St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-13
MINNEAPOLIS,
CURRENT TOPICS.

It transpires that some of the opposi-
ton to the location of the base ball
park is not so cranky after all. or rather
that there is a method in the madness
that causes certain Fourth ward citizens
TO froth at mouth SO iiercely. 1t is re-
ported that there is little plan on foot
to locate the city market on that choice
bit of real estate. Hence these tears.
these howfs of anguish on the part of
Indignant citizens"
-
Joseph A. Arthur, who is in Mime
apolis with his play, The Still Alarm"
is not SuperstitiOus, but has a genuine
fondGeSS for "hOodoos" He fairly
dotcS on meeting funerals on Friday.
aud considers thirteen lucky number.
His name contains thirteen letters, and
the name of his play, 1.-The Still
Alarm" thirteen letters. The play
had a big run of thirteen weeks last
season at the Fourteenth Street theater
in New York City, and was then trans
ferred 10 the stage of the Princess
theater in London, opening there on
Aug. 13. and remaining to big business
for just thirteen weeks, the sensation
of the london season. The oDen-
ing night was a scorcher, however.
The house was packed from pit to
dome with most unsympathetic audi
ence, which seemed determined not to
accept any thing American. Arthur
peered forth from a convenient box to
watch developments. When the curtain
fell at the close of the first act there
wasn't q murmGr. and the finale of the
second act was received with the same
deatll-like stiffness Then it was that
the terrible conviction forced itself
upon the concealed author that his play
was entitled Mud. He lived thirteen
years in the following thirteen
minutes, and was about to
throw up the sponge, when, In
his extreme nervousness he caught
up a programme and glanced at it me
chanically. Then he started up with a
Stifled cry of Safe againr There were
Just thirteen names in the cast. When
the curtain dropped at the end of the
third act pandtmonium reigned SUI
preme. The engine house scene had
caught them. and the play was hit.
Thirteen dollars was the amount of the
last bill paid on the other side. Ander-
son +. Reed, the representative of the
show. has thirteen letters in his name
and has recently been sick thirteen
weeks.
The Evening Star has unkindly be-
traycd that soul OF modeSty, +. l.. Buell.,
into an interview about the Scandina-
Wan paper he expects to start in
conjunction with Ole Blethenson and
Sever Phiflipson, in which heis made to
say:
Now, I'll tell you on the quiet" he
said, chow we will work it. Well get
them to put up few barrels of rocks
and tell them that the paper will be run
in their interests. They will play the
sucker act in great shape and came up
with the Doodle, and then you just watch
us pull their leg for all they'll stand.
We will give them a column of Nor
mannahein' and the rest will be geli--
eral news. Well arrange for get
ting news from all parts of the
world, and will make the Evening Star
hustle for its laurels. Phillips and /
are hustlers. and don't you forget it,
and the old man A. J. amt slow little
bit. Just you wait until we spring the
scheme in Minneapolis in May, and
you'll see things hum. After we get
all the stuff in you will hear great big
thud."