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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27
An INTERNATIONAL
COMMISSION DESIRED.
Delegates IN the City to the International Drainage Conference Favor
Asking the United States Congress and The Dominion Parh
nent to Appoint Joint Drainage Commission
Sessions and Program Tonight and Tomorrow '

Many of the delegates to the inter-
national drainage conference to con-.
vene in the city tonight arrived this
morning and have spent the day in the
city. They are President John u.
Cashel of Grafton, president of the
North Dakota Drainage league; Gco.
A. Ralph of Crookston, Minnesota state
drainage engineer and one of the best
informed drainage experts in the
northwest; Mayor C. A. Nye of Moor
head, and Prof. w. R. Hoag of the
State University of Minnesota, one VI
the authorities on the subject in the
United States; H. A. Mayo of Walhal-
la, A. L. Fellows, state engineer of
North Dakota; T. r. Atkinson of Far
go, assistant state engineer, and Judge
E. M. Bennett of Sisseton, S. d. The
other delegates will arrive this even
ing from their several homes.
These gentlemen have been in con-
ference with other delegates, and es-
pecially President Cashel is in a posi-
ton to know about what the work of
the conference will be.
An International Committee.
President Cashel favors the gather
ing together here of the delegates
from the states interested and the
province of Manitoba and q general
discussion as to ways and means ct
drainage; to find some way to obtain
results when once a scheme is fixed
upon. At present the engineers dis.
agree and it will be necessary to Sc
cure some plan which will be the opin-
ion of large body of drainage ex-
perts with authority before congress
or the Canadian parliament will take
hold of the matter.
The delegates will get together to-
night and will organize A program
will be carried out tomorrow with
some sort of social entertainment in
the evening. The engineers and those
interested will discuss the best meth
dds of drainage and how to obtain re-
suits.
The committee On resolutions will
spend much of their time in formulat-
ing plan of action. 1t will doubtless
be that of memorial to congress and
the dominion parliament, asking that
appropriations be made and that a
Joint commission be appointed, con-
sisting of engineers from both coun-
tries, to make thorough investigation
and report back to their respective
bodies, as to the best method of drain
ing the Rel river valley and prevent
Ing overflows.
Plan Will BE Slow.
The only objection to this plan is
that 1t will be slow and that results
cannot be obtained for some time TO
come. But it is probably the quickest
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27
WOULD BENEFIT ALL.

