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In January,
1906,
The Journal made a gain
over January, 190S,
as follows:
23%
in Loca Display
38l%
in Foreign Displa
37%y
in Classified
71%
in Real Estate and Land
30%
in Total
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Another Flood of Watered Stock.
Wall street is enjoying another turn
at the game of consolidation. Three
general divisions might be made of the
business of the street. It runs to re
habilitation, consolidation and liquida
tion. Sometimes there is a lapse of
several years between these changing
periods, but always there comes a time
when the predominant effort of the
speculative center is represented by
one of other of these things. A few
years ago the aim and obiect of every
holder of stocks, in a speculative way,
appeared to be to liquidate. Consoli
dation usually precedes liquidation, and
since the street is again putting to
gether great corporations, into corpora
tions greater still, it is a reasonable
inference that affairs are shaping for
a period of liquidation, which may
come in a year, or sooner or later, ac
cording to how the country prospers
and financial affairs shape themselves.
The great merger of traction inter
ests in New York city is the latest. It
is a very complicated affair. Original
ly, there were many smaller companies
that were in time consolidated. Now
these companies are again put into one
giant company, the Interborough, Man
hattan, Metropolitan and all subsidiary
companies going in, the total capital
ization reaching $425,000,000. I^nderly
ing stocks and bonds represent $220,-
000,000, newly-issued bonds, $70,000,-
000 new 5 per cent stock, $52,000,000,
and new common stock, $83,000,000.
This covers about six hundred miles of
street railway, elevated and subway
lines, and represents capitalization at
the rate of about $708,000 a-mile.
How much of this is legitimate and
how much illegitimate, is a hard ques
tion to answer, but an eastern author
ity, quoted in the Financial World,
says, that based upon the revenue-pro
ducing power for 1905, the entire $S3,-
000,000 of the common stock and $49,-
760,000 of the 5 per cent stock is water.
Such is modern finance.
The new deal serves several good pur
poses from the standpoint of the incor
porators. It puts the capitalization so
far ahead, that the roads, altho im
mensely profitable, must on the surface
appear poor, for it will be years be
fore they can earn enough to pay divi
dends large enough to look like any
thing when ^compared with the capital.
Hence, an income that in the open
might occasion demand for 'reduced
rates may readily be- earned without
attracting adverse comment. The plan
also enables the company to market
this immense quantity of new stock
and have a speculative plaything in
the market, which can be manipulated.
Also there is |ome agitation for mu
nicipal ownership. This may never
amount to anything serious, but, if it
should, and New York city should ever
decide to buv the tractions, and oper
0 ate them, of course, the capital would
ft pe on the basis upon which to figure
but a salethat is, it would if the cor
horation can have its way #bWt it.
7 The SfeT
Sunday/ Journalf
Circulation for the
month was as
follows:
January 7
63.15
January 14
63,750
January 21
64,182
January 28
67,501
Watch It Grow.
gets in on the dealbut then, the deal
was not prompted by consideration for
the public.
Japan might be hired to dig that canal
for us. They would do it right.
The Senate Has No Boss.
"Lin k" Steffens, who has been on
the ground at least as long as Poultney
Bigelow, says the talk about *Aldrich
being the senate boss is nonsense. The
senate, he declares, is its own boss.
It is a deliberative body.
Mr. Steffens does not mean by this
that the senate really deliberates. He
would go farther than the cautious
Scotchman, who, while unwilling to ad
mit that women reasoned, said, in all
candor, that they were intended as be
ings capable of reason. The maunder
ings of the senate, the speeches never
addressed to the subject before the
body, the irrelevant and mostly incom
petent flow of talk, would not be tol
erated in a city council, and is not
deliberation in a high sense. The sen
ate deliberates in the cloakrooms and
committee rooms. It there puts itself
in a trance and learns by a process
best known to itself, whether the de
bate on a certain bill is about ex
hausted. If this clairvoyant method
shows that the coast is practically clear
for a vote, a vote is arranged for a
certain day, and so far as that bill is
concerned, the debate is ended.
This comes somewhere near delibera
tion, much nearer than the house gets
when the speaker b'rings in a special
rule reciting that up to such a day a
bill shall be considered under the head
of general debate, and shall then be
considered for three hours under the
five-minute rule, and shall then be voted
upon, and that no amendment shall be
offered. There is where the sting of
the incapacity of the house to run its
own business appears. The speaker
clothes himself with authority to pre
vent a bill being amended. Mr. Steffens
says that when he went to Washington
he found members of the lower house
generally despised. He at first resented
this, but soon came to know that they
despised themselves, and he learned to
despise them, too. largely because they
allow the speaker to handle their affairs
without asserting the least spark of
manhood.
