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. THE MINNEAPOEIS JOURNAL WGRffi Sunday, December ai", 190s

1906 WILL HAVE TO BE STRENUOUSVTO BEAT 1905 Mayor Jones Has Had a

• Busy Twelve Months In Spite of His Multifarious Duties the City's Executive Has

Succeeded in Solving Many Doughty Problems and in

Instituting Reforms Which Have Made Him Known Thruout the Country. ^

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Mayor David P. Jones has led a — strenuous life during 1905. The mul­

tifarious duties of the chief executive of the metropolis of the northwest are sufficient to occupy the time of one man, but in addition he is the ex-oificio member of eight different municipal boards and it is doubtful if l$e has missed any of their meetings. ,*Then there are his private business interests,

— which have demanded some attention. Moreover he has been much in demand HS a speaker at conventions, banquets and before clubs and other oiganiza-tions. In the past year he has aver­aged fully three addresses a "" week, making fully 150 talks for the year.

The mayor is a member of the board of park commissioners, the board of

~ charities and corrections, the board of sinking fund commissioners, the arm­ory board, the library board, the boaTd of health, the board of tax IBVV, and the municipal building commission. Everyone knows in a general way what these various bodies are required to do, and will realize that the mayor has been a very busy man simply in at-

"" tending to his many boards. Many citizens who are members of only one board find that it interferes consider­ably with their pi ivate affairs.

Mayor Jones was inaugurated on Jan. 2, but previous to that day had jjiven considerable time toward pre­paring himself for his official duties.

^ On the day he was inducted to office lus official staff was announced to the council, which was organized on the same day.

Began Series of Reforms.

Immediately on entering the office he began the series of reforms which he had in mind for the uplifting of the

— moral tone of the community, the re-sti-iction of vice and immorality. It •was his general idea to place all evils under the lid and to sit on the lid.

The first order was to rid the busi­ness and resident districts of houses of ill-fame which were conducted under various guises, such as bath parlors, candy stands, furnished rooms and

•*• other subterfuges. Many were openly conducted on the main streets of the <ity.^ There is a recognized red light district, not sanctioned by law. but ex­isting as a necessary evil. Into this district the women of the town were forced to go or leave the city. Many of them left. Within the first month Mayor Jones also began his crusade against public gambling houses, with the result that all were eventually closed.

The saloon traffic was also one of the first to engage his attention. Altho the ordinance requires saloons to close at midnight, the proprietors were vir­tually given a leeway xof one hour in

__ which to bring the night's business to a close. The result was that the sa­loons were open until 1 o'clock and often much later. The new order re­quiring all barrooms to be vacated by 12-15 sharp went into effect forthwith, and has been rigorously enforced.

Police Department Improved. \ While there has been no radical up­

heaval in the police department, the force is vastly different from what it was a year ago. By constant care, with changes from time to time, there has been a gradual regeneration. Care­less and inefficient officers were spurred to activity by threats of dismissal.

^ borne were retired m favor of youngei and more vigorous men. The first step was the appointment of new cap­tains in the first, second, third and fourth precincts, with various changes among the lieutenants and sergeants.

On Jan. 26 Mayor Jones submitted to the city council a communication calling attention to the dangerous grade

~* crossings in Southeast Minneapolis. The result was the appointment by the council of a special committee on grade crossings and this committee has recently made an agreement with the Northern Pacific and the Milwaukee railway companies for the separation of grades at Washington avenue, "Uni-

r_^.versity avenue and Oak street 8E. Learning that much time was lost

by policemen who took advantage of the privileges of vacations and-s ick leave, Mayor Jones .. discovered that fifty members of the force in two years had been absent from SO to 185 days on sick leave. He promptly issued an* order that the vacations should be re­duced to ten days and sick leave to five days a year.

Minnehaha Redeemed.

Early in May he took up the matter of purifying the atmosphere at Minne* haha park. The park police force was supported by a special detail from the regular force, a lockup was provided and co-operation with the commandant of Fort' Smelling for the control of the soldiers was secured. The objection­able dances were fetopped entirely, like­wise many of the other objectionable features, and the result has been that Minnehaha is no longer the Mecca for the tough element of the city.

