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I THE JOURNAL J.S. McLALN, EDITOR. LUCIAN SWIFT, MANAGER. The President Dr. Mcßurney has left Buffalo for Niag ara Falls, Mr. Hanna has gone to Cleve land, Vice President Rtjosevelt in prepar ing to join Mrs. Roosevelt in the Adiron dack* and Secretary Gage will return at one* to his post at Washington. These facts prove how confident is every one near the president of his sure and speedy re covery. It is now, at this writing, nearly ninety-six hours since the assault upon his life was made, and his condition has improved almost hourly from the time of the surgical operation until now the phy sicians in attendance ere willing to say that if no unforeseeable complications de velop Mr. McKinley is sure to get well. The dangers that were feared during the first forty-eight hours have been passed, and the distinguished sufferer is believed to be practically out of danger. The Pan-American exposition managers propose to have a special jubilee, or day of rejoicing over the saving of the presi dents life, and suggest that it be ob served simultaneously everywhere—a gen eral time of rejoicing in which at exactly the same hour of the day cannon shall be fired, bells rung, flags unfurled, and in other natural and expressive ways the people all over the country 6hall make a demonstration of their joy. The sugges tion Is a good one, and if properly worked out can be made very impressive and sig nificant. The dispatches assert that another ef fort to settle the steel strike has failed. But the public has largely lost interest in the strike, feeling that the strikers are hopelessly beaten and that, considering all thing?, their defeat and the severe blow the Amalgamated association has received are the penalties of poor judgment, rash ness and a foolish determination to force by a single stroke what might have been gained by a little continent waiting. The faithlessness of the president of the as sociation to contracts has also forfeited the sympathy of many who are so old fashioned as to believe that the keeping of contracts is not only good policy but good ethics. Encouragers 10 Violence Herr Most says that the New York Jour nal and its affiliated papers are as much to blame for, the assault upon the presi dent as anybody else, except the assailant himself. He cites their vicious cartoons ■which have not only held the president and vice president up to contempt and ridicule almost daily, but which have sought to convey the impression that they are sympathizers with those who oppress the poor and the weak, and that such representations are calculated to inflame the minds of such fellows as Gzolgosz, and quite as likely to induce him to commit the deed which he attempted at Buffalo as any other influence exerted upon him. The reader can form his own Judgment j as to whether Most is right or not. It I 1b true that the New York Journal and the I Chicago American have outraged every j ■ense of decency and propriety for years j In their insulting and abusive cartoons aimed at the president and his advisors, and published for partizan purposes, and If they have had any effect at all it would be the effect of destroying respect for those in authority, breeding contempt for the president, exciting prejudice and hat red against him, and provoking those who are capable of being influenced in that way to violent demonstrations against him. Whether the New York Journal and other papers of that class, for it is not the only one unfortunately, will take ■warning by the possible consequences of their vicious folly, remains to be seen. But certainly the people who propose to stamp out anarchy, boycott the anarchist, deny him -social recognition, employ ment, political privileges, or favor of any kind, should not forget the news papers which inflame his diseased and dis ordered intellect with visions of wrongs that do not exist and incite him against those who are in authority simply that partizan ends may be promoted. Every once in a while the Omaha and North-Western railway companies are re minded that Minneapolis is still on the map and doing business. How pleasant must be such gentle little reminders as that of the jobber who has just ordered some eighty carloads of goods from the east wiuh instructions not to ship a single car via th© North-Western. District Attorneyship Some discussion having arisen over the district attorneyship, as to whether Min neapolis might fairly claim this office, and St. Paul, with characteristic greed, having already filed a claim to it. The Journal yesterday printed the factt ■with regard to the distribution of federal offices in Minnesota, showing those em ployed in the state and appointed from Minneapolis and from St. Paul and from the state at large. The showing was undoubtedly a surprise to everybody. It indicated that St. Paul, ■with about one-eleventh of the population of the state, had one-third of the federal offices; that* where Minneapolis has sev enteen, St. Paul has forty-two; that while the salaries paid to the Minneapolis ap pointees amount to less than $30,000 a year, the total o£ salaries of St. Paul appointees is upward to $78,000, and within $25,000 of the state at large outside of both cities. The only $5,000 salary held by any re publican appointee from Minneapolis is that given to John Goodnow, consul gen eral at Shanghai. The next largest is that of Marshal Grimshaw, who draws $4,000 a year. The salary of the district attorney, ■which office is now vacant, is $4,000. All the other salaries of Minneapolis appoint ees range from $2,000 down to $600. The appointees from St. Paul draw such sal aries as $8,000 for ex-Governor Merriam, superintendent of the census; $7,500 for Minister Newell; $5,000 for Senator Clapp; $4,000 for Auditor Castle, in the postoffice department; $3,000 for Steamboat Inspec tor Sloan; $6,000 for Judge Sanborn; $3,500 each for Clerk Lang and Clerk Spencer; $2,500 each for Librarian Mayhan and for Stenographer Horn; $2,000 for Consul Lis toe, and a considerable number drawing $1,800 or less, amounting in the aggregate to $78,473, as against $29,037 for appointees from Minneapolis. In view of these facts, the modesty of St. Paul in claiming this office will be ap preciated by the public at large. In fact, it haß come to the point that if there is an;, rhing to be had St. Paul will grab lor it, and the selfishness of the St. Paul poli ticians has been so eager that they have been allowed to run away with more than double their share. St. Paul is not a re publican town to begin with. It is a drag upon the republican party of the state. Its peculiar kind of republican politics is a handicap to the republican