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PROP. J. «. DOWELLV'S (tI'ARTER
« KVri KY AS A SCHOOL
PRINCIPAL,
CITIZEN AND EDUCATOR
Came Prom Ireland <o MfameMta
mid Hokum Tem'hinit J« Small !•<*■»
tlt-MiciitH Ills Ability HfdiKiiln
*«l. ami He Became Siijhtliilcii
•lenl of the We»< St. I'aul SelujUla
mitl at Sanw Time Cimdnclfrt One.
Prof. .1. «:. Donnelly, principal >:f the
Gorman school, will soon complete a
quarter of a centurj as principal in
th* public schools of St. Paul. With
out exception he has served longer in
the capacity of a principal than any
other BChool uifn-ial now on the pay roll
.i! the BChool board. There are a few,
however, in the schoola who have serv
ed tor a longer continuous period, but
noi in tli»- capacity of principal.
Of thr- half-thousand or more educa
tors employed in the public schools.
there is scarcely one who is as well
known among teachers, and who has
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PROF. JOHN G. DOSSELLV.
been as conspicuous in all school mat
tt-rs as Prof. Donnelly. He has at all
times been prominent in the St. Paul
Teachers' association, and has shared
ideas, which he has been frank to ex
pr< ss. He led the opposition to the
n ovement of the teachers' association
to sue the city for back salary last fall.
:;. believed that the school board was
bending Its best efforts to do the right
thing by the teachers, and such action
r>n the part of the association would
embarrass the board, and in the end
gain nothing. -Although his following
on the subject was in the minority, a
Stubborn Eight was made against such
action. The association finally decided
to brir.g suit against the city for the
hack salary due them, and the supreme
rourt handed down a decision last week
deciding against the teachers.
Mr. Donnelly belongs to the old school
'■'■ educators, but Ik'.s kept abreast of
the times by the adoption of modern
. th< ds In bin school work. His school,
which is located in a distinctively wage
earning community, is regarded by the
board tip ••-■> of the best in the city.
despite the meager facilities offered by
■■;■< of the older buildings. Th^
Gorman school is the only graded
school in the city which has an alumni
association and literary society, both
of which are active organizations. Th?
latter is comprised of the scholars of
•'i seventh and eighth grades, who
mcc( every Friday afternoon and give
an original programme under the di
rection of the teachers. Mr. Donnelly
believes in combining the ideal with
the routine in school work. Meetings
of the alumni association are held
regularly, and as an evidence of the
; LCtical results emulating from the
association it has undertaken several
new departures for the good of the
fichooi. The school has nearly 500
scholars.
The professor is wrapped up in his
school work. It has not alone been of
an educational nature, but he has al
ways had the welfare of the commu
nity tributary to the Gorman school at
heart. The hard times weighed very
heavily on the constituents of his
school, and in many cases he has been
the means of assisting families to keep
their children In school, and at the :
fame time to keep the wolf from the
door.
Prof. Donnelly 1? a man of very quiet
habits, and of unassuming disposition.
H< goes nbout his work without any I
ostentation whatever, and Is a regular
visitor at the high school building.
Hardly a day passes that he does not.
after his school work, visit the superin
tendent's office. in the Central high
school. He takes an active interest in
all that pertains to the schools of the
city.
Prof. Donnelly was born at Six Mile
Cross. County Terone. Ireland. His
father was a well-to-do merchant, but
at an early age young Donnelly con
ceived the idea of coming to America.
the land of promise across the sea. He
received his early education in the na
tional schools of Ireland, except two
years that he remained in Ireland,
when he attended a private school.
Upon coming to this country he em
barked in a number of enterprises, and
first entered the educational field in
1566. when he taught a country school
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In 1867 he taught in St. Alias" academy,
Milwaukee, a Paroclal Institution. A
year later he taught for a term the
district school at Holland, Michigan,
and the following term at Berlin,
twelve miles distant from Grand Rao
ids. The following year Mr. Donnelly
returned to his parents at Milwaukee,
and in the fall he came to St. Paul, and
later organized the first high BChool in
Anoka county, at Rosemount, and one
of the- first in the state. Hist work was
highly commended by the state super
intendent and tn 1872 the St. Paul
school hoard elected him principal of
the Kice school, which had just been
completed In what was one of the most
promising portions of the city.
