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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-25
COMMITTEES TO
SEE THE RAILROADS
They are Appointed From Rock
Island Club and Mer-
chants Association
BY MBssRs. MED1LL AND KINGsBURY
Those Who are to Receive Presi.
dent Mckinley are Also
Named.

Presidents L. j. Medill and e. II.
King bury, of the Rock Island Club
and Retail Merchants association, re-
sPectively. today completed the selec-
ton of the committees on railroads
and reception of President Mckinley,
whose appointment was authorized at
the last meetings of these organiza-
tons.
Mr.. Medill decided to increase the
presidential committee from 10 to 80,
in order that the clubs committee
should be as large as that of the Mer-
chants association. The railroad
committees. as is generally known,
are instructed to go before the Off
Gals of the various railways center
ing here and seek better under
standing with them as to. the future
relations between the city and the
corporations.
Club Committees.
The club committees are as follows;
On Railroads.. S. McCabe, F. G.
Denkmann, l.. Simon.
Presidential Reception-Phil Mitch
ell. E D. Sweeney. Ben L. Cable, j.
F Robinson, L. Simon. Charles Nc
Hugh, Mai. c. McD. Townsend. F.
w. Bahnsen. I. H. Thomas. f. c.
Denkmann. Joseph Rosenfield, L. S.
McCabe, Ii. A. j. Mcdonald, f w.
Hurst, H. p. Simpson, Maj c. w.
Hawes. DIR. G. L. Eyster. w. II. Mar
shall, DR.. j. K Hollowbush. S. S
Davis. F. A. Head, H D. Mack, Wal
ter Rosenfield, j. F Darby. II. S.
Cable. William McEuiry, E III. Guyer,
c l.. Walker, j. L. Haas, Frank Mix
ter.
Merchants Committees.
The COMMITTEES of the Merchants
association are as follows:
On Railroads.&c. NJ. Loosely, w.
c. Maucker. +. L. Myers.
On Presidential Reception-F. G.
Young. chairman; William Hess,
Louis Kohn. George Schneider. w. G
Maucker, F. L. Myers, L f La Velle.
George Mcdonald, George Price, DR.
G. G. Carter. William Reck, M. II
Sexton. f. B. McKown. DIR. Z M.
Sala. William Moeller, DR. r NJ
Pearce, c. w. Horton, DIR. j p. Com
eggs. E. G.. Frazer, w. B Roberts,
H. Clemaun, + d. Taylor. H. D. Fol-
som, f. G. Rice, L. ii. McNevin. G.
f. Adams, Charles Oswald, K. Kush-
mann, Charles Apple, Walter John
son.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-25

", ERAzEE JUMPS
HIS BASEBALL JOB
Third Baseman Fails to Return
From Iowa City With the
Local Team.
WOULD HAVE BEEN RELEASED
Rock Islanders Take Six of the
Seven Games..Kewanee
Here Today.
WOULD HAVE BEEN RELEASED

The Rock Island baseball team re-
turned last night from Iowa City
without Billy Frazee. whose absence
was noted as the train was ready to
leave the college town for home
Frazee jumped his contract appar-
emily on account of the poor prospect
of his retention as a mem Der of the
team, Hoy having been recently
signed for the position he was ex-
pected to hold down, and having
made such splendid showing that
there was little use in him (Frazee)
attempting to improve on his playing.
Frazee is supposed to have gone to
Keokuk. The management of the
team does not feel at all aggrieved
over his departure, but would have
preferred his adopting the more honor
abla course of asking for his release
Six of the seven exhibition games at
10 wa City were won by Rock Island.
The boys made an excellent impression
in the town. DIR. Knipe, coach of the
University football team, who has
many friends here, complimented Sec
rotary Eddy, who was with the team
during the week, on both the quality
of the playing and the gentlemanly
conduct of the Rock Islanders. He
said they were club of players that
any town should feel proud of and
he predicted for them a successful
seasons work.
Score of Closing Game.
The score of yesterdays game:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-25

broken bats and the balls knocked
over the fence. Remember the alum
ri colors are purple and white, and
bring your noise box with you.
The Moline Athletic association is
to organize baseball team, of which
Harry Sage, of this city, is 20 be cap
tain
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-25