Early in the summer Mayor Jones took up the matter of burying the dangerous overhead wires. While very little progress has been made thus far, Mr. Jones has not dropped the matter by any means. There have been con­ferences with the representatives of the various companies. One result has been the passage of an ordinance cre­ating the office of outBide wire inspect­or, whose duty it will be to see that the laws for the protection of life and property from electric currents are enforced. The next step will be to pass an ordinance establishing under­ground districts in which no pole lines can be maintained.^ When such a meas­ure has become a law and the inspector appointed, the oity will then see the fruits of the crusade started by the mayor last summer.

The South Side Police.

In August he took up the South Side police situation, which was one of con­siderable difficulty on account of the many conflicting interests. Each one put in an oar and there was consider­able turmoil for a time, which the may­or ended by sending Captain George Sinclair to the South station and reor­ganizing the entire squad, with the re­sult that conditions have been greatly improved and much of the previous friction has disappeared.

The meetings of the board of tax levy engaged the mayor's attention in September. The task of the board was an unusually difficult one on aceount of the large estimates presented by most of the departments. The board of tax levy did not spare the ax and eventu­ally cut the tax levy down to reason­able limits without hampering the ef­fective work of any department.

Then came the famous order of Nov. 4, closing the saloons and all bars on Sunday. I t gave Minneapolis a na­tional fame and incidentally brought the name of David P. Jones to the forefront. Mayor Jones is satisfied that this order, altho it works a hard­ship in many cases, is approved by the

.large majority of the best element in the city and he has no intention of modifying it in any way. He is thoroly satisfied that not only will the city not lose any trade or prestige by the order, but that the city will derive an actual benefit in a commercial way by being known as a clean and moral city.

Fight with Council.

Just at present the mayor is engaged in a controversy with the city council over the method of awarding contracts. The council has seen fit to ignore the mayor's request to undo its work with legard to the lighting contracts, but the fight is not ended yet. In fact, I t has only fairly begun.

Mr. Jones opens the year with the council fighting him on one hand and the liquor interests on the other, for the saloon men have not yet become reconciled to the order for Sunday clos­ing. If Mr. Jones, even with the start he already has, should have as strenu­ous a l ife in 1906 as during the past year, he will at least know that he has been mayor.

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Minneapolis Healthiest1 ii City in All the World

i * *j -1905 Death Rate Only 7.38 a Thousand, Compared with

Rate of 8.75 a Thousand for 1904, Which Broke All Previous World's. Records for Cities of Over 150,000.

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MORE THAN HALF ARRESTS "DRUNKS"

TWO THOUSAND MORE ARRESTS

MADE THAN DURING 1904.

New Attitude of Police Toward Intox­icated Persons Is Responsible for Marked Increase—Four Persons Ar­rested on Murder Charges—Great Im-Improvemeat in Handling Police Fund,

WHAT CITY ENGINEER NG THE YEAR

PAVING, SEWER A N D BRIDGE SYS­

TEMS GREATLY INCREASED.

New Pavement Laid During Year Would Make Street 8.1 Miles in Length—9.4 Miles of Sewers, 15 Miles of Water Mains and S3.10 Miles of Walks Laid.

IMPORTS FOR YEAR ARE OVER ft MILLION

MINNEAPOLIS CUSTOMS HOUSE

COLLECTS LARGE DUTY. '

Nearly 2,000 more arrests were made by the police in 1905 than in the pre­ceding year and the annual report shows many interesting comparisons. The figures here given may cufler slightly from the more accurately com­piled later.

The total number of arrests for the year is 7,790 and 4,022 of these were for drunkenness. The reason for this increase is the new attitude of the po­lice toward the intoxicated person. Of­ficers who have been on the force for many years have become convinced that many lives would be saved annually if every drunken man could be arrested. This theory has found favor with Su­perintendent J. G. Doyle and now the drunken man is locked up as much for his own safety as for that of others. This has resulted in a decrease in ac­cidents to intoxicated persons and in several cases men have been dragged from the tracks in front of speeding cars and many would have frozen to death had i t not been ^or a lucky ar­rest.

6.952 In 1904.

The total number of arrests for 1904 was 5,952 and of this number 2,724 were for drunkenness. ^In 1905 there were 378 arrests for grand larceny and 279 xor petty larceny, against 215 for grand larceny and 320 for petty lar­ceny in 1904. Fifty-four persons have been arrested in 1905 for gambling, while in 1904 but 39 were arrested for the same offense. The police have ar­rested 73 persons for violating the liquor laws this year, while but 48 per­sons were charged with that offense in 1904.

