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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
Teachers Take
Inspection Trip

MISS LOA GREEN and Miss
Winifred Everill have returned
from a trip to Ann Arbor and
Jackson, during which they Wis
tied grade schools in both cities.
observing teaching technique
and method, and attended the
third annual Camera Club ban
quet at the Methodist Church in
Jackson Friday night.
At the latter event, David
Davas, PISA, was speaker, talk
ing on Control Technique in Pic
torial Photography. More than
200 persons were present. They
were guests of Miss Elizabeth
Camburn.
At Mack School in Ann Ar
Dor, the two local school execu-
tives observed work in arithme-
tic and reading, and attended a
committee meeting on Safety. A
total of 400 pupils attend this
school. Pearl Street school in
Jackson, with 800 pupils, has
most effective system for hall
behavior, cor d ing to Miss
Green.
CORP. AND MRS. HERMAN
ISRAEL DEITY Jane BluemeD
announce the arrival of a son,
Herman Otto III, born at 6
o'clock this morning at the home
Of Mrs. Israers parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Otto Bluemel. $50 Euclid
avenue. Corp. Israel, who is sta
tion ed at Baer Field, Fort
Wayne, Ind, arrived here last
evening.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
Good Cookies Fill Jars
for Hungry Soldiers

keeping these jars filled with
homemade cookies, and Mrs.
John e. Merrill is in charge. II
you know young men, you know
how popular cookies are with
them. If you have a boy in SER
vice, you will want to bake q
batch of cookies, and will hope
that the women in the town near
his camp will do the same for
him.
Call Mrs. Merrill at 2031-R, or
Girl Scout headquarters-1979,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
Campfire Girls Plan
First Rank Exam

MEMBERS of the Harrison
Campfire Girls will take their
Trail Seekers examination on
March Is. Trail Seekers is the
first rank in Campfire Girl
Work, and awards of four purple
beads for successfully passing
the examination will be made at
the ceremonial on March 20.
A regular meeting is set for
Friday, March 6, in Harrison
town hall, after school.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
Guild Plans
Demonstration

GRACE CHURCH GUILD will
sponsor a free demonstration in
the parish house on Tuesday,
March 10 at 1870 o'clock.
A souvenir will be given to
each person attending and plans
also include door prizes. Mrs.
Charles Sanders is chairman.
Mrs. Giles Hubbard entertain
ed her bridge club at luncheon
today. at her home on Cass ave-
nue..
MIR. AND MRS. PAUL GE-
LINSKI, 1896 Wolf road an
nounce the birth of a son Sunday
morning in st. Joseph's hospital.
ST. AGNES GUILD of ST..
Peters parish will meet Wednes-
day at / o'clock with Miss Mary
Benbennick, Moross avenue.
ELEANOR JUNE KARK,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Her
man Kark of Shoemaker road,
Utica, is celebrating her 18th
birthday anniversary today.
MIR. AND MRS. EARL MAR
SACK of New Baltimore are the
parents of q daughter, born Sum
day morning in ST. Joseph's hos
pital.
HARRISON CIRCLE of Kings
Daughters will have dessert
meeting Wednesday evening at
z o'clock in Harrison Town Hall.
Hostesses will be Mrs. Frank
Castor and Mrs. Clara Strubank.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02

Mr.. Nank. 1888 eradlaaio e
Mount Clemens High echoeo -
tended the University q No..
gan. He Is employed @ ~; d.
troit Edison company. g :
The wedding win be "A GsgDe'
Of early Spring.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
Girls Parents
Bare Engagement

MR.. AND MRS. EMMETT
BALLANTINE of % Lafayette
announce the engagement of
their daughter, Maxine, to Pvt.
Elmer Frohm of Camp Wallace,
Tex, son of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Frohm of So Ahrens street.
Both young people are gradu-
ates of st. Mary's High school,
Miss Ballantine in 1941, and Pvt.
Frohm in 1898. Miss Ballantine
is employed in Rae's Shoe store.
Pvt. Frohm entered the army
on Jan. 10, 1912. No date has
been set for the wedding.
MR.. AND MRS. MICHAEL
AARONSON of Armada an
nounce the arrival o. a son, born
Saturday afternoon in st. JOS
eph's hospital.
UNITED WORKERS CIRCLE
OF Kings Daughters will meet
March IL, at 1870 o'clock, with
Mrs. T. j. Calvin, 1872 Lincoln
avenue.
Evening star., 1942-09-13
BY Left Erickson,
vida World

