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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09
THE GRAY GABLES INFANT.
DR.. Bryant Says It's n Fine Little
Girl

BUZZARD'S BAY, Mass, July s.
Cosy Gray Gables today was bathed in
warm sunlight, and the early existence
of the new Miss Cleveland, the per-
Sonage in whom the residents of Buzz
ZardS Bay are most interested, was
marked by bright, pleasant weather.
DR.. Bryant reported today that Mrs.
Cleveland and the little one are rest
ing quietly, and that everything is
progressing finely.He will add nothing,
except that the newcomer is fine
little girl" Telegraph boys paid nu-
merous visits to the house today. bear
ing messages of congratulate to the
president from all parts of the country.
In company with Joseph Jefferson
and Charles B. jefferson, Mr.. Cleye-
land spent nearly all day trout fishing
at East Sandwich, where Mr.. jefferson
has a private stream. The party left,
early in the day and did not return
until nearly 6o'clock. Ruth and Es-
Their did not drive with their nurses
to the village this noon, as they have
done almost every day since their ar
rival at Gray Gables, nor were the
horses sent to the postoffice, but mes
senger was dispatched on foot after
the mail. The children remained at
their play, often chattering, as they
ran about the piazza and lawn. over
the little sister so recently introduced
to them. Both children seem delighted
with the idea of having another little
one in the household. The president,
after his return from fishing, devoted
the evening to the perusa1 of messages
of congratulation. To an inquiry this
evening as to the condition of Mrs
Cleveland and the baby, DR.. Bryant
reiterated his former words, Mother
and baby are both doing WE'LL
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09
A BEsrIAL CURIOSITY.

When two murderers were hanged
in st. Paul some months ago, the
community felt itself outraged and
disgraced because a surging crowd
of people passed in procession where
they could get a glimpse of the grue-
some apparatus which was to do
these men to death. A far more dis
gushing exhibition was made in New
York after the execution of DR.. Bu-
chanan, whose case has received so
much public attention. There the
undertaken who had charge of the
body was forced, as he claims, to
admit the public to view the re-
mains, or they would have broken
down the doors. Many thousand
people passed by the coffin, gaping
at the corpse and giving vent to all
sorts of EXPLANATIONS of curiosity
and satisfaction. The scene was re-
peated at the funeral, where a mob
of women surged around the pro-
cession, tore the wreaths of flowers
from the coffin and otherwise mis-
behaved savagely. 1t is outbreaks
like this which make one feel that,
after all, he is unfamiliar with the
nature of his kind. 1t is impossible
for the man of decent feeling and
lively sensibilities to so much as
understand the vulgar and bestial
curiosity which hungers for a glance
at a gallows, or stare into the
dead face of an executed murderer.
We have called this curiosity bes-
tial, but that is doing an injustice
to the beasts; for there is, as far as
we know, no other animal than man
possessed of this remarkable trait
and faint. What possible gratifica-
ton can be derived from the ap-
proach to the horrible, and the out
raging of all those finer feelings of
Which we are accustomed to think
that even the most degraded retain
some trace, the ordinary man or
woman must fail to understand. 1t
seems probable that it will take CEN
turtles more of discipline in decency
to eradicate from human nature this
singular quality. In the meantime,
the process will be most helped, and
the public most guarded against eX-
h1bitionS that are as harmful in their
tendencies as they are depraved in
themselves, by doubling the precau-
lions now taken to secure all the
privacy in connection with public
executions that is consistent with
popular institutions. No community
wants repetition of anything like
the incidents following Buchanan's
execution, which are not less in their
way a reflection upon human ma
ture than was the crime itself for
which he suffered death.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09
BORROWED FIVE MILLIONS.
Pennsylvania Road Takes Adj
vantage of Low Interest Rates.

