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53 M' THE DETROIT TREE PRESS: SUNDAY JANUARY 3 1909 NEWS MICHIGAN TOLD IN STORY AND IN PICTURE a 4M BJ ORTE AND DAUGHTER NEW POSTOICE AT GRAND RAPIDS what it la ALBERT GRIGGS d' The that PRESIDENT JAMES ANGELL A 1 i 4 zi Ts? VO Dr James Angell Has Served as Chief Execu tive of State Institution THREATENS SUIT AGAINST WINNIPEG Boston January 1 When Mrs Louis Gottlieb a society matron of Dorchester was bathing two dia mond rings worth $5000 slipped off her finger and down the outlet of the tub' Mrs Goftlieb notified the department of sewers After twelve search the Jewels were located in the last catch basinof the system seven miles from theGottlieb home hood who can pile in for apln In his large touring car But ho aye the for him and It his delight to get some unsuspecting friend or stranger in the buggy behind his favorite Star Kingiwlth a trial mile in 2:14 and driving to some side street the old fellow until hie companion through fright begs him to stop or years Mr orte conducted large mercantile establishment here but has been connected with the bank for ten years He i 5 yeare of age and with his wife and only child Miss Clara enjoys life I in their comfortable home on the Shiawassee river They recently took an extended trip through' east MAY CLASH WITH Marquette Would Bid City of Parolled Prisoners Marquette Mich January 2 On the ground that Marquette county is becoming a rendezvous for a criminally inclined population this because of the location of the branch state penitentiary at this point and because of the operation of the parole law as at present on the statute books the city police commission has decided to ask the amendment of the statute by the legislature in such manner that the condition complained of will be corrected The commission believes ft would relieve the district of con siderable crime were it provided that paroled prisoners be sent back to the county whence they came there to serve out the time of their parole Under the law as it stands now it is claimed that a large num ber of released convicts are con stantly living in Marquette county and the police department believes that in general they are of an un desirable class especially when en tire strangers to the community Contrary to the opinions thus set forth by the police commission it is the contention of the penal au thorities that tho undesirable class complained of is almost entirely constituted of former convicts who have been set at liberty on the com pletion of their sentences and the presence of these ex prisoners can not well be avoded It is pointed out that there is a strict code of conduct laid down for the guidance of paroled men and that paroles are forfeited even for Such minor acts as entering saloons on notification of which it becomes the duty of the penitentiary officials to return the convicts to the prison It Is held that if a man convicted of crime is to be redeemed to good citizenship it is essential to keep him away from his former companions and en vironment and for this reason theufrerestion that paroled convicts be sent back to the counties whence t'hev came Is combatted as direct contradiction of the theory on which tho existing law is based CHILD AVORITE 'MONO TRAVELERS the University of Michigan as its president in 1871 The presidency of Michigan was offered to Dr Angell two years before that time and re fused by him or the last 37 years Dr Angell's mind great strength in domitable courage and boundless affection have been given freely to the institution of which ie has been the head the leader The year he assumed the presidency the Univer sity' of Michigan had an enrollment of 1110 students not much above one fifth the enrollment for this year At that time taere were 40 in the faculty now there are near ly 350 Over half the buildings on the campus and these the finest of I them ail have been erected since 1671 year were that mm Unce that time there have been 2J00 women to graduate from this institution The University of Michigan is the first to take rank with the old es tablished unversltles of the east and Its position today may be at tributed in large measure to the ef forts and personality of Dr Angell The records of the university are practically a diary of Dr Angelica life's labor for thirty seven years Nor is Dr Angell known only as the head of the leading educational in ONE WORK IN SLUMS SAVES ONE THOUSAND SOULS KVA WOOD ar Mich January Little 11 Wood the 4 year old daughter 1I)L1 vl rS 1 11810 OOU MIIS SARAH COLLIER Wayne Mich January 2 Mrs Sarah Collier of Wayne has Just completed her fiftieth year as or ganist for the Congregational