a gentleman of East Grand Forks is
authority for the statement that street
cars will be running between the two
cities within the next year.
The agitation of this public improve
ment is bearing fruit in the form of
enthusiasm for the scheme
There is abundant money in the city
to build not only that, but any other
enterprise the development of the city
might demand. The owners of this
money do not need to be advised as to
the proper Investment of it, for they
are men of financial ability whose
business judgment is thoroughly re-
liable.
But there is need of an awakening
OF the public to the appreciation of
the advantages such things are to the
city, in order that investments may re-
turn fair dividends to those who make
them.
The building of street car line as
an addition to the present one could
we'll be done by the gentlemen inter-
ested. but unless the public was will
ing to give it such patronage that it
would pay at least in few years,
there would be few philanthropists
ready to build it,
1t is clearly evident that the public
want street cars. with lines on the
main business and residence streets.
A loop passing over to the East Side
would pay because walk across the
river almost any day in the winter is
anything but a pleasant task. The
large number of people living on one
side and doing business on the other
would make the traffic heavy.
Then during the summer months a
trip in the evening out to the park and
the Town and Country club would be
a recreation in which many would in
dulge could they do so for the nominal
price of street car fare.
Sifted down it can be stated that the
people of his city, whether business
man or laborer, are too prosperous to
care about the loss of car fare.
If it were in a country where men
smoked two-for-five cigars and where
the price of a shave was a serious mat
ter. as is true in many of the older
states, the building of street rail-
way to be supported by public patron
age would he folly. But in Grand
Forks where prosperity is the rule
rather than the exception, this need
not enter into the consideration.
1t is true that the summers, while
the most delightful in the world, are
short. and TO get the most possible out
of life they must be largely given to
recreation. But at the same time this
is the busy season for the business
man, and few can afford 10 spend the
summer away from their Offices.
However. il a man could close has
desk and, stepping on street car, ride
to the city park and spend an hour in
recreation, he need never take vaca-
ton for pleasure
He would hardly do so did he have
to walk out or hire cab or team.
Street cars are the great cosmopolI-
tan carriers in a city. The cost is
within the reach of all and is bur-
den to none. while they afford oppor-
tunities for both business and pleas
ure that can be found in no other sys-
TEN.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27
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14ll-University Of St. Andrews,
Aberdeen Scotland, chartered.
1594-Coronation of Henry w. at
Charities.
1673-Philip Nye died.
1706-John Evelyn, celebrated phil
osopher, died.
1776-Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
1S02-Lord William George Freder-
lex Bentinck born.
1SO7-Henry Wadsworth Longrellow
born. Died March "a, 1882
1S22-Sir John B. Warren, &. C.. b.,
died.
1S44--Nicholas Biddle, Philadelphia
fnancier, died:
1S52-First Derby ministry formed
in England.
1S69-Alphonse Lamartine died.
1S71-Meeting at Washington IF
joint high commission on Alabama
claims
1S75-Carlists repulsed at Bilbao.
1SS0-British defeated at Majuba
Hill.
lSS4-South African republic, Trans
vaal. recognized by treaty with Great
Britain.
1SS5-Swedish steamer Norden sunk
by British steamer Cumberland off
EuXhaven
1SSS-Twenty-three killed by boiler
explosion at Vallejo, Cal.
lS91--Town of Yuma. Arizona. near
ly destroyed by food.
lS95--Postmastcr General Bssell re-
signed.
19o5-Guy Newell Boothby. English
novelist, died.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

making up its mind in the affirmative,
and that, accordingly, it will pass a
bill substantially meeting the presi-
dents views. The delay provoked
much criticism. Nevertheless, il we
always waited year before making Il
law. the result, on the whole, might he
to improve the system. To have one
deliberative house that really deliber-
ates, even if it over-does it, is not in
tolerable. The president shows his
own sense of the respective weight of
the two houses by giving as much of
the patronage as possible to the SEN
ate
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27
Shameful Waste.

Most every one who goes to Mia
CARA Falls" remarked a prominent
New York clubman, hears some alb
surd, ridiculous and inept remark
there. You stand and gaze at the falls,
profoundly moved, unspeakably i'm
pressed, and then, all of a sudden,
something fatuous is said, and the eff
feet of all the grandeur is dissipated.
"The day first saw Niagara, a man
touched my arm as I looked up at
those white waters. l turned to the
man. He had the silly and pacuous
smile of the confirmed joker.
ut seems a shame he said, to see
all this going to waste
What are your l asked-'an cleo
trical engineer2'
No. he answered, "a milkman'"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

method after all. When once the mat
ter is taken up in earnest by congress
and the dominion parliament, 1t Is but
question of time until the valley is
properly drained 1t will be practically
an impossibility to accomplish SO vast
a project, involving two countries,
without some such joint commission.
The report of such commission will
carry great weight with congress and
will go long way toward securing the
desired help. There is but little aues-
ton that this will be the great work Of
the convention rather than trying to
arrive at some specific plan for effect
i've drainage. 4
The FavOrlte Plans. . 4
1t seems that the scheme of Presi-'
dent Cashel relative to small ditchcs
the entire length of the valley Will be
acceptable to most of the engineers.
The great debate will come relative 10
the dams or reservoirs on the Otter
Tail river Lake Travers, Red Lake,
the Pembina and Sheyenne rivers. IT
is estimated that the cost of dams and
reservoirs large enough to prevent the
overflow of the Red river will be from
$55O,0O0 to 100000. The dams and
reservoirs on the jPembina and Shey-
enne rivers sufficient to prevent their
overflow and to help in retaining the
low lands of the valley will be only
$4,000 each; the cost of the reservoir
on the Red Lake will be about $50, 900,
at Lake Traverse about $25O,OO and
on Otter Tail lake about 100000. The.
cost will be possibly more than the
amount of the Hansbrough appropria-
ton of million dollars for this pur-
pose.
Favor Reservoirs,
The engineers are inclined to favor
reservoirs rather than dams. While
the dams are much cheaper, they will
not help in retaining the overflowed
streams along which the are placed,
while the reservoirs will not only as
sist in handling the storm waters Of
the valley, but the streams on which
they are located as we'll. 1t is proba-
BILE that the convention will deal large
~ with this phase of the needs OF the
valley.
The Prssran.
The drainage conference will meet
at s o'clock this evening in the Com
mercial club rooms and organize.
Address by ]. l.. Cashel, president
drainage league of North Dakota. Adj
dress by Prof. w. r. Hoag of the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
Recess followed by an informal
lunch given by the entertainment COM
mittee of the Commercial club.
The program for tomorrow will be
announced in the morning.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27
NOTE AND COMMENT
strenuou. willie,

