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class; but there are immigrants who
come into st. Paul who are not so
easy to look after. John Anderson is
the present agent. Although his spe-
cial duty is to look after the inmi-
grants and see that they catch their
trains, occasionally he has to serve at
one of the iron gates which separate
the station from the train shed. In
the months of May, June and July,
however, his task of looking after inn
migrants keeps him busy. When a
group of fifty or sixty Immigrants, rep
resenting nearly every foreign ma
tionality under the sun, alight from
train it is no easy task to find out
whittier they are bound and to see to
it that they catch the right train.
The immigrant agent and the station
matron, Miss Louise Mitchell, witness
some very ludicrous sights and also
some very pathetic ones. One night a
Hungarian family drifted into the sta
ton. The family consisted of the
mother and father and ten children,
the oldest fifteen. They were bound
for Montana and had long wait over
for the train that was to take them to
their new home. The mother of the
family was a giantess and her girth
carried about a pound of dried
apples done up in a bright,
and on these the family made
their supper. The father of the Roose-
veltian brood barely came up to the
stout DANES elbow, and whether be-
cause of his lack of size or for some
other deficiency, the wife seemed to
hold him in contempt. The immigra-
ton agent put the usual question to
the man. but every time he attempted
to produce his ticket the wife pre-
vented him and then talked to him
very rapidly for a few minutes. Final
ly, however, the little Hungarian
managed to produce the tickets, and,
to the surprise of everybody who was
watching the odd group in the station,
the giantess turned suddenly and gave
her spouse a whacking blow over the
head with the handkerchief which was
still partly filed with the dried APP
pies.
Statistics prove that in the past year
the United States has received most
undesirable class of immigrants. But
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macadamized road, hard, dry, we'll
made-road that any county might be
Justly proud Of This is succeeded by
four and one half miles of sand road
in fair condition and fairly well drain
ed Then there is sand and hills to the
Washington county line.
Dangerous Washouts Plentiful.
About midway it's length the Rice
street road is crossed by the Fairchlld
road leading west toward Minneapolis
and east through New Canada. West
of New Canada it is fair weather
road Leading out of New Canada
around Indian and Gervais lakes the
road becomes a cowpath. Narrow all
the way and despite ample natural
drainage facilities it's deep dust is
broken up by equally deep mudholes,
and at frequent intervals it's side drops
away in dangerous breaks evidently
caused by washouts.
South of Gervais the road shows the
effect of some good work, and, save In
the cuts which have not been properly
ditched, there is mile of road which
compares favorably with any sand
rather than gravel road. 1t is one of
the few roads in the county wide
enough for loaded wagons to pass COM
fortably and safely.
Parallel with the Rice street road
and feeding identically the same dis
trict is the Lexington avenue extern
sion, known as the Josephine road.
With the exception of one slight di-
gression near Lake Josephine it runs
in an air line from the city limits
north to the county line. 1t, too, is
one of the best of the county roads,
and from it's connection with the roads
just north of Como has one of the
best connecting links. 1t is a sand
road, and to Lake Josephine, distance
of about two and a half miles, is good
as compared with other county roads.
From Josephine to Turtle lake, dis
lance of four miles, it is fair in good
weather, and bad in wet weather, both
as to surface and grade. Beyond Tur-
tie lake there is mile of sand road for
which bad Is mild description.
HamIine Road of Little Use.
Hamline avenue road, only half
mile farther west, serves as an outlet
for county funds which might be well
expended on the Josephine road with
benefit both to the farmers of Ramsey
and the adjoining counties, and the
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| sequence. lin better condition than the


sequence. in better condition than the
main roads.
The county owns no gravel pits,
though there are several good deposits
of gravel in District No. 2. The own
ers of these gravel beds have objected
to their indiscriminate use by day
workmen and small contractors and as
a consequence some road improve
ments calling in the specifications for
gravel grading have been made with
top dressings of clay or fine sand to
be washed away with the first heavy
rain.
The small contract system, it is
claimed, is no better than the day work
scheme. The small contract will not, it
is said, attract the attention of the city
contractor and the work goes to the
same old parties at substantially the
same prices and with the same results.
The law now provides that all road
work in excess of 5000 shall be let by
contract to the lowest responsible bid
der. 1t is easily possible to avoid op-
Grafton of this law by cutting up the
work in small bits.
The road and bridge tax for the pres
ent years is $4,000. OF this something
more than 100000 is collected or will
be available. The bills paid by the
commissioners aggregate $8,725, leav-
ing a balance of more than $4,000 to
be expended this year without over
reaching the appropriation which is
customary.
