Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-24
KEY NOTES.

Arrival of Postmaster General Key in st.
Faul--Names of the Party--yisIt to Min
neai'olis To-Day and Reception at Post
master Days Residence.
Postmaster General Key and party ar
rived in st. Paul on the 2:24 train yesterday,
over the Chicago, st. Paul & Minneapolis
line. They were met at Hudson, Wis, by
Postmaster Day and Superintendent Bean,
OF the railway mail service, and heartily
welcomed to the soil of Minnesota. The
party consisted of the following ladies and
gentlemen:
Hon. David NJ. Key. postmaster general, and
wife, with servant.
Miss Emma Key.
Miss Kate Key
=. A. Key and wife, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Gen. J. M. Thornburg aud wife, Knoxville,
Tenn.
Col. J. 81. Baxter, U. s. A., and wife, Wash
ington.
Mrs. Thomas L. James, wife of Postmaster
James, of New York.
Gen. Frank w. Palmer, postmaster Of Chica-
go. and son.
Capt James E. White and wife, Chicago
w. b. Patton, Chicago.
John Jameson and q. NJ Hendley, of Wash
ington.
Every individual member of the party was
IN the best of spirits, and the approach to
st. Paul was the occasion of much interest
and expectancy, few of the number ever
having visited our beautiful city before
There were few people at the depot on arriv-
al, as the hour at which the party was
due was not generally known. They were
conveyed in carriages to the Metropolitan
hotel, where, after the necessary ablutions,
they partook of hearty dinner After
dinner the ladies and the non-official gen
tlemen were allowed to amuse themselves as
best they might, while Gen. Key, Gen.
Palmer, and the other postoffice officials
made tour of our postoffice, noting it's &C
commodations and the practical workings of
the force under DR.. Days command. A
walk over the business part of the city
served to fill up the intervening time till
supper.
With appetites sharpened by our bracing
atmosphere the party did ample justice to
the viands set before them, after which all
proceeded to find the entertainment most
agreeable to their tastes. The postmaster
general and his brother, shortly after 8
O'Clock, paid visit to D. Upmann, proprie-
tor of the Cosmopolitan hotel, and his wife,
with whom they had been on terms of in
timacy in Chattanooga, and passed an hour
very pleasantly over glass or two of wine,
reviving the "reminiscences of the past and
chatting familiarly on topics in general.
Returning to the Metropolitan Gen. Key at
once retired to rest from the fatigues of the
journey.
Gen. Key expressed the wish to be saved
from the infection of an interview. He told
a representative of the GLOBE that he had
nothing to say about politics; that his pres
ent tour of the country was for business and
pleasure combined, principally the latter
and he desired to meet all friends on social
rather than OH political footing. In def
erence to his wishes, he was not inflicted
| with an interview.
This morning at o'clock the party will
take a run up to Minneapolis, in carriages
visiting en- route the falls of Minnehaha and
Fort Smelling, returning to this city in the
evening. The postmaster general will hold
public reception in the evening from 8 tc
II o'clock, at the residence of DR.. Day, on
Dayton avenue. DR.. Day wishes to invite
all citizens generally to call between the
distinguished guest. The Sabbath will prob
ably be spent in this city. A trip to thu
great wheat farms of the Red River country
| We1o IA OOAAIOAAE'AuulOu OuU LAS U0eu itUdu
doned, owing to the lateness of the season
and the fact that the wheat has all been
garnered.
On Monday the party will return to Chi
cago via Milwaukee, whence they will pro
coed in special car to the Pacific coast
Before they return they will probably take
tour through the Yo Semitic valley and may
proceed as far North as Puget Sound The
postmaster general intends to be absent from
Washington six OF eight weeks longer.
All who composed the party were delighted
with the trip from Chicago to st. Paul, ane
greatly charmed with the picturesque scener,
and the many evidences Of thrift and pros
perity that met the eye on every hand. The,
were somewhat disappointed, however. te
find the atmosphere of a sultriness remind
ing them of the weather in Southern Ten
nessee.