St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
MINNEAPOLIS COMMENT.

One of the most gigantic cases of cold
nerve ever brought to light in Mime
apoliS was discovered at the meeting of
the FOrtnightly club. which was held in
the public library on Friday evening
last. Before the meeting was held the
officers of the club visited all the news
paper Offices and ''conned''the city edit
or into giving the coming meeting
advance notices which would have
made hustling circus agent turn green
with envy. The meeting was promptly
called to order, and by actual count
there were exactly nine members and
four reporters present. Then the
president cooly announced that ''if the
reporters chose to they could remain as
private citizens. but nothing must be
printed about the meeting. If the re-
porteTs promise this they would
have to retire" OF course the reporters
left and yesterday those nine men were
busy denouncing the newspapers be-
cause their deliberations had not been
duly chronicled under big display head
lines. 1t will strike most people as
queer that the public library building.
built by public funds and heated and
lighted by money raised by public taxa
ton should be owned and controlled by
any such organization.
The police commission, after several
weeks of idieness, will - provided
Messrs. Babb and Guile can get together
hold meeting tomorrow. Chief of
Police Bracket. will make his an
nual report and recommend few
changes in the laws which Just
now refuse to recognize the policeman.
who is paid servant of the people, as
a supreme being. 1t is hardly possible
that the vacancy caused by the dismiss
sal of Serjt. Henry Krumweide will be
filled before the city council makes
another appropriation, although strange
things sometimes happens.
There is little difference of opinion
at present between Superintendent of
the Poor Snyder and City Physician
Chase about the disposal of sick pau
pers. Mr.. Snyder has been sending
some of them to the city hospital,
and 10 this DR.. Chase objects.
He wants them sent to the
poor farm. Supt. Snyder. however,
says that he cannot send people to the
poor farm unless they have lived in
Minneapolis year, and when q sick
man applies to him for aid he is going
TO send him to the city hospital rather
than turn him out of his office to die
in the street. Most people think the
superintendent is right.
At times detectives in the pursuit Of
criminals have to resort to all sorts of
subterfugeS to capture their-men. and
mahy ingenious and novel DISCUSSES and
plans are described in the 'Old Sleuth"
libraries. In Minneapolis, however,
the genuine criminal is very
rare article, and while the de-
tectives are content to closely watch
the railroad depots and keep this Oh
nOXious class out Of town, satisfied i'll
doing this they are protecting the peo-
pie. there is one man on the force whose
only apparent happiness upon this
earth is in making arrests.
He has discarded all the old
ways of obtaining information and
he goes on the theory that
seeing is believing" and he prowls
around in the Railways Of the tenement
blocks at night, peeling over transoms
and listening at keyholes. His name
has become inSeparably connected with
stepladder, and he glories i'll
the number of arrests for petty otfenses
he has to his credit. Some day, while
he is engaged in peeping oyer a tran
som, he will be mistaken for burglar
and killed. It's dollars to doughnutS
that the people at large will say the man
who killed him was justified.
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