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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-10-18

part in the festivities. It was found,
in fact, that 80 sets Of dancers taxed
the capacity Of the floor.
There were no wall flowers that
evening. As many of the regular force
as possible took part in the festivities.
"Specials" patrolled the beats that
night, under the direction Of Capt. Sam
Thompson, who remained at headquar.
tiers. In those days, Capt. Thompson
wore substantial chin-beard, hence
he had reached an age when he could
refrain from shaking his foot if duty
demanded.
Chief Horgan managed to get to the
dance, but he was late. All the regu.
lars were there except Capt. Sam
Thompson and Lieut.. Dryer. He was.
i'll and away, if memory is correct, and
when he came back to Duluth he came
in his coffin, if, memory again is cor,
rect. Anyway, at the time of that
dance he was very sick man and did
not live very long after that.
Former Chief McQuade was present
as, also, were representatives Of the
departments at st.. Paul, Saltwater and
Superior. Supper was served at IL p.
m. and landlord E. P. Emerson did
himself proud as usual.
Committees for that annual ball en-
braced the then policemen as follows.
viz:
Arrangements-Chief Dan Horgan,
Tom Hayden, Frank Horgan, Dan Ken
ma and Aft. Gillon.
Floor-W. E. Terry, George Dram
men, Robert Smollett, Frank Horgan,
Pat. McManus, Dan Marcy, G. Miller
and James J. Curran.
Reception-Walter McLain, D. Nc
Lehman, Duncan McNee and James
Donovan.
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school luxuries, quickly and quietly
side stepped the proposition. Even d.
rector LeDuc went against the wishes
and recommendations of his dear friend
Hoke, when it came to an expression
Of opinion and vote.
The Rip-saw again sees evidence to
support its belief that the present
school board win be less autocratic,
wasteful and complacent over the Ho-
khan utilities and extravagances than
the boards formerly dominated by
Brewer, Mcaiffert and Madam Davis.
God speed the day when sanity, econ
omy, efficiency and common sense pre-
vail In the schools and with the board
to the extent that they did before au-
tocracy ground them under heel.
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AMERICAN BARGE COMPANY
EARNED BIG PROFITS.

After "McDougall' Dream" the
whaleback style of lake freighter, had
become a reality and about "a Of them
were plying fresh and salt waters, it
was found that the American Barge
company was making handsome profits
from building and operating that pc.
culiar craft. At the annual meeting,
held early in February, 1893, the fact
developed that, in 1892, the Barge COM
pany had earned net profit of %
per cent on the par value of the COM
pany's stock. The par value of the
stock was 800, but it also developed
that as high as 5000 share had been
offered for it.
The policy of the company was to
pay anywhere from 10 to IL per cent
on the par value and let the remainder
of the net earnings accumulate for the
purpose of paying off the bonded in
debtedness.
At the time of the annual meeting,
early in 1893, the American Barge
Company had been in existence four
years. Thirty-four freight carriers of
the largest class had been constructed
and yards developed that employed
1000 men.
At that annual meeting, it was for.
mally reported that A. D. Thomson,
one of the directors of the Barge com.
pany, also man even then prominent
and influential in the nation 9 flour
md grain trade, had perfected plans
for shipping flour on the whalebacks
during the ensuing season.
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w. x. ROGERS CLAIM AGAINST
CUSHMAN'S ESTATE.

Hon. w. K. Rogers had the distine-
ton of having been President Ruther-
ford B. Hayes private secretary. He
later tried wheat farming in North Da-
kota. He also was a resident of and
heavy investor in Duluth. Early in
1893, Mr.. Rogers was president of the
Duluth State Bank and a member of
the Duluth Park commission. The
Rogers boulevard was conceived by
and named after the then citizen Of
Duluth. Rogers had a "bug" for
boulevards, parks and similar munich
pal improvements.
~ Thursday, February 10, 1893, case
came up in probate court whereby W.
X. Rogers filed claim against the
Charles NJ. Cushman estate, in the sum
of $4,000.
Rogers set up the fact that he and
Cushman once had attempted to raise
wheat on $50 acres near Bismarck, N.
d., on a basis that each should have
half the profits and stand half of any
loss. During period of four or five
years, the wheat farm lost $4,000.
'ogers alleged that he paid up all the
losses and that Cushman never had
'aid his share, $12,5oO, hence the suit
against the estate, then in probate
court.
The administrator of the Cushmah
estate, Lewis F. Peterson, through his
attorneys. Lewis & McManus, denied
the legality of the Rogers claim as
presented and pushed by lawyer Henry
). Mahan. The case was set for full
nearing at a date number of months
ahead.
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PIONEER MINING ENGINEER

