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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

showing equal to that Of the New York
department. A lack OF money means
both lack Of men and Of apparatus. and
it is Of this more than of lack of adj
ministration that the insurance COM
panies have complained. One ofthe first
needs is high-pressure water system
for the business section especially, but
the city has not cent to devote to such
purpose. nor can it have 1t under its
present charter under which the city
is forced to pay for all improvements as
1t goes along, and can leave nothing for
future generations, as New York does.
One OF the most serious conditions in
chicago is not so much a lack of adequate
fire protection as 1t is the infIamable
condition of the city. Immediately sur
rounding the business center, with sky
scraping structures worth from half to
three million dollars each, is a district
hlled with the most dangerous fire traps,
and peopled with the worst and most
careless element that are to be found in
large city. A fire started in any por-
ton OF this belt, with a strong wind
blowing toward the business center,
would seriously endanger millions Of
dollars worth of property.
Time alone can change these condi-
tons, 1t seems. These fire traps must
eventually give place to more substan-
tlal structures. They were built before
the days of fire limits, and must now
be allowed to stand until such time as
their rotting timbers render them
amenable to condemnation on the part
OF the city. The great majority of them
will disappear within another rs years,
II the city is not burned up within that
time.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26
Cleaning the Streets.

Chicago is to have clean streets-in
spots. What the city government has
confessed an inability to accomplish or
CARNATIONS of property owners and bust
ness men, both in the residence and
business section, propose to dO-clean
the streets-in spots.
Two prominent clubs of the city, the
Merchants and the Commercial, have
undertaken the task of providing the
means for cleaning and keeping clean
the central business section, including
the retail district of State and Wabash,
the office district of Dearborn, Clark and
La Sale, and the wholesale district of
Fifth avenue, Franklin and Market-all
the territory within the elevated loop,
and a little besides.
While the city has devoted more money
and energy to this section than to any
other, there has been but a small portion
of it that could be said to have been kept
clean in the past, and that small portion
has been the work of private individuals.
Around both the wholesale and retail
establishments of Marshall Field & Co.
privately SluplOy GU ldDOIBIS nave swept
the streets constantly. The same thing
has been done by few others, but the
spots cleaned in this way have been so
widely separated as to merely attract at
tention because of comparison.
The movement for clean streets is,
even though it must be at private ex-
pense, is gaining ground rapidly on the
South and North sides especially. The
Hyde Park Improvement association
cares for a large section surrounding
Jackson and Washington parks; the
South Central association cares for a
large section lying between Twenty-sec-
ond and Thirtieth streets, while the Lake
Shore drive district on the North side
Is cared for by an association of which
Mrs. Potter Palmer is the moving
spirit.
Chicago is the only big city in Amer
lea where such methods are necessary.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

Washington as resembling Lincoln
somewhat not only in personal appear
ance. but also in the homely quality of
their minds. One is known as Uncle
Shelby" the other as Uncle Joe," just
as Lincoln was known Familiarity as
Uncle Abe" And as Justice Harlan
recently remarked, when a public man
is known universally as Uncle" that
is pretty sure sign he is close to the
hearts of the people and has the quail
ties that the people like.
AS for Hit, he p one of the most in
teresting of all the men in congress,
and he has long been recognized as one
of the very ablest. He has been chair
man of the foreign affairs committee
in the house for great many years, and
it has fallen to him to prepare the re-
publican side of almost every diplomatic
question which has been the subject of
partisan controversy during that time,
as. for instance, in the Hawaiian and
Cuban matters just before the war with
Spain. He has had longer and more
varied diplomatic experience than al
most any other man in public life, hav-
ing served as secretary of legation and
assistant secretary of state up to the
time he was elected to congress, while
before that he was associated with Lin
coin, first as the stenographer who re-
ported the Lincoln Douglass debates,
and second as one of the official staff
at the white house during and after the
civil war.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26
CADETS ARE CHOSEN.
District Candidates For West Point
and Annapolis.

