St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-12
What Would Have Happened to the Mil
waukee Company Had the Precious
Train Been Wrecked.
Something About the Scwsboys of
Chicago and What Is Done to
Provide for Them.
The HiIarity of n Great Celebration
Seriously MARRIED by Next
Day Headaches.
4 Valuable Cnrgo.
Correspondence of the Globe.

passing through their town this last week
were aware OF the immense wealth repre-
sented in that little coterie of junketers?
The party WAS almost exclusively made up
of Chicago capitalists. headed by Philip
Armour, the noted pork Spectator and
packer. and their object was 10 inspect the
several thousand miles of the road and the
| country adjacent thereto. in which Mr.. Ar
mOuT and his Chicago friends have recently
acquired large interest Some one has
said-and il passes as a prOyerb here in
ChicagO-that whatever Philip Armour
takes an interest in. be il speculation in
grain or provisions, or dabbling in stocks, IS
| bound to go. Buy with Armour and sell
with Armour" is the small dealers policy.
and if the little fellows could keep Armour
in sight they might profit by so doing. But
the sturdy old fellow keeps well ont of
sight and his trusty lieutenants engineer
all his schemes. But l must tell you some
thing of his associates on this trip. There's
Pullman, Baldwin, Ream. Cudahy. Aller
ton. Doane. Black and Hennatin. all save
Pullman being gamblers on a respectable
ground-that is TO say, spectators on
change. There was pile of money on
that train. ArmOur's wealth is mOdeStly
estimated at SO, 900. 600. Ream has made
81, 800, 900 in big wheat deals. Cudahy. IN
three or four years at the most, has knocked
out 81, 800. 600,
MAKING A COOL MILLION
the year Peter McGeogh broke himself on
lard. George Baldwin could swear to
owning $500. 600. while George Pullman is
worth al least So, 600. 600. and Allerton is
worth as much more. Black drew out of
Armour x Co. half million, and is adding
rapidly to his capital stock. Then when
Alexander Mitchell Joined the party he
added SIS, O0O 900 10 this already respecta-
BILE sum. There was at least SO, 600, 600
represented in the party, taking the same
risks of going over an embankment or
through a bridge as any ordinary individual.
Suppose there should be an accident hap
pen to the train; and suppose Mitchell Ar
mour and Pullman were TO be killed. what
would be the future of the ST. Paul road?
What would become Of Armours immense
business that requires his own personal SUI
peryiSiOn? What would be the fate of
that model Of all modern cities, Pullman?
l give it up.
Did il ever occur TO you what 4 queer
animal a newsboy is. and how numerous he
is? There are here in Chicago nearly a
thousand little fellows who dispose Of the
$50, 600 papers sold daily in the streets.
The boys are well provided for. for there is
a large, comfortable home where they can
eat and sleep. deposit their earnings. hear
plenty of music, indulge in games that are
provided for their amusement and msrruc-
tion-in short, have home comforts for
A MERELY NOMINAL SUN,
and by the observance of certain rules that
are necessary in an institution of this char
acter. In fact. many of the boys at the
home have parents i'm the city, but the
hon -Hw
Arabs breast that he viii sacrifice bodily
comforts for the sake of sentiment. Last
Saturday. while passing the home. stopped
in TO see the matron, Mrs. Bowman. The
boys, some 300 in number, had just re
turned from picnic, and were beSeeching
the matrOn 20 allow them their fireworks
that had been donated by some charitable
friend who remembered his own youthful
ardor on Independence day. When the
| pyrotechnicS were distributed each boy had
4 four punches of crackers and a Roman
candle, and for the next hour the noise was
/ deafening. A huge bonfire i'm a vacant lot
near the home lit up the whole neighbOr-
| hood. Il fear it viii take all the courage
| L possess to become 'newsboy's queen. s"
/ said Mrs. Bowman. the remark being called
forth by tine bursting of a huge cannon
cracker directly under the window. One
/
at her head and fired. and at her evident
nervousness was so much amused that he
! called on several of his cTonieS. who were
| similarly armed. TO assist him in frightening
the matron and her visitor from the window.
Il know they are firing what they call
blanks" said Mrs. Bowman. but it
makes a woman very nervous TO have a
pistol fired at her head. The evenings
| sport terminated with shadow dance by
the
LIGHT OF CoLoRED LANTERNS
in front of the house. and by 10 o'clock
most of the boys had gone to bed. But
while the crowd was giving vent TO its long
/ pent-up eXuberance of spirits. a party of
half dozen boys had discovered a supply of
wines and liquors in an alley i'm the rear of
! a Van Buren, street store. \ burglar had
! entered the building and was lowering the
! drinkabes to the ground when he was evil
/ IDENTIFY frightened and fled. leaving the booty
| behind. Ii was not long before fifty BOYS
had as many bottles TO their mouths while
! blackberry brandy, sherry, cordial, port and
whisky disappeared by the quart 1t wasn't
long before the liquor began to get in It's
work in the usual way, and the BOYS be-
/ trayed all the symptoms in such cases. How
| they Were ever put TO bed is a mystery
/ known only TO the matron and her assist
ants. Fortunately all were too sick TO be
| unruly. Sunday morning found most of
/ the lads in q worse condition. if possible.
than that of the previous evening. Some
of them were very drunk ali day Sunday.
and. not having an opportunity TO run out
/ and get cocktail for bTaceT. were as tur-
| bulent as their diSordered St0machS would
/ permit. They ran ont picket line and re-
! fused TO allow the sober BOYS TO 90 10 Sun
| day school. and it was with difficulty that
! the usual Sunday visitors al the home gained
admittance. The pretty young ladies who
act as teachers. and the gentlemanly suner-
| intendent must have been much discour-
aged. for. although the Sunday school pro-
gressed. the singing was done mainly by
the visitors. while the boys
QUARRELDD AMONG THEMSELVES
/ and the ''seeds of righteousness, had a
very rocky time of ii. The boys expressed
deepest penitence on Monday for their con-
duct and after all perhaps they We're not so
much TO blame. They were full of exhili-
| ration at the time and didn't stop 10 think
of the consequences, and like many older
and wiser people they jumped at the oppor-
| tunity offered.
There are some queer characters and very
/ old heads on young shoulders 90 be met at
the home sometimes. Atpresent Cleveland
! is the most interesting boy under Mrs. Bow
mans care. His name is George Wilson.
and his parents are well-to-do people living
| in Cleveland. Ohio, and nothing takes him
from his home but love of adventure and
! a rowing disposition. which he had INDUCED
| for the past seven summers. He and
\ Jimmy Folly are the ariStocrats Of the home.
| both being educated. and fine performers
on the piano. The latter is a son of De-
putty Sheriff Foley of this city. but lives at