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Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
Gridiron Club Gives Annual Dinner

after the recent national campaign, the
dinner presented an exceptional op.
portunity for the merry-makers.
One of the funniest skits was a roll
call after the recent national political
battle. The mournful tap of a drum
was heard in the anteroom and there
came marching in tattered and dilap.
1dated troop. The uniforms showed
the members had been on the firing
line. The president of the club an
nounced in solemn voice that the
slaughter had been terrific. The
members Of the troop. answered
to the roll call. sergt. Jim Wat
son was reported as killed while
riding to the front on the water
wagon" Private Charlie Lands "fell
at Watson's side," Private Charles G.
Dawes passed in his checks" and
Private Frank Lowden was "shot in
the pocket" Corporal Norman E.
Mack was reported as "burying the
dead" Corporal William J. Bryan was
among the missing" Corporal Loeb
was lin the hands of his friends" Pri-
vate Taft was reported present and
Color Sergt. Hitchcock was announced
as "here, with the colors."
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06

HE annual fall dinner of the Grid.
1 iron club, held the other night, was
made noteworthy by the presence of a
distinguished company of guests. An
extended program devoted entirely to
fun.making, made the night one long
to be remembered by the organization.
The company was one only possible
to bring together at the capital of the
nation. The president, vice-president,
president-elect, vice-president-elect,
presidential possibilities of the future,
senators and representatives almost
without number, an English lord, dip
lomats of this and other countries,
newspaper men whose names are
known far and wide, captains Of
finance and industry, and men of af-
fairs generally were seated about the
gridiron-shaped table. Coming so soon
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
Mrs. Tom Pierce Free from ASYLUM

by inimical relatives, and declares
that she will carry the entire matter
before the legislature and ask eo1 an
investigation.
For years Mrs. Tom Pierce has
been the most talked of woman of
the smart set. New York's. million
aire circle knew no more daring rider
to the hounds. In the field Mrs.
Pierce's aim was the surest. No one
drove blooded horses with such con-
summate skill. But it was also said
that no one could sit longer at the
festive board where highballs bubbled
and rare wine flowed.
|. So ardent sportswoman did she
become that she discarded the fem
mime garb of field and chase. She
startled society by riding to hounds
in male attire, and even afoot she
frequently adhered to the bewitchingly
sportive panama hat, box coat, riding
breeches and puttee leggings.
Several weeks ago Mrs. Pierce sud-
denly dropped out Of sight. She was
last seen at the office of her brother,
j. c. Rogers, and was next heard of in
the sanitarium. Her sudden reappear:
ance created a sensation among the
smart set.
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06

ment of her navy ships, and in all
probability the entire Atlantic fleet
will be on hand.
The plan adopted by the commits
sion contemplates that the new Half
Moon on it's latter-day entrance into
the Hudson will initiate as far as
possible the movements of the Old
Half Moon, as she felt her way up
stream. 1t will stimulate interest in
the coming celebration to recall the
adventures of the historic craft, her
immortal commander and his mu-
tineers.
It was the hope of a discovery OF a
shorter passage to China that sent the
Half Moon blundering up the Hudson.
In Brodhead's musty tome IS found
the description of the beginning OF
that enterprise:
"A yacht, or VEL boat, called the
Half Moon, was fitted out by the East
India Company The vessel was OF
so tons burden and was manned by q
crew of 20 sailors, partly Dutch and
, partly English. The command was
intrusted to Hendrix Hudson; Dutch
! mate was secured and instructions
/ were given to explore a passage to
China"
The Half Moon and her motley crew
sailed out of Amsterdam on April 4,
1909. Doubling the Cape of Norway,
Hudson found the sea SO full of ice
that he was obliged to abandon his
, purpose of penetrating eastward to
| Nova Zembla. Some of his turbulent
crew, who had been used to the East
India service, began to murmur at tho
cold. Hudson therefore decided to
steer westward through Davis straits,
Reaching the Island of Fargo late in
May he tarried there day in order
to renew his supply Of fresh water.
The course was then set westward
across the Atlantic.
After a long and stormy passage in
which the foremast of the Half Moon
went oversize the seaworn voyagers
reached the Banks and were becalmed
there long enough for the crew to
catch more cod than Hudson's Small
store of salt" could cure. The vessel
then stood down the coast and in the
course of fortnight reached the
mouth of the Chesapeake bay. A few
soundings convinced him that there
was no open passage to China by that
route and standing out to sea again
he "nosed along low sandy coast
I with broken islands, until the evening
of September 2, when he came in sight
of the high hills of Navesink.
Rounding Sandy Hook on the follow'
ing day he brought the Half Moon to
anchor. -".
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06

