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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05
UNDERGROUND WIRES.
AID. Cooley Thinks the Expensive
COnduits Are Unnecessary.

Aid. Cooley Thinks the Expensive
COnduits Are Unnecessary.
Yesterday afternoon, at a special meeting
of the council committee on ordinances, the
ordinance which has attracted such gen.
eral attention and extensive and interesting
comment, governing and giving the right
to place all electrical wires underground,
was discussed.
Audience was given j. A. Wetmore. who
represents the Okonite company, manufact-
urers of insulated wires and cables for un-
derglOund use, of New York. He eX-
planned at length the principles of the
OkOnite system, and Aid. Cooley, who is a
Jealous advocate of the proposed under
ground system. stated that his investiga-
lions had convinced him that conduits were
not necessary. He had learned that electri-
cal wires are not disturbed by induction
when in cables of good pattern and thor
oughly insulated and for that reason he
had invited the representative of the Dixon
lite company to appear before the COM
mittee.
Mr. Wetmore then exhibited samples of
telephone cables. They were covered with
an armory Of steel wires running at right
angles with each other. Each wire in the
cable is covered with okonite insulation
made of the best quality of gutta percha
and India rubber, and Mr.. Wetmore as
sured the committee that it is more per-
feet insulator than glass, and need not be
laid more than five or six inches below
the surface Of the street
Mr.. Cooley will make further investiga-
lions in Eastern cities where the cables are
in use, and report will probably be made
at the next meeting of the council.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05
A Barber in Trouble.

Philadelphia Press.
The barber who was hired to trim the
boards and curl the hair of the dummies
in chestnut street waXworks show has
struck for better pay. AS his demands
have been complied with the work remains
half done.
II asked for fifty cents head" the con-
tractor explained. (which 1 don't think ex-
cessive. Each head took an hour to do. 1
was furnished with the photographs of the
celebrities whose figures stood before me,
and was told to go ahead and clip accord
ing to pattern. Well, never was great on
physiognomy and, of course, mixed the
heads up. How could tell whether the
head l started on was John Kelly's or
Sitting BULBS? I thought from the look
of it that it was Sitting BULBS but it turned
out to be Kelly's, and of course ruined it.
It had to be changed into Sarah Bernhardt.
My next attempt was equally unfortunate.
I broke my scissors in the thick heavy wool
of Cetewayo the Zulu king, 1 wanted to
charge the waxworks people for the scissors.
That was our first disagreement.
''For some reason or other, he continued,
''most of the heads, women and all, had
boards. I think they must have all been
made in one mould and then melted into
shape with blowpipe. After had clipped
off Queen Victoria's moustache, sheared
the whiskers from figure which I under
stood represented Marie Antoinette. But
it was James Russell Lowell, large as life,
and 1t was at that point in the engagement
that the second row with my employers be-
gan. 1t came too. I made several other
mistakes that were perhaps not so excus-
able as those have specified. admit
that 1 got so confused as to the Identities Of
Cleveland and Bismarck that when l had
arranged their headgear the modeller
couldn't tell them apart. I now devote
myself entirely to the living public"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05
THREE DECISIONS.
District Court Judges Settle a Couple
of Land Suits.

In the suit of A. j. Thomas VS.. II. K
Joslyn Judge Young yesterday filed a de-
cision for the defendant. In 1881 the
plaintiff brought all action to enforce con-
tract, by the terms of which the defendant
was to sell certain lands in Bradford &
Lewis addition for $4,000. The action
was dismissed, new trial overruled, and
the decision of the lower court sustained an
appeal to the supreme court. The defend
ant objection, which is sustained by Judge
Young. is that the former judgment of the
same upon the same contract is bar to any
similar action. Since the first action was
commenced the land has trebled in value.
In the libel suit of Anton Hoffner against
j. Gutzwiller, editor of the Delano Eagle,
Judge Lochren yesterday granted the de-
PENDANTS motion to strike out that portion
of the complaint in which it is said that the
defendant referred to the plaintiff as an
''eX-jail bird" and thereby conveyed the
impression that he, the plaintiff had been
guilty Of a crime, and had served sentence
in jail The judge says that the term Jail
bird' does not necessarily mean that per-
son has committed a crime or served a
sentence in Jail.
In the action brought by Daniel Schu-
mann and Andreas LELAND against Peter
NJ. Mark to enforce contract for the con-
veyance of real estate near Lake Calhoun,
valued at Sc, 900, Judge Lochren yesterday
filed decision for the plaintiffs.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05
THE WATER ORDINANCE.
Violating Plumbers Brought Into
Court.


