St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-28
CURRENT COMMENT.

The reelection of Health Officer Kill
Vington was decided triumph for that
energetic gentleman, and high per-
sOnal compliment as well. 1t means
that the health office will have two
years of power under laws which con-
centrate the force of the office and bring
the SubordinateS where they belong
under control of the health office. The
greatest drawback heretofore to an
efficient health department has been
the fact that the inspectors were ward
statesmen, chosen for their efficiency as
politicians rather than as sanitary eX-
perts, and when they got into trouble
with the health Office they were always
able to give it out to him that they were
responsible to the council only. Some of
the straw inspectors will have to walk
the plank now, and give way to men
who know something.
The doctor, by the way. was so elated
by his victory that he introduced the
members of the council to the club and
gave them the best in the house until
the report of the Cardiff-Jackson fight
came in, and then the city fathers dis
persed, their spirits considerably
dashed.
The sndden death of j. c. Worrall
has proved shock to all of the thous-
ands in the city who knew him by sight
and name. o man in the city of his
age, probably, had as many personal
acquaintance as Mr.. WOrrall. His
figure was familiar one On the streets.
in the courts and in political conven-
tions. Last summer, too, he was regu-
lar attendant at the baseball games,
where his humorous comments on the
Qy1ln a N ttvnI.n .,.a1, f,rr,
for his neighborS as the game ITSELF
He was faithful MinDeapolitan and
always came from the grounds when
Minneapolis was beaten earnestly eX-
planning how the defeat might have
beenprevented, and occasionally throw
ing out a remark that caused his COM
paniOns to break into aroar of laughter.
Frank Danz Jr., to whom Minneapo-
Isis indepted for an orchestra which will
compare favO-"hly with such OrganiZa-
tionS in leading tiles. is to have testi-
mOnial benefit concert this afternoon,
at Harmonic hall. The excellent series
of several grand concerts that have de-
lighted the unsteady inclined during
the past winter have not proven re-
munerative-not because they have not
been largely attended, but because they
have been conducted upon a scale cal
culated to insure artistic rather than
financial success. Mr.. DAM is con-
scientious in his endeavorS to elevate
the standard of musical excellence, and
from year to year has, at considerable
personal expense, conducted these con-
certs, and, perhaps, like many other
unSelfiSh men, will get his reward in
heaven. He is too modest man to eX-
pect much on earth.
Now that the intellectual sabbath
school superintendent who was let loose
last winter to make laws for the state
of Minnesota, has succeeded in putting
through a bill to stop any extended
reference to legal executions, the people
are wondering what they are going to
do with it,. Nobody wanted such law
and probably the great John Day would
never have thought of it if he had not
learned in a newspaper that New York
had such one. Of course we had to
have just the same laws and as MANY of
them as New York. The bright men
who go to the legislature from Mime
sofa carry to st. Paul copies of the New
York statutes, and feed them into the
hopper. If New York has good laws.
we are likely to have good laws, but if
the New York legislature should
happen to pass bill requiring house
holders to stand ON their heads every
morning three hours in view of the
street, our wise and able legislators
would pass the same bill.
There is undeniably great deal of
curiosity on the part of the public to
learn concerning the production of Hal
Reds piece, IAN EX-Convict," at the
Grand the week of May 20. The noto-
riety Reid has attained has served MAIN
ly to attract attention, but the gentle
men who have organized as company
to back the production say they have
been Influenced solely by desire to see
the play, in which they think they
recognize unusual dramatic strength,
have deserving presentation. If this
Is so, the piece should be allowed to
win strictly on its merits. Such adver-
Using lines as written during fourteen
months incarceration should be
eschewed. Mr.. Reid's connection with
disgusting criminal case, and his i'm
prisonment in a penitentiary are not in
cidentS that are calculated to throw
halo of romance about him. Let him be
Judged as an actor or play writer at
the Grand opera house. If he is a curl
osity, freak, let him be seen in a
museum or side show. 1t would be bet
ter even to change the name of the
piece and attempt to disassociate the
author from unpleasant recollections in
which he is connected in the public's
mind. If he wants flair show'' he
should not appeal to morbid curiosity
nor maudlin Sentimentality.