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12 PAGESFIVE O'CLOCK.
SPIRIT OF LINCOLN
PRESIDENT'S MODEL
Nation Warned Against Vindic
tiveness in Speech at Oys
ter Bay.
WANTS ABUSES RIGHTED
BUT WITHOUT RANCOR
Cites Recent Session of Congress
to Illustrate His
Point.
Oyster Bay, L. I., July 4.President
Roosevelt today delivered a Fourth of
July oration to his townspeople in a
natural amphitheater in a grove at Oy
ster Bay. Addressing: his auditors as
"my old friends and neighbors, you
among whom I was brought up ad
among whom I have lived for so many
years/' the president said it was a
great pleasure to say a few words of
greeting and in a sense to give an ac
count of his stewardship. Mr. Roose
velt said that, while there were two or
three things about which he wanted to
talk, he would take for his text the
words of Abraham Lincoln just after
Ms election:
"In any great national trial hereaf
ter, the men of that day, as compared
with those of this, will be as weak and
as strong, as base and as good. Let
us, therefore, study for the future."
And later: ''So long as I have been
here I have not planted a thorn in any
man's bosom."
Lincoln as Nation's Model.
Speaking on the conditions at the
time when Lincoln spoke those words,
the president said it was possible for
Lincoln to say with entire truth that
he bore no rancor and did his work
without hatred to the doer of evil.
Lincoln did not treat anything that
was done against him as a wrong call
ing for vengeance, but for a remedy.
It is in just that sphit, the president
said, that the American people must
approach their problems of today.
We have not as great problems as
Lincoln had," he said, "but we have
problems, and the way we face them
will give our children cause for pride
or for shame. If citizens of Lincoln's
time had not done their duty we could
not have held up our heads today."
"Hear, hear,'' came from the assem
bled crowd.
"Will you stop talking over there,"
ejaculated the president, pointing to a
distant carriage in which some persons
were talking.
"Is he deaf?" some one asked as the
conversation continued. "We'll make
him dumb also. (Laughter.)
Honesty Greatest Need.
"Thank you," added the president as
the annoyance eeased.
Continuing, he said that our duty
calls for the exercise of more than one
quality on our part. First, honesty,
which meant disinterested devotion to
what is right. Without this all others
would count for naught. In 1860 the
sentiment, "The union must be pre
served," was the saving quality. It
was patriotism first and then the cour
age to make that patriotism avail. The
old soldier he saw before him, knew
this.
I don't care how devoted the old
soldier was to the union," said the
president, "if when the crisis oame he
ran away. We needed then first and
foremost moral courage, and back of it
the physical courage.
"That was what we needed, wasn't
it, comrade?" addressing a veieran be
fore him.
"Exactly,* waa the reply,
"You needed sanity and^ common
sense in addition to the qualities of pa
triotism and courage, and that is just
what you need today. You must be
honest, clean living, right thinking.
You will not be worth much without
these, and back of these we must have
sanity and common sense. We must
not blindly refuse to recognize wrongs
that exist.
"Now, gentlemen," he continued,
"we have heard during the past year of
frightful iniquities in business life and
moral delinquencies in moral life."
Do Not Be Vindictive.
"Do not ever get into the frame of
mind to wliich under great provocation
Abraham Lincoln refused to yield. Do
not hesitate to visit punishment where
it must be inflicted for good of others,
but do not inflict punishment vindict
ively. There is enough wrong to fight.
Cut it out.
"Then, again, there is enough wrong
done by men of large means and enough
wrong done by men of small means. If
a man has a twisted morality he will
show that twisted morality wherever he
may be.''
At this point the rain ceased and the
president congratulated those who had
stayed. He then referred to the work
of this congress in the direction of fed
eral control over business.
We have accomplished a fair
amount because we have not tried too
much," said he, "and because we ap
proached it without rancor."
Will Curb Bad Corporations.
"In this task," the president said,
"we have come in contact with some
people we didn't like, and in protect
ing property we have been forced to
Irotec some of the property of the fel
ow we did not want to. When it
comes to the control of corporations, the
ones that need control I will curb with
out regard to others." (Applause.)
The ram began to fall again at this
point, but the president went on with
out his rubber cape. Eeverting again
to good citizenship, the president said
the way to be a good citizen of the re
public was to be a good citizen of
Oyster Bay.
Home the Criterion.
