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Many a Little Makes a Mickle.
Bailroad officials testifying in the
merchandise-rate hearing before the
Minnesota commission lay considerable
stress on the fact that the proposed re
duction means so little to individuals.
While it would remove a large slice
from the earnings of the railroads, the
difference in the .cost of any article car
ried would not be worth while noticing.
It is the same way with taxes. An
extra mill levied on property is hardly
fe lt any individual, a nd it Tarings
a Dice little sum into the public treas
ury. Just the same, we try to keep
taxes down to the lowest possible point,
and if a mill can be knocked off, we
demand that our boards of tax levy do
their dutv. A dollar here and a dollar
there is little to the individual, that is
true but what is a trifling drain on
one man becomes a public wrong when
taken from all.
There is a difference, however, be
tween taxes and railroad rates. The
nn
iar
of schools, police protection, etc. The
M- Fallieres wears a butterfly tie at
tached to his collar button with a piece
of elastic, but we are authorized to an
nounce that he does not wear a celluloid
collar.
Electing a City Council.
The Chicago Chronicle quite sagely
remarks that it is of far more impor
tance that Chicago should have a good
council than that it should have a good
mayor. It is, and it is a more difficult
thing to get because of the ward sys
tem which frequently enables the gratt
ers to dictate both nominations in
a majority of the wards. The people
of the cities have for years been fight
ing a losing fight for civic reform be
cause they were shooting at the wrong
mark. They have fired their heavy ar
tillery against candidates for mayor,
and when they succeeded in defeating
one whose personality seemed objec
tionable, have retired to their homes
confident that they had accomplished
something. In most cases they had ac
complished nothing except to allow the
corporations to run off with the council
under cover of the smoke and din of
the mayoral campaign.
The ideal administration, of course,
would be a good mayor working in har
mony with a good council but the coun-
|j cif is the foundation. If the council is
devoted to devious methods of doing
business the mayor is, as a rule, power
less to stop the loot. On the other hand,
Chicago's own case shows how easily
a council endowed with common sense
may hold up a flighty executive. Mayor
|s Dunne is been a year trying to plunge
Chicago into an ill-digested scheme of
municipal ownership, and the council
has been able to block him every time.
i But if the council were equally deter
mined, upon some foolish venture, the
mayor could not do anything but im-
pose a limited veto.
fr^The council in all our cities holds
the pursestrings, makes the contracts,
spends the money and declares the mu
nieipal policy. The fact that we have
had so few cities whose municipal poli
cy was competent, progressive or even
honest is a tribute to the sagacity of
1 grafters in controlling the council while
5 the people howled themselves helpless
over the election of a mayor.
The city of Minneapolis has a good
mayor today. It is assumed generally
.that it has a good council, and The
Journal believes this to be true as
to the majority. But we should say
th&t it would be a mistake for the peo
jdp to get so enraged this fall over the
selection of a mayor, or even a gover
nor, as to have no time or strength to
canvass carefully the aldermanic timber
in each ward.
Smoot's plural wife may tend to re
dupe him to a minority in tbe senate..
t, Root's Opportunity,
Doing things in a high diplomatic
way appears to be largely a question
of disposition. The United States got
into the conference at Algeoiras over
the protest of a number of estimable
people who saw nothing in our presence
there but a desire to show off as a world
power and take the chance of getting
into a disagreeable squabble. Never
theless, the secretary of state sent his
representatives and the outcome shows
that thru their presence an incident
which threatened the peace of Europe
was satisfactorily closed.
The conclusion at Algeciras was the
direct result of Secretary Root's wise
selection of delegates and the clearness
of his instructions. One cannot but
regret that the same secretary of state
who found a way to get into the Al
geciras conference on the ground that
we were signatories to an old treaty
which guaranteed freedom of trade in
Morocco cannot ,see his way clear to
get action in the Congo matter on the
same ground. We are signatories to
a treaty which established the Congo
state on the express understanding that
trade should be free. This provision
of the Congo constitution has been
specifically violated by the king of the
Belgians. There is no more freedom of
trade in the Congo country than there
is in Tibet. American commercial inter
ests there may be slight, but her hu
manitarian interests are large. The
violation of the constitution with re
gard to freedom of trade is a per
fectly legitimate weapon to use in se
curing a reconvening of the powers
which gave the breath of life to the
Congo state and when that conference
is called the full and shameful character
of Leopold's inhuman administration
may be laid bare.