In 1880 West St. Paul was annexed
to St. P.iul. and throe small schools
were opened up by the school board.
Pi of. Donnelly was elected the same
year as superintendent of these
schools. In addition to teaching his
own school, he was obliged to visit
once a week the other schools, which
oftentimes required his leaving his own
school without any teacher. He was
very successful in this, however, and
i never experienced any of the little
school insurrections which were at that
time looked upon almost as a certainty
in every district school. One of the
three schools was held in the town
hall, the second on the Dodd road and
the third the central school, or "Flat"
school, stood on the present site of the
Lafayette building.
In IcES than a year Mr. Donnelly re-
turned to his o";d school on Granite
street. The people living in the neigh
borhood held several indignation meet
ings and circulated a petition which
was signed by nearly everybody in the
Kice school district.
During 1883 Mr. Donnelly resigned aa
principal of the Rice school and went
into the dry goods business at the cor
ner of Ramsey and West Seventh
street, where he continued until 188 ft.
He sold out during that year and was
appointed principal of the Gorman
school, which position he has occupied
to the present time.
He is a strong believer in free text
books and on many occasions has giv
en voice to his sentiments on that sub
ject.
SEVEN FEET^OF SNOW.
Colorado Han Never Before Eipe-
I'iriiccrl St:cli Storm*.
DENVER, Feb. 4.— Trains are again
running on regular schedule from Den-'
ver to Como, on the South Park road,
but beyond Como the rotary is still
bucking the snow drifts in the efforts
to open the road to Kokpmo and Lead
ville. Between Dickey and Leadvllle
are twenty-five snow slides, each twen-
I ty-flve to 200 feet long and eight to
i ten feet deep, and at the present rate
of progress Kokomo will not be reach
ed until tomorrow. At Wheeler a
freight train loaded with merchandise
I and two locomotives, stalled since last
Thursday, was discovered on a siding
with the train crew still Its occupants.
Slides before and behind had pinned
] it in. The train had been snow-bound
for ten days. Division Superintendent
Zeninger, of the Soutfi t-'ark branch of
the Colorado & Southern, said today:
"We have had seventy-one consecu
tive days of snow and storm between
Como and Leadville. In all that time
there has not been a single day free
from snow storm and high winds. The
j old settlers state emphatically that
this winter has been by all odds the
most severe in twenty-five years. The
! snow is seven feet deep on the level
j from Boreas to Climax, and in many
j places drifted to more than twenty
i five feet. The snow is sl»ht and grad
| ual and drifts easily. There has been
j no suffering from lack of provisions or
fuel, unless it be at Kokomo. We have
I the road, open between Denver and
i Como and within twenty-five miles of
i Leadville."
MINERS MAY STARVE.
Critical State of Affalrtt at .Inde
pendence Dne to Storm.
ASPEN. Col., Feb. 4.— The situation
j at the mining camp of Independence,
| eighteen miles from here, is critical in
| the extreme. Starvation stares the in
habitants of the town in the face. Pro
vision and fuel supplies are nearly ex
| hausted. Wood that has been cut and
I piled up for winter use lies buried un
-1 der many feet of snow and cannot be
j reached. The mines there, in all prob
ability, must close down now until
spring. Roads leading to this place,
the only source of supply for Inde
pendence, are impassable, and the only
method of journeying between the two
places is on snow-shoes, an exceeding
ly dangerous method of travel. The
s(orm still rages fiercely at Independ
ence, making the outlook more gloomy.
Snowslides are so frequent between
Aspen and Independence that it is al
most suicidal to venture on the route
there.
Coldent In Yearn.
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 4.-Last night was
the coldest in eight years In -entral and
northern Nebraska, the thermometer regis
tered 32 degress below at Valentin*; 22 below
at Beaver City, and 18 below at North Platte.
There was an absencj of wind and Valentine,
which is the center at the north X< braska
cattle ranges, reports that sto^k is standing
the cold weather well and that there have
been no losses.
Soldiers Dead In Cuba.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.— Gen. Brooke, com
m&r.ding at Havana, reports to the war de
partment the following deaths among the
troops in Cuba: Corpjral Robert H. Doirtz,
-Ninth volunteer infanu-y, dysentery at Sai
tlago, Feb. :!; Corporal J. M. Hill, Fifth Unit
ed States cavalry, malarial fever, Santiago,
Feb. l; Private William H. Graham, Second
Kentucky, gunshot wound (accidental), Ma-
Utuzas, Jan. 31.
