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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-20

bidder for the contract, but. although Shee-
hans bid was $4,000 lower than McDon-
aids, Mcdonald got the award
Mr.. Mcdonald flashed out brilliantly after
the election of Mayor Van Wyck. He was
seen constantly in company OF Richard
Croker at Lakewood, ". J., where his
cousin, John Whalen who is now corpora
ton counsel for Greater New York, also
resorted. The former County Democracy
man was now the friend of Tammany, but,
although Tammany opposed the project OF
the rapid transit underground road, Nc
Donald had his eye upon the scheme and
saw great possibilities therein.
His record a contractor is, as may be
expected, interesting. He did SlS,OOo.OoO
worth of work on the harbor of San Fran
cisco: he constructed four hundred miles of
the Canadian Pacific Railroad; he con-
structed the railroad tunnel for the Balti-
more & Ohio under the streets of Balti-
more; he filled a half contract for the
bridge at Montreal; he helped to build the
Northwestern Elevated Railroad in Chi
cago; he dug nine miles of the tunnel for
the Chicago water works and double
track tunnel at Hamilton, Ont. and IL
was he who constructed the Entrerios
Railroad on the west coast of South Amer
lea.
Like many very successful men of his
kind. Mr.. Mcdonald would never attract
attention in a crowd, and would take a
back seat In common opinion before men
a quiet talker. but voracious listener, and
his home life. to which he is most ardently
devoted. is simple and happy. He lost his
only son a few years ago, and since then
he has not undertaken any large work. He
is fifty-fOur years old.
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rIrs. Stsnford's Mistake.
Ieslin's Weekly.

1t is stated that Mrs. Leland Stanford,
widow of the California millionaire senator,
has disposed of every yestge of the enor-
nous fortune he bequeathed her. and has
transferred all her property, with the ex-
ception of a life annuity of $4,000, to the
Leland Stanford University. This shows
generosity, but not good sense. The uni
versity was built as memorial to the
senator's only child, who died while mere
boy. The college no doubt has now been put
upon most substantial financial basis
and will enjoy a prosperous career, though
it's location forbids that IL should ever be-
come a serious rival to the great. old-es-
tablished universities of the East Mrs.
Stanford has perpetuated a family men,
orial and established monument that will
last for all time, but experience has demon
strated that, while tx is wise in ones life
time to bestow generous benefactions, IL is
not wise during ones lifetime to give away
substantially all that one possesses, more
especially If, as in the case OF Mrs. STAN
ford, numerous near relatives survive. The
writer recalls an instance in which very
wealthy lady IA New York made liberal
gifts to a favored institution. and deter
tune. Not long after this decision was
reached she found that her opinion in re-
gard to a minor matter concerning the in
stitution was not given the attention that
Ii properly deserved by its managers. II did
not take her long to discover that IL was
time to change her mind regarding her pur-
pose in the disposition of her estate. Mrs.
Stanford may not have such an experience
but after a gift is made and her property
has changed hands, the steps she has taken
cannot be retraced.
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Golfers Weekly.

The war in South Africa is demonstrating
| in a most marked manner the relative
merits of French and English artillery.
| To many the showing made by the Boer
guns has been a veritable surprise Time
after time it has been demonstrated that
| the English field pieces were wholly unable
| to reach the enemys position, while shells
from the Boer guns searched out every
nook and Granny of the English ground.
The explanation of the efficiency of the
Boer artillery is simple. During the period
when the Transvaal was preparing for
| war the burghers were wise enough to
| draw their military supplies from those
| plants in Europe known to produce the
| best articles. Lowe works of Berlin fur
nished the Mauser infantry rifles, while
| from the famous lie Creusot establishment
| in France came the field and siege guns.
LIE Creusot is to France what Krupp Is
| to Germany, Elswfck to England and Beth
| day, according to the general consensus of
military opinion, possesses the most eff
| ficient field batteries in the world. Inc
Beers went to France for their field guns.
At LIE Creusot works are the French
ordnance engineers, M. Canet and M.
| Schneider. These two men have developed
French artillery as no other two men have,
and by reason of their improvements they
| have forced other countries to undergo
enormous expense in the attempt to catch
up with the French advance. To-day, Rus
STA, it is understood, is equipping her ar
tillery service with new rapid-fire field
guns at an expense Of nearly S60.0O0,O0O
The remarkable feature of the guns pos
sessed by the Beers is the great range
| attainable. Range means high velocity,
and high velocity is generally accompanied
by heavy recoil shocks. The workmen at
lie Creusot have exhibited their handiwork
in turning out carriages capable Of with
standing the recoil of the guns, and at
the same time the carriages have been made
so light that the Beers have found it pos
sible to drag the big guns over the rough
est kind of ground. Within the past
eighteen months the French engineers at
lie Creusot have evolved. it is said type
of field gun and siege piece even more eff
| ficient than the standard weapons of the
| French army The French government has
| hesitated to take up in toto the latest gun,
owing to the enormous expense entailed,
| but is now adding the newly designed
| pieces at the rate of few batteries at
| a time. The Beers, however, in making
| their artillery acquisitions secured the
| very latest model pieces produced at LIE
| CreuSOt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-20
DODGING BRYAN DINNERS.
Many New York Politicians VIII Send
"Regrets."