party at this very time, and the best prospects for suc cess rest upon the hope that the party may be rid of the incubus of the St. Paul crowd in its management when next it goes De fore the people of the state. In view of these facts it would seem to be the rankest, audacity and gall for the village down the river to lay any claim whatever to this office upon the ground of fair distribution of federal patronage. TheJournalis quite well aware that this is not the highest ground upon which to make this selection, and only makes the comparison for the reason that the office has been claimed by St. Paul on that ground. Our position is that the office should go to the best man that can be ob tained for it; that the office has hereto fore been filled by men of high character and superior legal ability, and that it would De a misfortune to lower the stand ard. But since the office, on the basis of a fair distribution of the federal patron age might properly come to Minneapolis, and since there is undoubtedly plenty of good material here with which to fill it, it would seem to be altogether the proper thing for the senators to turn their eyes in this direction and find the proper man in this city. A Shock to Selfishness Mr. Hennion, a superior member of the French secret service is quoted as saying —at 'the same time remarking that Presi dent McKinley's assassin is a native born American: If any good whatever can be said to couie from the dastardly attack on the American president, it will be found in the strenuous measures that will henceforth be taken by the United States government to destroy the filthy nest of anarchists that exist there. Such measures have been taken in the old world, and America now owes it to humanity to take the sa^e course. It can not be denied that the attempt to kill the president has brought home to Americans the sabering knowledge that anarchists are the enemies of all forms of government. We have with the moet re prehensible callousness permitted anarchy to flourish here 'because we thought that much as it might menace Europe it never contemplated such a crime as that of last Friday. In our supposed immunity we pursued a selfish and unwise course. The distinction between America as an asylum "for those who love liberty' 1 and as a place where anarchists may raise, un harmed, their unclean litters of social hyenas is well-put toy W. J. Bryan when he says: The punishment administered to the would be assassin and to his coconspirators. if he has any, should be such as to warn all in clined to anarchy that, while this is an asy lum for those who love liberty, it is an In hospitable place for those who raise their hands against all forms of government. A prominent citizen of the Who Burns eighth ward, who complains the Barns? reeularlv of the work of the street commissioner and of the alderman, and who shows his civi? pride in other equally patriotic ways, claims to have solved partialy the barn-burning problem that now agitates that section cf the city. While on his back lawn the other evening, he noticed a smoke rising behind the fence. Looking over that obstruction, he saw three small boys standing around a dry goods box half filled with hay that was sending up a coil of smoke and flame. "What are you kids doing?" he asked. "Burning a barn," was the Joyous reply of the youth. As he went after his lawn hose, this prom inent citizen thoughtfully decided to put $500 insurance on his barn and carriage at once. Professor Triggs makes some defense of his comparison between Rockefeller and Shak spere. The comparison reminds one of the old conundrum, "Why is an elephant like a boat?" "Because it can't climb a tree." Doubtless there are similar likenesses be tween the Swan of Avon and the Bird of Oil. A warning having been given by an edito rial writer in a prominent medical journal that "misdirected generosity" may, by pri vate donations to unworthy medical schools, bring about evil results, American Medicine says feelingly, "Do not let us do anything to prevent the rich from looking toward medicine." The Chicago Journal, trying to discover where the assassin found his motive, com plains of "strife-breeding editorials in black faced type for weak intellects, and cartoons that have slander in every line." This re mark is supposed to have some reference to Mr. Hearst's yellow leaflets of crime. Unless a Texas reporter has been dream ing, ex-Governor Hogg is building a $25,000,000 oil pipe line from Beaumont to Sabine Pass, on the gulf. If it comes to a choice between Hoggs, give us the ex-governor in prefer ence to Standard Oil. We don't know what the ex-governor will do. E. W. Howe, editor of the caustic Atchison Globe and author of "The Story of a Country Town," has abandoned the use of tobacco as a chew after having 'been at it forty years. Mr. Howe freely admits that he can see noth ing ahead for the republic now but gloom. France still cherishes the idea that the careless sultan has been smoking his cigarette in the powder mill, but the commander of the faithful intimates that he was enjoying merely "a dry smoke." At Hopewell, N. J., an infernal scoundrel, with no music in his Soul, threw a bottle of vitriol over the local band while it was un coiling a rag-time on the agitated air. He teat the band, for it had to stop and get a doctor. James McQarry, the original "Mr. Dooley," Tvho is sick at the county hospital, is rest ing easily and may yet recover if Mr. Hen negsy doesn't get into the room and talk him to 'death. Experiments conducted at the University of Minnesota seem to show that the potato is not very nourishing. Anyway, our grocer, who uses potatoes constantly, looks very fat and flourishing this fall. There was a rumor of tbe discovery of oil in North Dakota. Nobody knows what is under the Bad Lands, but if there is any oil there, the coal 'baron will be nursing a pounded thumb. - In a few weeks or months, it is quite gen erally predicted, anarchy will be around ex hibiting a slight dent In the neck. Congress is likely to take action. A lady at Minnetonka is said to have killed a snake with & stone. If she was aiming at the varmint at the time, the Item is worth serious mention. The dog luncheons -which are now a society fad at Newport are now of the kind that causes the free lunch counter fairly to bark with edibles. M. Rose of Paris, but his airship didn't, at least only a few feet. Working Harm to the Navy. New York World. Sensationalism and partisanship are kicking our splendid navy through the mire of a dis graceful enbrollment. And it has already be come cleat- that a settlement of the points in dispute Is Improbable to the verge of Im possibility. It seems also