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© A Stranye Romance of Alabama That Began With a Shooting and Culminated in a Forbidden $S
®> Afarriage in a Convict Shack. Mb
An Alabama woman of culture and
personal attractions married a hero
convict a few days ago, and two states
are now agog with the gtory of the
nuptials, says the New York Herald.
It is an extraordinary narrative, this
romance of the Southland — of the clay
hills of Georgia and the black belt of
Alabama. Even Opie Read's stories of
Dixie life are tame beside this tale of
truth.
A more dramatic wedding cannot be
pictured. In the center of a rude dis
pensary, close to a convict stockade, a
felon, melanchojy In his prison garb,
held the eager hand of a fashionably
attirtd woman, whose fair face loomed
out from the somber background like
a. cameo. In front of them a burly
magistrate, with one powerful arm
thrusting back a frantic interrupter,
hurriedly read the marriage ceremony
and pronounced the queerly mated
couple man and wife.
Such was the wedding of "Dr." W.
S. Baldwin and Miss Eugenia Ray, at
Dolive, in Mobile county, Alabama , on
Jan. 14. But this marriage forms only
one chapter in the remarkable story of
love, heroism, tragedy and pathos.
Stretching back over a period of sev
eral years, this drama Involves two
of the most prominent families In Ala
bama and Georgia, and reaches for its
details into courts and capitols, schools
and churches, hospitals and death
rooms.
BEGAN WITH A KILLI.NG.
In the spring of 1595 a university
student went from Cuthbert, Ga., to
vi&it his cousin at Fitzpatrick's Sta
tion, on the Alabama & Georgia rail
road, nineteen mile 3 south of Mont
gomery. In the midst of the cotton
growing section, where the plantation
lilts of the working negroes keep time
with hoe and shovel, this young Geor
gian found much to please and Inter
est him. There was a petite, coy
Southern girl, Gena Hutchinson, whose
brown eyes won the visitor's heart.
He decided to establish himself afthis
growing village of 200 souls.
There was another suitor for the
girl's favor, however, and Baldwin's
path was studded with thorns. Miss
Hutchinson seemed to find Frank Eid
eon more attractive than his Georgia
rival. Bad blood sprung up between
the two men.
Baldwin had studied at the Univer
sity of Maryland and at the Vanderbilt
university, in Nashville. Three courses
in medicine had fitted him for a phy
sician's practice, and the neighborhood
looked up to him as a man of unusual
education. Still, some ugly stories were
told about him. It was said that Eld
son found it convenient to tell some of
these tales himself. Back at Nashville,
it was rumored. Baldwin had wooed a
Louisiana girl and won her hand. This
story went on to say that he married
at the bride's Louisiana home, but that
after a few weeks he left his young
wife. In after months Baldwin ac
knowledged this report was true, but
declared a divorce had been obtained.
One bright Sunday afternoon Bald
win, Miss Hutchinson and Eidson met
in the little postofnee at Fitzpatrlck's
ALABAMA LOVERS WHO WEDDED IN A CONVICT SHACK.
station. No effort was made by either
man to conceal his bitter enmity for
the other. A few heated words were
spoken and Eidson reached for his hip
pocket. Even before the Alabamian
could draw his gun Baldwin's revolver
spoke. There were three shots, and
Eidson lay mortally wounded.
In the court proceedings that follow
ed there was little to show that Bald
win was either rewarded by Miss
Hutchinson's love or that the Georgian
had stood between the girl and Eidson.
The latter died.
Baldwin's relatives hastened to his
side. Money and influence, plentiful
and extensive, were forthcoming to
urge his release. An effort was made
to secure Baldwin's liberty on a writ
of habeas corpus. This was unavail
ing, and finally, after a few months'
delay, Baldwin went to trial at Union
Springs, in Bullock county. Some of
the ablest counsel in trie state were
engaged in his defense. They were
gratified by a verdict fixing the prison
er's penalty at ten years' confinement
in the state penitentiary.
Baldwin's father, however, was eager
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to appeal 'l hb case. The late Col. H.
Clay Tompkfhs, one of the South'* most
eminent lawj'ers, advised thai no effort
be made ib disturb the judgment of the
trial court. Baldwin finally accepted
the sentence. .Hie head was shaved and
he donned^tfte convict's striped suit.
