St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
UNDER BLITHE MAY SKIES.
Helot's Saturday Stroll on a Busting Min
neapolis Thoroughfare.
Men Who Sip the Wine of Life, Yet
Bear It's Business Burdens.
Young Men Who VIII Write the Com
merctal History of the City.
LEAR, calm and cool.

AiiSoluS IIOul Uu0 SplT6
OF one of the East side
Catholic churches vibra-
ted in the crisp morning air and tangled
Adair, from the belfry of the Church of
the Redeemer. Deep dirge-like and de-
votional the one; bright, buoyant and
blithesome the other. Both typical. One
breathed of the mass, the professional, the
heavy incense, the solemn chant of the
Romish faith; the other smiled with the
nineteenth century liberalism of Universal
Ism, the hymn OF the morning. the classic
Otfertory, the light, argumentative sermoniz-
ing. One was bowed with the suffering of
Christ on the crucifiX-the other inspired
with the glories of the Redeemer, with the
stone rolled from the mouth of the tomb!
Minneapolis still slept
The long shadows of the borning sun
shot athwart the rising Exposition building,
and painted grOteSque figures On the broad
stone sidewalks of Hennepin avenue, just
waking into life, but now ShadOWy and de-
serted. great street, yet always mourn
fully suggestive of departed glory, lost in
the struggle with Nicollet for supremacy as
the main thoroughfare. The life it takes
on an hour later is great, but, when COM
pared with Nicollet, is like the blood which
torrent which bubbles in the heart One is
make it, the other merry and lghtsome as
the dashing dudes and dainty darlings of
feminine fashion can paint it.
Streets have a language of their own.
Hennepin is brisk and eloquent.
Nicollet bubbles with gay laughter.
The morning is yet young when team
of handsome bays dashes up to the Boston
block and small, slender gentleman
alightS and with grave agility reaches the
elevator. Hon. Eugene M. Wilson is no
longer young. The salt has struggled with
the pepper of his hair for many month
and his mustache is taking on the silvery
stiffness of a French marsharS. In years
he is elderly, but in vigor of body and
brain he is still Young. Someone mentioned
him for Judge Rooms seat on the bench,
but those who knew him smiled at the idea
of his sacrificing his practice for such a
position, when morsels like the King
Remington suit fall to his portion. One
would scarcely imagine. i'll looking at him,
that beneath that mid and smiling exterior
lay hidden all the scOrn and invectiye be-
meath which Col Innes WiIted and with
cred in that celebrated suit. Wealth in
abundance will not suffice and ambition
destroys or it lives, unless tempered with
that rational enjoyment of life for which
Providence furnished the faculty with the
means. Eugene Wilson regularly occupies
his pew ill Westminster church and is all
the better man and citizen for an hour at
the Minneapolis club OF all occasional even
ing at the opera.
Amusement is the light wine Of life
Dissipation is its hard liquor.
moderate 0rinEer Of this lipht wina ic
John Crosby Few people have any idea
how this sturdy Scotchman has piled up
money within the last few years. He has
been hard worker ever since he broke
ground out here with G. G. Washburn and
now he lightly sips the wine of life, with a
little of its hard liquor, of the Scotch va
rlety His new palace on Tenth street
would accommodate q Highland baron and
is arranged Oh scale of liberal magniti-
cence that leaves nothing lacking from side
board to stable. Yet John Crosby would
not accept the presidency of the chamber
of commerce He preferred the seat at the
head OF the b G milling tir:u of Washburn,
Crosby s. Co. Enlarged forehead.
A one-horse shay rattles along
Mai. }. B. BaSSett is about us conscious
of his persolal appearance as he is indie
pendent i'll thought and express on. His
queer vehicle is Illustrative of the man. and
yet one would notiye it is drawn by good,
Well-fed horse. \ rough diamond is Mai
Bassett, but his son Will Nov come
the Rising Young bis ness men,
of whom Will Bass,.tt is one,
Of the fairest types. How easy it is for a
man to be d gentleman and yet devoted to
business. So l notice no tile strength in
VIII Bassett and predict that within five
years. he and his associates will be writing
the commercial history of Minneapolis. The
hope of the ty is graded in tie arms of
its young men and strangers. who see Young
minds leading gray hair in the board of
trade and chln9er OF cunl.ilarce holding
down seats i'll council and coming to the
front III politics. lave all the better opinion
OF the city. If s. G. Gale is a balance
wheel in the exposition board Viii Regan.
Edward Barbet. Charley Palmer and other
young men are the running gear, The list
OF bright, energetic, active and enterpriSing
young men who are pushing their way to
the front in minneapolis, is long one and
it is astonishing how quickly tie fossils, if
they are golden fossils are jostled out of
the way. Room, then. for the young men
of the city,
Deacon Nettleton is young man.
This prominent prop of Plymouth pas
torate has been sort of bag bear to MANY
people. One would expect 10 see in him.
long. lean man, with piOuS, Sanct-
molous face and eyes rolled deyoutly
heavenward. That is not picture of the
general. not by any means. See him walk
ing brlskly down Hennepin, with his trim
figure TRINITY covered with fashionable
clothes and his irons gray whiskers combed
just so. Good" Gen. Nettleton. | am
hr,t
Gen. Nettleton. never. That trial he
stood, on the Willard excursion over the
the Northern Pacific three years ago always
rises i'll my mind, whenever / hear the ey-
preston Good Deacon Nettleton. and [
know he is mallgned. And then it is too
absurd to believe a man could be good and
i'll the newspaper business.
Prof. T0uSley b0Wled down the avenue
in the afternoon, just as briskly as though
he had not been rudely disturbed on his
seat at the top of the school department.
on Wednesday. He has not good face
and any school-boy will tell you so. Gold
smith must have had him in his minds eve
when he wrote:
A man severe he was and stern to view
knew him well, and every truant knew.
Well had the boding tre,nbler learned TO
trace
The days disasters in his morning face.
Loudly they laughed, with counterfeted glee,
AT all his jokes, for many joke had he.
Full well the busy whisper, cIrcling round,
Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.
AS storm-cloud is swallowed up in sun
shine. so the austere Touoley turned upon
Nicollet ayeilhe and was lost i'll the gay
throng of brilliantiy-elad pleasure seekers
with which the avenue was crowded on
this joyous afternoon. 1t was happy,
rolicking swarm of humanity, in Which
one was carried along resistleSsly. | no
ticed at least dozen poor. tired shop-girls
steal glances at the street. and could al
most hear the signs with which they turned
and took up the burden of life again. 1t
was dark day for them. without doubt
Six hours later | saw these same girls
YEARLY ploddng homeward. hurrying to
catch the late horse cars and motors, in
which they would get the first seat they
had had for hours. Then for days rest
What an institution Sunday is!