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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-19
CITY OF PORTLAND.
Notice to Contractors.

SEALED PROPOSALS for building pipe sew
received at the office of the Commissoner ri o of
Public Works until Tuesday, October 10th
1897. at y o'clock M, when they will be publicly
companied by certified check on some IA.
tlonal bank in the sum of $4,000. Plans. speci.
ficatlons and further information may be Oh
tanned at the office of said Commissioner. wh,
reserves the right to reject any or all bids
should he deem 1t for the interest of the city so
70 do. Bids should be marked Proposals for
S 'wer" and addressed 10 Geo. N. Fernald
commissioner OF Public Works.
oct19 dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-19

George Fred Williams is playing the
demagogue role for all it is worth. The
Boston, Herald recently referred to his
following as ragged regiment, the
connection In which the words were used
clearly showing that the Herald had no
intention of rejecting upon the condi-
ton IN life of the Williams following.
But Williams has taken it up
and is trying to make it appear that it
was intended Jas gibe at the poverty of
his supporters. 1t is quite evident from
his speeches that George Fred is badly
soured. But as he himself is solely re-
sponsible for the uncomfortable predica-
ment in which he finds himself it is him.
self he ought to kick.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-19

The report of the Interstate commerce
commission has just been issued from
which it appears that during the year
ending June 80, 1896 of the railroad
employees in the United States, 1900 were
killed and almost 10000 injured. The
number of unwilling sacrifices to what is
getting TO be sort of modern "Jugger-
naut' was entirely too large.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-19

to be sure, wears the garb of respectable
ity, hut he is really wolf in sleeps
clothing. Behind him are gathered all
the forces of anarchy and socialism, liars
and forgers are in his ranks plotting to
elevate him to the mayoralty that they
may loot the city and make Greater Now
York stencil in the nostrils of all hon
est men.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-19

George thinks it's. impossible for him
to lose; Low says he'll win in week
Van Wyck complains that his fight is al
together too easy and Tracy is certain. he
can not be beaten. And as suggested by
contemporary there will be a lot Of ex-
planning necessary in New York the day
after election
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-19
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10.

ALI the great window glass manufac-
turers in the country have combined to
form trust representing $4,000, 600 of
capital. This seems like putting pre-
MUM on daylight.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-19

Another disappointment is in store for
those who have thought we'll. of Miss
Lillian Bells writing, and, according to
the reviewers, she has many admirers.
But what she gives us "From Girls
Point of View" published just now in a
pretty and dainty volume by the Harpers,
(quite too good let me say, for the con-
tents); is so futile, so utterly paltry and
weak. so little knowing in fact, that one
wonders how these essays ever came, SO
mistakenly, into print. There is a de-
pressing effort in them to be witty, and
they fail as distinctly of being wise. The
English is bad; often the style is abso-
lutely ungrammatjcal In the effort to
be off hand and chic, Miss Bell fails to
be careful. If she were illogical, and
amusing, we should smile blandly and
these feeble phrases should ever reach
Miss Bells eye she will think the person
who penned them one of the class that
she derides, either an UNFRAMED man
under thirty five" ''bad lover" or an
unsatisfactory husband, when it is not
even ''new woman who begs her,
next timo, to count tensssnbefore she
speaks.
One feels quite sure. upon reading
these essays ''From A Girls Point Of
View" that the write is capable of better
things; and we can only advise her as
Mr.. Squeers did Smike, when he was
told to spell "winder" then "go and do
'em." (Loring, Short & Harmon"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-19

earliest opportunity, and they will have
enjoyed one of the cleverest of recen t
novels of ''In kedais Tents" SO much
cannot be said. 1t is pleasant tale, in
Spanish setting, (which has some startling
situations, several well-drawn characters.
a good literary style, and is at times of
quite absorbing interest. But it's author
would never have achieved the reputation
he has with this work alone; and vet it
is only by comparing it with the other
that one finds fault with. it. The hero of
the present story, in rather Quixotic
manner, takes upon himself the crime-in
a way accidentally committed-of another
man, his dear friend. Having taken all
due steps to prove himself the assassin of
an innocent and unfortunate young
man, he fees. to Spain, where he joins the
Spanish army, is pursued by the parent
of his supposed victim, who becomes as
sured of his (Conyngham' innocence
even while the latter tries to inculpate
himself. The story Is not all of murder
and hlood-shed, but there Is golden
thread of love and wooing running
through it and there are beautiful dark
eyed Senoritas to give picturesqueness and
passion to the pages. One would praise
In Kedais Tents without reservation,
were it not that Mr.. Henry Seton Merri-
man has done even better things. (For
sale by Loring, Short & Harmon. Price
$3.50
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-19

