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Sunday 75 1.00
BRANCH OFFICES.
New York, 10 Spruce St., Chaa. H. Eddy
in Charge.
Chicago, No. 87 Washington St., Wil
liams & Lawrence in Charge. .
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7, 1901.
UAKJXO CARTER ItISGORGK.
The action of the federal prosecuting
rities in taking tteps to attach
rty in the name of Capt. Carter,
which was beyond all reasonable doubt
Ired from the proceeds of his rob
beries of thp government represents the
lete resort to all the remedies open
to the government against Carter and
his co-conspirators.
Since the administration was forced
lie prosecution of this wealthy and
Influential criminal a public example haa
be< n offered which must in ,ts ultimate
consequences operate to the great ad
■go of the public service. The idea
received altogether too extensive
tance thait if a man will only steal
amounts large enough, and is backed by
Influential connections, he is certain to
pc the consequences of his robberies.
Carter was himself for a long time a
living representative of the correctness
Df this theory; and no doubt he
would have ended his days without ever
having maelp the acquaintance of Jartl
officials in a professional way had it not
been for the influence of the press of
the country which united In the de
mum! for his prosecution and punish
in, nt.
Even then it is doubtful whether any
thing would have been done to inter
fere with the continued round of Capt.
Carter's club obligations were it not for
the fact that his original conviction was
through the medium of a military court
tnartial, and that ho had to deal with
army officers rather than civilians and
politicians-, as would be the case were
"iivicted regu;arly in a criminal
■ ' • ore a jury.
The Legal proce< dings just inaugurated
\ annah, if successful, will enable the
ffovernn tto recoup itself some '
tef the tremendous loss occasioned by
dishonesty. It will moreover
h< the most fitting supplement that can
el nl mi to his conviction and Im
prisonment. It will be an effective blow
moreover at his co-conspirators: and it
T.VA Involve as full, and complete a yin
: n of public justice as has ever
been realized in this country in the case
rioua and extensive public tnief,
days of Bill Tweed.
The Globe does not know anything
about the personality of those who aTe
S d with these prosecutions in
Georgia. They are necessarily partisan
bllcana in politics, a circumstance
Which, of Itself does, not offer any par
:■ assurance of success, more espe
cially in view of what is doubtless the
fact, that in that section and community
the talent of the bar could be sought
much mure effectively among the menu
of the Democratic party. The op
nity, however, is a great one. It
those attachment proceedings are sus
talned; and the property involved is
available In satisfaction of judg
- obtained against Carter and his
ites, the United States attorney
■ii mi district of Georgia will
placed himself high In the scale of
uional eminence and success.
OUR /.Of ii. COAX, COMBZXE.
The Mils received by the several city
tments within a few days for fuel
for use during the coming winter show
wry clearly that the people ure once
In the grasp of a coal combine.
lie Intelligence for sonw time past
). made it reasonably oloar that, close
been the alliance of the coal
barons of Pennsylvania, the spirit and ex
• mist organization has found
further vindication among them,
ihat during the coming winter the
poople will he made either to freeze or
VKea.[ blood through their exactions.
The prices quoted in the bids show not
the existence of the combine of the
head bandits; but that the local smaK
fry have formed a combine within a
combine, and that in their aggregate, as
in th.>ir individual capacity, the people
• Kpected t.i pay the prices and t»
submit to whatever form of extortion
they may think proper to impose.
The action of the park board in con
nection with bids presented in response
to its advertisement is the only way
available in which to protect the public
even partially against this form of pub
lic oppression. By going out in the open
market, as Commissioner IJamm sug..
posted, there may be an opportunity to
secure coal as required at less than the
very evident price agreed upon by at
least the body of the local competitors
In the bidding. t
U is a shame that such a necessity
■should be Imposed on the public. No
doubt (ho system of letting such con
v,st bidder is not always
"i by the best results; but the
choking off of an competition, such as
ted in the bid.
tor fuel supplies for the department,
public wrong that no tolera-
tlon whatever should be extended to it.
Without a Berioua manifestation of an
tagonistic public feeling there can be
I"- no thought of an effective remedy.
The action of the purchasing committee
of school board supplies in making the
award in favor of the lowest aggregate
bidder, rather than of the bidders who
were lowest on the one or other of the
several contracts, offers some small
measure of relief. But detailed bids
presented in that particular case show,
notwithstanding the refusal of certain
of the bidders to ;>.cccpt the result, such
•a close approximation as to make it very
plain that the public have little or no
reason to congratulate themselves on
the way chosen by the committee out of
the difficulty. The coal combine is there,
as it is in all the departmental bidding
far fuel thus far had.
The evil in this case has its root so
deep in social and economic inequality
and wrong that it is practically useless
to discuss the remedy. A remedy there
is, hut, as desperate cases require des
]m rate remedies, it may with propriety be
declared that the true remedy in the
present state of public opinion would
be regarded as desperate in itself. Since
the public themselves are the sufferers
and the remedy lies at their hand to
apply whenever they are ready, the bur
den of refusing to consider it must of
course be left to rest on tht-lr shoulders.
KO M 'RHKSItKJt ON VI YE CENTS.
It is evident from the prevailing re
ports of the efforts of the representa
tive men of South St. Paul and of the
members of the West Side Improvement
association to secure a 5-cent fare from
the present street railw*y corporation
between St. Paul and South St. Paul,
that there is a disposition to yield the
essential point on whi&h the se gentlemen
should insist on behalf of both commun
ities.
