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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-08-26
LABOR DAY OBSERVANCE
Committee Planning Upon Cele.
bratiOn For New Ulm.
Parade to Be Followed by Picnic
on Herman Heights.
Merchants Requested to Close
Their Places of Business

Labor Day, September 18th, will be
observed in New Ulm by parade and
a picnic on Hermann's Heights. A
Joint committee from the Arbeiter Yer
Elm and Harmony Camp, NJ. w. A.,
have the affair in charge and they are
arranging for celebration on re-
spectacle scale. The Concordia band
has been secured to provide the music
and after the procession has passed
through the city speeches will be de-
livered on Hermann's Heights and
there will be an outing in which sever
, al hundred are expected to participate.
This being the first time New Ulm
has ever celebrated labor day it is de-
sired that the affair be made success
full and to that end merchants of the
city will be requested to close their
J places of business for at least a por-
ton of the day to allow their employees
to take part in the festivities. Several
of the larger employers have already
consented to do this and a generous
response is looked for.
It is also the wish Of the committee
that the city be decorated on that day
and they have issued the following
call:
"Besides nature itself, there is only
labor which produces everything
necessary for food, clothing and shell
+Io ;o1
existence. Without this work of ma
ture and this labor of man schools,
science, art, comfort: sport, are i'm
possible.
''The fundamental requirements for
our existence are, therefore, today:
first, nature; second, intelligent man;
third, labor.
''The machine which has been intro
duced as a factor in Industrial life.
has developed such a. monstrous ca
pacity in producing that the benefits
derived through it would be a bless
ing for humanity if properly directed;
but instead of using the machine for
the general good. it is used for ex-
ploitation of the public in the hands
of comparatively few men. This ex-
ploitation leads to accumulation of
capital and capital is power and rich
es, received through the exploitation
of others who accordingly get poorer
and dependent as matter of the law
| of cause and effect.
"Selfpreserv alton being also fund
amental principle in nature, every
body is compelld to struggle for an
existence and out of this struggle
comes the labor question.
Congress and the president of the
United States have, in recognition of
the demands and just rights of the
laboring class, set a day in the year
called Labor Day." which, this year,
falls on Monday, Sept. It'll. This day
has been celebrated for years in most
large cities and industrial centers,
through decoration of houses and
streets, through street parades and
amusements and speeches on the labor
problems.
I'm New Ulm the laboring. mems
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-08-26
POTENT Phil PLEASURE. i

The pills that are potent in their
action aud pleasant III effect are De
Wits Little Early Risers. w. S.
Philpot Of Albany, Ga, says During q
bilious attack / took one. Small as it
was it did me more good than calomel
blue mass or any othe. pills I ever took
and at the same time it effected me
pleasantly. Little EARLY Risers are
certainly an ideal pill Sold by all
druggists.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-08-26
Going away to school or to the.
State Fair!

Think Of the and Youl something which
with We
underseg prices
tae below Others while quality NJ.
least money
Trunks $2s5 to SIS. Dress suit $3.50
So. Vaises 65c to s10 Telescopes, any size,
40c to 81 So See and learn
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-08-26
Home Visitors Excursion Tickets to Indiana
and Ohio,

and Ohio,
Via the North Western Line, will be sold
at reduced rates on four Tuesdays, Sept.
/, s, Is and Oct. 6, limited 10 return
within 30 days from date of sale. For
particulars as to territory to which ex-
cursiou tickets may I've sold, etc, apply
to agents Chicago & North. Western R'y.
Oct. 4.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25

from state, was The Door to Hades.
one of the aristocratic business
sections of the city. To-day its
dens of infanmy are the cause of
more crimes against morality than
may be found in any other section of
the South side. 1t is crowded with
cheap dance halls under the name of
Dancing Academies" and with tough
saloons with par<itioned rooms.
The dance halls into which women
are admitted with or without escorts
at the small price of ten cents each,
are attractive to a class of girls who
go there with no intention of inten-
tional wrongdoing, but who find in
them, as a rule, the first step in a down
ward course which has no end.
