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ton of the stock of the Knickerbocl<er
Athletic club, to which Cornish and
Molineux both belonged. Coming aft
er the scandal of the murder, Ballan-
tines failure may wipe out the ancient
organization which as the Manhattan
Athletic club was long ago famous.
Proprietary clubs are common in
London, but have never thriven in this
country. The old Manhattan was an
ordinary enough cooperative affair I'M
til it got into debt through hiring too
many pure amateurs" to do battle
for it, and through paying too high
prices for them. Then Ballantine
bought it in, partly to save a debt
which the club owed him. 1t was do
ing we'll as the chief rival of the New
York Athletic club when the Mol
ineux scandal hit it with brick.
1t was just recovering again when the
failure was announced If it were to
die New York proper would be left
with bat one great athletic club,
though in Brooklyn the Crescent Ath-
letic club is a fairly good second.
Meanwhile Molineaux, fairly happy
in his cell, is writing plays. He has
just finished his sixth. The unfor
tunate young mans case is the most
famous in the history of crime in
New York. He has been convicted
of the crime by a jury, but new
trial has been granted upon techni-
calities by the court of appeals.
His case has cost the state more than
100000, and stands just where it did
at the beginning. More than any
ching else, that has won him the ia
vor of the unthinking is the charac-
ter of his family. His father and
mother are the ideal of what pa
rents should be-the former brave
soldier and an aristocrat from his
arched instep to his thin hair; the
latter u gentle, kindly, motherly lady
of whom no evil could be spoken.
Never once have they wavered or
counted the cost of their sons de-
Tense. Not rich three years ago, they
are now made poor by lawyers bills
and other expenses.
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silver. The easterner, untutOred in the
world of mining, would refer to Mon
tana first as gold-producing state,
and to Butte as a gold-producing city.
To Michigan is usually accorded first
place in copper mining, but the place
belongs to Montana. In 1898 the United
States produced 60 per cent. of all the
worlds copper. Of the copper pro-
duced in the United States Butte
turned out Al per cent, Michigan 80
per cent. and Arizona 81 per cent. IN
1900 the value of the gold produced
in Montana was $4,SO2, III, and of cop
per $39, 1927, 1875. So it is, that while Mon
tana is a great gold producer, it is a
greater copper producer, exceeding IN
the latter mineral and other locality.
just as Montana is the most fitting
state in the world in which to hold
such gathering of miners as this
promises to be, so is Butte the most
fitting city to entertain such a gath
ering, for Butte is the center of the
mining industries of Montana. 1t is
a city built on minerals. AS one old
time resident expressed it: every
mans backyard is his mine"
At Butte are located many of the
greatest and most profitable mines
and some of the largest smelters,
while the three cities of Butte, Ana
conda and Helena may be said to con-
tain by far the greatest percentage Of
the mining industries of the state. In
them are located the largest smelters
and mills in the world far larger than
anything that is known in any other
mineral-producing country in the
world.
Montana has been anxious to display
her wonderful resources to the
miners of the world, and this occa-
sion gives her the sought for oppor-
tunity She proposes to entertain the
delegates royalty, and to make the
most of the opportunity that is thus
offered her to interest them in her
wonderful resources.
One of the subjects that will come
before this congress will be the selec-
ton of a place for holding the next
annual meeting, and a strong effort
will be made to take it to Chicago.
By holding the next meeting in Chi
cago it is hoped to attract the atten-
ton of the law-making bodies of the
country to the Importance of the min
ing industries of the country in order
to effect the enactment of needed legis-
lation, and it is argued that this can
be done better in place like Chicago
than in any of the smaller commercial
Of IN, 70
of Chicago propose to make a strong
fight to send the next congress to that
place. MAX OWEN.
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Belmonts, Whitneys, Hitchcocks,
Wilson's, Waterburys, Herberts and
lot of others are there, women as
well as men. What does this mean?