1t is claimed that Franklin Prince
was the first mining engineer and as
saver at the Tower iron mines for the
minnesota Iron company. Uncle John
owens or 7. j. Walsh probably can
verify the truth .: ralsity of that
claim. Leaving the vermilion range,
mining engineer Prince eventually
brought up in Cuba late in 1892, where
ne went to examine some iron deposits,
with the result that he received a Sc
we're sun stroke. After being out of
MS mind and under restraint for some
time, death came to him somewhere
near January l, 1893. The news of
MS death reached Duluth from Mr..
lee IN Philadelphia. Mr.. Lee, if mem
DRY IS correct, was a brother.in-law of
Charlemagne Tower, Jr.
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when more was at stake right at home.
He has watched Jimmy Bachelor not
teach German bat ball to the young.
STEERS, while a greedy, arrogant, nom
resident monopoly has bound and rob
bed the telephone patrons Of Duluth.
Mayor Magney should mourn in sack
cloth and ashes and then hunt job at
digging spuds in the hinterland.
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until he is compelled to hustle for some
other public office. - q. ..
Elmer +. Blu has a fat berth In the
noble wolvin building, with the q. s.
Steel Corporation interests, and his
clarion voice no longer is heard preach
ng municipal ownership.
Mayor Magney was partly elected on
he issue Of municipal ownership. He
soured after the people decided they
were not ready to take on the huge
street railway system. His voice no
longer is heard In behalf Of municipal
ownership. Some Of his friends hint
that he will not servo out his term, the
natural conclusion being that some fat
corporation snap has been dangled be-
fore his lawyer eyes with the string Of
silence and complacency tied thereto.
Commissioner Phillips is reputed to
have surrendered his red card and
made the management Of aerial bridges
his life work. His intimates, If he has
any, report that he is peeved because
the people did not acquire the Duluth
Street Railway, therefore he no longer
cares to serve them as their Lloyd
George.
Frank Crassweller now snuggles up
to several corporations for his retain
ers and such fat fees as follow, there
fore his voice is as silent as tho tomb.
Bigger and better things were expected
of him in this telephone matter, for he
knew why the Zenith was organized
and what excellent results competition
produced for telephone patrons.
Judge Brigham has failed to break
the funereal silence. Ill health may
be ample excuse In his case. Mcknight
has been too busy telling the boys
about his recent European tour to heed
the interests Of the public. It may be,
too, that he is going to confine his
energies exclusively to A. q. mcknight
and let the tickle public
fight its own battles. Even L. q.
Young, the great adventurer with the
Modern samaritans and the reputed
original Magney man, has lost his
tongue, if not his interest, in behalf Of
ownership.
r. T. Hudson has amassed great
riches and they bring him too much
care to allow time for pro bono pub
leo, as the lawyers express it. Judge
Jacques surrendered to little Tammany,
an aggregation highly inimical to pub
lie ownership, therefore he has stood
lumb before the people, just like a
ram before his shearers.
It does look as If the people must
take this bitter medicine or else leave
town for North Dakota.
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SUPERIOR STARTS MORAL
HOUSE.CLEANING.

superior's best people at last have
awakened to the sad fact that their
city needs q thorough moral cleaning.
For many months Mayor Baxter has
been pulling against strong tide In
his efforts to enforce tho laws and
make his dear city a fit and safe place
in which to live, do business and rear
families.
During all these months, the Rip-saw
has been telling startling stories Of
sinful conditions that existed in the
beautiful lowland city. Vice has been
raped. Low moral endeavor has been
shown up In all its sordid, Shiny, slip
perry aspects. Grafters, gamblers, pan
derers and lawless crooks, who have
dominated Douglas county's capital for
several decades, have had opposition
and newspaper exposure for the first
time in many years.
Very recently, Miss Tyler, Supe-
rior's city police-woman, has astounded
and aroused many organizations in
hat city by her stories Of immoral
conditions. The Trades and Labor as
>mbly, tho Masons, the Rotary club,
the Inter-chuch council, the Y. M. O..
A., the Knights Of Columbus and other
organizations either have heard Miss
Tyler's stories from real life or have
been offered opportunity to hear them.
Many Of the organizations have ap-
pointed committees to back up the
movement to clean up the city and to
give Mayor Baxter any possible sup
por within their power.
Even chief Of police McKinnon has
heard the voice Of the people and, in
stead Of staying In his tent or going
about with closed eyes, he has cut a
sharp stick and started after those
who break city laws and jeer at city
officials.
The moral jam in Superior at last
has been broken and the deadheads in
Bad River have started to float out Of
;ingoland and to enter the booms Of
Duluth. It's up to commissioner Muir
MAN and chief Murphy to sort and
ack those rotten old dead-heads and
make proper and effective disposition
Of them.
Pimples and parasites on the body
polite in Superior must not be permit
led to infect the body polite in Du-
luth. Eradication Of venereal disease
and those now spreading it here make
big enough a problem without catching
anything else from the sister city
across the Bay.
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IS NEEDED