Strenuous Willie.
Willie tied the baby's ear
Firmly to the chandelier;
Baby chuckled, full OF glee-
Twas his ear of corn. you see.
Princeton Tiger.
Baby seemed to like, though
Round and round the room they swung,
Willie pulled him by his tongue;
Twas his wagon tongue, you know.
Chicago Tribune.
Little Willie took drop
While held by his loving pop;
Did 1t hurt him? Not a bit.
Paregoric makes pain git.
-Yonkers Statesman.
Little Willie wouldn't cry
Even when he lost an eye;
II wasn't hard on Willie. though,
The eye was in potato.
One way to make yourself unpopu-
lar is TOT run yourself down: Give
others the pleasure of doing that
Everyone has a sort Of contempt for
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27
SCOTS Masterpiece.

They had juts met; conversation
was somewhat fitful. Finally he de-
cided to guide it into literary chan
nels, where he was more at home,
and turning to his companion, asked:
Are you fond of literature?"
"Passionately." she replied. II love
books dearly"
"Then you must admire Sir Walter
Scott" he exclaimed with sudden ami
l..ation. as not his Lady of the
Lake exquisite in, its flowing grace
and poetic imagery? Is 1t not"
1T is perfectly lovely" she assent
ed, clasping her hands in ecstacy. II
suppose I've read it dozen times"
"And SCOTS 'Marmion,' "he contin-
ued, with it's rugged simplicity and
marvellous description"
ut is perfectly grand" she muir
INJURED.
"And SCOTS 'Peveril of the Peak
and his noble Bride of Lammermoor,'
you like them, I'm sure"
Il just dote upon Them" she re-
piled.
and SCOTS Emulsion" he con-
tinued hastily, for a faint suspicion
was beginning to dawn upon him.
II think" she interrupted rashly,
that it's the best thing he ever
wrote"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27
THE MALIGNED SENATE,

Every now and then somebody pro-
poses to abolish the senate, says the
Saturday Evening Post Logically,
the proposal should go step-a very
little steplet-further and include
abolition of congress. The senate, one
must regretfully confess, is not free
from blemish; but it cannot be coer-
ced as, about nine times out of ten, the
: house can. 1t is rather the more hon
est body Of the two. True, some of it's
most puissant members are badly out
of touch with the mysterious thing
called the peoples will. They repre-
sent certain combinations of regnant
interests which, in their states, actu-
ally constitute the government. The
senate must represent interests, popu-
lar or corporate, not states. The
state. as political division, has lost
all meaning. 1t is mere husk. 1t is
dead. Nobody knows, except by cou-
$3.50
sulting a map. where Illinois, Indiana.
Wisconsin. Tennessee or Mississippi
begins or ends. No state nowadays
has national political policy in any
wise different from any other except
as some dominant interest may shane
1t. AS matter OF course, the sena-
tors sympathies and convictions are
with those interests The convictions,
no doubt, are quite honest, too. They
think the way to do it is to nourisn
the big interests and let them hand On
the benefits to The people AS matter
OF historical fact, is has always been
done that way. and your senator is d
very great stickler for precedent.
Whether his convictions are right or
wrong, he stands for them and doesn't
sell them out for post-office or a con-
sularship. The spectacle of members
of a great representative body giving
up their expressed convictions because
they fear they will lose their patron
age. or injure their chances of prefer
ment, can hardly be edifying to the
thoughtful student of political moral
ity. "N
The upper house is slow and gener-
ally obstructive; but deliberateness in
law-making is by no means an I'M
mixed evil. A year ago, when the SUP
ject was brought up, the lower house
passed the administrations railroad
rate bill by vote Of 1926 to seventeen
Its popularity being evident. The
senate turned the subject over to the
Elkins committee, which gravely de-
voted the summer to hearings and in.
yestigations, thereby putting of action
for year. The purpose of this delay
was to permit the senate to find out
whether the people really meant It;
whether there was such q big. perma.
nent insistent popular demand for rate
regulation that the success of the re-
pnblican party would be imperiled by
ignoring It. At this writing 1t looks
decidedly as though the senate were
-,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27
A Distinction or a Difference.

