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8 FINISH FIRST LOCK GOVERNMENT ENGINEERS ARE GRADUALLY CONQUERING MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI TARDINESS OF STEEL TRUST CAUSES PROTRACTED DELAYS Mammoth Steamboat Elevator Stands ,k Complete on St. Paul Side and Double Sluice on Opposite Bank Is Nearly Complete—Years of Labor Remain in Harnessing Father of Waters. Four years of hard work by Uncle Barn's engineers have brought to com pletion the first of the great locks in the Mississippi river between the Twin Cities. Vast operations still in progress ■will require two years more to finish, before the upper dam and sluices can be in shape to hold the stream in check, and will bring the outlay for SCENES ON THE WORK AT GOVERNHENT DAM. INTERIOR OF LOCK AND DAM. ' Tmrnm^o^'y ' mmmmm'>*■'*■*•'!-■*' '' BBbB bBF " w^^ '"*" ■ \ this half of the Improvement to $725, --000. The site of this work la Just above the Marshal] avenue bridge. The sec ond dam and lock will be constructed several miles below, near the mouth of Minnehaha creek, and, given the same conditions of river bed and the game prices for labor and materials, will cost approximately the same amount The congressional appropria tion for the two dams and locks was $1,250,000, but this was made on the estimate of 1895, when labor and steel ■were far lower than at present, and la bor and steel are among the controll ling factors In the cost of the work. Should the lower dam require as long to build, the summer of 1909 will have opened before the first boat from St. Louis or New Orleans will be able to load with timber and flour at the mills of Minneapolis. The unexpected length of time consumed in the construction has been due to two causes. The dlla toriness of the steel founders in deliv ering the materials used in the gatea and valves of the lock is responsible for many months of the delay. But for the time already lost in waiting upon the convenience of the steel trust, the engineers would be able to report the upper dam completed by the close of 1903. The Fight With the River. But the chief obstacle to rapid con struction is the Father of Waters him self. Day by day he battles with the men whom he sees patiently and stead ily erecting a machine that will con vert him to the base uses of commerce. The canyon of the Mississippi above Fort Snelling has been cut by the re cession of the Falls of St. Anthony through a bed of soft sandstone. The river bottom is of the same material, and this, to a considerable depth, is full of water-bearing seams. These have doubled the labor and cost of building a structure designed perma nently to control the river level. Such a structure must be water tight, or it must not be at all. A single leak may mean that in some spring freshet five or ten or twenty years hence, the angry Mississippi, working through subterra nean channels the ruin it is powerless to wreak upon the great breastwork above, shall brush the dam aside in a moment and send down a flood to re peat on the flats of St. Paul the scenes of Johnstown or Galveston. This Is the phantom that haunts the men the gov ernment has set to build these works. For almost every foot of excavation within the cofferdams has opened un derground veins through which the water rushes to hamper all attempts at laying foundations of concrete below the river level. Thus the famous stream that Father Hennepln blessed resists the effort of man to curb its flow; now it spoils the work done and makes it to be done anew; again, it calls a halt upon op erations In hand until the inrush of the water can be overcome by the great pumps that labor day and night; at all times it is there, stealthily, insistent, treacherous, cunning; and it says to its enemies: "You may be the agents of the richest government on earth, but before you tie me up with that har ness of stone and steel, I will give you such a run for your money as you never dreamed of." Uncle Sam's Engineers. The duty of planting these "water proof barriers across the channel of the Mississippi has been entrusted to the engineer corps of the United States army. When the government at Wash ington has some easy work to give, out •—something with a lot of profit about It —the thing Is let by contract, the contract goes to the man with the Strongest political pull, and In the end the government pays a pretty bill of extras. But when it has