St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-30
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

Confidence in your man is sometimes the
best stclass of security. West st. Paul people
will remember A. E. Clark, who figured very
extensivly in real estate some three years
ago. When theGhicago boom of two years since
began, Clark saw there was money in it. and
wanted to try his skill, but he had no availa-
BILE money. He had everything locked up in
real estate here and in South ST. Paul, and
could realize nothing. So he went to friend
aud made this propositions:
Il wish $500 to go into some deals at Chi
cago. If you viii let me have that amount
will pay you back 5000 at the end OF two
years. and give you one-third of my profits
during that time"
The friend accepted, advanced the money,
and Clark went to Chicago. The two years
expired recently, and meanwhile the friend
had died. But Clark made good his promise.
He turned over to the widow the 5000, and
then handed out one-third of his profits,
amounting to S12,O 900. That $500 loan was
good investment: it had added to itself in
two years just Sl4,5O0.
Il
There will be no meeting. Of the assembly
this evening, as it is the fifth Tuesday in the
month, and the dual council meets on every
alternate Tuesday, thus giving four meetings
month. City Clerk Prendergast was yester-
day highly delighted that a week would pass
without meeting of the lords" or com
mons,n and. referring TO the calendar on his
table, drew large red pencil mark around
the date June 30, and in neat letters wrote
the following inscription: "To the founders
of the Bell charter. No meeting this even
ing. For this relief much thanks. Shakes
peare."
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Louis c. Hunter is local pianist and COM
poser of fame. He has number of original
arrangements of classical selections that he
occasionally compliments his friends with.
Scottish airs are fayorites with him, although
he is quite English, you know, and several of
his productions have merit that will COM
mend them to the musical world.
II
Hon. P. H. Kelly places no importance
upon the claim that to-morrow's S meeting of
the Democratic members of the legislature is
'anti Kelly and Doran." He insists that the
theory is absurd. Il am not In politics my
SELF he said yesterday, ''and this fact alone
should be sufficient to disproye all such
statements. So far as 1 can learn, the menu
bers of the legislature are going to have
little social reunion. and am sure they have
perfect right to if they wish
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Supt. Perkins, questioned yesterday in re-
lation to putting boxes on the interurban
electric cars, for mail service, said: 1.-The
proposition of The government was submitted
to the railway company. This company took
exception to some of the specifications. l
have referred the matter back TO the authori
ties at Washington. The notifications may
be agreed to. or the whole matter may be
dropped. 1t is possible, however, that the
contract may be mutually agreed upon. l
have been corresponding about the matter
since last fall. Placing boxes on the line
would be but an experiment. The electric
line is not in complete working order yet,
and the cars may be tied up any time, in case
we had an old-fashioned winter. II it is
determined to put the boxes on at all,
they will first be tried on few. cars
probably at half hour intervals.
These cars would be designated by flag or
otherwise. If such trial should prove salts
factory, other cars might have boxes at
tached. This would facilitate the transmits
sion of letters between the cities. The sys-
tenn would entail considerable trouble in
having agents to meet all the cars, but if
they ran on regular schedule the gathering
of the mail from the cars would be done with
little loss of time by the agents.
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Hon. P. II. Kelly said yesterday, relative to
the communication received by the chamber
of commerce from the stone masons, impor-
tuning protection from competition with the
stonecutters from distance On the new gov
ernment building: II am always in favor of
giving home industry the preference, but
am constitutionally opposed to building a
Chinese wall about the city. We can't afford
to keep everybody out of ST. Paul. even
if it should benefits some of our craftsmen. If
the ST. Paul masons can compete with others
in the matter, it is safe to predict they will
get the work.
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The Oakland Cemetery association finds
itself IN an unpleasant quandary. That fact
may account for the failure of quorum at
the annual meeting yesterday. Whether this
is so or not is not related. At all events, the
association must, sooner or later, deal with a
knotty problem. The citiZens-they are not
members of the association, as a rule, how
ever-who reside or own property in the vi
cinity of the cemetery are determined that
the location shall be changed to some more
remote location. 1t is not claimed that spec
tral visitations of st. Paul's illustrious dead
have anything to do with the sentiment that
obtains against the present site. 1t is only
explained that people have natural aver
sion to sleeping next to sepulchre 365 days
in a year, although the theory that ghosts
walk at midnight has been thoroughly ex-
ploded The real reason assigned for the
clamor for the removal of Oakland is purely
hygenic 1t is asserted that the public health
is jeopardized, but there are many members
of the association who reply to this assump-
ton by simply pointing TO Boston, New
York and other cities of the East. The move