It would seem as tho Secretary Root
was losing a golden opportunity to
wipe the last remaining trail of slavery
from the ground of Africa by assuming
carelessly that we have no right or
power of intervention in the Congo
matter.
John D.
noise like
grence-
money levied as a tax is for the gen- hundred and one abuses to which they
eral cood, and is generally so expendedS. havee bee subiected The need o'f
Tr O-TVPS thfl rmbhP at lame beefitsi
wa
extia dollar paid in freight charges, federal law.
however, goes into the treasury of a Minnesota needs some more railroad
corporation and is paid out in divi- legislation, but very little along the
dends to its stockholders. They are lines of the Dolliver-Hepburn bill. Our
entitled to a fair return on the money
they have invested, but to no more,
and if freight rates are too high, ac
cording to the popular impression, it
may be necessary to keep a few thou
sand back from the stockholders, and
leave an extra dollar here and there in
the pocket of the shipper and the con
sumer. It is true, as the railroad offi
cials allege, that retail dealers would
get most of the benefit from such a re
duction but isn't it a matter of some
consequence that a retail merchant
should prosper?
"Hs
Rockefeller III. is making a
State Railroad Legislation.
The Northfield News says that state
railroad legislation is urgently needed
to supplement the Dolliver-Hepburn
bill when it becomes a law, and de
clares:
The railroads will have a free hand
to oppress the people of Minnesota,
with discriminations within the state,
with exorbitant rates on the products
of the farm and the forest, with exces
sive demurrage charges and with the
legislation governing .railroad operationsn
stat De
is even more pressing than
the demand for amendment to the
laws giving the state commission power
to fix or change rates are well-nigh
complete, the best in the union, and
several steps farther along than the
provisions of the proposed federal en
actment. Our law prohibits discrimi
nations and rebates. It gives the com
mission power to reduce rates or
classifications, terminal charges or any
thing of the kind, either after com
plaint by a shipper or upon its own
motion. It prohibits railroad com
panies from changing rates or classifi
cations without the commission's con
sent, and gives the commission author
ity to summon witnesses, books and
papers or to examine the books of any
railroad to check up for violations of
the law. In a hundred other ways the
state authorities have regulating power
over the railroads as to service, charges
and other details.
With such a complete code of rail
road law, the railroads cannot be said
to have a "free hand" to make ex
orbitant rates or charges certainly not
when Section 1970 of the Eevised Stat
utes gives the commission power to
change any "rates, fares, charges or
classifications, whenever in its judg
ment, the public interests require it.
That power has been invoked before,
and is now, in the pending hearing on
merchandise rates.
.Our state law on railroad rates can
only go one step farther that is to
make rates effective notwithstanding
appeal, and until set aside by the
courts. That step may be taken soon.
The state commission has authority
now over demurrage charges, and needs
no more. A reasonable reciprocal de
murrage law, however, would result
in more even justice to the shipper.
Another piece of legislation is widely
demanded, and seems inevitable. Min
nesota should take the lead in prohibit
ing all free passes, except to employees,
and with such a law can properly come
a reduction in the maximum passenger
fare to two and a half, or possibly to
two cents a mile. No mileage book
law will fill the bill.
State Auditor Sherrlck of Indiana, who
was found short in his accounts some
thousands of dollars, was treated harsh
ly by Governor Hanly, who lifted him out
of office by his neck and the seat of his
clothes and secured his conviction for
embezzlement. "Dave" was a "good fel
low" and "an active party worker," and
"the organization" is exceeding angry at
the governor for not giving him a chance
to put it back, and for not letting the
matter drift along. The voters are to be
asked to punish the governor. Not in
the. present state of public opinion.
The citizens of Philadelphia, beginning
this spring, will get a year's gas for 90
cents. The price will then go to 85 cents.
After six years the company holding the
lease will be required to drop the price
to 80 cents, and in 1917 to 75 cents. Ten
years later It is proposed that the city
operate the plant itself.
The Kentucky legislature has Just
passed a bill and the governor has signed
it to bar from that state all dramatic
performances that are calculated to in-
spire race prejudice. The enactment is
especially aimed at "Uncle Tom's Cabin,**
which has long Irritated Kentuckians.
The next bunch of Little Evas, Uncle
*Ioms, Markses and bloodhounds that show
up in Kentucky will be clapped Into jail.
There are limits to a people's patience.
Perhaps it was not so remarkable after
all that an assassin hould fire eight times
at the president of Colombia and not hit
him once. Our experience with the pres
ident of Colombia shows him to be a
very small individual.
