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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06
DUAL ORGANIZATION
Club and Library Combined
at Takoma Park.
IT'S OBJECTS STATED
ORGANIZED IN 1900 AND IN
CLUDEs BOTH SEXES.
Library Contains Over 500 Volumes
and Club Supplied With Gymnasium
and Other Equipment.
ITS OBJECTS STATED

An organization which has the distinction
of being the only one of it's kind in the
suburbs of Washington is the Takoma Club
and Library at Takoma Park, D. c. This
club is not only literary organization as
the name would imply, but is an athletic
and social club as well, many features be-
ing offered here which not found in
similar organizations. The club will cele-
brate its third anniversary this month at
the club house in Takoma.
The Takoma Club and Library was found
ed in May. 1900, by number of the resi-
dents of Takoma Park and vicinity of both
sexes, who foresaw the many advantages
of such an organization. The primary OBJ
Ject was mutual improvement. the advance
n:ent of physical and mental culture, the
providing of wholesome recreation. the en-
enlargement of manly sports and the pro-
motion Of wider sociability. The success
of the effort is attested in the splendid or
ganiza ton which has been built up and in
the marked interest taken by the members
in the movement. The club is recognized
not only as useful and beneficial to Takoma
Park and to the residents of that section
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06

home for his family. with horses and car
riages and to keep his sons and daughters
at college.
While the carriage business is drifting into
the hands of a few IriShmen the fruit
stands of New York being consolidated
by a company of Greeks, who are credited
with controlling nearly half of the 1,2I1
stands.
A Fruit Stand Syndicate.
The head of the syndicate has been in
America less than a decade He began
his new world career by peddling bananas
from a pushcart After that he secured
employment with d fellow countryman as
helper around fruit stand. He saved his
money, and, when he had enough, started
in business at "a little stand on a side
street. He prospered and bought stand
on a buster thoroughfare. After he had
been running the two places for year or
more it occurred to him that it wouldn't
be bad idea to own many stores, provided
he could get the money. He got it by
forming a partnership with banker or
the Greek colony, and today these men and
third, who was taken in later on, are
rapidly acquiring comfortable fortunes
They control the majority of the stands
along the ferry streets and these are splen-
did paying propositions.
What is true in New York is true In
large measure, of other cities, so that the
! bootblack trust, in the hands of Italians,
is no longer without company among the
street corner businesses.
Greeks and Italians in the Majority.
1t is peculiar fact that. barring the ex-
press, carriage and news stands, all other
stands are pretty generally controlled by
the better class of Greeks and Italians. The
Greeks have it all their own way with
fruit; they divide the honors with the Ital-
ians with the flowers, while the latter have
no opposition at the bootblack stands, eX-
cept from an occasional negro. Express
men, as well as carriers are still largely of
Irish extraction, and the news stand peo-
pie usually of the same persuasion
The Jew is rarely found running a street
corner business. He aspires either to some
thing higher or lower-a little store, or
peddler's pack or a pushcart.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06
SIDE WALK STORES
There Are Lots of Them in
Every Large City.
DO A BIG BUSIN ESS
STORIES OF IMMIGRANTS WHO
ARE MAKING FORTUNES.
A Corner Book Stand With Five Clerks
Selling Fruit and
Flowers.
DO A BIG BUSIN ESS

Written for Tie Evening Star.
Not in a store, but on the street corner
So reads the advertisement of book store
in the heart of New York city.
The owner of this store, who finds it
profitable to spend 500 week exploiting
a business that is conducted from shelves
built along a stone-retainng wall, is one of
a hundred thousand street corner mer-
chants in the ten largest cities in the
United States whose combined properties
represent an invested capital of something
like SlOG00.0)0.
These figures do not include such petty
tramckers as pushcart and wagon peddlers,
fakirs of all kinds and the army of men,
women and children who do business on
the streets for part of the day. Nor do
they take note of professional men or bro
kers or others whose offices are in their
hats. They deal exclusively with those
men who, year in and year out, can be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06
Stands That Are Big Money Makers

