St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-16

OF Kansas City hotel ''just too late for
breakfast" He says: Comparing Kansas
City with Minneapolis, the Kansas City
Times cites as proof of the superiority OF
the former city over the latter the fact that
kansas City hotels are utterly unable TO
accommodate their guests" This is fact.
Not only ale they unable TO accommodate
them, but entirely unwilling TO do so il
they could. A guest at Kansas City hotel,
if he has ever been there before,
knows that he will not be ac-
commodated and does not expect it. The
motto of the Kansas City hotel Is: ''Posi-
lively no accommodation given under any
circumstances" and this legend is generally
as thoroughly understood by the unfortu-
nate traveller as the inscription, Guests
without baggage must pay in advance" To
accommodate guest would be regarded as
a dangerous innovation by the Kansas
City hotel man, and one which would
have a tendency TO undermine the
dignity of the powerful and mighty
race Of hotel clerks, whose despotic
sway over the low class of serfs who pay
tribute at from So to S. per day. has never
been disputed. You do not get accommO-
dation at a Kansas City hotel; you pay
your money for the privilege of being stared
at by the clerk. and kept awake all night
by the other vermin. as well as for missing
your train the next morning on account of
the porter'S stupidity in calling you. If
this is an evidence of superiority, ii is to
be hoped that Minneapolis will always
keep way behind the metropolis of Western
Missouri.
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A man about town said yesterday: SIT
always gets my dander up TO see a news
paper man putting on agony. 1t always
reminds me of the time l was manager
of dime museum in Chicago. / was well
aware of the importance of keeping on the
good side of the newspapers, for they could
kill me with one roast, and knowing this l
was obliged to put up with lot of re-
pOrters who would come in there and do
nothing but mash. A man who realizes
what paper can do for or against his bust
ness must put up with the eceentricitieS of
reporters. but sometimes used to go out
and chew railroad iron to keep my temper
down."
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The managers OF the panorama of the
battle Of Atlanta, now being painted at
Milwaukee, for the purpose of making the
panorama as realistic as possible, have it
upon the scheme of having the faces of the
soldiers take on the features of survivors of
the battle. To this end portraits of veter
ans of the Fifteenth army corps are being
collected. One was discovered yesterday
in the person of Col. James Goodnow.
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Kehoe & Mathews, the tobaccOniStS, ad-
vertised shortly before the election to pay
$50 for the nearest guess on the plurality
of votes electing the next mayor, SIS for
the second best guess, S. for the third.
Over 5000 people recorded their guesseS.
Mayor Ames' plurality over Pillsbury was
5. 140, and the nearest three guesses were:
b. II. Billings, a gentleman living near
Single creek, $3.50; S. Ii. Soules, 42S,
Fourteenth avenue southeast. 5, 123; C. b.
Peck, the attorney, 5,110. Mr.. Peck was
the only one of the three who thought
Ames would receive the plurality. the
other two being Pillsbury men. While he
only gets third money, he in reality made
the closest guess in all. DR.. Ames' guess
upon his own plurality was 5000.