Nothing. so far as | can ascertain,
except that society people are like
children. Occasionally they get tired
of the old games, and when some in
fiuential child with a will of his own
suggests a variation they break
away from the old pastimes all at
once.
Newport will stand the detection.
Life is no doubt dull there, as com
pared with Saratoga, where a man
can .raise thirst for gambling as
well as for wine, and crafty it as
easily. But the taste for novelty
will not alter facts. Before the Sara
logan stars of this season could be-
come stars they went to Newport to
''get Il reputation" There is the
summer battlefield of society with
those who would become society.
And in the long run the city by the
sea does not suffer from the fact
that Garfield would find it impossi-
BILE to set up public gambling house
there.
Saratoga will have to find some
way of getting along without the
gamblers before its social success
will be firmly based. Besides, this is
cool summer. When the Their
mometer goes above 90 the city by
the sea has the advantage.
OWEN LANGDON
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those from abroad, have not an
nounced the subjects they have chosen,
and probably will not until the con-
gress opens.
One of the interesting features of
the congress will be the display of min
erals which will. be given at Columbia
Gardens, belonging to United States
Senator W. A. Clark. In fact Senator
Clark has assumed responsibility for
this display and is attempting to make
of it the most elaborate and exhaustive
of anything of the kind ever under
taken. He not only assumes the re-
sponsibility for the display, but meets
the expense of it as well, even to the
point of paying the freight or express
age of the exhibits. Columbia Gar
dens is large summer pavilion, stu
ated just at the outskirts of Butte, at
the end of the street car lines, and is
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! THE INCREASE OF MUNICIPAL
{ SOCIALISM IN ENGLAND 80 50
| Several OF More Prosperous Cities Own
| Of the Public Utilities

or the Liverpool plan. Nottingham,
in addition to owning parks, markets,
artisan dwellings,, baths and a hos
pital, has bought castle and for
est, and has natural history mu-
scum and a school of art, and was
the first municipality in Great Brit
ain to have university college. The
last item gives occasion for the
statement that several English cit
les have within the last year or so
taken up the question of local uni
versities Birmingham has estab-
lished one, and Liverpool will shortly
follow suit.
Liverpool is one of the foremost
cities in municipal socialism. 1t owns
the waterworks, one of the best sys-
TENS in the world; it operates the
street cars; it supplies the electric
light and power; it has one of the
largest and best bath systems any
where, and proposes to erect the
finest Turkish bath in Europe; 1T
provides public laundries for the
poor districts; it furnishes flowers
and plants for the windows in the
sIums; it sells sterilized human
lied milk for the children of the
poor at it price; it has a salaried
organist to play it's famous municipal
organ; it gives municipal lectures
and all these in addition to the
usual undertakings of municipalities,
such as parks with concerts, tech
nical schools, etc. But the greatest
sociaIistic undertaking by the Liver
pool municipality is that of provid-
ing dwellings, for the very poor, the
dispossessed tenants of demolished
insanitary dwellings of the slums.
The one great predOminating ques-
ton in connection with municipal So
cialism is the "housing question:
that is, the demolition of ''slums" and
insanitary dwellings and the erec-
ton by the municipality of suitable
dwellings in place thereof. Americans
who have been here can have but lit
tie conception of the terrible condi-
tions existing in many of the large
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cities of Great Britain as to the
housing of the very poor. This con-
dition is a heritage of former
social and economical conditions,
as well as of feudal land laws,
and of the past Indifference both of
the municipality and of parliament,
as well as of the public generally
even, it may be said, of phiianthro-
pists. But heroic efforts are now
being made in many of the large cit
les, and Liverpool is in the front
rank in the efforts to remedy this
deplorable condition of affairs. Many
difficulties have been confronted and
overcome which at first were thought
to be insurmountable-a these in
addition to the perpleXing moral and
social questions involved. One great
difficulty is that of compensation to
the owners of unsanitary property.
