St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-01
TOPICAL TALK.
The Stable The horse is an ex-
ceedingly useful ami
Nuisance. NAL. and vet in cities

The Stable The horse is an ex-
ceedingly useful ami
Nuisance. NAL, and yet in cities
he is the destroyer of
real estate values. The prospect that
the horse car may soon be abolished
from our streets is hailed with joy for a
double reason. First, we want more
rapid transportation; and second, We,
welcome everything that will lessen
the number of barns inside the corpo-
rate limits. So far, horses have been
a necessary adjunct to civilization; but,
notwithstanding their absolute neees-
sity, they have always been cOnsid ere d .
an unavoidable evil. Citizens have
endured as best they could the discom-
forts arising out of this necessity, but
have ever longed for means of escape.
Street car and private stables are
scattered Unfortunately throughout
the city, and in most cases.
especially in the resident portions,
they are positive nuisances. There is
no more uncomfortable sight than to see
costly dwelling alongside of livery
stable, or to see row of elegant resi-
NNhOOo luOOu Ol q WV Va PlifoVO cOsSANo
on the other side of the street. 1t is this
stable nuisance which makes the horse
a destroyer of real estate values in
city. The troubles which are an eS-
sential part of keeping horses within a
crowded city could not be avoided as
long as we depended on the horse for
street transportation. But now that
new methods of intra-mural transpOrta-
ton have been devised. and the cable
and electric motor systems are COM
mercially successful and cheaper than
horse car lines, there will no longer be
any excuse for maintaining the int0l-
cradle nuisances caused by the car line
stables. And once these greater nui-
sances are abated, it will be a compare
lively easy matter to enforce an ordi-
nance combining all the remaining stables
to one particular quarter.
MIR. Manvers Mr.. MARVEL h as
been highly honored by
Snap Is Not being elected to the
presidency of the At
Soft One. Gibson, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railroad company,
yet Az 10 ny hO hiOoi - q oAhOSdLO pOclOiOHs
When the bankers who had marketed
the more recent issues of the Atchison
securities took possession of the prop
erty, last spring. they at once began to
look around for new president. Mr..
STRONG was requested to retain his
place as president, and yet his func-
tons as president were ignored in the
operation of the road by transfer of
the business management to the Bos-
ton Office, which was under the immedi-
ate supervision of the bankers. 1t soon
became evident to the bankers them
selves that this method of operating a
great railroad system could not prove sue
cessful, so they instituted a search for a
man to be put at the head of the con-
| Germ in whom they could cOnfide. This
search resulted in the elevation of Mr..
MARVEL to the presidency of the road.
But the addition of the Chicago and
Southern California lines has so far
only been dead weight to the corpora
ton. The policy of the management
has been to wait for the crops this fall
| and see if they would not justify all of
the new road that has been built.
Already all Of the other big roads
| in the West and Southwest are be-.
| ginning to show decided in
crease in earnings over last year, but
| the AtchiSOn returns show no great i'm
provement. 1t is still expected, how
ever, that the big crops raised in Kansas
this year will be great lift to the
road. The banker management is
said to be pledged to help the road
| through. and it is the boast Of the En-
| glish banking house of Barring Broth
ers, who placed large amounts of At
| Gibson securities abroad, that it never
placed bond that defaulted. In the
case of the Atchison it is estimated that
the commission received by them and
their connections were so large that
both can easily afford to lose all the
money they have had to advance to the
AtchiSOn company, simply that the
statement may hold true in the future.
Roscoe Conk- Colonel INGERsoLL's
tribute to Roscoe
ling's CoNKLING. that ''pov-
erty was his priceless
Wealth. CROWN" had more
poetry than truth in it.
Mr.. COMBINES estate has just been
settled up, leaving clear balance of
5000, 200. This is not a big sum, it is
true. when compared with the many
colossal fortunes to be found in this
country, yetit is about as much as any
one man ought to have, and great deal
more than nine-tenths of the active bust
ness men of America possess. Most of
this amount, if not all of it, was accu-
mulated by Mr.. CoNKLING after he
quit public life. He walked out of the
senate into splendid law practice, and
Immediately took his position at the
head of the New York bar. 1t has
been st ated that at the time he quilted
the senate he was bankrupt, and that
he devoted his first earnings at the bar
to the payment of his debts. If be had
lived ten years longer he would prob
ably been a millionaire several times
over, and could then have had revenge