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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23
BOWLING MEMORIAL FUND
HASsFINE START NOW

Prospects for successfully COM
pleting the fund of 100000 with
which to build and equip the Mich
ael j. Bowling Industrial School for
crippled children of Minnesota were
considerably heightened by the an
nouncement that the citizens of st.
Paul and Ramsey County are to
raise $4,000 toward the fund
within the next few weeks. This
information was contained in a
statement of E. X. Whiting of
Owatonna, vice-chairman Of the
committee who told of the progress
made in the campaign, before the
annual convention of the Minnesota
Editorial Association in st. Paul
last Saturday. With over half of
the state organized under the lead
ership of county chairmen, it is ex-
pected that the present total of
$4,000 already raised will be ap-
preciably increased by the first of
March, Mr.. Whiting said. Pledging
anew their hearty support 20 the
move which was initiated by the
Editorial Association, the editors of
the state expressed to Mr.. Whiting
and the other members of the COM
mittee appreciation for the effort
that has been put forth.
"The situation that we are at
tempting to meet is a most appal-
ling one. The erection of the
school,, said Mr.. Whiting, twill i'm
mediately release sufficient space in
the State Hospital for Crippled
Children to permit 100 little suf-
ferers now on the waiting list to
gain the treatmest they need. When
i tell you that this waiting list
numbers over 800, some of whom
have been waiting for two years,
know that you will recognize the
need for immediate action. Only
one day last week., he said, "Miss
Elizabeth McGregor, Superintend-
ent of the hospital told me that
she had sent word to parents of
ten children on the list that there
was room for them now. The par.
ents of three of the ten wrote in
reply that it was too late-the little
ones had died. This isn't alto.
gether matter of sentiment either
for if we can train these crippled
children to become self supporting
We will lift burden from the taS
payers of this state that runs into
huge figures"
The committee under whose sup
ervision the st. Paul share will BIZ
raised will be representative of s
number of organizations. Among
those who attended the meeting
where the pledge of $4,000 was
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23
POPULAR YOUNG
PEOPLE MARRIED.
r. CLIFFORD MILLER AND MISS
HELEN LAURENCE UNITED
SATURDAY.

The following taken from Mon
days Duluth Herald relates to form
err residents of this city. The Her
aid said:
"The marriage of Miss Helen
Laurence, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
F. D. Lyman, to Robert Clifford
Miller of st. Cloud, Mimi, took
place at 8 o'clock Saturday evening
in the Methodist parsonage. Rev.
Charles N. Pace read the services
before a few intimate friends and
relatives. Miss Myrtle Laurence was
the brides only attendant, and Her
man Hobeland acted. as best man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Miller will be at home
in st. Cloud after March Is.
among those who were hostesses
at pre-nuptial affairs for Miss Lau-
renee were Miss Edith Rennell, Mrs.
C. H. Little, Miss Grace Cauley and
Mrs. L. w. Eisenbach. Mrs. Lyman
entertained at a bridal dinner at
her home Friday evening in COM
pliment to her daughter"
Both of these young people grew
to maturity in this city. The bride
resided here with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Lyman, up, to their re-
moval to Duluth three years ago and
since that time she has been EN-.
ployed as instructor in the Duluth
schools.
The groom is an ELY product, a
graduate of the Ely schools and of
the Stout Vocational Training School
at Menomonie, Wis. For the past
several years he has been manual
training instructor at st. Cloud and
before that held a like position at
Pennington. He is the only son of
Mrs. Alice /. Miller of this city.
The young people begin their
married career with the best wishes
of host of friends who join with
the Miner in wishing them all pos
sible happiness.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23
Range Roads Safe.

