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St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
BASIS OF FITNESS
POLICE AND FIREMEN SHOULD BE
SELECTED ONLY ON THAT
GROUND.
HOWARD CHARTER OTHERWISE
1T WOULD MAKE THESE APPOINT
MENTS SIMPLY SPOus FOR
THE POLITICIAN,
WEAKEN TWO DEPARTMENTS
LII the Proposed Change Were Made
Experience of Other elite. In
dicates Such a Thing.
HOWARD CHARTER OTHERWISE
WEAKEN TWO DEPARTMENTS

TWO of the most important admins
tration functions of city government
are exercised through the police and
IRE departments. The scope of duties
performed by members of those denart-
ments makes their efficiency of prime
Importance. The large funds dis
ourseo year by year in each depart
ment, and the methods of expenditure
through salaries and contracts. give
favorable opportunity for improper
uses of public moneys, and demand
prudent restriction. On account of the
large number of employees in each. the
control Of these departments becomes
a coveted prize for spoilsmen. and the
need is great to provide against the In
huence of personal and partisan ma
chimes.
Cities in America have had abundant
experience in the mischiefs connected
with maladministration Of these two
departments, especially of the police.
Inc Iacts in the New York case re-
Gently disclosed, are matters of COM
mon knoWledge, and illustrate how
fully the police department.. designed to
protect person and property. NAV he
come an effective agent to imperil both
In Mlnnea polls, of late years. there ha G
been much talk Of improper admins
tration In the fire department: and al
most every city-even st. PauI-wi1J
aHofd some instances of the dangers
along this line.
Much attention has been given 70
the problem OF avoiding these mis-
chiefs The literature upon the suh-
Jecl Is extensive. Various evils have
been pointed out various remedies sue-
sested, some reforms attempted. Out
OF the discussion Of methods. new and
old, some good has come: and among
the results achieved may be counted
the demonstration that appointment
of employees in the police and fire de-
partments should be on the basis Of
fitness for employment alone. The ex-
ample of Milwaukee is in point. There
the system familiar to all under tba
name Of civil service reform has bean
in vogue six or eight years, with most
gratifying results. Original appoint-
ments are made from among candi-
dates who have passed practical and
sensible examinations, and promotions
are made from meritorious subordi-
mates. The system in each department
is wholly removed from the atmosphere
of city politics, and is working with
increased efficiency and reduced ex-
penses. Other American cities also are
working in the same direction Euro
pean cities have long ago set the ex-
ample; and all evidence in the matter
goes to show that good city govern
ment demands such administration.
No Minnesota city has established the
merit system, the strictly business-lik
system. in the administration of either
police or fire department. No provision
for it is made in the ST Paul charter.
In the police department, the mayor.
who is styled its chief executive Of
ficer, appoints all other officers. from
chief of police to patrolmen, with the
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
SCORED A SUCCESS.
Miss ThOmpsOn's Presentation of th>
Chinook Last Night.

The Chinook scored quite success las,
night at the Commercial club. Miss Thomp-
sons long stage experience has fitted her to
pose her characters in a manner to combine
art and natural expression. Her arrange
ment Of scenes and decorations excited the
most favorable comment. The Chinook was
presented to the audience upon the same
plan as though 1t were in the hands Of
company of actors and presented upon re-
cognized stage. The interest of the story
does not flag from the start to the finish
Comedy is the ruling element pathos finds
Its place in the plot, and strong love story
underlies the whole. while the eye sees the
counterfeited persons OF the actors in the
pictures. Miss Thompson reads the pIay in
a wholly artistic manner which tricks her
hearers into believing that the characters are
living and speaking their own lines. The
style of the entertainment was a vivid vet
rapidiyschangins series of pictures OF peooIe
their groups, positions and surroundings. The
combined effect OF Miss Thompsons reading
and the vivid, excellent pictures. rendered
the entire programme very realistic.
Socially and artistcally 1t would seem that
the picture play has come to stay. It is a
renned novelty. Its bright and attractive
idea Is adaptable both to the parlor or 10 IN.
stage. and in both fields future is reserved
for it.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
MUST DATE APRlh |.
POLICEMEN WILL NAME CONDI-
TIONS ON WHICH REDUC
TION is ACCEPTABLE.
THEY WILL SET UP THE CLAIM
THAT THEY CANNOT BE LEGISI.A-
TED OUT OF WHAT THEY'VE
EARNED.
GUT SO FAR AS THE FUTURE GOES
The Councils Proposition to Cut Sal
aries $3.50 Month Is Salts
factory.
THEY WILL SET UP THE CLAIM
GUT SO FAR AS THE FUTURE GOES

