St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-14
FACT AND FANCY.

The city council VIII meet to morrow even
ing.
j. D. Waller. the wellknown hotel clerk,
will shortly be found behind the counter OF
the new Sherman house.
The meeting tonight of the Twin City Com
mercial club promises to be the most inter
esting and important of the series.
Yesterday was a quiet day in police cir
cles, not an arrest having been made at cen
trail station between 2 a. m. and p. m.
The excavation for the new Metropolitan
opera house is nearly completed. Work on
Jacob Lifts new theater is also prog ressing
rapidly.
The electric motor fine did lively bust
ness yesterday, many persons riding to the
end of the line at Cretin avenue and back for
the pleasure of an airing.
Tomorrow will be the first Of the three
registration days provided by statute The
registration books will be open in each pre-
cinct from 9 a. m to p m.
Work upon the new Kayanagh building,
corner of Waba ,ha and Fifth streets, is pro-
crossing rapidly. The building. when COM
pleted, will be occupied by mammoth dry
goods store
This evening the fire commissioners will
meet III regular session. The most imper-
tant business is the opening of bids for fire
mems monuments to be erected in Oakland
and Calvary cemeteries.
Next Saturday evening Czech Lodge No. II,
c. s. P s.. win give ball at Picha hall. cor
ner of West Seventh street and Western ave-
nue.. The ball is for the benefit of the Bo'
hemian school in the Fifth ward.
Seats are now on sale for the concert by
the University of Michigan Glee club at the
Newmarket tomorrow night. The boys are
sure of a warm welcome, especially from
their many college mates in St Paul.
The union depot is entirely too small to
accommodate the amount of travel, particu-
hrly during the summer season. and the
public is beginning to wonder when more
connections structure will be built.
Complaint is being made that the street
signs on lamp posts are misplaced in many
instances. For instance, at the corner of
Fourth and Exchange streets the signs are
transposed so that Fourth is labeled Elk
change, and vice versa.
A proposition is on foot to so change the
grade of upper Third street that the cable
line tracks can be built upon a tangent,
thereby reducing the danger to human life
should a car slip its breaks and come down
the Selby avenue hill at high rate of speed.
Marie Wainwright, who opens her engage
ment at the Harris tonight in Twelfth
Niehtm viii have a clear field, and win
doubtless play to standing room only The
comedy will be magnificenily staged, and
the lasting popularity of the star insures
splendid houses.
The old city hall lookup is disgrace to
the city and standing reproach to the au-
thorities. The place is oyerrun with yermin,
and its odors are siekening and pestiential.
It Is a crying shame to confine criminal in
the filthy cells. to say nothing of keeping
within its walls those who are guilty of sim
pie misdemeanor.
The last shanty which b as so long stood
as monument to the once populous Happy
Hollow has disappeared, and the railroad
companies have filled in the space with earth
for railroad trackage- The rayine through
which coursed Trout creek is no more. The
creek has been walled in, covered over and
is now part of the city's system of sewers,
while the railroads have spread thereon a
| network of rails.
Officer Tom Calvin last night arrested
John Marks and Dennis Flynn for disor-
| derby condnct. They were jostling the
| crowds at the corner of Wabasha ana Seventh
| streets AS they are two tough youths who
| have heretofore been arrested for picking
pockets, the supposition is that they were
intent upon that purpose last evening.
| There is, however. no evidence that the boys
| had robbed any person.
! Henry a. Ragau, whose illustrated lee
| lures were SO enthusiastically received i'll
both st. Paul and Minneapolis few years
! ago, will give a course of lectures at the Gen.
| trail Park NJ E. church, beginning April 20
with his lecture on 1.-The Yosemite and the
| Yellowstone" The other dates and lectures
are May j, Belgium and Holland; May 5,
'sRamblings IN Rome" aud May 6, TREAS
ures OF the Rockies Mr.. Raglan is an
orator as well as an artist and his lectures
are among the most interesting known.