The Japanese parliament has given an
other evidence of national adaptability
to western ways by indulging In a fist
fight over the railroad bill. Probably
Senator Benjumokl Tlllmanyama had
charge of the measure.
Richard Barry, a war correspondent
Just from the orient, predicts a Chinese
German war. It was Emperor William
who foresaw the pellow yerii some time
ago.
The Emporia Qazette is taking severe
falls out of Governor Hoch of Kansas,
but the governor declares that William
Allen White writes most of his stuff in
a sour spirit of fun.
High license and low lids have been hit
ting the. saloon men all over the country.
Even in Maine they are enforcing the
prohibition Jaw.
Jewish massacres in Russia are pre-'
dieted for Easter week. It shows a high
sense of religious feeling to slay at this
particular time.
The Boston Globe refers to persons
who use skis as skeeters. The skeeter is
often in the air and he lands every time.
Austria is pretty hot at us for dismiss
ing Bellamy Storer without due formality,
but there is no danger of war.
Ras Makonnen, the Abyssinian gen
eral, is dead. In this case Ras is not an
abbreviation for Erastus.
Standard Oil having admitted "all," it
is now up to Missouri to fine the corpor
ation $175 and costs.
A poor marksman shot eight times at
the Celombian government without get
ting even a president.
AMUSEMENTS
Foyer Chat.
The great society play, "The Wife." by
David Belasco and Henry C. De Mille,
will be the attraction at the Lyceum next
week, commencing with a matinee Sun
day. The Ralph Stuart company also has
In rehearsal the celebrated Norwegian
play, "Thelma," in which Ernest Fisher
will play the. role of Britta, the comical
servant.
Alice Alva, "the lady with the clarinet,"
is one of the big hits at the Unique this
week. Lutz brothers, in a remarkable
exhibition of fancy rifle shooting, are an
other stellar feature* One of the brothers
is an "armless wonder," who in addition
to making difficult shots with a rifle held
by his feet, plays a trombone and does
carpenter work, nolclins the tools In his
toes.
Katherine Dahl, the prima donna so
prano, who Is appearing at the. Orpheum
theater this week. Is making her first
American tour in three years Since
last heard in this country she has sung
in Australia, the continent and Great
Britain and comes back with several
gowns by Rochet of Paris, which has a
decided interest for the feminine portion
of the Orpheum clientele. One is a gold
satin worked out in autumn leaves and
rhinestones another is a black velvet
with English daisies, and still another
is a blue satin, resembling panne
velvet. Miss Dahl is a graduate
of the New England conservatory of
music, Boston, and was last heard here
with one of the Savage English opera
companies.
The return of Valerie Bergere and com
pany to the Orpheum next week In a one
act version of "Carmen" is awaited with
more than passing interest by the patrons
of that house, as the advance sale for
the week Indicates.
Andrew Robson, well known to local
play patrons, is a prominent member of
Miss Nance O'Nell's company this sea
son. Others who will appear here with
Miss O'Neil in "The Fires of St. John,"
which will be, offered for the first time in
this city at the Metropolitan tonight, are
John Glendennlng, McKee Rankin, M. B.
Snyder, Miss Clare Thompson, Miss Jane
Atherton, Miss Peg Bloodgood and Miss
lone Chamberlain.
Al H. Wilson will introduce a bunch of
new songs of matchless melody at the
Metropolitan during his engagement the
first half of next week in Robert Sydney's
mirthful comedy, "The German Gypsy"
In addition to the new Bongs, Mr. Wilson
will also sing one of the old favorites,
"The Winding of the Yarn."
Aft&r an absence of four years from the
local stage E. S. Willard returns to the
Metropolitan for an engagement of three
nights and matinee, beginning next
Thursday evening. The opening perform
ances of his engagement will be a double
bill, "David Garrlck," by T. W. Robert
son, and "The Man Who Was," by Rud
yard Kipling. Friday night and at the
Saturday matinee Mr. Willard will appear
in "The Professor's Love Story," and on
Saturday evening in "The Middleman."
The second of the souvenir matinees at
the Bijou was given yesterday at the per
formance of Hanlon brothers* new "Fan
tasma," and hundreds of flower vases and
bonbon dishes were presented to the la
dies attending.
William H. Turner will be seen at the
Bijou next week in "David Harum," a
part which he has enjoyed playing for the
past four years, and in which he has
given an excellent account of himself.
Practically the same admirable company
which supported Mr. Turner two years
ago, will be. seen in the presentation of
the piece this time.