Arthur McGill, of Montezuma, and
Carl Schipfer, of Sigourney, won first
places yesterday in the competitive
examination held by Congressman
Lacey in this city, for the selection
of a cadet to fill vacancy at the Naval
Academy and to fill the vacancy
which will next occur at West Point
The military cadet must be named
year in advance and the vacancy
will not occur until June, 1905.
Prof. E. j. H. Beard, of Newton, and
Prof. Stewart, of Ottumwa, conducted
the mental examination, and Drs. Bar
ringer and Crowder made the physi
cal examination.
The results were as follows:
Cadet at West Point-Arthur C
McGill, of Montezuma; and alternate
Dana H. Crissey, of Oskaloosa.
Mr.. McGill was chosen as the first
alternate to Annapolis last year, but
the cadet, Mr.. James, successfully
passed.
The naval cadets and alternates
selected are:
Cadet-Carl A. Schipfer, of Sigour.
ney.
1st alternate-George Axmear, of
Keswick.
I'd alternate-W. P. Pulse, of Sig.
Quincy.
Sd alternate-Edwin s. CAN'T, OF
Abba.
Congressman Lacey and those who
helped in the examination speak most
complimentary of the applicants, ev.
eryone of them being bright and en-
ergetic young man.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26
GROWTH OF CITY SCHOOLS
Municipal Ills Being Treated by Or
CARNATIONS of Public Spirited
Citizens--Coming Of the
Summer Visitors.
Growth of the Schools.

Chicago.--With the death of Thomas
Brennan few days ago the city lost one
of its historic characters. Brennan
had been in Chicago since 1849. That is
not remarkable, as there are hundreds
who have been here equally as long He
had seen the city grow from a western
village of $4,000 people without rail-
road to city of 100000 and the great
est railroad center of the world. Hun
dreds, too, have seen these things.
The one thing that made Thomas
Brennan remarkable, and a man long to
be remembered in the city, was his con-
nection with the public schools. For
almost 26 years he has served the city
as member of the board of education.
Though a democrat in politics, he has
been reappointed by every republican
mayor since 1878, when he was named
first by Mayor Heath.
During his incumbency of office he has
witnessed some remarkable changes in
the public schools of Chicago. When he
was first appointed to the board Chicago,
then a city of considerably less than
100000 people, had but "a public school
houses, in which were employed less
than 500 teachers, and at which there was
an attendance of less than $4,000 pupils.
To compare these figures with the sta
tistics of to-day gives an idea of the
encrmity Of the task the school board,
of which Brennan was an influential and
aggressive member, has had to accom-
plish, for now there are 300 public
schoolhouses in the city, employing
some 5000 teachers and giving instruc-
ton to 5000 pupils.
Previous to his connection with the
school board Brennan was an active
politician, but since 1873 he has taken
comparatively little personal interest
in politics, but has devoted his energies
to his official position and to the finan-
cial management and administration of
the two big Catholiccemeteries, Calvary
and Mount Hope, which he handled for
the church as the representative of the
late Bishop Feehan.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26


have fallen to him by the score, and it
has been simply out Of the question for
him to decline them.
Taft is nothing if not obliging, he en-
joys companionship, and for one of his
temperament it was fatal. So he has
succumbed to the inevitable and has
abandoned Washington altogether for
awhile to see if a complete divorce from
the place will do him any good. 1t is
high time.
More public men have been killed by
the social game in Washington than by
hard work. Too many dinners proved
fatal to Blaine, Reed, Hobart and dozens
Of others who might be named. All
three Of those men were favorite diners
out, and from their position as well as
their personal accomplishments were
constantly in demand. All three of
them you'd doubtless be alive to-day had
they been permitted to confine them
selves to their public duties in Wash
ington without the distractions of al
most nightly dinners.
1t is getting to be the practice now
among those who are the targets Of con-
tinuous invitations to devote as little
time as possible to each affair to eat
sparingly and to drink, if possible, not
at all. But even with these precau-
tions' the society game is great drain
on the vitality of public man who
comes to it with the WEAKNESS and wor-
rieS of his day at the capitol or the de-
partment.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

