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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01
THE ABERDEEN

house on Broadway, which rented at s75
per month. The tenant asked for and
got reduction in the rent, first to $50,
and later to $50 per month. This spring
we could get the original rent for it.
There is general and active demand
Tor stores and houses and
RENTS ARE ADVANCING.
"Along Third street you can't get any
kind of store with a frontage say of
twenty-five feet, at less than 800 per
month. Corner stores on the same
Btreet will bring $50. Inside property,
deeper than 100 feet will rent at $50.
We have two or three applications from
retail merchants for stores on Third
street but are unable to accommodate
Ehem, for there are no vacant stores on
that thoroughfare. On Seventh street,
between Wabasha and Sibley streets,
ftores of twenty-five feet frontage bring
Easily $4,000 a year. Three stores in
the new Ryan annex pay rental of
k500 per month. The southeast corner
bf Seventh and Jackson streets, I'M
derstand, rents at $4,000 per year.
There has been a slight increase
In rentals over thtso of last
year, both for business and
residence property. Those who
have long leases MAY consider them
belveS very fortunate. The landlords,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01
The Devil Did 1t.

Savannah News.
Mayor Lester held the boards in the
municipal court of justice yesterday.
The dramatic scene of the morning was
the arraignment of Rev. Mitchell Rob
inson (colOreD for the theft of a pair of
shoes from the Ocean steamship wharf.
The divine feeds the colored lambs of
Woodville church. He admitted that
the devil put it into his head to covet
his neighbours balmorals, and that he
had slipped his religious trust. He was
very penitent, and some OF the sheep of
his flock mingled their tears with his to
save him from punishment. He wept
the night before at the barracks because
Satan had wrestled with him and over
thrown him, and that with the fall he
might lose his pastorate. The erring
evangelist, in spite of penitence, pro-
testations of permanent piety hereafter
and restitution, was turned over to the
city court.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01
1T WAS HER DUTY.
John Will Balance No More Books
at Night.

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Boston Courier. sa r. sss +
''It must be very lonesome sitting all
by yourself in your Office balancing your
books at night, john" said an affection
ate wife.
sit is, my darling"
81 have been thinking about it for
some time, and now have got a de-
lightful surprise for you"
ga delightful surpriSe?"
Eyes, dear. sent for mother yester-
day, and expect her every minute. !
while. She will take care of the
house at night and look after the
children, and | can 60 down town and
sit in your Office with you while you
work."
1.-The dev- that is to say, I couldn't
think of your going down town"
sit is my duty, dear John. / ought to
have thought of it before, but it never
came to my mind till yesterday. Oh,
John, forgive me! Forgive me for not
thinking of your comfort sooner. But !
will 60 with you tonight"
Tonight? Why-I-I-the fact is,
got through with my books last night"
"Oh, you did! How delightful! And
you can now stay at home every even
ing! Pm so gladr'
And the delightful wife ran off to
make preparation for the reception of
her mother, while her husband, with
sOmber brow. sat staring at the Goals in
the CRATE, in which he could see the
picture of mOther-in-law'S reproving
face and poker party with vacant
chair.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01

