost elmost ns as much obscurity as in the much origin of the american indian himself one theory os as to how he came into being ns as given in an article in the new york times Is as follows the wooden indian was first introduced to hla his lob job as an guardian angel ot of cigar stores by a man named chichester about 1850 the sculptor of these earliest specimens was tom millard in tho the crat days of 0 fhi he tad fad some ot of the more aristocratic chiefs were made of metal cast in 51 iii molds olds this type however was soon abandoned eyen even from thi the first most of ahe figures were ot wood these were all adde by hand generally of white pine and considerable skill was required in their shaping logs were first blo blocked clied out with an ai for th the body niter which the arms were attached and the features marked out with a chisel finer carving tools gave the finishing InI shing touches they were then painted and mounted on wheels for or delivery the original sculptors were carvers of ships figure egure henda headst with the 04 decay of american phlp carvere here finding their occupation slipping away from th them e made the wooden indian more than a part ti time ab nb job they turned to him as their A year or so ago press dispatches carried t alie je following item itjin of news toronto ont there died a few daya dais BRO ago in ste anne de Ben pre quebec at tho the aco ace of eighty six sir bouli jobin th he e originator of tho cigar sto store e indian louis bobins family name does not rest elilu alively on his bizarre production lie he was described d its e the greatest wood carver in the world lie he carved wood for seventy years stirs though of lets late tile bight had failed and he had bad laid away his chisel otilie clrar cigar store indians are becoming becom lne extinct those created liy jobin in his early dayn daya in the industry are in been een demand by collectors one of tile lie masterpieces of st SL nicotine stands today at the front door of a tobacconists shop chop on the hue st jean in quebec city where it was placed fifty years ago aeo the ow owner ner has refused for it jobin watt was a humble artst artist who nver never talked ot of art ari for arts sake cake but did whatever his big hand band fount found to 0 d do 0 what was vas in demand sixty and seventy years ago was for ships canada was a center of tile the wooden shipbuilding so th the young edbin although ne went for nr a brief period to N now ov york found foun dmore more ample bope for his talents at home i forty years are I 1 carved tor for Phil vIt he be maroon 14 jg me then the steamers ste amera caine in and iron had n no 0 use for wood I 1 had long carved indians I 1 also carved the figure of at et notary for or a door in montreal but tor for years I 1 have done mostly angels and apostles and saints bobins art will not altogether die with him lie he leaves behind him a nephew edouard marcotte trained in life hla craft and st anne though 04 the great muster master of wood carving Is no more will not be deprived of sacred iconography but whatever the origin of the cigar store indian the fact remains that lie Is a va vanishing american as proved ly by the fact that examples of tills this form of american art are now classed as antiques anil ques and as such are arc much in demand by collectors three years ago the cleveland plain dealer deafer conducted a wooden indian contest which brought to light a number of these inte interesting r estine relies relics end only recently one of them seneca john alias the tiffin tecumseh Tecum achieved a lasting place in the annals of ame american antiquities when he was sot sold d by albinus EI El ehert a farmer living near new ll legel ohio for to henry ford who has given the redskin a permanent home in hla his museum of american antiques at dearborn alich mr ford had had a I squaw for some time but desiring a mate for lier her lie he instituted a canh for one which resulted in his acquiring seneca john As a matter of fact it would seem that mr air vord ford got a bargain when lie he only tor for iserina seneca john for 11 1 L writing in n the saturday evening post reported finding a much battered wooden indian of the sort without which no cigar store was considered afu a u tilt fait or even de rigueur twenty fire years ago in a junk shop and the dealer asked for it declaring de declaring clarin 9 that the price was waa not out or of the way at all its a male indian squaws squads are cheaper and its n good gond example of early american Amerl cia carving but his statement that squaws squads are cheaper Is I 1 not borne out hv bv the following itam which appeared recently in the paris 1110 mo Aler mercury cury it Is not g generally generally ene rally known but cigar indians indiana formerly the outdoor sign jsn of clear cigar stores have become valuable anti antiques queN and good specimens specimen bring as akl as aa 1500 A firm arm of dealers hits has been with the ithe P paris aels clear cigar company for the very plump and handsome squaw that hits has graced main street paris now for more than forty years but frank jones owner and manager Is a