St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-10
MINNEAPOLIS
SPRING REVERIES.

As regards the amount of patience re-
Quired for business success, it would
seem that next to the blind Organ-grind-
er.whose principal advantage in life is
the unparalleled opportunity of making
collection of buttons and copper coins
which he enjoys, is the youth who, dis
guised as a human sandwich, parades
the streets, bearing upon his front
and rear elevations advertisements of
the metropolitan Lunch Room, Meals
10 cents" or the ''SarOny Art Gallery,
best cabinets 81 per Dozen" The sand
witch is usually small boy with big
eyes, long hair, dirty face and general
air of disrespectability. andihe seems III
his earlier years to have made number
less acquaintances among that class
do from the time they have sold
their morning papers until the evening
sheets are out. In the interim they
amrSe themselves by 'guying" and
pushing and otherwise maltreating the
boy whose industry and lack of indie
pendence take him out of their circle.
Then the grown men who hurry past
think nothing of knocking against his
heavy angular costume, and it is very
lucky sandwich that escapes being
knocked off his feet and walked on
SOlllCllllC uuIlDS udb.
less, the boys generally seem to be good
natured, and are nearly always smiling.
They certainly deserve credit for their
pluck.
Mediocre music costs very little in
these days. and whereas firSt-claSS az
fists are not looked for in the orches-
tras of the cheaper theaterS, the people
naturally expect from their pretensious-
ness in other particulars that the man
ayers of popular-priced houses will
give them something better than
the palpably bad music they are
compelled to listen to between the acts
of very good plays. If the music is
merely intended to keep the audience
awake between the acts then tithing
man with birchen rod would be less
cruel; but if il is to allow people to say
things they don't want adjacent citizens
TO hear, then it must be endured as a
means to an end.
An odder-looking lot of people than
those who hang around the city hall on
committee days it would be hard to
find anywhere. On day when half a
dozen committee meetings have been
called the corridors of the city hall are
filled with herds of men from all parts
of the city land each has an AK to grind.
Every man looks anxious and embar-
raised until he sees an aldermaDic ac-
Quaintdnce, when he ruSheS up to him
to shake hands, and then rushes him
into some corner and begins in stage
whisper to tell his errand. He brings a
petition for street opening, for side
walk, for sewer or water main, and
each and every man who signs such a
petition feels that he has personal
grievance against all the aldermen in
the council unless 1.-The prayer of the
petitioners be granted"
-
1t is q peculiar. but well known fact.
that every taxpayer, no matter in how
remote corner of some outlying ward
he may reside, is satisfied that his i'm
mediate neighborhood is the one section
of the great metropolis in which city
improvements are not only needed, but
have become public necessity. Pres
sure is brought to bear Oh the aldermen
of each and every ward to have this,
that or the other improvements Or
dered. Suppose half the work asked
is done-then these same taxpayers put
red feathers in their hair and get up
and howl when the bills come in, and all
think that the city is spending money
too fast. They don't need all these
things out there in New Boston," says
the kicker from the Thirteenth ward /;
and ''What the deuce do they want of
sidewalks three miles beyond MIME
haha Falls?" growlS the man who lives
beyond the end of the street car line in
Northeast Minneapolis.