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The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24


HThe difficulty which-we experienced
at first in preventing the. fire. from
reaching Powers wass5to get " enough
pressure to send etwaterasto the top
Of the. building. The system for get
ting high pressure is, simple. 1t con
that is in turning several hose lines
into one. nozzle. However. care must
be exercised in doing this. For instance
if one line is near the fire you get, say
140 pounds pressure. You attach an
other line, which is connected with an
engine farther away, and which gives
yooUu a pressure Of only l2o pounds, the
to l20. 1t is necessary to get equidis-
tant lines attached to the turret nozzle.
EChemicals are useful in putting out
incipient blazes, but where fire has
gained headway they are of little use.
The only thing to do in case Of a big
so long as water will, do any good.
Saving Human Lives.
fighter. He is lifesaver as we'll. One
Of the elements Of the education of a
fireman is to know how to save life
how to carry unconscious forms down
an uncertain ladder and to do it ex-
| peditiously and safely
Minneapolis fire department. exacts
training with the pompier ladder. This
consists in sealing high buildings by
means Of these ladders, which are car
ried as the fireman ascends. The hooks
in the end Of the first ladder are at
tached to a window. pThe fireman scales
this first ascent, carrying the second
| ladder with him, Then the:'second lad
der is hooked to the window in the
next story and the first ladder is car
ried. This is kept up until the desired
.,''The best system in carrying out a
person from a burning: building and
down a LADDER Chief Canterbury ex,
planned in the progress of his talk, is
to keep the man or woman in front of
you. If he or she'is conscious, they
will render assistance in hanging to
the ladder. If unconscious, the man.
ner of handling the person will depend
upon his or her weight. Ordinarily
the fireman can keep the person he is
;rescuing between him and the ladder
and roll the body down. If light
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
Confning Unquenchable Flames.
CAPT ZARER BY RACKLS

The friends Of Mrs. George J. Backus
Of this city will soon have the pleasure
and the public will share it later
of admiring a life-size statue of that
sturdy pioneer, Captain John Taper,
which she has just completed. Several
times in the past five years beautiful
examples of the sculptor's, art have
this last is the most ambitious and
probably the most artistic.
In order to understand it's full sig
nificance, one must know something OF
the captain s history. In 1910, at the
age Of 20, he arrived in Mobile from
his home in Dorsetshire, Eng Gland, on
a cattleship, and in that year ioiniYeSd
ing Fort Atkinson in Iowa. Two years
later he reached Fort Crawford at
Prairie du Chen, and in 1910 arrived
at Fort Smelling, where. as a civilian,
he was employed by Franklin Steele
until the breaking out Of the Mexican
war. Then he joined the United States
forces in Mexico, going from the fort
with DR.. Turner, and took part in nu-:
merous engagements in that. conflict.
At it's close he returned to what is now
Minnesota.
Before the organization Of the ter
ritory, which took place in lS49, he had
| begun to ferry the few settlers in this
vicinity across the Mississippi, just above
| the raging cataract Of St. Anthony Falls.
His route from the west side. of the
river to Nicollet island was. that now
marked by the steel arch bridge. He
| located on Nicollet island, where the
Eastman residence. now stands, the
property at that time Of Franklin
and night, answered the call Of all who
wished to cross the Mississippi. In
that period he ferried thousands of per-
sons, teams and cattle over the river.
In 1855 the first suspension bridge
| was built, the first bridge ever built
to span the Mississippi at any point
| from it's source to its mouth, and on
this bridge Captain Taper. was in
| He assisted in 1S49 in erecting the
first house built on the west side of the
river, and in the following year, while
Colonel John H. Stevens, it's owner, was
absent on bridal trip in the east,
planted garden on the site of the pres
ent union station from which the col
onel and his bride gathered fresh veg
etables when they came to their new
home During those strenuous years
Captain Taper was known by and knew
nearly all the settlers within a radius
of 100 miles of Minneapolis. He has
survived most of them, and is still in
perfect health and retains his mental
vigor. He represents the highest type
of the sturdy pioneer, rugged, honest,
truthful and aggressive.
The statue which Mrs. Backus has
| lust completed embodies all these char
acteristics. It shows him with his
coat off and evidently in reminiscent
mood suggestive Of tales Of lorE ago.
The likeness is perfect; the lines Of the
figure are those of the virile old man
lwho has stood the ts4pests Of eight9
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24


