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T2 NEED OF MUNICIPAL BATHS The Backward Condition of Minneapolis in This Respect —What May Be Done—What Other Cities Are Doing. Minneapolis i« without any public insti tution where indoor baths may be obtained free or at a nominal cost. In this respect it is not much worse off than most other American, cities, but there is throughout the country a general awakening to the public needs in this direction. New York, which maintains 15 floating swimming baths in the river where 6,200, --000 persons bathed last season, is now taking up in earnest the question of public indoor baths with hot and cold water to be operated the year around. At present New York has only one such bath house under municipal management, that in Riv ington street, which has a weekly attend ance of between 20.000 and 30,000, though there are a number of well managed public baths conducted by benevolent societies At these baths a charge of five cents is made, and this is almost sufficient to maintain them. Xew York's Plans. Rudolf Guggenheimer, president of the council, is anxious to distinguish himself for some useful public service before his term of office expires and has interested thimself in a proposition to have the city build ten or eleven public bath houses in various parts of tiff city at a cost of not to exceed $25,000 each. Controller Bird S. Coler says that he believes the board of public estimate will arrange to appropri ate the $250,000 required for the realiza tion of this plan. Commissioner Kearney of the Department of Public Buildings es timates that the baths would cost with Bites from $29,000 to $37,000 each and he would (have eleven erected at oncefive in the borough of Manhattan, three in Brook lyn, one in Bronx, one in Queens and one in Richmond. Mr. Kearney estimates that the land, for each building would cost from 55,000 to $7,000; the building from $12,000 to $15,000 and the equipment from $12,000 to $16,000. There is, therefore, every rea son to believe that next year New York city will bave ten or eleven new public (bathing bouses. In Sew York -State. New York 6tate has a mandatory law re- QUiring cities of the first and second class to erect as many bathhouses as the city health commissioner may deem that the city requires. This law was passed in 1897, but has not been enforced generally as is proved by the fact that the metropolis is only now getting ready to provide itself •with a sufficient number of jmblic baths. In Rochester mandamus proceedings com pelled the authorities to erect a bath bouse. Buffalo has had public baths since 1897, when a building was erected, 68 feet by 30. There are in it fourteen separate shower baths and six shcwer baths in one large compartment for the use of children. There Is one bath tub for children too small for the showers and three laundry tubs are jwovided. Eight thousand dollars covered the whole cost of this building. The bath Is entirely free, no charge being made for eoap or towels. Yonkers has a fine public bath erected at a cost of $9,400, besides $2,000 for the site. Other New York cities Slave or are providing public baths. Boston has some very good public baths as have some of the smaller Massachu setts cities. The Public Bath association conducts some cheap and admirable baths 1n Philadelphia. Chicago has several pub lic bathing establishments. Many of these Sore Hands Red, Rough Hands, Itching, Burning 1 W|iM Palms, and Painful Finger Ends# i One Night Treatment Soak the hands on retiring in a strong, hot, creamy lather of CUTICURA SOAP* Dry, and anoint freely with CUTICURA, the great skin cure and purest of emollients. Wear, during the night, old, loose kid gloves, with the finger ends cut off and air holes cut in the palms. For red, "rough, chapped hands, dry, fissured, itching, feverish palms, with shapeless nails and painful finger ends, this treatment is simply wonderful, and points to a speedy cure of the most distress ing cases when physicians and all else fail. i MILLIONS USE CUTICURA SOAP Assisted by Cutictjiu. Ointment, for preserving, purifying, and beau tifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dan druff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and soothing red, rough, and sore hands, for baby rashes, itchings, and chafings, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Millions of "Women use Cuticcra Soap in the form of baths for annoying irritations, inflammations, and excoriations, for too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative weak nesses, and for many antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women and mothers. No amount of persuasion can, induce those who have once used these great skin purifiers and beau tifiers to use any others. Cctigura Soap combines delicate emollient properties derived from Cuticuba, the great skin cure, with the pur est of cleansing ingredients, and the most refreshing of flower odours. No other medicated soap is to be compared with it for preserving, 1 purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair, and hands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soap, however expensive, is to be compared with it for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it combines in One Soap at One Price, the best skin and complexion soap, and the best toilet and baby soap in the world. Complete External and Internal Treatment for Every Humour, 4*±J,± A ___ „ Confuting of Cuticuka Soap, to