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read his essays. For weeks after the bull
letlns representing Treasure Island''
were hung not copy was to be found in
the library or in the high schools.
One of the best was designed by Colon
w. Lands Of the South High School 1t
attracted the attention of the art students
in the building who came down to take a
look at it. 1t represented a vague island
thrown up in the middle Of the ocean.
A ship and its. crew we're represented as
approaching. The name of the author and
comment on the book by the Saturday
Review was lettered in on either side.
November was the best month for sub
jects. One of them was Eugene Fields
'Rock-a-by Lady" 1t was represented
by an ideal picture with a beautifully let
tered quotation. Cyrus Brown Of the Cen
trail High school had an especially good
poster of the Ginger Bread Man" Five
pictures represented the little man from
his inception to his final dissolution at
the paws of a mouse.
No work was done in January and Feb
ruary. The posters which are now hang
ing in the library are Easter designs.
They all have merit and some are espe-
cially notable when it is considered that
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$2O,OOO,OOO IN THREE WEEKS
Profits of John D. Rockefeller in Lake Superior
Consolidated Iron Mines, Absorbed
by the Steel Trust.
Correspondence of The Journal.

Correspondence of The Journal.
Duluth, Mimi, April 4-Even a man o1
such wealth as John D. Rockefeller cannot
disregard the increase of his riches by the
addition of $4,000, 600 in one investment
in three weeks. This has happened to his
holdings in the Lake Superior Consolidat-
ed Iron Mines, which is to be taken in BY
the steet trust at high figure at once
Mr.. Rockefeller holds about 80 per cent
of the stock in the Consolidated and a few
days ago it was dull at $65 a share Now
it is selling actively at $3.50. There are
265, 900 shares issued and the selling value
makes the property worth not far from
$45, ,000, 900.
Five or six years ago this stock was
begging purchasers here at $8 a share.
Not even Calumet and Hecla has shown
such jump. Then the wise ones in Du-
luth quietly put away all the stock they
could get and they have been selling this
week at from $50 upwards The widow
OF an 'ltinerant Methodist preacher, who
got 1000 shares for note for $500 eight
years ago has sold for $50, 900; the wife of
a travelling grocery salesman has sold
her 1,5O0 shares, gotten in trades for
rubbish of every description, for $21O 900
in cash; saloon-keeper who took in 200
shares for liquor bill and some cash.
amounting in all to 81, 600, has Just
cleaned up $22,O0O. Three years ago the
stock was freely offered here at s25 a
share, but found few takers. Mr.. Rookie
feller never made any attempt to sus-
tain 1t, and never paid any dividends
His policy was to put back into ground
all the profits for more mineral holdings,
more trackage and better railroad facili-
ties A million or more yearly has been
thus invested, SO that the property now
represents far more than the original
interests, for which the Minnesota Iron
company offered millions in 1893
The Lake Superior Consolidated is ne
cessity for the United States Steel Cor
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was the month itself and they were ex-
pected to express their idea of it with
the pencil, such as a sketch of fruit
gathering. Several quotations were sug-
gested by the librarian which had to do
with the month, and the scholars took
them as the basis of their designs.
great deal of nature work is done in the
schools and many Of the pupils chose
their own subject from the large collec-
tion Of nature books which are in the
library.
Several took discovery day-October
12-as their theme. The best sketch on
this day was a poster picture of Column
bus in a boat represented standing in a
stage attitude looking toward an ideal
of America in the distance. The poster
was drawn by Jean Corser of the eight
grade in the North High school building
A gentleman from the east mentioned one
Of the representations Of an ideal ship
as among the best pictures he had ever
seen.
Fridtjof Nansen's birthday comes on
Oct. 10, and some one designed for the
day picture to represent exploration.
The execution was not of unusual merit,
but the interesting part of the expert
meht was the fact that any idea at all
could be conceived by the scholar.
Flight of the Birds was another idea
expressed on a poster by picture of
birds flying across a field, with the quota
tion beautifully lettered which reads:
80, Wise Little Birds, How do You
Know the Way to Go,
Southwark and Northward to and fro?"
-Kimball.
The lettering on the October bulletins
was especially meritorious. Another idea
was expressed by the drawing Of child
with golden rod and fruit in its hands.
An especially attractive poster was the
Ideal figure of a woman dressed in Oc-
tober colors, holding dish of fruit, such
as grapes and apples in one hand and in
the other sheaf of wheat, trees appear
ing in the background. This was a two
foot panel poster. Another was an In
dian maiden dressed in the leaves of the
forest, and with the following quota
tton in Illuminated lettering:
My Ornaments are Fruits,
My Garments leaves,
Woven Like Cloth of Gold
And Crimson Dyed
-Longfel1ow.
This bulletin was from the Central high.
Twenty-Five is the largest number re-
ceived at any one time. The bulletins are
preserved and after being taken down are
returned to Miss Snow who is at the head
OF drawing in the schools.
The plan followed thus far is to an
nounce the subjects a month ahead and
to give a list of such books as Chambers
Book of Days." and to suggest a line of
