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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-04-02
SPECIAL Low RATES VIA THE
NICKEL PLATE ROAD

To points IN the West and Southwest
Round trip Homeseekers tickets and one
way Coionist tickets on sale March 18th
and April bth and 18th. Also one-way
Settlers tickets 20 points In Minnesota
North and South Dakota and Wyoming
each Tuesday during March and April
Write l. p. Burgess. ". T. p. A. Boston,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-04-02
SUES FOR COMPENSATION AS SERVANT

Ellen Moriarity % Pawtucket has sued
Thomas o'Bren. administrator on the es-
tate of Michael Ward. n recover 1900
Plaintiff sue1 10 recover for services
a. servant for Mr. ward. Thomas r.
West is her attorney
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-04-02

East Providence, son OF Judge Bliss, who
presides over said court.
TUNNEL BILL NEXT MONDAY
The tunnel bill was not reached or even
referred 10 al tho prolonged session, yes
terday afternoon. but the committee hope
10 give the same with the amendments
already suggested. IL not incorporated.
due consideration at Monday afternoons
meeting.
The plumbers bill, II Mr. Fitzgerald
persists. may be given precedence, and
so will several measures-highways.
sewers. new school building. water works
extension and floating Indebtedness bills
in which the city OF Pawtucket Is d.
rectly and vitally interested,
The recommendation Of the state sealer
OF weights and measures 10 graduate fees
and make them uniform throughout the
state will also receive attention, but the
trading stamp resolution and the two
license bills are practically buried for
fair. at least as far as this session is con-
cerned.
TWO PUBLIC HEARINGS.
Besides the committee meeting on Mon
day there will be two public hearings next
week before the assembly reconvenes.
The first viii be on Tuesday, at p. m.
on the assessment OF damages in default
cases.
The second Will be on Wednesday at
the same hour on the act proposing an
amendment 10 the Constitution OF the
state. II was introduced by Representa-
tive Holden OF woonsocSet and fixes the
membership OF the house OF represen-
tatives at 100. instead OF the present ~.
based on population, and no town or city
shall have more than one-fourth of the
whole number.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-04-02
APPEALS IN LIQUOR CASES.

large number % liquor appeals were
called and disposed Of IN Judge Wilburs
court today. In number of the appeals
the appellants were defaulted.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-04-02
N. Y. WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT.

New York. April 2.-Wee<ly bank state
ment: Loans. increase, s14s43. 400; de-
posits. Increase. 800. .7oo, ,sOo circulation. de
crease. s55 600: legal tenders, decrease
S201 zoo: specie. increase. s.. 6s3. 900: sur
plus. reserve s27 7t5. $50: Increase. s2s6. .175;
ex-United States deposits. s1. .7s1, 800: in
crease. f2s26,0oO.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-04-02
REPORT

REPORT
OF the condition OF the NATIONAL.
BANK OF COMMERCE. at Providence.
In the State Of Rhode Isand. az the close
OF business March 2Sth, 1904:
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts ........,... $3.50 fe2 %
L. &. Bonds TO secure circuia-
ton ....,....................... 5000 N
Stocks. securities. etc..."...... a7i75 90
Banking house ................. 5000 W
Due from National Banks mot
reserve agents) ................ s.513 IS
agents ................"......,.. eSS.l2i q
Exchanges for Clearing House se46 o.
Notes OF other National Ranks 1890 "
Nickels and cents ............. l52 as
.sSH3 sESF3E IN ASSSk SHak, "; II
f Iesai tender notes Sos is1ss 90
Redemption fund with L. s
tion) Observation-Disclosures. $500 %
fund ...............,......'..".. -. 2.co2 50
Total ..........y................. sacs.5s2 ss
Capital stock paid in..........s s5OOoo 00
Surplus fund ...,....,......... 1900 90
penses and taxes paid -. 2S3.sn "a
National Bank notes out
Due to other Ma
tional Banks .,....s 10.ei9 A.
Due 20 Trust Com
panies and Saw
ings Banks ......... 2so.0s7 =
Due to approved re
serve agents ..... 2s,soi Is
Dividends unpaid 90. 16B
Individual deposits
subject TO check. Il SIS .iae Sc tsssiso ~
Total ......................... Ss.Os7. 522 So
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND.
County OF Providence ss:
I. John Foster. Cashier of the above
named hank. 10 solemnly swear that the
above statement II true 90 the best of
my knowledge and belief
j. FOSTER Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn 20 before me this
ist DAY OF April. 1904
GILMAN r. JoPP. Notary Public.
Correct-Attest
JOHN O. MASSTE.
ROBERT KNIGHT,
EDWARD ABoRN GREENE,
Directors.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-04-02
AMERICAN
NATIONAL BANK
Pays Interest on Deposits.