enough, the left arm will serve to hold
the person being rescued while the right
hand can direct the progress down the
ladder.' ...'.'---..
Chief Canterbury believes the pres
ent day fire engines are too small. He
thinks it would be economy to use
larger engines, even if they cost more.
"We pay $4,000 for our present en-
gines,' he said. If we paid, say,
$4,000. for one engine, it would do
the work of ten engines and three men
could run it, the same number required
to run one of our small engines. Such
an engine would, Of course, do much
more effective work. Being very
heavy, they would have to furnish their
own propelling power. They should be
built on the plan of the fire-engine
boats. When I was in Milwaukee I saw
one of these floating fire engines in ac-
tion. It would throw a fve-and-a-half-
inch stream a distance Of two blocks.
Twelve two-inch streams could be got
out of it which would do as much work
as ten of my smaller engines.'
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Observation-Disclosures
abused in the meantime. She had
pitiful tale to confde to tender
hearted neighbor. Soon the officials
heard Of the matter; outside of the
wilds of Africa such a case had not been
known. A young American girl bound
to a man seven times her age for life;
Such thing might go unreproved and
unnoticed among the Georgia crackers,
but not among the cultured people Of
Iowa. Gertie Trusty was induced to
sign petition asking for divorce from
her husband. It did not take long for
the Judge to decide the matter. When
the plaintiff took the witness chair her
feet did not touch the floor, her hair
hung behind her in pigtails," and
she told her story in the same childish
treble W lev with which she had answered the
clergyman a year before. Sc told
story of cruelty, corroborated by the
necessary witnesses. Ten minutes later
Gertie TRUSTEE walked out Of the court
room-1O years old and grass widow.
Finds a New Home.
I What to do with her, now that she
was literally born again, was ques-
tion, soon settled by kind hearted.
R. l.. Davis Of Brighton. Iowa, Gertie
Trusty found a home. There day by
day, tho she knew wifely duties and re-
sponsibilities, she was taught childish
pleasures and pastimes. For the first
time there were picnics with other chill
dren her own age who will not be wives
for ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty five
years yet. Recently there have been
bobbing and skating parties. Gertie
Trusty has learned to be a young girl.
For her pleasure the Davises have pro.
vided q Christmas tree. It will greet
her sight when she awakes on Christmas
morning. = On it will be candies, nuts,
girlish knickknacks, beautiful doll
one that will say mama" and "papa''
to the grass widow who has never yet
played with such a doll. Surely, Santa
Claus in all his rounds will see no sight
/ such as this.
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them are smoking like battleships 60
ing into action, while the third Chin
ney shown displays not the slightest
trace of smoke, altho it was taken on
cold day and the chimney photo
graphed was on one of the largest office
buildings in the city. With the Real
Estate board behind the agitation, a
great deal more may be expected of
the antismoke crusade than has ever
been possible when the matter was
wholly in official hands.
In St. Paul the antismoke crusade
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24

Special to Tho Journal.
Des Moines, Iowa, Dec. 24.-Marr1ed
at 9, divorced at TO-, her first Chrlstmas
tree when a grasswidow at II, a little
girl in short skirts will dance with glee
about a candle-lighted and gift ft-laden
tree in a cozy home in Brighton, Iowa,
tomorrow morning. There VIII be
thousands upon thousands OF christmas
trees, all over the broad land, but none
like this--for this will be the first In
the life of little girl, whose hair hangs
in pigtails down her back, whose skirt
does not reach to her shoe tops by sew
eral inches, and who yearns with all the
eagerness of young girls heart for
dollie that will open and shut It's eyes
and say "mama' and papa TINS
little girl who stood up before the altar
two years ago and became the wife OF
q man seven times her age.
Gertie Trusty, girl, wife and widow
all in one, will know her first Christmas
tomorrow Now that she has been a
wife and is a widow, Gertie Trusty is
just about to become little girl.
Married When but Nine.
At the age Of 9. Gertie became the
wife of John Leeper, whose IS years
bride-elect, as she stood before the
preacher and promised to be a faithful
wife, was an odd sight. Her hair
brushed straight back from her fore
| head, parted severely in the middle, was
gathered in the "pigtail' braids OF
Young girlhood and struggled down the
| line of dress buttons at her back. As
| for the dress itself, it was no creation
Of the modiste. The wedding dress in
! junction, :" something old and some
thing new; something white and some
thing blue,' was disregarded in Gertlt
Trusty's case-everything. was old, anc
the wedding dress was the everyday
short-skirted dress. There the 9-year
old girl stood by the side Of the 63
year old man, and IN piping treble an
Of the preacher.
nGertie Trusty was Mrs. John Leepe1
from the time she was 9 until shortly
after she had passed her tenth birth
day. She was good and faithful Wit.
lowed her husband to Arkansas ant
in a little village there helped him es
tablish the new home. Life settlee
down into commonplaces, Monday wash
ing, Tuesday ironing, Wednesday sweep
| ing, and so on thru the week. Othe
little girls passed on their way to school
trilled at each other and laughed il
childish glee as they coasted and bobbe'
on the snow-ccvered hills or dance,
away to the picnics of the good oil
summer time, but Gertie Trusty Leepe
was a wife, and there was houseworl
to do, SO she stolidly stayed at her tasks
tho many a time her heart must hav
been far away with the romping, ri
/ licking children of her own age.
(
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
BOTANISTS TO MEET
State Association Meeting Will Be Held
Thursday. i.

