St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-29
SAINT PAUL.
THE GossIPER.

The younger element of the Repub-
tcan party over in the Flour City is In
a sad frame of mind, brought about by
the contemplation of the present mu-
niclpal government. They got what
they wanted, and now they want to get
rid of it. A certain young politician
who is quite a mogul in the Minneapo-
lis Republican faction, was over here
Yesterday. and to a crowd of Sanity
City sympathiZerS was recountlng the
woes of his metropolis. THE town is
deader than a door NALL said he, III
gubriously, land it will remain so FOR
another year, until after the next
election. Mayor Babb is away out
of bis element where he is at present.
He can run an ice business and play
smumble-the-peg' with children, but ne
can't run city government. Most of
his time is taken up with the blessed
police commission, and there he does
nothing but indulge i'll petty QuarreiS5
with the other members. The cOuncll
is not much better, and, taking 1t alto
gether, the town is in pretty mess:
Ate O'Clock the sheriff stalks about and
locks the whole town up, and after that
hour everything is as dead as the grave;
| am sorry to say that it is the best
thing that could have happened for the
Democrats, because they will have
full sweep at the next election"
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st. Paul, while it pities her sister city
in her many tribulations, cannot help
but smile, as she is the gamer by it by
thousands of dollars every week. Ihe
immense crowd of disgruntled Mime
apolitans that are waiting for the short
line trains to take them home every
night testify to that. They come over
here to enjoy the sights of city just
the same as the people who live IN
Podunk and other sup kentry' resorts.
Nobody can blame them for that. There
is nothing like little recreation once
in while, especially in place where
there is no danger of their being ar
rested for being on the streets after the
sun has gone down. So they come over
here in droves every day and bring their
sisters and their cousins and their aunts
with them, while the st. Paul business
man rubs his hands together gleefully.
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There is a move on foot among the
focal sporting fraternity to organize an
athletic club, similar to tfOSe IN San
Francisco. Something of that descrlp-
ton onght to pay here, as there is abso-
1uIely IlO place III 1OfCl VI lIlC
to 90 and exercise, outside of the Ger
man turner societies and 7. NJ. c. A.
gymnasium The former are exclusive,
and the latter has its Objectionable
points. To make an athletic club a
success, however, it will be necessary
for the young men to do something be-
sides talking. They have got to put
their shoulder to the wheel and come up
with the lucer besides do good deal OF
hustling. The gymnasium in Minneap-
oils has never proved success, and is
now t1oundering about like ship with
out a rudder. The young men in that
doury city talked too much. and did
nothing else. Prof. Charlie Duplessis
tried his level best to keep it above
water, but he found wind unpalatable,
and had to give it up.
There were lot of astonished sports
when the news reached here that
Dempsey had been knocked out in the
thirty second round by La Blanche.
They could hardly believe it possible
that the heretofore invincible ''Non-
pareil'' had been defeated. A ''chance
blow did it they say, and yet those same
chance blows win mole fights and
make more pugilists than any other
kind of blows. 1t would be we'll for
Pat Killen to cultivate this same chance
blow, as he may need it in his fight
with McAuliffe. 1t was one of Pats
chance blows that laid Patsy Cardiff
out so neatly year ago at Minneapolis.
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The council may meet, and the peo-
pie may kick, but Tom Lowry goes Oh
forever At least, it seems so. Yes
terday his WOrkmen were buSily ell
gagged in tearing up Sixth street above
Wabasha, and laying down rails as
fast as possible. There were, perhaps.
two thousand citizens who stopped
and Indignantly watched the proceed
ings during the day, but that made no
difference. Mr.. Lowry's foreman knew
his business. aud only smiled as ne
worked. "Who is this Mr.. Lowry that
everybody is kicking about?'' asked a
stranger in passing. WHO is Mr.
Lowry?" echoed bystander. "why
he is the owner of st. Paul and Mime
apolis. That's who he is"
W. L. McGrath, the well-known st.
Paul horseman, owns a horse which he
thinks will prove world beaten. 1t is
the gray stallion Tipperary, by The
Seus, and first dam Delaney Tramp by
Tramp. Tipperary was foaied in 1886
and since his debut as a yearIing in the
Yearling stakes at the 1887 State Fair,
he has won everything. Last year in
the Breeders stakes for two year-olds,
half-mile heats, he won; then in the
free-for-all, mile heats, he won again;
next he defeated Paul Gotzian's stall
lion Memnon in match race, and at
the Saltwater races he again won the
Maturity Stakes for three-year-ods.
McGrath thinks Tipperary wonder,
and will start him again in the Futurity
stakes race, at the State Fair next
month.