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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-29
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-29
GREAT sMAsHER.

Gunner That chauffeur you engaged is
a very reckless chap.
Guyer- es; he reminds me Of Mayor
Weaver of Philadelphia.
Gunner--How so? 3s3
Guyer-He is SO good at smashing a
machine.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-29
JAPANESE Scholarship
San Francisco Argonau'

T.. San Francisco Argonaut.
We have the funny spectacle of five
members of a fraternity at Berkeley fail
ing to pass their examinations and the
japanese cook who waited upon them
graduating with honors
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-29
oFMoREPRAcTlcA.Llu,s Use.

How did smoothley ever make such q
lucky strike in politics? Does he wear q
rabbits foot?' + zs
Better than that He wears q pair Of
gum shoes.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-29
NO SECRETS CAN GET OUT
BOSTON Globe


Hanover, N. 4H.-The Sphinx Of Dart
mouth college has recently completed
its lodgehouse, which was turned over
to the present delegation last week.
The structure is built entirely of cement
in the shape Of a pyramid base and is
erected on solid rock. The site is on
East Wheelock street, between the
grounds of old Culver hall and the Al
pha Delta Pi house. and overlooks
alumni oval and the hill beyond. The
structure is about seventy-fve feet long
and forty feet in width, with a height
of thirty feet. At the base the wall
is more than a yard in thickness, taper
ing at the top to about foot A mold
ing of cement extends around thevedge
of the building and along the top. On
each side of the entrance is massive
Corinthian column handsomely carved.
and over the heavy oaken door is an
Egyptian scarab with outspread wings
The appearance of the building, with
its solemn air and. it's foundation on the
crest of a huge boWlder, is intensely
impressive.
HIS ENvIABLE POSITION.
Are you in any way related to the
nobility, Mr.. G ! q val inquired the
reporter.
''Nope!' replied the rectangular but
eminently astute old millionaire. you
see. all my children are boys.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19
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stitutions on the continent, but pkinces
and potentates of finance whose names,
under certain conditions represent more
money than has ever been coined in
the history of the world Yet, although
of such enormous financial potentiality,
no greater care is taken, apparently,
by the great bankers and brokers of
the street TO protect their persons, as
distinguished from their purses, than
is taken by the veriest huckster on
the curb. And one foremost reason
for this is shown in the extraordinary
vigilance and efficiency of the system
by which the street is watched and
warded.
Sitting in his Office in the Stock Ex-
change building, the head of the Wall
street detective bureau, with his hand
literally and figuratively on hundred
wires communicating with his subor-
dinates i'm various parts of the finan-
cial district, can within a period OF
three minutes mass enough men at
given point to handle any crowd or
cope with any demonstration that may
arise. He is the dean of the depart
ment, having entered the service In
1858, and he and his Cerberi are per-
haps proudest of their achievement in
catching the crank who, in a series of
letters which created considerable ex-
element i'm financial circles and at
tracted attention in both hemispheres
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19
cA001J oF CWc5 MQzNfOM Ma2GD D0g9z&

complete undoing of a Napolconic
financial enterprise, occurred three
years ago, coincidentally with the fiota-
tion of one of the greatest corporations
in existence. The intended victim
bears one of the best known names in
the financial world, and but for the
vigilance of the special watchman con-
stantly in his employ he might have
lost his life, loaded revolver and sew
eral sticks of dynamite being found
on the man who had threatened him.
Still another attempt was made to
dynamite a prominent Broad street
banker about year ago by man
OF some wealth who had esta ablished
mission in the Bowery and who had
been disappointed over his failure to
secure assistance from the multi-mil-
lionaire. He reached Bloomingdale
asylum without the public sharing in
the secret. and he eventually recon-
pensed his lawyer with a series of
drafts on the Bank Of Heaven.
But while the uniformed police are
responsible for the safety of those
financial leaders whose very name and
fame make them a target for the crimi-
nal and crank, nearly every banking
house in the street retains. at its own
expense, one or more watchmen, or
doormen, as they are generally known.
AT least ninety per cent OF these men
have been recruited from the police
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19
HUMAN HAIR MARKET

