St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-27
SAINT PAUL.
TALKS WITH TOURISTS.

James F. BCOge, of Sioux City, the
big pork packer of the corn palace city,
was in st. Paul yesterday. With that
assurance for which the inhabitant OF
the metropolis on the Big Muddy is
famed, Mr.. BoOge remarked to an ae-
quaintanee in the Ryan lobby, II see
that the people of this city have decided
to follow the lead of Sioux City In the
matter of rapid transit. L have won
dered more every time | came here,
WHY It was that the people here could
contend themselves with the slow street
car service: it seemed to me so utterly
Inadequate to the demands of so large
and busy a population. The electric
railway scheme is a good one. Down
in Sioux City, company has been or
yaniZed to build an elevated electric
road on Fifth street to tine stock yards.
The thing has been talked OF for some
time. and is now about to be put INTO
pFactice. The street car service there
Is better than here; more cars are
run. and better time is made, out we
look to see the street car entirely super
seeded by the new elevated electric ROAD,
There's a TumOr, and very healthy
rumor, too. that there is to be new
local railway built next year by local
company from Sioux City to SUBURBAN
points. a good deal such as the Mani
toba short line. Sioux City needs the
road and there Is plenty of money to
build it. There is nothing definite 10
say about the scheme, however. at pres
ent.
Col. o. S. Rounds, of Omaha, Neb.,
was in st. Paul yesterday. and speak
ing of the probabilities Of a severe Win
ter said that Omaha intended to eclipse
St. Paul this winter as regarded carnl-
val festivities. Il don't suppose we
shall have an ice palace" SAID tne
colonel, ''but the Intention at present Is 10
make the coming winter lively season
for Omaha people and visitors. The river
is to be kept swept OIL from the time IL
freezes I'D, and then the streets leading
to the river will be Illuminated and the
entire surface OF the river itself, that
portion which fronts the city Is to be
made one blaze of illumination. The
yearly proce Ssions will be grander by
far this wear then ever before, and the
scheme is being taken hold OF with
will by the entire community. Inc
Omaha people have had their eyes
opened in bygone years by the sight OF
thousands of people leaving for st.
Paul and the ice carnival. 1t now occurs
tothem that Omaha cali rustic Just as
good quality of ice as st. Paul can.an
if necessary build an ice palace too. The
features of the Omaha carnival will OF
course be entirely different from any
thing ever seen here, but carnival
viii be held in Omaha this winter with
OUT a doubt. so look to Jour laurels."
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s. F. Gleim, OF Streator, Ill, was in
the city yesterday. MI. Glenn is the
same gentleman who was done out OF
5000 recently by a couple of shrewd
confidence workers, who have since been
arrested and are now IN Jail at Ottowa,
Ill. The gang, which consisted OF
three partners, Mr.. Gleim says, are the
slickeSt trio he ever saw or heard OF,
and got his money from him by as
shreHd a game as ever was worked o
an unSuspecting farmer. The SWind ed
Streatorite is j,;,t returning from visit
to relatives in Iowa, and is hopeful now
that the men are under arrest that a
portion of the money may be restored
to him.