cleanse the skin of crusts fill lltf*lll*Sl and Bcaleß. and soften the thickened cuticle; Cuticitka. Oint. % liV 111 U MES to Instantly allay Itching, inflammation, and irritation, and T^ soothe and heal; and Cutiouka. Rksolvxnt, to cool and cleanse TUP SET ! he * blood; ABf* aVB B*T is often sufficient to cure the most tor :■ " X V: *Fin&» disfiguring, itching, burning, and scaly skin, scalp, and blood humours, rashes, itchings, and Irritations, with loss of hair, when all -else; falls. Bold throughout the world. British Depot: F. Newbbkt & Sons, 27, Charterhouaa jßcl. London, B. 0, Poxijeb Dm and Cbs*. Cost., Sole Props,, Boston^ U. S. A. baths have swimming pools as well as shower baths. In Europe, especially in England and Germany, there are some excellent munic ipal baths, and in Germany they have gone so far as to introduce baths into the school buildings and require the chil dren to use them. • \eed« of .MlmifuiMiliN. Minneapolis has great need of some sort of good public baths. The only free baths in the city now are the two very inferior shower baths provided by the Union mission on Washington avenue. There are thousands and thousands of houses in the cities that are not provided with bath tubs and there are one or two real tenement districts where hundreds of people are huddled together in great rookeries without any bathing facilities whatever. No statistics are at hand to show the ratio of bath tubs to population but it is doubtless very small. It is safe to say that there are thousands of people permanently resident in the city who bathe very infrequently because of the positive difficulties in the way. They have no adequate facilities for a satis factory bath in their rooms or homes and they cannot afford to pay the price re quired at private establishments, in the average of which the accommodations are very poor. The Lodging Houses. As for the floating population the op portunities for them to cleanse their bodies are few and far from inviting. The lodging houses of Minneapolis in which men pay 10, 15 and 25 cents for beds have accommodations for 1,300. Most of them have no bathing facilities whatever, but two or three make a specialty of ad vertising free baths, which consist of a shower and tub bath, but these are not very inviting. C. M. Stocking, superintendent of the city mission, who has more to do with the "hard up" and floating laboring popu lation than any one else, says that there is a great necessity for some sort of pub lic baths, either absolutely tree or at a very small cost. The patronage which the two very indifferent baths at the mission receive convinces him that many of the men who have to go dirty would like to be clean. He calls attention to the fact that In the Mills hotel, New York, the only absolutely free privilege is that of the baths. If the Union mission can raise funds to erect a Mills hotel in Min neapolis one of its features will be free baths. Mr. Stocking is sure that baths uconducted by the municipality would be well patronized and would be ■well worth all they might cost. Cost and Kind. A good public bathhouse could be erected and equipped for anywhere from $8,000 to $30,000, according to the size thought desirable and the costliness of the fittings. The experience of other cities indicates that for $15,000 a build- Ing could be erected that would furnish thirty or forty shower baths. The ex perience of public bathhouses the world over is that the shower or spray bath is the only kind generally suitable for them. It is very difficult to keep tubs as clean as they should be and so long as they are not Immaculate there is the dan ger that diseases may be conveyed from THE MINNEAPOLIS JOUBNAD. one bather to those that succeed him. The shower bath gives no opportunity for the accumulation of filth and practically cleanses itself. Moieoiter, it is the testi mony of physicians the world around that the shower or spray is the most healthful form of bath, being more effective than the tub bath in removing dirt and having the tonic effects of the streams of water striking against the surface of the skin. Baths In the Courthouse. Last Saturday it was said in The Journal that Secretary Ridgeway of the park board had suggested the rotunda of the city hall and courthouse as an ad mirable location for the baths, if the city wished to avoid the cost of erecting and equipping a building. This rotunda is in the interior court of the building, and was originally intended as a lavatory, but will not be used for that purpose for many years to come, if at all. The walls are up, however, standing fifteen feet above the level of the floor, and are ready for the roof, which for the baths could be made of a temporary or permanent char acter, according to the scale of expendi ture. This rotunda is seventy-seven feet in diameter, while the court In which it is placed measures 130x112. If desired, the shower baths might be placed outside the rotunda and the latter used for a swim ming pool, which, while adding little to the cleansing function of public baths, does add greatly to pleasure to be ob tained. The Plan Is Feasible. P. B. Long, the architect of the build ing, informs The Journal that there are no structural or architectural diffi culties in the way of the conversion of the rotunda or the whole court into a public bathhouse. If the baths were lo cated here the heating and water plant of the big building could be utilized, which would mean a large saving both in the