The human hair industry is very
active one in France, the departments
most frequently visited by the hair
merchants being those of Correze
Creuse, Allier, Cher Dordogne and
Haute Vienne. The average price
given for full. long head Of hair is
from eight shillings TO Twenty-Five
shillings for the very best quality and
color. The girls of the districts men
toned above, which are exceedingly
poor, stipulate that their hair shall not
be cut short in front, and conceal the
shorn appearance of the back by a
draped colored handkerchief The best
shades OF light and blond hair are OBJ
tanned from Germany and Switzerland
and for these high prices are given.
A Japanese bride gives her wedding
presents to her parents as a slight rec
ompense for the trouble they have had
in rearing her
All honest doubt has its destination
in some great truth.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19

at the time, demanded of Jay Gould an
immense sum of money or forfeit of
his life.
Beyond the fact that the postmarks
on the envelopes showed that all the
letters had been mailed in the postal
district bounded by Tenth and Thirty
third streets and Broadway and Eighth
avenue, day after day passed without
the writer of them being apprehended
Jay Gould, ordinarily disposed to ig-
more such threats, became indeed so
concerned that he never moved abroad
save with number of plain-clothes
men as a bodyguard. Finally by post
ing an officer and mail carrier near each
box in the district and scrutinizins
every letter mailed the unwary scribe
was detected and was found to be de-
mented.
Since the sensational attempt to dy-
Mantle Russell Sage i'm 1891 the street
has been shaken by no occurrence of
similar magnitude, and yet hundreds
of queer cases have been disposed OF
quietly without the public ever being
informed of them. Hardly day. in
fact. passes but that the examiners
pass ON individuals who have commit
ter overt acts In following delusions
which bring them within the pale Of
the law. A notable instance which was
never made public because, at the time
1t might have meant the gripping or
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19

to know him and prepare for better or
worse.
Passing down the street, a few doors
from the stock exchange is the Uni
ted States sub-treasury, which was
visited a month or so ago by per-
son Of protracted hair and angoral as
pect. who asked to see the assistant
street door. adjudging the man cor
rectly, soon learned that he had invent
ed a machine which was guaranteed
to keep all the government clerks bus
lily employed for eight hours a day.
For this important discovery he de-
manded the very moderate compensa-
tion OF $6.OOO.O00 in cash. Now ie is
said that a machine really capable Of
accomplishing such miracle would
be worth much more than the amount
involved, and yet the Cerberus was
skeptioal He referred the man to the
custom house. At the custom house
he was forwarded to the city hall, on
the steps of which, he was informed,
ne would meet man wearing a black
hat and a pale mustache. So far as
known this particular crank was never
heard OF more.
Another curious case OF paranoia
which the authorities were called in
to attend recently was of man who
wished to retaliate upon George j.
Gould for fancied persecution. His
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19


