St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-17
MEN WE MEET.

The dual functions-legal mediator and
municipal assemblyman-sit with an appro-
PIRATE grace upon the legal head of Judge
Flandrau. In the former capacity, for q
long series of devoted years, he has alleyiated
or remedied the sufferings of his clients who
may have been menaced by the grasping GU
pidity, or threatened by the cruel belligerancy
of certain other people. In the latter he now
legislates with an impartiality that is beauti-
ful to behold, for the rich and the poor, like
that sunshine and rain that the Biblical par
able relates, falls alike upon the just and
the unjust He is booked by his admirers
for the position of presiding officer of the
assembly.
Charley Fairchild is blessed with the happy
faculty of knowing just the correct thing in
the line of wearing apparel. " hile votary
of fashions answering thralldom, his choice
from the DANES store is of the modest type
as rule although he appreciates that ex-
ceptions to any rule are sometimes refresh
ing-hence the occasional gorgeousness OF
his evening habiliments.
Now there is Walter Driscoll His ward
robe. it is whispered. is simply superb. Some
of his fashion plate SMILES are said to be Sc
sonorous that the good old-fashioned peo-
pie of Summit avenue are often amazed al
the photographic solos that burden the
it, he would turn green with jealousy. W.
MICA. should know that he is not alone
Americas ruling passion in his chosen
sphere.
Aft Hawes, the smoothly shaven devotee
of Blackstonian philosophy, has undertaken
TO popularize the classic shades of Manchester
Parl; and its PASTORAL environments, with its
air laden with the perfume of sweet wild
flowers ana the like. When he first took UP
his abode there the street car service was of
the execrable sort. but now-half hour trips
with large, new electric motors delight while
they facilitate, as it were.
Al Friend is a genial soul. Popular, too.
The hours of his waking existence that are
net consumed by his faithful attention to
mercantile pursuits are lavishly devoted to
the entertainment of congenial spirits of his
particular set. Al has recently become en-
amored of the guiles of billiards, and he is so
apt indeed that it is confidently predicted
that Minnesota will not long be without its
wn wizard of the cue"
Judge MeCafferty is pondering over the rel
atiye values Of the nomenclature of titles.
Whether 'twere greater to be Il judge or an
assemblyman and so forth, is the trend. But
he is a practical man and is endowed with a
fine sense of discrimination that never for
The very first session of the council will set
tie the question for all time
Harry Waci is distinctively the wit CT the
court house and city hall. His humor is of
that graceful facile kind-that gentle yet eff
feryescent style-that pleases as it's read and
rests as it pleases-and his pen Is never lazy
Occasionally he comes down from heaven
and cOndescends to issue an ordinary mar
riage license.
John II. Ives is possessed of that mild and
lurid humor of the pyrotechnic type There
is not a member of the famous house of rep
resentatives of 1889, of which John was the
ruling passion, who does not take inordinate
pleasure in recitals of Johns little jokes on
the floor of that body.
Swan Ponthan, chief clerk in the city
comptrollers Office and a candidate for pro-
motion to the cOmptrollership itself-pro-
vided Aid. Cullen deciinse the profer-is an
example OF modern erudition. He converses
with the fuency Of the native-born Partisan,
the German. the Dane, the Norwegian and
the Swede, while he is also deeply versed in
the English lore Moreover. it is related, he
snores i'll the classic language of the poetic
Greeks.
John Townley is spending the spring days
in perfect inanition, comparatively consid-
cred A season without the excitement of q
political campaign to thrill the intelligent
senses and to send the patriotic blood ting
ling through the veins he looks upon with
disdain and contempt Probabilities and
possibilities in the canvass of next year is
his only solace.
Col Joseph Bobleter the astute politician
and shrewd occupant of the state treasury
ship, is now rateu a full-hedged st. Paul citi-
zen. This is his home for all practical pur-
poses, although he now and then gazes at the
state map that hangs on the wall in his office,
and his eyes wander TO the little speck marked
New Ulm. with fond recollections and earn
est warnings 1t is in st. Paul that he pays
his rent, his grocer his butcher and his wash
erwoman, and be it also remarked, here he
exercises his constitutional franchise. If he
is neither re elected nor elevated 10 the guber-
Material chair in '92 some of his adherents
predict the latter. whether his Apostolic as
sociations are of a sufficiently binding nature
to perpetuate his stay here or motifs problem
remaining to be solved when the test comes.
A. 3. Ovitt is classed among the more
popular young and rising disciples OF the
Blackstonian art. A. B. is personally at
tractive. He sports delicious black NOUS
tache correctly trained and voluptuously
curled And he is an entertaining COM
delightful facility.
John Dodge is the best known man in st.
Paul And no one is envious of the fact
either be it remarked. This is because every
body likes him. His genial qualities have
impaired an air of homely hospitality to the
Merchants for 10 these twenty years, and his
fame has been carried to the remotest corners
of the republic by the guests of the hotel in
their roamings.
Col. John H. Allen contributes a grateful
air of stability as gratuitously as it is
bounteous. It's such men that build up
cities.
c. NJ Griggs is the proud scion of Col.
Griggs, and his vocabulary includes every
article contained by the colossal wholesale
grocery house which prospers and fourishes
largely owing to his business sagacity.
Clarence Robb, of the X. c., is always q
prominent figure in local affairs. He is q
''hustler'' of the most energetic sort, and it
is pardonable if his dreams are illustrated
by realistic visions of the highest railroad
functions. When he is seen sauntering
along the shady side of the street. his friends
involuntarily exclaim: There goes future
magnate. Mark the propheSyIr