For long time the water board has had
trouble with several OF the licensed plumb
ers of the city and at various times arrests
have been made for violations. Yesterday
Inspector Pardee instigated the arrest of
twelve Of the leading plumbers upon the
charge of violating the building ordinance,
in that they failed to report to the inspector
work that had been done, as required by
the ordinance mentioned. Those who were
arrested were: Messrs. E. c. Couvet
Samuel Hunter, j. S. Kearney, j. Osander,
j. L. Hague, G. V. Ball, A. W. Scott, E.
Button, II. l.. Pearson, f. W. Kelly, j. j.
Mcclure NJ. II. Heffner and E. 7. Sykes.
The court set the cases for trial on the 18th,
but will probably suspend sentences. The
plumbers claim that the ordinance is not
impracticable, but very unjust, and one of
the number said: The ordinance was passed
without consulting the plumbers or their in
terestS, and the provisions are strict beyond
any sense of reason. Every time we COM
mence piece of work, according to the or
dinance. we must go three times to the
water board, twice to the sewer department
and once to the inspector, an amount OF
work that Is entirely useless and which con-
sumes great deal of time We shall do
our best to bring the matter before the
council in such shape that they will amend
the ordinance.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05
SCENES IN A SHOE STORE.
How Women Buy Shoes and Wher'
the Old Ones Go to.

How Women Buy Shoes and Where
the Old Ones Go to.
Brooklyn Union.
Your left foot, please" said the affable
clerk in Court street shoe store to Union
porter, who had gone yesterday in to buy a
pair of fourteens,
"pd rather you'd try my right foot, for I
want the shoes to be easy" said the know
ing reporter,
''That's just the reason I want to try
your left foot" spoke up the salesman.
Your left foot is the larger of the two"
''Pm not deformed," remarked the re-
porter, slightly indignant.
mo, that's all right. Under ordinary
circumstances the left is the larger, though
many don't know it. The right hand is
the larger, and so we think the right foot
should be. don't know why it isn't, ex-
cept that when standing one rests more on
the left foot, thus charging the muscles.
That's the way we satisfy the vanity OF
lady customers and give them good fit at
the same time. We try on the left foot
and they think they are getting a smaller
shoe, when in reality they are not. There
have to be other tricks than that played on
the ladies in order to satisfy them about
their shoes. Numbers have to be altered
to suit them, and we have to explain. when
lady says she wears nothing larger than a
size 3, that size in some qualities is called
in others. Thick heels we call high in
steps, and fiat foot we try to put IN a
pointed toe. I like man for customer
better than woman. He will generally
tell you what he wants and then be salts
fed with the first pair you put on him, go
ing off with the new pair on his feet and
letting you keep the old ones. A woman
wont do that. She wants to see every
style you have in the place, complain OF
the pain it causes her, till she has tried on
dozen pairs, and then having selected a
size too small will order them sent home,
so that she can break them in on the
quiet"
"What do you do with the old shoes?"
"We used to sell them for scraps, or
burn them up. Now we sell them to men
who make business of calling at shoe
stores. and among the Italians Of the city,
and collect old shoes at from 10 to Is cents
each. They take them to New York,
where they are done up and sold on Bax-
ter and contiguous streets for from half
dollar up. They serve large class of
people, who would hardly patronize any
other kind of trade, and nobody is the
wiser, Shoes last from month to a year
according to quality and the disposition of
the wearer, and l formed my opinion that
the left foot is most used because the sole
of the left shoe is most worn as rule"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05
HE TOOK WHISKY,
After Taking Water at the Mouth Of
q Cowboys Pistol.

