The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-13
Valuable Oak Trees Cut And Now A
New Family Hotel Is to Be
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Built. s
WANT CHICKENS CARED FOR
Bill introduced to Force Common
Carriers to Feed and Water
Stock in Transit. ~.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington.-Was with all
her monuments and statues, good, bad
and Indifferent and all her vacant
land. still has not space left in which
to erect public memorials, and it
ought to be said also that projects
more necessary to the public health
than marble statues, like Fairgrounds
for the children, cannot be thought
of apparently because of lack of
ROOM
For two years by means of private
subscriptions, for example, a little
grove at the corner of Fourteenth
street and Columbia road has been
used as a playground and fitted up
for the children. It was covered with
oak trees Of priceless value, as far as
their shade qualities are concerned,
and was one of the most picturesque
spots in the city. 1t Is in the heart
of thickly settled district, where it
is cruelty to keep children within
doors and a continual danger to let
them out on the streets.
Nevertheless congress, which would
spend $4,000 for Federal building
In town of 281- inhabitants, neg
nected to secure this breathing space.
The magnificent oak trees are being
cut down, and where last summer the
place was alive with children, a fam
lily hotel will stand
Many Monuments Projected.
Should congress be in giving
mood toward the shades of the de-
parted, it is question where suit
able sites for memorials could be OBJ
tanned. The demand for space is in
sistent, and the senate committee on
library has record of no less than
eight requests, while, tho house COM
mittee doubtless has as many more.
A bill appropriating 100000 for a
statue Of Alexander Hamilton already
has passed the senate.
The sum of $4,000 is wanted for
statue to Matthew Fontaine Maury,
the American naval officer whose
scientific work descriptive of the sea
Is among the classics. A memorial to
the signers Of the Declaration of In
dependence is asked for, with an ap.
preparation of $4,000 for plans alone.
The sum of $500 is suggested for a
small statue to Capt. Charles Wilkes,
who is chiefly celebrated in popular
recollection for taking Mason and
Slidell, the Confederate commission
ers, from the British mail steamer
Trent In 1851. The United States
government did not back up Captain
Wilkes in his act Of taking the Con-
federate commissioners of the Brit
ish vessel In fact, nearly all diplo-
mats thought, and think today, that
Wilkes acted without proper authority
under International law and that tho
Confederate and the British govern
ments had perfect right to protest,
and that the United States authors.
ties could do nothing else than to dis
avow the naval officers act.
Admirers of Major Andrew s. Ro-
wan. U. S. A., who Is still living, have
put in a bill >appropriating $4,000 for
some memorial of his famous exploit
in 1898, when he was sent by Presi.
dent Mckinley to Cuba to communi-
cate with General Garcia, the leader
Of the Cuban revolution. He made a
landing from an open boat near Tur-
quino Peak and with much difficulty
succeeded in reaching Garcia.
Mann Is Friend of Poultry.
Representative Mann of Illinois,
who is the leader of the Republican
minority on the floor of the house,
has introduced a bill to require all
common carriers engaged In inter-
state commerce to provide food and
water for poultry in transit, and to
prevent suffering from over-crowding
by providing crates Of sufficient size
| to be humane and to be open on at
least three sides so that proper venti-
lation may be assured
Congress has acted before this on
behalf of cattle in transit and now It
Is proposed to extend the humane
effort to chickens. One congressman
! said that because chickens wore
feathers it was supposed that they
were not susceptible to cold. He
added, however, that feathers, while
warm, did not provide food and drink.
The bill has gone to the proper com
4 mittee and there is fair chance OF
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