St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-16
IN LOOKUP ALLEY,
Some of the Scenes in This Cor
ner of the CITY Sunday.

Some OF the Scenes in This Cor
ner of the City Sunday.
In spite of the large number of stran-
gers in town and the exceedingly extern
sive collection of idle hands for which
his Hadean highness is supposed to
"find some mischief STILL" yesterday
was decidedly uneventfuI day in po-
lice circles, and if Satan found any mis-
chief for the idle hands it was decidedly
''Still;" but in spite of the quiet the
boys at the central station. who are al
ways Oh the lookout for something to
break up the monotony of the long Sun
day watch, managed to find good deal
of amusement in one way or another.
To begin with, nearly all the Satur-
day night victims were people who
either had money with them or had
friends who they believed would come
to the rescue; so when Judge Mahoney
made his usual Sunday morning visit to
fix bail in the cases of those VINO eX-
pected to avoid another night in
QuOd, he was kept writing bonds in
drunk and diSorderly cases for an hour
or more. Meanwhile the wire from the
station to the A. d. I. Office was kept
red-hot with calls for messenger boys,
the supply at times being entirely un-
equal to the demand. At noon ten
boys were Scurrying about looking for
the respective guardian angels of the
various unfortunateS, and before night
thirteen had gone on their way reJolc-
ing. During the day other people who
wanted messengers and couldn't get
them were told that they were all at the
police station, and report went abroad
that all the A. ID. L. boys had been ar
rested.
At night there was so much money in
the safe that Jailer Needham and Lieut..
Day retired to an ante-rOOm to consider
the ACCESSIBILITY of skipping out with the
funds.
1t is rather an unusual thing to see
private carriage drive up to the door OF
a lookup and watch a liveried footman
pull up fine pair of horses, while an
elegantly dressed gentleman with
money enough to increase the police
force to 1000 members, if an appoint
ment is still rated at 800, enters to bail
out man charged with Vagrancy, but
it happened yesterday. Saturday night,
at an unseemly hour, an officer
the streets, who, when questioned,
sullenly refused to tell his name
his business, his residence or what he
was doing "then and there" He was
accordingly locked up and properly
charged with vagrancy, but yesterday
it turned out that he was hard-WOrk-
ing South town citizen who has been
employed by one firm for six years,
owns home and lives there with his
wife and family. He had become
slightly alcohOlized, and, getting OBJ
stinate, refused to answer the officers
questions. The man who wanted to
get him out was his employer.
Among the chronic DRINKS was one
fellow vino created roar of laughter
by giving utterance to an unexpected
bon mot. He evidently was not fully
recovered from his condition of i'll
ebriety when the jailer got ready to
make out his book, and was aggraVat-
ingly stupid in his answers.
What is your occupations asked
the jailer.
"Huh?'
"What do you do?'
"Huh?'
"Do you ever work?"
Eyes"
"Where?"
"At the work house."
"Don't you ever work anywhere
else?'
"NOp; I'm there all the time"