New York Evening Sun.
A number of Democratic politicians in
this city are preparing to take TO the
woods when invitations to the various Bry-
an dinners are sent out. There Will be
more regrets and previous engagements
from present indications than ever before
happened on the occasion of dinner in
honor of the National leader of the Dem
ocratic party.
Mr.. Bryan is expected in the city next
Sunday, and on Monday night, Jan. q.
will be the guest of o. III. p. Belmont at
private dinner, to which number OF To-
cal Democratic politicians will be invited.
The three Johns of Tammany are at log
gerheads over the question of club dinner
TO Mr.. Bryan. John Keller wants to invite
the leader to the club. John Carroll wants
with Mr.. Bryan as the guest Of honor. John
Whalen is saving wood and sending out
no invitations.
To-day several local Democrats of prom
inence were asked Ii they were going to
attend any of the Bryan dinners. They all
replied that they had not received invita-
tons. One man said:
IT should be glad to meet Mr.. Bryan.
but, unfortunately, 1 have engagements
for every night next week"
Still another said:
al have not received an invitation to any
of the proposed dinners and 1 am hoping
that they will overlook me. am not
very well anyway and may be unable to at
tend
There is much conflict of opinion in Tam
many over the political wisdom of enter
tanning Mr.. Bryan at the club. Some OF
the leaders say that he should be invited
as the guest of the club or of Tammany
Hall, and the .Inner should be made a po-
litical affair of national Importance. Others
are emphatically opposed to any such ar
rangement. They say that If the Demo
cratic Club gives a dinner in hon.
or of Mr.. Bryan, 1t should be
a purely club and social affair free
from politics. Still others are of the opin-
ion that Tammany should take full advan-
tage of this opportunity to show the Dem
ocrats of the country that the organization
is loyal to the national leader of the party.
The three Johns are to talk it over to-
night at the club and try to decide on a
nlan that will satisfy everybody.
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KING OF CONTRACTORS.
j. NJ. Mcdonald, Who Has Secured q
Thirty-Five-Million Job.

