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CHICAGO GIRLS TALK THEY MAKE MBIBV WITH THE THEORIES OF REN. SAM SMITH THEY WAX SARCASTIC C'liiim That Übur In 11 Hlesulim for Both Men and Women, mid That Knfiorv i.t?v Bzeela That of Mamj Ilonics They < mild Mention — l'u> for Woiiiou'm WorU in < liloa^o l<('iicrulli Good. The Chicago Inter Ocean of Sunday, Dec. IM. contained the following list of Interviews with Chicago working woini. aner.t ihe recent addresses made by Rev. Samuel G. Smith. Opposing the employ ment of women in competition with ta n In the field of manual and professional labor: "It might be a wholesome thing if tho Rev. S. G. Smith, of St. Paul, Minn., could hear what Chicago working- women are ■aying ab< ut him. His recently achieved notoriety would undoubtedly seem less satisfying. "I think it fa very likely." remarked a fort woman of a Chicago shirt factory, "that we mjike the most of his clothes for him. I am Mire we do. unless he g?ts a great deal more money than he earn? In telling other people Low they ought t > earn h living. We make his shttts, women In a factory a block up the sire.'t manufacture his winter flannels, over on :i street they fix his neckties, and In plenty of places they are sewing on the broadcloth suits and the calfskin shoes he wears. Women make his sus penders, women hem his handkerchiefs, w<men put the gloss on bis high silk hat, and make the bandbox in which the h.t --t» r <ends it home to him. And are we raising a fuss about it? Not much! Ac cording to the Bible— and I believe the Bible— the world is about 6,000 years old. Isn't it? Well, for t>,<;oo years women have made the cloth and fashioned the gar ments and kept the human race clothed decently. It's our work, along with a ::iany ether things. We don't mini the work: you can say that for me. But we do object to a snippy parson's advice about doing work that we've done to ev erybody's satisfaction for 5,000 years." The JRev. S. G. Smith is pastor of the People'? church, at St. Paul, Minn. For the last month Mr. Smith has been de livering a series of sermon? on women's work, lie lias inveighed against what he U:ins the enormous increase of women labor, and especially against the factory system. He advocates the barring of women from 100 of the occupations in which they a:e at present engaged. "We ure devouring the future "strer.gtb of the nation by draining the lives o: Its future mothers," says Mr. Smith. "Forty-rive per cent of the manufacturing in the United States is now done by women. The women produce; the men d > part of the selling. Wh'en the discovery 1 f machinery and the factor}' system took the place of man and tlie tool, greedy employer? br-.de the delicate fingers of women and the ciimpleu hand of childhood gr;-. -p the falien task. ON THE ROAD TO SAVAGERY. "The problem Is red with the HftfJ cod of the nation. War is a curse and an evil. But it is sometimes better than cowardice and dishonor. There is neeil f"r woman's work, and g.iod in it. bin as society is at pre?eut organized, the evil far outweighs the good. We are fast on the road to a new savag-ry. "The tendency toward the cnoim^us in crease of woman labor, and of immature young women, is the economic, so- Eal, and physical evil . f our tunr-, and it is the racft serious menace to the na tion's life. Four states forbid women to work In mines. These laws should b: txtended to about 100 of their present oc cupations." "If Mr. Smith's theory could be put into immediate practice." said one of <'hieago'f= largest manufacturer?, "I f nc : the result would surprise him. Telephone • would not ring in Chicago. Do you kn w. by the way. that men can't act as tele phone operators? They have been tried .-.ml failed. Well, our telephones wou'dn't ring. Nine-tenths of Chicago's buslntsi letters would remain unwritten. 25,000 children wouid come home in Chicago alone and tell mother that school wouldn't keep. The spindles in the mills of the world would stop, and one day would make the clothing supply of the world short for a year. Half tlie people on earth would go hungry. But there's no ■<> thi? thing. The idea is absurd. Why should more than half of the huma.i sptcies cease- two-thirds of its work and • parasitical. Women, I imagine, wili b.' the last to thank Mr. Smith." MAKE MERRY WITH THEORIES. F'-.r the purpose of finding out how v. omen themselves regard Mr. Smith's suggestions, a reporter for the Sunday Inter Ocean made the rounds of a dozen .:<> factories, employing from 50 to 800 women each. The places visited in cluded pradee of work running from mere < hild's play to complicated operations, requiring a great deal of dexterity. In ihese a large proportion of the women had read what the Rev. Mr. Smith had been saying. At a question the shuttle in a machine wuuld be held for an instant or a bobbin checked in its ceaseless whirl. "What is he going to do about it?" ask ed the working woman Impartially. In genera] there was a disposition to WHO WANT TO BUILD UP ;rv their bodies fi] WILL FIND THE j^ONE THING NEEDFUIT ■f The body is built up from the I food we eat. But before food I can be assimilated by the body Hr it must be prepared for assimi lation by the stomach and other i I organs of digestion and nutri /1 tion. Food does not feed when k || the stomacfy is " out of order." p-k| The result is, weak muscles and NHL P abb y flesh - "Golden Med kW?