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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
IN NEW CHURCH HOME
Elm Swedish Baptist Church Was Dedl-
Gated Yesterday.


Swedish Baptists from all parts of the
city filed the new Elm church, Thir-
teenth avenue and Madison street NE
yesterday afternoon for the dedicatory
services. The present building. which
has been erected at cost of ST, 500, is
the third church home which the prosper
Gus and growing congregation has erected
in the past five years. In addition a par
sonage has been built during that time.
John Erglund, treasurer of the church,
reported that $5,269 had been raised since
last July for the present building. Sub
scriptions and gifts received yesterday
netted $4,000 more, so that the new build
ing is already half paid for. The new
building is of red pressed brick and taste
fully designed and finished thruout. The
arrangement is convenient and utilities
all the available space to the best ed
vantage.
Rev. NJ. Berglund opened the exercises
with a song service, which was followed
by scripture reading and prayer, led by
Rev. A. Gordh. The pastor, Rev. V. E.
Hedberg. delivered the address of well
come and Rev. E. Sandell of Chicago, a
former pastor Of the church, preached the
dedicatory sermon. Rev. E. r. Pope. SUI
perintendent of the Baptist State missions,
Rev. A. o. Williams, district secretary of
| the American Home Mission society; Rev.
| o. S. Lindberg of Cokato. and Rev. ]. A.
| Dahlstrom took part in the services. Rev
| V. E. Hedberg, the present pastor, has
served over five years and has brought
! about a remarkable growth in efficiency
and organization.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
AT THE THEATF.RS
orpheum-Modern Vaudeville.

orpheum-Mode Vaudeville.
The Peschkoff troupe Of Russian dane
ers furnish the most attractive turn at the
Orpheum this week They give their ma
tional dances with dash that wins in
slant favor. The troupe is made up Of
four young women and man. The work
of the latter in gymnastic dancing is
something entirely now to this country
leaving the Italian male dancers far in
the rear.
The show opens with sensational bicycle
riding by Count De Butt. With freak
makeup and clumsiness' that is only
apparent, the count rides "a bicycle in
every style and many times risks breaking
his neck in his more difficult tricks. The
Nichols sisters, billed as Kentucky
bellies" sing coon songs and do a little
dance that catches on well with the au-
dience.
John c. Rice and Sally Cohen, in sour
Honeymoon are the victims Of the con-
ventional vaudeville sketch in which a
bridegroom attempts to deceive the bride
| so as to attend a prizefght. There is
nothing particularly striking about the
act. It has some funny situations and
the talented actors make the most OF
their short time on the stage.
Grace Ulmer of Minneapolis made her
first appearance in vaudeville and received
young woman has a pure soprano voice
and did not suffer from any visible ner-
vousness. She had some difficulty insget-
| ting away from the audience, as 1t was IN
sistent in the matter of encores.
! The work of Kartelli, the slack-wire per-
former. was the most sensational seen In
the city this year. KartelH goes to hand
stands and swings on the wire, and finally
stands on one hand on the slender ano
swaying support. He then rides bicycle
and caps his act with riding a unicycle
Ito and fro on the wire
| Lew Sully makes a good impression
with his mother inIaw and family gags
1 but should have refused to respond to the
4 last two encores. His local Init" missed
: fire and the last song was Of questionable
taste for refined vaudeville Coloree
pictures on the kinodrome furnished
closing novelty. j. H. Ritchie.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
FIREWORKS UP TO DATE.
PORT ARTHUR WILL FALL EACH
NIGHT AT STATE FAIR-VAST
SCENIC SETTING AND 400 PEo-
PILE IN SPECTACLE.

