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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-11-26
MOVING HOUSES
ON NEW ROUTE
OF STATE ROAD
Right of Way through Block
West of Town Limits
Being Cleared
1T WILL BE A SHORT CUT

Houses are being moved to
make way for the first part of
the new route of the state high
way leading out of Chapel Hill
toward Hillsboro.
This part is a diagonal cut
across the block just outside the
western limits of the village. It
eliminates two right-angle turns
the one at the end of Frank
lin street and one at Rosemary
street where the Marshall black
smith shop used to stand.
The second part of the new
route is to the west of the Bap-
tist church in Carrboro. The
clearing of the way there waits
upon the conclusion of agree
ments with property owners.
AS soon as Jack Long, the con-
tractor, has finished his paving
job in Chapel Hill, he will move
his force westward and begin
laying concrete on the stretch
from the west end of Franklin
street to the Carrboro school.
He will operate through the win
ter, working on every day when
the weather permits.
Two strips of pavement are
completed on the Columbia street
block by Strowd's garage, each
of them being wide enough to
accommodate easily a double line
of vehicles. They will be thrown
open to traffic about a week from
this coming Monday. There is
still a central spaee~which has
not been paved yet; the con-
tractor will come back to this
after the pouring is done on
Franklin street.
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Off to the Game
Hundreds Of Students Go to Char
IOttesville; Kyser Leads CheeriOs

Chapel Hill had the look of a
deserted village yesterday be-
cause of the exodus of students
for the Thanksgiving holidays.
Hundreds went to the football
game in Charlottesville, and
other hundreds scattered to their
homes all over North Carolina.
There is a three days cessation
of classWork; it will be resumed
Monday morning.
In order to release it's force
earlier than usual, on the holi-
day, the Weekly went to press
before the result Of the game was
known. That is why this issue,
though dated Friday, does not
contain the score. Our read
ers will have read the news Of
the struggle, in the daily press,
before they see these lines.
Kike Kyser took his Cheerios
to the game. There are about
$50 of them and they rehearsed
diligently for the climax Of the
fall cheering season. In con-
nection with the pep meeting in
Memorial Hall Monday evening
Mr.. Kyser put on a vaudeville
show; the program included
singing, dancing, sketches, and
the antics of clowns.
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Edouard Champion, Great French
Publisher, Will Be Here Monday

One of the greatest publishers
and booksellers in the world,
Edouard Champion of Paris,
will be in Chapel Hill. Monday
as the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
William M. Dey. At half past
seven o'clock in the evening he
will deliver a lecture, in French,
in Phillips Hall.
M. Champion was an init
mate of the late Anatole France,
and "reminiscences of Anatole
France" is the title of one of the
lectures he is giving in America.
This will probably be his topic.
The visitor appears under'the
auspices of the University's de-
partment of romance languages,
and of course it is the French
scholars of the. community who
are most interested in his COM
ing. But everybody is cordially
invited to hear him.
His intinerary in this coun-
try, as originally planned, in
cluded only a few of the larger
institutions in the North and
west. His friendship with Mr..
Dey, brings him here. They be-
came acquainted when the
American professor visited his
shop on the Quai Malaquais, on
the left bank of the Seine across
from the Louvre. Last sum-
mer they met frequently, at the
bookshop and at social gather
ings, and it was then that the
Partisan bibliophile decided, at
Mr.. Dey's invitation, to come to
Chapel Hill.
"The house of Champion" "
says the Saturday Review of
Literature, "was founded in the
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-11-26
Chapel Hill Chaf