\ * ca l Discovery" heals diseases f '■''? \of the stomach and digestive \\ I and nutritive system. It works t| f I with Nature to make manly V / muscle and form firm flesh. I I In a letter received from A. D. I 1 Wellcr, Esq., of Pensacola, Es i \ cainbia Co., Fla. $Box 544), he states : " I have, since receiving your diagnosis of my case, as stomach trouble and liver com plaint, taken eight bottles of the Golden Medical Discovery ' and must say that I am transformed from a walk ing shadow (as my friends called me) to perfect health." Temperance Medicine. CONTAINS MO ALCOHOL. scout the idea that turning women out of 108 breadwlnning employments would furnish bread or clothes or shelter. Occa sionally ihe girls made merry with Mr. Smith's theories. "Where does he live?" a girl In a bindery looked up to ask. "St. Paul." "Well, how big a place is St. Paul?" "Oh, a medium-sized town.' "Now. I'll tell you what it is," she re marked confidently as she went on past ing gold leaf. "That preacher has been leading about 'life In a great city' and he's never saw none of it." Others shook their heads doubtfully and inquired how many dependent female relatives Mr. Smith supported, or if he was In any way connected with a matrimonial bureau or a home-finding association. SHOPS SURPASS THE HOMES. Conditions among Chicago working women dv not bear out Mr. Smiths theo ries. Even the sweating system, which bore so hard a few years ago upon a small proportion of the very poor classes, has been abolished in large meas ure. Ten years of efficient factory in spection has brought about conditions more sanitary in the best shops than in the homes of half the operatives. Again, Chicago wage-earning women in factories are doing work which in many cases could not be done by men, and which in one form or another has been done al ways by women. Anything like the hard labor which twenty years ago was per formed by European women In shops, in mines and on farms is unknown in <'hi cago or in this country. Only 2 per cent of all the women wage-earners in Chi cago are married. On Jackson street, at the corner of Fifth avenue. is a factory which is among the largest employers of women In Chicago, Wilson Bros. They employ between 2fn> and :><*> women making men's neckwear ;-.]>,.; men's suspenders. "1 won't answer Mr. Smith. What he says is too foolish, and I haven't time," sail! the head of the firm. "About women's work in general? Well, we believe In ii. not because It's cheaper, but because It is indispensable and entirely satisfactory. We, can't get men and box s to sev ;in-kties and knot them. Men are less skillful, less reliable and l^.-s patient. Needlework is women's work. "Certainly; walk through the factory and ask the girls what they think about it. We appreciate their work; they are intelligent, skillful and good women." l*p staiis. on the ninth floor, about a hundred women were making neckwear. They sat ai tables In a long room, lighted and aired by windows on three sides. Talking and sociability are permitted and rather encouraged. "I like to have the girls contented," said the forewoman. "If for nothing else, they work better." The forewoman Is a handsome, gray haired woman, kindly and bubbling over with good nature. Her face is young, probably not more than thirty, although her hair is white. She has worked in the factory for years and is intelligent and refined beyond the majority of wom en in a factory or out of ii. WHAT SOME WOMEN EARN. The neckties are cut by machinery in stacks a foot high. This work is done by men. The ties are then sorted and distributed among the stitchers. Stitch ing In a factory does not involve the treading ••( a machine by foot for nine hours at a stretch. The machines are run by steam, arid the operator s !.- t them in motion or etops them by a slight pressure of the foot. Her work consists In guiding the cloth through fhe machine. Next to the stitchers other girls at lons rows of tables sat tur;-i ; :? the ties right si.lo out. Then came the finishing by hand, the knotting, and the packing in b.tx^s. It is all easy work. The room in which the wom en sat was very clean. The light was ex cellent. Wash rooms and toilet rooms compared favorably with those in offica buildings. At one end of the room two negro waitresses conducted a lunch counter, where hot coffee and soup and light lurcheonc can be bought at low rates. Many of the women bring their luncheons from home and buy coffee or tea. They are illowed from ha'.f an hour to an hour at noon, and go out to eat, if they choose. An hour afier the re porter left the factory she met one of the employes at a high-priced lunch room on State street. "How much money do the women earn?" "From $8 *o $15 a week, and some times a little above $15. AVork is done by the piece. The hours are from 8 to '>, with a half holiday on Saturday, the year round." "What do :-ou think of Mr. Smith's theories?" the reporter asked the fore woman. "How does he expect these girls to get a living if they can't work?" she said. "Nearly alt of them help support fami lies. It is a .case of necessity. Besides, they haven't employment at home. and. they practically all live at home. Work is better than idleness. It would be a positive hard-hip to most of these sirls 10 lose their places. They never leave us unless they marry." "Do many of them marry?" The forewoman laughed, and when she thought of it more she laughed again. "Over a dozen on this floor married and left us 'last year, and they all did well, too. No, they don't often marry men iri the factory; they don't get acquainted with them. Yes. they invariably quit work and go to housekeeping when they mai ry." SAYS ITS NOT CHRISTIAN TALK. "I don't know what denomination Mr. Smith belongs to," said the forewoman in the Banner waist factory on Canal street. "I'm a Baptist, and you can tell him that his talk about turning women out of work isn't Christian." Mrs. Blank has worked in a factory for eigh teen years and now superintends the work of 125 women who make shirt waists and wrappers. • i