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put much of the collection in order from time
to time as it has been added to-
Mrs. Hoover does not come to my shop
herself. She sends one of her secretaries
over in one of the White House cars with the
precious pieces. They are too valuable to be
trusted to ordinary messenger.
IT also mended White House vase for Mrs.
Hoover. The vase. very piece of Eng
lish china, had been presented to the United
States by some foreign country. The top had
been broken.
Mrs. Cleveland the first mistress of the
White House who brought me work to do. That
was during Clevelands second administration.
I wasn't here during his first She used to come
in herself. She vas very good-looking and had
a very charming manner. She had a kind word
:or everybody. 1 msnded various objects in her
personal collection. remember especially some
very fine candlesticks of Nielsen ware.
AFTER Gen. Grants death Mrs. Grant moved
back to Washing on and she had me mend
many things in her fine collection, which has
since been given to the National Museum.
There mirror with a beautifully carved
ivory frame and a number of fine pieces of
china and some glass bottles which had been
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Mrs. Crouer Cleveland, ,chO sent many
precious pieces of china to Mr.. Burfeind.
precious ivories which she and the President
collected on their trip around the world that
he might replace the parts broken or lost in
shipping them home.
dignified United States Senator wandered
into his shop recently with a quaint old copper
luSter cream pitcher which had belonged to
his great-grandmother. He wanted the missing
handle and the spout replaced SO to defy
detection
Lady Spring Rice brought her internationally
known collection of fans for him to replace the
lost and broken ivory and pearl sticks, to mend
the broken silk and paint the missing parts
of the exquisite pa terms.
It is doubtful if there is any one else in the
United States who could undertake the delicate
tasks which come into George H. BurfeindS
little basement shop down on New York avenue,
in Washington. Mr.. Burfeind Is an artist, al
though he would never claim that distinction
for himself, sort of versatile genius who can
turn his hand to anything and does everything
with skill and artistry.
All the mistresSeS of the White House, with
one exception, since the time when the gracious
Mrs Grover Cleveland held sway, have been his
clients. So have members of the diplomatic
corps in Washington we'll internationally
known importers of objets dart.
LIE mends delicate china pearl and ivory
fans, marble and tortoise curos; he
carves delicate pieces of ivory. teakwood and
sandalwood; he fashions bits of silver pearl
inlay TO replace fragments which ruthless hands
have torn oft of some precious object. He can
build up entire article from a fragment.
Therefore, he must know the rudiments of clay
modelling, glazing, firing and painting of china.
the tricks OF the wood-carverS art, and in ad-
dition he must be research expert to supply
himself with the information to make his re-
productions and his fragments historically
curate.
Naturally, his clients have been men and
women who have owned and priced precious
old things For the most part they have been
women of prominence rather than men, for it
is usually tn; woman of the family who looks
after the family mending when the
tice to be mended is some treasured posses
sion of her husbands Although his work is
not always heavy and he must often turn his
hand to some other occupation to supplement
his income he is known all America and
in several foreign countries for the very fine
work he can do.
found him bending a workbench mend
ing valuable Bavarian china cake plate. One
of the handles the side had been broken
and the frat ment had been lost. He was
rounding of the ends into attractive in
Verted horseshoe-Iike ornament and cutting the
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presented to her and to Gen. Grant on their
trip around the world. Several of these bottles
from the glass factory owned by the
famous Songbrd. Jenny Lind.
II used to know Prof. Samuel Pierpont Lang
ley, too and Prof. Mason, one of his assistants.
One job that took to do on the side was help
ing put in vault at the Smithsonian Institu-
ton. got acquainted with Prof. Langley dur
ing the time he was working on his airplane
experiments. He really invented flying you
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the Roosevelt set for Mrs. Hoover. You know,
of course that collections of china belonging
to the various Presidents of the United States
have been made and are constantly being added
to when an old piece comes to light some
where. It is on exhibition in the cabinets in
the east wing of the White House, which is
always open to the public. Most of the PreSi-
dents wives in recent years have expressed
interest in this collection of china, and have
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parts of the fences and the houses themselves.
For Mrs. Coolidge I did nothing personal
only some of the White House china. When
Lady Spring Rice was at the British embassy
she came into my shop herself and brought
some of her very fine fans to mend. She
had particularly famous collection with carved
ivory and pearl sticks, some of them painted
on white kid by well known French artists.
They were very old, but most of them were IN
beautiful condition
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Mender of Rare White House HelrlOOms