When | saw Judge Frank
Winston recently he told me of
the Episcopal church choir in
which he used to sing when he
was a student here in the seven
ties. Miss Sophie Mallett (now
Mrs. MacNider) was the organ
list. Among the singers, be-
sides Mr.. Winston. were Miss
Eliza Mallett, Mr.. and Mrs. Sea-
ton Barbee, and Frank FIRE.
mont.
: Cousin Sophie, telling me a.
bout this choir, told me at the
same time of attending the mar
riage of Miss Molly Hargrave,
the mother of William R.
Kenan, the donor of the Uni
versity's new stadium. The
Hargrave home sat back in a
grove that bordered the main
street where the Andrews-Hen-
ninger store, the Sanitary Mar
ket, the Model Market, and 9TH
er business houses now stand.
Miss Molly Hargrave met Cousin
Sophie on the street and said:
II want you to come to my we'd
ding; we're going to have a cake
with icing"
At that time-it was the year
1864, toward the end of the Civ
il War-a cake with icing was
an unbelievable luxury in Chap
el Hill, for almost everybody was
sunk in poverty. The bride went
to live in Wilmington, and it
was there, in 1873, that William
r. Kenan was born.
In looking through a box Of
old papers the other day Sturgis
K. Leavitt came across the man.
uscript of a story. 1t reads as
follows: "The. Hero and the
Broken Sword. Years and years
ago men dressed in suits of mail,
swords and battleaxes. The
Princes army was fighting, the
princes army is being surround
ed. The princes army is re-
treating. The Knight is the
coward. He stood at the end Of
the battle. They thought that
the princes dead. lie said
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early seventies of the last CEN
tury by Edouard Champions
father, Honore, at 8 Quai Vol
taire, Paris. Honore succeeded
the bookseller Thibault, known
to the trade as lie pere France
father of Jacques-Anatole Thi-
bault, father of Anatole France,
the great French author. The
shop was located on the left bank
of the Seine, opposite the Palace
of the Louvre. A score of years
after his establishment at Quai
Voltaire, where his reputation
was made, he moved to the pres
ent shop, 5 Quai Malaquais, also
opposite the Louvre close to the
Institdte of France.
SSAs a publisher he invariably
sought out not the most profit
able, but the best book, and en-
ployed in it's fabrication only the
best materials. He demanded a
good price, but the discriminat-
ing buyer was always glad to
pay it. He printed the thesis
of the humblest students, when
they appealed to him, recouping
the financial deficit by selling
books from his private collection,
if necessary. A tremendous
worker, he put through the press
some 5000 works, the descrip-
tive catalogue which in itself
was a monumental undertaking.
"As a bookseller he had many
original ideas. He was more in
terested in knowing the books
he handled and placing them
where they were most needed
and would be of the greatest use,
than he was in doing a large
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Sandwich Club Meets Here

The Sandwich Club of Raleigh
met last Saturday at the home
of r. B. House. 1t is a discus
sion group which has 16 mem
bers and meets every two weeks.
Those who came for the gather
ng here were DR.. II. A. Royster,
Theodore F. Johnson, Frank
Rice, Charles F.. Johnson, Sam
uel Lawrence, DR.. V. M. Hicks,
j. A. Ellis, C. G. Keeble, S. Brown
Shepherd, Clarence Poe, and B.
w. Wells. w. w. Way, Robert
Ruark and DR.. G. A. Shore were
unable to attend.
Guests who live in Chapel Hill
were Mr.. Houses neighbOrs: r.
d. w. Connor, J. B. Linker, Oscar
J. Coffin, and Francis Bradshaw.
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Weekend Guests

Miss Virginia Crawford of
Goldsboro spent the weekend
with her. aunt, Mrs. A. A. Kluttz.
Misses Rebecca Graham, Betsy
Warren and Elizabeth Bryan
were with Miss Dewey Mitchell.
Misses Elizabeth Num- and Janet
Hollister we're with Mrs. r. d.
w. IConnor. Mrs. l.. |. Moore
and her daughter, Miss Meta
Moore, were the guests of Mrs.
j. c. Lyons.
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Robertson, Builder

Hugh Robertson, who became
known to Chapel Hill by marry
ing Miss Harris and achieved
fame in New York, later, by
building skyscrapers, was here
for the weekend with Mrs.
Robertson and their friends,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Moses and
Mrs. Smith.
1t is something of a distinc-
tion for Chapel Hill to be re-
lated, if only through marriage,
to the builder, as Mr.. Robertson
is, of both the highest apartment
house and the largest office
building in the world.
AS we sat in the lobby of the
Carolina Inn Saturday evening
! was questioning him about high
buildings he had put up, and he
told me of the Ritz Towers, the
worlds tallest dwelling, at the
corner of Park Avenue and 57th
street in New York. 1t belongs
to Arthur Brisbane, the celebrat-
ed newspaper writer.
The Ritz Towers is AZ stories
high and the plot of ground on
which it stands has an area of
only 80 by 100 feet. Think of
that a moment-42 stories on
80 by 100 feet. To the man
who knows nothing of wind
bracing and other aspects of
modern engineering such a
structure seems impossible
Yet there it is. Mr.. Robertson
describes it as looking like lead
pencil standing on end.
When | went to New York
about 25 years ago Arthur
Brisbane was talked of as the
highest-paid newspaper man in
the country, He was one of
Hearst's lieutenants and wrote
the editorials for the Evening
Journal. His salary was reput-
ed to be $4,000, and each year
he got an additional large sum
in the form of a percentage
based on increase in circulation.
But his income then was small
in comparison with what it has
since grown to be. He has in
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Lloyd Buys PurefOy Place