REPORT
or the condition OF the AMERICAN MA
TlONAL BANK, at Providence. In tie
State OF Rhode Island. at the close NJ
business, March 2sth, 1901.
RESD URGES.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-04-02
The New York Stock Market.

Reported for The News by y. CURTIS
FLETCHER & CO, street floor, Bani-
gan BUILDING
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-04-02

or the condition OF the MERCHANTS
NATIONAL BANK, at Providence, in tho
State OF Rhode Island, at the close Of
business. March 2S> 1904
DEGGTTDrI.C
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-04-02
The Merchants
National Bank
No 20 Westminster St.

Accounts OF Corporations. Manufactur-
ers, Business Firms and Indi-
viduals Solicited
REPORT
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-04-02

Providence. r. l.. April 2. 1904.
The above sale is this day continued %
the 9th day OF April 1904. at the same
time and place.
ANDREW MCKENZIE.
Deputy Sheriff.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-22

It has abundant water power, widely
distributed. No equal area is so we'll
Watered; the water everywhere is clear
and pure; it is distinctively the land of
limpid rivers, sparkling streams and
crystal lakes.
With these resources and this environ
ment, what commonwealth can offer bet
gently seek and can approximately en-
Joy, all the browning, eliminating fea-
lures of an ideal home life7 For the
worker and his family; for the parents
and the children; for material success
as well as intellectual and moral devel-
opment; for the plans of the living pres.
emit and the prospects of the illimitable
future, fraught with ardent hopes and
Unreasonable destines-where can bet.
ter fields be found for the expenditure
of effort and the acceptance Of oppor-
tunity?
Forty-four years ago, J. A. Wheelock
with wonderful foreknowledge, wrote
of the state he has done 50 much to
create and embellish: "All the circum
stances of it's position and structure in.
dictate it as the imperial domain OF
agriculture in it's highest development
of an agriculture reposing on the most
perfect conditions; no longer isolated
and rustic, but elevated to the rank OF
mechanism; the genius of civilization
in which commerce shall be slave in
stead of mistress, to carry the afflu
ence and culture of cities thru the rami
fcations Of its natural and artificial
highways to all the homes Of people
at once rural in their virtues and met
ropolitan in their refnements. -
With unparalleled felicity of pre-
science this dozen lines, of eloquent
generalization foretells the gangplow
the seeder, the selfbinder, the cream
separator, the farm telephone, rural
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-22
CROOKSTON THE QUEEN CITY
OF THE RED RIVER WILEY

that city's solidity. In this respect
every rival in the northwest.
Crookston g banks have ever been as
sound as the solid earth upon which
they are built. Even in the dark hours
of the panic of '93, when banks in
every Deighboring city were closing,
their money was stacked in gold foot
hlgh and there was "nothing doing''
from withdrawing standpoint.
Educational Institutions.
Crookston IS public schools are thoroly
up to date, and have been maintained
with such efficiency that their fame has
travelled II the length and breadth of the
ly fortunate in securing competent
teachers for the grades below the high
school, and the work of the latter
school is brilliantly vouched for Nv the
records Of the alumni, many of whom
have already made names for them
selves in the business and professional
world, altho the school is scarcely a
decade old.
The Gateway of the Famous Red River
Valley.
! Crookston is undoubtedly the greatest
land center in the west, and the firms
having their headquarters here are com
posed Of the best business blood in the
community and are reliablein every re-
spect. They don It 81 run any ''skin
ga1mes' in Crookston and it is a
dream' to see how the business inter
ests 'chum' and pull together, all fo1
Polk county. Any land man will give
you twenty hours a day to tell you al
about the country, and the best of it is
he can always make good with HARD
| facts, but you cannot get a word out OF
him 'knocking' someone else or throw
ing a bunch Of American Beauties al
himself. Homeseekers should not pass
this section up if they are looking fol
to the Comm ercia1 Club Of Crooks stor
will put them in touch with interests
that have splendid Offerings. This
article is only ''fiyer' and T hope tt
give you something solid and substan
tial on this county next week. -
| = w. D. Williams.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-22

