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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-30
WHAT GROUND is WORTH.
v.1r-E OF GREAT BUILDINGS THAT ARE
Illustrated IN THE INDUSTRIAL
S1-PPI ELEMENT - THE FIGURES
ARE TAX VALUATIONS.
REAL, AND PERSONAL PROPERTY VALUED FOR
TAXATION AT So 1856 IS, eoo-ADD 40 PER
CENT FOR CORRECT vALUE-EsTI

IL
TAXATION AT So 1856 asa eoo-ADD 40 PER
CENT FOR CORRECT vALI-E-EsTI-
MATED WORTH OF BUSINESS AND
RESIDENCE PROPERTY.
! There Is no surer indication of the life an0 ac-
tivity of city than presented by the changes
found in realty from year to year. 1t is an ID
-aMhle basis on which TO estimate the growth
and progress of a great metropolis. The every
6av sight Of the demolition of huge buildings, TO
make room for others more magnificent ard more
modern in their arrangements. is an Impressive
object lesson Outside the borders Of Manhattan
Island there is no city that can be named where
such marvellous changes in realty values have
been noted. The demands Of trade are arbitrary.
and hence every decade witnesses almost COM
rlate obliteration Of the contour Of many Of the
nrincipal thor oughfares. Former occupants
abandon their old stands and new ones succeed
them. SO II is with lawyers. brokers' agents and
bankers Their business grows with the time
and desk room becomes inadequate 20 their
wants The demand for offices in consequence
Increases and as real estate advances in value,
buildings tend skyward. Four and five story
structures which a few years ago thought
70 he the limit Of the architects ability. now
OF stone steel. brick and mortar which loom UP
more than twenty-five stories in height over
towering the city like giants among Lii
putians and drawing EXPLANATIONS of wonder
and amazement from all classes Of visitors.
Broadway. the great artery which starts from
Bowling Green and ostensibly ends at Central
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-30

London Stock Exchange which are to-day run
ming as high as between $50" and 500 pei square
foot To cite another important instance the
Vev-York Clearing House Association soid
r, operty at the northwest corner of Nassau ana
Fine sts on September II. ls'1. embracing a
L., 36 feet inches on Nassau-st. and NJ feet on
Pine-st TO Donald Mackay for the sum OF
s795 oo or something in excess or N-+t !" per
eouaro foot. The property has since been resod
80 the Western National Bank Of which John
l. searles is the president. for an advance on
,h4 figures just given. This property was nousht
,ventv-one years ago by the Clearing House
Association for the sum Of s2l1'v"' or al the
rate Of $50 per square foot. an increase OF over
nm per cent on the opposite side OF NASSAU
ST between Liberty and Cedar sts stahns the
magnificent Mutual Life Insurance company
building. on the site Of the historic chuie"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18
HEARD AND SEEN,
Some of the Things Seen and Heard
in St. Paul.

Towns in the rural districts are not
the only towns to suffer when Dako-
ia blizzard passes over Minnesota. In
fact, the writer is of the opinion that
cities like st. Paul and Minneapolis
are handled worse by the elements
than is Redwood Falls. Take last
Thursday night for instance Street
car traffic was practically at stand
still. The snow had been coming
down with all the vigor possible for
seven hours preceding twilight. It
continued to come down during the
night. Walking on sidewalks was
coupled with danger from slipping
and many q fall, attended with injury,
occurred on the stone pavements from
which an under current of steam was
partly thawing the snow. Every cleo
trio street car in the service was snap
ping electricity from its wheels. Each
car was tugging and using every effort
to remove the snow from the tracks.
The snow on the steel rails was so
deep at various places that it would
break the electrical connections be-
tween car and rails and then huge
flashes of lightning would fly from the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18