Lueco Lloyd bought the old
Purefoy place, mile from town
on the Pittsboro road, at the re-
cent sale conducted by the Dur
ham Auction Company. He had
owned it once before and had
sold it. The price he paid this
last time, for the house and
nine lots, was about $500. The
last previous owner was w. N.
Canaday, who bought from
John T. Fowler.
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Kings Daughters Supper

The Kings Daughters will
hold their annual supper in the
Episcopal parish house Thurs
day evening, December 8. The
price per plate is go cents. The
public is cordially invited to at
tend. . 1t is the one public func-
tion of the Kings Daughters in
the year, and the proceeds go to
charity.
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HOPE TO HAVE
STADIUM READY
FOR 1927 GAME
Work Will Begin after Meet
ing of the Trustees
Committee
IT'S A TEN-MONTHS JOB

The University hopes to have ID
the new Kenan stadium ready
for the Car6lina-V Virginia foot
ball game on Thanksgiving
Day of next year..
Next Monday, November %,
the committee on buildings of
the board of trustees will meet
in Chapel Hill to make the final
decision upon the site; and i'm
mediately this matter is settled
the construction will begin.
There is little doubt that the
ravine south of the campus,
selected two or three years ago
as the beSt~place for a stadium,
will be designated by the COM
mittee. The conformation of
the land here is such that the
cost of construction will be much
less than it would be if a con-
crete structure had to be put up
on a level space. Other advan-
tages are the sylvan beauty of
the spot and, it's easy accessible
ity. 1t is only about five min
utes' walk from the South build
ing.
The first thing to be done, in
the way of actual physical work,
is the clearing of the site. The
hillsides whereon the concrete
stands will rest are now covered
by a heavy forest growth. Many
of the trees are timber material,
and as soon as the starting sig
nal is given a sawmill will be
moved on the scene. The trees
that are large enough for use
will be fed into the sawmill as
fast as they are felled, and the
lumber cut from them will be
held on the ground to serve as
seating surfaces. The approved
practice for stadia call for wood
between the soft human body
and the unyielding masonry.
Cushions serve well enough, but
most of the spectators do not
bring cushions along, and so the
designers provide planking as a
protecting layer.
Surveyors are already going
over the ground to mark the
limits of the playing field and
the stands, and to indicate the
levels that the graders are to
establish at various points.
There is a steam shovel in Carr
boro which can be put into OPP
GRAFTON as soon as the space is
cleared for it.
The engineers who have been
making the plans estimate ten
months as the minimum period
within which, with normal
weather conditions, the con-
struction of the stadium can be
completed. Hence, if it is to be
ready for the Carolina-Virginia
football game next Thanksgiv-
ing Day, a prompt start must be
made.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-11-26
NOrheet Goes Home to Sleep

A succession of one-night
stands does not induce enthus-
iasm for another long trip. Char
lie Norf1eet got back Wednesday
from the Playmakers' nine-day
tour. A friend who saw him
packing his bag asked him if he
was going to Charlottesville for
the Carolina Virginia game. He
said no-he was going to his
home in Winston-Salem to go. to
sleep.
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Durham TO Have Grand Opera

Durham will have grand opera
next spring. Performances will
be given March 7, 8, and 9 by
La Scala Grand Opera Com
pany Of Philadelphia. Paul J.
Weaver, head of the music de-
partment of the University, is
chairman of the committee that
will form a permanent organiza-
tion for bringing grand opera to
the city.
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COmmu unity Club Meeting

The Community Club will
meet in the parish house&pf the
Episcopal church this friday
afternoon at half past three
O'Clock. The program is spon-
sored by the American home de-
partment. English Bagby
will address the gathering.
Year books of the club will be
given to all members who have
paid their dues.
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Literature Department Meeting

The literature department of
the Community Club will meet
next Tuesday at 1880 in the east
room of the Methodist church.
zone Mans Life" by Herbert
Quick, will be reviewed by Mrs.
Highly, Mrs. Caldwell, and Mrs.
Metzenthin.
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Presbyterian Bazaar, Dec. /