reading bearing on the subjects proposed,
but no intimation is given as to the man
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which the trust also has secured, hauled
last year 100000 tons on which there was
said to have been a profit of 80 cents ton.
Most OF this ore was used in furnaces that
are now component parts of the combina-
tion. Here is another saving of 81, 200 600
per year in raw materials. These are the
chief and almost the only savings to be
secured by the possession of these COM
panies. But the fact that by the ownership
of these mines and roads the raw material
for steel making is assured for many years
to come is vital to the success of the
trust.
Enormous Increment.
For his Lake Superior Consolidated, now
valued in the markets at nearly $40 900,
coo, Mr.. Rockefeller eight or nine years
ago, paid from So, 900, 900 to 81, ,0OO, 900. A
pretty good interest that. Then these
properties belonged to Duluth men, who
had discovered them and had so far de-
veloped them that they had an idea of their
value, and had partially completed rail-
road from the mines to this city. Led
by the representations and promises of
men who claimed to be agents of Mr..
Rockefeller they put themselves in his
hands, and soon after the panic of 1893
they were wiped out, being unable to meet
their obligations either in interest on a
81 900 mortgage or on the principals
of the sum total in call loans
There are those who say that a deliber-
ate scheme was planned and carried out
by these agents of Rockefeller TO get pos
I session Of the properties at q tithe of
their value and that this scheme was car
Tied to a successful issue on the lines
laid down in Mr.. Rockefeller's office But
the judgment of time and the better
knowledge that has come later do not
indorse this claim. and it is probable that
the Rockefeller moves, then so bitterly re-
sented were the result of necessity, that
he was merely protecting the investment
already made, and that had he not taken
hold, the Duluth men would have lost
anyway and he with them. It is certain
that millions more were afterwards put
into the mines and road, not alone from
the earnings but from direct loans, until
the investment now reaches several times
the original cost. 1t is certain, too, that
no dividends have ever been paid on the
stock of the Consolidated, though it has
done a profitable business for eight years.
Old Contract Holds.
One of the peculiarties of the present
situation is that the United States Steel
corporation will have to supply ore to
its chief rival of the central west at
price that is less than it can get the same
ore at its own furnaces. A ten-year con
tract has been made with outside and
new Steel-mak1ng interests under which
the best ore of the Consolidated mines
is delivered at Lake Erie docks at a
price of 1920 a ton. The price for an
equivalent ore under the present years
agreement will probably be about $3.50
a ton.
Had the Lake Superior Consolidated not
gone into Rockefeller possession when it
did it would be impossible to-day for it
to be acquired by the combination, and
there would have been erected long be-
fore this one of the great steel-making
centers of the United States at the head
of Lake Superior. This was one of the
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they were executed by children who have
only limited instruction in the work The
majority represent conventional lilies and
poppies wreathed around quotations in il
Illuminated letters. These were done as
part of the regular work at the schools
and are loaned to the Juvenile department
by Miss Snow.
The wide scope of the bulletin work cam
be gathered from this short sketch and it,
will be seen that its possibilities in de-
veloping the faculties of the children ara
without limit
The best work that has been done ars
the book posters or designs for book COW
ers. Many beautiful ideas have been ex-
pressed by the pupils. Those who have
IN charge the Juvenile work at the library
want it to stand for the purest in Juvenile
literature, and any book bulletin that
calls attention to a good book has accom-
plished It's purpose. One aim is to in
duce the children to read fewer books and
read them better From $500 to 5000
volumes are sent to the outlying schools.
In this way it is possible to reach a whole
school with well-selected books, when IL
would be impossible to give out the same
number at the central library.
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ner of presenting them in bulletin form;
, this is left to the children. The plan will
be facilitated soon by the addition of a
card catalogue. And the addition of a spe-
cial case for the placing of all animal
books together, all Indian books, and so
on through the list would be of great ad-
vantage. The librarian wishes to put the
children in touch, not only with the books
on the subject Of the month and the writ
ings and birthdays of great men, but also
with the work in the schools. American
hero worship and reverence for American
men and American authors is encouraged.
The venture is very successful along this
line When the students reach the uni
versity, they should be equipped to com
pare the writings Of American writer's and
those of other countries.
| In November came the birthday of Rob-
| ert Louis Stevenson. There is no purer
language than his and although some par
| ents consider his stories of adventure too
wild, at the same time their children are
devouring volumes of Hentys stories. The
stimulus for reading Stevenson which was
given by the bulletins made by the chill
dren was astonishing. 1t is expected that
as they bacome older they will wish to
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-04-06

