mmszm r 3?jyzpir7?oa^r (; Endorsed bu the Mississippi Valley Association as a Part of One of Danzig’s Finest Streets. “One of the Biooest Economic union oy tup peace inranon or inuepenacnee, Danzig was treaty becomes an interna- separated from Poland and ‘21 years Moves Ever Launched on the Daa/,ii.,tionalized city and the outlet later Prussia gained possession of it. for Poland to the Baltic, is Again made a free city by Napoleon, American Continent” * * thus described In a bulletin issued by it passed once more to Poland; then the National Geographic society: back to Prussia in 1814. Picture n far north Venice, cut Danzig became the capital of West HE Mississippi Valley associa- through with streams and canals, Prussia. Government and private tion indorses the plan to estab- equipped also with a sort of irrigation docks were located there. Shipbuild- lish the Mlssi- sippi Valley Na- system to tlood the country for miles ing and the making of munitions were tional park along the Mississip- about, not for cultivation but for de- introduced and amber, beer and liquors a of were other Its pi river near McGregor, la., and fense; city typical Philadelphia products. granarict, and Prairie du Chien, Wls." streets, only with those long rows of built on an island, were erected when made of and it was the This action was taken at the stoops stone highly deco- principal grain shipping rated and into the for Poland and Silesia. first annual meeting of the Mis- jutting roadway in- port stead of on the and is a little farther rail sissippi Valley association in sidewalks, you Danzig by catch but a of the northeast of Berlin than Boston Is Chicago. Five hundred dele- glimpse composite Danzig. from New York. Its in gates were present from 22 states in the vast population As a of churches vies HilO was about that of Columbus, O. basin between the Alleghenies and the Rockies— city Danzig with Brooklyn; its crooked, 3.725 square miles, an area about eight times tlie winding streets suggest those Boston thorough- size of either France or Germany. It is one of tlie WELL EQUIPPED BY NATURE fares of cowpath derivation; and were garden s[K>ts of the world. A century ago all of Its grain warehouses more modern it to the west of tin* Mississippi was sin unex- Simple Explanation of Remarkable the visitor might believe himself plored wilderness. We bought that wilderness Sense of Hearing That Is Pos- in Minneapolis—thnt is lie might from the French in 1803 for 815,000,000. Half a sessed the Owl. until he heard their names—sueli as by •core of states have been carved from that "Louis- Golden Pelican, Little Ship, Gray iana Purchase.’’ It Is held by naturalists that In Goose arid Milk Maid—then he might The whole Mississippi valley contains more than order to capture its the owl look about for some popular resorts prey half or our 110.000.000 must even its sense people. of New York’s Greenwich depend more upon "We village. have handed to promote the interests of of bearing than its sense of oj*z> £rtttrc?RAzYT ttzaii. In no other German city is medie- upon tins big region”’ said President IF Merrick The tufts of that dis- Harry val architecture to be found in such sight. feathers quinnl by the federal If the forest on the east bank. Their character makes in his keynote address, ‘‘and we are determined government. unUiue the short-eared and the and as in tinguish long- service does oppose its establishment, national them from the scientific variety preservation Danzig. nothing shall the of our exceedingly interesting eared owls of no more prevent accomplishment Conspicuous both in Polish and Ger- are, course, park leaders say, it will lie because it opposes all The area is ami geo- purpose. The Mississippi valley wants certain viewpoint. park butanically ears than they are horns. The true national man history, Danzig was one of the Some park legislation. Again the reason for logically interesting. things. of them we shall have to get at four principal centers of the Han- thir of the owl is a most remarkable tins general opposition is plain. The agricultural Great Historical Interest. Washington. Our 22 states control 5'_‘ per cent organ. is seatic league, while not far up the Vis- of the in department waging u public campaign to get the Historically the region is genuinely interesting. men congress, and if they don’t do what tula is Marienburg, capital of the Teu- The facial disk of feathers that control of the national parks away from the in- The first white man known to have journeyed by >ve want there’ll be hell to pay and no pitch hot." tonic Order of Knights, which nour- gives the owl its characteristic ap- terna- department and lienee is