ranks, their selection being governed
| by their knowledge of the wiles and
ways as well as faces of unwelcome
visitors in the forbidden territory AS
rule they are physically powerful,
since it is always advisable to quell
such disturbers by show of physical
force rather than by more drastic
methods.
Again, many captains of finance, be-
| ing excellent students of physiognomy.
are able to gauge a strange visitor and
J so to provide for contingencies before
the latter has chance or is provoked
| by disappointment to resort to ex-
tremes One day recently the writer
had occasion to call upon former
| president fof the United States Steel
corporation to solicit a subscription to
| a public charity The millionaire In
question who differs from most
wealthy men in the street in that he
habitually carries considerable sums Of
money on his person. readily produced
| his wallet and donated three bills Of
generous denominations.
Being asked if he was never uneasy
| In carrying what amounted to an ex-
| tensive fortune on his person he youch-
| safed that he had become what he was
| IA multi millionnaire-largely through
his ability to read faces Alright and that
| he needed but one glance at visitor
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19
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thoroughly frightened, his teeth were
chattering and his tongue seemed to
have been mesmerized. He had. brief
ly, undergone a sudden and complete
Transformation from an apparently
prosperous man of the world to con-
.victed sulprit. Had the massive stock
exchange and the towering skyscrapers
been merely scenic property instead of
real 1t might have, been a scene in
melodrama. Standing still, the officer
austere and critical the stranger cring-
ing and frightened, they moved over
toward the exchange entrance.
"Sam,' continued the inquisitor
"where have you been during the last
five years or SO? believed you dead
OF -"
Finding his tongue, the natty indi-
vidual hastily verified the implication
conveyed in the pause by admitting
that he had been serving a term IN
Sing Sing. He ended by imploring the
officer not to arrest him and by calling
on the powers above to witness that
he had been living an honest life since
regaining his freedom. &
SAM at length, very quietly, al
most gently, came the frigid reply, you
seem to be prospecting somewhere and
somehow, and there were times when
1 would have given a finger nail to,
have found you. How long, by the
way, is it since you shot at the officer
and escaped over the house tops?"
-Four years going on five" was the
reply. !.
Suppose" suggested the other, "you
call at the Office in the morning and
we will go over few things private
ly. No." firmly. mot down here; at
headquarters, noticing that his pros
pective caller was in doubt as to where
the appointment was to be kept. The
man said nothing, but acquiesced by
bending his head. He remained still.
until, receiving a signal of dismissal,
he darted forward and soon disap-
peared in the crowd
This was the second time, explained
my companion. that he had ever seen
the man who, five years previously, had
escaped from house occupied as rem
dezvous by dangerous band of coun-
terfeiters. About the same time a
Maiden lane jewelry esta blishment had
been pilfered and the thief had escaped
by emptying his revolver at police
man and fleeing over the roof The de-
tective added that he had always sus-
pected the man to be guilty of the rob-
berry, and that the latter, in his fright,
had just confessed to 1t.
But will he not escape?" was asked.
For reply the veteran directed atten-
tion to man in long overcoat, with
the collar turned up. who rounded the
corner at the moment. The new ar
rival came to sudden stop, saluted
his superior, a salute which the lat
ter returned with a low chuckle, and
the muffied figure rapidly disappeared
in the direction taken by the tres
passer.
Rarely day passes but that a scene
similar to the foregoing may be wit
messed In the metropolitan financial
district. which as defined by the police
is the territory lying between Fulton
and Beaver streets on the north and
south respectively. and from Broadway
on the west to the river on the east
Within this area are crowded not only
the United States sub-treasury and
the greatest banks and financial in
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19
BY William Griffith

wv ALL STREET, the beginning
w and end of so many a finan-
cial journey, has an excellent !
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-12-25
STATE MEDICAL BOARD
PREClPITATES A FIGHT

La Crosse, Wis, Dec. 21.-By the ar
rest of the so-called divine "bone-set-
ter" the state medical society has
aroused the anger of a community OF
farmers in the town of Bangor, this
county, and has precipitated a legal
fight which may give the state board
great deal of trouble before it is
over.
The man under arrest is William
Jones, farmer and member OF the
third generation of bone-setters.
Jones' grandfather and his father
lived on the same farm that he does.
in the town. of Bangor, and were
credited with great power in the set
ting of broken bones, a power which
the community around them still
thinks has something of the divine,
and which is said to have descended,
unimpaired, to the third Jones, the
one now under arrest.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-12-25
SECoND-CLASS MAIL FAKES.
Privileges Cut Off to Sheets Not Hav-
ing Legitimate Subscribers.