These places are patronized extern
sively by servant girls and by shop
girls, young things of 20 and less.
Many of them are girls from the coun-
try drifted cityward in hopes of find
ing opportunities that will place them
socially above their home companions.
Once they have entered the doors of
these places but few ever return to
their homes in the country.
These Twenty-second street dives,
made famous by half dozen divorce
cases in Chicago courts, are but typ
ical of those to be found in other
sections of the city. though it is on
the South and North sides of the
city that their doors have the great-
est amount of gilt, and it is the gild-
ing which makes them dangerous
In New York one evening friend
compared that city and Chicago by
saying: "New York is fast and Chi
cago is tough" That, 1 think, ex-
presses it. New York, with all it's
boasted wickedness, would not per-
NIT such places to run. There is vice
there, but it is not so Haunted in the
eyes of the innocent as it is in Chi
cago.
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but he has in addition-what WI
lacked-n0ble birth and aristocratic
training. He has also-what WI
lacked-an American education:
though it is hard to see how even
with this advantage he can hope to
excel the late minister in delicate ap-
probation of American traditions
and habits of thought.
Chen-tung is only 40 years old, but
he has seven children, three of whom
are now in Washington with him.
His wife died two years ago, and his
mother superintends the household
quite after the fashion of Ameri-
can widowers.
He has weathered one little dip
lomatic squall already. He was
China's special ambassador at the
queens jubilee in London, and Vic
toria knighted him. 1t pleases him
to use the prefix Sir" which she be-
slowed upon him, and so he is en-
tered in the diplomatic list. Some of
the other diplomats objected on the
ground that this was not according
to precedent. as Sir" was not n
title of his own government, but the
Chinese knight kept his lance poised,
and he has won.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25

Where the walls, floors and ceilings
meet they are rounded so there may be
no possible place for dust to accumu-
late. Every room is somewhat like the
inside of a sphere. Every room has an
outside window that extends from cell
ing to floor, and the building is so sit
uated that the sun shines into every
room each day. More than this, it sets
in a ten-acre lot, so that other build
ings cannot encroach near enough
to shut out the sunlight and air. 1t is
heated in winter and cooled in summer
by means of fans which keep the air
constantly circulating All around it
at every floor are wide verandas
where patients will be kept as much as
possible.
1t is a Catholic institution, built
by popular subscription, and is ur-
der. the direction of one of the CATH
Ollie sisterhoods whose members la
vide their living and clothing.
Before the completion of this hospi-
tai, which will accommodate $50 pa
tients. there were but five hospitals in
the city which would receive a con-
sumptive patient, though city health
authorities estimate that so per cent.
of the people of the city or afflicted
with tuberculosis, and II per cent. die
of this disease.
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of strange places and he has finally
gathered everything he has bought in
one big collection in London-there to
await the time when he can bring the
whole lot to the United States and de-
vote it to the service of the public.
The obstacle in the way just now is
the high duty on work of art, the
owners of which arc expected by the
Dingley tariff to pay handsomely for
the privilege of bringing their luxuries
into the United States. If he should
bring his whole collection in now and
pay duty on it the cost would be nearly
doubled before the goods were un-
packed in New York. But a way out
has been suggested by an ingenious
body who is anxious to see this museum
established in Washington. 1t is pro-
posed to admit the priceless collection
under the defination household eff
fects" without paying any duty at all
lust as if it consisted of pokers,
tongs and kitchen utensils. 1t is de-
clared that this would be quite within
the law. otherwise congress will be
asked next winter to pass a special act
suspending the tariff in this particular
case on the ground that such suspen-
sion is for the public good.
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
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Raid in Mott Street. not make their
plants heard. There were tales told,
CHASTITY tales, but true, that made men
turn pale and clench their fists.