There seems to DO q real need Of .
police-woman In Duluth. This need
has been emphasized by most Of the
women's clubs Of this city. The city
commissioners can find money to send
themselves to conventions and confer.
ences, but they can find only $500 >
year to hire a pouce-woman to guard
tho girls Of Duluth from predatory lib
crimes and panderers. They can pour
out money to pay Bachelor q hand
some salary to teach tho boys and girls
how to play ring-around-the-rosy and
how not to play German bat-ball, but a
capable, effective police-woman seems
to be entirely out Of their reach.
In the previous issue Of the Rip-saw
It was proposed to raise $1,000 by pop
ular subscription to add, to the $500
Offered by the city commissioners for
the purpose Of employing the much.
needed police-woman. The Rip-saw Of
fered to be one Of one hundred indi-
viduals, companies or corporations to
donate SO each to such fund. It
was even intimated that the Rip-saw
would be one of ten to find nine 9TH
ers, each, to donate their pro rata Of the
needed sum.
Only one man in all Duluth needed
that suggestion. Mr.. Frank Crasswel-
ler commended tho idea and declared
that he would gladly do his part to-
wards collecting $1,000 to add to the
$500 promised by the city. Not one
woman in Duluth responded to the
Rip-saw's suggestion, yet every woman
in the city should feel a personal in
terest in the matter.
Commissioner Murnian, chief Murphy
and all other city officials were as 81
lent as the tomb. They neither op-
posed, commended nor needed the plan
in any way. Perhaps they did not wish
to heed anything suggested by the Rip
saw; perhaps they lacked interest In
the welfare Of the boys and girls Of
this city.
Anyone who will take the trouble to
attend one Of those public dances In
Moose hall will be converted to the
idea Of hiring a police-woman, lady
cop, if you please. If matron at the
city Jail is a good thing, then a wo1a-
an-policeman will be just that much
better.
The Rip-saw's plan should be put
across. IF anyone will take up the
task, the Rip-saw will drop out and
gladly give any praise and glory to the
successor. The Rip saws only wish or
motive is to see Duluth have a respec-
table, capable and efficient police
woman who can and viii do work q
man cannot do and which the police
matron lacks time and strength to do.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-10-18
MAYOR MAGNEY AWAKENS
TOO LATE.

Now comes Mayor Magney with =
wall to the effect that the state rail-
road and warehouse commission, in st.
Paul, has favored the telephone COM
panies against the public interest in
the coming rate hearing.
Now, also, comes John Emeritus Sam
uelson, who draws a salary from the
taxpayers by virtue Of appointment as
city attorney, partly through Mayor
Magney's sleepy complacency, saying
that he concurs In the correctness Of
Mayor Magney's complaint.
The slothful farmer locks his stable
door after the horse is stolen. The
somnolent, unsuspicious, even compla-
cent public official lifts up his voice
in sorrowful complaint after he has al
lowed the Pinkerton-eyed corporation
lawyers to steal away the peoples
rights and best interests.
Mayor Magney and the Simian Sam
nelson allege that the railroad and
warehouse commission has made no
physical valuation of the Duluth ex.
change. In 1915, so the snarling Sam
nelson advises, the state appropriated
$1,000 for the valuation of all tele-
phone properties in the state. Now,
with only ten days. notice, it is utterly
impossible for the city Of Duluth to
safeguard its interests at St. Paul by
effecting a valuation before the hear
ing.
Duluth permitted the telephone mon
opoly to slyly acquire the peoples tele-
phone system but, before that, the
willy telephone monopoly put itself un-
der the protection Of the cumbersome
railroad and warehouse commission,
getting safely out Of the control Of
the home rule city Of Duluth.
Now the necks Of telephone patrons
are under the yoke and their check
books are under lasting bondage to as
sly, insidious and cold-blooded . mon
opoly as ever choked a competitor or
stole away q peoples rights.
Mayor Magney has gone to sleep
and brought lasting hurt and loss to
those who really elected him-the plain,
common people. He has chased after
dead mems money in distant places
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APEX OF EXTRAVAGANCE
MAY BE PASSED.

