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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-27
HUGS DIVIDE A CLUB
Lovemakine Declared Basis of
Amateur Theatricais.

CHICAGO, March 26.-Are amateur
theatricals menacing the foundation
rocks of society and threatening to
cause the whole social structure to col
lapse? Mrs. Frank T. Bliss, member
of the Archie and Colonial clubs, says
that amateur theatricals, with their
hugs and kisses, are shocking enough
to cause just such a calamity. Fur
thermore, she declares that eight South
side homes were devastated by anna
teur theatricals given by the old Oak
land club, and that three family quar-
rels have resulted from plays given by
the members of the Colonial club.
She is making amateur theatricals an
issue in the coming Archie club election.
She says that Mrs. William Parker,
candidate for president of that organi-
zation, writes plays, amateur plays,
and is, therefore, an undesirable candi-
date.
Mrs. Bliss and her friends are deter
mined to defeat Mrs. Parker. They
have been carrying on lively cam
paign for some time. Carriages roll
from house to house along the South
side boulevards, carrying canvassers
for votes for both candidates-the am
ateur theatrical candidate and the
Richard w. Phillips, the present presi-
dent of the Archie club, is the candidate
of Mrs. Bliss and her friends
The only thing Mrs. Bliss has to say
against the plays written by Mrs.
Parker is that they are SILLY and ridic-
ulous" This is taken to be a recon-
mendation of them by the friends of
| Mrs. Parker, as they are intended to
be comedies.
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HUMAN STEAM ENGINE
RAN WILD IN STREET
Only a Two ear-old Affair, So Did
No Damage.

NEW YORK, March 26.-Master
Nelson Kenworth, two and one-half
years old, who has mechanical turn
of mind, decided for himself he would
rather be steam engine than go for
a walk with his aunt yesterday morn
ing. He got out of the house and
the next seen of him was on the street.
car track at Columbus avenue and
Eighty-fourth street. He had trans
formed himself into a real live steam
engine, and with vigorous "choo -choos"
of exhaust bore down on street cars.
Swearing motormen had to pull up
short until Master Nelson turned him
self around and off the track in true
roundhouse style, and then he would
wait for the next car. Policeman Tim
othy Murphy picked him up and start
ed with him to the police station.
LET go!" he yelled Don't you
know am a steam engine?" and he
worked his feet piston-wise against
the policeman's ribs. At the West
Sixty-eighth street police station they
gave him the back room to himself,
and the cars he switched and ditched
and side tracked would have sent in
sane a New York Central yard man
ager.
His mother, Mrs. Louis Kenworth,
of No. "a West Eighty fourth street,
came in in CONSERVATION over her lost
boy just as he was blowing out a cylin-
der head She bore him off after the
fashion of through express.
''I am afraid that engine will go into
the repair shop" remarked Sergeant
Thompson, as he noted the panied ex-
preston of Master Nelson's face.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-27
GOTHAM CHOIR BOYS
DEMAND MORE PAY
Tell Rector Morgan They Must
Have Fifty Cents a Service
and Start Strike.

