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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
The Glass Block Tower Will Dwarf
the Court House.
PLANS DEFINITELY ADOPTED
The Enlargement Of the Structure
Will BE on a Most Elabor-.
ate Scale.

Lawrence S. Donaldson president of
William Donaldson & company, announces
to-day that the company has definitely
decided to erect an addition and annex
to the Glass Block at Sixth and Nicollet.
me announcement is opportune, as
twenty years ago next Saturday. Mr.. Don
aldson first sold goods over the counter
in the little, old wooden shed that the
people then named the Glass Block.
Ihree years ago in preparation for the
change announced to-day, the company
pesan TO set aside certain sum every
year from the business
The engineer, Frank .Overhot, has been
at work for some months on a plan and
estimates for the electric light, elevator
building. With the architect he has
secured the country for ideas to make
the electric tower to be erected on Sixth
street a feature Of Minneapolis. Mr..
CYerholt spent a week, at the Buffalo ex-
position last summer with the single pur-
pose of obtaining ideas.
The entire building will cost nearly
half million dollars. The engine room,
winch is now large one, and a, striking
Glass Block, will be. trebled in size and
made one of its biggest attractions.
A Buffalo Tower Idea,
The new building is to front 100 feet on
Sixth street by 165 feet deep and will be
so constructed that it may soon be car
ried through to the property T. S. Don
aldson purchased on Seventh street some
time. ago. The tower at the middle of the
Sixth street frontage will be 90 to so
feet higher than the courthouse tower.
It is designed after one OF the electric
towers at the Buffalo exposition. Ir
summer two passenger elevators for
slght-seers will be run to the open top
and as in the Eiffel tower light lunches
will be served at 400 feet above the street
level. TO provide for the weight Of the.
structure and the elevator service, it will
be necessary to go down 60 feet for the
foundation. At the ground level this
will cover about go feet square. $50
To Do Catering. ~l.:
Another announcement is that William
Donaldson e Co. will go into the catering
business. A $4,000 kitchen is being erect
ed in the rear of the main building and
also a Dutch room to cost like sum is
to be put in the NicolletH avenue front of
the tea room on the top floor.
Several persons of note in the CONNER
cial world have been in the city recently
from Milwaukee, New York and other
eastern cities drawn b. the fame Of the
Glass Block. Mr.. Donaldson is devoting
considerable time to these visitors. To-
day Gin1bel Brothers, of Philadelphia,
we'll known men Of the east; are lookin j.;
over the clant-for which purpose thy
came to the city. ~ 81 -, g.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
FEAR THE SHAKING
Earthquakes the Perpetual Bane of
the. Peruvians' Life.
HEART DISEASE COMMON THERE
Mrs. DeLisle Stewart Returns After
Three Years Residence in ~.



4 Nervous prostration brought on by
constant tear. OF earthquakes is a fruit
full source of death in South America. ac-
cording to Mrs. De Lisle Stewart, who has
just arrived in Minneapolis after six
years so!ourn in the tropics. With her
husband, Dr.. De =Lisle StWeart, formerly
Of Northfieid, Mimi, she has been s.a-
TONED at the southern observatory o.
Harvard college, three miles from Are
quipa, S. A. DR.. Stewart has returned to
Carleton college and Mrs. Stewart is Wis
1ting her mother. Mrs. Harneman, 1916
Portland avenue. ~
Mrs. Stewart says that while intermit-
tent rumblings are Of almost daily &C
curce in that region, full-fedged earth
quake shock comes OIL a regular monthly
schedule. u Strangely enough the Peruvian
Indians and native Spanish are more
afraid than the Americans of earthquakes
Familiar as they have been With such
visitations from childhood, they are com
pletely terror-stricken the moment the
ground begins to shake. Their first i'm
pulse is to rush out of doors. throw them
selves prone on their backs and with up
lifted hands pray that their lives may be
spared Death from heart disease is
common. .'%z
little Juancito Stewart = whose given
name is Spanish for little John''-was
born under the southern cross three years
ago. Although the boy did not borrow the
complexion ofethe land of his birth-being
a pronounced. blonde-he has to thank a
Peruvian nrrsegafor a curious adnlixture
of Spanish and English. When Juancito
reached the United States two weeks ago
he couldn't speak a word of English, but
he is picking up his mother tongue rap
idly. Swinging on the foot of bed this
morning he exclaimed:
Of fell off here. wouldn't it be a
good joke? ~ All Of the sentence was in
Spanish save the last two words.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart were fifty three
days making the trip from, Arequipa to
Minneapolis, being forty days on the
water to San Francisco.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
CLARA BARTON's FIRST LOAF
A. j. Parker, Massachusetts Sol
der. the REGIMENT
Worcester TELEGRAM

