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't? I IS a tribute to the universal de mocracy of the country that the mayor of even large cities is ex pected to do everything for his people. Nearly all of us came from the village where the mayor -was the father of the town, ran the school board, the town marshal, the health and hustled out to fires. Cm the Fourth of July he shot off the anvil cannon at sunrise, and at Christmas he played Santa Claus at the Methodist church. He thus became identified in our minds with universal genius and broad powers. Hence, tho we have come to live in a large city, we still step around to the mayor's of fice to ask what time it is and to tell his honor what an outiageous gas bill we had last month. Two kinds of people to go to see the mayor of Minneapolis, those who want to complain about something. He seldom sees the happy citizen who has a prospering business or a good ipb. If the waere earner gets his pay raised ho doesn't go round and tell the mayor it was because of his fine 18-carat admin istration, but if he loses his place, he hustles immediately to the city hall with two aldermen to back him and puts up a holler for a city iob on the ground that he voted at the last elec tion. There are any number of people Who make a virtue of having voted. The business man, if trade falls off, lays it to the mayor and his fool policy. if the business is brisk it is because he is a superior business man. If the mayor of Minneapolis should happen to pee a man who only wanted to shako hands with him and say he was the best mayor the city ever had and couldn't ido Detter if he tried, the mayor would jflrop dead. So, also, would the visitor. He could not stand the strain of such an unnatural performance inMinne apolis. What His Honor Does. The duties of the mayor of the city are rather loosely prescribed in the charter. He is to see that the laws are enforced and if the other officials do not cut wood he is empowered to maintain an action in mandamus against them. Whatever this dreadful TH It May Surprise You, but Many Minneapolitans Think That the mayor should give you a good-paying city job, one that doesn't require too much muscle or brains or too long hours, because you voted for him. That you have the legal right, since the mayor is a public servant," to call upon him, whether at his office or at his home, at any time of the day or night, and complain about anything that may have displeased you. That any success you may meet with in business is due to your own sagacity, and that failure (if that be the fate of your venture) is due to the fool policy of the mayor. That it is the function of the mayor to act as arbitrator in your dispute with a neighbor concerning the removal and interment of the body of a cat that was, or similarly petty and ridiculous matters in which he cannot possibly have the slightest interest, personal or official. E coming to Wonderland park this week of A. Roy Knaben shue and his airship is a real fvent. The American public has of ite years especially been deeply in terested in the navigation of the air. Demonstrations of the practicability of airships and dirigible balloons have been giving promise right along of a development into something useful. It has seemed of late as if a speedy reve lation of the secret of aerial flight could be anticipated. The experiments have been attended $jte by an element of danger that has fas cinated those who craved for the sen sational. Since Santos Dumont hitched a petroleum motor to a gas bag, bal looning has become a social fad, espe cially in France, where numerous aero nautic clubs and societies have been formed, and in this country this sum mer. There have been various types of flying machines with propellers and wings and also tetrahedral kites and because of the number of experiment ers, both amateur and professional, it has been reasonable to assume that be fore long some one of them will have solved tne mystery of stemming the air currents that are more perverse and variable than the tides of the ocean and of attaining heights not yet reached by man. While old-fashioned ballooning has (been considered perilous, the danger B^feWtt,inoreased, ^-the iny^ation* thing may be is not known, as it has never been invoked. The other spe cific duties of the mayor are to ap point tho police force, the board of charities and corrections, and to at tend the meetings of the park board, library board and board of tax levy. His biggest single job is to appoint the police force. This ho does at his own sweet will. The mayor could dis- KNABENSHUE'S AIRSHIP A8 IT APPEARS WHEN INFLATED FOR A FLIGHT. which combine the use of motors with the gas bags. A dirigible balloon is peculiarly liable to wreck from the fact that its fragile structure is forced against the wind instead of being car ried gently along with it. There is also danger of explosion from the ex pansion of the gas which is confined so much more tightly than in an ordi nary balloon. Of all the aeronauts before the pub lie Knabenshue has been the most successful. He will bring to Wonder land an airship in which he is said to have made 250 successful flights. Last year he astounded the people of Cali fornia, New Tork and Chicago by cut ting aerial figure-eights high above the tops of the loftiest skyscrapers, sail ing against the wind and following a Erosoribed course instead of drifting ither and thither at the mercy of air currents as in the case of an ordinary balloon. This summer he has given successful demonstrations at Cleveland, Washing ton, Soranton, Cincinnati, Buffalo, New York and he is now at the Winnipeg exposition. To Make Daily Flights. Atmospheric conditions out a Jgood deal of figure with the success ox the demonstration, of course, and Knaben shue does not olaim to have reached the degree of perfection that will war rant his contending against strong currents of air, altho he can make ,iead,wayc_io Acettain_dgTee^a*&eJui4-tach.ed charge every man on the force In a day if he chose and the charter would up hold him. Minneapolis did have a may or who named 