church tn this village At the Sun day school election last Sunday she was again chosen for the position Mrs Collier was the first bride married An the Congregational church and is the last surviving member of this charter membership Haring Heads Pioneers Marquette Mich It has developed that one of the very rtLUnt 4 nnf fhn whltft D1O Upper Michigan Is James Haring of Ontonagon Mr liar Ing has lived in the peninsula for sixty five years having come to the region In 1843 wiien lie located at Mackinac Island He was born in Now York in 1833 and previous to coming to the north country with his father had lived in Detroit for eight years Mr Haring Is hale and hearty despite his "5 years and is still actively engaged in business Headed Off by Government Roch ester Man Tires Waiting for Gas Plant Money Rochester Mich January The government' of the province of Winnipeg is threatened with a law suit Early last spring Albert Griggs a Rochester man went to Winnipeg and purchased a fran chise to furnish the city with gas Conduits were nearly all laid and Griggs was about ready to etart nis plant when the government ab sorbed the Winnipeg electric rail way The government also took upon Itself to install an electric lighting plant and Griggs after having spent about 120000 in the venture was forced out of business Now Griggs threatens to bring suit against the government to force a return of the money spent in tne arBAtftheCUme of the falling through of the enterprise Griggs was prom ised a reimbursement The return of his money is not forthcoming and Griggs has lost patience He says a long enough time has since the government him out of a paying speculation and he will wait no longer but will start suit instead enton MIctf January 2 or a man to possess a large amount of stove wood is not such an uncom mon thing But to be president of a bank and own a large amount of wood and deliver "30 or 40 cords aroufid to all parts of the town and that before 'breakfast in the morning is quite out ot the ordin ary as all ree Prss readers will admit Still this is the stunt orte president of the Commercial Savings bank of enton has been doing all the fall Not that he has to it because he the or to pay an election bet He enjoys it He says sitting at a desk all day is not what it is "cracked up to at least not for him Rising about 5:30 this bank pres ident hustles to the barn where he always has two or three good horses feeds them and while they are eating he from a huge pile of wood he has had drawn from his large farm near here Two or three trips are usual ly made before he is ready for breakfast and his duties in the bank Mr orte enjoys automoblling and nothing pleases him more tiv Ito take his wife and daughter and all tho children of the neigbbor trb uripicd to delay ip it is supposed ci'ietmmy will not be time Tlir lire mighty stltutlon in tho middle west In 1880 he was appointed minister to China at a time when the greatest diplo macy was needed at a time when many annoying commercial ques tions arose and when the regulation 'of the Chinese immigration must be attempted He was also the chair man of a special commission charg ed with the negotiation of two treaties with China In 1887 Dr Angell was appointed minister Blenlpotentlary on tne part of the nlted States on a legation which negotiated tie North Atlantic fish eries treaty with Great Britian In 1895 1896 he was chairman of the United States commission on deep waterways He served oqe year 1897 as minister to Turkey at a time when the utmost delicacy and diplomacy were essential Wilfrid Shaw secretary of the Alumni Association of the Univer sity of Michigan in a recent article has said: and public hon ors do not rigatly represent the real President Angell The enormous in fluence which he has had upon stu dents in the university and through them upon the educational ideals Of the west has been quietly ac quired and characteristically wield ed" It is precisely this Influence Iiowever which represents his great est claim' upon tfie consideration of the future His commanding per sonality shows to best advantage in his public addresses No one who has ENTON BANK PRESIDENT INDS ENJOYMENT IN HAULING WOOD CO LG ROVE During President first the first fruits of co education developed for it was that year four women were graduated the University of Michigan IS CORONER 28 YEARS Henry Nason Conducted More Than 1000 Inquests Stephenson Mich' January 2 There are few public officials in the state who have been so long in the harness as has Henry Nason office holder In Menominee county Mr Nason has served as coroner for twenty eight years the past twen ty four years of that