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VOLUME XLI.-NO. 44.
MAYOR RAHR
NOT A CANDIDATE
Will Not Seek Re-election at the
Spring - Election,
WHAT HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED IN OFFICE
And What He Hopes lo do Before he
Retires.
The Mayor Advances Stress of Private Busi
ness Would Prevent Kim Assuming Civic
Duties for Another Term—His
Friends Would Like Him
To Run,
In c mrse of conversation the other
day Mayor Ruhr stated that he had de
termined that under no consideration
would he run again for the office of
mayor. He said that his private busi
ness now entailed more work on his
time then he ought to do. and that it
would lie foolish for him to undertake
the obligations incident to a second term
in the mayurality.
Before his term expires the mayor
expects to make several notable im
prove lents to the city, the principal
ones being the paving of Eighth and
Commercial streets, the lighting of
these thoroughfares with arc lights, the
buildi ig of a city hall, commodious
enough to transact all the municipal
busine is, as well as to provide accomo
dation for a city library. The new city
hall, he says, will be as elegent as the
appropriation of funds will allow.
.“If we can get around to the high
school before my term is out," said the
mayor, “Manitowoc will have such an
institution of learning. I think the
city should In* provided with a school
of this kind. It will do much to dis
seminate intellectual culture. But
whether we can get around to this work
or not I am not now able to sav.”
Since Mayor Rahr has been in office
he ha i improved the parks and made
them very attractive to the people on
the north and south sides of the city,
making music a leading feature Wash
ington park is especially well patroniz
ed. Then the gas mains have been laid
and soon the city will Is- provided with
this means of illumination. During his
term the library was founded and he
appointed the committee to carry on
this feature of city life.
Th ■ mayor has also devoted quite a
considerable amount of time to the
improvement of the harbor. He has
been active in trying to get the Rivers
and Harbors committee of congress to
visit the cit.v.
That the mayor’s services have been
appreciated by a large b sly of voters
is amply attested by the fact that he
has had many mi nests to run again for
the office, but to every one he has had
the same answer that the pressure of his
own business is so great that he would
lie doing his family an injustice to con
tinue any* longer in the office than the
term he was elected for.
Miss Winnie Richards is the guest of
Oshkosh friends,
Mrs. William Murphy is taking a trip
to Buffalo on the Olympia.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PILOT.
CHARLIE HUCHTHAUSEN’S NEW HAT.
While Sporting it Around the Northwestern Yards a Re
calcitrant Locomotive Boiler Disgorged a Pew Pounds
of Steam Through the Smoke Stack and Now
He has Discarded it.
( bailie Hucthauseii, the genial agent of the Chicago and North
western railroad, walked out ot a hat store a few days ago. wearing a
brand new straw, looking the pink of perfection. In addition to
the hat, lie wore his customary smile, and from general outside ap]s*ar
anees he was iu a happy frame of mind. He met several fellows le
-tween the hat store and the depot and all congratulated him on his
headgear. The clerks hi the office wore passing comments on the
chapeau, much to the gratification of the agent, when a yardman en
tered the room with a message that Mr. Hucthauseii was wanted in
the yard to consult with an engineer.
The agent walked over to where the engineer had his locomotive.
He moored himselt near the cab, and was soon immersed in conversa
tion. Of a sudden, without any warning, the big boiler on the engine
found that it was making too much steam, and it exhausted a few
jsumds through the smoke stack. The s<s>t, as it was thrown into the
air, took some summersaults, and then, without any provo
cation. lighted on the new white hat of Mr. Hucthauseii.
The genial agent of the road isn't going around telling what he
said when be took off his hat and looked at the liesi>attered head piece.
But he did say something, using g<ssl words in the saying of it.
THE MANITOWOC PILOT.
CHIEF OF POLICE PIERCE'S
MOTHER DIES RT RN
RDVRNCED RGE.