know He did all there wAs to do to fly. He
wasn't very we'll when knew him and shortly
afterward he died. He knew a lot about pot
terry and china. He was especially Interested
in the old blue Colonial china, of which he
had quite collection. He gave me some pieces
out of the museums collection to mend and
he sent other people to me-"
MR. BURFEIND stepped over to a. shelf and
A'A picked up the top to an old blue china tea
pot, one that was made in the Colonial days
An exquisite Indian blue it was, darker than
the blue of Canton ware, This top was
smashed in small bits he said, land had to
mold a new knob out of bisque for it and then
color it over" 1t looked perfectly preserved
to me.
How did you know what shape that knob
should be?" he asked.
"Oh, I got some books from the Library and
studied up on it. Sometimes I am fortunate
enough to find cut showing how an old piece
should look Then it is very easy" he explained.
And here is an old earthenware pitcher, o
very fine one, made by the early Virgnians."
1t was gold and brown and green in gorgeous
splashings of color. II have put the handle
back and now am going to fire 1t in and then
rub down these Clipped places on the spout
and glaze it again. 1 have mended a number
of old Colonial plates of the Gov. Bradford
china now in the Boston Museum.
Mrs Mckinley was especially interested in
the china for the White House cabinets and
she sent me some of it to mend. did few
odd jobs for the Roosevelts and for the Tafts,
but not a great deal for either family. The
Taf,s did bring few of the plates which
had belonged to President Lincoln'S china.
ct DID one rather interesting job for South
American diplomat. 1 don't suppose it
would do to tell just which His country
had sent to President Roosevelt very fine vase
in ebony showing the map of his country. The
base was of gold and it was adorned with
gold eagle. Somewhere on its long journey be-
fore it reached the Minister of that South
American country who was to present 1t to
Mr. Roosevelt, it was smashed to bits.
THE much disturbed Minister brought It b
me and wanted a perfect job made of it for
the presentation ceremonies I can't tell you
how many pieces it was in. He had a photo.
graph of the vase from which could work.
Mr. Burfeind laughed significantly. well, Il
got through the presentation ceremonies with
out detection of the breakage, and, so far as
know the repairs have never been noticed 20
this lay.
II did lots of work for the second Mrs VIII
son. Some in China sent her miniature
Chinese village carved in ivory which was
valued at $250O to $4,000. I think the preSen-
tation was made through the Chinese legation.
At any rate, the village was scrambled when it
arrived. I had to mend to replace parts Of
the little suites of furniture In the houses and
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velt family was in the White House 1t Is now
on exhibition with the china of the other
Presidents in the cabinets in the east wing OF
the Executive Mansion.
Mrs Ulysses S. Grant brought him the
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: RS. HERBERT HOOVER sends
him precious pieces of White
House china to mend. Recently
she sent some pieces belonging
to the set used when the RooSe-
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BY NELL RAY CLARKE.

You may break, you may Shdtter the
case, il you IOiH,
But the scent of the roses t0iu hang
round it STILL Thomas Moore
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Dutch ZwilIing's Clan Back in
Second Place After Cir.
cult Trip
BENTON BLANKS ST. PAUL
Toledo's Mudhsns Edge Out
Win Over Senators by
Clustering Hits

Chicago, June 3.-HeThe Kansas
City Blues were back home today for
q seven-day stay, during which Dutch
DWELLINGS, team will battle to regain
the American association lead.
The Blues left home Is days ago
topping the league. but the jaunt into
st. Paul, Minneapolis and Milwaukee
proved too much Of q strain and they
slipped to second place. st. Paul's i'm
proving team val to furnish the op-
position for three days, after which
Minneapolis Is scheduled for a four
day series.
Kansas City took the -inal game Of
the series from Milwaukee yesterday,
IL to 5. A six-run assault on Charley
Robertson and Rosy Ryan in the
third, during which the Blues made
seven straight hits. proved the margin
Of victory. Three Kansas City hurlers
held the Brewers to six hits. but
caused themselves misery by walking
nine men.
Old Rube Benton turned in a four
hit game against st. Paul In the odd
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AR. CHES|K BREAKS
1874 OF ga DESPITE
Strong EAST WIND
George Ebert, Bismarck, Is
Third in $50 16.Yard|
Singles Event
MlNOT SENDS ONLY o N
First Registered Trapshoot Of
Season for State spon-
sored Here

