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The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06
THE TENEMENT pRoBLEM.

While Glasgow, Edinburg, Manehes-
ter and other English cities are solving
the problem Of housing the poorer
members of the municipality by build
ing tenements that will supply tno
hyg1en1c and other conditions that tend
social disorders that life in the usual
tenement gives rise to, private philan-
thropy is moving in the same direction
in this country. Neither there nor
here, however, is something to be
given for nothing, with its enervatins
consequences whether it is the very
poor or the well-to-do who are the
recipients, but the purpose is to pro-
vide suitable housing for the occupa-
ton of which the tenant pays rea-
sonable rental. We have not yet ad-
vanced, or retrograded, to that concep-
tion of municipal government that
holds it to be a proper field Of it's ac-
tivities and taxing power to provide
tenements at the public cost, though
the trend of sentiment is in that direc-
ton.
New York city has it's City and
Suburban Homes company that Is
about to construct tenement house.
It's capital stock is $1,000 900 in shares
of $40 each, and the amount is fully
lative annual dividend of five per cent
and it is expected that men of mod
crate means, wishing to accumulate
home purchase fund, will invest in the
stock in preference to depositing in
savings bank, as the stecl can be
turned into a purchase of a suburban
home, the building of which is a part
of the scheme. But the first effort will
be the building of a tenement house In
the city, plans for which have been
adopted and bids for which will soon
be asked. The company has not per-
mitted sentiment to run away with
Judgment, a source Of wreck for so
many schemes of philanthropy, but
has put the enterprise on q purely
business basis It has put the esti-
mates Of cost at a point that is sare
and the estimates of cost and running
expenses have been approved by ex-
perts in the management Of such prop
critics. The basis of income Is the
present rentals in the same locality as
the proposed building for tenements of
less attractiveness, and on these data
the company estimate that they will
be able to guarantee a five per cent
dividend on the capital stock while
providing a four per cent repair and
renewal fund, giving, at the same time
at a reduction in rent OF twenty five
per cent, apartments with hygiendc
housekeeping and moral comforts.
The fact that the banking house of
J. Pierpoint Morgan hold the subscrlp-
ton books is some evidence that there
is a solidity in the computations of the
company that will insure success The
plan of the building accepted provides
light and air in every room, elements
of health and comfort Mr.. Gildarss
commission found woeful1y wanting In
the ordinary tenement of that city. The
smallest bedrooms will have seventy
square feet OF floor space and tina
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06
THE PRIZE FIGHT FINDS ITg
LEVEL,

The gradual evolution Of the prize
fight out of existence is exhibited in
an interesting stage by the recent con-
test at San Francisco. Here was a
case in which a fight was pulled off
without the usual contest with state
and local authorities There was no
row over it, but the ring was drawn
under the auspices of a local sporting
club, and the police authorities agreed
not to interfere. The fight came off as
duly advertised, there was no row ex-
cept by word of mouth and no public
disturbance; yet the chief of police
himself says that he has been SO dis
gusted by the event that there will
never be another prize fight permitted
in that city if he can prevent it. 1t
is in vain that one effort after another
has been made to give a semblance of
respeetability, or even of decency, to
these pugilistic encounters. You cannot
make a silk purse out of a sow's ear,
and no more can you make the eIe-
ments of a gentleman out of a prize
comes a storm center about which re-
volve cursings and bravado, charges
and counter charges of foul play, over
which hangs the dense cloud Of an in
tent to win the big cash stakes and
heavy bets involved by any means,
however desperate or degrading.
This is the essential element which,
even more than its brutality, has ban
ished the prize fight from one civilized
community after another. 1t is possi-
BILE for two men to stand up against
each other in q scientific boxing con-
test and try their merits in fair en-
counter. Physical prowess is not to
be despised, and never will. be until the
race becomes effeminate. But this must
be incidental and, to keen any charac-
ter of decency. it wouldi appear that
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06

smallest living room LA. while water
and gas will be provided for all
Laundries will furnish conveniences
for washing and drying, while each
suite will have its own equipment of
laundry tubs, closets, pantries and the
other minor conveniences of a we'll
built house. Mrs. Alfred Corning Clarke
makes possible the first building by ex-
changing for stock a building site IN
addition to cash subscription. While
the need of such action is more imper-
ative in the larger cities Of the East
there is ample room for such a COM
bination Of business and philanthropy
here in st. Paul, and beginning
should be made before our tenemen,
districts reach the squalid condition Of
the greater cities.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06
WITH INTENT TO AMUsE.

