Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-08
ROAMING ABOUT.

tho Sights aud Peculiarlties OF the Latter
City.
It is good deal easter to travel than II
is to stay at home. realize this when stop
| to think that I left st. Paul on recent
Thursday night and spent Saturday after
noon in Buffalo, $50 miles away. Taking
the West Wisconsin, don't think shall
ever get used to the new name-our party
landed In Chicago exactly on time and in an
hour and quarter were whirling over the
fpopular Lake Shore route east. Everything
on this~ route runs like clock work. The
road is superbly equipped in every respect.
Track, engines, cars, depots, eating houses,
In fact all its appointments are such as to
| ensure speed, safety and comfort, three es-
sential requisites for the travelling public.
found also the employees uniformly courte-
ous and attentive, which am sorry to gay is
| very often not the case. It is too often the
evident opinion Of the brakeman or other
attache that the road belongs to him and he
treats passengers accordingly. I find no
| such spirit on the Lake Shore and I want
to encourage other railroad men by calling
! their attention to this excellent example.
Courtesy is the cheapest thing on earth. It
don't cost cent, and unless man is an
ingrained hog it makes him feel better be-
sides. hardly need to add, after what l
have previously said, that reached Buffalo
quickly, safely and without fatigue. The
road is 80 well ballasted that the cars run
with no unpleasant jostline, and one can
rest upon them as readily as though at
home.
ABOUT BUFFALO.
Having few heurs leisure in this city,
I chartered an intelligent Jehu and took q
look about the town. Buffalo claimed pop
ulation of 100000 before the census, but
like good many other places, hsd to come
down. 1t is really much prettier city than
I supposed. The business portion has an
air of solidity rather than sle-
gance. though the more recently
erected buildings can lay claim to beauty.
The residence streets struck me as pecu-
liarly fine. Delaware and Porter avenues
and Franklin street are especially notable.
The thing which makes them notable is the
large trees which stand In lawns between the
sidewalk and the driveway. Though the
streets are wide the boughs literally touch
each other from the opposite sides of the
street and as you look down the long street you
behold beautiful leafy tower. No new city
can present such a picture as
the Buffalo avenues, but new city can
begin snd grow to it. I am sorry there
is not more disposition to begin in st. Paul.
Summit and Western avenues are the only
streets in st. Paul with grass plat between
the sidewalk and roadway. There is not suf-
icient land to the acre with us to warrant
any such extravagances. Trees will grow
while people sleep, attend church or engage
In other pastimes. There is all the more
reason for setting out trees, but in the hurry
and hustle of st. Faul even that is over
looked.
Driving out Delaware avenue about three
miles brings you to the center of
Buffalo park. Those people who have
been so much exercised about Como park
and have endeavored to make it into a COW
pasture ought to take this drive. Here is
park just about the same distance from bus
mess in Buffalo as the Como Park in st.
Paul, but it has been acquired at an encr-
nous expense. Instead of having beauti-
full natural lake like Lake Como they have
had to make artificial lakes. Street cars and
omnibuses run to the park, car
rying passengers for ten cents,
and here found on this pleasant after
noon hundreds of men, women and children
taking breathing spell. Numerous row
boats with awnings to protect the occupants
from the sun were flying around the lakes
filled with merry parties. The park is said to
contain thirty miles of drives and still it is far
from being completed. It is q beautiful re-
sort and credit to the city. Strange as it
may seem could find no one in Buffalo who
knew either the size or cost of this park. I
called at two newspaper Offices and four
book stores to make the inquiry
and asked at least twenty-five other persons
In various other branches of business, for the
express purpose of seeing how many res
ldents Of Buffalo didn't know anything. I
finally gave it up, and concluded that
''where ignorance is bliss tits folly to be
wise." There is no guide book extant to
give the information. Though Como park
is cow pasture, venture to say there are
few in st. Paul who cannot tell its size or
cost, especially the latter.
Another opportunity was recently present.
ed st. Paul to secure park which is not
venture. The splendid property of Edmund
cars and not to distynt for q
walk from the most remote part
of the city, was rendered st.
Paul, and there was not sufficient interest
taken in the matter to even consider the
proposition. Probably the time will come
when ST. Paul will wake up to the park ques-
tiou as Buffalo has, and then it will be too
late, save at just such enormous expense as
found incurred by that city.
AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
My intelligent Jehu revealed "point" to
me that ought to be noted as matter of in
formation to the living and of warning to
livery men.
Chow is it in other cities?" said Jehu.
"Do they use white or iron grey horses at
funerals?"
I was obliged to confess that I was un-
aware that there was any particular style
about the color of horses at funerals.
"Well, there is here in Buffalo," said Jehu
with an apparent chuckle. "There's new
man gone into the undertaking
business here. He's mighty stylish and fash
ionable and everybody who dies wants him
to run theif funeral. He won't have horse
in the procession unless he is white or
light grey 30 that they look like white
horses. It's demoralized the livery and hack
business fearfolly and those who have white
horses just charge their own prices. Livery
men are sending out into the country to buy
white horses.''
"But.supposing they can't get enough for
q funeral, or there are two large funerals at