davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
RUSSIA.

Through the dark, pain-laden ages
We have trudged life's weary road.
Mark the path on history's pages
Where our bleeding feet have trod.
We have fed you, clothed you, bound
you
In soft garments spun with gold;
Fought your battles, worshipped,
crowned you,
Sheltered you from wind and cold.
Long our backs have borne your bur-
den
Whilst you slept and dreamed at
ease.
Now at last we claim our guerdon:
We are rising from our knees!
We have heard life's bugles calling,
We have glimpsed our promised
land.
Empires, affairs thrones are falling:
Our deliverance Is at hand!
Selected,
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
WHEN LEGITIMATE ATTRAC.
TONS PLAYED IN DULUTH.

A quarter Of a century and more
ago, Duluth had two theatres that
booked only high-grade and legitl-
mate attractions. They often played
to packed houses, although the city
was less than half its present size.
Those houses were the Lyceum
theatre and the old Temple opera
house.
During the season of 1928, John
T. Congdon managed the Temple
opera house. On Friday and Satur-
day, In the last week of November,
1892, Madame Rhea, the noted Bel
gfan actress, played three times in
the Temple opera. Friday evening,
Dec. 2, she presented Sardou's "Prin-
cess Andrea" On Saturday, Dec. 8,
she played Beatrice in much Ado
About Nothing" and, also, appeared
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
CAPT. WILLIAM +. JOHNS.

It was with great surprise that
we heard of the death of Capt. W.
T. Johns and It is with extreme
regret that we announce the close
of his log on the stormy voyage of
life, after a few short days struggle
with that dangerous visitation,
pneumonia.
Capt. Johns, for some time master
of the SIS. Liberty, and a promin-
ent member of the Johns Fish Com
pany, spent many years as a
mariner on the Great Lakes. He
was a seaman of rare accomplish
ment. He knew the North Shore
as bot few master mariners know
It. He will be missed by those who
go down to the sea in ships.
He who SO recently departed on
his voyage across the Dark River
was especially we'll known and
popular with the sturdy fishermen
on the North Shore and Isle Royale.
He had a knowledge of their reeds
and a sympathy for their hard life
that made a deep impression on the
warm hearts covered by the rough
fishmerman's garb. There is not a
master mariner safffr1o from tho
port of Du1uth whose loss wou1d be
more keen1y felt than that of Capt.
W. T. Johns.
To the sorrowing family and
Business associates of the deceased.
the Great Family Journal extends
deep sympathy. May they find
comfort in the heritage of kind1i-
ness, a good name and high order
of ability that be left behind him.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
SHE KNEW HER KINGS.

She was very charming this
nurse from one of the units of our
Center. Like many visitors to
France, she was seized with the de-
sire for souvenirs, and, being of a
practical turn of mind, decided to
make the purchase of a pair of even
ing slippers. The intended deal was
to be consummated at the Nouvelle
Gallerie, and to simplify matters she
had enlisted the services of an in
terpreter.
After some difficulty she succeeded
in selecting particularly attractive
pair which, the clerk assured her.
were known as the Louis Four
teenth."
They're awfully NICE" she re-
marked, holding them admiringly to
the light, "but q trifle too large. I
think Louis Thirteenth would Just
fit me-"
But the interpreter was kind and
only smiled.-The Marian.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24

lists and fecfeationists to the Head
Of the Lakes. In case of an over
flow, Superior gladly and willingly
would do her part in entertaining
them and taking their vacation
money.
For immediate reforms, this idea
has greater possibilities than Pitts
burgh Pits, additional steel plants,
the Lake-to-Ocean-Route or even
lots ON the monthly payment plan.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
DULUTH COMMERCIAL CLUB
NEGLECTS OPPORTUNITY.

