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The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11

At meeting of the Home Protee-
Walter N Carroll as president Of the
league was presented and accepted and
Rev. J. M. Cleary Of st. Charles church
was elected to fill the vacancy. "
"The idea Of securing Father Cleary
as a member Of the league and also as
it's president originated with myself, -
said Mr.. Carroll after the meeting, and
it is with great satisfaction that am
able to announce it. Everything con-
sidered, there is no one in the city who
could serve in this capacity so accept
ably. I am still member Of the league
and believe in it's mission as much as
ever, and hope that its usefulness to
the community will be constantly aug
mented.
cit is now, I think, quite clear to all
thinking, unprejudiced and disinterest-
ed people that the reports which have
been persistently circulated to the ef.
feet that the league was not in har-
mony with the administration, have no
foundation in fact. For myself per-
sonally, and I am sure voice the gen
eral feeling of the league. I want to
say that Mr.. Jones is, in my opinion,
the best mayor, and is giving the best
administration, that we have had dur
ing my fifteen years residence in the
city. I believe that in all that he has
done or has not done, he has been actu.
ated by high sense of duty. and a
ment is the best thing to be done. - 49,.
Father Cleary, as pastor Of a South
Side parish for about ten years, has
taken a lively interest in the suppress
sion Of illegal iquor-selling. He has
been a prominent member Of the vari.
GUS temperance organizations of the
Catholic church and has worked both
from the pulpit and as a3eitizen to pro.
mote the cause Of law enforcement.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
WANTS TOCHANGE COUNTY
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS WILL TRY TO
GET INTO HENNEPIN - MORE
MAILS ASKED. ...z-.@ -...s -..a =

Columbia Heights aspires to real city
life-in other words, the residents and
business interests of the settlement that
adorns the end Of the Eighth and Cen
trail line wish two mail deliveries each
day in place of one. Postmaster Percy
Walton, who stamps all the stamps at
the Heights, appeared before Assistant
Postmaster Hughes today, to make this
modest request in behalf Of his con-
stituency and was referred to the sec
ond assistant postmaster general at
Washington, who controls the destinies
Of all towns of the Columbia Heights
class.
The Heights have still greater as
pirations, it is said, and in time hope
to become part of Hennepin county,
and even of Minneapolis. Minneapolis
dition and have succeeded in inducing
number Of manufacturing plants to
locate there. The place is growing
steadily and gives promise of still fur
ther substantial growth.
Since the early days Of the Columbia
Heights settlement the district has been
a source of considerable trouble be-
cause Of it's peculiar location. At pres
ent. the greater part Of the settlement
out of the jurisdiction Of the Mime
apolis and Hennepin county authorities.
Saloons and gambling joints have taken
advantage Of this, and in times past
have done land office business. Sew
eral dangerous holdups and one or two
murders, including that Of Freddie
King. 9-year old boy, on Nov. 20 last,
have occurred. #
Anoka county has found the Heights
an expensive asset. The sheriff Of the
county has been kept busy trying. to pre-
serve order, and the expense of trials
and attempts, to locate criminals has
been drain on the county treasury.
The local police have often been called
to the Heights, but can do nothing in
cases that originate just across the line.
Altho the settlement is thoroly
cleaned up now and as orderly and
probably be made to the. next legisla-
| ture to have the district known as Co
lumbia Heights made part Of Henne-
pin county.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
THIEF
MAY BE IN CITY
EXPRESS CLERK WHO GOT AWAY
WITH 100000 WANTED.
Young Man Who Arrived Last Night
and Started to Spend Huge Roll
at Hotel Bar Is Thought to Be Daring
Defaulter, and Is Being Closely shad-
owed.