A. r. Chcsik, Portal, led q field
Of 81 nimrods from seven North Da-
kota cities in three events of North
Dakota's first registered trapshoot
of the season conducted here by the
Bismarck gun club yesterday.
Chesik broke 1874 of 224 targets
in the three events, $50 16-yard
singles, 50 handicap, and 2-pair
doubles. The Portal man and J. b.
Troeh, Minot, were tied in the
singles with marks Of 1856 and
George Ebert, Bismarck. was third
with 1876. Chesik, with 19, was high
in the doubles.
C. F. Ellis, Mandan, and Captain
Saunders, Minot, tied for the lead
in the handicap event.
A strong cast wind handicapped
the shooters and scores made were
not impressive.
Mrs. ]. w. Hamilton, Minot, was
the only woman to compete. Pro-
f~essionals in the competition were
H. E. Secord, Grand Forks; L. C..
Campbell, Minot; and H. B. Adams,
Fargo.
The summary of the shoot follows.
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Big 10 Committee
Meets Tomorrow

Chicago. June 3.-H9-University
Of Iowa officials today were mar
shaling their forces in preparation for
their meeting with a special commit
tee Of the Big Ten faculty group,
which will hear IoWa's petition for
reinstatement into the conference.
Prof. George A. Goodenough of the
University Of Illinois. last night an
nounced the meeting at which he,
with Prof. p. e. French Of Ohio State
University, and Prof. James Page of
the University Of Minnesota, will rep
resent the faculty committee. would
be held tomorrow here.
The group. he said. would hear the
Iowa spokesman. and would then
recommend a course Of action to the
committee. He said any one of three
recommendations might be made.
They were:
That the severing Of athletic rela-
tons with Iowa by other Big Ten
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Grove Giants Rob
a Bases, Get a
Hits, Beat Martin
Final Score Is IS to ~; Local
Club Will Face coopsrs.
town Next

Manager Clarence E. Orton's Grove
Giants Saturday afternoon at the
state penitentiary diamond defeated
Martin Is to IL for their fifth win Of
the season IN . game which was fea.
tured by - hits and - stolen bases.
Each team secured II bingles but
the Giants were credited with 40 of
the - stolen bases.
The Giants scored nine runs ia the
fourth while Martin scored five In the
ninth for the two biggest INNINGS.
The Giants stole home four times.
Carroll and Elem pitched for the Bis
marck and visiting teams respectively.
Cooperstown will meet the Giants
here 1t l:so O'Clock next Saturday.
The box score:
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KANSAS CITY HOME TO FACE
MILLER AND SAINT MACHINES

game of the series. and Minneapolis
scored a 6 to 0 triumph. Two Of the
hits off the Miller southpaw we're Of
the infield variety. Minneapolis To-
Gated Pete Zurnbro and Shealy for
nine hit.. punched In the fifth, sixth
and seventh innings. The victory was
Benton's eighth Of the season, against
two defeats.
Clustering their hits off Meyer in
the first and fifth innings. the To-
ledo Mudhens edged out q 6 to S win
over Columbus to even up the series.
Howard Freigau's home run In the
fifth with q man on gave the Hens
the decision. Both jeff Pfeffer and
Meyers were hit hard. the former
yielding IL safeties and the Senator
hurler IL.
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Larry Benton Bests Sheriff
Fred Blake and Giants
Win by 4 to |
LOU GEHRIG GETS TWELFTH
Piperas Allows White Sox Six
Hits and Yankees Are
Victorious

What with postponements and gaps
In the schedule In the non-Sunday
cities of Pennsylvania. the Sabbath
program In the major leagues yester-
day was reduced to exactly one-half
OF a normal days campaign. Both the
Athletics and the Cardinals, the two
league leaders, helped themselves by
doing nothing at all. and the aus Of
the Pirates certainly was not injured
by inactivity which prevailed In Pitts
burgh.
Although George Pipgras, aided by
Lou Gehrig's twelfth home run.
pitched the Yankees to their second
straight decision over the White Sox
by s to l at the Yankee stadium, the
Browns were nosed out in Washing
ton by 2 to l.
In defeating the White Sox Pipgras
allowed but six hits. Kcrr's single and
Metzler's triple in the third saved
Chicago from q shut-out. After trail
ing st. Louis by l to 0 for seven
rounds Washington tied the score
against George Blacholder in the
eighth and then won out in the ninth
on Joe Cronin'S double and two sac
rifices.
Red Sox bats hammered a merry
tune against the barriers at Braves
field yesterday at the expense of
Messrs. Shaute and Terrell, and Bos.
ton won by II to 3. Milton Castor
pitched for the Sox and received bat
ting support amounting to Is hits,
one of them q homer by Scarritt.
With rain in both st. Louis and
Cincinnati, the National league pro-
gram was confined to Wrigley field.
where the Giants and the Cubs
braved wintry blasts from Lake Mich
igan to amuse 81 1000 Sabbath clients.
Sheriff Fred Blake plunged into a
desperate duel with Larry Benton for
six innings and blew up in the sew
enth under the strain OF q o to o
score. The Giants punched six hits
together for four runs, and won
eventually by 4 to /.
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Workmen Beat
Lair Knights
Manager Charlie Blue Shifts
Lineup Frequently in Open.
ing Contest