And it may be that Rockefeller is try
ing to run a store without advertising.
Chided by His Own Paper.
The Grand Forks Times believes that
in his bill dividing the Minot land dis
trict "Senator Hansbrough has com
mitted a grave error." The sincerity of
this judgment is not to be questioned
when it is understood that the Times
is Senator Hansbrough's new paper.
He is not its proprietor, but is a stock
holder the other owners are his po
litical allies, and the first announce
ment of the new paper was ma.de by the
senator himself. When the Times goes
after Mr. Hansbrough it is safe to as
sume that it is voicing a general feel
ing of indignation. In fact, they have
been holding mass meetings at Minot
to protest against the "proposed out-
rage," which would compel settlers in
twenty-four townships of Ward county
to travel thru Minot and make an extra
journey of 200 miles to transact their
business at Williston. The bill has
passed the senate in this form, and the
objectors are trying to have it amended
in the house.
Perhaps Senator Hansbrough can get
George B. Winship to defend him in
the Grand Forks Herald.
The packers are making progress In
proving themselves guilty but not pun
ishable.
Churches and Revivals.
The Rev. Robert Forbes is a special
advocate. His remarks about the awful
expense of revivals are to be viewed
from the standpoint of his specialty,
which is building churches. A very
good argument could be made for re
vivals on the ground that the churches
already built are in need of occupants,
not the people in need of more churches.
The revival is a direct plea to the peo
ple to occupy the churches. The one
held in Minneapolis appears to have
fulfilled its mission to a Jarge extent.
Nearly all the pastors who co-operated
in the revjval have borne testimony
that it resulted in their receiving acces
sions to the membership which they
could directly trace to its influence.
The analogy used by Dr. Forbes was
not quite happy. Lawyers from other
cities are often called in to try cases
here, and lawyers from this city are
constantly being called to try cases
elsewhere. There is no provincial nar
rowness about the legal profession. The
learning requisite to bring a case prop
erly before the court is sought and used
whether it is found in Minneapolis or
Iti? hard to see just wMre the public New York. The chuTch does the sa,me ^noM wonderful vet. The.seY.en swift And foSdeceTta Nebraska*
Wednesday Evening, TttB mim-EAP&bisF JOURNAL.
thing. It hires specially talented men
like X)rrFortsJ to" go about th coun
try giving expert advice and making
special appeals to the people. The
whole Methodist connection is taxed
to pay the salary and traveling ex
penses of pr. Forbes, and finds that it
pays. It is a little out of character for
Dr. Forbes, of all men, to criticise the
expenses of revivals, which are aimed
at filling with people the churches which
Dr. Forbes is helping to build.
Count Bonl has all the characteristics
of a Pittsburg millionaire, except the
millions.
Graft Still on the Run.
Chicago and Philadelphia are holding
the center of the stage in the matter
of graft investigations. Chicago has
taken up the examination of the affairs
of the clerk of the superior court and
finds a condition which justifies some
indictments. The clerk has been using
his office for political purposes and a
large amount of money in fees which
belonged to the public has been
diverted along lines of graft to favorite
politicians. The office is shown to have
been a bulwark of the machine.
In Pennsylvania the late boss Dur
_ham, who got such a heavy .iolt from
Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia, is not
thru with his troubles. The lid has been
taken off his administration of the
office of insurance commissioner and
a fearfulstench has arisen. Bribery of
iuries, payment of moneys to indi
viduals who performed no services,
political graft of various degrees of
"honesty" are shown to have perme
ated the whole department. Durham,
who went to California for his health,
has been implored by his followers to.( tlsin for T\,Q,, i
return and is wavering between the
policy of saving himself by flight or
of putting on a bold face by returning
to Harrisburg.
John has been taking the water
cure. That is what some of the Wall
street properties need.
No Evidence of-a Split.
,It was reported a short time ago
that there was a division of sentiment
among the friends of rate regulation
as to the Hepburn-Dolliver bill. Among
other things it was represented that
Mr. E. P. Bacon, chairman of the ex
ecutive committee of the interstate
commerce law convention, was knock
ing the Hepburn bill because it did not
go far enough. This rumor may have
been circulated for the purpose of de
stroying interest in that measure on
the part of at least a portion of the
friends of rate regulation. It ap
pears to have been entirely unfounded,
howevor, because Mr. BacOn has just
sent out a circular containing a synop
sis of the Hepburn bill commending it
as something which every friend of
rate regulation should stand for and
as a great advance over present con
ditions. In the same connection he
urges advocates of rate regulation
everywhere to write to their repre
sentatives in the house and the senate
urging* them-to?Stand for this bill. If
there is any lack of zeal in support of
this measure among any portion of the
friends of rate regulation, it is not to
be found with the chairman of the ex
ecutive committee or those who sym
pathize with his views.