time consecu tively and he has Just been' sworn in for a new term of two years He has conducted more than 1000 in quests it is estimated Previous to his long period of service as coro ner he was a justice of the peace had the privilege ot hearing hltn speak lias failed'' to respond to tho quiet persuasiveness of his preseneg Merely by rising ho can bring ab solute stillness upon a cheering tnrong of students and with a few words quiet yet wonderfully dis tinct he can arouse to the highest pitch the sentiment known as col lege spirit Nn one who has heard him speak at an alumni gather ing or has heard him deliver one of his annual addresses to tho students fail tr i'hinnnd id tlft mtisme tlsm and tho real enthusiasm which ids presence inspires His figure ex presses a benign goodness which the worldly wisdom of the old dip lomat illumines most humanely" There are problems yet before Michigan but none as great as those that have been solved already un der this venerable leader Of educ ation in tie west Dr Angell has passed the allotted time for man to live and the years to come must at best be all too few but the students the loyal alumni and the friends of the university would be Kind of the assurance that these coming years might be spent in the halls that have known 'him for over a tiird of a century for tho'bid alma mater will not be the same when this good mau has pass ed out ot Its life when the Inter ests of the University of Michigan are not the closest Interests of Dr James Burrlll Angel i 'a' ja CHANGE COMES TOO LATE Government Ordr Will Have Lit tle Effect Here Marquette Mich January 2 It is a radical departure that has been made by the government with ref erence to the disposal of public lands under the terms of the tim ber and stone act Heretofore under the provisions of the statute claims have been disposed of at the uni form price of $250 per acre In the future according to the new regu lations that have been received at the Marquette land office and that arc effective the country over lands will be sold at theti value as ap praised bv a qualified government agent The action of the govern ment is In large measure an in stance of locking the stable after the Jiorse is gone this at lesust being the case in thia part of the coun try where there remains but little land covered by the timber and stone act that is worth taking up but It will doubtless be effective in conserving the public domain in the west where It is alleged that the former procedure lias paved the way for many and glaring frauds The policy that tho government hag now adopted appears to be one that should have been adopted in the beginning CHURCH ORGANIST OR HAL CENTURY 1 of former proprietor of the Jewell Ionise here js one oj the favorites "'ii''l8 tle traveling men folio oi Yassar and whenever th comes she is sure to be dr'ec Iplent of gifts from the uriinmer i i Hendrick Nash and every horse stolen the members in all these fifty seven years has been re covered In 1866 a horse was stolen from Thortias Tinker which cost $200 to recover and one was stolen from John La Port which cost the thief his life John Huff the present secretary of the organization has held the of fice thirty five years It costs $1 to join this society anfi an assess ment is made if necessary Some fifteen years ago a surplus had ac cumulated which was divided among the members each getting $625 Twelve riders are selected whose duty it is to mount their horses and go at a notice and they are subject to the orders of their captain the present captain being James Gould one of the best horse men in the country In the days before the telegraph and telephone the thief had a much better chance to get away than now and the work of the riders was very effective The membership has usually been about 100 but is now about 80 GEMS LOST IN BATHTUB plexion Still Ruddy and Step Sprightly Ann Arbor Mich January 2 On the seventh day of thia mont'a President James Angell the grand old man of the University of Michi gan will have rounded out 80 years of life but he rflddji complexion the step with its youthful spright liness the keen intellect and the wonderful and unimpaired memory belie these years and there is but the record of his birth in a little village in Rhode Island tfiat proves he has passed the years when most men say "Enough I have earned my rest Give it our years ago Dr Angel pre sented his resignation to the Univer sity of Michigan board of regenta It came as a total surprise to that body In that resignation Dr An gell intimated that it might be for the good of the university that there might be those who would consider it for the best good ot the Institution