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ter. engineer, soldier. prophet flaHhial Z
re President will he tie military. radiant
IL dress parade uniforms. Members OF
the diplomatic corps OF many nations
will accompany him, these being led by
the French ambassador. NJ. Jus
serand Senator Root Will represent the
legislative branch of the government.
Representatives Of civic organizations
from far and near will attend to do honor
10 this one man who has done more in
laying the foundations for cities as they
should be than any other one man Ameri-
ca has ever known.
The President, the French ambassador
and Senator Root will deliver addresses
In honor OF the architect and engineer
who looked far into the future and laid
out in the wilderness a Washington ade-
uuate to accommodate the nation OF to-
day and of the still greater future For
the first time will the attention of the ma
ton be called 20 the debt TO this man
who toiled unthanked and died IN want
despite his great service. The strongest
sort Of attempt viii be made TO recon-
pense IN belated honors a genius who
served the nation well anu was for a cen
fury forgotten for his pains
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he added that after all maybe the COW
bows wouldn't mishandle him any.
Before we left the boy with the peach
blow pelt Andy and | had to get out
our notebooks and register little bet III
them. III mooch around 10 the terms OF
that bet later on
We went back TO the ranch a few day
later. About a month after our return
the pony telegraph boy from Buena Ven
tura brought dispatch out TO the ranch
1t was from the pinky New York boy.
He announced that he'd hit Buena Ven
tura on Overland No 3 at 10 o'clock on
the day after tomorrow.
Work happened 10 be slack at the ranch.
and so on that night Andy went over
to the clubhouse with money for the
boys and told EN- that those that wanted
TO whlZz around some in Buena Ventura
could hike for town any time they wanted
to- They gave Andy a big yelp in reply
and all hands sloped for Buena Ventura
after breakfast the next morning. OF
tuned UP with the mesquite juice of
Buena Ventura by shutdown that evening.
Andy and ! started FOR Buena Ventura
in the blackboard later on in the day and
got there along toward . o'clock at night
We found all of our boys. and lot from
other outfits. III Shank Taylors Gold
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+ sun bronzed. biz
zard-wrinkled cat
tIeman friend from
the Texas Panhan-
die was not i'm
pressed by the Wild
West Show at Mad
ison Square Gar
den. l had not
supposed that he
would be: but his
slightly sardonic
grin and the slit
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The pinky boy had bet Andy and me s.
each tat when ne visited rs At Oh E.
ranch he wouldn't be messed ur. or made
a monkey Of any whatever, much les
danced, by our cowpunchers and II
had hooked like SUCH soft coin - And
and ma that We'd taken hi nice little
bets like 4 couple al black bears " diNS
for fish meat Fact is, we'd i.t. when
we registered those bet. g. ~ We
weren't doing ourselves justice IL let
ting the boz slough off his cuanse thar
way with him taking the punk cnl
of a trillion to one shot, bur he'd beS@e I
us 10 take the bets. and there WASH
amy ing else for us 10 do.
Andy and | found hin sitting up "a
bed. grinning pretty clipper all over hi'
chart when we entered his room 10
wasn't any more all III than We were.
That was all slammed stuff, for he
hadn't slugged more than on@-e.shth or
the mesquite juice he had pretended 20
gargle with the boys.
"wem?" said he. looking from one to
the other OF US.
Andy and I moseyed over 10 hts bunk.
tossed our checks on the coverlet and
looked sad and sweet There WASH
much of anything for 10 say.
About o'clock the next morning most
of the boys, including lack Padget. were
standing in front OF the Lone Star, wait
ing for the pink kid to come downstairs.
He came down about half past nine-our
blackboard was in 'front.' waiting 10 tahe
him out to the ranch.
The pink kid was attired in natty
blue serge suit, russell shoes and a PLAID
fore-and-aft cap. when he came smiling
down the stairs
I'm not going to try TO describe the OK
pressions on those boys faces when no
strolled out to where they We're standing
In groups and said Good morning 10
them. | couldn't do Ii, any way
Andy and | went up and shook hands
with the pink kid. the boys still staring
dumbly. But they saw how II was.
Zack Padget was the first one TO relieve
the tension. He strolled up to Us tire"
and said he TO Andy and me, grouping
US together by mods:
Boss. | know where j stand. an the
boys all knows where they stand. too.
an we haint a-buttin' in none, now or
hereafter. But in regards [ y'r iTiend'
nodding toward the peachy kid, w lea
we consider a alright ombrey. even II
he did fool US up a hun lot-why, We ns-
ger that it's our buy. an we'd like {
have you-all jine us
We Joined them.
