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THE t- mi:- Sr ENTERPRISE. W. E. Bi.K2rxiQ»i, Publisher VIRGINIA. ublisKer .•' MINNESOTA The business and residence build ings in Turin City average about five stories, yet in the whole city there is not a first-class elevator. There are a few slow, uninviting concerns, which are called "lifts." Two engineers, of Southend, Eng., have compounded from the waste of chemical factories a new fuel for use in gas-heating, replacing asbestos and fire-clay, calling it "radiant." It costs no more than fire-clay, gathers and utilizes the blue flame, and alfords three times the heat available in pres ent gas-heating. To encourage working people to es tablish homes of their own, Norway has founded a bank for working men* Jt lends money at 31/-. and 4 per cent., and gives the borrower 42 years in which to pay the loan. Jhe total cost of the house must not exceed $800, and the area of land must not be more than five acres. Italian journalists are scoffing at a catalogue prepared by the govern ment. This catalogue was to contain specifications of the valuable art ob jects that it will not be permissible to sell to foreigners without the gov ernment's consent. The printed list gives, however, only 140 such art treasures for all Italy! Capt. Clay, commodore officer of the London & Northwestern Railway Co.'s fleet of steamships running between Holyhead and Ireland, who has just retired, has crossed the Irish sea near ly 20,000 times as commander, and has. navigated the railway company's ves sels about 1,500,000 miles and carried nearly 1,250,000 passengers. The pearl fisheries in La Paz, Low* er California, are decreasing yearly for want of a systematic method of gathering the pearl oyster. The con tinuing of the fishing throughout the year without a sufficient intermis sion during the season for spawning, destroys the small oyster to such an extent that the decrease is now very noticeable. On its property, 50 miles west of Tampico, on the Mexican Central rail way, a Mexican petroleum company has about 15 wells in oil and several others sunk to within a few feet of the oil sand. These can be brought in as soon as sufficient tankage has been supplied. Several tanks with a ca pacity of 35,000 barrels each are near ing completion. Civet is a pasty, yellowish sub stance that is taken from a pouch, near certain glands, of the civet cat, which is found in Abyssinia. It is first of a yellowish color that gradu ally turns darker. It has a strong musky odor that to many is very dis agreeable, but by many of the women of this country it is considered an in dispensable article in the perfumery line. It may be surprising but doubtless gratifying to the public to know that the Bible is still the world's best-sell ing book, the announcements of secu lar publishers to the contrary notwith standing. Recent reports show that the British Bible society has since its establishment distributed 180,000,000 copies of the Scriptures, while the Am erican Bible society has added more than 70,000,000 to the flood of volumes poured into all the countries of the world. A London wholesale haberdashery concern has introduced a species of paper undershirts and hosiery, sam ples of which series are now being shown in the New York market. These goods are offered at popular prices and save laundry bills. Japan ese paper handkerchiefs are selling more freely than formerly. A special ly constructed "wallet" is on sale to go with them. Separate divisions are provided for clean and soiled 'ker chiefs, the latter being burned. Naturalists can not fail to be sur prised at the weight of some of the deer caught In Vermont woods this season. These scientific gentlemen have been laboring under the impres sion that about 225 pounds was the maximum weight of any deer ever found in this section of Che country. In Windham county this season one specimen weighed over 300 pounds, two others at least close to that figure, and nearly all the bucks brought in were in the 200 class or over. The entire diamond output of South Africa is exported from the Cape of Good Hope to London yet, strange to say, it finds no place in the British official publications showing the im ports into the United Kingdom. After South African diamonds leave the Cape of Good Hope all official trade record of them seems to be lost. The only record of the exports of these diamonds is the attestation of the Cape of Good Hope customs officers that over $26,000,000 worth are annu ally exported to London. I Three buildings for the Rockefeller institute for Medical Research in New York will be completed tn six months. (Superintendent Simon Flexner has Studied the most recent methods of