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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08
GIANT RIVER TUNNELS.
TAKE PLACE OF BRIDGES IN CON.
Meeting NEW JERSEY And
NEW YORK.

Completion of Borings Under Hudson
River-One of Greatest of Engineer.
ing Feats
After half a century of speculation
on the practicability of tunneling the
Hudson river from New Jersey to the
island of Manhattan, it is now possi-
Bile to walk dry-shod from Jersey to
New York. The twin bores have been
completed that is, they have been cut
through and cased in, though of course
some finishing touches are yet to be
put upon them. 1t was a few days
ago that in the presence of the engi-
neers, the directors and dozen re-
porters, w. G. Oakman, president Of
the Hudson Companies, split an old
brick buikhead with a hydraulic jack
and completed the first Manhattan
Jersey tunnel system. There was a
six-inch gap in the wall. A gang of
ground hogs" rammed the breach a
little wider, and the party crawled
through into New York city.
The old wall that was cut through
was seven feet thick. 1t is the relic
of a former failure to tunnel the
Hudson. Twenty-three years ago the
engineers Of the old Hudson Company,
after cutting a considerable distance
under the river, abandoned the enter
prise and walled in the unfinished
work with this brick bulkhead.
Two tube-tunnels run parallel be-
meath the Hudson river, the work of
boring them being done under direc-
tion of the New York and New Jer-
sey Railroad Company, but this COM
pany entrusted the actual performance
of the work to the Hudson Companies.
The present tube has been two
years in the course of construction.
Tho tubes will cost when completed
about $13,000000 and the entire work
will cost about $30,000,000.
Fifteen Feet in Diameter.
The tubes are $500 feet long, 15H
feet in diameter and are intended for
one track each, with a sidewalk for
workmen. Two tubes have been start
ed on the New Jersey shore, to run
under the river to Cortlandt and
Church streets. These tubes will be
1914 feet in diameter. The tubes just
completed will connect on the New
Jersey shore with the Pennsylvania
and the Lackawanna terminals. In
Manhattan one branch will connect
with the subway under Fourth ave-
nue. at Astor Place. Another branch
will run to Sixth avenue and Thirty
third street. A trip through the entire |
length of the tunnel from the subway
to Hoboken will cost only five cents.
About six hundred men have been en-
ployed in the tunnels.
Cars will be running through these
tube-tunnels in eighteen months. The
safety of transportation in the tunnel |
needs no demonstration, for trains will |
run in a steel tube the strength of |
which to resist pressure has been care
fully worked out. Being laid from
fifteen to fifty feet below the river
bed, 1t cannot be affected by the ae-
tion of tidewater The tube is a steel
lined hole in the earth. and except for
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08

of the World" Robert -. Lee, "F.
II. Kramer" and many other sorts
which have been sold to catalogue
houses and named by them. He has
just originated the "Climblng Ameri-
can Beauty" which will probably be
listed by hower-sellers next spring. He
recently exhibited in Washington the
"F. ii. Kramer" carnation-a deep
pink sort-which many well-known
florists have declared to be the equal
OF either the Lawson" or "Fiancee."
He states that no plants of the
Queen Beatrice" rose win be ready
for distribution before the spring of
1907 during which time a large sum
of money will be expended in the
erection Of hothouses and the cultiva-
ton and growing of hundreds of
thousands of young plants. The es-
innate is made that probably $3.50, 900
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08

that an genius was akin to sayagery.
Sarah Bernhardt exempllfies this in
the buodoir of her chateau in Paris
Nine. Bernhardt is perfect barbarian
in her defiance of all the convention
alities regarding color schemes. Her
decorated with peacock plumes Over
her Louis XVI. bed is canopy made
of unspun silk taken directly from the
silkworm cocoon. A great splash of
crimson satin. In the form of a shield,
adorns the center. The walls are hung
In old tapestries, and in the interstices
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08
PUBLIC LANDS COMMISSION
MESSAGE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
N


THE SECOND PARTIAL REPORT PUBLIC LANDS COM
MISSION, APPOINTED 1903, TO REPORT UPON
CONDITION, OPERATION, AND EFFECT OF THE PRESENT
LAWS.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
the Public Lands Com
appointed the condition.
disposition the
lie build them
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08
collisions due to operating blunders
the risk of travel ought to be nil
Many Tunnels to be Dug.