The compromise effected by the
Joint council committee whereby the
committee Will recommend the pas
sage of an ordinance fixing the salaries
OF the patrolmen at ST.. 80 a month
will not prove satisfactory to the po-
licemen unless a certain condition they
have to offer is complied with. And
the policemen are in a position. it is
claimed, to make terms.
One hundred and fifty Of them have
sued the city for their salaries for the
months of January and February.
Their complaints demand Judgment for
the salaries heretofore paid, includ-
ing interest on the January salaries
from Jan. l, and on the February sal
aries from Feb. /. The policemen
have understood that in case the coun-
ell passed any ordinance fixing their
salaries. that it was proposed to date
the ordinance back to Jan l, or, in
other words, to declare 1T should be
recorded as taking effect at the first
of the year so as TO cover the time lost
by the deadlock. Is
But the policemen refuse to have it
that way" Accordingly, they will
make this proposition to the council:
IF you will pass the proposed ordi-
nance with the understanding that it
is to take effect on and after April /.
we will withdraw our law suits 9th
erwise we will not"
Chief Clark said yesterday that the
police had been advised by competent
legal authority that the council could
not pass an ordinance now or at any
future date and declare that it should
take effect Jan. l, or al any date prior
TO its passage.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
REVIVAL AT ST. JAMES.
Work of the Week by Mrs. Amanda
Smith.

Considerable interest in Christian work has
been created the past week at st. James A.
NJ. E. church, corner Jay and Fuller streets.
Many reyivals have been held by this church
in the past, but nothing in its history equals
the present. For the past three weeks the
pastor Rev. S. B. Jones. conducted meetings
alone, with marked success Last week Mrs.
Amanda Smith, the noted female evangelist
came, and since her coming the church has
been the scene Of many conversions. Mrs.
Smith is said to be the most remarkable
Christian character OF this age; intensely
practical, yet eloquent, impressive and con-
viEcing. She will remain until next Friday
night. when she will speak to the people of st.
Paul for the last time. Sunday promises to
be great day at the above church. She will
conduct the meetings in the morning at 1890,
and in the evening at s o'clock. Christian
Erdeavor, from to s.
On Friday, March 80 there will be an all
day Pentecostal meeting. Prayer meeting from
a.. M to Z, led by Brother w. Harrison !:
prayer and testimony meeting at 3 a. M, led
by Sister Amy Carter; 10 a. m. Bible read
ing conducted by Mrs. Amanda Smith: at IL
=. M, sermon by Rev. HILL of Fowler NJ. E.
church, Minneapolis: 80 p. M. luncheon; ;
2:30 p. M. conservation meeting, led by Sis
ter Smith and others; at $3.50 p. m.,. sermon
by Rev. G.. Shaw, of Asbury NJ. E. church ;
tea at p. m.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
LANDED MIR. ANDERSON.
The Man With the Hard Luck story
Arrested.

Charles Anderson an account Of whose op-
eiations in the city during the past week by
means Of a highly embellished hard luck
story appeared in yesterdays Globe. was
arrested by Capt. Schweitzer yesterday after
noon. When taken into custody Anderson
had Just concluded a pathetic tale Of his
misfortunes which he had been telling a
West Third street hardware dealer with re-
quest for 81. Capt. Schweltzer entered the
store at the critical moment, however, and
spoiled the game. AS soon as the man caught
sight of the officer he made a bolt for the
door, but Capt. Schweitzer was right after
him, and after a short chase, landed the Ken
tuckian at the central station, where he was
charged with street begging.
Anderson tried his game Eugene VII
laEme, of 15S West Third street yesterday.
but Mr.. Nillaume recognized the good-looking
str anger from the description in the o e
and refused to listen to his troubles. The
Inan left Nillaume's place in disgust and the
proprietor Immediately telephOned police
headquarters, with the result that he was ar
rested.
The man claims his right name is James
Williams and that he has spent some time in
Minneapolis. Acting upon a remark dropped
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
TINY TIMM;S ARRIVAL.
He Taught "a Lesson to Union Depot
ScrOOges.