the inspectors. If an employee is sus-
pected keen-eyed minion of the in
Spectors' department keeps continual
watch until satisfied of the guilt or inno-
cence of the suspect. When caught in
the act, the thieving employee is brought
to the inspectors quarters, searched
and then placed under bonds to appear
before the United States commissioner,
or, if he fails to procure the necessary
bonds, is thrown into jail to await trial.
The proofs of his guilt are kept in the
immense safe in the inspectors room, to
be used as evidence against the accused
at the trial.
The preparation of decoy letters and
packages in the inspectors private office
is an interesting prOcedm e, BUTT is as
secret as the movements of the allegOri-
cal Father Time. If business house in
town has been missing remittances
sent in unregistered letters, the
envelopes Of the firm, marks it so it
can be identified, and sends it to dis
tant town to be deposited in the mails.
That particular envelope is traced
through to it's destination, if it ever
reaches there, and if some unfortunate
appropriates it's contents for personal
use." it's all day and several years for
that unfortunate. Other similar ''de-
coys'' are sent, if necessary, as occasion
requires. The handwriting on the vari-
Gus envelopes differs greatly in size and
general appearance, to suit the particu-
lar case upon which the inspectors are
working. The packages Which are to
act as decoys to the thieving clerks are
skiilfully gotten up and very deceptive
in appearance. The methods adopted
by the clerk of thieving propensities
in robbing the mails are many
and widely different. but the
most difficult case that the
inspectors here have had to deal with
occurred about six or seven years ago.
About that time certain firm had been
missing remittances which had been
forwarded to them by their country
customers. The value of the contents
of the missing letters would average
about $40 per diem. The facts in the
case were reported to the inspector in
charge, and he set one of his most skill
full and intelligent assistants to work on
the case. For two weeks the stealing of
this firms letters went on, but no clue
could be gained as to who was doing the
thieving. One day the puzzled inspector
was walking through the lines of letter
distributors, when he noticed one of the
clerks tear up piece of paper and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01

He found it to be part of an envelope
which contained the name and adj
dress of the clerk on the outside.
The postmark OH the letter was, a
local one, dated a few weeks previously.
The next morning he saw the clerk
look suspiciOusly around and then slip a
letter into one of the cases. At the con-
clusion of the days work the young
man was stopped in the lobby and
searched. Not a single letter was
found ON him, although over fifteen let
tiers had been missed that day. Highly
mortified at his failure, the inspector
apologized to the young man and let him
20. But an idea entered the head Of the
Inspector that night, and next morning,
upon his arrival at the postofice, the
young man was subjected to second
search. In the inside pocket of the sack
coat worn by the young clerk was found
a bundle of twenty envelopes all adj
dressed, stamped and postmarked, but
the envelopes unSealed and addressed to
the young man himself. +.
Here at last was the mystery solved.
The young man used to place the letters
addressed to the firm referred to above
in the envelopes bearing his own adj
dress, and in this way escaped ObServa-
ton or detection until the ShreWd in
spector found the envelopes. (.
A registered letter very rarely goes
wrong in or gets lost from the mails.
The greatest care is exercised in the
receipt, transmission and delivery
of registered mail, and it is only very
green and ignorant postal employee
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01
TEN1H 81 So PETER

In the East and South inquiring for
houses for rent. The answer given to
all is the same: eve have no vacant
houses Just now" Some idea of the
scarcity of houses may be had when it
is stated that in several of the down town
business blocks, certainly the most I'M
desirable of all places to live in, from
twenty to thirty families are Quartered
OH the third, fourth and fifth floors.
Many people have come here to reside,
but after wasting days and weeks in
fruitIess search of place to rent, have
found it necessary to go to Minneapolis,
Saltwater or to the suburban towns of
North and South ST. Paul.
In conversation yesterday with Mr..
John X, Davidson, who has had charge
of Commodore Davidson'S vast property
for over twenty years, and who is thor
0ughly conversant with the subject of
rents, said: This city might have
added 10000 more to its population if it
had accommodations in the way of resi-
dences for them. During the past six
months l haven't had a single house to
let. AS soon, and, in fact, before a
house is vacated, there are from one to
half a dozen applicants for it. Some
years ago the commodore had a ten-room
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01

