The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-25
CITY NEWS
WEATHER NOW AND THEN
Maximum Temperature To-day 81
Degrees; a Year Ago 70 Degrees.

Large Addition to Factory-The Ma
tional Biscuit company will build tac-
tory addition, costn g$2S 900, at 244-246
Third avenue N. 1t will stand 50NllO feet
three stories high, and be Of brick and
mill construction. II. N. Leighton ~
Co. are the contractors.
Buys Winnipeg HoteI-D. c., Rey-
nolds of this city has purchased from &.
F. Bunnell the Clarendon a leading hotel
of Winnipeg The price is $4,000. The
transfer will take place in thirty days 1t
is understood that the new proprietor will
make extensive additions.
Drowned In CesspooI-Joh L. Devust.
aged 2 years. was drowned yesterday IN
q cesspool on the premises of his parents.
GA Marshall street NE. The child had
been missing several hours. when its body
was found Coroner Williams viewed the
remains, but considered an inquest un-
necessary.
Wheel Broke-Edward Bergquist 1929
Eighth avenue S, thrown from his
bicycle this morning while riding on Cen
trail avenue and received painful injuries.
- His left ear was nearly torn from his
head and his left eye was cut. He was
riding at a high speed when the wheel
broke and threw him to the ground.
SaIvasers Put It out-Brt for its near
ness to the fire insurance patrol, the two
story frame store at 424 Hennepin would
have been burned this morning. An at
tendant discovered the smoke, rushed to
the patrol headquarters two doors away,
and in q trice Superintendent Ruane's
men had the smudge squelched with hand
eXtinguishers.
SwIndling Stopped-Acting Mayor D. P.
Jones yesterday revoked the license OF Is.
Halferin & Co. who have conducted an
auction shop on Washington avenue S.
G. P. Godfrey, an old soldier, reported
that he had been swindled in the purchase
Of a watch. and as a, number of other
complaints Of the same firm had been re-
ceived, the license was revoked
Accountants to DIne-The Minneapolis
Association of Accountants and Book
keepers is to open the season with a ban
quet at the Hotel Nicollet Tomorrow eve
ming at $50. J. F. Jordan of the credit
department of Wyman, Partridge & Co.
is to give the principal address, on THE
Relation Of the Credit Man to the Book
Keeper and there will be large gather
ing of bookleepers.
A Costly Scarf Pin-Rev. G. L. Morrill,
Is the proud pOssessOr Of numerous scarf
pins. The collection includes a great
scarab. a salt water pearl diamonds, opals
whose setting he values more highly than
any other. 1t is small piece of anthra-
cite clutched firmly in gold claws. An
thracite is a valuable mineral product
which in former times was used by mis-
guided persons as fuel.
Rally Day at Riverside Riverside
chapel Sunday school is making large
preparations for rally day next Sundey.
At this time the classes Of children will be
graduated from lower to higher grades.
The largest attendance ever shown at
Riverside was 1O9O rally day last year. 1t
expected this year that every friend of the
institution will be present. An orchestra
will play and Miss Ripe, just returned
from abroad, will sing. The exercises will
be by pupils of the school.
A Big Broom Brigade.-It has been fig
ured out that nine >janitOrs will be required
to keep the new city hall clean. Appoint
ments will be left to Frank Gaylord GUS
todian Of the new building. The commit
tee public grounds and buildings has
been beSet by applicants for permission to
conduct cigar stands in the new building.
1t is not likely that more than one privil-
eye will be granted and this will be given
to Mr.. Williams, who has little stand in
the corridor of the old building.
Street Vacation Denied-The petition Of
Fourth street and Twenty fourth avenue
Sc for the vacation of Fourth street from
Twentyfourth to Twenty fifth avenues
was denied by the council committee on
roads and bridges. The committee will
recommend that a cross alley be opened
through block four of Walton Park from
COlfaX to Dupont avenue in the rear Of
the new Mckinley school. The expense
will be borne by the school board. which
will thus be neabled to get the school lot
in one piece instead Of having it cut up by
an alley.
Wage Farmers Prosperous-The register
of deeds is authority for the statement
that the wage earners of Minneapolis are
in better shape financially 1T present than
at any time in the past. He bases this
conclusion on the fact that the satisfac-
tions registered at his office greatly out
number the mortgages. In most in
stances where satisfa ctions have been
filed, Investigation had shown that all in
cumbrances have been removed from the
workingmanS home. The mortgages
were the heritage of fifteen to twenty
years ago. when wage earners borrowed
5money with which to build homes.
: New Chorus Directors Work-Hjalma1
Nilsson, the new director of the male
Chorus Of the Wennerberg Memorial asso-
sciat ton, directed the first rehearsal last
evening and made a decidedly favora BILE
Impression. He showed much experience
and talent as q director. and his PERSONAL
atty attra cted all the members Mr.. Nilsson
tcomes from Worcester Mass. where he
has conducted chorus work for severa
years with marked success. The mixed
EchOruS meets for rehearsal Tomorrow
evening at the First Swedish Baptist
church Eighth street and Thirteenth ave-
niue s. Both divisions will participate in
"a concert to be held here next November