"If a man goes to a Fourth of July
Eelebration,conductshehimself
said "and then goes
ome and in such a
way that his wife and children wished
he had never come home, he is not a
good citizen. The supreme test is a
man's own family."
The president then told a story of
the man in his regiment who wanted
to fight for his country and not dig
kitchen sinks. He told the man to go
on digging and dig well.
"We must do the duties of humdrum
citizenship," he concluded. "There
is need for us to take this attitude.
Then in time of need we shall rise as
our fathers rose to every emergency."
"SHORT," HE XIIXS SELF.
Los Angeles, July 4.Bather than face the
Improved Order of Bed Men. la Tvhich order it
Is alleged he was short as treasurer, Frederick
Koch committed snlclde at hia home last night
by taking strychnine. Koch's &hartage with his
hMtze is eatimated at from $90 to $160.
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HEI I S BOR N TO
THRON E OF KAISE
Salute of 101 Guns Conveys Tid
ings of Wee Boy's
Advent
Berlin, July .-Crown Princess Eu
genia was safely accouched of a son at
9:15 a.m.
The guns of a battery of artillery be
gan to fire slowly in the square oppo
site the palace at about noon and tens
of thousands within hearing fit the sa
lute stopped in the streetf/or paused
their work counting the guns, for it
had long been announced that seventy
two shots would be fired for a girl and
101 for a boy.
Seventy one, seventy two, seventy
three.' Thou the city knew that an
heir presumptive had been born. An
hour later half a million copies of the
Official Gazette containing the official
proclamation were given away.
The boy is well-formed and strong.
The news of the birth of his grandson
was communicated to Emperor William
by means of a wireless dispatch from
Kiel to the steamer Hamburg, on which
his maiesty is proceeding to Trdndh
jem, Norway.
BIG KWSOCTETY
WRECKS CHURCHES
Five Thousand Rebels Captured
by the Imperial Troops
in China.
London, July 4./The Tribune corre
spondent at Shanghai reports that im
perial troops have captured 5,000 rebels
at Psicheng, near Hangchow. The cor
respondent states that the Big Knife
secret service killed a magistrate at
Psicheng and destroyed the Protestant
and Catholic churches there.
NATION PLUNDERED
IN THE CANAL JOB
Millions Will Be Lost by Closing
Market for Supplies, Says
Sullivan.
New York, July 4-Congressman
John A. Sullivan of Massachusetts, at
the annual celebration of the Society of
Tammany today, spoke in part as fol
lows
A few days ago the republican ma
jority in both branches of congress
forued upon the country^ a law compell
ing the, canal commission to purchase
its suplies from American manufactur
ers whenever the prices of the latter
were not unreasonable or extortionate.
Within a week after the time
that law received the president's
signature, the Maryland Steel com-
?or
any was awarded a contract
two dredges at $362,000 each. The
foreign concern offered to build them
for $70,000 less, over 10 per cent. At
that rate in $10,000,000 worth of sup
plies which would be purchased next
year Amerioan trusts will overcharge us
1,000,000, which, according to the ma
lority in congross, will not be extor
tionate or unreasonable.
"The sale of American products in
the canal zone next year will represent
$1,000,000 of plunder. ^The sales of
American manufactures to the people of
the United States next year will surely
be $16,000,000,000, and will there
fore at the same rate represent $1,600,-
000,000 of plunder.
Denounces Tariff.
"Not only has the tariff system de,
stroyed equality of taxation, closed the
door of industry, and opportunity, and
Eut
racticed extortion upon our people,
it has also been and must continue
to be the rotten center of an ever
widening circle of corruption,
"The Chicago packers paid into the
republican campaign treasury the price
of the_ duty on hides and felt safe in
poisoning communities the insurance
companies of this state made contribu
tions with which they purchased peace
at Albany, the Pennsylvania railroad
purchased immunity for years from the
law forbidding the railroads to engage
in the business of mining ooal, and Ine
ship subsidy gang will pay their monev
tot help elect a republican congress
which will pass a ship subsidy biU.
Bureaucracy Bising.
"The people reason that they must
fight the giant with a greater giant
And thus they seek^ new laws in the na
tion without exercising their remedies
in the state.
A bureaucracy is being established
which maintains its lobby in the halls
of congress and which in the future
will completely overshadow that body.
And when this government, because of
its great size, has become unwieldy and
threatens to break down, it will fall an
easy prey to the hosts of socialism.
