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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-27
INVESTMENT GOSSIP

New York to Watson: The business of the
street continues light and Notwithstanding
the statements that the public is interested.
we are disposed to doubt it. Very consider
able investment buying is apparent, but pure
ly speculative orders are scarce. and many
strong parties who are ordinarily interested
in the market are no longer in evidence from
that point of view: We confess to a feeling
of uncertainty as to the next step, but our
judgment suggests to us that after the Janu-
airy rise moderate decline would be in order
before the advance commonly known as the
spring boom. The discussion of the crop re-
ports Will soon be in order. and are we'll
aware that once or twice every year unfavor-
able runners are freely circulated regarding
the result OF the harvest. At no distant date
these reports will be upon us and we must
make up our minds that they will be of all
different calibers. Looking at the matter,
then, from the most prudent standpoint. we
feel justified in saying that speculative oppor
tunities are narrow at this moment and that
we are rather disposed to take profits. The
speculation. as you must observe, has largely
died out in Reading. Erie: San Francisco,
the Wabashes and stocks OF that kind We
see no reason to anticipate any change in
the money market and believe that we Will
continue at about the same rates for probably
the next 80 days.
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State Grain Inspection.
Feb. 26.

Feb. 26.
Wheat Inspected In-Cars-
Great Northern-NO. / northern. 1S; No.
northern, so; No. 8, Is; rejected. 2; no
grade, so.
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul-No. !
northern, l; No. northern, is; No. 8, 10; no
grade, 2.
Minneapolis & St. Louis-No. 2 northern, s;
No. 3, 2; no grade, l.
500 Line-No. northern, 2: No. 3, /; re-
jected. 2.
Northern Pacihe-No northern. 2; No. ?
northern. l; No. 8, l.
Chicago. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
No northern, l; No. 9, 8.
Total-No. northern, 81: No. 2 northern,
u; No. 8, So; rejected, 4; no grade, SO.
Other Gralns-Cars-No. 4 corn, 5; no grade
4; No. oats. 2; no grade oats. l No. 2 rye,
|; No. barley, /: No. barley, !; No. ! fax,
IL; rejected fax, 5.
Cars Inspected Out-No. hard wheat, /:
No. l northern wheat, 46; No: northern
wheat. Al No. wheat. So; rejected wheat,
l. no grade wheat, 8; No. 3 corn g; No. 4
corn +; NO. white oats, I; No. white oats,
2; No. oats, ?; grade oats, s; No. Q rye,
2; No. l fax, 7; rejected flax, 1.
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millstuffs. 80 tons; hay. 1s1 tons; fuel oil.
917S0 gals; fruit; H2,92S lbs; mer-
ehandise, 2.4s1.4sO lbs; lumber, 81 cars;
barrel stock, cars; machinery, 624, $50 lbs;
lime. l car: cement. $50 brls; pig iron, IS
cars; stone and marble II cars; live stock.
5 cars; dressed meats. $4,000 lbs; railroad
10 cars; car lots, S68.
Shipped-Wheat, q cars, 1880 blu; corn,
na Az $3.50 ,bu; -four. A.So5 brls: millstuffs.
1915 tons; hay, Il TONS fruit, $4,000 lbs; mer-
chandise, 2.l73,9l5 lbs; lumber, 80 cars; ma
chinery, SS4,S30 lbs; coal, Is tons; wood, Il
cords; brick. 10000; cement. 40 brls; house
hold goods, 10000 lbs; ties, cars; stone and
marble, cars: linseed oil, 1870 brls; oil cake,
2s7,o02 lbs; dressed meats, loo. 900 lbs: rail-
road materials, Z cars; car lots S2S.
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Sugar and Coffee.