There is a ray Of hope that Duluth's
school board, under the puerile, i'm
practical Hoke, has passed the apex
Of extravaganza and illy-advised ex-
penditure Of public funds.
Better salaries were imperative and
any action in that direction calls for
warm commentator. But 80 many
thousands Of dollars have been ex-
,ended without proper thought, with
out real warrant or merely to bolster
up the weaknesses and utilities Of
supt. Hoke. As stated before, whom
he sees anything new, shiny or novel,
his first and lasting impulse is to buy
It with tho peoples money. A man
who never has had money Of his own
to expend and no successful experience
in handling that Of others, is q very
unsafe factor in the disposition Of
heavy school funds.
At the last meeting of the board of
education, Supt. Hoke backed up a
proposition to give several hundred
boys and girls from the Central high
school gymnasium training in the boys
department Of the Y. M. G. A. and
at the girls department Of the Y.
w. G. A. at an estimated cost of
$4,000 to $4,000 for the remain
del Of this year. The excuse made
was that tia school gymnasium was
too small and crowded to properly take
care Of the present high school enroll
ment.
The directors, in the main, looked
askance at the proposition. Some re-
membered the fact that there has been
a great falling off in the membership
in the Y. NJ. G.. A., hence the godsend
to the institution If the school treasury
could be tapped for $4,000 during the
ensuing eight months. They were In
clined, in some cases and to q certain
extent, to look on the plan as . clever
means for bolstering up the 7. N. o.
A. and to cut down the cost Of its
administration while broadening its
usefulness.
Still other directors, who did not see
or failed to consider the scheme pos
sibilities in the DEAL did see the quite
heavy cost and, In view Of the extreme
ly high rate Of taxation for 1920 and
the limited supply Of funds for public
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PEOPLES LEADERS DESERT
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.

Tho rank and file Of believers In
municipal ownership Of public utilities
seem to have been finally and COM
pletely betrayed by their leaders.
Tho Bell interests, huge. greedy,
nonresident monopoly, have been per-
mitted to grab and absorb, like a giant
boa constructor, the Zenith telephone
system, originally encouraged by the
city and in which the people had a
real and substantial interest, as well
- something to say as to operation and
policies.
The people some time ago were
bilked out of their interest in the e.
NTH telephone system. Since then, the
public has been compelled to pay trib-
ute to q dual telephone system. Now
that the telephone monopoly has Du-
luth well by the throat, rates are al
most prohibitively high and service Is
slow and saucy, something like it was
before the Zenith company was organ
ICED.
What the future will be, no one
knows. Duluth, home-rule city, CON-
mitted to a policy Of municipal own
ership Of public utilities, is at tho
mercy Of monopoly and the state rail-
way and warehouse commission. That
Is q good deal like leaving little lamb
IN the care Of frisky young fox.
This desertion and betrayal Of the
people by their leaders in the great
progressive cause Of municipal owner
ship makes q sad chapter in the public
annals
Thanks to citizens who placed pelf
and self interest above public welfare
and interest, the Duluth Edison COM
pany, aided by that famous black bag,
kept in q windowless room by Bro.
Bennett, prevented the city from &C.
curing fits own electric light system.
Bert Fesler, q municipal ownership
leader, next was fixed up with . scat
on the district bench as means OF
stopping his inspiring tunes in favor
Of public ownership. Ever since, he
has kept Is dumb as an oyster and viii
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SHE WAS UP TO DATE

now was that last bottle Of per-
ramery' madamf" inquired an East
hn 1ar druggist Of wealthy customer.
Inc very best I ever drank" re-
piled Mrs. Wisepirl.
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Joel Lichten evidently has become
DISCOURAGED over introducing red Rus
sian form of Government in the United
States, therefore soon will take out
his papers as a citizen of the auto
cratic old United States, where every
man stands verv pood show if he is
willing to hustle for it.
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were elected as municipal ownership
men, yet they have not lifted a finger
nor said a word to bring about public
ownership Of the Zenith telephone sys-
tenn, an enterprise in which the people
once had an interest until it was stolen
from them. Peevishness over failure
Of the people to take on the heavy
street railway load does not excuse
these two servants Of the people for
going to sleep at the switch.
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Maiorsvillc BHef @.