Stands That Are Big Money Makers.
The enormous outlay of S10,4G0,o00 in the
cities narned-of which New York s share is
about one fourth the entire amounts JUS
tilted by the returns. 1t is no uncommon
thing for many a stand to do daily bust
ness running into several hundreds of dol
lars. The customers of a book stand in
ferry streets, keep five men busy the greater
part OF the day A good fruit stand not in
frequently clears so day to it's owner; a
flower stand is reckoned on not to- show
less than 81 profit at the close of business.
and the proprietor of a bootblack stand,
hugging the walls of a well-loCated saloon,
cannot help making daily profits averaging
all the way from So to So, according to the
number of chairs
In fact. the street corner businesses are
so renuneratve. despite the high rentals
for stand Space-property owners often
charging as much as $40 mOnth-that the
syndicate idea has crept in. This is espe
ci9lly true as regards the expresses and
public carts 4 New York Irishman. who
started in carting with a second class outfit
is gradually absorbing his immediate COM
petitors. He has over $lGo.G0o invested in
carts. horses and harness.
He early saw the advantages of combina
ton. and whenever lie could get the money
he bought up a cart here and cart there.
His policy has been to employ the men he
buys out at coed wages. and thus keep
them from starting new stands in opposi-
ton. He VIII not say what income he
dra WIS from the business. hut it is enough
to provide him with an expensive suburban
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06

found all day long behind their fixed
stands. ready to serve all customers as
regularly and geographically as the more
pretentious merchants under roofs. Under
this head come fruit and Hover men. boot
blacks ard news stand Keepers express and
cart men. and even Keepers of restaurants
and lunch wagons
$4,000 Street Merchants in New York.
New York is the fertile field OF these
men. In that city 32.S51 of them run 15.2;i3
stands, which represent an investment of
nearly 100000. Chicago comes next, with,
in round numbers. 2o.Wo men engaged and
a capital OF S2,nJOoOl Philadelphia is
third. with l5OD men and &,iJJ.OUJ, while
in the other cities the figures are fol-
lows:
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have been issued for express stands. Be
fore man establish an express bust
ness on street corner. or rent space Tor a
sign in front of some store in a wholesale
district. he must have wagon, horses and
harness. Express wagons capable OF do
ing heavy hauling are costly; therefore an
average outlay OF 500 is necessary in or
der to transact business. The sum of S434,-
T0D represents the money invested in eX-
presses in New York city; and, as each eX-
press requires two men. 2.SJS men are en-
plCved.
The number of public carts. which do
moving and odd jobs in the residential and
retail portions of the city. is 1925. AS an
average equipment costs $500 the capital
invested is 81 025. 300. and as here again Two
men are required for each cart, 2o,232 are
employed. In fact. nearly every street
corner business demands the time of two
persons and all figures showing the num-
Der of men employed are on this basis,
with one exception.
News and periodical stands number At.
The cost of constructing a stand is ~, the
average daily stock is $50, tie capital in
vested is S21 ,4c5 and the persons employed
are 95+.
Twelve Hundred Fruit Stands.
There are 1.21 fruit stands, representing
$685., for a stand costs $40 to build and
displays $50 worth of stock
OF the 500 flower stands in the metropolis
the average stock amounts to 500 and the
stand itself to $50 for it must be better
built than q news stand in order to protect
the flowers. Seventy-fve thousand dollars
is invested in these stands and their wares.
which are looked after by 1000 men.
The bootblack stands also represent a
generous outlay. The customary stand has
three chairs of the approved type, with ac-
companying bases, at $50 each Consequent
". Sl9275O is invested in 1,23J stands. AS
a bootblack is necessary for every chair
3 S55 find work.
The outdoor restaurants, usually in I'LL
putian booths built along store walls, num-
her fifty Each booth costs S1G0, and is
stocked with 500 worth of eatables, giving
a total capital of $4,000 directed by 100
men.
Miscellaneous stands-soft drinks, candies,
etc.-number seventy-five. with an average
stand cost of SO and an average stock to
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In PittsbuTg and Allegheny. practically
one town. the figures are 900 men and
half million capital and in Minnea polls
and ST. Paul. also practically one town
from commercial standpoint. 100 street
corner merchants direct 4 capital of 800
600
Thus. all told. in Americas ten largest
cities. ANA in these other two communities.
this street industry gives work to 1g6351
men and aggregates a capital of 1.trl0 ctD.
These statistics are based On the New
York street business. = = shown by the rec
ords in that city's license bureau. and on
information from 4 majority OF the Other.
cities nashcd
How the Money is Invested.
In New York. for example. 1.449 licenses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06