The greatest of all fireworks specta-
cles yet seen at the Minnesota state fair
has been engaged for the season Of
1905, and the official announcement is
now made by the board of managers.
This show will be Pain IS latest and best
spectacle, "The Fall of Port Arthur"
a thoroly realistic representation of
war in the far east, which will be put
on each evening of fair week. The pic
turesque surroundings of the besieged
city allow of an unusually attractive
scenic display, which has been taken
advantage of in the new production,
fully twenty carloads of massive seen
cry being shown in the reproduction of
the fallen fortress.
Four hundred costumed people partic-
ipate in the stirring scenes of this
monster open-air drama. There is
startling realistic naval conflict in front
OF the besieged city between huge war
vessels of the Japanese and Russian
nations, during which several hundred
real shells are exchanged and Russian
warship is blown up and sunk by a Jap
anese vessels is then directed on Sun
Hill fort and the Notifications of the
city. During this terrific lombard
ment bridges are blown up and fortif-
| cations destroyed.
The early scenes of the spectacle will
depict everyday life in the picturesque
| city, especially showing the festivities
Of ''Saint Day. with the singing of
the stirring national anthems and the
blessing of the priests bestowed upon
the Russian soldiers as they depart for
battle. Opportunity is also taken of
these scenes to introduce a pretty Rus
sian ballet, acrobatic feats by troupes
OF native performers, a daring exhibit
ton of Cossack horsemanship, etc.
Following the victorious army's en-
try into the fallen city and its surren-
der to the "Japs,o comes the magnif-
cent display Of fireworks, without which
a Pain spectacle would be as Clam
let ~ without the Dane.
The fair opens this year on Sept. 4
and continues one week. closing on
Sept. 9. Half-fare rates have been Sc
cured on all railroads for points within
200 miles Of Minneapolis and st. Paul
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
Fine Showing for Minneapolis.

Bradstreet s tables of bank clearings
for April show that the business Of the
country for that month, as measured
by bank clearings, exceeded any previ-
Gus April by SIS per cent and April of
last year by 14.S per cent. The totals
in Minneapolis for April, 1905, were
$66,035,o0S and for 1904, $51,25S, l30,
an increase Of nearly s per cent. 1t is
interesting to compare the totals In
Minneapolis with other cities Of ap-
proximately the same size. From such
comparison we find that while Mime
apolis showed a total of over sixty six
millions, Cleveland falls behind with
$65,s29,00O; Milwaukee, 33,444 900;
New Orleans slightly exceeds with $685.,
$4,000; Buffalo reports only $26,673,
600; Detroit, $45 ,537 900, and st. Paul
$25,2O9,O00. Kansas City is the only
city having less population, but greater
bank clearings, the total for that city
being 500, 534 900, an increase Of nearly
IL per cent. Every section Of the coun
try but one shows an increase for thu
first four months over the corresponding
period a year ago.; the decrease is
per cent in the southern section.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
MEMORIAL DAY PLANS
Allied Orders Have About Completed
ARRANGEMENTS for the Day.

Members of the G. A. R. posts, the
Women's Relief Corps and the Sons
of Veterans met in the rooms Of the
county commissioners Saturday night to
perfect Memorial Day plans. The report
was made that exercises would be held
in the following cemeteries: Lakewood
Layman, st. Anthony, st. Mary, Hillside
Crystal Lake, Richfeld, Silver Lake
Yarker's Lake, Maple Hill and Bloom,
ington. General L. A. Grant will make
the principal address Of the day at
Plymouth church. DIR. C. M. Jordan
will speak at Lakewood. where there
will be a chorus of l25 school children
Some discussion was held concern
ing the ACCESSIBILITY of spending part
of the appropriated $500 to secure seats
for Lakewood Some of the represen
tatives thought that if Lakewood hae
seats, the other cemeteries might wish
them, and there would be nothing left
for other expenses: 1t is possible that
the posts will make a special assess
ment on their members. The ques
ton will be taken up next Saturday.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
.BiIou,-"uncle TOMS Cabin"

