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gress House, as he called them, by
series of parks. But President-elect
John Adams could not see the sense
of having these two important build
ingS so far apart. He wanted the
executive and legislative buildings
huddled together. Convenience and
not beauty was his idea. However.
Washington stood steadfastly by Len
FAINT and the buildings were so placed.
although L'Enfant'S dream of the
parks between was never realized. In
fact, he was repeatedly frustrated in
his planning; he was ridiculed by I'M
imaginative and materialistic men who
were high in office and from the time
the seat of government was moved 10
Washington, be was constantly beg
ging congress to pay him the money
due him. Finally, that body in 1910
passed bill for his relief, giving him
S666.66 with interest from March 16,
1892, amounting in all to S1,39420.
This was done more because congress
was becoming weary of his impOr-
tunity than for any other reason and
it was typical of the tardy justice with
which the new republic rewarded
many of the men, including Revolu-
tionary war heroes, to whom it owed
so much.
L'Enfant died in 1925, a heart.
broken man. During his last years he
lived with man named Dudley DiggS
and he was buried in the Diggs family
graveyard outside the city of Wash
ington. There his body lay in an I'M
marked grave for nearly a hundred
years. Then through the efforts of
the American Institute of Architects
it was removed to Arlington GENE
terry. He was given military funeral
and tributes were paid to him by high
government officials, both American
and French. A monument, with his
plan carved on the marble slab, over
looks the city for which he had
dreamed on such a grand scale and
which during the years while he lay in
the unmarked grave had sprawled hap
hazard over the landscape.
For 'backwoods-ruled congresses
saw no utility in beauty. Homespun
and jack-bOoted solons knew no more
about architecture than they did about
poetry and thought both the comical
diversions of dudes or was 'maca-
rOni' still the word. or 'dandy'?" So
writes Charles Willis Thompson in an
article in the New York Herald-Trib-
une a year or so ago, telling of the
plans for preserving the beauty of the
capital as L'Enfant had conceived it.
He writes:
So It is wonderful that the idea per-
sisted through a century of Hannibal
Chollops and Elijah Programs For IT
did The shades of L'Enfant brooded
over the city, and still broods over II
Essentially, it is still his city Moth
ing that ignorant politicians and greedy
spectators could do to ii has effaced
his indelible impression. The worst
that has happened to Washington hap
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09

critical moments, when good kicking
and passing might give the Irish a
victory.
The incident recalls the manner in
which Rockne employed little Art
Parisien during the 1926 season. Pari-
backs that year, and saw plenty of
service until he was badly injured in
the game with Indiana. 1t appeared
his football career was over, for he
was out of the game entirely for some
time, and when he did get back in uni
form he was kept out of action.
Parisien's value lay In his ability
to toss passes accurately with his left
hand. Early in the season two passes
from him to Niemiec had given the
Irish a 6 to 0 win over Northwestern.
And so, when Rockne and his men left
to play Southern California at Los
Angeles the first week in December,
Rockne decided at the last minute to
take Parisien along. How Parisien
begged to get into the game late in
the last quarter with Notre Dame
| trailing the Trojans and how he tossed
the passes that gave Notre Dame the
victory, is football history.
This year Niemiec will be in much
the same position, except that he I'M
doubtedly will see more service than
| did Parisen He is fine kicker and
an accurate passer. And while he
also is a great runner, he will be used
| almost entirely as a kicker and pasSer
| In emergencies.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09

As slick and bright as one of John
q. ROckefeller's shiny dimes and with
his brain buzzing with tricks, the
grand old man of American football"
Amos Alonzo Stagg, has whipped to-
gether his thirty-seventh football elev-
en- at the University of Chicago with
as much ardOr as he did back in the
early nineties.
Prospects for a winning team aren't
so bright for Stagg and his Maroon
warriors this year, but the last one to
admit it is the siXty-siX-year-old gray
eagle himself
Out on the practice field day after
day, rain or shine, stands the martial
figure of Maroon gridiron lore, sans
hat and with tousseled locks tossing
TO and fro as he shouts instructions.
Not a mistake escapes his eye and he
is just as dynamic as ever.
swell, Pm at it again and we are go
ing 10 have another good team this
year." he beamed confidently as he
talked TO his recruits. I'VE want TO
win, but, you know, winning isn't ev-
erything. It's winning or losing right
by clean playing. We haven't as
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09