was left a widow with four children, and really 1 don't know how we should have lived without wo:k. I've tried sew ing at home, and I've worked at till kind 3 of sewiii-T. <>n the whole the factory's the easi> s;. [*ye raised my four children and educated them well, ami they are ?.l! a cprdit to me. One girl is married an 1 the other will marry s on. My health is good and always has been good." Mis. Blank said that the health of the girls in the shop i- yood, r.nd they lo >ked it. "i don't know what Mr. Smith Is think ing abont,'" said one as she put the fin ishing touches on a cuff. "[ have to sup port, my mother — that is, niv sister and I do— and ittat t:'k-s work. Who's g< ing to support us for nothing?" •lli.h. does. Mr. Smith imagine that I work for fun; nit," said smother. "A nice home er a fair yearly 'lowance would sep arate me from nay Job t>>o quick. But vho puts up? Not Smith, I bet." • Conditions in this factory were not r-o good, the girls were not nearly so well paid, and the work was harder than In the first factory. But there was nothing unhealthful or objectionable in the work, and the women seemed content. ■Tell Mr Smith I'm a Baptist, have raised tour children well," :< iterated the forewoiGstn, "and I say that what hurts wirier most Is Idleness an-i gos-ip. " The Western Electric company employs about WO women and girls at insulating wires, winding bobbins, paid doing other light work. They earn from $5 to $10 a week. They work amid a ceaseless roar •:f machinery, but in well ventilated, weli lighted rooms. Hot lunches are furnished them at reasonable rates in the building, and they have rooms arid libraries In Which to rest. The girls, have a "club" which is the largest In the American Federation of Women's club?. Similar work is cone by girls in the Western Telephone Construction company's fac tory, across the street from the electric company. WORK THAT MEN CANT DO. "We employ girls and women." said Manager Stewart, "because men can't do the woik. It takes a nice skill with the fingers that a man can't acquire, and that he won't try to acquire." The women here wind fine silk around pfces.and wind both wire and silk on bob bins. The forewoman raid that all the women who worked there were obliged to support themselves and several had rel- THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1899. alives dependent upon them. Here, as in ail the shots visited, tho women ex pressed themselves well in talking, dress ed well, and appeared thoroughly tt\{ lespecting. At tha McDermld Manufacturing: com pany a large number cf women are em ployed in insulating and winding wires. Tho managers said frankly that men ;"id boys lailed to do the work satisfactorily and they had teen compelled to employ v,(nen. "Xo matter what a woman earns ac tually." said the manager, "'we never pay less than a living wage. Manufacturers are not the slave drivers Mr. Smith evi dently thinks they are." Here the forewoman, a rosy-cheeked, healthy young woman, told of one of the girls leaving a week or so before to take a position as stenographer down town. She came back in a few days and said she preferred her old place in the fac tory. Down on Dearborn street the bindery girls ha\e heard of Mr. Smith and some publisher may bring out an edition of the things they say about him. "Wow, wow," said one, and refused to say anything further. "If Mr. Smith wants to sit on a ,h;gh chair and paste tin foil all day he can have my job." said another. "Sorry he thinks I'm takin' the bread out of his mouth, but I get hungry myself." "Right he is," said a third, "men ought to support the women. I'm ar\ orphan, and as soon as he sends the money I'll quit the book trade." Two printing establishments, Donohue & HeniK berry, and R. R. Donnelly & Bone, were visited. Both employ girls in the folding department. In pasting tin foil and gold foil on the backs of fancy binding*, and in examining books as they come from the press. The work is light and the girls earn small wages— from J4 mJ6 a week. In all of the work shops visited, there was apparently a dis position i" ireat the women fairly and none to grind tliem In work or wages or regulations. That there are such fac tories nobody doubts, whether it con i ems men's trork or women's work, but the reporter did not rind them and they certainly ;*ie not the rule. EXTENT OF WOMEN'S OCCUPATION. Those employers who talked least of charity and sociology and viewed the matter d« a business transaction entirely were found on the whole to by doing the best by their employes. Outside of ihe regular professions of law, medicine, teaching, trad ng, etc.. women in Chica go work in about fifty Industries, pursu ing about 500 different occupations. They are employed in making clothing of all sorts, cigars, tobacco works. tinware, rattan furniture, boxes, paper. shoes, brooms, baking powder, in various meat packing i:;>ii?;iies. sewii-rr. housework, ;i!id similar employments a!! light and well suited i<> women. In the regular fac tories conditions in at least 90 per cent of the cases are favorable to health and morality. The state factory law forbids the empio\ ment of children except in cer tain limned lines. Sweat shops, which Mr. Smith no doubt refers to when he speaks of the "modern factory system," ;;re not a part of the "factory sys tem." tut an evil attendant upon the system and affecting a comparatively small class. A rigid enforcement of tha larw in regard to them lias now abolished their worst features in Chicago. An exhaustive report by the Illinois bureau of labor statistics upon "Working Women or" Chicago" established facts contradicting ;iil of Mr. Smith's main propositions. Ninety-five per cent of ail the working women of Chicago are un married; _' per ce:it are married, and 3 ber cent are widowed. "The proportion of young ami unmarried women in in dustry is s,o overwhelmingly large," says the report, "that the presence of married women and widows among them may properly be regarded as exceptional and accidental." 