Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-02
XXX CHICAGO NEWS LETTER xkk

CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-The city of Chi
cago has come to the rescue OF the
children and has turned street in
the crowded Italian colony in the
North side into playground. Mayor
Harrison closed Gault street to every
thing except necessary traffic after
committe of settlement workers
and playground secretaries had called
on him. For the remainder of the
summer and through the warm bright
days OF autumn. all auto trucks. de-
livery wagons and speeding automo'
biles will be barred from Gault court
and the street will be turned over to
the children from s a. m. to p. m.
every day. In these hours the only
vehicles that will pass the policemen
on guard at each end of the court will
be the delivery wagons with goods
destined for homes along the street.
Mayor Harrison was told that there
are 2,67O children in the two precincts
through which Gault court runs ana
that late in the afternoon OF July
there were 1872 playing in the street
in one block. Many accidents have
resulted from the joint use OF thestreet
by the children and heavy traffic We
hicles. 1t is the only place that the
kids" have in which to play.
The eyes of the trekking Americans
are still on Western Canada, J. Bruce
Walker, the Canadian Commissioner
of immigration. with headquarters in
Winnepeg estimating that the current
year will see a total of 10000 new
settlers in his country. OF these APP
proximately 10000 will be from south
of the boundary line These emigrants
take $1,000 each in cash and property
and this year they will remove $780,
100000 from Uncle Sans domain.
While the American immigration into
Canada is from all quarters of the
United States, the greatest part is
still from the northwestern and mid
western states. The records show
that $500 Nebraska and Western Iowa
farmers have trekked to Canada in
the last ten years. taking with them
property and cash amounting to ST.
100000. These records give only
about one-half of the actual immigra-
ton north from these states, as only
those were listed WITH the agent who
applied for hOmeseeker certificates. |!
One day last week carload of thirty
five farmers from Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan Ohio and other mid-western !
states left for Alberta on the regular
bi-mOnthly settlement car run by the |
Canadian Pacific Railway between
Chicago and Calgary. Practically all
or them had sold their high priced
lands and intended to invest the pro-
ceeds in cheaper lands in Alberta.
When the official returns of the recent
Canadian census are announced it will
be found that Americans have contrib
buted more than all other races to |;
the settlement and quick upbuildingi !
of the western provinces. The unof-
ficial estimate of the population of!
Winnipeg is placed at 100000 of whom I,
fully one-half are Americans.
How to keep a rooster from crow
ing until you are ready to get up is
the problem that Chief of Police
McWeeny of Chicago has been called
upon to solve. and with the assistance
of William Luthardt, he has succeed
ed. Recently the Chicago Tribune
published an article that told of the
chiefs success in suppressing a crow
ing cock that disturbed his early morn
ing SAUNDERS. Since then he has re-
ceived so many requests for his recipe
that Secretary Luthardt has had print
ed little folder for distribution. This
folder says: 1T is natural for a roos.
ter to crow but in order to do so he
must raise his head. A simple device
to stop the bird from Growing is to
nail board twelve inches above the
perch in the chicken coop. This will
prevent the rooster from raising his
head to the proper angle for growing.