Washington, d. c., Dec. 2l.-Tle
anti-rebate fever has struck the post.
office department. In an official order
Third Assistant Postmaster Genera
Madden. who has charge OF the class
fication of the mails instructs the post
masters of the country in the Wiles
of publishers Of alleged periodicals
who are improperly enjoying second,
class mail privileges, practically for
advertising purposes only.
He calls attention TO the fact that
second class mail publications must
have a Legitimate list OF subscribers,
and holds that any list obtained by
means of premiums or gifts, whereby
the cost of subscriptions is sub
stantially. if not wholly, returned to
the subscribers, is not legitimate. The
number of sample copies sent out as
second-class matter must be based on
the number of actual Subscribers. The
order says:
The object OF these artifcially
forced circulations is nearly always to
promote some general or particular
advantage, purpose. or, by the ap>
pearanee Of large circulation, to be
able to demand high prices for adver>
Using. In all such cases the result is
the advancement OF private interests
at the public expense.
The positive requirements of the
law must hereafter be properly OBJ
served. Manifestly il the list OF sub
scribers must be legitimate it must
be wholly so. 1t is not Sufficient to
have some percentage OF the list COM
posed of actual subscribers
Mr. MADDEN includes the following
classifcations in actual suDscrip-
tons: Direct subscriptions, sub
scriptions to agCNts, copies sold by
newsboys, etc.; copies sold over the
counter; exchanges; individual sub
scriptions designed as gifts when paid
for by the donors.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-12-25
MEN BLOWN TO BITS
IN A GOTHAM STREET

New York, Dec 20.-Three men were
blown to fragments, seven others
were more or less seriously hurt and
the occupants OF fashionable hotels and
residences in the vicinity of 5th ave-
nue. and 34th street were startled yes
terday by an explosion OF dynamite IN
an excavation for the new Altman
building. Fragments of the bodies
of the dead we're scattered over IN
area of hundreds of feet and it was
hours before the exact number OF vic
TINS of the accident could be deter
mined.
The explosion was caused by work
man striking a heavy charge of dyna
mite which had been placed in drill
hole "a ledge of rock several days
ago and which defied attempts to ex
plode it at that time. The workmen
started to redrill the hole yesterday,
with no thought Of the charge it con
cealed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-12-25
GERMAN BUSINESS
BEATS AMERICAN

New York, Dec. 21-The Washing
ton Life, the Germania Life and the
Bankers Life Insurance companies di-
vided the attention of the legislative
insurance investigating committee
yesterday. John Tatlock, president of
the Washington Life, finished his tes
timony. He declared that personally
he favored the distribution of earn
ings every five years. He said he
thought that insurance companies
should be run by men in touch with
Wall street because OF their knOWl-
edge of the security market. He also
favored the idea Of insurance com
panies specializing in securities.
Cornelius Doremus, president of the
Germania Life, said that about one
third of his company's business was
done in Europe, principally in Ger
many, and that this business in many
respects is better than any done in
America. He declared it to be more
stable, there being fewer lapses, while
the cost is a great deal less than in
America Medical direction is also
better in Germany, he said. He char
acterized American ways of doing
business as wild methods" The only
contributions of legislative charac-
ter paid by this company were $500 to
a fund having for its object the defeat
of the mortgage tax law, and $3.50 to
further the passage of the lien bill in
Albany in 1904. No campaign contri-
buttons had ever been made.
Baileys, who collected the fund to
defeat the mortgage tax law, said on
the stand that he secured a fund OF
$22 900 for this purpose.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-12-25
SEVERAL FACTORY EMPLOYEES
MAY HAVE Persisted.
FATAL FIRE IN CHICAGO
Girls, Men and Boys damned To-
gether in Panic at Fire Escape and
Unable to Get Out of Burning
BuIding-O Say Only Two
Are Unaccounted For.

Chicago, Dec. 20,-One fireman
was killed and several employees may
have lost their lives in a fire which
destroyed the enamel sign factory of
Charles w. Schonk & Co.. to Is
Park street, last night Until the
ruins of the building have been
searched it Will not be positively
know whether any employees were
killed in the explosion which started
the fire, or by falling walls anu floors,
which followed soon after. While the
fire was at its height wall suddenly
collapsed and number of firemen
were precipitated in the debris. With
the exception of Lieutenant Henry
Bassett of truck company No. IA, who
was crushed to death, all the fremen
escaped with a severe shaking. A
number of employees were injured in
the panic that followed after the fire
broke out and for time there were
all sorts of rumors as to the number
of persons killed.
There were 4o girls end $50 men
and boys employed in the factory and
according to company officials all but
two have been accounted for.
Police and firemen, however, de-
clare that several employees were I'M
able to escape and were in the build
ing when the floors and walls col
lapsed. The employees said to be
missing by the officials of the COM
pany are Margaret Becker and Henry
Saute. When the firemen arrived at
the building the employees were panic
stricken and were yainly endeavoring
to reach the street down the fire es-
cape They became damned together
and were unable to make any pro-
gress. With the help of the firemen
and police, however, order was re-
stored, and majority of the employees
were assisted to the street. The en-
ployes who were injured We're hurt in
the jam on the fire escapes, but the
condition of none of them is serious.
The loss on the building, which was
six-story structure, is $250,000
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-12-25
Mother Sent Two Away.

