St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-18
MINNEAPOLIS AL SORTS.

Gen. Washburn utterly crushed young re-
porter at the meeting OF the board yesterday.
This unsophisticated pencil-pusher CHANGED
to move chair during discussion, and the
general fell upon him with a torrent of irony,
satire and sarcasm combined that made the
poor reporter feel OF the size and value of a
twO-cent piece.
At the meeting Of the Exposition directors
yesterday morning it was amusing to notice
Gen" WaShburn call Sol" Bethen to or
der, and to hear "Col.'' King side in with
Col" Blethen and take up against Gen.
WaShburn. Titles ATE at q discount in the
board and 1t Is q busy afternoon when five or
six are not conferred by Gen" Washburn.
The general attempted to discuss military
matters at some length, but he had evidently
forgotten his army training, for he made a
number OF decidedly stupid blunders. None
OF the other colonies, generals or majors no
tlced 1t, however, so trouble was avoided.
Col" Blethen even carries his hatred Of
Mayor Ames into his private business affairs
and has never been known to miss an oppor-
tuniJy to crack that official. At the meet
ing of the Exposition directors yesterday
Col" Blethen thought it would be a good
idea for the mayor to tender to Exposition
visitors the freedom Of the city," The
mayor could do that with better grace than
Col" Blethen made a speech at the Til
den memorial services. The colonel also
remarked that it would be a good plan to have
d military escort bring the Mexican band
from the depot to the Exposition building and
thought the military police" would do as
well as military soldiers as he called them.
The colonel might head military escort
composed of Gen" Washburn, Col King,
Maj" Haskell ana others, and thus set his
mind at rest.
1t required three hours the other night to
telegraph 300-word message from Minneap-
oils to st. Paul. The copy was filed at IL 80
and reached st. Paul at 2:30. The Minueap-
oils operator says it was due to the incompe-
tency of the operator ut st. Paul. ''Give EN-
- Of q roast" said he.
An advocate of faith cure-''It is but q be-
lief that there is an opposite intelligence to
God. Faith cure and Christian science diff
fer only in one point of doctrine and one of
application. The faith cure advocates belief
in the reality and existence Of evil and that it
must be fought and overcome by the spirit OF
good. To believe thus is to deny Gods ON
nipresence, and further the faith cure people
believe person cannot be healed except he
believes he will be. We have healed many
that hadn't O particle of faith until they were
better
Some well-meaning but ben1ghted iudivid-
uals have been urging that the patrol wagons
should be covered after the fashion of ice
wagons to save the feelings of those who are
given free rides about the city. The tops
would prove an unmitigated nuisance, and
would MAKE the spectacle OF a patrol wagon
going 10 fire slightly ridiculous. Besides,
the covered wagons would remove an element
Of restraint upon certain semi-criminals who
have wholesome dread of ride in the
wagon wild de steps behind" If the wagons
are covered it will be impossible to get them
in aud out Of the present stable attached to
the Central station. Ii the people who are
so tender of the feelings of criminals wish to
carry out their pet idea it will be first neces-
sary to get new lookup. Ii they can ac-
complish this, however, the annoyance that
the covered wagons would iptict would be
borne with patience by the police department.
Another fond delusion that has stirred up
considerable feeling among many who seek to
secure reforms is Chat woman is needed at
the Central station to take charge OF the
abandoned females that are brought there.
This is both impracticabe and unnecessary.
A decent woman at the Central lookup would
be about as much out of place as she would
be at a prize fight. The women that are
brought there under arrest are locked up in q
separate apartment that is entirely remote
from the quarters occupied by men. Very
seldom is it that the degraded creatures come
there in sober condition, or that they have
one single redeeming quality. They are SIM
ply detained over night and are then brought
before the court. If the philanthropists wish
to accomplish true reform they should strike
at the county jail, where women of all degrees
OF deprayity, young and old, are confined for
weeks and months in one room together.