The Mount Lebanon Shakers have
invented agreat many valuable things
They were the first to make brooms
by machinery; the first to put seeds in
little packages; the first to manufac-
ture cut nails.
Now they are out with method of
curing dyspepsia by resting the stom-
ach. Their remedy is known as the
Shaker Digestive Cordial. It supplies
food in artifcially digested form and
at the same time aids the digestion of
other foods in the stomach. In other
words, by the use of the Shaker Di-
gestive Cordial, dyspeptic virtually
gets along without the use of his stom-
ach until it is restored to it's natural
strength and vigor. A single 10 cent
bottle will oft-times give marked re-
lief. Get bottle from your druggist
and try it.
Laxol is the best medicine for child
rem. Doctors recommend it in place
of Castor Oil.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18
security for me and I have dollar
just now in hand I can send"

security for me and I have dollar
just now in hand I can send"
The circulation, meantime, of the
Penny News is $50 copies month,
but is gradually rising. Tracy is a
hustler for advertisements and has al
ways three pages of advertisements to
one page of news. He charges rs
cents an inch for ads. over the year
and Is cents an inch for one insertion
For the insertion of an ad. he has reg
ularly sent him, direct from the Office,
a copy of Judge and the National Re-
corder.
How did you think of taking to
newspaperlwork?" the boy was asked.
"Well, you see, I had measles a lit
tie more than a year ago and I got SO
tired of doing nothing that I just
wished I had something to do that
would always keep me in hot water
and had just sent my dollar for the
"O&cial."
"Do you expect to keep up newspa-
per work?"
eyes, think it's fine. Most of them
have to go into an Office to learn, but I
would like to be able to say that I
learned it myself"
Tracy has one assistant or..it.. may be
said, two; his little sister Clara and
her pug dog. Clara's age is four years
and the pug's as many months. They
are both lively subjects and it is no
strange incident on going into the
Ferris parlor, one corner OF which is
the office of the Penny News, to find
the pug's teeth fastened in Tracy's
coat tails over the case stool and Clara
making dash for handful of type
to build doll house. Tracy, who is
lovable as we'll as clever boy, dear
ly loves Clara and the pug, though
sometimes he says: 'It's very annoy
ing to an editor"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18
Dangers Ofthe Grip.

The greatest danger from La Grippe
is OF its resulting in pneumonia: Ii rea,
Chamberlain Cough Remedy taken
all danger will be avoided. Among the
tens of thousands who have used this
remedy for Ia grippe, we have yet to
learn of a single case having resulted In
pneumonia, which shows conclusively
that this remedy is certain preventive
of that dread disease. It will effect q
permanent cure'in less time than any
other treatment. The Is and so cent
sizes for sale by the Estate OF Otto
Schmahl. 294t
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18

There was no doubt in the minds OF
nearly all of the politicians that ex-
Gov. Merriam would be appointed as
minister to some foreign court. He
could not drop politics and conse-
quently dropped the Presidency OF
the Merchants National bank. He
would have been in the cabinet had it
not been for the opposition of Senator
Davis. Merriam wanted a cabinet
place badly and tits whispered that
Mrs. Merriam called on Mrs. Davis to
use her influence with the Senator in
Withdrawing his opposition. But
"Cush." was relentless. The fact that
Merriam is to go to some foreign court
causes statements to be made that the
appointment will be deathblow to
Davis. Davis friends, however, are
of contrary opinion, they contending
that if Merriam goes abroad he will
not be able to lead a fight against
Davis. Merriam's own personality
and check-book undoubtedly would
cut some figure in a canvass.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18
THE REDWOOD GAZETTE.
BY AIKEN E. SCHMAHL.
THURSDAY. MARCH 10, 1897.
THE YOUNGEST EDITOR.
Minnesota Furnishes Him in the
Person of T. G. Ferris.