cheek bones are higher than those Of the
ordinary cat. The face is fat. The tail
is very bushy and broad. The claws are
very sharp like those in a racoons feet
The hind leg between the knee and the
foot resembles that of fox The kittens
come twice year, are very small at birth
and with their spike tails resembles a
small rat.
The difficulty in bringing these cats
from maine by express is that they are
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liable to die from nervousness on the way
The transportation companies take them
at the owners risk. A man in North An
son, Me-, is in the business of raising this
particular kind of pet. They are worth
from $5 to 800 apiece and the supply does
not meet the demand. The popularity is
shown from the fact that one firm shipped
from Bar Harbor nearly 1900 in 1S99 Ig-
norance in regard to coon cats is not un-
derstood in Maine where one will find sew
eral in every village.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-04-06

plans of the early owners Of the proper
ties, and they would have carried it out.
With their control of the raw material
they would have been able to sell finished
iron and steel at prices that would have
made them formidable competitor. With
such competitor and without these ore
supplies the Steel corporation could never
have been formed.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-04-06

Application of Satin-Skin Cream, fol-
lowed by Satin-Ski Powder, gives charm
ing effect,a perfumed satin complexion. 25c.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-04-06

Are free from all crude and irritating
matter. Concentrated medicine only. Car
ter's Little Liver Pills. Very small; very
easy to take; no pain; no gripping; no
purging Try them.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-04-06

Carey Roofing better than metal. pitch
and gravel. w. S. Mott Co. Telephone 376.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-04-06

Special to The Journal
Baraboo, Wis, April 6-On Tuesday Mr..
and Mrs. A. G. Tuttle will celebrate their
sixty-third wedding anniversary. They
were married in Mortified, Conn, and
came to Wisconsin in 1846, settling in
Madison, where MIR. Tuttle was for a short
time engaged in the mercantile business.
In the spring of 1S47 he went to Portage
and opened the first store in that place.
A year later he removed to Baraboo where
he and his wife have resided ever since.
MIR. Tuttle started the first nursery in
the state and is still engaged in that busi-
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-04-06