'Eighty-four per cent of the whole number live at home with their parents, and 70 per cent of the remainder live in private families, leaving only 5 per cent of the whole who live In boarding or lodging houses, detached from domestic service. Similar facts as to the proportion of working girls who live at home have been deduced by other investigations in other states and many cities, the percentages varying so little that the general rule for tlie whole country is abundantly estab lished. There Is clearly small occasion," continues the statistician, "for apprehen sion concerning the moral influence of in dustrial employment upon young women as a class, when 35 per cent of them are securely sheltered within the home circle, and when 75 per cent of thnm a>-f» assist ing their parents, and thus giving daily outward expression of the cardinal vir tue, filial piety." Of the whole number of working women in Chicago, 7.3 per cent reported their health as impaired and 92.7 as unimpaired, and this is considerably above the aver age health report of women who work in their homes in carrying on the avoca tion of housekeeper. Among office em ployes and forewomen 10 per cent suffer from impaired health; 5 per cent of shop sirls have, indifferent or poor health; bakeries, 12 per cent; dressmaking-, 10 per cent; general factory work, 7 per cent. AVERAGE AGE OF WOMEN. The average age of Chicago working women is twenty years, the average age in five groups being: Cloak makers, twen ty-six; clothing, twenty-seven; dressmak ing, twenty-£ve; printing, twenty-six; dgarmaking and lithographing, seven teen. In confirmation of t'r.e general correct ness of the facts here deduced reference may be made to the report of an In vestigation conducted In ISBB by the I'nlt ed States department of labor, in which it was found that the average age of Chicago working women was twenty years and eight months, in twenty-two large cities, twenty-two years and seven months. 'As a class." says the THinois statis.i clan, "girls begin to work at about ih age ef fifteen: they continue to earn wages for their own support, or tha as sistant c of their paroms, ab^ut live ye r. and then rapidly disappear from the ranks of workers and begin to assume iheh places in domestic life." Mr. Smith di agrees somewhat violently with statisticians as to the number of women engaged in the work of manufac ture. Mr. Smith says they do 45 per on of the manufae.ur ng. The United States census for 1890 says 20 per cent In l-KJ 4,064,(61 men and 1.027.2=2 women were en gaged in manufacturing and mechani >al industries. Of these women 4!2,:'2i <r two-fifths, were dressmakers, tail'ure >e - and milliners. ARE NOT SUPPLANTING MEX. Chicago working women are not sup planting men except In a few instance?. The work which Uv-y do is of the class which has been done always by women under different conditions. Taiks with" a score of working women and half that many employers s:;si?esr a lir.e of thought on women : s work which is fast Ix-coming established as a fact by sociologists. The whole complexion of society hr< = altered, even if the alteration is not >ef apparent to Mr. Smith. Women created the industries of the world and paved the way for "the modern factory system." While m«-n made wars and founded em pires, the women spun and wove and made the garments for the famiiy. They even made the tent in which the fam ily lived, dres.-ed the skins on which th y slept. Women cooked the food. Grad ually it came about that fighting and hunting were not a mere condition of living-. Men had time for other things. They took up the avocations of the prim itive women. Nov.- women have not their spinning and their weaving; their bakins and their brewing; gone all the old thing?. Even the kindergarten and the public school teacher care for the children half their waking hours. One woman, the mother, <.;n superintend the work of one household. This is a work for her as it was always, and it will be probably for a very gn:it majority of all women. "Open Ifew Yenr'n" Until 2 p. m.. EGAN JEWELRY CO. 259 Wabasha St.. 4th Door from Sixth. P. F. EGAN. MEYER STOPS A HACK MORE PERXICIOI'S ACTIVITY ON THE PART OF A RAW SLEITH RECEIVES A SEVERE ROAST John Vnlentlne Nays That the De tective Held Him I i> on Robert Street With it (iHn-Mcyor Ex plain* Matter* !>v Sailnn That He Whs LookiiiK (or a. Woman — lie Emptied the Hack Speedily. Detective Meyer, the new sleuth against whom charges are now pending before the mayor, seems dettrmimd to gain a reputation, not confined solely to stop ping lone v.cmen on the- Btrcat, for John Valentine, a hackman stand ng at Fourth and Robert streets, says Meyer "stuck" him up with a revolver at Fifth and Robert streets, several nights ago, badly frightening him mci also scaring a young business man, who was- riding In the hack. It turned out that tljie business man was acquainted with Meyer, and when the ambitious sleuth recognized th? ] break he had made, he explained his ; conduct 5? best he eoald and allowed th.2 j hrckman to proceed. According to Hackman Valentine's story, the young man got into his hack at Fourth and Robert stree:?, shortly alter 12 o'clock at night and asked to be driven home. The streets were lonely at the time and Valentine drove up Roebit street at rather a brisk gait. As the hack passed the Manhattan building, Val entine says a man suddenly darted from :t dcor way and ran at