New York, Feb. 27.-Sugar-Raw firm; fair
refining, sac; centrifugal. SO test 1Ac; mo-
lasses sugar, 29sc: refined dull; crushed, $500
powdered, 4.90c; granulated, 4.soc. Coffee.
Quiet Enthusiastically: New Orleans, $40
41c. Early European coffee cables supple
menteo by smaller receipts. had a favorable
effect and first prices advanced 5@10 points.
After the hrst half hour trade was less brisk
but covering by room shorts gave the market
a steady tone. Noon bldg were 1910 points
net higher, sales to that time reaching 5000
bags, including March at 5.25c; May at 5.4Oc
July at o.65c; September at $500, and Deem
her at 6.0sc. Spot was a trife steadier: but
nominally unchanged. Rio weak; No. Z Rio,
4, $6.25; exchange, II 1892; receipts, II 200
bags; cleared for the United States, 5000;
stock, $3.50
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hne-weather news and then rallied with corn;
March, s2hc;, May. s21sDs2hc: July, $3.50
S S.;so septembsr 81 s-lee Rye, steady; state
ceipts, $1,000 ou; sales, $500 eu; opened
scarcity Of spot product. higher cables and
covering; May, 66Q66Ac; July, 651a@6S1sc J;
September. 64B@651sc. Oats-Receipts, So, 500
Du; quiet but firm; track, white. 50g52lac.
Close: Wheat-May. S21ac; July, S2ssc: Corn
May, 667ac: July. 661Ac. -. -
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LONDON FINANCIAL
COnso1s and Quotations of American
Securities.

London. Feb. 27.-Consols for money, s4%;
consols for account, 94A; Anaconda, 81; At
Gibson. ~; Atchson preferred, ssA; Balti-
more 53e & Ohio. 1861; Canadian Pacific. ex.div.,
Western Yves 24,k; Chicago Milwaukee, & St. Paul,
1671a; Denver & Rio Grande, 45A; Denver &
Rio Grande preferred. 94A; Erie, s9%; Erie,
first preferred, 70ss; Erie second preferred,
81; Illinois Central, 143: Louisville & Nash
Vile. 1864; Missouri. Kansas & Texas. 2s% !;
New York Central, 11s1a; Norfolk & Western,
66SA; Norfolk s Western preferred, 80; On
tarioo Western. 34k; Pennsylvania 77h;
Reading, 2sA; Reading first preferred. alM ;
way. 1884; Southern Railway preferred, 49,;
Southern So. Pacific. ssh; Union Pacific, ex-diy,
United States States Steel, s ex,diy;, ~;
United States Steel preferred, 97h; Wabash,
241a; Wabash preferred, 444; Spanish As, IT'S.
Bar silver, firm, 253sd per ounce.
Money, 2A@3 per cent.
The rate Of discount in the open market
for short bills is 13-l6@21s per cent.
The rate Of discount in the open market
for three months bills is 2A02 1916 per
cent.
Rands. 11A; De Beers, 45%.
Gold premiums: Buenos Aires, 1870; Ma
drid, 1921; Lisbon, 20.
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Liverpool Grain.

Liverpool. Feb. 27.-Wheat-Spot, firm; No.
2 red western winter. quiet, IS I'D; No. /
March, IS I'd; May, IS ga corn.spot
steady; American mixed. new. steady, IS
I'D; American mixed, old, SIS 2Ad; futures
quiet; February, nominal; March. 5s I'D;
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Milwaukee Grain.

Milwaukee. Feb. 27.-Fl2ur-Steady Wheat
Higher; close, No. northern, 7slac; No. 2
No. l, CSC. Barley-Dull; No. 2, SIC; sample
55g6lc. Oats-Higher; No. 2 white, 44c. Corn
May. 60Ec.
Wheat-Puts. 76Ac: calls. TIC.
Corn-Puts. Gle; calls. 62Mc. =
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New York Produce.

New York, Feb. 27.-Butter-Quiet Cheese
Firm: state full cream. small early made,
fancy colored. 12A@127ac; state full cream,
small early made, fancy white, 124@121kc;
large early made, colored. 12@12Mc; large
early made white. 12@12Ac. Eggs-Receipts,
1921 pkgs; firm; Ohio. state and Pennsylva-
MIA, 80; western, at mark, 29c; southern. at
mark 2S1hc
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He Will Sue for Broken Arm.