"The weather bureau predicts light snow
said Mrs. Cityman, reading from the news
paper.
brown usual" replied Mr.. Cityman.-
World.
81 see you are able to be around this morn
ing" said the axle.
puns make me tired" said the
wheel. 'If you start again 1 will have to
She-Vy so pensif, Moritz?
He-Oh, 1 vos choost buildin' air CASTLES.
She-Oh, Moritz, if We could only haf dem
inzured!-Puck.
He-Are your father and mother asleepf
She-Yes.
He-Is this sofa strong?
.She-Yes.
He-Is that as low as the light can be
turned?
She-Quite.
He-Then, darling adore you.-Truth.
Smith-You told me your friend sang like
a bird 1 think he has a horribly hoarse
voice. How can You say 1t is like a birds?
Jones-Well, the bird meant was crow
Judy.
She--I saw your dog on the street today
Chappie-Was he alone?
she-Not exactly. You were with him.
Twinkles.
He-I have trouble in killing time.
She-Why don't you just talk to it?-Town
Topics.
There goes q man who, has done more for
pedestrianism than any man in America" I"
He does not look like a patron of sports. -
He isn't. He manufactures tacks and his
goods have punctured million tires.-Ex-
change.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06

of a charter that no longer fits their
circumstances. In a great many re-
spects ST. Paul would profit by the
adoption of new charter even IL there
were not the reasons for it that we
have advanced here. The act that went
into effect five years ago has played it's
part. 1t did well enough for the time
in checking a habit of extravaganza
and in imposing severer restrictions
upon public officials. The city officials
of the present regime have shown us
how the regulations Of the Bell
charter may be defied, how money may
be expended under it without warrant
of law, and how easily the administra-
tive power can tear it to tatters when
political considerations demand.
There is no doubt that new charter
could be framed at this time which
would be superior in nearly every re-
spect to the one under which we are
now living, and we can trust our people
TO see that their own interests are
guarded when it is drawn. 1t will be
long time yet before all the forman-
ties necessary to the application of the
nome rule act to ST. Paul can be COM
piled with. We shall suffer severely
from the impracticabIe conditions of
the Bell charter before we can get re-
lief from them, This makes it an ur-
gent and imperative duty of our repre-
sentatives to secure such legislative ac-
tion as is necessary at the very earliest
moment. The people should urge this
upon the delegation from Ramsey
county We want a new charter
framed by our own people and for our
own people, and at last the way is open
to it.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06
THE WORSHIP. OF COMFORT.