The following detailed statement of
the expenditures for this year to date
is in itself explanatory of the claim of
the dissenters, who insist that the road
and bridge fund is being frittereJ away
in hundreds of places for minor repairs
or Improvements, which are of no sub
stantial benefit to the general public.
A noticeable feature of the statement
of expenditures is that showing that in
every instance the contract law has
been avoided by making no improve
ment or repair in excess of $500.
District No. 2.
June s. 1903.
Arcade street. from railroad bridge
to DR.. Woods Observation-Disclosures. 500
Coleman road, by Kiefer line. -. 100
Lahore road. from Edgerton to Kief-
New Canada road, at graveyard -. rs
Lahore road 20 Ford's place on Ed
Grossly road, Edgerton to Missis 40
Mississippi, from Crossley's to Nc
Menemy.s $50
Minneapolis avenue from McMene-
my's to Rice Observation-Disclosures. $50
North, ST. Paul road. poor farm to
Dougherty hill Observation-Disclosures. 200
Poor Farm road, from Prosperity to -,
w Ailc Deal IOdu lUU
Prosperity. in city limits $500. $50
In city limits, from White Bear
road to Prosperity ................ 100
Upper Alton road .................. $50
IOtdi 81 80
District No. 1.
June g. 1908.
Dale street. in Rosetown, section IA $3.50
Broadway, in Rosetown, section r.. rs
Dale street, in Rosetown sections 1
and II .......::.... ...:.......... $50
Victoria street, Mounds View, sec
ton 80 ........ ..................- 200
Snail Lake road, Mounds View,
section "a ................ 15e
Mounds view ..:................. $50
Lake Johanna road, Mounds View,
section 80 ............... 100
Cleveland avenue, Rosetown, sec
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limits and the Washington county line.
This strip is cut by Six main roads.
leading into the neighboring county,
and each, thanks to the peculiar man.
ner in which the city is built. having
and a half miles within the corporate
limits, but beyond the improved dis
trictS.
Across the river there are no county
roads connecting st. Paul with Dakota
county, but the city, under especial
enactment of the legislature. has built
and partially maintains two roads IN
Dakota county. The connecting links
within the city limits are poor, pri-
mari1y because of the law which pro-
vides for direct assessment of local i'm
provements, and which, in some of the
sparsely settled portions of the West
side, would mean confiscation of prop
erty abuttfng. On the north, west and
east sides of the city the conditions, as
regards connecting links, are substan-
TALLY the same.
City Roads Are the Worst.
The main roads from the city limits
to the principal city arteries of travel
are connected by roads much worse
than the county thoroughfares. The
fault is said to lie in the system en-
ployed for many years. Under the
laws prevailing up to the present year
all of the road and bridge fund was
expended outside the city limits, al
though nearly 80 per cent of that fund
was derived from the taxation of ur-
ban property. Local assessment for
the Improvement of connecting links
within the city limits, which traverse
unimproved property, would amount
in many instances to confiscation, and
IN consequence between the county line
end of most of the county roads and
the paved or improved streets in the
city there is a mile or more of road
bad in any weather and very bad in
spring and fall.
Outside the city limits the fault is
laid at the door Of system which has
resulted in the temporary repair of a
great deal of road and the permanent
Improvement of very little.
The Rice street road is the best of
the countys thoroughfares. From the
Rice street bride to the city limits the
road is bad. 1t is sandy, rough and
without proper side bitches for drain
age. Passing the county line the trav-
eler finds one and one-quarter miles of
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Business for Girls.

No girl in this age of the world should
be permitted to attain the age of
womanhood without having obtained a
thorough acquaintance with the methods
in vogue in the business world 1t makes
no difference what their-social or financial
standing may be, all members of the sex
need fundamental business training. To
make expenses and receipts harmonic
ought to be part Of every girls educa-
nary business customs and usages It
makes little difference whether one is
earning her living or simply attending to
household affairs and accounts, business
will not run itself and no great measure
of success can be attained apart from
rightly regulated eceonomy.-Ch Chicago
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around the base of the bluffs to New
port and Inver Grove, is another high
way which should, from the character
of the rich country which it reaches,
be fine feeder for ST. Paul business.
Four miles of this road, or from Burns
avenue to Burlington Heights, are
within the city limits. The grades are
bad, the road sandy and frequently
broken by washouts
On the West side are four feeders
extending into Washington county
the extension of Concord street lead
ing to South ST. Paul, the Dodd, Men
dota and River roads, the latter tap
ping Mendoza and the rich agricultural
center of Dakota county.
Near the city limits there is bad
half-nile on the Concord street road
caused by washouts, and it is not good
at any point south of the more thickly
settled portion of West st. Paul.