Mr.. V G. Fischer has already gone
abroad, and the other dealers galleries will
set forth special attractions during the
summer months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06

The Corcoran Art Schools annual exhibit
ton marks in a general way the close of
the local art season. though the gallery will
be open to the public until the first of July.
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the same amount. TIE investment is So, 100
and 100 men are employed.
All told, the approximate investment in
New YorE's street corner business is S.
SOS 12a.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-04
THE FEAR OF HUMBUd
prevents Many People from Trying Good
Il Medicine. W. Il. .-..

f.
Stomach troubles are so common and
In most cases so obstinate to cure that
people are apt to look with suspicion on
any remedy claiming to be a radical per-
,nanent cure for dyspepsia and 1ndiges-
ton. Many such pride themselves on their
acuteness in never being hunbugged, es-
pecially in medicines. .+a-E5.- Ana sr.@z
This fear Of being humbugged can be
carried too far, so far, in fact, that many
people suffer for years with weak digestion
rather than risk a little time and money
in faithfully testing the claims made Of a
preparation SO reliable and universally
used as. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets.
Now Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are
vastly different in one important respect
from ordinary proprietary medicines for
the reason. that they are not secret pat
ent medicine. no secret is made Of their
ingredients, but analysis shows them to
contain the natural digestive ferments
pure aseptic pepsin, the digestive acids,
Golden Seal. bismuth, hydrastis and nux.
They are not cathartic. neither do they
act powerfully on any organ, but they
10 cure indigestion on the common sense plan
If of digesting the food eaten thoroughly be-
fore IT has time to ferrnent, sour and cause
L the mischief. This is the only secret 81
their success.
Cathartic pills never have and never car
81 cure indigestion and stomach troubles be.
rs cause they act entTely on the bowels
/; whereas the whole trouble is really in the
stomach.
Stuart's Digestive Tablets taken after
meals digest the food. That is all ther.
is to it. Food not digested or half di
gested is poison, asi it creates gas, acidity
II adaches, palpitation Of the heart, loss o
flesh and appetite, and many other trou
Ii bles which are often called by. some othe
name. III .Fs
they are sold by druggists everywher.
n ct SO cents per package.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-04

His muscular development Of the wrists,
forearms and shoulders is tremendous,
enabling him to exercise great power as
we'll as the utmost delicacy at pleasure.
His playing always has in 1t an element
of the magnetic. and audiences are often
brought completely to their feet, by his
thrilling interpretations
When Gabrilowitsch was in Minneap-
oils last week, he was greatly interested
to hear that Hamburg was so soon to
follow him, and vouchsafed the remark
that he could not fail to score a big sue
cess here. The two young Russians are
great friends, Gabrilowitsch being year
older than Hamburg. Hambourg's So
called mannerisms which have been the
subject Of newspaper comment, Gabrilo-
witsch assured musicians here, were en-
tirely unconscious and not in any case
done for effect. 4
Hambourg's recent success in Boston
is; still talked about among eastern mu-
sicians. He played three encores at the
end of a tremendous program, and was
then recalled ten times. Such scenes
have not been witnessed there since the
Paderewski furore.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-04
Mr.. BIRDS NEW NEST -:
Third Vice President Of Milwaukee to BE
GouId's Traffic Manager. ,-

Chicago, March 4.-Reports from New
York and Milwaukee that A. C. Bird, third
vice president, In charge of traffic of the
Chicago, Milwaukee e St. Paul railway
system, would be made traffic director OF
all the roads in which the Goulds are in
terested, are confirmed by Mr.. Bird, who
said he had accepted the position and
would assume his new duties in a few
days.
Mr. Birds appointment brings the traffic
affairs of the Gould roads under one head
and will prevent competition between the
various lines comprising this great sys-
tenn. The roads over which Mr.. Bird will
have jurisdiction are the Wabash and its
eastern connections 1.-THE Wheeling & Lake
Erie, the Ann Arbor, the Western Mary
land and a few small roads in the vicinity
of Pittsburg), the Missouri Pacific, the
Iron Mountain and Southern, the Interna-
tional and Great Northern, the Texas &
Pacific, the Denver & Rio Grande, the
Rio Grande Western, the Rio Grande
Southern and the ST. Louis & Southwest
ern. The total mileage of these roads is
In the neighborhood Of $4,000. 49,,
Mr.. Bird probably will make his head
quarters at Chicago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-04