recent writer in the British Medical
Journal offers for our consideration a
few suggestions as to the possible effect
Saxon race. Nowhere, he says, is COM
fort so studied as in the better class of
homes of English-speaking people on
both sides of the Atlantic We must
have an equable temperature through
out our houses, hot and cold
water on every floor, cooking such as
to stimulate a jaded appetite, electric
bells and speaking tubes to save trou-
ble We so sedulously avoid every
thing that is disagreeable that it seems
likely the effect will be to weaken our
strength and power of resistance;
cause loss of vitality and vigor, and so
ultimately lead to the extinction Of the
race.
There is, no doubt, a certain amount
of justification for these gloomy prog
nostfcations. Undoubtedly we carry our
worship of comfort very far and are
to some extent weakened by it. I'm
doubtedly, too, our ancestors would
scorn us in proportion to our multipli-
cation of necessities 1t is difficult to
be hardy and to be comfortable at the
same time, for the quality of hardness
implies that ability to dispense with
comfort which is not usually acquired
nor kept except by practice. At the
same time it is hardly fair to compare
our present generation with the vikings
to our disadvantage, as the writer does.
1t must be remembered that the prizes
of life in the days of the vikings fell
to men of physical prowess while now
adays the race is not to the strong in
any such physical sense as was the
case formerly. Physical strength is a
necessity of modern life in so far as it
is needed to uphold mental vigor, but
beyond that it plays little part in the
struggle for existence today. A GER
tain amount of comfort subserves the
purposes of the mental life better than
the physical discipline of deprivation.
Therefore, comfort and not hardness
mas pCNOIllC lAlC Cl1lAS We seek.
The function of comfort may be over
estimated. Probably it does play too
large part in our civilization. but soci-
ETY. is learning very rapidly to offset it's
enervating effects by an appropriate
amount of physical exercise We are
learning to adjust the balance between
the life of the body and the life Of the
mind consciously and nationally ac-
yscording to our needs. The viking did
the same thing instinctively according
to his needs, which We're other than
our own. OF course, as Nietzsche and
his disciples claim, it may be that the
course of evolution has been all wrong
ever since evolution ceased to be phys
ieal and became psychical But even
if this were true, it is difficult to see
what the individual man Of today is
going to do about it. The course Of
evolution is fixed beyond altering, and
it is not of any particular use to COM
plain about it. If nature is working
for the abolition of our race, that re-
suit is likely to come to pass in spite Of
the protest of the British Medical Jour
nal. And, meantime, comfort is-com-
Portable.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06

them as superfuities pensioned on the
public because they must be penstoned
on some one, and who is so convenient
for this as the dear, gullible. generous
old Public?
But, as we remarked. there are other
points of view, and on occasions as rare
as LoweRs day in june, he gets around
to them. This is when he speculates
on what society would be if every one
attended to his own business and there
We're none to look after all of us. He
sees men In private life sparing from
their vocations little of their time
or something Of their gatherings to
devote to those who have been less
fortunate either in birthright or in the
struggle for existence, and, in an in
dividualist, he approves of such exer-
else of the humanities. But he also
sees that there are others in whom
this instinct is stronger, who are i'm
PEELED to give all their time to looking
after some phase of the common
wealth's veal; who cannot, somehow,
center their energies on the material
things of life, the establishing of a
trade or business, thereby making
present provision for themselves and
for the family they usually burden
themselves with, besides putting aside
something for those rainy days that
drench the umbrellaless.
He marvels at their anxiety for the
dear public. 1t attaches to ever
multipIying objects These guardians
search Al eagerly for new objects of
solicituds as scientists do for new spe-
cies of bacteria. When found, their
elamor is ceaseless until the public is
sufficiently agitated and alarmed to
commission them to take over the in
spection and guarding of the oId-new
danger. Gradually every point Of as
sault on the health comfort and Sc
curity of the citizen is being fortified
by these philanthropic people, with the
aid of the state, and the day is not
~~A SA5te1AAI W1iCA 1lictHhlIlu Will De n1dQ6
oft1efally immune from disease and pre-
mature extinguishment When one re-
Heets on all the dangers that have
peen Warded off in recent years by
the efforts Of these good souls, one mar
Vels how 1t happens that the race ever
survived it's perils to attain it's pres
ent robust state
But If people will persist In thus de-
voting their time to watching the in
terests of all of us, it follows that all
OF us should make for them some COM
pensation for their work. If one rem
der us an individual service, there
rises an implied contract to pay for it.
Why is it not as true of all of us as
one OF US? And. as all of us are the
state. 1T follows that the state should
exact from each of us his proportional
modicum wherewith to COMPENSATE
those who work for all. 1t is not
enough to object that no one asked
these people to devote their lives to
our welfare; to say that we are able
to take care of ourselves. The fact
is that these people exist, that they
cannot any more help doing that kind
or work than some can help being
paupers, and, as We recognize our duty
TO provide fer the paupers, why is it
not duty laid on all of us to take care
of those who take care of us and can
do nothing else?
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06