The National Safety News has
the following facts in the February
issue regarding safety work on the
Steel Corporation railroads which
speaks volumes for the safety meas
ares adopted. The News says:
"The D. i l. R. railway, wirn an
annual business of over l0.0o0,3,'0
tons of ore, has gone thr ,ugh .wo
years without loss of life or limb
to an employee. Lost-time accidents
among the 5000 employees of both
roads have decreased IS per cent
during the last six years. The D.
M. & N. docks department in the
annual interdepartment safety con.
test won the 1921 safety banne,
with only six lost-time accidents; or
the D. & l. R. the docks department
won the prize with one lostStime
accident"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23
FIRE FOR THAWINC FROZEN
WATER PIPES DANGEROUS

The danger of thawing frozen
pipes with an open fame was point
ed out yesterday by Mr.. L. j.
White, local agent of the Hartford
Fire Insurance Company.
"Due to the use of substitute
fuels" Mr.. White said, "there has
probably been more freezing of
pipes this winter than for many
years, with consequent increase in
fires caused by unwise thawing
methods. Just recently a man in
Winsted, Conn.,, set fire to his
house while thawing pipes with
burning newspapers. The, flames
ran through partitions and through
the roof. doing damage of about
$1,000 This is but one instance
that illustrates my point.
ITO thaw pipes that have become
frozen, wrap the frozen section with
cotton cloth and pour hot water
upon it until the ice in the pipe
melts. Rags on the floor at the
base of or under the pipe will alb.
serb the waste water. If the freez.
ing is too severe to yield to this
treatment, send for a plumber.
Good results have also been Sc.
cured by use of electricity where
proper apparatus was available, such
as an electric heating-pad.
"A burning match, torch or open
flame of any description should
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23
FOREST SERVICE
/. ESTIMATE TIMBER.
CREWS IN THE BIRCH LAKE
AND BIG LAKE AREAS
NEARLY THROUGH.

Estimates of government timber
in the Superior national forest,
which was begun last winter, ac-
cording to the eight-year program
outlined by Supervisor Calvin A.
Dahlgren, is being carried on this
winter by eight crews of cruisers
despite unfavorable conditions Gre
ated by frequent snow and sub-zero
temperatures.
When the survey is completed the
available timber will be offered for
sale, the trees to be cut under the
supervision of the forestry depart
ment. This is to preserve the young
and growing trees, the supervisor
said.
The cruisers are at present work
ing in the Birch Lake and the Big
Lake areas. The former tract lies
between the Kawishiwi and Stony
rivers, southeast of Ely, about
twelve miles "as the crow flies. In
round figures the project contains
about 2O0,OOO,O00 board feet of
timber, according to Supervisor
Dahlgren.
The Big Lake tract, bounded on
the north by the Canadian border,
is about eighteen miles north and
northwest of Ely About 100000
feet of timber on $50 acres of this
has been advertised and will be sold
shortly. The Cloquet Lumber COM
pany has established camps and is
doing some logging in that vicinity
this winter.
There is considerable pulpwood in
the 100000 feet of government
timber to be sold and cruisers esti-
mate utilization will be closer than
ordinarily. Trees to be used for
pulp will be utilized to a four inch
diameter in the tops. The timber
cruised consists of white, Norway
and jack pine, white and black
spruce, poplar, birch, tamarack, bal
sam and cedar. The greater pro-
portion is jack pine.
1t is planned to complete the Big
Lake work during 1924. After that
Supervisor Dahlgren's plans call for
two seasons work of ten months
each on the Cascade section north
of Lutsen on the north shore, and
two years work during 1927 and
1928 in the Isabelle region east of
the Birch Lake site.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23
THIS YEARS ORE PRICES
NOT AS YET FIXED

From present prospects iron ore
prices will not be established until
late in March and possibly April l.
There is little gossip about ore
prices. Some advance is expected,
however.
Iron ore consumption is heavy
and ore supplies at Lake Erie docks
and in furnace yards total at the
present time about the same as last
year on this date. But the con-
sumption is much larger. The sea-
son will open with normal supplies
of iron ore in the hands of con-
sumers.
Iron ere shipments this year, &C.
cording to present estimates, will
be not less than 55,000,000 tons.
The general shortage of labor will,
it is expected, interfere to SOM. e,-
tent in all departments of the iron
and steel industry, from raw mat
erials to finished products.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23

Washington's Birthday was OBJ
served yesterday by the closing of
business places in this city. This
course was asked on posters sent
out by the Merchants Association.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23