clear that the only definite result m«y be a navy lowered In tone, lowered la Its own and the public esteem. MINNESOTA POLITICS The recent article in this column, telling of the fight being made on John Coleman by Anoku politicians, stirred lip the Ruin river burg to an unwonted extent. The Journal's correspondent inter viewed the leading men ol both factions with interesting results, practically verifying The Jo vm a l's story. The Pease-Engel-Wyman element expressed itself as follows: G. S. Pease—l am not a leader of any fac tion, but 1 will never be for Van Saut. Judge Engel—l think Governor Van Saat might have picked a man for member of the board that would have been satisfactory to all, but he chose Mr. Hanson, who was not. 1 think he lost a good many votes by doing so; how many, 1 cannot say. What my at titude toward Van Sant will hereafter be, the future will decide. W. H. Hanson, Governor Van Sant's ap pointee on the asylum board and now mayor of Anoka, said: That part of the article relating to the im | probability of any Anoka mau being ap- I pointed in the case of Coleman's removal is i a cold bluff. There is no reason why an ' Anoka man, satisfactory to the republicans ! . here, should not be appointed, and he, uo doubt, will be. The three men mentioned in The Journal as being leading repub licans have been on the losing side every I time in recent years. Only last Monday, j they got snowed under about a to 1 in the ■ school election, and 1 could name twenty other fights in which they have been laid out. In fact, they never win, and there is no reason why they should be consulted in ! the selection of appointees. I. A. Caswell, former editor of the Anoka j Herald, reads the Pease-Engel crowd out of j the party in the following breezy style: I was not aware that there were two fac tions in the republican party. I call only those republicans who support the republican j ticket through the campaign, and none of I the men mentioned as being prominent re- i publicans and leaders of a faction has done j this since 1 can remember. I call them soreheads and let it go at that. As to their I strength, it is nearer 30 than it is 300, and if they stay where they are there will be no change in the vote in this county, for they have, as I said before, never supported the republican ticket. They began knocking { Van Sant in September last year, before the j election, and then were disappointed because he didn't appoint some of them to office. They fought Lee, with the result that his opponent Wyman, got only 16 out of 181 votes in the county convention; and Lee led McKinley on election day in the county. They fought Mayor Hanson through three campaigns, get ting snowed under eyery time. They op posed A. N. Dare, of Elk River, and Judge Giddings, of this place, with the usual re sults. When they fought Attorney General Douglas,, he led the state ticket in this coun ty. I say there is only one faction in the republican party in this county, and that faction is stronger and more united and more determined to-day than ever before, and the appointment of Mr. Swank will be satisfac tory to them. Henry Lee, member of the legislature, goes after Coleman rough shod. He says: I think the reporter must have been mis taken as to the attitude of Mr. Dunn. lam sure he would not interfere in our affairs to the extent of dictating appointments In this county; and I know he never would favor a democrat as against such a republi can as Mr. Swank. As to the connection between the superintendent of the insane asylum and the new democratic paper here, I am sure there can be no doubt. Every one here knows it is so. I have do interest in this matter personally, but 1 understand that the attitude of the present management in furnishing the asylum and buying sup plies when he was purchasing agent did not make him popular among our merchants. Not a dollar's worth of furniture or furnishings was bought here, while in Hastings all the orders were given to the local merchants, and the prices paid there were not higher than those paid here. Another thing which caused dissatisfaction here was the picayunish man ner in which he paid his help until Mr. Han son forced him to adopt the Hastings scale and give the boys a raise of from |5 to $10 a month each. With the low wage scale in force before Hanson was appointed, the cost per capita was greater than at any other state institution. I say let the good work go on, and hasten the apppintment of Mr. Swank, and thus settle the controversy and give the institution a good, capable manage ment and a popular one. The Journal is not a partizan of Su perintendent Coleman, but in the article which stirred up these interviews sought to state only the exact situation. It is evident that factional feeling in Anoka is more bitter than anywhere In the state, and it is also evident that the dominant faction Is leaving no stone unturned to get Coleman out and put Swank in. They have not done any work on the mem bers of the board of control, who state posi tively that they will not discharge any one except for cause. No charges have been pre ferred against Coleman, who will evidently stay, unless he becomes disgusted ajjd re signs. As stated before, he has promised State Auditor Dunn that he will not resign. lie wanted to quit in order to save the board of control trouble, but Dunn told him that his resignation would only get the board into trouble with one faction or the other of Anoka politicians. Judge Engel and Qranville S. Pease seem inclined to read themselves out of the party without waiting for the other crowd to throw them out. They claim, of course, to be re publicans stin, but not Van Sant republicans. —C. B. C. AMUSEMENTS Chamicey Olcott In "Garrett o'Magh" at tbe Metropolitan. When Chauncey Olcott visited Minneapo lis laßt season, he presented a revival of •"Mavourneen," and broke a few records in the matter of attendance at the Metropolitan. This year he has returned with a ne-w play, "Garrett OMagh," written for him by his manager, Augustus Pitou, and more records i have been badly fractured. Mr. Olcott has developed into one of the be^t paying stars who visits the northwest. His sweet voice and his rollicking imperso nation of the Irish roles provided for him by the facile pen and ripe ingenuity of Mr. Pitou have made him a pronounced favorite. Fortunately he has found in Garrett O'Magh ■by no means the least successful of his many roles. The play itself Is not remarkable for its plot. It suggests the adjective "pretty" rather than the word "strong." It pleases rather than interests; but its manner of pleasing is both novel and delightful. Well mounted, elaborately costumed, and present