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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
LEICESTER OWNS
PUBLIC UTILITIES
City in England Makes a Great
Success with Municipal Own
ership Experiments.
BY w. w. Jermane,

Washington, May 8.-The city Of
Leicester, England, is making a great
success OF its experiments in the owner
ship of public utilities, and these ex-
per1ments, which for several years have
attracted attention in other parts Of
Great Britain and on the continent, are
beginning to be widely talked about in
the United States. The issue of munich
pal ownership which has been raised in
the present local compaign in Chicago
suggests that it may be advisable to re-
fer briefly to what Leicester has done
and is doing. ..
According to the latest reports which
have reached the American government,
the net profits during the first half of
1904 of the municipal gas works in
that city were $4,000; of the munich
pal electric:light works, $12,500, and of
the municipal waterworks, $44 900. All
this surplus goes either to reduce taxes
or to benefit the general public in other
ways.
Leicester last summer installed an
electric street railway system, overhead
trolley, to take the place Of the old
horse cars. The tracks extend for forty
two miles in all directions thru the city
which owns them and operates the cars
The largest street railway junction
in Great Britain is at the clock tower
in Leicester, where five sets of double
tracks converge, and from which point
2 cents will pay for fare in any
direction. It has been figured that al
this low price for fare, the street rail
way enterprise will show goodly profit
for the CITY,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
NO TIME FOR THE CLUB

Altho she still is in early womanhood
Miss Anna L. Amendt is first assistant
to Gage E. Tarbell, second vice presi-
dent Of the Equitable Life Assurance
company Of New York, one of the leaders
in the fight against James Hazen Hyde
She sits at a big mahogany desk and
transacts business for the corporation, fol
which she receives the handsome salary
Of $4,000 year.
Miss Amendt was born in Logan, Ohio
When her father lost his money she
taught school. Finally she saved up $500
went to Chicago and learned stenography
She got a place with the Equitable at 81!
a week, finally becoming stenographer il
Mr.. Tarbell's office. Her amazing success.
is credited TO her wonderful tact and abil
ity to appreciate human nature. He
motto is 'Molasses goes a great dea
further than vinegar"
AS side ISSUE she writes about 5000,
900 insurance year. She lives alone ii
a handsome apartment.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
PERM HOME
FOR ROOSEVELT Is
CLUB TO ASSUME LEASE OF
PHOENIX CLUB ROOMS.
Committees Of Two Clubs Discuss
Terms of Transfer Today Phoenix
Club Will Get Larger Quarters
Farther from Business Center-Roose-
velts' Step Means Permanence Of
Club.

The Roosevelt club is to have pre-
tentious permanent home of its own if
negotiations now under way with the
Phoenix club materialize The Roose-
welt club is to take over the lease and
property of the Phoenix club now los
Gated at Hennepin avenue and Seventh
street.
The Phoenix club, which has been
one of the prosperous social organiza-
tions of the city for several years, will
secure larger and more elaborate quar-
tiers slightly removed from the center
of town. Altho the club has already
taken steps to secure a building of it's
own and has secured options on several
pieces OF property, the work was so
quietly conducted, that nothing was
known Of it.
Committees representing the Roose-
welt club and the Phoenix club lunched
at the Commercial club today to make
arrangements for the transfer and to
discuss terms. The Roosevelt club in
taking this step will signify it's inten-
tion Of becoming one Of the permanent
organizations Of the city. The club
has held temporary quarters each win
ter while rehearsing for it's shows, but
has never attempted anything like a
permanent home.
The quarters Of the Phoenix club are
well located and are complete in ap.
polntments. The club will have it's own
CUISINE and other accessories, and will
further enlarge and improve the quar-.
ters to place the property on par with
any club property in the city, and much
ahead of any distinctively young men Is
club in the west.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
QUEER TANGLE IN
FRENCH LIQUEUR
Monks, French Government, Dis
tillers and Public Mixed up
Over Chartreuse.
BY w. w. Jermane,