This is comparable to the average
of $4,000, 900 raised in late years
for county and township roads in
this state, and held less in proper
ton because the trunk highways
carry four-ffths of the traffic.
Large Savings in Sight.
Amounts necessary to meet all
present and proposed bond interest
and principal payments were set
aside first, and net balances remain
ing available for maintenance and
for. new construction under both
plans were used in the commission
er's tables.
To Reduce Maintenance Cost.
Increasing maintenance demands,
it is shown under the present plan,
will take $3,03O,000 this year and
larger amounts up to 1927 after
which the upkeep outlay is placed
at $4,150,000 year. Auto tax
balances with federal aid, but no
bond funds, would afford for new
construction work less than $780,
600 in 1923, $4,070,O00 in 1924,
between 100000 and $6,000,-
900 for each of the following
seven years, $6,340,000 in 1882,
and more than sS,000,000 year
thereafter.
Bonds authorized and mainten-
ance costs reduced, however, upkeep
can be held to an average Of ST.
100000 a year, administration ex-
penses included, according to official
figures. Then with bond interest
and principal provided for, there
would be left for new construction
$13,89O,OO0 in 1928, $14,620,000
in 1924, more than $5,000,000 for
each of the next six years, more
than 100000 in 1881, $780,
600 for each of the next FIVE and
more than 100000 for each of
the remaining years of the 20-year
period.
The bonds will give the automo-
bile taxpayer of the present a fair
share of good roads benefits which
he will not get otherwise, although
paying the same rate of tax as
those of future years. Mr.. Babcock
suggests that safe way is to write
senators and representatives to use
their best judgment in dealing with
the highway bond proposals.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23

made were representatives of the
st. Paul Association, the Elks Club
and L. R. s. Ferguson, commission
er of education, and in the absence
of Mayor Nelson, acting Mayor of
st. Paul.
The Miner will receive contribu-
tions towards the fund and it is to
be hoped that our people will send
in their mite. According to tire APP
portionment made Of cents per
capita, Ely is on the list for $50,
very modest figure, S34 Of which
has already been made by our
people. Send in any amount. Every
little bit helps. We will publish
the list of contributors and their
contributions. Just little will not
Inconvenience you in any way and
will prove quite a help in raising
the total. After the memorial
school is built, the state will take
care of the maintenance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23
GLASS Of 1922
PRESENT STATUE.
UNWILLING CEREMONIES AT
HIGH SCHOOL THIS
MORNING.

The statue of Theodore Roose-
welt presented by the class of 1922
to the High School, was unveiled
this morning with appropriate cere-
monies.
Principal Pierce of the school
made an Introductory talk after
which the presentation address was
made by Geo. SomeAo, '22. Mr..
Pierce accepted the gift with APP
propriate remarks after which Rev.
H. R. Browne made an address.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23

never be used. To wrap pipes with
oil-soaked rags and set them on fire
is worse than folly; it is incendiar-
ism. Pipes are almost invariably
adjacent to walls or partitions
where there is an ascending current
of air to feed and spread a flame.
even if the flame does not start
a fire, its sudden local heat may
cause the pipe to break and flood
the premises with water"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23
A Rafting Good Car.

On January 81, the Highland
Park plant at Detroit, Mich, turned
out the seven millionth Ford car.
Joe Rothman, the local agent for
the Ford, says he has sold few of
that seven million and that all in
dications point to a heavy demand
for the universal Car" this spring
and summer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23
Thos. S. Written Reelected.

Thos. S. Written was reelected
general manager of the Virginia
and Rainy Lake company at the
annual meeting held at Virginia
on Feb. 9. Edward Hines was re-
elected president. This company has
3,400 men in its employ at present
and the two mills at Virginia are
producing at the rate of 10000
600 feet per month.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23
TO GET MOST FOR
YOUR ROAD MONEY.
WAY TAXPAYERS CAN GET
MORE IMPROVED HIGH
WAYS FOR SAME
OUTLAWS.
With Highway Bonds.