NEWSPAPER IN THE LARGEST SENS
Chisholm Herald.
The Minneapolis Journal since it has
put on the Sunday edition is the very
best paper this side of Chicago, barring
none, and it has no superior in the big
city. It is a newspaper in the largest
sense of the word. And withal it is a
paper that takes the side of the people
against the trusts, the corporations and
the bosses every time.
BANK NOT QUITE BROKEN
Occasional dispatches get into the pa
pers about persons winning enormous
sums at Monte Carlo. In this connection
it is interesting to learn that Monte
Carlo's net profits for the last year were
$5,600,000.
A DARK MYSTERY
Detroit Journal.
Before we get 80-cent gas perhaps w4
ought to find out why It was that the
reduction from %l to 90 cents three years
ago made so little difference in the
amount of our gas bills.
Thursday Evening, THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAllV March 29, 1906.'"
City News
MONEtED MEN LOOK
TO ALASKA MINES
THIRD RAILWAY SOON TO PENE-
TRATE INTERIOR.
New -Diggings in Far North Are Fast
Being Opened and Railroad Build
ers Hustle to Get Share of Freight
Fortunes Being Made Under Arctic
Circle.
Alaska is attracting more attention
from capital just now than ever, "before
since the district became a possession
of the United States. The investing
public has finally become pretty well
satisfied that there are rich deposits
there of gold, copper and coal, as well
as other natural resources of import
ance. The great trouble is the la ck
of transportation.
Rev. D. W. Cram, who writes Valdez
under his name as his place of residence,
on his way from Washington, D. C, to
Alaska, says that the third railroad on
the south shore is already under way.
The first, of course, is the White Pass,
which crosses over into the British ter
ritory twenty-five miles from Skaguay.
The second is the Alaska Central, under
construction from Seward on the east
side of the Kenai peninsula and headed
for Fairbanks. It has over forty miles
of track laid. The third has been com
menced at Yaldez and grading is under
way up the Lowe river thru tne coast
range. Its destination is Fairbanks
on tne Tanana, and possibly Eagle City
on the Yukon. Mr. Rosine, president
of the Northwestern Commercial compa
nay is understood to be financing this
line.
Other Lines Proposed.
Two or three other railroad schemes
are talked about, one of them to start
from Cordova Bay near the mouth of
the Copper river and follow up that
stream. The promoters of some of
these, enterprises have been trying to
secure government aid, but the activity
of the Alaska Central and the North
western Commercial company, who have
gone ahead without anv government
aid, undertaking to build their roads as
other railroads are built nowadays, has
made it practically impossible for any
other line to secure help from the gov
ernment, it may be, however, that
the government will find it necessary
in order to carry thru any of these
projects to guarantee securities for a
limited period or provide some other
substantial aid.
The magnets which are drawing these
railroads, says Mr. Cram are the im
mense deposits of copper the Copper
River valley, the new rich diggings on
the Kantishna on the north slope of
Mount McKinley and the Fairbanks
district in the Tanana valley. Fair
banks is the biggest gold camp in the
north at present, having now distanced
Dawson in point of population. It is
expected that the output of that camp
will also^ exceed that of Dawson during
the coming year, and is placed at
$12,000,000. The Kantishna promises
as well now as the Fairbanks district,
altho it is not so well developed, and
the presence of 20,000 or 25,000 people
in the heart of Alaska, mining for gold,
is pretty sure 'to bring in rail trans
portation,
Everything Jfe Prosperous.
Mr. Cram believes that the Alaska
comnaercial interests are enjoying better
^prospects just now than 'ever before.
He has lived in Alaska for several
years, the last year having been spent
north of the arctic circle at Beetles,
the terminus of river transportation on
the Koyukuk. The upper Koyukuk at
Beetles and Coldfoot has sustained a
mining population of three or four hun
dred for several years in spite of the
fact that freight' for food supplies
costs $300 or $400 a ton. The placer
diggings there are rich and in the short
summer season "pan out" so well that
men are justified in working them.
The output of the district ranges from
$300,000 to $500,000 a year, some claims
producing $25,000 to $30,000 each and
one as much as $80,000 net during the
last year. It is the most northern
gold camp in the world.
Mr. Cram says the Indians along the
Yukon suffered greatly from an epi
demic of measles which went down the
river last year. A similar plague
swept the south coast in 1900 and car
ried them off by tens of thousands.
The results are not so disastrous along
the Yukon, both because the population
is sparser and because the whites were
able to take better care of the natives.