The annual meeting Of the Minnesota
State Botanical association will be held
Thursday in Pillsbury hall at the state
university. The meeting will close with
a social. The program is as follows:
present Problems of Cytology and Tax
onomy," Conway Macmillan, F. BIS.
"Problems in Plant Embryology," DR..
H. L. Lyon, F.M.B.S.
Recent Work in Mycology and Plant
Pathology E. M Freeman, F.M.B.S.s
"Collecting Trips in Mexico" E. w. D.
Holway. by invitation. ' 49,
"a Remarkable Growth of Orobanche
Ludoviciana,' G. A. Ballard, F.M.B.S.
Mushrooms and Mushroom Clubs,' Dr.
Mary Milestone, F.M.B.S.
1.-The Minnesota Botanical Seaside Sta
tion,' Conway Macmillan, F.M BIS.
Social hour.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
Minn. State Agricultural Society.

Hamline, Mimi, Dec. 10, 1904.-The
annual meeting of the Minnesota State
Agricultural Society will be held in
day, Wednesday and Thursday, Jan.
10, II and 12, 1905, for the election of
/. a president and two vice presidents, to
serve for one year, and two managers,
to serve for three years, and for the
transaction of such other business as
may come before the meeting.
A program of unusual interest for
Tuesday and Wednesday will be an
nounced later through the newspapers.
The business session will be on
Thursday. &C. N. Cosgrove,
E. w. Randall, President.
Secretary.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24

had no idea of danger. We had men
on every story throwing water into
the Peck building. There must have
been an explosion in the Peck building,
or the falling Of ceiling caused the
flames to shoot over thru the runways
into the Boutell building.
"Anyhow, Simcoe, Kirchoff and Eel
lows found themselves surrounded by
flames. One Of the men went to the
vator. Flames and smoke choked him.
He told the others to run for their
lives. Fellows stopped to put on his
coat and started toward the elevator
shaft. Kirchoff, who was halfway be-
tween him and the window, looked
around and a blast of fame caught him
and he dropped on all fours to make for
the window. Fellows was half turned
around, and my theory is that he never
got any farther. I do not believe he
went down the elevator shaft.
HFellows' fate simply shows how pre-
carious is the occupation of the fire.
men.
"No there is no science or system
| adopted by fireman for their own safety.
They must trust to their judgment to
act as the occasion necessitates. Of
course, all fremen know that the air is
best nearest the floor, and if it cannot
| NJ OoCoAHCu C1CAC IL COlllOU OC OUUdluCU
anywhere. Then they wear nosemasks,
which are merely moist sponges, which
they wear over their faces. The only
other protection is the aluminium helmet
which will ordinarily protect the head
from falling bricks or glass. For the
body there is no protection other than
that afforded by their clothes.
Confning Unquenchable Flames.
"But to 90 on with our illustration, u
continued the chief. "When the Bou
tell building started, we saw there was
no chance of saving it. When a fire
gains certain headway, water thrown on
it only increases it's intensity, just as
water thrown on coal will make it burn
more fercely: Our task was to save
the Powers building. Our duty here
was plain. We threw light streams or
the front to keep down the intense heat
until we could get hose inside the build
ing to fight it from that direction. W.
were able to do that, and if we had beer
delayed only few moments, the build
ing would have gone up like tinder.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24