ed by a competent company, "Garrett O'Magh" is a success. The love story of its two central characters, Garrett, a young Irishman, who has returned to his native isle from America, where he had gone to make his fortune, and made it; and Eileen •Nagle, a romantic Irish girl, whose ideas of life have been acquired from much reading of sentimental tales, is handled in way that makes it most grateful to the audience. There Is nothing of the usual Irish "atmos phere" about "Garrett O'Magh." Its locale is given on the program as Ireland, and the time of its action as 1812. However, it might have been transplanted to Xew York and this year of our Lord, 1901, without any in- Jury being done to the story. The play is in four acts, and, like all the Olcott produc tions, it has been arranged so as to permit the interpolation of a number of songs by the star. The ballads are new this year, and, while they may lack that element which carried "My Wild Irish Rose" into imme diate and lasting popularity, all are good. The titles are "Ireland! A Gra Ma Chree," "The Lass I Love," "My Sweet Queen" and "Paddy's Cat." Mr. Olcott's voice has lost nothing of its sweetness, and the audience which crowded the Metropolitan last night was unable, apparently, to hear enough of his singing. It may be said for tlfe character of Garrett O'Magh, that there is less of the improvable in its make-up than in most of the roles Mr. Olcott has assumed in the past. Garrett ig a straightforward, matter-of-fact young fel low, with the fun-loving disposition of an easy-going Irish lad, but without the arU ficialtty that bo often attends upon the stage Irishman. He does not accomplish impossi bilities in defeating the machinations of an English army officer, backed up by several companies of red-coated soldiers; nor is he called upon to thwart the dastardly designs of a too grasping landlord. In fact, both the red coats and the landlord are fortunately absent. Naturally the villain of the piece is an Englishman, but he is an innocuous sort, and he isn"t thwarted to any apprecia ble extent, except for the fact that he dogsu't marry the girl he had selected. The company in support this year is by far the best Mr. Pitou has ever sent to Min neapolis. Miss Edith Parker, an unusually pretty girl. Is cast for Eileen Nagle, and she plays the part well. Charles M. Collins Is good as Roger Nagle, a Dublin attorney, and Margaret Fitzpatrlck plays Mrs. Devlin excellently. Luke Martin Is deserving of iiigh praise ~tov his interpretation of Darby THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. Lynch, the innkeeper. The company through out is adequate. —J- S. Lawrence. "In Old Kentucky" «* tn« Bijou. "In Old Kentucky,"" Jacob Lltt's gold mine, which has proved itself to be a more remu nerative speculation than Northern Pacific stock during the recent flurry. Is on its ninth annual visit to the Bijou this week. In its earlier years Mr. Litt had several companies on the road playing this piece, and it is not on record that any of them ever failed to make money. This year, however, there le but one company, and that a good one. Age cannot wither nor custom stale the in finite variety of this play. Like Tennyson s famous brook, it bids fair to go on forever, Its popularity undiminisbed by familiarity. From which it may be argued, and Justly, too, that "In Old Kentucky" is the sort of play people like. The piece was originally produced by Mr. Litt's stock company at the St. Paul Grand, nine years ago last summer. In that production Marlon Elmore was the Madge and Julia Arthur and Louis James were members of the company. Since then there have been many Uncle Nebs, many Colonels and many Madges, but no Madge more winsome and altogether charming than Alice Treat Hunt, who plays the part this season. Miss Hunt visited Minneapolis for the first time last year in "Caleb \yest." She now returns under more fortunate auspices. The delicate roguery to which this little lady gives full rein in her interpretation of the character, the persuasive power of her pathos, tho convincing earnestness of hw self-abnegation, and the very openness of her love for Frank Layson, all serve to endear her to the hearts of her audience. Whether swinging across a ravine to save the life of her lover, suffering under social slights and insults, or riding Queen Bess to victory, Miss. Hunt's Madge is always admirable. She gives an artistic portrayal of the part throughout, and from her first appearance on the stage t'itsarms adverse criticism. Burt G. Clark, who has been identified with the role of Colonel Sandusky Doolittle almost from tee first, still remains in the cast. His work as the horse-racing, mint-julep-lovlng Keutuckian is too familiar both in Minneapo lis and elsewhere, to require comment. He has caught its spirit as has no one else, and his retention is a matter for congratulation. George D. Baker is the Frank Layson, Jeffrey D. Williams the Joe Lorey, and Adelaide Eaton Colton the Aunt Lethe; and all are good. In fact, the company is one of the best tuat has ever appeared in the old play. The pickaninny scene in the second act 's well managed and proves highly diverting. The "Woodlawn Waugdoodles" remain a fea ture of the production. —J. S. Lawrence. EMBALMED SAUSAGE Much of It Sold, Says the City Meat Inspector. IT'S HARD TO PREVENT IT The Only Way lit by the Co-operation of Meat Men and Food CommliKlon. According to Wyman Costigan, city meat inspector under the board of health, there Is a tremendous amount of "em balmed" meat of one sort or another be ing consumed in Minneapolis at the pres ent time. It is also his opinion that there is no help for it except in co-operation between the local butchers and the state food and dairy commission. The begining of the embalmed meat busi ness was- about eight or ten years ago. Pre vious to that time the local butchers made al! their own sausage and sold It fresh each day. Under such conditions there was no need of preservatives. Now the packing companies have control of that part of the meat busi ness as well as of £11 the rest. They manu facture sausage in wholesale amounts and ship it all over the country, and they make a price that knocks all the profit out of the local business. The packing-house sausage 13 built to "stand up" for weeks if necessary. Of course this result is impossible without the use of preservatives. The competition among the packing companies has been very keen along this line, and the company that can invent a preservative that will keep the product in the best shape is the winner. It naturally follows that as time has gone on and competition grown keener, more and more preservative has been used, until