GRAND LAKE, Colo, Sept. IL (wide
World Long John Austin is as a Babe
Ruth in the tough world Of hard rock
tunnel stiffs.
There's never been another like him.
A slim giant, 6 feet inches tall, he has
to duck to get through most doors.
The Golden Cycle Corp. hired Long
John to drive the smile Carlton mine
drainage tunnel at Cripple Creek, and
figured the job would take four years at
better than ordinary speed.
Long John finished the job in two
years. That's typical.
He's busy now on the western bore OF
the Alva B. Adams water diversion tun-
mel, to run Is miles from Grand Lake to
Estes Park through the Continental
Divide range of the Rockies. The water
will be used to develop hydroelectric
power and to irrigate Northeastern Colo
RADIO farm lands.
Mining Superstitions.
Austin makes a science OF blasting and
digging against time through solid
granite and crumbling faults. But he
never iouts the stubborn superstitions
Of the hard-rock men. They believe, as
sure as death, miner will be killed II
a woman enters a tunnel bore.
THE only time was badly hurt in a
tunnel was the day after I took a woman
in to show her the job" said Austin, a
slanting grin wrinkling around his
piercing pale blue eyes.
TT was the first tunnel job I ever
worked on, and it was nearly my last.
"A roof fall hit me and pinned my legs.
I could see big chunks breaking loose
from the roof. I was stuck and couldn't
move.
ut was hellish thing to lie there and
wonder if the next chunk would hit me
on the head"
Two miners dug Long John loose and
hauled him out, with badly fractured
leg.
On the same job, Louisville G Nash
vile Railroad tunnel near Quicksand,
KY, shift of miners lined up at the
portal ready to 60 to work when two
Negroes ambled right by the tunnel
mouth, one twanging banjo, the other
singing That was in fragrant violation
of the superstition that singing or whis-
tling around tunnel presages a serious
accident.
II knew" Long John recounted, "the
men would never 90 in if I didn't do
something" So he broke the banjo
over one Negro's head, and broke his
own hand on the singers skull.
The Negroes made tracks and the men
went to work
But, you know" Austin went on, "a
man was killed the next day.
1T was the damnedest thing, too. A
rock broke loose on the mountain out
side the tunnel and smashed this fellow
right on the head He just happened
to be standing where it hit.
1.-The boys wouldn't work for two weeks
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name as the countrys fastest tunnel
operator.
In 26 working days, his crews ad-
vanced the tunnel heading 1,lo1 feet,
a miraculous rate for a bore recurring
continuous steel support.
The water districts chief engineer
then put Austin in charge of driving the
Lawrence adit, "the job that turned my
hair gray" Long John says.
The adit was bore, pitched down.
ward at a 25-degree angle, aimed to
hit the middle of the 17-mile San
Jacinto tunnel. The idea was to get
crews working both ways from the
middle to meet the men driving from
both ends of the San Jacinto.
Long John had to fight water run
ming $4,000 gallons minute into the
sloping bore, but he boosted the driving
rate from feet day to 80 feet a day
and finished ahead of schedule
In 1899 Austin started the Carlton
job at Cripple Creek. His men there
Evening star., 1942-09-13

the third grade in the northwest room,
Miss Virginia r. Gettings taking her
place in 1874, and continuing for several
years thereafter.
Emma F. Quinlan taught the fourth
grade for several years. She was, quite
likely, widow. She was a nice looking
woman, though her face wore sad look
a sort of Madonna face. She was
stout, and did all the whipping for the
building; and she could do 1t to
queens taste. Her experience was no
doubt largely gained in connection with
her own son Frank who was one of her
pupils when the writer entered her
grade. Not like some thoughtless teach
ers, who would box the boys over their
ears she never forgot just where to ad-
minister the punishment, and but few
boys were ever able to squirm out OF her
grip once they were doing the jack knife
over her knee
One character connected with the
school whom the boys all loved-or
''loathed" would be more correct-was
John, the colored janitor. He was about
the color Of the stove, and when any of
the teachers desired to send note to
the home of one Of the boys telling his
parents of his misbehavior or of his
playing hooky, John always took the
note, and John was always looked upon
as an enemy Of mankind
Honor Students of 1873.
This was during the period when the
deserving public school children of the
District were given medals and diplomas
at the close of the year, and at the end
of the year 1873 We find the names of
the following honor students of Grace
Church School to be:
Albert Rheb OF the first grade was
awarded a silver medal, and diplomas
went to William J. Devan, Charles
Meyers David E. WILDER, Fred C. Lotus,
Harry French, Charles A.-Devers, Robert
Dorsey, Charles Hurdle, Arthur Lewis,
Walter Lockhead. George McDuell Mar
tin H. Donaldson Charles Behrens and
Fritz Burnett
Since no one should be sighted, per-
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Setting World Speed Record for Tunnel DIGGING