La Crosse, Wis, Dec, 21.-Frann
Baker, aged u, and his brother, An
drew, aged 5, of Waterloo, Wis, were
picked up in the north side railroad
yards just as they were attempting to
board a train for Baraboo. TIL
children, who are practically babies
were almost naked. They said thei
mother had bought them ticket ano
sent them to La Crosse, their father
having deserted her. Unless rela
tives call for the children they VII
be sent to the state home at Sparta
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-12-25
SWIMMERS SAVE LABORERS.
Italians Imprisoned in Submerged
Tunnel Rescued.

New York, Dec. 20-Three swim
mers yesterday rescued two Italian
Iaborers who for more than 40 hours
had been imprisoned in the East river
tunnel of the Pennsylvania railroad
by a cavern at the Long Island city
end of the underwater bore. A large
force of men had been sinking shaft
to rescue the imprisoned men and pow
erful pumps were kept running con-
stantly in an effort to lower the water
level in the tunnel. A boat could not
be forced into the tunnel and three
men volunteered to swim in. They
did so and returned soon after carry
ing the two upon their backs.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-12-25
NEW SASH AND DOOR TRUST.
Million Dollar Combination Formed
in Missouri

ST. Joseph, Mo-, Des. PIE. J. Moss
of this city yesterday announceG Inc
OF the American Sash e.
Door Company, capital $l,O00,0o0.
Roach & Kienzie Mfg. Co, OF Kansas
City, Mo-. and the Huttig, Moss Mfg
Co., of st. Joseph have been merged
into the new corporation. Five other
large concerns in different parts OF the
United States have given the company
options on their plants. II. W. and
William Huttig and w. L. Roach, OF
Muscatine, Iowa, large saw mill own
ers, are interested in the new con-
many
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-12-25
ROADS AGREE TO
TELL ON EACH OTHER

Chicago, Dec. 20.-The executive
officials OF the western railroads yes
terday entered into an agreement
with view to compelling strict adj
herence to the provisions of the in
terstate commerce and Elkins laws.
Every road bound itself to inform the
interstate commerce commission of
any illegal acts on the part of any
road A committee was appointed
for that purpose. Through this ac-
ton it is expected to stop the pay
ment of rebates and all devices for
giving preferences to shippers.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-12-25
BAD FIRE IN NEW YORK.
Passengers on Ferry Boat Have to Run
Through Smoke.

passengers on FefFy 6oa1 Rave TO nun
Through Smoke.
New York, Dec. 20.-A fire starting
under a floor where painters were at
work, destroyed the LackaWanna rail
road ferry house at the foot OF West
22nd street and badly damaged the
ferry house of the New York Central
and the Erie docks. For a time the
offices of these roads and adjacent
property were threatened, but were
saved by hard fight by firemen. A
berry boat with more than 500 passen'
gers aboard was just coming into the
slip when the fire started. The pas
sengers became panic stricken but
were told to run for the street through
the dense smoke. This they did amid
great confusion. No one was injured.
The loss is $650,000.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-12-25
NEW PROFESSOR
Of SOCIOLOGY

Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 20.-Dr. Edward
A. Ross, formerly of Cornell and
Stanford universities and for the last
five years professor of sociology in the
University of Nebraska, has resigned
to accept the chair of sociology at the
University Of Wisconsin,
DR.. Ross will take the place of DR..
Jerome Dowd in the department OF
sociology.