renee system, walled in by the rocky
runs the slope Of the Red River, which,
uniting with the Saskatchewan valley,
gives this vast interior plain the out
lines OF an Irregular triangle, which CEN
ters here and rests on Hudson g bay.
and rG% tes
commands the Industrial situation, pos
sessing all the elements Of commercial
supremacy. AS all roads led to Rome,
all natural arteries of trade lead to and
from this favored commonwealth.
All the climatic conditions are to an
equal degree propitious: We have the
winter temperature of Canada and New
England, without their excessive SHOWS.
Our months of spring have the same av-
erage OF those of northern Illinois,
southern Michigan and western New
York, but with less frost and more rapid
progress toward the heat of summer
Our summers and autumns are unex-
celled for comfort, salubrity and unal-
Logged enjoyment by those Of any region
on the globe. These conditions stimulate
Of human effort.
And these conditions incalculably pro-
mote the healthfulness of our people.
| What is home without health9 What
are soft and perfumed breezes if they
watt the seeds Of pestilence and death 2
What are bountiful harvests of grain,
or the most delicious Of fruits, or mines
Of yellow metal, if disease broods over
the landscape and wasting infections
undermine the constitution of mans
The resources Of the state are, in
many directions, practically unlimited.
It has every variety Of wealth and
every facility for profitable exchange.
There is no more productive soil on the
planet. 1t has vast forests of
pine and hardwood timber; it's
! iron mines are the richest in the world.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-22

But there is room and there will be a
welcome for many more. They are to
come in augmented numbers to partici-
pate in the blessings prepared by their
energetic predecessors.
Those who are now coming and those
who shall come hereafter will be spared
most of the hardships and vicissitu
of life on the frontier. There is no
frontier now. Many of the rough paths
have been smoothed for their feet, by
the labors and sufferings and sacrifices
of those who came before them, and
superstructure of splendid civilization.
Those who come now and those who
are to follow are animated by the same
spirit which inspired the pioneers of the
territorial era. They seek to better
their own condition and that of their
And they desire, among other things, in
most cases above all other things, that
those homes shall be surrounded by the
educational and moral advantages
which ensure the highest type of devel-
opment, which make for the permanent
welfare of the nation, the family and
the individual.
With an area of over 100000 acres,
territory greater in extent than that
comprised in all the New England
states, Minnesota presents diversity.
beauty and picturesqueness Of aspect
equaled by no other region Of equal
average fertility. It is the watershed
OF the continent, since in it's SUBMITS
lie, closely associated, the sources of her
three great river systems.
From this inconspicuous apex diverge
three distinct slopes, which e i've to Min
nesota the form Of a vast pyramid,
down whose sides the waters thus
The great Mississippi slope extends
southwark, resting it's broad base in the
Gulf Of Mexico; eastwardly stretches
the slope of the Superior and st. Law
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-22