by sculptors resident in Minnesota, the
one Of Ole Bull by Jacob Fjelde being
the first, and that Of Captain Taper
by Mrs. Backus, the other. Part of the
statue of Governor Pillsbury, which now
here, and the rest in New York. Mrs.
Backus new work is considered by con-
noisseurs who have seen it to be an
achievement at least equal to either
of the osaer two,
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24

full fremen will not only prevent smoke,
but they will make the same, amount
of fuel go much farther than the fire
man who throws in the coal, opens the
drafts and let's so per cent Of the car
bon go up the smokestack. -.
The Real Estate board is now making
careful survey Of the city in the early
morning and late afternoon, which
seem to be the periods when the smoke
affliction is most noticeable. Wher-
ever practicable photographs will be
made of the chimney at it's worst, and
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24

years and who seems able to withstand
those Of the next twenty.
There is a project on foot, among his
friends to have the figure cast in bronze
and later, if the city authorities are
on the steel arch bridge. The statue is
now in the hands Of the men who are
making the plaster cast and will soon
be on exhibition.
There have been but two statues made
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24

these will be used as evidence in court.
The main difficulty, however. is not in
securing evidence that the chimney is
smoking, but in proving beyond per-
adventure that the smoke is unneces-
sarily thick. It has been argued that
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24

has had notable results Even locomo-
tive fremen within the city limits have
been obliged to watch their fires with
special care, while factory owners and
the managers of large business and Of
fee buildings have come. to appreciate
that the non-smoke method Of firing is
not only desirable but is the only safe
plan. 80 49, ..$$.=s,>..S
After all, the secret Of abolishing
smoke is more sone Of stoking than it
is Of scientific appliances for consum-
ing the products of combustion. Care
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24

There are many form of nervous de-
bility in men that yield to the use of
Carter's Iron Pills Those who are
troubled with nervous weakness, night
sweats, etc, should try them. !, :
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24

For any case of nervousness, sleep
lessness, weak stomach, indigestion,
dyspepsia, try Carter's Little Nerve
Pills. Relief is sure. The only nerve
medicine for the price in the market.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24

heavy pail Of smoke is a good adver-
tisement for any city, indicating great
industrial activity, but the Real Estate
board, the members of which are vitality
interested in keeping the city at its
best, evidently do not think so.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
Action for a Divorce.

Almost year passed and the Leep-
ers returned to Washington, Iowa. The
girl.wife said she had been cruelty
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24

tic stoking. One of the most convinc-
ing arguments employed by R. r.
Boardman, who acted as attorney for
the board in this case, was a series of
photographs reproduced herewith. The
pictures tell their own story. Two of
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-17

on the bay of San Francisco take place
at this season. The members of the
Ariel Rowing Club held their annual
meeting and election of officers early
in the week, the former directors being
almost without exception reelected.
There was large attendance and the
results of the election caused general
satisfaction, as the members feel that
the clubs interests have been we'll
served. The officers for the coming
year are: John j. Won Staden, presi-
dent; James Nj. O'Connell vice presi-
dent; Johnson Hardy treasurer; Eu-
gene Flanders, financial secretary;
Charles McAuliffe, recording secretary;
Charles Wilson, captain; Frank 10th,
lieutenant captain; n. A. Denvir, Will
liam Humid, Joseph Lewis, Herman
Opeldt and Edward Stack, directors;
Edward j. Lynch, delegate to the Pa
cific Association of the Amateur Ath-
letic Union, with Eugene Flanders and
James Wilson as alternates.
The new boathOuse of the club, near
the Arctic Oil Works, is nearly COM
plete inside, the locker rooms and sola-
rum being improvements that are ap-
preciated highly. The club is in a
sound financial condition and has ac-
quired several new boats recently. The
new officers will be installed at a din
ner to be held next month. A ladies
day" will take place early next year at
the boathouse.
The semi-annual meeting and cleo
ton of officers of the Dolphin SWIM
ming and Boating Club was held dur
ing the present week and resulted in
the selection of the following TO serve
during the coming half year: T. j.
Kennedy, president; j. ]. Cronin, vice
president; August Bertrand, recording
secretary: Frank Stab, financial secre-
tary; Adam Schuppert, treasurer;
Charles Barthold, sergeant at arms:
Val Kehrlein, captain; c. NJ. Farrell.
lieutenant captain William Remens-
perger. Henry Pernau and c. c. Ken
niff, members of the board of directors;
William Harris and S. Vicini, members
of the executive committee; A p.
Rothkopf, A ". Pape and w. o. Patch,
delegates to the Pacific Association Of
the Amateur Athletic Union; H. Nc
Kevitt. T. r. Dixon and w. Harris.
DELEGATES to the Pacific Association of
Amateur Oarsmen-
A meeting of the Pacific Association
of Amateur Oarsmen was held during
the week at the Columbia Bowling AL
leys. The constitution and bylaws as
drafted by the committee appointed for
that purpose were read, section by Sec
tion. and adopted. They follow the con-
stitution and bylaws of the National
Association of Amateur Oarsmen, with
some changes to adapt them to the con-
dftions present here. Committees are at
work on the classification of oarsmen
and the preparation of rules to govern
regattas. The next meeting of the as
sociation will be held on Tuesday even
ing, January 3, 1905.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-17
CROSS-COUNTRY
RACE PROPOSED
Vampire Football Players
Challenge Olympics for a
Four Mile Competition
COVET PERPETUAL CUP
Their Runners Are Already
in Training for the Con-
test Over the Fields
COVET PERPETUAL GU