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ton to visit Your ranch. OF course ID
hate to have the cowboys-er-subject me
to any indislities. and all that, but
er-'
We had 10 trail to catch the rest of II,
because he seemed to be mumbling 10
himself Later on. when he was playing
billiards with US in his gymnasium at
the top OF the house-a gym for pinkie-
winkie like that-he said again that he
was gong - visit us 1t tie ranch, and
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tn .
President OF II 2
United States will
head a procession
which will wend its
way TO Arlington,
burial place OF the
nations heroes.
there TO unyeil a
monument erected
in the memory Of
Mai. Pierre Charles
LEnfanf. arChl-
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Take care o that, y'e rins-boned,
white-livered woodchucki' he shouted 70
old man Cannon, the proprietor OF the
Lone Star. who was standing behind the
hotel desk, and he gave tie glazed bag
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ting eyes through which he viewed the
noisy, smoky, blank-car ridge doings in
the arena made me feel bit foolish for
having brought him there at all. said
as much when we pulled UP IN an alcove
n a little nearby cafe after the perform
ancs.
1T serves you right" said I. Stimulating
calIousness. FOR allowing a tenderfoot TO
ride herd on you in this mans town
"Tenderfoot, eh7" he said after pause.
His eyes twinkled and / could see that
he was turning the word over and over
in his mind Don't get frivolous with
that word. son. tenderfoot comes IN
der two brands-one IS. and the other
isn't. Then, again. tenderfoot might
be both. or neither. l remember one IN
particular that
All that had TO do then was 70 lean
back. blow smoke rings ceilinsward and
wait: that is the only system whereby
you can get naturally taciturn man 10
unfold himself And 50 he told me about
The Cowboy for Day.
About twenty years ago, said my cattle
man friend. my pardner and I in the old
Ctrcle-Z outfit chaperoned a trainload OF
steers 10 Chicago. Ny pardner in the
C!rCle-Z IS Lord OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES now,
and sits around III long plush robe with
ermine trimmings and gold chain around
MS neck and votes on budgets and battle
ships and such like He was q young
Scotsman with q sir tackled in front
OF MS name when we had the Circle
together. but he'd forgot all about tina,
foolishness when he hit the beef coun-
try, and lie was plain Andy to his
equals and MIR. MacTayish" 10 the
hands.
andy and l came on here 10 New York
from Chicago. We fiourished around
heap in this town. staying as sober rs
We could. We put UP at the old Hote
Brevoort, and We hadn't been there NOR.
than a couple or days before lot o
.ery kappa and nifty-like society folk:
Jegan To dig Andy up and extend him tn'
rourtes!es OF course | trailed alons
Min Andy lie wouldn't have 1t AM
other way, and l didn't buck much afte
.e'd broke me in and got me sac
wise
II soon became 4 case OF tackhamme
coats and some different wealthy wick
ieup TO eat dinner Al every night. Tha
sir or Andys you see. set them Z
spinning some here, ana he had grip
ful Of letters 20 New York people tina
aed never presented. 50 W had
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forgotten, however when the State. W ar
and Navy building was built close to the
White House, and cutting on the view
from the west. Then the Treasury was
placed on the east shutting out the view
from the Capitol and PENNSYLVANIA ave
nue. The view of the Capitol still remains
unbroken from all directions with the
single exception of that from Pennsyl-
yania avenue from the southeast. Here
the view was deliberately cut by the erec-
ton of Congressional Library directly
across the mouth of the avenue.
But from the Capitol to the Washington
Monument. a distance of mile ana
quarter there is still open space with
which the builders may Yet do as they
choose. Already the foundations are laid
for the Grant monument, which Is 10 be
at the foot of Capitol Hill and the head
of the Mall This monument is being
built in heroic proportions. and is deemed
entirely fit. From this, In accordance with
the l. E.nfant plans and those of the park
commission, is to extend the most mag
nificant avenue in America. In the mid
die is to be a lawn 3Gf feet wide flanked
by narrow roadWays on each SIDE. Beside
these are to he rows of elm trees standing
four abreast. Then on each side OF this
ma gnificent avenue are TO be the govern
ment buildings. standing 500 feet apart
from the opposite sides of the avenue and
with ample parking about them.