They know nothing of this disease and
do not take the precautions against ex
posure necessary to avoid fatal results.
An interesting feature of Mr. Cram's
residence in the far north was the col
lection of probably eighty different va
rieties of wild flowers above the Arctic
circle. "Do you know," said Mr. Cram,
"there are more varieties of beautiful
wild flowers in northern Alaska than
there are in California? I presume we
didn't get half to be found in the re
gion of Bettles. Mrs. Cram exhausted
the supply of blotting paper on the
Koyukuk for the purpose of preparing
Her collection, and then didn't havo
half enough. The work will, however,
be thoroly done if the plans of C. W. H.
Heidemann of Fort Gibbon are carried
out. Mr. Heidemann, by the way, was
formerly a resident of St. Peter, I think,
and a member of the Minnesota legisla
ture sixteen or seventeen years ago. He
is now in the United States signal serv
ice attached to the station at Fort Gib
bon on the Yukon river. He made a
large collection of flowers in that re
gion, and on my report of what was to
be found north of the Arctic circle, ar
ranged for leave of absence to visit the
upper waters of the Koyukuk during
the coming summer. He promised me
in consideration of assistance rendered
him, to give me a duplicate set of his
findings. If I get them, they will go
to the University of Minnesota,"
JUST THE DIFFERENCE
Crookston, Minn., Times.
It Is strange but true that not a com
plaint is heard when the Minneapolis
Tribune miss connections but what a roar
is heard when the subscribers do not get
their Minneapolis Journals. Just the dif
ference In the popularity of the papers.
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY
MARCH 29
1675Providence, R. I., attacked by
Indians.
1738Joseph I. Gulllotln, originator
of the guillotine, born.
1776 Massachusetts legislature
thanked Washington.
1790John Tyler, president of the
United States, born. Died Jan. 17,
1862.
1792Gustavus III. of Sweden died.
1848John Jacob Astor died.
1867Dominion o* Canada Insti
tuted.
1883Completion of Salt Lake,
Denver & Rio Grande railroad.
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HISS VAUGHN HAKES
HER DEBUT SUNDAY
HISS EVELYN VAUGHN,
New Leading Lady at tbe Lyceum
Theater.
Evelyn Vaughn, the new leading lady
of the Ralph Stuart company, has ar
rived in the city and entered upon her
new duties. She is at present rehears
ing with the company in David Belas
co'a powerful society drama. "The
Wife,'' in which she will make her bow
to a Minneapolis audience Sunday after
noon.
Miss Vaughn has always been asso
ciated with stock companies since the
beginning of her theatrical career. She
was a great favorite at the Castle
Square theater in Boston and at the
Fifth Avenue theater, New York. Re
cently, she played an extended engage
ment at the Tannhauser theater, Mil
waukee.
Miss Vaughn is one of the youngest
leading women on the stage. She is a
striking brunette, with great, dark eyes,
.jet-black hair and an olive complexion.
She is tall, but of superb figure, and
has the physical strength necessary in
the strenuous life of a leading woman.
HILLS PULL OP GOLD
Atlln District Is Overrun with Eager
Miners and Prospectors.
Ten thousand people will soon be pros
pecting in the hills of British Columbia
In the A-tlln. district, aLOOorlVn to 'F.
Gibson, a guest at the West hotel, and a
resident of Atlin.
"Atlin is in the center of tho gold dis
trict which was opened about a year
ago," he said. "The greatest strike last
year was the Conrad claim, which is
probably worth millions. I understand its
owners have secured a large amount of
capital in England with which to develop
the mine as soon as the season opens.
"Atlln Is a district hard to get at. It
Is near the Yukon boundary. The White
Pass & Yukon railway has to be taken to
Caribou Junction. There a line of steam
ers is taken thru a series of lakes on a
sixty-mile water trip to Atlin. As soon
as spring breaks there will doubtless be
a rush to the new gold fields which will
tax perhaps exceed, the capacity of the
railroad and steamers. I look for 10,000
people to be ranging around Atlln this
summer.
"There are a number of Minneapolis
people Interested in claims In this new
gold field. George A. Brackett, who I be
lieve was once mayor of Minneapolis,
has money invested there, and his son,
Frank Brackett, is personally on the
ground to arrange for and superintend
the development of the claims. Major
Hale, postmaster of Minneapolis, has also
investments in gold claims there, and it
looks as tho the holdings of these Min
neapolis men were going to 'make good.'
LOVE TO TEACH BOYS
Interest In Business Men Take Keen
Bethel Urchins.
