St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-16
MINNEAPOLIS.
TIE MADDING THRONG.

All that the average pedestrians on
the streets desire to form crowd
Is an exeuse. Like relatives over a
dead body, they Hii!!ii surround the
smallest, most trivial affair until
whole streets are blockaded. TINS
disposition of the human race
TO collect in crowds probably explains
the existence of cities, but it has been
we'll illustrated in Minneapolis the past
week by the thrOngs which have con-
gregated on the corner of Nicollet and
Washington. attracted by the stereoP-
tieOn views which a business firm has
been exhibiting for business purposes.
Early in the evening, when the first
picture Is thrown on the screen,
casual prOmenader will stop and lock
at IT. Another seems him looking at
something and stops too. Then another
and another are added TO the Nucleus
for a crowd. and before many minutes
have passed the walks are so crowded
that one has to literally fight his way
through, if he be in any haste.
Old men stop and gaze curiousiy at the
fitting pictures. Young men stop, look
up knowingly, but never move or.
Ladies forget all about that cake of
yeast that they came down town to buy
in their eagerneSS to be with the crowd.
Young fellows out for an evening walk
with their best girls form part and par
Gel of the gathering. Children rush
from one point of observation
to another, ofttimeS knocking the legs
from under their elders in their haste
to secure a coign of vantage. Frequent
discussions As I'd how these pictures are
made are heard not seldom taking a
decidedly angry turn. So it goes until
a burly policeman comes along and
clears a space for the unlucky mortalS
who have something 10 do besides gaZ-
ing at pictures on white cotton screen.
1t all merely illustrates one OF the
many phases of human life.
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Here YOU are, ladies and gentlemeni
All the latest and sOpular songs the
day. Down Went MeGinty,' Listen
10 Ny Tale of Woe Where Did You
Get That Hat Marguerite, Notices
on the WALL Ali the latest and popu-
lar songs of The day for only ten
centsv' The crler Of this re-
frain was a diminutive specimen
of humanity, apparently about
twelve years old, and he certainly
looked as if he needed the 10 cents. He
was standing on the walk on Washing
ton avenue. between Nicollet and First
avenue. where the greatest crowds are
TO he found in the evening. Nobody
seemed TO he buying his wares, so he
began again: "All the latest and popu-
lar songs of the day, gentlemen, for only
10 cents. Down Went McGinty,'
Listen to My Tale of Woe Where Did
You Get That Hat. Mary?'
''See here, young fellow" broke in a
brawny six-fOOter, Its none of your
business where L got this hat. I'm
down here from MOntany, and I'll wear
any hat damn please. Don't 90 tryin'
TO 90 givin' me the laugh, for L won't
have it"
Il didn't mean to offend you. mister.
/ was only hollerin' the names of these
'ere songs. Have One?" with an eye TO
business.
That's all right, little un. Don't
think I'm green cause | look so. BIT l
guess yer all right. Here's a sinner:
keep Their change"
He was perhaps little too self-assert-
i've on the question of his rights, but he
had a heart, and one small boy was
made happy.