NEW YORK Jan. 19.-John B. McDon-
aid, who is to build the underground rail
road which will enable New Workers TO
travel from the City Hall to Harlem in
fifteen minutes has suddenly become one
of the conspicuous men of America. Nor
is this strange. for every American will be
interested in this tremendous engineering
feat-the first underground road in Amer
lea, whose trains will tear along at ex-
press speed under miles of busy streets
and beneath the activity of millions of
human beings in the metropolis of the ma
ton.
Mr. Mcdonald, who will pay sS5 600 for
the privilege of building the road and of
afterward disposing of the franchise for it's
operation in a manner which he shall deem
profitable. is. appropriately enough. New
York city man born and reared. His
father. Bartholomew Mcdonald. was an
old time politician, who. above thirty years
ago. was the representative of the Nine
teenth district in the old Board of Alder
men. Mcdonald pere began his career as
day laborer. plying his pick and shovel
under boss in the excavation of cellars.
He set up a little business of his own in
that line and slowly evolved into shrewd
and successful contractor Ii was in this
SCnOOl tndt JOnn %. MCDOudlu, now the
king of his craft I'm this country, received
his business education, and IL goes with
out saying that no lessons were lost upon
him.
After his fathers death young Mcdonald
went to Baltimore, where he formed a
partnership with another contractor whom
he found in the city of Jones' Falls, and
there made an excellent success in work
done for private parties. After a few years
of life in Baltimore he taken with
New York fever and returned home. Here
he branched out into business, with poll
tics as a side line or vice versa, which
ever one pleases. He became identified with
the County Democracy. and he and former
Mayor Grace were coninterested I'm several
important and profitable contracts. His
banner contract work up TO this time has
been the construction OF the Jerome Park
reservoir John c. Sheehan was then Sec
ond In power In Tammany, and was rival
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Washington Special in Chicago Post.
Representative Levy, of New York. Is one
OF the gentlemen who are welded TO the
belief that New York Is the only place in
the world. To be sure he bought Month
cello. the old home of Jefferson. but that
was merely TO crafty a caprice AMI can
not be used as an argument against the
statement that he looks upon New York
As the whole thing.
why" he said 10 a Missouri congress-
man a day or two ago. ''the South and
Southwest owe everything 10 New York.
without New York My city furnishes every
State In the South and Southwest all the
money they use for the moving OF their
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Goulds I'm Cotton.
Philadelphia Times.
- I--

Phf1ade1phfa Times.
People who have an indefinite idea OF
what the New South is or means, will
find that the phrase has more of a practical
than a poetical application. In the news
that the Gould family has invested about
half million In the stock of a big cotton
mill in Gastonia, n. c. Ii is worth noting
in this connection that South Carolina is
now scheduled as second only to Massachu-
sets in cotton manufacture and that the
completion this year of mills now under
construction in that State will put her first
in the number of spindles. in consumption
of raw material and in the volume and
value of the output. South Carolina no
longer exports raw cotton, and will soon
begin to import IL from other States for
manufacturing purposes.
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crops and the development Of their re-
sources"
Are you really serious" inquired the
Missourian. looking at him increduously.
Certainly replied Mr.. Levy. II mean
every word / say"
but where does New York get the
money IT employs so philanthropically?
asked the Western member.
"Oh, IL gets il from Amsterdam, Frank
fcrt and London"
Then you would be prepared to state. az
original proposition, and defend IL. that
If il were not for New York the South
and Southwest would be a wildernessT
'Why, of course L would, and any sem
sible man not blinded by sectional preju-
dice would ADMIT IL without argument"
declared Mr.. Levy.
This is the kind Of men New York some
times sends to Congress 10 assist in the
enactment OF laws for the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-20

Minneapolis Journal.

Minneapolis Journal
An agricultural writer says: "a hog n
a condenser; he will put ten bushels OF
corn in less space than bushel measure.
He has been styled a manufacturer OF
hams, lard, hair brushes. headcheese, tooth
brushes. glue. buttons. fertilizers. fats. ba-
con, knifehandles, soap, whistles and salts
faction"
The human hog. on the other hand. Is a
waster. He takes ten bushels OF condensed
corn and converts IL into a jag which costs
him SO in the police court.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-20
Sammx,s Min Point.
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.

Pfttsburg Chronicle IeIegfdph.
Are there only one pie for dinner
mammal" asked little Sammy Snaggs anx-
icusly.
Sammy" said Mrs. Snaggs. you should
not say Are there only one? You should
say is for one and are for more than
che"
''Yesm. Are there more than one pie for
dinner?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-20

Even sleepy old Portugal has heard
of the United States. An American COM
pany Is placing an order for 10 trolley
cars for Lisbon. IL Will be hard pretty soon
for an American TO go to any country
where he will not have TO ride on Ameri-
can cars, cross rivers on American bridges
and hear the "click click" as the wheels
pass over the ends OF American rails. The
United States seems to be the worlds very
greatest necessity at this time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-20
The Weeks Bank Clearings.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-the following
table. compiled by Bradstreet, shows the
bank clearings at the principal cities for
the week ended Jan. 10. with the percentage
of increase and decrease as compared with
the corresponding week last year:
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BALANCE MAINTAINED.