There Is general complaint at Medicine
Hat of the inefficiency of the sprinkling
service. Some politics is suspected
Its
Hazardous Service and It Claim.
A recent communication' to The
Journal by Mr. Freemire, advocat
ing that the city make provision for
the future of the families of firemen
and policemen, calls out a letter from
a member of the Chamber of Com
mercewho, however, does not wish
to have his name used in this connec
tionsupporting Mr. Freemire's con
tention. He says: "It seems.to me
that a municipality as large, prosper
ous and progressive as Minneapolis
can well afford to take the initiative
and make ample and respectable pro
vision for the families of those branch
es of the municipal service who may
be killed or rendered incapable of sup
porting their families, while engaged
in the discharge of their public du
ties. This," he adds, "would conform
to humane and civilized- ideas as well
as furnish an inspiration to the men
so employed."
There is mud force in this sugges
tion. There would be still more if our
police and fire departments were en
tirely free from political influenceif
men were invariably appointed for fit
ness and retained for merit. If we
could eliminate politics entirely from
this consideration, the service in these
departments would be much more per
manent and the claim upon the city for
such provision for the families of the
men would be more generally recog
nized. The Journal is heartily in
favor of bothappointment solely on
fitness and ample provision for the
families of those who from the nature
of the service they are called upon to
render, must necessarily take extraor
dinary risks.
The United States Steel corporation
earned $120,000,000 last year, and yet Mr.
Morgan would not let its stock go up.
For'Art's Sake.
Henri do Vries, the German character
actor w*o has aroused New York with
his wonderful feat of playing seven dis
tinct parts in quick succession, has set
a more valuable example of modesty
and attention to legitimate art. He has
refused every request from illustrators
who want to take snap shots of/his
lightning changes, and wil not even
permit a^ third party to be present for
the purpose of telling how he does it.
His refusal is not so much because of
the distraction and delay witnesses
might cause him, but because ho does
not like to call attention to the mechan
ical processes of his feat. He has made
the seven parts a succession of character
studies. The change in physical ap
pearance is done in. a twinkling and
with marvelous skill, bat Mr. De Tries
puts into each new 'character an indiv-.
iduality of voice and manner that is 1
changes are spectacular and attract at^
tention from the mass of theater goers,
but De Vries does not care for the repu
tation of a lightning change artist.
|'The play's the thing" with him, and
in the seven successive parts he devel
ops, with the aid of two-other people
constantly on the sttfge, astory of dra
matic intensity and power. To dwell,
on make-uD'mysJterijp ^ojdddispejl the
It may be that De Vries is clever
enough to see that-publicity as to how
he effects his rapid changes would prob
ably destroy interest in him, but wheth
er he takes that into account or not he
is'
to be commended fbrkeepintg himself
in a position to be jded/m6r impar
tially on the merit uf&fe art as an actor
than he could be if he were to give
prominence to his quick changes of cos
tume and make-up and howjie does it.
Governor Warflajfd of Maryland is the
thirteenth occupant of the1
"statehpuse
at Annapolis, he was elected by 18,000
majority, has thirteen 'tetters in his name
and was inaugurated Jan. 13- So far he
has run against no bad luck politically.
The determination of'the democratic
caucus to oppose tlje. Dominican treaty
does not make any difference with Sena
tor Patterson of Colorado. He has
learned that his constituents are for the
treaty.
James J. Hill reiterates that the coun
try is too extravagant. There are peo
ple who agree with him in part They
believe the country pays altogether too
much interest on watered railroad secur
ities.
Ten ^ears ago the treasury was adver-
tlsm S
money to keep the. gold fund
ro
Intact. Today Wall street is complaining,
that the treasury does not let loose of
its surplus hoard. Still people kick.
T.h See-America-First people are
comforted by the cold fact that you can
see Europe first very much cheaper. If
you try to see America first, the railroads
and hotels see you first.
Already Mr. Mizner'has discovered that
his wife will lie about her marriage. A
woman who does this will go thru her
husband's pantaloons for the. change
when he is asleep.
There is a dispute on in Nebraska be
tween the railroads .and one Norris
Brown over a United States senatorship.