endeavoring to dis- way of Green Fox river and Wisconsin river The association would teach the interests bay. pearance serves as a kind of sound- valley credit ished in Danzig. the rival department in every way. was Jean Nicollett; he may or may pot have kept from t'hicagoand Minneapolis to New Orleans and Ancient Art Works Intact. ing-board or ear-trumpet to concen- The forest service was created in H.KJ3 from St. Louis to take on to the Mississippi. Pierre lUtdisson's suppressed the to transs Galveston; to Kansas City, from Physically, Danzig escaped many ef- trate slightest sounds and charge of the national forests, which were then ‘■Journal." brought to light in Paris in 1885, shows Detroit to Denver, and so in and out and all along fects of the reformation. Even in her mit them to the orifice of the true set aside for Industrial the Do- strictly and commercial that lie and Jean Groseiller in 1850 went down the line, that Mississippi valley means from the famous St. Mary's church, one of the ear, concealed in the small feathers purpose's scientific forestry, lumbering and graz- Wisconsin and tile Mississippi and up tlie Missouri minion border to the gulf and from the Alleghenies largest Protestant edifices in the world, behind the eye. Even in the barn ing and transferred from the interior department to the Mandan villages (Bismarck. N. D.). In 1073 to the Rockies, and that the easiest way out is not covering an area as great as the owl. which possesses the least com- to the agricultural department. Now the Joliet and Pen' credited with to nor forest Marquette, usually this over the Rockies the Paoitie via the narrow Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, I plicated arrangement of kind, the service i< d< veloping tin* recreational possibilities tlie of the Mississippi, went down bottle m k of New York to tlie Atlantic, hut by discovery Upper are to be found and orifice of the ear is covered by a re- <>i reliquaries the national forests and wants to get back na- the Wisconsin and the to tin* Arkan- nature intended for man's use. Mississippi embroideries of markable of the skin, while in the waterways tional manuscripts, Roman, ! flap park areas which have been taken from na- sas, returning to Quebec by way of the Illinois and Value of National Parks. Byzantine and Gothic designs, treas- | other species there are striking dif- tional forests by act of congress. Lake Michigan. La Salle explored the region be- "We are putting American citizenship above the ures in precious metals, stones and ferences in the size and shape of this In view of President Merrick’s declaration that fore going down the Mississippi to the Gulf in dollar.” said Honorary President John M. Parker ivories, and a noted collection of vest- orifice and its covering flap on the tw’o the Mississippi valley controls 5k’ per cent of the 1(583 and of “Louisiana" in the of New Orleans in the address. "We taking possession ments. Among Sts' art works is the fa- sides of the head. opening men in congress, the progress of the park bill in name of Louis XIV. are considering conditions brought about by the mous “Last Judgment” of Hans Meal- The exact way In which owls utilize congress will be well worth watching. Local history begins before 1800. In 1737 Sleur war. These changed conditions open n new chap- ing. In appearance almost as much this elaborately specialized apparatus Middle West Has No near Park. Marin, a French commander, built a*fort , ter in the history of our valley empire." like a fortress as a church, bringing has still to be discovered. The progress of the bill will be well worth Pike's Peak. In 1704 Basil Giranl, a Frenchman, The "changed conditions’’ of which Mr. Parker | to mind Luther’s militant hymn “A watching for another reason: The establishment^ held a conference in midstream with the Spanish spoke include the recognition the national parks Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” the Water in Wood. this park Involves a question of congressional pol- governor of Louisiana and secured a grant of 7,000 of the I'nited States not only as one of the great church hns been called “one of the All wood contains more or less wa- icy for which there is no precedent. This Is un- acres on the present site of McGregor. The United In economic assets of the nation, hut also as public most German thing* in Germany.” ter; even the driest wood known con- doubtedly tlie reason why no action whatever was States confirmed the grant after the Louisiana Pur- to the mental, moral and many ways it suggests the Prussian tains two or three of water to playgrounds necessary * pounds taken by th last cimgress on a bill for Its estab- chase.