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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-29
TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC
DR.. s. SCHENKEIN TELLS OF THE
REASONS FOR EXHIBITING THE
INFANT INCUBATORS.

DR.. S. Schenkein has arrived from
New York to supervise the opening
of the infant incubator institute at
Wonderland park. While the exhibit of
incubators is included as. one of the
parks attractions, it is not conducted
as show-place. The incubators, seven
in number, occupy. large room on the
first floor, and adjoining is a model
nursery. On the second floor are liv-
ing-rooms for physicians and trained
nurses.
"The infant incubator is the inven-
tion of DR.. Martin A. Couney of Ber-
linz said DR.. Schenkein today. GAS
ISOLATED with him have been DR.. S.
Fischel and myself since the first ex-
hibit of the incubators was made in
1896 at Berlin. DR.. Couney is now in
Chicago and is to come on to Mime
apolis this week. His wife accom-
panied me and sto remain here during
the summer.
tEOur idea in making these exhibits
showing it in actual operation at places
where large number of people are
brought together, as at expositions and
such resorts as Wonderland. We have
been so successful in Berlin and France
that our incubators have been adopted
by hospitals under government super
vision. --.
"The rate of mortality among pre-
maturely born infants previous to the
incubator was IS per cent. With the
incubator the percentage of mortality is
reduced to only Is per cent. AS rule,
it can be said that child that has lived
forty hours and is alive when brought
to the incubator will live.'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-29
WHAT OTHER P EOPLE THINK
The Sunday Saloon.

To the Editor of The Journal
The comments on the reasonable re-
quests Of sober citizens in regard to law
enforcement are so largely marked by the
self-seeking politician spirit that the other
side may be excused for rushing into
print. Three former mayors are quoted
in TIL e Journal of the 9th inst.
Robert Pratt says. There are many laws
and ordinances created solely for emer-
gencies and not for daily enforcement
THE enforced closing of saloons after
regular hours of business is an ordinance
belonging to this ella ass. The statutes of
Minnesota provide for Sunday closing and
for certain other regulations of the liquor
traffic, and, strictly, Mr.. Pratt's position
is that laws are not obliga tory. but that q
man or community decides how far to
obey. This spirit of law evasion is not
that which has actuated the noblest and
wisest leaders of our American republic,
but it is the excuse for much that dis
graces our cities, which should stand for
loyalty to law and government. How
would Mr.. Pratt's rule work in the fam
lily relation? @.
Another ex-mayor says: IT believe it is
proper for the ministers and all to let the
mayor alone, and rely upon him to do as
he feels best. If the saloons are closed
down too tight, at the next election things
the citizens who have urged Sunday clos
ing and certain moral reforms have a
right to consider an officer public serv-
ant, and until it is proven that the ma
jority of the people prefer Sunday saloons.
the W1sest course of the petitioners is to
speak and let their wants be known. This
ex-mayor says he is not in favor Of the
Sunday saloon, that it is illegal, yet en-
forcement is not to be expected.
There are people in this city who like
the position taken by Governor Folk OF
Missouri, who has declared for law en-
forcement at any cost. These people
should rise and be counted. The third ex-
mayor says in effect that "a wave Of hi
falutin reform will disgust moderate peo-
pie and cause the electorate to swing back
at the next election So the spirit OF
compromise is very forward to present it.
self, while the noblest examples of history
have stood for mo compromise with
wrong and our civilization may be
traced to high moral purpose The prin.
ciples high enough and enduring enough
to build great nation like ours upon are
not too high for our everyday life in mu-
inequalities.
Law Enforcement Citizen.
Minneapolis, May 81 1905. i,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-29
LIBRARIANS TO STUDY
Training School Will Be in Session June
.... 10 to % Cat the "U.'O

The arrangements for the summer
school for library training held bien-
nially at the state university at the
same time as the university summer
school have been announced by the Min
nesota public library commission which
conducts it.
The school will be held June 49, to
July %, and the instructors will be
Miss Clara Baldwin, director, who will
give the work in accession, cataloging
and classification; Mrs. Karen M. Jacob
son, assistant director; Miss Maude van
children s work; Miss Julia E. Elliott,
photography and book-selection.
The pupils will have the privilege Of
attending Professor Maria L. Sanford IS
lectures on literary criticism and there
will be lectures by Melvil Dewey, direc-
tor of the New York state library; Miss
public library, and others. The course
is only open to those holding library
positions or under definite appointment
to such positions or teachers in charge
Of school libraries. t..>
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-29
Governor Douglas Chances.