Our sympathies are with Brown, but we
fear the worst.
President Roosevelt is going thru the
usual experience. A man who has one
good job can always get another. It is
the. fellow who Is out of work who cannot
find any.
Up to date Alice Roosevelt is believed
to have drawn 390 sugar bowls and 1,293
Pieces of sternly hand-painted china.
This is only the beginning.
Kansas City complains bitterly about
paying $1 a thousand^ feet for gas. Won
der how they'would like to pay- $1.10 for
hot air?
rt
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*-v- K9.rnlnn Us
If it Ittreally mere JfleSSed to give than
to receive, Miss Roosevelt ought to be
pretty miserable btft she' ism'?, thank
you.
Minnesota Politics
Some More Political HistoryBrower
Will Keep Quiet and Saw Wood Tin
About April 1.
Attention was recently called in this
column to the lack of a parallel between
the. Llnd campaign of 1900 and the pres
ent situation. The Winona Republican
and Herald grants the truth of the facts
stated, but inquires.
Will Mr. Cheney recall a single instance in
the political history of any republican state
where a democratic gOTernor elected as Mr
Johnson was, by republican factional strife, has
ever been given a second term? No such thing
has ever occurred, and will not occur in Min
nesota.
It ha& never happened in ^Minnesota,
and probably never will, but if the Re
publican and Herald wants an Instance
in some other state^ what is the matter
with George W. Peck of Wisconsin?
Peck was ejected in 1890 by a republican
Split over the Bennett law, and he was
re-elected in 1892, serving four consec
utive, years. He had a reduced plurality
the second time, but pulled thru. Then
there is Horace Boies of Iowa. He was
elected In 1889 by the republican split
over prohibition, and reelected in 1891.
One only needs to jso Aext door fpr in
stances to point a warning.
Senator R. Brower of St. Cloud was
a caller at the capital Monday. He de
clined to discuss the congressional situa
tion in the sixth district, and would only
say, "Ask me April 1." As a naftiral ac
companiment of his silence, Brower is
sawing wood, and has already formed the
nucleus of an organization in every
county of the district.
Advices'from ,the seventeenth legisla
tive district say that Samuel Lewison,
the Canby banker, may come out for the
stte senate. Marcus Lauritsen of'Tyler
is a probable candidate* and if Lincoln
and Yellow Medicine both present candi
dates, John G. Schutz of Lyons may en
ter again to make things interesting.
Charles B. Cheney.
COULD PLAY VO STANDING ROOM
Kansas City Star.
If young Mr. Rockefeller really wishes
to Increase the membership *of his Sun
day school class to 1,000, let him arrange
with Lew Dockstader to lead the singing
and Tom Lawson_to pass the hat
MOU CAN'T HELP IT
Atchison Globe.
Put a paper sack on the table and
every one who enters the room will look
to see what's in it.
A LOW-GRADE PIRATE
Dedicated to Senator Tillman, who re
cently located the Bermudas in the. Gulf
of Mexico.
Ben TlUman was a pirate bold.
Who sailed the third-grade mag.
For latitude and longitude
He did not &irei: cap?
He-sailed his ship just as he chose,
He set his course1
by guess
tt&nd when he though* of sailing southy
^He always turned W west.
He .sailed due east tfrom Florida
In search of Montere?, s
Arid swore a bucketful it blood
IpJWnen he touched jaf'Oyster Bay
Hfs crew went mad, (hut still he sailed
His Independent course
And, searching for the tropics, he
Would land among the Norse. ^^^M
The end of this befld. pirate eam*^
When, (Seeking *fqr *AljaBka,
"climbed a mountain, sprang leak
By W. P. Klrkwood.
INTENSITY OF -LIKE IN IRELAND
AS SEEN IN THE RECOLLECTIONS
OF A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.A
book of recollections that takes a grip
on the interest in a manner even stronger
than that Of a stirring novel Is Recollec
tions, by William O'Brien, M.J\ The
reason for the book's appeal Is simple
enoughit deals with the intense, stir
ring life of Ireland, and it tells of that
Ufa with a directness and simplicity that
goes straight to the heart.
The author's connection with politics,
or at least his observations of political
matters began with the FenJan episode.