The people of St. Paul have something
to say on this proposition as well as the
people of the Sixth ward and of the
communities between here and Inver
Grove; and the sentiment of this com
munity, if tested, would "be found irre
vocable against yielding one inch on
the proposition of a nickel fare.
It Is but a few days since Mr. Hill,
of Minneapolis, declared his readiness
to construct a rapid lnterurban street
car system between St. Paul and Minne
apolis and operate it at a 5-cent fare
if he -could be put in possession of the
necessary franchise. As has already
been pointed out in this behalf this Min
neapolis concern which controls our city,
interurban and suburban street passen
ger traffic has long been operating sub
urban lines from Minneapolis through
districts less populously settled thin
that to and from Invcr Grove, at a s
cent fare.
If there is any reason why this same
concern should not operate the South
St. Paul system on equal terms, nobody
but Mr. Lowry in his supreme wisdom
is in a position to point it out, and he
probably could not do so off-hand or with
out the thoughtful counsel of the hope
ful aggregation that represents him and
his interests in this community.
The business men of South St. Paul
will be-unjust' to themselves and to the
people they represent, and more es
pecially to the business and social in
terests of this community, if they yield
an inch on their demand for a 5-cent
fare. Three cents is steadily being ac
cepted as the limit of compensation in
city transportation. We are about to
have a 3-cent fare system In every large
city, either absolutely or in a qualified
way, confining it to certain hours of the
day. Even the 5-cent minimum should
not be made applicable for any extend
ed period by them; and under no cir
cumstances should they grant a fran
chise longer than twenty-five years.
Long before boys now attending school
shall hare become old men, the . principle
of local control and ownership of street
car lines will be generally operative.
The advancement made in the propaga
tion of this idea during the past five
years can be safely made the basis of
very liberal "prediction 'in this behalf.
The exactions and brutalities associated
during the past twenty-five years with
street car administration have been ef
fective in calling into existence the pres
ent condition of public sentiment toward
such enterprises. in the hands of greedy
corporations. The , business men of St.
Paul as we'll as of South St. Paul,
should be able Jto avail themselves of
this same sentiment in this case by re
fusing under any circumstances to yield
more than a 5-cent fare and a charter
of a maximum duration of twenty-five
years.
A SOX Til AMERICAN Till ST.
As a general proposition, the world Is
too much governed. The burden of main,
tuining the governing class, including
the military, has always been the prime
of the people's suffering. To re
duce the cost of an adequate govern
ment to the minimum is the great de-
Bider&tum of modern civilization. This
has been the trouble with the British
colonies, but they are rapidly consolidat
ing- into national trusts, thus doing away
with the dead weight of a number of use
less organizations. Such is the difficulty
■with the British West Indies, there be
ing four distinct colonial organizations
where one would be ample. It costs as
much to govern a couple of islands with
a population of 100,000 as it does to run
the state of Texas.
Nowhere is this weakness more ap
parent than in Central and South
America. Contiguous states with sim
ilar interests and speaking: the same
language should be under one govern
ment. Homogeneity of speech, nation
ality, and interest should act as a bond
in national combinations. Germany and
the United-States .are Bbfering examples
of the cohesive force of language, blood,
-and similar material interests.
There appears no good reason why
Mexico:and the Central American states
should not be under one form of gov
ernment,, neither.is tin re any reason why
Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and
Bolivia should not.combineand form the
United States" of 'South*Ainerlca.
It is reported. that the present revoiu-
THJS ST. PAUL ai,OBE, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 7, 19U1.
tion which is in progress in Colombia
and Venezuela is for the purpose of unit
ing the thr.ee contiguous republics,
Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador into
one nation. If the re.port be not true,
it ought to be. Rumor charges that Gen.
Castro, president of Venezuela, has en
tered into a plot with Gen. Uribe-Uribe
of Colombia to overthrow that govern
mi nt and combine the three nations
named, with Gtn. Castro at its head.
A number of conflicts have occurred
between the government and insurgent
forces in Colombia, and a recent dis
patch from the governor of Panama ac
cuses both the president of Ecuador and
Nicaragua, as well as President Castro,
of being in a plot to aid the revo'ution
ists.
What is needed in that section of the
world is a Spanish-American Bismarck
who has the courage and the ability to
unite the wa.rring republics into an har
monious Latin republic. The time will
ccme when self-defense will dictate such
a course. The balance of power in South
Ameria is being threatened by the rapid
rise of Argentina and Chile. Already the
dispute between Peru and Bolivia with
Chile threatens the peace of the con
tinent. The same tactics by which Chile
obtained and holds the provinces or
Tacna and Arcia in violation of treaty
stipulations, is evidence of a dangerous
preponderance of power in those aggres
sive "Spanish Yankees." A <-ombination
such as we mention would bring Chile to
terms without the intervention of a court
of arbitration.
If the report of the combination prove
to be true, we hope for the good of the
country it may succeed. It ought to be
accomplished without force, but if that
be impossible, let the necessary force be
applied, if it will result In a stable gov
ernment like that of Mexico. We of tne
United States have an interest in our
Southern sisters to the end that a vigor
ous, progressive and stable government
be secured and maintained.
AN IMPERIAL SUPREME COVJtT.
Notwithstanding the occasional criti
cisms pronounced on the action of tho
supreme court of the United States it
stands as the greatest judicial tribunal
of the world. Under the theory of our
government Us power is absolute when
once that power is invoked. There lies
■but two appeals, one to the arbitrament
of arms—revolution—and another to the
people through the process provided In
the constitution for its own amendment.
