St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-20
SAINT PAUL.
MAN ABOUT TOWN.

Vi SIlidll-StLcU S1tlHDCuO llOlu tue
lobby of the Metropolitan. The blase
youth at the elevator. with degree of
activity hitherto unsupported in him.
took refuge in the cage, and, giving
vigorous yank to the cable. shot sky
ward like rocket. Prof. McLachlan,
who had been slowly pacing the tiled
floor. musing as he went on musical
futurities. broke into broader Scotch
than has heen heard from his lips tor
many a long day; and the blonde fairy
at the news stand struck tragic atti-
tude preparatory TO fainting, but
moderately at the terrOr-Stricken bell
boys who had scattered in all direc-
lions. The occupants of the billiard
room, cues in hand, rushed to the scene,
and stood like the Black Crook ballet
III rehearsal surveying the scene, with
the riSibly affected damSel as prim
donna. 1t was only brief scare. A
section of the ceiling had become dis
lodged and fallen with crash to the
floor beneath.
A recently dug-up candidate for luck
In the local newspaper field was made
the victim of job the other day at the
Merchants. Some one pointed out
Chancellor Woolworth to him as ire
mendously wealthy mine owner from
Costa RIGA, stating that he was here for
the purpose of interesting st. Paul cap
which should pale the history of all
previous finds in the magnitude of the
yield it would give investors. The new
man approached Mr.. Woolworth, and.
having introduced himself, announced
that he was on to the mining scheme,
and that he (WOolworth) had better give
down. In vain the veteran as
sured his prosecutor that he didn't
know a thing about Costa Rica, in fact,
had never been in Central America in
his life. The new man wouldn't have
it that way, so, as last resort, the good
natured chancellor spun out wondrous
fairy tale about the new deep Lip"
located it to an inch, told how and when
it was discovered, and announced his
intention of joining compseG of st.
Paul capitalists to open up the mine
with capital of 100000. The alert
occasion, and Mr.. WOolWOrth's Central
American designs never saw the light
OF day. .
Minnie Palmer. of the Grau opera
company, recently in this city, is tall,
well-fOrmed girl, possessing rich con-
tralto voice and somewhat masculine
style of walking. While in ST. Paul, as
she stated to reporter for Chicago
paper on Saturday, she wore male cos
tune and mixed with the men of the
company, who assisted her to carry out
the scheme. Before coming here she
made wager with the manager of the
company that she would wear his
clothes during theSt. Paul engagement.
and wear them she did. The gang at
the Clifton say she was jolly good fel-
low told better stories than anybody,
and smoked cigars with as great a zest
as the best of them. No one suspected
that the long-haired. jolly youth was a
girl, and Minnie drew double salary for
the week as the result of her enterprise.
Apropos of theatrical people, St.Paul-
ties will remember the clever lady
fencer, Louise Hilyard, who seconded
Miss Englehart when that lady SO
easily bested Prof. LerouX, of Minneap-
oils, III foil contest at the Harris the
ater.. The girls were playing with the
Conreid Opera company in 1.-The Kings
Fool" Louise and her former COM
panion-at-arms. Amelia Bell, are now
the most talked-about pairin New York,
IN theatrical circles at least. While the
company was playing here wealthy
young st. Paulite whom every one
knows became desperately enam0ured
of the fair Louise, and even went
so far as to follow her to New
ciprocated the passion, and everything
went smoothly until the tickle MINNIE
sotian became acquainted with Amelia,
when he at once forsook Louise for her.
A great jealousy sprung up be-
tween the two on this account, and
the result was duel fought with foils
In the Metropolitan hotel, New York
city. on the 10th, in which Amelia suS-
tanned her claims to the affections and
dollars of the st. Paul blood by sticking
pretty Louise through the shoulder. A
special to the Chicago Tribune dated
the 10th thus describes the combat:
No sooner had the referee drawn her foil
away than the rivals few at each other. The
foils glittered, struck, ana flashed fire as the
two fought. The bell guard OH the handle
sounded in quick succession as taps were re-
ceived upon it by the opposing foils.
Relraating and pursuing each other by
turns, the girls carried on the conflict Their
faces were flushed and their eyes glittered.
They were evenly matched. and their skill
provoked admiration and even cries Of ap-
plause.
At last the Keen point of Amelia's foil
pierced the white shoulder OF Louisa. 1t was
done SO quickly that the spectators hardly
knew she was cut until they saw the blood
flowing from the wound. Herr Conried
sprang in front of Amelia. and the entire
party interfered. Miss Englehart insisted on
the contestants putting On their masks before
the duel could proceed Louisa's wound
was dressed at once and the crimson flow all
stopped. Finally the girls were induced to
kiss each other lovingly.
Hon. C. J. Mcnamara, of Fort Magin-
mis-, who went East couple of weeks
ago to see some folks, returned to St.
Paul yesterday and is at the Ryan.
Senator Hoffman has still few men to
see i'm New York, which will occupy
him until the Montana legislature has
adjourned tomorrow, when he will re-
turn home. Senator Mcnamara said
yesterday that he intended leaving for
Montana to-day, IN which case he will
arrive in Helena in time 10 see the
members file out.
Charlie Fowler, the representative of
0lmer & Stetson, the Chicago dry goods
people, isn't the happiest man in the
world to-day. He was telling funny
story in his inimitable vein to a group
of friends at the Ryan last night when
VI IilC DCl OOyo Nun q WV
gram. He opened it with smile on his
face, thinking it was from the house. 1t
read:
'Milly died at Z o'clock. Come I'M
mediately."
The Charlie Fowler who looked up
from the reading of that awful sentence
was not recognized as the men who had
with a 1ocular remark about the lateness
of the hour for business, torn open the
envelope. The smile had faded and
given place to an expression so fright
full in its agony that those who stood by
awaiting the conclusion of the story
shrank from him involuntarily. Hand
Ing the dispatch to one of the gang, he
said in whisper:
boys. Milly was my wife, and she's
dead."'
They were all travelling men. Most
of them had wives and knew just what
the news meant to their friend, but the
most they could do to express their SYM
pathy was to administer silent hand
shake and leave him alone with his sor-
raw. Mr.. Fowler left for Chicago this
morning.