Police Chief Pierce’s mother, one of
the oldest residents of Manitowoc coun
ty died at the Rapids on Sunday after
ms in. The funeral was held from the
old homestead on Tuesday and it was
largely attended. The old lady had
passed her niuty second birthday liefore
death came to her. Mrs. Pierce was
tiorn in the state of New York, near
Lake George, in IHOh, In 18IIH she came
to this county with her husband and
settled in the Rapids. She lived there
through many long years. She leaves
five children: A. C. Pierce of the
Rapids, Chief of Police of this city, A
M. Pierce of Clarks Mills, Mrs. E. Bail
ey of Little Falls, Wis., and Miss H. M. |
Pierce.
MR. DAVIDSON HAS
GONE TO JOIN RIVER
AND HARBOR COMMITTEE.
Congressman Davidson has left his
home in Oshkosh for Buffalo, where he
will join the members of the Rivers and
Harbors committee and proceed with
them up the lakes as far as Duluth. Mr.
Davidson has promised to communicate
with Mayor Hahr, and apprise him of
the determination of the committee in
relation to the invitation extended to it,
to visit Manitowoc As things look
now it is (piite likely that a part of the
committee will come here and the
balance will go on to Chicago.
A large party of Chicago men will
meet the committee at Mackinac anil
escort those who don’t come to
Manitowoc, together with the ladies to
(Tiicago.
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE
ARE SAILING UP AND
DOWN THE LAKE.
Frank Canright. general agent for the
Goodrich Transportation Company,
! speaking of travel this season by the
way of lakes, says in view of the
' conditions that prevailed in Chicago as
a consequence of the strike, it has been
| usually good. The ls>ats going north
and south carry a full complement of
passengers, and at times every berth
has been crowded. Hiwl there lieen -no
strike in Chicago, this year's lake travel
would have been exceptionally heavy,
perhaps a record breaker, hut notwith
standing this drawback his company
have done better than could have been
expected.
SEVENTY-FIVE MEN
JOIN THE ORDER OF
MODERN WOODMEN
Seventy-five men were initiated into
the order of Modern Wtsslnien on Sat
urday in the Opera house. This gives
the older a membership of 140 in this
city. In honor of such a large influx of
new members a large delegation of
Modern Woodmen came to the city from
points along the Fox river valley. After
the service in the Oja-ra house the Mod
ern Woodmen sat down to a repast.
Manitowoc Club Defeated.
The Manitowoc baseball club was de
feated by the Appleton boys on Sunday
afternoon at the grounds of the Apple
ton club. The Appleton's made eight
runs and the Manitowoc’s two.
WILLIAM J. BRYAN TO THE PILOT.
In an Exhaustive Letter Shows the Evils
Which Necessarily Hustßesult by the Ado
ption of Imperialism and Militarism--
He is Once and Forever Opposed
to the unArrerican Doctrine
Championed by the Pres
ent Administrtion.
Some time ago The Pilot wrote W. ,T
Bryan. Democratic candidate for presi
dent a request to sjieak through its col
j mans directly to the voters of Manito
woc, county on the burning and predom
inant issue of imperialism. Mr. Bryan
after stating his position referred to his
gratification that “The Pilot stands
squarely on the Kansas City platform,
and then he savs: “I believe we enter
the campaign of P.MHi with every pros
pect of success." His plans he says for
speech making are now being matured
by the National committee. He says;
on this great question says:
"To the Editor oj Miuiilim'oc I‘dot:
Those who advocate the annexation of
the Philippines call themselves expan
sionists, but they are really imperialists.
The word expansion would descrils*
the acquisition of territory to be popu
' WILLIAM J . BR V AN.
lated by homogeneous iieople and to Is*
carved into states like those now in ex
istence. An empire suggests variety in
race and diversity in government. The
Imperialists do not desire to clothe the
Filipinos with all the rights and privi
leges of American citizenship; they
want to exercise sovereignty over an
alien race and they expect to rule the
new subjects upon a theory entirely at
variance with constitutional govern
ment. Victoria is queen of Great Bri
tain and empress of India; shall we
change the title of our executive and
call him the president of the United
States and the emperor of the Philip
pines?