Governor Douglas has had hardly
time to warm the chair when he must
make campaign for reelection, for
Massachusetts, adheres to the custom Of
electing her governor every twelve
months. Considering the enormous re-
publican majority in the bay state and
the fact that a popular candidate will
be put up by the republicans in the
person Of Lieutenant Governor Guild,
it ought to 90 hard with the shoe man.
But Massachusetts, like Minnesota, has
a certain talent for independent voting.
It elected a democrat, William E.. Rus
sell, governor and reelected him, not
withstanding the large republican ma
iority in the state, and it may do as
much for Governor Douglas. He has
proven himself an independent and
worthy executive. Elected as an en-
ployer friendly to organized labor, Gov
ernor Douglas had no hesitation in de-
Gliding that on the basis of their earn
ings for the first quarter Of the year the
Lynn mills could not be expected to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-29
raise wages. This did not please the
strikers, but it satisfied the conscience
and the. business Judgment Of the UNI

raise wages. This did not please the
strikers, but it satisfied the conscience
and the business Judgment Of the UNI
pire.
Governor Douglas has had some
trouble with appointments. He has
failed to recognize to the full, if such q
thing is possible, the large Irish Ameri-
can element in Boston, headed by
Mayor Pat Collins. He has appointed
a good many republicans to office, but
he has made remarkably good selections
of men. On the whole Governor Doug
las personally is as strong with the
people as he was before and his reci-
procity-tariff revision slogan is stronger
than it was before, because in the ma
tional campaign the republicans were
able to say that those matters could be
safely left to Roosevelt and repub-
lican congress. Since then we have had
"a republican congress, which has done
nothing, and Roosevelt has been com
PEELED by the rapacity Of the trusts to
threaten them with the purchase Of
supplies for the canal abroad.
Under all the circumstances it would
not be surprising if Governor Douglas
should again triumph and become a
factor in the democratic campaign
plans for 1908. ..- -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-29
ART SCHOOL WORK
Exhib ition at Boards Gives Evidence
of Sterling Character of instruction.

For the convenience Of the people
who may be interested, the annual ex-
hibition of the Minneapolis School of
Fine Arts has been placed in the Beard
art galleries at Dayton s, for a few
days. The exhibit was so large this
year that it was impossible to find room
for all of it in the space that could be
spared for the purpose, but Director
Koehler has selected the most inter
esting works and arranged them 50 as
to represent the different lines Of work
given in the school.
On one wall may be seen the work
Of the class in design, which has been
SO popular during the past year. This
department is under the direction Of
Miss M. M. Cheney, and her pupils give
evidence Of thoro teaching and of
earnest application. A group of in
teresting sketches occupies another
space, while the remainder of the room
is devoted to drawings from life and
from the antique and to the work of
the class in oils.
Altogether the exhibition evidences
a year Of progress and the large num-
Der Of canvases and sketches exhibit
ed gives proof of the growing popu-
larity of the school. The exhibition
will remain until Wednesday of next
week, and is we'll worth visit. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-29
STRENUOUS FOR STUDENTS
NORWEGIANs SING BEFORE EN-
THUsIAsTIC AUDIENCE AT THE
MET, AFTER LIVELY JAUNTS.