a job on hand involving difficult problems in applied science, and calling for results that will stand hard knocks and last a few centuries, it employs its own en gineers. The engineers build the light houses that watch over those who go flown to the sea in ships; they erect the fortifications that guard the great ports; they construct the locks at Ihe "Soo" and the reservoirs on the upper Jdississippi; and as nearly as may be they keep within the appropriation. For they expect to die poor, following the advice of Andrew Carnegie. So the engineers are at work above Mlnnehaha. The firat cofferdam was pegun in the splng of 1899 under the •upervlslon of Maj. F. V. Abbot, of the iriny engineers. His successor was MaJ. D. W. Lockwood, and now for a year Maj. R. L. Hoxie has been in charge. Maj. Hoxie's right hand man is Capt. A. O. Powell, who has a house in Merriam Park, but lives down on the stone piers and about the pump houses and in the sluice wells at the river works. Even when he goes home for a few hours' sleep Capt. Powell ex pects to be called up by telephone and cheered with news that the river bot tom within the cofferdam on the Min neapolis side has sprung a fresh leak. This is what it means to be a govern ment engineer. Work Still Unfinished. And what is doing up the river? What have the engineers to show for the time and money spent? At first sight the visitor is disappointed, for he sees the Mississippi still flowing in its ancent bed, instead of pouring over the expected dam. But closer inspec tion shows that the bulk of the work has already been done, in building the great steamboat lock that stands com plete on the St. Paul side and the dou ble sluice now nearly complete on the other bank of the river. Between the outer walls of the leek is a space of 521 feet. Here, during the summer of 1903, the dam will be con structed. It will be ninety-two feet in breadth and of sufficient elevation to raise the water thirteen feet above its present level. The dam will be simple In method. The only difficult feature in its con struction is the wall of concrete reach- CONDUIT FOR FILLING LOCK. Ing from the lock to the sluices. This will be four feet thick and sixteen feet deep. Below it will be a concrete cut off, or "diaphragm," made by filling cement into a trench ten feet deep and three inches wide. The trench for this cut-off will be drilled out with the grouting as fast as it is dug. It will carry the waterproof shield below the present low water level of the river and far below all water-bearing fis sures that might endanger the stabil ity of the dam. Outside this concrete wall, which will be built along the upper or inner edge of the dam, the bulwark will be a heavy earthwork secured by rows of the stoutest piling and by a timber crib reaching across the river; while the whole structure will be faced on both surfaces with two thicknesses of six inch plarik laid at right angles and bolted down to the primary timbers beneath. The Hundred-Foot Sluiceway. The sluices on the west side of the river will be completed before winter interrupts the work, and when it is re sumed in the spring the entire stream will be turned through these channels while the work on the dam proper is in progress. The sluices, as well as the lock on the Minneapolis side, have been constructed with cofferdams built of piles and plank, and stout enough to resist the action of ice and freshets. Each of the two sluices has a width of fifty feet and a depth of about twen ty-five. The gates which will control the flow of water are now under con struction on the ground, and will be of steel, weighing about seventy-five tons apiece. They are in the form known as the reversed Parker "bear trap" gates. The two long leaves of each gate are hinged to the floor of the sluice and connected with each other by a shorter leaf in such manner that the whole contrivance can fold down flat, thus permitting a free passage of the water. The gate is operated wholly by hy drostatic pressure. When it is desired to raise the "bear trap" and close the sluice the operator simply turns a valve that opens a conduit carrying water from the upper pool to the cham ber beneath the trap. The gate is at once forced upwards in the shape of an inverted V, and being fifty feet wide it practically forms a water-tight bar in the way of the stream. That a comparatively small amount of water should be able