St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-03

nj. Bracket. who is always fishing for
such creatures, will be disappointed to
learn that the governor says that he is
opposed to heaping too many honorS on
the same man. Giertsen has withdrawn,
and Babb has sent him a cake of ice
with the inscription keep COOL" OH it.
Court Officer Mullen is perhaps the
greatest lover of gymnastics that has
yet appeared on the third floor of the
central police station. When not en-
gagged in keeping order in court or
checking out ninetY-day men to the free
meal department at Single Creek, he
is up stairs in the athletic parlors
pounding the bag" He takes his
punishment well. and when he gets ex-
hausted at one thing goes at another.
lie puts on the gloves with the biggest
men on the force, and as Jailer Peter
Bradley says: ''he can wind the best
of them"
Tom Downs, the ex-Pooh Bah of the
city council, came pretty near getting
hurt in Northeast Minneapolis a few
days ago. Two street cars collided. and
Tom being in one of them got badly
shaken up. He told all the facts in the
case to the newspaper boys soon after,
but failed to say what he was going
over to Northeast Minneapolis for.
Well, some of his friends have since
told all. Tom will soon be in the throes
of a lawsuit, in which John Norton
seeks to put his paws on $4,000 of the
ex-alderman' s money. Tom must rely
City Weigher Rufus Roberts will bring
in, and it was to compare notes with
Uncle Rufus that Tom boarded that i'll
fated street car. Since then he either
walks or rides at his neighbours eX-
pense, as he fears the fates are against
him.
While DR.. Gibson will continue to
draw his present salary under the board
OF corrections and charities. he will lose
the title of ''police surgeon" The
new law, which will go into effect June
!, wipes out that title, and for this the
doctor is anything but grateful. He
says there is an honor in the title he
bears now. but he cannot for the life of
him see where the honor will come in
being assistant to City Physician Chase.
There are good many people in Min
neapolis who, if they were in the police
surgeons shoes, would feel as he does.
o.
1t Is an old saying, and none the less
true, that sit Is better to be born lucky
than rich" No one in Minneapolis
knows the truth of that saying better
than j. j. McGregor, who at one time
was the proud proprietor of faShiona-
BILE saloon on First street known as
"McGregors landing" He ran the
saloon so independent of city laws and
ordinances that he was soon landed ON
the street without license to sell. He
afterwards woke up and found himself
In the WorkhouSe for operating blind
squealer in South Minneapolis. All this
was enough to kill any man, but it did
not XIII him, and to-day he is an attache
OF the city engineers department,
drawing $3.50 week as Waterman Oh
an open sewer in South Minneapolis.
Deserving taxpayers in South Minneap-
oils are kicking, of course.
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A few days ago it looked as If the
Minneapolis police officers, whose salar-
les were reduced s. month little over
year ago by that defunct and much
despiSed board. the police commission,
would get their $3.50 without ripple,
but the wheels of harmony do not move
as smoothly Oh their hinges as one
might suppose. "Father" Parry, of the
Seventh ward, was the first man to start
the ball a-rolling towards making the
"coppers" happy, but some of the alder
men have since become jealous Of the
notoriety the old man is getting, and
while they like to see the boys get their
money back, especially as they are will.
Ing to throw off the interest, they hate
to let Parry open the jackpot in that
way. Peanuts to pipestemS that Parry
will win.
That friend of economy (?) in city af
fairs, K. M. Johnson, does not wear that
sardOnlc smile now that used to spread
itself across his sacerdotal looking
countenance when he was president of
the city council. He looks as if all the
friends he ever had had deserted him.
He has been particularly sad looking
since the ParkhurSt combine" was sat
on by Judge Lochren. Johnson knows
how it is. He found out last fall that
it is political death to a city official to
be connected with any company making
contracts with the city. Johnson's
burial expenses did not cost him much,
however, as his casket factory in East
Minneapolis was in operation then with
full complement of hands.
The police have additional duty to
perform now that they never had be-
fore. In addition to keeping order OH
their beats, they will see that no dog is
allowed to run at large without special
permit from City Clerk Haney. Such
dogs have already been termed vag-
rants. and they will not get the option
of quitting the city, either, OH their first
arrest. Vagrant dogs will be well
watched this summer, and the dog
catcher will receive more help from the
police now than ever before This, of
course, is due to the bill passed last ses-
sion of the legislature giving the police
association so per cent of the dog taxes.
The everyday tramp Is feeling good
now, and expects to pass the coming
summer with less annoyance from the
police than ever before. He figures
that the tramp dog will receive the at
tention that he used to get.
The war of words that has been going
on between the police reporters of
the evening papers over the health de-
partment and its committees seems to
have subsidized. Police Surgeon Kelly
is said to have arbitrated the case, and
now ali is well.
The city officials in and around the
hall are obliged now to go out of the
building to buy their oranges and APP
pies, as the peddler who formerly mo-
nopolized that trade has gone intobusi-