The Norwegian student singers sang
again last evening at the Metropolitan
theater, and faced an audience that was
tumultuous in its appreciation. Not
an empty seat was to be found in the
house, and many persons were stand
ing. Every number on the program was
cheered to the echo, and even two en-
cores At the end did not satisfy. Thou
sands Of people clapped and shouted for
another song. The students responded
by returning to the stage and waving
farewell with their caps, to which the
audience replied with hats and handker-
chiefs.
The singers were in poor condition
last evening after a strenuous day. They
sang Saturday night in Red Wing, and
took a o'clock train for Minneapolis
Sunday morning. In the afternoon they
outing. They were tired and not in the
best voice for the concert, so that by
comparison with Thursday evening their
tones were rough. They improved as
the evening wore on, however, and TO-
ward the close sang with better spirit
and finer quality. In the smaller hall
they were better seen and In closer
touch with the people.
The program was well selected, groups
of light and humorous songs giving re-
lief to somber tone poems and stirring
battle hymns Rolf Hammer, the ten
or, was i'll and unwilling to attempt the
solo in Vestanvier," which was omit
ted, but he sang effectively in Haark-
LOUIS NVarde' and with Berg Hansen
in sBrumbesken Bumba.o Herr Berg
Hansen was pleasing in "The Great
Heavenly Host, by Grieg. "Olaf Try
gvason, = the last number on the pro-
gram, was given with splendid effect,
and as encores the chorus gave the Fin
nish "Suomis Song" and the Norwe.
gian national anthem, for which the
audience rose.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-29
CITY NEWS
WONDERLAND PARK
IS WELL OPENED
GREAT CROWDS THRONG NEW
AMUSEMENT RESORT.
Ten Thousand Persons Present on Open
ing Day and Yesterday the Number
Was Tripled-Features Rapidly Get
ting Into Working Order. @

Wonderland park has had an auspi-
cious opening. Saturday the park was
visited by 10000 persons and Sundays
afternoon and evening attendance was
triple that number. The scenic rail
road, the miniature railroad, the old
mill and the chutes are all in running
order now. There were delays and
starting of these devices, but every
hour has added to the smoothness with
which the different attractions are OPP
Grated. By tonight it is expected that
the carroussel, the house of nonsense
and the crystal maze will be added to
the features of the park. The wiring is
about completed also for the electric
tower, which with fifty more arc lights
grounds.
Already there are two little patients
reposing in the infant incubators and
the exhibit was thrown open yesterday.
Today several others, it is expected,
will be added
DR.. s. Schenkein, in charge of the in
cubators, who has been associated with
DIR. M. A. Couney ever since the first
exhibit made at Berlin in 1896, says:
eve never have difficulty in getting
all the babies that we can care for. We
make no charge for the treatment, and
any doctor, nurse or experienced moth
er, who will investigate, will be per-
fectly assured of the soundness Of the
theory OF the incubator system for the
saving of the lives of prematurely born
children and of the intelligent care the
babies in our charge receive.
The principle of the incubator is
thousands of years old, viz, proper and
even temperature. 1t can be traced
back 800 years at least to the practice
of the peasants of Silesia in placing
weakly babies in bags Of feathers, or in
England of placing such infants in
ovens kept at certain heat. Our in
vention is to provide temperature reg
ulated by thermostat that works au-
tomatically. Sanitary precautions,
good nursing and nature s food do the
rest, so that we have been able to show
by. our records that IS per cent Of the
children intrusted to our care live that
would otherwise have died.
Tomorrow Wonderland will open it's
gates to Memorial Day crowds at II am
Keeping cpl =, open continuously to II pm
works in the evening.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-29
A Victory Of Peace.