to lift so vast a weight seems at first inexplicable, but the ex planation is as-simple as the mechan ism. The hydraulic power that raises the trap is the result of the difference in pressure from the water in the upper and the lower pool. The pressure of the water beneath the gate and forcing it upwards is, of course, due to the height of water above the dam. The upper leaf of the invert V is subject to the same weight of water from the outside, but in the pool below the dam the wuter will be at least thirteen feet lower. The southern face of the trap will therefore have to support a weight vastly less than that which is operating from below to drive it upwards. It yields to the greater pressure, and ris ing carries up with it the whole im mense mechanism to stop the passage of the water. Thus the mighty Mississippi, fight as it may against the engineers, will in the end be bitted and chained, and THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1903 made to do the work of curbing its own flow. The Steamboat Lock Completed. Crossing: the river to the St. Paul side the visitor finds the new lock for raising river craft to the Minneapolis level. This has just been finished by the completion and placing of the gates, which weigh altogether several hun dred tons. The lock has a length over all of 440 feet, while the boat chamber is 330 by 80 feet, with a depth of 25 feet. Its walls and foundation are of concrete, the outer wall being 5 feet wide at the top, with a thickness of 13 feet 3 inches at the base. It will take less than twenty minutes to transfer a vessel from the lower pool to the upper. The depth over the sills of the lock will be five feet at the lowest stage of water. This will permit the passage of the lar gest boats in use on the river. The channel below St. Paul does not, in fact, now afford such a depth during the low stage, but the government en gineers have been working for several years with the object of obtaining this minimum depth, and by the construc tion of wing dams and other riparian improvements it is believed that it will be secured before the second lock is completed. The lock will be operated by means of two styles of gates. The upper gate is described as the Chittenden-Drum weir patent, and though different in form is worked by hydrostatic pres sure on,the same principle as the "bear VIEW OF COFFERDAM. trap" in the sluices. The lower gate Is an ordinary Moore lock gate, with two leaves, each of which weigh fifty tons and will be operated by electric power. The concrete used in building the locks and sluices is manufactured from bowlders found on the plateau and crushed in the government's plant at the works. The sluices and lock are floored with great timbers of Oregon fir, this being the most satisfactory material for the purpose as it comes in greater lengths and larger size than any other wood. With the finishing of these improve ments, vessels larger than the present "Diamond Jo" boats will be able to load at the Minneapolis levee. The effect of the upper dam, which will be complet ed first, will be to raise the river in the upper pool to the level of the water at the pool of St. Anthony's falls. From this dam down to Minnehaha creek the river has a fall of about thirteen feet, and this will be taken up by the second dam, to be constructed at that point. With a clear channel from Min nehaha down the river will offer a free field for competition with the railways in carrying the products of the North west to the Gulf of Mexico. GOOD STORY TOLD BY THE INSURANCE MAN How the Customer Wished to Square His Account When House Burned. Into the office of the fire insurance agent came an ancient spinster who owned a little house just on_.the out skirts of the town. "I want to insure my house" said she. "Where is the house, madam? and how large a policy do you want to take out?" "Well, now I want to know some things first. If I insure it for $900 and pay my premium and it burns down, do you pay me $900?" "Why, most assuredly." "Well, do you make a lot of trouble trying to find out if it was set afire?" Naturally the agent admitted that if it looked like a case of arson the company would investigate. There!" said the property owner in dignantly. "I told John there was some sort of catch about this Insur ance business," and therewith departed uninsured. It was in New York that the heroine of the other story found that fire in surance was not all she hoped for. The policy on her house—a big one, and it was a fine edifice in the best part of the city—was brought to her by her agent. "You had better give me a check for the premium now," said he. "Why, how much is it?" "A little over $100. Wait a moment —I will find out." "Oh, how tiresome," cried the prop erty owner. "I'm in such a hurry, and beside my bank account is a little low. Tell the company to let it stand and de duct it from what they owe me when the house burns down."