such meetings must be confined to anna
~teurs The professional pugilist is q.
hard lot. The crowd that gathers about
the championship fight and the sports
who wager heavy money on the result
ARE not delicate in n~e.. obedience
to the fine demands of honor,
nor over-particular about the means
~by which they may reach results salts
factory to Themselves. It is not pos
sible to apply the code of honor to such
meetings. There is never a prize fight,
where the principals are in any degree
notorious, which Is not preceded and
followed by suspicious and charges Of
intentional foul play. Nobody knows
today whether at San Francisco F'itz-
simmons saved himself from a defeat
that he had reason to apprehend, be-
cause he realized a growing weakness,
by deliberate foul blow, or whether
Sharkey. unable any longer to stand
against his antagonist, had his claim
allowed by g. referee who was partner
to the conspiracy, was carried to his
room, and then had some operation
performed upon him that gave to his
body the semblance of an injury below
the belt
1t does not really much matter which
is the case. The San Francisco fight is
the strongest possible vindication of
the light in which the law and public
opinion have come to regard the prize
fight. 1t cannot be separated, by the
very nature of it, from it's disgraceful
surroundings. If one could overlook
the disgusting indecency of it, epposi-
ton would still be justified and de-
manded by the incidents of every ring
contest. For some years past it has
been the stamp of the laws disap-
proval that has squelched the prize
fight. In this last instance the law
stood aloof, and the encounter in the
ring sank by it's own weight to the
depth that has been assigned to it by
public condemnation. 1t ought not to
be possible henceforth for any such
meeting to take place in any state of
the Union. Professional pugilism is the
victim of the viciousness and corrup-
ton that are inherent in its nature.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06
OUR NUMEROUS GUARDIANS.

Once in a while an individualist gets
around to a point of view of the state
and It's functions that makes him ques-
ton his own conclusions as to their
soundness. He is apt to fall into this
reflective mood as he scans the re-
ports now being made to the incoming
legislatures by those numerous boards,
commissions. heads of bureaus, inspect
ors and other officials, who voluni-
nously try to prove their usefulness and
necessity to the welfare of the body
public. They soar into generalizations
and descend into particulars with a
laborious profuseness and industry that
betokens both 1audable desire to earn
their salary and demonstrate their own
profundity. The individualist is us
ually cynical in his estimate and opfn-
ions of the need Of these public func-
tionaries, and is disposed to regard
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06
New BOATS for the G. N.

DULUTH, Mimi, Dec. 5.-The Northern
Steamship company is contemplating building
three package freight boats of the LARGEST
class, to run between Duluth and Buffalo
Each vessel will be much larger than any
Of the present ships Of the Northern feet
Tho season just closed has been a very busy
one for the company. Whether these boats
which will probably cost in the neighborhood
Of $250,OOO each. will be built this season or
not is a question.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06

Where is the fashion in sleeves going
to end? 1t is now declared to be quite
the proper thing for a woman to wear
an evening dress one sleeve of which
is formed of puffs of chiffon and the
other of ve1ours- with embroidered
epauletS
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06

Young Mr.. Black, New York's gov
ernor-elect, announces that he will
stand by the Republican machine"
Yes, indeed! And when the Democrats
put dynamite under that machine in
November, 1899, Black, Platt and the
machine" will all go up together.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06

Uruguay is now in the throes Of a
revolution. If the South American re-
publics would all have their revolu-
tions the same year, there might be
a year occasionally without revolu-
ton in any South American republic
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06

New Hampshire gave a Republican
plurality of over $4,000 in November
and yet New Hampshire is just now
busily engaged electing Democratic
mayors to govern it's cities The DEM
ocratic party was not born to die. ;"
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06

The cabinet rumors gets little more
ridiculous every day. The Washington
correspondents have made Congress
man Boutelle secretary of the navy be-
cause he has rented house but three
blocks from the navy department.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer, 29.74; thermometer, 26; relative
humidity, IS; wind, west; weather. cloudy
maximum thermometer, %; minimum ther
mometer, 25; daily range 8; amount of rain
fall melted snow in last twenty-four
hours, IL.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06
TODAY,S WEATHER,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-Ferecast for Sun
day: Minnesota Fair, preceded by local
SHOWS in northeast portion; westerly winds
shifting to- southerly.
Wisconsin-Fair, preceded by local SHOWS
in extreme northern and eastern portion; fresh
to brisk westerly winds, becoming variable.
North Dakota-Partly cloudy weather with
local SHOWS: slightly warmer; southeriy winds
shifting to westerly.
South Dakota-Fair and warmer in eastern
portion; south to west winds.
Enthusiastically fair; westerly winds.
Rock Island Argus., 1896-07-30
FINDING OF A SKELETON.

