St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-14
CROWDED CORRIDORS.

People Did Not Leave ST. Paul
Yesterday, for No Trains Were
-, Running.
: Few people cared to risk the danger
of spending a day or SO in 'SnOwbank,
and consequently the hotel corridors
yesterday presented very animated
spectacle, while the union depot was
comparatively deserted, and intending
passengers, save OH local trains, con-
Guided to keep near base of supplies
until the snow was in measure
cleared off the tracks. Probably
the most disappointed people were
to be found at the Merchants, where
many of the MaSons who had been at
tending the sessions Of the grand lodge
were stopping. Various ways were de-
vised to kill time and invitations to
visit man. were frequent, while the
billiard room was in full blast from the
forenoon until midnight. This was true
of the Ryan and Windsor
hotels, and stories of the cold
were the prevailing topic wher-
ever knot of guests assembled.
| SpeculatiOnS as to the fate of passengers
expected from distant points were in
dulged in and many anxious inquirerS
beSieged the clerks all day for infOrma-
ton as to incoming or outgoing trains.
When the bus pulled up at the en-
trance to the Ryan at an early hour
i hungry passengers over the Northern
| Pacific were vOciferous in demanding
accommodation and solid comfort
| again. They were about thlrty-fve
| hours behind time, and one of the
| party, ID. w. Wells, of Chicago, stated
that they had been in snowdrift.. since
| Thursday evening at O'Clock. They
| left point about tWenty-Seven miles
beyond Brainerd shortly after o'clock
| in the afternoon and the distance was
covered in something over six hours.
From Brainerd it was hard work, and
| especially as but one engine, and that
no better than tea kettle for practical
| purposes, was used. There were no
plows in the section where the snow
| had drifted most, and it was not until
| Clear Lake was reached that these nee
eSsary appendages were discovered in
use. From 5 o'clock yesterday after
noon until midnight was consumed in
accomplishing the distance between
Clear Lake and st. Paul, the plows
! being ahead of the train which was
drawn by the engines.
+ Yesterday mornings train out from
st. Paul was a gOdSend to the incoming
7 passengers, who had nothing to eat
/ from the preceding night, although they
were comfortable otherwise. When the
train out from ST. Paul reached the
3 point where the incoming train was
snow-bound, the former suffered the
| same fate, but dining car attached to
Y IT Obviated all fears of famine. How
t ever. the hungry passengers OF the other
both trains returned to st. Paul few
hundred yards apart.
r. A calcium light cleaned and sput-
tered in the Ryan rotunda about mid
night, its rays being focused upon the
exhibit of animals and game birds of
F the Northwest OH the corridor, whose
doors open out upon Robert street.
/ in the center was a magnificent moose
HEAD, flanked by the anthers and
head of royal stag and magnificent
specimen of a buffalo's head; while at
the base of the moose head deer, wild
cats, wolves and coyotes, natural size,
were apparently resting on rugs formed
formed of the skins of the grizzly, black
and other species of bears.
1 Facing the animal and game birds
exhibit was display Of carnival
sou enirs, including many specimens
of Indian skill in bead and other ma
terial, and magnificent display of the
products of Arizona.
Looking from the hotel counter to-
wards Robert street the scene was very
suggestive of corner in one Of the
numerous expeditions that have been
/ given in the United States since the cen
tennial at Philadelphia in 1876, and and
| a busy photographer, with his camera
| adjusted, was making reproduction of
the picture for future use. The novel
| spectacle of photOgraphing by the aid
of calcium light sufficed to attract a
large conconrSe, among whom were
!. many of the lady guests of the Ryan
| and their husbands.