Democracy "must protect the individual
in his rightc, confine the federal gov
ernment strictlv to its constitutional
functions and thus make socialism im
possible. HATOR BREAKS HEAD OF
ALDERMAN WITH GATEL
Pomeroy, Ohio, July 4.An old quar
rel in the village council resulted last
night in a battle in the council cham
ber between Mayor "Webster and Coun
cilman Long. Long's face was cut
open six inches by the mayor's gavel.
GRIES CONTINUOUSLY
FOR OYER A MONTH
Journal Special Sarvioe.
Cleveland, Ohio, July 4.-^-Since May
24 Miss Rose Badrnan has been crying
continuously, except when she slept
from exhaustion. She was sent to the
state hospital yesterday. She thinks
she has bean poisoned. vv^TF^l
GROWN PRINCESS EUGENIE,
Whs today gave birth to an heir presumptive to
the German throne.
GERMAN BOAT WINS
RACE ACROSS SEA
Liner Deutschland Reaches Ply
mouth Far Ahead of the
La Provenoe.
New York, July 4The second
eastward transatlantic race between the
Hamburg-American line steamer
Deutschland and the French line steam
er La Provenoe ended this morning
with a decisive victory in favor of the
German boat. The Deutschland was re
ported 140 miles southwest of Browhead
yesterday afternoon, and was reported
passing Eddystone lighthouse at the en
trance to Plymouth harbor at 6:39
a.m. today. Her time of passage from
New York to Plymouth is five days,
fourteen hours and nine minutes at an
average speed of 28.01 miles per hour.
The distance covered was 3.093 miles.
La Provence was reported: by wireless
telegraph when the vessel was 150 miles
south of Browhead at ten minutes past
5 o'clock this morning.
The Deutschland for Plymouth, Cher
bourg and Hamburg cleared 'Sandy
Hook bar at 11 a.m. Thursday June 28,
and La Provence for Havre followed
an hour and fourteen minutes later.
Allowing for, this difference in time the
Deutschland beats La Provence nearly
eleven hours, against the four hours
claimed by the French steamer on the
previous race.
KILLS WOMAN AND SECT.
Holdredge, Neb., July 4.Charles Benson,
agea 28, son of a wealthy farmer near Fer
trand. this county, shot and killed Mrs. Anna
Wallln, housekeeper at the Benson home, and
then killed himself. No cause Is known. The
young man had recently glren signs of mental
derangement.
LAFAYETTE HELIOS SOLD.
London, July 4.The collection of relics of
General Lafayette, exhibited at the Chicago
exposition In 1893, were sold at auction at
Christie's yesterday for $27,000. The purchaser
was a Londoner named Jackman, who outbid a
competitor representing Amerioan Interests.
TH E MEMElflOiaS ^NMN
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Extension of North Minneapolis
Trolley Projected Under Man
agement of A. B. Bobbins,
&u
Anoka and Osseo are soon to be
joined to Minneapolis by means of a
trolley liner the proposed line being an
extension of the, Hobbinsdale line of
the North Minneapolis Street Bailway
company. Thef North Minneapolis
company, of wlgch A. B. Bobbins is
president, is back of the proposed Os
seo-Anoka line.
Active preliminary work has al
ready bee a und$$aken and as soon as
arrangements cgft be completed the
work will be pufibed. It is the plan of
Mr. Bobbins and'his associates to se
cure a private rS^t-of-way, rather than
to use the counw road, which is too
heavily traveled to make its use as a
trolley route advisable. Mr. Bobbins
is authority for the statement that un
less the private'right-of-way can be
secured, the linertwill not be built,
Anoka sgounoil Busy.
The preliminary arrangements have
reached a point, where a special com
mittee of the Anoka council, consisting
of Alderman Herring,. Casey and Akin,
with the city attorney, is investigating
Mr. Bobbins' proposition and will re-
?ranohisethie
ort to council Friday night. A
the city of Anoka is de
sired allowing the use of the streets
and a power-house site. The sentiment
of the residents -"and business interests
of Anoka favors^the line, and there is
said to be little doubt that so far as
the city is concerned the Bobbins prop
osition will be accepted. It is also be
lieved that there will be no difficulty
in securing the private rightof-way
between Eobbinsdale and Anoka. The
line will be of great value to the thick
ly-settled country thru which it passes.
Power Question Open.
The question of power for the line is
not yet decided." A powerhouse may be
erected at Anoka or power may be
bought as is the case with the Eobbins
dale line, which gets its power from the
street railway company. Numerous
power developments are contemplated
in the Mississippi river above Minne
apolis, and power may be leased of one
of these when available.