Bold, vigorous, virile are the adjectives
which seem to be most frequently applied
to Mark Hamburg, the young Russian
who appears in piano recital at Plymouth
church Saturday evening. Coming so
soon, after the. appearance Of Gabrilo-
witsch, his appearance will be of the
greatest interest to lovers of piano music.
Both are Russians, and both have reached
q place high, in the ranks of pianists,
Notwithstanding the fact that both are in
the early twenties.
Hamburg, like his conpatriot, has been
an all-compelling success in the east, as
Well as in Europe. His playing is super
lat1ve and arouses a sense of the tram
scendental. He does nothing by halves.
The key to the mans playing is his I'M
comfortable temperament, and he seems
carried away by the mere touch of the
instrument. Nevertheless In the cantilena
passages he seems transformed. He vi
brates on the keys like the strings Of a
violin, and is able to conjure from the
most unresponsive of Instruments beau
tiful tonal gradations. -
Physically, Hamburg is a little giant.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-04
RAILROADS.
The G. n. TERMINALS
Canadian Northern Buys Fort Garry
Park and Other Property at
IL Winnipeg.
A Fine Station and Thoroughly
Modern Hotel to Be Built
on the Site.

Special to The Journal. r., -a=-.a-.
Winnipeg, Man.. March 4-The Cana
dian Northern railway company has pur-
chased Fort Garry park and land north
of it from the Hudson Bay company. The
railway company intends to makeits pas
senger terminals at Winnipeg second to
none. 1t will lay out the yards at once
and plans are we'll advanced for a new
passenger station and other buildings.
G. c. Chapman, commissioner Of the
Hudson Bay company, stated in reply to
an inquiry that the Canadian Northern
5 had acquired property some twenty-four
acres in extent.
Hugh Sutherland, executive agent of
the road, also gave confirmation and fur
nished interesting details to the pro-
posed plans. q,
! 1t is the intention Of the company to
build a new bridge over the Assin1boine
river a short distance west of the wooden
structure that is at present doing service.
On old Fort Garry park will be erected
a magnificent joint station and hotel.
The plans Of the proposed structure are
prepared and show a station of suitable
size to meet the future traffic of the city.
The hotel. too, will help in rem moving the
present shortage in hotel accOmmod a-
tons. 1t will be equipped with all the
modern devices. 1t will be of large
capacity and imposing appearance with
frontages on Main and on Broadway.
Work on the new buildings will begin as
early as the weather will permit but it
is of such magnitude that it cannot all
be completed during the coming season.
The property that has been acquired by
the Canadian Northern ranks with the
most valuable on Main street. It extends
from Broadway to the Assiniboine river
and from Main street to, the Red. The
old Northern Pacific station on Water
street will be, used by the Canadian
Northern as freight shed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-04
WEIGHING THE MAILS
Governments Big Job to Determine
81 Proper Remuneration for r. RS.

Governments Big Job to Determine
81 Proper Remuneration for r. RS.
The quadrennial weighing Of mails, con-
Quoted under the supervision of the gov
eminent to ascertain the compensation to
be paid the different railways for carrying
the mails, began in the tenth district at
midnight last night. The tenth district
comprises Minnesota, Wisconsin and the
upper peninsula of Michigan. The work
will all be supervised from the st. Paul
office, and Superintendent Perkins, of the
railway mail service, will be in charge.
The work will require the services Of
about 500 extra men. The mail carried
on every train within the district will be
carefully weighed, together with all of the
equipment necessary for carrying the mail
Extra men will be placed on all Of the
mail cars and careful account will be
kept of every pound of mail handled. In
order to secure correct estimate of the
average amount of mail handled the
weighing will be continued three months
or more Four years ago the work was
continued eighty -four working days.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-04