passed. At the same time the session
failed to come UP to the average OF in
crease in appropriations which, since
the beginning of the government al
most, has characterized each succeed
ing session Of congress; for there is a
stated law of increase following some-
what the growth of the country in pop
ulation, no matter what party happens
to be in control
This record is due partly to the or
ganization of the house, and partly to
the understanding which has prevailed
between the leaders of the house and
senate. There has never been a congress
where less friction developed between
the two branches or where the respec-
tive leaders knew better as time went on
what was likely to happen. There has
been little partisan bitterness, the only
spirited debIe in the house being be-
tween Cockrsn and Dalzell, which turned
chiefly on personal issues.
OF course, what gave the session its
opportunity for work was the special
session which President Roosevelt called
for November. That enabled congress
to dispose of great amount of routine
in organization, which usually delays
the beginning of the work of legislation
for over month, 1t is estimated that
the special session of three weeks, COM
Ing as it did, was worth at least six
weeks OF work accomplished.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

Semple. uor r,o+ho- Siod ~,
1912, and she at once took her mothers
place as the head of the presidents
household, thus becoming the youngest
woman who ever presided over the
white house, except Mrs. Cleveland.
She was noted then for her beauty and
wit, and her career as mistress of the
white house was brilliant. She was
greatly admired by the great men who
in the middle of the last century gave
distinction to the political and social
life of Washington.
Just before her father was elected vice
president she had married James A.
Semple, a wealthy planter with large
estates in Virginia. When Tyler sue
ceeded to the presidency on the death
of Harrison she came to Washington
with him for the first time.
Tyler appointed Semple paymaster
in the navy, and after Tyler left the
white house Mrs. Semple lived quietly
aa her husbands plantation until the
outbreak of the civil war, when he re-
signed from the United States navy and
became a paymaster in the confederate
navy.
The close of the war left the Samples
impoverished, and Mrs. Semple, leaving
her husband at home, went to Baltimore,
where she conducted a school for girls.
After her husbands death in the late
'70's Mrs. Semple, then about 60 years
of age, came to Washington to pass her
last days in the Louise Home.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26
The Fire Department.

The trouble with Chicago is not so
much lack of enterprise, pride or am
bition as a lack of funds. The same
cause that prevents municipal cleanli-
ness, prevents, according to Chief Mush-
am. competency in the fire department,
and handicaps the city with heavy insur-
ance rates because of lack of adequate
fire protection.
Whatever may be the faults of the fire
department and its administration, it Is
hardly to be expected that Chicago. with
less than half the money to expend for
fire protection than is at the command
Of the New York department. will make
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26
Going the City Pace.

More people met violent deaths an Chi
cago during the month of April than d.
miral Togo lost within the same period
in his numerous attacks on Port Arthur.
The coroner was called upon to deal with
266 cases of deaths by violence of vari-
GUS kinds.
OF this number 56 were cases of suicide,
the largest number of cases of this kind
in the history of the city. The suicidal
tendencies of the people are seemingly
on theincrease, and have been for the past
two or three years. Sociologists claim
the reason for this is to be found in the
faster rate of living. The effort to keep
pace with modern society, the desire for
expensive luxuries which they are I'M
able to crafty, drive men to self-de-
struction.
One sees evidence of this extravaganza
on every hand. There are more than
5000 automobiles being operated in the
city. Clerks of modest salaries are driv-
ing machines that cost we'll up into the
hundreds and thousands of dollars.
Membership lists at the expensive clubs
are filed and hundreds are on the wait
ing lists. New clubs are springing up
each week, and the cost of memberships
in the older ones are going up. The ex-
pensive restaurants are rushed with
business as they never were before. and
prices at many Of these places have been
advanced as much as so per cent.
Kf ping in "the swim" is driving men
to deS 'uctlon. and from that to suicide
is but short step. 1t is not the poor so
much as the well-to-do that are taking
their own lives.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON. I
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26
A REVOLUTION
IN SIDE WALKS.
THE CITY COUNCIL TAKES AN AID.
VANcED STEP.
ALL BRICK WILL BE TABooED
Old Walks May Be Destroyed and Nc
Material Hereafter Used in Con-
struction Except Cement
and Dressed Stone.