It has been rather a notable year for murder arrests, James Rivers, John De-vine, James Webb and Mrs. Stella Brennan being arraigned in police court on that charge.

There has been a great improvement in the handling of police finances. The department began the year with an ap­propriation of $254,000. Of this amount $240,000 was allowed for sal­aries, $1$,000 for expenses and $4,000 to apply on the deficit pt last year. The total deficit was $7,306 and £hru careful handling of the expense ac­count all but $600 of this deficit has been cleared up. «

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are estimated, are taken from official T h e pA

a ? ; r o " h a f <\<mtained 242 records. Few persons realise that a n a m e s ' A s V* e f ? m k e ep™g «P the ex-tremendous import business is done i n ' P e n 3 e s of the department, $2,300 has Minneapolis, and the collection of tariff, b e e n s P e n t f o r n e w equipment. AM ex-

Since 1890 Minneapolis has expended about $16,500,000 thru the city engi­neer's office for special improvements. The principal items were for sewers, water mains and paving. The amount for this year alone will run upwards of one and a quarter millions.

Of paving there have been laid 128,-008 square yards, which, reduced to an average street of 27 feet in width, will equal 8.1 miles. The total cost has been $270,592, disbursed as follows: Sq. Yds. Material. \ ".V Cost. 85,611 Geosote l..\&...\ $88,217 38,402 Brick . . * .L .V 71,989 9,434 Cedar . .a. * 15,175

41,058 Sandstone 92,418 1,049 Granite (laying) 272 2,864 Macadam J.i 2,551

ENORMOUS QUANTITY OF WATER IS USEP

YEAR'S FIGURES ALLOW SIXTY-

FOUR GALLONS PER CAPITA.

Minneapolis Consumed Over Six Billion Gallons of Water in 1905—Elimina­tion of Waste Makes Total Less Than That of 1904, but Record Is Still High.

Minneapolis has again demonstrated a clear title as the healthiest city of the world. The 1905 death rate will be only 7.38 a thousand as against :\ rate of S.75 a thousand for 1904. There is an advance of 71 in the total number of deaths this year over that of last year. The 7.38 rate for 1905 is secured after deducting the deaths from vio­lence and non-residents and babes under 1 week of age, as was done last year in establishing the 8.75 rate, which broke all previous world's records for cities of over 150,000.

The greatest number of deaths from any individual cause_were from pneu­monia, ~ which led the list with 277. The deaths from the same cause in 1904 were 209. There were many deaths from tubercular affections, but the rate is about the same as in previous years. A marked falling off is shown in the number of deaths from typhoid, the total this year being 59 as against 103 in 1904. The lower pumping stations have not been used this year, which^in a measure accounts for the falling^off in the typhoid death rate. In March of 1904 there were 29 deaths from ty­phoid, caused by water from the lower stations, or three times as many as occurred during any month of 1905. It is a peculiar coincidence that the number of suicides is the same'for the two years, averaging almost one each week.

Birth Rate Lower.

The birth rate for 1905 is slightly lower than 1904, being 17.23 a thou-

Bvery man, woman and child was entitled to use sixty-four gallons of water a day during the year 1905, or 23,351 gallons for the entire year. At least this was the average per capita-consumption of city water as shown by the annual report of Supervisor J. H. McConnell.

The total number of gallons pumped by the two upper stations thru the year reached the enormous quantity of b,-118,113,640, which means an average daily consumption of 16,761,954 gal­lons. This is a considerable reduction over the daily average of 1904. It is Bomewhat of an anomally that the city should use less water now than a few years ago when the population was considerably smaller, but, this is ex­plained by the fact that in times past there was an extravagant waste of

sand, as against 18.25 a thousand £6V the previous J^ear. The increase for the year, tho, is 221, but the percentage is cut down by* the great "increase in pop-i • t ic i shown by the last census. The numbci oi male children born during the year exceeded the females by 165.

Two hundred and fifty-six more mar­riage licenses were taken out during the year than were taken out in 1904. t\ There were about four hundred appli­cations for divorce filed in the district court and about two hundred and fifty granted.

The following table shows the -mar­riage licenses, births, deaths and cause* of death, month by month, for the past year:

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January

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Si if 152 161 177 180 247 854 208 235 289 310 281 225

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881 353 368 383 362 405 394 428 887 363 332 3S6

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Note: Of the 4,513 births. 2,339 were males and 2,174 were females. forty-seyen seta of. twins were born.