scientific research in Europe, anil the most approved facilities and equip will be installed. Water cure skin and eruptive diseases will be the first things investigated, elaborate baths are provided for •the animals to be -experimented on. ^Photographic records of all expert* intents are to be kept in the build* ings. SOME CURRENT GOSSIP FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. THE COMING INAUGURATION Ct Is Always a Big Quadrennial Ju bilee Two Hundred Thousand Strangers Are Expected—Pos sible Cabinet Changes. A A S 1 N O N W a in to is preparing for its quadrennial jubi lee. The rest of the country elect the presidents, but the citizens of the capital city claim the privilege of inaugurating him in re at From now until after the 4th of March the inaugu ration committee will be one of the most important bodies in the United States. There is great rivalry to se cure the place .of chairman of this committee, and also conspicuous posi tions upon it, Denied the right of franchise, the citizens of the District of Columbia can only look on during the excitement of an election, but they come out strong when the people of the country send their president here to be inaugurated. Mr. Charles C. Glover, a prominent real estate man and banker of the district, will head the inauguration committee, and his corps of assist ants will number most of the promi nent business nen and public-spirited citizens of the capital city. The ex penses of the inaugural ceremonies and pageant are guaranteed by a pub lic subscription, and it is calculated that $60,000 will be required to induct President Roosevelt into office on the 4th of March, with all the honors and glory befitting a man who has re ceived the greatest popular indorse ment of any presidential candidate in a century. This large amount of money is likely to be refunded, as there are several sources of revenue connected with the inauguration. In the first place, the inaugural ball, if everything is favorable, can be counted on for $50,000 or $60,000. There are usually sold some 10,000 or 12,000 tickets to this function at the rato of five dollars per ticket If the weather is propitious and a proper hall is se cured, the ball will itself approximate ly reimburse the contributors to the inauguration fund. The Inauguration Ball. UST now there is some uncertainty as to where thfo great ball is to be held. Ever since the erection of the big brick barn, known as the pen sion office, that structure has been utilized for inaug ural balls. It is a huge quadrangle, with a court in the center, which can be converted into an immense ball room, and which lends itself to a very handsome scheme, of decoration. Con gress has prohibited the use of the hall for puhlic functions, however, and unless that action is reversed some other yplace will have to be secured. The holding of the ball in the pension office has hitherto resulted in stopping work in that important bureau vir tually for a week. This was thought to be unfair to the thousands of old soldiers who have claims awaiting ad justment, and it is also regarded as unfair to the clerical force of the bu reau, who have been compelled to take an enforced vacation during the inauguration season. There has been some talk of build ing a huge temporary structure or wigwam for the purpose of holding this ball. One thing that militates against this proposition is the mem ory of the inaugural ball held at the time of Gen Grant's second inaugura tion, in 1873, when an immense tem porary woodein building was erected and used.. The temperature dropped to five pr six degrees below zero on inauguration night, and It was impos sible to heat the building sufficiently to make it either healthful or com fortable. Numerous cases of pneu monia resulted from exposure in that building, and not a few deaths oc curred. It is impossible to forecast the kind of weather that will pre vail on the night of the 4th of March long enough before to insure the safety and comfort of a temporary structure. Big Crowd Expected. ASHTNGTON is counting on at 1 a 81 2 0 0,000 strangers to be here on -inaugu ration day. The crowds on this oc casion have been constantly increas ing in late years, and jthe aboyees timate is not at all extravagant it I is the one great national show day in four years. The parade is one of the greatest features, and it is a sight worth witnessing. The journey ofthe president from the white house to the capltol, seated in a handsome open carriage drawn by four magnifi cent horses, and an escort of cavalry, yffir 4*1* 1? qp^nsthis line sight, audtha^i comes the trip bask, when the president, aft-* er having^ taken-the ~oa$h, .leads the column from the capltQl