“The Democratic party stissl for the
money of the constitution in IK ’.; it
stands for the government of the con
stitution now.
“The American people cannot apply
the European and monarchical doctrine
of force in the subjugation and govern
ment of alien races ami at the same
time stand forth as defenders of the
principles embodied in our Declaration
of Indei>ence and constitution. A man
may live a double life when only one of
his lives is known, but as soon as his
duplicity liecomes manifest to the world
he can lead but one life, and that the
w >rst. As soon as we establish two
forms of government, one by consent in
this country and the other by force in
Asia, we shall cease to have the influ
ence of a republic and shall join in the
s|siliation of helpless people under the
pretense of conferring upon them un
sought and undesired blessings.
“Independence for the Filipinos under
a protectorate win h will guard them
from outside interference while they
work out their own destiny is consistent
with American tradition. Arne dean his
tory. and American interests. The soon
er the declaration is made the tietter.
“If I mistake not the sentiment of lire
j American {teople they will spurn lire
| (mis-of imperialism and, by resisting
I temptation, win such a victory as Las
not been won since the battle of York
town. Let it Is* written of the United
1 States: Behold a republic that took up
MANITOWOC, WIS. AUGUST 2, 1900.
arms to aid a neighlstring people, strug
gling to )><■ free: e that in tho
progress of the war. heljM-d distant races
.vhose wrongs were not in eontempla
tion when hostilities Is-gan: a repnhlie
that, when peace was restored, turned a
deaf ear to the clamorous voice of greed
and to those home down by the weight
of a foreign yoke spoke the welcome
words. Stand up: he free let this he the
record made on history's jiage and tin
silent example of this republic, true to
its principles in the hour of trial, will
do more to extend the area of self-gov
ernment and civilization than could la
done by all the wars of conquest that
we could wage in a generation.
‘ The forcible annexation of the Philip
pine Islands is not necessary to make
the United States a world power. Dur
ing its brief existence it lias exerted up
on the human race an influence more
potent for good than all the other na
tions of the earth combined, and it has
exerted that influence without the use
of sword or Gatling gun. Mexico and
the republics of Central and South Am
erica testify to the benign influence of
our institutions, while Europe and Asia
give evidence of the working of the!
leaven of self-government. In the
growth of democracy we observe the
triumphant march of an idea an idea
that would lie weighted down rather,
than aided by the armor and weapons
proffered by im|ierialism.
“Imperialism, as it now presents itself,
embraces four distinct propitious:
“That the acquisition of territory by !
conquest is right.
“That the acquisition of remote terri
tory is desirable.
“That the doctrine that governments
derive their just powers from the con
ADLAI E. STEVENSON.
sent of the governed is unsound.
“That people can Is- wisely governed
by aliens.
“To all these propositions Jefferson
was emphatically op|M>sed. In a letter
to William Short, written in 171 M In
said:
“ ‘lf there Is- one principle more deep
ly written than any other in the mind
of every American, if is that we should
have nothing to do with conquest.'
“John Morley. the English statesman,
in a recent speech to Ids constituents,
uttered a warning which may well be
considered by our jieople. He said:
“ ‘lmperialism brings with it militar
ism. Militarism means a gigantic expend
iture, daily growing. It means an in
crease in government of the power of
aristocratic and privileged classes. Mili
tarism means the profit.-i >:i t.. ta .-
payer’s money every where etci-pt i.i Hit
taxpayer's own home, and inilitnrisin
must mean war
“ ‘And you must lx- much less well
! read in history than I take tin- liberals
l of Scotland to Is- if yon do not kno*
that it is not war, that hateful demon
of war. Imt white -winged |-a<e that
lias lieen the nurse and guardian of free
dom and justice and well-being over
(< :<iotiinisJ un Kislitli >
NEW CHURCH FOR
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Fraizier Hall to he Turned
into Religious Channels
MRS. EDDY’S CULT IS NOW GROWING.