Worcester Telegram.
II would be difficult task to attempt
even to make an, estimate of the amount
OF supplies that have been furnished by
cara Barton and her band of Red Cross
workers. but in Loeminster county, Mas
sachusetts, lives a man who claims that
he was the first recipient of their gener-
'ous CHARITY. His name is A. ]. Parker
and the food which he got was a loaf of
bread, which be was given after having
been without food for two days in a
southern hospital during the civil war
Mr.. Parker was in the Second Massachu-
setts regiment and was wounded at the
battle cfCedar Mountain by rebel minnie
ball that shattered both bones of his
right arm below TIE elbow and also
smashed the elbow joint, so that he had
to lose the arm below the, elbow.
He stopped the bullet on Saturday, Aug.
g, 1852, and the following Monday after
noon the coeration was performed. Par
ker was taken from the field to the Epis-
copal church at Culpepper. Courthouse
Virginia, which had been converted into
g field hospital, the pews being turnedt
into hospital hunks for upwards of 800
wounded soldiers
Mr.: Parker says that he was in pew
next - he door the day following tha|
anputation of his arm and not feeling
airy too happy when woman with basi
hSI tHtO lie CHURCH ana stopped at
the entrance CT his aew. snd after, ask
ing him a few questions and giving words
of cheer she asked him to what regiment
he belonged and the atnre sef his wounds.
He told her he belonged to the Second
Massachusetts and that he had: just lost
an arm.
She then asked him if he did not want
loaf of bread. Mr.. Parker says that
he told her he had nothing to eat for two
days, and would like the bread, and she
gave him an entire loaf. He was inter-
ested and asked the woman's name, and
the answer was, CLARA Barton.
Years afterwards, when Mr. Parker wa
married, his wife went to Boston and
there met the celebrated nurse: had
told his wife of the incident of the church,
in the south, and while Mrs. Parker was
talking with Miss Barton she said my
husband tells me that you We're the first
person to give him anything to eat after
he was wounded in the army and that
he was the first man that you gave any
thing to in that hospital" Miss Barton
asked when that was, and hearing the
name of the church, said: Why, that
was the first hospital ever went into. y
and that is the proof thatzthe Loeminster
veteran has that he was the recipient OF
the first loaf of bread given out by the
now famous Red Cross workers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
GILBERT PARKER AT HOME
His '.Sunlptuous" Sanctum in His
London House..
Black and White.

Black and White.
It is on the fourth floor of his beautiful
house that 1 find Mr.. Parker in his study.
It seems to be the remotest apartment,
but the first room on the ground level is
fitted up as library, and is chamber of
rare delight. so that the social life of No.
20 is sandwiched between books. How
does this reposeful study compare I Won
der, with the room of the associate editor
Of the Sydney Morning Herald? Was it
shirt-sleeves and plain desk in those
far-off days? That is the memory of most
hard working editors l have known, but
cannot conceive of Mr.. Parker in such con-
dition He carries an air of dainty note
paper and silver cased plotting pads about
him: / cannot imagine him scribbling on
ordinary printers copy paper with blunt
pencil and an inky imp waiting for the
sheets. Yet, his talk of old days is richly
reminiscent of traditional journalism, and
I suppose these strange things must have
happened.
should think the word ,'"sumptuous' is
the proper word to apply to the furnishing
Of this sanctum. 1t is a word for which
Mr.. Parker has a peculiar fondness; he
has written even of a 'sumptuous star"
All the appointments are the most choice
of their kind; the handsome bookshelves,
the generous writing table, with its mas
sive inkstand, artistic paperweights,
quaint paper knife and that silver ased
blotter. The walls contain many beauti-
full and interesting pictures, and over a
corner cabinet a bust of Napoleon looks
down with lowering brow, a reminder that
the man at the desk has been one of the
most sympathetic students of 1.-THE Little
Corporal The room is well lighted and
is quiet as any in Pontiac, for there is but
little traffic in the terrace below, as it
ends in cul de sac, and theA great man
Grafton opposite only wake up the life
at occasional intervals through the year,
while beyond these stretches St.
James park. Yet not many hundred
yards to the north is PiccadiIly circus and
its perpetual turmoil.
A word as to the man himself. Mr.. Gill
bert Parker is very attractive type of
man. OF average height and we'll built, he
does not seem to belong particularly to
any profession. Literary men are seldom
so we'll greomed, lawyers. have an affec-
tion for the shayen face, whereas Mr.. Par
ker wears a short, neatly trimmed beard,
black, like the hair of his head, and so
inparting a swarthy look to his face,
which otherwise would strike one as the
healthy complexion of a man who had
spent much of his life in the OPEN In
conversation he has charming manner,
and when speaking in public i have re-
marked the same easy, confident flow of
talk. He ought to become one of the most
acceptable speakers in the house of COM
mons.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
Jury TURNED / | LOOSE
a Most Unusual Development in the
Megaarden Case.
JUDGE SIMPSON ILL AT HOME
Now It's Discovered That the Jury
Can't Serve Under An
other Judge.