NEW YORK, March 26.-The Rev.
D. Parker Morgan. D. D., of the Church
Of the Heavenly Rest, has choir
boys strike on his hands. Until last
Sunday afternoon DR.. Morgan seemed
to have assumed that this strike was
joke. Three small boys, the oldest Of
them nine years old, informed him
sternly at that time. however, that the
matter was serious and demanded i'm
mediate attention.
DR.. Morgan and the other authorities
of the church are now wondering
whether it would be inconsistent with
their dignity to ask for police protec-
ton for the non-striking members Of
the choir. Dire violence has been
threatened for the two sopranos who
refused to abide by the action of the
majority last Sunday.
The trouble all began with Lent.
Mr.. Morgan desired to have an extra
choral service on Sunday afternoons.
the sopranos, all small boys, receive
from Sc to 81 a week for the regular
services. These extra services were not
arranged by the cheirmaster, Henry B..
Duncan. 1t was understood that Nine.
the organ at the special services and
would have charge of the choir. The
small boys understood that they were
to receive so cents for each extra serv-
ice
They were disabused one rainy Sun
day afternoon when the congregation
was small, as was the offertory. After
the service Citrate Brown met the eight
small sopranos and told them that the
offertory hadn't amounted to enough to
give them more than 35 cents each.
Eight small boys went out to the
! sidewalk and put their heads together.
At the following Fridays rehearsal
! they handed in a worn and not over
clean piece of paper on which was
| scrawled an ultimatum substantially
as follows:
Rev. D. Parker Morgan, D. D.
Rev. Sir: We will work hereafter at
| unless it rains. We will not work for
| less than 35 cents under any circumstances
and for SO cents if pleasant day.
The rector did not seem to take any
notice of this note until last Sunday
| just before the hour for the afternoon
service. Then he met the choir in the
| vestry room, and said to the sopranos:
my dear boys, what is this? Is it a
| joker"
No. said the foremost boy, at amt
| a joke, DR.. Morgan. It's business"
Dear me-" said DR.. Morgan, cit
seems to me that it is an insult"
! Nine. Jones heard of the insurrec-
| ton about this time, and had hurried
consultation with her naughty charges.
| They assured her that they wouldnt
sing for less than half a dollar each.
She went to DR.. Morgan, but he wasn't
| inclined to make terms.
Then a member of the church who
knew something of the dissension took
| the small boys aside and told them that
/ he was glad to see them stand out for
their rights, but that they were en-
| dangering the prosperity of their friend
Nine. Jones. He made them this offer:
IF you will go ahead and sing, and
thus save Nine. Jones from all blame,
and then refuse to take less than SO
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-27

haitian, the End1cOtt, the Pioneer
Press and the New York Life" he said.
But our fuel account here is very
moderate we burnt two tons and
half of anthracite last winter
An Investment Comparison.
AS a bait for Eastern investors, no
local property can compare with the
Gem building But for purely parallel
purposes may be mentioned the Hotel
Ryan, Sixth and Robert streets, the
largest business building in st. Paul.
The floor area of the Ryan, calcu-
lated yesterday by City Building In
spector Ellerbee, is 231, zoo square feet;
that of the Gem building is It's feet;
the relative economy Of space being
some 1900 times in favor Of the small
er building. In cost OF construction
the Gem excels again. The Hotel Ryan
represents an investment of 100000 for
the building alone-more than 5000
times that of it's competitor. Yet the
estimated rentals Of the Ryan hotel
and offices included are said by experts
to be little more than z per cent per
annum upon the cost of the land and
the improvements, as against 100 per
cent for Mr.. Parkers speculation
Nevertheless, the Gem and the Ryan
buildings, each admirable examples OF
Northwestern realty, have not been du-
plicated throughout the business dis
trfct of st. Paul. There are here, as
In every Western city, vacant lots In
the center of the commercial quarter;
there are lots improved" with ancient
and dishonorable structures wholly
inferior to the Gem in everything ex-
cept their size.
Good reasons can be advanced, how
ever, why the typical Western city
is never solidly built up. why it Is
seldom built UP as solidly, indeed, as
is the city of ST. Paul.
s"Take the biggest piece Of unim-
proved property down town explained
H. S. Fairchild, the Nestor of the local
realty men. Il mean, added Mr.. Far
child Yesterday, 1.-THE square bounded
by Rosabe1 street and Broadway and
by Fourth and Fifth streets. That
square is merely fringed about with
some tumble-doWn frame stores ana
dwellings one or two stories high. The
rents collected will probably not cover
the taxes though, of course, nave no
accurate information on that point In
any case, the land, considering its
value. pays almost nothing. And the
owners, as happen to know, have
often discussed plans for possible I'M
provements.
"a man on the outside wonders when
he sees this square. He says, why
don't they improve it, Why don't they
put up some big buildings ike the
Northern Pacific offices across Broad
way. the Great Northern offices
block down Rosabel, or big jobbing
house like the Gordon building across
Fourth street"
"Of course, why not? Simply be-
cause new railroad companies are not
establishing general offices every day
or every year or every ten years, and
because new jobbing houses. that want
six or seven story buildings. are not
crowded for locations even in a rap
idly growing jobbing center like st.
Paul
ssWithin a few years, no doubt, the
expected tenant or purchaser will come
along and this square will be promptly
covered with big buildings; the uitl-
mate income from the property is GER
tain to be large.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-27
Of the amateur play in general, Mrs