tions joined those of Peary at Ints.-.
pendence bay. Lieut.. Koch, the artiS:
Bertelsen and the Greenlander Ga
brielsen were to push north of Pear,
channel to complete the exploration
of the eastern edge of Peary land,
which Peary had explored as far south
as Wyckoff island.
Two detachments went along for
weeks to carry food for the surve.
parties. AS it left the ship the expe-
dition numbered ten men, ten sledges
and sc dogs.
The lives of the explorer and OF
two of his companions we're really
sacrificed to his mistaken notion of the
shape of the northern coast of Green
land. Instead of being practically q
smooth curve, as he thought, it pre-"
sents great peninsulas and inlets. SO
that his food supply gave out before
he could find his way back to his
base. His body, together with the
notes of his survey, were found later
by search party.
Hagen died on November Is and
Mylius- -Erichsen ten days later, when
only few miles from the food cache.
Bronlund reached it in the moonlight,
and when the spring search party this
year found his body there it was evi-
dent that he had lived for several
days after his arrival.
1t was wonderfully fortunate that
the bottle containing the survey sheets
was found slung around the neck ct
Bronlund. Perhaps the great result
Of this exploration would never have
been known if it were not for this for.
tunate circumstance. 1t is thought
that Mylius-Erichsen probably did not
| venture to carry his diaries and collec.
tions over the inland ice with him, but
Denmark Fiord, where they may ulti
mately be recovered.
| OF the land over which they passed
Achton Friis, the painter attached to
the expedition, wrote:
'The land over which we have Jour.
neyed is desolate and dreary; there
are no splendid mountain-forms, such
as are seen from the coasts south of
Franz Joseph's Fjord and Scoresby
Sound, where mountains of a height
of 10000 feet stand straight out from
the sea. This was a gneiss landscape.
The vegetation was poor and shriv-
elled-only scant herbage and a few
wild flowers besides the low Arctic
willow and the mosses and lichens
And all this was confined to a narrow
strip along the coasts and shores of
the fjords. Outside of this narrow
strip was the eternal drifting sea-ice;
behind it the immense inland ice.
There was found, however, a com.
paratively rich animal-life. The musk,
OK is met now and then, many hares
and foxes thrive upon the miserable
stony soil, white grouse, ravens, and
hawks are seen in the summer; while
the land swarms with armies of wad.
ing and swimming birds. the bear
wanders in numbers along the coasts,
seals are plentiful, and the snort of the
walrus is heard in summertime. In
many places are to be found the ruins
Of Eskimos' huts, showing that the
land was inhabited in ancient times by
these hunters"
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06

hAR. J. KENNEDY TOD goes down
M into the Wall street district two
Or three times week to keep in touch
with his financial interests, though he
retired two years ago from the Stock
Exchange firm of J. Kennedy Tod &
Co., which is now composed of his two
nephews, Mr.. William Stuart Tod, who
is the representative on the floor,
and Mr.. Robert E. Tod, who has
charge of the Office end.
Mr.. Tod is in a healthy, active old
age. and is apparently possessed of as
1ouch vitality as he was a generation
ago. This is due to the fact, he as
selts with no little pride, that he is
living as nearly as possible close to
nature, and in that manner of simple
life which gives to man a wholesome
body and a cheerful, unobstructed.
broadened view ofo life.
Mr.. Tod has put some Of his ideae
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
Prot. Wilder Of Smith College Discov
ers Process.

