St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-13
BEAT THE GRAND JURY.
The Western Unien, by Its Tolls, Closes
the fremont Exchange.
FREE FARE TO THE MILL CITY
John S. Barnes Says He viii Build a
Great Grand Stand at the Ath-
letic Park.

The resonant voice of the pool seller,
which for several months has agitated
the atmosphere of the fremont EX-
change at 81 Robert street, and been
the means of filling the Golfers of Shaw
&c Banigan, the proprietors, is now
silent. This announcement will not be
of as much importance to the general
community, which has a horror of pool
selling, and those who engage in it, as
to the sporting fraternity who have rem
deZvoused at the exchange from the
time its doors were first opened under
the present management. This time
the law, with which Shaw & Banigan
have had more or less to do since they
started business here, is not responsible
for the sudden cessation of business.
The trouble emanates from another
quarter. Its influence, however, is as
potent and full of meaning as the edict
of court of law. In word, Shaw d.
Banigan have fallen out with that
able ally of the poolseller-the Western
Union Telegraph company. Some time
since Shaw 81 Banigan came to the
conclusion that the proportion OF their
profits being blown in as telegraph tolls
was altogether out of proportion to the
amount of business being done in the
st. Paul end of the concern. They felt
that as one wire was made to do
service for the pool room in Min
neapolis as well as the one in
st. Paul, they should not pay as high
rates for each of the rooms as ii only
one were running. Thy wanted to econ
omize in the running expenses of their
establishments and
THE TELEGRAPH BILLS
seemed to be good place to begin OPP
erations. The average amount contrib
uted to the Western Union by this firm
is, it is said, about 5000 per week, eX-
elusive of extras, divided between st.
Paul and Minneapolis.
This sum never looked so large to the
firm as when they figured that, on
business of about $4,000 a day in st.
Paul, and similar amount in Mime
apolis, one house could easily do the
whole of it, and half the working force
be dispensed with. This resolve, II car
ried into effect, would, of course, result
in deduction in expenses amounting
i'm the aggregate to considerably more
than than the sum which the firm
thought the Western Union should re-
lieye them Of paying.
When the Western Union was COM
municated with and requested to be
little easy in the matter of bills for
telegraph service, the reply came quick.
1t was that the firm must pay the full
amount eXacted, or do without the st.
Paul end of the wire over which was
announced the results of races On which
pools were sold. To show that they
meant business, Shaw & Banigan yes
terday suspended operations in this city
for the time, and posted the bulletin
that until further notice no pools will
be sold in st. Paul.
This means that man DESTROYS of
''going broke" on New Orleans or Gut
tenbnrg races must make the trip to
to accomplish his purpose.
To all such Shaw d Banigan will adj
vance tickets for transportation both
ways. Another desire OF the firm is to
build up the business in Minneapolis,
and in no event will the selling of pools
at the fremont Exchange be resumed
before April 2, when the regular spring
meetings will open.