SEALED PROPOSALS for furnishing all ma
y terial and labor necessary for completing
Stevens Plains Avenue, Deering. Maine, will be
received at the effice of Frederick A. Tompson,
architect until Saturday. October twenty-third
publically opened and read.
Each proposal must be accompanied by a
certified check on some National Bank in the
sum Of three hundred dollars.
may he obtained at the office Of said Architect.
The Committee on Public Buildings reserve
The right to reject any or NIL bids should they
daer It for The interest of the city to do So
Ribs should be addressed TO Committee of
pnhiie buildings, care Of Frederick A. Tompson,
Architect 12212 Exchange street, Portland
Ni'iN FREEMAN GOWEN,
Chairman of Building Committee
octl6 DIV
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-19

In a way Mr. Howells is one of our
beloved, and we have an aversion to Civ
ing him anything but praise. But why
the critic gives such unstinted approval
to Gan Open-Eyed Conspiracy" just
published by the Harper's, we fail to see,
unless it be for the reason above stated.
The book seems to us distinctly pot
boiler, thin decoction of several of the
authors previous stories, boiled In great
deal of water. and ladled out to us as
something new, while it has merely
faint flavor of past good things, not
enough to make it palatAble. One is re-
minded of the old story of the boarder
who asked his landlady if he might send
his plate Of soup to the kitchen and ask
the cook to let the chicken wade through
it once more. When one puts this faint
and davorless sketch beside "The Lady
of the Aroostook," for instance, what a
fall is therel In the course of the wild
stream Of commonplace which goes to
the making of "An Open.Eyed Con-
spiracy" one gets ap occasional touch of
the old manner. But why is 1t worth
while for Mr.. Howells to expend even his
best upon thing which is not worth
doing at all? One sighs, and wishes,
and regretsl (Loring, Short & Harmon.
Price $1.00.)
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-19

We are afraid that the claim set up by
the Republican organization of New York
that it is necessary to elect Gen. Tracy
mayor OF the CITY in order to beat back
socialism and anarchy and to prevent the
forces of free silver taking on fresh cour-
age and inspiration, o not altogether
ingenious. There is another candidate
in the field whose election would give the
anarchists and the silverites no more
satisfaction than would that of Gen
Tracy. Seth Lows election would beat
back socialism and anarchy and discour-
age silverism just as effectively as Gen.
Tracy's. 1t may be that there are rea-
sons why Gen. Traoy's election would be
preferable to Seth Low s-there certainly
are reasons why it should be preferable
to many Republicans, but superiority as
an anarchy and free silver destroyer is
not one of them, and if Gen. Tracy should
be defeated and Low elected there is no
Republican in the land, no matter what
he may be saying now, who would admit
for moment Ethat the outcome had
strengthened any one of the doctri mes
enunciated in the Chicago platform
The danger that what was gained in 1896
may be put in jeopardy lies not in the
defeat Of Gen. Tracy or the uccess of
Seth Low, but in the election of Henry
George or Judge Van Wyck, and the
way to avert it Is to labor for the defeat
of these candidates. A Republican who
of Ja- - ~
campaign should be to encourage the Bry-
antics, ought to prefer that votes which
cannot be got for Tracy should go to Low
rather than to George or Van Wyck. With
strange perversity, however, some of the
Republican managers who profess to be.
lieve that anarchy and silver are in issue,
are apparently bending all their energies
to inducing the voters to vote for any
body rather than Low.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-19