the hordes' heads, j He missed the bridles. Valentine says, | but ran alcng beside the hack, ordering the driver to stop. Valentine says he I thought the strapge-ly acting individual wanted to hire a hack and called back at him ihat he had a load. He changed his mine in a second, however, he says, and thought he was being held up by a ■ highwayzsan, when he tays Meyer pulled ' a revolver from his pocket and told him ! to stop or he would shoot. Thinking If he i was ab.'jut to be held up and robbed, Val entine says he concluded to s.op and take [ chances on a policeman happening along i before the man with the revolver got ! through, rather than take a chance of getting shot, so he pulled up his horses. | When the man with the revolver caught uji with the hack. Valentine says, he tore \ open the doo" and waving the revolver About inside, oi<\red the occupant to get out. Frightened |alf to death the young man lost no time In obeying the order. when he was astonished to ccme face to ! face with Detective Meyer. The young \ men Baya he knows D3tective Meyer well, j having transacted business with him be fore Meyer became a memt er of the de- I tective force, in fad he did not know at ; tlit time of the exciting Incident that Meyer had been appointed a detective. ■ The young man *ays he asked Meyer I v»hat he m ant by such high handed do inps. when M:yer explained that he was j a detective and was Joking for some one. ! The young business man did not relish ! the nay he had been held up and gave j the- new detective a piece of his mind, | when Meyer made an excuse about look- j ing for a woman in a J ack, and departed. I PHIMARY SABBATH SCHOOLS. City Teaehera Elect Offlcers and Plan for 1000 Work. The St. Paul Primary Union of Sunday School Teachers held its seventh annual meeting yesterday afternoon in the Sun day school rooms of the House of Hope church. The following officers were elected: President. Mrs. L.. J. Lee-; vice presi dent?, Mrs. William Richeson, Mrs. J. M. McGuiggan; recording secretary, Mrs. F. AY. Plnska; corresponding secretary, Mrs. 11. c. Drake; treasurer, Mrs. Henry Brock; librarians. Mrs. Frank Moore, Mrs. E. R. Ide; visitor. Mrs. M. A. Waite. The following standing committees were appointed: Mus-Ic committee. Mrs. G. M. Grover, Mrs. Brack. Mrs. E. C. Downing, Mrs. Oakey. Miss Kops, MJss Florence Rood and Miss Oakey; lookout committee. Mrs. C. J. Hunt, Mrs. H. C. Burrows, Mrs. E. D. Babcock, Mrs. H. C. Drake. Mrs. E. A. Oakey and Mrs. L. M. Quinby; com mittee of instruction. Mr?. J. H. Randall, Mrs. C. J. Hunt. Mrs. H. F. Stilweil, Mrs. E. R. Ide, Mrs. W. Richeson. Mrs. J. M. McGuiggan, Mrs. M. De Motte and Mrs. A. D. Harmon. The following plan of work was map ped out yesterday for the first quarter of the coming year: Every Saturday at 2 p. m. there will be a normal lesson, led by Mrs. Randall, and a drawing lesson, led by Mrs. C. J. Hunt. Mrs. J. M. Mc- Guiggan will have charge of the Sunday school lessons for January, Mrs. C. J. Hunt for -February and Mrs. E. R. Ide for March. Mrs. Henry Baker will have charge of child study topics during Jan uary; Mrs. Henry Baker, February; Mrs. AYf.ite. March. Three singing drills will be given during the quarter— January, Mrs. G. M. Grover; February and March, Miss Florence Rood. Mrs. A. D. Harmon will deliver addresses to the teachers the third Saturday in each month. At the close of the business meeting yesterday Mrs. Henry Baker read a paper on "Communion, Trust and Obedience." MOXEY OF THE STATE. Has to Its Credit Now the Tidy Sum of $«.55,i:5.«a.02. State Treasurer Koernr-r yesterday clos ed his books for the year with a deficit in the general revenue- fund of nearly SHXi.OOO. This, however, does not indicate that the state Is liable to go into volun tary liquidation, but the shortage always occurs at this time of the year. Heavy drains v ave been made upon the fund during L ne last month of the year, with but liule coming In. After the first of the year the state commences to receive from the- railroads the annual gross earn ings' tux, and in one or two cases the tax Is paid In advance, although not due until Feb. 1, when nearly all the com panies make a settlement. The state still has to its credit, substracting the overdraft charged to the revenue funW, $688,138.02, which is a tidy sum. Besides this the state h%- invested in bonds and outstanding on school contracts in excess of 112,000,000 to the credit of tht permanent school fund, as well as $1,300,000 as a nest_ ejirg for the state university-. Mr. Koerner-fl statement In detail Is as follows: Balance In treasury at close 61 busi ness: S(.-l(ii<- '■<-" reiicf fund $54,714 50 Funding tax fund 2.(172 73 Permanent echool fund 149,790 23 Genera] school fund 256.655 31 Permanent university fund 42.!)4T, General univrrsiiy fund 89,678 93 Internal improvement fund !*>:? 37 Internal improvement land fund. 63,675 36 Internal improvement land fund Interest Oh; 41 Stat© institutions' fund 76,715 90 Swamp land fund 13,582 04 State institutions' interest 7,804 67 Grain inspection fund 27.579 87 Total $786,063 25 Less revenue fund overdrawn... 