At the time the American constitution
was framed, the provisions for the judi
cial powers were unique. No such tri
bunal was found in the great prototype,
the unwritten constitution of England.
There the house of lords was the court of
last resoTt. But the members of that body
not all being versed in the law, the ac
tual court of appeals was composed of a
sub-committee, known as the law-lords,
who took cognizance of appeals from the
lower courts. The house of lords as a
court bad no original jurisdiction except
in the case of a peer charged with a
criminal offense and demanding his an
cient right to be tried by his peers. The
latest exhibition of this privilege was
the recent abortive trial of Earl Rus
sel for bigamy.
The appeal to the house of lords in
time became inconvenient and withal
unsatisfactory ami a court of appeal was
formed of certain members of the privy
council who reviewed all cases appealed
from the colonies. This innovation was
accomplished not many years ago when
the great law reform swept over Eng
land, doing away with many of the old
common law forms and usages. This
court of appeals composed of privy
councilors evidently did not meet with
the approbation of the colonial govern
ments, for when the Australasian com
monwealth was formed it refused to rec
ognize the judicial sovereignty of Eng
land. While parliament is supreme In
England the colonies have never, since
the American revolution, admitted its
authority. The only allegiance acknowl
edged has been to the British crown.
While this loyalty to the crown was af
firmed by the Australian commonwealth
in a political sense, it was denied When
it was sought to be applied to the au
thority to pass on judicial matters in
volving individual rights of liberty and
property.
To settle this difficulty a compromise is
aibout to be effected toy the crea
tion of an Imperial supreme court,
with representatives from Australia,
Africa and Canada and maybe from
other parts of the empire* The ju
risdiction of this court will be fixed by
joint acts of parliament and the various
colonial governments.
Such a court with appellate jurisdiction
of a limited class of cases arising both
in England and the colonies will soon be
come a tribunal of great dignity and
power—co-ordinate with the supreme
court of the United States—the highest
compliment to be paid any judicial body.
Should Gen. Mac Arthur come up here,
some people will have to watch out or
they will be deported to Guam. The mil
itary situation will be menaced many
times.
The brewers of New Orleans have
struck and struck hard. The city is
a-thirst and the weather is hot. Why
don't the prohibition workers organize
a oast iron union among the brewers
and hire them to strike. It wotuu be
a suTe cure and would not cost as much
as it does to get to Dwight.
Shaffer says that all the contracts
which the Amalgamated has with the
companies of the steel trust were drawn
with regard to the constitution of the
association which gives them a right to
violate them at will. This comes from
Shaffer and no one will be surprised. But
the man of sense might ask what good
is a contract which compels the em
ployers to do certain things and allows
the employed to break it at any time?
Of course the Amalgamated can break
the contracts which they have made if
they wish. There is no redress against
an^irresponsible body, but to claim the
right to break them because the Amalga
mated constitution provides for it, ia
amusing.
There is politics in McKeesport. The
mayor recently issued a proclamation
warning all men not to como there to
work in the mills which the union men
had abandoned. If they should come
they were assured they would be arrest
ed as vagrants and put on a rock pile
for an indefinite time. This was some
what crastifl, but Mr. Brown is no doubt
a mighty man. Now comes the report
that the city council of McKeesport will
spend $500,00*5 in city improvements, such
as paving ;and other necessary works
that have been neglected, waiting until
this time. This is to be done to give
the strikerß employment until snow flies.
McKeesport is somewhat of a close cor
poration it seems.
The British navy is in a bad way. In
the recent naval engagements with itself
it lost a dozen cruisers and as many
torpedo boats and destroyers, while the
entire merchant marine was destroyed.
This was an awful blow to Johnny. It
was fortunate for the owners of the Le
land line that the entire fleet had been
sold to Pierp or they would have been
captured.by the enemy. The iact that
the enemy lost but a few old cruisers
shows how rotten Is the boasted British
navy. Experts are confident that as soon
as Russia learns of this disaster an ad
vance on India will be made at once.
The Russian fleet as now constituted will
be more than a match for the wrecked
and depleted British sea force.
The Building Trades Association of
New York City has shown upon what
kind of a fight the Amalgamated de
pends in case of necessity, by its reso
lution passed at a meeting Tuesday. Aft
er expressing their sympathy for the
down-trodden steel workers, they say
that if the American Fedc-ration of La
bor considers it necessary to ask us to
do so, we will refuse to handle the prod
uct of the steel trust as long as the
strike lasts. We believe that the win
ning of this strike by the Amalgamated
association Is of vital importance to or
ganized labor all over the Unitf^d States.
The saime old tale. In carrying out
such a proposition they would not be
injuring the steel trust so muca as hun
dreds of innocent parses, wh&se only
crime is that they are compelled to live
In a country w.here such injustice is
made possible by the political construc
tion of the government.
AT THE THEATERS.
The Criterion company at the Metro
politan this week is giving the best per
formances of '•.Uncle Tom's Cabin" ever
seen In this city. The singing and danc
ing of Swanee River quartette scores a
big hit at every performance. •'Uncle
Tom's Cabin" will continue as the Crite
rion's bill for the remainder of the week,
with matinees this afternoon and Satur
day, ait which souvenir pictures of May
Buckley, in the character of Ned, the boy
waif, in the "The Black Flag," will b«
distributed.
THE GLOBE AND BRYAN.
To the Editor of the Globe.
