St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
MINNEAPOLIS.
NOTE AND COMMENT.

NOTE AND COMMENT.
The peculiarities of the working of
the female mind was never better
illustrated than by the TRADE of Mrs.
y. c. MeCurdy against the county jail
ana everybody connected with it. Give
q woman an idea that there is wrong
in the world somewhere AMI she inn
mediately begins to abuse every one
intimately or remotely connected with
the working of that WRONG. even II
the persons actually condemned De as
innocent Us the babe unborn. IhaC Is
what Mrs. McCurdy does, to a great eX-
tent, in her roast on the jail and IT'S
management She walks on the county
officials because of the architectural
faults of the present jail building. She
would have the men deprived or tne
pleasure Of smoking or of playing cards,
forgetting for the moment that singing
hymns, chewing chocolate caramels
and playing authors are scarcely
in the line of criminals Sucn as
find their way into the county jail.
Then she pulls Jailer Riley'S hair out
in handfulS, wants him discharged be-
cause he is Catholic-Which, by the
way, is not q statutory erime-callS him
a Il
thing but murderer This is scarcely
ladylike, and manifestly unjust, as is
patent to every one who knows Mi.
Riley. But it is useless to particularlZe:
What Mrs. McCurdy says about the jan
and those connected with 1t would take
up two full columns, and. almost With
out exception, she abuses the wrong
person throughout her report.
The county Jail is not supposed to be
the home of luxury and the abiding
place of all virtue. 1t is not place TO
which those seeking the good things OF
the here and the hereafter voluntarily
consign themselves. Because 1t is not
a home tit for Il king and place where
prayer and pSalm-SlngIng are the only
sounds that break the silence, IS not the
fault of JailOr Riley, as Mrs. McCurdy
seeks to show. Any one with grain OF
sense knows that iron bars must be en-
ploved to prevent the criminal classes
from preying upon society. While
criminals are awaiting trial they can
scarcely be allowed to roam the parks
and entertain their friends, all the time
wearing purple and fine linen, as Mrs.
McCurdy seems to think they should do.
Moreover, there is another side to the
story. Mrs. hcCurdy possibly fOrgetS
that some possibly well mean
ing but nevertheless obnoxious
ladies' were, a few days ago,
compelled by the sheriff to leave the
Jail after they had, by their hypocritical
can't, nearly driven poor Emma Schmidt
10 insanity. But leaving that entirely
out of the question, Mrs. McCurdy'S re-
port shows on It's face to what conSlo-
Grafton 1t is entitled. From first TO last
her report is a mass of misstatements,
inaccuracies and eXaggeratiOns. The
W. c. r. u. ladies will advance their
cause more rapidly by dealing III facts.
Verify the express wagon pilots are
contractors. as any man who has ever
had dealings with them knows from the
size of his ''roll'' after having paid one
of them.
AS a pointer to men who want to be
mayor and to get their names before the
public for advertising purpOSes-g0 TO
Shakopee, Merriam Park, anywhere
away from home. stay away two whole
days, come back and be interviewed.
It's said that since Mrs. McCurdy's
pyrOtechnic report was published. DR..
Bnrrell has decided to withdraw from
the mayoralty contest and run for
sheriff. depending upon the support OF
the w. c. L. u. and the Chinese.
AS there are 10 traces of the aeroiite to
be found near st. Peter, it is suspected
that the intense light supposed to have
been produced by the falling OF a
heavenly messenger, was simply the
explosion that followed when h. Z.
Babb discovered that he is actually
mayor of Minneapolis.
Gil Pierce, senator from Dakota, was
IN the city yesterday. and 'smilngly''
acknowledged to an evening paper that
he is a candidate for reelection. BY
the way, how comes it that all these
great men like Bob Evans and Gil
Pierce. when they are interviewed by
this evening paper, ''smilingly reply,
or ''Smilingly acknowledge Inc mint
Julep season must be setting IN.
Frank COtharin on the unholy game
OF "Twenty-one:p "Confound the game.
The most | ever won on 1t was not to
lose more than $25. I'd rather spit at
mark in a rain storm than play it."
A reader of the GLOBE, commenting
uvan Mr.. Babb's wonderful discovery
that he is mayor of Minneapolis, asks
whether Babb knew he was mayor Of
Minneapolis when he woke Tom
Lowry up at midnight TO find out ii the
street railway ordinance providing for
electric and cable lines and perpetual
ing the street railways exclusive fran
chise was entirely satisfactory TO him.
And now, after Ed Davenport and
George w. Marchant have been gotten
out of the way with considerable
trouble, it is said that Maj. W. d. Hale
is not entirely certain whether he wants
10 be postmaster or not.
Bill King is home for day or so
again, and proceeds to tell the people of
minneapolis how the city should be run.
King is ceasing to be interesting, how
ever,
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.