man of sentiment and has it Is said turned down an offer of 1300 for her you see he said paid ashes been here so eo long and never knocked about either the he conver ev tion or the hie weather never so BO much as taken a trip or bir changed chanced the cut of he hei clothes that it would be cruel to cpr uproot ot her and sell her either down the river or up I 1 have haie known her since a small boy and kin am downright attached to her some things than es mean more than money my squaw Is not for sale saje she knows too much about parts past and present tnt to risk out of night leht and I 1 in addition I 1 know of no other man who can boast ut of that rarest of all earthly a p r squaw who cannot talk you have no idea how satisfactory she ebe le la at times J bigi and ns as an indication of how bullish 1 th cigar r store indian market ints become within the last tow few years consider vie ti ie case of Cl chief ilef tile the indian pictured above who stands in front oik aik cigar store in colorado springs colo frank and clinton osborn proprietors of the lie store report that they have received re elred offers ranging from afi y i aft staw ny photograph of cigar store indian courtesy pikes alk ca peak news bureau S asi JT i S f 1 l alta a to lobo 10 ia abr tins COO 00 pound metal matal they obtained netlon safe of r 0 in ed goods I 1 in alint city ciby fifteen years arn ro but they have steadily refused to part with nith him J lust lis da tills symbol of the cagar store is another nn other american so Is s the symbol of another busIn business cs the figure or of a n horse which used to stand in n front of stores where harness was for sale mostly they were life size figures made of ariche or some similar substance and on their sleek dapple gray bodies the harness malcor could display i to best advantage the shining beauty of black leather and brass mountings of his new harness occasionally you would see one of the sort pictured above a stu stuffed fuei horse home although these fire the rarest of nil all this pur por nicular one Is historic it was originally owned by the united states post department for demonstrating the rural free delivery service when a horse and buggy carried carr leil r ural rural mall mail it was exhibited at the lie worlds fair nt at st louis in n 1904 then auctioned off and bought by the washington harness hairn ss merchant who now has it standing before his shop the motor age Is partly responsible 3 for the fias appearance of the harness store hoise just jast as it Is for tie disappearance of mother r part of tho the american scene what hns has become of the iron hitching posts which laspi used to stand along every village and city street nil gone or nt at least going fast fart these iran uprights surmounted liv by the figure fl ure 4 f a hars horses pa lad nd with a ring in his mouth in which you yon alj old dobbins halter rope or hitch rein or it ft might have been the ilie figure of a little colored koy holding a ring in his hafel for that purpose hilt but whichever it was its gone will the inn rows of hitch racks which once lined miln 7 street ns as well fig as the side tsIn Homp bure or surrounded r rounded every church and p V place add too to the list of vanishing americans the old covered bridge of course there still tire are plenty of them left in various parts of the country but how flow much longer will the 75 to 10 year old weather beaten sides of nf these structures resist the ravages of cf time or the demand of motorists for concrete bridges over ovel the streams str eams essentially a new england product the earliest known example was one built over alid C connecticut 0 n neet tent nt at windsor vt in 1700 cot covered pred brodgis were buelt la in greater numbers in 6 that 1 at part of the country than in any other howler Ilo irmer tile lie I 1 new england floods last year took a d heavy to toll it of the structures and many of them thein have diee been 1 replaced with more modern type Is ridges this Is also the case in other ether st states fites so with file steadily decreasing number in use the covered bridge can be listed adiong those americans which are slowly but surely passing a awny ny ali another of 06 vanishing species Is the lie w old grist mill such as the one pictured aboia tins this gnp on made of 17 loge log was erected before the revolution I 1 fkr ard has been owned by one family since that day even without this distinction li would I 1 be noteworthy for it Is twe ine of the few survivors of an early american institution which played an important part in the building bul IdIng of this country so the list of relies relics of another da day could be b continued indefinitely boll tol bridges blacksmith shops ferry boats of the old type one hoss shays livery stables old stone churns brick ovens rail fences 1 almanacs tillage pounds etca etc etc no doubt enough examples of 0 each cacti can still be found to be the exceptions which prove the llie rule but in general gr nural it lsne Is eafe to gaythal gay that only a 1 few more years will see bee RIO most 0 I 1 of aliel hem n disappear utterly for they are vanish ing A americans |