,.His brother was one of the original Fe
nians, tho a mere lad. The author recalls
his brother's setting out the night the
uprising was arranged for. He saysof
his brother: "He had mounted his top
coat and I noticed that he had stuffed the
pockets full ^with pancakes. It was his
boyish commissariat for the campaign
iagainst the power of England'" The ex
clamation point is Mr O'Brien's, and. one
doesn't wonder at it. One" can laugh at
the. thing now, perhaps, but not without
a feeling of deep sympathy at the same
time Boys like this, without arms or
ammunition, setting out of a night to set
Ireland free'
And yet with this lesson so clearly in
mind, and a condemnation of secret so
ciety methods as a means of freeing Ire
land ready to flow from his pen, the au
thor gives his attitude toward Eng
land thus tersely. "Friends, if you
win let us rebels, If you will drive.
us Dominated by such a purpose,
and having a hand as newspaper
man" in the fight of the Irish
frdm the- early age of 15, the. author Is* a
character to appeal to the romantic in
the reader's make-up. He is a hero
worthy the reader's Imagination, tho in
the book quite modest enough to suit
one's saner Ideas of heroism.
A chapter worthy of special mention
for the light it sheds upon the pertinacity
of Irislk character and patriotism, as well
as for Its humor, is that on "A Newspa
per Fight for Life," in which is told the
story of the efforts of the chief secretary
to suppress United Ireland, a paper
whose editor, Mr O'Brien, had been ar
rested and thrown into Jail. To suppress
it at one place was only to find It being
issued from another. To arrest the mem
bers of Its staff did no good. Week after
week out It came. Banquo's ghost was
nothing to it, and all the while it was be
ing edited by Mr O'Brien from his cell
in the chief secretary's Jail
Not only does the book throw light of
great interest on the public affairs of Ire
land, but upon the private life, and char
acter of the author and of his country
men. It cannot fail to awaken a new and
widespread interest in the Irish cause.
The Macmillan company, New York
$3 50
A STUDY OF ARID AMERICA A
BOOK FOR TH YOUNG MAN.Five
years ago William E. Smythe published a
book bearing the title The Conquest of
Arid America. Then the project of Irri
gating the arid regions of the United
States was scarcely, If anything, more
than project. Today such a beginning
has been made as to give assurance that
arid America is to be reclaimed. The
changed conditions- and the outlook make
P3culiarly timely a new and revised edi
tion of, Mtr.'Smyth&'s Book. Much of the
book is entirely new, Including the intro
duction and the historical account of the
American irrigation movement, which
makes up part IV. A full account of the
government's reclamation work is a part
of the book that will appeal strongly to
the reader, especially wheo it is remem
bered that it comes from the man who
founded the National Irrigation Congress.
Illustrations, nearly all of them new, are
another feature both interesting and in
structive.
The introduction Is for the young man
who is thinking of going west. Mr.
Smythe advises such young men to fol
low their inclination, if they have that
western temperament which, in the lan
guage of Kate Sanborn, will lead them to
"lay hold, hang on and hump He says
"There never was such a time as now
for the young man to go west and "grow
up with the country. It is no longer a
wild adventure, but a sane planning of a
career," with Uncle Sam for the backing
capitalist.
To the people of the middle northwest
this advice, which is sure to be heeded
by increasing numbers, means growth,
increasing prosperity, increasing useful
ness. The book, therefore, is one for
them to read with certain profit.
The Macmillan company, New York.
$1.60 net.
THE TRUST A8 THE PONS ASIN-
ORUM OF TODAY.Walter G. Cooper
secretary of the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce, in his book, Fate of the Mid
dle Classes, Ixpresses the belief that the
trust is to be made the stepping-stone
to better things. He states his hope
thus: 0
Will 4he trust liberate the children and estab
lish pure government? Hardly, but it is a
stage in the progress that will, just as feudal
ism, hateful as it was, became a Btepping
stone to liberty. We can take but one step
at a time. We cannot mount to the second
until we have taken the first, and the trust
is the stone that is Just ahead of us. It looks
like a stumbling-block, but the stumbling
blocks of today are the stepping-stones to the
future. The trust Is the pons asinor
um of our time.
This is a hopeful view but does not
lessen the public disgust at the greed of
the trust creators.
Consolidated Retail Booksellers, New Tork.
THE GREATER WATERLOO, by Rob
ert Richardson, is a tale of youth and
love, in which ambition, hope and de
spair are crowned with glory and success.
The scene is the little Canadian town of
Waterloo.
G. W. Dillingham company, New York.
THE MAGAZINES
The First American ImperialistW. S.
Rossiter, in The North American Review
for February, says that Commodore Perry
was the first American imperialist. He
says that when Japan hesitated to enter
Into treaty relations with America, Perry
urged the government to seize an island
in the ^orient as a base of possible opera
tions.