Big Horn wv. IT, Sentinel.
A nobby and snubbish MILFORD of British
extraction travelled from Big Horn with US
and Abe Idelman on the stage coach early
this week. Milford was exclusively eX-
elusive. He wouldn't be social and spoke
to no one except the two John Henry
servants he had with him, and was alto
gether as unpleasant as his snobbishness
could make him, At dinner station there
were lot Of jolly cowboys on lark, and
one of them, Treating" everybody, asked
the Englishman to drink,
Of course Milford haughtily refused. The
cowboy displayed dangerOus-looking six
shooter and very impressively insisted on
his drinking. ''But cawn't, you know; l
don't drink, you know" was milord's reply.
Mr.. Cowboy brought the muzzle in danger
Gus proximity to the knot in which milords
brains were supposed to lie hidden some
where, and then he said he'd drlnk-hed
take soda water, you know.
s.Soda water nuthin," said Mr.. Cowboy.
ssYou'l take straight whisky"
..But, aw, this American whisky, I
cawn't swallow it, you know"
.'WeIl," said the cowboy, 'pll make a
hole in the side of your head so that we
can pour it ill.," and he began to draw on
MILFORD, and MILFORD said. Jaw. that'll do,
I'll drink it."
Then the cowboy invited milord's SER
wants to drink, which Mortified him. ''They
don't drink, you know" he said. ''Well,
we'll see whether they do or not" said Mr..
Cowboy. 1.-THE chances are you don't
give 'em 'hopportunity.' Come up here.
you fellows, and guzzle some," and the two
John Henrys, with little show of reluc-
lance, but really glad to get drink. came
up and the cowboy passed tumblerful OF
torchlight-procession whisky for Milford.
and the servants poured for themselves.
Then the cowboy made the John Henrys
clink glasses with MILFORD and all drank and
there was great fun. Milford tried after
that to be very jolly and the stimulant as
sisted him decidedly. But in the coach he
fell back into his exclusiveness and re-
tanned it throughout, and has probably got
it yet.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05
CAUGHT IN A rwINKL1NG.
Real and Reputed Remarks
Certain Minneapolis Men.

DR.. AmeS-I am one OF the Lawrence
Townley heirs on the diStaff side. When I
get that $500, 900, 600 l will help Col. King
celebrate.
Rev. S. F. Chaffee-I heard a pious
citizen say to-day: God help the poor,
this weather. The remark was well meant,
but untimely. l say, man help the poor.
Will E. Steele-Honors are easy be-
tween Minneapolis and railroads. The city
has been benefited by railroads, but rail
roads have reaped harveStS in Minneapolis
freights.
Ed A. Stevens-My official scalp is
tight on my head and the head rests easy.
But when put on my war paint, look out.
With relentless fingers I'll sweep some
heart strings and many traitor shall howl
III agony in response to my touch.
Secretary Hale-The exposition cannot
afford to pay any fancy official salaries.
The people wont have it. First get you1
$500, 900 and then spend it judiciously.
Col. Fairman-Will some gentleman
please kick me behind? A good hard one.
Thanks! Now let me go back to New
York.
CSupt. Nelson Williams-ThiS morning
we are regularly caring for 1S5 ia miles, to
whom we are sending groceries, fuel and
some clothing. Most of the restitution
comes from the Sixth ward, and last month,
although OF such universally mild weather.
brought us in 500 applicants for aid. This
month will run over 500. Now. here's one
case this morning in South MINNEAPOLIS
where 1 visited house where an aged
couple lived, unattended and childless. The
husband lay upon one bed perfectly insane:
the wife upon another bed dangerously ill.
Both were very old and without penny in
the world Another case was of a man 81
years of age, and wife nearly the same age,
who came from Ohio about year ago and
had lost everything. With no friends, nc
money, they came to NE this morning to
help them back to OHIO. This, fortunately,
was able to do; that is as far as Chicago,
where they will be helped on to their desti-
nation. The clothing that we distribute is
all second hand-that is the city buys none
of it but receives it all through voluntary
contributions. 1t is surprising what good
class of articles are sent us; some have GER
tainly never been worn at all.
Lew Harrison-The deer hunting is
perfectly splendid through the state. Ny
fingers tingle to pull a trigger on big
buck"
Gen. Washburn-We have the line of the
MINNEAPOLIS, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic
road completed now from the point at which
we started, Turtle Lake to Maine Greek, a
distance of seventy miles. Including the
Omaha track, which we are using at pres
ent from Minneapolis to Turtle Lake, we
have covered about $50 miles OF the pro-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05
MINNEAPOLIS GLoBuLEs.