Its use is now practically universal among the packers of sausage and seme other classes of meat products. Borax is one of the main in gredients. It is used not only with sausage, but with canned corn beef, dried beef, Ham burg steak, canned ham and even salt pork. In fact, I do not believe there is anything that comes from the packers to-day in the above classes that does not contain more or less preservative. Some people say it is not harmful, but I believe it is. Meat that will remain sweet on the counter for two or throe weeks after it is made will resist digestion when it is taken Into the stomach. The only remedy that I can see for the pres ent conditions is for the state food and dairy officials to eeize embalmed stuff wherever it is found, whether in local shops or the ware bouses of the packing companies, and prose cute all alike. Then let the butchers exclude all packers' products of a kind they can man ufacture themselves and build up a market of their own of reliable goods. This used to be done and it can be done again. The butch er can't make good freeji saueage in competi tion with t'ao packer, but if the officials of the state will co-operate with him and the public will pay for wholesome goods, he can hold his own against anybody." U.C.T. RESOLUTION Condemning the Act of Cscolgom— Sympathy for Mrs. McKinley. Minneapolis council of the United Com mercial Travelers has adopted the follow ing resolution regarding the attempted as sassination of President McKinley: Resolved, That Minneapolis council, Xo. 63, United Commercial Travelers of America, an organization of commercial travelers declar ing themselves to be strict advocates and maintainers of our system of government, and the laws pertaining thereto, under which we enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of Mappi ness, declaring further that we are patriotic American citizens and zealous in our love of country, our firesides and our homes, deeire to denounce in unmeasured terms of fiercest denunciation the dastardly, damnable, demo niac, cowardly, Judas-like attempt on the life of our chief magistrate, our honored presi dent, William MeKinley. An attempt to de prive our country of its ruler, his native state of an honored son, and his invalid wife of a devoted and loving husband. Language is too frail to express our horror and detestation of this vile crime, and the most vivid imagina tion cannot conceive of a proper punishment for the accursed perpetrator thereof. To our whole country, to his official family, to his immediate personal friends, but, above all, to his frail, yet devoted, loving and faithful wife, we offer our heartfelt sympathy, and we humbly pray the Great Father of us all that our country may be spared its president, the tender, loving, heart-broken wife her hus band. Hammond Denies. To the Editor of The Journal: I see in last evening's Journal a re port of remarks on the attempted murder of the president, credited to me, which appears to have been taken from a similar report in yesterday mornings Times. The Times re port was, in the main, fair, and It seems unfortunate that, in adapting the report, you should have selected for special prominence the only sentence which was quite without foundation; but so you did. I did not say that McKinley's "fate was a matter of, su preme indifference," nor do I think any words of mine could be so construed. Let me add that there are many people in the community—besides the socialists—who feel that the attitude of the daily press in regard to the anarchists is one calculated to pro mote the growth of anarchist sentiment rather than to discourage it. It might, per haps, be well if editors would read and profit by the remarks of Professor Folwell in last Saturday's Journal. Sept. 10. —W. B. Hammond. Sheboygan, Wis., is a pea-raising dis trict, and recently all the clergymen gave written permission to their flocks to gath-! er the crop on a Sunday to save it. I TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1901. HALL OF FAME IDEA To Celebrate Great Names in Louisi ana Purchase. IT MATT BE BUILT AT ST. LOUIS Wlndom, Davis, SlMe> and Rtmaey Mentioned for Honors From Minnenota. Special to The Journal. St. Louis, Sept. 10.—It has been sug gested here that the exposition in 1003 contain a hall of fame for the statues of the greatest men of the Louisiana Pur chase states. A letter intended to give the broadest scope for suggestion and freedom in com ment on the nominations made was sent to presidents of colleges, editors of news- papers, governors, congressmen, secre taries of s,tate and other prominent citi zens and officials of the states and terri tories, as well as for Texas and the Northwestern Pacific states, title to ■which was assured by the expedition of Lewis and Clark. The letter requesting that nominations be made was as follows: If a hall of fame should be made a feature of the Louisiana purchase exposition at St. Louis, to contain two statues of the men in each of the states of the purchase who have rendered the country and the world the nx>st distinguished service, who, in your judgment, should be selected to represent your state? Following were the nominations from Minnesota: Nominated by President Cyrus Northrop of the University of Minnesota—William Win 4om, Cushman K. Davis and General Sibley as alternate. Nominated by President James Wallace of Macalester College, St. Paul —Ex-Governor Ramsey and Cushman K. Davis. In his letter President Northrop wrote: Minnesota is a young state, and there are others more familiar with the details of her early history than I am, but it seems to me that the three men who have rendered the most distinguished services to the country and the world and are no longer living, are William Windom, Cushman K. Davis and General Henry Hastings Sibley. Mr. Windom served in the senate and in the cabinet. Mr. Davis was a most distinguished senator and diplomatist. General Sibley was the first gov ernor of Minnesota, a warrior of local promi nence, and a man who did a great deal '0 establish the character and form of the state. If I were compelled to name two, I think that the expression 'services rendered the country and the world' would require me to select the first two whom I have named." The North Dakota nominations were as follows: Nominated by Secretary' of States E. F. Porter—Ex-Governor Pierce and Father Qenin. Nominated by Editor M. H. Jewell of the Bismarck Tribune—Ex-Governor Pierce and Father Genln. Editor Jewell writes of the nominees, in selecting whom he agrees with Secre tary of State Porter: Our state is still so young that nearly all our great men are living. I call to mind but two (among the dead) who would come under the requirement, viz., ex-Governor Gilbert A. Pierce, our territorial governor and our first United States senator, and Father Genin, the pioneer missionary among the Indians. Both died last year. These South Dakota names were men tioned: Nominated by Charles N. Herreid, Governor of South Dakota—Ex-Governor Mellette, ex- Governor Sheldon. Nominated by President C. H. French of Huron College, Huron, S. D.