Du1uth's sunmer climate is a
wonderful ASSET, If full Use is made
of It, and the Du1uth Commercial
GLIB over1ooks a golden oppor-
tunity when it fails to capitalize
that asset.
Those who have not lived in the
humid and b1istering corn-be1t have
no idea of its prostrating heat. No
one who has not lived and sweat
there, has any appreciation of the
Frustrating, debilitating effects of
dogdays IN Illinois, Iowa, Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska and even south-
ern Wisconsin and Minnesota.
No one who has not lived in or
at least visited Du1uth can properly
appreciate how cool it Is here in
stammer and how hea1thfu1, sooth-
ing and grateful life can be IN the
Ciyt Of Destiny in the good old
summer time.
If there IS city that needs the
boost that comes from shoals of
summer visitors, It is Du1uth.
Hotels, merchants, railroads, trans
fer and taxicab concerns need and
can Use thousands of dollars from
tourists and seekers for recreation.
There Is not a section of the
United States where there Is so
rnuch idle money as IN the belt that
produces corn, cattle and hogs.
Most of the people down there not
only are unacquainted with hard
times, bot they seek ways for spend
ing money and enjoying life.
As conditions now are, corn-be1t
tourists go to the Rocky mountains
and even California to find pleasure
and recreation. At least IN the
simmer time, they shou1d come to
Duluth. By proper means, they
could be brought to Du1uth, withost
undue expense to this city.
It does seem as If Duluth's Com
mercial C1ub could and should give
serious heed to ways and means for
serning the tide Of cofn-belt tour-
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
THEODORE BOLLMAN'S TROUPE
OF GERMAN PLAYERS.

Sunday, December 4, 1892, Theo-
dore Bollman came to the Lyceum
theatre with his players in the St.
Paul German Theatrical Company.
That evening, the company presented
in German the play, DIR. Klaus"
The next Tuesday evening they pre-
sented the noted old play of Fan
chon, the Cricket"
While here, the members of the
company were given a big dinner
at the Merchants hotel by Messrs.
Fitger and Anneke. Speeches were
made by P. S. Anneke, H. P. Gill
and DR.. Grahamaer, editor of the
Volksfreund, German language
paper then published in Duluth.
A fitting response was made by
Theodore Bollman. Good fellowship
was present in great abundance, for
that was in the days of good fellow
ship, before Germany and things Ger
man fell into disfavor.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
PUBLIC MUST BE PRO-
TECTED AGAINST AUTOS.

commissioner Murnian evidently
proposes to be a commissioner of
safety in fact as we'll as IN name.
With chief of police Murphy he Is
busily engaged in working out plans
for greater safety from reckless
automobile drivers and for those
who ride IN automobiles.
It now Is proposed to revise traf-
tie roles. Strict regulation of alto
mobile traffic will be given between
Lake avenue and Sixth avenue
West. Safety zones will be estab-
lished for the benefit of pedestrians
and those who take street cars at
the corners. Parking plans will be
revised and more strictly enforced.
During the three first weeks in
May, the police recorded II alto
mobile accidents, not including
some freak cases. Accompanying
those accidents was the loss of
eleven precious HUMAN lives. In
juries and mortalities rival those of
the arena IN ancient Rome, when
gladiators were expected to inflict
hurts and even death.
Dnluth's streets actually have
been dangerous for pedestrians for
many months. There Is something
abott driving a car that makes the
average man careless, reckless and
selfish. He proposes to get there
irst and let those look oct for them
selves who may have canse to cross
the streets or take a street car.
Many person has had good
suit damaged by mud and mire
spattered over them BY wildly run
ming and reek1essfy driver automo-
biles. Many a driver grins IN glee
as he makes some rheumatic citi-
zen jump to avoid severe injury or
even sudden death.
Il commissioner Murnian, chief
Mufphy and the city commissioners
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
WHEN DULUTH MAINTAINED A
NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL,

