St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-04
st. Paul Has No Desire for an
Accident on Gotham's
Plan.
Ex-Postmaster Henry's Trou-
BILE and It's Lesson to
Young Men.
Goodbye to the Summer
Friends for Another Twelve
Months.
How P. H. Kelly Disposes Of a
Vast Deposit Of Mail
Matter.

The appalling catastrophe in Park
Place, New York city, which sum-
moned into eternity. without a mo-
ment's warning, seventy odd souls.
should be warning to leaseholders of
st. Paul who have steam plants in the
basement of their properties. There
seems to be but little question that the
fearful accident was the result of
boiler explosion, due to the carelessness
of some one whose duty it was to see
to IL that everything i'll connection with
the same was in perfect order. A mo-
ments examination might have averted'
the calamity which has filled city
with grief and mourning. This kind of
accident is somewhat out of the COM
mon, but it is only what may be ex-
pected in this age of haste and reckless
ness. There are hundreds of buildings
in st. Paul, the Easements of which
contain explosive power Tor boiler
power, which is the same) enough to
raZe them to the ground, and annihilate
everything human within them.
1t is unnecessary to cite particular in
stances, but there are boilers located
underneath building not stones
throw from the court house which, if
they ever explode, Will cause fearful
destruction of life and property. Boil
erS collapse from innumerable petty
causes, and such disasters can only be
averted by the EXTREMIST care and eau
ton. Property holders then owe it to
themselves and their fellowmen to OBJ
serve the strictest watch over any boil
ers in their possession. When this is
done accidents by explosion will be re-
duced to minimum.
The arrest of ex-Postmaster William
d. Henry, OF Duluth. in st. Paul during
the past week for alleged theft, was q
source of great surprise to his many
friends, who had always the utmost
confidence in his honesty and integrity.
This young man has been for many
years the main support of widowed
mother. and the news of this grave
charge against her son will come with
crushing force to the aged parent, who
refuses to believe in his guilt. The
latter positively denies that he has
done aught that has not been consist
ent with the proper discharge of his du-
ties as assistant postmaster, and courts
full aud complete investigation of his
conduct of that office. On the
other hand, the government Of
iicials claim that two of
the carriers have 'spuealed.' and in
their tale of woe have implicated
Henry, whom they confess ,bade them
do the stealing. Postmaster Howard
asserts that Henry's stealings during
his lncumbency have amounted in the
aggregate to about Sl79. and, using this
same ratio, the populations during Post
master Flynn's term of office of four
years would amount to about $500.
Looking at the matter from an UNI
biased standpoint, and in the light of
seem at all probable that he would
have left himself amenable to the law
tor the sake of the small sums of money
he is accused of taking.
If the young man is innocent, which
is hope sincerely INDUCED by all who
knew him, theu he has been grievously
wronged, and the perpetrators of the
outrage should be dealt with most Sc
verely; if he be guilty. his downfall
should be warning to the youth of the
land, who should rather cut off their
hands than appropriate to themselves
one penny that did not belong to them.
And right here l might remark that it
has been source of the greatest won
der to me why men will be so fool
hardy as to attempt to enrich them
selves dishonesty at the governments
expense. This thing has been tried SO
often, and with such record of fail
ures, that 1 would think a time would
come when persons with little bit of
sense would hesitate before listening to
the tempter. Escape is impossible, pro-
viding the act is persisted in, which is
not, so long as the victim achieves sue
cess i'll his Defarious schemes. He stops
when the hand of the law tightens
around his shoulder-not before.