The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-23
CLEARING AWAY
STORMS DEBRIS
EXTRA EFFORTS MADE TO SAVE
THE TREES.


Many, However, Have to Be Sawed
Up and Carried Away-Nearly 5000
Phones Still Out of Order Dealers
in Glass Do Big Business.
Thousands of men are at work re-
| storing the buildings, parks, boule-
former state. They are busy as bees,
for much of the work, especially on
the trees that may be saved, must be
| done promptly While the park board
will not try to raise any Of its trees
that were partially or entirely up
| rooted, many are following the adj
| vice Of Park Commissioner G. M. Lo-
| ring and are endeavoring to save their
| favorite elms and naples.
One forester has already raised
| fifty trees on Park avenue, and as
sures the owners that they will surely
live and thrive. He is looking for
many contracts on Portland avenue
and other streets in the storm-sWept
| district south Of Nicollet avenue.
At the same time many splendid
| trees are being sacrificed especially
| naples many of them over thirty
| years old, and it is touching to wit
ness the look of sadness that creeps
over the faces Of the people when
told that trees which they have per-
haps set out with their own hands
| and have watched their growth for
over a generation, must go.
Whenever tree has any chance for
| life, however, it is pulled back into
place, braced on several sides and the
| limbs and branches cut almost to the
trunk. It is pretty rough surgery that
they get and they often look as if
they were manned beyond all chance
of recovery, but the experts in for
estry say that heroic treatment is
necessary If the spark Of life is to be
retained until the roots can get new
grasp on mother earth.
Some Beauties Saved.
Three beautiful NAPLES which were
the pride of the Frank Heffelfnger
lawn, at Park and Twenty-second,
| have been condemned. The upturned
roots have been watered and protect
ed from the sun, but today the for
ester said that it was useless to try
to save them.
C. M. Harrington loses some fine
trees, but eight of the best have been
hauled back into place by ropes and
tackle and are in fair way to recover
At Tenth street and Sixth avenue a
number of trees, including pretty
pine and mountain ash, had been set
up in the world again and others will
be raised, particularly noble linden
and a fine rock maple.
Many of the big trees at the Henry
F. Brown place, Seventh street and
Fourth avenue S, including particu-
larly handsome box elder, are lost
The trees We're planted by Mr.. Brown
thirty-three years ago. The pride Of
the place and one of the most beauti.
full elms in the city stands as erect as
it ever did and has lost scarcely 6
leaf. The corner was hard hit anc
will look rather bare in spots, but il
might have been much worse.
Clearing the Streets.
The street commissioners have
probably been the busiest people II
the city since Saturday night, as the!
have been summoned from all cor
ners Of their respective wards to ge
broken limbs, fences and all name,
of wreckage out of the streets. A
first they simply cleared a passage
way SO that teams could pass, ant
now they are hauling away the debris
In spite Of the efforts of Mr.. Cole
of the fifth ward, there are streets
which are still impossible. This Il
trueof Sixteenth street between Port
land Jand Park avenues
Repairing the Phones.
1t is hoped that in two days all tn
telephones in the city will be in op
Grafton The Northwestern compan,
. has imported all the workmen pos
sible from Duluth, Chicago, Milwau
l1ee and Omaha. Work is proceeding
steadily, by streets rather than by in
dividual phones. About two thousan
phones are reported still out of com
! missio.
; No attempt has been made to &C
curately estimate the damages but
Y is thought that they will be betwee
sixty thousand and one hundre
thousand dollars.
The Twin City company has BET
ween six hundred and one thousan
: from the Tri-State company are G
70 work
Rush to Buy Glass.
There is no prospect of a glas
famine, the only difficulty is to secur
It skilled iaborers to do the work. TIL
r. difficulty has been overcome by tn
e large wholesale houses, who have in
d ported men from other cities.
y 1t would have required a muc
more serious storm to have caused
glass famine. Outside of the stoc
carried by the retail stores, the lars
wholesale stores such as the Pitt
burgh Glass company, carry from 800
I'd 600 to 100000 square feet Of glass
stock all the time, never allowing
to fall below 100000.
~ The necessity of carrying such
" large stock was emphasized when tt
q; orders began coming in for rush r
~ ~ pairs. All the dealers We're deluge
III with orders, personal, by mail and
g telephone as soon as connections we
made. 1t was estimated that abo
y, y, fifty orders a minute were presente
-, to the dealers all thru business hou
10 today.
r. Glass Loss Nearly $4,000.
I'd One of the largest houses has est
Id mated the loss for Minneapolis to ]
~ $4,000 for plate glass and $4,000 f
er common blown glass, these fgur
re covering the church glass also F.
st. Paul the estimate is somewh
higher-$14,OoO in plate glass ar
$4,000 for other glass.
y The estimate made by the insu
ance companies is much higher.
J was stated at the offices Of the Mi
nesota Trust company this morni1
l. that the amount of insurance paid O.
t. might reach $4,000. This would n
:, mean the real loss, but only tt