up Pennsyl vania avenue to .the white house, where he enters a reviewing stand and reviews the parade, which some times lasts five or aix houjrs. Evejy branch of the army and npivy is rep resented, usually with a full regi ment each of infantry, cavalry and ar tillery from the army several com panies of United States marines, and battalion after battalion of blue jack ets from the war vessels from within reach of Washington. Then come the various national guards to the num ber of 15,000 or 20,000, followed by po litical and civic organizations in fancy uniform. The post of honor in this pageant is that of escort to the president. It is about settled that Black Cavalry, troop A, of Cleveland, will again have this honor. It acted as escort to Presi dent McKinley at both of his inaugura tions, and performed similar service for Presidents Hayes and Garfield. .. It is a fine body of horsemen, each mem ber owning his own mount, and each animal being a splendid black. in addition to this, the president has in dicated a desire to have a troop or at least a section of his old rougS riders, most of whom are now in the Fifth United States cavalry, to act as. part of his escort. He would like to' have the boys appear in the uniforms they wore when they served under him in the Spanish war. Cabinet Making. HERE will be some good jpbs distrib uted by President Roosevelt after the 4th of next March, as there are sure to be some changes in high positions in the government service at home and abroad. The majority of the present cabinet are likely to remain and receive their miM portfolios anew on the 4th of next March, but it is known- that there will be some changes in that body. Secre tary of State Hay has been invited to remain, and has accepted the invita tion. This fact has created much satisfaction, not only in this country, but among the important foreign pow ers, who all admit that John Hay is now the greatest living diplomat of the world. Secretary of War Taft will continue, but there is some doubt about Paul Morton retaining the sec retaryship of the navy. His old .rail road ties are very strong and the Santa Fe management wants him back' to help run that system. Attorney Gen eral $Ioody may hold over until the new administration, but there are strong inducements for him to re tire and accept a partnership 1* a law firm in Boston that has been neld open for him tor several months. Sec retary Shaw, of the treasury. Is to be invited to continue as the financier of the administration, and he will ac cept. Secretary of the .Interior Hitchcock may give up his seat in the cabinet, in which case it is believed that Sec retary Metcalf, of the department of commerce and labor, will take the portfolio of the interior. National Chairman Cortelyou is to be made post master general, while Secretary of Ag riculture Wilson can stay whore he is as long as he likes. Mr. Wilson is regarded as the best head of the de partment of agriculture the govern ment has ever had, and the great work that he has inaugurated, espe cially in the west, in the .way of in troducing new crops, new methods of cultivation, and, above all, his advo cacy of irrigation, make him the farmers' friend, and a great hofti would go up if President Roosevelt should leave him out of his next cabinet. There is no danger, how ever, that the president will let such a valuable man go. Diplomatic Changes. N THE diplomatic field there prom ises to be quite a little revolution. A a a Choate will re re from St. James, and Hon. Whitelaw id wili succeed Mm. Gen. Horace Por ter will- likely come back from an a will be succeeded by Ambassador George V. L. Meyei?, now at Rome. Ambassador McC-:r mick is expected to retire from St Petersburg on account "of ill health. Ambassador Powell Clayton will re tire from Mexico and Minister Conger will leave Peking. Other retirements and transfers of equal importance will occur very early in President Roose velt's next,term. Inhere are some consular positions attracting attention from those de sirous of sacrificing themselves foq the good Of their couhtry. The( pa triots think that John K. Gowdy, ol Indiana, has enjoyed his $15,000 a yeai at Paris as consul general long enough. They also believe thai H. Clay Evans has had his share'of pub lic offlee, and there are several hanker ing after his $20,00&-a-year job. Con Sul General Boyle, at Liverpool, has" enjoyed an income of something like $13,000 a year since the first month of the first McKinley administration. There is no dearth of patriots willing to undertake his duties. The presi dent has indicated by his appointments so far that Jieis going to rely as much on his own knowledge lifmen and their fitness for: the public service as he JK upon the advice^ of the, politicians.. re-,-! HAPPENINGS AND CONDITIONS IN THE WJNDY CITY. A LACK OF SCHOOL ROOM T^e Numbers o£ Children Grqw Faster Than the Educational Accom modations—Ne Police Sta tions and Big Hotels. Chicago.