The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10
THE NONPAREJL MAN

THE N0NPAREJL MAN IF
More "Reminiscences OF the Early Days In
MInneapolIs--A Great Scoop Scored
on the Discovery Of the East Side by
! Frank Nlmocks EARLY scaress About
the Falls Going Out.
Since the Press Club Souvenir came out
steady stream of people have been com
Ing IN with "reminiscences Of Minneapolis
during, before and after the war. Some
people recall perfectly when the street
cars ran out on Hennepin avenue as far
as Fifth street and how Twin City Rapid
Transit stock stood for months Il at-l0
Others recall how they used to go duck I
shooting at the pond where the Nicollet
house now stands. An old reporter tells Of t
the discovery of the East Side by Frank
Nimocks, then star reporter for the
Daily WhiZ. Frank rushed in with a.
scare head" story and the city editor
hurried out six or eight men to- inter-
view prominent citizens on the find. r. F.
Jones declared the East Side had been
there right along and Ed Bromley showed
a photograph called "The East Side Dur
ing the War Of 1872 It made no diff
ference, however, The story was printed /
and was followed by long editorial dis /
cussion as to whether or not there could
ever have been river with only one
bank. Frank said he once knew a town
with only one bank and that busted"
The campaign made by the North Side
to nave the railroad tracks bridged is also |
recalled. W. B. Chamberlain took his life
IN ms hands one day, crossed the tracks
and returned with a story which opened
with these lurid words:
Bridge the tracks or we perishn'
1t caused talk on the North Side and
prominent citizens hurried to the office to
deny that there was any danger of per-
fishing.
Still later on, during the census of 1880.
W.. III. Eusts and others discovered ST.
Paul and bloodshed was narrowly averted
when 1T was found that st. Paul had pad,
ded the census rolls almost as much as
we had.
An incident in reporting in the early
SOs that had great influence on us cub
reporters and did more to form our literary
style than any other one thing. was the
mastery way in which Hartley Davis
handled celebrated murder case some
where In the vicinity of Bridge square.
An old man who had kept little restau-
rant In small way for many years was
one night found murdered on the floor of
| his place, and the money drawer rifled.
Hartley, as the star Of the force, was
hurried out to "do'' the event I can see
to this day just how the type looked on
the page as Hartley started out his mas
terly description Of the incident. First
came the heading, followed by HartIey's
! description. 1t opened thus:
1 Blood!
Blood everywhere!
Blood on the floor, blood on the walls blood
on the pie, blood everywhere
In the early days whenever the water in
the river was high, there used to be
| ''scares'' in Minneapolis and fears were
openly expressed that the falls were going
out. It was feared that if the falls did
go out, everybody would rush over to ST.
Paul to live. Not only did they not go out
but now there are two falls here Such
being tho case, it would seem to he logical
to expect everybody in st. Paul to come
over here to live-or at least7to do their
Eshopping.
They are Uncle Tomming in st. Paul
this week.
They have health food called ''nutose."
'Steakose' and. tbakedpotatose'' meets
cur present demand.
Georgia reports her first shipment of
peaches. Have we not seen it stated
somewhere that this is a big country :?
Peaches ripe in Georgia and icicles ripe
in Nebraska.
At Wellesley, we blush to state, some
young ladies put red pajamas on the
statues Of Diana and the Woodsman.
Well, anyhow, the faculty are ahead two
nice pajamases.. s5
The Seattle Post Intenigen brings TO
light the reason you never see a one
armed or a one-legged Chinama1l. That
paper says that all who have lived among
Chinese know that they object strenuousy
to crippled member of their race being
allowed to live. 1t is said that they in :
variably make away with a cripple. on
the theory that he is taking the place in
the world Of a better Chinaman. -F
man with an idea wrote a long let
ter to Andrew Carnegie recently, suggest
ing that he should send a fleet. of coaling
SHIPS to the Eskimos.s on the ground
that they could not advance morally and
4 intellectually until they could keep them
selves warm. Mr.. Carnegies reply was as
follows:
Dear Sir: am considering a plan to supply
the natives Of Equatorial Africa with ice cream
ana electric fans, hence I cannot entertain your
excellent proposition just now.
Russia has borrowed s1OO, 1000, 900 in
Paris. Paris is easy We would never
have let them have it,
The New York Voice finds prohibition
presidential timber to burn. 1t says:
. While Henry B. Metcalf, Alfred Ma
nierre silas G. Swallow, Thomas R. Cars
kadon, Felix T. McWhirter and A. G..
Wolfenbarger are alive and well, we shall
not want man to stand before the peo-
1ple.' ~
Think of the wave Of popular enthu-
slasm with which the name Of McWhirter
. OF Of Swallow or of Wolfenbarger would
e be received! s5si so