Uncle TOMS Cabin" that ancient and
honorable, tine-tried and fire-tested hy
brid production, which has been sort of
teething ring to childish theatergoers for
the past forty years, is with us again.
Time, however, seems to have no power
to steel the public against the thrills
which it never fails to produce, nor does
the box office appear to suffer.
The Bijou was filled from gallery to Or
chestra last night. Laughter and tears
followed the unraveling Of the disjointed
story thru the eleven scenes of the
four acts. Righteous indignation Kissed
| the villain, storms Of applause greeted
the foiling of his plans, and hysterical
| weeping followed the contamination of
his designs.
Nothing can be said of the play itself,
for all it's possibilities were exhausted
| decades ago. The fact still remains, how
ever, that the public likes it, that it pays
| it's money to go, that it still feels the
| thrills, and that Al w. Martin still finds
pecuniary remuneration in holding his
company Of players, plantation hands and
bloodhounds together. { Glaring inconsis-
| tencies do not mar. 1t is perfectly proper
for Eliza to double with Marie St
Clair, Samantha the Quakeress, may de
Miss Ophelia also, if she can, and Phin
cas- Fletcher may become Augustus st
/ Clair by merely changing a buckskin shir
for a suit of 'ice cream clothes.',
Kate Davidson--7or Kate Large, for sht
has both names on the programs pleas
ingly natural as Miss Ophelia, for which
character she passes as Kate Davidson
Kittie Morgan as Topsy makes hit will
the entire house. q While her singing i
not wonderful she can dance a few bar
to perfection, and what her negro dialec
lacks In fidelity is made up by the vim
vigor and vitality she puts into the part
= The others go thru their parts followed b.
! the sympathy or hatred Of the audience
as the case may be. w. H. Davidson a
Lawyer Marks. upholds the comedy re
sponsibilities of the first two acts accept
J ably -. ..... ...
The grief is punctuated by the appear
ance of Little Eva and Harry, the Dohl
man children, who do a, clever little SON
and dance stunt between acts. The plan
tation hands afford some relief in COO
, song, "Ebenezer Brown with a oak
walk obligato, between the second an
third acts.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
The Greatest Strike of the World,

President Roosevelt may have settled
the woods and put down the teamsters ,
strike with smile and wave Of his
hand, but these jobs are but boys play
compared with the task outlined for
him by Miss Anna Shaw. ...s. -
Replying to his argument against
race suicide, Miss Shaw reminds ,
president that the women of this coun
try are demanding, as condition prec-
edent to- rearing children, that they be
given a world fit to rear children in,
and this world is to be started by Civ
ing women the ballot. In default Of
this, she intimates that the president
may have another strike on his hands,
a strike against the baby. Miss Shaw
is no doubt willing to accept the job
Of walking delegate to go anon g the
women Of this country and organize a
boycott against babies and tieup of
| the biggest industry of the country.
What with the plans Of rulers for the
destruction of men by guns and swords
torpedoes and hand grenades, could
| they do if the supply Of recruits should
be cut off? It seems as tho they would
have nothing to do but to, capitulate
Wars and armies cannot be run with
out men, and men wear out. The rul
ing class is absolutely dependent upor
women to renew the supply. If the
strike is declared it will not be lone
before the nations see that to continue
in business they must listen to the
reasonable demands of the mothers o:
the world. And what if the mothers
with the ballot in one hand and tn,
contract in the other, impose new con
ditions. Labor unions do not Away
stand to their contracts; why shout,
the mothers union? What if they de
clare that their children shall not b
taught war; that they shall not be fe,
whisky; that they shall not be groun.
to powder by monopoly9 If wome1
can control the supply Of men, VIII,
cannot they say what shall be don
with the supply?
Perhaps Miss Anna Shaw has poke
a hole in the wall and let in the ligh
of the millennium without realizing it.
Union county N. j., built a $575, 100
, courthouse and, after it was finished
| invited "the public" to inspect it. Ate
/ the public was done the courthouse guard
: ian reported that all the towels, soal
! combs and hair brushes had been stole
r from the lavatories, the bronze door
: knobs with the county seal upon thel
: had been removed from the sever;
: doors, and a thief was actually detecte
in the act Of trying to take away Il
i court Bible. The finely polished table
! were disfigured by having names Or il
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08

Nordica makes an argument in favor OF
using the home language in opera, IN
Italy italian. in France French and IN
America English. The excuse heretofore
for making us take our opera in an I'M
known tongue is that we have had to de-
pend on foreign artists for the star roles
But with Nordica, Melba, Fremstad, Ho.
mer and few others on the stage, Eng
lish should have recognition. It is sus'
pected that it is not so much the limita'
lions of the artists that has given us sc
much foreign opera as the fact that Amer
leans like to pretend that they know
French and Italian.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
HITCH OVER HOURS
photographers Having Difficulty in Re.
neWing Agreement.

