St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-10
VISITED "ToUGH JOINTS"
Weu-Known Christians See Few
SIGHTS in Minneapolis.

Sights in Minneapolis.
GolightIy Merrill has been equaled.
He no longer bears the proud dlstlnc-
ton of being the only thoroughly live
and aggressive Presbyterian who has
had courage enough to take the bull
of sin and iniquity by his frontal pro-
tuberances ana wrestle with MN long
and faithfully. Golightly wanted to
preach about the plenitude of wicked
ness which lives in the midst of the
sacred city of Minneapolis, so he under
took to make personally con-
Quoted excursion to the haunts OF
vice; but his achievement stands
equaled, and such a result was brought
about by the intense rivalry which eX-
lists between the Central w. e. I. u. and
the Non-Partisan w. G. I. U. The nom
partisan brought Seuney and wife mere
to labor for morality. Their meetings
were mentioned and advertised IN
the papers, and the Central w. Z. l. U.
had to go them one better. They have
done so. Last night as darkness began
to gather over the city several members
of the w. G. T. U. primed themselves
with copies of 1.-THE Sure Road to
Eternal Bliss" and sailed forth. There
were four or five gentlemen and as many
ladies. Mrs E. A. Russell, manager OF
the WOmen's Christian Temperance
union coffee house; Rev. Mr.. Bowker,
who lectures this afternoon at the
Woman's Christian Temperance union;
Rev. j. w. Dungee, pastor OF the Be
thesda church, and Miss Hallie y.
Brown, the colored elocutionist, were
of the party. but the names
of the others are unknown. First
they went to the Jumbo concert
saloon on Washington avenue south,
where they sat in the wine rooms,
listened to short-skirted, sharp-voiced
female MARBLE about young Miss
Rooney and other local favOrltes;
wondered at the wickedness of man,
and inhaled the fumes of bad
beer and worse cigars. From
there they wendell their way
to the somber-hued, oriental, classic
retreat owned and operated by one Ida
Dorsey at lis Second avenue south.
There they sat about and looked fool
ish, while the duskey damsels who
there abide chewed gum, stared and
talked in an unintelligible Jargon. NO
money being forthcoming for beer
or for the professor, they were
allowed to understand that their
room was more valuable than their COM
pany, so they wandered hence. Inc
next stop was at pol First street south,
at the sylvan retreat known as Jenny
TWINS maisOn de joi." There their
advent had been heralded, and they
were met at the door with the informa..
ton that unless they would spend
their sacred shekels for beer and
in all ways conform to the ancient adj
monition, ''When in Rome do as the
Romans do" they would not be admit
ted. These representatives of nineteenth
century high moral ideas asserted their
WILLINGNESS to conform to custom, but
basely they betrayed the trustfulness
of their hosts, and once in the parlor
they sat down, but none of them
said sOpen a bOttle.'' The men looked
scared and the women foolish. 1t will
be remembered that when Golightly
went Summing he paid his score like a
man, acted the "throughbred'' i'll every
way and paid for his lnforma-
ton. His successors in that line,
il will be noted, are built on
different lines. Their presence, be-
coming irksome to the prOprietress, she
broke in with: Come, gentlemen, buy
some beer and be sOciable or get out.
Strike up, professor; ana one OF you
girls dance the can-can for the ladies
anu lC PlOANosOh
..struck up" and one of the de-
voices of pleasure slightly elevated her
skirts and began the can-can, but the
visitors had had enough. With a ''Walt.
please, until we get OUT" the gentle
men elevated their noses, the ladies
gathered their skirts about them, lest
they become contaminated by the touch
of the furniture even, and the
party sought the door. 1t
may be noted further that
these seekers after information saw
these people on ''the row" at the
worst, for the occupants of these houses
had heard of their coming and had de-
termined to drive them out by their
toughness. The last place settled
it. 1t had been the intention
to take in several gilded palaces
of sin, but the excursionlsts
had seen enough. Slowly they wan
dered back to their homes, and wild
revelry reigned in the houses which
they had left until we'll toward day
light. Who was benefited by the visit!
Not the jewellers on First street.
More good could have been done
here had the calls been made in
the afternoon. Are the people who
made the visit the better for what they
saw? knowledge of evil never did any
one any good. This expedition simply
gratifed whim and furnished the par
Elephants something to talk about fol
the next few weeks.