Entering their first game of the
season, the Lair Knights, baseball
team representing the Lair Motor
Sales company, bowed to the A. o.
U. w. outfit yesterday morning.
The score was Is to 13.
Manager Charlie ]. Blue shifted
his knight lineup frequently in an
effort to get a winning combination
and the Workmen used three hurlers.
The Knights meet Cleveland at
Cleveland next Sunday.
Batteries for yesterdays game:
Workmen, Schneider, F. Hummel, L.
Klein and Kelley; Knights, Ahlen,
Paul Schultz and George Schultz.
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MICHIGAN OUTFIT
CLINCHES TITLE

Chicago. June ~3.-(R)-Michigan's
baseball team will embark In July for
its invasion Of Japan bearing the
title Of 1929 Big Ten champion.
Facing the necessity Of winning its
final game Of the season Saturday. to
dominate the conference for the sec.
ond successive year. Michigan out
slugged Ohio State for q Is to IL vic
tory. The triumph gave the Wolver-
ines a season record of seven victories
and two defeats.
Wisconsin and Minnesota will play
the final game Of the Big Ten season
Saturday. and the Badgers must win
to take second place. Wisconsin and
Iowa are tied with seven wins and
three defeats each.
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HAGEN PLANNING
A WORLD JAUNT

London. June 3.-R)-Walter Ha-
gems bid for his fifth British open
golf championship will be delayed at
least q year.
"Sir Walter" told = crowd Of ad-
mirers at Waterloo station yesterday
that he would not compete In the
classic next year because he Is booked
for q South American and world tour
that will not permit him to visit
Great Britain.
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Negro Shades Indian and Jamestown Nine Trims Grays 5 to 3
new YORK CLUBS WIN TWIN
VICTORY OVER CHICACOANS

schools after January I, 1880, might
be reaffirmed:
That the period to January I, 1880,
be made q probationary one, after
which the committee would make q
decision on 1owa's status.
That Iowa Immediately be restored
to good standing In the Big Ten.
When Iowa was expelled last week
the reason for the action by the Big
Ten faculty committee ~ given as
recruiting and substituting athletes"
since that time the reason gradually
has evolved into one of charges of
alumni and outside interference In
the administration OF athletics at
Iowa.
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Errors-L. Finn, Manley, Krisler
2, Heinrich 2, 6chweitzcr, 6l.erer, D.
Finn. Stolen DISCRETIONARY. oacri-
lices-Leif. Two.basc hits-Leif,
Thole 2, L. Finn. p. Finn. polonsky.
Tenrich. 6herer. Krush :. lIits-OM
D Finn, II In 3 innings: off L. Finn,
{ In . innings. Struck OUT. D.
Finn. 5: BY I. Finn, Z. Bases on balls
Off I Finn. 3. HIT BY pitcher-oil-
more, Peters. Schweitxer. Time Of
game, la. umpires-Touer, Under
wood: Wilson, Washburu.
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Doubles-Guidas and Fuller 2;
Nagel, johnson. Lenaburg. and Wris-
ten ].
Triples-Nagel 1.
RunS-Johnson 8: Sagehorn Z.
Stolen bases-Johnson 4: Nagel.
Tobin. and Mohn 2: Grimes and
Sagehorn /.
Sacrifices-Tobin 4; Fuller 8;
Guidas 2: sagehorn. Nagel, Cosgriff.
and Lenaburg /.
6trikeouts-Wristen al: Day II:
Love 10.
Pitching-Wristen won 3, lost o;
Love won l, lost o: Day won 0, lost I.
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PYLE'S DERBY IS
NEARING FINISH

0ylas. Ariz., June 3.-lR-At the
end Of the % mile-lap 70 Miami to-
day, the - surviving runners Ia the
Pyle cross country race win have only
064 miles to cover In two weeks TO
reach l0s Angeles. TO date the bun.
ioneess have Travelled 2,e90.A miles.
Johnny ealo. passajc. n. J., had q
lead Of Is minutes ~ seconds over
pete oavussa Of England 1t today's
start.
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@1aeasssSoss @
TLEADERs 81
INCLUDING GAMES OF JUNE 2
by the Associated Prcss)