The law of compensation asserted itself at
the union depot yesterday with a directness
which bespeaks at least its occasional ap-
plication. Last Wednesday afternoon a life
was snuffed out at the depot amid the ring
ing of bells and the pufing OF engines, and
yesterday afternoon. surrounded by the same
conditions. A new life was begun when Mrs.
Wilhelminie Timm, who arrived from Winni-
peg shortly before noon, gave birth to
baby boy. While rather unusual place for
an event Of so much Importance, there was
the customary hurry about and eager ques-
tions of hoy girl?" propounded with
almost as much interest as though the affair
had occurred within the confines Of an ex-
pectant home. Mrs. Timm and the baby were
taken to the city hospital. where both were
reported to be doing nicely. The woman was
on her way to visit relatives in Wisconsin.
and had $40 in money belt about her waist.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

by the man at the time of his arrest, the
police made inquiry at a certain house on
Washington street, and learned that he had
passed several days and nights at the resort,
spending money freely on every occasion.
Anderson. or Williams, as the man prefers
to be called, put up strong talk at the po-
lice station and begged to be allowed to leave
for Chicago last night. The authorities rec
ognize in him, however, a remarkably smooth
young man, and will hold him few days un-
til they are sure nothing worse than beg
ging can be credited to him.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
q. HI. MOhr Asaf1nx

George Fl. Mohr. who runs a wholesale
liquor store on Wabasha street, yesterday
made an assignment to H. D. Lang for the
benefit of his creditors. An affidavit attached
to the deed Of assignment places the estimated
value of the assets at not more than $500
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

The subject will be Child Labor" The
papers to be presented are as follows 1.-The
Reason for the Minnesota Child Labor Law
and Suggested Amendments" by Labor Com
missioner L. G. Powers; The Relation of the
Schools to Child Labor by DR.. E. ]. Abbott;
THE Relation Of Child Labor to Adult La
bor," by Louis Nash; THE Relation OF Char
ity Workers to Child Labor by Hon. John
W. Willis. Invitations may be obtained by
addressing Secretary ]. F. Jackson. Associated
Charities, 1904 New York Life building; tele-
phone 1876.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
RUSSELL GULFILLAN DEAD.
Was the Youngest Son of the Lat.
Chief Justice

Russell Gilhllan, youngest son OF tbe ,a,.
chief Justice Gilfllan, died yesterday at st.
Luke's hospital, Immediately after an OPERA
ton had been performed on HIM The bow
has been ailing for some time, and Dr. Wheat
on pronounced 1T case of appendicitis. The
boy was removed to st. Lukes. where an
operation was performed upon him yesterday,
and he failed to recover from the shock De-
ceased was seventeen years OF age The fu-
neral will probably take place from the family
residence, 2S7 South Exchange street, tomor.
row.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

Judge Brill yesterday filed an order grant
ing the motion of the defendants for a new
trial in the case of Franklin d. Smith
against Emil Munich and the Bohn Manu-
featuring company, unless the plaintiff con-
sents to reduction to 500 in the verdict.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
REMOVE FOLEY ONLY.
Probable Programme of the Board
of Public Works.

Next Tuesday the board OF public works
vii. meet to consider what changes IL any.
will be made in the clerical force Of the de-
partment. The present indications are that
the present chief clerk, Mr. Mueller, will re-
main, and that only one removal will be
made. 1t is understood that Octave Savard
West side resident. will succeed Michael
Foley, one of the copyists employed in the
Office.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

Smith secured verdict for 81, 900 damages
because his son was arrested at the instance
OF the defendants at the time of the trouble
IN the factory of the BOhn company some
months ago.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
Many st. Paul Ladies'

Declared last week that Mrs. Vose Is showing
the most chic and exclusive Millinery crea-
t,ons in the Twin Cities. Come and see, at
522 Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
ParIor Conference.

The next parlor conference of the Associat-
ed Charities will be held Monday. April 6. at
the residence Of E. w. Peet, Summit avenue.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
OUR GRAND OPENING

Is We ready
aleslades
city to attend wants Our Motto please Anything
bought in be Exchanged
a Flower, a yard of Ribbon anything
EASTER week is here We other is
show 1000 handsome Hats and Bonnes Handsome
Practical Modest and Rich We wish
liberal last Notwithstanding
bad weather, store crowded.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

Vose's Millinery, 522 NicoIIet Ave-.
Minneapolis. Our styles are unsurpassed Our
prices moderate
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

At the Delicatessen Restaurant, S23 to 325
Robert street.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
500 BICYCLE FREE !