Special to The Journal
jamestown, n. D., Feb. 27.-Gottlieb Schulz
has filed a claim against the city for $500
He alleges that by reason Of q defective
sidewalk his arm was broken. He says he
paid.-Professor Father, of the University Of
Minnesota, was called here to look up mat
tiers in connection with proposed improve
ments to the city water system. He has
recommended that tank Of 100000 gallons
capacity be built on bluff in the outskirts
of the city, instead of downtown, as pro-
posed. 80
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Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago. Feb. -Cattle-Receipts, II. 500
including 1000 Teeans; slow. easy: good to
CSC; stockers and feeders, $25OQ475; cows.
$1.25@2.75; heifers, 81. 50@5.50: Gamers, 1.25
@230; bulls, $2.50@4:6O calves. 81 5000;
Texas fed steers, $4.6005.7.
Hogs-Receipts. to-day, $4,000; tomorrow.
10000; left over, 800: sc to 1ec lower: mixed
and butchers, $b8O06.20; good to choice heavy
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MISCELLANEOUS
Cotton,

New York, Feb. 27.-Cotton opened steady,
with prices unchanged to points lower, then
to last nights bids and during the early
sion held at that level. Near midday the
market was easier under light selling. Spot
closed quiet; middhnS uplands, sac; mid
ding gulf, &C.; sales, n bales.
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Kansas City Live Stock.

Kansas City, Feb. N-Cattle-Recepts,
1850; active firm; beef steers. $685. IS; Tex
ans, s4.2s@55o: COWS and heifers, $S@5.40
stockers and feeders, 1904. 80.
paeSsrs 5Gs iow eaia hesyy
Of. 10; workers., $5.6o@5.ss; pigs, $470@59O
Sheep-Receipts, 1000: steady; sheep, ST. rs
@565; lambs, Sc. 3046.60.
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south Omaha Live stock.

$500; steady to stronger; beef steers. SAC
$50; Texans. s3.5O@4.75: COWS and heifers,
1905; Gamers. s1.5012-75: stockers and feed
ers, $2.50GD4.75.
Hogs-Receipts $500; lower: heavy, $3.50
615; mixed. S.. S5@5.s5; pigs, $4.5005. Is.
Sheep-Receipts, $500; weak, 10c lower;
sheep, s2.5095.75; lambs, s5.25@6.s0.
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St. Louis Grim.

| st. Louis, Feb. 27.-Wheat-Lower; No. 2
red, cash, elevator, $3.50; May, s21z@s25sc:
July, 759c; No. 2 hard, 77@79c. Corn-FIigh-
er: No. ?, cash, 5s3sc; May, e1asc; July, &c
July, s5Ac; No. 2 white, Acc. Rye-Better;
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Chicago Produce,

Chicago, Feb. 527.-Butter-Easy; creamer-
Steady; twins, 10A@1tc: daisies, s1lA@l1Nc;
Young Americas, 11A @12Ac. Eggs-Firm; at
mark. cases included, CSC. Dressed Poultry
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the range of nriras.
Duluth Grain.

Duluth, Mimi, Feb. 27.--Wheat was about
Nc stronger most Of to-day. Yesterdays
close for May was 75hc. The opening price
to- day was Bc off. but gradual frmness sent
it up to ,51.e The close was weak, at 75c
Nc below yesterday. at 75Mc. Flax was a
trife more active, but sold off &c to s1.67a for
May The demand was small. receipts
Wheat, 165 cars; corn, I; oats, 1; barley. 4;
flax "a; total, 1876 cars. Shipments-Co
1889 bu: oats. 1880 bu.
Close: Wheat-No: 1 hard, cash, 7ekc; No.
/ northern, cash and to arrive, 7312c; May,
sec; Manitoba cash. Ike May, 1850; No. 2,
6SAc Flax-Cash. s1.65; to arrive. $1.66;
May. $1.6sA. Corn, 601ac; rye, csc: barley,
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Kansas City Grain.

Kansas City, Feb 27.-Close: wheat-May
1S1zc; July, 131sc; cash No. hard, 73hQ74c
No. red. S0G61c: No. 2 spring, 72la973c.
Corn-May. 61ssc; September, $3.50; cash No.
mixed. 601s@6lc: No. 9 white, 641a@r65c.
Oats-No. white. 43A G44hc. 80.
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Death of a south Dakotan.

Special to The Journal
Huron, S. D., Feb. 27-News reaches here
from Fairchild township OF the death OF Mrs
was born in Orleans county. New York. in
1872, and with her husband came 70 South
Eakota in 1883.
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ST. Louis Live stock.