An unexpected turn was given to the
trial OF Sheriff Megaarden this morning
by the discharge of the jury, which had
been secured only after long and costly
labor. Matters for the present are very
much at skies and sevens and 1t is not
known what will be done.
The dismissal is primarily due to the
jury was drawn. 1t was at first as
pury was drawn. It was at first as
sumsd that another judge could take the
same jury and proceed with the trial.
such plan seemed fair enough but
full bench meeting decided that Judge
simpson alone could try the case. AS it
would be a; decided hardship to keep the
jury IN confinement until Judge Simpson
RECEIVERS; 1t; was discharged.
~ Mr.. Megaarden was wroth over the turn
of affairs. His attorneys demanded that,
as he had been placed in jeopardy, the
trial should proceed, but the demands
were made in vain
It is now impossible to try the, case this
term unless the unprecedented expedient
Of extending the term into June is
adopted.
1t, looks as though the case would be
continued to- the September term
Judge Steele, Mr.. Megaarden's attorney,
declares that the action Of the court in
dismissing the jury after it had been
drawn virtually amounts to an acquittal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
PROUD TO Be A B0ER
An Orange Free State Native in
Minneapolis To-day.
A SAMPLE OF HOLLAND GOSSIP
One of These "Quiet Tip" Stories
That Hollands Prince COnsort
,-. Was Stabbed. -.

q. ]. w. ]. Vessel Roux. representing the
Van Stolk Grain company of Rotterdam,
Holland, is at the Hotel Nicollet. Mr..
RouX is a Boer by birth, having been
born in the Orange Free State, and is
Huguenot By" descent. Naturally his
syElpatEies are all with Dom Paul's peo-
pie. No matter what the outcome may
be. he declares that it has been bitter
I'LL for the English and that never before
in history has the British lions tail
received such a painful twist. IT,.
1.-THE pride of the British people" he
said to-day, has been greatly humbled.
They feel that the country on which the
sun never sets has been Inundated and
disgraced before all the world, and they
are ready to cry quits. Whatever is done
now to bring the war to a conclusion, you
may he sure that hte British are the
moving parties. 1t will not be an uncon-
ditional surrender OF the heroic Boer
forces still in the field: If they give in it
will be because of the generous promises
and compromises which the British will
be forced to make. The war has become
decidedly unpopular in England beca use it
has hit the pocketbools of the people.
When you touch an Englishman's pocket
then you have touched his heart and head.
am certain from what l know of the out
side assistance being given the Beers that,
insignificant as their fighting strength
may seem, they are still in position to
prolong the war Indefinitely if peace over
lures now being made them are rejected.
f. Rumored Royal stabbinE.
Speaking of little Queen Wilhelmina
of Holland, whose domestic woes have
excited the sympathy of the world, Mr..
Roux said that she and her hubby" were
getting on nicely when he left home three
weeks ago. =. - .-'.. -. ~.
81 got it from a. friend of mine who
goes to court-I'm a republican myself
and never pay tribute to royalty he ex-
planned. This friend of mine told me
few other state secrets. The true
story, he said, of the princes sojourn in
hospital was that he was suffering from a
knife thrust instead of from any physi-
cal ailaent neceseitating an operation.
appendicitis, it was whispered about
court when the prince suddenly found t
necessary to go to the hospital, and for a
time that became the accepted version OF
his condition. My friend tells a different
insulted Wilhelmina at table one day, and
sent it, he stabbed the prince in the
stomach
Mr. Roux is graduate Of Oxford, and
although but 26 years old, has practiced
law in London town. He says the Amer
lean invasion is an established fact, and
that Commercial America has big start
ahead in the race of the powers for trade
supremacy. One fault that he finds with
this country is the slow time on the
roads 1t takes four hours longer, he
says, to 20 from Chicago to Minneapolis
than from London to Edinburg, the same
distance. "
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
NORTHWESTERN WILL KICK
Company Will Protest
Against City Renting Its Poles.