Of the amateur play in general, Mrs.
| Bliss had many things to say when
seen yesterday at her residence, 1865
Grand boulevard.
Eight homes on the South side
she said were broken UP by amateur
theatricals given at the old Oakland
club and three family quarrels have
resulted from performances at the Co
lonial club.
"Other theatricals have scenes de-
voted to pink teas and afternoon re-
ceptions. We have too much of pink
teas and receptions in real life without
picturing them on the stage. 1t is too
disgusting. too ridiculous, to see lovely
girls painted and powdered taking part
in these shows, and it is bad enough
for men to play the part of the villain
to earn money without playing 1t for
amusement.
Most of the theatricals are given
just as excuses to let the young men
and young women have a chance to
make love to each other and to kiss
each other. A young man once told
me at a dance that he had grown so
used to making love in the amateur
theatricals that he made love out of
habit to every girl he met
Mrs. Bliss objected to young hus
bands and wives making love to other
than their wives and husbands on the
| amateur stage and said that the late
| suppers incident to theatricals also
contributed their share to the destruc-
| tive work begun on the stage.
''The amateur theatrical she con-
cluded, sis a menace to society and to
young womanhood. Mrs. Parker writes
! plays, and therefore we do not want
her to be president of the Archie club.
The club is divided into two factions
Tho faefion that wants the club to
devote its attention to art, philan-
thropy and culture, and the faction
that favors making the club purely
social organization. I belong to the
| former faction"
Mrs. Bliss denounced the minstrel
show to be given next month at the
Colonial club, in which she says love-
| ly girls will appear with their faces
| blackened."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-27
ENGINEERS DON'T
LOSE THEIR nerve
Many of Them on Fast Flyers
Have Been in Big Acct
dents.


BALTIMORE, Nd, March 26.-"For
nv mart. believe the reason for the re-
cent epidemic of wrecks" said COM
mercial traveller in the smoking com
partment of Pullman car, is due 10
the fact that the nerves OF the engl-
reers are brought to such high ten
sioff after a number of bad accidents
that they lose control of themselves
THAT'S just where you are wrong,
quietly said a gray haired man with a
tanned, Weather-beaten face VINO sat
near the window smoking cigar.
think YOU will all credit me with
knowing what 1 am talking about, as
have been a railroad engineer for the
last thirty years; have run all klnos
of engines, from a mine dummy TO
hundred-ton passenger engine with q
seven-foet wheel, and have railroaded
on all the principal lines in the United
States
1.-THE great majority of people seem
to have the idea that the engineer OF
q fast train is always In fear of run
ms and collisions and that he is under
such a nervous strain that he some
times has to be lifted from the cab
when he reaches the end of his run.
That isn't so. An engineer has too
many duties, such as watching his Sig
nails, keeping water in his boiler and
seeing that he is on his schedule time,
to have much time to worry himself
about accidents that are likely to hap
pen. AS long as he pays the proper at
tention to his own train he knows that
is all he can do, and that if anything
goes wrong it is beyond his control.
So he doesn't take up any of his time
worrying. Accidents will happen, no
matter how much care is taken to pre-
vent them, and sometimes there can't
be found any reason for them; but
you may be sure that they are never
caused through the engineer losing his
nerve
The engineer then related a number
of incidents Illustrating his contention
and wound up with this one:
Some years ago, when Robert Gar
rett was vice president of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad, he came to
Grafton, w. Va, with q number OF
friends in a train made up of private
cars bound west. He wanted to reach
Parkersburg, the end of the next di-
vision, as fast as it was possible tC
run there. This division, 104 miles
long, was the toughest on the whole
road, which was saying a good deal al
that time. In the 104 miles there were
twenty-four tunnels and forty eigh1
bridges. and the road went UP hill
and down through the whole distance
Some Of the grades were over 40 fee
to the mile and five miles long, not t.
speak of the sharp curves. of course
fast time was almost out of the ques
ton.
George Robinet, one of the tastes
engineers on the road. had charge O.
the special train. The first stop was t.
be Clarksburg, twenty-five and hal
miles away. George took his train a.
fast as he could up the hills, and whel
he reached the top he would simply le
it drop down the other side. He reach
ed Clarksburg in twenty-five minutes
with party Of thoroughly scared pas
sengers. When the train stopped a
the station Mr.. Garrett came forward
to the engine and thanked Robinet fol
his fine run, but said that he ha(
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-27
cents, I will give you SO cents each out
Of my own pocket and take you all to