Edward George Cunliffe, the young
clerk who is accused of stealing $780,.
600 from the Adams Express company
at Pittsburg, is thought to be in Min
neapolis today, and the detectives are
closely shadttying young man answer
ing his description.
Cunliffe left. Pittsburg early Monday
evening and by making good connee-
tions could have reached Minneapolis
by 10 O'Clock last night. A little
later than this we'll dressed young
man M! answering the description of Cum
life registered at one Of the large
hotels. He was assigned to a room
and later appeared at the bar with an
enormous "roll, - which he began to
spend like prince &
Two detectives were in the lobby of
the hotel at the time and wandering
back to the bar, they found the new
conner buying the crowd anything they
asked for. He did not tell anything
Of his business, and when this subject
was approached he Immediately bought
another round Of drinks and everything
else was forgotten. It was midnight
before the young spender called halt
on the festivities and went to his room.
The room was shadowed all night,
sights of the city, but is followed at a
distance by members of Superintend-
ent Doyle s staff. He registered from
Chicago, but the police have wired to
Pittsburg for Il more accurate descrip-
tion of the man.
A reward has been offered for the
young man s capture and it is quite pos
sible that the police relief fund NAV be
greatly increased.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11

Absolutely Reliable Service. The Pal
ace Clothing House Laundry. Shirts l0c.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
CONTROL BOARD
WAS OVERRULED
BOARD OF PARDONs SET NEW
PRECEDENT IN MALONE CASE.
a Small Boy Is Pardoned from Train.
ing School After Board Of Control
Had Refused to Act-Member Of
Board Says It Will Make Endless
Tronhle

In pardoning little Willie Malone
fromathe Rcd Wing training school, the
board of pardons deliberately overruled
the action Of the state board Of con-
|trol. It also set a new precedent, as no
one knows Of a previous case of an in
mate of the training school being par
doned. s. w. Leavett of the board Of
control said to The Journal to-
day j,
II have no desire to criticise the
board of pardons. but | am afraid it
made a mistake in the Malone case, and
if that is a precedent, it will mean an
pardon board and ourselves. Under a
new law, since Aug. l we have had alb
solute power to discharge inmates Of
the school, and such action was urged
on lis in this case. After investiga-
tion we did not consider it advisable.
The board thought differently. Parents
who have children in the school have
learned already that there is another
way to get them out, and it is bound to
create trouble for the board. What is
worse, it will mean a feeling of unrest
and dissatisfaction in the training
school, ~ .5 5
Willie Malone was committed last
December from Rockford, Wright coun-
ty, at the age of II. He was found
guilty Of an assault with intent to rob.
He lay in wait on the country road and
attacked Mrs. Amelia Meyers, trying
to take her purse away. He said it
was only joke, but the board of con-
troll quizzed him, and concluded that it
was the act Of precocious highway
man. It is not possible to parole an in
elapsed, with no adverse marks. The
board refused to discharge the boy until
he was eligible to parole, and the mat.
ter was then taken before the board
of pardons, swhere the petition was
granted. e.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
ANOTHER NEAT GRAFT .
IS CRUELTY STOPPED

A Minneapolis "sock graft' Is the
latest get-rich scheme to come under
the eagle eye Of the postal department
and be benefited by a wide amount of
advertising by means Of a fraud order.
Today the postal department. issued a
fraud order against the Underwood
Knitting company of Minneapolis, and
the inspectors Of the department are
gradually running down it's three back
ers, J. r. Maloy, Edgar B. Evans and
J. Perrin, two Of whom are said to be
wanted on other similar charges.
The company did fourishing bust
summer. It advertised extensively, rep
resenting that it was the owner and
operator of a large knitting mill here,
and asking for agents. The stationery
of the company carried cut of large
four-story factory covered with the
signs of the Underwood Knitting COM
pany. The officers of the company were
said to be CHARLES Underwood, presi-
dent; R. B. Wood, vice president; Rob-
ert Low, secretary, and 3. Mathews,
treasurer. ...s. -
In return for the exclusive agency of
certain towns, counties, and in some
cases even states, the victim who bit
on the advertisements and letters of
the company, was asked to forward the
modest sum of IS cents for an outfit
with which to begin business. 1t is
said by the postal authorities that all
money received was salted down in the
pockets Of the three promoters and no
agents outfits were ever forwarded.
When complaints began to pour into
the postoffce the mail of the company
was stopped and the hackers were
asked to come forward and identify
themselves. Finding that the game was
finished as far as Minneapolis was con
cerned, they left town in hurry. For
time the company had an office in
the Andrus building, but later moved
to- small room on Tenth street S.. All
the business was done outside of Min
nesota, the extreme northwest being the
favorite ground, as complaints would
naturally be slower in coming some dis
tance and would be made by letter
rather than in person. ,&
Uniformly Satisfactory Service. The
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
. FIREMEN ARE FINED
Two Plead Guilty and Are Fined Under
Smoke Ordinance.