Business men, who during the week are
deeply-, immersed In commercial affairs,
many of them holding responsible posi
tions with some of the most prominent
firms in the city, may be seen on Sunday
afternoons in the big Sunday school room
at Bethel Settlement, teaching classes of
boys of the settlement.
The task could not possibly have any
fascinations for a man unless he could
appreciate and understand the material
with which he had to work. So thoroly
In sympathy with the masculine juvenile
mind of the settlement are these men that
to them there is no question of the pos
sibility of becoming fond of their ragged,
unkempt charges they question rather,
how one could help responding to them.
These men, who Include Dr. Norman M.
Smith, Kenneth P. Gregg, John Moodie,
William P. Black, Ray Everhard, Arthur
L. Qualley, L. J. Berkey, C. M. Norton,
Leslie Beckwlth, Nathan Andrews, M. F.
Bardwell, E. B. ^BardweJl and E.^G. Eck
lund, are actively working for the suc
cess of the entertainment which the Sun
day school will give tomorrow evening at
Plymouth church, to raise money for the
endowment fund of Pillsbury house.
Governor Johnson is to give one of his
inimitable, characteristic addresses on
this occasion, and a group of musicians
will participate in an excellent program.
Tickets are on sale at the Metropoli
tan music store, at Plymouth, Park ave
nue and the First Congregational
churches.
ALL MAY HEAR GADSKI
Great Singer Will Appear in First Bap
tist Church..
Mme. Gadski is perhaps the only
prima donna of world-wide reputation,
who has been put to rout by a horse,
and she is fond of horses, too. An ef
fort was made to secure the Auditori
um for Mme. Gadski's recital next
Wednesday evening, but Jim Key, the
educated equine had cinched his con
tract with the Auditorium management
for four nights hand running, and April
4 was right in the middle of the engage
ment. Mme. Gadski's management
could do nothing but acquiesce grace
fully, and she will appear instead, in
the First Baptist church, which will
doubtless be crowded to the doors with
those anxious to hear a song recital by
the gifted cantatrice.
While the church, of course, has a
seating capacity of only about half that
of the Auditorium, it does have a ca
pacity corresponding approximately to
the leading recital halls in the east. For
recitals the First Baptist church is ad
mirably suited. The great prima donna
has several times appeared in Minneap-
for one of the song recitals which have
won her a fame equal to that which she
has acquired in opera.
Git-La Grippe is a rational treatment
for colds. It kills the grippe germ.
Cures in one day. All druggists. 25c.
Foot-Schulze and Glove marks appear
on the soles of best rubbers.
Neat aft a Bugs' Ear!
A.re the electric 'bertJl lights in the new
sleeping cars on the North Star Lim
ited' to Chicago. The newest and
finest. Call at Minneapolis & St. Louis
offices for rates and information.
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GRADE CROSSINGS
ARE CONDEMNED
RESIDENTS BELOW THE TRACKS
SPEAK THEIR HINDS
Opinion Almost General That Some
thing Should Be Done at Once to
'Remove Constant Menace to Life and
LimbSome Favor Removal of
Tracks Altogether.
There are two sides to the grade
crossing problem, which is agitating
certain sections of South Minneapolis,
as well a two sides to the tracks in
question.
On one side are the manufacturing
and commercial interests, owning
property abutting on the tracks, which
would "be seriously damaged by any
change in grade. The opinion of these
interests was voiced in the resolutions
of the South Side Commercial club,
asking that the tracks be left as they
are.
Arrayed on the other side are the
residents who live below the tracks
and have to cross them to get up town.
This was evident after a short time
spent in the neighborhood of the Mon
roe school, Franklin and Twenty-third
avenues S. More than a score of rep
resentative citizens were interviewed
and not one wanted the tracks left as
they are. On the contrary, all ex
pressed the conviction that the aboli
tion of the grade crossings would lie of
positive benefit to that part of the city.
Some even favored the removal of the
tracks entirely.
The present situation was condemned
as dangerous to life and limb, and a
detriment to business.
Following are a few expressions from
the people themselves:
What They Say.
P. E. Satrum, grocer, 2201 Franklin
avenueSomething should be done.
Personally, I believe it would be better
to lower the tracks and carry the streets
over. If the streets go under it would
be impossible to move nouses across the
track, and that seems to me to be a
matter to be considered. But any plan
which will do away with the crossings
would be a big improvement.