How easy it is for the St. Paul Globe
to be Democratic and indorse the action
of Democrats who are strong and able
to rise above their personal feelings, and
advise their Democrat ;c friends in Ohio
to support the ticket nominated by their
party because the Democrats In adopt
ing their platform did not deem it pru
dent to make national (jueations the lead
ing issue in the forthcoming canvass!
What a contrast between Bryan, that
great leader of the people, who says the
Democratic party as represented in state
and national conventions is bigger than
any individual member of the party, ami
the Globe in bolting the ticket in 1900,
when Bryan was the unanimous nominee
of his party for president!
If the Globe is right and Democratic
today in complimenting Bryan for the
stand he takes touching the Ohio con
vention and the ticket nominated, it wos
wrong and not Democratic in the position
it took in 800. In 18)6, when the money
question was the paramount Issue, mon
ey was scarce, and farm products, that
are not and cannot be controlled and
regulated by trusts, were selling below
the actual cost of production. Bryan,
representing the Democratic party, said
that dear money and cheap products was
detrimental to the interests of the great
mass of our people, and insisted that
silver should be restored to its former
place on . equal terms with gold, and
thereby increase the amount of our cir
culating medium and put a stop to the
fall in prices. Our Republican friends,
at that very time, said we had money
enough; yet, today we have from J3.000,
--000 to $4,000,000 more gold in circulation
than we ha>d from 1898 to 1897, and on
efceount of the increase of money times
Wave improved, prices advanced and Bry
an been vindicated. And just so long as
the increase of gold keeps up with the
increase and growth of the country, the
money question may not, and probably
will not, be an issue.
But suppose the yield of our gold-pro
ducing mines had been cut off, a retal
iatory tariff in the Old World had been
adopted which would have thrown the
balance of trade against us and the vol
ume of money per capita in the United
States had been reduced since 1896, we
should all be bankrupt now. The silver
question and 16 to 1 would be a very live
issue today, and I warn the Gold Dem
ocrats who are exulting over a supposed
victory In Ohio not to go too far, and
undertake to reorganize the party by
pulling down and belittling the efforts of
W. J. Bryan, who has done more than
any other man to enlighten the people
in regard to the dangerous policies
adopted and being carried out by this
trust-breeding, imperialistic party man,
aged by Mark Hanna.
The Globe would make a better im
pression by indorsing the action of the
recent Democratic conventions in Ohio
and Maryland for adhering to state issues
and saying less about ignoring the Sage
of Lincoln and 16 to 1 if ii is really in ear
nest, and I believe it is, and wants to
see a united party and the defeat of the
Republicans in l!) 02 and 1901.
"When officers appointed by the presi
dent to rule pver the Philippines are not
required under oath to support the con
stitution of the United States, it ought
not to be a difficult thins to unite the
people against such autocratic power as
this. —Jay L»U Due.
I-uverne, Minn., Aug. 6.
_^».
.Evidences of Reform.
New York Times. i
We note with pleasure two indications
that Americans, who were late in ac
quiring the'tip-giving vice, but who made
up for lost time by carrying it to an
excess • paralleled by no other - people,
have now repented of their sin • and are
joining in a general revolt against the
evil . custom: ' So far has the reform
progressed 1 that the palace car porters,
hitherto the most successful as well as
the most.. ruthless and persisted* of the
wretched army of tip hunters, are medi
tating a general strike for-the substitu
tion of honest wages in the place of alms,
and, blackmail." Their . representatives
say that, while 25 cents used to be the
ordinary reward for their attentions to
the wearied and dusty. traveler, now the
usual donation is 15 cents—when it isn't
10 . cents. or a < kindly but unnegotiable
"Thank you." 'As the porters cannot live
on wages alone, while ; the scale of pay
ment remains as it \ is, they clamor | for
an advance from the employing corpora
tions, and have suddenly arrived at the
conclusion that dependence upon ' tips -is
unworthy of real men, black or white.
That is the first evidence of reform. The
second . comes . from . Europe, ' and is ;to
the effect; that , American • visitors, once
the most "generous" of tip givers, have
of late manifested a highly economical
disposition in ■ this respect, and are now
declared by cabmen, porters and hotel
servants ~to be the least profitable or
their clients. ■ Let the ; good work go on.
Of course the new development in Ameri-
SHIP YARDS ARE BUSY
AX.I. OF THEM HAVE ENOL'tJII
WORK TO LAST A
YEAR
BIG WARSHIPS TJNDEE WAY
Veswels Built Daring Year Ended
With July Have an Aggre
gate Value of $141.
--324,000.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 6.—(Special.)
—The Blue Eook of American Shipping,
the recognized authority in the United
States as a marine and naval dii«ctory,
presents in its introduction to the annual
issue soon to be published the follow
ing statistics concerning ship building
foi the year ending July 31:
Reviewing again a year's developments
in the ship building industry of the
United States, it may be said that without
probably a single exception the yards
that engage in building steel vessels have
work ahead to tlheir full capacity for
at least twelve months, and some of them
for a much greater length of time. This
is true of all ship yards of the seaboard,
as well as those of the great lakes. On
the seaboard the great bulk of work is,
of course, in the construction of shins
of war, but the demand for new vessels
for coasting service^-the feature of most
prominence in American ship building
during tihe past two or three years—
continues, and the coming year will see
the completion of a few vessels for over
sea commerce that will be among the
finest in' the world. These latter include
two Pacific mail liners, nearing comple
tion at the Newport News works, six
large freighters for the Atlantic Trans
port lino, at Camden, N. J., and at
Sparrow Point, Md., and two steamers at
Now London. Conn , for service on th«
Pacific in connection with the Great
Northern railway, that will be about
the same dimensions as the White Star
liner Celtic, the largest ship afloat
m naval circles tire year is distingu'sljrd
by the fact that the most magnificent
order for new vessels of war ever award
ed by the government' was given to the
eh lip builders. Contracts were awarded
lor fourteen warships—five battleships
six armored cruisers and three protected
cruisers—aggregating 187,351 tons in dis
placement, 297,120 in horse power and
costing, exclusive of armor and anna
. ment, 944,600. There is no single in
stance which - equals this splendid" total.