The public will get the use
of road improvements averag-
ing in value $42,088, 900 dur
ing the next ten years. and
$7e,552,000 during each year
the following decade, according
to cumulative totals.
Without Bond Issues.
The comparative good roads
value totals will be $26, 500
for the first and $70,374,600
for the second 10-year period
less by s16,064. 900 and 3d.
lit 400 year, respectively,
although the same tax rates are
continued.
Minnesota can get more value for
the same amounts of money provid-
ed for trunk highways or so-called
Babcock roads by issuing proposed
bonds, stopping waste on too costly
upkeep and turning the funds into
permanent road work Maitenance
savings will exceed the interest on
the bonds and the use of more i'm
proved highways will represent net
gain to the public.
This is the gist of the state high
way bond plan as summarized by
Charles NJ. Babcock, state highway
commissioner, in a current highway
bulletin. Careful, conservative fig
ures, the commissioner said, show
possible gains given above. All the
bond money and federal aid and
forty per cent of the annual auto
taxes going for improvements which
will last 25, so and even 100 years,
he repeated, the value of the state
highway system to automobile and
other users run up rapidly. All
figures are without tax increases
are based on the agreed average of
SIS on automobiles.
More Value for Same Money.
The bond plan, official figures
show. will give the public bigger
results for the money used on the
trunk Highways full dollars
worth of good roads for every good
roads dollar. But if the state goes
on wasting funds for maintenance
Of gravel surfaces on heavy traffic
sections, the commissioner finds,
there will be one third less improv-
ed highway for public use in the
next ten years and one-tenth less
for each year from 1888 to 1913
Without bonds, the state must
nse an average of more than 81.
100000 each year of the next
twenty for maintenance of the T..
o00-mile trunk system. Bond money
Forthcoming to extend permanent
improvements and stop excessive up.
keep leaks, the maintenance cost
can be kept down to $2,750,000 a
year, making an annual saving OF
about $1,250,000.
Best Way to Use Given Sum.
Commissioner Babcock uses the
same income figures in computing
results obtainable with and without
the proposed bonds. The average
number of motor vehicles to be
registered in Minnesota in the mex,
twenty years is placed at 487, 500
Automobiles taxed at the agreed SIS
average and trucks slightly highe,
because of increases forecast BY
the present legislature, auto "a,
revenues are averaged at $9,7io,00t
annually for the 20-year period.
Federal highway aid receipts ar,
put at an average of $4,000 900 {
year, against $2,S40,000 allotted t.
Minnesota in most past years.
Thus the trunk highway funds art
rated at $12,550,000 annually
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23

Mrs. George Bloomfield, aged 81,
well known here and at Soudan
where she was an early day re-
sident, died at, Eveleth Wednesday
after years illness. The funeral
is being held today at Eveletn.
Evening star., 1923-03-19

Cleveland's morning work never
the less was a. corher. In the game
that was played with Cincinnati the
Indians won handsomely. but they
discovered two or three things that
could be improved, and they went
right back to Lakeland and began to
work on the improvements.
There are three or four promisin g
rockies On the Cleveland squad and
the kind Of improvement which they
are practicing with improving skill
leads to the belief that whoever went
out and picked up ball players for
Cleveland in 1922 had a telephone
lens In his eyes.
smith May Produce.
Smith, VINO was pitching with
Brooklyn last year and before last
year, will enter the coming season,
not only with the idea Of getting
even with the National League. which
they all seek TO do some time or
other, if they are released by that
organization, but with the intent to
pitch better base ball then he ever
did before.
II he comes UP to the mark that he
left on the water line OF 1920, when
he pitched those wonderfully good
games in the world series for the
Brooklyns against Cleveland. but
didn't win them. and il Coveleskie
is as gOOO as ne Was t"O years ago
and he thinks he will be, Speaker will
have two straus floating on the
water at which to grasp.
Then there Is Morton. who seems
TO have as much as he had las year,
and Uhle, who certainly is headed to-
ward the top Of the American League
pitching corps. to say nothing about
others who will be in the limelight
II the foregoing show anything. If
they work we'll from one end or the
other the pitching situation will he
better than II was in 1922. That's
what all these managers are fighting
for. Talk with them and they get
back sooner or later to the pitchers
InReId Is Shifty.
To say that more sensational field
ing plays will be made by the Cleve-
land team than any in the American
League Is naturally drawing the bow
until X Is almost bent double. Yet
there Is ground for saying II. The
statement does not necessarily mean
that Cleveland will have the great
est infield in the league That isn't
the contention. The point being af-
fir7ned is that Cleveland will be a
sensation maker.
Three Of the infielders are long
and lanky and flop as easily Frcm
side to side as these big French
Evening star., 1923-03-19
BLACK A. c. IS VICTOR
IN INITIAL ENCOUNTER