STEALING A MAIL BAG FROM THE
DEPOT.
who will attempt to steal piece OF
registered mail, for the crime will be
traced to him sure as fate. Each clerk
receipts for the particular packages or
letters delivered to him, and in this way
the letter or package is traced through
the mails until done away with. Once
in awhile, however, an ignorant and
thieving clerk will, in his ignorance,
appropriate piece of registered mail.
Of course he is detected, and, as neces-
sary consequence, is sent to the peni-
Tertiary as penalty for his rash and
criminal act.
The railway mail system has lately
given the inspectors force large
amount of work, owing to the incOmpe-
tency for the position of large number
of new appointees. Mistake upon mis-
take piles into the inspectors office for
investigation. and the entire fore is al
most constantly OH the road. The chief
prey of the railway mail rObber are the
bundles of what are technically termed
''nixies," which pass over his run. A
'nixy" is letter which has been sent
suppose letter addressed to to Spring
field, ILL.,, were to be sent to Springfield,
Mo-, the clerk would mark the letter
''nixy," and send it back to the superin-
tendent of the railway mail service in
this city for proper delivery to Spring
field, Ill. The mail clerk who wants to
steal will see that this letter has been
lost track of by the postoffice authorities,
and if he thinks there is money in the
mix" he will slip it into his pocket,
and, most likely, unless it be a decOy
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01
THE SHEPHERD RETURNED
The Different People Who Are De-
lighted at the Return of Jay

Inc DlnerenC People VINO Are DE.
lighted at the Return of Jay
Gould.
Mr.. Gould returns seasonably. 1t is
almost strengthening time-quite so in
the states where his railway system
spreads its lines like a vast spiders
web. The lambs have grown a long
fleece during the recent period of stag
nation, and the boss Shearer has arrived
none too soon.
The question comes up, however,
whether other people will be glad to
have Mr.. Gould back as he is glad to get
back. The pay of his railway employees
was reduced when he started on his
Eastern cruise by an amount just about
sufficient to pay the daily expenses of
this Cr9cus' holiday. If this tithing
shall be restored, doubtless the railroad
laborers will be glad: The stock
holders of some of his roads,
seeing no dividends in sight, will
their prospects. The district attorney
of this county ought to be glad. If the
grand jury shall be again charged to in.
quire into any of the milliOnaire's queer
fortune-scOoping operations, Mr.. Could
can himself be called upon to ''explaipi
things" instead of acting through his
lawers and agents. The brokers, who
are drinking Croton water instead of
champagne, for lack of commissions,
probably rejoice at the prospect of live
lier times D
But who knows of anything in Mr..
Gouid's past relations with the country
or the city that should occasion any
general rejoicing at his return?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01


as rule, are acting very leniently with
take any undue advantage of them on
occOunt of the existing and constantly
increasing demand for houses.
NEITHER ARE THE FLATS FOR RENT.
"Flats cannot be had for love or money
and the tenants will put up with any
Inconvenience rather than step down
and out. There is vast amount OF
young unmarried men here in the city
who occupy rooms in or near the busl-
ness sections. These rooms cost any
where from SIG to $24 per month, quite
a bill of expense to those who are get
ting salaries of $500 to 81 900 a year. AS
a general thing, however. this expense
is very much lesSened by two or more
taking room together-the system OF
doubling up," as it is called. One
reason, and probably the principal one,
for the present scarcity OF houses for
rent, lies in the fact that the facilities
for reaching the outlying districts OF the
CITY by means of horse car or cable lines
is very Door, indeed. Hence, people are
slow in building. ASan illustration OF
this, that district of the city known as
Arlington Hills, containing several
thousand people, remained for years
without any street car accommodation.
and those living out there were Obliged
to walk several miles to reach the city.
We have no street car or motor lines, as
in Minneapolis, that run two or three
miles into the country. What we are
most in need of are houses suitable to
the
WANTS OF THE LABORING MAN.
"Of these there is deplorable lack.
I'll bet | can go to Minneapolis and let
a thousand houses, receiving for them
double what they are bringing now. II
we could only bring these thousand
houses down here we could rent them
in forty-eight hours. We have fully 500
people doing business here that find it
convenient to live in Minneapolis"
w. E. Burton, speaking on this same
subject, said: ''There is great demand
for houses of all kinds in this city at
present 1t that section of the city trlb-
utary to the cable line l believe one
could rent 100 houses week if they
were to be had. The demand for flats
in the center of the city is also very
great. Families will put up with am.
kind of accommodations for the sake OF
being nearer the down town district.
The street car company should extend
its lines where the people want to live,
and not wait until section is built up
before making extensions. 1t would be
a great boom for the city in the way OF
stimulating building if the cable line
were to be extended to Victoria street.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01
Just
Stop
for
q
Minute !!