John Clausen and w. H. White, the
fremen in downtown buildings, who
were arrested on charges Of violating
the smoke ordinance, changed their
pleas to guilty in police court today,
Clausen was fined $40 and White SIS.
These are the first cases Of a general
crusade against smoke.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
TOMORROW'S CALENDAR

Journal "seeing Minneapolis
automobile tours. H.
Handicraft Guild, 926 Second
Avenue S-Exhibition of photo
graphs, Miss Alice Austin, 10 to
IL am, to pm. ..,-..
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
NEW PAYING MATERIAL
T. II. BROWN OF 3118 THOMAS AV-
ENUE N DECLARES IT IS BETTER
THAN ALL OTHERS. q

A new paving material, said to be
cheaper than either stone, asphalt or
wood block, and constructed largely
from material to be obtained in Mime
apois, has been invented after long
series of experiments by T. H. Brown of
3llS Thomas avenue N. A patent has
been applied for and pending it's de.
liverance Mr.. Brown is not making pub.
lie the ingredients which compose his
pavement.
A test in the office of Building In.
spector Houghton today demonstrated
that the new material will stand pres.
sure Of 1900 pounds to the square inch
whereas ordinary paving brick is capa:
BILE Of withstand ding only 1900 pounds
It is absolutely impervious to water and
therefore cannot rot. Being of porous
nature it has a large amount of resil,
iency. Its ingredients can be varied to
suit the requirements, making it harder
or softer as the use to which it is to
be put demands. No change would be
necessary in the curbing in substituting
It for asphalt, as is the case with the
wood blocks. @~
The new material will be carefully ex.
amined and subjected to severe tests by
the city engineer, with view to deter
mining it's availability. '"' -, j.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
SPIRITUALISTS COMING
National Association Convenes in Min
" neapolis Next Week.

For four days next week Minneapolis
will be the Mecca Of Spiritualists from
all parts of the United States, the oc'
casion being the convention of the Ma
tional Spiritualists association. Mem,
bers from the societies Of the United
States will lead in the gathering, but
da and other countries. The sessions
beginning Oct. IT, will be held daily
ana each evening in the First Unita
rian church, the evening session taking
the forms of lectures and elaborate
demonstrations, which will be open te
the public. '~ .-.s -.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11

Every Promise Fulfilled. The Palace
Clothing House Laundry. Cuffs 1c.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
LARGE FINANCIAL INSTITUTION

Locates Important Branch in Minneapo-
lis. I
The American Reserve Bond company
of Chicago with cash capital 100000,
assets $3,000,OO0 and state guarantee de.
posits Of over 81 100000, have secured the
services Of Messrs. j. w. Earl and j. B.
business business # for 1h the I states Of MInnesota a and and
North Dakota.
Messrs. Earl and Heinen are opening
offices at suite 401 Northwestern build,
ing. Another point is scored for the
flour city as an acknowledged CONNER
cial and financial center.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
CITY NEWS
TOWN TALK
EVENTS OF TONIGHT

Metropolitan Theater Frank
Daniels in "Sergeapt Brue.'
Bijou Theater-" The Belle Of
the West
Orheum Theater-Modern vau-
deville.
Lyceum Theater-Vaudeville.
UNIQUE Theater-Vaudevi
Dewey Theater-The Utopians.
Fowler M. E.. Church-Annual
conference, Woman s Foreign Mis-
sionary Society Of the Minneapolis
branch. i
Savation Army Hall, PIG First
avenue s, public meeting, a well
come to the department delegates.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12