The Leader Miss Jerauld to Carry on an
Energetic Propogranda.
Sixty Persons are Now Allged with
rtodern Faith.
That the Christian Science church is
growing in this city is evidenc'd in the
fact that the members have decided to
take Frazier hall, Eighth and York Sts,,
and tit it up for church purposes.
Since the reader Miss Jerauld has been
located in Manitowoc the clmreh neiety
has grown from twenty-live, who be
long to (be mother ehnveh in Itoston. of
whic h Mrs. K.ddy is the* pastor, until the
number is over sixty. An enthusiastic
member of the- c ull, said that the re
markable demonstrations in the- curative
branch of the religion had attracted
many iminiring persons to the church.
In the* new church an energetic pro
pogancla of Christian Sceince thesis will
Is* carried on. A reading room is to be*
established, and this will be furnished
with the up-to-date views and books on
the science.
Church services will be held, carried
on like- orthodox Evangelical churches.
Instead of sermons, however, there will
be expostnlary and instructive reading
and remarks. The usual singing will be
indulged in and invocations will be
effered.
The church parlors will be turned
into a kind of spiritual c lub room, ;
where the- faithful and those outside* the J
pale of the faith may commingle for
mutual, mental and spiritual elevation, j
REPUBLICANS TO NAME
COUNTY CANDIDATES
ABOUT SEPT. 20.
Tlie convention for the nomination of
county officer* on the Republican ticket
will take place about Sept. *2O. While
the date has not been sjiecilically named
yet it is conceded by those who know
that Sept, ‘iff is the one favored by the
prosjiective candidates.
This will allow six weeks for cam
paign purjMises.
I*KIVATI; IM KSONS SAID
TO OWN PROPERTY WHICH
Bi I.ONOS TO COINTY-
By a recent investigation the Manito
woc county land cennnissioners have
discovered that considerable property,
to the value of s(iuno. which is lieing
held by private parties, really belongs to
the county under tax deeds. The pro
jierty affected is the lot on which the
Snowflake laundry is built, in the pos
session of W. White, a lot back of
the Rev. Mr. (1 ray's residence, two lots
held by Judge Anderson on Fourth street
near the lake, four lots south of the
railroad track between Twenty first and
Twenty second street, forty acres in
Two Rivers, three acres in Cato, a lot in
Mashoto and a lot in Rapids.
01*1 KA MOUSI; SCMI Ml
NOT TO Ilf: ABANDON!!)
BY C AKI M ANSI N.
The plan to erect an opera house is not
to lie abandoned. many persons who
havf sniwerilted to the fuml, having
importuned Curl Hausen. who has
tailored assiduously for works to raise
tlif nod necessary, to fontimif the
work.
Mr. Hanson's decision to continue
the work for a time ought to he rcceiv
ed with favor fy those who desire an
opera house and that his effort will he
linallv crowned with success seems
certain.
THIRD WARD TO
GI T Nf:W SCHOOL
HOI Si IMMI DIATII V-
What promised to he the most excit
nig school meeting in the history of the
city turned out to Is- a mild affair. The
special meeting called in District No. 7
took place Wednesday evening. If was
almost unanimously resolved to issue
Ik aids and build the school as originally
planned
Record of July Shipping.
The record of the month s navigation
for Julv is compiled bv Clyde Sedgwick
as follows; Vessels entered. IPs,
tonnage 1477M5; cleared. ',‘ol tonnage.
14H411. In comparison with last year
entered. tonnage: KilkUto: cleared
•*:t. tonnage. l.'iilllNl
Deiiuaralk Convention.
( i.nntv Chairman John Ch)ou|s-k has
ii, lied his committee together to meet
I at the Democratic club nMims on Aug. 7
iat 11.10 in the morning The county
convention will be In ! 1 August 17.
HOW CUPID HAD REVENGE.