Black Athletic Club. quite form!da-
BILE last year in sandiot base ball. is
pointing for another successful sea
son Most OF the players of the 1892
nine again are with the club and sew
eral promising recruits have been
dulged in practice game yesterday
against a scrub aggregation for the
first time this season and triumphed
IS TO /.
The Black squad includes Fuse
Mills, Lucas, Lowe, Treadway, Beck
Brown, z. Beall, Marceron, Norris
Haines, Amuth, W. Beall. Hudson
Heard, Fleister, Hanks and Aiken.
Randall V. Gardner is manager of the
team.
GeorEe:own Athletic Association
will hold n base ball meeting We'd
nesday night at the clubrooIns at 1927
Wisconsin avenue All team candi-
dates are expected to report at
o'clock. The team is booking games.
Send challenges to Manager VIA
Norris. at the club.
Mohawk Juniors nre 10 foster base
Lall this year. A sizeab!e squad
turned out for the first practice yes
terday.
Candidates for the two teams, one
in the senior and the other in the
fourteen sixteen year-old class, to be
organized by the Independent Ath-
letic Club this season. are to meet
tonight at o'clock at 129 10th street
northeast
Evening star., 1923-03-19
DRAFT PROVES FLWER
FOR SOUTHERN LEAGUE

Southern Association. which permits
the draft. figured that il. would get
lot Of good ball players from the
majors when the time came around to
dissipate the surplus, but the league
doesn't wish to wait until June Is to
get them.
Clubs down that way figure that
they might as well begin the season
all over II they have to do their re-
cruiting after June IS. If they take
players prior to that time who are
made subject to recall on demand
they figure that they might as well
not have them. About the time that
the players begin to show something &
perhaps the majors would want them
back and some team which was begin
ming to grow big thoughts of cham
pionship would have It's pennant hopes
blasted
Another angle entering into the situ-
alton is the open opposition on the
part of some of the players to going
south for the summer. They have no
objection to the cities of the circuit,
but they are yelling about the climate.
That is particularly true of the boys
from the northwest.
Evening star., 1923-03-19

on ball players services all of his
life.
trying to beat down the prices asked
for players and there are some clubs
that are openly taking the ground
that their scouts pay particular at
tention this year to buShers when
they go out for ball players in order
that any really good material may
come first hand to the major leagues.
That would cut off the source Of
supply from the natural reservoir
which feeds the minors.
1t could have been done before. The
majors might as well have recruited
from the bushes if they wished to
do so They didn't wish to do so
because they were anxious that the
minor league should develop the
player primarily.
Evening star., 1923-03-19

dolls. Lutzke. Wamby and Guisto arr
what might be called stretching
barrier. Joe Sewell is built more on
the order OF a Dutch girl. What Joe
doesn't have to boast of IN lankI-
ness he makes up for in the pecuIia:
rubber effect Of tho bottoms OF the
feet. He starts Quick and bound
from point to point.
When these four men have arrived AZ
the stage Of their physical perfection
which the season is expected to give
them they will scatter spectacu!a,.
stops and throws as a water wheel
shakes off the drops during its revolu-
tions.
Every now and then one OF them
will do something which will cause some
man to bring his ruthless hand dor /
on the innocent straw bonnet of tie
spectator in front Of him, in gler.
The more you watch them work tie
more you become convinced. Cleveland $
infield was not brought up on cereals
but on red fire.
Speaker Is a Marvel.
Speaker is personal wonder. There
isn't younger boy on the team, AMI
he travels all over his part of the word
bareheaded, wearing a smile, burned
until he looks like a sailor who has seen
duty in the Red sea and causing the
youngsters of his own team to stare 4.
him in open-mouthed admiration. The :
forget to play when Speaker gets going.
They are as anxious to see what nc
"-lll do as are the spectators.
Copyright. 1923)