Parts Of the Dodd Road impossible.
The Dodd road is continuation of
South Wabasha street. 1t reaches a
populous and rich section of Dakota
county. Coming into st. Paul it
crosses the city limits at Annapolis
street, which it follows for short dis
lance, then crosses over to Wabasha
street. Between Morton and BidweH
streets, it is in almost impossible con-
ditfon, due to washouts, and is not a
good route until Winifred street and
the asphalt is reached.
The Mendoza road one of the roads
maintained by the city under special
Legislative enactment. is temporarily
out OF commission, due to the closing
of the Happy Hollow bridge. This is a
good road, and the one really good
connecting avenue with Dakota county
and its farmers. From the city limits
it follows Annapolis street to Chero-
kee, and thence to Smith avenue and
the high bridge, or, by diversion, from
Cherokee the farmer may find good
streets crossing to Wabasha and enter
st. Paul via the lower bridge.
The city maintains two bridges on
this road. The one now in commits
sion known as No. 2. cost about 5000.
and the bridge which will take the
place of the present structure at Hap
by Hollow will consist of two spans of
the old Wabasha island bridge, and
will represent an expenditure of $15,-
O00. The river road, which follows the
west bank of the river to Mendoza, is a
clay road, and in spring mpassabIe.
The county, outside st. Paul. is d.
vided in two commissioners districts.
All road work in their respective dis
tricts is done under the supervision of
the commissioners. who have been the
distributors of the big road and bridge
appropriations.
Much Patchwork in Evidence.
Little or no contract work. aside
from the two pieces of macadamized
road, has been done. Road work has
been done by day labor. and on an av-
erage in from twenty-five to fifty diff
ferent places in each commissioners
district every year. While 1t is claim
ed that this method has been benefi-
ciaI to the political fortunes of the
commissioners, it is not apparent that
it has been source of permanent
benefit to the roads. Numerous cross
roads. many of them almost private
lanes in Importance, have shared in
the distribution of the annual funds,
and in not few instances are, in con-
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Indifferent and bad roads in Ram
eey county deprive st. Paul business
men of large trade naturally theirs,
and which would come to them were
suitable highways leading into the
centers of the suburban and agricul-
tural communities maintained.
The suburban and agricultural pop
ulation naturally contributary to ST.
Paul is in excess of 10000, purchasing
annually upwards of 100000 worth or
actual necessities, beside the luxurles
of life, and producing approximately
three times that amount in agrlcu1-
tural and industrial wealth. This
trade and production, by vogue OF To-
cation and the advantages offered by
ST Paul houses, belongs almost in its
entirety to St Paul. Much of it goes
to Minneapolis, Saltwater, Hudson,
Hastings, and even Lake Elmo does
thriving business with farmers who
wound, under favorable transporta ton
facilities for their produce, trade in st.
Paul.
A days drive through Ramsey coun-
ty discloses that the county has an
unusually large county road mileage
and an altogether disproportionate
mileage of good roads. The aggregate
mileage is nearly 140. The total of
really good road is two and one-half
fairly classed as good in favorable
weather include less than one-third
the total mileage.
Have Cost $4,000 in Six Years.
For the construction and mainte-
nance of these roads in the last six
years a total tax of $165,000 has been
levied, and $4,000 collected and ex-
pended. AT a cost of $4,000 per mile
this sum would have constructed sew
enteen and one-half miles of macad-
amized, permanent road. The county
has two and one-half miles of such
road.
From the corporate limits of st.
Paul north the distance to the county
limits is variously from eleven to four
teen miles. This distance is traversed
by half dozen substantially parallel
main roads, with numerous transverse
and connecting links. some of them
fair in good weather, most of them
very bad in spring and fall and wet
weather.
On the east side Of the city, extend
ing south seven miles from the north
ern line of the corporate limits, is
strip one mile wide between the city
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merchants Of st. Paul who are forced
to see trade fleet to Minneapolis after
it gets within six or seven miles OF the
court house. At Marsden lake, seven
miles from the city limits, the Hamline
road is very bad. It is narrow its en-
tire length, and the 5twenty-foot road
way at it's best is not thing to
boast of.
Next east of the Rice street road
is the McMenemy road, which connects
at New Canada with the White Bear
and Bald Eagle road, making con-
tinuous route of six miles from the
city limits and about twelve miles from
the court house. On this road is the
second piece of macadam, 5000 feet in
extent, from Spoon lake to the Town
line road. This piece is good road, al
though 1t shows lack of attention and
is washed out in several places.