Washington, May S.-People who are
accustomed to drinking chartreuse and
who have had an especial fondness for
the article manufactured by the monks
OF the far-famed monastery, are having
quite time to know when they are
getting the real article, and the whole
sale liquor houses of the United States,
in common with those in other coun-
tries, are discovering that this palatable
hquer is not In as great demand as for
merly, due, in all probability, to the
fear of the public that it will be imposed
upon by an inferior article.
The French government acquired the
Chartreuse monastery last year and at
that moment the expectation of the
monastic chartreuse ceased, the monks
removing to Spain, and taking with
them the secret formula. They are now
making their old-time goods under a
new name, the old name and label hav-
inng been appropriated by the French
government, which has sold it to firm
of French distillers, who are now food
ing the market with hqueur asserted
to be as good as the original. The first
shipments of the goods are now reach
ing the United States.
The monks meanwhile, with the orig
inal formula, but with new name for
their goods, are struggling to create a
new market and are having hard pull.
The French distillers who have the orig
inal name and label are coming into
| sharp competition with another Hqueur,
manufactured by a former monk, who
belonged to the old Chastreuse estab-
, lishment, but who left it a few years
ago. He claims to have the secret recipe
and his goods are about to monopolize
the French market, which lovers of fair
play will not regret, for the government
certainly had no moral right to take
from the monks the name and label of
their goods, whatever legal right it may
have had.
( These facts are all brought out in a
report which an American consul in
France has made to the state depart
ment. The old monastery at Chartreuse
was founded by st. Bruno in 1882. and
for hundreds of years the hqueur made
there has been known in all parts of the
civilized world. It looks now as il
Grenoble. near which the monastery wa:
situated, will have to fall back upon its
export trade in walnuts.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
SAVAGE READY TO FIGHT
NOT WORRIED OVER TRUSTS AT
TITUDE TOWARD HIS ENTRY
INTO BAKING POWDER MANU-
FEATURING.

Baking powder trust magnates are
apparently worried over the prospective
entry into the manufacturing field of a
Minneapolis firm which will make and
sell high grade baking powder.
M. w. Savage is preparing to put out
baking powder on the composition OF
which he has been working for four or
his International Stock Food factory
after thoro test of it's qualities has
been made. Mr.. Savage's orders to
the chemist were to experiment on the
combination of high-grade powder
without reference to it's cost. The arti-
Gle has received a series of baking and
chemical tests by Minneapolis club
women, teachers of domestic economics,
and University of Minnesota chemists.
powder have been distributed all over
the country to make climatic and other
severe tests. The results are proving
satisfactory, and it is likely that Min
neapolis will become the center of the
high-class baking powder industry.
The hostile attitude of the trust pow
ders is assumed from the continued
of the other manufacturers and the fact
that objection to the name chosen by
the International people has been filed
with their attorneys. e'The Interna
tional peCream Baking Powder is
the title and the trust competitors wish
to have the name ''Cream' struck
from the label as infringing on the
trademark of Price Cream Baking
| Powder.
Mr.. Savage does not appear at al
worried at the prospect of a contest OF
strength in the market. He is prepar
ing advertising matter and has some
of the finest countersigns ever put out
ready for the trade. They are made
Of crystaloid on which are printed de
signs turned out by the artist Of the
international Stock Food company.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
SOLICITORS WANT IT
Everybody Approves Ordinance Requirin
Licenses of Them.

Everybody Approves Ordinance Requiring
Licenses Of Them.
Everybody seems to approve Of the
proposed ordinance to regulate and
license solicitors. Alderman Platt B.
Walker, who will father the measure,
says that every person he knows has
patted him on the back and urged him to
carry out his intention. Even the solic-
itors, who might be expected to fight shy
of 1t, cordially in favor of such a
measure and have so Informed him.
They realize even better than others
what an evil the irresponsible solicitor
and canvasser has become in the COM
munity Sneak thieves adopt the busi-
ness as guise to their real purpose.
Burglars make use Of it to locate places
which offer opportunities, and there IS
still another class which makes a habit
Of prowling about rear entrances, princi-
pally to insult women.
Canvassers who are engaged in le-
Ultimate business say that if they can
show a badge to indicate that they are
persons of good character it will be cas-
Ter for them to gain respectful hearing,
where they now meet with rebuffs.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
MINISTER'S ELECT
Methodist and Baptist Associations Choose
New Officers.