On May 1st the popular lady trading
high grade Bicycle The America bought of the A. D.
Cycle House. Sixth street. exhibition
Every purchaser of 1Oc worth has votes;
and Come and bring your friends why
you get this Wheel if it.
MONDAY at II a. and will give lady call
ing at these particular hours FREE.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

Millinery Opening.
Wednesday and Thursday. April and 2 at
b. A. SchultZ's, 412 and 414 Wabasha street.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
JOE GAINES, FAILURE.
Creditors Seem to Have the SMALL
End OF IL

Joe Gaines creditors do not seem to stand
much shew for realizing on their claims
against him. judging blythe schedule of assets
and liabilities filed by him yesterday. The
aggegate OF the liabilities is $5,s17.50 while
the assets foot UP only $5S3.10. The heaviest
creditors are Brady Co, to whom is due
$3.400. The other claims run from q few
dollars up to $500 each.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-23
to visit the queen, very likely to receive
a commission.
RUSSIAN WOMEN.
Not Long Ago They Were Treated as the
Turkish Women Are.


10 is curious to think what short
time it is since the emperors Of Russia
treated their womankind in the same
way they are still treated in Turkey.
says writer in the Montreal Star. In
those days the czar chose his wife from
among his subjects, and she was never
considered his equal. The matters were
arranged in this wagon "a certain day
the mobiles brought their young daugh-
ters to be looked at, and she who took
the emperor's fancy was forthwith cho-
sen to be his wife,
The princesses were kept with the
same strictness as eastern princesses.
and marriage only changed their place
OF residence, but gave them no more
freedom. They were allowed occasional
~ to be present when guests were re.
ceived, to whom they would hand a Gun
OF wine and then retire to their apart
ments, there being a suit of rooms at
the north side of the palace reserved es-
pecially for them.
III they were i'll, the room was dark
ened before the doctor was admitted.
aud he was not even allowed to feel
their pulse, and when they drove out
the windows of their carriages had
drawn curtains.
The first czarina who emancipated
herself from this state Of slavery. and
80 instituted new and happier era for
Russian women, was the beautiful Ma
thalie Neryschki, the second wife of
Alexis Michaelovitch and the mother of
Peter the Great, and her first triumph
was when she obtained her husbands
consent to drive with him in an omen
carriage to the monastery of Troitzky. a
proceeding which at the time occasioned
great scandal.
Naturally. when the Russian princes
began to intermarry with other Euro.
pean royal families, they were obliged
to treat their wives differently. but II
was long time before tho court of Rus
sla became as civilized as the rest Of
Europe.
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when it has only one head''
Francisco Argonaut.
Worth More Dead.

Sir Wemyss Reid tells a stoI
lent of a grim shrewdness oharad
Of canny Novocastrians. Ether
worthy, long since forgotten,
time who was a prototype Of Ri
derhood in Our Mutual Friend
was known as Cuckoo Jack, and \
upon the Tyne in a well patel
boat, picking up any trife tha|
his way from n derelict to corp
day an elderly and most e
Quaker of Newcastle, in steppl4
q river steamboat to the quay,
and fell into the stream. CacE
was at hand with his boat and
rescued the luokless Friend and
him dripping on the quay.
man drew half a crown from hi
and solemnly handed it to his pa
Jack eyed the coin for a momenl
lack luster gaze, spat upon IL
for luck and, having placed
in his pocket, said in matter
tone to the soaked Quaker, M
hev gotten 8 shillin for takln
deadhoose. '"-London Telegraq
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on the Pacific coast seem to be singular
ly open minded and receptive. But even
they caught on after awhile to the fact
that the Alaskans were jollying them.
Then resentment took the natural form,
and you couldn't find Pacific coast
man with horse rake who would be-
lieve an Alaska steamship mans story
if the narrator was literally incased in
Bibles.
1t developed through the somewhat
general competition that as compound
er of able tales Tom Barrett was easily
at the head. He won his distinction and
his title at the same time, springing
from comparative obscurity in the ranks
of liars by one successful coup. Barrett
was in the employ of trading company
at the westward. He rolled into Sitka
one day with the most astonishing sto-
ries of the auriferous riches of Middle
ton island, little chunk of rock and
sand that had been heaved up above the
water by some submarine volcanic erup-
ton far out in the middle of the north
Pacific ocean. All Alaska that could go
started for Middleton island on the
strength Of Barrett's yarns, and all
Alaska that couldn't go grub staked
somebody who could. When the excite
ment was over and those who went to
Middleton island had got back and those
who didn't go were out their grub
stakes, the man who had started the
rush spontaneously became known to all
Alaska as Lying Tom Barrett"
sfI uin to-, Do s1Il
about the Mohican to the newspaper man
in Port Townshend, who telegraphed
a column Of it to his paper in Seattle
and started it around the world. Bar
rett was coming down from Alaska and
on the way put up the job with the
steamship men TO spring yarn that
should make sensation in the States.
The steamship men knew they couldn't
make it go themselves, but they agreed
to back Barrett up in whatever he said
and to give him good send Off if there
was effort at verification. So when the
steamer put in at Port Townshend, Bar.
rett got himself interviewed, and the
next day the world was reading "Cap-
tain Thomas Barrett's" remarkable sto-
ry of the loss of the Mohican. When
the yarn got back 10 juneau and Sitka,
there were some Alaskans who laughed
nightly at the hoax, but others, who
knew the officers of the Mohican thought
of the cruelty of it to the relatives and
friends of the cutters men, and on the
whole Barrstts story did not meet with
the approval even of the liars. That
was carrying the thing too far. Harm
less stories about islands of gold or i'm
possible customs of unheard OF people
were well enough, but this lie turned
the tide in favor of truthfulness, and
now Alaskans are more circumspect in
their stories about the territory. But
Barrett will never be anybody but ely
ing Tom" to them. New York Sun.
Charles VII Of France was the Vio-
torious. He won AZ battles.
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ACCOUNT OF A HOAX.
STORY OF THE MOHICAN'S LOSS IN
THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN.


