St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10

-N and is willing
to have his salary cut down. although
the assertion that he would be willing
s to pay bonus for the privilege of run
ming the city is perhaps an ex-
aggeration. Mr.. Downs Office hours
at the city hall are from a. m. to 9 p.
m. He comes in the morning, brings
his dinner and stays all day. He holds
7levees in the corridors, consultations IN
the committee rooms, and receptions IN
the council chamber. He talks to eve
rybody and everybody talks to him.
: He has been in the council for some
time. and has learned several things
which are new to some of the gentle
men from the borders of Omaha and
Dakota counties and the. wilderness,
which lieth over against Richfeld, and
one of them is that it is always we'll to
treat the reporter with the consldera-
ton due to SO excellent per-
souage, and even in his most.
radical positions this quality insures
aim good-natured il not always defer
& itiaI treatment at the hands OF the
press. Thomas knows when he has got
q good thing, and never presses Dol1S
when he knows it is useless ana never
speaks too long OH a measure when ne
fayors. Although agood deal OF a hus-
tier when the hustle is on him ne IS IN
olined to take it easy, and his most char
acteristic attitude is to tilt back in his
chair and gracefully allow his feet to
rest upon the top of a desk or table
while he TOYS with his whiskers. 1t
any one inquiries for him of the janitor
that sable Individual is aptt direct him
to '.that man sitting behind his feet over
there in the corner"
Some of the peculiarities of q few OF
the employees as noted by the King him.
self are mentioned below.
Clerk Haney works industriously
away. as if he intended to earn his $50
a year. and some who have watched
him for an hour or two at time are OF
the opinion that he is really earning IS
or 81 year more than that.
Despite the old adage that it is ''hard
to teach all old dog new tricks Mart
Williams seems to have fallen very cas-
siIy into the duties of his new place. and
smiles as benignly from the table II IN
the rear Office of the city hall as he
fermerly did from the sixth story of the
Tribune building.
Various city hall reporters are said to
place much greater value on news
from the health department. and spend
more time in obtaining it than they did
when there was less attractive clerk
inthe health office.
Mayor Babb has had less trouble than
Bennie Harrison in making up his cab
met. and William Hennery Eustis and
other earnest. thoughtful Republicans
come to the city hall nearly every day
to discuss retrenchment and reform and
talk over the prospects for 1890.
Chief Brackett, of the police depart
sment, is just recovering from the pros.
tration consequent upon the strain OF
throwing back his coat to display his
."big brass star" to something IKE 9.999
anxious and enthusiastic friends, and
irving to see red ray in the big
s.shiner'' it contains every time he
shows it.
Mai. II. A. Norton, the double-action
anti-corrosine combination police clerk
and mayors secretary, doesn't seem to
grow bit stopped with the double re-
sponsibility placed upon him, and his
carefully cultivated ringletS are not one
whit grayer than they were before.
St CITY attorney Russell has already
spent more time at the city hall than
Seagrave Smith didin two yeurs, but
then the new city attorney needs about
that much difference in time to be even
with Mr.. Smith on a given amount OF
laws
,j0ln r. CdlUCIWOOu, llO VI uilO min
$isterial mein and British tourist
S.vhiskers. is one of those Republicans
who really believe in retrenchment and
economy, but thinks the comptr0ller'S
salary is small enough now.
4 "A box of good cigars is almost always
found in the desk of W. G. Nye, the
secretary of the park board and he is
correspondingly popular with all classes
of the CITY hall habitueS, from reporters
sThe new elevator boy is still suffering
from the stare that Fred BarrOwS
treated him to when officiously re-
auested to stop smoking on the elevator
car.
ali imposing figure as outside guard dur
ing the executive session OF the council
Friday afternoon, but he allowed re-
por tiers to stand too near the door.
ii ealth Officer Kilvington visits the
hall frequently and greets every one
with smile like that of tooth car
,nenter when he has got 24-tOn pres
sure on the naked nerve of an aching
tooth.
4he committee on public grounds and
buildings is considering the advisable
;.itv of substituting Gone, But Not For
gotten. y for the motto 81 Go Hence.
But TO RETURN left in the park board
office by Ed A. Stevens.
Marriage licenses were issued yester-
4l1v to Andrew Peterson and Carrie
Wall. Charley A. Nelson and Carrie
Hanson; William II. Rendefl and Cath
arine A. erase.
Elias j. Woolf, James F. Williamson
and others filed articles yesterday in
cooperating the Woolf Valve Gear COM
pal1y, with capital stock of $2,000,000,
divided into shares of 800 each.