Peace has her victories. While the
world is agape over the destruction
wrought by Japanese arms upon Russia,
Philadelphia has had civic triumph
of national significance. The gas trust
has withdrawn it's application for a
new lease of the Philadelphia works and
notified the city councils that it will
not accept the lease if it is awarded. 1t
takes this action, so it says, because it
has become convinced that the people
of the city are opposed to the lease.
When did it become convinced? It
was apparent from the beginning that
the people were opposed to the lease.
Mass meetings were held to denounce
it and the whole press was aroused.
The gas trust gave no sign and the
obedient councils went on and passed
the ordinance. No meetings have been
held since that were any sharper in
denunciation Of the steal than were
those held before the action Of the
councils. 49,
The only new element in the situa-
ton is the mayor. He gave it out that
he proposed to veto the ordinance. The
gas trust, thru the machine, replied that
it would pass it over his veto. But
the mayor had another weapon in his
hands. He had the power of removal,
and he began to use it. In two hours
he had removed from office the director
Of public safety, that is, the chief of
police, the chief of the fire department
and the commissioner Of health rolled
in one. He had cut off the head of the
director of public works, who CORE
spends, and more than corresponds, to
the city engineer in other cities. He
shipped the necks of a lot of chief clerks
and subordinates Of these officials, and
he said to the gang, elbow do you like
this for starterF'
This was an argument the machine
could understand. The Offices were
going. The patronage was on a van
and moving. The organization was
melting in the terrific heat of the may,
or's wrath. The machine surrendered
1t called off the gas trust and the gas
trust called off the lease
This is the true order Of events.
It was a victory for the people. The
offices they had created had been turned
against them and they turned them
back. The servants who had arrogated
to themselves the rank and pay of mas
ters suddenly found themselves on the
sidewalk, bruised and beaten on the
most sensitive portion Of their anatomy
The people are doing a little ruling in
Philadelphia, and having gotten taste
of power, they may get the habit.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-29
The Significance of It.

The significance Of Togo's victory can
be estimated only when peace terms are
made, but it's Importance can be easily
forecast. It has been plain all along
that no matter how many victories
Japan might win on land, one defeat at
sea would imperil her whole scheme of
settlement of accounts with Russia.
Togo has now put the finishing touches
upon Oyama's work. In thirty-six
hours Of fighting he has shut Russia out
of the Pacific and opened new future
for his country. Thanks to his victory,
Japan is now mistress Of the sea, from
Formosa to Kamschatka. In the pre-
sentation of peace terms, Japan will not
be u,rmindful Of the fact that her fu-
ture depends on the maintenance Of that
supremacy in the Asiatic ocean that
Togo has given her. In order to make
the case complete, Japan must have
Vladivostok. With that port secured
Japan will have her Gibraltar at Port
Arthur, and her Malta at Saghalin. She
will dominate the whole coast from the
Aleutians to the Philippines, and it is a
curious fact that it is America that will
touch her possessions at those extremes
Of latitude. Russia will have no navy
in the Pacific, because she will have no
landing place there. ..t--
If Russia declines to pay money
indemnity before Russian territory has
been taken, Japan will proceed to &C
commodate her by taking some. The
region of the Amur river, lying north
and east Of Manchuria, is fair prey Of
the victor, and when Japan has that
she will have fulfilled the condition
under which Russia, according to her
own peculiar code, will be bound to
listen to demand for money indem-
nifty. ...
So far as finances are concerned, the
Japanese seem at the present time to
have the best Of it, and with an army
in Manchuria practically living off the
country, they will have an increasing
advantage. ILL., 49,.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-29
Rial, Filipino Patriot.

It will be interesting to learn what
the Anti-Imperialist league will say about
Secretary Taft's putting the picture of
Jose Rial, the patriot, on the new issue
of Philippine postage stamps. They will
very likely find some way of denouncing
the act unless the league has lost it's
ingenuity entirely.
The general run Of Americans, how
ever, will see in it an approach to the
fulallment of American pledges to the
islands of new order of things.
Rial was genuine patriot. He
fought and wrote for the Filipinos and
laid down his life for them before
Aguinaldo's grating republic had been
heard of. His ifework was an attempt
not at political independence, but to re-
lieve his people from an intolerably
burdensome and supremely corrupt
priestly rule. He led romantic career.
Born Tagalog, he was educated abroad
and trained as an oculist and practicel
abroad. He returned to his native coun-
try imbued with the idea that his peo-
pie could be lifted to a higher plane
of living if given a fair government
by Spain. On his last visit to the is.
lands, tho he returned with the consent
of Spain, he was arrested, charged with
fomenting an Instruction, and on his
third trial was condemned to death. He
was shot the next morning on the Lu-
meta, the principal park Of Manila, on
the spot which is now to be ornamented
by monument to his memory.
His features on the Philippine postage
stamp will be constant reminder to his
countrymen that the work Of Rial has
succeeded. The schoolhouse has come tc
stay and the Tagalogs are to have the
representative assembly and the fairel
government for which he gave his life
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-29
Togo Holds the Straits. !"