In England the doctrine of vested
rights" is generally held very tena-
ciously. London has spent nearly $S5,-
100000 in clearing away insanitary
property. In some districts of London, it
has cost $1,000 to So, 500 for everytfam-
lily turned out. These large sums re-
fer only to the clearnces of the slums
and to the compensation of the land
lords, and do not include the amounts
spent on the construction of new mu-
nicipal houses. An agitation is being
raised against the past generous COM
pensation of owners of insanitary
property, and it is claimed that under
the present act of parliament these
owners can be prosecuted for allowing
their property to becoming insani-
tary.
The London county council has
within II recent period taken hold of
this housing question" with a firm
and comprehensive grip. There will
not be as much compensation paid
to owners of slum property as form
erly. One scheme adopted by the
London county council provides cot
tages tor 5000 people; another (and
this is on an estate outside of the
London boundary line) will accommo-
date 5000 people; and a site has
been bought where $4,000 are to be
accommodated in pretty little cot
tages, with gardens. London under
takes to provide for the artisan
class rs well as for the casual" and
in that particular it is in advance of
Liverpool.
Two observations are appropriate
to be made in conclusions: Speaking
generally, municipal government in
Great Britain is honest, intelligent
and energetic; and, as rule. poll
tics has but little to do with the en-
gagement or retention of civic en-
ploves. JAMES BOYLE.
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mansions sky-scraper extending
some 200 or 300 feet in the air, and you
will have a tower-like affair more
startling even than the famous Flat
from building which has been so often
illustrated in the magazines. Most of
the present tall structures have been
erected upon bases from 100 to 200 feet
square; even the FIatiron is so feet
wide at the base of its triangular plot.
yet when seen from Fifth avenue
above it seems to cut the air like
knife set on end.
The Times building will be a sharp
contrast to that of the Herald By
covering whole block, though small
one, with his office and giving it fine
architectural setting Mr.. Bennett has
provided New York with one of it's en-
during Sights" His building is only
two stories and an attic in height, but
is one of the most beautiful in the city.
The newspapers have for years led
in architectural advance. The Trib-
une's was the first tall building. Erect
ed before the invention Of steel frame
construction, its walls of solid ma
sorry are as thick as those of me-
dieval castle. It's tall tower is still
landmark, though surrounded by high
er ones.
In it's turn the Worlds home was for
several years the tallest building in
New York. It is % stories in height;
and besides using for its own publica-
ton business more than half of this
enormous structure. it hires several
smaller buildings in the vicinity for its
electrotyping and color-printing
plants. By the way, the Herald also,
for which Mr.. Bennett thought he was
making such liberal provision, has
outgrown its home. The Sun, which at
one time planned 35-story tower on
75-foot square base, was deferred by
the financial stress brought upon it by
its advocacy of Buffers presidential
candidacy, and now apparently medi-
tates no replacement of its historic
old five-story building, once Tammany
hall.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Inst MIL Closed.

After II years of continuous opera
ton, during which it at times en-
ployed as high as 900 hands, and paid
out in the aggregate nearly $2,O0o,ooo
in wages to labor, the Glenwood Man
ufacturing company at Glenwood has
finished its manufacturing operations
the heading mill, the last mill in the
original plant of six mills to run, hay-
ing been closed down. When the COM
pany began operating in 1885 this part
of st. Croix county was trackless
forest, To-day agriculture is in a
we'll developed state and the city OF
Glenwood, with a permanent popula-
ton of LOO stands where the first
logging camps of the company were
pitched
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$50 n september L, =, 3, anu D,
A/V\A 10000 men representing the
ENEWM mining interests of all parts
MSASIM of the North American con-
MY tinent as we'll as from Eu-
rope, Africa and South
America, will meet at Butte, Mont, IN
the fifth annual session of the inter
national mining congress. Never be-
fore in the history of mining in either
this or other countries has there been
such a gathering of representative
men interested in the mining industry.
The president of the congress, Maj.
Ernest L. Shafner, and the secretary,
Hon. Irwin Mahon, have left nothing
undone that will make of this gather
ing one of great interest and value to
the mining industry of the world.