A team made up of five members of
the Vampire Association Football Club
has challenged the Olympic Athletic
Club for the perpetual four-mile cross
country cup won by the Olympics two
years ago.
The Vampire team consists of w. w.
Robertson, d. III. Lees, A. A. Glarner,
Knight Pearson and J. Nolan. w. w.
Robertson was cross-country cham
pion of West Scotland. A. A. Glarner
is Frenchman by birth, but was edu-
Gated in England, and is well known
as a runner there and in France. At
a recent meeting of the Gaelic League
at Ingleside he won all the four run
ming races at distances from 100 yards
to the half mile. ID. NJ. Lees is a fast
runner and shows excellent form.
The Vampire team is already prac-
ticing for the contest, which, it is eX-
pected. will take place on Washing
toms birthday.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-17

is conceded to be the finest in the
world
AT the present time a soft-ball tour
nament is in progress at the Olympic
Club. Unfortunately the seating capa-
city is too small to accommodate the
members who are anxious to see the
experts in competition. In the first
Louis Levy, Fred Baine, Monroe
Green, Tom Powers, Adolph Pockwitz
and Began. These men are able to
play fast and control the ball, killing
at will. The second class has such
good men as G.. S. Kroger, a rising
young player; Guy Ransome, Clarence
Clough. Fred Sherry, Hugo Poheim and
score of others. Lester Hammer
smith, Frank Hooper, Walter Young,
William Mccarthy and at least twenty
others are in the third class. The tour
nament is likely to last at least three
weeks. The victor in the first class will
be awarded a handsome medal and
will also be given an opportunity to
play the clubs champion, AL Hampton,
for a handsome silver cup. Fred Baine
is picked to win the first class, with
Monroe Green runner-up. Both men
play exceptionally strong games and
are rivals for soft-ball honors.
The games played so far in the tour
nament have been highly exciting. The
rivalry is keen and the athletes are
putting forth their best efforts to get
inside the money The committee in
charge is an energetic one and the in
terest will not be allowed to flag.
Games are scheduled three nights a
week and on Sunday afternoons. Henry
Cory, the coming champion hard ball
player, is referee. Al Hampton and
Louis Levy alternate as scorers.
The men who play hard-ball are
looking forward to the tournament to
begin in January for the championship
of the coast. Four members will be
selected by the Olympic, St. Ignatius,
Sacramento, Stockton and Occidental
handball clubs. The games will be
played in the various courts of the city
and vicinity. The games will be singles
and the club winning the largest num-
Der of games in the series will be
awarded a handsome silver cup. The
Olympic Club will be represented by
AL Hampton, Henry Cory. George
James and Louis Levy. These men are
considered the best hard-b players
in the city. They have been playing
the game for many years and will
fittingly represent the winged 90
The Occidental Club will send Joe
Condor, Judge Haynes. Skelly and John
Mahoney into the court. These men
are experts in their line and will give
the Olympics a hard tussle for first
honors. All the men mentioned will go
into training and the devotees of the
Irish game will see some splendid con-
tests