Scrubing Brush, sc and up go. SC
Stove Brushes, 10c and up.. 10c
Mop Sticks, 10c and up. ... 10c
Shoe Brushes, 10c and up... 10c
Package Gold Dust, &c ard up. sc
2 Bars Soap. ............... DC
Wash Boards, 15c and up, -. 15c
10 lbs oatmeal. ..... 25c
Table Peaches. per can ......... 10c
Table APricots, per can. 124c
L ID can baking Powder. ...... 2Oc
Imported Oil Sardines. ........ 10c
Sliced Pine Apple. 1910
) cans Tomatoes. ............ Zoe
Can corn &c and up......... &c
Cans Apples ............. 25c
Package Soda ...... $50. Sc
Patent Flour. ............... 9Sc
2 packages Mince Meat $3.50. 15c
C. w. HORTON,
Phone 1921. 326 Twentieth st.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-25

home at Quincy. The selection is a
popular one, as Maj. Halves has a
wide acquaintance throughout the
state, and will be particularly so to
the old soldiers who saw service with
Maj Halves in the civil war.
While the position is purely honor
airy. no salary being attached to it. it
is much coveted one. and best of all
came without solicitation on the part
of Mai. Halves.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-25
POPULAR APPOINTMENT:
MAJ. HAYES A TRUSTEE

Maj c. w. Halves was yesterday
appointed by Gov. Yates as one of the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-25

$4,000 will be paid to any one pro-
ducing as good spring tonic as
Rocky Mountain Tea. A family bless
ing. 50 cents. L. H. Thomas phar-
macy.
New-York tribune., 1901-10-13

faulty that It greets them not with universal
contempt and indignation, but with tolerance
which actually threatens possibility of accept
ance.
The Central Bridge is likewise noble edfice
in both design and service. 1t is an ornament
to the city, and IT is of the highest usefulness
to the public. Already its usefulness is taxed
nearly to the utmost point with the legitimate
traffic for which it was designed and con-
structed. Yet, with what should be impossible
folly, the city is about TO surrender it to the
inroads of other traffic for which it was not
intended and which should never be permitted
TO come upon it. The result will inevitably and
almost Immediately be congestion, discomfort
and danger, and the one available link south of
High Bridge between the great parks and drive
ways OF Manhattan and those of The Bronx will
be all but barred against the very traffic for
which it was intended. The proposed arrange
ment cannot, OF course be a fnalty. 1t is moth
ing but halfway makeshift, which will make
the ultimate and proper adjustment Of affairs
all the more difficult and all the more expensive
when it comes.
We may say the same of the devices dictated
by the Board of Health in the Park-ave. tunnel.
They will prove a mOckery TO the public and
will entail needless and fruitless expense upon
the railroad company. satisfactory and per
manent solution OF the problem was long ago
! formulated which would have been benefcent
( to the public and economical TO the company.
| In some malign manner the Board of Health
meddled with it and brought about the substi-
tuition of another plan. which will be burden
| some to the company and which offers no
promise of abatement but actually threatens to
! increase the evils of which the public COM
plains.
At the present rate. of such crazy work one Is
| prompted TO wonder whether any folly is impos-
| sble in New York. Perhaps one of these days
we shall have wide open railroad cut all the
way up Park-ave, black smoke pouring from
every chimney an elevated railroad up Fifth
ave, and a four track trolley line along River
side Drive, with its power house in Grants
tomb.
New-York tribune., 1901-10-13
SPINNING.
tomb.

Mr. Edward NJ. Shepard last evening at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music, with great show
of steadfastness, declared:
have been chosen by the Democratic
party as its leader In this campaign. That
choice was made what L have been and
what i have said.
For what he has said. Ten months ago, on
December 6. 1900, in a speech at the Reform
Club, he said:
The thing to do is to defeat the organiza-
tfon which $ In power to-day. We have in
this city the heads OF departments and bu-
reaus who do not take their orders from the
Mayor. but from the source from which they
secure their political preferment. They
know That the Mayor himself takes his or
ders from the same place.
That organization whose defeat he demanded
is the one which is running him for Mayor, and
in behalf Of which he spoke last night when he
pleaded:
Let Us refuse to surrender the whole pro-
gramme of honest and efficient government
and of constructive and creative work for
this spIchdfd metropolis during the years
1902 and 1908 TO the mere question whether
you Will condemn this man or that mnn,
whether you will dtsfntegrate this political
organization that.
To further his own ambition Mr.. Shepard
therefore asks the people TO forget the doctrine
he promulgated an immutable principle OF
good government in 1898, saying
Experience has shown that, however good
a great executive may himself be. r how
ever well disposed his associates, his admin
istratton VIII safer and more wholesome
IF his party knows that If he or fl go ,vronp,
1T Will be ineIornbIy punished by dismissal.
He himself has said that the organization in
power is corrupt and ought 10 be dismissed
that no matter how good the candidate & may
nominate to secure a new term of power such
an organization must be driven from office. Yet
in the face of that he urges that the question
Of condemning the man or disintegratng the
political organization which has worked this
iniquity Of his own confession be put aside at
the instant the man and the organization take
him up as the good candidate with which to
secure a new lease of power. And he dares to
say he stands by what he has said! Has he
turned so fast that his head swims?
New-York tribune., 1901-10-13
HALFWAY MAKESHIFTS.