Near Kaufman piece of this road,
nearly a mile long, has been widened
and graded this year, making very
respectable appearance. It is sixty
feet wide and the work on 1t was evil
IDENTIFY done by experienced men. These
two pieces tell the White Bear and
Bald Eagle road story. There are three
bad low places in 1t, one of them a
stretch of 400 feet. Immediately adj
joining the macadam.
On the east, crossing the mile-wide
strip of county between the city and
Washington countys& limits, are the
Saltwater, Minnehaha, Hudson, Upper
and Lower Alton and hHighwood roads.
The mile of Stillwater road is like its
connecting link, sandy. The single mile
of Minnehaha road, outside the city
limits, is good. and ffiside the city linn
its has the best connection with the
city so far as condition of the street
is concerned. 81
Across the county line the road is
not good enough to induce heavy
travel. 81
Hudson Road Unsafe.
The Hudson road, naturally one of
the best avenues ofYsupply for the ST.
Paul trade, is bad outside the limits,
and the four miles inside the city linn
its are worse. Inside the city limits
it meanders through unimproved prop
erty, largely used for pasturage. 1t is
narrow, crooked, broken, billy and
poorly drained. From Burns avenue
to Oakdale station it is in many places
a road unsafe for heavy loads.
The Point Douglas road, leading
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tons and 9 .................... $50
Broadway, Rosetown, sections
ana 10 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. so
Lexington avenue Rosetown, sec
Valentine Lake e road Mounds view LOO
sections u and % ....... 125
1otalS ...-............ 81, $50
District No. 2.
May %, 1908
Between Edgerton and Arcade, city
culvert and fiji on Bald Eagle road, $50
Culvert and grade near Leip's place,
section %, White Bear ........ so
Cottage Park to Bald Eagle lake
North Of Como place to Anoka coun. -O'
! ty line. section 8, Bald Eagle 49, $50
Manship's road, south shore Bald
Cny Sgrf a aa6e FIJI a. conrovs nisca 100
Bald Eagle road ............... 10
Lake Phalen road, in city limits 49,. 200
Edgerton street, by Gervais lake. -. 100
Fill at old bridge, Barnum farm IS
Between Hudson and Alton roads,
Battle creek ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. so
County line between Hudson and
Minnehaha, east asst of city limits. l 20
Culvert near Memmem's farm. 49,. %
Hill by Fromholtz, county line 100
County line road, north of town
Town line. White Bear and New
Canada, Grading hiID ... $50
Same. east of Bald Eagle road -; 100
Edgerton street, Lamberts road
and Centerville road ..... $50
Lahore road to Centerville, gravel. 200
Bridge on Lahore road, near New
Canada Observation-Disclosures. 100
Melancom road. Gervais lake ...... $50
Saltwater road to city limits ..... $50
Upper Alton road .............. $50
Hudson road, east from city limits 100
Total 60 oS5
District No. I.
May %, 1903.
Dale street, in city limits .......... 5000
Lexington avenue, in city limits...' 1o0
BruSgeman hill Observation-Disclosures. 100
Hamline avenue. in city limits ... 100
Minneapolis avenue. west of Smell
Cleveland, state farm hill. $50
Cleveland, south of Broadway ...... 100 I,
Johanna avenue, south of tracks 40 (
Johanna avenue to Johanna school. 10
Smelling, north of Minneapolis ave-
Change in Smelling and Robinson
lake road ..................... 20
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .465 !
In addition to these appropriations
for work completed for each district.
$500 was appropriated for graveling
and 5000 for repair or washouts.
The smallest road and bridge levy in
six years was $4,000, in 1898. In 1899
it was $4,000; 1900, $4,000; 1901, $780,
900; 1902. $4,000; 1908, $4,000
With these levies, on which over
$4,000 was collected. it is claimed
that by districting the work and let
ting large contracts the county could
have secured about twenty-five miles
of road substantially permanent and
giving the county and st. Paul the
benefit of three country thorough
fares connecting the city with WASH
ington county roads.
According to the provisions of law
passed by the last legislature the COM
missioners may expend not to exceed
one fifth of the road and bridge fund
within the city limits. Under this law
one of the county roads may be given
a good connecting link with the paved
streets each year.
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MARIE ODONE, FROM ITALY, REGARDS
THE DEPOT MASTER AS HER FRIEND

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COUNTY ROADS, THEIR Poor CONDITION.
AND THEIR DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS ON Sc PAUL

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DIARRHOEA.
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Railways Ready Relief in half tumbler
of water, repeated as often as the dis
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A half to a teaspoonful in half a tumbler
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in frames 1QQl2c pound; strained 6QTc
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Then questioned DR. Mclaughlin in regard to his
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