—The Pilgrim. She Knew His Rating. He —You say circumstances over which you have no control prevent your accept ing any offer of marriage. What are those circumstances ? She—Yours.—New York Journal FIND HOME IN ASHES CHARLES MILLER *AND FAMILY RETURN FROM VISIT TO SCENE OF WRECK AND RUIN RESULT OF YEARS OF THRIFT IS WIPED :OUT BY FLAMES Structure is Totally Destroyed, with . all Its Contents, by Overheating of . Stove—Man Labors Long to Provide ( Rooftree Only to Be Suddenly Ren dered Homeless. , Charles Miller, accompanied by his wife and children, spent yesterday aft ernoon visiting relatives in tl\e north ern part of the city. When they re turned home late last night they found their house, at Smith avenue and An napolis street, in ashes and all their furniture destroyed by the flames. Neighbors cared for the homeless family. Before leaving for his visit yester day, Miller started a coal fire in the range. He thought he had shut off all the dampers, but evidently had not done so. Stove is Melted. During the afternoon the fire in the stove became so hot that it melted the grate and door to the fire pot. The red hot coals fell to the floor, setting the house afire. The flames had made great headway before the fire was discovered by one of Miller's neighbors. The home is Just inside the city limits and before the fire department arrived was in ashes. None of the residents in the vicinity knew where the Miller family was visiting, and it was not until late last night, when they returned home, that they learned of the fire. "Our loss will exceed $1,500," said Mr. Miller. "For years I have been try ing to establish a comfortable home for my family and had; just succeeded in doing so. Now the fire comes and takes everything away;" "But I wouldn't care," said one of the little children, "only -my poor pussy was burned. I don't know where I can get another cat as smart as Tabby." CAN SWEET FRIENDSHIP EXIST BETWEEN THE SEXES? The Question Discussed from Both the Man's and Woman's Point of View. Certain English students of sociologi cal questions • have been discussing friendship between man and woman and lamenting the fact that it is never ideal in their island. They point to America, which they say "has given its sons and daughters an education in friendship which the old world but dimly understands, which it ought to understand better and incorporate in spirit if not in method." "Friendship between man and woman has its dangers, its temptations, its restrictions," one of these students further comments. "This no one can deny. It may sometimes offer oppor tunities for people to fall In love who have no business to do it. So does nearly every profession, every walk in life. To expect anything else would be to expect the impossible. But that these friendships can exist honestly, honor ably, frankly and happily, America has amply proven." The English point of view is right— and yet no woman is exactly comfort able even In America, if the husband whom she loves finds pleasure in the friendship of some other woman. No husband wants his wife to be the com rade of another man, however ideal the friendship may be. For there is always the haunting possibility that the friend may become the lover. It is taking chances. "No friend like to a woman earth dis- covers, So that you have not been, nor will be lovers." So sang the poet. But no one can guarantee that the friend may not be come the lover, even in America. The Englishman accuses us of cold ness, and this is given as one reason why Americana understand the art of being good friends. He is mistaken, however. From child hood the sexes mingle more freely in this country, perhaps, than any other. The men and women know one another in the unsentimental fashion of their youth, and the habit of Intellectual companionship begun • then continues in the years that follow. That explains In a large part, the