1t having been proved practicable
to tunnel beneath the Hudson river,
the Pennsylvania Railroad undertak-
ing will be pushed rapidly, and it may
be expected that in course of time ev-
cry trunk line coming into Jersey City
will have its own tunnel. The East
river piercings do not present much
of a problem. In less than five years
trains ought to be running from Phil
adelphia. to Boston with no water to
be crossed
1t is believed that within ten years
electric trains will make the trip from
Philadelphia to New York in one hour
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08

of the hangings are row after row OF
tiny monkey skulls. the eye sockets of
which are illumined with electric
lights.
The 'divine Sarah" has parted with
her pet tiger. and now has for COM
panion large and ugly baboon, whose
ears have been pierced so that they
may carry huge rings of solid gold.
Rernhardf is said to look as young as
she did twenty years ago. Her face
is without wrinkles. and her step is as
spry and her manner as vivacious as
when she first electrified her native
city as an actress.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08

Made 70 secure ' FAIuabIe Timber Lands. Ri
those who were buying hundreds OF
such claims and then went looking for
further speculation.
Typical Cases of Fraud.
These three cases are cited simply
because they are typical Of thousands
and hundreds of thousands Of instan-
ces which could be related of the
great west where the government
still owns half billion acres of land
although another half billion have
passed into private ownership under
the various loose and really fraudu-
lent land laws with which the statute
book is defiled.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08

tile Ter
been granteu
porations, and in So
attention which of late yet
directed to the matter, the u0n
goes on at an alarming rate. II
seems difficult for the man who has
lived in the west for years to realize
that there is any good reason why he
should not debauch and buy out hun
dreds of others who are willing to sell
their birthright as American citizens,
thus enabling him to acquire do
main which would have been princely
in the days of feudalism.
The three men above cited count
their holdings to-day by the hundreds
of thousands of acres, but there are
western corporations and individuals
whose figures mount up even into mil
lions of acres. One can ride or drive
all day through their territory, the
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08
THE NEW QUEEN BEATRICE ROSE.

rieties, Liberty and Madam Chatenay
the former, one of the most popular
crimson varieties, but uncertain in the
production of perfect blooms. Queen
Beatrice has none of the faults of its
parents and combines all of their good
qualities; 1t is resistant to insect and
mildew attacks, and capable of fore
ing on the hothouse bench.
Grown at Gardiner Hubbard Mansion
1t was originated by Peter Bissett,
| and viii be put on the market by
| Florist f. III. Kramer, of Washington.
Bissett is the head gardener of Mrs.
Gardiner Hubbard, the widow of the
late Gardiner Hubbard, at one time
president of the National Geographic
Society. She is the mother-in-laW of
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor
of the telephone. The new rose was
produced at her beautiful suburban
residence, Twin Oaks, Just outside of
the national capital.
The leading florists of the. country
have known of the existence of this
rose for year and have made various
tempting offers for it, but it remained
for Florist Kramer to offer $4,000
and finally secure the beauty.
Such a fabulous sum for rose
seems insignificant, however, when it
is remembered that but few years
ago Thomas Lawson of "Frenzied FL
nance" fame paid $4,000 for mere
carnation, while the greater amount
of $125000 was expended for the "Fi-
ancee" carnation. 1t is hinted that
Mr.. Lawson cleaned up over 100000
out of the Lawson pink and the buy
ers of the "Fiancee" carnation easily
doubled the amount expended.
Origin of the American Beauty.
And vet the American Beauty" Of
whom every flower lover Is fond mas
very, very sad history. A number
Of years ago a Washington gardener
who made only speciality of garden
roses, received from abroad ship |
ment of plants. among which was a |
"mongrel" This, with out-of-door cul- |
ture produced very large and fragrant |
blooms 1t attracted the attention of |
Thomas Fields, Washington florist. |
Nothing was known by him of the |
forcing qualities of this rose in the |
greenhouse, but as he rather liked its |
color and general appearance, one af- |
ternoon while her husband was alb |
sent, he purchased the single plant |
from Mrs. Ready for five dollars. |
Ready, when he retured and was told
of the sale. believed that his wife had
asked too much for the flower. Fields |
with the plant and found
that 1t exceeded even his fondest |
hopes He named 1t the "American /
Beauty" and probably cleared S25. .000
on this one deal To-day Ready Is
still a gardener. doing odd iiohs for peo-
pie around town-spading up gardens.
supplying rich earth and planting
shrubs.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08