another abandoned A tunnel was &C -dered When II
found that the cost of tunnel would approx-
mate and half millions dollars scheme was
dropped like hot potato.
1t happened that of the Mayors of Duluth was
something of traveler-at least Europe
While there he impressed by the aerial bridge
at Rouen He brought that structure to the
the Duluth authorities it
degree that it was promptly adopted
The new Duluth bridge presents imposing
q deep truss which spans the open waterway.
These piers of the standard type In the con.
sruction of steel railway viaducts being Of
the usual American design with long panels and single
intersections
In the erection of the structure piers were first
built to their full height. and trnsses were
pet was used TO support the first panel of the and
the rest of the overhang travelling
derricks moupted upon the top chords.
AT the time the photograph presented
place by the derricks.
From the water line to the 1876
feet and the trusses fifty feet the highest
point is ls5 above between
towers is 1s5 feet 6 inches.
Sometimes considerable force, gather
ing for sweep the lakes, coming from those
turbulent waters Duluth The bridge built
to withstand wind velocity of seventy miles hour
blowing transversely to its axis.
Chief interest of passengers however. viii probably
which trips rather under this
bridge will be made
This measures twenty by thirty feet and has a
capacity of sixty-hve TONS
1t is to be suspended chords by stits
cables will be twelve the water
level.
The distance between landing points will be made I'm
and half minutes, and the journey will probably be
popular with the young folks switchback railroad
at least until the novelty wears eff
novelty it certainly is at present and Duluth has
secured it cost of $4,000 This, the residents OF
that city convinced. better than an uninterestir
tunnel costing million and half.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12

United War Department refused to permit the
erection of drawbrdge. Duluth obliged to find some
other kind of bridge meet the emergency.
When the United States ship canal was excavated
Duluth obligated maintain ferry service
It for all time.
At first compliance with this requirement sim
pie Two od-fashioned atboats piled half hourly
the stream for and this service
sufficient.
AS time. went the canal widened and travel in
creased however. and this primitive ferry longer
the requirements the situation. inconvenen
adequate and dangerous.
Tugs employed to take the place of the haboat
but they expensive and altogether satisfacto
The perpetual ferry began to ride the City Fathers like
the Old Man Sea
Numerous plans discussed. but reason
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12

ocean two prior Of the Rebellion and
established It In America
The Shakers believe In God OF a dual spirit-Father
and Mother in in Christ, first embodiment
Of Divine Truth earth, Mother Ann Lee, as
the second embodiment.
Ann Lee the wife of a blacksmith In Manches-
tel, England, who renowned all earthly and en-
dured terrible prosecutions and preaching
crusade against sin-a mission which she declared
been divinely revealed to her.
Her creed is based the simple precepts Jesus
even to the celbate life and the remuneration all
worldly desires. pleasures and possessions.
First OF all. Shaker from sim Marriag e
is not permitted by the although couples
join the society, In which the and women
regard one another merely brothers sisters.
There some such who declare that they their
wives and husbands with truer finer love sisters
brothers than they did in the welded state.
Liquor is forbidden, a medicine tobacco cards
and all worldly amusements held the
ton of life.
Usually Shaker family" consists of from thirty to
eighty or ninety persons and women. with such
children have been apprenticed society.
Ali live In big house divided regards its upper
stories into rooms capable of accommodating
TO eight persons. Each plainly and
contains many cot beds 1t has occupants wide
hall separates the dormitories OF the
the women.
Presiding over each family spirit
elders and two addresses who assisted temporal
affairs by two deacons and two deaconesses.
While the sexes occupy separate parts the house,
all dine together in the hall same time
put at separate tables. Four five such families
sttute community.
Here cooperation is be best. Money
does not circulate among the Shakers
held In common
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12

ULUTH, that enterprising city Of the great North
/ j west whose future aroused Proctor Knott to
IL travagant, IL ironical, prophecy the floor OF
Congress generation ago. is now the joyful pos
SCISSOR Of aerial bridge the first OF its
kind in America
AS may readily be the Illustration. this
bridge. because of fits is decided novelty
to American Passengers will be crossing 1t in
cars suspended from the chords by Of cables.
Although the structure initial of its kind
on this side of the Atlantic, Old World engineers have
constructed three others with One spans the
Seine at Rouen France: another Is at Port Egalite.
Spain. and the third at Bigerta. Tunis.
Duluth did not this unique tructure In order to
into the show business boast that II
the only bird of on Western Hemisphere.
Its people Obliged a canal and. as the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12
YOUNGER MEMBERS LIFT THEM