cents, ]. will give you SO cents each out
of my own pocket and take you all TO
dinner"
At once and without dissenting
voice the eight sopranos decided to
sing. They did. They all sang as best
they knew how. except small Frank
Guest. Citrate Brown spoke severely
to young Guest after the service and
threatened to have him disciplined. The
youth was not respectful.
After the service the sopranos, all In
line, were marched up to the table TO
be paid off. They had sized up the
ofrertory and figured that there was no
lack of money. The first boy to ap-
proach the curate, who was handing
out the overtime pay, was little Tom
my Strong. He counted over the change
painstakingly and found but 80 cents;
Give me 90 cents, or give me notn-
in" said he. IF the church can't pay
me all it owes, can wait"
The curate speechlessly allowed him
to pass. The next two boys were sub
stitutes, and 1t had been agreed that
they might take the 35 cents, but their
example was too much for the next
two youths. The curate began to
feel better. But the next three boys
made up for the complaisance of the
others.
81 want SOL" said Louis Sorg. you
won't gimme so? Well, If the church
is as poor as all that, don't want any
of it's money He showed his So cents
back across the table.
'"Thirty-fve cents!" exclaimed Frank
Guest.
Say, drop that back in the plate for
me. wouldn't rob the church of that.
The two others of the eight walked
out without approaching the table. The
four boys who had refused to work at
the rainy day rate went out to the side
walk to find the two youths who had
repudiated the ultimatum. The repu-
diators fled, but word was sent to them
that they would better stay away from
Fridays rehearsal.
There was choir boys strike at the
church once before, and on that occa-
sion a bench dropped from an upper
window on the heads Of those who did
not agree with the majority.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-27
MOUNTAIN MAID SAVES
THE FAST EXPRESS
Little Girl Observes Washout In Time to
Prevent a Wreck.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 26.-The
lives of many passengers on a Chesapeake
& Ohio train passing through Hinton
on the way to this city were saved by
the heroism of little mountain maid.
Essie Hoge is the name of the little hero
inc, and she has just reached her ninth
year. The girl was visiting friends near
Mud Tunnel. Noticing the track at the
approach of the tunnel covered with earth
and rocks, which were washed.down from
the mountain side by the heavy rains of
the night previous, she waited for the
approach of the train The little girl
walked down the track several hundred
yards. and with her little kerchief gave
warning to the engineer. The latter saw
her just in time to stop the train before
it entered the tunnel After the train
was brought ito full stop, Capt. F. HI.
Atkinson, who was in charge of the train,
took the little maid in his arms and ca
reSSed her. "A purse was made up by the
grateful passengers and will be forwarded
to Miss Hoge. Her home is in Steel, Va.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-27
DEVOTEES OF OMENS
CLASH ON THE STAIRS
Mistress and Maid Would Not Make Way
for Each Other.

MARION. Ind, March 26.-Mollie Shaw
Ter believes in omens. She works for
Mrs. Jeff Sizemore. or did until yesterday
morning Mrs Sizemore also believes in
omens and signs and things.
Mrs. Sizemore was upstairs this morn
ing. She started down. AT the same time
Mollie started up.
GO baclk!", shouted Mrs. sizemore.
TITS bad luck to pass on a stairway.
AZ won't go back" answered Mollie.
ITS bad luck, to turn back after you
Il say You will go back" said Mrs.
Sizemore. in threatening voice.
IT say 1 will not go back" retorted
They linked" Women, hairpins, dust
pans, brooms and other household articles
were so thick they were indistinguishable:
When the breeze had blown over and
the police took Mollie to Jail. where she
displayed a badly disfigured countenance,
she said: ri wouldn't turn back for her.
I turned back for woman in Louisville,
where 1 worked once before, and the next
day my husband got divorce from me. I"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-27
HUNTERS KILL GIANT
PANTHER IN SWAMP
Encounter Huge Beast in Tippo
Swamps, Mississippi.