six Eagles Mining Co. In Great Luck
The Mining News, in a recent issue,
gives the Six Eagles Mining company as
good report as can be made by any mine
or company. They say the vein is as
strong and well developed as can be found
in the state, and the officials are all hon
orable men. Attorney Frank i. Masons
who is running the company's Office here,
is well satisfied with the outlook.
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ness. He has always taken an active part
In horticultural affairs and served several
years as president of the State Horticul-
tural society. He was the first nursery
man to introduce the Russian apple trees
in this country.
Notwithstanding his age, 81 years, Mr..
Tuttle is still active and walks to town,
nearly two miles, almost every day for his
mail. His wife is "a years of age and has
been an invalid for several years. They
have four sons, A. Clark of Baraboo,
Herbert Of Mather. Edward Of st. Paul and
Merritt Of FIT. Morgan, Colo.
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enterprise ever before organized could
be brighter OF more brilliantly promising.
IL may sound like reckless exaggeration
to say that shares OF stock selling to-day
at so cents bid fair within less than Ave
years TO be worth $50, and yet suchfs alto
gether within the range of possibility.
1t will be remembered that when pc
troleum was first discovered in PennsyI-
vania there were those who doubted. 1t
created but little excitement, and yet from
the oil fields of Pennsylvania came into
existence the largest and most successful
commercial enterprise Of the entire world.
And when II is remembered tha the new
Illuminating oil field of Texas. now owned
and controlled absolutely by the King
Crowther Corporation, covers a total area
OF more than i42 square miles, and that
IL was virgin TO the touch Of man until
Sam Crowther accidentally discovered It
seven years ago, IL must be at once. app
parent TO any one who will stop and think
that another mighty financial institution
in the commerce OF the world would be but
a natural result.-Adu.
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The small Hors,on estimate HAD much TO do
with the advance In cotton to day. The estl
mates have. been small! for some days past ana
people arc beginning to think that II may mean
something. There Is some talk OF a shortage Of
cars In the Southwest. but this Is hardly taken TO be
the real explanation OF the decreased movement
70 Houston. ON the contrary II is argued that Il
means an exhaustion OF supplies over a considera.
bile trac; Of Southwestern territory and that. In
other words. the crop Is not turning out so large
az many had supposed II to be. Liverpool was
stronger. there was Hight frost IN Alabama and
South Carolina. hnd much colder weather was pre-.
dlcted for the Southwest, This may or may. not
amount TO Anything. hut II made not a few OF the
shorts nervous. coming on top Of tho small Houston
eStlmate. Local and Southern operators bought.
The trading was on n very moderate scale. most
operators being inclined to await further develop
mcntS.
CoPrEE- lilo on the spot was nrmer at INC. for No.
!. Sales, 5000 bags Rio TO arrive and for shipment
Al T3id'Ac.: 100 bags RIO Nos. I to Q TO arrive
al slsc, and Loo Nos. I aud : Al o'sc.; 1000 Mare,
oalbo and 500 Savanilia. Futures advanced 20
to rs points. closing arm, sales, No, 900 bngs. havre
advanced y TO u Z and Hamburg a pig Amer
eau warehouse deliveries, $50. bags, Rio az
vanced SIS rels exchange. SD higher a, i2d
receipts. 2i,OOO bags. stock d23,0O santos, ~
refs higher. receipts 1000 bags:stock ittO.0o.
Interior receipts, $500 bags. Prices here as
follows.
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Inprccedentcd Demand for Locomotives.

Officers of the new American Locoino-
tive Company say that plans have been
made 10 double the capacity of the COM
pany's most important plants in conse-
auence Of the unprecedented demand for
locomotives. This demand comes from
all parts of the world. Plans were made
some time ago for enlarging the, great
works AZ SCHENECTADY and now the de-
tails are being arranged for nearly doubling
The capacity of the Brooks Works az Dun
kirk. several acres of land in Dunkirk
have been purchased for this purpose and
il il expected that within the next six
months more than 1000 men will be en-
nlnyed In The Rrnnks WORKS.
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oTHER MARKETS
1--we q Market.