Pennsylvania Road Takes Adj
vantage of Low Interest Rates.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July SIT
was announced this afternoon that the
Pennsylvania Railroad company has
placed with a firm of bankers in Lon
don 100000 sterling consolidated
three and one-half per cent bonds, ma
turing in 1915. The price is not stated.
Inquiry at the Office of the company
ELECTED the fact that negotiations have
been in progress for the sale of the
bonds. Notification of the deal being
closed had not been received up to
the close of business, but was mo-
mentarily expected. 1t is understood
that the money is to be used to take
up certain mortgages falling due Janu-
airy next, among them being $1,000,G0
West Jersey first SKIES, and several
small loans on branch roads in the vi
cinity of Pittsburg. An officer of the
company explained that the object in
making the loan at this time was to
reap the advantage of the abnormal
ease of the money market. THE COM
pany," he said, has driven a pretty
good business bargain, in that it is to
secure a renewal of it's loans at a re-
duction of two or two and one-half
per cent interest, A portion of the new
money will probably be expended in
bettermentS."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09

ing the winter months from our
Western fields. All this is changed.
The process of evolution was first
the building of larger vessels with
greater capacity and less proper
tional cost of management. Then
was evolved from the smaller YES
sells made improbable by the large
ones the barge system; a grain
laden propeller towing three or more
grain-laden hulls, cheapening the
cost of carriage until grain rates
were frequently a cent a bushel. In
volved in this was the enormous de-
struction of vessel values that sent
many man into bankruptcy in the
seventies.
This immense, almost incalculabl
reduction in cost of handling and
transport has Injured mainly to the
benefit of the consumer, although
the producer has had a share, even
if incapable of separation from the
mass and of as exact statement as
is that of the consumer. Approx
mately this may be obtained by es-
timating what would be the price
on Minnesota farms today if wheat
had to pay the same charges now
In carriage from the producer to
the market of final distribution that
it did thirty years ago. Taking the
maximum of the rates then pre-
vailing and leaving out elevator
charges and commissions, it's value
would be entirely consumed in cost
of transportation.
With the abolition of the long
storage, the reduction of commits
sions, the narrowed margin of prof
its, have come the futures and
options" of which we have heard
SO much in recent years in and out
of congress, and which Mr.. Williams
defends as a system of insurance
OF prices that is of inestimable value
both to the dealer and the producer.
Aside from the cornering by the
gamblers and the purely specu-
lative transactions, he claims that
the operation is merely an insurance
to the miller or the dealer that he
will not receive less for his grain
when ready for market than he pays
for it. Its effect thus, in his opinion.
is to steady markets and prevent
the losses which the narrow margins
and the immense aggregate of stocks
would involve in the fluctuations of
an unbalanced market.
The changed and improved meth
DDS of storage and handling on land.
the building of the whaleback, and
the Increase in capacity and speed
OF freight carriers have all con-
tributed their shares to this revoIu-
ton. 1t would, indeed, be difficult
to select any department of pro-
ductive activity in which such
sweeping changes have been made
and such wonderful economies real
lied in the last generation as in the
American grain trade.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09
EUSTIS REPUDIATES TT
TALKED ABOUT A ROPE.
Kansas City Il. of l.. Stirring Up
the Aldermen

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July S.-Like
the members of the Denver city
council, Kansas City councilmen are
in hot water, and are threatened
with rope. Local Assembly 1898,
Knights of Labor, today filed a COM
munication to the mayor and city
council, demanding municipal owner
ship of the gas works, and T. w.
Gilruth, recording secretary of the
assembly, created a lively scene in
the city clerks office by accusing
councilmen of unfairly treating the
people. When Gilruth entered the
office he threw the document on the
desk with a rap of his knuckles,
and said to Councilmen Brown and
Kidwell, who were standing near:
I'VE mean business; you must not
exploit the rights of the people,
The cOuncilmen made a sharp re-
tort, whereupon Gilruth continued:
cit is plain to us that the council
has been engaged in crooked bust
ness, and 1 will tell you very plainly
that the people are getting exasper-
ated. If this thing continues, sir,
we will visit you with ropes"
After few hot words Gilruth hur-
ried away.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09
ELK FACTIONS EMBRACE.
The Two Grand Exalted Rulers
Come to Terms.