live in, the world worth knowing, worth
speaking Of, worth planning for, which
makes ma up nation worth living
which Kossuth, the Hungarian exile,
SAID, fifty years ago, had become the
preface Of liberty for all mankind.
To the genuine home-seekers and
home builders Minnesota offer unparal-
leled Inducements and an unstinted
cordlalty of welcome. Our people have
long since learned, that the infusion Of
good blood lends constantly increasing
vlgor TO the body <politic. They nave
unbounded confidence in the power Of
tablished here, to assimilate all desir-
able additions. !. - - Z
, On visiting this country, kindly
but veracious critic from abroad, the
illustrious and profound Herbert Spen-
Ger, said of us: ''The world has never
before seen social phenomena at all
comparable with those presented in the
poration Of vast bodies of immigrants
of various bloods has never occurred
on such a scale before. Large empires
composed Of different peoples have, in
previous cases, been formed by con
quest and annexation. Then your i'm
mense plexus of railways and tele-
graphs tends to consolidate this vast
aggregate Of states in way that no
such aggregate has ever before been
consolidated. And there are many mi
nor cooperating causes unlike those
hitherto known. 1t may, I think, be
reasonably held that, both because of
its size and the heterogeneity of it's
eomp99nents, the American nation will
form, but that it's ultimate form will
be high. One great result is, I think,
tolerably clear. From biological truths
it is to be inferred that the eventual
mixture of the allied varieties of the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-22
Rich Northern Minnesota Soil

Temple
and that Northern Minnesota land surprise to drawing
AS matter outside of tho Lumber Kings whose consideration
few people until within the last few
third timber
Of duded the timber and during the last has
actual
tiers and land dealers Investing at lively railroads pushing
The land most cases slightly rolling nspersed with beautiful lakes
mellow easily worked and while little hard clear considering the
for land in southern MINNESOTA, Iowa Illinois
individual
the
suit each taking a of 700
Of
adding wealth of tho North Star
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-22

Special Correspondence.
Crookston, Mimi, Oct. 1o.-Tf the
farmers and hom!eseekers of Illinois, In
diana, Ohio and Michigan could
"knock off, for about ten days, char
ness up few iron dollars, charter. a
Polk county, Minnesota, the only way
you could get them back to their lit
tie old f1reside' on the Wabash would
be for the purpose Of signing checks
and packing up preparatory to becom-
ing residents Of the great bread and
butter state and the splendid county
of Polk, where there are no hard ;luck
er enjoys every comfort and advantage
of modern times. Your representative
has been getting in touch with condi-
tions in this section for the past few
days, and "npy hat is off, to the
hustling, bustlAng city Of Crookston and
bunch Of financial and real estate men
who have spleEdid offerings for the
homeseeker and investor and can de-
liver the goods every time.
Crookston is the county seat of Polk
county, whose fifty nine townships are
among the richest and most certain in
the state; it is also one Of the most
watered, better wooded and more gen
orally cultivated than any other county
in the valley. Along the Red river
and many miles to the west is the rich
est soil that men ever set foot upon;
in eastern Polk are the celebrated
"Thirteen Towns" where crop fail
ure has never been known, and between
are the townships that have been found
abundantly worthy Of such names as
Fertile, Garden, Woodside, Grove Park
etc. But Crookston is mistress of g
wider sphere, for the whole Of the won
glance and pays her tribute, and even
the great pine woods to the east senc
her their treasures down the Red Lake
river each year, measured in millions
of feet of pine logs.
Banks and Banking.
The banks of city are it's casf
vaults, and the bankers are the city,:
bookkeepers. The soundness Of a city's
financial institutions is fair test Of
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-22

The home is the criterion! The
home is the unit of nationality; the cor
ner-stone Of civilization; the throned
plete, successful, fruitful life.
A nation = is truly prosperous and
really great in exact proportion to the
refinement, culture, harmony and vir-
tue which pervades the homes of it's
average citizens. The desirable immi-
grant is, first of all; a home-seeker; he
proposes TO- be home builder. he is
elements, the conditions, the surround
ings and the future prospects which sat
isfy his Judgment that his home-build-
ing will be benefaction to his family.
The United States is nation Of
homes---and therein lies It's chief title
to leadership in moldinng thee world Is
contemporary history. Our people have
alleled advantages in the virgin soil
and untouched mineral resources of, a
new continent. Entering into this
priceless possession, they have profted
by inheriting all the arts, methods and
Inventions by means of which older
opment-at the same time avoiding de-
fects and distractions which have
clouded that advancement elsewhere, or
retarded it. '.-
They have been free, in their march
OF progress, to avail themselves of the
experiences Of past ages, appropriating
that which has been shown to be iniu.
rious. s.s
The consequence is that they have
built up nation of homes, such as the
world has never before seen. And the
aggregate Of those homes constitutes a
society which makes up the world we
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-22
BY HENRY A. CASTLE.

