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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19

The contrast between the Americans and
Canadians, just now, in the matter Of
transportation is amazing. The Ameri-
cans are for the shortest and cheapest
route to the sea, regardless Of whether it
runs thru Canada or the United States,
whereas the Canadians are for Canadian
route, no matter at what inconvenience.
If Americans were to take the same posi-
ton regarding Canadian roads that Cana
dams Of the ultra patriotic type are dis
posed to take toward American roads, the
people Of the northwest would be lighting
the $500 line to-day, because it is auxil-
larry to the Canadian Pacific. But. as a
matter Of fact, there is not the slight
est hostility to or discrimination against
the $500" because Of it's Canadian Pacific
connection. The $500 sa good thing for
the northwest and this region is not losing
any sleep because the Canadian Pacific
controls 81 per. cent of the stock. i. -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19
Ching Promises.

Minister Conger has secured a promise
from Prince Ching, the Chinese plenipo-
Tertiary, that he will sign, on 0ct.zS, the
long delayed treaty guaranteeing the
opening IT the ports Of Mukden and Tai
Tong-Lao in Manchuria,3 to- the United
States 15 49, as2{ s. $50 81
That is Ching will sign the document
provided Russia keeps her promise sof
evacuating Manchuria on that day, and
this process is SO VIGOROUSLY uncertain
that small reliance can be placed on any
promise made dependent on evacuation
day. Our state department knows per-
fectly we'll the radical defects in the Rus
sian moral nature, shown thru all our
dealings with Russia since she entered
emily declaring that she had no designs
of territorial acquisition in China, and that
her occupation Of Newchwarg was only
for military purposes incidental to the Sc
curity Of the Russian border provinces and
that, so soon as order was re- blished
Russia would withdraw her, troops, II the
other powers interposed no obstacles.
No other power has interposed any OBJ
stacles whatever in the way Of Russia's
retirement from Manchuria or any par
of it, but she has deliberately prosecuted
her program of annexation and absorb.
ton and has held China in a firm grip
not permitting her to make a movement
as to Manchuria without her permission
having botind her by secret treaty per.
fliously obtained. Aften repeated prom.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19
A New System Needed.

A number Of the citys leading and pub
lic-spirited business men met yesterday
to discuss the advisability of installing
new system of municipal accounting. That
such a system is needed has been amply
proved by the researches Of Messrs Dickey
systematized enough and lacks centraliza-
ton and proper placing of responsibility.
It Is a system utterly inadequate to the
handling of the great business that con-
fronts it. It subjects some Of it's admin
istrators to terrible temptations and it puts
a premium on lax methods.
The prevailing idea at the meeting was
that the council should take hold of the
question in earnest and let a contract to
some responsible parties to establish and
introduce a new system Of municipal ac-
counting and financial administration. It
was suggested with much reason that such
a contract should be let to persons not
resident in Minneapolis, so that they
would be absolutely unaffected by local
politics and personal influence. But
whether that be advisable or not, the fact
remains that Minneapolis must have a
new bookkeeping system and a definite
placing Of financial responsibility. So long
as the city continues as at present 1t
should not be surprised at occa sional de-
falcations, bookkeeping snarls and fltan-
cial confusion.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19


Dr. Ernest J. Lederle; president of the
department Of health, has new bug
house, Not In the general aceeptation
of the colloquialism, but a real pug
house, where he keeps microscopes ana
poison bottles and glass tubes and the
various specimens" that go to make up
the real thing at fashionable Washing
ton Heights bug house" party. ~.
On the Heights ''bug parties" have be-
come a fad since President Lederle has
taken them up. You can hear elderly
matrons and sweet girl graduates with
their fathers and sweethearts talking
learnedly about the Indianapolis femur-
r,tbram," the "Gryllus abbreviatus" and
the "LibeluEa trimaculata, all oblivious
of the usual bridge whist and piano solos.
And President Lederle is father OF the
fad. Some time ago he fitted up lab
oratory in his home, All West One Hun
dred and Forty-third street.
Here his chemical and photogra phlc eX-
periments reached great proportions, even
before he, hit upon the novel entertain
ment Of bugs" --.........
It was that complex liquid known as
Croton water which started the thing go
ing One evening he invited a dozen or
more Of his social friends to his labora-
tory and treated then to a novel sight.
| It was a view Of the water we drink
Microscopica11y considered, 1t was full
| of elephants and prehistoric dinosaurs,
with few pterodactyls and megaiosaurs
| thrown in. .E.- -,
| Thereupon everybody in the company
got down loft the water wagon so to
| speak, and swore off on Croton water for
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19
BUG PARTIES" AS A SOCIETY FAD.
New York Commercial.

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the rest of their natural lives.
But the experiment was vastly interest.
ing and was repeated by several of DIR.
Lederle's friends. . -
Then came the first Of the bug parties
by the president Of the health depart.
ment- The first victim was an unsuspect-
ing "Coccinella Novemnota ia. It sounds
as tho one would not like to meet 1t In
the dark, but it was only nine spotted
ladybird,'' as harmless as the n1ne-spot
of clubs Then came the "Calandra Dry
zoe" whose surname sounds like the al
phabet spoken backward and the "Pe1o-
paeus lunatus," who was not so much OF
a lunatic as his name would seem to indts
cate.
That started the bug parties. It took
only short time to establish small lab
oratories in various houses, and the thing
has spread extensively. Ask any one on
the Heights what a "Blatta Orientals'
looks like and you'll receive volley OF
explanations such as you've never heard
before. .-- -s....-. H.. ~.
The grocers and market men are being
told that their wares contain unheard-of
FORMS and they threaten to charge ,ex-
ira for the bugs There seems to be
nothing dead in the section. In fact,
every thing is being discovered to be alive
with microscopic fauna and flora.
| Of course, the Laboratories differ in size.
From the wooden table in the laundry they
| vary to DR.. Lederle's extensive one. In
the latter special Photographic work has
been done in connection with many GRIM
| inal and civil cases.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19
MINNESOTA POLITICS

+. About the worst feature of the 'pipe
dream" recently published in a st. Paul
paper was the absurd linking Of p. T.
Young with merger slate as a candidate
for attorney general Young has been an
enthusiastic supporter Of Governor Van
SAINT in his merger fight both In the leg
islature and on the stump. He has de-
clared himself opposed to unlawful COM
binations, and In favor of strict enforce
ment Of the state and national laws
against them. He has even gone so far in
the present summer as to say that no
merger satellite should be elected either
governor or attorney general, and that
candidates for these positions should be
required to declare themselves. Taking
all this in consideration 1t is the height
Of the ridiculous to class Young as fac
tor in the Heatwole machine slate.
Young's candidacy, if it develops, will
naturally initiate against Eddy's, as they
come from the same district. Eddy can
not claim priority, however, for Young
was considered a candidate before Eddy S
name was even mentioned for governor,
and if Young should become candidate
he would not be jumping any ones claim.
It is safe to say that If Young becomes a
candidate he will do so in his own inter-
ests, and after positive statement that
he will follow up the merger litigation to
the end if elected.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19

Home wrecking as base art has been
practiced, doubtless, since before the
dawn of history, but 1t has remained for
the present day and generation to see the
artists advertising themselves as such
"a Bunch Of Home Breakers" however
has been advertised as entertainers, an6
It's managers are letting the facts Of theil
coming and going be known-indeed
they are thrusting Information regarding
the bunch" into the face Of the public
by means OF daring posters of char
acter to leave no doubt in the mind of the
public that the persons advertised are
just what they are labeled.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19
Arbitration in New Zealand.

"A SHOrL llI10 since L e j o II a
published a statement that, as a result Of
compulsory arbitration In New Zealand,
all Of the cabinetmakers. of that country
had been locked out and the industry
brought to an end, it being the purpose
Of the manufacturers thereafter to import
all cabinet work. The statement tended
to discredit arbitration, since, it implied
that the employers, rather than comply
with decision, had decided to go out Of
business.
In the current Independent Mr.. Edward
Tregear. New Zealand commissioner of
labor, declares that there Is no truth in
the report, which he attributes to some
very indefatigable and not very scrupu-
lous penmen.' In part he says:
Much has been made of a so-called
lockout In the Auckland furniture trade
in March last. Doubtless the readers Of
The Independent have heard it alluded
to and explained until weary Of refer
ence to this minnoW posing as whale.
Suffice it to say that. when the dispute
was referred to the arbitration court 1t
was decided, after long and patient
| examination. that there had been no lock-
out; that the employers had been within
their rights, and had not broken the
courts award In discharging a small mi
nority of their men who could not earn
the new minimum wage decreed by the
court. The right Of an individual master
to discharge an individual workman, If
! unsuitable, or the right of a workman tc
change his employer, were two issues not
brought into question. The sole point on
which the decision Of the court was asked
was whether the employers had acted in
IND i'm ", 6isnh ~ hat
and, If they had. to declare the action a
| breach of award. The court held that
| according to the evidence adduced there
had been no agreement or combination tt
discharge men, and therefore the case was
| dismissed. The men found other employ
ers COT course at the increased mimi
mum wage rate); the dispute, such as Il
was, faded away before the searchligh
Of judicial investigation, and a trouble
which might, perhaps, under the old sys
! tenn, thru sympathy, have entangled IL
it's evil meshes every trade union ant
every branch Of business in the colony
came to a peaceful end. The dispute dis
! closed anew the beneficent working of thu
so-called compulsory arbitration" ant
those who prematurely rejoiced over tn,
failure of advanced legislation have hat
to confess that rifles, boycotts, injunc
| tons, armed pickets and the starvation o
families could scarcely have produced
more satisfactory termination.
The Journal gives so much spac
| to this correction, because it does no
desire to be the agency of misinforma
ton regarding any innovation which ma.
mean SO much to the whole industrial
world. It does not follow that becaus
arbitration Is successful in little New Zea
land, it would be successful in the BIZ
United States, but it will at the least at
ford us a valuable object lesson.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19

ises Of evacuation, Russia, last April
sent forward further demands in VIOLA
ton of every pledge made to our state
department, which had given both Russia
and China to understand that Chinese
agreements with Russia to give exclusive
rights impairing the treaty stipulations
concluded with the United States by
China would be regarded as distinct
breach of faith and a restriction Of our
rightful trade, besides impairing China $
Sovereign rights" Russia declared in
April that there should be no new treaty
ports and no new consulates in Manchuria,
tan announcement which sounded to the
outside world very like a declaration Of
Russian sovereignty over Manchuria, as
Russians are to be employed in any mill
tary or civil capacity in Manchuria.
Our government has, in the face of ac-
cumulating Russian impudence, continued
| its demands for additional treaty ports
| in Manchuria. We have demanded Muk-
den and Taku-Shan as we'll as Tong Tao
| We shall have them and others. Secre-
| tary Hay knows the extent of Russia's
grip on Manchuria and that it is rapidly
assuming the aspect of a Russian prov
ince, but however that may be, he will not
abatez the persistence Of his demand thai
/ we shall have more treaty ports and have
the full measure of our trading rights 5ir
=! Manchuria. The secretary knows thai
| Russia is a power to be watched and hello
down close to stipulations. He knows
that the basing Of promises upon such
contingency as when Russia evacuates
| Manchhria'' is egregious folly 2.
| The situation at present is, so far as
| our government is concerned, that Sec.
| rotary Hay ha sinserted his foot in the
| door and is keeping it ajar, more or less.
| Meantime, there is we'll founded sus-
picion that Russia has promoted the pres
ent acute situation in the Balkan PENN.
sula, while diverting attention to hel
Manchurian coup. The Albanian revolt
against threatened Turkish reforms or.
\ dered by Russia and Austria and the Bull.
garian insurrection against Turkish rule
| are parts of Russia's policy to prevent the
union and confederation Of the varian
nationalities Of the Balkan, and kee1
| the Turks in hot water This game is de-
veloping interestingly, and the Turks art
getting very tired. Russia has Otter
played two games at once as now.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19

Tomorrow will ltake place the first of
the races between Reliance and Shamrock
III. for the Americas cup. Almost every
body has keen interest In the races, but
there is not so much anxiety as in for
mer times lest the cup be won back by
the challenger. The truth 1t that I'M
monotonous, and there would be no de-
preston in this country worth mention
ing were Sir Thomas Upton to take the
cup home with him. --.-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19
A Great Railway System.

With it's recent acquisitions and new
connections the Rock Island railway sys-s
tenn comes near being the greatest In the
world. Following the acquisition OF the
st. Louis & San Francisco lines, the Rock
Island has just come into control Of the
Seaboard Air Line. Yesterday it was an
nounced that arrangements have been
made whereby the Rock Island will soon
use the Santa Fe from Albuquerque, N.
M, west to Pacific coast points. 80. s
The Seaboard Air Line railway extends
from Richmond, Va, to Tampa, Fla, with
branches to Birmingham and Montgomery,
Ala, and to Charleston, Wilmington and
Norfolk. Altogether it operates 2,s11
miles Of railway. 1t has a sixth interest
In the line 1t uses between Richmond and
Washington, D. c., and it. maintains a
thru passenger and. freight service over
the Pennsylvania lines between Washing
ton and New York, and it runs thru trains
between the metropolis and southern
points. The Seaboard also owns the Bay
Line Steamship company, operating be-
tween Norfolk and Baltimore.
IsoSfN "a
ton that it can, If it desire, run thru
trains from New York to San Francisco
via the southern route, inasmuc1 as II
already has It's own line into Birm tngham
from the west. In the southwestEits own
lines extend as far as Ell Paso,@ in the
west as far as Denver and Pueblo, and in
the northwest as far as the twin cities
n io on, oil
tours with the great ports and markets
Of the whole country. It has gulf and
Atlantic coast outlets, 1t strikes the great
lakes, and it has good connections to the
Pacific coast. It hauls cotton and wheat
to the gulf ports for export. 1t hauls ores
and bullion in the far west. 1t hauls
corn in the corn states and wheat in the
fashion such vast extent, of territory
that it is almost impossible for bad times
resulting from poor crops to hit the whole
System at once. Il H.'+",; =
Minneapolis is now the northern ter
minus Of this imm tense system. Our 'peo-
pie do not yet understand what this fact
should mean for Minneapolis as a manu-
have not profted greatly by the new con.
rnection because it is only within a veal
that Rock Island trains have begun to ruiz
Into Minneapolis over Rock Island tracks
and as yet the company has not worked
out It's train service in such a way as bes
is serve the interests Of it's northern ter
nipal. But when the time comes whe1
all the possibilities Of this mighty rail
way system shall be opened to the twi1
outlets to the west and south of untol'
value to the whole northwest, ~. ~,'.r.'
Don't forget that Minneapolis Is tn
northern terminus Of the worlds most ex
tensive railway system. g.. .~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19

The MINNEAPOLIS Journal the first six months Of the
year 19O3 carried 818 columns over 81 per cent.
more Foreign Display Advertising than the Daily
Tribune. .a mn
The Minneapolis Journal for the first six months of the
year 1908 carried 600 columns, 70 per cent.
Want Advertising than the Daily Tribune
The Minneapolis Journal for the first six months of the
wear 1903 carried 1858 Of Real Estate adver-
Using, while the Daily Tribune carried none.
The Minneapolis Journal, for the first six months of the
year 1903 published 343 columns of advertising
than for the same period in 1902; while the Tribune
according to it's statement published July 18th, gained
only 754 columns this year; the Journals gain
over the Tribune being 500 columns Is per cent.
The Minneapolis Journal out Of 7,019 residences
- vassed had 1904 subscribers-the Evening Tribune
1,50O-the Morning Tribune 1928.
The Minneapolis Journal in 80 apartment and flat build
ngs canvassed, had 1910 subscrbers-the Evening
Tribune 2O3, and the Morning Tribune 1873.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19

A Nebraska young man started for
Europe recently. He will spend several
months there, interviewing the various
kings and queens, sizing up celebrated
museums and looking at grand old ruins.
He has been working and saving his
money for this purpose for years. Other
young men have squandered their sub
stance foolishly, or married women and
gone to housekeeping, or something equal
ly absurd. This young man has but one
ambition, to go to Europe and see cele-
brated places and things. He will soon
begin to send letters to the Bugle, the
leading paper in his home town; he Will
tell about Westminster Abbey, as tho he
was the original discoverer; he will visit
the places where Walter Scott lived and
moved, the taverns where Bobbie Burns
threw the RIGHT guide williewaughts, the
lakes where Southey and Coleridge and
Wordsworth vegetated and wrote poetry,
and he will describe everything at tedious
length in his letters and people will wish
that he had been drowned while crossing
the sad, wailing sea. And when he comes
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19
WINNING HIS WAY
Minnetonka Record.

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''Well Willie" said the young man
uncle, .'yur mother tells me that you nave
set out to learn trade:
eyes, uncle,'' willie replied. II wish
to become a baggageman, and have oeen
working at 1t for three weeks alreau s.a anu
have shown quite a degree OF proficiency
in my work.
"Glad to hear it, Willie" said his uncle
"Teil me what you have Accomplished.
~ have broken open large number. OF
the lighter trunks already, Uncle, said
Willie, "and I think by fall VIII be able
iro,, -hn,,nd trunks Of the travelling men.
All. well I remember the first trunk
s,,cceeded In breaking open. 1t belonged
to an old lady. who, think, had been
called away out west to see her son who
was sick. We had to dump her baggage
off at a point where she, changed cars
thought saw my opportunity. thrust
the trunk out of the car at point where
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19
"WHEN I WAS IN YURRUP"
.HS{: !
Walt Mason, in Nebraska State Journal.

home again he will be bore as long as
he lives. Every time he opens his mouth
it will say, when 1 was in Yurrup." etc.
He will go on talking about Yurrup until
some public benefactor shoots him and
bures him in the sand.
If we could only convince people who go
away that they should say nothing about
their experiences when they return, we'd
feel that we had not lived in vain. We
can lie around home and read up on for
eign countries and ruins and Traitors
gates, and all such things, and we don't
want to hear people talk about them. We
know all that we want to know about
Yurrup. If somebody would go to Mars,
and then come back and tell about 1t,
we couldn't crowd close enough; If old
Andree, who sailed away for the north
pole in a balloon, could return and tell
about what he saw and heard, there
would be some sense in listening to hins
but there is no sense in listening to PEG.
pie who travel as everybody travels, to
places where everybody goes and who tell
| things that everybody tells.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19
The movement in Minneapolis for mar

The movement in Minneapolis for mar
ROVER roadways has been superinduced
by a tendency that has been gradually
spreading over the country for some years,
beginning first in smaller cities. In Nor
folk, Va, they have a general ordinance
prescribing the width of the roadway for
different widths Of street, the general pur-
pose being to keep the roadway as mar
row as possible. in view of the traffic.
City Engineer Brooke gives the advan.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19

1t is gratifying to observe that prac-
tically all Of the financial and trade papers
of the west are strongly supporting reci-;
procfty with Canada. Among them is the
st. Paul Trade, which, In its just Issued,
handsome state fair number, devotes
much space to the consideration Of reci-
procity with our northern neighbor. :
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19

tages Of the plan as follows: First. re-.
duction In the number OF square yards OF
paved surface to be cleaned and main
tanned; second, the opportunity to pave
more miles Of streets with the funds in
hand; third, a space where trees may be
planted with opportunity for obtaining
moisture sufficient for their growth;
fourth, a pleasing effect, Ito the bor-
.dering Of the roadway with trees and
grass.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-19

When 'Smithers, well known as a nliser,
altho he had about million dollars hung
up here and there, was sick, he finally
gave in to the pleadings Of his family and
called physician. The man Of dope ex-
amined his patient with much care and
was sorely puzzled. Finally the doctor
suggested that another physician should
be called.
YES growled smithers with a .groan
half to himself and half to the doctor,
zone physician to take my temperature
and the other to take my watch. T..
How can the doctors feel warm per-
sonal interest in such cases?
The Patriot reports the arrival in, Wa
coma of a man in a Panama hat, low-cut
shoes, perforated socks, linen marine