pened outside the boundaries he set for
it. He could not foresee that it would
grow so big, L'Enfants city was to be
only two and a half miles wide and
three and a half miles long His plan
for that city is today as he made 1t,
needing only beautificat ton.
The city did not grow much bigger
until the War of Secession, when it
underwent a sudden and fictitious ex-
to get in their work. Washington i'm
mediately grew beyond the limits
known to EEnfant and President
Washington, and in building up the
outer sections nothing was thought G.
but money returns. Yet so meticulous-
ly had L'Enfant laid out the plan it
was not possible to turn it into con-
fusion even when greed and ignorance
had done their worst. The new city,
the greater Washington, had to grow
generally along L'Enfant's lines in
spite of itself
But it was cursed and degraded by
defacements Impertinent buildings in
terjected themselves into the plan;
streets ambled off into the Land of
Nod and disappeared. L'Enfant's pet
fantasy. the Mail, lay fallow, though
he had planned so wisely that nothing
can prevent it's towering into consum-
nation whenever congress so wills.
The distortion of the original idea had
become such an eyesore by 1901 that
a congressional commission, headed by
Senator James Mcmillan, of Michigan,
set about restoring the L'Enfant plan
wherever it had been departed from,
and embodied it's praiseworthy attempt
in legislation which still rules
Ever since then the task of unifying
and greatening Washington has been
carried indefatigably on, and succeed
ing congresses have been more and
more friendly and attentive.
The present plan, put into opera
ton some two years ago by the pub
lie buildings commission, headed by
Senator Smoot of Utah and having an
initial fund of $5,000000 at its dis
pOsal, follows closely the plan of Len
FAINT. The outstanding feature in it
is the Mall or Monument Gardens, eX-
tending from the Washington monu-
ment to the capitol and tianked by
new fedora! buildings. And if this
plan is completed, as it is hoped it
will be. in time for the George Wash
ington celebration in 1882, some of the
honor paid that great American then
will be shared by the young French
engineer whom he backed in his effort
to give this country a capital city
beautiful.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
NIEMIEC SERVING
AS PINCH HITTER
Coach Rockne Keeping His
Triple Threat on Bench.

One of Notre Danes all-American
prospects has been gracing the great
er part of the present season as re-
suit of Coach Knute X. Rockne's de-
cision to keep Johnny Niemiec, triple
threat left half back, out of all games
in which the Irish are not pressed to
the limit TO win.
Niemiec was injured during the lat
ter part of the 1927 season at time
when he was dividing honors in the
back field with Christy Flanagan.
Flanagan held down the regular left
half berth, but Niemic was in action
about as often as Christy, and where
Christy could only run, Niemiec could
run, kick and pass. He looked like
one of the greatest prospects in years
at Notre Dame, and Rockne was count
ing on him to take Flanagan's place
when the latter was graduated.
Then, just when he appeared to be
at his peak. Niemiec was injured.
During the winter and spring, DR..
Leslie Cl0ugh, NOtre Dame trainer,
kept Niemiec under his care. When
baseball season came around Niemiec
was able to hold down his position at
third base and gave no sign of being
troubled by the old injury. 1t ap-
peared he would be ready for big
football season this fall.
But wher scrimmage started, the in
jured member was weakened by bumps
it received. Fearing he might lose his
star permanently, Rockne decided to
keep him out of the rough work as
much as possible and use him only in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
Catcher Tells About
Vance's Burning Speed

Catcher De Berry of the Brooklyn
team said few days ago. "Tve been
catching Dazzy Vance for eight years
in the National league and he's an
increasing marvel to me every time
] go behind the plate. He's so much
superior 20 every pitcher | ever saw
i don't see how Vance ever loses a
game" DaZzy famed exactly 200 nat
tiers this year. He whitfield only 1874
in 1927. His biggest year for strike,
outs was 1924, when he turned in 262.
and in 1925 he came back to register
221. He has been National league
king seven years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
Kentucky Derby Winner
Bears a Charmed Life

The conviction grows that Reign
Count was born for great deeds by
the charmed life he seems to have.
He escaped minor fire at Saratoga
Springs and a cOnhagratiOn when the
stables on Mr.. Hertz private farm
were burned with such heavy loss
in blood stock. That came pretty
close to being a racing catastrophe
Reign Count also recovered from an
ailment, following his victory in the
Kentucky derby. which would have
meant the end of some horses. What
else, then. but that his destiny leads
to England and the Ascot gold cup?
He would be missed in this country.
but greater glory awaits him aboard.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
British Golf Improves

British golf has taken turn for
the better. What was believed the
most remarkable hole-in-one ever
achieved was credited to George Kir-
by, Southampton professional, who
holed out his drive on the 340-yard
ninth hole at the Stoneham course.
7 his was declared To be the longest
hole on which an ace had been made.
f. F. Sales. Sunningdale professional
lowered Bobby .IOnes' record for that
famous course by two strokes. Sales
made the circuit I'm 32-32-f4
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
Just a Few Years Make
Great Deal Difference