after that. They all wanted to quit, but
the railroad wouldn't give them trans
portation. They finally had to go back
to work to keep eating"
Now S., Austin was born at Munroe,
N. c., and was christened John Ray
mond. He didn't think he had the Ca
pacity to absorb an engineering educa-
ton, so he quit the University of North
Carolina after three years to take
construction job.
He worked on railroad tunnels in
Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland
and then went-to Ontario for six years
as concrete boss on the Welland Canal.
There he met and married Helen Daniels,
daughter of Charles Daniels, then editor
OF the. Buffalo IN " Express
In 1885 Long John was made super
lntendent of the Palms tunnel No. /,
a metropolitan water district project in
California, and there started making his
Evening star., 1942-09-13

moved my arms and legs Just to see II
1 could. I could. All got was a bump
on the knee
The motorman on Long Johns train
was horribly crushed. Whether he had
tainted or died at the controls never
was known.
Small and vivacious Mrs. Austin, who
has reared their three sons and daughter
In homes all over the country, has had
some dread moments, too.
After the Carlton tapped Cripple
Greek mine shafts, flooded with hun
dreds of feet of water Austin and his
SHIFT bosses were the first to go in to
check the water damage and debris and
to see If there was any gas.
Long John promised to report back
to the outside by specified time.
Inside, he just kept going and forgot
to send out word all was O. K.
The tunnel office summoned rescue
squads and the alarm gathered a thou
sand townspeople.
The wife OF one of Austin's men came
by Mrs. Austins house, carving
blanket. She was sure, she said, her
husband was dead and she was taking
the blanket to the tunnel to wrap his
body in.
Then was sure Ray was dead, too"
said Mrs. Austin, who alone calls her
husband Ray.
1 got blanket and went with her.
1t wasn't long before Ray came out.
He was perfectly all right, the beast.
He was grinning and he wanted to know
what all the excitement was about.
Well, I cried a little because I was
SO happy. But I didn't speak to him
for two weeks
Long John says his system in handling
tunnel job is simple matter of
timing
On the Adams tunnel he designed and
oullt seven-ton Jumbo drill carriage
that puts six drills biting simultaneously
into rock. An ordinary tunnel lob uses
four drills.
Austin runs his muck car trains on
schedule as tight as a crack railroad
limited. There are no special trips for
big-shot visitors.
AASAAS oAAS ASWdlG AuSblu mas WON
as hurrying tunnel man, besides COM
manding salary four to six times that
OF the usual tunnel superintendent is a
collection of hats he rarely gets chance
to wear
Long Johns customary headgear is a
miners helmet, but he never passes up
chance to bet hat on his Jobs
progress. After he retires, he says, he'll
never have to buy hat.
One OF his hats is sleek silk topper.
Long John says he'd have to hire
hau to wear that one atop his feet
8 inches.
He won the topper from w. P. Tanner
OF New York, a golden cycle director
who got so far behind with his hat bets
on the Carlton tunnel that he bought
the top hat to settle up.
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haps 1t would be best to include the
other grades of that year who distin-
guished themselves in department or
studies. In the second grade, William
Moran was given the silver medal and
Wilmer Bowen, Horace Beall, Charles
Crider, George Wylie, Jacob Bookbinder,
Charles Merillat, John Sinsel, William
Martin, William Perry, Herman Fent-
ner and August Dahler were those to
receive diplomas.
In the third grade, George M Kent
carried off the highest honors, while
John l.. Lang, Walter H. Stevens, James
w. Tubman, Robert A. Wind Robert
B. Webb, Joseph M. Prather, Arthur M.
Donaldson, George E. Bayliss, Stanley
Baker, William A. FURNACE, Charles H.
White and Thomas j. Martin were rec
ognized with secondary honors.
Edward Woltz carried off the medal
in the fourth grade, and those who were
second best included William E. Wise,
Ira K. Moore, William McCristal Frank
lin Henry, Robert w. Talks. Theodore
K. Nelson. George M. Dorsey, Maurice
Heilbrum, Oscar Nauck, John PREM
kert, John G. Weidman, Henry E. Amos.
Henry Newmeyer and John E. Nelson.
Theodore K Nelson became a drug
gist, and for years conducted a drug
store at the northeast corner of Ninth
and streets NV Oscar Nauck is still
with us and is practicing law here.
William E. Wise, or Billy Wise. became a.
great ball player, and died only a few
years ago. He early played in the
American and Union Leagues with the
Washington and Baltimore clubs-a kind
of Win Mercer Walter johnson sort of
pitcher. When he started playing in
the autumn of 1879, he was a lad of
only II years of age. He then had as
companions on the team such oldtime
notables as Sam, ,Trott, James Mckinney,
Aeen Kipp, Lusk, J. Hollingshead, Piny
Hough and Oscar Bielaski Billy Disc
was for years assistant recording secre-
tary of the Association of the Oldest
Inhs bitants.
OF course where Grace Church School
Evening star., 1942-09-13