—Rev. William M. Blackburn, D. D., and Rev. Joseph Ward, D. D. Nominated by President Henry K. Warren, of Yankton College, South Dakota—Rev. Jo seph Ward, D. D., and ex-Governor Howard. Nominated by Editor F. L. Mease of the Normal Teacher, Madison, S. D.—Judge Eci gerton and ex-Governor A. C. Mellette. President French writes that Dr. Blackburn was the president of Pierre university, now Huron college during its earlier years and that Dr. Ward was the founder of Yankton college. To the name of Dr. Ward President Ward adds that of William A. Howard, one of the earliest governors. DUNN ON THE GROUND Strong Catholic Total Abstinence Movement in lowa. Special to The Journal. Dubuque, loWa, Sept. 10.—James Dunn, national organizer and lecturer for the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Amer ica, arrived in the city this week for the purpose of establishing branches In each of the Catholic parishes. He came here at the request of the rector of St. Ra phael's Cathedral, who is anxious that the first work of the union be prosecuted in Dubuque, the see city of the archdiocese and the home of Arcbibishop Keane, the apostle of temperance. The first lecture will foe delivered in the cathedral parish. After organizing the branches in thia city, 'Mr. Dunn will visit other parishes In the state and hopes to h*ve the union well represented in the archdiocese of Dubuque before the na tional convention to 'be held in this city Aug. 6, 7, 8, and 9 of next year. Mr. Dunn said that delegates from, four different states, at the recent Hartford convention to get the next national can vention for their respective states, but when Archbishop Ireland asked that Du buque be awarded the honor, the others withdrew from the race In courtesy to Archbishops Ireland and Keane, two of the strongest temperance advocates In the United States. BURNED AT SALT LAKE General Office* of the Oregon Short Line Destroyed. Salt Lake, Utah, Sept. 10.—The two story brick building in which were located the general offices of the Oregon Short Line rairway was completely destroyed by firo early this morning. Shortly after the firemen arrived an explosion of dynamite, a small quantity of which was stored in the basement, blew out most of the south wall and part of the front building, four firemen being cut by flying glass. Assist ant Chief McCarthy was severely injured. The explosion destroyed the plans of the new Sailt Lake and Los Angeles extension. The loss will approximate $250,000. BOEFT'BAG" Gen. Kitchener Gives the lien nits of a Week.'* Operation*. London, Sept. 10.—The following dis patch has been received from Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria to-day: Since Sept. 2 the columns have again got good results, the total bag being 681, com posed of 67 killed, 67 wounded, 384 made pris oners and 163 surrendered; also 179 rifles, 65,211 rounds of ammunition, 3,400 horses and 19,000 head of cattle. Lord Kitchener further says that the situation in Cape Colony is unchanged ex cept the capture of Dotter's command re ported last week. ILLINOIS GOLD CRAZE Yellow Metal Reported Near Elgin, Illinois. Special to The Journal. Elgin, 111., Sept. 10.—Gold In paying qualities has been found near Cary station, a hamlet near this city. Excitement runs high and claims are being made and leases sold with lightning rapidity. What was a week ago a quiet country village is now populated with fever-stricken prospectors. The yellow metal was found on the A. L. Weaver farm by workmen excavating a ditch. It was found in six different spots at a depth of eight to ten feet, imbedded in clay and rock. Assays made by Chi cago chemists show that the metal runs from |ll to $13 a ton. The veins will be worked as soon as mining machinery which has been ordered can be put in place. On a recent Sunday the fire department of Berlin was called upon to disperse four different swarms of bees which had taken up quarters in the streets. Copyright. 1901, by J. 0. Whittemore. The Morning Blazer w&3 about to go to press. The linotypes were clicking frantically on the last takes, the foreman was dancing about the last form, and from below floated the babel of the newsboys' room and the rat tle of the delivery wagons in the alley. The last reporter had straggled out and none of the brain of the- paper was on hand except Gilroy. Gilroy was the night editor, and he was anything but at peace in his mind. "A bum rag this morning—a bum rag. Nothing but rot and rot—not a line of hot stuff—but there's nothln' doing—nothing." Gilroy had worked hard and worked his men harder to get out a creditable sheet, but the results were disappointing. He was viciously jabbing the cockroaches upon his grimy desk with his shears when some one gently nudged his elbow. He wheeled arouni aud faced a strange figure, a face drawn and haggard with a pallor which brought a mut tered "dope-eater" from the editor; a form attenuated, clad in seedy and shining black wi^h a ministerial coat tightly buttoned at tha throat; shifting eyes beneath an old slouch hat. It looked like a clear case of "touch," and Gilroy was bracing himself for it. The man with trembling hands drew from an inner pocket several sheets of manuscript, and, as he smoothed them carefully, he spoke in nervous, hurried tones, with a tense under current of anxiety: "It's a scoop, sir—'pon honor a dead scoop. Police don't know it. No one knows it but myself—l mean—er— Give me a V and it's yours, exclusive. Only aY, sir. Worth don- ble, sir." , Gilroy's eyes were running down the lines at lightning speed as with the practice ol years he absorbed the story. It was admira bly written In an odd but legible hand, with all the earmarks of an old reporter's copy. The story was of a murder which had been committed but an hour before In an alley directly in the rear of poltce headquarters. A watchman had been found with his throat cut from ear to ear. The dead man Gilroy knew to be an Inoffensive Swede without an enemy in the world. The watchman's keys, money and watch were left upon his person, which left the motive to be explained. For once in his life Gilroy was In doubt. It ■was to overthrow all the newspaper saints from their niches to take a story under these conditions. It might be a fake pure and sim ple—or