St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-15

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and to w. H. Dixon, general ticket
agent whose efforts in the
social line were most heartily
appreciated, and who presented each mem
Der of the party with one of the elegant bills
OF fare OF the company's dining car attached
TO the train as souvenoir of the trip, a COM
plmentary word would not fall amiss The
fact is the c., NJ. s. st. Paul management is
everywhere in the hands Of practical, com
petent business men and those whom any
one would recognize for railroad men at a
glance and never has this been so clearly de-
monstrated as during the late trip. Long
may they wave each and all of them and be-
come presidents, every one of them, of the
great corporation which they now SO faith
fully and ably serve.
| Farmimgton.
The beautiful prints of butter stamped
''St.s Paul Jobbers' Union,n from the
creamery of w. B. Straight g. Co., which
were presented to the Union by Mr.. j. H.
Hargrave, and which were consigned to the
dining car for use during the trip were certi-
| fed by the Steward, Charles Miller, to be Of
most superior quality, and were consumed
by those on board of the train with degree
of relish that evidenced their appreciation.
The novel reception awaiting US, which it is
| supposed is due to the inventive genius Of
r. G. Judson, the irrepressible secretary of
the state agricultural society, at this the
| first place on our list of towns,
was fully appreciated by all on board of our
train, and the cheers with which the traction
engine drawing its train of farm wagons was
greeted by the Jobbers showed how they rel
ished it. The sport was enjoyed to its fullest
| extent when Mr.. Tallmadge mounted the
| steering apparatus which guided the engine
| and ran the train down to the depot where
| I. w. Ingersoll, special artist of the excur-
sion photographed the unique outfit The
business part Of Pennington which is dis
tributed over two sides of each of four blocks
in the shape of a cross, was fairly thronged
! with people, large proportion
of whom were ladies', and the waving of
handkerchiefs and the enthusiastic cheers of
the men as our train moved off gave us a
grand send-off.
| days run was the marching through the train
of the amateur band composed of Messrs. D.
B. Finch, N. Singleton, F. B. Howell and C.
| G. Fl. Smith, each armed with band instru-
ment, upon which they performed with a
greater attention to quantity than quality of
tone, but which was quite successful in pro-
ducing fun, which is just exactly what the
1iua1xy Cd ;nta
The most amusing and entertaining Incl
dents of the trip was the panorama given
at the Brunswick, at Faribault, by two rail
road gentlemen who certainly possess the
most talent in the way of dialect sketches
ever seen off of the boards. A wire screen
door was made to do duty as canvas, upon
which the inimitable genius of the perform
ers literally made the pictures to appear. A
large audience was entertained in manner
which was highly appreciated by them.
One of the most pleasant features of the
excursion was the presence of so many ladies
upon our train who, in response to the in
vitation of the gentlemany jobbers, would
come aboard and ride few miles along the
road till the return passenger was met, when
they would take leave of their hosts and re-
turn home, their places being filed, in turn,
by others from the place where they left US.
In the splendid drawing room cars with
which our train was furnished nothing re-
manned to make them look absolutely en-
chanting but the presence of ''lovely
woman and this want the bright, vivacious,
handsome ladies Of Dakota and
Minnesota furnished, an .arnished our
sumptuous travelling palaces as nothing else
would. The honors of the occasion were
about equally divided between President
Finch, Manager Tallmadge, D. D. Merrill,
ESQ.,, (whom none of the younger men of the
party could exceed in gallantry), E. f. Os-
born, D. B. Finch, Will c. Wilson, +. P.
Howell and others, who played the part of
hosts in such manner as to do themselves
everlasting credit and to produce most
favorable impression upon their fair guests.
The presence of Gen. j. H. Baker, the
'ssilver tongued orator of southern Mime
sota, was most fortunate thing, for while
many OF the members of the Jobbers' Union
are good speakers, yet practical business is
more in their line than oratory, and when
the fiery eloquence OF some OF the noted law
yers and public men along the line was
turned upon the party the general was al
ways loaded for reply and never failed to
win from the appreciative Dakotians enthu-
siastic applause. But when we crossed the
| line into Minnesota. and he found himself
upon his native heath, 1t became manifest
that his friends and neighbors kneE in ad
vance what they were going to get by the
way in which the clamorous calls for Baker
| chosen words, in which he responded on be-
half of the st. Paul Jobbers' Union, will long
be remembered by all who heard them. and
will not fail of their desired effect.
Judge Chandler.
The most humorous speech of the entire