The Review for February contains ar
ticles pertinent to many of the leading
Interests of the time. Frederic Louis
Huldekoper presents some significant
reasons for answering in the negative the
question "Is the United States Prepared
for War?" H. F. Macfarland, presi
dent of the board of commissioners of
the District of Columbia, and an enthusi
astic Christian Endeavorer. tells of the
origin and the fruits of "The Christian
Endeavor Movement" Hannis Taylor
discusses the "Elasticity of Written Con
stitutions," which results from the Judi
cial interpretations of those instruments
by the courts. The Rev. W. Elliot Griffis
writes of the services rendered to their
country by "Japan's 'Elder Statesmen.'
Controverting the arguments of Emmet
O'Neal in an earlier number, J. Warren
Keifer, formerly speaker'of the house of
representatives, "contends that "Congress
Has Power to Reduce Representation."
The list is quite too long to give in full.
The Engineering Magazine for Fefcru
arjfr opens with the second part of Louis
February 7T* 1906.
J. Magee'a study of "The American and
the. German Peril"a study which takes
first importance on account of the au
thor's intimate connections with the lead
ing industrial forces on both" sides of the
Atlantic. He presents in this number a
striking definition of modern German
commercial policy and ideals which has
much suggestive value for the American
and the British manufacturer. Mr. Beck
er's profusely illustrated artlole on the
"Square fieal in Works Management"
takes tip those practical betterments
Which can be made in the shop to the
advantage of efficiency in operation and
especially of harmony with the em
ployees. Other finely illustrated contri
butions are those by William M. Brewer
on southern Alaskan mining development,
and by R. Emerson on "Pneumatic Power
Applications in the Machine Shop giv
ing the data of some recent thoro tests
on the cost and efficiency of air motors.
Largest Power Station !n tho World.
"The Fisk street station of the Common
wealth Electric company of Chicago,"
says M. R. Greene in the March Techni
cal World Magazine, "a portion of which
has recently been completed, has been
designed for an ultimate capacity of 156,-
000 kilowatts. When completed this will
be the largest electric light and power
station in the world. It is a steam tur
bine plant and will, when completed,
contain fourteen of the largest power
units ever constructedhaving a capacity
of 12,000 kilowattsjeach. When It is'con
sidered that so late as the year of the
Columbian exposition at Chicago a power
unit of 1,000 kilowatts capacity was dis
played as the then largest ever built, one
gets some idea of the recent advance in
electrical engineering
NEW BOOKS RECEIVED.
The Host Popular Home Songs. Selected and
arranged by Gilbert Clifford Noble, A Har
vard university. New "York Hinds, Noble Sc
Eldredge.
Efficiency and Belief. A program of social
work by Edward T. Devine, Ph.D., LL.D.^chifK
professor of social economy in Columbia
sity. New York: The Macmillan company, 75
cents.
Micky. By Olin Lyman, author of "The
Trail of the Grand Seigneur." Boston: Richard
G. Badger, $1 25.
Everybody is talking about the coming
engagement of "Little Johnny Jones" at
the Metropolitan the first half of next
week, and it is a foregone conclusion
that George M. Cohan's merry singing
and dancing players will be greeted by
audiences that will test the capacity of
this popular place of amusement. "Lit
tle Johnny Jones" has enjoyed phenome
nal runs in New Tork, Chicago and Phil
adelphia, and comes here direct from its
recent triumph, in the former city.
Miss Grace George, who is to appear
at the Metropolitan the latter part of next
week as Lady Kitty in "The Marriage of
William Ashe," had an amusing experi-*
ence recently in one of the New Tork
settlements. Miss George went to attend
the free kindergarten classes of a friend
of hers and was pressed Into service
amusing the little waifs. MJss Georg*
wanted to tell them a story about the
Sfey and clouds, but she wished them to
guess wha,t her subject was "Suppose,
in children," she said *yo went out
yoUr back yard and looked away-way-up,
what would you see'" "The wash,"
promptly answered a youngr Italianand
all the others agreed with him.
The mail order system which has been
put into service for the engagement of
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt at the Auditorium
Feb. 22, 23. 24, will no doubt become the
rule at this house In all -future cases
where heavy advance sales are assured.
The primary reason for this step will be
the convenience to the public and the op
portunity that is allowed of securing a
thoro check on all tickets that are sent
put. This will insure, among other
things, that there will be no opportunity
for speculators to get hold of large
blocks of tickets and raise the prices. At
least one enterprising Minneapolitan has
already been made aware of this fact by
the return of a check for $250. As a
method of saving the public much incon
venience the mail order system will be
readily commended by many hundreds of
Minneapolitans who have already taken
advantage of the opportunity of ordering
tickets by mail and are already happy in
the possession of seats for the various
performances that are just as well lo
cated as tho the purchasers had spent
several hours standing In line at the box
office.