One OF the richest boys in the world
is the adopted son of the late million.
aire, Zei.9er. He is fourteen years old
and will inherit nearly $20,000.000.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08

which was published as Senate Docu-
ment 154, 5Sth Congress, Sd Session.
1t is herewith published in part.
showing as 1t does the necessity for
energetic action by Congress on one Of
the most vital questions Of the day,
namely, the correction of the national
abuse which Is taking away from the
American homeseeker the opportunity
to acquire a piece of land and rear
thereon a home for himself and his
family. This subject will be Idrther
considered in next weeks issue, which
will include an additional section Of
this report.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08

Edwin Booth for a long time aver.
aged twenty-five cigars each day.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08

These ohlcals were W. A. Richards,
Commissioner of the General Land or
Newell, Chief Engineer of the Nation
al Irrigation or Reclamation Service.
And this commission after year
and half Of field investigation made
a short official report to Congress,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08

only signs of civilization being barbed
wire fences and roaming herds, where
should be hundreds and thousands OF
prosperous farm homes.
When PrRsident Roosevelt came in
to office hd@found government aid to
irrigation a question of growing popu-
larity. He recommended its consider.
alton by Congress. A national irri-
cation law was enacted In his fol-
lowing message he officially recog
nized the basic fraud of land laws
and the menace which they afforded
to the homemaking irrigation law
and the next year he appointed Pub
lie Land Commission composed OF
three eminent public men, well quail
fled to investigate the land conditions
in the west
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08
Attempted Graftings.

or 100000 will be made from this
flower
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08
SENATE

Ir@s SENATE DYSSnss R6 III
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08

Completion of Borings Under Hudson
River-one of Greatest of E,gineer-
ing Feats
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08

beTTH CONGRESS, /
sd SessfoH (
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-05-13
EDWARD GOTTSCHALK GIVEN EX-
TREME PENALTY FOR MUIR
DER AT ST. PAUL.
CONFESSED TO KILLING ACCOMPLICE
CONDEMNED MAN ACCUSED BY
OFFICIALS OF A SECOND
BRUTAL CRIME.

st. Paul, May 12.-Edward Gott-
schalk, aged thirty-four, who recently
pleaded guilty to an indictment charg-
ing him with the murder of Joseph
Hartmann, his alleged accomplice in
the killing of Christian H. Schindel-
decker, a local butcher, appeared be-
fore Judge Lewis in the Ramsey coun-
ty district court and was sentenced to
be hanged by the neck until dead
Governor Johnson will fix the date
of Gottschalks execution, which will
probably take place some time in Sep
tember.
Before pronouncing sentence Judge
Lewis referred to the crime as brutal
and unmitigating in circumstances"
and said he could find no reason for
withholding the extreme penalty Of the
law. He adverted to the repeal OF the
law under which the Younger brothers
had been sent to the state prison, es-
Gaping the death penalty, and said
that under the present statute the
mere plea Of guilty can be of no avail.
Receives Sentence CooIIy.
Gottschalk met his fate without a
tremor and after sentence was pro-
nounced walked back to the Jail
through a crowd of several thousand
people, who lined the street from the
courthouse to the county lookup, more
than block away.
The crime with which Gottschalk
was originally charged was the MUIR
der on Feb. 18 of Christian H. Schin-
deldecker, butcher, the object being
robbery. Later the body of his al
legged accomplice, Joseph Hartmann,
aged twenty-five years, was found in
the Mississippi river at point where
the two men had been seen fishing
three days after the murder of the
butcher. Gottschalk at first denied
killing Hartmann, but when arraigned
for trial changed his plea to guilty,
claiming the deed was done in self
defense He asserts that Hartmann
killed Schindeldecker, but the police
claim to have evidence that Gottschalk
was.the leading spirit in the crime and
that he put Hartmann out of the way
because the latter showed signs of
weakening.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-05-13
DRAWING TO A CLOSE.
Defense in the Koch Murder Tria!
Rests Its Case.

