St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01
WHISPERS.

The recent death of Gov. MARMADUKE
recalls to the WhiSperer meeting with
him which took place so recently as
last fall, and which is indicative of the
genial nature for which the governor
was famous. He numbered many
friends in ST. Paul among the Southern
contingent, for he was man of wide
acquaintance, and doubt not that every
one who knew him can bear similar teS-
timOny to his sunny nature 1t was in the
office of the Fifth Avenue hotel in New
York that the WhiSperer, while talking
to friend, naval captain, noticed a
tall, military-loOking man, with white
mustache and equally white hair, ap-
preaching. He joined the WhiSperer
and his friend, the latter being we'll
known to him, and the former was in
troduced. With a courtly bow and a
hearty hand-shakec the governor ex-
pressed his pleasure at the meeting, and,
in conversation lasting but few min
utes, made the WhiSperer feel as though
he and the governor were old-time friends
uniting after long separation. Hav-
ing just returned from an European
trip, his first vacation for years. he was
as gay and light-hearted as boy; and
naval officer, who were boyhood friends,
had been taking boys delight in the
attractions of the metropolis. There
was difference between the
capitals of the old world and the
new, he informed the Whisperer, which
was strongly marked by one little fact,
namely, that genuine cocktail was ole
thing which, despite their boosted
talent, foreign lands could not produce.
And then there was the inevitable in
vitation that you have no doubt sur
missed.
Missouri has sustained distinct loss
in the death of Gen. MARNIADUKE.
I understand that Col. JACK" HAv-
ERLY, despairing of the scheme for a
new theater in this city coming to sue
cesSful conclusion, or else realizing the
fact that it is better to have two strings
to ones bow, is now making other ar
rangements," as the topical song has it.
He has for some time been in CORE
spondence with Col. GEORGE w.
WARDER, of the Warder Grand opera
house, Kansas City, with view to as
Stunning the management OF that house,
since he has pretty nearly concluded
that there is nothing for him here. The
board of directors of the Warder opera
house has taken no official steps toward
making HAvERLY manager, but has
written to him to visit Kansas City
and consult with them with a
view to coming to terms. Col.
HAvERLY has answered the
invitation by saying that he would be
in Kansas City about the middle of Jan
uary. He will employ the intermediate
time by doing his utmost to keep the
st. Paul scheme alive, and if he sue
ceeds will not accept the Kansas City
offer, as he would prefer to live in st.
Paul, but if he does not get some
definite assurance within the next two
weeks that he can expect the manage
ment of st. Paul theater he will cast
in his lot with the Kansas Cityans.
We ought to keep Col. JACK" among
US.
There are few people in St. Paul whom
we better know either in social or
business way-Or better liked, for
that matter-than cOmpanionable
LEV" MAxFIELD, of MAXFIELD
& SEABURY. Yet who, observing
Mr.. MAXFIELD's youthful appearance,
would fancy that he was one of the old
timers of st. Paul, and almost deserves
to rank even with such pioneers as Gen.
SIBLEY and eX-GOv. RAMSEY. Mr.. MAX
FIELD was hardly fourteen years of age
when he came from near Cambridge, O.,
W htIs L tuis thOh q ulC1O tllldSC, Uub IC
has resided here ever since, some
twenty-four years. He has observed
the city in all the stages of its growth,
and is as well informed as any one re-
garding its early history. Starting in
as clerk, before he was out of his
teens he learned the grocery business
thoroughly and prospered with the
Northwest's growth. Starting in a
small way first, his business grew rap
idly as the building of railroads devel-
oped the rich Northwest and settlement
increased, until to-day, while yet a
young man, he is at the head of one of
the finest jObbing businesses in the city
and is justly esteemed one of st. Paul's
most public spirited citizens.
An Old-timer, aged less than thirty
eight years, seems something of an
anomaly, doesn't he?
We have all heard more or less about
''man's inhumanity to man, but case
recently came under the WhiSperer'S
notice which illustrated one wOman's
inhumanity in a striking way. 1t was
the day before Christmas, bitterly cold,
the mercury by atmospheric influence
having sought the seclusion of the glass
bulb, and registering some 1Oo below
zero. Before prominent Third street
dry goods house stood baby carriage,
holding wee infant not more than a
year old. There was no attendant at
hand, and for nearly All hour the little
ore, scantiiy covered, lay unprotected