St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-28
The Passenger Conductors Look About
the City and Partake of
Banquet.
oantieny Admitted by the Supreme Court
to Twelve Thousand Dollars
Bail.
A, Day In the Municipal Court---
Various Items About Bad
People.
News Concerning Pugil1sts---Notes
From County, Government ana
State Buildings.
CONDUCTORS I'm ST. PAUL.
They Are Given a Right Royal
Welcome.

Yesterday the members of the Passenger
Conductors Life Insurance ASSOCIATION
which met in Minneapolis accepted the IN
vitation of ST. Paul, and paid visit to the
capital city. The st. Paul committee OF
arrangements went to Minneapolis in the
morning with Seibert's band, and met the
guests at the depot. They boarded the
special train and stopped first at Minnie
haha after examining the beauties OF
which they next took in Fort Smelling,
where they were nicely entertained by the
officers of the post. Seiberts band and the
Fort Smelling band played alternately, and
the music was much enjoyed.
They took the train again, and
at | o'clock reached the st. Paul
union depot, where carriages were waiting
which took them to the Hotel Ryan, where
they took the first meal which has yet been
served in that caravansary. OF course the
culinary arrangements of the hotel are not
complete, and so the meal was an informal
lunch, spread in Magee's best style. After
three hearty cheers for Dennis Ryan and st.
Paul, and hurried glance through the
hotel, the party boarded the carriages again,
and escorted by the committee on reception,
took in the entire town and went out to
Midway, where Kittson'S horses were led
out for their inspection. The carriages
were resumed and st. Paul was reached
again. The drive around town was then
taken, and everybody was highly delighted.
The Inequalities of the occasion were dis
pensed in liberal manner, which fully vim
dicated st. Paul's reputation in that line
THE BANQUET.
The corridors of the Metropolitan hotel
were full of life and music early last even
ing, the conductors and their ladies and
their st. Paul hosts passing a most agree
able two hours in conversation, dancing and
in listening to choice selections from
Seibert's orchestra, the latter winning many
compliments from the guests. 1t was fully
10 o'clock when the spacious dining room
were thrown open, which the company
tested to its full seating capacity.
After grace had been asked by Rev. M.
M. Gilbert, the conductors and ladies, st.
Paul general committee of arrangements
and reception and quite number of prom
inent gentlemen from Minneapolis sat
down to about two hundred and seventy
plates, and partook of rich menu, COM
prising the complimentary dinner given the
former by the citizens of st. Paul.
At the removal of the cloth at 10:45
Judge Flandrau arose, and calling the as
sembly to order, announcing the commence
ment of the intellectual repast, made the
opening address, extracts of which are as
follows:
CONDUCTOR FROM JAPAN.
Mr.. President, ladies and Gentlemen:
After having partaken of this delightful re-
past which emboldens the physical man to al
most any kind of valorous deeds, we will try
the temper of our mental knives and forks on
few intellectual dishes. AS is usual on such
pleasant reunions, few appropriate Senti-
ments have been prepared and speakers as
signed to respond to them, and it is my honor
as well as pleasure to announce them. But
before doing so, will take the liberty of pre-
facing them with few words Of my own.
have been professionally associated with
railroads for nearly twenty years, and have
been brought into quite Intimate relations
with the men who operate them from the en-
CINE wiper up through the conductor to the
president, and am glad and proud that can
conscientiously affirm that there is no class
of active workingmen in the land which
stands higher in all its grades for intelligence
Integrity, pluck and endurance than the rail-
road men OF America
My intercourse with them has been largely
through the crucial, searching medium of
judicial investigation, and I think 1 can
speak advisedly in what say.
But our particular subject tonight is the
conductor. / recall no position in the varied
occupations of man that demands more of
the strong and good traits of character than
that of conductor.
What implicit confidence the general pub
lie has in the conductor. You take your wife
Or daughter to the train and say: s'Here,
Jerry, my wife is going to Chicago, take good
care of her, and you go home feeling just as
sure that she will go through all right as if
you were present on the train, and she goes
through just as you expected. The physician
whom we summon into the heart of our fam
lilies does not receive closer confidence than
we accord to the cOndu ctor.
1 will now announce the regular toasts
which, as the menu informs you are six in
number. The president is hereby ordered, by
resolution of the directors, to call for the old
fashioned brakes on any speaker who exceeds
seven minutes. and to put on the Westing-
house if he gets beyond ten.
Judge Flandrau then introduced glee
club composed of Prof. Leib, Frank Wood,
Lewis Fahnestock and r. c. Munger, who
sang fine song of welcome, and who were
most enthusiastically applauded.
Judge Flandrau then introduced as the
tOast-maSter, Mrs. Louis Walker of Dakota,
who eloQuently recited poem written by
Mrs. Brinkerhotf, entitled Welcome. It
was full of most beautiful sentiment of
greeting to the guests of the cities and
praises of the great Northwest, and, as it's
composition and delivery deserved, met
with most hearty encore.
1.-THE American Railroad Conductor-A
general in the army of commerce; a leader
of the people; may he always be found
equal to the great responsibilities of his
office" This toast was responded to by
Mr.. Ed. ComOn Of Kansas City. He spoke
of Minnesota as a state of good cheer, hos
pitality and courtesy. He was a speaker
from accident, but a conductor by profess
sion. The latterS troubles commenced al
ways when he cried ''all aboard He must
cool and warm the cars at call, is to blame
for everything, must answer all questions.
describe all localities, and even tell where
the nail was manufactured where
the hats are hung. He had been
conductor twenty-eight years, COM
menced on a trunk line of sixty miles.
which now looks like a satchel. He then
said this treatment in Minnesota had COM
pletely moved the conductors under. The
longer they staid the more the welcome. and
he had concluded to just stay here and let
the two cities tire themselves out. In fact.
he had sent home for fresh collar. Kind
ness, intelligence and courtesy is character
istic of this state of Minnesota, and it can
be said without any fattery whatever.
The glee club then very finely rendered
the song Corn Bread"
A FRIE DEPARTMENT CONDUCTOR.
Railroads corner stone of the Re
publics wealth and prosperity in peace, and
its right arm in the time of war"
Responded to by F. r. Delano, intro
duced as the oldest, toughest, crankiest and
best railroad man the Northwest ever pro-
duced. He said it was extreme gratifica-
ton to join in this welcome of conductors
to the gateway and great commercial CITY
of the Northwest. The blood in his hand
was as warm as when he left New England
to cast his lot in the great Mississippi val
ley. There was man here who graded
the rnad from Boston to Albany and frcrr,