Altogether, sixty-one warships are now
building for the United States navy
representing a total displacement of ml
for tons, 567,620 horse-power, and costing
Tnr n ™ I? an(l machinery only, $80,954
In addition, the last naval act authorized"
the construction of two battleships and
two cruisers. The plans for
these will be submitted to congress at ,ts
strucuon 0" by the naVal bo*rd ofacon!
£ If there Is any tendency to be noted In
?na Vte ttf H^S" ?is tO father ellm
thnaSeshTp 3 of demarkatlon between
hntfiba. tt. lesl »P and armored cruiser a
w|s a^&w&S
offense and defense, but of great snppri
and steaming radius. Tfie tenancy k
to increase the cruising area of the bat
tleship, with sacrifice in the weight of
arm.,r and force of armament; and on the
; other hand to give the cruiser a terrific
battery and heavy belt of armor with
reduction in steaming radius Thus the
line between the two types | S gradually
in anlln f' Thls form of warship, treat
ng the two types cas one is very Popu
lar in the United States and Great Brit
ain. The protected cruiser, or com
r^nault destroyer, of which the Chateau
ronault of the French navy, and the
M a&; .Of the Russian navy, are the
TrStSfaSJS are not popular in th«
United States or Great tain. The
American navy's contribution to this tvne
consists of the Columbia and Minneapolis
but no more are building. |£ '
The question of the superposed turret Is
still unsettled. The Kearsarge and Ken
tucky are equipped with this form of tur
ret and several trials have proved them
to be structurally practicable. The naval
board of construction, after heated argu
ments, decided to l quip three of the five
battleships, for which, contracts were
lately let with them; but it is clear that
iitfiit a or d JS nOt * sure of the eventual
Utility of these turrets, for it has de
fir 6!^o^' *? ' equip the two battleships
for Which plans are now being prepared
with them. The real point. Indeed, is
riot the structural success of the turret
but its vulnerability in actual conflict!
OF SOCIAL INTEREST
Miss Mary Bass, whose marriage to C.
Dixwell Thompson will take place Thurs
day evening, Aug. 15, at St. Paul's Epis
copal church, was the guest of honor at a
linen shower given yesterday afternoon
by Miss Warner, at her home in the Al
bion.
• • •
Mrs. Frank ■ Boyce, of Cedar Rapids
was the guest of honor at a whist party
Riven yesterday afternoon by Mrs J. P.
Larkin, at her home on Virginia avenue.
Mrs. J. S. Whitacre will entertain at
luncheon today in Mrs. Boyce's honor,
and Mrs. Bronson, of Stillwater, will en
tertain Friday afternoon for Mrs. Boyce.
• * *
Miss Burtls, of Marshall avenue, was
the hostess yesterday at a basket picnic
given at Mlnnehaha Falls in honor of
Miss Tilton and Miss Taylor. The guests
were Stanley Hall girls.
-• * •
The board of managers of the Day
Nursery met yesterday at Relief hall.
The matron's report showed that 500 chii.
dren were cared for during July. Mrs.
L. A. Moore was named visitor until Aug.
10, when the nursery will be closed until
Sept. 3.
• • •
The St. Paul Chapter, Order of th«
Eastern Star, will give a social next Fri
day evening at the Stierle residence, 654
East Sixth street.
• * *
Miss Pitts, principal of the Irving, and
Miss Blackman, of the Longfellow school,
are visiting Buffalo and other Eastern
points.
• * *
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Leigh Siexas,
of Floral avenue, will leave for the East
shortly, to be gone for a month.
• ' • •
Mrs. C. E. Stone, of Crocus Hill, Is
East.
• • •
Miss Florence Dalrymple, of Summit
avenue, is in North Dakota, visiting
friends.
* * •
Mrs. P. C. Storh, of Grand avenue, Is
visiting friends out of the city.
• * *
Dr. Edgar E. Nelson left St. Paul last
evening for Wallace. Idaho, where he will
open dentistry offices.
• • «
- The engagement is announced of Mist
can character will excite much rage and
scorn In the minds of all those innumer
able employers who have been making
their customers pay twice—once to the
employers themselves and once to the
servants nominally in their employ—for
all services In the slightest degree per
sonal, but the excitement of these in
dividuals will soon die away and every
thing will be better all around. No
money will be saved, to be sure, by the
abandonment of the tipping system, but
there will be a vast increase of self
respect among those »vho give as well
as those who take the servile fees.
(APT. SCHL,E.Y MUSTN'T TALK.
New York Times.
Admiral Schley's son, an army captain
stationed at Fort Douglas, in Salt Lake
City, made within the hearing of a re
porter the other day the not very sur
prising or obviously seditious remark
that he thought his father was a pretty
gcod man. all things considered, and that
he expected the admiral to give some in
teresting testimony before the board of
inquiry completed its labors. Those aire
not the captain's exact words, but they
give the effect of what he said. Strange
ly enough, they attracted instant atten
tion at Washington, and the captain w.is i
hastily and sternly informed that officers
If a chance shot would put a turret out
of action it would leave the ship without
a battery, even though the guns in the
turret were uninjured.