There is probably no other city in the world
that can surpass New-York in the majesty and
perfection OF some of its public works. There is
certainly not one comparable with this in the
perverse faulty with which It abuses some Of
its noblest possessions and with which 1t adopts
penny-wise, pound-foolish makeshifts where
liberal and farseeing measures are properly
required. OF both OF these traits some note
worthy examples are just now much in evil
dence.
The Brooklyn Bridge is doubtless the finest
edifce Of the kind in the world. 1t should be.
or should have been, perpetual Joy and glory
as well as utility 10 the metropolis Yet by the
operation of niggardly and shortsighted policies
it has been made throughout the major part Of
its history a reproach and a source of boundless
annoyance and humiliation. 1t has been forced
10 do far more and far other work than it was
ever intended 10 do, with the result OF endless
discomfort and much danger TO its patrons. At
the beginning the great mistake was made OF
providing IL with mean and inadequate termi-
mails and approaches, and subsequent steps to
remedy that error have been OF the most half
way makeshift description. Long ago, while
there was yet time, it was urged that land
should be acquired and a great circular loop
terminal be erected at the Manhattan end.
Those in authority shrank in terror from the
undertaking, and adopted instead plans which
confessedly inadequate and which for incon-
venience and discomfort are probably unrivaled.
And yet the work goes Of still further
orercrowding the bridge, Of diverting 1t from it's
legitimate uses and of patching 1t up with make
shift devices. Nothing is more obvious than that
the bridge is suffering from congestion Of traffic
One would think the natural and logical remedy
was TO supply other channels, TO which the sur
plus traffic would be diverted Instead, officially
appointed engineers are actually planning TO in
crease the congestion and 10 exclude from the
bridge some OF the traffic for which IL was
intended, in order 10 make room for that for
which IL was not intended To exclude all
horse and wagon traffic from the bridge to
force upon stairways the crowds which are
already dangerously large and dense on level
ground, and TO encircle the City Hall Park and
TO gridiron downtown streets with elevated
roads intended 10 force still greater streams OF
traffic upon the already overcrowded bridge, are
propositions which 1t should seem startling to
meet with outside OF Bedam. And yet they
seem TO be the best that official New-York can
0fer, and SO accustomed is the public to such
New-York tribune., 1901-10-13
PERSONAL.

Professor P. Waldenstrom. a member of the
to attend the Yale bicentennia Is at present in
Boston. Speaking OF the general sorrow in Sweden
over the death of President Mckinley he said the
other day: ITO my mind. of the most I'M
pressive incidents in Stockholm at the time oc-
CURED when the United States Minister to sweden,
the Hon. w. w. Thomas addressed the people AT
the Unveiling of John Ericsson's statue in the
BerZeliuS Park The had reached US or the
United States representative would not be present;
but he soon appeared on the platform, and his
opening remarks were, quoting from memory:
Gould the President speak at this moment ne
would surely say. DO your duty on this occasion
and let not my death Interfere AS he uttered
Swedish were raised to the tops of the stats. and
when he had finished his address they were all
lowered together"
University of Minnesota be erected memorial
OF the late Bishop Whipple, ''The Minneapolis
Journal" says: The good Bishop needs no further
church memorial. for such is his church in Mime
sofa and all its works. He more than a
churchman; he was one or minnesota great men;
What fitting than that his memory should
be hOnored and kept bright by an undertaking
that would link his name with that of Minnesota s
great university? good dwelling place for stu
dents is needed at the university, and the pro-
posed memorial would be productive Of good for
the living well as of honor fer the dead
William Cook. the sergeant-major who drilled
King Edward VII. then Prince of Wales in 1861.
when he was serving in the 1st Grenadler Guards,
has just retired from active work He has been
for the last thirty years sanitary Inspector.
New-York tribune., 1901-10-13