To accomplish the desired results
they have not only secured speakers
and scientists well versed in all that
pertains to mining from this country
who have national and international
regulations, but have secured men of
note from other nations; some of them
coming from a. far as the mines of the
Transvaal to be present at this meet
ing and address its delegates. With
such a representative list of speakers
it is not possible for the congress to be
other than interesting and instructive
to the men who attend, and who repre-
sent one of the worlds greatest indus
tries, an industry in which America
has taken first place.
Aside from the opening exercises no
general programme has been ar
ranged, it being left to the delegates,
after they have assembled, as to how
the time shall be divided, and to the
convenience of the speakers as to
when they will address the congress.
The sessions of tn" congress will be
held in Sutton's Broadway theater,
Butte, and will open at ten o'clock on
the morning of September /. The
opening exercises will consist of
prayer by Rev. J. j. Callahan. Hon. j.
X. Toole, governor of Montana, will
welcome the delegates in the name of
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interests. To say that the state pro-
duces minerals to the value of more
than $60,000,O0O annually is not tell
ing half the story, and, in fact, it is
not possible to tell all the story. The
enormous wealth tied up in Montana's
mountains cannot even be estimated.
Within the past 40 years more than
$1,000, 100000 in gold, silver, copper and
lead have been taken from her mines,
and it seems as yet they have scarcely
been touched. In thinking of western
mines our minds naturally attach to
them their wonderful value in gold and
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Charles r, Miller. BY dropping the
price of the paper from three cents
to one he made it go" in spite of
solid fog-bank of croakers.
All the great editors of New York
are drafted from elsewhere. White
law Reid is an Ohioan. Joseph Pulitzer
was born in Hungary, but as a news
paper man halls from st. Louis, and
from what was one of the smaller pa
pers there. ST. Clair McKelway. of
the Eagle, comes from Albany. The
chief editorial writer's of the World
are Boston men. Its morning editor.
Mr.. Van Benthuysen, is from Chicago.
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Orders have been issued for the es-
Establishment of rural free delivery Oc-
.ober | as follows:
The service originating at Edgar, Mara
thon county will extend over an area oil
"A square miles, with a population of 5.Si.
The post offices at Vein and Swan WIN b.
discontinued and mail will be sent to Edgar.
AT Merrill SIS square miles of territory Will
be travelled; population. 1888. The post
office at Corning will be discontinued and
the office at Finn will be supplied by rural
carriers. 1t will be sent to Merrill. Al
Shawano, Shawano county, area covered
50 square miles: population, 1925. At WAu-
sau, Marathon county, area covered %
square miles; the post office at Kelley Viii
be discontinued and mail will be sent 20
WauSau
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his sub-editors, of half his age, in
''chinning" on bar he kept for the
purpose.
The Mail and Express a few years
later than the Post provided itself
with home some II stories high upon
a plot not more than 20 feet wide but
very deep; an "I'' on the side street
relieves somewhat the Inconvenience
of it's shape. The building of the Com
mercial Advertiser is old and not not
able. The Telegram shares the home
of the Herald. Mr.. Frank Munsey's
News has camped like cuckoo in the
old building of the New York World.
The Brooklyn Eagle, a New York
paper since the cons olidation of the
city, is just beginning the erection of
a big addition to it's already model
offices. When completed its home will
have no superior in the United States.
The New York Press a few months
ago opened a new building constructed
entirely for its own use, on a side
street near old Park Row. While not
conspicuous this place is eminently
convenient, represents a lower rental
cost than the more snowy structures
and is perhaps as sensible a plan as
Mr.. Einstein could have adopted.
The majority of the newspaper
publishers still say that downtown is
the place. The Herald does more bust
ness at its downtown agency than at
its main office. Park Row is near the
Brooklyn bridge and the Jersey fer
ries Tall office buildings about and
below it have greatly increased the
business Importance of the lower end
of the city.
The Country Rules the City Press.