A healthful growth is still shown in the
seaboaxd coastwise trade. The present
generation of ship builders have :.
enjoyed a season of such activity. To
equal it one must go back to the clipper
days of 1854 and 1855, before iron began
to supplant wood in the construction of
vessels, and when the American ship
yards, thanks to the plentitude of con
structive material, were great hives ot
industry. When iron was found to be
more serviceable than wood the ship
building industry in the United States lag
ged because iron was scarce. The ad
vance in the United States in recent
years, however, as a steel-making nation,
has, through force of circumstances, re
vived ship building. The coast ship
yards are crowded with passenger and
freight steamers, building for the coast
wise trade. A considerable business is,
also being done in steel sailing yea
Hitherto wood iias had a practical mo
nopoly of this class of construction. The
sailing ship is not the rarity that it is
suppos«d to be. It is only within the
past year or two that steam tonnage h;\s
exceeded sailing tonnage in the United
States. The proportion, however, is safely
in favor of steam, owing to the fact that
the sailing vessel has almost entirely dis
appeared from the great lakes. The" nov
elty in salling-slhip construction has been
the building of two-six masted schooners,
the first vessels of this kind to be built
anywhere in the world. The number of
vessels built during the year ended June
30, 1901, was 1,173. of 401.23 a gross tons,
compared with 1,058. of 305,677 gross tons
for the previous fiscal year. The distri
bution was as follows: Atlantic and
gulf coasts, 735 vessels, of 190,!H8 tons,
great lakes, 105, of 153.138 gross tons; Pa
cific coast, 151, of 46.105 gross tons; and
western rivers, 182. of 11,094 gross tons.
Although there is little encouraging to
report regarding vessel construction for
the foreign trade, it will be noted that
the year has brought out a few orders
from new sources. The Atlantic Trans
port line is now in the front rank in
this regard. It has given the New York
Ship Building company, Caxnden, N. J.,
contracts for four steamers for trans
atlantic service to cost $1,250,000 each.
and the Maryland Steel company. Spar
row's Point, Md., contracts for two ot".i
frs to cost a similar sum. The Boston
Steamship company, a new organization,
also exhibits a like, bravery, and has two
vessels under construction for the for
eign trade.
A venture of far-reaching Influence at
tempted on the Great Lakes Is worthy of
record. It is the opening of the all-water
route from the Great Lakes to Eur'P ■,
via the Canadian canals along the St.
Lawrence rivtr. As a matter of his
torical record, it may be noted that al
though a. few small craft made the pas
sage from the lakes to European ports
years ago, the first vessel to utilize these
enlarged Canadian canals as a commer
cial highway between the Great Laki s
and Europe was the British .-st> imer
Monkshaven, when, in October last, It
carried a cargo of stM-! from Con
on Lake Erie, to Avonmouth, England.
This vessel has been employed by tho
Cler^ue water-power interest at Said*
Pte. Marie, and was returning to Greit
Britain for the winter, when Mr. Carne
gie seized the opportunity to send Borne
steel abroad by that route. This vessel
would have returned to Kngland, any
how, but her trip constitute,!, neverthe
less, the first use of the canals in a com
mercial sense. Since thin the North
western Steamship Company of Chicago
has opened a regular service on this
route, and its four steamships, hu-ilt at
Chicago last winter, have each mad^ a
tiii> abroad. The dimensions of the locks
of the Canadian canals are 270 feet In
lenpth by 45 feet width. They permit a
draught of 14 feet. The vessels of the
Xorthv.rst.ru steamship company are 256
feet lons over all. -12-foot beam aiv
feet depth of hold, which Is regarded as
the regulation Canadian canal size. The
company expresses its* if as satisfied with
the results of the enterprise. The im
portance of this witi rway, however,
must not be 'ithor magnified nor mini
mized. It occupies :t delinit-- iield, though
a limited one, owing to the restriction
in size. The completion of the canals
however, hrfs permitted the lak
builders to compete with the e,, ;is t ship
builders for thi- construction of some,
types of vessels tor coastwise trad
Twelve vessels suited to trans-Atlani c
I and seaboard trad.:, as well as laic.
ice, were built on the lakes 1 during the
year ended with July, 1901, and bl
pertinent of building, each In two pans
-learners much largv; than the canal
locks is now being tried In Cleveland
These vessels will be about 7,060 tona na.'.
pacity when pit* together at the sea
board, after being towed down the Cana
dian canals In sections.
The year has been one of unexampled
activity with the ship builders Of thi
Great Lakes, and they have In hand
enough ordpr«< to insure continued work
for nearly al<l the plants for another
year. The veasfls built during the year
ended with July, and those now under
have an aggregate value of $16,324,000 The
combined capacity of the freight carriers
in the list, some sixty-three of th. m Is
266,960 gross tons on 18-foot draught
Kathorlne Clifton Southal, of St \n
thonk Park, to Mr. Allan Porter Abbott
of Butte, Mont. The marriage will take
place the latter part of September.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert'Drouet will leave
St. Paul Friday evening for New York
where Mr. Drouet will begin rehearsals
in Leo Deitrichstein's play; "The Last
Appeal." The play will be pro.l
Sept. 7 In Philadelphia.