'said director general of the Yellow River. who
ais also commanded to offer them at the affairs
"of the gods In the Dragon Kings Temple in
"the vicinity
In this, which is only a sample of many SINH
lar DEGREES which are from time to time being
promulgated in China. we may see one of the
prime causes of China's weakness. piOus
gratitude TO Providence, whether in the person
of One God or of many, is to be respected and
commended. But that is not the spirit of this
extraordinary declaration. On the contrary,
there is in 1t fatalism such as must be hope
lessly antagonistic TO all true progress 1t is
the spirit which would have left the Mississippi,
the Nile and the great rivers of India to go on
forever unchecked and undirected, to be curses
instead of blessings to the lands through which
they flow. 1t is true that the Chinese have
done much with the Hoang-Ho and the Yangtse,
almost as Americans and Englishmen have
dealt with the great rivers of the United States
and Egypt and India. They have built dikes
and levees for the restraint of the rivers, and
have thus themselves done that which the i'm
perial government now attributes to the river
gods" Thus they are wiser than their ruler 5
words. But this clinging to ancient super
stitions is at once q token and force. which
shows how far removed from civilized stand
ards the Chinese are and which operates to
hold them thus far from it.
New-York tribune., 1901-10-13
MR.. SHEPARD'S DILEMMA.

The platform OF the Tammany City Conven-
ton which Mr.. Edward NJ. Shepard is run
| ming for Mayor, seemingly with entire personal
satisfaction, congratulated the people upon the
results achieved under Democratic admins
"tratiOn OF city affairs" and submitted
with pride the record of the present admins.
tration." few days later Mr. Shepard re-
ceived the formal announcement of his nomina-
ton, and listened without word of immedi-
ate or subsequent dissent while Mr.. Cummings,
the conventions spokesman, declared that Tam
many was "sheathed In integrity and panopled
sin a conscientious regard of its duties and re-
'spOnsibilities." Warmed by the exercise OF
speech. Mr.. Cummings proceeded to acclaim the
municipal government of the last four years as
| follows: "It was elected on a platform pledg-
ling it TO honesty, economy and a careful, eff
'cient and energetic administration of public
| affairs These pledges have been fulfilled.
| THE record proves it"-a record which party
| clamor and personal abuse cannot change" or
"calumnious charges STAIN" Mr.. Shepard, hear
| ing al this. was grateful and acquiescent, and
| the committee, having discharged it's functions,
| ~atired with full warrant for believing that Mr.
| Shepard was well contented to on the plat
! form and the record OF the organization whose
candidate he had gladly consented to be.
Ever since that fateful evening In the career
or MT. Shepard his apolog1sts nave been eager
| TO explain that he meant to fout the platform
on which he was nominated and, If he was
elected TO scourge into the political wilderness.
| II not into Jail, the men who gave him his only
chance TO gain power In a word. they have
been protesting that he was resolved to commit
an act of treachery, of which he was careful not
TO give the party leaders who put him at the
/ head OF their ticket the faintest hint at a time
when they still retained control of the situation
| We do not know that anybody who is not at
| this juncture political supporter of Mr.. Shep-
ard has accused him Of such purpose of du-
| plicity. He has a multitude of former admir-
ers who would have been rejoiced if, when he
had listened TO Mr. Cummings panegyric on
| Tammany and it's administration, he had ex-
plictys disavowed any sympathy whatsoever
with such utterances, proclaimed his abhor-
renee OF Crokerism and left its agents TO with
| draw him if they saw fit. If now, under the
pressure of stern condemnation of his course
| 10 which deeply disappointed friends have sub
| jected him, Mr. Shepard had done what he
| ought 10 have done at the earliest opportunity
the question would have arisen and remain
| whether he had saved or further tarnishad his
| honor. He avoided that issue last evening by
! still refusing TO tell the voters whether he
New-York tribune., 1901-10-13
SOME QUAINT OLD CHINA