Methodist and Baptist Associations Choose
New Officers. -~.
The Methodist ministers, at their meet
ing this morning at Hennepln Avenue
church, elected DR.. G. M. Heard president:
Rev. G. F. Sharpe, vice president, and
Rev. Joseph Hogg, secretary An able pa
per on Job was read by Rev. Christian
Holm. + r.. T.. = -
Rev. J. F. Frazer Of Hebron church, St.
Paul read a paper before the Baptist min
listers on "The Influence Of Music in Chris
tan Culture" illustrating his points by
playing on his violin LEAD Kindly Light -
an arrangement Of Nearer, My God. to
Thee and other hymns. There was a
discussion Of the proposition to unite the
Eastern Minnesota and Minneapolis Bap-
fist associations but no vote was taken.
The newly elected officers Of the minis
terial association are Dr. A. T. Fowler,
president; Rev. j. e. Conant, secretary,
and DR.. Theodore Heysham, chairman of
the committee on arrangements.
The Congregational ministers listened to
and discussed a fine review of Professor
James varieties of Religious Expert
ence," presented by Rev. James w. Val
lentyne of Marshall.
The Presbyterians will have no further
regular meetings until September.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
TENDER TEAMSTER
WORKED BY WIDOW
ST. PAUL JEHU TELLS TROUBLES
TO THE POLICE.
The Woman Leased Handsome House
and Brought In Furniture on Which
She Borrowed Money-She Secured
$1,1OO and Then Disappeared-The
Furniture Was Not Hers.

Michael II. Hensel, teamster living
at 600 jackson street, st. Paul, has
appealed to the police to help him get
back 81 100 which he was swindled out
OF by Chicago woman.
The woman, known as Mrs. Elsie
Drayton, came to ST. Paul several weeks
ago and rented handsome residence
at $50 Dayton avenue, near Grotto
street. She had carload of furniture
come from Chicago and Hensel was
engaged to move the furniture to the
widows home.
Shortly after the arrival of the fur
niture she found that the business af-
fairs of her late husband would not
allow her to remain in st. Paul Under
these circumstances she decided to sell
off her furniture. She enlisted the sym
pathy Of Hensel and at different times
borrowed money from him, aggregat-
ing in all $1,1O0.
A week ago Saturday, when Hensel
called at the Dayton avenue residence
to secure partial settlement, he found
the widow flown and has since been
unable to get any trace of her, altho
! he offered her maid 800 for informa.
ton.
Hensel has since learned that the
game she played is an old one; that
other cities have been visited by hel
and other victims plucked in the same
| way. A warrant has been issued TO,
| her arrest.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
CRACKS NOT SERIOUS
Street Railway Powerhouse Stacks Are In
No Danger. ....

Street Railway Powerhouse Stacks Are in
No Danger. ...#
Some fears have been expressed by reg
ular patrons of the Tenth avenue bridge
over the condition Of the street railway
powerhouse stacks at the east end of the
bridge. One man said he was afraid to
cross the bridge for fear the stacks would
fall on him. The talk has arisen from the
fact that huge cracks have appeared, wide
enough to allow smoke to ooze thru and
darken them, making the assures doubly
apparent. Contractors say that the stacks,
which extend about 225 feet above the
building, are Of tile construction and that
the cracks are what are called "expan-
SION cracks, not usual to brick or con-
crete types, but to be expected in tile
construction They result from the vary
ing degrees Of heat on the outside and in
side.
A street railway official said today the
story had been circulated that the August
tornado had twisted the stacks, whereas
both stacks show the assures, while but
one of them was built at the time of the
fwister.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
CITY NEWS
THE WEATHER
The Predictions.

MISUNDERSTANDING fair tonight and
Tuesday; frost tonight; variable winds.
Wisconsin-Generally fair tonight and
Tuesday; colder tonight, with frost; fresh
north Winds becoming variable.
Upper MISUNDERSTANDING tonight,
with furries near Lake Superior; frost
tonight; Tuesday fair; brisk northwest
winds, becoming variable.
Iowa-Fair tonight: colder in extreme
east and frost in northeast portions; Tues
day increasing cloudiness, with possibly
showers in west portion; variable winds.
North and South Dakota-Possibly
showers tonight and Tuesday; warmer to-
night and Tuesday.
Montana-Pa.rtly cloudy, with possibly
rain tonight and in south portion Tues
day; variable winds.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
WANT MONTGOMERY BACK
HIS MINNEAPOLIS FRIENDS
!. WOULD HAVE HIM HEAD NON
UNCONVENTIONAL CHURCH.
r-Dr