• * •
Mra. George Kusterer an.l Mra. Mar
shall, of Boston, who have been thi
quests of Mrs. Frank Schllck Jr. of
Dayton avenue, have returned home.
Mrs. George Markham, of Lincoln ave
nue, is entertaining Mrs. MeCrossan of
Madison, Wls.
The Misses St< rnberg, of Dayton ave
nue, are visiting at Yellowstone- Park.
Mrs. Grier M. Orr, of Merrlam Park is
entertaining Mrs. Hallov.ay ami Mdsu
Halloway, of Omaha,
Mrs. Lucy Gomstock, of Western ave
nue, Is at Bald Eagle lake,
Mrs. Noble, of Western avrnuc Is en
tertaining Miss Warner, <>r Park Rapids.
Mrs.- Frederick Weyerhaeuser, of Sum
mit avenue, is entertaining Mrs. Rud->ij.h
Weyerhaeuser, of Gloquet.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Ives, of Hague
avnue, will leave Sept. i for
whore they will reside.
Mrs. Laurence Brennan and Miss Clara
Brcnnan, of Burr street, have gone to
Milwaukee and other Eastern points.
Mr. and Mrs. Emerson HacUey and
dren, of Farrington avenue, will g,
i this week to spend the n mainder of the
summer.
Dr. and Mrs. Patterson, who have
the guests of Mr. arid Mrs. Roger
South Kxchange street, fa
Kansas City.
Mrs. George Neins, of Virginia a\
is entertaining her sister, Mrs. E.
adis, of New York.
Mrs. Edward Feldhau.sor left y
day for lienver.
Miss Ellen R. Cook has gone to Al
to spend the remainder of the summer.
Mrs. Charles Eckwell, of Igi'
street, will leave this evening for uf- u
falo.
Miss Merriam, of Bedford street, is en
tertaining Miss Haas, of Winona.'
in the army were expected to refrain
from making public comments upon
other officers in oithcr branch of the
service. We have heard before, as also,
doubtless, had Capt. Scbley, of thi
istenee of such a regulation, but It was
a long time ago, and, judging from tho
recent volubility displayed by officers of
a rank much higher than his In cr.
ing and denouncing his father's char
acter and conduct, we and he had good
excuse for assuming that the old rule
had been quietly revoked by somebody
with power to do so. Such, It seema. Is
not the case, and Capt. Schley wfl» «■ ■■-
lected as a proper person upon whom to
d»niinstrate the fact that the regulation
Is still in existence. Well, the reproof
won't injure- him seriously, and neither
he nor we can deny that his rei.
were injudicious and deserving of repr.:
hensivc attention from his superiors. <ir
course, now that the departmental •.
bilitics have become so zealous in de
fense of the official proprieties, they will
have the newspapers of the last v.
three years looked through by somcoc.Jy
with good eyes, nnrt action like that In
the case of Capt. Sohloy *ill be taken
against every officer who has given pub
lic expression of his hostility to the
commodore who was on the Brooklyn
when Cervera came out of Santiago
harbor. That will make everything ail
right.
AFTEKNOON NEWS CONDENSED.
Sydney, N. S. W.-Om- death from bu
bonic plague was report' d hi re.
Westchester, Pa.—David H<<nd, a link
er and dealer in securities, dropped
in a room of his residence here. 11
sixty-five years of age.
Berlin—The steamer G>Ta. with I
Marshal Count yon Waldi
has arrived off Heligoland. The ..
has arrived In the Wesor.
Albuquerque. N. M.—Six ;
trains are .stalled here owing t<>
outs on the Santa F<
inchps of rain fell in Santa Pc In
hours.
Milwaukee, Wis.—The National .
elation of Dentists convened
lraal session at the Uasonic building in
this city, Ah tut 300 del< -
the hrst meeting.
Odessa—The ca-hier and three directors
of the Commercial Bank of Ekat
siarr. whose failure was announced
o, have been arrested on a warrant I
out by another director.
New York—Samuel Shinn, who w
cently convicted of murder In thi
degree for killing Thomas P. \
was sentenced at Trenton," :
eighteen years at hard tabor.
directors of t..
ard Oil company, of New Jera
declared a quarterly dividend of -
c? n, t o Thls com Pares with a d
M c Per C6nt In JUne and W Per Cent in
EASTON. Pa.-The Central Labor d
has adopted a resolution d
drew Carnegie as a "foe to labor. fl and
protesting against the city I
Easton accepting $50,000 from Mr
negie for a library.
Berlin —The Koenlgsburg -,
Zeitung says: M. De Witte. the R .
finance minister, has Instr
s, an representatives in Germany to
continue their preliminary work on
commercial treaties.
New York—Louis T. Hoy*, one of
loading members of the stock ■ i
w dead in Germany. News of Wa
has just reached the exchange. ••
his customers when he was most a
as a broker was Mr. Vanderbilt.
Amesbury, Mass.—Busiel Smith. •
years old. of Philadelphia, a grandi
former Gov. Busiel, of New W
was drowned here in the Merri
Charles i aher, of i,j nn, il ■ ■ ■.- ■ |
in an attempt to save the child.
Indianapolis—A young man
ttmpted suicide in a har
this city Monday by shooting himself In
the mouth was Identified as A H
morih, of Boston. A love affair Is
posed to have caused the shooting.
Ballston. N. T.—Prof. Henry Sherv
of Johns Hopkins, died ai
tre. He was spi ndlng his vacation
[arm, and while trimming a tree •
i'i-ntaly cut his right hand i
poisoning set in, and resulted in
death.