Despite few current symptoms of awaken
ing In China and actual invasion of that empire
by some modern and civilized notions, some
amazing old superstitions are still paramount
A noteworthy example of the prevalence of
such in even the highest social and political
circles is revealed in a recent issue of The
Peking Gazette" which is the official organ of
the Chinese Imperial Government and is the
oldest newspaper in the world. The subject
under consideration is the Yellow River the
disastrous floods of which have long caused il
TO be known as the Woe of China "The Peking
Gazette" announces that the director general
of that river in the Province of Ho-Nan reports
that since the approach of cold weather the
embankments and dikes of the river have been
SO well attended to that no floods have oc-
Cured.
This" says "The Gazette" speaking in the
name Of the imperial government, SIS certainly
"due to the benevolence of the river gods. and
1--WE feel duly thankful for their protection over
'the people. We therefore command that ten
large sized Thibetan incense sticks be sent by
'the Imperial Household Department to the
New-York tribune., 1901-10-13

thought the practices of Devery a wrong which
the Mayor should not tolerate.
Practically, to repudiate Crokerism could
scarcely have been expected to help him even
by those who have appeared to hope that he
would do so. Tammany would have cursed
him, and he could not have obtained additional
support enough from any other quarter to make
up the loss of votes which would inevitably
have followed. But if he had thought other
wise, and been able to justify himself IN the
belief that he was TO be an independent Mayor,
how could he, even so, tolerate the thought Of
being an instrument in the hands of Tammany
TO put in power such borough and county candi-
dates as Tammany has named-including a
District Attorney bound hand and foot by the
organization? From the dilemma in which Mr..
Shepard has put himself there is no conceivable
escape, and his last nights evasions and sophis-
tries show that he knows it,
New-York tribune., 1901-10-13
POLICE TRIALS.

One of Bissert's lawyers boasts that by means
of his appeal to the Federal courts he will keep
the convicted criminal out of State prison for a
year or two. And associated with him in carry
ing out that programme is Mr.. Unger, Frank
Farrells candidate for District Attorney! In
how few cases have guilty officers in our Police
Department been punished as they deserved!
In number of instances at various times con-
victions were obtained and sentences were pro-
nounced but legal technicalities and the cunning
schemes Of ingenious lawyers have almost in
variably defeated the ends of justice.
The processes of the courts have few terrors
for lawbrealers among the wearers of the blue
and brass, no matter what crimes they may
have committed. They have money enough Of
their own or their friends can supply them
with money enough to employ counsel high in
the favor of Tammany Hall. How happy would
they be with their man of the District Attor-
ney's office! The only way 10 punish them is at
the ballot box
New-York tribune., 1901-10-13
SAILING IN THE AIR.

Some Of the European inventors Of airships
have been almost as unfortunate as the cele-
brated Darius Green with his Oldtime flying
machine The intrepid Santos-Dumont has been
put to heavy expense, because his atmospheric
craft frequently persists in running into things
and getting itself wrecked most inOpportunely.
And he is not the only heroic navigator of the
empyrean who finds his vessel uncertain. An
Austrian experimenter who had spent years of
labor and large sums of money upon his supra
terranean boat went sailing toward the heavens
the other day. but his aerial bark suddenly
turned turtle while it was lowering over a lake
and dived so rapidly to the bottom of the inland
sea that the commander of the pinnace which
had been soaring, but which so hastily took to
sinking, was rescued with difficulty from g.
watery tomb. The caravel Of the skies is now
securely embedded in prmeval mud far below
the surface of the unsalted pillows.
Generations come and go. but the safe and
secure drigible airship which can make regu-
lar trips on time between New-YOrk and Wash
ingtOn in calm or storm, while gentle Zephyrs
are whispering boisterous gales are bowling
has not yet been launched. Balloons are valu-
able in scientific experiments, and can be en-
ployed to advantage in many ways in time Of
war; but they are not likely to be used success
fully as rivals TO trOlleyS trunk lines Of steam
railroads or transatlantic steamships for several
decades at least. In fact, aerOnautS have made
amazing progress in achievements of practi-
cal value for daily life in the last hundred
years. The fame of Darius Green has not yet
been thrust into oblivion.
New-York tribune., 1901-10-13

When the Postofice Department Issued a
fraud order" stopping the delivery of remit
tances by mail to absent treatment healer
in Florida, who pretended to cure the afflicted
at great distances merely by thinking about
them, its action was sound and wise. Among
the letters sent to that person were several
which had contained money inclosed by man
whose legs were of unequal length. and who
paid the healer merely for thinking" about
the shorter leg, in the belief that these thoughts
would add an inch or two to the defective limb
What innumerable multitudes of credulous
dupes abound in this practical present day
world
New-York tribune., 1901-10-13
SECRETARY GAGE AT EVANSTON.

Chicago. Oct 12.-Secretary Gage has arrived ns..
from his Western trip. He went az once 20 -
home OF his SON, IN Evanston Mr. Gage VII, ~
main IN Evanston several days before soins 'a''
TO Washington.