St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-29
ODDS AND ENDS.


to criticise the methods of the street railway
company. MIR. Price, as every country weekly
editor in the state knows. is the St Paul man.
ager of the Kellogg Newspaper company.
The offices of this company are on East Fifth
street, and opposite thereto is a switch line
on the system of the city railway. THAT
switch" remarked Mr.. Price, was put in
there last June. Since then there has been
man at work upon it almost every day. and
in time alone / estimate that switch to have
cost the city railway company $1,000 What
about 1t? Well, this: 1 look upon sneh 4
proceeding as showing the city railway is
making SO much money that to keep the
dividends within reasonable limits. so that
the people will not kick too hard the expend-
lures must be kept up. Look at the money
the railway company is making. Every car
that passes down this street is crowded, and
the employees have become SO diffident that
unless there are FIVE people standing at a cor
Ter they will hardly condescend to stop to
take you up Oh, tell you the city rail-
way people want to be taken down peg or
two
!. Z. A. Mcfarland. manager of 1.-THE Old
Homestead" which is booked for the Metro
ipolitan the latter end of next week, blew
into the city yesterday to look after the in.
terests OF the company. 1.-The Old Home
stead continues to draw as well as ever he
remarked. Nv are playing this week at the
various crossroad towns leading to the Twin
Cities. l was just telling Scott o.. N here
trick the country bill posters have. They
say: We could do with a few more litho-
graphs, ana. if 1 were soft enough to catch
on, their modus operandi would be as fol
lows: Having secured an extra supply of
tha hill
that few are prominently displayed, and at
the close of the performance he will ask the
manager if he will give two cents for the
'pick-ups:' If he takes on out will come
the extras which have been all the time care
fully laid away in some Office. There are no
flies on the country bill poster. He has got
his eye straight on the dollar
If the state government can be run by dep
uties why not, for the sake of economy,
abolish the chiefs? How does that sound,
Messrs. Holcomb ct al:
Mr. McCafferty's break in the assembly
Tuesday is excusable. He must have thought
he was ia court, paying his respects TO his
opponents witnesses The force of habit is
accountable for much that is difficult to UNI
derstand. because when an assembiyman-a
member ofthe upper house-begins to sass
the president he not only loses his own dig
nifty. but brings its deliberations to the level
of Il village council.
The official of the Northern Pacific road,
credited with saying: In few years We
shall be able to hire an engineer for ST. so
day, must be OF very sanguine temper
ment, 1t is probable that the steam engine
will be "a thing of the past when the Edison
motor is completed" but when will it be
completed. Certainly IA few years. will not
see it. And even when electricity super
sedes steam it is difficult to understand why
an electrical engineer should only be worth
Sl.50 day He will have as mucA response
bility, even more so, than the locomotive en-
gineer.
The number of railroad accidents through
out the country are becoming alarming. If
the railroad companies-the officials-could
be punished where defective appliances or
system are proven, it would lave a healthy
effect. More care would be taken to protect
the lives and limbs of passengers. In their
rush to make money for the road, the officials
are too much given to disregard proper safe
guards for public protection.
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:. Two weeks ago a locomotive boiler ex-
ploded at South Park, one man being killed
and several others being terribly injured
Up to the present no inquiry has been made
as TO the cause of the explosion and the re-
sponsibility therefor If any but a locomo-
tive boiler explodes, q searching inquiry is
made therein by State Boiler Inspector
Clarke. Why should the railroads be exempt
from such official investigation?
J TIT
Messrs Bushnell have assigned, but this
does not affect. as some people would I'M
agine, thevaduesof st. Pau realty. The bust
ness ofsMessrs. BUSHNELL was largely i'll mort.
gage loans, and. while realty in the city may
be quiet with the exceptional crops in the
Northwest, values are bound to have a jump
in the near future. Had Messrs. Bushnell
been able to hold on few months longer,
money would have become easier and en-
abled them to meet the needs of their bust
ness. There is no reason that the failure of
this firm should create panic in city realty.
T t t
Col. Tom Lowry was in the city yesterday
He took a ride over the various lines of the
ST. Paul street car system. and expressed
himself as highly gratified with their opera
tons. So he ought. The street railway COM
pany never made SO much money in st. Paul
as it is doing to-day.
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Ignatius Donnelly is not so prominent
man in the newspapers as he was last week.
That dollar verdict seems TO have wiped him
off The face of the earth
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