the United States, against 249 last year;
and 40 in Canada, against 80 last year.
The St. Louis Republic., 1900-10-07

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The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25
TO TEACH FARMING.
MfnnesOta to Make Country Boys
@ Expert Farmers. ,

as t5. 8F Fs
MfnnesOta to Make Country Boys
Expert Farmers.
The state department Of public in
struction is preparing to introduce into
the rural schools Of the state a course
il practical farming. The boys and
girls of the district schools are to re-
ceive instruction in the essentials OF
the farmers profession. Such subjects
will be best included as are calculated
to make the pupils expert farmers and
will make farm life attractive to the
children of the rural districts.
Supt Lewis has outlined a plan which
will be presented to the county super
intendents of the state at their annual
meeting in December. Supt. lewis has
submitted his plan to Prof. Tucker of
the state agricultural school for con-
sideration and amendment. The course,
as outlined by Supt. Lewis, provides for
instruction in the rudiments Of agricul-
ture horticulture. dairy and stock
farming
In his letter to Prof. Tucker Supt.
Lewis calls attention to the fact that
from 80 to 95 per cent of the successful
business and professional men are cd,l-
Gated in the rural schools. These
schools he considers, afford better con-
ditions and environment for the cduea-
tion of the young than can be secured
/ in the city schools. He also calls at
tention to the Importance of providing
courses that will be of immediate and
practical value to the children Of the
country districts; that will not only
help them to improve their Individual
conditions, but will be of great impor-
tance to the state at large.
The new courses designed to teach
farmers the science Of farming will al
first be rudimentary. Elementary in
struction will be given in the importa ut
branches that are taught in the state
agricultural school. AS the work prog
resses the courses will be extended az
conditions and demands warrant
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25
PeupIe Talked About.

Maj. Henry Wynn OF Maiden was
nominated by the Democrats in the
Seventh Massachusetts congressional
district.
United States Minister Godfrey Hun
ter has left his post in Guatemala for
a visit to the United States on leave
Of absence. #
Gen. J. w. Fisher died at his home
in Cheyenne. Wyo.. at the age Of
eighty-six years. He was one OF Wy
oming's pioneers
Andrew Carnegie has presented the
town of Hawick, Roxburgh county.
Scotland, with the sum Of 6 10, coo for
public library y
William Luzon Thomas, managing
director Of the London Graphic, died
iii his SEVENTEEN year. He was the
founder Of the paper.
DR.. James Carlyle, nephew OF
Thomas Carlyle, the great author.
and himself one Of the best known
educaticnalists OF Ontario, is dead at
Toronto OF bronchial asthma.
Prof. Pickering of Harvard has ar.
rived at Kingston, JAM, to establish
an astronomical conservatory AZ
Mandeville Immediately. He says the
surroundings there, are favorable for
special researches. y
Hon. John Littles ex-member OF
congress. former president of the
United States commission on the Ven-
.ezuela claims. and president of the
present state board of arbitration OF
Ohio. died ut xenia of heart failure.
Edward G. Alphone Of East Orange,
N. j., is dead. He was a grapdsen Of
one of Napoleon's staff officers q
California forty 7niner, at one time g
resident Of ST. Joseph, Mich. and
Greely Colo; served through the
Civil war. and at the time Of his
death was commander of Abraham
Lincoln Post NO. IS, g. A, r.. Of New
York.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25
BUSINESS MEN PLEASED.
Commend Introduction of CONNER
cial Course MT University.

Commend introduction of CONNER
cial Course MT University.
The favorable report made by the
special committee of the board Of re-
gents upon the Introduction Of a school
of commerce at the state university has
met the hearty approval of the banking
interests Of the state and OF business
men generally. Supt. J, II. Lewis Of
the department of public instruction,
who was member of the committee,
received many letters commencing the
committees action. One from A. G.
Anderson, cashier Of the st. Paul Ma
tional bank, comedies with the general
opinion, as expressed in the letters re-
ceived. He says:
"If the report is adopted and the
school of commerce established, your
committee will have accomplished all
the business interests OF this state
could reasonably ask at the outset. The
matter Of extending this course OF in
struction to the correspondence school
will follow easily and naturally"