His education, quiet demeanor and
gentlemanly tvays won for him the
position of "trusty." His acquaintance
with medicine gave him practice and
rendered him of especial value at the
"stockades." Jle was soon transferred
to Mltylene. where there is a stockade
and where t\Vo hundred convicts are
employed 'to work in the large lumber
mills. Baldwin was made physician for
these convicts.
It is there that Miss Eugenia Ray's
personality entered into the story. Miss
Ray is a member of one of the be3t
connected families in Montgomery.
Her father is a large planter, and is
also connected with the oil mills and
other industries of Montgomery. He
owns a handsome home at
Highland Park, one of the fash
ionable suburban towns, and his
three daughters have been mem
bers of the most select coterie.
Eugenia, who is the second daughter,
was graduated with distinction at a
Montgomery seminary in the spring
of 1896, and immediately she was pos
sessed of a fad popular among South
ern girls— to teach a village school.
Mitylene is a small village, but Miss
Eugenia went there.
It was a lonely life at first for this
young girl just from the social gaye
ties of the "sweet girl graduate."
There were no young men of her set
in the village, but in the home of a
neighbor Baldwin boarded as a "trus
ty." Baldwin excited the pity of the
young woman. Frequent were the op
portunities for the meeting of the two,
and gradually the girl's pity changed
to affection. The little school had
not been in session many weeks be
fore Baldwin was a daily visitor to
the class room. To and from the
school the couple strolled the pine
fringed path together. They were con
stant companions.
Then came the school vacation, and
Miss Ray returned to her home. That
was in the summer of 1897. Letters
continued the love assurances between
the convict and his sweetheart.
A CONVICT HERO.
Next came ;the yellow fever. The
restrictions of quarantine law forced
Miss Ray' to remain in Montgomery.
She could,, not return to the village
school at Mitylene. Thousands of per
sons were fleeing from the dread
plague to the North. The parted lov
ers longed far each other's companion
ship in the trying days of the epi
demic.
Love led Baldwin to heroism. As a
medical studerit he represented that he
was an unusually competent nurse.
The convict inspectors testified to his
capabilities in the sick room. Baldwin
volunteered to nurse the yellow fever
patients at Montgomery. At such an
hour such an offer was valuable to the
state. It was accepted.
An extraordinary course was pur
sued. Gov. Johnston, with the consent
and at the advice of the board of con
vict inspectors, released Baldwin on a
thirty days' parole. The convict went
to Montgomery. He was allowed to
wear citizen's clothes. At Hammer
Hall, the seminary where Miss Ray
was graduated, a hospital was im
provised for patients suspected of af
fliction with yellow fever. There Bald
win made his headquarters during
that month.
He had the freedom of the city, and
It is related that the fearlessness with
which he thrust himself into contact
with peril of death, the readiness with
which he sought yellow fever patients,
showed the courage born of heroism.
But that month also afforded the
hero convict many opportunities to see
his sweetheart. He called frequently
at the Ray residence and made the
most of his companionship with Miss
Eugenia. When the month's parole
had expired Baldwin returned to his
prison stripes.
AN ELOPEMENT FRUSTRATED.
Baldwin was assigned to what is
known as Prison •tfo. 4, on the Coosa
river, near Wetumpka. Meanwhile a
definite understanding had been ar
rived at between the lovers. Baldwin
appealed to Qov. Johnson not to In
terfere with the issuance of a marriage
license to him. But the young people
knew the Ray family would never con
sent to the marriage.
An elopement was planned. Miss
Ray went to Wetumpka, ostensibly to
visit a friend.! After her departure
from Montgomery an acquaintance
warned her father of a suspicion that
she intended to marry Baldwin. Mr.
Ray hurriedly ; hitched a fast horse to
a light bu£gy and drove to the house
where his daughter was visiting. Tt
was a cross-country drive of twenty
miles through tlarkness over uncertain
roads, but the excited father reached
Wetumpk^. at midnight and in time to
prevent a >vedding. Miss Ray was tak
en home, c
It now transpires that President S.
B. Trapp, of the board of convict In
spectors. SVarned Miss Ray then that
he would not permit the marriage. In
deed, he threatened to deprive Baldwin
of his privileges as a "trusty" if the
efforts at matrimony were persisted in.