1.6,1)25 23 Grand total $888,138 02 INCREASE IX SCHOOLS. Slate SiiiM-rinfeiirient Lewis Snjs Flew One* Will lie Or»>itMixe<l. Summer schools will be held in about thirty-five counties and • ten Institutes, he! i in various parts of the state, mak ing in all forty-five supplementary schools where the teachers can j>ut In their vaca tions to advantage. Stare Superintendent Lewis stated yesterday that it would be the aim of the department to give coun ties schools this rear tlmt did not have them last year. A programme for the summer school and Institute work lias been prepared by a committee consisting of S. S. Parr, W. M. West and W. A. Shoemaker. A new departure this year Mill be an institute course on library man agtrrent at the &tate university school, under the direction of Miss Countryman, secretary of the traveling library" com mission. Mr. Lewis states that much of the theoretical work will be* ommitted from the arithmetic course, and practical problems substituted. WATER BOARD FVVDS. Secretary Caulfleld Shows Condition of City Bonda. At a meeting: of the board of water commissioners yesterday Secretary Caul-, field submitted a report showing the con dition of the water board Finking fund. The fund amounts to $600,235.82, all of which Is invested with the exception of $235.62. The fund is invested in the fol lowing: securities: Registered city bonds, $410,000; Ramsey county court house' bonds, $100,000; city tax levy certificates of indebtedness, $90,000. All of the securities draw S ; A per cent interest, except $150,000 of city bonds, which draw 4 per cent and an other $100,000 draws 4% per cent. The proprietor and patentee of the Kenny valve for fire hydrants at the last meeting announced that the board could apply the Improvement on hy drants by the payment of $4,000 royalty. Yesterday the board was informed tha royalty would be $3 per hydrant, and possibly 100 will be placed in the whole sale district only. Contracts for sta tionery, amounting to $300, were divided between Brown, Treacy & Co., 11. C. Boycson, H. E. Wedeistadt and the Cur tis Printing Co. Contracts for black smithing, amounting to $350. were split up between J. G. Duggan, Mahle & But mar, A. Uhler and J. H. Schurmeier Co. Contracts for tools and supplies during the year were not awarded, the board de ciding to make purchases at market prices when supplies" were needed. The contract for 800 brass springs, which a year ago cost 15 cents each, was awarded to the Perkins Manufacturing Co. for $39. Bills amounting to $9,192 were ap proved. As a result* of the inspection by employes of the board two plumbing firms will be called on to settle for water rents for bath rooms placed in dwellings two years ago. The plumbers failed to report the work done at the time and the owners of the houses also neglected to advise the board of the improvements. Permission to put a four-inch automatic fire extinguishing system in the building at 183 and 185 East Third street was granted. The pump erected at McCar ron's lake a year ago by E. P. Alllai & Co., of Milwaukee, having been pro nounced in good order, the guarantee bond of $2,500 was released. BECKWITH TESTIMONIAL. Elks to Compliment the Eloquent Dramatic Itecltattouist. The St. Paul Lodge of Elks No. 58 were fo greatly pleased with the entertainment given them by Brock Beckwith, a mem ber of Savannah, Georgia, lodge, at their social session on the 21st, that they have decided to give him a complimentary tes timonial at Elks 1 hall in Lowry Arcade this week, Friday evening. Everyone who has heard Mr. Beckwlth agrees that his equal as a dramatic recitalist has not before appeared in St. Faul. An excellent programme has been made up for the evening and the tickets placed at the nominal sum of 35 cents. There will be elevator service at the St. Peter stieet entrance. The following is the pro gramme: Opening overture. Twin City Mandolin Club. Song— "Sunset"'.. By Dudley Buck Miss Millie Pottgieser. Shakespeare— Hamlet <a) "Advice to Players." (b) "hamlet's First Great Soliloquy." Mr. Brock Beckwith. Musical Melange — Instrumental and vocal Mr. W. J. Tomkins. Song— "Angus McDonald"— By J. L,. Roeckel Miss Millie Pottgieser. Recitation— "Drifting" ".T. Buchanan Read Mr. Brock Beckwith. Music "A Little Rag Time" Mr. Henry Dellafield. Recitation— "Star Spangled Banner". Keys Mr. A. G. Johnson. Pot-Pourri. Mr. Al G. Flournoy. Interpretation— "Dream of Eugene Aram"' Hood Mr. Brook Beckwith. Mr. Henry Dellafield, Piano Accompanist. FOR THE RED CROSS. Report n* to the Collection* of the Boers. The weekly report of Theodore F. Koch, treasurer of the Red Cross society for the Transvaal and Orange Free State, shows that the total receipts are about $300. The statement is as follows: Previously reported $152 T-5 P. Haan,' Renville I<> 10 K. G. Pott, Raymond. Minn - 25 M. Fltzpatrick, Ellsworth 6 00 R. E. Werkman & 00 Division No. 4. A. O. H 25 00 C. B. Eenkemann, Clara City 3 00 Dr. J. Ohage 5 00 Collected by H. J Radbruch 7 50 Dr. Oito Lugger 2 00 Hiram F. Stevens 10 oo Contributions less than one dollar.. 725 Collected by the Volkszeitung: Previously reported $32 00 Hy. E&gers 3 JO An Irishman 2 00 James Maloney 10 00 Thomas Conroy ] •-,() R. Eornemann ] CO Geb, Frenzel 2 00 John E. Kenny 10) R. Eitel, Marshall. Minn i 00 Abe Vogel. St. Cloud i 00 John Engesser. St. Peter, Minn 2 CO And ivsser collections bring total to $66. z5. "Universal" Steel Ranges stand the wear and tear. See ttjem at 370 Jackson. MADIGAX IS HAHDOXED, His Case Went to the Supreme Court and Watt Sustained. Private Fred A. Madigan, of Battery A. has been granted a full military par don. He was tried by a national guard court-martial in IS9B for non-attendance and willful disobedience of orders, and convicted in 1896. The sentence imposed by the court was $15 and costs, with an alternative of twelve day? in jail. He failed to pay the fine, a*nd tiie case was carried up to the supreme court on habeas corpus proceedings, and the court held that the section of the military code, prescribing punishment for such offenses, was constitutional. • Adjt. Gen. Lambert says in his mem orandum, accompanying- the pardon, that the military discipline has been strength ened by the prosecution of this case, and for that reason Madigan is pardoned, hut that other pardons for similar offenses are not probable. BABIES' HOJIK MITE lIOXE*. Two of Them Stolen From !.