Away back in 1892, teachers of
ability were quite scarce, therefore
the board of education agreed to
Supt. Denfeld's plan of establishing
a normal training school, where high
school graduates and others could be
prepared for effective teaching, in
harmony with the local system ana
policies.
The normal training school opened
early in the school year. The old
high school, then called the Wash
ington building, now the Liberty
building, was the home Of the in
stitution.
The normal training school en-
braced a course of one year. The
curriculum called for instruction in
the principles of education, educa-
tional psychology, school manage
ment. history of education and
practical work, under model teach
ers, in the best methods of teaching
grade branches and kindergarten.
Miss Ada Van Stone Harris was
principal and Miss Isabelle c. Dem
ing was principal Of the kindergar-
ten department. Miss Grace Dan
forth served as kindergarten as
sistant at West Duluth. Assistants
and model teachers embraced the fol-
lowing, viz: wilma Nichols, Clara
A. Sawyer, Ada LeRicheaux, Hattie
A. King, Fannie Calverly, Matte J.
Rice and Winnifred Everhard.
During the year 1928, there were
seventeen students enrolled. Twelve
Of them in grade work and five Of
them In kindergarten work, as fol-
lows, viz: The Misses Avery, Anna
M. Farrell, Phoebe A. Nichols, Grace
A. Jefferson. Louise Bassett, Ella
J. Barrows, Florence Lautenschlager
Mary I. Craig, Susie M. Johnson, Eliz-
abeth Smith, Name Patterson, Caro-
line H. Rogers, Maud Nichols,
Geneva Nichols, Mary M. Miller,
Mary McHugh, Lillian Gray.
The first class was graduated in
June, 1898. The next year, 1894,
If memory fails not, the normal
training classes were transferred to
the Central high school building.
Matrimony eventually made heavy
inroads in the ranks of the first nor
NAL training school class. Miss Ada
Van Stone Harris failed to draw
matrimonial prize, at least while she
staid in Duluth. Miss Deming formed
life partnership with George A.
French, prominent business man.
Mary McHugh later became Mrs. ].
F. Killorin. Anna M. Farrell is we'll
known today as Mrs. Leo A. Ball.
Mary I. Craig know bears the name
Of Mrs. T. T. Hudson. Others mar
ried wisely and happily if not richly.
Some Of the class long since passed
to better world.
After an existence of a number
of years, the normal training school
was discontinued but, in it's day and
time, it did good work and proved
very valuable to the local education
al system.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
THE COGIN DIVORCE CASE.

In the fall of 1892, Richard D.
Cogin, West Duluth saloonkeeper,
started an action against his wife,
Ella Cogin, praying for divorce, bas-
ing his prayer on allegations Of
wrongdoing with various men on the
part Of the defendant.
The case came up for trial in the
district court, before judge Ensign,
on Monday, Dec. 5, 1892. The plain
tiff offered big batch of testimony
against his wife. One allegation was
that she kissed one Grant in a
crowded ball room. Then there was
a signed statement in which the de-
PENDANT admitted that she had been
improperly intimate with several
men. The statement was in the
handwriting of Cogin but the sigma
ture was that of his wife.
Great sympathy went out to Mrs.
Cogin when she took the stand in
her own defense. She was about %
years old and quite attractive, there
fore it was easy to feel sympathetic
in her case. She denied fatty that
she kissed Grant when dancing. She
also claimed that she signed the con-
fession Of intimacy with men other
than her husband falsely and under
duress.
Mrs. Cogin created a decided SEN
sation when she testified that her
husband took her to Spirit Lake for
a buggy ride. When in secluded
place in the woods, he dragged her
from the buggy, gave her a prayer
book and told her to prepare to die,
for he was going to kill her.
To save herself from what she
feared was imminent death, Mrs.
Cogin swore that she signed a state
ment, admitting improper intimacy
with several men, such a statement
being presented to her, by her hus-
band, written in his own hand.
All spectators firmly believed that
the woman would get a verdict and
be granted a divorce, instead of
Cogin, but Judge Ensign refused a
divorce for either one and expressed
the opinion that a reconciliation was
the best thing for both husband and
wife.
1t was. not so easy to get divorces
in those days as it is now.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
NEWFISH|NC
Sportsman's Club Of Duluth Is
sues Digest Of Latest Legal
Requirements.