Dubuqiif, lowa-Mrs. Mary Newt
Adams, wife of Judge Austin A
orce chiof justice of the towa
■ is dead, aged eighty-thr<
She was prominent in liti
"f"^ 1; 11:' V, 1-", .nati, on' and :l '■''
of Raiph \\ aldo Emerson.
Alameda. Cal —Dr. Charles Hampden
Field committed suicide by Inhaling Il
luminating gas. lie nras formerly
geon In the United tates army at Fort
Wayne ih- was also an ex-surgeo
the pension bureau and at one time
geon of the Unii n Pacific railway.
St. Louis, Mo.—Suit to restrain the
Louislan Purchase Exposition com
from using Forest park as a site foi
world s lair of 1903 came up In the c
court. Judge Zachrits took tl
der advisement, and announced
will hand down a decision nexl M
Victoria, B. C. On ace >urn ol tl
valence i f bubonic i
Dr. Watt, superinti nd( n( of VVil
hi au quarantine station, has n c<
st rucl lons from Ottawa to
caution In passing < >ri. n
Hex, nt the Introdu stlon ol th
here.
New Fork -An advance in the tax
„° f £™x. York Clly frnm *2.24-to %2M
On the $100 has been decided upon says
the World. The total Increase cm the
value of personal property und realty
this year over last Is about $133,000,000, this
personality increase bfing $01,000 000 and
that or realty $09,000,000.
Berlin— H. rr yon Koeller, governor of
Schleswig-HolsUin. has been appointed
secretary of state of Alsace-Lorraine In
succession to Herr yon Puttkamer. who
resigned some time ago. Herr yon
Ullowski, chief of the Imperial chan
cellories, succeeds Yon Koelltf :i3 gov
crror oZ Sehlesrwlg-Holsteln.
New York— Mr. Pierre Lorfllard <lcni, s
emphatically that his family is now in
possession of the. celebrated stock farm
Rancocas, bequeath* d to Mrs. .\lli. n Mr'
Lorillard la quoted as saying: "Not «.nly
the farm, but the horses thereon as well
i ■''"'l those now training in both England.
! «nd America, are hers." £t 14
Vienna—A dispatch received here from
Belgrade says there Is no truth in the
n pon circulate d by a news agency in
the United States thai sixteen persona
were killed and that nineteen were
wounded during an election disturbance
at Prokupiie, Servia. The dispatch adds
that the elections passed off without dis
order.
New York—An order issued by the head
of the Chinene K. form association calls
upon all Chinamen In this country to
remove their queues. It Is said that upon
ihe members of the association it will
be more binding than an Imperial edict
trom the hand of the emperor of China
It will affect several hundred Chinamen
in this city.
Chicago—Judge William Cecil Price
secretory of the treasury under President
Buchanan, died hero at the home of h's
son-in-law, Williairn S. Newberry He
was eighty-six years old. When Lincoln
was elected Price became prominent in
the affairs of the Confederacy. The body
will be taken to Madison, Wix., tor
burial.
Chicago! In a scuffle with his wife, in
the apartments of another woman, Hol-
Hster B. Goodrich, a constable, was shot
dead here. Mrs. Goodrich was arrested
She said her husband had deserted her'
and that when she discovered him he
leveled a revolver at her. She grasped
his arm and in the struggle the- pistol
was discharged.
Berkeley, Cal.— Dr. Archibald R Ford
has arrived in this city from Ithaca N
1., under appointment of veterinarian of
tho agricultural college of the University
of California, a new position recently
created by the board of regents. IPs
work will be closely associated with that
of Leroy (Anderson, head ->l the dairy
school buildings for which are now In
course of construction.
New York—As a result of the. rtc-nt
break, plans for strengthening and prac
tically doubling the carrying capacity of
the Brooklyn bridge have been prepared
by Willie Ilildfabrand. superintend, Ii;
of John A. Roebling Sons company. Mis
plans are to erect another stnicturo
about the 01 ■ now lri use and similar to
it. The work of construction, he says,
could be carried on without Interruption
to traffic and would cost about iz.^n.fiO
insfiiifi m Reams,
Good News.
Teacher—Now, do you see the differ
ence between animal instinct and human
reason?
Bright Boy—Yes'm. If we had instinct
we d know everything we needed to with
out learning it; but we've got reason and
have to stuJy ourselves mos' blind or be
a fool.
'All at Hurt Him.
"Washington Star.
"1 shall sue him for libel." said the
man who Is making large sums of money
out of the credulity of the masses.
'For what?" „.,.
"He call mo a common swindler. It's
pretty hard for a man who has worked
as hard as I have to be origiual to bo
referred to as 'common.' "
A ;>Juiri>-T<>ii!it iicil Woman.
Bomervllle Journal.
Mrs. Vv'lck<?s—When my husband suys
anything 1 have to take It with a grain
of salt.
Mr. Hicks—When my wife says any
thing I have to take it with a good many
grains of pepper.
i?:i.l Met Him Iti-fore.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Weary—Hello, Shyboy! I saw you solas
Into a restaurant yesterday.
Shyboy—Did you? Why didn't you call
me, rod we'd have had lunch together?
Weary—l would, old man, but I whs
broke.
■i hi- Secret Dlvulcod;
He— Hut you've known her .ill your life.
!>! is sbe?
She—l'll tell you, but Its n secret, tn-ind.
She just at th«) age wheu onu doesn't look
it: