The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-17
Divert Bassett's Creek.

10 tne Editor or The journal.
1t has always been my theory that r. h e
- u r n a was the most practical of any
of the city papers in the promotion Of i'm
provements for the general public good
Your article too day, :.Raise Lake Lev
els" in which you advocate the diverting
Of Bassett's creek at Golden Valley and,
by conveying the water to Cedar lake and
thence to. Lake of the Isles Lake CAL
noun, Lake Harriet and finally to Min
nehaha creek, thus doubling the flow at
the falls, is SO very desirable that it's
value will at once be apparent to ALL
zBassett's creek is the most obnoxious
feature in our beautiful city to-day and
your suggestion would not only do away
with it's pestilentia1 presence but the d.
verified water would be applied in a most
useful manner 80.
8 Various. ideas have been advanced in
regard to raising the level of the lakes in
question and increasing the flow at the
falls, and this certainly is the simplest
plan yet proposed. 5a 80:
The various benefits that would be de-
| rived from this Improvement would be
more general than any the city has ever
executed.
Who of us at some time has not con-
Quoted a friend imbued with the beauty
of Longfellow's poem to view the dismal
flow Of water at the falls and to come
| away feeling that public lethargy has al
| lowed at,sworld- famous scene to- become
but memory ! trust that your article
will awaken the park board and that they
will give the matter their attention. AS
a heavye tax payer L am in favor Of con-
servatism in public expenditures, but !
! think what money we do spend should be
for the greatest good to the largest mum
her,. g., - -: rs 80: (.
; Minneapolis, Sept s. Citizen.
H9s Torrance and the Vice Presidency.
| To the Editor of The Journal.
!. As a. member. Of the G.. A. R. I was
pleased to see the favorable notice taken
by the old soldiers at the grand encamp-
ment while at San Francisco relative to
| Conrad Torrance as a. candidate for the
vice presidency. The. article from the
Kansas City Journal does not over-es-
innate the; desirable qualities of General
/ Torrance: fAs a candidate from the west
4 .thereo isbtnot2 AMMAN tina t can bring out
4 the old soldier, vote. as Judge r torrance.
j Then, he has no entangling political alli-
i ances that So often make it difficult to
i get clear Of when desiring to poll as
! large vote as possible.
i + General Torrance, when commander of
i the G.. A. R., was equal to the many try
i ing circumstances he was brought into;
l Showed his metal by his broad. states
i manlike utterances when and wherever
4 hes expressed himself before the public
The public, addresses made while on the
tour Of the. south We're received with
marked enthusiasm by the southern
j press. which spoke of the warm recep-
ton Judge Torrance received He did
not lower the. standard of the union sol
| der, but showed by his nagninimity that
he could be just and generous to a once
mistaken: people. WI. -.
/ The. public is always on the alert ia
4 do honor to the soldier who did valiant
service for his country. Now, let II
come out enthusiastically for General
/ Torrance for the vice presidency, for GER
tainly his record would do honor, to the
4 office and his brain is big: enough tic
carry him out of the office with honor
to himself and his country. -
Il II. H Kerrick. "