The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-25
With the Long Bou
Eye natures walks! shoot folly as it nes .
The New Park and the Plaza Museum in 191S-Wonderu
Prospect from the Great Cathedral Kicker Tells OF
the Great Mistake Made by the Park Board in 1852
Mr. Lowry's Generosity
Eye natures walks! shoo'

@OMING back to Minneapolis by airship in l9l3, and
~ crcng the great central park it was found tnat
the Plaza hotel had been purchased by the city as museum
All the flats on this side Of the Plaza between that build
mo and the cathedral had been condemned and taken down.
In the park proper only the plaza and the alory renamed
With characteristic generosity Mr. Lowry had given ms
house grounds to the people, and the street separating
the arory and stretch OF Lyndae avenue hao
been vacated leaving stretch of park from Grove
land the cathedral Great masses OF vine were
growing all the aoy and Plaza conceang the crude
of the architecture and making them appear IKE oo
English castles Fountains stauay great masses OF mowers
and several UNIQUE bridges the stretch of ground
Of unparalleled beauty Everybody pleased with 1t but
one old kicker We aighted the former kenwood park
him standing there looking around and shaKlng
his head sadly. ... = ~ .r---& s
eff the park board had only acquired that hill and the
hill property back of Oak Grove street, out to Franklin
avenue 1852 when told them would have had the
finest park the continent But 1t IS too late now.
It is pretty serious thing when the folding bed shuts
up you in it. But it nothing to aship coapsng
on you If you imagine the folding bed shutting
YOU when you both 500 feet the and nothing but
the hard ground below you get idea Of the fix
may be in before many Something bound to drop
and looking carefully around, you discover it to be
yourself.
When Milky Way Nelson the aeronau fell several hun
dred landed top of Spike Hennessy saloon the
patrol flew gather him up Just before he EXPIRED he
asked: -,
tfWhat was that building I fell on?"
IA saoon,'' was the reply.
'tThat the house, he said feebly and passed
away.
- m% -.
When Ben Franklin was 20 years age it him
day that he getting DID, and he decided to stop
at This is the way he tells about it.:
'For my part do not find that grow any older. Being
arrived at TO- and considering that by travelling farther in
the road should probably be led to the grave,
stopped Short turned about and walked back again. which,
having done these four years. you may call me &C.
Advise those old friends of to follow example, keep
up your spirits and that will keep up your bodies you will
soop under the weight of age than If you had
swallowed a handspike.'
No wonder Of the elderly statesmen Of those times
did not like Franklin. He was too human.
The Kansas City Times authority for the statement
that negro Baptist preacher who was found guilty of
larceny Saturday in Kansas City, KAN attributes the
diet to the presence Of two Methodists the jury.
So ~"-'- ~~.-.-- .~''> XM-A ~.t
During the tr-state convention at Fargo the Forum
of that city employed special representative who
suspicious They first aroused when he noted the num-
Der Of farmers who visited the office and who after brief
consultation with clerk in the counting room
Quoted into Invariably each emerged with
bottle. The employee saw it ALL Aha
When all quiet in the little room investigation
in that quarter revealed several boxes each containing
bottles Of fluid The fact that the bottles bore the label
Eminent did not allay the suspicious the newspaper
man. -
cup in Canada they sometimes conceal booze in Bibles
he unused , .. ..." r..
So night after especially busy day. the hard-work
ing employee concluded to quench his thirst with what he
had to believe favorte farmers beverage
Assured that his uoberve stepped into
the back and defy cracked the neck of BOTTLE
swallow enough His for water hydrant
and his the telephone call up physician
Subscribers Of the Weekly Forum, who have paid year
in advance, have received the lniment premium
rubbed the outside it is said take the kinks Of YOU
No tried it internally before and they likely
to again. It will be long time before the victim hears the
last Of it. a j. R.