While none of this parking has been
actually accomplished. there has been a
general tendency to make all new build
ngs eventually work into the scheme
when the time comes.
The enthusiasm produced b. the com
missions report throughout the country
has shown the interest OF the people II
the capital city and their desire to SEE
it the most beautiful in the world. The
moral effect of this movement has been
reflected in the work executed since the
report was made public. The great ter
!ninal station, the agricultural building
the new National Museum, the office
buildings for the Senate and House OF
Representatives, the new municipal build
ing. the buildings for the Bureau OF the
American Republics and the Daughters
of the American Revolution. as We'll a
the monument to Gen. Grant, have al
been located and designed TO conform
with the new plan for the development o
Washington city.
The ground has been purchased between
, the Avenue and the Mall from l4th Il
18th streets by the government, and tbs
designs for three new buildings author
ized-the Department Of State, the De
partment of Justice and the Department
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Dollar honkatonk. They were dancing a
drummer for a Chicago notion house VINO
hadn't had the sense to stay at his notel
after getting off the west-bound train
that evening Shank was beelng whole
lot about the holes they We're boring IN
his floor with their forty lives. around
the drummer's jerky heels. but the boys
didn't mind ShankS peevishness. Finally
they perched the drummer up on high
shelf in the back room Of the honkatonk
and requested him to remain there tn
duly and formally notified 70 come down,
on pain OF being properly hamstruns
Then they all went Off and played
bank for the rest of the night and forgot
all about the drummer. He Kept his IN
comfortable perch for about four hours,
and then Jumped down, ran like a STAN
neded burro 10 his hotel and locked him
self In his room.
so Andy and I could see that the boys
were going to be in pretty good trim 70
receive the pink boy from New YORK
when he got In.
The next morning the boys had olled
I'D their tonsis and done the pest they
could with breakfast and were standlhs
around the station letting the lhuiai
summer sun tricke over them, When
Overland No. 3 from the east was que.
ANDY and | were standing talking WITH
The train was made up mostly Of Pull
man and tourist sleeDers, but IL was cue
in two In the middle by a day coach
smoker
Ii was out OF this smoker that our pink
boy came We heard him yip-yee-owlns
for "a full minute before he "eacned the
door OF the car. Before he dld appea.
at the car door the conductor stepped
down and said. seriously. 70 Andy ana
me and the station agent.
You want to look out for that De
dinged ombrey OF a cowpuncher tha'
getting off here-that's him a-roarlns ~
there now. He's from some outflt Dach
near Durango, l reckon, and he sure has
been making the war medicine since ne
climbed aboard Shot half the windows
out Of the smoker before he'd been rid-
ing half an hour. Better have the noys
salt him away somewhere to rest up
All the time the conductor was talking
10 us that blood-curdling yelling had beer
going on inside the day smoker, Du'
Andy and l had no idea then who was
making the noise. We expected TO see
some -boned son OF gun from the
BRACES country lurch out OF the car onto
the platform.
for nickels worth of boraX In a busted
bag when the yip-yipper appeared at the
car door and proved to be our towheat
from New York.
y
He had on fringed leather chaps. regu
lation COW country blue flannel shir,
knotted blue polka-dot neckerchief. DIS
Mexican sombrero with a silver ane
leather band around it. cartridge bel
stuffed full and two guns-same make vi
as any of the hands standing around th
platform. -,
His pinky face was bronzed-he'd go
the heavy coat of tan a-purpose. '"
learned later. by sailing boat arounf
SnillLl -.
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Arlington, the nationa, cemetery d
rectly across the Potomac is now the
resting place of all that remains of Len
FAINT Until two years ago his bones lay
forgotten in a country cemetery at Green
Iilll, Prince George county. Md Then Con-
--ress awakening late to the nations debt.
appropriated S1.opo for the removal Of the
body to the national cemetery. AS the
.orteee passed through the streets OF
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the plank sidewalk and right through the
open door of the Lone Star Hotel.
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PRoPosEp MEMORIAL To LINCOLN Tor The
FooT OF The MALL

of Commerce and I.abor-which will con-
form with the park commission plan II
width. location and design The success
of obtaining this orderly and harmonious
grouping of government buildings, II
value amounting to about S25ope,on, viii
enhance the future 81 our Capital CITY
and rebound to the credit Of the nation
The important matter Just now Al
tracing the greatest amount OF ateh-
ton il the Lincoln memor al already al
thorized by Congress and for whica
S2oM.ee has been appropriated. TIC
question is I'm the placing OF tn = mem
rial. The matter rests with a committee ~
Congress. some members of which favor
placing the memorial I'm the Union station
grounds. This idea : heartily opposed iN
the people who claim that amid the too
Ing OF trains and the hustle or hacks
no place for a magnificent memorial OF a
great man.