The Pioneer Press: Redwood Falls
has the youngest newspaper publisher
and editor in Minnesota, if not in the
Union. Tracy G. Ferris, proprietor,
publisher, editor and printer of the
Penny News, began his newspaper life
thirteen months ago when he was on
ly ten years of age aud some months
before he had finished his eleventh
year was recognized by the postoffce
at Washington as regular newspaper
proprietor, by having the Penny News
entered at the postoffice of Redwood
Falls as second class matter, to be
passed through the mails like other
newspapers. Tracy is small boy for
his age. He weighs only about seven
ty pounds and in all the first years of
his life had CHASTITY pale look which
made most people believe that he
could never live into boyhood. But
since he began his newspaper life,
though he goes to school every day,
occupies high place in his class and
does his press work at night, roses
have begun to appear in his cheeks
and the picture of health in his whole
frame.
For the first six months of the exist
ence of the Penny News the proprie-
tor worked at a disadvantage. When
the idea occurred to him of being a
newspaper man his means were limit
ed to the sum of ST.. He found how
ever, that press with two or three
dozen types could be secured for that
sum and accordingly sent his order of
the "Oficial" printing press, which
could be put in coat pocket, and
struck out at once. The press would
only take in one column width of pa
per, so that he had to "cut his coat
according to his CLOTH" The Penny
News was therefore one column width
to begin with and about half yard
long. 1t was printed on both sides
and only two inches could be printed
without changing the press. Tear
and wear begin to show on the "OM-
cial'' by and by and in June it broke
down entirely. By this time the edit
or had saved several dollars from his
work and determined to go into bust
ness on a larger scale A hand lever
press, the Baltimorean No. 4, costing
$23, and quantity of type we're or.
dered from the Minnesota Type found.
ry, st. Paul, and a further Christmas
present of type from his parents is the
sum total of the plant now, but a very
creditable paper of four pages, 8ax5l
inches, is brought out.
"My whole plant is worth $4O,'
Tracy says, "and with the exception
of my Christmas present / am to pay
for every cent of it myself. / am be.
hind at the foundry, but my father il
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18
To Creditors.

All of my old accounts have been
turned over to a collector for collection.
Parties owing me are invited to call at
my store and settle with him and save
the expense Of calling on you and fore
ing collection. GEO. LECHNER.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18

The snow pillow preceded the regu-
lar train on the stub. It came through
at the rate of sixty miles an hour.
There was big drift just in front of
the Evan depot. The pillow wept
through il with such force and threw
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18
Homeseekers' Excursions.

Homeseekers' Excursion tickets at
half fare to all points in the South,
Southeast and Southwest. Tickets on
sale Feb. 2 and Is, March 2 and 16,
April and 20 and May 4 and IS, good
for q days. M-9t
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18

Good 8-room house for sale cheap, OF
will trade for land. Apply to Stuart 8
Chadderdon. Stiff.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18

The Omaha train leaving St. Paul
at 1905 Friday morning was derailed
in the yards at Chestnut street, the
front mail car going off entirely and
the forward trucks of the second mail
car likewise going off. The train was
delayed just IS minutes by reason Of
the derailing. The Northwestern en-
CINE blew out plug two miles on this
side Of CORTLAND and it was an hour
before another engine could be got
from New Ulm. It was nearly Z
O'Clock before the train pulled into
Redwood Falls.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18

the snow with such violence as to
break every window in the Evan sta
ton and also broke open the freight
door. When the regular train came
along the agent was found in the safe,
wondering whether he was alive or
even hurt.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18

Oil meal for sale at $500 per ton
at the farm of j. A. Willard, west OF
the city. 17tf. JOIN CLARK.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18

G. w. Mead was still doing jury
duty in the Federal court at Mime
apolis on Thursday of last week. He
was in St. Paul on that day and spoke
in high terms of Judge Amidon, the
new Federal Judge.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18

The Anoka- Hastings hospital con-
troversy has been the cause of a great
deal of .ill-feeling on the part of inter-
ested persons in st. Paul, and Anoka
newspapers are EXCEPTIONALLY bitter in
their criticisms of the members of the
legislature, even charging that money
was used. A yell-known senator, al
ways on to the ropes, informed the
writer that money was freely used on
both sides, but that Anoka had twice
as much as did Hastings. So take
your choice. No matter how mem-
Der voted his motives could be i'm
pugned.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18

cars. Late in the evening the cars
were baffled and on Seventh street
there were eight in q bunch attempt
ing to work their way through.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18