free and easy com radeship of American men and women. With the nine hundred and ninety nine men she knows, the American woman does not think of love, although she may love the thousandth as madly as any woman born under southern skies. Because love is as overpowering when it comes, with both women and men, in America, as elsewhere in the world, there is danger in forming these ideal friendships England desires. The nearer to the ideal be the friendship, the more likely to exist that strange harmony in the natures of the two that is love's birth. There is always the possibility that the friend may prove to be "the one man." After that one man appears she Is safe. For the love of him will make her cold as a stone to all others. But even he would not want the woman who loved him to find too much pleas ure in friendships with others. "Is the friendship of men without their affections worth much to a woman? Is the friendship of women without the gift of their affections worth much to a man?"— Philadelphia American. THE AGED DARKEY AND THE SOUTHERN ROAD The Trains Down There Are Slow, and the Aged Coon Made Slight Mistake. A special examiner of the pension PICTURE PUZZLE. ti i jf_ii 'T . ir^r^*l' * — *^"'^*iv4iSs^B*^ Three little kittens have lost their mittens. Probably the other two cats in the picture have them. Find two more cats. Solution for yesterday: One dog is beneath the man's elbow. The other in front of woman's face. lo^itncriniiiifliiMiiißiibtiiuiiiifliiiiiiiiWjn.ipTnniii'j'friPiiiiuiißwfci^^p X&TNA&GQXJGtT """ i^lj ♦^^i.jp?»ri«'» i"*}f~*^. li^j Aperfectßemcdy forC!onstipa- W tiofv,SourSfoiaich.Diarrfeea, UB Worms Convulsions ,Fe> eri sh^ f S ftgs^ andl/QJBfoOF-SiEER ' ,» \ • JfitSinuleTSifnature o^ ;^| I EXACFSOFy'OPWRAPPER* . g to.Ti.ui. ; •- - ___L_~_^ office who occasionally makes business trips down South, was recently giving some of his experiences while in the Palmetto state. He had business down the coast, near Port Royal, says the Washington Times, and after a week of hard work made for a small station on a lumber road tapping the main line to Charleston, some miles be yond. Reaching the depot, a small shanty perched upon piles above the surrounding swamp, he proceeded to the ticket office to purchase the neces sary transportation out of the wilder ness. The sliding panel in the window of the ticket and telegraph office was down, and on it was the announcement that the easy-going agent had gone off fishing, and might be expected back in the course" of a day or two. Going out on the platform to recon noitre, he found an aged darkey seated in the shade back of the building, smoking a corncob pipe. He evident ly belonged to the old school, for upon the appearance of the visitor he arose, made a courtly bow and remained standing while being addressed. Upon being asked as to the arrival of the train, he said: "Yo' might as well take a seat an' set down, boss, an' make yo'se'f at home. Dat train is 'pinted to be here at 1 erclock, but if it gits here at sundown yo'll be mighty lucky." He then proceeded to entertain the traveler with stories of the dim past when he was a coachman in the house hold of "Marse Gen. Wade Hampton." He was a good talker with his quaint reminiscences of the halcyon days be fo' de wah," and the special examiner was somewhat disappointed when the old man's flow of ante-bellum history was interrupted by the shriek of a lo comotive close at hand. As the train pulled up at the platform he glanced at his watch and found the hands pointing exactly at^he hour of 1. Turning to the old man, he said: "Look here, uncle, what do you mean by telling your lies about this rail road? You said I would have to wait hours for the train, and here it comes rolling in on the dot of time." The pained expression on the face'of the old man gave way to a very broad grin as he answered: "Laws a mussy, boss, I ain't bin lyin' ter yo'. Dats day befo' yestiddy's train."—Boston Her ald. To Be Used and Left. "I know that we drummers have the reputation of not always adhering strictly to the truth," said one of the traveling fraternity yesterday, "but I'll take my oath when I tell you about the tooth brushes I encountered in a little hotel down Jersey on my last trip I am not even exaggerating, much less lying. The hotel *was one of those primitive little taverns still to be found in the small towns of south Jersey, presided over fey a landlord who had never been twenty five miles away from home in his life. Still, he had attempted to introduce some modern innovations, and one of them—■ would you believe it?