Come to Terms.
ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., July s.
This city is overrun with Elks to-
night, who have come here to attend
the third annual convention of the
grand lodge of the Benevolent Pro-
tective Order of Elks, which opens
tomorrow. The convention promises
to be the greatest in the history of
the order. The Western delegations
have all arrived, the last reaching
here this morning. The delegations
from Washington, Baltimore and
the South reached here this evening.
The last batch of delegates to ar
rive will be those from Philadelphia,
who will come down tomorrow morn
ing 200 strong. All the prominent
hotels are decorated with flags and
bunting, and the Atlantic avenue
business houses are almost con-
cealed beneath a wealth of red, white
and blue. AT a meeting today be-
tween Grand Exalted Ruler Edwin
b Hay and Mead F. Detwiler, of
Harrisburg, who was elected grand
exalted ruler by the Buffalo faction,
it was agreed to compromise the diff
terences existing between the two
factions. Mr.. DetWiler comes here
with full authority to act, and it
is now a settled fact that the order
will be united before the conven-
ton adjourns, which will probably
be on Friday.
The grand lodge will convene at
IL O'Clock tomorrow morning in Nor
ris Guards armory. William G. Mey-
iers, of Philadelphia, is an avowed
candidate for the Office of grand ex-
allied ruler, and it seems to be the
general opinion that he will be
chosen to succeed Edwin B. Hay.
Twenty thousand out of a total mem
bership of $4,000 Elks in the country
will be represented at the meeting.
A monster parade will take place
on Wednesday, when it is expected
that between 5000 and 5000 Elks will
be in line.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09

and sustenance, and with poverty,
that prolific source of crime, elini-
mated, they may become good citi-
zens, helping in the progression Of
the race. So it appears that there
are difficulties in the practical appli-
cation of the Monroe doctrine to the
Franco-Brazilian contention, even if
we are to depart from our tradi-
tional attitude of minding our own
business and adopt the new policy
of minding that of our neighbors
after the true European fashion.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09

1t means an abandonment of the stand
ard and the adoption of fiuctuating
base by which to measure domestic
commerce. Who can contemplate the
decentralization, the widespread ruin
that would result from such a policy?
such is to be the policy of this gov
eminent, and every creditor will de-
mand payment of the obligations due
MIN. Every depositor in a bank will
hasten to check out his balance, and
every bank will be driven to resort
to the most radical measures to collect
us loans. The consequence would be
such a sacrifice of securities, such a
Shrlnkage of values, and such a dis
traction of credit as would entail uni
versal distress and suffering. The
benefits which debtors see sllirting the
edges along the pathway of this storm
would be swallowed UP in its vortex
and dashed to pieces amidst the uni
VcrsaI wreck and ruin that would mark
its course.
RUINOUS TO BANKERS.
1T is said that the bankers are op-
posed to free coinage and therefore
every other class ought to favor if
There is no class in the country that
would be so much benefited-that
would reap such a rich harvest-as the
bankers, II we could pass from a gold
to a silver standard with as little dis
turbance as the friends of free coinage
would have us believe That one dol
lar of gold would instantly become
worth two in silver no one can serious
iy doubt Why, then, some one NAV
ask, are they not in favor of free coin
age? 1t is because they know that the
moment 1T is aScertained that we are
likely to go to a silver basis there
would be such rush by depoSitors to
secure their money that they will be
crushed before they can escape from
beneath the wheels of this Juggernaut
They see, in the excitement to escape
before the pillars of credit are all
pulled down, that no one can hope to
get out without injury
who would be the greatest sufferers
during the crisis that would follow?
That class which could least afford to
stand 1t; the wage workers and those
earning fixed salaries. In the read
Justment of prices which would fol-
low they would be the last to receive
an advance and then nothing in COM
parison with the depreciation in the
purchasing power of their earnings.
The standard of wages, with slight ex-
ceptlons, has been constantly rising,
and with returning confidence is on
the Increase. There never was a time in
the history of the world when a dollar
would command more of the luxuries
of life, and why should they Join in
an effort to pull down the roof that
shelters them? Why stake the price
less boon of our financial standing
the stability of our monetary SYSTEM
and the prosperity of the nation in the
pursuit of the will-o' -the-wisp, cheap
money, which, has led every people en-
into the boys of financial distress and
ruin?"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09
QUITE DOUBTFUL.
A Question of How to Collect IL
Lumber Bill.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, July S.-John
E. Glover, president of the Willow
River Lumber company, of New Rich
mond, visited the United States court
today in an endeavor to ascertain what
he would have to do, and how to do it,
in order to secure payment for lum-
Der shipment that was sold the North
ern Pacific during its occupancy of the
Wisconsin Central lines. He learned
that the effort to collect the bill would
cost about two or three times the
amount of the claim, and even then
he might not be able to have the salts
faction of collecting it. There are
creditors, according to Mr.. Glover,
whose claims run up into the thou
sands, and he thinks they ought to take
the initiative in bringing about a So
luton of the problem. He expressed
the sentiment that the smaller credit
ors would undoubtedly join in such a
movement.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09

