St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-12

The public's approval to earn;
you've run to seed and exc to stem,
Your pores are full of rocks;
Brace up, my buck, or you find yourself
In considerable of Il box.
Make the best of your season, bub;
I've got my vacation plan;
I'm going I'D the alley
To summer with Sally
AS only an oyster cam
The above conversation was over
heard by a colonel of the Merchants
police and Immediately turned over to
GLOBE reporter as exclusive matter,
but it was too late for publication in the
May supplement. However, the col
onel's eavesdropping bore fruit in the
form of train of thought that occurred
to the reporter, the burden of which
was. "What of the oyster of 1922
''Shall we go in recommending candi-
dates for federal Offices and pay no at
tention to our local interestS" ''Shall
we have this year long-haul box and
short-haul strawberry, Or vice versa,
and if we conclude to have "a
vice versa will it give as good
satisfaction as the old strawberryH'
10 gain information on these points the
reporter interviewed some of our Lead
nous sentiment in favor of lower case
lowering of the North side tracks. The
restaurant men all said that they had
suffered under the stigma of having
tempered with tue strawberry box long
enough, and they proposed this summer
to have reform, or let the people know
where to lay the blame. Said e. A,
Taylor, of the Always Open Pie En-
porium: 1--WE restaurant men are not
responsible for the style of making
strawberry boxes with the bottom on
the top. We get them from the whole
salers, and have to take them as they
come. 1t is my guess that the boxes
are originally made with bottoms, but
that standing in the hot fields while the
strawberries are being picked, the bot
tom gradually comes to the front, OF
rather the top. Of course when
we buy one Of these sun
dollar we have got to retail the berries
then tile public kicks. Mr.. Taylor is
entitled to the credit of being the first
man in the field this year. lie began
in February selling last years boxes.
People bought them in large numbers
and boiled them for strawberry stain
soup. In March he gave a present of a
strawberry with every box sold, and in
April imported an entire dish of straw
berries for the show-window.
William Regain, of Regan Bros,
stroked his long silky mustache when
asked to state his views Oh the lowering
of the strawberry box bottom and re-
Piled: "I don't believe it is practicable
this year.. The market. Of course, has
it's fluctuations, but this year you will
notice through them all steady rise in
prices. Now, strawberries never rise
in price, but same idea is conveyed by
the rise in the bottom of the box. 1t is
a mere convention of the trade. In
stead of reporting in the market
columns rise of five cents quart OH
berries, the papers should report all
inch rise in the bottom OF the box. Ex-
perience has shown that five cents an
inch is the standard of comparison"
Mr.. Bell, of Gillette d Bell, said he
had put in all the morning depressing
the bottom of his boxes one-eighth of
an inch each and filling up on the top,
which caused him to empty two entire
boxes, but competition is SO sharp he is
obliged to cut prices to please his Gus
toners.
Col. William Weston thought there
was no hope for the strawberry trade
until the legislature passes law pro-
viding for inspection on the stem. in
order to exclude foreign berries, and
blamed the last legislature for not tax
ing hold of the problem.