nAJOrSVA4c o4@o11'
Mr. and Mrs Ellsworth Carroll and
family were Sunday guests Of DIT. and
Mrs. Laycocli Of huntsville.
DR.. Waugh of huntsville was pro-
fessional visitor ut Bloomfield Saturday.
G. r. ClcmonS OF Bccham was repair
ing the local telephones and lines at
this place Friday and Saturday.
Madgc. the family driving horse on
tho Mrs. D. NJ. Archer farm, died Mon
day.
Messrs. Edward Parsons OF Dood
Ridge and Jesse Parsons OF Mounds
Vile, late Of the \. f. r. In France
sperR Monday with their sister. MIS-.
Charles Frye. and family.
s. T.. Allison, son of Mr.. and Mrs. J..
E. Allison- was honorably DISCHARGED al
Camp Sherman Sunday and arrived al
home Monday. Young Allison was with
tho S7th division and saw the fireworks
at Argonne, ST. Mihiel and in Belgium
He returns in pcr.en ffalth
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pres.ues o p9snse of the question to
which not enough attention is paid.
Ordinarily thrift is looked upon as
q means OF safeguarding one against
possible emergencies or of building
ND an accumulation of money
for soue definite purpose. But there
are many unexpected turns in the
halfway Of life. While it is true that
We never know what trouble or dis
nster may befall us, We likewise never
know what great opportunity is going
70 come into our lives from an uncH-
pected quarter. If VIC read the lives
sf the men Of our country who have
risen from poverty and obsc7rity TO
the greatest heights Of success. VIC ind
that there were certain times in their
lives when great opportunities pre-
sented themselves, and that much OF
the success Of these men was due to
the fact that they were able to take
advantage Of these opportunities when
they came
Whrn destiny called they were
ready.
Being ready to meet the call of oT-
portunity did not mean merely that
they had saved up enough money tn
make il possible to embark in the
business or undertaking that after
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g.. ,,,r, 80 h,- ,,.cidcn, Saturday. Her
10 ieat" Vi ''e' a. ~ rt,, hrol,
"oFF1 TAN away on" 49,, hrr,v
~. nri. has hcnn very III
~, -',., ,,,.,, u..,Ls Th. family
W. wa, '''N . L.,,,., H.. s,on as her
w. o,,,.,-s,
49, 49,. ,r,or - p,,Irp CITY. and
Mrs Daisy Garrison If MUundSvllie'
s ,,,,,.,.. - Nr aud Mrs Wir Barn
,,o-. .rnrd,v
~ .,,I Mrs. Frank Cunningham or
,,i,-s,.;Il ..r,.,,r AI,uI,y with TRENDS
~ DALLAS
,tIi.,h,,b .,,d II,rbrvu Jenkins, VINO
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death Of her sister. Mrs. Gcorgt F.
Sharp.
Mrs. Howard Crimes and little son
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. James Hen
thornC in DvunSon. Mr.. HcnthUrnr is
seriously i'll with pneumonia.
Mrs. II. Il. IIeasion is visiting with
Columbus relatives.
Mrs. Thomas 4. Scott and daughter
Miss Nellie, OF Columbus. were Cadiz
visitors this week.
Roy. c. T.. Holmes and Mrs. Holmes,
Of Wesliltld. Mass. who have been Wis
ting Mrs Alice Barrickluw, have &c
turned 10 their homo.
Mrs. ". J. Hcctcr.. of Stcuhcnvillc. is
visiting her parents MIR. and Mrs. y. A..
CLANCY.
DR. Charles Il. Hcnthornc anI Mrs.
Hcn,hornc. Of Pittsburgh. have bccen
visiting their daughter. Mrs. Barclay
W. Moore.
William Hanna is fishing at Buckeye
Lake.
Misses Mary Campbell and Dorothy
Carlson wrrr in Pittsburgh Monday.
Miss Elizabeth Mcfarland. Of San
Francisco. who has been visiting her
aunts, Mrs. J. S. McCrcady and Mrs.
Sarah Mcfarland. has returned 10 her
home. Miss Mcfarland is connected
with the California state board Of chart
ties.
Mrs. +. H. Lyme. of Uniontown Pa. is
here ,hr guest Of her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles NJ. HUEE.
William G. Parks and Miss Ecrnal
Clark we're married Wednesday ut the
home Of the brides parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Lyle Clark. Rev. K. l.. Lippin-
colt officiatcd. 1t WAS Il quiet affair.
with only fifteen guests present. in
GLIDING members Of the family and a
few choice friends. Mr.. Parks was only
recently discharged from army service.
having been sergeant in company G.
l34th machine gun battalion. 2Ith diri-
sion.