"A Runaway Boy" at the Bijou is play
ing to good business. There are four acts
in the piece, and each is replete with
novelties and thrilling scenes The third
act shows a big curcus in full operation,
in which several entertaining vaudeville
acts are introduced.
Lovers of comedy and new and catchy,
up-to-date music will have an opportu
nity of witnessing one of the be*t offer
ings of the season at the Bijou next
week, when Hurtig and Seamon's new
musical oddity, "In New. Tork Town,"
will hold the boards. The piece is from
the pens of Willard Holcomb and Loney
Haskell, while the musical numbers were
especially written for it bv Albert von
Tilzer, and include a number of positive
song hits A special matinee will be
given on Monday, Lincoln's birthday.
Aerobatics hold high sway at the Or
pheum theater this week. The thre-o
pretty and perfectly formed Kloes sisters
perform seeming miracles on the Roman
rings, especially when Martha, the talk*
of the trio, holds the weight of her sis
ters with her teeth while she is sus
pended by one foot from the rings. She
also demonstrates her almost phenomenal
strength by hanging by one foot and al
lowing the other two sisters to do hori
zontal bar work on her extended arms.
Among the remarkable feats accom-"
plished by the Freyde brothers, also Eu
ropean acrobats, is a "pull-up" from floor
to hand-to-hand stand without any othc
contact than that of the hands. The trick
has never been duplicated.
"The American Tommy Atkins" will
be at the Orpheum theater next week in
the person of Agnes Maen, one of the
best of the good toe dancers.
The Lyceum's great melodrama. "A
Rough Rider's Romance" is now in re
hearsal by Ralph Stuart and his excellent
company. This play will be the attrac
tion all of next week, following the bril
liant society drama, *'The Cipher Code,"
which is attracting large audiences' this
week.
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AMUSEMENTS
Foyer Chat.
For unequivocal success, George Ade's
comedy, "The College Widow," which
comes to the Metropolitan for the half
week opening tomorrow night, seems to
have captured the palm for all time- Its
New Tork vogue, never surpassed by any
play, was duplicated both in Chicago and
Boston, and now the western states have
yielded* to the "widow's" wiles with even
more ready grace. San Francisco for
three weeks went fairly wild over the
piece, and this record was sustained in all
the coast cities.
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The Buckeye trio, acrobatic wonders,
are proving a strong drawing card at the
Unique this week. Annie Leslie Wil
liams, the Alpine warbler, Florilla San
ford, the beautiful girl cornettist Burt
White, the versatile monologist and
comedian are other headliners in one of
the most enjoyable bills of the season.
SO WILL ALL OTHER KINDSJ
&
Baltimore Sun.
The proposed new $2 coin' to he* Is
sued In commemoration of the 'James
town exposition will be much sought
tW!
City News
BUSH COURTHOUSE WORK
MAEBLE SETTERS EMPLOYED TO
COMPLETE MAIN -ENTRANCE
MINOR CONTRACTS LET.
It was announced at the meeting of
the board of courthouse and city nail
commissioners yesterday that a force of
marh!" setters from Milwaukee would
read ^j city within a fortnight to
comp-i. ~i the marble work in the main
entrance to the courthouse and city hall
on the Fourth street side. In that event
the entrance will be finished in a few
months.
There is much curiosity on the part of
the public to see the entrance completed,
as it is the commissioners' boast that
in artistic beauty and magnificence the
entrance will equal if not surpass that
of the splendidly handsome entrance to
the new congressional library, in Wash
ington. That it will be ofle of th
show places of the country is already
admitted by architects and other com*
petent critics.
Large quantities of marble are arriv
ing every week and when the setters
reach the city there will be no delay i
their work. The commissioners have
not yet made provision for elevators on.
the city side of the entrance, but this is
not a serious matter, as the county ele
vators will serve^ for some time.
The commissioners yesterday ap
proved designs for two massive light
pedestals for the main entrance. They
will cost about $4,500 each and will add
materially to the general effect.
Contracts were awarded as follows:
New desks for various offices, New Eng
landoffice testing roof forsuperintendent,cement,inspectorg$695,buildincompanyk
for
om
par Smit
ia*univer- Bauman & Bauman, $275 counters, etc..
& Wyman, $135 extra steel trusses for
ceiling of main entrance, Grant Marble
company. $600 steel cases, city engi
neer, $1,825.
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ZEKMAN AND SLEDTHS i
FIND VALUABLE LOOT
After three months of hard work,In
which he has co-operated with the de
tectives of the Fidelity Casualty com
pany and the police departments of sev
eral cities, A. Zekman, the furrier, has
returned with a portion of the $3,600
worth of loot taken from hi store,
Fifth street S, Nov. 4, lestN.s
Thr a2%
alleged "feace" in Kansas City, where
a part of the valuable garments were
recovered, Mr. Zekman has obtained
clues that may lead to the lair of the
thieves who entered his store by boring
thru basement walls.
For monthsi detectives worked with
out result and hope of recovering the
furs was practically abandoned until a
few days ago when a furrier in St.
Joseph, Mo., provided a working "tip.*'
Hipping open valuable sealskin gar
ments from which the labels had been
removed, this dealer, Joseph Kellander,
found the stenciled name of Zekman.
Thru the man who had offered the two
sacques for $400 the furs were traced
to the alleged proprietor of a fur
"fence" in Kansas City. He declared
he had bought the stolen goods in New
York and says he will demand the re
turn of his money from the persons who
sold them to him. His efforts may lead
to the capture of the thieves.
Of the eleven valuable garments and
nineteen skins stolen, eight of the for-
v. iinerr a&d three skins werfe recoyereft.
It is thought that the "fence," who
asked time, desires to buy back the re
mainder of the loot, which it is sus
pected he has disposed of.
Mr. Zekman is highly appreciative of
the assistance lent him, as the garments
stolen were the property of his cus
tomers,, held in storage, and he was com
pelled to replace them. His insurance
was far under the loss.
TAKES UP INDIA WORK
Major John Millsap, Salvation Army
Officer, Becomes Missionary.
Major John Millsap, spiritual special
officer for the western territorv of the
Salvation Army, has issued farewell or
ders announcitg that he intends to
leave for India to take up the work
there.
Major Millsap is well known in the
west, thru the fact that he was the
editor of the War Cry, published at Safe
Francisco, for several vears. He also
has a large acquaintance and many
friends among the veterans of the
Philippines, where he followed the army
thru its campaigns, and in the case of
the capture of Manila actuallv preced
ed it. Men who were with General Ar
thur when the city fell remember that
the major met them at the city gate
and welcomed thfm.
The departure of Major Millsap i? a
part of the Salvation Army movement
upon the foreign field. Not onlv has
the commander, Miss Eva Booth,
called for volunteers for India, but she
also asks for Russian-speaking soldiers
who are willing to risk their lives in ait*
attempt to open up Russia proper, which
has hitherto been closed to the arnr
FAREWELL TO A PASTOR
Twin City Presbyterians Bid Godspeed
to Dr. Boyle.
A farewell reception for Dr. W. H.
W. Boyle, Was given last evening in
the House of Hope church, St. Paul,
by some 300 members of the parish.
Pastoft and elders of all the St. Paul
Presbyterian churches and A number
from Minneapolis, were in attendances
Dr. M. D. Edwards of Dayton Avenue
Presbyterian church said it
waswith difficultth
to realize-
Dr Boyl had been
House of Hope but three years because
of the great good he had accomplished.
Dr. BuBhnell, pastor of Westminster
church, Minneapolis, said that Dr.
Boyle *s departure meant not only a loss
to St. Paul, but also to Minneapolis.
Dr. Boyle responded with much feel
ing. He spoke of the hearty support in
his church work he had had from both
men and women of the House of Hope.
"The reason," he said, "that the
House cf Hope has a state and nation
al reputation, is because it is a congre
gation of homes, homes that honor
&od."
Something New in Sleeping Cars.
The Pullman Company has just turned
out of its shops some sleepers for the
"North Star Limited," which embody 1 II
the latest improvements known to the
car builders' art. These cars, in addi
tion to having longer, higher and wider
berths, have disappearing electrie
berth lights, and they are brilliantly
illuminated with electricity throughout. i
They are the finest sleeping cars that
ha.ve been turned out up to this time, gf^
hence the patrons of the "Nflrth Star f?
Limited" nave some agreeable sur
prises in store for them. a,*
The berth rate in these fine sleep
er$ is the same as in Jhe old-style cars.
For reservations or ticket rates, eall on
J. G. Rickel, City Ticket Agent, 434
Nicollet Ave. V?f
"Quality Brings the Price." You
will find Pickwick Rye at first-class
bars, buffets, clubs, and on dining cars. i.
It costs most and is worth most, if i
you like the best. -f