The Sportsmen's Club Of Duluth
has issued a digest of the laws as
they now stand on the statute books,
and this briefly but satisfactorily
tells all about the open seasons, min
imum size, limit of catch, sale, etc.
Here 1t is:
Trout Except lake trout)-April
Is to Sept. 1, inclusive. Seven inch
es, Is per day, SO fish or 20 pounds
in possession at any one time. Not
to be bought or sold.
Lake trout, salmon-Nov. IS to
Oct. 1 following, both inclusive; 16
inches, rs per day. Not to be pur-
chased or sold.
Bass, black bass-June Is to
March 1 following, both inclusive; 9
inches, IS per day, Is in possession
at any one time. Not to be bought
or sold.
Rock bass-May 1 to March 1,
inches, rs per day. May be bought
or sold during open season.
Pike and pickerel, wall-eyed pike
Except sand pike)-May 1 to March
1. IA inches long, not more than Is
pike or rs pickerel in one day. WALL
eyed pike may be sold when taken
from waters opened for sale there
from, by the commissioner. Pickerel
may be taken by spearing, except
during closed season therefor.
Sand pike or saugers-May 1 to
March 1, 10 inches, Is per day. May
be bought and sold during open sea-
son.
Muskellunge-May 1 to March 1,
80 inches, per day. Must not be
bought or sold.
Perch-May 1 to March I, any
size, any number. May be bought
and sold during open season.
Sunfish-May 1 to March 1. Five
inches, rs per day. May be bought
and sold during open season.
Croppies-May 1 to March 1, 6
inches, rs per day. May be bought
and sold except when caught in wat
ers closed to the sale thereof by the
commissioner.
Minnows-For bait may be taken
at any time with a trap, net or seine,
except in water inhabited by trout.
Minnows may be bought and sold.
Frogs-May be taken for bait and
scientific purposes at any time.
Non-residents over 16 years of age
required to have license to fish.
Shipment-All packages contain
ing fish of any variety to be marked
with names of consignor and con-
signee, and number of pounds Of
each kind of fish contained therein.
Any person, except agents or EN-
ployes of a common carrier while
engaged in the performance OF their
duties, may carry with him as bag
gage on a common carrier any fish
which may be legally in his pos
session.
No person shall ship any fish ex-
cept bullheads, buffalo, carp, red
horse, suckers, sheepshead eel-pout.
garfish and dogfish, outside of this
state. A nonresident, duly licensed
to fish in this state, may, however,
ship or transport by common carrier,
or carry with him to a point outside
this state, not to exceed rs pounds
of any fish caught by him in this
state under rules to be prescribed
by the commissioner.
Limits-The catching, taking or
killing of more than rs fish by any
one person in any one day, except
fish caught with licensed nets as by
law permitted, is prohibited.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
WHEN WILLIAM G.. SARGENT
PLANNED LESTER PARK.

Interest was intense early in De-
cember, 1892, when William C. Sar-
gent, then the Big Noise in the Lake
side Land Co., announced that plans
were being consummated for a
pleasure resort NEAR the mouth of
Lester River.
Lakeside then was a village, with
a full set of trustees, a clerk,
treasurer and a very elaborate sys-
tenn Of keeping the village records.
Later on, the Villagc OF Lakeside be-
came part and parcel of the City Of
Duluth, but that's another story.
The Lakeside Street Railway then
was under construction and was ex-
pected to begin business in a very
few days. It did get into operation
around the middle of the month of
December, 1892, but that is another
story, also.
Mr.. Sargent well knew, of course,
that the Lakeside Street Railway
would be carrying passengers the
next season. To make more pas
sengers, something attractive at the
end of the line would help, therefore
the Lakeside Land Co. decided to
make a pleasure resort in the pine
woods "between the forks" of Lester
River. That was the inception of the
present park and Fairgrounds out
there.
The public was informed that the
plans called for recretion grounds,
place for band concerts, a Zoo, which
has not yet come, despite the great
development in the idea of the
municipal ownership of Public
Futilities. Great excitement was
aroused by the probability of an cleo
trio fountain, another thing that has
not been realized. Capt. Cleveland
might work on that idea with profit.
Bright lights and noises grateful to
the human ear were announced as
prominent prospective features. In
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
WONDERING

wonder why, when spring Is
here, the picnic germ takes hold, and
we streak off to woodlands drear, to
eat our victuals cold. We know that
picnics are frost, burden and
blight; they merely anger and ex-
haust, and put us in a plight. 1t
always rains on picnic day, and soaks
us to the skin; if there are rivers on
our way, we're sure to tumble in.
We eat stale bread and sodden
eggs, and many clammy thing, and
crawling bugs swarm up our legs,
and bees and hornets sting. A weep
ing sky above us bends and sheds
its drizzling goods, and we swear ven
geance on the friends who took us to
the woods.
"We're done with picnics!" we ex-
claim, when homeward we repair;
''the picnic is a CHASTITY game that
fills man with despair. And though
we live a thousand years, we ne'er
again shall go, to drink sour milk
and ginger beers, where elms and
willows grow"
We are in earnest in our vow, our
words are stern and blunt; you
couldn't drag us with cow to any
woodland stunt.
But when the spring in gay at
tire has decked all neighborhoods,
we feel again the fool desire to
picnic in the woods. We sternly
try to crush it down, and from temp
tation flee; we won't be dragged
away from town, where all our COM
forts be.
At last we hesitate and yield, and
think 1t no disgrace, and walk
through swamp and fen and field, to
reach the picnic place. And then We
have no fun at all; it's wearisome
and flat; I wonder why we always
fall for such game as that.
wonder why we always start a
garden with such vim, and labor till
we break a heart and dislocate a
limb. We know that in q week or
three we'll sicken of the task, and
then we'll loaf beneath a tree and
loll around and bask.
wonder why a hen HIS w--~~.
since it can't wish to soar; wonder,
oh, so many things! The list would
be bore.
Walt Mason
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
WHEN GRAND RAPIDS WAS WILD
AND WOOLLY.

