St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-12
The Great Metropolis not Invaded from
the Country Nor Evacuated
By Presidents.
A Handsome Bellies Hanson and the Prob
ability of it Becoming the
Swell Vehicle.
Safe Deposit Vaults and the Millions
They Contain--Precautio
Against Burglary.
The Burlesque Likely TO be Very Pop
ular Next Winter--Spangled
Tights of the Past.

ppptietSN the HOUSES seem IN
the main occupied, and those resorts which
are open are thrOnged by people who show
In their clothes and manners that they are
well-to-do and in society,"" There seems
TO be an entire dearth of those strangers
and bucolic visitors who formerly troOped
INTO New York as regularly as June came
around. a number of ingenious theories
nave been advanced to account for the alb
sence OF the countryman. Hotel keepers.
who feel the loss of them most severely,
have adopted the ingenious idea that the
change OF administration has so unsettled
the farmers and storekeepers of the back
woods, and the rush for Office is so great.
that they are all
GOING To WASHINGTON
and their state capitals instead of New
York. 1t seemed difficult for the leaders
to realize that the regiment of big booted.
black coated, bewhiskered and sun burned
men, who are content with any sort of ac-
commodation and pleased with any fare, has
permanently disappeared. Long rows of
chairs stand out in front of the Sturtevant
House. the Park Avenue hotel and the
Metropolitan to welcome the suburban
pilgrim; but he cometh not The seats are
nicely cushioned, comfortable and numer-
Gus, but only an occasional city guest or
sleepy cab driver occupies one. At the few
theaterS open the audiences are composed
OF men in evening dress, women in fashion
able garments. visiting Englishmen, dudes,
talky clerks and men about town. At Del
monico's the tables are occupied by peo-
pie who dine there all the winter through.
Coaches are often seen on the avenue. In
word, all of New York that is here in the
winter is here now. Even the falling off
in the annual rush TO Europe is causing
comment. A widely accepted idea is that
all this is the result of the races.
~
A prominent society woman here has
| just started the fashion OF having private
| hanson. This is the first result of the
hanSom craze. The streets are literally
alive with hansomS bearing well dressed,
! flowerly decorated and laughing women.
] The papers have seriously discussed the
! propriety Of driving about in hansoms, and
many OF them have decided that the con-
spicuous position in which a woman is nat
| urally placed i'm one of the two wheelerS
should be distasteful and obnoxious 10 4
lady of refinement and good idea of the
! prophecies. Nevertheless, good and
| proper girls, well dressed women and ma
ture and highly respected matrons go rat
! Ting about town Just as pleasantly as though
no one had ever thought of finding fault
with their sport. Women may gengrally
be trusted in matters of this sort. Their
natural instinct keeps them from rushing
into harm. AT all events, they make the
laws themselves, and if they choose to con-
! slider it proper TO drive about unattended in
hansoms, why it is proper, and that's
end of it.
! HANSON DRIVING
having been established as custom, it of
g.nn. 1 Il. 4
| rise superior TO her companions, and that
woman is very handsome and independ-
ent young widow who has managed TO
keep in the best society, despite a number
of curious escapades. She is more reckless
! than vicious, and she is a beauty of even
more than local fame; hence she leads
! rather than follows the fashion. Her own
! hanson is very far ahead of the cumber-
some yellow vehicle with which the New
| Workers are now familiar; it is as graceful
in outline as the beautiful old fashioned
cutters were, of a polished bottle-green
shade, with bevel-plate glass, stamped
| leather and silver trimmings, and monstrous
wheels with stripes of diabolical red along
the spokes. The man who sits ND behind
/ is a square shouldered and correctly dressed
cOachman, and the horse is a high-step-
! ping pay, with no end Of fire and 60. What
/ VIII. NlC CICSl. NuC Mliltt nOISC-GOllaI ana
reins, and all the trappings, the eQuipage
Is one that attracts unusual attention. 1t
| is evidently quite satisfactory to its owner.
for any one more placid than she appears
when bowling about the streets in her
| conspicuous vehicle would be hard to find.
49,
Private vaults in the Stock Exchange
! building are rented to members. One of
| the tenants mistakenly opened somebody
elses safe. and only became aware of the
blunder when he began TO handle securities
which he did not recognize as his own.
| Then he reported to the officials 10 charge,
the occurrence was hushed up so success
fully that it did not get published at the
time, and additional precautionary meas
ures were taken to guard the receptacles of
wealth. Nevertheless the subject of risk
in safe deposit vaults has been a general
topic in Wall street. OF course a good
portion of the deposits consist of papers
which would not be valuable TO thieves, but
the aggregate of negotiable securities, act
ual money and such probabilities as jewelry
and plate is so great that nobody under
takes to estimate it. The president of one
establishment guesses that his vaults con-
tain SO. 900, 900 in stuff that
PLUNDERERs COULD NOT USE.
The guardianship seems perfect as against
| burglars and sneak thieves. The lessees
of safes must bring evidences of identity
every time they wish TO enter and must be
able TO repeat their individual passwords to
the proper official. Then they must open
a lock in each of two gateways, the COM
binatiOn being divulged only to tenants.
The rules and devices vary somewhat in
the different places, but substantially they
amount TO the sure exclusion OF merely in
] farlnninu fhiavaC Fire aud fprna ~ ,r,o
tically impotent, too. But the managers
are compelled to admit that a conspiracy
among employees might result in the COM
plete cleaning out of any safe deposit strong
hold in town. All is done that can be in
this manner. The humblest porter's ante
cedentS are carefully examined before ap-
pointment, and his conduct afterward is
scrutinized by means of spies. This rule
is applied TO the more important officers.
Recent thefts by well-reputed handlers OF
treasure, however, have demonstrated that
real character is not discoverable until
events divulge ii. and there is a genuine
agitation over the apparently unavoidable
risk. even in the vauntedly impregnable
vaults. Three TO six persons could eonspire
for the biggest burglary in the history OF
crime.
What to do with wealth after ones got
it? That is a serious question. / saw a
young woman who was about TO start for a
tour in Texas and Mexico. She wished To
take plenty of money along to those re-
gions Of highway and in a way which
would battle them. So she had a travel
ing dress trimmed lavishly with buttons
costing five to hundred dollars each.
The cheaper ones contained gold pieces
neatly laid between the wooden mOlds