St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-09
MINNEAPOLIS COMMENT. I


volunteered to run his administration
for him. They found out that they
were mistaken in their estimation of
him. 1t is quite likely another class of
individuals who would have the
own peculiar ideas which would not be
generally acceptable to the large major
ity of people who are going to learn the
same lesson-vlz., that p. b. Winston is
going to be mayor i'll fact as we'll as in
name, and intends to run the local ad-
mlnistratlon in accordance with the
ideas Of the people who elected him
by the largest majority any can
didate for mayor ever received
An amusing instance Indicative is fur
nished by the example of a preacher,
Rev. I. +. Allen by name. He preached
sermon last Sunday in which he
pictured Minneapolis as veritable hot
bed of vice and iniquity. He claimed to
sonal experiences and partly upon in
formation furnished by the police
authorities. Some of his declarations
were as radical as this, that
the rooms in upper stories of
nearly all the business blocks
on Nicollect and Hennepin avenues are
resorts for assignation and immoral
practices. 1t seems he has been called
upon by the mayor to give the source of
his information. and has been placed in
the position of not knowing whereof he
spoke. The suspicion grew that he had
been made the victim of some practical
jokers and he is being laughed at quite
generally for his hYSterical note of
alarm, and his attempt to picture MIN
neapois as sort of modern Babylon
has fallen rather fiat
Secretary Nye, of the park board, as
we might infer from the position he
holds and the salary he draws, has
great deal to do. But this great deal
seems to occupy his time outside the
Office. Nye has time to go through the
state and organize branches of society
that he belongs to, but he cannot find
time to walk down and open his office
two or three times a week to accommo-
date the public: That office pays $1,000
year, and still people who have busi
ness TO transact there very rarely find
Mr.. Nye in, or any one else. If s., 600 Is
not enough to keep that Office open six
days in the week Commissioner Board
man would benefit thepublic by getting
along without his easy chairs and throw
ing the same into Nye's inside pocket,
if by doing so Nye could be induced to
go there oftener than twice a month.
For comfort and joy at the public ex-
penSe Boardman is success.
AS chairman of the council commit
tee on public grounds and buildings,
Aid. Loye is a SucceSS--in his mind. lie
visits the different offices in the city
hall twice month to ascertain their
wants, and goes away only to return
again to say that he has been consider
ing their demands, and believes that in
a short time everything will be all right.
Matt Gallagher, who has got the con-
tract for furnishing the city officers
with ice during the summer. has already
made up his MIND that his profits are
going to be very small, owing to Loye's
Omnipresence in the building. AS an
ice cream and water freezer Loye seems
to be genuine success.
John Goodnow, having got the con-
tract to furnish Uncle Sans local of
fees with coal the coming year. feels
that he is bigger man than the Gus
todian of the government building. A
good many of Johns political co-Work-
ers are not at all displeased at him for
bidding low on coal, but they are treas
uring up chunks of vengeance against
him for getting young man appointed
to fat berth in Deputy Collector Mar
chants office, who came here two or
three days before from Philadelphia.
John pushed the new cOmer>S claims so
strongly that Senator Washburn ig-
nored all other recommendations and
the result was that the deserving ones
and their friends are very mad. John
has been explaining matters ever since,
and, though Bob Evans and Tim ByrneS
have doue all they could to appease the
wrathy ones, the situation remains un-
changed.
So Tim Byrnes is back from Washing
ton, where he is said to have gone to
talk with Secretary Blaine OH the lat
ter's chances of heading the Republican
national ticket next year. 1t was Tins
visit that was the cause of Blaine'S half
promise to write a letter refusing under
any and all circumstances to allow his
name to go before the convention.
After Tim left for home Blaine inquired
into Tins political foresight, and when
he learned that the Minneapolis quasi
politician predicted sweeping victory
for his party at home here last fall. and
then looked over the figures, he decided
not to write the letter. This was saw
dust in Tins sugar, as he banked
heavily on Harrison's carrying off the
honorS. Tins smile is now perched on
the wrong side of his face, and fears are
entertained by his friends that he will
become cross-eyed in consequence.
Ex-Ald. Cutter, who was more raspon-
sible for Ex-Mayor PillSbury'S political
death than any other man in Minneapo-
lis, outside the eX-mayOr himself, was
seen to enter the city hall during the
week for the first time in many months.
He cautiously approached the door on
HannRnIn
in as If he were afraid some one was
laying in wait to club him. Then he
pulled himself together and after rub
bing his chin whiSkerS entered eau
tiously. He approached the elevator
shaft very slowly and, looking it
all over carefully, went towards the
stairway leading to the floors above.
The elevator conductor extended him
an invitation to ride, but Cutter re-
fused, and so he pulled himself up the
stairs as best he could. So it seems
that the city hall elevator which. to-
getheT with few changes in the build
ing, was built by Cutter for the mod
crate sum of some $50, 900, is still there
to make the old man blush every time
he looks at it. That was more than the
council was able to do when Cutter pre-
sented his bill, and that is what drove
George A. Pillsbury out of politics, and
Cutter has not asked for any political
hOnorS since.
The statement in the GLOBE yester-
day that the interest of George K. Shaw
in the Evening Tribune was purchased
by the present proprietor for $4,000,
was not intended to indicate that that
included his entire original interest.::as
he had previously received from A. j.
Blethen $4,000. When Messrs. Shaw
and Bennett consolidated the Star
with the Tribune, and it was
made the evening edition of
that paper, the price paid for the Star in
Tribune stock was Sl37,50 AS the
Tribune stock was only worth so cents
ON the dollar the amount friuon FOR II, n.