Perhaps the memory of these things
has little faded by now. But lest we
forget
The other day house was raided on
Mott street-not in the Chinese part
of that famous thoroughfare; the Chi
nese are more decent. The police found
it a literal rabbit WARREN of hooks and
crannies where terrorized women
might be hidden. There were closets
walled off from the ends of passages.
only to be detected by measuring the
floors and comparing with the rooms;
there were false floors with traps be-
meath which slender girls could lie.
Out of such crannies the men in blue
pulled eight women.
Later came an alarm that an Italian
girl, young, knowing no English, had
been stolen. The police again visited
the same house and with them went
this time an old reporter of the very
conservative Evening Post, which is
often accused of slowness but never of
sensationalism. The girl was not
found, but all the hideous machinery
of traps and secret passages was found
lust as the earlier raid had revealed it,
No trace of the girIwas found during
the visit, but it is evident that her cap
tors were we'll scared, for upon the
next day she reappeared. She had been
concealed behind a trap door during
the search and next morning was led
into the street with a little shawl
thrown over her face so that she could
not identify her wherea bouts. In the
next street her conductor whisked
away the shawl and suddenly left her
blinking in the strong sunlight.
A man may build queer closets and
false floors in his house if he Will He
commits no crime. But what things
were done in those places under the
rule of Van Wyck and DeyeFy, of Gro
ker and the respectable menwho stood
with him, not knowing what they did,
may be imagined!
Devery joke! In one sense he is;
he could never be elected mayor ex-
cept in city of madmen. But it is
strange that even in city so big even
few can take him seriously as a de-
liyersT. OWEN LANGDoN.
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to enable the deaf to hear, those two
discoveries must yield preference TIC
the man who transforms the air into a
medium of transportation and com
merce, overcomes the limitations OF
gravityand enables men to fly.
1t has been known among Prof. Bells
friends in Washington that for several
years he has been working on the prob
lem of the flying machine. He has said
little about it even among his init
mates; for he knows better than most
men how to keep his own counsel. But
now after three years OF experiment
he believes he is far enough ON the
right track to take the world into his
confidence a little and let the rest of us
know how far he has gone, so that we
NAV have a reasonable scientific hope
of seeing the problem solved.
With the spirit of true scientist he
has been experimenting at his north
ern summer home with kites of differ
ent plan and shape until he has at last
discovered a form which he is confident
will work. The striking thing about 1T
is that starting out with the ordinary
form of a boys toy kite composed Of
two cross bars and experimenting sue
cessively with box kites and oriental
devices he has, through mathematical
calculations as to lifting and motive
power and stability, hit upon device
which exactly resembles the outspread
wings of bird. This kite, with its
four triangular sides in the shape of
a tetrahedron, he finds can be com
bined almost indefinitely with kites of
similar shape and size until together
they form a mammoth kite, the weight
of which in relation to the wing sur
face is such that one of them is capa-
BILE of moving through the air in a
breeze no stronger than is needed for
boys toy. Such a flying machine
Prof. Bell believes can carry sufficient
motive power together with human
freight without weighing itself down.
He believes that under the guidance of
helm it can be made to rise and glide
and gently fall without regard to the
direction of the wind-providing a
means of rapid transit swifter than a
railroad or steamboat, and more Sc
cure.
The scientific men of Washington,
among whom Prof. Bell has passed the
greater part of his life, believe he is far
nearer the solution of the problem of
human flight than any of those who
have gone before him.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
The News Condensed.

Beloit college is to have one hand
some new structure this year, the fine
gymnasium for which plans already
have been drawn.
Postmaster Charles II Maynard of
Sheboygan, died at st. Mary's hospital
in Milwaukee from the effects of
surgical operation for a diseased kid.
ney.
Prof. James C. Monaghan, of the Uni
yersity of Wisconsin. has been appoint
ed by Secretary Cortelyou editor OF
reports of foreign commerce.
Without moments warning Thorn
as Clark, the oldest living sailor and
MUSICIAN of Racine, fell from a chair
to the lawn at his home and when
picked up was dead. ApopleXy or heart
trouble was the cause.
The AZ German agriculturists maxi
ing tour of the country were in Mad
ison inspecting the University of Wis
consin agricultural department.