Human Bones Ureafthed on q Farm Near
Rapids City.
Coroner Hawes has been notified of
the unearthing Of a skeleton on a
farm near Rapids City.
The skeleton was scarcely covered
with earth and was found near the
old Rapids City coal mine. There
was a strike st this mine several
years ago and the trouble which fol-
lowed the employ ment OF negroes to
take the positions OF the strikers be-
came so serious that it was thought
it would be necessary to call out the
state militia on several different oc-
casions. There were numerous
fights between the men during which
| blood flowed and it is believed by
many that the bones which have
been unearthed belong to victim oil
one of the battles. The coSpner does
not consider the matter OF sufficient
consequence at this late day to inves
tigate.
Rock Island Argus., 1896-07-30
Electric Bitiers.

Electric Bittcrs is medicine suit
ed for any season, but perhaps more
generally when the languid ex-
hausted feeling prevails, when the
liver is torpid and sluggish and the
need of tonic and Alternative is felt.
A prompt use of this medicine has
often averted long and perhaps fatal
bilious fevers. No medicine will act
more surely in counteracting and
freeing the system from the malarial
poison. Headache, Indigestion, con-
stipation. dizziness yield to Electric
bitters. SOC and 81 per bottle at
Hartz & Ullemeyer's drug store.
What came near being a double
tragedy was the climax OF drunken
Rock Island Argus., 1896-07-30
SaEREARD SHOTS.

SHERRARD, July 29.-Peter Brown,
OF Gable, and his brothers, John and
Tom, from San Jose. California, were
visitors here Wednesday.
1t. Haddick and family visited
Cable Sunday.
Thomas German was visiting in
Cable Sunday.
William Boyle, of Gable, was on
our streets Sunday.
Gus Thor and wife, of this place,
were visitors at Cable Sunday.
+. c. Bodcne, tailor OF Swedona,
was here on business Saturday.
Amel Muerlirg and Willie Wal
grcn were on our streets Sunday.
Frank Burkstrom and family, of
Gable. moved to Sherrard Saturday.
Mr.. Donglegoth. wife and daugh-
ter, visited relatives in Gable Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward O'Neil, OF
Gilchrist, were visitors in Sherrard
Wednesday.
John O'Neil. of Cable, who is man.
ager of the company store, was here
on DuslNeSs SaiuTuaE-
John Edgar. a former resident oi
this place but late of Carbon Cliff,
was visitor here Friday.
Hugh German. Of Spring Valley,
was visiting his brother, Thomas
German. here Wednesday.
Mrs. Gurnes Ferrow. who has beer
visiting in Rock lslaud for two
weeks. returned home Friday.
w. j. Lee, Of Cable, was on oul
streets Sunday with his PAGER which
he lately purchased in Kansas.
| Herbert Pearce and wife were il
Sherrard Sunday to see his father
John Pearce, who is very sick a
this writing.
Gus jacobson, of this place, tool
his house apart at Cable and moved
it to Sherrard Saturday. He intend:
TO rebuild it.
Mrs. George Dansett, of Gable, ant
her two sons, John and Joe, wer,
visiting relatives in Sherrard Tues
day and Wednesday.
Mr.. Atkinson and wife and Gaugh
ter were in Sherrard SUNDAY. Mr.
Atkinson came up to see his brothe
workman, John Pearce. who is yer,
low.
The most exciting game of bas'
ball Of the season was PLAYED
Wednesday at Sherrard between
Orion and GilchTis.., the score being
4 to $ in favor of Gilchrist. Oriol
had four players from Davenpor
and three from Woodruff. Th
game was for $50 purse.
Saturday afternoon at B O'Clock
Mr.. and Mrs. Elem Halls 9-months
old son died after several days o
severe illness. Mr.. and Mrs. Hal
have much sympathy in their loss
The funeral was held at the Unite,