St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-01
DEPOTs AND HOTELS.
What Various Interested Officials
Think of the Late st Revelations


Think Of the Late st Revelations
Yesterday while discussing the inter
view attributed to Supt. Porter, Charles
Tompson. ticket agent at the union
depot. said toa friend. sit is not un-
reasonable to give the names of 275
persons as being located at the union
depot; 700 would be nearer the correct
figure. There are hundreds of Sleep
ing car conductors, and porters and
train men on the almost three hun
dred trains that daily come into
st. Paul, who have no other
known residence than st. Paul. The
great majority of these men don't have
families and don't have regular lodging
places in st. Paul or any other place.
They get their meals at restaurants,
and many of them sleep in their cars or
lodge about the railroad yards, while a
good many go to Minneapolis; yet there
are hundreds of them that claim ST.
Paul as their home. They draw their
pay and get their washing done here.
A recount ought to gather up the names
Of double as many as were enumerated
before"
Postmaster Lee, in speaking on the
same subject, said he did not think it
unusual that so many men should give
their places of residence at the hotels
or at the union depot. Said he: "There
are 110 postal clerks who draw their
pay at st. Paul, and probably not doz-
en- of them have families or residences
in the city. They had no other homes
in the world on June l other than st.
Paul. They ought to be enumerated at
st. Paul. doubt whether nearly all of
t0A
they have no other home it would be
natural for them to answer an enumer-
ator giving their place of residence at
the union depot or at some hotel. I
think we will hold over our own on q
recount"
Supt. Brunson, of the union depot,
said: 81. o. VervaiS. census enumer-
ator for the district in which the union
depot is located, came to the Office of
the Union Depot company and request
ed the names of the employees, which
were given to him from the pay roll of
the company, which contains 1856 names.
Mr.. Veryais was informed OF the
residence of every person whose
residence was known, and directed
to the head of the different
departments for information as to the
residence of those that were not known
in my office. There are twelve en-
ployes of the company that sleep on the
premises. If Mr.. Vervais, or any one
else, as the newspaper dispatches state,
has returned more than this number it
has been done maliciously, and if my
understanding of the law is correct,
criminally, for which the guilty person
should be made to answer"
Supt. Rice, of the Pullman car de-
partment, said: II showed the enumer-
ator this list of names of the conductors
and porters in our employ, whose resi-
denoe is IN St. Paul. called his atten-
tion particularly to the names of about
thirty on the list who are in my divi-
sion, but who also reside in
Chicago. l left him to copy the list.
telling him that did not know the in
dividual addresses of all and that had
not time then to go over the list with
him, but that his best plan. if he wished
to locate them correctly, would be to
wait in the Office and as they come in
from their runs he could get them.
He copied from the list aud
then left the Office. There are
lao names now there, and | think ther e
were more at the time the enumerators
called. | understood that his list would
be checked over with the others. and
that is what should have been done. 1t
is not right to come back at us now as
if we had given these names with in
tent to pad. None of these conductors
OF porters sleep at the depot.