that he resigned and a younger man be appointed in his stead That the board refused to consider tie resignation for a mo ment is now a matter of history and so far as is known that paper prepared by Dr Angell and read by him that day is the only time that such a thought iis that Dr Angell had passed the most useful period of his life and that the time had come for to lay down the scep ter of authority was ever given voice To those who had not been told differently Dr Angell would readily pass for a well preserved man in the early sixties James Burrlll Angell was born irt Scituate Rhode Island January 7 1829 As a youngster lie lived the typical life of the country lad and attended the district schools like other farmer boys of that time but unlike many of the farmer boys he was eager to learn The sports ot tie other lads interested him not half so much as did tho books that unfolded such wonderful tales to him After the district school the lad James' attended a Quaker acad emy and a little later still Jie took more advanced work In an academy at SeekoutMass xle matriculated at Brown university in September 1845 graduating four yearsv later with the highest honors his class While President Ahgell wax promi nent as a classical scholar Tsj dis played equal facility In mastering the scien xs Dr Angell tn speakfxx ot his early eSsation has said "NJ plan had been marked out for me: being fond of study and almost equally fond of all branches I took nearly everything that was taDuring the last year of Dr An gell's university course he felt a strong inclination to' enter the Christian ministry but the pressure of opposing circumstances caused him to abandon tiis desire After graduating from Brown Dr Angell taught for a year Then for the second time in his life his health began to fail too close ap nlication to his studies began tell ing and he gave up his teaching and his studies and lived an out of door life for a year taking a horse back trip through the south The other time that was when the over ly ambitious lad the lad who want ed to learn was in hts fourteenth his constitution be came seriously impaired 'and he spent twd years' on the farm' do ing tne tarm muur auueu io ma years After tie trip through the south Dr Angell spent two years in rance Germany and Italy rom this foreign residence he was re called to the United States to ac cept the chair in modern languages in Brown university In 1860 ne re signed this professorship to become editor of the Providence Journal After six years spent in charge of that publication he resigned to ac cept the presidency of the Univer sity of Vermont with which college he was connected he came to I I Kalamazoo Rescue Mission Under Superintendent Col grove Himself a Convert Shows Astonishing Record for Old 1908 Kalamazoo Mich January As a result of one work in the slums among the drunkards gam blers and the class of people who iiave never given the hereafter a single thought but who on the other hand have looked to their own imaginary enjoyment at the expense of the sick and hungry ones at home Superintendent Col grove says that 1000 souls have been saved at the Rescue mission This includes those who have clung to the faith and aro today enthu siastic workers in the various' churches of the city and not those wiio in a moment of 'excitement be camo enthused and latoi became coigrovo the superintend ent 'himself a converted drunk ard came to Kalamazoo a year ago and bought a saloon in the heart the saloon district of Kalamazoo With a big service the whisky beer and other liquors were turned into the street while the fixtures vere sold for a barber shop The mission has been successful since the first daVMr Colsrove says that a more than 73000 people have at? tended the meetings and that the cost of converting 1000 people was hoteaof the converts is probably Jack McCall wfio for twenty five years was a tramp or hobo and who during that time re fused to work but traveled from place to place riding the JumPers rods and Blind baggage and begged his whisky and food to eat It aj this same McCall who was run out of Dowagiac as a tramp a year ago last month and who on the versa ry of Jhe event returne last month and preached In Methodist church McCall is study ing1 and making other preparations to become a Methodist minister NO HORSE THIEVES ESCAPE Cass County Organization Never ails to Get Them Decatur Mich? January Vp linia a township situated just south of Decatur in Cass county has an Anti Horse Thief society which Is no doubt the oldest organization of its kind in the state It was organized in 18a at Vo Unia with Isaac Waldron of Wayne president George Newton of