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Last week the French Ministry of Fine Arts ordered all construction stopped on the Boulevard St. Michel extension of the Paris Metro. Engineers and workmen were given a fortnight holiday. Excavating will continue during the fortnight, but instead of steam shovels and pneumatic drills, trained archeologists will be at work scraping the earth methodically away with garden trowels, ice picks, soup spoons. Fortnight ago the rattling drills of the subway contractors penetrated the long lost torture chambers of the Petit Châtelet. Last week the archeologists, scraping away with their soup spoons, declared that...
...Congressman Douglass has so much passion on tap why not use some of it for the benefit of East Boston. Why not blast the Elevated for the way it laid tracks in the Bennington boulevard, destroying the beauty of a highway that cost $750.000? Why not roar at Mayor Nichols for cancelling the taxes of the East Boston Land Co, to the amount of one hundred fifty-two thousand dollars? Why not condemn the outrageous bathing facilities for the little children at Wood Island, where the bathhouses is on the edge of a dirty pool, a breeder of typhoid...
...lightning rods, parlor organs and dinner bells to farmer-neighbors. In 1903 he was elected Governor of the state; his Lieutenant-Governor was convivial Warren Gamaliel Harding. Ap- pointed Ambassador to France by President Taft, some trick of fate made the tall, handsome Ohioan look more Parisian than most boulevard flaneurs. The French took him to their hearts. Never a retiring violet, his theatrical sense of diplomacy made him a hero on three occasions...
...Francisco's huge-domed Temple Emanu-El is a bright Byzantine touch on Arguello Boulevard. The coruscant half-globe catches the sun's rays, seems to blaze with its own light. On an especially sunny day, last week, when the dome was very bright 600 Jews of the "reformed" faith gathered underneath it. One of them, glancing at the synagog, quoted "How beautiful are thy tents, O Jacob; thy dwelling places, O Israel." Thus opened the 31st Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...
...part of the general plan of development, Congress readily appropriated $4,250,000 to construct a boulevard from Washington to Mount Vernon, along the bank of the Potomac, by which pilgrims from all over the land may have easy access to Washington's homes...