—was a tooth brush in each room! The one in the room to which I was assigned was chained to the washstand. I called the proprietor's at tention to this. 'Yes, be gosh,' he drawl ed, 'I had to do that to protect my prop erty. Some o' those gol-derned smarties started to walk away with 'em, an' I found the only way I could keep 'em whar they belonged was to chain 'em up, be gosh! You can't fool your Uncle Dudley.'"— Philadelphia Record. The Progressive Spirit Of the North-Western Line is clearly shown by the fact that they operated the first Pullman Sleeping Cars in the North west, the first dining cars, the first compartment sleepers, the first library buffet cars, the first parlor cars, and, more recently, were the first to introduce observation cafe car service out of the Twin Cities to Chicago, to Omaha and to Duluth. HI IW ■ BBBBB——^—BEZ?3——S Castor I A! I^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^l^^g^^^-^^^^^^Sl^S The "Hind Ton Have Always Bought, and which has been' .\ih (use for over 80 J ycars,lhas borne the signature of! . ' ffijh& r- €■ / '." 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It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving . healthy and natural sleep* - - : The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend* GENUINE CASTOR IA ALWAYS Sears the Signature of .■ ll - rgr Tie Kind You Hare Always Bought In Use For Over SO Years. - - THE CENTAUR COMPANY. 7T MURRAY GTRECT. NEW YORK CITY. > . - - Red Raven Reasons. The use of Red Raven Splits as an aperient obviates the use of drugs and pills. Now that is a reason for you to buy. RAILROAD NOTICES, Homeseekers' Excursions. IJ-.-eat Northern Railway sells lioma- Beekers' tickets, St. Paul or Minneapolis, to all points West, ina'adlng Montana and Washington, on the first and third Tuesdays of July. August; September and October, 1902. at rate of one fare plus $2.00 for the rourd trip. Washington, D. C, Without Change via Burlington Route. On Saturday, Oct. 4th, through sleepers will be run in connection with the vesti bule Limited train, leaving St. Paul at 8:25 p. m., and arriving- at Washington Monday at 1:15 p. m. Fare for the round trip, $23.90. Enquire at City Ticket Office, 400 Rob ert Street (Hotel Ryan). Homeseekers' Tickets to the West. Homeseekers can buy excursion tickets via the Great Northern railway to points In Manitoba, Montana, Washington a,nd the West, at rate of one fare plus $2.00 for the round trip on first and third Tuesdays of July, August, September and October. Tickets and Information from all rail way ticket agents, or F. I. Whitney, G. P. & T. A.. St. Paul. Round-Trip Homeseekers' Excursion to the West. The Great Northern Railway sells homeseekers' tickets to Manitoba, Mon tana, Washington and all points in the West, on first and third Tuesdays of July, August, September and October, at the rate of one fare plus $2.00 for the round trip. Information from all ticket agents, or F. I. Whitney, G. P. & T. A., St. Paul. THE OFFICIAL ROUTE To G. A. R. Encampment, Washington, D. G. The Chicago Great Western Railway has been named the Official Route for the veterans of Minnesota by Department Commander Perry Starkweather. The special train of Pullman and Tourist Sleeping Cars and Free Chair Cars will leave Minneapolis at 7:00 p. m., St. Paul 7:35 p. m. Saturday, Oct. 4th. arriving at Washington, D. C, early Monday morn- Ing on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. No change of cars; $23.90 for the round trip; $3.00 for berth in Tourist Sleeping cars through to Washington. For fur ther information apply to J. N. Storr, City Ticket Agent, corner Fifth and Robert streets. Special Excursion Rates Via Wisconsin Central Railway. Washington, D. C., and return, through car service 23. y0 Buffalo and return 23.50 Pittsburg and return 22.00 Cincinnati-Louisville and return.... 