r- Il III f Ii
At the Windsor hotel Thursday ey-
ening Miss Madge Mccarthy, Mrs.
Hegdahl, M. J. and Mrs. Bowling,
Miss Hattie Bordewick and the writer
broke bread together The former
two we're in st. Paul purchasing a
millinery stock which they intend
placing on the market at Millbank.
Miss Mccarthy was enthusiastic over
her new business venture and predict
ed that it was going to be success.
Mrs. Bowling was formerly Miss Jen-
ME Bordewick. The Windsor is head
quarters for Mr.. and Mrs. Bowling
during the Legislative session. Miss
Hattie Bordewick is residing with
them, acting as stenographer to Mr..
Bowling. NJ. J. expects to return to
Chicago after the session and make
arrangements for the meeting of the
National Republican League. He
says that he is not a candidate for any
office under President Mckinley.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18

It was about this time that the the
aires we're belching forth the specta-
tors of the evening performances.
lSousa's United States Marine band
was at the Metropolitan opera house.
The band had packed the opera house
so that frst-class standing room was
at premium. When the last mum
Der was played and the vast multi
tude reached the exits they learned
that to return home by the street cars
was almost an impossibility that night.
Then hacks came in great demand
and the hackmen reaped a great har-
vest. Hacks we're lined up on either
side of the street from Cedar to Jack
son, distance of three blocks, and
some of these returned for second
load.
Speaking of Sousa's Marine band it
is the finest organization of the kim
that the writer has ever seen. It is
composed of fifty.persons in the Unit
ed States marine service, every one Of
them drilled to perfection and every
member as straight as the military
code of practice could make them.
Band instruments alone were used
during the exhibition and Manager
Sousa was kept busy, without inter-
mission, bowling and replying to the
encores of that great crowd of fashion.
His marches we're in especial favor,
while the Fleugelhorn solo by Franz
He'll and thekviolin solo by Martina
tombstone merely set the audience
wild. Manager Scott of the Metro
politan had a right to feel proud of
his booking of Sousa and of the big
crowd present on the worst night ever
witnessed in st. Paul.
Here is something with sensation
al tjnge. A minor officer of the SEN
ate residing, when at home, not many
miles away from Redwood Falls, took
a piece of vulgar poetry to lady
stenographer one day during the past
two weeks and asked her to copy it..
The obscene portion of the selection
we're in the blanks. The young lady,
a daughter Of a former opera house
manager with whom the writer is init
mately acquainted, Indignantly re-
turned the manuscript and informed
her employer, well-known writer on
the St. Paul Dispatch. with pugilistic
tendencies. The writer first notified
President Gibbs of the Senate of what
had occurred and then gave him Off
cial notice that there was going to be
a fight. President Gibbs cooled him
a little by saying that the whipping
of the officer would injure the young
lady more than it would the officer
and told him that if he would not car
ry out his threat he would bring the
officer before the bar of the senate and
give him severe reprimand. This
was agreed to, upon which the officer
was informed that if he ever attempt
ed thing of that kind or ever gave
occasion for another complaint he
would be summarily bounced. And
thus this man, who previously felt as
though he owned the senate, was
crushed.
The Anoka Hastings hospital con-
troversy has been the cause of great
deal of .ill-feeling on the part of inter-
ested persons in st. Paul, and Anoka
newspapers are EXCEPTIONALLY bitter in
1 L e l. r. / L
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18


State Expert Printer Whitney has
been having lively time since the
session opened. He has caused all of
the reports of State officers to be
printed from two weeks to month
earlier than they have eyer been and
will get the manual out in couple of
weeks, several days earlier than in
past years. Mr.. Whitney is also MAX
ing a cutoff in his position whereby
he will be able to start out new and
not have the legacies of former State
printers turned over and charged to
his administration.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-06-26
Nhibnnnux gentinel.
A SONG TO THE SULTAN.