Of the 2,469 deaths, 535 were from violence, or were non-residents and babes under one week of age.

PAPERS POUR IN ON REGISTER OF DEEDS

128,008—8.1 miles «, 8270,592 It is not to bis assumed, from the

above that granite-paving"can be laid for 25 ce"n*ts a'scfriare^yard* I n th i s in-j water which, to a large extent, has been stance the granite was provided by the' eliminated. interested persons, who also bore the There is a difference of about two expense of having the street graded million gallons between the daily con-and prepaied for paving. The above sumption in winter and *in summer, in-

' ' •-'' --"- "" "-- "--•»—• dicating that this amount is required for street and lawn sprinkling each

expense is simply for laying the blocks.

9.4 Miles of Sewers. There were constructed 9.4 miles of

day. The amount of water delivered by

Gallons .491,690,005

sewers, including several costly, trunk the two upper stations during the past lines. The construction cost the city year, by months, is as follows: $210,903 and increased the total sewer Month, mileage in the city to 20Q.4 miles. January „ ,flftK™

Of water mains dl various sizes there MaicTT..'."*.V."'.'.'."'.''.'.'.'.'.''.'.'.'.'.'. '.til 961 870 were laid 15 miles, at a cost of $129,169, April 482;446,5SO which increased the total length of SSv.\.\^\\"..\*"*ti;""::.\\".oS.JS;9M

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New Tax Certificate Law Causes Rush that Breaks Recoids.

Yesterday beat all Hennepin county records for the number of papers filed in the register of deed's office. From early in the morning until after 5 o'clock last evening there was a rush of persons with deeds, tax certificates and other papers to record before the first of the new year. In order to avoid the inconvenience and the penalties at­tached to neglect or oversight. As a result there were filed during the day 304 papers, over a hundred more than on any other day in the history of the office.

"The principal' cause of this in­crease is the new law regarding the fil ing of tax certificates that goes into effect Jan. L " said Register of Deeds Merrill. " T h e law provides that all

tax certificates are void if s ixty days ' notice is not served and certificates filed with the register of deeds within seven years from the date of the en^ trarce of the tax judgment. Fully a hundred of the papers filed today have been certificates of this kind and even at that and with the record of the past few weeks there will be many tax cer­tificates void on account of p, failure to comply with this law. That is of course if the law is held good, on which point there has been considerable doubt ex­pressed. There will without doubt be tests made of the law and the supreme court of the state will probably be asked to pass upon it in the not "very distant future."

The rest of the papers filed yesterday were deeds. In the event of a trans­fer of real estate not being recorded and the deed filed before last night it can­not be filed until the taxes of 1905 have been paid. This fact, as it does every year, caused a rush to the regis­ter's office yesterday.

Harry Mitchell's Editorial

mains in the city to 830.6 miles. Of the 67.37 miles of sidewalks in the' - m b e f 5 3 g 74_

city 33.10 miles were laid in 1905, and October e.'.."..".."..\.""!!*.*.""1I!*!!! 509'o3o!i85 the total cost of this work was $79,743. November 459,709,'i55 The curb and gutter work cost $29,077, D e c e m b e r 494,422 155 there having been* set 15.6 miles of

Heavy Importations of Canadian Wheat

in January and February Brought

Total Up—Total Amount of Duties

Collected Wag $548,732.15, Breaking

All Previous Records of Office.

dues is generally associated with sea­port and frontier towns. While this is true to a degree, many goods are con­signed direct to the consumer in inland cities, and pay duty there. Minneapo­lis is the port of entry for the greater part of goods shipped to the northwest from abroad.

Cattadian wheat is a heavy item in Minneapolis imports, but the greater part of the total is made up of textile fabrics and other valuable wholesale goods. Millinery findings and orna­ments are a heavy item in the year's list of imports.

Minneapolis imports for 1905 amounted to $1,609,815. This is not the

- total value of the imported goods con­sumed in the city, but only for the goods which were shipped here in bond and which paid their entran-ce tax at the local customs house. The total amount of customs duties collected! on these goods was $548,732.15. These fig­ures show a neavier business than in nny previous year. The next highest

-^-" year was 1904, when the duties col­lected amounted to $425,272.68.