19.50 Detroit and return 17.76 Similar low rates to nearly all points in Indiana, Ohio, Western New York and Western Pennsylvania. Tickets on sale October 2nd, 3rd, 4th and sth; return limit November 3rd. Boston and return —On sale Oct. 6th to 10th; return limit Nov. 12th. $29.00. For full particulars call on or address HERMAN BROWN, City Ticket Agent. Through Tourist Cars to California. On and after September 11th, the Min neapolis & St. Louis will run weekly tourist cars every Thursday to Los An geles via Omaha. Denver and the Scenic line through Colorado and Salt Lake. Ticket rate only $32.90, and through berth rate only $6.00. Beginning October Ist. and every Wednesday thereafter, additional through car will be operated via Kansas City and the Santa Fe Route to Los Angeles. This gives a choice of the two best lines to California. For berth reservations and tickets, call at City Ticket Agent. 398 Robert St., F. P. Rutherford. $31.40 to New York City via the North western Line. Tickets on sale Oct. 2-5, inclusive. Also low rates to many other points in Michigan. Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Ontario and Indiana. Partic ulars, 382 Robert street. Through Sleepers to Washington, D. C, on the Pioneer Limited, Famoua Train of the World. For the comfort and convenience of its patrons the C. M. & St. P. Ry. will at tach to its Pioneer Limited on October 4th flret class standard sleeping cars, which will be run through to "Washing ton without change. Berth rate, $7.00. Railroad fare $23.90 for the round trip from St. Paul. Make your reservations early. Apply at City Ticket Office, 366 Robert St., or address W. B. Dixon, North-Western Passenger Agent, St. Paul, Minn. , Special Notice to G. A. R. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. has been selected by the Commander in-Chief to carry the official party to the Washington Encampment In October. The Official National Headquarters Train will leave Minneapolis' at 7 p. m., and St. Paul at 7:30 p. m. Saturday even- Ing, Oct. 4th, reaching Washington via the Pennsylvania Line 9:00 Monday morn ing. The rate from the Twin Cities to Wash ington and return via this most attractive route will be $23.90. Comrades and oth ers wishing full particulars, will please communicate with W. B. Dlxon, North western Passenger Agent, St. Paul, Minn. SPECIAL RATES VIA "THE MILWAU KEE ROAD:" ' Chicago and return,, Oct. 1 and 2...513.50 Boston and return,, Oct. 6 to 10, re turn limit Nov. 12 29.00 Washington and return: G. A. R. Encampment $23.90 Through car service. Detroit and return 17.75 Cleveland and return 21.50 Buffalo and return 23.50 Pittsburg and return 22.00 Cincinnati and Louisville 19.50 Similar rates to nearly all points In Ohio. Indiana, Western Pennsylvania and Western New York. Dates of sale, Oct. 2, 3, 4, 5. Return limit, Nov. 3rd. For full particulars regarding rates, ac commodations, etc., writ" to W. B. DIXON, Northwestern Passenger Agent, St. Paul. City Ticket Office. 365 Robert street. Grand Army Encampment, Washington, D. C. The Wisconsin Central Railway will run special trains, with Pullman Tourist and Standard Sleepers, throuyh to Wash ington without change. Tickets on sala Oct. 2 to 5. For particulars call or ad dress V. C. Russell, Agent, 2130 Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis: Herman Brown, Agent, 373 Robert street, St. Paul. Low Rates to I New York and Return. Only $31.40 to New York and return via Chicago Great Western Railway. Tickets on sale October 2, 3, 4 and sth. Good to return Oct. 14. For particu lars inquire of J. N. Storr, City Tkt. Agt., corner Fifth and Robert streets, St. Paul. Through Cars to California Every Tuesday and Saturday via the North-Western Line. Particulars 382 Robert Street. ANNOUNCEMENTS. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF TUB stockholders of the Saint Paul. Minne apolis & Manitoba Railway Company, for tho election of a Board of Directors and transaction of such other business as may come before it. will be held at the office of the company in St. Paul, Minn., on Thursday, OctoDer 9th, 1902, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. St. Paul. Minn., September 27th, 1902. EDWARD SAWYER, Secretary. DEPOSITS MADE ON OR BEFORE OCT. 3 at the State Savings Bank, Germania Life building. Fourth and Minn, sts., will be entitled to 3 months' interest Jan. 1. AMUSEMENTS. &1£ I nUrULBJI_HRJ_Lgms9 and Mar.aj>r TOMIfiHT ALL THIS WEEK. 1 Wl^ IVJ 1 I I riatine; Wednesday. FLORODORA ' Oct. s—The Sultan of Sulu. Oct. 9—Kelsay and Shannon In Sherlock Holmes. AUDITOR] U M .. Wednesday Matinee and Evening. " Seat Sale at Auditorium This . Morning. SOUSA AND HIS BAND TWO ORAND CONCERTS. Night Prices, 25c. 50c. 75c. $1. 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