first cost of the baths and in maintenance. The members of the city hall and court house •ommission do not take kindly to the plan of locating public baths in the court. They are thinking of ultimately utilizing the rotunda as a branch of the pubic library, with special reading-room facilities or else as a large public hall. Architect Long says that there is plenty of room for public baths in the basement, and it has been suggested that one of the upper floors on the city hall side, which will not be used for years by the munici pal offices, could be fitted up as temporary baths at small cost. The cost of maintaining baths located somewhere In the public building should not be over $3,000 a year, including pay of attendants, towels, laundrying, soap, etc. The maintenance of baths in a sep- BATTLESHIP MINNESOTA'S END Official Circular Asking Bids for the Purchase of the Historical Frigate. Trom t Th9 Journal Bureau. .Room 48. Fo»§ Building, Washington. ■.'...-■ -: Washington, Aug. 9.—After Augifet 12, as Journal readers are aware, there will be no battleship Minnesota. On that dey bids will b© opened in the office of the secretary of the navy for her purchase. The only bidders, probably, will be junk people, who will want to get the copper sheathing, and the other metal furnishings of the ship. The lumber is practically worthless, and the old hulk cannot be put to any service, unless, as the result of ex tensive repairs, she should follow the lead of some of her sister ships of civil war fame, and become c barge for the haul ing of coal up and down Chesapeake bay. The condition of the vessel may be easily imagined when it is remembered that the navy department dj)es not value her at more than $15,000. Prom the official circu lar issued by the department, conveying information to possible bidders, I copy the following: The Minnesota Is a wooden steam frigate, built In Washington In 1855. The ship ia housed over and sheathed outside. The masts are cut off below the roof. She has been used for many years as a receiving ship for ap prentices and as an armory for the Massa chusetts naval militia. All the composition parts of the engine SCOURGE OF IMPUDENT MICE Kasota Block Stenographers Just Recovering After a Protracted and Nerve Wrack- No mice are to be found In the Ka sota block any more. This announcement is made officially and all the timid, little typewriter maidens who were on the verge of leaving their remunerative positions are now quite composed and do not fly to the window sill whenever they hear a rustling. The mice gave the typewriter girls a great many palpitations of the heart a short time ago, however, and the most timid still lift their feet instinctively when they hear a suspicious noise. It is simply force of habit, something like the one which makes half the men duck their heads when some one calls out "low bridge." When the Commercial Club removed from the Kasota building the whole fam ily did not go. Shortly after the club had moved, little mice began to make themselves at home about the building and to scamper Impudently over the floors and to lodge in the desks, in fact making them selves comfortable everywhere. The read ers of comic papers can easily imagine how the scattering of the mice affected the feminine habitues of the building. When the club was housed, there the RAILROAD RUMBLES. RATES NOT DEMORALIZED Freight Men Say They Are Still Firm—Flour Rate*. Minneapolis freight men Insist that the rate situation instead of being demoral ized is still firm. The flour committee of the local association holds a meeting this afternoon to discuss flour rates. It is the general sentiment among freight men that if thore' has .been any cutting in rates it has been on flour. The movement of flour to the seaboard and the middle states in comparatively heavy. One of the freight men who asserts that he has maintained the tariff rate absolutely says that flour shipments over his line have been reduced gjeatly during the past week. On the other hand the merchandise business has increased. It is explained that the last in structions to maintain rates came from too high an authority to allow of the in discriminate slashing that might take place under an ordinary agreement among local representatives. DARIUS MILLER SPEAKS He Says He Hasn't Been Chosen Traffic Director. Darius Miller, vice president of the Great Northern, has denied the report that he has been selected to be traffic director of the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and Burlington trio with the added title of vice president of the Bur lington. He indicates that the reports are premature. Railway officials general ly believe that a traffic arbiter for the arate t building would be some what more. The cost of equipping and plainly.