Not so many years back Jack Dunn
sold Jack Bentley to John McGraw
for a sum said to be S72,5OO Bentley
was an unbeatable pitcher one day
a week and a home run-hitting first
baseman the other six days He
earned his pay at Baltimore and
looked great.
McGraw bought him for a pitcher
He was a sOuthpaw. But he didn't do
so well up there. And he wasn't worth
$4,000 and nice salary as pinch
hitter so John McGraw just let him
go TO Newark. And failing as a pitch
er for Walter Johnson he was traded
to York. Pa, where he is to be maD-
ager and play first base and pitch.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
Listens With His Fingers

A man in Rochester, n. Y, listens
to broadcast music with his fingers.
Ever since all illness at the age of
six. he has been deaf and dumb.
His receiver is homemade and com
prises unique cone-type loudspeakert
with the addition of AN invention Of
his own that is connected TO the un
der-sized cone parchment.
He hears by feeling the vibrations
on the parchment. and is able to dis
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
.3!sI!I4yg1I

There are about ten women polo
teams in northwestern Canada.
Jimmy Foxx has played outfield,
first, third and caught and pitched.
Howard college will play Havana in
Havana December I. Last year How.
ard won 20 to 6.
The Midwest Football league is
represented by more than fifty teams
in the United States.
The University of Idaho football
team will cover 6,6OO miles in four
games away this season.
Cleveland Bowling association has
1858 regular teams and 10S booster
teams enlisted in its folds.
Jack Cameron, young Canadian
golfer, is the first amateur ever to
win the open championship of Quebec
The first announcement Of Ty Cotb's
retirement from baseball was printed
in New York newspaper in July
1918.
After playing golf for II years, VIII
bur Loos, professional, made his first
hole-in-one recently at Blowing Rock,
in North Carolina.
The Pirates have landed another
collegian in Ralph Erickson, southpaw
pitcher, who first attracted notice at
the University of Idaho.
Frank Shields of New York, junior
national singles tennis champion is
now at Roxbury school, Cheshire.
Conn, preparing to gain admission to
Yale.
Smoky Joe" Williams. fifty-two-
year-old pitcher of the Baltimore
Black SOx, recently hurled nO-hit no
run game in Akron, Ohio. facing only
% batters.
The Brooklyn Cricket club, cham
pion of Metropolitan and the New
York and New Jersey leagues. ended
its 1928 season with II wins, one
draw and one loss.
HOneyboy Finigan, Boston light
weight, has been beaten sly times dur
ing his ring career and each time he
has evened the score by getting the
victor into another bout
Two runs totaling 203 yards was
the outstanding feature of Gil
Welch's work at Pittsburgh last year
He ran West Virginia kickoff back
for los yards and a Nebraska kick
off for % yards. ta
Bobby Jones has won the United
States open championship twice, the
amateur four times, and the British
open, in the last six years.
Fielding III. YOst, Jr., son of Michi
gan's famous football coach. is n
freshman at North Carolina this year
lie plays football and baseball
Martha Norelius. member of tn,
! United States Olympic team recent,
sci a new worlds record of 4 minutes
| S.3 second in winning the 300-me.
| swim l.. Vienna
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
Audacious French Thieves

Amazing audacity was displayed by
criminals who raided the prison of
Melun, near Paris. Despite the close
watch maintained on the Jail day and
night. burglars succeeded in making
weighed 500 pounds and contained
$4,000 They evidently climbed over
the wall with the aid of a ladder. and
then went TO the governors office. the
windows. of which were barred. They
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
Valued That Dime

When James Taylor was asked by
Judge Joseph Mccarthy, of Chicago
why he had been carrying revolver
Taylor replied that 1t was to protect
his money. How much money was he
carrying?" the judge asked the police
man who had made the arrest. Ten
cents" replied the policeman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
Pipe-Layine Methods

Pneumatic methous save revolution
lied the work of laying gas mains. A
truck provides air 10 operate tools for
digging the trench and to drive wire
brushes for cleaning The pipe prepare
tory tn assembling and an air blaA;
blows OUT The pipe before joining.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
New Endurance Record

Records were broken recently at the
University of California at Los An
geles. when S. Chotiner scored 492
points i'm the physical education classi-
fication tests required of all entering
freshmen. SCATTERING the old record Of
400 points set by Jim Hudson in 1875.
Events in which t'h0tiner scored his
high total are the baseball throw
long dive, standing broad Jump. the
lip. lodging. quarter mile run. and
the football punt. thotinei getlirg of
IA record kick of go yards.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09

When baby is constipated, has wind
collie, feverish breath, coated-tongue,
or diarrhea, Tablespoonful of gen
uine California Fig Syrup" promptly
moves the poisons, gases, bile, sour
ing food and waste right out. Never
cramps or overacts. Babies love its
delicious taste.
Ask your druggist for genuine Cali
fornia Fig Syrup" which has full sdirec--
tons for infants in arms, and children
Of all ages, plainly printed on bottle.
Mother! You must say california" or
you may get an imitation fig syrup.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
The Old Rocking Chair