An interview is published with Prof.
Harris Hawthorne Wilder of Smith
college, in which he tells of the dis
covery of a process for restoring to
their original state the shrunken feat
ures 0f mummies.
Through the use of weak solution
of a caustic potash, Prof. Wilder says
he has restored the bodies and feat
ures of a number of mummies of the
race of American cliff dwellers so COM
pletely that the color Of the skin, the
contour ct the features, and even dis
ease of the skin became easily distin-
guishASfe.
A dried frog which had been lying
In his laboratory for year was his
first subject One night before retiring
he tossed this flatttened and almost
sbapeless object into vat Of potash.
At the time he was not certain
whether it was frog or a toad, SO
completely had its distinguishing
marks been lost In the drying. The
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06

II NCLE IKE STEPHENSON, cham.
~ pion buttonhole story teller of the
senate, has certainly been treated
shamefully since he came down here
last winter to take Mr.. Spooner's place
as one of Wisconsin's legislators. He
has the distinction of being the oldest
man in the senate and at the same
time Of being one Of the wealthiest,
and he is used to having his own way.
He had no sooner got here last De-
cember than he discovered he had
been assigned committee room over
in the Maltby building, on B street
northwest. This was too far from base
to suit Uncle Ike, so he made good
sized kick, and finally got himself as
signed to a room on the senate ter
race, away down in the ground.
But great surprise was in store for
Uncle Ike when he returned this De-
cember. He had no room at all. His
Office furniture was all standing out in
the corridor. This was too much. on
he went to see about it. What he
found out was that there had to be q
place to put a new power plant, and
his room was the only one available.
Where was he to 60 now? Oh, he'd
have to go over in the house Office
building until the senate Office build
ing was finished.
So now, Uncle Ike, who has more
money than he knows how to spend
and who could buy himself thousand
committee rooms, is located away over
in the extreme southeastern corner
of the house office building -Anacostia
they call it in the house and it looks
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
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THE announcement that two blocks
! of Fifth avenue in the heart of
what was only few years ago the
most exclusive section of wealthy
homes in the city are to be converted
to business uses marks another step
in the rapid passing Of this thorough
fare as fashionable street. For sew
eral years the homes which lined the
avenue from the magnificent Wash
ington arch to the lower end of Gen.
trail park have been disappearing rap
idly, and this movement has proceed
ed more rapidly since the department
stores began to invade the once sacred
precincts.
1t is known that one of the blocks
just sold is to be used as the site
for a dry goods store, now further
down town, and it is rumored that
the other has been acquired by Chi
cagO mercantile establishment which
has often been reported about to in.
wade New York.
In five years it is predicted by real
estate men there will not be dozen
private residences in Fifth avenue be.
low Fifty-ninth street. Even the
wealth Of multimillionaires cannot
Withstand the encroachments Of busi-
ness, and they are being driven up
town or into the side streets, whittier
the fashionable clubs that formerly
had houses on the avenue are follow
ing them. For time there was a
tendency to build luxurious hotels on
Fifth avenue, but this has ceased. Ho-
tel visitors find the brilliancy Of Broad
way and the conveniences Of its great
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06

WASHINGTON.- branch of the
W public service which it's detract-
ors called "the government spy sys-
tem," or 1.-The Black Cabinet" has been
brought into conspicuous prominence
by the tiff between congress and the
president, growing out of the criticism
In the presidents message of the &C.
tion Of congress in circumscribing tho
activities of the secret service.
The system of government es-
pionage over the private citizen has
grown in an unprecedented manner
under the administration of President
Roosevelt. Whether it conduces to
the general public welfare is matter
for publicists to discuss, but as to the
fact that the secret service has
reached greater extensions than ever
before there can be no doubt.
This extension has been brought
about by the executive branch of the
government, and it's justification, in
large degree, is that law has no
value unless it is enforced, and the
only way to enforce it is to look after
violations.
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06

