St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-15
STREET SAYINGS.

SIT is hard work for a man 10 find some
thing to enjoy himself with on Sunday i'm
this city," said a man at the Merchants yes
rerday. 1.-The only recourse for a man
seems TO be to the saloons, and It isn't every
man that wants to stand up to bar all
day and drink, just because he can't find
any other amusement" The day is
probably not far distant when per-
nilsson to open billiard halls on Sunday
will be asked and it will be hard to find a
good reason for refusing the petition, mas
much as the front doors of saloons in the
city are unlocked from z o'clock in the
morning until u o'clock at night every
Sabbath day in the year. A billiard hall is
a resort much preferable to the saloon and
if they were thrown open Sundays it is
quite probable that the visitors to saloons
would be less in number than they now are.
The is no more harm in a quiet game of
billiards than there is in a quiet game of
freeze OUT or ''draw" and these little
pastimes are INDUCED in every Sabbath in
the year.
1.-THE crowd is thinning out, and you bet
we are glad" said clerk in one of the
leading hotels last night The fact is these
men who wear heavy diamond and a per-
petual smile have been pulling in the har-
ness pretty hard during the past two weeks.
and they begin TO feel IT, 1t may look like
a soft snap To stand behind a heated regis
ter all day. struggling to please a horde of
men clamOring for single rooms with a
bath, but it is not at all what il seems.
During a rush such as has filled the hotels
during the carnival, the clerk has to work
until all the questions are answered and the
people are cared for, and the rest he gets
from sleep hardly supplies the demand. In
times like these. seven hours sleep in forty
eight Is good average for the hotel clerk.
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Speaking of hotels, there has never been a
time since st. Paul became city, that they
did as much business as they did last week.
Last Friday night, 1900 people were fed
at the supper table of the Merchants, and
the same night an equal number Of meals
were served at the Ryan, while the Wind
sor. Clarendon and other hotels were
crowded to their utmost capacity. But the
crowd is now stealing away and the ''cots
in the hall" are being folded and laid away
for future reference.
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1t is reported that the receipts at the
storming of the Ice palace Friday night so
far increased the carnival revenue that the
receipts now exceed the expenditures
nearly SIS, 900 and the association will be
able TO pay dividend to stockholders.
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Two veterans who had fought in the
late unpleasantness," met in the rotunda
OF the Ryan last night by chance. One OF
the men during the struggle had worn the
blue and the other the gray. In the course of
conversation it was developed that the man
of the North had assisted i'm taking the
Southern soldier prisoner i'm the battle of
Droop Mountain, Va. When this fact was
discovered a second handshaking was in
dulged in, and the representatives of the
two contending factions chatted and
laughed over the incidents of the campaign
as pleasantly as though they had boIh
fought beneath the same flag.
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The recent warm spell that sent the
mercury up league or two above zero. had
the effect of sending several people to the
lakes and party of ladies and gentlemen
left Saturday for sojOurn at that little
gem among the trees known as Forest
lake. When they return a batch of new
fish stories will be in order.
So
eff we should happen to get an inch or
two of snow now the carnival would be as
brisk as ever" said gentleman yesterday.
mo matter how cold it is the boys won't
enthuse unless there is snow for them to
walk on. This worshipping of an ice palace
on bare ground is too much like double
Uncle Toms CABIN" company to catch
the crowd"