St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-15

anu on Jack bennet solemn lace,
The summer smile will be unfurled.
That investigation-"wo this is awiulI'
1t is dead sure thing that the GLoBE
didn't get left on the Jumbo expose.
"a Disease in Flax is headline IN an
evening paper, which strangely enough does
not precede n statement of Andy McGiIl's
utlerances on the question of tariff on flax.
From all appearances the South Minneap-
oils market middle is not any neGrera s0lu-
tloh now than ii was month ago. In fact,
no sooner is one difficulty disposed of than
another and perhaps more serious one arises.
When the people of the Sixth ward dlscov-
cred that the Seventh and Eleventh wards
were TO be benefited by market, some OF the
citizens sent up mighty Rowland they have
practically declared that if the market was
not located in the Sixth ward 1t should not be
located in South Minneapolis at all.
At the next meeting of the council the
Benton ordinance VIII be brought up again,
and it is said That if Mr.. Benton does not
want the franchise. some Of the people i'll
the Sixth ward will take il. South Minneap-
oils may be great place, and IL may be that
il is even greater than any other locality IN
the city, but just at present II is hardly popu-
Ious enough TO support halt dozen market
houses. ana capitalists Will not be rushing
into business The profits from which lor
years to come are to say the least prospective.
The council at its meeting yesterday was
guilty OF what might Justly be termed IL pc
CuliaT performance" In faCt there have
been several peculiar performances con-
nected with the cUrbing of Twentieth avenue
north. First, the contract was awarded for
natural stone at something over 81 per foot.
when it is now claimed that the property
owners all wanted an artificial stone. That
in itself might be called peculiar. Then The
resolution, which was drawn up in the city
engineers office and which was passed by
the council. awarding the contract TO
Ring Il Tobin. was discovered to be
imperative because the clause directing the
proper city officers to execute the contract
had been omitted. This, too, was peculiar.
Yesterday the majority of the committee re-
ported in favor Of giving the contract to
Nivel & Westland at 80 cents per foot for the
artificial stone, but the minority report rec
commended the letting Of the contract to
ParkhurSL for 80 cents a foot. Strange 10
gay, the council awarded the contract for the
SO-cent stone Upon the face of it the whole
transaction might be regarded rs one of the
councils peculiar performances.
W. II. Donahue thinks that If Bethany
home is to receive financial support from the
city funds. the House OF the Good Shep-
herd is more entitled to receive similar aid,
and he proposes to head q crusade TO secure
division OF the appropriation. He is doubt
lchS COIItCt, Dul Ia tilt Guy luG IlS4li fSdllgs
to make any appropriation for the support
Of private or sectarlau institutions!
Charlie Pillsburv has been incorrectly re-
ported again, ana says he die not throw cold
water on the Nillard-LOWry plan 10 utilize
the Meeker Island water power. AT the
present stage of the Mississippi 1t is doubtful
whether Charles has any cold water 10 throw.
The people of the Thirteenth ward can be
happy now. A fire station is 10 he located at
Thirty-hfth and Chicago avenue, and there
Will be some chance OF an apparatus arriving
at a fire in time 10 save the foundation walls
OF building that is burning.
While the Minneapolis Street Railway
Company is ful of business 1t dOeSn mix
very much philanthropy with il. The
proposition To require the company to place
an electric light on the poles, which are TO
occupy the center Of the streets, was prompt
ly showed under by the aldermen who stand
ready to give the street railway anything it
demands. The center pole idea is all right
for the railroad company. 1t Will cost less
and be much more convenient than the side
poles which are now in use, but it also means
practical abandonment of the roadway and
naturally Inconvenience TO the public,
but then some of the aldermen apparently do
not represent the public.
Health Officer Kilvington is happy now.
looked as If some of the inspectors would
have to be dispensed with; but the doctor is
hustler, and now that he has succeeded i'll
securing $1,000 from the contingent fund,
the pink yellow, green and blue please eX-
change" reports win be issued as OF yore.
Some one has remarked that there IS in the
city treasury contingent fund of $4,000.
There was, but il is not there just now. The
First ward has had So, 900 of it transferred
for street grading in Northeast Minneapolis,
the health department secured $1,000 and
the Twelfth ward only lacked one vote of
gobbling $4,000 more. SO there is not quite
$4,000 left
Capt c. B. Terrill--You have no idea Of the
number of newspapers that exist in Mime
apolis. l yesterday received bill for $40
for services rendered during the last cam.
paign from a paper that l never even heard
of, and have lived here a few years, too.
Advocates Of bi-metalism are much graft
fed by the spectacle OF a lecture on gold be-
Ing delivered in q church which has silver in
its name. No one was admitted VINO did not
possess tin, but if some sneak thief were to
copper the receipts, then would the iron
enter the souls of the congregation.
And now blight is upon the flax fields
which were to make several thousand copies
of Croesus out of Minnesota tarmers-accord-
ing to high tariff politicians. Ncrlt the Elm
fuence of benjamin and Levi, aided and
abetted by Bill aud Ig.. have extended even
into the vegetable world.
Amateur humouSts and spring poets get
no show for their lines nowadays Here is
the council committee recommending that
the trolley wire poles OF the projecting arm
variety be put up in the streets This is
nothing but aiding and abetting WOud-be
lynchers
The journal claims to have discovered the
smallest baby III the world ana has taken
steps TO add The child to its kindergarten. If
the little one brain is proportional accord
ing to herfbOdy, Managing Editor Mclean
will be in danger Of soon being superseded@
Charlie Pillsbury frantically shrieks that
he has been misquoted and misrepresenUed
The artistic puller of wool over the eyes of
English syndiCates is not the first man who
has entered n negatiOn when he happened 10
make Il break through the press.
Andy McGm thinks that he has been
"purposely misre presented" and gives out
cold that he is not an advocate OF single tax.
What would be more to The point however,
would be a declaration from the knight of
the mustache as to just where he stands on
the single term theory.
There are several respected Eighth warders
who earnestly hope that the system of grad
ing to be established out in that part of the
city will be extended so as TO include the
"stomach btters SOLD by the drug stores.
The public had just heaved sigh OF relief
over Ryn's failure to talk to the reporters
when "Moxfe'' Hengle blew in and told the
young man of the evening jay, who writes
about ''rosy-cheeked Sam in consideration
of receiving painted tops. that he never
felt better'T The jay should add a copy OF
"Rogets Thesaurus" to his library.
The manner in which the aldermanic in
Vestgation is crawling along indicates that
the city Legislators will be likely to follow. in
this matter, in the footsteps of their sena-
toral prototypes who are Investigating
Washington correspondents.
Spring.