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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-20
OUR new YORK LETTER
Comment Upon Flying Visit
Of Mayor Dunno.
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
TO ENTER INTO PLATFORMS OF
TWO PARTIES IN 1908.
Dissertation Upon Railways and Their
Progress With the Growth of
Leading Cities.
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, April II, 1905.
The flying visit paid by Judge Edward
F. Dunno, the newly elected mayor of Chi
cago, to the metropolis and his urging upon
the people here in the east the advantages
of municipal ownership campaign In his
Cooper Union speech has caused consider
able speculation in the public prints and
out as to whether the issue thus made has
been projected into the domain of prac-
teal politics. Some there are who even go
so far as to line up with William Jennings
Bryan and radical and progressive demo-
Gratis in favor Of state ownership OF the
railroads. a program compared with which
the municipal ownership of street railroads
In Chicago appears to be a mere side show
contrasted with the big circus tent. Every
once in while here in New York one will
hear enthusiastic radicals and progreSSiveS
speak of Judge Dunno as the next possible
democratic nominee for President, provided
of course, he makes a satisfactory mayor.
1t Is recalled that the immortal Abraham
Lincoln made his first appearance in New
York in Cooper Union speech, and
pretty parallel is being drawn between Lin
coin and Dunno. For, since the second de-
feat of Bryan and the failure of Tom john
son to become governor of Ohio, since the
death of democrats like Gov. Altgeld of Il
inois, and non-partisan republicans like
Mayor Jones of Toledo and Mayor Pingree
of Detroit, the radicals here in the east have
been hard pushed for leader, and in Judge
Dunno they imagine they have found their
man. Eastern radicals are not usually prac-
teal politicians and they fail to realize that
Judge Dunno in order to retain his hold
on Cook county and Illinois political ma
chinery must be reelected before 1908.
Prof F. w. Taussg of Harvard Univer-
sity, one of the great writers upon economic
topics in this country. man who rarely
expresses opinion, however, which Dor
ders upon political subjects, once said that
the trouble with the average radical and
reformer is that he attempts too much at
one time, that in asking for the whole loaf
he loses the half loaf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-20
CITY OF BATON ROUGE
No American Town Has
Changed Allegiance So Often.
SALUTED MANY FLAGS
MODERN ENTERPRISE STIRRING
THE QUAINT OLD PLACE.
Site of the Louisiana University His
toric Spot Made Notable by the
Presence of Eminent Men.
BY VIM T.. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald

Record Herald
BATON ROUGE April IL, 1905.
The denizenS Of this quaint old town have
salute6 a larger number of flags than any
other community in the United States-both
the orange and red of Spain, the English
jack, the American flag, that of the repub-
lie of West Florida of the state of Lou
isiana of the Confederate States of Amer
lea and finally the stars and stripes, now
and forever more.
Louisiana was named by Robert Cavalier
de LaSalle, who reached this point on the
cross, hoisted the fleur de lis and took pos
session of the country in the name Of his
sovereign, Louis XIV. March 20, 1857 La
Sale was assassinated by his own servants
on Trinity river, In Texas. In 1862, by
secret treaty, Louisiana was ceded to Spain;
on October l, 1900, it was retroceded to
France by the treaty of st. Ildephonso. and
on April 80 1903, was sold by France to the
United States but Baton Rouge and eight
counties, or parishes were not included In
the Louisiana purchase. Philemon Thomas,
with a band of woodsmen and fiatboa tmen,
organized an Independent government, call
ed The Republic of West Florida" and
maintained themselves here until 1911, when
they were annexed to Louisiana by procla-
nation. General Thomas was remark
able character. He served two terms in
Congress. died here in 1912, and is buried
in the serene old cemetery in a grave that
is covered with violets. There are two
cemeteries here, side by side-one for SOL
diers and another for civilians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-20
Louisiana State University.

Along the banks of the Mississippi which
Is about mile wide here, and whose tawny
waters roll by this city with dignity that
BELTS the father of waters, stands the
Louisiana State University, of which Gen
Sherman was once the president. The
campus is historic ground 1t has been the
scene of much history and has been asso-
clated with the careers of many famous
men. For $50 years ii was military post
and arsenal. The dormitories now occupied
by the students and arranged in the form
of a pentagon, with an open side facing the
river. were erected barracks for soldiers
in 1922 Several of the professors are &C.
cupying quarters that We're built for the
officers of the post. Other professors have
comfortable modern cottages scattered
around among the magnoias and elms and
oaks. The former headquarters of the COM
mandant are now occupied by the band
The powder magazine is stored with
agricultural implements and other ancient
buildings are used for laboratories and
similar purposes. The government aban-
doned the post in 1880 and afterward leased
ii to the university. In 1902 Congress
passed a bill donating the property to the
institution outright and President Boyd
now signs the diplomas of graduates with
the pen which President Roosevelt used to
approve that act.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-20
Reforms Come Slowly.

Prof. Taussig believes general thing
little or nothing is gained when political
parties inject propositions in their plat
forms in advance of the demands of the
people that those issues, like statutes
which are not enforced, really do more harm
than good.
Then, too, when steps too much in advance
of the times are taken the people vote the
propositions down and future campaigns of
educa ton along the same lines are rendered
impossible. For instance, according to Prof.
TauSsig, it might be possible to get Inc
people to vote for state ownership of the
express companies or the telegraph lines
where the $4,000, 600, $50 financial problems
involved in the state ownership of all rail-
road lines would Starte them and cause
them to turn toward more conservative. can
ddates and policies.
Up to the time of the arrival of Judge
Dunno problems of municipal ownership
and state control of public utilities have
been confined to academic discussions 1t
is true that the people of the state of New
York when Bird S. Coler ran for governor
on the democratic ticket against B. b.
Odell, jr., by an overwhelming ma jority did
not hesitate to vote for the improvement
of the Erie canal at an expense of $100, 0O0,-
600. That was more than two years ago,
however, and while little preliminary Of
flee work has been done not a spade has
yet been turned in this matter of the crea-
ton of the thousandton barge canal. This
in itself affords a practical demonstration
of the fact that here in the east even where
municipal ownership propositions by large
majorities, nevertheless the authorities, eX-
ecutive, legislative and judicial, are careful,
conservative and slow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-20
Stirred From It's Slumber.

Baton rouge Is ii QudIIlI oiu PIe'Nt, Will
several modern spots. The slumbers in
which it has lain since the civil war are
being broken in upon by enterprise and
progress. Several new modern buildings
have recently been erected, including an ex-
celent hotel, and there is a sugar mill and
a cotton-see oil mill on the outskirts of
the town The United States government
has an experimental station here, under
the Department of Agriculture, which is
not only engaged in educating the farmers
how to obtain the most profitable returns
for their seed and their labor, but is doing
much important original research work. 81
The federal building Is a beauty-one of
the most artistic | have ever seen. 1t
houses the post office, federal court and
other United States government offices. 1t,
is built of cream-colored brick, with stone
trimmings, a Venetian portico and grills
and other ornaments of iron. The govern
ors mansion Is a stately old ante-bellum
house and there are many handsome man
sions in the city belonging to rich cotton
and sugar growers
The state house is fantastic structure,
said to be designed after a Norman castle,
but the windows are Gothic and the tow
ers have peculiar looking skeleton pinnacleS
which remind one of bird cages and give the
building a ridiculous appearance. The peo-
pie call them ''buZZard's roosts," and every
nov and then some citizen whose artistic
taste and sense of propriety are irritated
by the spectacle starts a movement to take
them down. 1t is said that the iron of
which they are built was brought down
from Boston by General Butler during the
war to ornament a warehouse at the foot
of Canal street in New Orleans. The build
ing was torn down at the close of the war,
the iron was sold al auction and was bid in
by a Spectator who persuaded the archi-
tect of the capitol TO perch these things
upon the tops of the towers. The Spectator
had the iron and the architect had the
money, and the state officials have never
had the nerve to punish either of them for
rraal ,ircr hnn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-20
O'Hara's Famous Poem.

burying grounds in the United States, is
ornamented with tablets of cast iron,
painted white, bearing inscriptions from
that well-known poem: st
''On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents spread,
And glo:y guards with solemn round,
The bivOuac of the dead
1t is generally supposed that these beauti-
full lines were by a Union soldier at the
close of the late civil war, but the author
was Major Theodore O'HaTa, an Irish adj
venturer, soldier of fortune, who served
in the Mexican war; and the poem was
written in 1854 for and read at service
concentrating a company of the soldiers
of Kentucky who died in the battle of
Buena Vista in the war with Mexico in
1S4S. O'Hara served in regiment of Ken
lucky cavalry during the Mexican war, and
was afterward a captain of cavalry in the
regular army. He resigned to practice law
in Louisville, made failure of 1t and
drifted into journalism. When the civil
war broke out he went south, served as a
major in the confederate army, returned to
Louisville after the surrender and died
in 1861
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-20
improvements Difficult.


The plain truth about the matter is that
1t is far more difficult to secure improve
ments of any kind, private, quas-publc
and public, in eastern cities than In west
ern cities. Not since the days when United
States Senator Calvin S. Brice Of Ohio
built the Nickel Plate, beginning his opera
lions In Ohio. and the middle west, how
ever; not since the time when the Wander
bits acquired control of the West Shore
has 1t been possible to even project trunk
line between New York and any of the
other leading cities of the country.
The Garrison interests attempted to break
into New York with the Baltimore and
Ohio, and the Mcleod management of the
Reading was supposed to have large and
daring plans in the same direction. There
is no doubt but that the GOulds would like
to have a great metropolitan terminal for
their transcontinental Wabash-Wheeling
trunk line which has already reached the
Atlantic seaboard. Yet the problems in
volved stagger even the great Gould in
terests.
New York city has been increasing in
wealth and population by leaps and bounds,
and yet it has not had new railroad in
the past quarter of a century. There is
not large city on the continent, perhaps
in the world, with similar record. Many
southern and western cities imagine that
their booms going to the dogs If they
do not secure at least one new railroad a
year.
lueSc ldCtS are DTOuSHt OuL merely 10 IL
lustrate the ultra-conservative character of
New Workers in. matters OF public improve
ment. The Inhabitants of any western city
Of a hundred thousand inhabitants would
have felt themselves greatly abused If
theyf had been shut up on an island and
obliged to rely upon sow-going ferries for
transportation to the mainland, at the mercy
of ice and fogs.
building of the subway and who is familiar
with the situation in Chicago is quoted as
saying:
Difficult Problems Involved.
Municipal ownership may be all right,
but the problems involved are engineering
problems. not political not financial cues
tons. The worst thing that can happen to
the city of Chicago is to get hold of those
street railways. The moneyed men inter-
ested will be lucky if they can get out at
fair figure. For in great cities like New
York, Chicago, London and Paris, at least,
the subway Is the thing. Within the next
ten or fifteen years street railroads on the
streets of Chicago will be as much out of
place as horse cars are at the present time.
l take no interest in politics, but Mr.. Har-
Ian, the republican candidate for mayor of
Chicago, was right in this thing, while
Judge Dunno is wrong. If the people of
Chicago really want to put the street rail-
way people in a pocket, let them expend
their millions for underground roads; IL
they want to help out the street railroad in
terests let them buy the existing lines for
good round sum, and then let the stock
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-09-13
A Patient Ynnnr Nm

A clergyman was praisIng the virtue
OF patienOe. I'VE may have indus
try" said he. 'sobriety. ambition, all
the virtues that make for success. and
yet without patience we viii accom-
pliSh nothing. A young man was over
heard on n street corner the other
night reproaching a young girl That
young man was patient he had so
highly developed this excellent quality
that ! shall not be surprised some day
10 see him n millionaire. a college pres
ldent or even a bishop.
The young man said, as the young
girl drew near him on the corner:
wat a time you have kept me
waitingT
The girl tossed her head.
90 Tt IS only : o'clock she said. and
! didn't promise 20 be here til a quar-
ter Of
The young man smiled a calm and
patient smile.
"'Ah. yes be said, but you have
mistaken the day. ! have been wait
ing FOR VOC since last evening"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-09-13

The Cornish names In Ireland are
few and far between. but evidence OF
an extensive Welsh immigration is
forthcoming In the fact that at the
present day the name Walsh-pro-
aounced Welsh-is 70 be met with In
nearly every county IN ireland. The
curious settlement Of Welsh colonists
In the baronies Of Forth and Bargy, In
County Wexford. who maintained their
ancient manners. customs and Ian
guage for some 100 years, no longer de-
serves the title OF a peculiar people, q"
given TO them by S. C. Hall IN 1S41,
the Forth dialect having practically
died out, though many OF the old fam
fly names-Codd, Sinott Rossiter and
Walsh-are stil very common In the
ncighborhood.
The Huguenots were granted letters
Of naturalization in 1874 and founded
colonies In Dublin. Kilkenny, Portar-
lington, Waterford. Cork and Lisburn.
Many prominent. distinguished Irish
men have borne and stlll bear Hugue-
not names. among whom mention may
be made Of the Ia Touches, Trenches.
Ia Fevres, Lefroys and Lefanus. OF
the last OF whom one may say, In the
best sense, that they are Hibernis ipsls
Hiberniores.-London Spectator.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-09-13
A sbrewd Poet.

There Is a story told OF a poor Greek
poet who lived in Rome at the time Of
the Emperor Augustus. Il shows us
that wit often succeeds where merit
fails.
The poet was anxious 20 gain favor
with the emperor. Every morning be
waited az the palace door. and as the
emperor passed out the poet presented
him with a verse or an epigram that
be had composed. The emperor accept
ed the poetry. but never paid the poet
anything. Indeed, his presumption
rather amused the emperor. and. being
one day en- a merry humOr. be wrote a
verse himself and handed it gravely 10
the poet, VINO waited for him, as usual
az the gate.
The poet. with ready wit pulled out
his purse and emptied the two or three
coDpers II contained into The emperOrs
hand
All" cried he. there should be
more, but ] give you my ability, II /
were as rich as you, great Caesar, !
would pay a much greater price for
verses"
Ana IL is pleasant 10 be told that the
emperor thought the joke worth 1000
crowns.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-09-13
WhisIZerr md Wenther

Do whiskers grow faster In hot
weather than in cold? The correct m
swer TO this question is, They do"
BARRIERS say that there is an increase
Of about 20 per cent in business dur
ing the extremely hot spells and that
all this increase comes from the men
who habltually shave every other day
instead Of once a day. Although hot
weather makes more business for the
chin polishers, they 90 not particularly
welcome It, Men are always more
irritable and harder 10 shave. This
coupled with the increased speed Of
execution, makes the whole business
unsatisfactory for both the shaver and
the shavee-Kansas City Journal
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-09-13
4 FEMALE DANIEL
At PORTLAND
FAIR
Woman on Trail at Lewis and
Clark Exposition Makes Wild
Beasts Do Her Bidding.

Portland, Ore, Sept. 12.-This city
has a female Daniel The woman ap-
pears to be devoid of fear, and this
has made her a valuable acquisition
/ to George JabOur, whose Trained Ami
NAL Show on the Trail at the Lewis
and Clark Exposition has proved one
Of the most popular attractions at
the Western Worlds Fair
The female Daniel-no one seems
TO know her other name-enters a den
Of lions several times a day. and
drives the great beasts before like
cattle. Then, on the stage, which is
enclosed by an iron cage, she makes
the beasts go through a series Of
maneuvers that must be most humili-
ating to them. And then, as the
finale to a wonderful exhibition, the
woman forces open the jaws of the
largest lion and puts her head into
the beasts wide-Open mouth
There are a lot OF other interest
ing features in JabOur's show, nOta
bic among which are the trained
seals. The seals are awkWard beasts
stupid in appearance, but they are
good actors. They shoot guns, jug
gle balls, climb ladders. and finally
play on various instruments. As mu-
sicians the seals are not an entire
success, their musical sensI being as
yet not completely developed, but
they make as much noise as any band
and their enthusiasm makes up for
the discomfort of q few discords.
All kinds of people come to see the
animal show, and every one likes it.
Il is entirely different from any other
attraction on the Trail.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-09-13
Ministers, Doctors and
Temperance Workers
Use and Recommends Duffy's Pure Mat
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Lung, Stomach and Nervous DISEASES.

az THANK GOD THERE Is SUCH A
/ MEDICINE, WRITES REV DIR. MCLEOD,
an active minister for 90 years. " For more
than 20 years 1 had been afflicted with dys-
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-, 1904.
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-09-13
CENTURY, PEOPLE
CON TINUE
HOPEFUL
They Have Faith that Health Of
fiGialS and Physicians win
Control Fever in PEN
SaCOIa.
Special to The Journal.

Century, Fla, Sept. 12.-Rev Nc
Rae, the pastor of the Baptist church
here with the assistance of Rev. vii
liam Wagner Of De Funiak Springs
closed a prOtracted meeting of eignt
c. nine days duration here a few days
ago Quite a number professed re
ligiOn, and have been received into
the church.
Our school building presents a very
neat appearance, since being enlarged
reprinted. fitted with blinds and d
new fence.
Since the yellow fever made its ap
pearance in Pensacola, and we are de
nied the pleasure Of receiving OuI
Journal in the forenoon, and having
only one train every twenty-fOus
hours, our little town has assumed a
very quiet state. Every one seems
70 have. confidence in the ability OF
the authorities. both local and state
to check the fever, and keep it away
from Century, though some are ap.
prehensive of danger from fever if a
detention camp is really located so
near US as Flomaton
Mr.. L. n. Strickland with wife
and infant daughter have just re-
turned from Columbia, S. c., the home
Of Mrs. Strickland, where she has
been visiting her parents for the past
two or three months.
The big mills are running steadH Z
The merchants all seem to be doing
a profitable business. Corn. potatoes
cane and peas, are plentiful and hog
claims are more numerous in the river
swamp, than usual, insuring a sup
ply Of hog and hominy for another
season.