The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-04
Daily New York Letter

any improvements of this character which
may be undertaken hereafter shall be a part
of complete and well-matured plan for fu-
| ture improvement and not purely OF tenn
porizing and local character. The federation
| thinks there is a golden opportunity of max
| ing the city beautiful.
Policeman Used His Authority.
| When Mrs. Florence Krowl of 1920 Third
avenue was arraigned in the Harlem police
| count of his Ill usage. He wrote to her ask
duct, it came out that the complainant was
her husband, Policeman George W. Krowl OF
! Newtown. He said that she had been annoy
ing him. s-z
Mrs. Krowl told Magistrate Crane that she
had refused to live with her husband on az
count OF his i'll usage. Hew rote to her ask
ing her to meet him and when she did.
begged her to return to him. She refused,
and he placed her under arrest. Magistrate
Crane discharged the woman.
Gas for you said the magistrate to Krowl,
81 advise You to be more cautious in making
arrests"
A Submerged Bridge.
The Scientific American has printed an
illustration of the method OF constructing the
projected Pennsylvania tunnel in this city
that has been invented by Charles NJ Jacobs,
shows that Mr.. Jacobs idea is that of sub
merged bridge, resting piers carried down
to a sufficient depth to reach the underlying
rock. The bed Of the North river is Of too
swampy material for tunnel constructed in
the ordinary way. At certain depth rock is
reached, but tunnel through this would in
volve too great grades. so Mr.. Jacobs pro-
poses to make a completely enclosed bridge
at the bottom of the river, resting on piers
reaching to the rock.
New York's Railroad Commission.
The state railroad commission was created
nearly twenty years ago result of the
strong antimonopoly agitation of that period.
It was claimed that the railroads were abus-
ing their powers, and were making rates ruin
Gus to the business of the city and the state.
The so-called Hepburn committee of the state
assembly made a long investigation of the
railroads, and with the aid of its counsel, the
late Simon Sterne, succeeded in obtaining q
large amount of testimony detrimental to rail-
road management. The Chamber OF Com
merce and the Board of Trade combined In 8
movement for state railroad commission,
and finally against strong railroad opposl-
ton, succeeded in getting the proposed law
through the legislature But the commission
has failed to do the work for which it was
created Railroad management has improved,
and railroad rates are more stable and eqult-
able. but this is hardly the work of the COM
mission. It can recommend, but has little
power to enforce. Assemblyman Fitzgerald
has. therefore, offered a bill to abolish the
present commission and to create new one
with one commissioner, who shall possess real
power Mr. Fitzgerald says truly that the
commission as at present constituted has been
of little use to the state. Meanwhile. 1t Is
announced that Governor Odell wiz not, for
the present, appoint successor to Commits
stoner Cole, but wait until public sentiments
develops in regard to the proposed change In
the commission law.