was not fitted for educational pur-
yet In some instances it was much better
than the 81 buildings being used for
school purposes at the beginning of the
Civil War, in which some of our fathers
and mothers obtained their education.
OF these buildings, IL happened to be
regular schoolhouses, churches,
dwelling houses, library building, 4
in public halls, an engine house, in
definite, and lastly, the old Capitol
Building at First and A streets NE,
where in 1860 Miss Ellen S. Hawkins
taught Primary School No. 7, continuing
to do so for a short while In 1881, even
after she had become through marriage
Mrs Ellen E. Jensen.
Civil War Prison.
Soon after the beginning of the Civil
War this old building was taken over by
the Government and used as a prison
for political offenders, and, of course as
in number of similar incidents Just
about this time, the School Board had
to look elsewhere for quarters. The site
is now occupied by the United States
Supreme Court Building.
list Of names of those who attended
this school at this time is not available.
but the names of those who received
premiums in 1860 are still preserved. and
include Anna Carpenter tmedalist),
Julia Buckley, Redford Bean Elizabeth
Miller, Rosanna Brown, Elizabeth Craig,
John Carpenter, Michael Fleming, Fred
erick Stewart, Francis Meal, Kate
Dipple, Mary Carpenter Mary Craig.
James Bassford, Mary Herbert, Edmund
Kane and George Bivans.
The following year those who attend
ed this school and who received hon.
orary mention OF some sort were Eliza
beth Wright, Dorbetta Goff, Edmund
Kane, Mary Herbert, Washington
Wright, Roseanna Brown, Catherine
Buckley, Louisa Kraft, Charles Burns,
Francis Meade, Julia Hurley, Wilton
Grimm and Louisa Kraft.
One might well judge that the chill
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School.
year and dedicated July 4, 1854, 1t was
built by w. H Falconer, who, it is said,
''cheerfully and faithfully executed all
the stipulations of the contract"
The second modern school to be
erected in the city was the Franklin.
Construction was begun in 1864 and it
was completed in 1869 The ground cost
s20,474ol and the building s1s7 7,229.71.
1t was dedicated Saturday, October 2,
1859. Following this came the Seaton
Building in 1871, the old Jefferson on the
Island Southwest Washington, in 1872
where that able instructor, John E.
Thompson, held forth for many years.
Then came the Cranch, followed by
others
In 1875 the old first district building
at Fourteenth and G streets NV, gen.
orally known as the Jefferson Stable
School, and located on the corner where
Is now the Hamilton National Bank, was
sold and the proceeds used in acquiring
another site. This building was origi-
nally intended as the stable for the
horses of the White House, but probably
were never used as such. 1t was used
for public school purposes from Septem-
Der 3, 1921 to about 1872, when it was
sold by the Government to Andrew
Gleason, local contractor, for S7,706.97.
1t was demolished in 1886
In this building was early taught the
Lancasterian system by Henry Ould, i'm
ported from England for that purpose.
He was followed here by John L. Hen
shaw Samuel Kelly, Strong John Thom-
son and others.
In the days of the Lancasterian system
OF instruction, hatracks were apparently
not in use, since each boy kept with
him his hat at all times. Upon entering
the schoolroom the teacher gave the order
to sling hats" and to "unsling hats"
upon retiring much in the same way a
soldier would sling his knapsack.
To some of the venerable Washing
tonians the prince of disciplinerians was
Strong John Thomson, but the boys of
the Lancasterian period were undoubt-
edly made to toe chalk line even
straighter than the one drawn by that
well known pedagogue. For instance, for
truancy, the monitor of absentees tied a
large cord around the truant's neck with
the word 'Truant' lettered in capital
letters, and the boy was then tied to a
post in CONSPICUOUS place. For repe-
tition of this offerse, the boy was deemed
incorrigible and was sometimes tied up
In blanket and in this way was left to
sleep at night on the floor of the school,
house.
Evening star., 1942-09-13