Here underneath the palm tree. full OF
shade,
The poet tasted peace and fingered
long.
The master Of the faithful he obeyed
And searched the Koran for i theme
for song.
The ,vizier lodged him in his own fair
Where wise men gathered in a learned
throng.
And when the caliph heard his pioEs
vows
He gave him gifts and shielded him
from wrong.
There, in a white walled garden full Of
trees.
Through which there ran a deep. cold
water brook,
Among the tender grass he wrote the
OF Youaouf and Zuieika. Not one word
Was there Of all the windy war that
Iran of old, nor was the car once stirred
With any name the faithful night re-
buke.
Min thousand Persian verses told the
tale.
And when the perfect poem was set
He rose and left the plaiat.vc nightingale.
That long had tuned her throat to his
sweet moan
Before the cal.ph on a broad divan.
To sound OF rebecks. in i silken gown,
He sat in state, and when the dance be-
gan
Detained aloud that song of high re
noWn-
Its music sank on well attempered ears.
The caliph lounged upon his throne and
cried:
10. / this day am as a man who hears
The angel Gabriel murmur at his side
And dies not" AT the vieWless harem
door
The screen was swayed by bending
forms that sighed.
n sheiks and soldiers. young and old.
for more
Still pressed and wished and scarce
would be denied.
All. palmy days were those for singers
craft.
Now every wording filings his cap in
rhyme.
n from an easy bow let's fly a shaft
AT verse much honored in his grand
sire's time:
Now many a ghazel. soft with spices,
rips
Along the alien mouth with frivolous
chirce
And lightly rises from u~nhonored lips
The ancient rhythm sanorons and sub
lime.
Edmund Gosse.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-06-26
a THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Showing What q Shotgun Can Do In a
Load of Hay.

SHOWING mat n SnOCSun IAN DO In a
Load OF Hay.
aWhat was the most exciting expert
enc I ever had?'' repeated Clarence
Haight at the Olympic Gun club. Il
think it occurred last summer, when /
was hunting doves up in Sonoma coun-
ty. Now, shooting doves is not par
ticularly exciting Or perilous, but
this was one Of the hottest experiences /
ever had.
II had been travelling all day with a
big bag, and was pretty well tired out
when | struck the country road and
started for home. 1t was a good four
miles walk, and I was pretty well
pleased to see a big wagon load of hay
approaching. The rancher gave me per.
mission to ride, SO I scrambled M on
top, lay down on the sweet, new mown
hay and went swaying and swinging
down the road. I was just doing off
when bangl went my shotgun. I had
forgotten to take the cartridges out of it,
and something had pressed the trigger.
The horses gave a jump, and the driver
rolled off into the ditch.
Then | discovered that my gun had
set fire to the hay, and / thought it was
about time for me to escape. The horses
were tearing along the road as hard as
they could run, but ! clambered for the
side Of the load and slid for the road.
The tail Of my stout hunting coat
caught Oh the top.of a sharp standard.
and there | hung to the careening wag-
on that threatened to upset and dump a
load Of burning hay on me at every
turn OF the road.
THE fire was cracking and burning
fercely, and already ! couIi feel the
flames. Still the horses ran, and still
my coat held me fast to that seethinp
mass Of flames. My trousers commenced
getting hot, and then / found my coat
was on fire. The next moment the loose
cartridges in my pockets commenced ex-
ploding from the heat, and then I
smelled my doves broiIing.
IL had just made up my mind that
all was over, when the tail of my coat
burned off and / was thrown into a
ditch full of water beside the road. |
did not stop to see what became of the
hay and the horses, MOI Of the rancher.
but cut straight across that field for
home. That, gentlemen, was the most
thrilling experience Of my life. New
York Press.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-06-26
Humility.

It is not every great man who carries
his hoaors a. meekly a. the mayor Of
Inverness, who rebukod All admiring
crowd il the words, "Frens, I'm just a
mortal man like yersels." Sir Wilfrid
Lawson tells the following story: "A
woman was once pursuing her fugitive
COW down d lane, when she called out to
sone i in front. Man, turn my cow
The man took no notice and allowed
the coT 70 pass. When she came up,
she said, Man, why did you not turn
my cow He replied, Woman, I am
net Q man; ] VII a magistrate. 80
Household MorGs.