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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30

States flag, only one under that Of
Germany and two under that Of Great
Britain. Five Of the ships were built
in Great Britain, five in the United
States, and one in the United States
by an Englishman; so that so far as
the test Of shipbuilding is concerned,
it is confined to Great Britain and the
United States. The Hamburg, sailing
under the German flag, was designed
by Watson and built in Great Britain.
OF course, race Of this kind is at
tended by great many conditions and
subject to great many possibilities
which rob it Of much Of it's supposed
value as a test of naval architecture
and seamanship. Accidents on long
voyage of this kind are liable to hap
pen, and weather conditions may af-
feet different vessels differently be-
cause of their construction or their
location. 1t is not necessary, however,
to rob the Atlantic, an American
schooner, Of all the credit of having
won this transatlantic race on her mer.
its. She seems to have met with nc
mishaps thruout the journey and to
have been manned by skillful sailors
Evidently the Atlantic won because
she deserved to win.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30
ADJUSTMENTS
Unique-VaudevilIe,

The Unique theater presents a bill this
week that is sure to please. The numbers
are all clever and the tiresome parts Of
the dialogs have been blue penciled The
show is well balanced and goes with that
dash SO necessary in up to-date vaude-
vile.
Professor Braydon's trained dogs make
the hit of the show and most of their
tricks are new and difficult. Their part
of the program is altogether too short.
The Adline brothers, acrobats and bal
ancers, have an excellent turn which
shows wonderful muscular control and
development. Frank Bowman gives a
short exhibition of the black art that
takes well. Leonzo is juggler who per-
forms with extremely dangerous articles.
Butchers utensils and sharp chisels are
thrown about with seeming recklessness.
Irene Little sings several patriotic seIec-
tons that take well and the moving pic
lures are especially good this week
MeSsrs. Sylvester, Jones and Pringle,
the imperials Of minstrelsy, headliners at
the Unique for this week, did not arrive
yesterday in time for the afternoon per-
formances. The cause for their delay was
an incident they will remember for some
time. They were on the North Coast linn
tied held up by lone highwayman at
Bearmouth, Mont, Saturday night They
were none the worse for their experience,
for last night they made great hit.
The Unique theater was closed this af-
ternoon and will be tonight out of respect
to the memory of Matt Gallagher, It's late
manager. whose funeral took place this
afternoon
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30
THE UNEASY CHAIR

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SOME VIVID PICTURES OF THE
WAR IN THE EAsT.-Press reports Of
the war for the most part give only re-
suits; they have not the space for, nor
will the public take time to read in the
daily papers, the wealth of detail that
makes up the tragic drama of the great
conflict The first thing the public wants
Is the "score," after that it is ready for
the story Of how it was made.
One of the best series of pictures-stor-
les of how the Japanese have scored on
the Russians-of the present war is that
Of 90 in The yellow War. "O'' is an
artist who delights in bold. Kiplingesque
strokes. yet who gives much attention to
detail so that he supplies the minutiae
that the newspaper reader does not get
lie portrays war at it's worst and at it's
best. He takes his reader upon the sea
for a night attempt to block the mouth
of Port Arthur harbor, he takes him upon
the land for sight of the 1.-The Forlorn
Hope of Kinchau," he takes him to Japan
to fill him with sympathy for the silent
sufferers there-sufferers who sacrifice
and whose reward is irgratitude as in the
case of little O'Teru San, the geisha girl.
The reader takes away a group Of pictures
that will long live in his mind. Here is
| an extract from "Os" story of an attempt
to sink a ship in the Port Arthur harbor
channel in the face of the murderous fire
from the Russian land batteries and fleet,
and of the heroism of Commander IIirose:
| The ship listing heavily He shouted to
his men in the boat, now hanging ON the mo-
| mentary terror of being engulfed in the wash
| Of the sinking ship His foot was on the rail,
| when the destroyer reopened with it's quickfrer.
shell took him in the neck and shoulder and,
bursting on impact, carried the brave mans
head and brains away with it. His mutilated
| trunk fell forward among his anxious men
struggling to keep the boat on For moment
| they did not know that he was dead. He was
| aboard They pushed off, and they handled
| the oars, gave cheer. Then they discovered
! that 1T was the warm, thick life's blood of
| their chief and not the spume of the which
| had made them so swet in the darkness. They
We're three lengths away when the water reached
| the boilers. A rush of steam, a report that
| dwarfed the raging gunfre. and the Fukui Maru
rolled over and settled just in the place which
| her officer had chosen. And three other TRACE
dies similar to this were taking place in the
narrow channel of Port Arthurs harbor en-
| trance this very night.
This section of the picture hardly does
the author justice. 1t is enough, however
| to show the horrors of war and that ''O'
knows how to do" them.
| Mcclure, Phillips & Co., New York.
| $1.2O net.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30

east, and the northwestern counties into
the Red river and north to Hudson s
bay. It may be interesting to know
that the elevation of Lake Superior,
602 feet, is less than that Of Lake Pep
in, which is 664 feet. Big Stone Lake,
from which, flows the Minnesota, is 963
feet above sea level.
These natural opportunities for power
development have been but slightly i'm
proved. AS coal for steam power must
pay heavy freight rates before reaching
Minnesota, water power is corresponds
ingly more valuable here than in other
localities. With modern turbine bat
teries, which utilize water power to the
fullest extent, and with the power con-
verified into electricity which may be
distributed far and wide, there is no
reason why many of these Minnesota
opportunities should not be proftably
improved.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30
Another Sea Victory.

Interest in the naval battle in the
Korean strait has so far overshadowed
all other events that matters which
under ordinary conditions would attract
much attention, have been practically
overlooked. Probably not many people
have noticed that America won vic
tory on the sea yesterday when the
Atlantic crossed the line south Of the
Lizard lighthouse off the coast Of Eng
land at 9:15 pm.
The Atlantic was sailing race across
the ocean with ten other ships, none of
which had appeared up to $3.50 am.
today, when the German schooner, Ham
burg, hove in sight.
The Atlantic is a schooner designed
by Gardener and owned by Wilson
Marshall, member of the New York
Yacht club. Captain Barr, who has
figured in the races for the America s
cup, was in command. The trophy is
a cup offered by Emperor William, and
the race is made under the auspices of
the Kaiserlicher Yacht club. The test
is the quickest passage from Sandy
Hook to the goal at the Lizard. The
start was made from Sandy Hook at
1915 pm. May Is, SO that the Atlantic
has been on the water IL days and
about 16 hours, counting the difference
Of FIVE hours between New York and
London.
The race is less Of an international
affair, however, than might have been
expected in view of the conditions I'M
der which it was made. Eight Of the
eleven racers sail under the United
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30
Streetcar Service.

To the Editor of The Journal
All Minneapoli people are greatly in
terested in the new electric line now be-
ing constructed by the street railway
company on Lake street, but none more
so than those living in the eighth ward
who have heretofore depended on the cars
running on Thirty first street for their
means Of reaching the down town dis
trict daily, which service they have been
led to understand would be given by the
new Lake street line. .g....r
But they are now told that when the
Lake street tracks are completed that no
cars will be run over them that will make
the downtown trip, and many eighth
ward residents, besides having to walk
the long block further to the car, will be
subjected to the inconvenience and de-
lay of transferring for down town at
either Hennepin or Nicollet crossings.
They must do this or walk a greater dis
lance to reach direct downtown line.
From Nicollet to Bryant avenue, the
next line west, is a distance of ten blocks,
and residents of the district midway be-
tween these two lines must depend upon
the Lake street line, and transfer. And
they naturally feel not a little sore over
the matter, as many were induced to buy
lots and build houses near Thirty first
street because it assured them apparent
ly) good downtown car service.
But it is possible for the street railway
company to give these people, and the
entire eighth ward, as good service as
they have heretofore enjoyed, even bet
ter, by simply running the short line cars
Chat now go out or: both Nicollet and
Hennepin and turn on Thirty f1rst)
across the Lake street line instead of
turning them. The cars going out Hen
nepin would run across Lake street east,
and make the down town run on Nicollet
and First avenue, and the First avenue
and Nicollet cars would run across Lake
street west and make the down trip on
Hennepin. ... ..r
That this has not been planned by the
company is evident from the fact that the
necessary rails for the downtown turn
have not been laid at Nicollet and Lake
street. PHI
If this plan, of making the Hennepin
and First avenue cars give the best serv-
ice possible. by describing this large loop
each trip, has not occurred to the COM
pany the writer begs leave to present it.
And it would also seem that the neces-
sary rails for the downtown turn at
Nicollet and Lake street should be laid
anyhow, for the purpose of handling the
Lake Harriet traffic upon Occasions OF
unusual attractions at that popular re-
sort. South Town.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30
Rallying Bryan Democracy.

Mr. Bryan's primary pledge is be-
ing extensively circulated in the west
ern states, and democratic papers in
Minnesota are generally giving a place
to the blank which is to be filed out
and mailed to the Lincoln office Of the
party's acknowledged leader. The
pledge commits each signer to attend
the primaries of the democratic party
and vote for adherence to progressive
principles, which means that the theo-
ries of Mr.. Bryan are hereafter to be
accepted as party gospel, if the plan
wins.
1t is high time that Mr.. Bryan was
sounding a rallying cry, if anything
tangible is to be saved to democracy
in the west out Of the wreck of the
last election. Last fall a majority of
the democrats who had followed Bryan
in states like Minnesota, Iowa and the
Dakotas, voted for Roosevelt, believ-
ing that he came nearer representing
democratic principles than their own
nominee. That wholesale desertion
loosened their allegiance to democracy.
The men who voted for Roosevelt by
that act cast themselves adrift from
party mornings. They are apt to land
almost anywhere next year. Such a
rallying effort as Mr.. Bryan is making
seems imperative.
No democratic candidate for presi-
dent ever approached the vote Bryan
received in Minnesota in 1896 and
104,3S5 votes in 1888 and 10000 in
1892. The Bryan wave reached it's
high point in 1896, when 13O,735 votes
were cast for him in Minnesota. Be-
fore the next presidential election a
constitutional amendment barred those
who only held first papers from voting,
and in 1900 the vote decreased, Bryan
dropping to 112,901.
Parker's vote in Minnesota last fall
was IS, l87-less than half of Bryan s
lowest vote. Of the total loss of $1,000,
about 10000 went to swell the Roose-
welt vote and 5000 was turned to Debs
and socialism. Another 1000 returned
to populism and voted for Tom Watson.
The other 1900 evidently stayed at
home and solved their perplexity by
not voting at all. The Parker voters
probably the majority Of them, voted
the ticket under protest, and the Par,
ker element of the party in Minnesota
is poor nucleus to build from. The
best politics for democracy is evidently
to follow the Bryan standard again
Those who sign the Bryan pledge will
not 60 into the republican primaries
next summer, as many Of them die
last year. The habit Of voting in re-
publican primaries is likely to make
man republican in time, and Mr.
Bryan has started none too soon tc
become fisher Of men once more.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30
Power Awaiting DEVELOPMENT,

Water power first made manufacture
ing center of Minneapolis, and the DOW
er to be developed from Minnesota riv-
ers will be an increasing factor in the
industrial development of the state rs
the years go by. The financial success
of the power dam below st. Anthony
Falls has been an eye-opener. It is be-
ing followed by vast projects for the
development of power in the st. Louis
river above Duluth, and in the St. Croix
at Taylor's Falls. When the govern
ment dams below the city are finished,
another splendid head of water will be-
come available. The magnificent Falls
of Koochiching, on the northern bound
cry, are now being developed to furnish
greater power than any now operated
in the state. "
George A. Ralph, engineer Of the
state drainage board, has furnished
some interesting data as to elevations
and power that may be developed from
rivers of the state. Take the Otter
Tail, for instance. In Becker county it
has an elevation of 1900 feet above sea
level. Otter Tail lake has an elevation
OF 1918 feet, the river at Fergus Falls,
l,2lO, and below Fergus Falls, l,13O; at
Breckenridge, where it flows into the
Red river, $50. These large differences
IN elevation offer some splendid oppor-
tunities for developing power.
Many others are to be found in the
three watersheds which divide the
tate, draining the southern and CEN
sral part into the Mississippi and south,
The northeastern into Lake Superior and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30

W. H. Williams, state labor commission
err, who has been in Chicago. says: "Ac-
cording to the information I got both
sides have been hiring sluggers to pound
non union drivers. The union men, it was
claimed, were doing. it to discourage the
strikebreakers, and the employers were
doing it create public sentiment against
the strikers" This opens mp the POSSIBLE
ity that perhaps the Russians have been
hiring the japanese to slug their fleet
so as to get world sympathy. Sounds
lust as reasonable.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK


81
In your issue of last week there ap-
peared an article on contesting which
interested me in a way that calls for de-
NAL of some Of the accusations made
therein. First, the homesteader who
takes a 160-acre tract for home and con-
forms to the requirements of the law as
to residence and cultivation need not fear
a contest: nor do people as a rule contest
persons who show good faith by conform
Ing to the law The neighbors adjoining
those lands are anxious to have the coun-
try settled up around them and will not
allow or approve Of contesting the rights
Of a homesteader who Is acting In good
faith.
On the other hand, the parties referred
to In your article as being anxious to pre-
sent petition to the department to
change matters preventing contests might
fairly be contested. as they make little Or
no pretension to settlement or improve
ment on a piece of land when they file
upon it within the time limited, but go
and file on $50 acres of land, and perhaps
they may within six months build a small
shack not habitable at any season of the
year and make no clearing and not go
near 1t for six months at time, and yet
expect to enjoy the same privileges that
an honest homesteader does. They per-
haps have profession of some kind in
]AAS SALACS OtSIeBdIu Tie re-
quirements of the law as to settle
ment and Improvement: then, on the
other hard they have probably been
located by some Of that class Of To-
Gators who have little or no regard
for their word or care little or nothing
for the success of their client. After they
have obtained the locating fee, which ap-
pears to be their only object, they have
gone so far as to tell some people whom
they locate that it IS not necessary to
go upon their claims more than once in
six months, thus having the person so
advised subject to a contest and eventual
ly loss Of his land. I have known a
Minneapolis locator who has taken S10O
each from four different persons at one
time for locating for them. The locator
gave them the description Of the land
and when they came in to my office to
file found that each claimant was locat-
ed on Indian allotments. After travelling
by rail and wagon $50 miles ct consider
able expense, they were obliged to return
should be hunted down and made to suf-
fer both financially and otherwise, but the
most of them are worth nothing and have
no scruples of conscience.
I know of a number Of good claims in
the best section of northern Minnesota
that have been filed upon from one to
| two years that don't bear the mark OF
an ak and should be contested. The ap-
plicant should not be allowed to steal 16C
acres of land from the government when
others are willing to earn it.
| H. T. Young, Cass Lake, MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30
The Old Soldier.

WY years ago Ln1S nation was in
sore trouble. One-half Of the republic
had risen against the other half. A
state of war existed and the president
issued call for troops. The response
to that call and the subsequent battles.
sieges and campaigns are the cause of
our Memorial day. It is distinctly a.
day on which the virtues of peace shine
respondent, tho it is devoted to hon
orlng the memory of those who died
in war.
The war of the rebellion was a de-
fensive war forced upon the govern
ment, and the soldiers of the union were.
volunteers-men who came from the
shops, the farms and the offices. They
were not professional soldiers, and they
did not glory in war. But they were
patriots and they fought, and fought
bravely, until they were told that their
mission had been accomplished and the
republic saved. Then they melted away
from the fields of the south and from
the camps and forts Of the north. and in
a few months the fields of the south
were silent and desolate. Terrible havoc
had been wrought, it is true, but the
visible agents of that destruction, the
marching arrays had disappeared. The
soldiers had become citizens again.
Much as we love them for their deeds
of daring, much more do we honor the
survivors of the war for the example
they gave Of perfect obedience to the
! civil law and to their appreciation that
| the state Of war was a temporary state,
that the true status of the country and
their true status was that of peace.
So we view the soldiers living and
dead as messengers of peace. We strew
the graves of the dead with flowers be-
cause they laid down their lives that
peace light come again and bless their
posterity. We honor the living soldiers
because their voices have always been
raised for justice and humanity, and
justice and humanity make for peace.
The old soldier has passed thru sew
There was first the political phase when
the offices went largely to old soldiers
because they had the majority of votes
and they had the men of influence and
capacity to put into them. This was
succeeded by wave of Jealousy on the
part Of the growing class Of civilians
who wanted to shine in their country s
or their state s service. Then came the
period of pension legislation when we
were RECALLED year after year with the
amounts drawn from the treasury by
pensioners. Happily the phase Of poll
teal jealousy has passed. The period
of sordid alarm over the pension roll
has passed. The old soldier has sur
vived jealousy and detraction and has
emerged into brighter fame, into a
dearer place in the public estimation.
Memorial Day has done more to clear
the atmosphere than any other thing.
It has connected the love for the living
veteran with reverence for the resting
place of the dead. We all gather there
on Memorial Day not less to do rever'
ence to the dead than to do honor to
the living.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30
More Light on the Gas Deal.

The Philadelphia Press stock and
bond report may throw little light
upon the gas situation in that city.
United Gas Improvement stock on last
Friday opened at 1O4 and fell during
the day to 101, closing at 1021a. The
extreme weakness Of United Gas I'M
provement stock, which in one month
has declined A Y points, is Of less con-
sequence the report says than the pros
pect for the future. 1t has been claimed
right along that the company stood to
win on the new lease deal and could not
lose because if the new lease was de-
feated the company would keep control
of the gas works for twenty years from
1907. But as the situation develops
this is not necessarily true. The city
has the privilege Of taking back the
gas works in 1907, and it is said to be
the policy Of Mayor Weaver to do that.
He will favor taking up the lease and
leasing the gas works to the highest
bidder. The United Gas Improvement
would have to either give better terms
or lose the immense revenue of the
Philadelphia works.
The Press states in this connection
that the net proftaof the gas company
in Philadelphia are over $2,0OO.0OO a
year, and that these figures indicate
that the company is not earning per
cent on it's stock outside of the city Of
Philadelphia. This probably shows why
the company was willing to outrage the
feelings of the people of Philadelphia
and ride roughshod over the equities in
the case. It may also explain why
provement did not answer the appeal Of
the North American to his sense Of citi-
zenship. He probably thought it better
to look out for his stockholders first and
let citizenship take the leavings.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30

of the committee should divide, that
situation would be taken as meaning
that the middle west is divided in
sentiment and in legislative affairs,
where sentiment is divided, it is al
ways difficult to pass bills.
Senators Clapp, Millard and Dolliver
will be at home for the most of the
summer and fall, and their constitu-
ents will therefore have ample time in
which to draw them out.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30

The Cleveland Plain Dealers New York
letter writer, who generally knows almost
everything, says: 1T is whispered from
leader to leader in the republican ranks
that Secretary Taft is Roosevelt's chosen
successor, and that the president is coach
Ing him politically at every STOP The
Judge seems to be playing pretty hot
game without much assistance from the
coaching line
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30

James Dalrymple, the Glasgow street
car man, says:
On the busiest Of the lines the cars are
operated on half-minute schedule, and We
have always maintained that a seat is
provided for every passenger. The only
secret to this is in running sufficient
number of cars. .. -.,
occurred to the management Of the Mime
apolis street railway, but now that the
secret is out we shall doubtless see an
Improvement
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-30

Secretary Shaw told group of Kansas
business men: 1--WE could build an 18TH
milan canal every year and never know
that we were paying the additional taxes
1T cost" Indirect taxation has this ad-
vantage that chloroform is administered
TO the country before the money is ex-
tracted. .E