St Louis, Feb. -Cattle-Receipts, $500;
steady; beef steers. "a 5O@6.75: Texans 49, %
at. so: stockers and feeders, S2.s5@4.75; COWS
and heifers, $2.25@4.S5.
Hogs-Receipts, $500; 5@10c lower; pigs.
$50.
Sheep Receipts, 700; strong; sheep, SAC
$50; lambs, So. 25@675
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Copper and Lead.

New York. Feb. 27.-Copper-Quiet and un-
changed. Lead-Firm. unchanged
st. Louis, Feb. N.-Lead-Firm; Si.o5@
4.01s. Spelter-Strong; 81 .121z@4.1 10.
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Wheat Movement by Roads.
Observation-Disclosures rs; Omaha, ~:
St Louis, IA; Great Northern, 1884, Northern
Pacific, 1S.
Observation-Disclosures, 9; Omaha q
St Louis, u; Wisconsin Central, l; Great
Northern, 3; 500 So
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HoGs-Receipts in sight TO day were very
last Thursday. Prices generally ruled lower.
with sales here made largely on basis Of
fiat 100 lower with few sales which sellers
thought looked 10@15c off Mediums and
heavies sold from $50 to IS, while lights
and mixed sold from $3.50 to 1918. Sales:
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Toledo Grain,

+ Toledo, Feb. 27.-Wheat-Firm: active
cash, Soc; May, size; July, 1910. Corn
Strong, active; cash, Coo; May. 62Ac: July,
62Ac. Oats-Fairly active; cash. 44c; May
44c; July Bic. Cloverseed-Cash and March,
S5.57h; April, s.. 521b. II
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Chicago, Feb. 27.-Flax-Cash northwestern,
! $l.eS; southwestern, S1.63; May, $l.69, Rye
February, 57Ac; May, 5S12c; July, 5Shc. Bar
| ley-Cash, oS4621ac. Timothy-March, SC. 45@
ESQ Clover-March So 80
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Boy Charged with Assault.

Gary, s.. D., Feb. .27.-Price Hunter a lad
of II years. was arrested last night for at
tempted criminal assault on a girl II years
old. He owlies in Jail awaiting an exam
ination at Clear Lake
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GENERAL PRODUCE
The minneapolis Mark ct,
Thursday, Feb. q.

TnurSday, FED. z.
{: Extra creamery butter, lower; ex-
{: ira dairy, lower. Strictly fresh eggs,
: higher. Dressed hens, steady; spring
: chickens. easier fancy turkeys, I
/: steady. Potatoes steady Fancy coun- s.
: try dressed veal. weak. Oranges.
:: firm.
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PROVISIONS
Chicago Provisions.

Chicago, Feb. 27.-May pork opened Inc
lower, at s151O, and sold up to sl52212: May
lard 21ac lower to unchanged, at $s.17a@s. 20.
and May ribs 2Aac down. at s. 27ih and sold
s15 Is; July, $15. 42k. Lard-February. -. 1717s;
May, $3.50; July, s.4o; September. $3.50. RIBS
February, 1925; May, SO. S5@S.37h July.
So. 45@S 47k; September, $8.67A.
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New York Grain.

New York, Feb. 27.-Flour-R Receipts. 1872
brls; sales, 1000 pkgs; was steady s and barely
straights, S370@3.90; Minnesota bakers, S2.s5
p3.10; winter extras, 1908. %; winter patents,
Wheat-Receipts, 800 blu; sales, $4,000 bu;
opened steady on. cables. sold OF onlng to
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Wheat Movement.