The Chicago Tribune notes the
great decline in the price of sugar
and says that ''it has been beaten
down by the enormous production of
beet sugar in the bounty-paying
countries of Europe" Yet that is
the sort of competition which, the
Republican party proposes to meet in
the United States by taxing the peo-
pie to pay more bounties, and so
make the business continually more
artificial and improbable.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09
FRENCH FAKIRS.
Eustis Called Upon to ReDudiat,
an Interview.


an Interview.
PARIS, July S.-The Figaro pub.
fishes an interview today with tn,
American ambassador to Franco
Hon. James B. Eustis. in which no ;e
reported as saying that nothing has
yet been decided as to his candidacy
Tor the nomination for the prssi.
dency of the United States. Respect.
ing the Japanese-C Chinese war. Mr.
Eustis is quoted as remarking that
ne regretted the Japanese had NOT
taken Pekin. The story of a secret
treaty existing between Japan and
the United States was absolutely I'm
true
we nave no treaty with Japan"
ne continued, "other than the ar
rangement modifying former treat
les, and even this does not come into
force for five years. Besides this
the United States adheres before
everything else to the principle of
hon-lntervention in European or
Asiatic affairs
with reference to the movement in
canada to separate the dominion
from Great Britain, Mr. Eustis said
IL rested entirely with the United
States as to whether Canada should
or should not be taken into the con-
federation of the states. But the
people of the United States have
preferred to let the question rest.
while at the same time saying to
Great Britain, mo nonsense, or we
will annex Canada"
Regarding the insurrection in
Cuba, Mr.. Eustis is reported as hav-
ing admitted that American SYM
pathies favored the insurgents, who
found in the United States. unknown
to the government of that country.
assistance of all kinds. In concIu-
sion, Mr.. Eustis is quoted as saving:
IF the insurgents can maintain the
struggle for year I am not sure
that Spain will not have futilely
spent her money on costly expedi-
TONS
EUSTIS REPUDIATES IT.
Mr.. Eustis was questioned TODAY in
regard to the alleged interview with
him published in the Figaro and said:
L have not been interviewed, and have
not consented to or authorized the pub
LEGATION of an opinion from myself or
any questions discussed in the alleged
interview
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09
THE PRESIDENT rNDoRsEn

Mayor Warwick, president of the
Republican Union League of PhiIa-
delphia, is on the road to Democ-
racy in company with some of our
own distinguished citizens. Closing
debate in the league on a resolu-
ton declaring for sound money, Mr..
Warwick said:
ITO juggle with this question is
coWard1ce. We cannot climb over il
owe under 1t, or sneak around it. This
is more than question of party 1t
is a question of principle and honesty.
Inc government has no more right to
debase the coin than the rogue has to
clip 1t. The government does not make
standards of value. They are made by
commerce and the laws of supply and
demand. The government can't make
honest thing that is dishonest"
This is as severe an arraignment
Of that other league that met in
Cleveland recently as we have read.
1t also hits hard sundry Republican
presidential possibilities. 1t gets in
under the ribs of one Benjamin Har-
rison who climbed over it, or dove
under it or sneaked around it in 1890.
with Mr.. Allison and Mr.. Reed and
Mr.. Mckinley and the general ap-
prevail of his party. When Repub-
Hcans thus castigate their leaders,
it is plain that they are on the road
to Democracy.
This is the more certain from the
a Of
of that, city, the organization that
boosted that it won the national vic
tory for the party in 1888, and among
whose members was raised the cor
ruption fund that John Wanna
maker placed in the hands of the ma
tional committee
In the issue of it's organ before
the meeting of the league, the reso-
luton was bitterly opposed in an
editorial headlined: ''Mr. Cleve-
lands Proposed Seduction of the
Union League ''It is to fulfill his
wish" the article closed, "to play
his game, to fly his flag, to exalt him
to high place, and to honor him
as the one hope of the nation, that
the Union League of Philadelphia is
asked to approve of him and his
British money system The Manu-
facturers' club and it's organ are at
least consistent. They know that
protection to manufacturers and free
coinage of silver are identical in
spirit, and they must stand by each
other. If one falls, the other must
go. Hence this bitterness. The res
olution was adopted by an over
whelming majority. Democracy is
rapidly retrieving lost ground.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09
GRAIN TRADE EVOLUTION.


