St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-03
NOCTURNAL STORES.
A Modern Feature of Life by
Gaslight in Mime
ap0lis.
The Procession Which Passes
When the Good and Well
Are Asleep.
Some Observations of a Globe
Reporter With a Drug
Clerk.
A Strong Demand for Opiates
and Stimulants--Some Som

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Ss S5[TsAe not more than two
or three in the
whole city where the magic sign, 'Open
All Night" is displayed, except on spe-
cial occasions, where the proprietor can
see good bit of business to be picked
no from so doing. There are number
of saloons which, until the midnight
and Sunday closing rule went into eff
feet, never knew what it was to have
the doors locked, but the same thing
can be said of only one drug store in the
city. For number of years past it has
been open night and day. and has be-
come as much feature of Minneapolis
by night as the hackmen and the ''red
hot" and cham and egg" men who ped
die their goods from the curb.
Up to IL o'clock the streets are lively
and thronged with people, but after
the last motor has gone and the crowds
on the street have begun to thin out,
and the patrolmen begin to scrutinize
each passerby little more carefully
than they did earlier in the evening.
when the glare from the shop windows
lighted up the sidewOlk, the people for
whom the all-night drug store is run be-
gin to appear.
A few evenings ago GLOBE reporter
dropped into the store just after the
clerk on the night watch had gone on
duty. A cigar opened the way for con-
verSatiOn, and in few moments the
two young men were chatting like long
lost brothers.
Yes said the clerk in answer to
question, ''we have good many pc
culiar people drop in here between the
hours of midnight and morning. have
got so now that can almost tell what a
man wants when he comes in. Many
of our callers mistake the place for a
saloon, and then get ugly because we
will not give them glass of whisky
or glass of beer. A few evenings ago
a big siX-footer came in about O'Clock
in the morning and called for hot
whisky. Because | would not sell it to
him he grew wild, and was on the point
of making dive at me when Mae the
officer on this beat. entered and placed
the fellow under arrest"
MUST HAVE OPIUM.
A young man well known in certain
circles of society entered at this mo-
ment and called the clerk to one side.
That he was an opium eater any one
at all familiar with the deadly effects of
the drug could see at glance. His
face was an ashy pale, and his eyes
shone with the peculiar brillianey
which so often betrayS the user of the
drug. He was suffering, too. and
leaned heavily against the counter for
support when the clerk shook his head
and said:
mo, Billy. you cannot get the stuff
unless you have prescription. l have
had one trouble over giving it to you,
and | do not propose to get into any
more"
"But, my God! I am almost dead,
and must have some. Give it to me,
and no one will be the wiser"
''Can't help it. You don't get it I'M
less you can bring a prescription. But
I'll tell you what will do. I'll fix you
up something that will brace you up
little"
The ''friend'' was sadly disappointed,
but swallowed the dose fixed up for