The Bobbins interests are Teady to
begin work as soon as the Anoka fran
chise and the right of way are settled.
Considerable steel has already been
purchased and is on the ground. The
company recently bought four double
truck cars of the street railway com
pany that will furnish ample' equip
ment at first. There is other rolling
stock in use on the line between Eob
binsdale and its transfer, point with the
Twentieth avenue N line at Penn and
Thirty-second, avenues N.
"toodttfey is'Populous.
An inte*urban'',',
Sated
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AN0KA-0SSE0 LINE
SOON fO BE BUILT
passenger business
only is contemplated. Cars will be
equipped with a baggage compartment
that will be ample for oaring for all
parcels and packages that passengers
may carry to and from the city. A
regular and frequent service to the
cities will benefit both the towns and
country on the route and the city. The
country is well settled and rich. The
road will skirt the main county rpad,
which is one of the finest in the state
and is heavily 'traveled. It is esti
that 1,500 teams pass thru Bob
nsdale every day coming to Minne
apolis.
This season an automobile service
was established! between Anoka and
Eobbinsdale. Two machines, capable
of carrying from sixteen to twenty pas
sengers, make eight trips each daily,
and are crowded all the time. A stage
line on the other side of the river from
Camden Place to Anoka makes two
trips a day and is always crowded. It
is believed that the proposed line will
do a heavy business from the start.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1906. PRICE ONE CENT IN MINNEAPOLIS.
FIREWORKS TODAY
COST $12,000,000
Nation Is Concluding Greatest
and Most Expensive Cele
bration in History.
NOTE-EAISEBS OAVGHT.
Washington, July 4.Chief Wllke of the secret
service has been notified of the arrest at Hunl
lns ton. W. Va., of Charles Jaokflson, one of an
alleged sang of notorious note-raisers. It-ring
Tolley. the leader of the gank, was arrested In
Baltlmoie a few days ago. Jackson, Is said to
hare assisted Tolley in the work of raising the
notes and in passing them.
FAIR TONIGHT
JOHN A. OABTEB, painfully injured by a giant firecracker thrown by
Dr. A. W. Davis at Hennepin avenue and Fourth street last evening. No
blame is attached to Dr. Davis and Carter only suffers a slight flesh wound
in the neck.
THOMAS O'HABA, 11 years old, fingers torn by a firecracker which
he allowed to go off in his hand last evening. Taken to city hospital and
later to his home.
JACK NASH, 4208 Blaisdell, hand injured by explosion of firecracker
not serious.
HAROLD WEIGHT, age IS, 2610 Quincy street, injured in nose and
forehead by flying tin from exploding powder can. "W&.
MAY OONLEY, girl 5 years old, living at 1808 Fourth avenue S^ace
torn near the mouth by torpedo exploded between her teeth. Accident seri-
ous and blood poisoning feared. Girl was carrying torpedo in her mouth.
MBS. JOHN LAMINSKEY, 1627 University avenue NE.Injured by
a cannon cracker while on the street June 25j has nearly recovered from
the accident.
Journal Special Service.
New York, July 4.This Fourth of
July promises to break all fireworks
records. Never before has the business
swelled to such proportions as this year
It promises to surpass last year's *by~
20 ie cent.
When the retail stores closed their
brief but active season last night, it is
estimated that in the preceding ten
days more than $12,000,000 thruout the
United States had changed hands over
their counters.
Even from parts of the south where
for years few firecrackers were sold to
celebrate July 4th, large orders were re
ceived.
In New York city a sharp line is be
ing drawn between fireworks, and prop
erly considered dangerous explosives.
A great feature this year was the
Japanese daylight fireworks. These in
clude various balloon-like contrivances,
shaped to represent animals of various
sorts, shot up from bombs and accom
panied by many strange smoke effects.
Elephants, lions, tigers, camels and
horses are among the aerial menagerie
and there are pretty effects in flags and
flowers. These daylight fireworks are
the especial contribution of the Japan
ese who have not attained the skill in
making firecrackers that has been so
long possessed bv the Chinese.
Another specialty of the present sea
son is the electric fireworks which flash
piercing rays like lightning, or burst
into splendid showers of sparks.
MINNEAPOLIS CELEBRA TING%
A SANE FOURTH OF JULY
Casualties in Minneapolis
FEED WELKINS, 12-year-old son of A. H. Wilkins, 3148 Hennepin
avenue part of thumb torn off by toy cannon.