The worlds largest island has only
just been completely mapped. Green
land, that land of the southern name
and the bleak winds of the northern
icefields, has at last been fully out
lined. In the last number of Peter
mann's Mitteilungen, the great Ger
man geographical magazine, this new
map has been published for the first
time. The making Of this new map
is the final fruits of the surveys made
By Dr.. Mylius-Erichsen, who lost his
life when returning from the COM
pleted work
The trend of the northeast coast is
very different from what geographers
had supposed. 1t had been marked on
all previous maps as probably extend
ing from about IS degrees north lati-
tude in a general northwest direction
to the Independence bay of Peary. In
fact, it extends for about 300 miles in
a northwesterly direction till it's most
eastern point nearly touches IL de-
grees west longitude from Greenwich.
About 40 years ago Dr. A. Peter
mann spread the view that Greenland
probably extended across the pole and
down the other side of the earth to
the neighborhood of Bering strait.
With this idea in view he wrote the
instructions for the second German
north polar expedition under Capt.
kOldeWey, who was sent out to COM
plete if possible the mapping of the
east coast.
He succeeding in reaching by a
sledge journey only n degrees north,
little beyond Cape Bismarck. We
now know that more than 1000 miles
Of tortuous coast-line stretches be-
tween his highest north and the north
'ern. shores of the island.
Then, in 1905, the duke of Orleans
on the steam yacht Belgica pushed
over 100 miles to the north of Cape
Bismarck, but fog prevented him from
making a satisfactory survey of the
coast line. Meanwhile DR.. Mylius.
Erichsen formed the plan of making a
complete survey of the unknown coast
of Greenland from Cape Bismarck
north till he joined his survey with
that OF Peary, and thus completed the
map Of the island.
He started on the steamer Denmark
from Copenhagen on June 25, 1906,
picked up three Greenlanders and a lot
OF Eskimo dogs that had been sent to
the Farce islands to meet him, touched
at Iceland, pushed for II days through
the ice of the Greenland sea. and
reached Koldewey island on August
Is.
On the next day he had an easy
journey in the ice-free coastal waters
to Cape Bismarck, and in the inlet be-
hind it he found a suitable place for
the winter quarters of his ship. The
little harbor was named Denmark
Haven. In the late summer he sledged
supplies northward to make provision
depots for the long journey of the fol
lowing spring, and he also SURVEYED
the coasts both north and south of his
winter camp as long as daylight lasted
On March % last year the great
sledge journey was begun. Mylius
lIrichsen, Lieut.. Hagen and the Green
lander Bronlund were to survey ever,
mile of the coast until their explora
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
italian Sinners,

In view Of the fact that in their na-
tive country most Italians Of the peas.
ant class are given to singing in public
on all and every occasion, it is curl
Gus that we hear so little of their
vocalizing In public here. This state
OF affairs was brought sharply to &
man familiar with Italy as a tourist
when he heard group of half dozen
young Italian men of the working
class singing some of the lovely pop
ular songs of their native land in an
elevated train in New York on a re.
cent Sunday. 1t was delightful music
to hear and entirely different in every
way from the songs and the singing
one so often hears from a group of
native young men. It was the first
time this particular New Yorker ever
had heard Italian singing in public
and the charm Of the music was great
enough to make him regret that it vas
not heard more often. t
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
Valuable Persimmon Trees.

The chance discovery of wild per.
simmon tree in an abandoned field js
bringing to J. c. Evans of Harlem
good annual income. Fourteen years
ago Mr.. Evans was walking through
an abandoned field in eastern Jackson
county, Mo-, when he noticed the per-
simmon tree, and being a horticultur-
list he saw it differed somewhat from
the ordinary wild pers1mmon. He
took some scions or sprouts from it
and planted them on his farm in Clay
county, just across the river. From
these shoots he took others until he
now has 200 fine bearing trees, the
fruit of which is said to be the largest
and finest favored of native American
persimmons. The fruit is about as
large as California plum and finds a
ready sale in Kansas City at 80 cents
basket. The 200 trees yield an in.
come of one dollar or more a tree
each year-Kansas City Star.
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
Tooo Pokes Fun AZ Ladies' H.te.

108O TVNe8 = UT dt cdUTeS tJNS0.
"Those Hon. Hats is pinned on to
them ladies what forget how painful
they feel & drag them from places to
places with smile of sweet resign. They
are even happy while wearing them be-
cause they imagine something"
what could they imagine after
that?" are enqueery for Nichi.
'They imagtnes they are beautiful"
are report from me.
"Hashimura Togo" rasp them feebly
Unc. "up to now I have believed every.
thing. Please, tell lies more gently.
are not prepared to swallow too
much. - Golfers Weekly.
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
RESTORES COLOR TO MUMMlES.

next morning he was astonished to
find what appeared to be a live frog
with all the natural colors and mark
ings clearly shown, floating upon the
surface of the potash. 80 '
This led Prof. Wilder to begin at
once experiments upon mummified
small animals, and finally upon the
mummies of ancient races.
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
Shameful Treatment of Uncle Ike

as II he Will have to stay there FOR a
few months anyhow.
AS a consequence, he is an exceed.
ingly sad-looking senator these davs
1t is said that some one heard him re.
mark the other day that he would nut
up temporary Office building of his
own on the capitol grounds if he cou,d
get the permission. Vain hope.
Two other senators have been sent
over to the house office building with
Uncle Ike. They are Cummins of
Iowa and Du Pont of Delaware. But
that doesn't console him any.
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
See Opportunities in Mexico

o~S
Cattle barons, whose ranches in the
west are gradually being cut up for
agricultural purposes, are investigat.
ing Mexican lands with regard to the
advantages they offer for the raising
of cattle. The cattle rangers have
discovered that cattle can be raised
at less expense in Mexico, and also
that there is an advantage to cattle
men in the inland and water transpor.
tat1on facilities for shipment to the
United States
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
- ZAS
ROBERT FULTON S~~