demonstration of device for lighting rail-
road cars with electricity The invention
was tested on a run over the New York
Central to Croton and return and THE
system will shortly be adopted. .Y..,.
" The light is generated by a dynamo
operated by a belt connection with the
axle Of the car. When the train stops the
lights are supplied from storage batteries
in the car. A speed Of only twelve miles
an hour is needed to- generate sufficient
electricity to light the lamps. The sur
plus obtained at a higher rate of speed is
used to recharge the batteries. 1T /, :.
The car used in the test was equipped
with twenty-t three lamps of sixteen candle
power each. During the trip forty-siS
stops were made and no appreciable differ
ence was noticed in the brilliancy of the
lights.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-04
80; WHAT MACKENZIE SAYS -.
The Northern Pacific Viii Not Enter
Manitoba. ,'."

Toronto, March 4.-William Mackenzie,
of the Canadian Northern, returned from
England yesterday. Discussing western
railway building, Mr.. Mackenzie said he
had seen J. j. Hill and the vice president
Of. the Northern Pacific while in New York
and both had assured him that their line
had no intention of, entering Manitoba
The vice president said his board Of direc-
tors had not even discussed the idea. Mr.
Mackenzie declared that this: line :. lla6
nothing in common with the rans-Cana-
dian railway, which, in his opinion, was
somewhat premature as a colonization
scheme. =. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-04
VIII Build Line In Louisiana.

Special to The Journal. II .E.
Iowa Falls, Iowa, March 4.-Des Moines
and Iowa Falls capitalists are to build a
railroad in the SOUTH and papers received
from that section give the details of the
enterprise that the northerners will pro-
mote. The new road is to be known as
the Jennings & Northern. and will be built
north from Jennings, La, where many
Iowa people are located. The town from
which the road is to start is in the center
OF the rice industry in Louisiana, and also
has oil wells. The town is located on
the Southern Pacific and has no north
and -south road, which has long been
greatly needed. Iowa people will engineer
this project, and among those interested
are Mr.. Hubbel of Des Moines, w. H.
Courtney Of this city, George A. Court
ney Of Jennings and formerly Of this city.
and other northern people who have gone
to Jennings within the past few years.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-04
MORGAN WILL BE 1T

The Controlling Spirit In the Rock Island
5is&@ Frisco Deal. >'
Chicago, March 4. The negotiations in
progress in New York by which the Rock
Island interests are to purchase the st.
Louis & San Francisco will be Of much
greater significance and more fa,r-reach-
ing than has been disclosed. A securities
company, it is said, similar to the North
ern Securities, is being formed through
J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., which will
hold the stock Of the Frisco, the Rock
island, the Southern and the Santa, Fe.
1t is said that majority of the stock Of
the several companies will be put into a
block and the holders thereof will share
alike in the profits derived from the oper-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-04
Changes on the EIkhorn.

Special to The Journal.
Lead, S. D., March As a result of the
absorption Of the Elkhorn by the North
Western system, several changes are being
made among the officials in the, Black
Hills. v. A. Hampton, who has for sew
eral years been district passenger agent
for the Black Hills territory with head
quarters at Lead, has been gifted of his
appointment to the chief clerkshp in the
office of the assistant general freight and
passenger agent, "A. Kuhn, at Omaha,
and 6. G. Dennis Of Deadwood, heretofore
division freight agent, has been made
general agent for the Black Hills, and his
Jurisdiction has been extended to the pas
senger department. for the territory. The
Black Hills district will continue under the
superintendent Of r. "A. Harmon, whose
headquarters are at Chadron.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-04
TRAINS FOR IMMIGRANTS

Service on the 500 and Canadian Pacific
Strongly Reinforced. 4
Special to The Journal.
Winnipeg. Man, March A4.-,The new
Canadian Pacific time card, which takes
effect March Is, provides for two trains
each way daily instead of one on the Soc
line, owing to the expected rush Of Ameri-
can immigration.
The Canadian Pacific has arranged tc
run special colonist trains from the east
every Tuesday during March and April
The first of the series, which was very
heavy, left for the northwest yesterday
and will arrive in Winnipeg Thursday
afternoon.