The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-03
r IMMY BRODERICK'S Uncle Dick
was not only a great inventor,
b but one of the kindest men that

r IMMY BRODERICK'S Uncle Dick
was not only a great inventor,
az but one of the kindest men that
ever lived.
Although he earned his living by in
venting useful things like automatic
plows that would pillow whole field in
the night time while the farmer lay in
bed asleep, and automatic fish poles
that would bait their own hooks and
throw out their own lines and pull in
their own fish and take them off and
bait the hooks over again, still Uncle
Dick was ready at minutes notice to
drop all that sort of thing and invent
something to give boy pleasure. And
you will agree that nephew who has
an uncle like that has a treasure.
Jimmy Broderick knew this and he
took great care of Uncle Dick, carrying
an umbrella for him when it rained and
watching to see that he ate his meals
regularly, for like all great inventors,
Uncle Dick could not take care of him
self very WELL
What would you like for the Fourth
of July, jimmy" asked Uncle Dick
about week before that important
day.
Il would like most of all to have a
great big sky rocket" said Jimmy.
you shall have one" said his uncle,
and Immediately went into his inven-
tory shop, which is the funny name
that he gave to the little room where
he invented things.
The telephone bell rang good deal
that day. On the very next morning a
big truck arrived from the city with
two big casks on it. They were painted
red and marked Danger! Powder!" in
big letters. There were also huge rolls
of thick pasteboard, each sheet big
enough to make the whole side of a
house, and there were so many of
them that the horses could hardly pull
them
Uncle Dick rubbed his hands and
chuckled like anything when he saw
the material.
you shall certainly have a sky
rocket" said he to Jimmy. and the
best of it is that the greater part of
the country for hundreds of miles
around will have one, too"
Jimmy was very curious and still
more puzzled, but he knew that Uncle
Dick did not like to explain his inven-
tons beforehand, so he asked no ques-
| tons, but merely kept his eyes open
and did not go out of sight of the in.
ventory shop all morning.
Before noon a great gang of men ar.
| rived, and under Uncle Dicks orders
| they began to carry all the material to
the pasture, where they deposited il
around a huge old dead pine tree thai
| stood smooth and straight reaching
into the air fully 80 feet without {
branch to break it except on the very
| top, and that was soon gone, too, fol
| Uncle Dick sent men up there an(
| they Topped it off so that then the
tree stood sleek and smooth like &
| mast
Then the sheets of pasteboard were
| laid on the ground and rolled into {
great cylinder 80 feet long and at leas
ten feet in diameter.
AS soon as sheet was rolled into
shape the men tied it tightly will
yards on yards of rope and then an
other sheet was rolled around the frs
and more rope tied around that ant
so on until all the pasteboard had beer
used up, and that was such lot tina
it took the men all day with the hardes
kind of work.
The next day they opened the casks
of powder and began to load it in ant
in, hour after hour. until the last grair