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A BRITISH WARSHIP. FLIES RED FLAG.
Soviel Navy's Strange Interpretation.
The British battleship Queen Elizabeth boisted the red flag. complete with design of hammer and sickle, the badge of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The ship's band played the "10- ternationale," and all the ship's company was ripe for red re volution.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, DECEMBER 20th, 1930.
INVENTOR OF MINIATURE
GOLF.
RETIRING. AFTER MAKING FORTURE. ·
That, at least, was the belief of certain innocent membris of the crews of the Soviet Binck Sen fret, which recently returned to its bane after a Mediterranean cruise, į
The Soviet flotilla steamed into the historie harbour of Piraeus, where the Queen Elizabeth lay ot
Accidents The Ruslan warship
wil! anchor.
happen and in- the were recognised, and
here's one of them, the original variable discipline of the British mininture golf course that Garnet Navy was employed to deal faith-
Carter fright) started near Chat- fully with the orcasion.
tanonga just to give summer hotel something 10 do--and that Kunsts
to an industry which let booght him a half million dollars, Is one of the The bridge above
"At the moment," writes a Soviet journalist who was masquerading As an able seaman aboard one of the Russian bonds. "every red waller felt the growing power of the Soviets, which had forved the trick hazards on this course and representatives of British Imperia- below is shown me of the gnomes 1am to oint the hated red flag that decorists the holes. and had fereed the band, which is blaze glorißration accustomed in of British rule of the sens, to play
all op The hymn which reuses pred pople to fight capitalism." This hamnat joy over the might of the red ag has been printed in it was the Moscow newspapers, presented to the British Admiralty Jor sideration nad crament. The Admiralty was amused,
WILN
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made miniatur* talpod States. The man who
On these the U. S. | stretched his baby course to 18 golf pay on
a fullnized scale is
Cameres places holes. Almost before he knew it. Department of Garnet Carter, a real estate de an estimated valne at $125,000,000, everybody around the hotel
Chattanooga, Ten-
playing. velogor, uf
just retired "Xclusive of the real estate.
The Fairyland course is about The fame spread and inquiries F2 Unby golf lesere, and he has
f.
of its about the cost of cur times as large as any from the business after having
1 drift in from! rood half million 24,999 brothers and is many times enurse began cleaned up dollars with an invention that he as hard to play. The greens are other elties, Carter was in says was just an aveilent.”
bigger. The hazards more dileult business before he knew it. The other day, after making The nurse is all around mouth.
Swift Profits. made on ground
A friend from Atlana The battleship Queen Eliza, more than $30.00 on his "acei tin boulders
by Civil War battles. beth, like all other British war.dent." he shit the trade mark histori
made his money bark in three Brownies and gnomes and weeks. a manufacturing plant valued at long. $10,000 a number of palents other story-look figures are placed Carter installed
Philadelphin, a
ships, pays the customTy pliments to any foreign warships," said the Admiralty.
1
the
bought
and:
Tom Thumb" that cost him $100. The holes are from 26 to 50 fere for $2,930, instalird il
"Every British warship carries applied for to W. H. Robinson of about the course for ornamental fatlar inst pickle manufac
in its signal locker the Bag of ever other nation, so that it can Chr nalute ordered by Kive the
11 the whip has 21 regulations. land it is prepared to play way and every national anthem.
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it
184-
Jurer, for $200,000 cash,
Ojured in 1928, it has been Fm- proved continually. Today, Car fer estimates its cost at $40,000.
He
ut for his Carter, to #muse gherts at the Lokout Mountain hotel. The first day more money was taken in on the golf course! than in the hotel's exclusive dining room.
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"How did I do it " Carter re- plies. "141 be hooked if I know,
The story behind this exurse is i just stumbled into it and it seeni-
The craze spread to Florida, a ed that the money started puuring the story of the birth of minia in before knew what had hapë ture golf, now playest by millions, miniature course being erected at the Royal Palm hotel, Miami, 11
"They kidnapped me, brought me year and has now gone lato the in- And it just kept comin
How it Begun.
guaranteed. ini "The Navy is not concerned with peened,
An auto getting along?" to Chattanooga in "How are you
and door business," says Carter. "Be- the color or design of any
25,000 of Them Now.
Back in 1928, Carter was prėsi, sann developed that people
putt through hol- asked Godfrey.
bought me out the very next day."fore going Into the deal, however, tanel tag, or with the favourite Carler's Fairyland Golf Course ilent of the Fairyland Inn, a real Florida liked.
and sewer pipes, and
washe asked me if there wasn't some "I'm making over $1.000 a day tarter explains. "The deal
kind of a trick in it. I told him the estate development company situ- law loga tume of any nation We just carry on Lookout Mountain is
around rocks as well as those lin royalties, Carter replied. 2001 chret." which came the ated on Lookout Mountain, entered orginal from regulations
Tennessee,
1 you handled things right
Carter says W. S. Townsend and there must be, but I couldn't find amusement we do not mind. We 25,000 that have, since popped up had under way a boy golf course
some you'd be making 20 times that," his brother, of Rochester, have it. The courses cost $1,000, we sell abiit half financed. a like mushrooms. at least understand discipline.”.
the that
Worrying
wit
this enterprise thing that was more than just a Godfrey observed.
probably made even more money out them for $2,000 and then get * Loid Godfrey," says Carter of miniature golf than one day, he conceived the idea of fad, Carter wired back to his as
be has, around the Corner and laugh about selates
the thousand. in Chattanooga to that I didn't want to be burden Townsend, a big pump manufacut the fool who buys makes his
how easy we made establishing a clock golf course,
and on too much and I had just been turer, bought one course to be in- started building one of the establish a factory at once putting greens around the many in the manufacture of minintalking about consolidating all the stalled in Florida amal then decided $1.900 back in the first two weeks houlders and making hazards and ture goli course,
different plants, since I had been to go into the manufacturing busi-und after that all in gravy." "Since then," says Carter, "I've offered about $1,000,000 worth of: Tunnels." he explains. "Every- body laughed and scoffed at the been in a whirlwind."
stock in such a consolidation."
Godfrey then haked Carter if hel
sell out.
over
2924
Realizing that he had
Inventor Sells Out.
to
Carter
218.
?
Carter was born in 1883 and married in 1995, "I haven't any $100 Royalty in Each,
children," he says, "but I have the He was given the territory cast finest collie dog you ever saw. I'm A few weeks ago, while return wanted ing home from one of the com-djekered and finally offered the of the Rocky Mountains and north crazy about my wife and dog and any's branch factaries in Raches trade mark, manufacturing plant of the Mason-Dixon line to market most everything else. In fact, I at miniature courses, On each one think this is a wonderful world to ter, Carter met Warren T. God-and
shipped, he agreed to pay Carter live in-and who wouldn't if they froy, a bond expert who had been $200,000,
had stumbled on a darn fool plece instrumental in getting the Look- Godfroy then interested Robin- $100 royalty. Ile t Mountaka hotel bonds sou.
My idea was to provide some thing to do for the guests who didn't want to play big golf or dinnce. Seme of my friends jak indly inpired if I was building a playground for elddren,"
Fart Carter kept at it.
applied for patents
"He shipped 1,000 courses this of tuck like I did?"
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