<><■:( 1 Ho- tela I.nMt Week. When -Mrs. A. P. Moss, a member of the managing board of the Babies" home, went down to the Windsor hotel the day after Christmas to get the box left there by the board to catch the pennies of the charitably disposed she found a dismayed clerk, but no box. He had taken it out of the safe that morning, and put it >n its accustomed place on the desk, but some time between that hour and l> eak fast it was abstracted. The box presum ably contained between $4 and $.', for it was almost filled. The Babies" home box at the Merchants* was also stolen. Florida, "\V>»t Indie* nn«l Ontrril America. The facilities nf tiie Louisville & Nash ville Railroad for handling tourists ;uul travelers destined for all points in Fior ida, Cuba, Porto Rico. Central America, or for Nassau, are unsurpassed. Double daily linos of sleeping cars are run from Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago and St. Louis through Jacksonville to interior Florida points, and to Miami. Tampa and New Orleans, the ports of embarkation for the countries mentioned. For folder.-. etc.. write Geo. B. Homer, D. P. A., St. Louis, M<>. Have you inspected "Universal" Ranges at 370 Jackson? - GEN.JOEJHEELER PRAISES PERUNA, The Great Catarrh Cure. JOE WHEELER'S CHARGE AT SAN JUAN HILL. "■"j"' v^«Tii^i«ii juscpn >v neeier, com manding the cavalry forces In front of Santiag-o and the author of "The San tiago Campaign." in speaking of the great catarrh remedy, Pe-ru-na, says: "I join with Senators Sullivan, Roach and McEnery In their good opinion of Pe-ru-na. It is recommended to me by those who have used it as an excellent tcnic and particularly effective as a cure for catarrh." United States Senator McEnery. Hon. S. D. McEnery, United States benator from Louisiana, says the fol lowing in regard to Pe-ru-na: "Pe-ru-na is an excellent tonic. I have used it sufficiently to say that I believe It to be all that you claim for it.— S D McEnery, New Orleans, Louisiana" Ask Your Druggist for a Fr<*e Peruna Alimmc for ths Year 1900. SMALLEY'S 810 SCOOP LANDED THE CREDIT MOBILIER SCANDAL DOdMEXTS FOR SEW YORK TRIBi Mi INTEEVIEW WITH S. J. TILDEN Late Secretary of the Sonntl Money I^eag:iie Wn« a Saeeesufal and En vrjtetie Newnpaper Reporter in His Active Dbjk In the Harnestt— Interview With Mr. Tiiden a Man. teri>lece of \eiv»(>aper Work. E. V. Smaller, who ii;od :.t his homo in St. Paul, Friday at midnight, was a shining light in the newspaper firmament of "Washington. D. C, in the days when he was a regular Washington corresj) -.n --dent. He was active and untiring, and many were the "sec ops' he secured o\ c r his competitors. Mr. Smalley starlit d the newspaper fraternity at the national cap ital when he landed the papers in thy famous Credit Mobilier case, and the N.-w York Tribune came out with its first p.\gc decorated with the evidences of his ab'.l- ■ ity as a newspaper reporter. That achievement was great, but his interview with the Sage of Grammtroy Park was even greater, as it was a weii established fact in those days that Mr. Tiiden would not submit to be Interviewed. Among the newspaper nic-n in Washington. E. V. Smalley was known as a prince. He vr.s ever ready to <<hare his hard-earned ncwa I spoils with the more unfortunate, md ; never took advantage that was unia'r. I He was. perhaps, the most popular of all the. Washington correspondents, with men whose friendship was valuable from a news standpoint, and he attributed his success to the fact that all he did was free from trickery or deceit. CREDIT MOBILIER CA6E. It was known that the fam< us Credit Mobilier bill was to be presented to con j gross on or about a certain day. Every newspaper correspondent at the capital was or. his mettle. And not one was loft j in ascertaining that the bill had been ! presented ard in getting a scanty outline j of its provisions. But Mr. Smalley had j done better. He had managed to ascer tain the :.arr.e of the stenographer who vas preparing ihe bill. He notified his j newspaper. > the New York Tribune, an i urged the importance of giving the rneas . ure In full. Finally he was authorized to | negotiate and arrange with the steno ; grapher tc prepare two copies of the ; precious doc-urgent, one of which was | handed to Mr. Smalley when the original went to congress. Tnc remit was that the Tribune hac the bill in full, while the j many other newspapers ha\injr repre j sontatives at the capital were compelled j to be sraisfled with a summary -if its [provisions. There was but the one copy and all the report"»s could do was to (ivide up and k< t the "meat" of it. The "scoop" vost the Tribune an even $300, i but it was worth ten times the money as a news exclusive. TALK WiTH TIT.DEX. The Tiibune wanted an Interview with S. J. Tiiden. Mr. Smalley v-as called from Washington to get it. The Sagt of Gram mercy Park had steadfastly refused O grant an interview to anyone. In fact he had vented reporters from getting close enough to open thc#r batteries upon him. 