The park commission ard practically
all the students Of such matters agree ga
a plan They hold that the Lincoln me-
mortal should be at the other end of til
great avenue from that occupied by tbe
Grant monument. This would place Il
at the Potomac water front. at the foot
of the avenue. Half way between IL ami
the Grant monument would stand that
greatest of shafts. the Washington Mon
ument. There would be n vista Unf0lded
from the grave OF l.. f.ufant on the hills
opposite that would De hard To surpass
the world around There Is IN the back OF
the mind of the American people an idea
that they would like to build the most
beautiful of the worlds cities Had they
followed J. Enfant TO the letter they
would have accomplished nothing less
by this time. Having failed to follow
him and having gone far afeld they
have now returned to the same road upon
which they started a hundred and twenty
years ago, and they may Yet accSmplis
the same thing they started cut 10 a
tain. The congressional committee haN
ing the matter in hand is expected TO r.
port its determinations to the next ses
sion and II the otherwise approved pla
is followed work viii go forth, not OF s
on the memorial, but upon the whol-
scheme OF the parkway and the piacin
of federal buildings. The action on this
matter is expected 70 lay down the De-
mite. permanent plan upon which tie
Capital city Of the future viii develop
The friends of the park commission plan
who are the friends OF l. Enfaut VIII
originated Il, are hopeful that nOthin-
will transpire which viii cause the SO
der, patriot. artist, genius and prophe
Of the early DAYS Of the Capital city 4
rest uneasy in his grave across the rive
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TOMORROW, With All
i the Ponp a Great Nation
Can Muster. a Monument
Will Be Unveiled to the
Architect Who Laid Out for
Washington the Model City
Plan Of America. Yet Who
Died in Poverty While a
Growing Nation Refused to
Pay Him for His Labor
Honor and Justice Now Come
After a Lapse Of Century.
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pretty Swirly time of 1t on that trip.
though after a while I got so tired of
the spike tailed walters clothes that l
came near swerying several times, and
Andy had to ride herd on and do
everything but picket me to keep me
from running out on him.
i
one night-it was in the last week Of
our stay IN New York-we took dinner
friend OF Andy's. IN 9TH avenue shack
bigger than the statehouse at Austin
After the dinner. when the woman
folks zephyred elsewhere and the cigars
got TO glowing, Andy and / were asked
a heap Of questions about the cattle
business The son Of the broker host
was particularly inquisitive about the
ranching game. He was ganSllng,
string -beany, slender kid OF about
tW e.nty-two or tWenty-three. with toWy
hair, a peachy skin and little bit OF
a tallowy rat-tailed mustache.
What that peachy boy didn't want TO
know about life in the cattle country
could have been written on the inside
flap Of hoop snakes ear. Andy
asked him, after being prodded lot
BY these questions. il he was thinking
about going into the cattle business.
but he said no. the business interested
him. that was all and as We were tho
first people he'd ever met that were
actually engaged In making and ship
ping beef he just wanted To verify q
few things that he'd heard about the
cattle country.
Then IL was up 10 Andy and me. OF
course, 10 invite him - jog out TO our
ranch and have a look around, and that )
what we did, although the young fellow
was such a juniper-lookng cuss. with his
pink pelt and his towy hair and mild east
ern way. that neither OF Us could JUS
figure out how he'd decorate Il ranch land
scape But as II was plain that he was
trolling for the invite. Andy and ! had
10 pass II along 10 him,
-
Ell understand said the peachy
boy then. that the cowboys are disposed
to-er-sort OF haze man from the east
that happens to visit the cattle country?
Andy and I both wanted 10 grin over
Cat, but We kept our politeness, ! hope
We could just see the hands looking over
and sizing up that pinky boy. and WI
could hear the cracks they'd make wher
he showed up.