- finish ing baths in the courthouse rotunda should not be more than $5,000 or $6,000. A ? circumstance to :be considered in x this connection »Is whether the courthouse lo cation would beat suit the needs of those who would use the batha. Swimming Baths. - In addition to these permanent baths there is great need for satisfactory sum mer, outdoor swimming baths. It is gen erally agreed that any, further expendi tures in this line should be devoted to shore or floating baths in the river some where abbve the falls. On hot days these waters are now filled with boys who bathe and swim at great risk to life. These baths should be on a big scale like those in St. Paul, which, with the land, have al ready cost $14,000 and are to be further enlarged and improved at an expense of $10,000. It is possible that some way might be found of combining swimming baths on the river front with permanent indoor hot and cold water baths. River Front Given Away. In this connection it is worth noting that with the practice of vacating streets for railroad use, which has been car ried on quite extensively in the last few years, the city is losing all means of ac cess to the river front on the west side. A Summary. To sum up what the city may do in the way of providing public baths and the cost, we have the following: A good public bath building with ample accommodations may be erected for not more than $25,000, total cost, and should be maintained for less than $5,000 a year, a part of this expense to be covered by a nominal charge for the use of baths, If thought desirable. If the courthouse and city hall commis sion should grant authority ample bath ing facilities could be provided there for less than $10,00 at the outside and the cost of maintenance should not be far from $3,000. Suitable Bwimming baths on the river above the falls could be erected for $10, --000. The maintenance of these, together with the baths at Calhoun, and on the lower river, would probably cost about $3,000 a year. Health Department to Manage. The genral management of all these bathinglhouses should be transferred to the city health department, leaving the financial responsibility with the city coun cil. If anything is to be done this year it will be necessary for general plans and estimates to be determined upon soon, so that the board of tax levy may be asked for an appropriation. have been removed. The old box boilers are worn out and unfit for use. Length, 264 feet 8% inches; beam, 51 feet 4 inches; mean draft, 23 feet; displacement, 4,700 tons; gross tonnage, 2,911.51. The purchaser of this vessel will be allowed one Trotman anchor and 30 fathoms of two inch chain, which will be sold with, the vessel. The vessel will be sold for cash to the person offering the highest price above the appraised value. It would have been a fine thing if the old ship, whose career is glorious and will live In -history, could have been towed up the St. Lawrence and through the great lakes to Duluth, there to be taken care of by the state of Minnesota in some suita ble manner. But this was out of the ques tion, owing to the fact that the canals connecting the great lakes with the St. Lawrence are not large enough to pass her. Very shortly the old frigate Vermont, a sister ship of the Minnesota, and also unseaworthy and decayed, is to be offered for sale to the highest bidder. The Ver mont public is considerably exercised over the idea of having the good old ship go in thte way to an inglorious end, and there is talk of raising enough money by pop ular subscription to purchase her. Should this plan succeed the ship will be stationed at one of the upper New England ocean ports, easily accessible for Vermonters, and turned into a training ship or some thing of that sort, end the next session of the legislature will be asked to appro priate money to make the necessary re pairs. ing Siege. mice never stirred out of the immediate vicinity. The.elders gravely discussed the respective merits of fromage de Brie and Rocquefort while the youngsters gorged themselves -with the remnants of pates and pastry. There waa no need to wander then, but when the club rooms were abandoned, life assumed a serious phase. The whole colony* was left to face the world single-footed. Naturally they pros pected throughout the building before seeking another land of fat living, but their prospecting tours did not bring much pleasure to the tenants of the various offices. There were too many prospec tors. Finally they started a crusade against the mice, and trapping became great sport for a time. J. H. Cook, the attorney, trapped over 100, and he probably holds the record. The war was waged more relentlessly than the one in South Africa, and it resulted in the complete extermina tion of the furry pests in a very short time. This was some weeks ago, but it 1b only recently that the look of nervous anxiety on the faces of the young ladies in the block has faded out. three roads to settle any disputes that may arise is more likely to be chosen, and is more practicable, than a traffic director. This would leave the three traffic depart ments as they are at present. Into the Iron Country. Special to The Journal. Cumberland, Wis., Aug. 9.—Civil engineers of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad are in the city to-day sur veying a new line of road from here to Rice Lake, where It will connect with the Birch Lake branch, now under course of construc tion. This city will be the western terminus, and a roundhouse and other terminal im provements will be made at this place, which will also be a division point. The new branch will run northeast into the iron country of upper Michigan, and will tap a rich timber belt as well, and will be about 175 miles in length. The contract has been let. " Spur to the Asylum. ■ Special to The Journal. ;'/ ': Jamestown, N. D., Aug. —A preliminary survey -"is being made from a point on . the James river ; branch of the Northern Pacific to the state asylum. ; The extension will be two miles -in length and will: cause. - much saving to the institution in the way of handling - freight, which at present has Jto be hauled from Jamestown station, a distance of 2ttimile*—..:^ ;. ; ,-,jt - ■••; \^-;\ .;vw Dogs as Baggage. ,^ ••■;. - The Western Passenger Association has de cided that I dogs : may be checked as baggage at the same, rates as. bicycles and baby 'car riages. ■;- ••--- ■ .