Miss Ray turned her attention to
ward a pardon for her convict lover.
Industriously and with the persuasive
powers that only a charming young
woman can exercise, she got up one of
the most voluminous petitions ever pre
sented to an Alabama governor. But
against her work were massed the ef
forts of dead Eidson's friends. The
Piosecuting attorney and the jury who
considered Baldwin's case declined to
fign the petition for pardon. Undis
mayed, Miss Ray pleaded personally
with the governor for executive clem
ency. Her eloquence was in vain.
Again and ugain she visited the capi
tol, but Gov. Johnson was firm in hla
refusal.
In the meantime Baldwin was trans
ferred to the stockade at Dolive, in
Mobile county. On Jan. 9 Miss Ray
made her last visit to the governor.
She was accompanied by her mother.
But Gov. Johnson remained obdurate.
On the following Wednesday Miss
Ray left home on the pretense that
she was going to visit a girl friend.
Thursday, Jan. 12, she told this friend
she was going to McGehee's Switch, a
nearby point. Instead, she boarded
the train for Mobile.
There she spent the night. The fol
lowing morning she was met by friends
of Baldwin and escorted to Dolive.
Another friend had meanwhile ob
tained a marriage license at Daphne
and forwarded it to the convict. Con
vict Lessee John D. Hand intercepted
the envelope containing the license. He
thought this would prevent the mar
riage. But the lovers had enlisted the
sympathies of Justice of the Peace
Burns. This magistrate — stalwart, ag
gressive and weighing fully 300 pounds
— himself procured a duplicate license,
and declared that, the couple willing,
the marriage would be performed.
THE DRAMATIC WEDDING.
The bride-elect was met at the ral
road by Baldwin and a small group of
friends. The couple embraced each
other and hastened to the shack in
which Baldwin had been conducting a
dispensary for the convicts. But Les
see Hand, learning that he had been
outwitted, hastened to the scene. He
reached the place just in time to see
the couple take their positions in f ont
of the magistrate. Hand grabbed
Baldwin by one sleeve of his prison
garb and attempted to Jerk him out of
the room. The powerful Justice of the
peace shoved Hand back and thrust
himself between Baldwin and the in
terrupter. The magistrate fumed for
a moment, stamped his feet, said some
harsh things to Hand, and then de
clared the couple married. Baldwin
was taken back to the stockade.
The convict's girl wife remained at
Dolive until the Thursday following.
The couple were kept apart, however,
the intervening time. Mrs. Baldwin is
now at her parents' home in Montgom
ery, thoroughly gratified over the mar
riage and confident thai her husband
will yet prove the nobility of character
which she is convinced he possesses.
The Ray family is much chagrined
over the affair. They refuse absolute
ly to talk about it. Baldwin enjoys
something of a practice as an un
licensed physician, and he may be able
to support his wife with some degree
of comfort during the remaining six
years of his term as a convict. He will
not be permitted, however, to enjoy
the society of his wife during that
period.
Baldwin's father is a physician at
Cuthbert, Ga. He serves as a surgeon
for the Central railway of Georgia. The
groom Is twenty-eight years old and
the bride twenty-two.
A FIGHTING FAMILY.
The groom comes from a fighting
family. Two of his brothers "died with
their boots on." One was killed at
Brunswick, Ga., and the other was shot
to death in the Indian territory. Back
at Cuthbert. Ga., where the Baldwin
family have lived for years, Dr. Bald
win, the convict bridegroom's father,
has a reputation for tremendous cour
age. "He'd fight a circular saw," his
neighbors say.
The younger Baldwin himself is de
scribed as being "of the shooting sort."
Nervous, with keen, roving eyes,
swarthy complexioned, slender and
short of stature, there Is little attrac
tive about him until he engages in ani
mated conversation or seeks to make
himself agreeable. Then the eyes soft
en, the lips curve gently, the voice low
ers to a purring tone and the whole
man seems to nestle into the midst of
one's confidence.
Aroused, Baldwin is one of the most
dangerous men that ever gained noto
riety for being "quick on the trigger."
President Trapp, of the board of con
vict inspectors, regards Baldwin as a
"bad man" — one to whom the revolver
is the first and the last tribunal for
the adjudication of personal contro
versies.