Feb. 81
The following are the receipts and ship
ments at the principal primary wheat mar
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Estimated receipts by cars to-day Of the
railroads centering at these yards: Chicago
Great Western, o; Chicago, Milwaukee 6 St.
Pau, 6; Minneapolis & st. Louis, 6; Chicago,
ST. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, 8; Great
Northern, 81 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy,
/; 500, 2; Northern Pacific, 2; total, 49,
Disposition Of stock Wednesday, Feb. &c:
Firm. Cattle Hogs Sheen
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7 = IOtaI .................. 1,o27 2,764 644
| CATTLE-To- days supply limited.
| There was good inquiry from the trade at
! prices fully steady butcher COWS and heif-
| ers, and weak to 10c lower on beef and butch
| er steers. Veal calves ruled barely steady.
| There was very little done in the stocker
| and feeder division. Prices generally ruled
| steady with the weeks trade.
Butcher Cows and Heifers-
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THE FLOUR MARKET
Better Demand and Some Foreign
Business,

Business.
The market was in better tone to-day than
Tor some time. Demand has picked up con-
slderably and the milIers were able to book
d little foreign business, although up to noon
there was nothing very heavy done. The
fact that buyers taking mold in better
spirit is encouraging to millers, who are tax
Ing a more hopeful view and expecting a
more satisfactory market for the immediate
future.
Shipments for the day were 1905 brls.
First patents are quoted S3.S54395; second
patents. S37o43S5; first clears, $2.75@2 80:
second clears, $40.
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s6.10@625; rough heavy, s5S0@6.o0; light,
$5.Go@5.so; bulk of sales, s5.So@6. 10.
sheep-Receipts, 1900; sheep weak, lambs
ao5.a5; fair to choice mixed, s. .so@4.so; ives
tern sheep, $4.5o@6; native lambs, 50 100
$40: western lambs, s.. 25@6.40.
Official yesterday: Receipts-Cattle, 10, 1888;
hogs, 44,275; sheep, 24,753. Shipments Cattle.
3,45l; hogs II ,159; sheep 755.
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Receipts and Shipments.

Feb 26.
Received Wheat, 1858 cars, 1886. $50; blu: corn,
e. $50 bur; oats. IL ,i60 bu; barley, 1920 bu,
rye. 2.224o bu; flax, 1920 ibu; -four. 1,210 brls;
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M1lkers and Springers-
Two springers for $50.
One springer for $32. 49,.
Two COWS and two calves for $3.50.
One COW and one calf for $685. --
0po for
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SHEEP-RecelptS mere were quite small
There was very slow tone to the trade on
fat kinds, with prices not quoted materially
different from yesterdays trade. Sales:
Sheep. ...-. -
No. Az. Price
buck ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ITO 1925
On the market: v. Imholt, Clear Lake;
Hardness, Durand, Wis; F. ]. Schilling, Red
Wing; L. Wooders. Red Wing; J. M Peterson
Hayfeld; Reinhart & s., Alta Vista, Iowa;
F. & r. Mer. Co., Colfax, Wis; ]. Rand
gard & Co.. Danvers; George O.. Lee. Med
ford; w. O'Brien, Arlington: G. Busch, Gay
lord; John Monson, Gibbons; J. Gloden, Nor
cred Heart; G. H. Richards, Stewart; Dun
ham & Carpenter, Waseca; c. S. Thurston,
hudson: H. j. Dalliman, Nicollet; Works &
T. Lamberton; R. Erickson, Brewster; Nor
tenson & O., Hartland G. n. Mcconnell,
Belle PLANE; l.. Emerson, Elmore.
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Midway Horse Market.

Minnesota Transfer st. Paul. Mimi. Feb
T-Barrett & Zimmerman report strong
demand from all sources centered on farnt
horses, and in general the market expert
enced a lively and encouraging demand. The
favorable weather has greatly stimulated in
quiry and the market makes the outlet large
as a result. Values:
Drafters, extra ...............S 1S5Q20o
Dratters, choice Observation-Disclosures 20@135
Drafters. common to good .......... 10N@l20
Farm mares, extra .................... 120@140
Farm mares. choice ................ 1G01129
Farm mares, common to good ....... 75@100
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The Gold engagements.

New York, Feb 27.-Additional engagements
Of gold were made this morning, making the
total to be shipped to-day $780, 600. .s...
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New York Provisions.

New York, Feb. H.-Beef-Quiet. Pork
Steady. Lard-F1rm; prime western steam,
1855.
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On the market: " Imholt, Clear Lake;
Schneider Brothers. DelanO: Goodrich &
Sioux City Live Stock.