The big increase for the year of 1905 vas due to heavy importations of Cana-lian wheat in January and February. Che importations for the past year by months were as follows: ' January, $530,760; February, $68,142; March, $56,638; April, $77,405; May, $97,396;

- J u n e , $90,757; July, $93,083; August $153,530; September, $48,388; October, $114,877; November, $139,839 and De Member, $139,000 (estimated).

These figures were compiled by Q,, E. Oooley, deputy collector in charge of ;he local customs office, and, with the

INSPECTOR. REPORTS ON HIS YEAR'S WORK

penditures have been made only on written orders from the mayor's office and an absolute check has been kept on all accounts.

The board of tax levy has made an appropriation allowing twenty more po­licemen and these men have already been appointed to begin duty to­morrow.

curb, which giveB a total i'n' the city of 210.2 miles.

Only three Wew bridges were con­structed during the year, and these were all small except the one across the

Total for year 6,118 118,640 Another interesting feature pf the re­

port shows to what extent the waste of water hasjbeen reduced and at the same time how the revenue of the water- Jf works department has been increased.

river at Thirty-second avenue N, which. A comparison between the years 1900 was completed at a cost of $68,000. i and 1905 is as follows: About $15,000 was spent on the work| 1 9 0 0 1 S 0 5

of widening the Washington avenue Total -water pumped. .6,863,135,200 6 u s 113,640 bridge, which will be completed next l o ^* d u c t i o n o f w a s t e a n n u a l ly' 750,ooo,ooo *ai-spring. The new bridges were across Collections , . $212,989 $278,240 Bassett's creek, at Dupon>t avenue and Increase of receipts, $66,000.

GOOD RESOLUTIONS ARE NOT LONG-LIVEI>

at Cigar and Liquor Men Laugh "Swear Off" Custom.

The coming of the new year attended

Figures on Milk, Bread, Etc., for 1905, Highly Interesting.

Inspector W. D. McCall of the health department, who has general charge of I Nearly all of these have been tried in ^, . ,_ _^ ^ ^ „_^ ,_- , ^ ^_^ _ J e w -j^-y^ yjee^ get-

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FEDERAL COURT BUSY

One Hundred and Forty Bankruptcy Petitions Filed in Year.

The federal courts which sit in Min­neapolis 'haye done a heavy business in the year now closing. In the United States district court not less than 140 bankruptcy petitions, voluntary and in­voluntary, have been nled. Of these 132 have been heard before O. C. Mer-riman, the local referee in bankruptcy.

The court calendar shows that sixty-seven cases have been set for trial be­fore the district and circuit courts

t h e w o r k o f ^ ixLSv»®eti.Ta.R cLaine^, " \jBLjfc-eries, creameries, restaurants, milk and broad wagons, water wagons and th$ collection of water samples for bac­teriological and chemical analysis, presents an interesting summary or his work for the past year. The report speaks for itself and indicates th*it Mr. McCall has not been idle. The re­port is as follows: Bakeries Inspected 839 Bakery wagons Inspected 1,108 Grocery stores Inspected ^ . . 973 Restaurants Inspected 39 Bread confiscated (loayes) 382 Bakeries warned '*. 39 Restaurants wcrned 16 Milk samples taken .•1-'700 Milkmen warned . .^ .1,044 Milkmen nrrested . - . ' ^ 32 Water samples taken 144 Watermen v, arned *2O0 Wolermeu

open, covwrt;, "bxit t i e d out or court or d e c i d e d

Miles. Cost. Paving „ 8 1 Sidew alks 38 10 Watei mains > 15 Sewers . . . . ' 0 4 Curb and gutters 15 6 rive bridges , . Street sprinkling 803 8 Good roads

The total improvements in use in the city, including the 'work done during the past year, are as follows:

Miles Water mains 330.6 Sidewalks 677.37 Sewers 200.4 Curb and gutters 210 2 Paving 82.6 Bicycle paths 56.90

judge in chambers pending.

Some are still

CITY NOT SO RICH

Cash Treasurer Hulbert Has Lower Balance Than in 1904. * -

At the close of business yesterday City Treasurer C. S. Hulbert had on hand $558,319.43, which is the c i ty 's credit balance lwith which to open the cash books for 1906. A year ago there was a credit balance on hand of $696,-855.56. The receipts for the vear ;£rom taxes and other ^sources aggregated

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across Minnehah creek at Nicollet and Cedar avenues.

Sprinkling Cost $126,588.

