The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-31
GOALS FROM THE FIELD

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People. Of Linden . IItlla- were greatly
excited yesterday by the Tribune's effort
10 locate q new union depot In LOring
park They demanded to know why the
improvement association Of the Hills was
not getting busy when union stations
We're being passed around Alderman
Scno0nmaker arose early, and after but
ting the snow off the sidewalks OF his con-
stituents, called a hurried meeting Of the
leading men at the Forty-second street
station. It was informally decided that
he should make application for a union
depot, to he located at, the cemetery gate.
This location, it Is believed, is the most
central for the people Of the Hills and the
city. The tracks can easlIy ne brought
across Lake Calhoun, If the ferry sys-
tenn is not adopted. There Is some kick
Ing on the part, Of the park board about
the encroachment upon park lands, but
M. Q, Nelson, who. joins the park board
next week, and who is deeply interested
IN the union depot scheme, Is expected
TO quell the opposition in that quarter.
That there is a good deal of the milk Of
human klnuness IN Minneapolis is evil
denced by an occurrence in the southern
part Of the city a few days ago. A young
railroad man had established himself
with his wife and child in a modest cot
tage near the city limits On Christmas
day fire visited them, taking mold of the
little house with such vigor that the fam
lily barely escaped with their lives They
saved nothing except what they wore.
When the young husband returned about
10 clock from one Of his trips on the
road, he found the wind playing with the
ashes OF his home, and his wife and
child being cared for at neighbours. Tho
not objects Of charity the young couple
were in hard straits. They had no place
to live, no clothing, and not a stick Of
borhood, and within a few days the fam
ny was made happy in the offer Of the
Tree use OF little cottage for three
months while they look around and settle
themselves elsewhere. The place to
which they are invited is completely fur
n1shed. lacking only a set of dishes to
make 1t a complete home. 7s7 ~ ! 4 s~..".
You have read, Of course, the tradition
that a physician coming into the room OF
man desperately sick, will take up his
hand to feel his pulse. and will, If the
man Is past human help, drop the hand,
but If the patient has vitality still left in
him, gently lay the hand down again.
Dickens makes dramatic use Of this story
about doctors in "Our Mutual Friend
where Lizzie Hexam watches the sur
geon holding the hand of Eugene Wray-
burn, whom she has just rescued from
the river after his terrible beating at the
hands Of Bradley Headstone.
Some way we have the same feeling
when handing a ticket to a railroad con-
ductor. He eyes you suspiciously while
you are fumbling in your pockets for it.
He seems to be asking himself. Haven't
I put you off a train somewhere before?''
While he is examining the ticket you
pretend carelessly to read, or to non
chalantly look out the window. But all
the time you are watching the conductor
He strips the ticket thru MS myers in
solently and looks up at you again with
that old air of half-suppressed suspicion.
You begin to feel hot about the hair. IT'S
there anything the matter with that tick
ct? Did you forget to sign it in seven
places? Are you on the wrong train, go
ing in the wrong direction?" Such
thoughts scurry thru your brain, reducing
you to pulp of man in the presence
of this official ogre. The strain Is just
coming to the breaking point when he
thrusts it back at you with the growl,
t'sign it, - q.
You have forgotten to sign in the
eighth place. Feverishly and thankfully
you sign again, for it is an evidence that
you are not on the; wrong train nor the
wrong railroad, !nor speeding toward
Portland when you Intended to go to Du-
buque. - '' ~ -
have known passengers in the reac-
ton from terror to attempt familiarities
with conductors, such as asking them the
correct time or how the weather is out
side,| but am glad to say never did,
and also that never knew any passenger
to get anywhere with such tactics. Con-
ductors will not stand for it. ..s..s e..a..