New York city is planning for big
Hudson Fulton celebration next Sep
tember. There will be eight days OF
pageantry, with parades on land and
water, to commemorate the three hun
dredth anniversary of the arrival of
the Half Moon.
The Half Moon ascended the Hud-
son to the present site of Albany and
a bit beyond, and it is expected that
all of the river towns between New
York and that point will join in the
noise-making, the illuminations and
the general gaye;y.
A duplicate of the Half Moon is be-
ing built in Holland, and from the
scant knowledge that is extant of the
Clermont, Fulton's boat, Naval Con-
structor w. J. Baxter is preparing
plans from which tie Clermont is to
be reproduced. 1t IN a curious fact
that the naval parade committee has
had greater difficulty IN determining
the appearance of the G!ermont, built
in 1907, than in determining that of
the Half Moon, which entered the
river nearly two full centuries before.
The findings of the committee with
respect to the Half Mooo have been
approved by the highest Haval au-
thorities in Holland, and the ship is
now being built by the people of Hol-
land to be presented to the commit
tee. But in making the fac simile of
the Clermont the committee not only
lacked contemporaneous pictures Of
the vessel, but authentic descriptions
of it's details were also almost entirely
lacking, and still further, the Cler-
mont heing a pioneer vessel, it was
not one of a type, and no aid could be
drawn from the appearance of any
other vessels of that period.
Thus, in next September, one may
see bluff-bowed, castellated struc.
ture, with heavy hemp rigging and
curiously fitted sails, making it's way
up the waters through which it's name.
sake went three centuries ago. Like
the old Half Moon, the new one will
have two masts, the foremost stayed
so far forward as to give the impress
sion of intent search ahead.
And splashing behind or ahead or
somewhere near this new reproduc'
ton of the ancient craft, will be the
reincarnation of Fulton's Clermont
her uncovered paddles awkwardly
stopping the water and the smoke
pouring from the wooden fires which
are to feed the crude furnace of her
crude boiler.
The vessel will not be much longer
than a fair-sized tugboat, being only
u feet in length. It has not yet been
decided what means are to be
adopted to get this exhibit over. Some
of the big steamships of the Holland
America Company might without
.. nluch trouble find room for the Hail
Moon on one of their Upper decks
But while the method of getting the
vessel here is still in doubt, it has
been definitely ascertained that Hol
land will send a crew garbed in the
same fashion of the men who sailed
the old Half Moon across the Atlantic
and up the Hudson. The new dupli
cate will also carry reproductions OF
the ancient armament with which the
old Half Moon fought off the Indians
The vessel is being presented by Hol
land as permanent memorial, and
after the close of the celebration it is
likely that it will find resting place
in InnwOod park.
Holland is also to send q detach.
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
Select Section Giving Way to Business

hotels to theaters and transportation
lines preferable to Fifth avenue, which
is dim and comparatively deserted aft
er nightfall, and from which it is
more inconvenient to reach either the
business or amusement centers.
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
The CITY Farmer

"There is no doubt that Chumpleixh
has the correct appreciation Of what
Is expected of city farmer
what has he done now?"
"Why, he has just sunk 81, 400 ven
on his place in order to supply water
to his $14 cow"
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
German imports and Exports.

German Imports and Exports.
Consul General Richard Guenther of
Frankfort figures that the value of
the German imports for the first nine
months Of 1908, exclusive of precious
metals, amounted to $1,145, zoo, 900,
against $1,207, 100000. The value was
mainly arrived at on the basis of the
prices of 1907; the rea; value, how
ever, due to the shrinkage of prices, u
considerably less.
Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
Good Season for Actors

00OU 0edSOu TOT AcC0rS.
Gossip on the New York Rialto". ID
to the effect that there are now fewer
actors out of employment than there
have been at any time in the last two
years.