Yesterdays bank clearings were S525,
65S.S5.
s'Victor, the Bluestocking," at the matt
nee to-day.
The employees of the water department
will receive their months salary to-day.
The Woman's Suffrage association will
meet to-day at the Church Of the New Jeru-
salem.
At railroad headquarters in Minneapolis
no difficulty growing out of the snow storm
has been reported.
A plat was yesterday fled with the
register of deeds of Staugh's subdivision in
Maben, White & LIE Bron's addition.
The Lawrence Townley heirs in Mime
apolis have formed an organization and will
prepare to make a descent on that $780,
900, 600 piled up in the Bank Of England.
William Laughton was arraigned in the
municipal court on a charge of aSSaulting
Thomas W. Emery. He pleaded not
guilty, and the case was continued until
Tuesday.
A routine meeting of the Minneapolis
Mill company was held yesterday morning,
but no further protest against the stone
arch bridge was made. The office Of the
company has been removed to the new
building at the head of the canal.
A. w. Lands of Rio Janerio, South
America, and Julia McCabe of Wisconsin,
Martin Jeyerne and Julia Osman, d. L..
Peterson and Annie Fyhre, E. w. Ferrel
and Lucy Park, Olaf Hanan and Thera
Haven yesterday obtained marriage licenses.
Until yesterday the madames of bagnios
had paid no fines in the municipal court
since the session of the last previous grand
jury and regular session of the district
court. when they were fined $3.50 each.
Yesterday Ella Palmer, Cora jackson, May
Wood and Matte st. Claire paid fines OF
$3.50 each.
William Sullivan is belligerent scaven-
ger. In fistic encounter with George
Morney in house down on the flats Sulli-
van had the best of it. He was arrested
and pleaded guilty to assault, but asked that
the case might be heard. The court granted
the request. and at the end sent the defend
ant to jail for twenty days.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05
A NEW LEAGUE.
The ParnelIites to Organize an East
Side Branch.

A meeting of National league committees
was held at J. T. Tobin's office last evening
to appoint speakers to address the mass
meeting in Turner hall, East division, next
Thursday evening, to organize branch of
the Irish National league. P. II. Nc
Partlin will call the meeting to order, and
james +. Corrigan, state president of the
league, will be the chairman. The follow
ing gentlemen will speak in the order of
their names, each speaker being limited to
ten minutes, with the exception of three:
Rev. James O'Reilly, Matt Walsh, Roger
Vail. c. A. Gallagher, j. q. Steele, Capt.
NJ. Hoy, Lieut.. McKernan, J. T. Byrnes
and d. B. Johnson. The advance agent
of Sullivan's Mirror Of Ireland and Comedy
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05
SOCIAL SQUIBS.
SpIinters of December Gayety of a
Wintry Night.

