St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-09

SAINT PAUL.
A SUNDAY SKETCH.

Yesterday was. typical Minnesota
summer day-metereologically perfect.
Nature presented her most inviting as
pect. How was the day passed in st.
Paul? This query, simple in itself, is
really complex and multifarious in its
phases-an interesting study. Despite
Thomas Cochran'S resent fierce ar
raignment, in the chamber of COM
merce ST. Paul's is presumably
church-going people. Then, this can
not be Snockingly scarlet city. Yes
terday divine services were unusually
well attended-each faith, each denom-
nation was prop0rtionately represented
in its palatlal and its humble houses OF
worship. Indeed, the protuberant OPP
delightful place to live in, and has ad-
mirable moral attributes.
But innocent diversion on beautiful
Sunday is an essential perqulSlte to
we'll, domestic happiness in its complete
sense. Yesterday the fortunate posses
Sor of family vehicle spent the after
church hoursin delicious drives through
the prettiest and most picturesque parts
of the city-out into the suburbs and
around tile forty OF more handsome pub
lie parks. Those whom fortune has less
favored, took access to the cable ears,
the electric motor or the horse car lines.
for a refreshing ride to outside points OF
public and private resort. Late III the
day, when the suns warm rays nad
Waned, the people pr0menaded the varl-
Gus IhoroughfareS until tea time. In
the evening the churches again drew
full quota.
The less godly politicians did not per-
nit the day to pass without an attempt
to SOW seeds that they hope will spring
I'D and glow and blossom and bear
fruit next November. These were at
the hotels laying plans and mapping
out modes of operation. They discussed
the probabilities, in conjunction with
possibilities-the predictions and
qualities of candidates, and usually 1t
was tempered with the thought of the
dollars that Mi. So-and-So, candidate
for Such-and-such position, can throw
into the scales.
Not the least interesting feature of
the day was the multitudinous delega-
ton of visitors from the Mill City.
"Why do they come to st. Paul with
such remarkable regularity on Sun
day"' one may ask, and he will readily
find an answer in the methods and re-
ginle Of the police commission admins
tration Of affairs in the City at the
Falls. Her citizens are laW-abiding nat
urally, but they will rebel against open
coercion, and hence they enjoy an in
MIGRATING ride on short line train to
st. Paul, where they may partake of
good, old fashioned hospitality. Some
of these visitors, now and then, become
indiscreet, and permit their eXuberance
and the JOY which the knowledge that
they are not under pristine domination
begetS. to bubble little too much, but
this is rather the exception than the
rule.
Yesterday was somewhat different,
however, from the usual Sunday, eS-
pecially OF the past month, but it was
in this respect analogous to that which
will follow The pretty little stern
wheeler, loaded to the guards
with happy souls, steamed up
the river from the docks
at $50 and continued its course to Fort
Smelling, where brief pause was made.
Thence the run was continued to Min
nehaha falls. Here the party disem-
barked and a most enjoyable time en-
Sueu. III was ABOUT O.oU III Tie evening
when the return trip had been COM
pleted.
Again hundreds upon hundreds rode
out to White Bear and the other lakes
on the frequent trains provided for their
accommodation. The lakes and their
surroundings are. just now at their very
best. The verdure is Iuxuriant, and
pleasures are not married by the indus
trious little pests. the mosquitoes. And
such is what a reporter in his Ground
up sees on a beautiful Sabbath in st.
Paul.