A. F. Anderson, merchant, 2129 E.
FranklinThe tracks aTe dangerous
and. something shonlcL fee done to re
move the danger. Last fall I saw a
little girl killed on Twenty-second
street. She was going home from
school and had to cross the tracks. We
will have such accidents right along if
the council doesn't do something.
Peter Schmitz, grocer, 815 Twenty
third avenue S.It would be better for
South Minneapolis if the Milwaukee
tracks were removed entirely. I don't
know where they should go, but there
must be some better place than thru the
most thickly settled part of town.
Switching Engines Bothersome.
John W. Horto*, veterinary surgeon,
927 Twenty-first avenue S.In this
part of the city, as near as I can find
out, the sentiment is against allowing
the tracks to remain as they are.
Everybody realizes that they are a
great danger and the longer they are
left the greater will be the manace to
the people who are compelled to cross
them. Temporary relief might be
given by moving the switching yards
near Franklin. That crossing is the
most dangerous in the city and it is
simply a miracle that more accidents do
not occur.
Frank Horton, driver Engine Co. No.
1There is no question but that the,
Milwaukee tracks are a source of dan
ger and are bad for those living east of
the tracks. The way the trains block
the streets for as much as fifteen
minutes at a time ought to be reason
enough for doing something.
Mrs. M. Gaustad, grocer, 2228 Frank
lin avenueI wouldn't like to see the
tracks moved away entirely. I haven't
talked the matter over with the neigh
bors, but I think that most of the peo
ple down this way want something
done.
Everybody Knows It.
Swan Bremberf, carpenter, 2101
Twenty-fifth avenueThe tracks should
be raised or lowered just as soon as pos
sible. We all know that they are
dangerous and it is foolish to say that
they are not and that there is no reason
for disturbing the tracks.
Mrs. Constance Christensen, grocer,
2123 Franklin avenueWe all think
that the tracks are dangerous and the
sooner something is done the better
the people will like it.
T. Sather, meat market, 2250 Frank
lin avenueAnyone trying to cross the
tracks takes a great risk, especially at
Cedar and Franklin. Only a few days
ago I saw a man struck by the cars at
this crossing. He was badly injured
about the head. The public probably
never know how many accidents really
take place. We want the council to do
something to remove the danger.
John Anderson, merchant, residence
2101 Twenty-fifth avenue S.I guess
everybody down this way thinks that
the tracks should be raised or lowered
or gotten out of the way in some
manner.
John Carter, meat market, 2108
Franklin avenueThe tracks are a nui
sance as well as a constant danger.
Every day we are compelled to put up
with the most exasperating delays
while waiting for the switching trains.
This is a big nuisance which people liv
ing on the other side of the track can't
appreciate.
oiis in opera and with orchestra, but' the streets of Madrid without an es-
never before has she been announced eort, greeting every one he
meetsf
Commercial Clttb Active.
At a meeting of the council's special
committee on grade crossings this after
noon a large number of southsiders
were present. The South Side Com
mercial club has appointed a company
of pickets to keep watch of the progress
of the movement for abolishing the
grade crossings along the Milwaukee
railway line from the depot to South
Minneapolis junction. The members
of the club are firmly opposed to any
interference with the tracks and the
committee of piekets is instructed to
make a determined protest whenever
the occasion demands.
A Modern Monarch.
King Alphonso of Spain is a mon
arch whose exploits and ideas seem to
be almost American. He has a half
dozen automobiles and is a lover of all
sports. He cares nothing for pomp and
ceremony and tries to do awav with all
of this that. he can. Often he walks
a heartv
11
with
hello "or a shake the
hand. As a result he is loved by the
whole nation. Good, happy dispositions
are assured by drinking golden gram
belt beer its daily use gives strength
and health. Have it on your table.
Mrs. Chas. Smith of Jimes, Ohio,
writes: I have used every remedy for
sick headache I could hear Qf for the
Eriver
ast fifteen years, but Carter's Little
Pills did me more good than all
be rest.
Be exacting when buying whiskey,
specify Pickwick Bye if you want some
i thing really goo&r
'FANTASMA'BRINGS BACK
A VERSATILE ICTBESSl
CLARA THROPP,
The Versatile.
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The big revival of "Fantasma," by
Hanlon brothers at the Bijou this week,
brings back the versatile Clara Thropp
in the role of the village cutup, Kit
tie Mayo, who indulges in all sorts
of pranks with the clown Pico. It
should be understood that Miss Thropp
is not to be considered as a part of
the revivalshe never needs to be re
vived for she's going all the time and
never runs down. One may expect to
hear of her doing the "limit," next,
which is the latest circus automobile
stunt, entitled in the simple words of
Tody Hamilton, "le tourbillon de la
mort."