Twenty-Five or thirty years ago,
Grand Rapids, now the capital of
Itasca county, was very wild and
wOolly, as we'll as wide-open. It was
In the palmy days of the lumberjack
and logging along the Mississippi.
Grand Rapids and it's rival, LaPrairie,
had saloons, vulgar variety shows,
gambling, redlight houses and other
amusements that would attract rough
and rude men.
December 3, 1892, the mayor of
Grand Rapids raided the gambling
houses and arrested a considerable
number of disciples Of the Goddess
of Chance. An order to close up
had been only partially obeyed and
the arrests followed. Prominent Of
ficials and business men, closely de-
voted to poker and roulette, were
greatly perturbed by the mayors
action, fearing exposure, publicity
and even punishment. The breeze
blew out in few days, however.
The next day, Sunday, a couple of
petty offenders in the county jail,
added to the excitement by kicking
a hole in the brick wall, only six
inches thick, and making their ever
lasting escape.
Before the Duluth & Winnipeg,
now the G. N. R., reached Grand
Rapids there was considerable traf-
fic up and down the Mississippi by
steamboat. One spring, when a big
load was going down to Aitkin by
boat, a corpse in a coffin and a
couple of redlight women were
among the passengers. The lumber
jacks were greatly edited when the
two women stepped onto the box that
contained the dead man and danced
a jig.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
WHEN TO QUIT ADVERTISING.

When the grasshopper ceases to hop
and the cow quits bawling.
When the fishes no longer flop,
And the baby stops squalling
When the dunner no longer duns
And the boot owl quits hooting.
And the rivers ever cease to run,
And the burglar stops his looting,
When the vine no longer twines
And the skylark stops his larking.
When the sun no longer shines
And young men quit sparkling,
When the heavens begin to drop
And the old maids stop advising,
Then-it is time to shut up shop
And quit your advertising.
Atlanta Constitution.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
CLEAN DULUTH MORALLY,

When commissioner Murnian and
chief of police Murphy finish their
great work of making the streets
safe against automobiles for
pedestrians, It is sincerely trusted
that they will clean up moral pest
holes and dirty conditions here and
there.
Some economists declare that IN
dustria1 conditions drive girls and
women into sinful pursuits, not
natura1 depravity. They insist
that shorter hours, higher wages
and better Environment will elm
mate women of the town. There
are two sides to that question, Of
course.
Just the opposite seems to be the
case, locally, with the male sex.
High wages during the war sent
many man out sporting who
failed to sport before. And when
It comes to sporting, It takes one
from each sex.
Conditions, not theories, require
some immediate attention IN d.
10Th. There are entirely too many
young girls treading the primrose
path. There are entirely too many
young 1oafers helping frai1 girls
along the downward road, both by
personal association and as agents
who bring patrons and receive a
share IN the filthy proceeds.
There Is entirely too much
venerea1 disease IN Duluth. Facts
and figures, If narrated, wou1d
shock many a comp1aeent citizen
who maintains that the immora1ities
of men and women shou1d be kept
Under cover and never mentioned
above a whisper.
There Is a considerable number
of Young 1oafers, especially around
the pool halls, who shou1d be set
to work or else chased oct of town.
It IS not fair to dump them onto
other municipalities, therefore the
better plan Is to make them work,
at the county farm, If necessary, bot
make them work.
There are young girls, as we'll as
women of r,attre years, who are de-
filing society and helping immoral
males to SOW seed that will be
reaped by the third and fourth
generations. Both males and
females shou1d be forced to become
decent or be pot away at hard
labor.
There is work for boy or girl,
man or woman, If work really Is
desired. Loafers of both sexes IN
this city shoald be required to seek
respectable employment and to stop
the carnival of immortality that
went on through the Silberstein
regime.