—This city is suffering with dearth of school-teachers. School rooms are over- r-S SCHOOL- I Of? wo noREHoon The Schools Are" Overcrowded. school term in 1903 there were 10,000 children unprovided with school facili ties, both in the way of teachers and schoolrooms. When the school term of this year began those 10,000 children had been provided for, but another 7,000 reported at the schoolroom doors Cor which there was no provision, and the city was still a year behind time in the demand created by the children. Two years ago the school board made a ruling that no married women would be employed as teachers. The labor organizations claimed that the employment of married women as teachers was an injustice to those seeking positions who had no other means of support, while the married teachers had their husbands to support them. It has never been possible to enforce the rule for the reason that there have never been unmarried teach ers enough to go around, and to-day the school board is asking no ques tions along that line at all. There are enrolled in the public schools of Chicago at the present time a little more than 186,000 pupils. Should the number of pupils continue to grow tor the next 20 years as it has in the past at the end of that time there will be nearly one-half million boys and girls in the schools, and about 10,000 teachers. It is doubtful if the latter can be secured without an increase in the salary schedule commensurate with the increase,in efficiency demanded of the teachers. Historic Police Station. Though the increase in school at tendance in Chicago is greater in pro portion to the at on a the increase in crime, yet the latter has assumed alarming propor tions, and while the school board must provide new us police department id larger accommo dations for the criminal and criminal catchers. Familiar to Criminals and Friendless. In keeping with this demand the old "armory" police station, at Harrison street and Pacific avenue, is to be razed, and in its place will be built a police station of the most modern and ap proved design, and of much larger pro portions. With the exception of the old "Tombs" station in New York there is probably no other police station in this country that has sheltered so many notorious criminals as the old "armo ry." It was built just after the great lire of 1871, and was for years in the very center of the levea district, though in creasing demands for business locations hive pushed the levee district farther south until the old police station is now just on its edge. Right beside it now .is the new central station of the Lake Shore and Rock Island railroads but two blocks north of it is the board of trade, the Illinois trust and sayings bank and all the vast financial inter ests of La Salle street two blocks east are the mammoth office buildings of Dearborn street It is one of the re markable comparisons of the city that right at the doors of these great busi ness .interests there should stand this ancient memorial to Chicago's xrime and poverty. And to it there flocks each dayman army of friendless tramps seeking municipal bounty, and crim inals of all classes to pay the stern pen alties of the law. That New Charter. Miss Chicago, that overgrown girl, is being measured for the new dreipu the voters of the state authorized the coming legis lature to give her. *3* c/ 1 iVj-rXr I crowded and chil dren are being turned away every day because of a lack of teachers, especially for the primary grades. This is by no means a new con dition, but one which confronts the school board: of Chicago each year/ At the be ginning of the Justwhat that new dress will be is as yet a thing of surmise, "but the brightest minds of the city and state are engaged in its ing, and when completed it should be an ae- MeasUring for a New ceptable produc Dress. U(m JT There are three specific reforms which the city's new charter is to grant* One is the.prlvilege of bonding the city for permanent Improvements up to a maximum of five per cent, of the' assessed. valuation of theyroperty taxed within the cityr When thf *,-81 maximum has been reached under the present tax returns it' will glte the City a bonded Indebtedness of about $50,000,000.