St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-24
STRONG DRINK is RAGING.
one of Col. MOrrison's Young Men
Deceived Thereby, and was NOT

One of Col. MOrrison's Young Men
Deceived Thereby. and was NOT
Wise.
Chicago Tribune.
One of the regulations of the railway
postal service is to the effect that postal
clerks shall not take whisky with them, ex-
ternally or internally, on their runs. VI
course moderate quantity carried inter
nally would be apt to pass unnoticed, and
anv small amount tucked away snugly in a
pigeonhole would hardly be apt to bring its
owner into trouble; but an unfortunate
choice of hiding place has resulted In the
removal of two of the postal clerks under
the jurisdiction of the Chicago superlntend-
ent. Capt. James E. White.
In EdwardSville ILL.,, lived L. w. Yates,
q Young man of good education. fair Dusl-
ness qualifications and staunch Democratic
principles. His one fault was tendency
at times to indulge to excess in bever-
ages that inebriate as well as cheer The
Young mans family are influential and en-
thusiastic adherents of Col. Morrison, and,
naturally enough. upon the Inauguration of
cleveland, considerable influence was
brought to bear upon Col. Morrison to lind
q berth for the young man. Morrison
adroitlv lodged several direct applications
for designated places. and finally weakened
TO the extent of finding postal clerkshlp on
the Chicago 81 Alton road-the Chicago d
ST. Lonis railway postofflce, as
it is called-fOr the young man.
Yates took a pledge to abstain from
Intoxicating beverages during his time OF
service, and upon that understanding his
commission was handed over to him. He
did well until about Nov. l, when, i'll COM
pany with companion clerk on his route,
W. r. Wise, of Pontiac, ILL.,, he went back
OH his pledge and proceeded to indulge id
the ardent in the great and wicked city Of
Chicago. 1t is difficult to ascertain how
extensively they imbibed, but they were
hardly in business trim when they started
out on their night run. Nor is it known
which of them was the more intoxicated or
which carried along flask full of whisky
for use Oh the run.
At any rate somebody on the car was
able to do the usual work, and the cat
would still have been in the bag had it not
been tor the whisky flask. 1t seems that
one or both of the young fellows lay down
to sleep soon after leaving Chicago and one
of them, with a drunken mans ingenuity,
slipped the flask for Safekeeping into an
empty mail pouch. Whoever did the work
knew nothing of its hiding place, and the
pouches were filled and distributed as
usual. The chap who hid the flask did not
awaken until the train drew up in st. Louis,
and was horror-stricken to find that he had
slept through the run and that the whisky
flask would fetch up in some post
Office along the route. The flask
did fetch up with vengeance at
Pekin, Ill. When the postmaster opened
the pouch he was nearly knocked off his
feet by the smell of poor whisky. Among
the mail matter were found fragments of
glass and the neck of the whisky flask with
the cork still in. A good proportion of the
letters were soaked in the stuff from the
flask and altogether it was very sorry and
diSreputable mess. To make matters
worse. some of the good Prohibitionists OF
the town refused to take their whisky
soaked letters and proceeded to inaugurate
good sized row. The postmaster there
fore, had no alternative but to report the
condition of the mail to headquarters. An
investigation was at once started here, with
the result that the two young men in qucs-
ton were removed Nov. 9 for disObeying
the regulations and carrying intoxicating
liquors on their mail car.