SATURDAY.. Nov y
Receipts ~ beeNeS. including S cars 10 he sold,
were ta head No sales reported prrss-d beet
stead. NATIVE sides, oay,fc. per n Texas beet.
Sstcr. cables last received quoted American
steers a. ia lSc dressed weight refrigerator
beet at g'.alec per y fsporsto DAY an beeve'
d.gl guhrefs Of bret
Receipts Of calves. all foi the .nArAei. we're 10
head Ven ittic bus' ness quoted sirAd}. lev
veals sold al e. 20 per ip n a few fed rAlvss a.
sat7'4t per-
Rccripts ~ sheep and lambs. including 10 cars
direct were \ ~ hraf = cars on sale all tnld shop
VsfN ufm. lambs steady About 8 rafs - s'JrA
utfs earned oVef sheep sold a. " SbacS 81 pef
ll A.. ,Ills a. o. iAmBs at AISdt ~ cuis A.
'ase
Receipts Of hogs we're itAS hsAd. Including one
urck 10 be- soid The MARKET slightly hrnFf 4
drra Of Western bog btoushi 49, pei a. -
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4 further rise took place In coffee owing mainly
20 active buying by one big house. The cables
were stronger; there was some foreign buying. the
crop news showed no Improvement and shorts
covered,
IRA Spots were dull at i+c. for Japan No T..
Futures were quiet and steady.
NAVAL STORMS Spirits OF turpcntine $50 ssi3c'
common TO good strained rosin FL rs,
pRoyIsIoSs Lard was steady, western choice
es.sS. South American $40: Brazil kegs tll.l5 re.
nned Continent $40 Meats were easy; pickled
shoulders 7lsa7,.c. do. hams ioaio'.c.: DO; bellies
sa. Il TO- &C.: PORK was easy with mess at sl5Gslo'
Tauow. Sisc. dressed hogs, 7itasatc. Butter
Creamery extras, use. nrsts2i@ 22c. Western nfsts
49,. u lsc, Cheese State, &c, small " hite, fancy 'lOIa.
coiored i0l, di0Nc.. large, white a. a9a.c.; colored.
W. ssa,c; Eggs and Pennsylvania 2ed2Ici
Mestcrn fair TO rood 25a2s,,c. Chicago. Nov. ..
Led BY pork, which was w request ny Investors and
local shorts. provision values hardened a uttie ana
the closing was steady. \ better demand for loose
lard was a factor ami also the talk about the nght
weight. of hogs al Western points the past week,
Pack crS sold At the advance. The days business
was OF moderate volume.
SuoAR- Raw was quite, at y for % test ands''c'
CHICAGO. Nov. q These were to days prices;
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WHEELING AND LAKE ERIE.
President Ramsey Says Thai Much Money
Must lie spent on This Property.

In the annual report of the Wheeling
and Lake Erie Railroad, issued yesterday.
President Joseph Ramsey says that tho
traffic demands on the company greatly
exceed the facilities for transportation.
This condition Of affairs has become ag-
gravated since the Wheeling and Lake
Erie was absorbed by Gould's Wabash
system. President Ramsey says:
We must at once arrange for at least
1000 or $500 acton coa cars and about
twenty-five freight locomotives, to be paid
for under an equipment mortgage running
twenty years with proper sinking fund
provisions. Extensive work of improve
ment must be spread over several years
a. it must be paid for out Of the surplus
earnings and must be limited each year..
TO the amount available from that source.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie il surrounded
by railroads owned and operated by the
wealthiest and stron gest companies In the
country, and it must be prepared to carry
traffic at rs low a cost per ton as any other
road, OF II must go 10 the wall"
Several coal mines along tho line OF the
Wheeling and Lake Erie are now closed
because that company cannot furnish the
cars to carry the coal. New and important
industries In Cleveland are awaiting an
opportunity to establish traffic relations
with the Wheeling and Lake Erie.
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HENRY HART LEFT 4 WILL.
Had Recently Made over Real Estate to His
= To-day.

The funeral of Henry Hart. founder
OF the Third Avenue Railroad, will take
place to-day at 10 o'clock from his resi-
dence in Madison avenue. IL will be strictly
private. The services will be conducted
by the Rev. DR.. II. Pereira Nendes. The
pallbearers selected are A. j, lance, Leopold
Keyer, ID. c. Andrews and l.. ID. Mayer.
The interment will be in Cypress Hills
Cemetery. -,
Mr.. Hart left a will. but it's contents will
not be made public until tomorrow. 8.
Mr.. Hart recently signed over a consid-
erable part Of his real estate holdings 10 his
sister and II is believed that she will be
favored in the will.
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Third Avenue syndicate Dissol,es.

The members Of the Third Avenue Rail-
road syndicate. which financed the pir-
chase 81 that road in the interest of the
Metropolitan Street Railway Company.
have received formal notice Of its dissolu-
ton. II was laid in Wall Street Yesterday
that one Of the reasons for the win ing
up Of the underwriting syndicate in Third
Avenue Railroad bonds was that some
Of the members desired 10 retain the bonds
a. a permanent investment A decline
in their price on the Stock Exchange yes
terdav was ascrihsd 10 ~alcS 10y other menu
ber~ Of the syndicate who w"r" not pre-.
pare-d 20 take up their allotment ~ unsold
bonds
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