The fact that the English cabinet
has been summoned together as
early as the middle of October,
at least three and perhaps four months
before Parliament sits, is evidence Of the
urgent questions which now demand
cabinet consideration. There are Ind an
difficulties, the Cretan complication, the
negotiations with France over the Niger
Hinterland in Africa and the silver ques-
ton. Perhaps the last may be the
supreme cause of this urgency meeting.
Lord Salisbury is credited with caring
nothing about bi-metalism and this is
no doubt true. On the other hand, there
is Mr.. Balfour who is ardently and doubt
less sincerely advocating an enlarged use
of the white metal and has managed
to bring the cabinet to the verge of what
the Standard, the Government organ,
bluntly calls "some necromantic feat in
currency debasement." Arrayed against
Balfour stand Michael Hicks Beach and
combination of business men and lead
ing journals, so powerful that no minis
try could afford to defy it and expect to
survive. The detection of the "Times''
and such journals as the Standard. to-
gether with the best friends Of the minis
try in the business world, NUT have
great consequences and the next week or
so may see startling developments; even
apart from what the Times roundly de-
nounces as the bi-metalism intrigue
the English political situation is such
that candid friends are earnestly warn
ing the ministry to walk warily.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-19
The PRUDENT PEOPLE OF PORTLAND
are fast finding out what
MEMORY

Culture, as taught by A. S. BOYD, means. All
who are fortunate enough to hear his lecture at
Free Baptist Church, Congress street, near
and heat enough to convince them that the
testimony gwen by many living witnesses IN
this city and throughout the country, only
Many declare that his system cannot be over
estimated; and that, by it, much of:the drudgery
pertaining to study and to business can be
done away with, and that thousands have been
made better, happier and more successful in all
the walks of life. Any one attending this lee
ture may be enabled, by one reading: TO repeat
'u'o 10 - w ''--' oct1sdst
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-11-06
SOMETHING NEW IN THERAPEU-
TICS.

To relieve themselves of a secretion of bile
a lot of demogogues with foul intent hop
onto their betters and then shout them
selves hoarse over what they are pleased
to call their farsightedness, when, in fact,
it is only the mOuthingS of numbskulls bent
on destruction of some one who dares to
face public opinion and ask for a place
among the thousands who have thus gone
through the gauntlet of public opinion
Granite Falls Tribune.
We doubt if the medical fraternity
will hail with pleasure this latest con-
tribution to the materia nledica. They
have had their incomes already ma
terially reduced by the various RENE
dies whose ingredients are secured
from publicity and which are warrant
ed to cure all distempers arising from
an over-secretion Of bile. This discoy-
cry of the Tribune can hardly be class
ed as nostrum, and we know that the
proprietor is far too public-spiritel a
man tc make of his remedy a monop-
oily by any patent right process. In
fact, he could not now were he so mind
ed, for he gives his formula frankly
and unconditionally to a bilious hu-
manity All that is necessary to get
rid of a surplus quantity of bile is to
hop onto your betters, and, when you
have got on top of them shout your
self hoarse.
This remedy, besides the advantage
Of eXempting your midst from the
gripes of pills or the nausea of nux
vomica, has the great physical advan-
tage of the strenuous exercise involved
in the hopping. Naturally your bet
ters will not take leapfrog attitude
for you, and it may take some athletics
to get them into a submissive frame
of mind. Should it happen that your
betters are intractable and do the hop
ping on themselves, with you the hop
ped on, the remedial effects of the ex-
ercise would, of course be precisely the
same. Then, in addition 10 the benefit
resulting from the muscles, comes the
great good derived from the vigorous
use Of your lungs, even should you
shout yourselves hoarse, as the Tribune
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-11-06

prescrfbes. In practice, of course. you
will not do this. You will merely sig
nalize your mount by a lu5ty halloo,
or you might indulge in an imitation
of the victorious chanticleer; but we
would not counsel any attempt to :mi-
tate the mellif1uous salutation of the
mule. Whatever method you may adopt
of expanding your lungs and '.sing
your yocals is immaterial, as long as
you follow the prescription and do It,
Especially VIII this portion Of the
Tribune's Contribution to therapeutics
commend itself to that unfortunate
class who are irreverently termed
"lungers'' down in The arid regions
where physicians now send their pa
tfents afflicted with pulmonary COM
plants. If. in addition to the bodily
exercise ofnhopping onto their betters
they will also work their lungs in
shouting, they may escape Punishment
to Arizona. Although the Tribune
seems to limit it's remedy to 'dema-
gogues," we see, in it 100 great posi-
p1ltties for those afflicted with torpid
liver or tuberculous lungs to permit it
TO be thus restricted, and We tender to
all suffering humanity the discovery
OF the Tribune, and to the discoverer
the thanks of the atrlbilious.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-11-06
NEW PASTOR IN ST. PAUL.
Sketch of Rev. w. w. Everts, Wood
land Park Baptist.