Local photographers and employers are
anXiously awaiting the outcome of ne
gotiations now on between the national
organization of employees and the employ
ers' association. For some years these
two organizations have been able to get
together and frame up a working agree
ment mutually satisfactory and binding
on the branch organizations all over the
country.
Last year there was a hitch which
caused a lockout Of five weeks and there
is a possibility that similar trouble may
occur this year. The photographers union
wishes a provision whereby either party
to the agreement may submit to arbitra-
ton a proposition to reduce the working
day from nine to eight hours As such
request would naturally come from the
employees, rather than the employers, the
latter association is not willing to incor-
porate the provision. The executive
| board of the employers association has
held three meetings to consider the prop
osition. but has not reached any decision.
1t is hoped that the matter may be set
| tied. as neither side cares for repetition
| of last years walkout. There are about
sixty photographers in the local shops. but
| over 200 others would be affected by 8
strike.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
Governor Higgins.

New York seems to have found q
man in Governor Higgins. At the in
ception of his candidacy he was hailed
as Plat s man and Odell s man, tho
Platt and Odell were at swords points.
So little was known Of the then Heuten-
ant governor that he could be dubbed
either boss s man without fear of con-
tradiction. He was elected by a much
smaller majority than Roosevelt re-
ceived in New York, but yet by what
would in ordinary times be called an
overwhelming endorsement. At the be-
ginning of his term he intimated that
the people who had been calling him this
or that boss s man were all wrong.
The fact was that he was his own man
who had elected him. The governor
has been doing good deal to prove his
words. He has handled very corrupt
session of the legislature firmly, and
fewer jobs than usual have gotten thru
In the face of very Standard Oil dis
tinguished lobby he has succeeded in
putting thru a bill which gives New
~ DIRK city large measure OF relief IRON
the gas monopoly. The price of gas tt
the city is reduced to IS cents thous
and, of electric light about one-third
and the city gains the right to use it:
own surplus waterpower for purposes
of public lighting. In addition a state
commission to inspect gas and electric
light is created, which the governo
believes has power to reduce the pric
of light to private consumers. Surel,
this is something grand for the city o
New York in the face Of corrupt dea
between Tammany senators and sub
servient republicans. Without bein
heralded as a Folk or a La Follett
Governor Higgins has proved himsel
true citizen and an honest official.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08

The strikers in Chicago now accuse the
employers of the same offense for which
some of the strike leaders have been re-
CURED to appear in court-conspiracy
They say the employers are conspiring to
ruin the business of transfer companies
who refuse to join hands with them If
the employers are violating the law. by
all means let them suffer the consequences
the same as the strikers. 1t is not charged,
so far as we have heard, that the employ
ers are trying to slug the managers or
men of these transfer companies for re-
fusing to come in on the deal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08

Pittsburg, Pa. has an active and watch
full police officer who intends to DO MS
duty if it takes leg. This one man has,
within few weeks, arrested and taken
to the station three millionaire residents
of the city whom he pinched while IN the
act of entering their own homes late at
night. He would take no explanations
from them, but marched the innocent men
off to prison, where they remained until
morning. They are all indignant, but
there are stimulating circumstances that
make the ventilation of the cases I'M
nlea SAINT for them, so the officer is likely
to retain his place. I'D
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
Experiment Station Work.