it might be the greatest scoop the Blazer ever printed. All this time the man was keeping up his plaintive pleading for "a V, sir, only a V, and it's the chance of a lifetime, sir." "It's just a gamble, but here goes," mut tered Gilroy, as he carved the copy into infin itesimal takes and yelled to the foreman: "Make a hole for this stuff—kill anything, everything—it's got to go." Then turning to the- stranger: "Here's your V. If this is wrong, I'll hunt you to the ends of the earth and shoot you on sight," and Gilroy spoke as if he would co It. With a feverish rlutch the man reached for the bank note and melted into the gloom of the outer office. With the first grumble of the big presses came a spiteful ring of the telephone. It was Somerby, the cub reporter, who was an independent scout, as 'ac chose to call him self, a man looking for a chance to distin guish himself. Somerby said, "Police have just found body of murdered man in the Ashpit alley " ■'Thank God," fervently ejaculated Gilroy. "Eh —what's that you say?" "Got it —buy a paper aad go home 'and read it—get some sleep and see if you can't get some ners." And Somerby hung up the receiver in a ho- Daily New York Letter BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL, No. 21 Park Row, New York. \ew Idea* in Tenement*. Sept. 10.—Work is soon to begin upon three tenement houses on the corner of Broome and Mulberry streets. These are to be the first buildings under the provisions of the new tenement-house law, and the con summation "will be eagerly watched, because it will show what is possible for speculative builders to do in the congested tenement dis tricts. The financial practicability of the new law, so far as buildings of this kind are concerned, will thus be tested in this crowded Italian district. The plot upon which the buildings are to be located fronts 76 feet on Broome street and 141 feet on Mulberry street, comprising a space equivalent to three twen ty-flve-foot lots on Broome street and about two on Mulberry street. The price paid for the property, before the passage of the new law, is understood to have been $140,000. It was first intended to erect upon the plot four houses, one with forty feet frontage on Mulberry street and three of twenty-five feet each on Broome street. After the pas sage of the new law, however, the plans were abandoned. Now, in place of the three tene ments fronting on Broome street, a single tenement occupying sixty-six feet on Broome street and sixty-one feet on Mulberry will be ibuilt, leaving ten feet on Broome for the yard, the minimum length required by the new law. Upon Mulberry street there will be left a frontage of eighty feet and extend ing back seventy-six feet, upon which two houses, each forty feet wide, will be built. Thus, instead of four tenements, which would have cost at least $100,000 if erected under the old law, three larger houses will be built, costing $85,000. The greatest speculation over the matter is, of course, whether the total income will be greater or less under the new plans. Tenants will certainly have better accommodations, beginning with the cellar, ■which will contain shower baths. A Pecnllar Hulldini;. The peculiarities of some of the streets in the borough of the Bronx have made it pos sltole to build on a regular sized corner lot an apartment house with two stores on the first floor, another store on the third floor and a suite of living apartments between the two sets of stores. The store on the third floor has a frontage on the street, as do also the two stores on the flrat floor, which are not In the cellar, although they are two stories below their more lofty rival. The building is five stories high, but the tenant on the top floor is only three stories up If he looks out the front window. He is elevated to five stories if he looks out the side win dow, and the tenants of the second floor have no front windows to look out of, but they may survey the aide street from the usual complement of side windows. The house is located on the corner of One Hun dred and Sixty-first street and Eagle avenue. The street climbs a steep grade through a cut which intersects Eagle avenue. The ave nue crosses the street by a bridge some twenty-five feet or more above One Hundred and Sixty-first street. The two stores, large double ones, have a frontage on the level of One Hundred and Sixty-first street, and the third double store, two stories above, fronts on the level of Eagle avenue. The brewery interest Is large in the neighborhood, and the hill affords excellent undergound vaults for the storage of beer. There was talk of reducing the hill before the death of the late Commissioner Louis J. Helntz, but it was decided not to do so, and It was pretty gen erally believed that the interest of the brew ers In the preservation of their vaults had something to do with the decision. Invoicing; of Foreign Books. Appraiser Wakeman has scored a victory In regard to the reapprataement of imported books. For many years, it Is said, it has been the practice of certain publishing houses lv London to consign their publications co theii* agents In this city, invoicing them at very low figures, which represents practically the cost of materials and labor only, thus cutting heavily Into the American book trade. These figures. It is asserted, are not the -wholesale prices of the books, such as wouM b« charged to dealers in England, but range from 40 to 60 per cent below the wholesale market value. The law requires that for dutiable purposes merchandise shall be ap praised at Its actual market value and whole- The Scoop "THT^'W "^Br^ "^^"\ *^r*^ by JOlVhitteintre; Tel half a mile away and brushed away some thing like a tear of disappointment, for his Chance to distinguish himself had not yet come. * • • • • It was the scoop of the town. The Blazer with its vociferous headlines leered at the sergeant before his men had come in. A wandering nighthawk had found the body and a detail had gone for It. He rang up the Blazer office to know about it, but a newspaper office, after the last form is down, is like the echoing tomb. He sent j plain clothes man around to see about it. Gilroy had gone. Where waa he? "Roomed uptown somewhere." Two hours later the night editor was pulled from his bed to ex plain. "Space-writer brought it in—don't know him—never saw him before —story was* all right, wasn't it?" "Well, what in the blankity-blank-blanlc are you up here pulling me out of bed for? ' And that was all they could get out of Qil roy. It was on a morning nearly two months after the big ecoop. The Blazer promised to be frosty again. Gilroy was muttering, "Wish that scoop fiend would show up again with