the Yarn-A Rivalry Had Grown Up
Among the Munchausens, but the Mo-
hican Lie Was Little Too Much.
Very many persons may remember
the story that was telegraphed and ca
bled all over the world in the summer
of 1895 of the sinking Of the United
States revenue cutter Mohican by the
British seal pirate Belle of the Pacific
somewhere in that indefinite part of the
north Pacific ocean known to all Alas.
kans as ''the westward :" Not so many
probably will remember that the story
was a fake, because it is the lamentable
history of such things that the truth
never completely overtakes the lie. 1t
was a lie out of whole cloth, az was
demonstrated when the Mohican turned
up all right that fall at the end Of the
patrol season, bat the manner Of its pub
LEGATION has not been told.
This lie began to have its being years
ago when the steamers first began to
take tourists from "down below" as
Alaskans call the States, up through the
gorgeous scenery Of the north Pacific
coast line for peep at the northern ter
ritory. As usual thing the tourists
spend eight or ten hours ashore at Jul
neau and as much more in Sitka. Some
times they make dash up TO Muir Ella
cier. Altogether they see a lot of the
country in a panoramic sort Of way, and
they hear great deal more about il. Tt
is one OF the lands where the blindest
bluffs hold good and the widest tales
are true. So when they get back to the
States again, the tourists begin to un-
fold TO their friends and their friends
friends and to their acquaintance and
to anybody who will listen, particularly
10 overcredulous newspaper men, tho
widest tales that human ingenuity can
devise.
For long time the Alaskans did
their best to chase down these lies, but
they failed. The liar had all the advan-
tages of telegraphs and daily mails and
the widespread publicity given by the
too credulous newspaper men. Then the
Alaskans gave up the direct attack and
took up the gentle art Of lying them
selves They had so much time TO prac-
tice when there was nothing else to in
terfere that every two weeks, when the
mailboat came in, fine new crop Of
marvellous stories had been carefully
harvested for dissemination in the
States. The steamship men were always
the medium through which these stories
were communicated to the credulous
public Of Oregon, Washington and Cali
fornia. These steamship men rapidly
acquired a large reputation with the
readers of thrilling newspaper accounts
of brave newspaper deeds. The people
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A Funny Eaple.

A Russian grand duke, one Of the
cars predecessors, was once tho pnest
OF a German prince. Itwas early in the
century. In Russia the imperial double
headed eagle is to be seen everywhere
and on everything throughout the EN-
pire, stamped, painted, embroidered or
sculptured. AT that period the education
of grand dukes was somewhat limited
dnis grand duke went out shooting in
Germany and. among other things. Shot
large bird. He asked an experienced
nuntsman who accompanied him what
'ne pro was. IAN eagle, your high.
ness was the answer. The grand duke
. .. ON him in an irritated way.
Row can ID be an eagle" he n ,ked.