Vollnla' secretary and Jonathan Hard also of Voiinia treasurer Hllbf whom are now dead i The first horse stolen from any of the members was taken fropi the building" was sufHciept tu om essed in construction to urn toward corner Masons ot Grand plan for the event the board of trade to take charge of laying Some fur the battle neither Both sides" decided nlraw As it wouldbe rath iiv uient to construct'a post itliout a cornerstone the i ii's determined to lay it lv Only a few hours be lie stone was scheduled to tho supervising ar if the treasury department tne paying ho the pomp and lacking at the few finer fed eral buildings for the money than i I niti States officers stationed will move Into about the inid 11 i tin slimmer of 1910 Built of I'i'iiintii light granite and four sidiivs liikib the building will com blur iiiinodlousness with beauty it will face tlie west as did the obi budding put up in 1873 and will ovir a ground space of ISO by ri the site of the old build Pic I'osides the postofiice quarters Hur will be two court rooms and ii i ninndat Ions for thirty or forty otlior I'oderal officers Some federal deparliiK nt's with stations here that were not accommodated in the nlil building will probably have qiiii tcis in the new one like the weather director and the referee in bankruptcy The iiiarters for the postomce will course occupy the ground ibmr Tho main working room of tlie posiotllee will be the largest in tin building and will be 70 by 80 Pat in im clear Offices for tlie po ttnaster and the various auxili ary department the postofiice will ibis floor as well Ha the two court rooms will be io by so feet In' size and two siurii in higbt They will be mag nificent court rooms better than invtiiiug ever seen in this city One will iw used tor the circuit and one for the district court An elevator nt each end of the 1 uliiling will serve the occupants ef In upper floors Ti building Is being put up by the Wells Brothers Company of Chi rino itii Warmolts of Milwau kee superintendent It is ex that the building will be January 1 1910 but it will take i veral months to Install the fari iture ami fittings and make the that the nuiining is ant to be occupied before ilidic of tlie summer The ire contract alone will be a ii'iilding has an entire city measuring 300 by 275 feet if There is plenty of room enlargement to the building growing needs of tho town lemand it oi davs a little creek ran from tlie hills and spread out ot of slough on the present block It was the down ke Hus for the children town in tlie fifties sixties andevintiOK Southwest of it tim Miehigah Trust building lauds was a hillock known as mil in tlie early days Charles now president of the uii ii re comtwny9nd once u'cvatic candidate gov is born across Division from tlie old pond and is well the times the boys ir1 used to have there Many iiio ns who skated there in ymith still live Eighty Years of Useful Life Will Have Been Rounded Out by Michigan President on January? DAUGHTER WEALTHY NORTHVILLE PIONEER WEDS MT PLEASANT MAN With Potnp and Ceremony Missing rom Coriierstone Laying Those Rule That No Stone Shall Be Laid At All Said Grand Rapids Postoffice Now Under Construction Will Be One of inest in the Country Which Cost Only $500000 Rapids Mich January 2 1 ti cornerstone of Grandrii $'m0u00 postofiice could not ibi with pomp and ceremony 'iiiglmr ruled that it 0 mil be laid at all In con 1111 tlie plain affair which was hlmi a for last Thursday wastjlm and now it is presumed (jii iiic cornerstone will be set remonies befitting the oc rnsb iii in Grand Rapids it i is (iimiii that Senator William Alden ft nite cmild not permit the city to id! tlie nice things that are S1il in I done at a cornerstone lay inJ was Senator Smith then a ppr i iitativo in congress who se tin appropriation for the new simiiic Tlie senator has taken imuu personal Interest in the con of the building and those nr acquainted with the sena iiiiuv he likes pomp and cere 'MR AND MRS RALPH DUSENBURY Northville Mich January real society event of the season was the marriage of Miss Grace Evelyn Yerkes only daughter of Mr and Mrs' Charles Yerkes wealthy pioneer residents of this place which took place at the home Tuesday night Mr Ralph Dusen hnrv cashier of the arriiers' Exchange bank of Mt Pleasant was the groom Mrs Dusen bury taught in the Northville high school Aer or so ago was assistant principal of the Mt Pleasant high school Revs Jaauess of Detroit and AV 8 Jerome of this place performed the ceremony In the presence of 100 guests The bride and grooni will make Mt Pleasant their future ho me Wi Pt? isSc gm? 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