- • • / r • : May Meet So© G. A. R. Rate. It ia generally believed that the twin city- Chicago lines will be farced to meet the l-cent-*-mile rate m*de by the Soo for the . '■ -■ •- ;l- ■- . ■■. •: . , . - - .' 9fSh ■ ; j"'" f** "'- '■'•■ ** r V ■"-■•'.'•'• 1' ' ' * iWtr *^ffiSßfiJr^B^fcnj^lfjC ■ - ll? 1' -•* "**" * * * 4j£mE Shi ■ There has recently been completed in Mil waukee, Wis., a sanitarium, which, in many respects, is the model sanitarium of the world. It is juet removed from the noise and dirt of the city, situated in a beautiful park of ten acres. The sanitarium was started seven years ago, and was the first Kneipp Water Cure institution in the United States, and the original water treatments and diet are still given here, but since then it has been rap idly enlarged in scope and size until all the best treatments employed anywhere in the world are applied here, and new methods are added just as soon as they become of recognized value. A LABYRINTH OF BATHS. The building is a three-story brick, with a dormer story and basement, which really make it five stories. The basement is entire ly given up to baths of different kinds. Here one may revel in an ordinary porcelain batb tub, or he may run the gamut of modern appliances and take an electric light bath, lying on a table of glass so that the rays of Illumination may strike all parts of his anat omy. This is a comparatively new feature in the bath line. The patient, disrobed, is placed on a slab of glass, mounted on small rollers, and run into a place that resembles an old-fashioned bake oven, the interior being studded over with Incandescent lamps of large power. Here the temperature is in the control of the operator and may be raised to 260 de grees. One of the advantages of this bath is that the temperature is even on all parts of the body. There are also ordinary elec tric baths, consisting of porcelain tubs with copper discs inserted, by means of which the water is electrified. There are shower baths, where countless thousands of little sprays of water strike upon the flesh of the patient like the points of needles, sending the blood tingling to all parts of the body, or so sooth ingly that the patient is lulled Into forgetful ness. The pressure is regulated by a series of levers in the hands of the attendant, who, with the turn of a little brass handle, can send a stream of spray at you, backed up with a pressure of forty pounds to the square inch, and grade It down so that it can scarce ly be felt. The temperature of the water Is also in the control of the operator. Most people have an idea that a patient is taken into the bathroom and given a shower of cold water as a starter. This is not the case. The new patient Is showered with water that is at blood heat, but before he has boen in the Institution long and his system yields to the treatment, he is able to take the water as It comes from the hydrant without flinch ing. Another feature of the basement is a shal low basin, about twenty feet square and one foot deep. Here patients tread water at any prescribed temperature, giving the same ef fects as walking wet grass, as prescribed by Fr. Kneipp. There are massage tables, which may be used with steam or dry heat. By means of a canopy, the tables can be arranged to give the patient the full benefit of a Turkish bath, with his head In the cool atmosphere and his body in any desired temperature, while the attendant gives him the massage treatment. There are cabinets by means of which the patron of the institution may have a Turkish bath of his own and not be sub jected to the poisonous exhalations of others. There are hot-air baths for patients afflicted with rheumatism, gout and Bright's disease, in which they are placed on couches and rolled under canopies, In which their heads alone are left outside, while their bodies are subjected to a temperature above 400, which would strangle them if taken into the lungs. There are many other kinds of baths, suited to all conditions of patients, and a long line of apartments in which they can rest after they have gone through the ordeal, which generally finishes up with a plunge In a tank, 14x17 feet, filled with water in Its normal con dition to a depth of 5% feet. MUD IMPORTED FROM ITALY. It is difficult to imagine anything more per fect than the basement of the Sacred Heart Sanitarium for the treatment of diseases by moans of the bath. There r.re mud baths, with mud brought here from Italy at an ex pense of $42 a barrel. It is claimed that this mud opens the pores of the skin and with draws the bacteria, and as a consequence it is never used a second time, but when a per son has taken one of these baths the Italian soil is thrown away and becomes a part of Uncla Sam's dominion. The electric light bath cabinets were designed by Dr. Stack, the medical director, and worked out by a local architect. The advantage which they have over other electric light baths is that the operator is enabled to regulate the heat as well as the lighting capacity. —W. W. Jermane. THE GYMNASIUM ON MAIN FLOOR. On the main floor is the gymnasium, occu pying a room 48x80 feet, excellently lighted and ventilated. The room is finished In hard wood, polished until It shines like a