The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17

spread sea commerce, SO the United States
is destined to control the future greatest trade
ocean, the Pacific, whose shores are dottedtI
with coal mines and coal fields from Chill to
Alaska. and thence southwest to Australia
and New Zealand With isthman concessions |
near the equator with great gold, copper,
silver and lead mines near the arctic circle, |
with a vision of American ships steaming |
from New York to Manila, via San Francisco.
Seattle and Tacoma, Dutch Harbor and Yoko-
hama, coaling at American mines all the way, |
the United States, while yielding to England
supremacy in tue Atlantic from the Orkneys
to the Falkland islands, can gather to her
self the immeasurably greater trade possibili-
ties of the whole Arre rieane and Asiatic Pacific
coast, along which her own continental sea-
board extends 1900 miles and her outlying
possessions from equator to Arctic ocean and
back again to equotor.' &,
To Mr.. Emerson. Is there any good reason
why we should let England retain the SUI
premacy Of the Atlantic
Field and Stream for May is a most at
tractive number with several well-told fish
ing and hunting incidents and capital trout
story by B. W.. Mitchell, entitled "a Tri-
angular Try-Angle for Trout Part 10 Of
Ten Thousand Miles With Paddle con-
cludes the excellent series of boating ad-
ventures. Field and Stream naturally. re-
joices over the fine act of the New York
legislature declining to permit the leasing or
numbering of any portion Of the 100000
acres of Adirondack forests owned by the
state. The woods are to be kept intact as a
forest and game preserve.
Municipal Affairs contains much valuable
matter touching it's speciality. The papers
on ''Civic Centers''t and THE Structure of
Cities,' by J. De Witt Warner and R. M.
Hurd respectively, command attention be-
Of int n
presented the need for dgnifed and con-
venient civic centers for all our great cities
and the Importance of observing systematic
plan for laying out a city. 1t is argued that
the grouping of public or quasi-public' struc-
| lures in one locality, as was done IN the case
| of the Acropolis in Athcns, the Roman Forum
| and may be seen in Paris, where the great
| structures are massed about Notre Dame,
| and in London, where the concentration is
| about Westminster Abbey and the houses of
| parliament; in Berlin about Inter den Lin
| den. In this country the subject is receiv-
| ing attention and progress is making. The
| car is observing the group system in con-
structing the new city of Dalny, the eastern
terminal of the Siberian railway. It's shown
| that the daily movement of a city's popula-
| ton, on account of its regularity and vol
| ume, powerfully influences city's internal
structure. Mr.. Hurd's article is especially
| suggestive on the effect of rapid transit and
| terminals OF transportation lines on pOPuld-
ton and building operations. T.. G.. Ellery
contributes a valuable paper on Municipal
Government in Australia; where, a larger
proportion of the total population lives in
1 cities than in any !, other country OF the
world except Great. Britain. Important pa
|epers are those on Milan's street railways,
the city owning the tracks and leasing to a
private company, and a detail report of the
operations of the Chicago electric lighting de-
| partment. New York: Reform Club Commit
tee on City Affairs. Nos. 50-52 Pine street.
Stopford Brooke contributes to the May
Critic another fine paper on Browning S
Treatment of Nature in which he cy1otes
: some wonderful Landscape passages, chiefly
Italian atmosphere, for Browning seemed tc
!: feel more at home there than in England
Mr.. Mowbray asks Has America Outgrowr
Matthew Arnold?" and he would, seem tt
} suggest that America has never taken much
stock in the cold cynic. who abused US, looked
with disdain on Lincoln, and turned up his
nose at democracy. His snarrowness o
vision was very painful AS Mr.. MowbraJ
says, he measured the. vital forces of
continent with the Oxford meter" A feature
| of the number is a collection of drawings
:. and etchings of the, irrepressible Whistles
by Mortimer Menpes with, comment In, thu
library reports on popular books, Librarian
Hosmer OF the Minneapolis public librar!
places as local preference! Miss Johnston
Of Lady Walderhurst"2 (Irs. Burnett), sec