JACKSON, Miss, March ga huge
panther was slain in the Tippo swamps
of Tallahatchie county by party of
hunters, who were engaged in a deer
hunt
He was brought to bay after a hard
chase of several hours, and came to a
stand in a canebrake, where he fought
desperately with the dogs.
Two charges of buckshot and one
load of squirrel shot finished him, how
ever. The panther measured feet 8
inches from tip to tip, and when placed
on the scales tipped the beam at 225
pounds
The hide was secured by Prof H.
H. Wemble, superintendent of educa-
ton of Tallahatchie county This is
the first large panther that has been
killed in the delta for several years.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-27
TPHU S IHR6EST md It's SIMPLEST BUSINESS BUILDING


$4,000 That, you see, would never
do for temporary improvement.
I'm other parts of the business dis
trict inadequate improvements, or the
absence of all improvements, can
usually be accounted for in much the
same way. To illustrate: Everybody
has noticed, I suppose, the group Of
ramshackle frame cottages on the
south side of Fifth street, close to Rob-
ert street and alongside of the Man
haitian building and the Endicott
building, two first class modern ONCE
structures, crowded with tenants.
1.-THE old buildings at this point were
put up forty years ago, perhaps.
imagine they're vacant now. They're
almost worthless.
"The land here belongs to the Bos-
ton capitalists that own the Endicott
building or buildings, one OF Wnlcn
faces Fourth street, you know, the 9TH
er faces Robert; and the owners in
tended to extend the Fourth street
building across to Fifth street, making
a T-shaped ground plan with buildings
on three streets. But before these
men put in the north addition they
want to make sure that they can fill
their extra offices and stores with
tenants.
cts that way in every Western city,
is along its narrow island. We have
few districts where every new build
ing is certain to get tenants without
waiting. It's considerably cheaper to
nav taxes on vacant lots, or on lots
with merely nominal improvements,
than it is to erect new buildings that
can't be rented promptly or profitably.
whether property in the heart OF
the business district is good thing
~ <1xv,, donandS- III dQnen0S. most
decidedly Now, stranger might be
easily induced to buy real estate on
Wabasha street, between Third and
Fourth streets-only half block from
the court house, we could tell him;
only a block from the street car loop
and the federal building; right down
town close to some of our biggest re-
tail stores; next to the Selby car line
that is loaded every day with prosper
Gus shoppers just beyond the Waba-
sha street bridge that brings many
thousand people into town each day
from the West side.
who could resist such arguments?
All true, too, every one of them. But
what, in fact, is the rental value along
this block?
Exactly at the corner of Fourth and
Wabasha stores could be rented easily
on a basis, 1 should say, of $1,000 to
the front foot. But go south along
Wabasha to the adjoining lots; values
drop at once; rental basis would prob
ably fall to $3.50 front foot. Because,
for various reasons, comparatively Mt
tie business is done exactly at this
point. If you go half block farther
north. the situation becomes altogether
different.
TITS easy to see, then, how mistaken
Henry George was IN his single tax
theories. He wanted to tax unimprov-
ed property so heavily that the own
ers would nave to put up suitable Inn
provements. But unless the lawmakers
could legislate tenants into every new
building, a good part of every business
district would be made up of vacant
lots forfeited to the state. If the orig
inal owners didn't build, they'd be
crushed by heavy taxes; If they did
build, where would they get tenants.
That's the problem that confuses me-.
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warehouse, would cost a lot Of money.
This is made land. Nearly all the
wholesale district was marsh little
more than thirty years ago. Our cows
used to wander down there after fine,
fresh grass. They'd generally get the
grass, but we'd often lose a COW; the
mud would swallow her up.
so the Foundations for first class
building in that neighborhood must be
q regular forest of piles surmounted
by tons of railroad iron and more tons
of cement before single stone is laid.
Why, 1 should estimate that the foun-
dation of a building of moderate
width and extending from Broadway
to Rosabel would cost not less than