mirror. Here are located a complete set of sixty Zander machines, manufactured in Stock holm. Sweden, and which represent an outlay G. A. R. encampment. The proposition has been submitted to the Western Passenger As sociation by local agents. General Passenger Agent Callaway of the Soo says that the other lines will be forced to grant the rate if they want any of the business. The Northern Pacific may have to exclude all local travel between the twin cities and Moorhead from the North Coast Limited. If this is done, a change may be made in the schedule of other trains. Chief Engineer McHenry, who retires from the Northern Pacific Sept. 1, may make an extended trip through Japan and China. The Western Passenger Association will try to reform the homeseekers' rate situation which officials say has been carried to a ridiculous point. The state railway commission Is in re ceipt of complaints from farmers against the Minneapolis & St. Louis road. They say the road promised to build sidetracks on condi tion that the farmers should slant a large acreage of sugar beets. In cases whero the farmers have planted the beets the side tracks have not been built The special commission appointed by the Ramsey district court to appraise the prop erty condemned for the right-of-way of the Omaha road on the west side in St. Paul made its report yesterday. The commission spent thirty-eight days at its work, and the total award amounts to $17,000. Of this amount the city is given $5,500 in compensa tion for land taken by the road. Another step in railroad consolidation is reported as about to take place in Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. This will be the con solidation of the city offices of the Union Pacific, Oregon Railroad & Navigation com pany and the Southern Pacific. The general offices of the two companies in Portland are not to bo disturbed. Cheap Excursion Rate* to Fishing Iteaort*. "Dulnth Short Line," Northern Pacific Railway. s Pine City, Minn., and return, $1.90. Rush City, Minn., and return, $1.60. Taylors Falls, Minn., and return, $1.36 Lindstrom, Minn., and return, $1.15. Chisago City, Minn., and return, $1.10. Forest Lake, Minn., and return, 75c. Tickets on sale Saturdays and Sundays, good returning until Monday following date of sale. The best fishing can be had on the "Duluth Short Line." A Scientific Mystery. Asphalt is the "puzzle of scientists and the pride of road builders." Minneapolis people would put it the other way round—the pride of scientists and the puzzle of road builders. The origin of asphalt is the question in dispute. Some scientists claim that it is of volcanic origin and others that it is a form of coal. All agree on the origin of "Golden Grain Belt" beer, brewed from the purest barley malt and hops, it is a splendid, tonic, sparkling and delicious. Visit "The Brewery," sample it and drink It mvet afterward. SACRED HEART SANATORIUM. of $20,000. It is thought that the great ex pense attending the introduction of these ma chines has prevented them from being in troduced into other sanitariums in America. Those who are familiar with their operation know that they represent the highest attain ment in physical culture, hygienic, gymnastic, mechanical and vibratory treatments. The machines are in charge of attendants who watch with zealoup eyes the work of the patients, and are careful not to permit them to take more than the proper amount of exer cise on any of them. There are machines for exercising every group of muscles, passively or actively. MASSAGE BY MACHINERY. While the patient has to use his own muscular powers to operate the passive ma chines, the active ones will put him through a course of exercises in which he has no part. He can have the muscles of his arms, hands, legs or back brought into use. There are machines for applying vibration, percussion, kneading and massage, under complete con trol of the operator or the patient. The ma chines are made to fit every portion of the body. The system of which all this appliance is the outgrowth is the result of a century of development. They are popular in Germany and in some of the larger health resorts are owned and managed by the government. Per sons inclined toward pulmonary troubles find that those portions of the lungs which have the least amount of work to do are the first to become affected. Among the machinery in the gymnasium is an apparatus which calls this portion of the lungs into activity, and in this manner the encroachments of the disease may be avoided. Lying face down upon the soft cushions of another machine, a series of padded hammers play upon the stomach, and start the blood to circulating in that part of the body. Another machine holds the shoulders still and gives the body below a vibratory motion to develop the muscles of the back. Then there are machines which knead the muscles of the legs, exercise the wrists, develop the biceps and strengthen the muscles of the neck. In a word, the appli ances of this gymnasium do not miss the development of a muscle In the human form divine, and with It all thero is a massage treatment that Is unequalled. Have you a stiff joint, as the result of a fracture, the nicely adjusted mechanism-in the gymnasium will work away at it as tenderly as a mother over her Infant, and will gradually increase the exercise until It is administered in a heroic manner and the patient Is restored to the world fully recovered. AN ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. To