Public attention has been so alb
sorbed by the greater prominence of
have taken place in the last two or
three decades in some of the leading
articles of production and methods
Of distribution that equally impor-
tant changes in minor matters, or
those regarded as minor, have es-
capped attention. There has not been
extension and expansion in one or
two industrial directions only, but
the movement has been in all di-
rections until there is today hardly
an industry of man to be found
which pursueS the same methods
with the same means that were used
a generation ago. We are indebted
to Mr.. Edgerton Williams for an in
teresting resume, in the current
North American, of the changes that
have been wrought in the thirty
years that he has been engaged in
the grain trade. When one even
casually familiar with it a genera
ton ago follows his account of the
transformations in production.
handling, distribution and values,
the magnitude and the far-reaching
effects become a surprising revela-
ton. The difficulty is, as Mr.. Will
liams says, not in recounting, but in
giving credence to the facts.
The two great forces that have
worked the changes are the telegraph
and transportation. The former
has made Immediately and instantly
accessible every grain market in
the world to the grain centers.
Weeks and months formerly needed
in placing orders and obtaining re-
plies to inquiries are now matters
of hours only. This has abolished
the system of storage of supplies
for months, established a hand-to-
mouth system Of dealing, and re-
duced to a minimum the charges
and profits of middlemen. Transport
tation, with it's quick and cheap
ened methods, has served to bring
nearer together the values of the
markets of production and con-
sumption. Measured by cost of car
riage, Liverpool is nearer us today
than Buffalo was in the sixties. Grain
is carried from Chicago to Liverpool
for about half what it then cost to
get it to Buffalo. Lake freights
have fallen from a range of to Is
cents to l to cents, and ocean
freights from 1915 to 2-6, while all
rail freights to the seaboard that
formerly ranged from 80 to 40 cents
range now between and Is cents,
decrease of from three-fourths to
two-tllirds.
Thirty years ago the lakes were
studded with an immense fleet of
sailing vessels. The opening of the
straits of Mackinaw was a great
event. The grain-laden fleet bound
down had rendezvoused there, and
the first vessel or propeller through
was accorded special dock privileges
for the season. The observer stand
ing on the shore of Lake Michigan at
the opening of the straits would be-
mold the horizon lined with the white
sails Of the vessels, crowding all
their canvas to reach Chicago or
Milwaukee, and enter on the rich
harvest OF freights awaiting them in
ne monster elevators where the
grain had been accommodating dur
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09
PREMIER BOwELL TO GO.
General Elections Believed to BE
Near in Canada.

MONTREAL, July SIT is stated
freely today, by members of parlia-
ment who know, that the dissolution
of the Dominion parliament is near at
hand. The French members have for
some days been ready with a vote of
censure of the government for their
inaction in regard to the Manitoba
school question, but the Liberal Eng
lish members refuse to support it..
Mackenzie Bowel is to resign shortly
and Hon. John Haggart, minister of
railways and canals, it is said, is to be
the coming premier, and the only one
who has sufficient command of the
party organization to attempt to keep
the Conservatives in power. A general
election will shortly follow.