Friends of Rev. DR.. J. S. Montgom-
cry, former pastor Of Wesley church,
now Of one Of the Denver leading
churches, are working on plan to
bring the popular preacher back to
Minneapolis, in case he does not get
acclimated in Denver. At present this
is a problem. New Denverites are La
BILE to ailments due to the great alti-
tude. DR.. Montgomery is not exempt
from the usual difficulties, but, not.
withstanding the prediction Of physi-
clans that he will soon overcome the
trouble, he is apparently not making
rapid Roadway and has frequent nasal
hemorrhaGes.
The plan now under way is for DR..
Montgomery to form and become the
head of non denominational church
organization in Minneapolis.
The outcome hangs entirely, it is
said, on DR.. Montgomery's condition
of health after further test of the
Colorado climate.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
HIGHWAY TORN UP
FOR TROLLEY Line
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AFTER
sTREETCAR COMPANY.
Road Between Hopkins and Excelsior
Badly Damaged by Street Railway
Operations, Without Any Permission
Company Will Face Injunction
Proceedings Unless Rights of Public
Are Respected.

By order Of the county commission
ers the streetcar company will be no.
tilted that they must suspend all work
has been secured from the board. If
this warning is not needed, an inlunc-
tion will be secured and served at
once.
Some time ago General Manager
HELD OF the streetcar company waited
formed them of certain changes the
company wanted to make in the county
road between Hopkins and Excelsior in
building the new Minnetonka electric
line. He was informed that the mat
ter would have to be presented to the
board by petition before any action
could be taken or any permission
No petitions have been granted, but
county road utilized by the company.
The matter came up before the commits.
sioners today.
SThere are four miles of road be-
tween Hopkins and Excelsior that is all
cut up and ruined,'' declared Commits
sioner Smith. "There are bitches here
and banks Of dirt there, and the street
car line cuts across and into and runs
along the road wherever it sees fit. This
ID OIL ooiIC CuGlIGly W4GuOuG pCIu1oo1ou
and we have absolutely. no guarantee
that the company will build any substi.
tute therefor. presume that the com
pany will make good, but we must have
something in writing to hold them to It.
and until we have we are not going to
allow this work to go on -
The other commissioners expressed
themselves in like fashion and reported
objections from country residents. The
jewellers along the road want to know
if forty years of work is be destroyed
and no restitution made. The commits.
sioners were unanimously in favor of
action, and unless some understanding
with the company is arrived at the
work on the new line will be stopped.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
YANKTON WON MEET
South Dakota High School Records
Broken in Three Events.

Special to The Journal
Yankton S. D., May Sin the dual track
meet held here between Yankton high school
and Tyndall high school. Yankton won by a
score of SO to 36. The state high school records
in the 120-yard hurdles discus and hammer
throw were lowered. The winners were as
follows
5O-yard dash-Wenzlaf. Yankton, first; Kie.
baugh second; Tyndall, third; time, As sec.
onds.
l2o-yard hurdles-powdy, Yankton, first;
<One-mile run-Pike, Yankton, first; Max
Yankton second; time, 5:2S1a.
-put-Bolinger Tyndall, first; Dowdy
Yankton, second; SO feet 49, inches.
100-yard dash-W enzlaff. Yankton, first; Bice
Yankton. second time, II seconds.
44O-yard dash--Dowdy, Yankton, first; English
Yankton, second; time, 1914 seconds.
High jump-Bollinger Tyndall, first; Kie
220-yard Notwithstanding, Yankton, first
Dowdy, Yankton second; time, % Is.
220-yard dash-Kiebaugh, Tyndall. first; Wenz
laff, Yankton, second; time, n.
Discus-Bollinger, Tyndall, first; Dowdy
Yankton, second; distance, 90 feet 6h inches.
Hammer throw-Bollinger, Tyndall, first; Dow
dy,, Yankton, second; II feet inches.
Broad jump-Dowdy, Yankton, first; Wenzlafr
Xankton, second; distance, 1S feet 3R inches.
Pole vanlt-Kiebaugh, Tyndall, first; Bice
Yankton, second; height, s feet S1a inches.
Relay won by Yankton.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
SOCIAL WEEK AT HURON
Reception and Dance by Elks-Many
Evening Parties.