render the Institution as complete as possible, it Is provided with an electrical room, In which the X ray Is brought into use in the diagnosis of cases. Here the won derful light of the nineteenth century can be turned onto the patient and the direct cause of his trouble be ascertained and the remedy applied. Electrical treatment is also given for rheumatism and other diseases which yield to its influence. The equipment of this department Is perfection itself: All currents used In medicine are here developed and un der perfect control and doses guided by me ters and rheostats. The static mechlne used ters and rheostats. The static machine used There are reception-rooms and lounglng rooms on the ground floor, together with a large billiard hall, where patients can amuse themselves. The building throughout is handsomely furnished and the rooms large and airy. Along the south side of the build ing is a hall 25 feet wide by 100 feet long, in which the patients exercise when tired of work in the gymnasium or the billiard or lounging-rooms cease to hoM attractions. Just south of and parallel with the Exercise hall Is the Sun parlor, 12 feet wide by 100 feet long. This building Is constructed of colored glass, the virtues of which in,many cases of disease are firmly believed In by many of the afflicted. Croquet, lawn tennis and bowling are provided. Upon the other floors are the sleeping apartments and a handsome chapel. While the sanitarium is, of course, under a relig ious management, it makes no distinction In this regard in the reception and treatment of patients. As far as possible. It is run on benevolent principles, and the charges are regulated to cover the operating expenses. It is the finest Institution of Its kind In this country, if not in the world, and is a credit to the city and to the Bisters of St. Francis, whose untiring efforts in behalf of suffering humanity have brought It into existence. Railroad Notes. FKIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1901. THE PHYSICIAN IN CHARGE. Dr. S. S. Stack, the medical director In charge, is a practitioner of twenty years' ex perience. A graduate of Rush Medical col lege and a member of the American Medical Association, of the Wisconsin State Medical Society, the Practitioners' Medical Society, the Brainerd Medical Society, and the Mil waukee Medical Society, he has kept In touch with all that is progressive in the practice of healing art. Any one who wishes to know what a mod ern institution of this kind Includes, should write to the Sacred Heart Sanitarium, Mil waukee, Wis., for one of their booklets, just issued. STOLEN STAMPS A. Reward of 51250 Offered for Their An opportunity is given the watchful stamp collector to make some money do- Ing detective work. John B. Brownlow, 207 Delaware avenue, Buffalo, N. V., cus todian of the postoffice department ex hibit at the Pan-American exposition, has offered a reward of $250 for the return of valuable stamps stolen from the exhibit on the night of July 3. Many of these stamps cannot be replaced. Some of them are only reprints, the original plates hav ing been destroyed. Mr. Brownlow has sent the fololwing list of the lost stamps for Minneapolis use: Date of Issue— 1845—Original and resrint 1851—Types 2 and 3, denomination 3c, sc, 10c, 12c. 1855—Types 1. 2 and 3, denomination, 3c; type 1, 8c; type 2, sc; type 1, 6c; type 3, 10c. 12c, 24c, 30c. 90c. 1861—lc (types a and b), 2c, 3c, 3c lake, 5c yellow brown, 5c brown, 10c, 12c, 15c, 24c, 30c, 90c, 3c pink, 3c scarlet, 5c red brown, 2c and 3c chemical paper. 1861—August issue, 3c pink and (scarlet, 1862), 10c. 1867—3 c (grilled, 13x16), a pair of 3c imperfor ate, 3c, 6c, a pair of 3c iroperforate and grilled all over, 3c points down and grilled, 9x13, lc, 2c, 3c, 6c, 10c, 12c, I 15c, 24c. 30c. 1869—Full set. 1851—Reprints, Franklin carrier. 1861—Three perforate and imperforate "Eaglo carrier and original. 1867—11x13, 2c, 3c, 12c, 15c. 1867—Pair 3c imperforate. 9x13. 1861 —Pair 3c imperforate. 1869—Soft paper reprint. IS7o—lc, 3c, 7c, 15c, 24c. 30c, 90c. 1871—Full set. 1850—Reprints; full set. 1861—Reprints; full set. 1869— set. .' . <" 1869—Inverts. - 1893— Full set, blocks of four, Columbia issue. 1894—Full set, blocks of four; four -varieties of 2c, no watermark. 1894—Full set, blocks of four. • 1898— Bet, blocks of four (Trans-Missis sippi). • ;■ ■ . , . 1879—Soft paper, lc, 2c, 3c, 6c, 10c, 10c, 6c, 159, 30c, 90c. '.* ■>«.- 1873— paper, lc,-2c, -3c, 6c, - 7c, 10c, 10c. 12c, 15c, 24c, 30c, 90c. 1875—2 c and sc. -■ 1882—Three types ,of lc. 3c, 6c. 6c, 10c 1887— 2c. 3c. ;v !, ' 1883—2 c, 4c. 10c, 10c j black brown. 1883— Special printing, 4c and 50. 1888—Complete collection of special delivery. 1890—Complete, blocks of four, two shades of 2c, double paper, 2c, 3c. ' ' > . Complete unused seta . ?of departmental stamps, Including . agriculture, executive. in terior,' postoffice * department, navy (with 2c green and 2c black), treasury, state, the dol lar states, war. justice. J Also all of the above departmental : stamps surcharged "specimen" with the exception • of 4 the two - errors In ■ the navy and the four high. -■ value L state : depart- JEBUkfiL '-■.:•",'''; ;;- ■■-'- ■•..■-^ .-- •/. • ■■-■ ■ i liiffi'iiMiHPiiMi'mT^ n ~jt nt I €Lf7,i>j HI \& 11 Electric Lighted—Ob- Leave I ArrlT* , •ervatlon • Cara j to Fort* „ , _ ..L... land, Ore.,via Butte. MlMOula, * 10:10 • I :45 Spokane. Seattle, Tacoma . am J pm < ' Pacific Express'; Fargo, Jamestown, Bozo- _ , « .