= The Russian and Japanese fleets have
met in fair fight on the high seas and
victory remains with the Japs. They
have destroyed or captured sixteen Rus
sian warships and consequently ami
hilated the armada with which Roiest-
;venslzy invaded oriental waters. One
of the surprising reports is that the
Japanese have captured two Russian
battleships. Not before in this war has
battleship been, either sunk by the
gun-fre of the enemy in naval action,
or captured. The Russians must have
lost courage and discipline when they
saw their comrades going under the
waters and struck their colors in panic
for life.
Saturday night and all of Sunday the
opposing fleets Numbered within few
hours Of the Japanese shores. The peo-
pile of Japan could almost hear the roar
of the guns which were determining
whether the flag Of Nippon should dom
mate the eastern seas or whether the
sacrifices on land should be brought to
naught by fearful defeat at sea. But
Togo was there and he did not fail his
people.
The sweeping Japanese victory should
clear the way for peace. Russia can
not send another fleet to the orient. She
hasn't any to send. The naval power
of Russia is broken for a generation.
Her position on land is now, even if
hopeful, useless. Suppose such an un-
expected coup as Linevitch gaining an
advantage over Oyama. It might salve
national pride, but it could not affect
the result of the war. Japan has pos
session of all she went to war for, and
can afford to sit down and wait. Rus
STA cannot wait. Her people, when they
hear of this latest disaster on sea, will
clamor for two things, for peace and
for change of government. The rul-
ing powers of Russia, if they are wise,
will haste to make peace before they
are caught between the upper milestone
Of advancing Japanese demands and
the neither milestone of revolt at home.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-29
TILE UNEASY CHAIR

WHEN RIVAL LOVERS FOUGHT
WITH MISUNDERSTANDING one of the
most entertaining tales Of the season is
!sIdro, by Mary Austin, story Of love in
southern California in the days Of the
Spanish rule. Isidro was the son Of a
wealthy and aristocratic Spaniard. He
had been consecrated by his parents to
the priesthood and the story opens with
the youth. gaily appareled, setting out
for Monterey to become a member of the
order Of st. Francis. But destiny had
shaped his ends otherwise On the way to
Monterey he met with adventures that
changed his career and led him to the
altar as a bridegroom instead Of as a
priest. r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-29
WANT LOWER RATES
West Coast Lumbermen Would Push
4O-Cent Limit Eastward. -

Pacific coast lumber manufacturers
expect to have the 40cent fir lumber
rate extended to Missouri river points.
1t now prevails as far east as Alliance,
Neb. Victor H. Beckman,. secretary Of
the Pacific Coast Lumber Manufac-
turer's association, has been in St. Paul
in conference with freight traffic Off
Gals and it is expected the roads will
acquiesce in the demand.
The red cedar single rate between
the Minnesota Transfer and Chicago,
was recently reduced to 13 cents. The
railroads announced this reduction to
the same basis as the lumber rate pend
ing investigation into the merits Of such
action by the interstate commerce COM
mission. 1t seems, therefore, to the
coast lumber shippers that they have
reasonable grounds to expect the lower
rate to Missouri river points, owing to
the fact that the lines are now charging
higher rate on cedar shingles and lum.
Der than they are for fir and spruce.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-29

A Law Enforcement Citizen" writes to
T h e Journal today insisting upon
strict enforcement of the law, and CON
tends that that should be done till it is
proven that a majority Of the people pre-
fer Sunday saloons. What benefit would
Some of the good people of this city are
pursuing a course calculated to seriously
embarrass the chief executive Of the city
in his conscientious purpose to do what
is best for Minneapolis, altho they doubt
less do not know it,