"a proposal of the Twin City Telephone
company to pay the city an annual rental
Of ST, goo for the use of the telephone poles
owned by the city is now before the com
mittee on police and fire departments and
underground wires, and Superintendent: of
Fire Alarms Morrison has been instructed
to present. all the facts to the joint COM
mittee next week.
The Northwestern Telephone company
has been using the poles for almost fif
teen years, and naturally will protest.
against any deal that will interfere with
its privileges. In return for the use Of
the city,s poles the company has given
t he city free use of many Of Its own poles
and. the: city's lines are now occupying
space in the company's underground con-
Quits. s5 tsF E,4s IA IS ss-z 10 4 !ssls
There were originally about 1000 city
poles in service. Many have been re-
placed by the Northwestern company, and
the renal lining poles are said to be good
for but few years more.
The joint committee yesterday voted to
accept the proposition. Of the Twin City
company to equip the new city hall with
telephones at $3.50 year. Every city de-
partment will have telephone and allwi]l
be connected with each other and with
the county phones. q
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
ROLAND HARTLEY HONORED
Minnesota knights Templar Make
Him Their Grand Commander.

Minnesota knights Templar Make
Him Their Grand Commander.
Roland II. Hartley formerly of Mime
apolis, now of Cass Lake, was chosen
grand commander by the Knights TEN
plar Of Minnesota at the thirty-second
annual meeting held yesterday in St.
Paul. Fairmont, Marshall and Wadena
were voted charters. Minneapolis will
be the scene of the next conclave. Other
officers elected were: S. S. Kiivington,
Minneapolis. D. G. c.; George w. Buck,
Duluth, G. c.; E. P. Sanborn, St. Paul,
G. G. G.; H. L. Luther, Faribault, G. S.
w; Charles L. West, Austin, G. J. w;
Rev. H. w. Parshall, St. Cloud, G. P;
John G.. McFarlane, Minneapolis, grand
treasurer; Thomas Montgomery, st. Paul.
grand recorder; w. Hayes Laird, Winona
G. S. B.; John House, Morris, G.. Sw. B.;
George c.. Miles, Fergus Falls, G. w.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
WALLIN BROKE AWAY
A Thirty-Dny Prisoner Escapes From
- the WOrkhOuse. -

Somewhere in the woods north of the
city along the Mississippi, middle aged
man, medium in height, with dark shaggy
hair and an anxious look, is in hiding.
The township officials round about have
been notified and it is believed that the
man soon will be in the tolls again.
The fugitive is John Wallin, who es-
capped from the workhouse yesterday at
terroon. Guard John Mccarthy had Wal
lin and several other prisoners in gang
working on the farm just back of the
prison. Wallin, on some pretext, gained
permission to step into concealed spot
in the woods near by. A few minutes
later Mccarthy went towards the place
and saw Wallin running off among the
trees. --
Mccarthy did not pursue the man far
because the other prisoners were still in
the field. When he had marched them
back to the workhouse Wallin could not
be found. .-.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
DEATH DUE TO VIOLENCE
N THE KowHET CASE
Authorities Now Looking Into the
Bass Lake Fight-Arrests
May Follow.

John Kowhet's death, lin the opinion Of
the coroner, whose surgeons held an
autopsy this morning. resulted from in
juries inflicted by his antagonist in a
fight near the hermit's home at Bass lake
Tuesday evening. Kowhet was found
semi conscious on the lake shore yester-
day morning and died while q neighbor
was bringing him to the hospital.
Death was caused by peritonitis, re-
sulting from the bowels being torn, proba-
bly, in the fight. The coroner is investi-
eating. He knows the name Of one Of
the men who fought with Kowhet and
an inquest will probably be held. No
relatives of the dead man have been
found
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
FIVE NEW CARRIERS

Postmaster Lovejoy Is Authorized to
Increase His Force.
Superintendent Matchen of the free de-
livery service has authorized Postmaster
Lovejoy to appoint five additional car
riers at Minneapolis to begin work on
July /.
Two of these will take the places of
temporary carriers that work on regular
routes, and three others will be appointed
to regular positions from the substitute
list. ... ~.
Postmaster Lovejoy also asked for per-
mission to appoint ten more carriers to
begin work Oct. /, but he was told that
the request would be considered later.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
BANK CLEARINGS HEAVY
Week and Month Show an Increa.