WAGNER'S_WIDOW ILL
Relict of the Famous Composer
Stricken With Pneumonia.
BERLIN. Feb. 4.— Coslma. Wagner, the
widow of Richard Wagner, the dramatic com
poser, is dangerously ill of pneumonia at Vi
enna. Co3lma Wagner is the daughter of
Liszt, the pianist and composer, and was
formerly the ,wife of Horr \on Bulr/w. She
mariifd Wagner in 1870. His tlrst wife died
in 1866.
Possibly few except professional
musicians realize the wonderful pos
sibilities of the matchless Steinway
concert grand piano, under the hand of
a master. An exceptional opportunity
for this somewhat unique experience is
afforded by the appearance on Monday
evening of the celebrated Rosenthal
who will use the Steinway. W. J.
Dyer & Bro., sole agents, 21-23 West
Fifth street.
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William Thompson, of GlenwootJ. Pa., has
the most remarkable cat In Pennsylvania.
The cat came to Mr. Thompson's home one
atormy night a year ago. He looked so for
lorn that he was taken into the house. The
cat was so affectionate that he was adopted.
After awhlio tho cat betrayed a strange
fondness for the smoke that Thompson
puffed from his cigar. It became co notice
able that Thomas 1 foster father regularly
shared his after-dinner cigar with the cat,
giving him the smoke.
For a jcke the cigar was put Into ihe cat-a
mouth one day, and to Thompson's great
astonishment the cat sat up on his hind
legs and puffed away complacently. There
was only one drawback to his success. His
teeth were so sharp that they bit off thy end
of the cigar. To remove this, Mr. Thomp
son had a woadeu cigar-holder made i r
Thomas and now he is able to indulge his
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COL SEXTON DEAD.
Grand Army C rtmmanrter Passed
Away This Morning
WASHINGTON. Feb. 5.-COI. Jameg
a. bexton. commander of the Grand
Army O f the republic, who has been
ill here for several weeks, died this
morning at 3:15 o'clock. Mrs. Sexton
was with him.
aguinaldojvaWs all
Lay* Claim to the Entire Philippine
Archipelago*.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4,-Aguinaldo has
broadened his claim., or at least his agent
■h«re Agonclllo, has done so for him m
° ne Ule Beries of communications
which he has addressed to the state depart-
Sf n nV A t f. Uin SL d r asserts his Jurisdiction over
f fxutt-S h= ore £* •
confederation, this is certainly the f. st time
that any su K ge S ti ? n has been made touchinl
the Sulu archipelago.
GAMBUNGMVTUST GO.
Arrest of a Club Director and De
portatlon of a German Officer.
BERLIN,, Feb. 4.-Herr Yon Krecner a re
tired officer of the guards and a nephew of
the president of the Prussian diet, has been
arrested on the .charge that, as a director of
the cub Der Harmolsen. he inveigled a nura
t>er or wealthy young officers into gambling
Prince Henry XVIII., of Reuss, commanding
corps at Dusseldorf, has been relieved fro;u
outy and ordered to leave the country within
three months, and It is believed this action is
due to a recent mysterious gambling inci
dent. 1
ICE FROM NOZZLE
Did More Damage at MpTagn« Than
the Fire Being: Extinguished.
From the Chicago-Times Herald.
When the wind was blowing a gale
and the thermometer was 15 degrees
below at McTague, Wyo., a flre
place. The guests of the house escaped
without injury and saved nearly all of
their effects.
The feature of the fire was that the
extreme cold made it an exceedingly
difficult matter for the department to
cope with the flames. The water was
forced through the pipes to the nozzle
but as it left it it was quickly frozen
into cakes of ice. These had no effect
on the flre, and the frame building was
allowed to burn to the ground.
An effort was then made to save
adjoining buildings by giving them a
very thorough ducking, but the own
ers objected, on the ground that the
ice wae doing more damage than the
water was good. The chief of the flre
department refused to desist playing
on the buildings, giving as his reason
that if he stopped pumping the water
would freeze in the hose and render it
useless. He declared that the only thing
he could do would be to pump water
until the weather moderated.
In the meantime the street from
curb to curb had become a sea of lee,
and an impromptu sJcatlng rink was
presented to the citizens. Fortunate
ly, the wind abated and the flre en
gine was stopped and the only dam
age done by the fire was to the hotel.