100 new policemen on inauguration day, but his success was not such as to encourage others in that line of work. Usually the incoming mayor names his own chief of police, and in the course of the first few months of his regime weeds out the men he believes to be weak and names new ones. Minneapolis is the only large city where the mayor has such power over the police, ft has its ad vantages over the civil service system. Mayor Jones, for example, can abso lutely carry out his Sunday law en forcement because the whole police force is amenable to his will. If it were under civil service rule he could never carry out a policy because the evil elements in the community would The Airship Which He Brings to Wonderland Tomorrow Goes Far Toward Solving a Historic ProblemHe'll Attempt Daily Flights. Srovend Sy His contract with the Won erlan park management is that he shall make flights daily, if practicable, with the point in view of traveling from the park over the business cen ters of both Minneapolis and St. Paul, and his endeavor will be to encircle the towers of the city hall buildings in both cities. He is expected to arrive Monday and his aerodrome is to be inflated Tuesday, when his engagement begins. Accompanying Knabenshue is an aero naut named Hamilton who has made several successful flights, and he as well as Knabenshue will make trips over the twin cities. There is a great deal of interest in tY% coming of Knabenshue thruout tho northwest and it is likely that several of the railroads will give ex cursion rates within a radius of 200 miles. An Ingenious Machine. The gas bag of Knabenshue's air ship is sixty-two feet in. length, sup porting the framework carrying the motive power and the steering appar atus besides the navigator. I is cigar shaped and is a lengthy cylinder fiointed at both ends, constructed of he finest Japanese silk, which is of great strength and exceedingly light weight, covered with a special var nish. It requires 7,000 cubic, feet of hydro gen to inflate the bag. which is at .to^the framework J?y~means of reach the policemen. They would be slack in enforcing the law knowing that the mayor could get after them only thru a commission which would be tied down to clear evidence of mis conduct. All the mayor of Minne apolis needs is to be satisfied that a po liceman is shirking his duty and off comes his head. It goes without say ing that the bluecoats know this and they are always for what the mayor is for. The boards which the mayor attends provide him with needed change from his routine work. The work of the park board is good and that of the library board better. On these boards the mayor takes his place on an equal ity with the other members. He has no veto power and only the same vote as ins colleagues. Still, the service is of Slm reat value to the mayor, as it gives a first-hand knowledge of what is going on in the other departments. First Come, First Served. The mayor's daily routine is about like that of a business man. He ar rives at his office about 10 o'clock and immediately plunges into work. Be fore him have arrived a number of per sons who have business with the of fice. When the mayor has looked at his mail these are let in to see him in the order of their arrival. First come, first served, is the rule in democracies, and it has always been faithfully ob served in the mayor's office. A'good many of these callers are persons who should have gone to other departments, and all the mayor can do for them is to direct them where to go. But they always insist on seeing the mayor. The other day a woman waited two hours for her turn to see his honor, and when she got into the private of fice complained that she had been or dered by the health office to clean a cesspool in her yard. She was a poor woman and had not the monev for the scavenger, wouldn't the mayor fix it for her? Another day Mayor Jones received a telephone message peremptorily com manding him to see to the removal of a dead dog from the $reet in the south part of the city. ,The mayor realized that he ought to attend to th.is matter at once, but was delayed by other items of business. The line of visitors gradually thins out and perhaps thtetfe will be left only a complaint agamst-a-policeman or one against a saBonfte^ve^Tfo'r selling to minors. These may be heard imme diately or put over to the afternoon. The latter cases are the hardest to decide. Often the child who "secured AVIGATES THE AI '"'J" '.w '*!*''"?'*'$ "i ,'i, :*i v+ KNABENSHUE'S AIRSHIP MAKING A FLIGHT AT BUFFALO a net of strong cords. The weight of the bag is sixtyyfive pounds. The framework is thirty-eight feet in length and consists of three parallel longitudinal pieces which form a tri angle at cross sections and come to gether at a point at each end. The wood used is spruce with the exception of a few pieces df bamboo, The two-bladed propeller at the bow is ten feet in diameter, the arms being twenty-nine inehes in width at the outer extremity, he weight .of the Dfctiv Pag* the liquor is "within a month or two of adult age and looks 22 or 23 years old. The evidence is conflicting. If it is a clear case, the mayor generally revokes the license. This is the max imum punishment he can inflict. After lunch another group of visitors of very much the same grade as its predecessor is on hand and the grind must be gone thru again. Along to ward evening the mayor gets a little time to consider the papers on his desk and think of the larger matters that concern him as chief executive. He has also reports from the heads of several departments to look over such as the superintendent of the workhouse, the poor department, the city hospital. No action is required on these except that the mayor must keep in touch with them and know what is going on. If everything is right, it is easy sailing, but if anything goes wrong the mayor is responsible. Every two weeks the mavor has a batch of resolutions and ordinances from the city council, which he must either sign or veto. Most of them are routine, quickly disposed of, but some start issues that stay with the mayor for