Sioux City, Iowa, Feb. 27-Receipts-
eco; hogs, 5000; sheep, 300. Hogs 5910c lower.
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HOTEL LOBBY GLEANINGS
AN ARCHITECT CHATS ABOUT con-
sTRUCTION OF BIG BUILDINGS.
An Idea That Was First Utilized in the
Ingalls, Block i'm This city
Hotel Visitors.

THE question that is more frequently
asked of our profession" said an architect
In hotel lobby, lis as to who was the in
vidual inventor of the modern skeleton
steel building. AS matter of fact,
it is not the result of any one
mind. 1t is an evolution. and
an outgrowth of necessity. For in
stance. in former years most of the loads
of the floor constructions of buildings were
carried on the outside walls, and. of course.
when it was found necessary to construct
buildings ten and twelve stories high the
thickness of the walls was as a necessity
of such dimensions as to take up valuable
space at the first floor, where its rental val
ues were the highest. For instance. i'm Chi
cago the last building to be constructed
along the old lines was the Monadnock. 1t
was a twelve-story building, and the walls
at the first floor were forty-eight inches
thick. OF course. this means that eight feet
of space of the ground-fiOor storerooms
were taken up by masonry from which they
could derive revenue. The object, then,
was to find a system of construction by
which the walls could be made thin and
the same thickness at the first floor at
the twelfth floor, and the present plan was
adopted by constructing frame of steel
about like "A bird cage. OF course it was
then possible 10 support the masonry and
simply use il a curtain to inclose the
whole, and which would perform no more
OF a constructive function than the wealth
er-boarding of ordinary dwelling house.
1T may be interesting to the citizens of
indianapolis to know that really the first
attempt at this form of construction orig
mated here in Indianapolis and on the
building erected in 1876 by Fletcher &c
Sharpe located at the corner of Pennsyl-
vania and Washington streets, now known
as the Ingalls, block. 1t was designed by
w. l.. Il. Jenney, of Chicago Several years
ago, when some alterations were being
made in the first floor, it was discovered
that there were a series of castiron col
umns inside the walls which carried the
Orders supporting the floor loads, and
which were Independent of the walls. Mr.
Jenney is still living and is in active prac-
uce IN chicago, and has probably done
more than any one man towards bringing
our modern steel building 10 it's present
high state of perfection"
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BRIDGE PETITIONS.
West side People File Them with
Works Board and Commissioner.

Yesterday copies of the following petit
ton were filed with the County Commits
sioners and the Board OF Works:
"At a meeting held at the Commercial
Club Feb. IS. by manufacturers, mer-
chants and property owners interested west
of White river, a motion was carried unanl-
mously that a vote Of thanks be rendered
your honorable board for the interest you
have taken in the matter of bridges over
White river.
Every person present expressed the
hope and belief that your interest would
cventuate in bridges sufficient for all pur-
poses. 1t was not the purpose or the
meeting to dictate, or even TO suggest,
what your honorable board ought 10 do.
The sole purpose of the meeting seemed 10
be to you to pgsh tn nd WORK e6d
you such aid as interested citizens can
give.
White river at Washington street, at the
earliest possible moment. and, at the same
time, the Michigan-street bridge and the
bridges to West Indianapolis ought not 10
stone bridges or new steel bridges at this
time something ought TO be done 10
strengthen as much as possible every bridge
that communication may not be inter
rupted further"
This was signed by H. NJ. Haldeman.
chairman, J. l. Ketcham, q. A Efroym-
son, NJ. a. Baker, A. II. Wahl, NJ. Koran,
c. c. Hanch. secretary. a committee rep
resenting Brown Ketcham iron works, Star
store, West Side Planning Mill Company,
McElvaine G. Richards Company, De Valid
& WahI. NJ. Koran. Nordyke & Marmon
Company, National Malleable Castings
Company, Ewart Manufacturing Company.
H Iauter Puritan Bed Spring Company,
Carter & Lee Day tea store. Hoosier State
mills Acme mills, Merritts wooden mills.
Indianapolis Foundry Company, Parry
Manufacturing Company, Chandler & Tay-
Ior Company Brewer 4 Love Bros, Lay
& Hawthorne. S. S. Rhodes Son, and
other merchants, manufacturers and prop
erty owners