Mankato, Mimi, May 12.-The de-
fense in the trial of DR.. George r.
Koch Of New Ulm, accused OF tho
murder Of DIR. L. A. Gebhardt. has
rested and the state is introducing evil
dence in rebuttal
Or. Koch occupied the stand for tha
defense for four hours. Firmly but
with reticence the witness told of his
actions on the night of the murder and
ended by saying that never in all the
time of his business rivalry with DR..
Gebhardt had he shown or felt any
enmity toward the murdered man.
While on the witness stand the ac-
cused man made the same good inn
preston he did at the previous trial.
Cool and collected, he showed no feel
ing except when in examination
by Mr.. Childs, for the state, he smiled
at some of the attorneys unusual ques
tions.
Arguments to the jury were begun
late in the afternoon.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-05-13
Railroad Transportation

Railroad Transportation
Trust Problem
j. w. jerks
Improvement of Towns and Cities
C. M. Robinson
Future of American Negro
Booker T. Washington
Stories of the Great Astronomers
e. S. Holden
Our Native Trees $500
Harriet l.. Kuler
Masters of Music ($1.5W :.
Anna NJ. Chaplin
Some useful books on how to do things.
Twentieth Century Handbook for
Steam Engineers and Electric
ians ($16S) C. E. Swingle
Practical Lessons in Electricity
$50 Crocker, Gushing & List
Algebra Self Taught-For Mechan-
les. etc. G59 .Higgs
Vegetable Gardening ($.6S)
Prof Green, University of Mimi.
Flowers-TIow to Grow Them $50
Eben Rexford
Electric Toy Making, Dynamo Build
ing and Electric Motor Con-
struction ($.7W :.
Metal WoihluS 9.oO
]. Luken
Engineers Practical Test S7o)
Home Occupations-(Occup for
Children) G.52) Kath. Beebe
Wood Working for Beginners($1.75)
c. G. Wheeler
New Hardwood Finisher $50
Hodgson
Dicks Book of Alphabets CslO5)
Farmers Cyclopedia of Agriculture
Feeding and Management of Live
Stock Prof. Shaw, U. of M.
"A. B. c. of Bee Culture $3.50
"A. 1. Root
Encyclopedia of Etiquette (s1.4O)
Emily Holt
Manners and Social Usages $50
Sherwood
Hints and Points for sportsmen
G1o5) Seneca
Practical Track and Field Athlet-
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Manual of Parliamentary Law $50
Thos. B. Reed
Photography, Indoors and Out
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Practice of Typography s2oW
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Sanitary Conditions of City and
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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-05-13
ORDER MUST BE MAINTAINED.
President Replies to Appeal of Chicago
Labor Leaders.

Chicago, May 12.-When President
Roosevelt was in the city on his way
to Washington labor leaders present
ed a protest against the employment
of federal troops during the teamsters'
strike After reading the protest the
president said:
81 have read the petition you have
presented to me, the conclusion OF
which is request for hearing before
any action be taken by the federal
president relating to the Chicago strike
situation AS yet no suggestion OF any
kind has come to me from any source
that should take any action. OF the
merits of the case l am wholly lgno~
rant | have no knowledge of what
the situation is or of what steps should
be taken to end it. I feag however,
that in view of one statement, or series
of statements, in your letter l ought to
say this: I regret that you shoula IN
the letter have spoken at all of theSGse
of the federal army as you have there
spoken. No request has been made
to me for action by the federal gov
ernment, but at the same time, Mr..
Shea, as you have in this communities
tion to me brought up that fact, | want
to say one thing with all the emphasis,
in my power. In upholding law and
order, in doing what he Is able to do
to suppress mob violence in any shape
or way, the mayor of Chicago, Mayor
Dunno, has my hearty support. | am
glad to be able to say this to you gen
tlemen, before l say it to any other
body. Now let me repeat that know
nothing of the facts of the situation;
know nothing of the rights or wrongs
of the points at issue; what | have to
say is based purely upon what regard
as the unfortunate phrasing of letter
presented to the president Of the
United States. l have not been called
upon to interfere in any way, but you
must not misunderstood my attitude.
In every effort of Mayor Dunno to pre-
vent violence by mobs or individuals,
to see that the laws are obeyed and
that order is preserved, he has the
hearty support of the president of the
United States, and in my judgment he
should have that of every good citizen
of the United States
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-05-13
cEay Pines I'm Graves.

