St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-19
THREE INTERVIEWS.

Among the guests at the west nOtel
last evening was a heavy. broad
shouldered man of perhaps forty-nine
OF fifty years of age. His walk was
somewhat peculiar one, being that roll
ing motion to those who follow the sea.
This gentleman was John e. Pendle-
ton, of Searsport, Maine, form
erly resident OF Minneap-
oils. Mr.. Pendleton left this
city in 1876 since then has been a ship
builder, and has been all over the world.
He is here to visit his son, Louis, OF
Janney, Semple d Co., and to arrange
for returning to Minneapolis to live.
He owns property here and will prOba-
ifornia, and from there will take ship
to England.
II am not much of politician my
SELF" said he, when approached by
GLOBE reporter. my brother, James
G. Pendleton, is the man you want to
interview on the political situation.
What do Maineites think of Blaine's
letter of withdrawal? Well, we
consider it final, SO far as Mr..
Blaine is concerned. He will not be
a candidate again under any circum-
stances. Just whom we would like to
see nominated on the Republican ticket
| can not say. President Cleveland has
made many friends among the RepuDll,
cans i'll Maine, and many will
vote for him should he again
head the ticket. His party has
been good one and has won him num-
merous supporters there. The prohib-
ition vote will be about the same as
usual. There is one thing our govern
ment will have to do soOn, and that is
SubSidiZe American steamship lines. OF
all the lines now running to Europe,
but half of one line is owned in
America, and in that even the boats
are chartered. No new boats are being
built here, and the traffic is passing
wholly into the hands of men from the
other side of the water. 1t strikes me
that your board of trade and chamber of
commerce should follow the example of
other enterprising cities, and direct
memorial to congress-, asking that ap-
preparations be made to assist Ameri-
can steamship lines. This must be done
or our ocean interests will soon be less
than they are now.
''Your weather here is as balmy and
as pleasant as one could wish. Should
like to see some New Workers come out
here, Just to see how surprised they
would be. The storm they have been
having in the East has been terrible and
was made all the worse by the fact that
they do not often have such things
there. All trains were blocked to re-
markable degree. just come i'll on the
first train through"
~
"Traveling men all over the North
west and Southwest are watching the
engineers strike with vast amount of
interest,"" said E. V. Robinson, a we'll
known travelling man of Des MONIES,
To-, as he edged up to a radiator at the
National hotel last evening. 1.-The boys
are just a little anxious in regard
to this strike" he continued, 'for
it might leave many Of them
hundreds OF miles from home
should travel be suspended. Every one
of the boys | have met are keeping one
eve on the train and the other on Gus
toner. The strike is having a bad eff
feet on business, too, and it is hard to
sell $500 worth of goods now where we
used to sell $1,000. Merchants, as a
rule, do not care to take in big~ stock
just now, uutil they know what is COM
ing. Many of the travelling men are
feeling discouraged, but l look for
things to brighten up in short time"
David Peyser, business manager of
the "L0St in New York; company, was
conversing on mechanical effects and
stage realism yesterday.
II suppose everybody is familiar with
the fact that Boucicault was the first
stage manager to introduce ''gauze wat
ers" on the stage, medium by
which the greatest realistic effects
of water were given to the stage.
These media were adopted by John A.
Stevens in Passions Slave" and re-
Gently by the Hanlons in "Fantasma."
Rainfall came next by means of red
water descending from a pipe thrown
across the stage in the first entrance,
and the descending torrents safely car
ried away by means of the sheathing on
the stage. This piece of realism made
a great {; hit in "Hearts of Oak"
Now in 'Lost in New York" we use
tank of real water to float steamboat.
and l want to state that when the audi
ence catch view of the steamer, steam
ing across the stage, their enthusiasm
knows no bounds"