HURON, S. D.-socialfy the past week was
an enjoyable one Besides several teas and
evening parties, the Elks gave reception and
dance in their clubhouse which was delight
full affair.
East Side members Of the Fortnightly club
enjoyed an evening with their husbands at the
home Of F. S. Corley and wife. the West Side
members being the entertainers. 1t being IAN
olde tyne affair.", many Of the ladies were
attired after the fashions that prevailed in their
grandmothers days.
The Choral union is delighted over the sue
cess that attended the presentation of the
Chimes Of Normandy and will soon begin
rehearsing for another opera
Colonel and Mrs. John H. King announce the
engagement of their daughter, Miss Lorena, to
A. B. Fairbank Of this city.
Nesdames J. A. Sauer and H. Kippax enter
tanned ladies at the home of the former in honor
Of Mrs Johns, who is visiting her sister, Mrs.
r. o. Richards Of this city
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
STILL. IN DOUBT

Senior Glass at University Worrying Over
Gopher TangIe.
No assurance has yet been given the
senior class at the university that the
managing editor and business manager Of
the 1905 Gopher will recognize the recent
action Of the class and make good the de-
felt in the accounts.
A class meeting has been called for
Thursday and it is understood that at
this time the managing editor will appear
before the class, explain the deficit and
announce his willingness to pay half Of
the $723.64, which the investigating COM
mittee could not account for.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
NEW FLATS ON HENNEPIN
APARTMENT HOUSE WITH CAFE
GOING UP BETWEEN NINE
TENTH AND FRANKLIN.

Isaac Edmunds will build large apart
tween Nineteenth and Franklin at the
north end of the block next to the
Tabour estate. The site runs thru to
.Aldrich avenue. The first building will
face Hennepin, running back toward
Aldrich, but leaving room for struc-
ture to be built later facing Aldrich.
Nickels & Smith have sold the prop
erty on which the apartment house will
be built for G. G.. Goodrich. The price
was about $4,000. Four lots were in:
cluded in the transfer, and and '1s
and 10, block H.. Groveland addition
The building will be for three and
four-room apartments only. The alb
sence Of the kitchen feature will make
it an apartment building and cafe
will be maintained to supply meals to
the tenants. 5s,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
THERE ARE OTHER THINGS DOING

Nebraska State Journal.
1t is evident that the war tax is not
bearing down heavily upon the people Of
Japan for the deposits in the postal banks
and in other banks also have increased
during the past year. No doubt industrial
activity connected with the war has done
much to make up for any decline in Or
binary business. This feature Of our own
situation during the war of the rebellion
made possible the brilliant financing Of
the late Jay Cooke. War. Is an absorbing
business. but after all, it does not take
all of the time or energy of a nation,
especially If the fighting is done at dis
lance or on foreign soil.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
LIFE LOST AS A
RESULT OF NEGLECT

Nels Anderson, the young laborer
who shot himself at his home, 1926
Twentyfourth avenue s, last Friday,
and who was turned over to the cor
oner while yet alive, died this morning
at the city hospital. He made a plucky
fight against death and improved for
twenty-four hours. The loss of blood
caused by his lying for more than an
hour without medical attendance, so
weakened him that he could not re-
cover.
Anderson had no relatives in this
county and his body was taken to the
county morgue until friends can ar
old and had been in this country but
two years. .
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
EXHIBIT AGAIN

Market Gardeners Decide to Show Prod
ucts at Fair.
At the spring meeting Of the Market
Gardeners association held Saturday on on
for the ensuing year as follows: L. H.
Reeves, president; N. II. Gibbs, vice
president; E. o. Ballard, secretary; y.
Levans, assistant secretary, and +. M.
Libby, treasurer. Standing committees
will disappointed later.
In the report Of the secretary it was
shown that the exhibit Of the associa:
ton at the state fair was a success and
it was voted to have an exhibit this
wear. b H. Gibbs and F. NJ. Libby
reported that space had been reserved
by the state fair authorities. It is
desired that every member of the asso-
citation will contribute something and
will inform the secretary Of all plans
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-08
Weather Conditions.

Cloudy weather was reported this morn
ing in the lake region, Minnesota and the
southern states with rain during the past
twenty-four hours in eastern Minnesota,
the lake region, in parts Of the south, and
in northern Kansas. Rain was falling this
morning at Atlanta, Houghton and Mar
quette. 1t is colder than it was yester-
day morning in the Dakotas with this
mornings temperature below 80 degrees
in western and central North Dakota The
temperatures are rising in Montana and
the western British possessions. Reports
from the west and part Of the southeast
were not received at $3.50 am
II. S. Outran, Local ForecaSter.