In the meantime, however, all traf
fic is suspended on the main street,
and in its stead the whole population
of the city began to block business
by enjoying the winter pleasure of
skating on an improvised rink. A game
of hookey was begun yesterday, but
the police interfered after half a dozen
plate-glass windows had been broken
by the enthusiasts.
The loss on the building was about
$1,000, but the damage to property by
the unusual conditions presented will
exceed several thousand dollars.
TRAVELED~AS~TRAIVIPS.
Two Princeton Young Men Tell of
Their Odd Experieucen.
From the New York World.
Two members of Princeton univer
sity, made a remarkable experiment
during the Christmas holidays in prac
tical sociology as applied to a study of
the tramp problem in New Jersey. They
put on old clothes, placed revolvers
_n their pockets— the exact things a
true "hobo" would not have done — and
left Princeton with not a penny in
their pockets.
Walter Wyckoff. who made himself
1^
famous by playing traveling laborer for
two years and writing books on his
experiences, is now a professor at
Princeton, and these two young men
are members of his class. They want
ed to practically test their teacher's
teachings.
The students were Charles A. Foster
and Alfred T. Fitzgerald. That is to
say, these are the names they gave
out. Their "tramp names" were
"Hump" and "Mack."'
They left Princeton on foot and gut
their first meal at a farmhouse. Then
they boarded a railroad train and
"bummed" their way to Monmouth. On
the train, which was a freight, they fell
in with some "hobos" and got a glimpse
of their life there. At Monmouth they
were challenged by the police and
spent the night in the city Jail. Near
Petrth Amboy they fell in with a l<!g
camp of tramps, and one of these was
particularly striking. O t t him one of
the Princeton men says:
"I asked him why he did not settle
down. In his reply there was the logic
of the ancient Phoenician philosopher:
'Why work when one can subsist on
the labors of others?' He was intelli
gent, yet seemed to lack that ambition
that turns intelligence into practical
use; capable of effort, yet too lazy to
profit by it; well read, yet unable to
make use of It.
"He was a great admirer of Kipling,
and, to my amazement, quoted several
selections of his verse, the 'Recessional'
especially, with much spirit. His reci
tation of 'Sestlna on the Tramp Royal'
brought the whole crowd about him."
Steamer Rhynland Floated.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Feb. 4— The steam
er Rhynland, which went ashore on Cotton
Patch shoals on Tuesday night, was floated
at 1 o'clock this morning. With the excep
tion of the damage to her rudder and pro
peller, she is aparently In as good condition
as when she went aground. She will be
towed to the city by the tugs which pulled
her from her bed of sand.
First Missionary to Porto Illci..
CHICAGO, Feb. 4.— Chicago will have th«
honor of sending the first Episcopal mission
ary to Porto Rico. Bishop McLaren has ap
pointed Rev. George B. Platt as special mis
sionary of the Chicago diocese. He will Irs- -■
for the West Indies to take up his new dutl»s
about March 1. He will work under the per
sonal Instruction of Bishop McLaren and will
establish missions and schools in all the large
settlements on the island.
Gunboat Castlne at Gibraltar.
GIBERALTAR, Feb. 4.- -The United State?
gunboat Castlne. which sa,lled from San Juan
on Jan. 13 for Manila, by the eastern route,
to reinforce Dewey's fleet, is taking 00 coal
at this place. The United States Military
transport Grant, which left New York on
Jan. 19, also bound for Manila and which
arrived bere on Feb. 1 for coal ntid fresh
supplies, proceeded for the Philippines to
day.
The public are invited to take par
ticular notice of the fact that the pia
no used exclusively by Mr. Rosenthal
is the Stelnway. W. J. Dyer & Bro.,
sole agents, 21-23 West Fifth street.
Bridge Spun Pall*.
DAVENPORT, 10.. Feb. 4.— A -;pan of th«
h}gh bridge over the Mississippi river at
Muscatlne, 10., fell this afternoo : >, twins to
contraction, due to the cold. Patrl -k Curray
■was Injured and four horse* were killed.
Women in Japan.
Japan Is going to have a woman's univer
sity, the Nffaou Yoshl Daijralni, In place of
the fromer Academy of Nobles, at Toklo.
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luking Oascarets, the pnly cathartic worthy of
notice by sensible people."
Gbo. W. Bowlk, Baird. Mms.
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