A Distinction or Difference.
A congressional committee went to
Portland, Oregon, to assist in the
opening. of the exposition on June first
last
There was a parade in the morning,
in which all the visiting statesmen
rode in carriages. The local commit
tee brought the carriage around to the
Portland hotel. The scheme was to
have two senators or representatives
and two local men in each carriage.
After the vice-president and his
party had been sent away, Portland
notable, who was acting as major
domo, came into the lobby of the
hotel, where the statesmen were
waiting, and bawled:
1.-TWO congressman and two gentle
men, please!" ....
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27
: Learning.

i The new cook was helping her mis-
tress to prepare dinner. All went we'll
until the macaroni for the pudding was
brought out. The cook glowed with
surprise as she beheld the long white
sticks. But when they were carefully
placed in water she gave a choking
gasp.
did you say, MISUSE" she said, in
an awed voice, that you are goin'
to make puddin' out of that?"
Eyes, Jane" was the reply, that is
what intend. to do. Have you never
seen macaroni cooked before?"
"No, ma'am," answered the cook, II
amt. The last place l was at we al
ways used them things to light the
sas with"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

ter looking in vain for an entrance,
said: why, Alec. where's the door?"
by thunder!" exclaimed the cap
tain, in amazement: Il forgot all
about it." He had actually lathed
himself in the room.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

to the next meeting. Refreshments
followed the meeting and the discus
sion of this subject is believed to be
one of the best, for public good, taken
up by the club for some time.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

Let reverence Of law be breathed by
Irattles in her lap; let It be taught in
the schools, seminaries and colleges;
let 1t be written in primers, spelling
from pulpits and proclaimed in legis-
lative halls and enforced in courts of
Justice; in short, let it become the
political religion OF the nation"
Abraham Lincoln.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27
Too Good q Job.

Too Good q Job,
Capt. Alexander Hutchins of Ellis
worth, Me-, although sea captain
of ability, has always been noted for
Observation-Disclosures. On one occasion,
while at home between trips, he de-
cided to have spare chamber in his
house lathed and plastered. Being
somewhat of carpenter, he UNDER
took this part of it himself, and la
bored at it industriously for. day
or two =
1t was finally lathed according to
his ideas. and as he drove the last
nail and surveyed his work. not. with
out pride. he called his wife to see
what a good job he had done.
She climbed the stairs, and then
paused, somewhat perplexed, and at
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

In after years when a man meets
his first love he is happy in the be-
lief that it were better to have loved
and lost.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

There are some people who are
never satisfied unless pinning all their
faith and hope to new found friend.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27
STORIES OF THE HOUR
Both Affected.

