St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-08
claimed that she had accused her sister
in-law of being unchaste.
ABOUT THE CITY HALL.

Every man who knows Aid. Dora
Farnsworth, of the Thirteenth ward,
must confess that he can force the sea
son better than any man in Minneapo-
| lis. His modest plaids are very attract
i've. and his silk tile so glossy, that one
at distance would figure he sleeps in
bandboX. He has got the good quality
OF never missing council committee
meeting, and is always at his post when
President Potter lets fall his gavel.
Potter, by the way, is trying to get the
! place in the dress row that Farnsworth
holds, and unless some kind friend
steps III, Minneapolis may witness a
collars and cuffs war. Who will suggest
arbitration?
The city hall has been the stepping
off place for many an ex-alderman.
After their monthly installment of street
car checks fails to materialize, they come
around and get acquainted with the new
JanitOr and new elevator conductor.
There is one man who has never showed
up around that old hosiery, unless he
had business there. since he stepped
down and out. and that is Calvin Clark,
the man who once defeated Mayor Win
StOn for alderman in the Sixth ward.
Clark once told friend the cause of his
stunning the city building as he does.
1t seems that Cal never got over being
sat Oh in his ambition to be mayor of
Minneapolis. When president of the
city council, during Mayor Pillsbury's
term, he got the mayOralty bee very
bad, and so loudly did it buzz in his
bonnet that he could not even hear his
OWN equals talk, no matter how close
they were to him. The bee died one
af,Ih Tcrl,f I'D
the coroner said-to the chill that spread
over Minneapolis when George A. Pills
bury announced himself a candidate for
a second term in the mayors office.
Clark's friends can easily infer why he
keeps away from the city hall.
One of the council committees went
into executive session during the week
to consider the question of purchasing
platform scales. One of the committee,
whose name is Loye, thought that scales
should be bought at once. while Flanders
opposed the measure to the ending on
the ground that there was not enough
common sense among the Republican
members of the council to call even
portable pair of scales into requisition.
The secret of the whole fight is that
Flanders sells groceries, and Love, be-
ing i'll the harness business, says long
measure is good enough for him.
A man named B. Denham was ar
rested for driving loaded team on the
Hennepin boulevard, contrary to the
park ordinance. Some of the friends of
that parkway that used to be, but now
street car way, claim that Aid. Loye is
at the bottom of all this. Loye wants
the grade of that avenue to correspond
to the grade on Lyndale. where the two
streets intersect, and goes farther and
wishes the park board to assume the eX-
pense, though the board surrendered
all its rights when it let the street rail
way company in and build line there.
Loye, of course, wants to save few
thousand dollars of the Fourth ward
funds, which must be spent on that
street. unless the street railway COM
pany does something. Loye can make
pretty good harness that will stand
long and strong pull, but he cannot
pull the wool over the eyes of the park
board in this deal. Loye has had consid-
cradle rope the past six months, and
every one knows what some people will
do if they get enough rope. 1t looks,
however, as if hemp was not tough
enough and that Loye would be obliged
to fall back on his harness shop 10 pro-
duce something that would forever lay
him on the shelf.