There will be a bazaar at the
Presbyterian church next We'd
nesday, December /, from three
to eight o'clock. There will be
all manner of things for sale
novelties, linens and laces, sal
ads, barbecues, brunswick stew,
The public is invited.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-11-26
Laurence StaIlings a Visitor

Laurence. Stallings spent a
few hours in the village Tues
day. He drove over from Wake
Forest where he and Mrs. Stal-
lings are visiting her father,
President Poteat.
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Invitations, programs, plac.
ards-The Orange PrintshOp,
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-03
The Call of the
Grand Canyon

Speaking Of the Grand Canyon, the
last Fred Harvey bulletin says:
"Twenty-seven years ago the world
scarcely knew Of the existence of the
Grand Canyon-6,00O feet deep, IL to
20 miles broad, twisting a length of
220 miles across the northern Ari-
zona wilderness.
Canyon visitors then were prospec-
tors of the old breed, disappearing
for months at time among its paint
ed gorges and sunken mountains !;
stray cattlemen; Havasupais and
Hualapais, wandering Hopis, Piutes
and Navajos. Or the hard-pedaling
members Of a bicycle club from the
little frontier town of Flagstaff, 65
miles away, with occasional tender
feet who paid $20-real money in
those days-for Canyon round-trip
in the sway-backed four-horse stage
coach.
When the steel OF the present San
ia Fe branch line to the Canyon crept
northward from the cattle town of
Williams, on the main line, old timers
ridiculed such effort and expense for
the sake of a handful of dudes"
In the travel year ending October
1st, 1926, that same branch line car
ried 65,501 visitors to the Canyon
rim
Twenty-Five years ago a "dude"
from the coast with sporting blood
dreamed of reaching the Grand Can
yon by automobile From California
in mid-winter, he shipped to Flagstaff
himself, his enthusiasm, his summer
suit, his gasoline and his newspaper
friends. His machine came in by
freight from Toledo, Ohio. A famous
guide who had watched the driving
OF the golden spike ON the Union Pa
cific undertook to lead the way In
tuning her up" the horse rails be-
fore the Front street saloons were
stampeded for a week. The same old
timers opined that the driver was
crazy-and bet on it. There was
then but one other automobile in the
great Territory Of Arizona.
In the travel year ending October
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-03
Teachers College

The senior girls of the Christmas
graduating class will be entertained
tonight by the other girls Of the col
lege at tea dance.
Dean Anna Cooper of the Univer-
sity of Arizona will be present spec
ially for the occasion and will give
talk at the entertainment. Dean
Cooper will also address the school
in assembly this morning.
The annual drive for the sale OF
Christmas seals for the American
Red Cross will be started soon under
the direction of the Camp Fire girls
of the college training school and
town. Miss Lora Maxwell of the col
lege will be in charge of the work
and an attempt will be made to sur
pass the sales made last year.
Basketball practice for the boys or
the training school will start next
week. Prospects for the team this year
are among the best the school has
ever had.
Austin Gibbons was unanimously
elected by the basketball squad as
captain for this season at the first
meeting of those going out for bas-
ketball held Tuesday.
Miss Ida G.. Wilson entertained at
her apartments last Thursday even
ing with Thanksgiving dinner for
Miss Dorothy Gelhaus, Mrs. Thelma
Davis, Robert R. Powers and G. "
Ridgely.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-03

| both deer and antelope as we came
on that day, some very near the
Switzer homestead, almost within the
town limits. 1t is needless to say
that we were at once won over to
this spot. We regretted that we had
to leave it for a time to make ar
rangements for permanent residence
here.
One of my first acquaintance was
Mickey Stewart Mickey discovered
that father and | had been in the
brick business, and Mickey was need
ing brick to build the Bank hotel. He
had already sent to Las Vegas for
the late James Milligan, who was also
brick man. Upon the Judges ar
rival the three of US put up board
shack under the trees where the. Em-
erson school now stands. We found
the clay, found on the spot, suitable
for brick. Ne made several kilns
upon the place where the Emerson
children now have their playground
nodded the brick for the inside
walls of the Bank hotel, also the
brick for the Schultz house and the
jim Vail saloon, and for some 9TH
ers.
We staked off about as much town
property as we thought we wanted.
After the town had become some
what better organized we discovered
that we could hold only six lots each.
We also discovered that my fathers
house was in the middle Of a street.
We moved the house to make way for
Railroad avenue.
| was married the tenth of Novem-
Der of that year in Dodge City, Kans.
Returning to Flagstaff | pre-empted
home south of Eden spring. Later
had the honor of being the father
of the second baby girl born in what
is known as New Town. My daughter,
Mrs. Fair, was born in the section
house still standing near the Santa
Fe station. John Marshall's daugh-
ter, Josie Weidner, also born in the
same neighborhood, has the honor Of
being the first.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-03
FRENCH OUTFIT BUYS
ARIZONA RAILWAY, MINE