Week and Month Show an Increase
Over Last Year. :a.
The bank clearings to-day were 1885,
1892. For the week ending to-day the
clearings are s11,974,5 1861, compared with
$S,771, 1851 last year.
April was good month in all local
business lines, and Minneapolis did in
round figures $10,000,000 more business
than in April last year. The bank figures
show clearings for the month of $50, 49,
627.67, while in April, 1901, the clearings
were $40,874 1885.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
MYSTERY IN BABY'S SHOES
sntcheI of Herbert Hurd Draws
Crowd to A. d. r. Office

Sntchel OF Herbert Hurd Draws
Crowd to A. D. r. ONCE.
: Two baby legs and 1.-TWO little, blue lit
tie shoes thereto attached, dangling out
side of tightly closed satchel in front
of the A. D. T., Nicollet and Fourth
street, attracted much attention to-day.
The satche1 and the trunk which ac-
companied It were labeled: Herbert
Hurd, Madison, MINI, y and that was the
only clue to the identity of the pedal ex-
tremities.
,'"Nother case of kidnapping. -.Child
must be dead by this time" and the like
expressions were heard from curious ones
who stopped to have look at the atten-
uated limbs.
DON'T know anything about it," said
Allie, Williams, of the A. D. T. goods are
billed regular and that's all that con-
Germs me. Those shoes and stockings
do look little bit like excess baggage.
that's a fact
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
WOMEN AS CONDUCTORS
They Give Good Satisfaction Over in
ChtlIicothe. .-....
Washington Post.


The female conductor experiment in
Chillicothe is proving a great success
said Alexander O. Stevens Of Columbus,
Ohio. II know of no other city in the
world which has a street car line upon
which Fare, please is spoken by a wom-
an. The history of the custom is rather
Interesting. A few years ago charitable
organization of Chillicothe was sadly in
need of funds. Minstrel shows, bazaars,
rummage sales and other favorite money
making institutions had been tried with
only meager success The street car
company finally came to the rescue and
offered to turn it's entire system over to
the ladies Of the organization for one
day. The event was made social fea-
-ture Of Chillicothe for that season. The
society girls clamored for permission to
become conductresse The day arrived :
and 1t was all that the promoters had
hoped. Upon each car was beautiful
young lady in short dark skirt, white
shirt waist, and sailor hat, across the
front OF which was the magic word Con.
5ductor. AS matter of fact, the expert
3ment resolved itself into a good natured
society hold-up. The charitable organi4
cation offered prizes for the young ladies
who turned in the greatest amount of
cash. and as result the girls did their
utmost in collecting fares. The man who
presented ticket was made to feel very
much ashamed of himself before he left
the car. Such thing as giving back
change was unheard of unless change was
demanded.
''The day proved SO successful, not only
In. financial aspect, but the general i'm
provement of the nature of those who
rode, that the company thought it would
be a good idea to employ lady conductors
exclusively. Accordingly, it was not long
before the system was fully equipped
The company is entirely satisfied with
the arrangement and would not change
back to men under any circumstances.
The same good qualities attributed to the
female employe in other lines of business
are put down to their record as con-
ductresses in Chillicothe.'
the shifts
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
REV. a. G. PATTERSON CALLED

westminster Church Will Have an
Assistant Pastor.
Westminster church has extended a call
to Rev. Alexander G. Patterson OF
Youngstown, Ohio, who is graduated to-
mary at Chicago, to become assistant pas
tor. 500 5 Isl
Mr.. Patterson was in the city last Sun
day and made a favorable impression.
He will undoubtedly accept the call
s He is about IS, unmarried, and g grad
suate OF Wooster university. He 4is ex-
pected to. begin work June !.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-02
STRIKE ON AT ST. PAUL.

Carpenters, Steamfltters, Coopers,
Carpenters, Steamfitters coopers, hoist
ing engineers and iron moulders OF St
Paul struck to-day for higher wages All
these unions asked for more pay and were
refused by their employers. The foundry
men, plumbers and leather workers are
expected to strike by the end of the week.
if their demands are not complied With
Il, Four hundred men are out. practically
all IN the trades affected, except that the
Hamm Brewery employees are working
their demands having been granted.