Rev. w w. Everts, who has accept
ed the call of the congregation of the
Woodland Park Baptist church, will
commence to preach tomorrow morn
ing. Rev. w. w. Everts is the son OF
DR.. w. w. Everts. who was pastor OF
the First Baptist church of Chicago for
twenty years. He graduated from the
old university of Chicago at eighteen
years of age and then spent three
years in Europe-studying at the Uni
versity of Berlin and travelling in Rus
sia, Egypt and Palestine. On his re-
turn he spent three years in the
theological seminary at Chicago. He
was assistant to DR.. Neale in the First
church, Boston, and spent his life in
Eastern pastorates, Fourth Providence,
South Hartford, Second Philadelphia.
and First Haverhill, until 1895, when,
after a settlement of eight years he was
called to Beth Eden church in Omaha.
He is author of two widely circulated
pamphlets, THE Church in The Wild
erness," "a Concise Commentary on
Baptism" as also OF a History of the
First Baptist Church, Haverhiu.
Mass" and a life Of DR. w. w. Everts.
He has accumulated library of 1.5O0
volumes which is rich in theology ard
exegesis. He was recently elected a
member of the University Congrega-
ton of Chicago university.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-11-06

the plaintiff at the same time. We
are, therefore, warranted in saying
that this movement on the part Of at
least one of the accused parties, in
employing counsel to represent him
before the committee, is an attempt to
take an unfair advantage and to sup
press or obscure the facts, if possible.
We do not blame the committee for
granting a request which it might have
felt it discrimination to refuse, al
though such refusal has been by no
means uncommon in similar circum-
stances. The board of school inspectors
of this city, for example, has conduct
ed many an investigation involving like
issues, hearing complaints by teachers
who had been discharged or reduced in
rank or salary, and it followed the
wise course of allowing these persons
to state their own cases fully; but ex-
cluding their counsel from its delib-
erations. But we do censure, and
we desire to call the attention
of the public to the impro-
priety of the prison management's &C
tion in coming before this investigating
committee, whose one duty and whose
one desire is to get at the simple truth
from the mouths of those who know it,
prepares to interfere with this by legal
subtleties and technicalities, and as
suming at the outset position of ad
vantage, since it knows that the poor
men on the opposite side of the case
cannot possibly afford to hire lawyers
to protect themselves. The expressed
anxiety of the persons affected by
charges that have been made to throw
everything open and get at the truth
is exposed in it's true light at the very
first step when they come in with a
paid attorney and propose to change
an investigation into allegation of fact
into a legal contest with a lawyer on
one side and none on the other. We
submit this action on their part to the
judgment of the people of Minnesota
as something carrying with it a sig
nificance greater than any comment Of
ours upon it could convey.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-11-06

no more gas lamps were displaced
than the 467 agreed upon.
1t was also agreed that the council
might reserve the right to reject all
bids, but otherwise it must accept the
gas company's bid if it conforms to
the specifications as amended and the
figures as settled upon.
During the earlier portion of the ses-
sion, Mr.. Cutcheon informed the COM
mittee that the gas company would
furnish ordinary Welsbach burners
on st. Anthony hill for $26 per lamp.
but that the new and improved
Welsbach manufactured for street
use would cost $50 or $32 year.
Specimens of the improved Welsbach
burners are now in use for several
blocks on Selby avenue.
The proposition if adopted by the
council will result in an approximate
decrease Of $4,000 in the cost of light
ing the entire city in 1898, as COM
pared with the present year.
Roth bodies of the common council
will meet Monday night and receive the
report of the joint committee.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-11-06
TWO NIGHTS EACH WEEK.
Judges Arrange Il Plan for Natural
izatiOn by Wards.