And consider the future prospects of
st. Paul, Mimi. With an extensive sus-
tanning country, from which it will de-
rive annually larger accumulatiOnS of
wealth.; with the Mississippi river at
one hand, Lake Superior at the other,
affOrding it summer routes of cheap
transportation; with greater advantages
than almost any other inland city on
the continent for railway communica-
ton with the East and South, and ac
cess by direct routes with competing
markets of the entire Atlantic coast, it
seems scarcely possible that any COM
binatiOn of circumstances can occur to
impede its advancement. 1t is the gate
way through which the commerce of the
Northwest must be poured into both
foreign and domestic markets; its de-
velopment must keep pace with the
country behind it. The commerce in the
past five years has advanced to 100000
600 per annum; with even the same
ratio of increase for the next twelve
years that we have had the past ten
years, the yearly wholesale trade will
have grown to S300.0O0,000; this must
involve a nearly corresponding enlarge
ment of st. Paul's transportation facil-
tiles, manufactures, retail traffic,
schools, churches, homes, extension of
streets, and everything, in short, that
constitutes city. With this prospect
in full view, one cannot but have faith
in an investment in st. Paul real estate.
We have exclusive handling of over
S1,OO0,00O worth of realty in st. Paul.
If you want house or location for
one, or property to erect any kind of
business block on, or for manufacturing
purposes, we can show you property
that is very cheap.
The West Side and South st. Paul
promise the most rapid advances in
values for investors of small capital.
We have lots at $175 to $500 each;
houses and lots at $1,000 to $4,000 on
West Side, and are exclusive agents"
for the owners of .INVER GROVE
FACTORY ADDITION. Lots and
Houses in this addition on monthly
payments.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01
A motor could then be run from that
point to Merriam Park"

E.P. Wilgus, conversing on the same
topic, said: Houses are very scarce in
st. Paul at the present time, particu-
larly so ON st. Anthony hill. Houses in
the Woodland Park addition readily
bring rental of $75 per month. Within
distances of four or five miles from the
cable line terminus rents have increased
10 per cent. In the University avenue
district good houses rent for from $40 to
$50 per month. On Portland avenue,
this side of Dale street, rents have
reached the high figures of $50 to 500
per month, and there isn't a vacant
house on the street. l understand that
before the Blair apartment house, SeIby
and Western avenues, was compiled,
every room in it was leased for long
terms, and in each case earnest money
paid down. The stores and flats along
Rice street are bringing in big rentals.
William Dawson with others own
ing property out ON West Seventh
street, stand ready to sign an agree
mont with the street car company, and
give bonds, that if the street car COM
pany will extend its line one mile and a
quarter, they will
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01
HOW TO BUY LAND.
Certified Payable Sight St. Paul Bank Given
curity for Money Invested.
The White Bear Lake Real Estate and Improvement Syndicate


select
We charge neither interest payments
depots
will
asking but S25 $50 down each lot
the
will be cashed full
No than lots will be sold on the above terms
therefore, privileges
accident
all obligations carry
the awaiting option,
offering inducements before granted
give better railroad accommodations than before
handsome depot already erected
school
A will built
A hotel will be built
There
Cities
Fol- further particulars, call on
LAWTON Bros, Ag ents,
3O5 Jackson Street and l75 Dakota Avenue,
ST. UL, MIMI.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01

dition of things exists here at present.
The building statistics for the year
1887 show that there were erected in
that year 7,191 houses of all descrip-
tons, at an aggregate cost of nearly
s15,000,000. Yet, Notwithstanding this
phenomenal boom in building. it has
not been sufficient to keep pace with
the remarkable increase in the citys
population. At least this must be the
Inference when it is known that
there is not store or residence that can
be had for rental at the present time.
The real estate offices are besieged daily
by people of all classes, and letters are
being constantly received from persons
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01
Baptized in Battle.