Aryan race forming the population will
produce a finer type of man than has
hitherto existed, and type of man
more plastic, more adaptable, more ca
pable Of undergoing the notifications
needful for complete social life. ]
think. that, whatever difficulties they
may have to surmount, and whatever
tribulationsi they may have to pass
thru, the Americans may reasonably
look forward to time when they will
have produced civilization grander
than any the world has known
This experiences in vivisection, this
faculty of laying a nation or an era on
the operating table, tracing it's arteries
and veins,@ and pointing out the pull.
sations Of their life, is given only to
the master spirits Of an age. We may
unfeignedly rejoice that the omens, as
interpreted by this practical, benevo
lent, reverent oracle are, on the whole
suspicious for the republic.
Statistics of nativity show that the
population of Minnesota contains the
elements Of favorable solution of the
prosperous future. Of the American
born residents, more than 80 per cent
are natives Of New England, the mid
die and the northwestern states. Among
the foreigners, immigrants from the
German and Scandinavian states, the
British isles and the provinces of Cana.
da, vastly predominant.
From these excellent sources have
been drawn the best ingredients of the
industriouss, enterprising and intelligent
classes of society-those who have
saved a portion of their earnings that
better advantages might be secured fol
their children: They brought with them
their inherited and cultivated habits OF
thrift, industry and respect for law
also their regard for the precepts OF
morality, the institutions of learning
and the temples Of religion.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-22
Octo Der 22, 1904.

este Il 80 InnA
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-22
Minnesota a Place for Homes;
Educational and Moral ADVANTAGES.

Address at Minnesota immigration Con
vention, st. Paul, June IA, 1904.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-26
P0ULS0N HAS NEW PLANS.
Would Relieve Bridge Crush by
adding ELeUated Platforms.

NeIs Poulson president of the Hecla Iron Works
Brooklyn. who for several years has been devoting
the congestion in passenger traffic at the Man
haitian end of the Brooklyn. Bridge. has another
plan 1t deals with the handling Of the elevated
trains, and he presented it before the Brooklyn
Chapter Of the American Institute Of Architects at
its meeting held In the Clarendon Hotel last night
Mr.. Poulson would connect the elevated tracks
at the the terminal. that there would
be no switching after a train comes in. Trains
coming in either side OF the platform now used
for unloading would be able to out again
and cross to tbs Brooklyn bound track out
side the terminal. Another track connection would
enable incoming trains to enter at either side Of
the south platform, now used for loading. Mr..
POulson would then build three additional plat
forms. one between the two inner tracks and one
on each side of the terminal over the present
tracks.
OF these five platforms. the centre and two outer
would be used for loading. the other two for IN
loading BY this system four trains could be run
into the terminal after the other. and pas
sengers discharged side and loaded on the
other side OF each train.
AS each train is loaded It would run right
out and onto the Brooklyn bound track by means
Of the connecting tracks. Mr.. Poulson says that
the danger in the points where the tracks cross
could be eliminated by means Of a new device
whereby motormeu could control the trains. by
means of the current, well as the switches
Whereas the presert loading space is only 45OO
square feet, Mr.. POusOn says that under MS
scheme the loading would be 5000 square rect
He added that If his scheme for having only one
cars in blocks of five were adopted. the trolley
loops on the street level could be done away WIN
and the platform system for elevated trains coull
be duplicated there. Then eight elevated trains
could be loaded at once whereas now only t"O
loaded or, in some cases, only one
Mr. POulSon says that the necessary alterations
ira uIat forms built in six or eight weeks. at a
cost not to exceed 100000 and the scheme could
be duplicated below in the same time and at the
same cost.
The Brooklyn Chapter OF the American Institute
OF Architects has decided to present Mr. foulsoh
plan 20 the Mayor and the Bridge Commissioner