'If you ?.m pet Into the house you may Fu<~oec(l. ' said the managing editor of the Tribune to Mr. Srnnliey. "but 1 an; ,'er.rful you cm. not get b y< nrt the forbid den portals." That was all the tip the bright, keen, young newspaper man needed. He mopped out his p!:;n of campaign upon the basis: Get inside the house first. The remainder will be eajty. He was met \ at the door by a trusted servant. He did not announce that h« represented a news paper. That wov.Yi have ended his mis sion witnout resclt. He nentioned the name cf a business friend of Mr. Tiiden. He did not cay he was that friend, but the servant so look it r»:d the result was that Mr. Smalley was ushered into the presence of the man al! New York re- ' porters had befn seeking In vain for many dayr. TALKED AS A DIPLOMAT. Mr. Tiiden was evidently puzzled when he saw his visitor. He did not recog nize him. He did not even ask who he was. Mr. Smalley saw his advantage and opened his batteries with a learned dissertation upon legislative matters in which, he knew Mr. Tiiden was interested and would lead up to just what he was seeking. He, got it. Ail he wanted. And then he grey. anxious, lie felt that if he was asked by Mr. Tiiden to explain the motive of his mysterious visit he would be compelled to break his rule of dealing honestly in such matters or lose his information. And so he backed to ward the doer. Mr. Tiiden began to in quire as to the name of his. caller, but Mr. Smalley talked faster than could his host, and. as he put it himself, laugh ing heartily at recollection of the occur rence, he never breathed so freely as he did after he had got beyond the reach of Mr. Tiiden* a possible query as to his mission. The Interview was printed, and after it was all over Mr. Tiiden enjoyed the good work of the newspaper man ' United States Senator SuUiuan. "I desire to say that T have bt-^n taking Pe-ru-na for some time for catarrh, and have found it an excellent medicine, giv ing me more relief than anything I hay« ever taken.— TV. V. Sullivan, OxfonL Mlsa." United States Senator Roach. "Persuaded by a friend, I have ust-d Pe-ru-na as a tonic, and am glad to testify that it has greatly helped me in strength, vigor and appetite. I have been advised by friends that it is re markably efficacious as a cure fur the almost universal complaint of catarrh.— >> . N. Roach, Larimoie, North Dakota.' A free book on catarrn sent to any address by The Pe-ru-na Drug M Tk Co. Columbus, Ohio. ' sufficiently to compliment him to his em ployers. MR. BUMNEK MIS FRIEND. The late Senator Bu:nr,er was a starch friend of E. V. Smalley when such friend ship meant much to a young newspaper man. The famous friend of the colored race proved a tower of strength to Mr. Smalley on many an occasion, and, while he never forgot his duty as * s;- ..ati.r. there were many bits of information that young Smalley received through his emi nent friend that lie could not ha\> ..ther wise hoped to get. As a result • ! his popularity with many leading- members of congress, Mr. Smaily stood at th»= top as a Washington correspondent, nr,.l there are veterans in the business today, who will remember the excellent service renderd the New Y.rk Tribune by Cor respondent Smalley in the- days when It was more difficult; t.» newa than it !» today. CLUNG TO FIRST LOVE E. V. Sma'iey was ..>. r.rwspufH: n'i.n always. Even in the .Ih/s after he had dropped the harness to assume <'.r,iUn more lucrative, ha could rot shake • fT th« love for the newspaper office. His grei - est pleasure w.-..s a ch.-.t about his rej torial days. li^ was possessed of « spl< - did address. \va.-< i?en:a! and g • . .i, and, having- at his command a thorough knowledge of men and things, w^ a t. •■ --midable antagonist for a rival in his i-..il ing. Mr. Smalley was a St. Paul man first, last and always. "The world for work, but Pan: :-r home." was his comment to the writer, who knew the splendid correspondent when he was famous .is such in the <;-.i-i --tal of the nation. "S-. Paul Is tbe pret tiest city I have seen, and I see many in my travels. I should Like to get into the harness once in a while," he added. "There is nothing that brightens a man so much as a hustle for n--w>. WARM CLOTHING WASTED. Secretary HatcMn* Direct* Atfrn tlon Jo n "Worthy ( liurii<. Secretary M. 1.. I! f ••.. <t. Paul Relief society, writes t.> the <i ! .. be as follows: We are very much i:i reeti of warm un derwear for o.jrh men ai ■• . ■:. n, but especially do we need uaderwe: si-oes for the cbildrea v. : ■ will be^in school again i:i a few days. Wt h;ive had numerous calls for warm i!<>:)i: . day. but our stock la about exhausted We are entirely cut o* bedding comfortables tnd our stock be replenish-d in order meet Eh< ■>- mand occasioned by the y; - snap. We would b- glad to receive a small cook stove and a heater, which \\e can place t<> advantage !mm«diate! Within the last :~w ; iy3 there !-.:■ ■ a great demand for wo >d and coal. We would appreciate It if our kind f\ would place a. few orders for us with ilie fuel dealers for a ha' '-ton ol or c ord of wood, as the case ma;> t>t-. tha.( vr< may relieve the needy ones as they apply to us. FI.\ERAL OF JOSEPH BRMGS. Plonet-r Renideat of the Klfili Ward to Be Darir-d Today. The funeral of Joseph Brings >•. . u held today at - »'cl ick from his 3U West Seventh street. Mr. B;I ii.< v.as a native of CoV?r.t\ G?rmanj', wh \> ho was born about eighty years ae... \~.ih his wi;V. he came to St ;\: ; il in 1557, and had resided h^re ever since. There w<-r* eight hl!uren, six . f wh*wn, with the wife, -ri\' survive, viz.: Mrs. Mary Hagmel, ?.Irs. Margare Sk l Lena Bart a, Mr-. Louise Michaud, I J. Brings and Joseph P. Brings. HASTINGS 19 lill M KJ I U City OlMclaU KriiiK KeuiSC «<f Tliank.H Personally to SI. I'uul. Mayor Bus-eh and Aid. J tfcnson, of 11 ■■- ings, yesterday exts sis nal ti . to Mayor Kiefer for the aid extended Hastings when that city was threat' c.l with destruction by fire ;: w?ek ag . Si. Paul sent two lire engines to I and thus checked the spread > f lh« b sas and saved much >f the Ity. MILTON'S | OELSGA39ES FOR iiiEW YEARS Bil k Wl S Sea £n& II *5P Bee Cream, ■ 089, Sherbets, Punches, Frozen Egg Nog, Etc. Neapolitan Brick, Nut and Fruit Creams a Specialty. Orders taken Monday until iC . im. Telephone 231. miltonlairy co. Cor. 9th and V. abas :a St*. 3