The entire business portion of Hust-
Ter has been burned.
Frost did great damage to growing
crops in the state.
Senator John c. Spooner has given
$500 for the proposed university Y. NJ.
c.. A. building at Madison. The sum
of $40, 900 has now been raised.
The corner stone of the Carnegie
free library was laid at Eau Claire.
The breaking of rope on sailing
yacht resulted in the drowning of Ar
thur Franz Beule, of Beaver Falls, a
senior in the University of Wisconsin.
The six-year-old son of NJ. Seiben-
glanz was drowned while playing in
the creek at Peshtigo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ames Balsam cele-
brated the fftieth anniversary of their
wedding at Hudson.
George Starr, aged II years, lost HIS
life at Tigerton by falling over car
rage saw. 1t cut cash from the
shoulder to the hips, half through the
body.
Beloit college has been presented
with fine United States flag by Mrs.
Goddard, of Colorado Springs, Col,
granddaughter OF Gov. Carr, who was
2ONeTuOE Vi al WhNh ''Af'NNA'N,%'
was part of the territory.
The state board of control has let
contracts for four $50 horse power
boilers, to be used a the two state iU-
sane asylums and the home for tie
feeble-minded at Chippewa Falls.
The thirty-ffth annual meeting O.
the Walworth County Old Soldiers So
ciety was held at the fair grounds in
Elkhorn.
Jerome J.. Barker, assistant post
master at Stevens Point, was arrested
on complaint of post office inspector.
He is charged with embezzling $3.50
from the Office.
Fire destroyed the Lack block, the
handsomest structure in Plymouth, in
which were located several firms. The
total loss is estimated at SCI, 900.
John Hankin, 16 years old, killed
himself at Whitehall. He was crazed
by the recent death Of his little sister.
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nificant sum of Attraction OF the Midway
$1,000, leaving behind it list of cred
tors with claims aggregating some
thing like $40O,0 900. The wheel was
bought by firm of junk dealers, and
at the end of the present summer it is
to come down and go into the scrap
pile.
1t cost 1862, 900 to erect the Ferris
wheel in the Worlds Fair grounds,
where it stood as the star attraction
of the Midway. After the fair several
efforts were made to dispose of it prof
itably. At one time it was expected
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company
would purchase it to add to the at
fractions at Coney~ Island. The late
Gov. Flower was interested in this
scheme, but died before it was ear
ried to completion and the whole thing
was dropped.
When the court sale occurred a few
days ago it was expected that both j.
D. Rockefeller and Joseph Leite =
would bid for it. The former, it was
said, wished to remove it to Coney
Island. while the latter was supposed
to desire to take it to ST. Louis as .
features of the Louisiana Purchase eX-
position. If either had contemplated
bidding for it both repented before ii
was too late.
Chicagoans have never taken to the
wheel. In its last location on the
North side it has been visited each
summer by number of people visit
ing the city, but not in sufficient num-
be7's to make its operation profitable,
and it did but little except to pile new
debts onto old ones.
The cost of dismantling the mann
moth structure will be in the neigh
borhood of $4,000, but it is expected
that the boilers and engines and the
immense quantity of steel which it
contains will more than recompense
its purchasers for this expense.
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''came easy" that is not true. He
worked for it as hard rs any other day
laborer-for that is how he started
and he figured as closely to accumulate
his pile as the thriftiest storekeeper
who ever sold supplies to the miners.
He labored along with grim determina-
ton for years before the luck came,
and he earned every cent he owns. Now
that he has his millions he means to
enjoy them in his own way and there
are plenty of people with higher fam
ily connections and lower bank ac-
counts who are quite willing that he
should.
1t is only three or four years since
he first came to Washington, and in
that time he has managed through
sheer good nature to win his way into
the very best circle. so that now the
Washes can have the pick of anything
that is going socially. He shows good
business sense also by investing heavily
in Washington real estate. He is build
ing a business skyscraper and is at
work on the plans for great hotel. be-
sides the fine house which has risen
out on Massachusetts avenue.