The city council met in adjourned
session Friday evening for the pur.
pose of considering the new sidewalk
ordinance that came over from the
meeting of the 18th instant The
new ordinance will be known as No.
254 and it is quite important to the
citizens of Oskaloosa. The title
reads: "An ordinance to provide for
the construction, reconstruction and
maintenance of sidewalks and for the
manner of constructing and paying
therefor, and for assessing the cosrs
therefor and the tax against property
fronting thereon"
The new ordinance was framed by
the ordinance committee of the coun.
CID. City Solicitor Bolton had drawn
up an instrument in response to the
instructions of the mayor and coun-
Gil, but the committee upon examin.
ing the same were not satisfied with
1T and went to work upon one that. in
their mind, would be more fitting to
the situation. This was the ordi-
nance presented to the council last
evening.
1t was read the first time on motion
and passed. Then on motion the
rules were suspended and the council
proceeded with the second reading.
1t was carefully considered and was
ordered read section by section, dis
cussed and adopted as the council
proceeded. The second reading was
not completed last evening, however.
The council worked until after eleven
o'clock upon the sections and we're
not half through with the work at
that time. A motion to adjourn to
Monday evening prevailed.
The ordinance had a provision for
brick walks, but this section did not
meet with the approval of the council.
Under the acts of the last state as
sembly sidewalk may be paid for
in the same manner as street paving,
in seven annual installments. This
makes, the cost of the Improvement
SO that it can be reached by all prop
erty owners. 1t was thought that on
ASNONAAS Jim pIuS otlhS SuUulu
not be considered and the new ordi-
nance will effectually do away with
ain such walks in the city of Oska-
LOOM
me- Of the points brought out in
the hading of the sections engender-
ed considerable discussion and the
meeting was a lively one in many re-
spects. ......
For An Eight-Hour Day.
Councilman w. S. Kenworthy pre-
scented a resolution to the council at
the meeting that was too weignty and
voluminous problem for considera-
ton at this meeting. The resolution
as stated declares eight hours to con-
stitute a days labor for Iaborers in
the employ of the city of Oskaloosa.
1t states that twenty cents an hour
shall be the price paid for laborers
and three dollars and fifty cents per
day for man with team.
The resolution was laid upon the
table for the evening and will have
further consideration at another
meeting.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

Inc Louise HOME who founded the
principal bank of Washington, and who
among other benefactions presented
Daniel Webster with the handsome
house, since known as the Corcoran
house, and now occupied by Chauncey
M. Depew.
|. At the close of the war he was perhaps
the wealthiest man in the country Of
southern proclivities, and those who had
been left destitute by the four years
fighting came to him in droves for re-
lief. Most of the cases were pitiful.
There were scores of women delicately
bred and used to life of comfort who
suddenly found themselves widowed
and helpless, with poverty staring them
in the face. Corcoran took pity on them
He planned such charity as had never
been conceived before. He established
a home which should be open only to
women of the south of gentle birth and
that home, named in memory of his
wife, "The Louise Home" is still main
tanned through his endowment for the
purposes which he had in mind.
1t is a spacious building, surrounded
by ample grounds, in part of the city
where land has trebled and quadrupled
in value since Corcoran's day, in the
very midst of the fashionable residence
section of the city. Among the inmates
may be found relatives of almost every
eminent southern statesman or soldier
who spend the days in gossiping among
themselves about the brave days of old
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

which he has been
condemned e We r
since he c a m e
h o m Q from the
Philippines. He
reached Washing
toni in the last week
of January an d
from that time to
the present there
has hardly been a
night that he has
not been claimed
for some function
at which he was
the principal social
attraction. Recep-
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

gular and one OF
the most meritor-
ious. 1t was es-
tablished soon aft
er the close of the
civil war by the
banker Corcoran,
who was a south
erner in sentiment
and who in that
day was by far the
wealthiest man in
the District of CO.
lumbia.
1t was COrcoran
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26
The saloon Habit in london.