New YORK Ledger.
During the war civilian CHANGED to
be on steamer, from the deck of which
a heavy skirmish could be seen going
OH on the shore about two miles away.
After it was over he was seen to be
very busy with his notebook, and on
being asked what he was up to he re-
piled: 81 am just writing home to my
friends my feelings and experiences in
my first BATTLE"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01
pI7T Up A HUNDRED HOUSES

PUT UP a HUNDRED HOUSES,
costing $1,000 apiece. Rentals in West
st. Paul are very cheap as compared
with this side of the river, still the de-
mdfd Dozen honse ey is very we 1Sk k have
that a house is going to be vacated.
Business houses along Dakota avenue
bring from s45 to SS5 per month. Very
neat little cottages, nicely situated up
on the hill, rent at from $40 to S12 per
month. There are many people moving
from the East to the West side, and re-
ducing their rent nearly One-half by SO
dOing.D
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01
TOUGH ON STRANGERS
People Who Would Come
Here Compelled to Go
Elsewhere.
There Is Not at Present a
Vacant House In st.
Paul.
Rentals for Even Poor Accom-
modations Are at the
Top Notch.
Some Startling Points for Pa
tepfamiliaS in Advance
Of Moving Day.

ELL, there are no
houses to be had for
rental in st. Paul.
This will appear to
be a rather broad as
sertion regarding a
city which claims a
population of $50, 900,
yet such is the fact,
and a visit to any of
the real e IS t a t e
brokers' Offices in the
city will convince
the most skeptical
that this queer con-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01

how he came to quit it. Said he: II
was appointed a postoffice inspector and
had been in the service some six years,
when one day was called into the post
masters room in the Chicago postoffice
and given the facts in case which re-
quired immediate action. was to dis
cover and apprehend an employe who
was suspected to be robbing the mails
day, picked out my man, saw him Sc
crete package on his person and then
followed him to the north side of the
city. AT the door of his home his young
wife. a beautiful. girl, met him with a
fond welcome, and my heart smote me
at the thought that soon 1 was to break
up that happy home. l followed the
young man into the house, explained
my business, made him give up the
package, which contained number of
articles of jewelry. and placed him I'M
der arrest. The young wife swOOned
away at the discovery of her husbands
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01
POSTAL INSPECTORS.
How They Detect Clerks Who
Are Rifling the
Mails.
One Ex-Inspector Gives His
Reason For Leaving the
Service.
Decoy Letters, Carefully
Traced Out, Usually Bring
Down the Thief.
How Shrewd and Unprincipled
Clerks Work the "Nixy
Letters"


N OLD ex-mem-
Der of the postal
secret S erv j c e
talked with a re-
porter, in the gov
eminent building
yesterday. He left
the service some
six years ago, and
ipoiIanfoI1I1 tnI6
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01

Avenue lots in LAKE VIEW ADDITION, and adj
jacent Residence Property west of Hennepin, a
Speciality.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-06-12
LEGAL.
fNo THE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF
ALEYANDRIAn y

Take notice, that on MONDAY, the 9th day of
July. 1885, we. the subscribers, executors of the
last will and testament of David Appich, late of
the city of Alexandria, in the State of Virginia,
deceased, will apply to the Corporation Court for
the city of Alexandria, in the State Of Virginia,
to make an order for the release or discharge of
deed of trust made by David Appich to John Il.
Brent and W. A. Taylor, as trustees, for the bene-
fr of the said insurance company bearing date on
the tn 18th day Of October, 1871, and recorded in
the land records of the said city Of Alexandria in
deed book No /, page 500, aud by which was
conveyed a lot of ground on the north side Of
King street. between ST. Asaph and Pitt streets,
in the CITY of Alexandria, in Virginia, and which
deed Of trust has been paid Off and discharged, but
has not been released by the trustees therein or
Witness our hands this 31st day of May, 1888.
NJ HsG GERM4NN, ! LnSG1u Executors.
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