St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-19

on the street. The fact that the
house was unOccupied and that
no one undertook to ascertain the cause
of the noise, coupled with the silly as
sertion of the boys, soon caused the
story to spread that the house was
haunted. The statements that nunleI-
Gus families have moved In tho house
one day and then moved out the next is
absolutely raise. Tho last tenant had
there remained month. she kept
boarders, and moved into larger house
because she had more boarders than
the house would accommodate. The
family that occupied it before them had
been there year, and they moved to
Fargo. None of the tenants ever saw
any ghosts or complained of any
strange noises. Rents were
little lower this fall than usual, and L
did not care to reduce the rent on the
Fifth avenue house, and so il has re-
manned idle. All the talk hbOut my
offering it rent free to any one who
would live in it Hntil next May is pure
nonsense, and instead of Offering any
man S25 10 remain there over night Pm
looking for that idiot myself, and if he
will put il up | will remain there at the
rate OF S25 per night as long as his mon
ey holds out. In fact l am trying to
keep people out. / go to the house
every day and | have to lock it up.
Yesterday had it swept out, but to-day
he back door was open, and mud was
tracked all through the house. There
was gentleman to see me to-day, and
certainly do not propose to give it
away. There are no ghosts in the
place. and no one can lind anything
ghOStly there"
Rats" lacOnically replied Daniel w.
Woolsey. the popular young cashier of
the Northern Pacific Express company,
when asked if he could give any eXpla-
nation to the ghost stories. Il lived in
that house myself, and have heard the
noises the people now say are made by
the ghosts. When lived there | slept
in the back bed room on The second
floor, and heard the rats and nice run
up between the lGth and plaster 100
times. Why, Ive got out of bed many
a time and pounded on the wall to
for ii, there are no ghosts there. |
guess l woald know something about
them if there ever had been"
TO settle all disputes, and to set at
rest the impossible stories in cOnnec-
tiiOn with the place. two members of
the GLOBE staff were detailed yesterday
10 go to the house, and, by permission
of the owner. TO make a thorough in
veStigatiOn, and il possible account for
any of the alleged manifestations that
were said to be of nightly occurrence.
They were not COWBOYS nor men of
nerve armed with Gatling guns and
dynamite, but simply two everyday re-
pOrterS. such as are liable TO turn up
almost anywhere without exciting COM
ment or creating alarm. They didn't
-l,,el INn1i rIDrf &c
or not. Neither of them had ever seen
one. and when they received the assign
ment from the city editor they
exhibited no more nervousness than
they would had they been sent to inter-
view Col. Thomas Lowry OF Maj. W. f.
Steele. The house is an Ordinary-lOOk-
ing twO-stOry frame cottage, like hum
dreds of others in Minneapolis. On the
first floor there are two rooms and
commOdiOuS pantry: doorway leads
to snug little circular cellar under the
back part of the house. On the second
floor there are two bedrooms, each with
its large clothes closets that are found
so convenient by every housewife. and
a loft in which to store the thou
Sand-and-One odds and ends that a
thrifty couple get together, and
when they move wonder where they
papered, and there was prevailing air
about the place suggestive of domestic
comfort. Nothing about the house
could be found that would entice
spOOk or hobg0blin to take up his abode
there and furnish his address to the di-
rectOry canvaSser. In the rear of the
house, in the yard, there are the usual
OutbuildingS, neither better nor worse
than many others i'll the city. The
scrlbes went to the building
last evening, and both remained
inside the house until this morning.
Shortly before daylight the reporters
gave up all hopes of ghost appearing.
and went home. During their stay
in the building there was not
sound to be heard. eX-
cept the occasional tread of
the policeman on the beat as he passed
the house. The building was thorough
ly examined from cellar to garnet sew
eral times and the ordinary tin lantern
burned as brightly in every part of the
premises as ii would anywhere else.