Mother (sternly)-As 1 passed the
parlor last night actually saw that
young man kiss you. was rendered
speeches..
Daughter-So was I, ma l couldn't
do anything but sigh.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

If you have told a piece of gossip,
you can't gloss over your fault by
saying, Isn't it Il pity anyone so
NICE" etc., etc.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

A Yankee hobo landed in England
the other day and surprised the ma
tives by the ease with which he swung
himself under the bumpers of a rail-
way carriage and rode to Winchester.
This goes to show that America leads
the world in everything, even to sue
cessful hobos.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

Whenever we see man taking care
of fretful baby, we wonder how any
man ever had the patience to teach
dog tricks.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27
P R ESD E N 7
WORST
Is Warm Friend u Drainage while
Enroate 70 Langdon 70 Assist in
/ Doing Work 4 Scottish Rights

y. - at, ne DIscusseS UFalnage.
President Worst of the Agricultural
college Of Fargo spent the night in the
city before proceeding to Langdon to
assist In comforting the work Of Scot
fish Rights Masonry on a large bunch
OF candidates tonight President
Worst takes a deep interest in Mason
~ IN all degrees and is one of the way
up members Of the order In the United
States. a \
/, president 10 als0sa good friends to
drainage and is much interested in the
conference TO be- held here this even
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

If you want to compliment a mans
appearance, and cannot say he. is
handsome, he will be satisfied if spok.
c nof as distinguished looking.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

Somehow we do not like any book
in which the woman swept into the
parlor." By all good rules of house
keeping, she should sweep out.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

Very often mans decisions do not
depend upon the merit of the case as
much as upon what he had for din
ner.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

When a school teacher puts the lid
on valentine box, the children say
that she is afraid she will get comic"
ones.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

One way of being good to children
is to encourage them to get out an
Interrogation point and wear it thread
bare.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

We would hate to be Il greyhound
and have the fact plainly apparent to
other grayhounds whenever we have
eaten too much.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

This going up to the lannon's mouth
cannot be much of an ordeal to the
man who is taking home unexpected
company to dinner.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

About the first thing impressed up
on 4 child's memory is that SO many
things happen around house that
must not be told Father
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

the man who sells him an article for
81 that he expected to pay 50 for.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-12-19
Ex.Mayor Strauss Wedding

The Baltimore Sun OF this morning
says: "a wedding of more than ordinary
interest to Baltimore and Virginia s9c,e'y
will take place ct A p. N. todsy wn'h
Miss Fannie Herzog will be married 10
Mr. Henry Strauss, oil Alexandra, va.
The ceremony will be performed at the
home of the brides brother-in-la~. Mr.
J. J. Fay, 1911 Madison avenue The
wedding will be the elimination OF 4
pretty romance, in which Cupid had TO
deal with matured and experienced
minds. Mr.. Strauss aud Miss Herzog
became acquainted two years sgo'
when Miss Herzog visited Alexandris
on the occasion of the marriage CT her
nephew. Max Fay, to Miss Hattie Eich-
berg of that town. Mr.. Strauss 10 one
Of the most popular residents OF Alex
andria. He served two terms as Mayor
of the city aud has held other political
appointments. The ceremony will be per-
formed by Rev. DR.. G. A. Rueens'ein'
rabbi of Har Sinai Temple. The bride
will be given away by her brother-in-iawy,
Mr. Fay. She will be sitired in travel
ing suit Of blue broadclotb. A ouilet
reception will follow the ceremony, ailef
which the bride and groom will leave on q
two weeks trip through the sou'n.
Upon their return Mr.. and Mis-. Strauss
will reside at Alexandra.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-12-19
viii support G. c. Carlln.

1.-THE democrats of the Eighth district
will support Clsrles @. Carlin, Of Alex
audis, for congress, in case John f..
Rixry decides to retire from service at
the expiration OF the term for which he
has been elected" ssid a gentleman
from the Eighth district, who was in the
city day or two sgO and who was dis
cussing The political situation aud the
possibilities of the next one or two years.
"Mr. Carlin lives in Alexandria, is we'll
known, is a loyal democrat and has am
billions along political lines. He Is an
able man, is well posted and is one Of
the most popular men in the district
You can put il down that be will MAKE
the 6ght and that he will have the sup
port Of the g.eat bulk of people In thu
the district. - Richmond News Leader