Their ranks be kept up by children
them and taught the doctrines and practices Of
the sect.
AS rule the boys admitted and
the girls over six OF These given careful
common school education and taught useful trades
Grown too admitted the societies, al
though they must real sincere desire to live the
ehaker ufe Before becoming ful-edged members. they
sions and sever family ties.
Any recruit any member may the society at
WILL There binding other obligations
outside the promptings conscience.
In the days when religion a greater force. but
in forty children Shaker villages de-
serted Now only about in forty stays after he or
she is grown and at liberty to depart
1t with the hope of staying the ebbing tide Of
fortune and attracting recruits numbers that
the Shakers and Lebanon purchased
the big tract of land in Pike county. Pa in 1875.
One hundred and ten thousand dollars was paid for
Little attention however. given the plan for
ghaker Paradise. and few Joined them In
deed. the new colony never began to be-
Instead. many of the younger generation left the
quiet communities already existing into the
wide active world which their elders forsaken
So the land in Pennsylvania up in brush and
briars and when the Pennsylvania State Foresty Com
mission recently offered sSo for It. the offer
accepted
The settlement at Mount Lebanon, ~ T. has always
been the Shakers PRIDE only from its numbers but
from the value Of the property which is owned in
there.
Within the memory Of some of the believers still
sheltered In the great white houses there this
munlty numbered 600 persons.
There were five prosperous families with many
set out In seedproducing crops
mills that were busy from early in the morning until late
night.
Now there four families. with only 120
told Women outnumber the five one, and the
majority OF both sexes old.
The mills closed for the trusts made 1t i'm
possible for the Shakers competition;
business is abandoned. because, they say seed
raisers appropriate the prices
Only seven miles amid the Berkshire hills of
western Massachusetts, another hourshng colony
at Pfttsfeld. is steadily going into decline
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12
MORE THAN TWO CENTURIES OLD

Kentucky colonies facing the fate. Thou
sands OF and immense that could easily
commodae 1000 persons remain the possession but
forty individuals
In Maine. Ohio and other States the same pathetic
story is ruethe sect big important quiet
ly dying out.
In the early days the name Shakers given them
because Of their peculiar body motions while engaged
worship
Part of the worship consists of slow dance.
march, during which the body shakes convulsively
times. I'm the wrestling against the powers
of sin they led OF the spirit they
So long were they popularity known Shakers that
they themselves accepted and adopted although
in ali public documents they style themselves
United Society of Believers"
In deep religious conviction. the
France about 1852 OF this beginning. outgrowths
appeared in England In 17Z Among the there
was Ann Lee. who brought the religion the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12

~ VEN the Shakers admit they losing ground.
- 1--WE slowly running out" acknowledged
- aged elderess of Mount Lebanon recently.
ing dreamily the hills into the valley beyond,
where dwell the busy. prosperous world-people.
Yea. we running out. The Conflict between capi-
tai and labor which is waging ercely without is the
disturbing influence Until that is ended do not expect
people to give heed truths
''The strength of principles is by the
number of those supporting them. We content to
work and wait until the battle of the crisis has
its laures of when Justice liberty will
re-established broader foundations than
Then, when the material of the people shall
be easily supplied under cooperative systems
believe small still voice of the spirit will be
speaking the souls of the people, guiding
Father and Mother have prepared light
of the City the HILL"
Will these conditions before the sect is SO re-
by the ravages that there will nothing
left?
Never since the days OF Anna Lee the founder, and
the early settlement she established Waervet
upper Hudson, has the membership been low
= One hundred years the Shakers numbered 1892
twenty-five later 1000 members had added
their At the end of 1889 membership
Shaker societies numbered five thousand This was
the high water mark
Since the Civil War. however their numbers have
steadily Only the long of these men and
of simple habits have kept tho decrease from
being rapid
In 1874 showed 215 members living in eigh-
teen communities.
These communities were at Alfred and New Giouces-
ter. Maine Canterbury and Enfield N. H.; Harvard