She was the original Taggs in Neil
Burgess' "County Fair" when the
piece ran 400 nights in New York.
Then she went to London and stayed
there for several years, among other
things creating the part of Julia Bon
Bon in "The Girl from Paris," played
in this country by Clara Lipman. She
has been seen here a number of times
at the head of her own companies, she
went on a steady diet of creating roles
in the La Salle theater productions,
Chicago, before they went on the road,
and next stopped kicking up her heels
and starred as Nora in Ibsen's serious
problem play, A Doll's House."
Then she went in for melodrama and
was the waif in the "Banker's Daugh-
ter." Since she made her debut at the
age of 3 years, in Fawcett Bowe's play
of "Lemons," at the old John T.
Ford theater at Washington, she has
played about everything within tho
limitations of her sex, barring old
woman and tragic roles, and has played
everything well.
HERRMANN'S VISIT TO
MARKET BOOMS PRODUGE
Herrmann the Great got far enough
away from the Orpheum this morning
to take a stroll thru Central Market,
and aroused the envy and avarice of
every man there in business by making
a chicken lay an egg and then taking
a half dollar from the much prized
fruit.
Incidentally the magician made tho
sad mistake of breaking the egg over
the pavement and aroused the ire of
patrolman No. 86.
"Oh, I beg zee pardone," answered
the magician to the blue coat's admo
nition, immediately taking from tho
officer's coat a pack of playing cards.
"How much for the radishes?" ha
asked of a Minnesota Commission com
pany man.
"Thirty cents a bunch," replied the
commission man.
"Nice radishes," was the magician's
comment as he extracted four silver
dollars from the nearest bunch. Rad
ish stock took a jump instantly.
"Zees ess a ve-ey lofely market,"
remarked Herrmann as he made an.
onion vanish into thin air and then
plucked it out of an aged customer's
beard.
By this time business in the market
had been practically suspended and the
suspension became complete when he
repeated the egg trick. "If I could
do that I'd wait until the next corner
and break it," remarked an admir
ing commission man who was caught
in the last egg squeeze.
Herrmann then discovered that let
tuce, as he found it, was worth $6
a bunch that many a roughly clad
huckster was reeking with silver coins:
that almost any aproned clerk carried
a pack of cards, and that oranges could
Iars
roperl be valued at a thousand dol
a case.
But he wouldn't tell the commission
men hpw to make chickens lay eggs
with real money in them.
Git-La Grippe cures the worst cold in
a day. It contains the proper remedies
to kill the grippe germ. No quinine. 25e
Mystic Shriners' Excursions to Cali
fornia.
On account of Shriners' Convention,
Los Angeles, Calif.. May 7th to 10th,
the Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. will
sell tickets to San Francisco and Los
Angeles from April 25th to May 5th,
limited to July 31st, for return trip- at
rate of $59.90" from St. Paul or Minne
apolis. Tickets good going via any
route, returning via any other direct
route, or will be routed one way via
Portland at rate of $72.40. Stop-over
privileges granted. For further par
ticulars, call on J. G. Rickel, City
Ticket Agent, 424 Nicollet Ave.
Electric-Lighted Sleeping Cars.
In their new Pullman sleepers, fresh
from the greatest carshops in the world,
the Minneapolis St. Louis Railroad
is confident that it has reached the
acme of perfection in the equipment of
its Chicago service.
These cars being new, represent in
their construction every detail of com
fort, elegance and sanitary excellence
which the best inventive brains of th
country have been able to devise.
$20,000 for a Cafe Carl f
This looks like a big price, but yon
should see the car. I runs on the dayi
trains to Omaha over the Minneapolis!
& St. Louis R. R., making the trip in,
just eleven hours. Seat fare only 75
cents. For full information, call at
424 Nicollet Ave. i
$25.00 to tne Pacific Coast Via the Soo
Pacific Line.
The best o'f service via the* "True
Scenic Route," through the Canadian^
Rocky Mountains. Tickets on sale,
every day. For further^information
$mz
IV
3
and tickets inquire at ticket office, 119t*
Third street S. S%
Every leading shoe store And shoe de^lt*
partment in the Twin Cities shows the
famous Foot-Schulze Glove rubbers* -w-
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Today and every day in the- year*
Pickwick, the pure rye whiskey, J*,
sold by the leading dealers everywhere/