The street sprinkling for which 212 teams were used during the year, cost the taxpayers $126,588. The expenses for street grading and street sweeping are not available, but the two items with the firm resolve on the part of will greatly exceed $200,000. Very lit- many Minneapolis citizens to "swear tie was spent on bicycle paths, of o f f ' ' h i s little terror for the cigar and which there are about 57 miles in- the l i { i u o r dealers of the city. In fact the city, but nearly $17,000 was expended on ?u . r v , eJ2 r S ^ „ t m £ u T L ff?^ r S ? +i,„ „ »„n„A J^A ,Lo.a» « .̂.+-« .̂ i drinks have little faith m the good reso-the so-called good roads system lutions of Minneapolitans and they ex-

The^ total assessments for the year t l l t t l e decrease i n trade during_ the 190o aggregated $679,341, for the col- m o n t h of January as a result of^STew lection of whicn ft was necessary for Year promises. -the city engineer to enter 62,692 de- According to wholesale and retail scriptions on the assessment roils. cigar dealers the number of men who

Summarized the city engineer's work swear off smoking with the new year for the year 1905 appears as follows: l s decidedly small ancLthe majority of

those who do swear off are again en-$270,592 polled in the ranks of the smokers be-

79̂ 743 lore the fir^t week of January is gone. 129,189 Several of the retailers state that trade 2 « $ ^ falls off slightly during the first week ' 90̂ 627 in January, but they claim that tbe-126,588 heavy trade latter in the month more i w v J * n a n makes up for the temporary slack.

According to the cigar dealer it is the occasional and not the habitual smoker who decides to for#o the luxury of smoking.

The same situation applies in a meas­ure to the saloonkeepers, altho the effect of New Year resolutions is undoubtedly felt more in the liquor business than b y the cigar trade. Many of the sa; loon men say that the affect of the swearing off period is felt for ten days or two weeks, but they claim, with the cigar dealers, that the trade during the last part of January moie tbaxt 'balances the light business during the first part of the month. > ^

TAXES POUR IN Last Day Brings Rush to County Treas-/ . v, urer's Office.

There was a real last-day-of-the-year rush on at , the county treasurer's office yesterday. T}ie fact that all unpaid*taxes would be subject to an additional 6 per cent penalty after last night appealed to many tax payers and as a result nearly

'$10,000 in taxes was paid in at the cashier's window yesterday. From a hasty summing up of the tax books, it now looks as tho 95 per cent of the -current tax had been paid. This Is an unusually large perqentags and breaks all previous

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KEEPS PULL STAFF Henry C Hardee. Just appointed treas­

urer of Hennepin county to nil the unex­pired term of the late Colonel Charles "V*|. Johnson, gave the employees of his office a very acceptable New Year's present last night when he called them all together at the closing hour and handed them cqinmissions for their reappointment to their old positions. The new treasurer has some Ideas of his own about running the office, and as an introduction to the presentation of commissions he made some remarks that show intended re­forms in the management of the office.

The staff as it will be during the com--Ing year is: Charles F. Nickels, chief deputy; Will)s A. James, second deputy; Miss Imogene E. Rockwood, cashier; ^Charles G. Fehger, accountant; Harry A. Montgomery, Edgar L. Richardson, Mrs $5,490,234.12, making the available Te

Sources $6,187,089.68. Of this sum Hattie A. Warde, Mrs. Susan E. Thomas, there was disbursed a total, for all John W* Campbell and Hobart G. Kelsey*

About Good Resolutions. New Years is the time for good' resolutions. The holidays

leave a great many men wjth flattened purses and a good many with a headache so that when the dawn of New Year r6ll« around they are ready to promise themselves most anything.; ^ r ~ ̂ ,:

Some men swear off drinking (and mount the water wagon), others cut out smoking, and a few start saving. I t strikes me tha t when a man is in a mood to reform, the question of his personal appearance should be his first thought.

I combine style, fit, comfort and satisfaction as well as sav­ing o * a suit or overcoat made to order at $15, which no other tailor will duplicate under $40; for $20 I make a suit or an over­coat worth $50 elsewhere; and at $25 I give values other tailors get $70 for and I guarantee "Satisfaction or No P a y . " . * \ r

I do this little stunt during the dull season every year just to keep my tailors employed. Quit buying hand-me-down clothes —don't dress like a country jay—look prosperous—get'« your clothes made to order by ^

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