A very curious old custom is asso-
ciated with interments in the ceme-
terry of Labruck, Connemara, Ireland.
A box of pipes short clays-is brought
with the coffin, and pipe with tobacco
is served out to each mourner. The
pipes are smoked in silence after the.
earth has been filled in and a mound
Of stones raised above the grass, the
ashes are solemnly knocked out on the
top and the pipes broken or left behind.
The origin of this custom is unknown5
but it is thought to be emblematic of,
"ashes to ashes, dust to dust" Empty
black bottles are also to be found scat
tered about the site.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-05-13
REFUSE TO JOIN STRIKERS
CHICAGO HAY AND FEED TEAM
STEERS DELIVER TO BOY
CoTTED FIRMS.

Chicago, May PA break in the
ranks of the strikers is alleged to have
occurred in refusal of the hay and
feed drivers to observe the boycott.
Deliveries are being made by union
drivers 10 all the struck firms.
The excuse on which this action is
being taken is that humanity demands
it. The feed drivers claim they do not
wish to stand by and see the horses
starve to death. 1t is declared by 9TH
ers, however, that this is mostly a sub
terfuge to cover the real attitude OF the
drivers, who do not favor the strike
and are anxious to go on with their
work.
The deliveries by the feed teamsters
are being made in the face of an ulti-
matum given by their trade agent to
the employers in which he said that
any attempt to force the drivers to de-
liver to the unfair" houses would be
met by a strike. The deliveries were
forced, but no strike was called. The
union officials winked at the affair and
said nothing.
A number of additional union team
sters were laid Off during the day be-
cause they refused to make deliveries
to firms against whom a strike exists.
Among employers taking this action
was the James S. Kirk company, soap
manufacturers, and the National Fur
nituEe company. 1t was explained that
the men laid off would probably be
reinstated as soon as the deliveries
had been made.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-05-13
KICKS ON LABOR CLAUSE.
Seeks Release From Jail on Plea That
Sentence Was Illegal.

Seeks Release From Jail on Plea That
Sentence Was Illegal.
Duluth. May 12.-Joseph Sheehy,
former pugilist and employment agent
of Duluth, is having hard struggle
with the law to get out of jail He
was given a sentence in the municipal
court of sixty days Imprisonment in
the county Jail at hard labor without
the alternative of fine. Sheehy was
released on bail pending an appeal to
the state supreme court Getting no
relief there he was thrown into Jail
again and his attorneys brought ha-
beas corpus proceedings, alleging that
the municipal judge overstepped his
authority in imposing sentence at
hard labor. Judge Dibell has dis
charged the writ and Sheehy is still in
Jail His attorneys say they will ap-
peal to the supreme court.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-05-13
Suicide by Steam at Sea.

Montreal, May 12.-When the steam
w Ottawa of the Dominion line ar
rived from Liverpool it brought news
that Dutton, a passenger, had commit
ted suicide on the ocean. The man,
having given signs of being mentally
unbalanced, was placed in the ship
hospital ward and everything tnat
might be used in self-destruction was
taken away. Dutton wrenched one Oh
the pipes from the fastenings and was
scalded to death by escaping steam.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-05-13
CHICAGO PUPILS ON STRIKE
Object to Nonunion Drivers Making
Coal Deliveries.

Chicago, May 12.-Police protection
was ordered sent during the day to the
Hendricks public school, West Forty
third street and Shields avenue, in
consequence of a strike of 700 pupils
who refuse to go to school because
nonunion drivers for the Peabody Coal
company had taken coal to the build
ing.
The pupils gathered in the streets
near the building and discussed
whether they should go back to their
studies. Finally about half of them
decided to return. Some who refused
said they had heard rumors the build
ing was to be set on fire. Others pro-
fessed TO believe that there was dyna-
mite in the coal and that the school
was to be blown up.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-05-13
Her Ciever scAeme.

Fanny-Why in the world do you
send away for so many catalogues and
then never buy anything? Suzette To
keep the pDstman coming here. / don't
want those women across the street to
know that Jack and don't correspond
any more.-Detroit Free Press.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-05-13
Victim of Strike Riotins.

Chicago, May 12.-Edward Jasper,
who was struck on the head with a
stone during riot May S, died at the
county hospital during the day. Abra-
ham Robinson, nonunion driver for
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co., was
knocked senseless from his wagon by
stone thrown from crowd.