NATIONAL
Batting-O'Doul CPhillies), All.
Runs-Douthit Cards, Al.
HomerS-Klein (Phillies), Is.
Stolen bases-Cuyler (Cubs), IL.
Pitching-Grimes pirates, won 8,
lost O..
AMERICAN
Batting-Foxx (Attlctics), Az.
Runs-Gehring (Tigers). 40.
Homers-Gehrig CYanks). II.
Stolen bases - West (Senators),
Metzler white Sox), 6.
Pitching - Uhle (Tigers), won g.,
lost o.
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TAKE ~

TAKE ATHLETICS VOLUNTARILY
Colorado University authorities say
that 8 per cent of the men enrolled
participate voluntarily In some sport
each year.
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Two base hits - Sims, Gray.
Struck out by-Sims, Z; Day, IA.
Hits off-Day, z in 9 innings; Sims,
I in 8 innings. Wild Pitch-Day.
Hit by pitcher-Fergus and Chap
mar by Day. Base on balls-Guidas.
Passed ball - Guidas. Winning
pitcher - Sims. Losing pitcher -
Day. Stolen bases-Gray, Sims 2,
Schsuer, Mohn. Sacrifices-Willard.
Left on bases-Jamestown, s: Bis
maSck, 3. Time Of rame-l:55.
Unpires - Schultz, Mandan, and
Eeiekeyt, jamestown.
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GILBERT IMPRESSED BUSH

Charley Colbert, rookie shortstop
with the st. Louis Cards, has already
earned warm praise from DOME Bush,
Pittsburgh manager, by his excellent
fielding.
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DETROIT GETS STAR COLLEGIAN
Charley Falk, hard hitting infielder
from Santa Clara college in Califor-
MIA, recently accepted terms offered
by Detroit.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE

Benton and Hogan, OFarrell;
Blake. Cvengros, Horne and Schultz,
Grace.
Brooklyn at st. Louis-two games
postponed, rain.
Boston at Cincinnati postponed,
rain.
Others not scheduled.
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FOIL rs Ar nES MONIES

Lee Fohl, former big league man
ager. IS now managing the Des
Noines club in the Western league.
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rANTe no DO BETTER

Carl lark, Army cadet, hopes to
make = better discus throw than the
1880 Of 168 fest 8 inches in the
0k3ks Relays. That hesve beat the
1sted World record.
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Others not scheduled.
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Fort Worth Divorce Asks Attor.
ney TO Withdraw Breach
Of Promise Suit
n ASKS JUDGMENT
Former Plumber Husband Of
Woman Sooks Hall 4 Million,
Blaming Gene for Divorce

Bridgeport, Conn.,, Dec. 2l.-(AP)
The desire Of Mrs. Katherine
King Fogarty, Fort Worth, Texas,
d~ivorcee, to withdraw her $500, 900
breach Of promise suit against James
]. Tunney, found the retired heavy
weight champion today demanding .
fight to q decision.
Frank L. Wilder, Mrs. Fogarty's
counsel. announced In court yester-
day, after he had been granted per-
mission to quit the case q her rep
resentative, that Mrs. Fogarty had
dispatched q letter authorizing .
withdrawal Of the action. which was
brought In superior court last May.
Tunney's attorney. Homer S.
Cummings, Immediately filed Z mo-
ton for Judgment Of his cross conf
plant, which, among other things,
alleges the suit was brought merely
TO dofame Tunney and to extort
money. The motion will Be argued
next Friday before Judge Carl Fos-
ter.
Mrs. Foearty's letter, Wilder said,
was written In Boston and was dated
Nov. 4.
At the present time Tunncy is liv-
ing in Greenwich with his wife, the
fofmer Polly Lauder, whom he mar
ried abroad before the breach Of
promise suit was filed.
A suit for $4,000 brought
against the former boxer BY John
H. Foearty. one-time Fort Worth
plumber who charged Genes prom
lee to wed his wife Influenced her
to obtain . divorces ffom' him, 4
pending.
Mrs. Fogarty charged that Tsa-
nsy proposed % her In Hot Springs,
-ASky 1mezawAo9fss Gles accepted,
she said. but found later h. had
Z change Of heart.
Tunnsy was In Italy when the
suit was filed but ne answered
through counsel, denying everything.
He also charged that the woman had
twice been 1bought off, when she
threatened 70 sue him.