Wintry Night.
Armory hall was the scene last night of
very large and merry party, the occasion
being the fifth annual ball of the North
western lodge of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen. The commit
tees in charge were as follows:
Arrangements Fred B. Morse, Fred L..
Harvey, J. E. Taylor, Frank X. Holl,
George NJ. Clark; invitations, c. K. Brown,
C. II. Delamater, J. V. Piper, C. D. Stew
ems. Howard Trumbull, NJ. c. Shannon;
reception, William E. Richmond. Thomas
F. Men, Ed E. Depew, John Merrick, Ell
mer l.. Van Dressar, Charles Hughes; floor
managers, George Clark, H. P. Stone, Will
lam Beeth, Daniel Sullivan, James Boden,
Ed Barry, Duncan Mckay. The dancing
continued until a late hour, relieved at II
o'clock by substantial banquet spread by
May.
DR.. and Mrs. P. S. Calkins, 1929 First
avenue south, were pleasantly reminded on
Thursday evening of the twenty-fifth ami
versary of their marriage by a number of
friends. A silver ice pitcher was presented
them and all passed a pleasant evening.
Among those present were J. +. Calhoun
and wife, A. r. Shattuck and wife. N. G.
Chapman and wife and daughter, Miss Lot
tie Shattuck and Miss Evelyn Burt.
The Sons of Veterans rifles gave large
party. the second of their series, at Curtiss
hall last evening A large audience watched
the merry dancers, SAVERS orchestra fur
nishing the music.
Several Minneapolis people will go to
Duluth on Thursday to attend large re-
ception given by the Kitchi CAM club.
DanZ will take his orchestra there.
Prof. Emil Zech gave pleasant musicale
at Dyer Bros. parlors last evening, render
ing selections from Mendelssohn, Chopin,
Schumann, List and Beethoven.
The Misses Gallagher were last night
hostesses to large party of their friends.
Dancing was INDUCED in and a tempting
collation. spread.
The Nicollet club has decided to admit
non-residents to membership at half rates,
to accommodate number of gentlemen in
st. Paul
Misses Marie and Susie Rouen gave
large progressive euchre party last even
ing at their home, 1101 Sixth avenue
north.
Bricklayers' Union No. 2 held high car
nival last night at Harmonic hall. The
attendance was large and the enjoyment
great.
Danz' orchestra will produce number of
new musical arrangements at the reception
by Mrs. F. w. Forman next Tuesday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Smith gave large
dancing party last evening, at the New
York house.
Prof. Fischer gave private hop last
evening, at which about thirty couples were
present.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Loring entertained a
large card party last night.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05
low resides, and is visiting friends in the

now resides, and is visiting friends in the
city.
A. Rodgers of the Chicago board of trade
is at the Clark house.
G. M. Wing, suenographer of the Seventh
judicial district. is at the st. James.
Richard w. Scales of New York is the
guest of his brother, E. A. Scales, at the Clark
house.
John J. Balcorn, James Russell and
John j. Randall. leading business men of
Winona, are at the West.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05
Womlan,s Face.

ssWhat furniture can give such a finish
to room as tender woman's face" asks
George Elliott. Not any, we are happy to
answer, provided the glow of health tenn
pers the tender expression. The pale,
anxious, bloodless face of the consumptive,
or the evident sufferings of the dyspeptic,
induce feelings of sorrow and grief on our
part and compel us to tell them of DR..
Pierce's ''Golden Medical Discovery" the
sovereign remedy fer consumption and other
diseases of the respiratory system, as well
as dyspepsia and other digestive troubles.
Sold everywhere.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05
HEAVY CONTRACT.
A st. Louis Company to Furnish Next
Years Pipes.

A st. Louis Company to Furnish Next
Years Pipes.
The water board met at 3 o'clock yester-
day in adjourned session and awarded the
contract for furnishing the city with water
pipes for next year. The manufacturers
state that it is one of the heaviest contracts
they have bid on for long time. Shickle.
Harrison & Howard of st. Louis were
given the contract for furnishing the pipe,
and Lockwood, Upton & Co. of Mime
apolis the contract for furnishing the special
castings. The first is at S27.95 per ton,
and the latter IA cents per pound. The
matter of laying the flexible pipe on the
river bed, to connect the two sides of the
river was brought up again, and referred TO
the committee on extensions to make sound
ings and report the excavations necessary to
found the specifications upon which to ad-
vertise for proposals.
The checks submitted by unsuccessful
bidders were ordered returned, and special
committee composed of Commissioners
Foote, Andrews and Farnham was ap-
appointed to draft contracts for supplying
pipes and special castings.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05

company made proposition to give per-
formance during next week at Pence opera
house for the benefit of the Irish National
league and the matter will be brought up
for action before the league meeting held
on Sunday evening. A resolution indors-
ing the Northwestern Standard was also
adopted and the meeting promised its pro-
prietors every encouragement in making it
a representative organ of the Irish people
of MINNEAPOLIS and The Northwest.