OEOROE QBEEB, Oirard avenue N, face burned by premature explo-
sion of a firecracker. Not serious.
BABNEY KELLEY, East Side flats, accidentally shot himself in the
arm with small revolver loaded with cartridges.
BOBEBT CAMPBELL, 910 Twenty-fourth avenue NE, burned about the
face by the explosion of a cannon cracker. Not serious.
LONG LOST LINER,
AMERICA, IS SAFE
Steamer, Thirteen Days Overdue,
Puts In at Bermuda, with
Disabled Machinery.
New oYrk, July 4.The Fabre line
steamer America, which sailed from
Marseilles June 3 via St. Michaels,
Azores, 11th, for New York, and for
whose safety considerable anxiety has
been felt, as she was thirteen days' over
due, was reported as arriving at Ber
muda today in tow of a steamer sup
posed to be the Dinnamare from Cir
genti.
The America's machinery was dis
abled.
DEATH FOR 13
INCArSIILDRUN
Strikers Accused of Sending Jug
gernaut Into Camp of
Miners.
Altoona, Pa., July4.Investigation
todav of the runaway car accident near
Portage last night showed that thirteen
of a party of twenty -foreigners who
were holding^ a celebration along the
track were killed. Several others were
injured.
The car was loaded with a motor con
signed to the Puritan Coal company and
had been left standing on a siding near
the mine shaft. Mine officials give it
as their opinion that the striking for
eigners loosened the brake and, started
the car down the spur, altho another
theory is that malicious boys sent the
car off in a spirit of mischief.
The disaster happened on what is
known as Martin's curve, on a track
four miles long that acts as a feeder
for several mines. The incline is very
steep and it is the custom to run cars
down to Portage by gravity. The car
had gone three miles before leaving the
tracks and had gained a frightful mo
mentum. It hit Martin's curve while
going at full speed and left the tracks
at a sharp angle, turning half way
round and plunging into the crowd of
merrymakers.
The party had been drinking: and
singing for several hours. One foreign
er who returned to Portage to have nis
injuries dressed declared that the party
were singing a last song prior to retir
ing for the night. When rescuers ar
rived they were appalled by the fright
ful sight that was presented.
Oar Leaps Into Crowd.
All of the dead men were Arabians
who had lately been imported to work
in the mines near Portage. Many of
them were young. They lived a
shanty near the scene of the disaster.
It was impossible to see the car in
its headlong flight down the incline
until it was within twenty feet of
where it left the tracks. It cleared the
tracks, plunging several feet into the
air and alighting squarely upon the
Arabians. The awful suddenness made
escape out of the question.
REQUESTS ROOSEYELT
TO BE BRYAN'S HOST
New York, July 4.William Hoge.
president of the Commercial Travelers'
Anti-Trust league, today sent a letter
to President Roosevelt inviting Mr.
Boosevelt to preside at the reception
to be tendered W. J. Bryan in this
city upon his arrival from Europe early
in September. Mr. Hoge explained in
his letter that the league is not a parti
zan organization in any sense, and that
the organization regraded Mr. Boose
velt as being as muoh opposed to the
trusts as is Mr. Bryan.
FIFTY SHOTS FIRED IN
BATTLE WITH THTJYES
Frankfort Ind., July 6-In a rnn
ning battle oefeween officers and four
men suspected of numerous burglaries,
over fifty shots Trere fired. One man
was shot thru the hand. The fight took
place in the yards of the Clover Leaf
railway. The four men were eapturea
after shooting from behind cars and
escaping a fnsilade of shots from the
officers. A quantity of burglars' tools
was secured. The only man struck waa
one of the eagfcared men, who the
Few Accidents to Mar the" Ob#
servance of the National
Holiday.
PLENTY OF NOISE
BUT FEW CASUALTIES
Police Have- Less Trouble
Rigidly Enforcing City
Ordinances.
If a sane Fourth of July is possible,
Minneapolis had one today, and altho
there were several slight accidents, no
one was seriously injured before noon
and in many parts of the city almost
a Sabbath quiet prevailed.
From the start the police enforced
the ordinances rigidly. There was by
far more noise last evening than to
day, and as it has been the custom in
former years for many persons to make
their noise on the evening of July 3,
the police did not interfere except
where the celebrators were careless or
used revolvers instead of firecrackers.