Five Young rianitovvoc Men Sign an Anti
marriage Agreement for Five Years, But
The Qod of Love Fetches Down Three
With his Bow xnul Arrow.
Five young men popular li.-tixl-i
intelligent and in fairly good circum
stances so far as tliis world's wealth
goes, signed an ironclad contract not to
niarrv within the space of five vents
Some of tin 1 signers are groaning he
cause Cupid. the sly dog, discovered
that such a compact was in existence
and he successfully set to work to make
it mighty uncomfortable for three of
the young fellows. This is how (he
five years' arrangement was made
One of the live met a very pretty school
inarm, and there peeped out from he
Death her eyelashes a look a look
subtle in its force, which just penelrat
ed that young man's heart and he was
conquered. It wasn't so very long
afterwards that everybody know la*
f was in low ami li< friends used to twit
! him about his inamorato anil lie took it
| in tlie jovial spirit in which it was made.
Sometime afterwards a cloud over
spread his face, ilis friends wondered
and then inquired and the discovery
was made that the love cord had been
c it in twain, and the two hearts that
formerly beat as one were now separat
ed, and each pluved its own solo.
While the dejected Lothario was tell
ing his sad story to a companion the
latter said Let ns sign an agreement
not to marry for five years.
This proposition came as a cooling
rain after a long drought, and while
they were talking, three other chaps
stopped. They were told of the scheme
and in a spirit of jocularity they, too,
consented to tie parties to the treaty.
Five legal papers were drawn up.
signed and the young fellows went
away apparentlv rejoicing. There was
a stipulation however, in the contract
that whoever broke the agreement and
(.OSSIP ABOUT PI OIM 1 I KOM
MANITOWOC AND OTIII P TOWNS
Thomas Morris, manager of Hi'- >'ni
versity Co-operative association of Mad
i M . hi, and Ernst (Jreverns of Now Hoi
stoin. Wis,, have been in the city Mr
(ircvMiis lias liccii ajijsiintcd assistant
Ml
No other aid so great to the housewife,
f no r other agent so useful and certain in
making delicious, pure and wholesome
foods, has ever been devised.
yjfismmr pvfit
There are imitation baking powders, sold cheap, by
many grocers. They are made from alum, a poison
' ousurug, which renders the food injurious to Health.
HOY.M 6AKINQ POWOW CO., 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK.
WHOLE NO. 2176
'married must put up SSO which money
was to be divider! lietween the faithful
j ones.
Time lagged along until the God of
Love heard all about this defiance of
his prerogative and he set to work to
have revenge. His first victim was the
young man who had madly loved the
South side school inarm. He was in
vited out to evening dances, and within
quite recently he succumbed to another
attack and now one girl wears an en
gagement ring. Meeting one memlier
|of the notorious five on Eighth
-a feet last Monday, he said, "When does
onr contract to not marry for five years,
expire.”
I ll see,” sai<! the other, and reaching
into his pocket, he drew forth a pocket
ease, pulled out a paper and scrutinized
it. Then bHiking at the other with an
importurable stare, replied, "One year,
next November".
X lle-s to say great drops of prespir
ation dropped from the young man who
wished to be married next November
for he was politely told that j>.">ii would
be collected from him in the event of
marrying or legal process would be* re
sorted to collect it. Now.it leaks out
that two of the other signers will also
v iolate the terms of the agreement and
that only two of the original parties
intend to live up to them, and these two
are chuckling because they exjiect to
make a collection of flat)
< hie of the victims in talking over the
matter said. “You see. when we signed
that fool contract we failed to reckon
with Cupid, who uses a girl’s eye, her
coy beauty and gracionsness as coils to
bind ns from which we cannot release
ourselves."
principal in the Ryan high sch >ol of
Appleton.
Mhs Von Hricson of (Ml umbus is in
the city on a visit to her sister.
Mi and Mrs. J. E. Plumb are at Lake
Nispudwy. near Marinette, for a weeks
outing