months, like the Patterson lighting contract for example. Mavor Jones re fused to act upon that because it wis not, in his opinion, properly passed. He was obliged to maintain a lawsuit at his own expense to determine what his rights were as mayor of the city. He also made several trips to cities at a distance, to inquire into their methods of lighting, etc. The city pays none of these expenses, unless the mayor takes them out of the contingent fund. Once a month the mayor is presented with a large batch of warrants passed by the city council. He has to sign his name 600 or 700 times, as no money can be paid unless en warrants signed by him and the city clerk and counter signed by the controller. At 5 o'clock the mayor closes his of fice and escapes, if his work is done. Some of the incumbents of the office have differed materially in their meth ods from others. Mayor Eobert Pratt was very methodical and wovdd per mit nothing to hurry him. Every mat ter must have personal attention with the result that he often sat in his lit tle office in the old city hall until 7 or 8 o'clock with the telephone- ring- ing every five or ten ininutes. "Are you coming home to dinnfer, now?" "Ye s, just starting." I propeller is seven pounds. At the usual rate of speed during a flight it makes 1180 revolutions a minute and at this I rate a spe,ed of fifteen miles an hour I is obtained. The rudder at the stern is of spruce I and muslin, nine feet long and five feet TV ide. I is worked by cords run ning the whole length of the frame work so the aeronaut may have con trol of his steering apparatus, regard less of tbe position he may be in. She engise which drives-Jha pro- Ten minutes more and, "Are yon coming home to dinner, now!" "Ye s, in five minutes." In a quarter of an hour another call and another promise, until finally, the dinner would have to be given up and the mayor would spend two hours more hearing appeals from some of his or ders or listening to belated delegations. Mayor JoneB is rapid with his work, He gives everything brought to his at- i tention fair consideration, but then he wants if, settled. He is quite a hand to i ask questions, and the man who thinks to interview the present mayor is like- i ly to have the tables turned upon him. I After Office Hours. i But it is after office hours that the mayor really begins his toil for the dear people. Everybody who is run ning a show, from a ball game to a I church fair, wants the mayor, and takes I it ill if he is not on hand to make them a speech. He is surfeited with banquets and cloyed with the job of 4 -A,3 .A. CTJAIRVO^JVT MOWETHIHG TELI^ THAT yOUr/KR'Ej A330ZJT O IirHjAVEU fengtrh ielle is located about one-third of the from the forward end. I is a four-cylinder air-cooled gasolene motor. An ordinary friction clutch is used. The cylinders are twenty-four inch bore and three-inch stroke. The greatest rate of speed is 2,160 revolu tions per minute, but this is far in excess of speed during a flight. The horsepower is estimated 'at ten. The weight of engine shaft, boiler and tank is ninety-two pounds. Knabenshue in making the flight de scends to earth by pointing the nose of the balloon downward and working the screw, the power of which is suf ficient for that purpose. The angle of the motion forward, upward or down ward, with reference to the horizontal is effected by the shifting of the aero naut, who is seated astride the bars of the framework so that he can move backward and forward as the occasion may require. About twenty pounds of ballast is carried. Knabenshue says he has not solved the problem of aerial navigation, but he has demonstrated that in the ab sence of heavy wind it is possible, by the use of the screw and rudder, to drive, and dive a balloon. The practical airship of the future, he says, must dispense with the huge gas-filled bag, which* offers more resistance to air cur Tents than does tlie canvas of a good sized ship. A KNABENBHTTE AIRSHIP ENCIRCLING THE CAPITOL DOME AT WASHINGTON. Texas and Louisiana, $27.50. Tickets on sale via tbe Minneapolis Se St. Louis railroad from Minneapolis to Galveston, Houston, San Antonio, Beaumont .and Port Arthur, Texas, New Orleam* ajad Lake Charles, La. Dates of saje first and third Tuesdays of each months limited to 30 days. Lib eral stop-over privileges. Rates equally low td poirits in the west and southwest. For full particulars call on J. G. Eickel, city ticket agent, *24 Nicollet axeaue. *Ttnding the freedom of the city. But very few of these invitations are declined unless they collide with some other,, appointment already made. The people get their money's worth out of the mayor after the business man has closed his desk and retired to his own fireside. The mayor has no privacy. The people who want things call on him at home or jump on him by tele- S[ayor hone while he is eating his meals, Babb once said that he never in two years got thru a dinner at home without having either a visitor or tele phone message about the business of the city. The mayor now has two telephones on his desk and one or the other rings constantly, sometimes both at once. Adventure with a Russian. While not a humorist, the mayor has a sense of humor that saves him from getting angry over some of the absurd situations that arise. I have been approached by those who would have me aid them in sever ing intolerable matrimonial ties," he said recently "have been asked to keep the neighbor's chickens out of the next-dooi garden patch to stop the crowmjr of an earl-y rooster to collect all kinds of outlawed or disputed ac counts, and odd joba of that sort. But what I have regarded as the most un usual of these various visitations came from a stalwart Russian who stepped into my office in a deferential manner the other day and asked for an audi ence. And then his story came out: "He had served in the Russian navy under Admiral Eojestvensky and said he had received an honorable discharge. He had come to this country to make a new start in .life and had drifted into Minneapolis looking for work. 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