- Under the r-sesent sys tem, the city is handicapped by hav ing to expend out of its annual in come about $5,000,000 for permanent improvements, thus taking that amount away from the police and fire and other departments of the city gov ernment where it should be used. Another reform is the regulation of the justice and police courts of the city. No other place !q America, has been so cursed by petty justice shops as has Chicago. The justices of the peace have been but the paid servants of the loan sharks, the gamblers and the chattel mortgage men. They have been a curse alike to the poor anil the rich to employe and employer, and their abolishment will be a godsend to every class worthy of the protection of the .courts. The third reform is in the reorgan ization of the city government, and the elimination of many of the wheels within wheels. The number of taxing bodies will be reduced, and the methods of tax assessing and tax col lecting greatly simplified. Though the voters have but given the legislature power to frame a char ter, and the whole subject must again go before the voters before it can be completed, those who have the growth and development of the city at heart believe the beginning of the end of the long-drawn-out battle for muni ^dependence and betterment has arrived. A Rival for Gotham. New York has its St Regis,-where half a fried spring chicken is Served for the small price of three dol lars, but rumor has it that Chicago is soon to have a hotel that will a if eclipse that famed hostelry. he projposed new hotel is to c3W\ occupy a block of frontage on Mich igan avenue just Appreciated by Chi- of the Au_ cago Society. ditjrium. Skeptics say there is no demand for such a hotel in Chicago that it ie bound to be a financial failure but those seemingly authorized to speak for the projectors are decidedly op timistic in their views of the situa tion, and believe it will be a success from the day its doors are open to the public. The truth of the matter is that aside from the year or two following the close of the Columbian exposi tion, when the city was dead, and the world's fair hotels were numerous, the hotel accommodations of the city have never kept.pace with the de mand. For the past five years the higher-priced hotels have been over flowing. To be sure one or two of the older well-known houses have been closed, but that was because they had passed their days of usefulness, in the opinion of the moneyed classes. Within the same five years the bet ter hotels have found a new source of revenue in their a la carte dining rooms. The class that will spend from five dollars up for a dinner, when they can have it. served by trained Eng lish waiters, and in elegantly furnished dining-rooms, is rapidly increasing. Then, too, the east is coming west Even. Reggie Vanderbilt found Chicago society bearable during the week of the horse show, and left a goodly sum in the pockets of the caterers. The third generation of Chicagoans are ready to spend the money made by the first generation, and they are seeking places to spend it. The fash ionable hotel, and the higher-priced the better, will be acceptable to them. The Windmill City. Chicago is nat only the "Windy City," but it provides wind machines for the remainder of the world,' and these machines are pumping water on the ranches of Texas, for the fruit farms of Califor nia, for the home steads of.. .Maine, for the farms of Iowa tfiey are ir rigating the waste places of Nebraska, of Montana, of Arizona, the wheat fields of Argentina Chicago Produces Many of These. and the rice fields of the orient Nearly 100,000 windmills aremanufac tured each year in Chicago factories, and shipped from here to every corner of ttfe globe. Even darkest Africa is not exempt and Chicago-made windmills are now being turned "by the tropical breezes of the Congo Free State and arouiti the headwaters of the Nile. South America is a good customer so aliOitre Japan, Indiaand Austraiia. Even Holland, the home of the windmill, has been invaded, ,as: has also every country of Europe. But the great majority of the Chicago made windmills are sold in the United StaUs. |Tbey hate become a necessity to the JU^irlcan farmer and one he would ndt now believe it piouible^oget along without. It is in keeping with thd modernising of American farms and ranches, It is to-day as mnch of a farm necessity as the harveating aad thretb inz machine. WRIGHT 4. PATTERSON MINNESOTA It Is to be 16 stories high, and to cost in the neighborhood of $5,000,000. The money, it is said, is being furnished by east ern capitalists, among whom is men tioned George Boldt, of the Waldorf Astoria, of New York, whose property in that city is now outshone by the new St. Regis. Wpm&i Attempted 8afe~ Robbery. Three unknown men attempted blow the safe of the State Bank .of. Barnum, and, being, foiled, held u] and robbed R. O. Dye, a farmer living near Moose Lake. F. A. Goetz, president "of the bank, who lived but a few feet from the^bank building, was awakened by the sound, of a muffled explosion. Hastily dress ing and going over to the bank, he found a man on guard outside the building and two more at work on the vault within. Mr. Goetz returned to the house and telephoned a fire alarm to the tele phone station. A few minutes later the village was alive with half-clad men, some bt the men carried lanterns. Under the lead ership of Mr. Goetz, the crowd pro ceeded to the bank, but before they reached the building the robbers em erged from the front door and took flight The thirdman had already dissappeared. Many Medals. A preliminary, report of awards made in connection with Minnesota's magnificient exhibits of fruits at the world's fair, shows how lavishly the goddess Pomona bestowed her favors on the offerings of the North Star state. Not only did Minnesota receive the grand prize for the best collective ex hibit of fruits, but she was triumphant over other states in many individual exhibits, and now proudly wears five'": gold medals, forty bronze and thirty six silver medals./ It is small wonder that members of:: the Minnesota State Horticultural so ciety are enthusiastic over this magnifi cent showing or that the society is receiving scores of congratulatory let ters. Fire at Hanska. A fire at Hanska destroyed property worth 830,000 and upon which there is insurance less than one-third. A gasoline lamp exploded in the J. W. Thompson building and in an hour's time that structure and the Neese building, only partly occupied, were in ruins. The heaviest losers are O. K. Kjorlaug & Co., general merchan dise, and Nelson Grotke, furniture. The former lost everything, all its ac counts and papers, as well as stock. The company was without a dollar of insurance and figures its loss at about $9,ooa Kjorlaug's mind was affected by his loss and fear of permanent impairment is entertained. Brave Woman. But for the presence of mind and prompt action of Mrs. W. F. Watters of St Cloud, she might have been burned to death in an explosion of a gasoline shove in her kitchen. Mrs. Wattese was working over the stove when it exploded, throwing the burning fluid over her. She did not lose her head, however, but snatched the stove, which was a small one, upr and threw it through the open kitchen door. Her hands and face were severely burned in doing so, and she undoubt edly saved her own life and her resi dence. Butter Makers. Another large delegation attended the closing meeting of the state butter and cheese makers at St Anthony Park. The announcement of scores in the butter and cheese contests were made. There were 130 entries in the butter contest and Charles Levenik of Lakefield carried off first place with a seore of 97.7, G. H. Schenel of Rapi dan being second with 97.25, and C. H. Jeusen of Bernadotte third with 97. In the cheese contest, A. W. Parkin of Stanton scored first with 96 5 A. L. Parkin, second, 96.5, and Mr. Reentz of Beever Dam, third, with 93. Prize Essays. At the thirty-eighth annual encamp ment of the department of Minnesota held in Minneapolis March 15 SAd 16, 1904, the commander of the depart ment was authorized to offer prizes for the most meritorious papers on sub jects touohing'the war of the rebellion, as an inducement to the youths of our high schools to become posted in mat* ters pertaining to the history of their own country. Poor Heating. Unless defects in the boilers and heating plant at the new state capitol arc remedied at once, it is probable that the legislature will not meet in the new structure this winter. Tbe capitol commissioners spent a whole day in discussing remedies for boil sr defects and in purchasing flags, for the staffs. News'Notes. Lack of snow makes the seaso#^ bad one for deer hunters. A. M. Hayes has tendered his ignation as mayor of Hastings. The trolley line to White Bear vil lage is formally opened for traffic/ Winona will this winter maintain^.' skating rink in the central portion? of the city for the use of the children. 3^ The rink will be kept flooded and in^ good condition by the members of tte fire department. 'J Two civil service examinations will' be held in St.. Paul in January. Ap*j pfication blanks' will be supplied iqr% the district secretary^ at the .St. Pauf .sS postoffice or the local secretary atit the Minneapolis postoffice. Word has been received from Rut#7j£p ledge to the effect that wolves becoming numerous'and even dangei^ ons around there.- .Three or' farmers have been attacked in tha^ open road by the brutes, and lun^ had hard fight*.with them. SevemOp hunting parties are being organise# and attempte.will be made to Idll jtlui^ wolves off 5- |:r