Nearly a hundred revolvers were taken
from boys, and two or three young men
were arrested and locked up for placing
explosives on the streetcar tracks. The
city has been freer from this evil than
ever before.
The fine weather made it possible
for the small boy to go to the pleasure
resorts, as he is always willing to do,
and accordingly that much noise was
lemoved from the city proper. The
woods about the city limits were crowd
ed with picnic parties, and many police
men were detailed at those places to
prevent the careless use of fireworks
and to be on hand in case of accident
or trouble.
Little Drunkenness.
One noticeable fact was the lack of
drunkenness. Altho the saloons wera
open, their business was not rushing,
and the down-town places did an un
usually light business. The business
streets were almost deserted and onlv
&n occasional firecracker told the dii
ference between this and the ordinary,
holiday.
Police Superintendent Doyle placed
many of the night men on duty at noon
today, and many of the day men will
work until late tonight. Every detec
tive was on duty and there is little
prospect of trouble in any part of the
city.
The fire department also had a quiet
time until noon. There were no fires
caused by fireworks and the only alarm
answered was turned in by a small boy
in North Minneapolis as a prank. Chief
J. R. Canterbury grants no vacations
during the months of July and August,
and every fireman was ready for stren
uous duty Sunday evening.
Police and hospital officials are sur
prised at the small list of accidents
before the Fourth and today. Last
year there were nearly a dozen acci
dents due to firecrackers before the
big day. This year but five were re
ported. Four of these occurred last
night and one June 25.
Everybody Celebrates.
Minneapolis was Fourth of July
headquarters for the entire northwest
today. The observance of lndependance
D&y was more
generafl
thruout th city
than usual anddays rivaled theAnthone celebrations
village St and
early Minneapolis. The pace estab
lisned today is likely to be the markel
by which all future Fourths will b'
judged.
Everybody who could do so took part
in the celebration. The small boys and
the still larger youths who rolled out of
bed at dawn to begin the celebration
re.ioi/-ed to see the sun, full-faced and
smiling, rise in all his glory with rich,'
promise of a bright, clear day. He hidi
his face for a time early in the fore-,
upon, but scared nobody. After plan
ning for days and weeks for outings,
with the picnic baskets already packed
and the kids ready and waiting, with
the best girl already invited and the
day's program mapped out, with plane
of other sorts already made, nobody
allowed a cloudy sky and a few dronf
of rain to interfere.
Noise Began Early.
The noisy celebration began eaxiy,
Small skirmish engagements between
the small boy and the festive finger
cracker have been on for days, butlol-'
lowing the stroke of midnight the real
noise of the day broke forth.
Trom early morning until the return
ing crowds began to pour back into the
city the streets were almost deserted.
The quietude of Nicollet avenue remind
ed one of a busy day on Bobert street
in St. Paul. The first cars for the thou
and and one pleasant resorts about the
city were crowded. Some of the early
Mmnetonka crowds, in order to be sure
of a place, went out on the last carfl
last night and camped for the night in\
the Excelsior commons and on othev
picnic grounds about the lakes.
With the morning cars came the
crowds of early birds, mostly fishermen,
but by 6 and 7 o'clock the family bud-1
ness was on full blast and every ear'
played to a full house. The ten-minute
service established by the
company for1
Big and Little Celeb:
The largest general gathering of
I
the day was nonestreeteav too fre
quent, an dtho every available oar waa
in commisison, crowds were always
waiting at transfer points. The rail
roads on both sides of the lake did a
record business also. The St. Louis
road ran full trains all day to the south
shore, as did the Great Northern on the
north shore.
Every other line reaching lakes and
picnic groves was busy. l?he groves',
parks, and resorts about the city in
every direction were filled to overflow
ing with pleasure seekers. On all sides
were smiling faces. The red, white
and blue was everywhere visible.' Younj
and old alike surrendered to
of the day.
tb#,!1
day was the Catholic picnic at Nelson
grove in North Minneapolis, where 15,'
000 persons from the Catholic churches-1
and societies of the city gathered Jo?
a monster picnic St. "Paul Oathoaea^j
gathered at the state fair grounds for
a similar celebration. The thousand
other celebrations were not less success
fuL Churchese, societies, lo
neighborhood cliques, families and
ess made the most of the day.
Excelsior, at Lake Minnetenka, gar*
taelf JtyJi Refine, old-fashioned
Fourth of July celebration with nolle,
oratory and lemonade. The villagers