* c • -r .nts man, Helena, Butte, Spokane, * II : I 5 * 7 :OB Seattle, Tacoma, Portland... pm am Fargo and Leech Lake Local ... . .: St.Cloud, Little Fall*. Brain- +9:05 + 6:10 •rd, Walker, Bemidji, Fargo.. ,am . pm Dakota St Manitoba Express Fergus Falls, Wabpeton, Moorhead, Fargo, Crookiton, -„ - ft - c , 4n Grand Forks, Orafton. Win- * B:4U * 6 'AO plpeg. pm am :"PULUTH SHORT LINE" t8:16 am l)l)LllH & .7:65 am .183885 SUPERIOR^:ggg m • •-• •Dally. tKx. Sunday. TICKET OFFICE— NIcOLL,S-eK. MILWAUKEE STATION, UNION STATION, ' Minneapolis. ' "• ;. . St. Paul. Office, 300 Nic. Phone, mala 860. Union Depot. Leave. ['Dally. fEx.Sun. jSun. only.) Arrive. t 9:ooam St. Cloud, Fer. Falls, Fargo t 6:lspm t 9:ooam .. Willmar, via St. Cloud .. t 6:lspm • 9:soam Flyer to Mont, and Pac. Co. • 2:oopm t 9:43 am Wlllmar, Su F.,Yan.,Su City t 6:o2pm t s:l6pm Elk River, Milaca.Sandst'oe t 9:35 am t 6:lopm ..Wayzata and Hutchinsan., f B:ssam • 9:o3pm ..Minn, and Dak. Express.. • 7:ooam * 7:4opm Fargo, Gd. Forks, Winnipeg 7:l2am eastern MINNESOTA. t 9:2oam|...Duluth, West Superior.. .|t 6:oopm *11|...DuluUi, West Superior.. B:lUam Sleeper for 11:50 train ready at 9 p. m. NOHTHERM STEAMSHIP CO.'S SAILINGS. Steamship Miami leaves Duluth Wednes days and Saturdays, connecting at Mackinao island with steamships North West and North Land for Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleve land, Buffalo and Pan-American exposition. LAKE MINNETONKA TRAINS. Leave Minneapolis—»2 pm, *5:05 pm, t9:15 am, t*>:lo pm, $10 am, aa:2s pm, bl0:40 pm. Returning, Leave Spring Park—*l:Bo pm, •» pm, f<:2s am, t8:14 am, {9:20 am, c 9 pm, d 10:45 pm. a Except Saturday; b Saturday only, c except Friday and Saturday; d Fri day and Saturday only. Office. 828 Nlc. Phone m. Milwaukee Depot, Leave. | «Dally.- tExc6Pt_Bunday._l Arrive. • 'am Chicago.La Crosse,Milw'ke<»»lo:sopm • i :oopm Chicago.La Crosse.Milw'kAe »12:30pm • Chicago.La Croise.Milw'&ee * 3:2opm 2:3opm Cflicago-fioneer limited *6:2i)am • 3:45pm Chc'go, Faribault, Dubuque • 9:2oam t 3:oopm .Red Wing and Rochester. fl2:3opm t 7:50a0i LaCrosse, Dub., Rk. Island tl0:o0pm • 7:soam Nortbneld, Faiibo. Kan.Cy. • 6:l6pm t 8:00 am ... Ortonvllle, Mllbank ... t 6:45pm • 7:35pm OrtonvUle, Aberdeen. Fargo * 6:soam t 6:sopm Northfleld, Farlbo, Austin fll:osam t 4:4opm ... .Hutchinson, Qlencoe ... f 9:45 am Trains for Hotel St. Louis, Minnetonka, leave Milwaukee Station: t6:15 am, *9:30 am. •1:30 pm, tB pm, »6 pm, »11:45 pm. Return ing, leave Hotel St Louis: f7:20 am, t8:2O am, 89:30 am. tl pm, *4 pm. «ff pm. *10:45 pm. t . ■ . ■ - ' [fjORTH-WESTERN |me ) *^ H e. st p. M. a O.RY aJb^L Ticket office. 418 Nlcollet At.. Phone. 840 Main tEx. Hun. Others dally. ! Leave ! . Arrive Badger State Express- I 7:63 10i45 Chi go, Milw*kee,MadlsonJ I am pm Chicago—Atlantic Express- ' 10:40 pm tl:68 am Chicago—Fast Mall. i 0:25 pm 9:00 ma North-Western Limited- > 7130 8i 15 Chi'go, Mllw'kee.Madison) pm . am Wausau,F.duLao,Qreenßay 6:23 pm 9:00 am Duluth. Superior. Aihland..' t8:io am tS:2O pm Twilight Limited- . ) 4ioo 10.30 Duluth, Superior,Ashland f pm pm SuClty, Omaha, Dead wood.. *7:10 am 8:00 am Elmore, Algona, DesMolnei t7:lO am t8:05 pm St. James. New Ulm, Tracy 9:80 am 8:03 piu Omaha Express- - \ 0:30 8:05 Bu. City, Omaha, Kan.City j am i m New Ulm, Elmore, J,.. 4:20 pra 10:85 am Fairmont, »L James 4:20 pm 10:33 am Omaha Limited— ) Btoo 8100 Bu.C'lty. Omaha, Kan. City f pm am Chicago Great Western Rr. "The Maple Leaf Route." City Ticket Office, sth & Nlcollet, Minneapolis. ■ Depot: Washington & 10th Aye. S. tEx, Sunday; others dally. |LMKFOr | lITiVS FrQJ kenyon, Dodge Center, 7:40 am 10:35 pm Oelweln, Dubuque, Free- 7:35 pm 8:25 am port, Chicago and East.. 10:45 pm 1:25 pm Cedar Falls, Waterloo.Mar- 10:00 am 8:00 pm shall town, Dcs Molhes. 7:35 pm :25 am St. Joseph, Kansas City. 10:45 pm- 1:25 pm Cannon Falls, Red Wing. 7:40 am f 10:25 Northfleld, Faribault, 6:80 pm 10:25 am Watervllle. Mankato. | j MantorviUe Local | 5-80 pml 10:26 am Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. Office Nlc. House. Phone 225. St. Louis Depot. fEx. Sunday. Others Dally. | Leave. | Arrive^ Watertown & Storm Lake I .Express |9:2oam t»:2ipm Omaha, Dcs Molnes, KanT sas City, Mason City and Marshalltown :35am :50pm EsthervlUe Local 5:35pm 9:4oam St. Louis & Chicago Limited 7:B6pm :05am Omaha and Dcs Molnes Limited | B:3spm 7:25 am Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sanlt Ste. Marie Office, 119 Guaranty Building. Telephone 1341, Depot, 3d and Washington Aves._B. Leave. | 'Daily. fßxcept Sunday. | Arrive. • 6:4opm|....Pacific CoasT~Points~....l9:loam • 6:36pm ...Atlantic Coast Points...|* 9:3oaxa Depot 6th and Washington Avss K. ~ ?9:4oam| Dakota Express It 4:2opm B:lsam| Rhlnelander Local ....|t 6:45pm Riirlintrf nn Rniifp Offloe, 414 Nicoiiet Are. DUningmnHOUie. >p ho ne 643. Union Depot Leave for j Terminal Points. | Ar. from 7:Boam Chicago — Except Sunday.l I:2opm 7:Boam : St. Louis—Except Sunday. 7:2opmjCMc. and St. Louis— B:2sam WISCONSIN CENTRAL BAILWIT CO. Office, 230 Nlcollet. Phone 1936. Union Depot. Leave. | All Trains Dally. | Arrive. 7:2sam|.. Chicago and Milwaukee..! B:soam I :ospm|..Chicago and Milwaukee..] 6:35pm SUBSTITUTION The of the Day. . See you get Carter's, Ask for Carter's, Insist and demand GARTERS "ttle Liver Fill* The only perfect Liver PilL Take no other. Even if Solicited to do so. Beware of imitations of Same Cole? Wrappers, BJSD.