St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-04
SAINT PAUL.
A ADDITIONAL City News on Page s.
ECHOES OF THE STREET.

ECHOES OF ItE SIh Eel.
1t is an open secret that the Solo Ms of
the chamber of commerce will not, So
long as they can prevent it, allow an
other ice palace to be erected in st.
Paul. The impression has become
riyeted upon them that the ice palaces
in the past have retarded immigration
and are responsible for St. Paul falling
behind Minneapolis in population.
But, if we can't have an ice palace,
there is no reason why citizens should
be deprived entirely of seaSona0le
winter MnuSementS. The effort of
a lew gentlemen to Introduce an
ice carnival is conmendable, though it
would seem that the same objections
raised against an ice palace can as log
cally be raised against an ice carnival.
If we are to have an ice carnival, why
not do the thing in style and build an
ice palace? Is the city in such bank
rupt condition that it must fall back
upon SiX-f6ot ice-wall around Smith
park, arrange for a tawdry display
therein. and dub it ''an ice carnival?''
Ii the city cannot provide a hrst-clasS
winter attraction, its credit would stand
much higher by dispensing with an ice
carnival having Cheap John tinge
about it.
The members of the city council are
to be commended for retaining the cleo
uuc lights in the parks during the win
ter months. During these dark even
ingS money cannot be better expended
than in properly lighting up the city.
It. Paul has long since cast off its
sWaddIing clothes, and it is hardly to be
expected that the streets or walks
through the parks are not used after
shutdown.
Z. j. Hodgson should be a little more
careful when making public address.
He recently Informed Il body of mer-
chants that there were 10000 houses not
rented III st. Paul, and the statement
would have gone uncOntradicted but for
the presence of W. NJ. Bushnell, who
Informed MIR. HOdgson that a census of
the untenanted buildings had been
and there were merely 1923. 1t is inn
possible to estimate the harm done the
city 10y the wild statements of woulu-be
educators of the public.
The proposition of the Kansas City
road to lay a spur track across South
WabaSha should be weighed seriously.
These railroad crossings are a menace
TO life. and serious loss TO owners of
adjoining property.
The exodus of SwedeS to the old
world continues. \ party of 129 we're
taken out of the city, en- route for New
York. by local line last evening.
Manly e. Curry does not believe in
SuppreSSing the true facts of the condi-
lion of trade in the city. If st. Paul
S not so prosperous as it was two years
ago he wants to know it, and if not why
not. Towards that end he is pushing
he chamber of commerce to make an
exhaustive inquiry.
A great effort is to be made to get the
legislature TO re-eStablish the state bu-
reau Of immigration, and in connection
herewith W. NJ. Bushnel'S name has
been mentioned as the most fitting man
to take charge of the bureau. In MIR.
BuShneifS control the bureau would be
an und0ubted power. but it is very
questionable whether he would accept
the position. His real estate and loan
business is too good thing to be thrown
lightly aside, and is probably worth
thrice the value of the salary attached
TO the head of an immigration bureau.
Col. Cody has returned from the seat
If war, but what has become of 1.-The
most able and brilliant military CORE
'pondent since the days of Custer?"
The fatal electric car accident at Min
1eapOlis ought to be lesson 10 the en-
3loyes on the electric and cable cars in
St. Paul. Many accidents have been
narrowly averted in this city while car
mas been passing another. from which
passengers are alighting. Greater care
should be observed. or better still, no
ear should pass another which may be
standing to allowing passengers to
alight.
The individuals who were responsible
FOR Frank De Witt Talmage's appear
ance in st. Paul must now feel wiser if
Sadder men. Owing to the glamor
which surrounds his fathers name, their.
. expectations ran high. and great prep
aratiOns were made to handle the
crowds which they confidently believed
would flock to the Central Park NJ. e.
church. How great was their disap-
p0intment, when hardly hundred peo-
pie assembled to hear the young man!
Ialmage Jr. may acquit himself
h0nOrably in the college debates or
before his fathers Sunday school, but it
is hardly to be expected that people can
be got to pay to go and hear him speak.
They might as well be asked to pay TO
see the shadow of Talmage Sr. Besides,
nowadays, people will not attend lect-
ures unless the lecturer possesses a
national reputation. Even Franks
father did not fill the Peoples audito-
rum when in st. Paul: that is, when
here was charge for admission. The
auditorium was crowded on the Sunday
afternoon when there was merely a col
lection. and any church deacon will tell
you what that means.
The weather observer was slightly
out of his reckoning yesterday. He an
nOunced that the back of the cold wave
had been broken. Or the contrary the
general opinion of those unhappy indi-
Niduals compelled to be out late last
evening was that it had stIffened. How
is this, Mr.. Lyons?
What would become of J. J. McCardy
If he had net something sensational to
lay before an executive body? Why
cannot this gentleman, when he is pos
seSsed of information of interest to
his fell0w-citiZens, at once agree to its
publication? Is he frightened of pub
LEFTY. or is he of opinion that the only
organization on this earth is the cham
Der of commerce?
The fatal runaway on the West side
Tuesday evening will serve to point the
moral and adOrn the tale of MANY tenn
perance stump orators. The driver of
team and his companion were intoxi-
Gated. The team ran away, one man
was Killed, but the whisky flash in his
pocket was unbroken. Justthink of the
field this story opens for the enthusiastic
temperance advocate. 1t is almost end
less. After the Story las hnen ren.atad