Purchase by a French syndicate Of
the Arizona and Swansea railway
and the Clara-Swansea Mining inter
ests in Yuma county, Arizona was
announced at Los Angeles Monday
with the arrival of representatives of
the buyers. The purchase, however,
was said to have been made last June
and although the fact has not been
made public, has been operated by the
French interests since that time.
The railway is % miles long and
runs from the town Of Swansea to
Boure, a point on the Santa Fo. The
mining properties, copper mines,
consist of $50 acres. More than $14,-
100000 was said to have been spent
in developing them and S5,000,000 IN
vested in the railway. Although but
40 men are now employed at the mine
the new owners announce that this
number will be increased to 200.
o. NJ. Souden, president Of tho
board of directors of the United
States National bank, made the an
nouncement on behalf Of the French
purchasers.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-03
AT LAST THE EEL'S
NEST HAS BEEN FOUND

From the depths of the ocean
south of Bermuda have come the
first eggs of the American eel known
to science. The discovery was made
by a 25-year-old woman scientist
Marie Poland Fish, biologist of the
United States bureau of fisheries
station at Woods Hole, Mass, it is
revealed in an article to be published
tomorrow in the New Bedford Stan
dard
Although modern investigation has
solved much Of the battling life
story of the eel, all previous efforts
to find the egg of either the common
American or European eel have been
unavailing.
The discovery arose directly from
the expedition of DR.. William Beebe
to the Sargosso sea a year ago and
has been rated as possibly the most
scientifically important single out
come Of the Arcturus expedition.
The origin of the eel has been a
mystery since ancient times The in
ability of the early Greeks to find
eel's eggs or eels ready to spawn led
them to attribute their paternity to
Jupiter. AS has been established
since, there was good reason why
scientists failed to discover eels eggs
for the common American and Euro
pean cells are the only creatures
known which live in fresh water but
go to the sea to spawn an exact re-
versal of the habits of many other
marine creatures.
Mrs. Fish, larval expert of the ex-
pedition, identified the eggs during
her work of sorting out a mass of
marine specimens brought up in traw-
ling on the vessels return voyage.
But for a shrimp to which they adj
hered, they never would have reach
ed the surface in the quarter-inch net.
The eggs were just tenth of an inch
across.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-03
HUDSON MAXIM, FAMOUS
INVENTOR VISITING PHOENIX

Hudson Maxim, world distinguish
ed as an inventor, philosopher and
writer, together with Mrs. Maxim,
his secretary, Miss May Birney and
his chauffeur, Jimmie Francomacaro
arrived in Phoenix on Monday for a
short stay preliminary to tour Of
the west. The trip is being made be-
cause some doctor in the east discov-
cred that Mr.. Maxim is anemic, a fact
hard to believe. "Do look anemlc ~
asked the stalwart, robust man. 'Pll
say don't feel like it," and his eyes
gave discredit to the learned mans
diagnosis.
There is only one thing about Mr..
Maxim to suggest the 73 years he
has lived. His hair and beard are
snow white. Otherwise he is a man
whom time has failed to touch.
The ruggedness of the boyhood
days in Maine has left its impression
and the eyes flash or smile with un-
dying spirit of youth.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-03
COLLEGES DON'T WANT
COOKIE BUSTERS

Cookie dusters' 1926 models Of
the milksop are the bane of college
life, delegates to the inter-fraternity
conference We're told today.
"The coonskin coat, soft leathe,
chairs, walters and bids to house
parties given by eminent hostesses in
towns near colleges threaten the
hardness of the modern University
man." the Rev. Body Edwards, head
master of Hill School, said.
Mr.. Edwards cited reports Of foot
ball coaches who were quoted as
saying that it takes twice as long to
"stir the modern man to fighting
pitch for a football game as it did his
father"
Former Judge William R. Bayes of
New York was elected chairman Of
the conference.