"Oh. well" said Andy. the boys don
ever really ranage 4 tenderfoot up much
If they happen 10 be celebrating, why
the worst they do is - toss a little scar
into him Sometimes, maybe they'll
dance tenderfoot some, but that's onl!
exercise. and all tenderfeet know how {
, dance, so that il doesn't bother en- III
boys are all right only sometimes the,
get just a little mite mischievous and rip
roary when they first catch sight Of
tenderfoot-'
Il looked 70 me as If Andy was tryini
to flag that psnky boy from his desire Z
: come ouJ and visit the ranch. But
{ that was Andy's idea. he didn't get ava
} with IL. The brokers' peachy son twid
: died his thumbs for little while, an
( then said ne. some thoughtful:
Wen, I'm song ~ accept YOUR invita-
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The WAsHlNGToN
Or The FUTURE
REWRITING To The
L'ENFANT PLAN

Washington the natives asked WhosT
hodv II was When informed that
L.Enfant was being inferred in Airing
ron they asked who the man was. Few
knew the name or the man VINO had lalu
out the city's ground pian-a pan that =
being adopted wherever people are taxing
thought of the manner III Whtch inc!
build their cities.
For people were just beginning 10 STUDY
the construction Of that greatest OF az
builded things, the city. They are learn
ln- that by looking far into the future
they may prepare the groundwork in
such way that there will be harmony.
grace and convenience in the narts IN
which their grandchildren Viii dwell
They are finding the one great exampl"
OF this taking thought in Washington
They have found the man who was 8"
far ahead Of his time as to lay down
in the wilderness in lI&o a plan for CITY
that was to exist in 1911 TINS man wa
I-Fnfant So tomorrow the great of the
nation are going forth 10 do him homage.
Maj. Pierre Charles l. Enfant arrived IN
America in III, soon after the reNotn-
tionary war broke out Though but a
lad of TWENTY-FIVE lie had been a soldier
in France. from which country he came.
HIS family was aristocratic. his DISPOSE
ton was venturesome, his nature artlSlc
Mai I.Enfant served his country we'll
for an entire decade. His blood was spilled
on a number of battlefields. ne was taken
prisoner and transferred. he planned
Notifications, built defenses. Fort WASH
ington itself is a monument OF his skil.
In the end he settled down to live out
a quiet life in the land of his adoption.
When Congress, assembled in Philadel-
phia decided that another site should
be selected as the nations permanent
capital and when. under the advice OF
Washington and those ieslSia'orS WIZ
wanted to remove II from the influence
of the financial centers. the site on the
Potomac was chosen. L'Enfant was ask
ed to lay out the model city.
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wright IaI1 ~ ". A. pu Puy
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These were the days Of the nation 5
great good fortune, for two geniuses ap-
peared in that emergency and left the
imprint OF their hands on the nation for
ever. The greater CT these was the
Frenchman, I.Enfant and the second
was Dr. William Thornton, a West In
dian, who designed the Capitol. The work
Of each stands IN this day OF many crit
les with no man to dispute It's mastery
I'Enfant went into the wilderness and
laid out the capital of the future. He
chose the spot which Congress
House." the Capitol, was to stand. He
chose a site for the presidents Palace
the White House of today. With the
Capitol as the citys center he crossed
broad streets that ran with the compass.
Then he added diagonals that were to be
known as avenues and TO be named after
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penitentiary for the presidency of
the, Prison Christian Endeayor
society.
The men are Henry. E., Yout-
sey who assassinated Gov: Will
lam Goebel, and Curtis Jett, the
Breathitt county feudistr who
killed James Cockrill. and Judge
Marcun. '.s,' - = :
-Youtsey and Jett had a, similar
rase last year, which was won by
YQutsey. This year lett has a
good. chance to win. The vote is
taken by ballot and counted by
the warden. !<,.. ...2.,I,
Youtsey is supported by. the
straight Republican vote, while
the progressive Republicans. and
Democrats favor Jett's candidacy.
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Some hens become so addicted
TO habit that they can't pass the
front door without trying to
perch on the door knob.
But of course you can take the
door knob into the nursery, if you
want to.
Four and a half per centof Ger
men university Students are
sganleHd1o7d nsi19L4A -LalaIgrem
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Alexian Brothers hospital of in
ternal injuries a:s4,s
. Trialsof Inspector Dorrnan and
lieuts,SHoWard and Ambrose ex-
'pected; to end tomorrow.
HOT POLITICAL FIGHT
IN JAIL
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WEATHER FORECAST

- W. CS { .Wl1uS-
Probably CT o ii dy
and unsettled : to-
mig h t.; Saturday
fair; for Chicago
and. vicinity: not
much change in
temperature; lowest
tonight about 80 d.
zero;y moderate TO b
winds.