Judges Willis and Bum will hold
sessions of the district court on
Wednesday and Friday evenings Of
next week for the purpose of natural
izing residents of the Eighth and Fifth
wards respectively-the Eighth ward
on Wednesday night and the Fifth
ward on Friday night. Speaking Of
the programme, Clerk of Courts Rog-
ers, said
sions of the district court have
been held for the purpose Of
naturalizat ton, the number of peo-
pie IN attendance has been larger than
the officers of the court could properly
handle Upon consultation with the
Judges, it has been decided to give each
ward III the city one evening for natur-
a:jZatic purposes, at which time only
residents Of that particular ward will
be attended to. In pursuance of this
plan. Judges Willis and Bum will hold
court Wednesday evening, Nov. 10, for
all residents CT the Eighth ward, and
Friday evening, Nov. II, for all resi-
dents cf the Fifth ward. Court VII
open al p. m. Sessions of court for
the other wards will be announced
hereafter, but in no case will there be
more than two evening sessions
week"
Court will be open every week day
for naturalization purposes from 10 a.
m. until noon. Six deputy clerks will
assist the two judges at the night ses-
sions, when from 400 to 500 applicd-
tions will be attended to.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-11-06
NOT HIS MOLLY o.
John Julian osaysl She Robbed Him
of S55.

Molly Daly,t q young woman with
the faculty OF getting herself into
trouble, is under arrest, on the charge
of robbing John Julian, Of Duluth, Of
and met the Daily woman, with whom
he claims to have put in part of the
day driving about 'she city in a hack.
He claims that the money was taken
from his pocket and that when he ac-
cused his companion. of the theft, she
did not deny having the wealth, but
said she would take care Of it. Later,
Julian claims, they stopped at a saloon
and while he. was inside. the woman
disappeared The prisoner was ar
raigned before Judge Orr and was
held in $1,000 bail until Monday.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-11-06
FAST ICE BOATS.
Bob" Anderson Going,
to the Hudson With Them

to the Hudson With Them.
our fastest ice boats to the Hudson
straight when 1 say that we will bring
the blue rag to the Northwest"
The speaker was Commodore Bob"
Anderson, of Saltwater, who was at
the Merchants yesterday on his way
to Lake City, where he will build u
new ice yacht. He is already the own
er of two of the fastest ice boats in
the Northwest and-Will now add to his
fleet. His Irene, that aristocratic silk
en-sail craft, won one of the races for
thee Pepin club when It captured the
perinant from the 'Tonka club two
winters ago: it is q heavy wind boat
and under that condition will fly away
from the others. His Lorna, built last
winter, has an entirely new sail design
and in a light breeze glides along like
a ghost; it holds the championship of
Lake Pepin.
Mr.. Anderson proposes to take these
two boats to the Hudson, as represen-
tatives of the West, his idea being that
the Irene, as a heavy wind boat. and
the Lorna, as a zephyr flyer, he will
have good show under all conditions
of wind. He has been engaged in ne
for some time, and this is the result.
Said he:
"This cold weather gives me a touch
of my old malady, the ice yachting
fever again. From correspondence L
have had with the New York boys, T
feel safe in saying that there are a
dozen ice boats of the Pepin and
'Tonka clubs which can hold their own
on the Hudson, although the boys down
there will not admit it until we beat
them. Why, the old st. Nicholas, now
at Minnetonka, was formerly one of
the fastest boats on the Hudson-lost
the worlds championship by five sec
onds-and we have several that simply
ran away from her during the races
two years ago"
During his stay in the city yesterday,
Mr.. Anderson called on several mem
bers of the White Bear Yacht club. to
interest them in iceboating on that
lake, and an organization may be eff
fected in consequence.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-11-06
DOUBLE AND TRIPLE LAY.
WiII<in County Officials Said to Have
Reen ..Gsrn gting."

Deputy Public Examiner West, Of
Minnesota, has made a scathing report
to his chief on the illegal methods in
vogue among the county officials OF
Wilkin county. Sc says: This county
in its management cannot be dupicat-
ed in the state" He then presents
the bills in full of Jas. Strachan, Toilet
.. Gronseth and George w. Mace.
county commissioners, showing how
they have received double and even
triple pay for work, as well as draw
ing very much more than the law al
lows. He thinks that Messrs. Strachan,
Gronseth and Mace should be suspend
ed from office, and that Mr.. Connolly
and Mr. Rademacher ct al, commits
sioners, should be compelled to return
to the county treasurer the amount re-
Ceived exceeding the amount prescrib-
ed by law, as we'll as the other three
mentioned