Some one becomes sad and despond.
ent over the passing of the family
rocking chair. 1t has no place in mod
ern life. One now demands something
that he can easily jump out of, for the
automobile or airplane may be wait
ing at the door. For quick exit, the
old family rocker is haZard.-Hart-
ford City News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09

the blocks received their present rec
tangular form
duced into England about 1888, but
some time elapsed before the value OF
firm foundation, such as portland
cement concrete, was fully appreciated
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
Minerals for Health

The most important mineral sub
stances required in food are the salts
of iron. iodine phosphorus. calcium
manganese. potash and soda. Iron Is
required for the blood The red color
ing matter carries the oxygen all over
he body
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09

tinguish talking from music He can
pick out the various instruments the
orchestra play, and depends entirely
on his wireless receiver for his en-
iOyment
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
First Paued Road

Russia is said to be the first country
where wood blocks were used for paw
ing roads Tile first blocks consisted
of short uniform lengths. round in
shape, as cut from the tree trunks.
Later the shape was altered to hexa
gon to secure a closer joint. and finally
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
Hospitality

The few who treat courteous caller
harShly are mostly those who revel
i'm their own misery and want every
one around TO be miserable. too.-
Farm and Fireside.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
Removing Air From Water

The bureau of standards says thai
,ir can he removed from water by the
simple expedienf at boiling. especIall!
bIiling under vacuum
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09

sawed through the bars, entered and
tried to open the safe, hut finding the
task too difficult carried il of with
them. How they did il remains
MYSTERY
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
STOMACH TROUBLE

BEYER'S STOMACH TABLETS are re-
commended for indigestion, sour stomach,
hypcracidity, gas in the stomach, ulcers,
pain before and after eating, CO a tie
tongue, bad breath, dizziness, vomiting,
chronic dyspepsia, heaviness and bloating,
heartburn and nausea. Trial treatment
IS cents. Beyer's System, Medical De
partment, 10 South 7th Street. Minne-
apoiis. Minnesota.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
CALIFORNIA =
Essential Lacking

"Whats holding up the rOund-tabIe
conference?"
"They had to send out for a round
table."-Life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09
Signals in Spanish
Help Texas Eleven

By practicing their Spanish
lessons on the gridiron Trinity
university football players be-
lieve they have found way to
outwit opponents without using
the huddle.
The team lines up and the
, quarterback sings out:
"Singales! Veinte, dos, ocho.
) Comprendes ustedes?"
The ball is snapped and an
end run is made.
The drawback, of course, is
that opponents also may be stu
dents of Spanish.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09

According to a leading London hat
ter, five times as many silk "stOve-pipe
hats" are being sold this year as in
1928
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09

localized portrait of L'Enfant OIL
the medallion made by Leon chatdain,
in the Chevy Chase Savings bank,
Washington.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09

Martha Norellus. member at tn,
United States Olympic team. recent,
SET new worlds record of minute,
S.3 second in winning rile 300-me. ;
swim l.. Vienna
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w. N. u, Minneapolis. No. 45--1s2s.-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09

Fielding II. Yost, Jr., son of Michi
gan's famous football coach. is n
freshman at North Carolina this year
lie plays football and baseball.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-09

Bobby Jones has won the United
States open championship twice, the
amateur four times, and the British
open, in the last six years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

of Archangel, the White Sea and west
around Sweden and Norway a large
number Of troop transports to England,
thence to be landed in France to over
whclm the Germans by this surprise
flood of reinforcements.
Anxiously Lody went about for other
versions of the rumors. His task be-
came only too easy, an embarrassment
of riches From every side there poured
in on him reports, report of reports.
tales that were patiently harebrained;
others that had the ring of truth.
Among the last mentioned were re-
ports of contracts signed by great Eng
fish shipping firms for the transport
from Archangel to Aberdeen OF many
shiploads full of "furs for army great
coats" Again there came to Lody ru-
mors of the route along which the Rus
sian army of achievements would
come to London from Aberdeen by way
of Edinburgh.
Even the date of the probable land
ing was now matter of common Cos
sip.
Lcdy had been taught in the spy
school in Koenigergratzer Strasse some
thing of the technique of measuring the
degree of truth u what he heard. He
did not want Do pass this rumor on to
Berlin unless there should prove to be
some fire behind the smoke. For If he
were to judge by the effect on himself
such ru,nor spread through Germany
would have powerfully depressing
EJECT on his countrymen.
He determined not to go of half
cooked on this important matter.
Then in the House of Commons one
day member arose and asked the
question, What basis is there to the
rumor that Russia has despatched
troops for the western front by way of
England?" The reply by the govern
ment was, ut is not in the interest of
the country to give out information on
troop movements"
Still Lcdy felt uncertain. In the spy