something as hot as that last screed of his." As if in answer to his wiah, the- mysterious Individual glided in, more wan, more seedy and more wild-eyed than before. He had'an other good scoop, "For a V, sir, only a V." This time it was a yachting accident which had happened at a near-by summer resort. Ten people were drowned, all well known. It was a terrible catastrophe, with news in every line. Gilroy fairly danced when he saw it. He pulled out the V and another dollar with it. He walked borne on air that morn- Ing, singing praises of the scoop fiend awi his own good judgment. When he __ awoke from peaceful slumbers and languidly reached for the noon edition of a rival sheet which had flown in over tue transom, to his astonishment, dismay and al most nausea, he read an article of biting sar casm to the effect that the yachting accident story "published in a morning paper" was a fearful, cold-blooded fake. Not a line at truth in it. The people alleged to have been drowned were all alive and well. The yacht which was said to have gone down with all oil board was not even if commission. Gilroy wrestled with his emotions for some time before he had the courage to go out and look the world in the face. About a month afterwards, Gilroy found upon his deak a manuscript from the scoop flend. Upon the outside was scribbled: "This is all right. Yours without the V." Gilroy read the story. It was an account of a suicide; of the rash deed of an unknowu man who had jumped headlong from the Eagle building, ten stories to the street, at 2:30 that same morning, and it was then hardly 1 o'clock. Gilroy pitched the manuscript Into a bottom drawer, and It was eoofi far from his thoughts. He was not the man to be caugnt twice by som« crazy hobo, not he. But in the rival sheet that noon he read: MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE. Crazed by Morphine, John Bond, Once a Famous English Journalist. Jumps from Eagle Building. In His Pocket Found Confession of Murder of Watchman, In Order to Sell .Story of Crime to a Newspaper. Gilroy reached for the brandy. "Here's to you, Bond. Crazy as you were, I'm worse." The Blazer published some facte in the sui cide case which the other papers didn't have. The editor was pleased to think that he didn t destroy that last communication from the scoop flend. And he vowed he would write a story about the case some day. And he did. Here It Is. sale price at the time of exportation In the principal markets of the country whence the merchandise is imported. Repeated attempts have been made to have this practice cor rected, but such efforts have been ineffectual, owing to the difficulty of obtaining sufficient evidence. One of these book invoices was advanced recently 4S per cent by Examiner Webster, who had made the subject a matter of thorough investigation. This advance was sustained by the board of United States gen eral appraisers. The second advance has now been made, amounting in thlt one case to 68 per cent, and the importer*, -who ar<» agents of one of the best known Londo:i publishing houses, have accepted the ap praisal before the general appraiser. This amounts to a complete surrender. The ad vance in question being over 50 per cent, means the seizure of the goods. Soli wall's 92.000.000 Hnime. The sale of the orphan asylum block on Riverside drive to Charles M. Schwab, an nounced last week as being in negotiation. has been concluded by the execution of The formal contract. The property, which ex tends from Seventy-third to Seventy-fourth street, and takes in also the West End ave nue front, brought $860,000. The Rlverslda drive front will pass into Mr. Schwab's pos session this fall. Title to the rest of the property will not be obtained before Octo ber, 1902, when the whole of the group of buildings comprising the new asylum on th« Hudson above Yonkers, is expected to be completed. Mr. Schwab, it Is said, will build a $2,000,000 residence on the Riverside drive front. He Is also reported to have bougbt a river lot near by on which to build a pri vate yacht landing. It has been suggested that the part of the asylum block not in cluded in the Riverside drive front Is to be resold, with restrictions, aa building sites, although, according to an apparently well informed source, the intention Is to lay it out as a private park. Mr. Schwab declines to say anything about his plans. The asy lum in 1892 sold the block above, between Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth streets, ex cept the West End avenue front, to a syn dicate whioh erected dwellings for ita own occupancy. Some of the owners in that block are Colonel Harris, Thomas A. Mclntyre. Louis F. Dommerich, Richard S. Barnes. Henry H. Vail, George C. McKesson ani George H. Macy. Mr. Schwab's purchase contains about thirty lots, the most valuable being those on Riverside drive. The Inside lots on the drive were appraised at $35,0mu each, the corner at $30,000 each. A Surnlinl Triumph. Boring through a man's skull to remove a clot from the brain is the latest triumph of surgery. This operation has been performed in the J. Hood Wright hospital. The patient., who had been paralyzed, has recovered the use of his limbs, and, it is believed, will bo able to speak in c. day or two. The patient is George Joyce, who, on the afternoon of Sunday, Aug. 18, while attempting to alight from a south-bound Amsterdam avenue ■•a' at One Hundred and Sixty-fourth street, was hurled to the navement, striking on h!a head. His entire left side and his right leg were paralyzed. After studying the caae for several days, the doctors felt certain tha paralysis was caused by a clot on the right side of the brain and decided to operate on the man. They bored a hole in the skull, and their theories were so accurate that the clot#was discovered right under the perfor ation of the skull. Joyce, in two days, waj able to move his limbs, and the paralysis of the left side left him gradually. Joyed was kept quiet and on Monday, for the first time, he began to talk. —Edward S. Luther. A NEW STATFS IX OIL That little patch of ground at Beaumont, Texas, is yielding a million and a halt barrels of oil dally, which is at the rate of 550,000,000 barrels a year. Now, the total product of the Standard Oil company's wells In this country, outside of Beaumont, is but 60,000, --000 barrels a year. Hence, whin the Beau monters can gee transportation, the profits of the Standard OH company will look small. At present the Beaumont oil, because of lack of transportation, Is sellng on the spot at 20 cents a barrel, or about one-tenth th.-i price of the Standard Oil product. Evidently the great "trust" must be feeling Quite shaky these days.