In the notification sent the Minnesota
experiment station that three prizes
have been awarded it by the st. Louis
worlds fair, there is matter for con-
graduation. Professor Hays, with
whose work most of the farmers and
grain men are familiar, comes in for
high commentator. He carries off the
grand prize for wheat-breeding results
shown by two varieties known as Min
nesota No. 1853 and Minnesota No. 1859.
Another prize is for an exhibition of
breeding Of many new varieties of
wheat, flax and other field crops. The
first prize for the best sample Of spring
wheat shown from the various spring
wheat states Of the middle northwest
also comes to Minnesota, the winner
being the Rev. o. A. TIL. Solem of Hal
sted, Norman county. This was Mime
sofa 169 wheat. .-.. -. -.... r
While these high grade wheats are
not as plentiful as could be wished,
the work of the experiment station has
increased them very materially in the
past few years, and a rough estimate
is that one million acres in Minnesota
and the Dakotas were this season
seeded with the two varieties. This
means a great deal in the matter of
good crops and high quality.
The experiment station has proved its
worth so many times and in so many
ways that praise for it's work is I'M
necessary, but in looking at results it
is too often the custom to take things
collectively and not dig in for primary
causes. Principally, of course, the sue
cess Of the station is due to the liberal
attitude of the people toward the uni
versity, and the intelligent interest OF
the farmers in the agricultural depart
ment. Without the support of thu
country it would amount to little, ant
p this is where the credit largely belongs
, But it is not too much to say wore
for the men who are in charge of thu
work. Backed by the knowledge ac
0 quired not only from books, but from
e experience in practical way, they ar
t doing great good for the state, and any
: one who has met them must know tina
# their hearts are in their work. It
y this love of the work for it's own sake
c this natural disposition to strive har
y and faithfully for the sake Of the gel
eral good and advancement Of tn
science, that is making things go.
President Northrop once said, 81 cor
A. slider the agricultural branch Of tn
J. state university one Of the most usef,
4 departments. Results appear to sho'
a that he was right.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
MAY II FESTIVAL

Church choirs VIII Compete for Money
Prizes 1T Tabernacle.
A unique Seventeenth of May festival
has been arranged by the Bethlehem Nor
wegian Lutheran church, to be held on
Norway's independence day at the Swed-
ish tabernacle. One of the features will
be a competitive song tournament in
which two Norwegian and eight Swedish
church choirs will compete for three
money prizes aggregating 500. The au-
dience. will act as the judge. Governor
John A. Johnson and John w. Arctander
will lbe the speakers and in addition to
their remarks. Mr. Arctander will read
greetings from President Roosevelt and
King Oscar.
In addition to the choir numbers. the
musical program will include several solos
by Maud Timer Jones Of Minneapolis and
Theodore l.. hammers Of Duluth.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
THE DEATHsoF THE YOUNG

At eve, when the brief wintry day is sped,
I muse beside the fires faint Pickering
glare
Conscious of wrinkling face and whiten-
ing hair
Of those who, dying young, inherited
The immortal youthfulness Of the early
dead.
think Of Raphaers grand-seigneurial
air;
OF Shelley and Keats with laurels fresh
and fair
Shining unwithered on each sacred head;
Of soldier boys who snatched deaths
starry prize,
With sweet life radiant in their fearless
eyes,
The dreams Of youth upon their beard
less lips,
Bartering dull age for Immortality.
Their memories hold in deaths unyieldine
fee d
The youth that thrilled them to the
finger tips.
John Hay.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
VANDERBILT TO SPEAK
Eminent New York Banker to Address
St. Paul Bank Clerks.

Two hundred and fifty guests are
expected to attend the banquet of the
st. Paul chapter of bank clerks tonight
at the Aberdeen. The special carload
ton and First avenue S at Z pm. E.
w. Finck, president of the chapter, will
be POSTMASTER. Rev. w. II. Boyle of
the House Of Hope church will make
the Invocation. In addition to the adj
dress by f. A. Vanderlip, vice presi-
dent of the National City bank of
New York, Judge E. A. Jaggard of
the supreme court will speak on "Bank
Criminals and w. l. Nolan on "Why
Is Bank Clerk2''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
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CHAT A.
Cd 19
THE UNEASY. CHAIR

SHERLOCK HOLMES QUITS DETECT
ING FOR BEE-FARMlNG. A. Conan
Doyle has brought back his detective hero,
who was supposed to be dead, dead,
dead, has exhibited more of his wonder
full powers as a solver Of mysteries. crimi-
nal and other, and has now exiled him to
a bee farm. He CDR. Doyle) says Sherlock
is in Bookkeeping for keeps, but Sussex
where the detectives bee-farm is, is not
far from London, and the doctor may yet
coax the clever, clever fiend" to use
the appellation used by captive villain)
back to London to work still more won
ders along the line of his genius!