But with all his interests, he is never
too busy to administer an Irish Jolly"
to a posing friend. The story is that
Walsh's first big find, ''The Last
Chance" came to him through dream
that he dreamt one night of striking
gold in a certain spot-and next day he
went there and struck it. Walsh denies
this.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25

Mrs. Emiline Ludington, widow of
Gov. Ludington, will receive $S6,S39
with costs and interest, from her hus-
bands estate. Mrs. Ludington, who
lives in Kenwood, suburb of Chicago,
brought suit in Milwaukee against the
executors of the estate several years
ago to recover her dover rights. The
suit was bitterly fought, and went to
the supreme court, which finally de-
cided in Mrs. Ludington's favor.
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have ever before occupied here. A part
of these quarters are devoted TO the
use of training school for women
officers, and the requirements for adj
mission and promotion are quite as
strict, in their way, as is Uncle Sans
military establishment. A committee
passes upon every candidate for admis-
sion to this school. She must have
good health; her character must be
above question, and she must have
more than usual intelligence. The
course at the school occupies not less
than 16 weeks, and during that time
she gets nothing save her board, and
must cook her own meals. The course
includes theology, oratory, letter-writ-
ing, the preparation of reports, the
lies and regulations of the army,
cooking and general homework, and
the general work of the army, such as
its rescue and charitable features.
After they have graduated from the
school they are placed on the army
pay rolls for the small amount given
officers, and out of this they must pro-
vide their living and clothing. and for
this small wage must labor in the
streets collecting funds to carry on
the work; must sell War Crys in the
business offices, stores and saloonsi
must hold street services; must go into
the poverty-stricken homes of the
poor, and assist in the housework of
invalid mothers.
1t is women with such a training as
this who go into the slums and dives
of &he city and drag from them the
comparatively few who are rescued.
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with an eve to the future has figured
archy, no disconnected laborers-
and above all the overshadowine
protection of the government of the
United States with regiment of
cavalry just across the river at Fort
Myer.
Of course, there are other reasons
plenty of them the best of So
ciety, cosmopolitan and dazzling,
with comparatively easy entree;
the fascination of living at the very
center of things-literature, science,
art and splendid opportunities for
manageable daughters.
Massachusetts, avenue is now the
swell residence street of the city,
and it is getting to be more so all
the time. The farther out the great
boulevard extends the more splendid
becomes the mansions continually
added to it's attractions. The Letters,
Alexanders, Boardmans, Pattersons,
Townsends have all spent fortunes on
Massachusetts, avenue near Dupont
circle within the past ten years and
already their palaces are dwarfted by
the latest creations of newer million
aires. Clark, of Montana, who revels
in his reputation as the Copper Monte
Cristo, has cleared away the old
Stewart castle on Dupont circle in
order to replace it with dazzling
creation in marble, and already
Thomas F. Walsh, richer man than
Clark-though not so fashy-the
mining prince par excellence-is COM
pleting million-dollar house which
for many years to come will be
one of the architectural marvels Of
Washington.
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ness center he has worse streets than
are to be found in other large cities,
and above all the city gives him no
legal right to the right of way.
The fire engine, the hook and lad
der or the stand pipe truck, the hose
wagon, that go changing down the
streets in a wild race to fire, have no
more legal rights on the streets than
has the horse and wagon of the ped
der. Should the peddler drive like
mad through the streets and run over
some pedestrian the law would hold
him responsible. So, too, the law would
hold the fire department. driver. There
is no law upon the statute books of
the city which says to the citizen,
keep out of the way of the fire en-
CINE"
Another danger which threatens
the department drivers are the swing
bridges over the river. On dark, fog
CIV nights it is practically impossible
for the drivers to tell whether or not
the bridges they have to cross and re-
cross are open or closed, yet the rules
of the department say the ponderous
machines must go rushing onward.
and the driver must take his chances
of going over or into the water.
The Chicago fire department has the
best drivers in the world, and it needs
them. WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.