A count of the church and saloon
attendance in Paddington. district of
London having population of 142 900,
made by agents Of w. T. Stead on a
recent Sunday, showed that the saloon
attendance was the greater by ten to
one. Only 10000 women attended
church. while $4,000 were found In sa-
looms
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

uously mentioned
as possible candi-
dates for vice pres
ident on the repub-
lican ticket should
all have b e e n
among the few sur
vivors of t h o S e
who knew Lincoln
well.
Cannon, Cullom
and Hit were all
associated in some
way with Lincoln
during his life, and
both Cannon and
Cullom have been
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

been the busiest in
the history of that
body. In order to
find so short a ses-
sion Of a so-called
long session" of
congress the his
torians have to go
back before the
war, and in work
actually a Geo M
plished in so short
a time there is no
preceding congress
which excelsit. No
other session Of
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26
Japanese HOUSES Arc Small.

Most OF the Japanese dwellings havs
but one floor. Portable partitions d.
vide the floor into as many apartments
as are necessary. These partitions are
arranged In panels about three feet
square. The panels are SO contrived as
to be closed with framed paper shut
ters, which slide in groves.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26
BRIGh S
DISEASE

Many people who are neglecting
symptoms of kidney trouble,
hoping lit will wear away" are
drifting towards Bright's Disease,
which is kidney trouble in one Of
its worst forms.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

e / 6 h t VT curt b
birthday in t h e
quiet of the Louise
Home, established
many years ago by
w. w. Corcoran,
t h e Washington
millionaire philan-
thropist, as a re-
treat for southern
gentlewomen of
Slender means.
Mrs. Letitia Ty-
Ter Semple is the
second daughter OF
President Tyler.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

Four Davenport boys have been
bound over to the Scott county grand
jury for attempting to break up a
party by the use of bad eggs.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

The Iowa State camp meeting will
be held at Clear Lake July SIT, to
be followed by he Epworth League
assembly, July 1926.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

Telephone wires in the business
district Of Keokuk are to be placed
under ground.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

short, has ever equaled it in the num-
Der Of reports made by committees, and
It comes near the head of the list in bills
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

Funds are being received by Cen
trail university, at Pella, for the cree.
ton Of new building.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

Mary A and 8 W Loughridge
to Hannah II Ives, lots 2,
8 and in block SO in Eddy
Vile. ....-. 500 90
George Fl and Mary Wymore
to James L and Harry
Mitchell, sc Ia of 17-77-14- $500 00
Mary O thinning to In
Kirkpatrick, part of lot 6
in Myers and SmiUh's addi-
ton to oskaloosa, ..,.......... 1900 90
Heirs of VIM Hiatt to quit
claim to Melvin 8 Freeman
40 acres In 36-76-16 .......-...-- 2 90
O e and Mary Elliott to John
Moore, seven acres in "a
74-17--,-,,..--.. ,--..........,,-,-...... 700 90
VIM Kindig to Grant Wy ....
more, land in 13.77-16.-. 1,10b 90
j A and Addie B Spapgler to
Lucretia Lewis, lot 4 in block
IL of New Sharon. $50 90
B F Cooper, quit claim, to
John Jenkins, land In 49,
74-17-....--- ............. ,......-.... 1000 90
John Swanson to Harvey M
Hamilton, acre in 14.74-14 5000, 90
w @ and Mary E Ramsay,
lot 81 and of lot 80 in
Prices addition to Beacon 1900 90
w F and e Richie to VIM
O Ramsay, lot II in Ninde
Williams & 90 addition to s
oskaloosa. ..,,.,....,..........-s, 100 90
Heirs of J 81 England to
Lizzie Cox, land in 2S-74.16
in 2s-74-16.--.,.,.-..,..........,..... $3.50 90
] A and Bella w Brown, quit
claim to e z Smith, jots
and In block o P and
lots 1-2-3.4-5.6-7.8 in block
2 west addition to Peoria,
Jane Morris to Susie E Nc
Fadden lot Is in Givin.- $50 90
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-05-26

Storm caves are being constructed
at the country school houses of Shell
by county.