The success of the Times, after 20
-aors - oooc tepf and steady fa iI11re
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In an opinion Attorney General
Hicks holds that brewers manufactur-
ing beer in other states and sending it
int this state to be stored and soldb
an agent must have a local liquor IL
cense. Such brewers may. however. sell
direct to customers in this state, with
out holding a local license. providing
the transfer of title occurs at the time
of shipment.
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Women May Vote.

to vote for state and county superin-
ten6ents of schools at the coming gen
eral election, and separate ballots
must be provided for their accommo-
dation. This is the opinion given by
Attorney General Hicks in response to
Secretary of State Froelich's request
for instructions on the law passed by
the last legislature on this subject.
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International Mining
Congress at Butte, Mont.
a Notable Gathering of Men Representing the
Worlds Mineral Wealth.

especially well adopted for use for
such a purpose as an exhibition hall.
1t is fitted with large cabinets and
glass cases so that every exhibit re-
ceived may be well placed.
1t is fitting that Montana should en-
terrain this the largest assemblage Of
mine operators ever gathered togeth-
er, as it is without doubt the greatest
mining state in the union and con-
tains the greatest mining camps of the
world. 1t is almost impossible to real
ize the vastness of Montana's mining
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y, been quiet but gradually
TTzS~M increasing development of
IN M a certain phase OF socialism
go in Great Britain. Reference
is made to what is gem
orally known as municipal, trading"
and sometimes and more correctly, as
municipal socialism" The first APP
peIlation is rather misnomer at the
existing stage of the movement. Mu-
nicipal socialism does not mean di-
vision of private wealth or property,
''share and share alike" but the own
ership and operation of certain un-
dertakings and enterprises, in America
generally described as public util-
ities," by the municipality for the
public good, as claimed. As generally
explained, the enterprises within the
proper sphere Of municipal socialism
are "public necessities" But here
arises the question: Where is the
line to be drawn? This line is by the
great majority of advocates of the
system drawn at those enterprises and
undertakings which by their very ma
ture are essentially public or semi
DNA'''t|
are of necessity more or less monopo-
lies-as, for instance, street railways,
waterworks, gas lighting, electric
lighting, and electric power. Incident
ally, it may be mentioned that the do
main of national socialism, has been
entered into by the British govern
ment by its ownership of the tele-
graph system and by its proposed
gradual absorption of the telephone
system; and a movement has sprung
up for the naturalization of the rail
roads, and even of the coal supply, as
well as Of storage of wheat for use in
case of war.
In 1875, the capital invested in mu-
nicipal undertakings in Great Britain
was $465 10000 while in 1900 there
were 81 800, 100000 invested.
There are now in Great Britain 931
municipalities owning waterworks; 80
owning the street railroads, or 'tram-
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Crop UuIIoOk.

The weekly crop report of the Wash
ington weather bureau says for WIS
consin
Temperature continues low, light frost
in all sections, but no great DAMAGE
good rains in north section, none else
where: corn improving slowly, needs rain
and warmth to mature before frost; thrash
ing progressing, yields continue good;
early potatoes good, but some rot; late po-
tatoes need rain; pastures good, but need
moisture
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ure of j. III. Bal
lantine, the brew
er.
Ballantine lives
in Newark, where
Molineux is sup
posed t 0 h a V e
bought the poison
holder that was
sent to Cornish,
his enemy. The
wealthy .bre w e r
was. a close per-
sonal friend of
the accused man;
he was the owner
tho c.oo4or Nnr
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''You must pay alimony, my man, !"
said the judge.
"Al right, your honor" replied the
man, reaching for his hat; III pay
anyone you say as long as l don't have
to give my wife anything. "-Yonkers
Statesman.
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went to Saratoga
except for brief
trips on account
of the races or
t h e gambling;
even these ex-
ceptions h a V e
mainly concerned
the men.
This year, all
at once and as if
by magic, there
is a concerted eff
fort to rehabili-
t a t e t h e old
place. Such peo-
pie as the Goulds,