in the crowded condition of school,
room on K street, between Second and
Third streets Sc, which though only
Is by ls feet, yet had an average at
tendance for the year of 43 boys and
girls and closed the year with 81 pupils,
54 of whom took the examination.
Surely We have nothing today quote so
bad as this, and none of us would care
to have it so.
1t was soon after this report was
made that plans were laid for erecting
in the third school district the first of
the modern school buildings in the Dis
trict of Columbia. Richard Wallach was
then the Mayor, serving in that Office
from 1851 to 1867. He had been a great
help in the cause of public education,
and it was deemed appropriate that the
new building should bear the name of
"Wallach," for without his enthusiasm
and assistance free education would have
dragged along perhaps even until some
years later
When one reads about the way things
were done years ago he is frequently sur
prised at the short sightedness of those
who were supposed to look after our best
interests, and the building of the Wal
ZACH School but brings to mind one Of
the many big mistakes then made, and
of which the present generation knows
Z little or nothing Of
Congress at various times UP to the
erecting OF this school had given away
to various institutions of the city public
lots to the estimated value of $4,000.
OF which two colleges alone received
$4,000 worth. and it so happened that
the ground upon which the Wallach
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drove 78 feet in "a hours through solid
re-Cambrian granite
In the Carlton, Long John escaped
being killed only because of his height.
Riding in an empty muck car at the
head of loaded train rolling down.
grade out of the tunnel, Austin sighted
an inbound train speeding along the
2-foot narrow-gauge track.
Looking back, Long John saw the
motorman Of his train slumped down,
either unconscious or dead from heart
attack.
Il knew we were going to hit and I
was going to be in the middle" Austin
says.
Il figured fast. These steel muck cars,
see, are just 7 feet long I figured
my only chance was to get on the bottom
and brace myself as hard as I could.
I did and just At on the bottom OF
that car.
"We hit. The cars heaved and twisted
in all directions. When it was over, I
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School stands had to be bought back
from one of these for $1,000.
However, it was an ideal situation for
the purpose, having front on Pennsyl-
vania avenue of 129 feet inches, on G
street of 248 feet inches and on Sew
enth street of 389 feet The whole tract
contains 1o7,834 square feet; the price
paid being at the rate of about 6k cents
square foot, which some Of us would
like to duplicate today. 1t was, indeed,
wise selection for the beginning of a
new era in local school construction,
which was continued even down to the
present day. At the time the Wallach.
the Franklin and the jefferson Schools
were new buildings, they represented the
highest types of school buildings in the
United States, if not in the whole world.
The Wallach was commenced in May,
1853, completed in June of the following
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dren who attended the Old Capitol
School were surrounded with better con-
ditions than those who were forced to
go to school elsewhere. Indeed, an idea
OF the prevailing conditions existing
here about that time can be best had
from the -eport OF the Committee on
Schoolhouses and Schoolrooms for 1862
1864. And mere Is what the committee
had to say:
THE question with the trustees is,
usually, where can any room at all be
procured for the location of a school,
and not whether it Is suitable. Hence
the committee found the schools located
in the damp and dark Easements of
churches, in buildings originally designed
and constructed for stables and carpen-
ter shops, in the ill-arranged halls over
blacksmith shops, market and engine
houses, in the chambers and halls of
private houses, and in short, in such
buildings or rooms as could not be ad-
Vantageously used for any other purpose.
There is no schoolroom in the third
district fit for the purpose for which it
is used. In the first, second and fourth
districts there are few rooms that are
very we'll adapted to the wants of
school, but the large majority are al
together unsuitable. To describe in de-
tail their faults would be an endless and
useless task, as the only remedy con-
sists in the erection of suitable butld-
inss, to be owned, with the lots on which
they are situated, by the corporation
Crowded Conditions.
Pedhaps good Illustration of the real
conditions to which some of the war
time children were subjected may be had