St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-07

that entered into his work. Brown gave
an exhibition of his wonderful powers
at the Harris theater last night, before
a fair audience, and made a complete
success of every experiment at
tempted. The inherent modesty of the
average st. Paul audience made
the selection of committee quite diff
ficulty, but finally FL. P. Hall. Maj.
NewSon, Capt. Moffett, Gerhard Will
rich and two others were prevailed
upon TO act. Before the performance
there was an act not down OH the bills.
A huge rat appeared in an aisle and
scurried through the seats, causing
masculine merriment and feminine
shriekS until it disappeared Oh the
stage
Mr.. Browns tests consisted of locat-
ing hidden articles among the audience,
pointing out people thought OF by his
subjects, describing route agreed
upon by the committee and re-eEacting
a murder and robbery scene rehearsed
i'll his absence. There was not moment
of hesitation or INDIGESTION throughout.
Everything was done with marvellous
accuracy to the accompaniment of fire.
quent applause. The concluding test
was that of the transmission of thought
by wire. Maj. NewsOn held one end of
head, standing back IN the auditorium;
Brown on the stage held the other end
of the wire. Maj. NewsOn fixed his
mind on the number of his watch, and
promptly the mind reader wrote the
number 4, 33;;;;:3} on the blackboard, which
proved correct.
Incidental to the performance, Mr..
Brown said he believed Bishop had
weakened his powers by excuses, and
had fallen into trance or comatOse
condition, in which state he thought he
was when the autopsy was perfor med.
DULUTH's BIG ENTERPRISE.
Gen. Anderson Talks of the Gil
gantic New Car Works.
Gen. Joseph r. Anderson, president
of the Minnesota Car company, Duluth,
passed through the city yesterday OIL
his way TO his home at Richmond, Va.
Besides being heavily interested in the
Minnesota Car company, Gen. Ander-
son is connected with the Tredegar Iron
works at Richmond. He WAS asked
how they were getting on at Duluth.
and gave most interesting outline of
their work there. The company has
been reOrganiZed, and number of
wealthy New York iron men taken in.
The capital has been increased
to S2,0U0,000. The works are stu
ated at West Duluth, in close
proximity to those of the Duluth
Iron and Steel company. They have
will be spent during the next twelve
months. When the company was origi-
nally organized the idea was to build
ordinary freight cars, but on the new
basis they propose TO make lion cars.
These will not be sold, but will be
rented out to the different railroads.
There are many advantages which iron
cars possess over those of wood. In case
of collision or other accident they are
not nearly so liable to break and the
contents are infinitely safer. The
works have started up Oh small scale,
but are not quite finished yet. Gen.
Anderson says that they have contracts
ahead that will take them at least a
year to fill. The steel works next
door will slIF.y them with the iron
and steel necessary. They will do their
own casting and forging, and will con-
StrucJ from nothing but raw material.
The wood will arrive at the shops i'll
the shape of trunks of trees, the iron in
pigs, the steel in bars and plates; the
copper and other metals in ingOtS, and
they will make their own brass. The
Northwestern railroads have taken a
good deal of interest in the embryo en-
trrprise. and have contracted for large
quantities of iron freight cars. This
has been so extensive that the success
OF the works is now absolutely assured.
Fifteen hundred men are now at work,
and the additions to the plant will he
begun Immediately so as TO be finished
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