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PRICE TWO CENTS.
HAMILTON BACK
TO CLEAR McGALL
Keeper of "Yellow Dog" Fund
of New York Life Sudden
ly Returns.
MORE EXPOSURES OF
OFFICIALS EXPECTED
Trustees Said to Have Hidden
Behind McCall May Be
Shown Up.
Journal Special Service.
New York, March 7.Andrew Ham
ilton, who disbursed $1,347,382 of the
land "yesterday. Soon after his arrival
here he went to his home Albany.
Hamilton comes here chicly to face
any criminal charges which may be
lodged against him and to do every
thing within his power to clear the
name of John A. McCall.
A few days before he died, and al
most in his last hours of consciousness,
Mr. McCall made a statement in which
he reaffirmed his fai^h in Hamilton's
honesty and integrity and his absolute
Hamilton'8 return is fraught with
many possibilities. If he yields to the
entreaties of the McCall family and
those men in the New York Life who
are loyal to the memory of John A.
McCall and would sacrifice much to
see his name and fame rehabilitated.
Hamilton will make an absolutely full
and complete disclosure of his opera
tions as legislative agent of the New
lYork Life.
One of the company's officers said
last night that such a disclosure would
do more damage to reputations than all
of the exposures made since the open
ing of the insurance scandal in Feb
ruary, 1905. This man added:
Hamilton has been doing his confi
dential work for the New York Life
for fourteen years, and in that time
handled more than $1,300,000. He did
work at one time or another with every
legislature of every state in the union
and in Canada. You can wager that
many legislators in manv jections of
the -country--will lie awake wondering
.veaL'
Bitter Feeling Revealed.
News of Hamilton's arrival provoked
almost hysterical exultation among the
friends of John A. McCall and inci
dentally revealed the most bitter feel
ing against a group of trustees of the
comrjany who. it is claimed, shielded
themselves behind McCall and allowed
him to assume full legal and moral re
sponsibility for the payments to Hamil
ton, tho they had sanctioned all along
the financial relations which existed be
tween the legislative agent and the
company.
If Hamilton makes a clean breast of
everythingand the friends of the
dead man declare he must to save him
self from the charge of perfidiously de
serting the McCall familythe names
of the trustees involved in the "yellow
dog" scandal will not only be revealed,
but the company will get the necessary
evidence for suits against them for
restitution.
Hamilton's Return.
Hamilton boarded the Deutschland at
Genoa on Feb. 24-. He did not travel
under his full name, but divided his last
name so that it appeared upon the
ship's passenger list as H. A. Milton.
His reason for doing this, he explained
to friends, was simply to avoid unpleas
ant notoriety and annoyance on ship
board.
When the Deutchsland reached her
dock yesterday Hamilton left the pier
quietly and disappeared. Later he no
tified John-C. McCall, secretary of the
New York Life and eldest son of John
A. McCall, of his arrival. Young Mc
Call sent word to his father's brother,
Supreme Court Justice Edward E. Mc
Call and the two had a long conference
in the New York Life building.
One of Hamilton's fellow passengers
on the Deutschland was George W.
Dodson, of the editorial staff of the
Brooklyn Eaglet Mr. Dodson has known
Hamilton for years and the two had
many conversations during the voyage.
The Etgle prints the following inter
view with Hamilton, which was granted
in response to a request for a state
ment:
What Hamilton Says.
"1 have something to say, but not
much. I know practically nothing as
to the nature of the Fowler report. It
will be time enough for me to talk about
it when I have become familiar with it.
What I suppose you want to know
is why I have returned. Well, I heard
something about criminal proceedings
and here I am. That's all. Certainly,
it's all I have to say just now. You
can interpret what it means and so can
the public.
"I signifies that tho my health is far
from restored, I am ready to accept any
challenge implied by such proceedings.
"As to my health, let me add that
there is no necessity for any resort to
action I'm fortunate to be alive after
all that has happened. But I'm not
so fortunate otherwise.
"I' especially unfortunate in the
death of Mr. McCall, and I might say
almost as much concerning the more re
cent removal of Lyman Short, chief
counsel of the Mutual, to say nothing
of the incapacitating of Mr. Alexander.
To some who have gone I could have
looked with no misgivings as to what
they would say or. do.
"As to what others have said and
done during my abse'nceand I might
allude to those who live in glass houses
I will say nothing."
"Well, all that you want to say is
that you've come back to face any
music that may be played?"
"Yes, discordant or otherwise."
-Gave Vouchers, He Said.
-.'_ In one of his informal talks on ship
board he declared that he had given
vouchers for all of his expenditures,
"and that these were acceptable to Mr.
McCall.
Governor Will Recommend Car
rying Twine War Into
Other States.
After spending Tuesday at the Still
water prison with members of the board
of control and Warden Wolfer, Gover
nor Johnson declared today that he
would ask the legislature to give the
management of the prison authority to
sell the product of the twine plant
wherever the best judgment of the
board of control and the warden would
i direct.
Under the present law the output of
ilage company
belief that Hamilton had never used a above the cost of manufacture. As
dollar of the great sums placed in his now quoted to the farmer, the flax
care for his personal enricnment. This! twine price is 8% cents a pound, while
deathbed declaration of confidence by
the man who had befriended him for
forty years moved Hamilton to cast all
other considerations aside and come
back to this country.
May Lay Secrets Bare.
of flax twine, with a declaration by the
cordage trust that it proposes to put
the Minnesota prison twine plant out
of commission, will be the reason as
signed by the governor for asking the
legislature to enlarge the sale territory
of the prison twine.
The cordage trust has evolved an
attractive plan to manufacture twine
from flax grown in Minnesota, return
ing the twine to the raisers of the flax
and their neighbors for a small margin
uc
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Continued on 2d Page, 5th Column.
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CLAPP DECLARES
RAXE SILL FAIR
-s
MEET THE TRUST
IN OUTSIDE FIELD
the cheaper quality of the sisal twine
made at the prison is also 8% cents.
The cordage people.limit the output of
the St. Paul plant to Minnesota con
sumers, and the purpose _to fight the
prison twine plant is obvious. If the
legislature follows the governor's rec
ommendation and gives the board of
control and the warden authority to
meet the International in the outside
field, where it makes its large profits,
it is self-evident that the prison twine
plant will not be crippled and destroyed.
Speaking of the twin plant, Governor
Johnson said:
Greater Part Sold.
I was very much pleased when at
the Stillwater prison yesterday to learn
that affairs in the Minnesota prison
twine plant have been progressing so
satisfactorily. The capacity of the
plant has been increased for this year
by installing new machinery to the ex
tent of 2,000,000 pounds. 'The warden
informed me that already 10,000,000
pounds have been sold in club orders
for this season's harvest, and the total
output for the year will aggregate ap
proximately 13,000,000 pounds. There
will be~ still a good many club orders,
but thewgreaterj part of the surplus prod
uc iqr this season wil Jie^sol on,..tJua
JQJStnis season? wiul Jje^spldT t.h
there caii be no question of thewisdom
of the enlargement of this plant, and I
hope to see the time when the state
will manufacture Nthe full 18,000,000
pounds that it is now estimated Minne
sota's farmers require for the harvest
ing of their grain crop. In this opin
ion the warden and.the board of control
fully concur. With the acquirement of
the new site for the Stillwater prison,
and the enlarged opportunity for exten
sion of the plant, it will be possible,
and I hope probable, to next year in
crease the capacity by 4,000,000 pounds,
making the total output for next year
17,000,000 pounds.
Use Will Not Increase.
The state is saving at present prices
to the farmers of Minnesota about 3
cents a pound on the retail price of
their binding twine. It is estimated
that a pound of twine will bind the
product of from two to two and a half
acres of wheat, and it can be readily
seen that our small-grain acreage, on
this basis, is about 45,000,000 acres.
With the further development of the
dairy and stock-raising interests of
Minne'sota, I do not look to see this
acreage increased to any decided ex
tent, for, while the area in northern
Minnesota will be naturally increased
with the development of that section
of the state, the wheat line is constant
ly being moved north and west.
"The establishment of a cordage
plant in this state by a subsidiary com
pany of a great harvester combination
can mean but one thing, and that is a
fight on the Minnesota plant. The Still
water twine plant is one of the very
few successful priori twine plants in
existence. Its dfc*ers has called atten
tion to the plan of manufacture from
other states, and it is possible that the
cordage people have determined to put
us out of the business. In the Minne^
sota cordage plant the industrial giants
will meet a foeman worthy of their
steel. The' prison twine plant was a
success from its inception, and I have
no doubt that we will give a good ac
count of ourselves if it is true, as many
suspect, that a war is about to be com
menced that will be memorable in our
state's annals.
"I will be up to the farmers of Min
nesota to protect their own. The plant
was built after an agitation begun by
them, and it has saved them many,
many thousands of dollars. If it is to
continue to stand between them and
exactions of a combination in trade,
they must stand by it."
DOWIE MORTGAGES HOME.
Waukegan, 111., March 7.A mortgage
of $20,000, secured by the home and sta
bles of John Alexander Dowie in Zion
City, was filed today. The trust deed calls
for payment on demand and 6 per cent
interest. That Dowie should put up his
home, one of the sights of Zion, as se
curity for a loan is a great surprise to
people in and out of Zion.
ARRESTED AFTER HARD FIGHT.
Special to TEe Journal.
Ely Minn.. March 7.Word has been
received of the arrest of Lawrence Zore
tic at Chicago after a fight with four de
tectives. ,Zoretic. it is charged, entered
the store of Mack Zoretic, -a brother in
this city, and stole jewelry and other
articles valued at $3,000.
PUMPS GOLD FROM WELL.
Special to The Journal,
Milwaukee, March 7."William Samp of
the town of Wauechon is .pumping up
gold from a well on his premises and
has set the town wild with excitement.
The well goes down sixty feet thru the
rock and was completed, recently.
Stella, Neb., Maych 7.Charles Myers
has been in a trance five days and the
physicians see no chance for his being
awakened. Hi condition resulted from
the nervous shock inflicted by his son's
death. The *case is a strange one and
attracts much attentiqji from the medical
professio
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HELPS CARRIERS
AND SHIPPERS
Hepburn Measure Aims to Pro
vide Means to a Reason-
able Rate.
Washington, March 7.The senate
began its session today with the pros
pect of hearing two speeches on the
railroad rate question, one by Mr. Clapp
in support of the measure and the other
by Mr. Scott advocating radical amend
ments. Both senators were early in
their seats and prepared to proceed as
Soon as the disposition of the routine
business would permit.
At 12:30 o'clock Mr, Scott was recog
nized and he proceeded to address the
senate on the railroad question.
Senator Scott First.*
Mr. Scott's argument was directed
mainly against the principle of the gov
ernment ownership of railroads in
which he included the control of rates
by the government. He admitted that
there are evils connected with the rail
road system of the country, but said he
would not vote for the pending railroad
rate bill without a provision for ample
court review.
On the general subject of permitting
the government to fix rates, he said:
"From an intimate relationship with
railroads as a shipper for nearly thirty
year3,1 have given this subject my con
sideration. As a consequence I am
forced to the conclusion from every
standpoint, that the. roads are better
able to fix rates in accordance with the
laws of trade than a government.'4
Then Senator Olapp.
Mr. Scott spoke for about an hour.
Mr. Clapp took the floor to deliver a
speech on the railroad-rate bill. He did
not speak specifically in reply to Mr.
Scott's speech, but gave some atten
tion to the West Virginia senator's re
marks.
Mr. Clapp spoke in general support
of the rate bill as reported fromi the
committee on interstate commerce. He
first considered the question of the
right of congress to fix rates, either
directly or thru a commission, and on
that point he said in part:
"The necessity and propriety of reg
ulating transportation rates is so uni
versally recognized, that the right of a
carrier to fix rates independent of any
statutory regulation is, as a rule, sub
ject to the requirement that the rates
so fixed shall be reasonable. The ques
tion of governmental regulation is no
longer an open one with us, we having
embarked updn'- that almost twenty
is found in the fact that in those-*pow
ers conferred upon congress, the power
of congress becomes plenaryas abso
lutely so as in any other sovereignty
and restrictions upon that power must
be sought for in the constitution itself.
The power of congress to regulate rates
thru a commission would seem to be no
longer a subject of inquiry. The exer
cise of that power, unchallenged as to
the power itself for the last twenty
years, is supplemented by the declara
tion of the supreme court that congress
itself might prescribe the rates or
might commit to some subordinate tri
bunal this duty.
Present Law's Defects.
Under the existing law, a rate
found too high can be reduced but in
1897 the court held that, while the com
mission had the power to condemn an
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:#:*Sw/iw^:tt^
CHARLES M. SCHWAB,
Steel Magnate, Seriously 111, Hurrying
to Kew York.
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SCHWAB, BETTER,
RAGES HOMEWARD
Steel Magnate, Taken HI in Cali
fornia, Is Speeding
Eastward.
El Paso, Texas, March 7.A tele
gram from Corona, N. M., says that
Charles M. Schwab's condition was im
proved this morning.
Corona is 195 miles east of El Paso,
half way between El Paso and Tucum
cari.
The train bearing Mr. Schwab from
Los Angeles to New York is due to
reach Kansas City at 6:35 Thursday
morning, and to leave for the east via
St. Louis at 8 a^m.
"CARDINAL" BEMIS OF
CHICAGO A SDICIDE
Journal Special Service.
Chicago, March 7.Henry E. Bemis,
Cardinal" Bemis, who was proprietor
of the old Richelieu rhen it was consid
ered one of the finest hotels in America
in respect to cuisine, committed suicide
late yesterday afternoon in his apart
ment, 2118 Indiana avenue.
"The cardinal," had exhausted all
the pleasures of life. .Despondent over
ill health, due largely to hjg epicurean
habits, distressed by what he regarded
as poverty as compared to. iiis former
manner of liviJkp^and crying out
against: thrM^fitu3 of friends he
"had aided wbea -he^was
vpistol
old bon vivaht placed av
Appointments as rural carriers, commencing
March 15: Thomas 0'Donovan, route No. 1,
Johnson, Minn. Donald J. Mclntyre, route No. 1,
Bantry, N. D. Charley D. Bard, route No. 1,
Wplsey, S. D.
FIRST CATCH YOUR RABBET.^k--r-
WEDNESDAY EVENING MARCH 7, 1906. :8 PAGESFIVE O'CLOCK.:
DAI LIKE NIGHT
IN GREAT CITIES
Dense Palls of Smoke Envelop
Chicago and St. Louis,
Halting Business.
Journal Special Service.
wealthy, the
to the
back of his-head and fihot 'himself, dy
ing instantly. He was 63 years old
and his widow is left with scarcely a
dollar.
Mr. Bemis made $750,000 cash in the
brewing business and he lost it all in
the hotel that was considered a decade
in advance of its time. It was Eugene
Field who dubbed him "Cardinal.
GRESHAM'S MOTHER DEAD.
Corydon, Ind., March 7.Mrs. Sarah
Rumbly, mother of the late Walter Q.
Gresham, former secretary of state, is
dead at her home near Lanesvllle She
was 98 years old and had been married
twice, and was the mother of eight chil
dren.
PRESIDENT CASTS
DOUBT ON INQUIRY
QUESTIONS USE
OF TRUST PROBE
Chicago, March 7.For a number of
hours today Chicago was covered with
a pall of smoke which, coupled with
heavy clouds, made the day as dark as
night. At 10:30 o'clock in the morn
ing all the stores and offices in tho
business section of the city were lighted
as they are at 6 o'clock on a day in mid
winter. Street cars ran with their
headlights burning and all lights turned
on. At times it was impossible to see
a half square along the street and the
big down-town buildings were discern
ible only because of the lights that filled
them. The darkness was the cause of
much trouble and delay in the streets
and collisions were numerous.
The darkness brought business in the
stockyards to a complete standstill for
a time. About 10 o'clock it became so
dark that cattlemen were unable to dis
tinguish their stock from that owned
by others, and great confusion was cre
ated. The situation finally grew so bad
that buyers and employees of the va
rious packing houses who work outside
were compelled to abandon their ef
forts to herd the stock until the unnat
ural night should pass away.
Professor Qpx, of the weather bureau,
said that the darkness was due to hs*-
from the lake, clouds and smoke which
the absence of wind had allowed to
gather thickly in the atmosphere.
Clear weather is forecast for tomor
row.
St. Louis Is Dark.
St. Louis, March 7.A dense pall of
smoke began settling over .St. Louis
this morning, gradually growing in den
sity as the day progressed until at 11:30
o'clock the darkness of night prevailed.
Business houses and residences were
lighted street lights were turned On
street cars used their electric lamps,
and day was veritably turned into night.
At that hour it was' just as dark as it
it at 11:30 o'clock at night.
The darkness continued for half an
hour. At noon the light began slowly
returning as the smoke pall diminished.
DYNAMITERS PLOt
ATTACK ON PRISON
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Atlanta, Ga., March..ftThs police of
Atlanta 'arrested* last night, in, a house
near the-feaerW^risoii, nine men-who,
it is alleged by the police",- were pre
iaring to cairy out a plot to dynamite
penitentiary in an effort to release
certain criminals undergoing long sen
tences. A quantity of dynamite was
found in possession of the men arrested.
-Warden Moyer said he had information
some days ago that there was a plot to
attack the prison and since then guards
have be'en kept. It is alleged that evi
dence was found to show that they had
begun to dig a tunnel under the prison.
CITY OWNERSHIF
YIGTORY IN SEATTLE
Seattle, Wash., Murch 7.Judge
Moore, municipal ownership candidate
for mayor, was elected by fifteen votes.
Roosevelt Says Congressional As
sault on Oil and Coal Mon
opolies Is Weak.
Washington, March 7.President
Roosevelt today sent a message to con
gress announcing his signature to the
joint resolution recently passed, in
structing the interstate commerce com
mission to make examination into the
subject of railroad discriminations and
monopolies in coal and oil.
He says frankly that he has signed
it with hesitation because it may
achieve little or nothing.
He indicates, too, that if the investi
gation proposed by the resolution is
conducted thoroly, it will result in giv
ing immunity from criminal prosecu
tion to all persons who are called and
sworn as witnesses.
In the opinion of the president, the
direction contained in the resolution
will remain practically inoperative un
less money be provided to carry on the
investigation and the commission be
authorized to take testimony under its
provisions. He suggests, therefore, that
congress give serious consideration to
just what it desires the interstate com
merce commission to do, and that the
sum of $50,000 be placed at the disposal
of the commission to defray the ex
penses of the proposed investigation.
AMERICAN GIRL
SLAIN IN PARIS
Mystery Cloaks Death of Young
Woman Whose Body Was
Found in the Seine.
Paris, Maroh 7.The prefecture of
police nas requested the American
authorities to assist in unraveling the
mysterious death of Ethel A. Brown,
believed tto be an American, whose body
was found recently in the river Seine.
A boatman discovered the body float
ing near the suburb of Charenton. It
appeared to be that of .a woman of
means and was elegantly dressed.
~Tft underclothes were embroidered
with the name "Ethel A. Brown." On
the hands were two gold rings,, she wore
pearl earrings, a gold lorgnette was
suspended from a chain around her
neck, and she had on kid gloves. No
money and no papers were found on
the body. There was a deep wound
five inches long across the scalp. The
body apparently had been in the water
several weeks.
First due to Identity.
The first clue to the identity of the
woman was the following entry made
in 1903 on the police records of for
eigners visiting Paris:
"Ettie Brown, American, born at
Fayetteville, Nov. 21, 1872: father,
John mother, Sally Geachy.''
The entry indicates that the maiden
name, of the deceased was Ethel
Geachy. The name of the state from
which she came was not given. The
body remains at the morgue.
The French and American officials
are co-operating with the police in the
endeavor to establish, the identity of
the woman.
Probably from Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga., March 7.Mrs. Ethel
A. Brown, mentioned as having been
found dead in Paris, is believed to have
been formerly a resident of Fayette
ville, Ga., a small town thirty miles
south of Atlanta. The family, Geachy,
is well known.
HELDFOR RANSOM,'
ESCAPES CAPTORS
New York Banker's Son, Said to
Have Been Kidnapped,
Returns Home.
New York, March 7.Antonio Boz
zuffi, the 14-year-old boy who was kid
naped last Sunday and held for $20,-
000 ransom, returned alone to his home
today. He had escaped from his cap
tors, he said, by stealing out of a room
above a saloon in Fifty-ninth street to
day while one of his captors, who had
been left alone to guard him, had
turned his back for a moment. The
boy says that it took him but a second
to spring beyond the man's reach and
get down stairs to the street, where no
attempt was made to pursue him.
He told' how he was terrorized into
writing a letter to his father, John
Bo2zuffi, an East Side banker, inform
ing him that $20,000 must be paid and
that if the police were informed his
life would be taken. He was induced
to enter the saloon by two Italians,
who told him they wished' him to do
some interpreting in English, which
they did not speak. Taken to the up
stairs" room, he says he was at first
bound and a handkerchief was forced
into his mouth. Three men wearing
black masks then entered the room.
One of them, the boy said, pressed a
revolver against nis head and command
ed him to write the letter to his father.
After this episode, according to the
boy's story, he was treated kindly.*
IMMIGRANTS IN WRECK PERIL.
Binghamton, N. Y., March 7.A west
bound Erie train carrying a number of
immigrants bound for the west, was" de
railed here today and the engine, mail,
baggage and express cars plunged over
ah embankment to the street. None of
the passengers was hurt. The wreck
caught fire, but the flames were quickly
extinguished
HAS OWN PLAN ON
SAFECROSSINGS
Milwaukee Road Would Almost
Wholly Ignore Plans of the
City Engineer.
*.$
if
ITS NEW PLAN WOULD )*fe
SAVE MONEY FOR ROAD
On- the Other Hand Extensive
Vacations of Streets Are
Demanded.
There Is the greatest possible diver
gence between the Milwaukee railway
and the city of Minneapolis over the
solution of the grade crossings, and it
will doubtless take a long parley be
tween the aldermen and the railway
officials before final plans are adopted.
The Milwaukee company submitted its
plans for the proposed improvement at
the meeting of the council's special
committee on grade crossings this af
ternoon and the aldermen were more
than astonished over the proposition
presented to them.
In the first place, the company is un
willing to undertake any work on the
Hastings & Dakota tracks, the Iowa
& Minnesota tracks from South Minne
apolis junction to Minnehaha, or the
snort-line tracks between the junction
and the Mississippi river. Jf. W. Boot,
the company's solicitor, said today that
the officials of the road are convinced
that these tracks do not at present con
stitute a menace to traffic or a danger
to life, and that there is no call for
the abolishment of grade crossings at
this time. The plans prepared by City
Engineer Andrew Rinker and approved
by the council will call for a vast ex
penditure of money, which the company
holds it should not be forced to make
until the conditions actually demand
the change.
What the Company Offers.
The Milwaukee company is, however,
willing to do its share toward the sepa
ration of the grade crossings on the
main line from the Milwaukee station
at Third avenue S to South Minneapolis
J'unction,
where the railway shops are
oeated. It is not willing, however, to
adopt the plans proposed by the city
and its proposal differs widely from
that of the city. The company favors
the elevation of the tracks as the most
satisfactory method to all interests in-s
volvod. There are some material dif
ferences however. Instead of raising
the tracks- two feet at the station plat
form, the company proposes to start 1.4
feet lower aaa from there rise on a 3
per cent grade until Tenth avenue is
reached, twiere tha-ei^a proposed ele
vation*of about nine feet above the
present crossing is met.
Between Tenth und Sixteenth ave
nues the eompany proposes to depress
the tracks so as to save the expense of
a costly fill, but strikes the city's grade
again at Sixteenth, with an average ele
vation at the various streets of from 9
to 9.4 feet. From Sixteenth to Frank
lin the city's grade is followed, but
from Franklin to the South Minneapolis
yards there is 4.5 per cent down grade
until the present level of the tracks is
reached.
The company's plans cut out ten
bridges between the station and
Twenty-fourth street, respectively at
Twenty-fourth street, Eighth street,
Seventeenth avenue, Seventh street,
Sixth street, Fourteenth avenue, Fifth
street, Fourth street. Eleventh avenue
and Ninth avenue. At Fifth street and
at Seventh street it is proposed to open
new streets by condemning property
on the west side of the right-of-way
and parallel to the some, which will
save the expense of a bridge and the
lowering of the street by simply mak
ing a comparatively slight jog.
The important crossings at Tenth
and Franklin avenues are left exactly
as proposed by the city.
Wants Streets Vacated.
The most startling feature of tho
proposed plans are the company's de
mands fOr the vacation of streets.
These include the vacation of a strip
on the west*side of Second street S,
thirty feet wide and extending from
Fifth avenue to Eighth avenue S, so
as to control the company's transfer
tracks to other railway systems. The
vacation of Eighth avenue between
Washington and Second and betweeu
Washington and Third is also demand
ed. The former--street lias been closed
for travel ever since the Washington
viaduct was,constructed, and the latter
vacation is for the purpose of an ap
proach to the so-called Eustis spur
track between Washington avenue and
Third street. The vacation of Ninth
avenue between Washington and Third
street is asked, on the grpund that this
thorofare is not needed. The next
street vacation proposed, is at Eleventh
avenue S, where the width of the right
of-wayeighty-six feet is to be va
cated on both Fourth street and
Eleventh avenue, and also a half block
of Eleventh avenue south of Fourth
street, so as to give an approach to the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific rail- J&
way yards without building any bridges :&
or interfering with the present yards. :".u
At Thirteenth avenue there will be a -^M
bridge, but not across Fifth street,
which is to be vacated acros tl\ right
of way, a new street being laid out as ?M
previously explained. There are to be
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no bridges at Sixth street and. Four-"
teenth avenue, nor at Seventh street,
where the solution of the crossing will
be the same as at Fifth street. Neither
will there be any bridges at Eighth
street and Eeventeenth avenues S. Fur
thermore, the company proposes that
Eighth street be vacated from Seven- v.,
teenth avenue to Cedar, so as to enable
the company to get to the Eighth street'
yards, which will be left as they are.
Twenty-fourth street also is to be va
cated.
The company's plans will not call
for an deeper lowering of the streets
than is desired by the city except at
Sixth avenue S, where the proposed
viaduct approach to the milling district
will have to come down another foot.
The levels appearing on the Milwau- ~t
kee's plans do not agree entirely with
those of the city engineer, but in the
main, the company purposes to main
tain an average track elevation of be
tween nine and ten feet beyond Tenth
avenue S. \SA%
A Bridge at Lake .Street.
The important crossing at Lake street
which, on account of the third inter
urban line and increased traffic be-
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