St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-27
he LEAVES THE JAPS.
Col. John 7. West and Party
Finish Their Round-the-
World Trip.
Counterfeiters Send Out Adj
Vertising Circulars From
minneapolis.
More Agitation Of Garbage
and Crematory Matters
Scheduled.
Alleged Conspiracy to Get a
Mans Property--Dr. Hoyt
to Winston.


"Colonel -"
allow are you, my boy? Pm glad to
see you'-a vigorous handshake and
clap on the shoulder said the rest.
All day long yesterday a large. pOrtly
gentleman. from whose features beamed
good nature for all men and all things,
stood in the rotunda at the
West going through the perform
ance indicated above. Col. John
T. West had returned from a five
months tour of the globe, embracing the
complete ciruit of the Revolving sphere
visit to every land and to every nation
that the sun shines upon. Everybody
wanted to see him and grasp his hand,
and hear from his own lips some of the
incidents of the trip.
"Fve met thousand people to-day"
he said last night, land I'm glad to see
all of Jhem."
The colonel is looking in the best of
health. But he is tired, very tired.
"Why, l haven't slept in bed since
the Sth of July" he said. Il haven't
Lad any sleep that you could call sleep
for sixteen nights. Five girls to man
age all alone. No wonder I'm tired.
Any man would be-"
seen strange scenes. His trip was full,
Overlooking with incident. Not a mo-
ment of it was uninterestlng. Yet he
was glad to get home.
"Was l glad to get homew and he
fairly chuckled in the excess of his
glee. The happiest moment of my life
was when | stepped out Of the car down
here at the union depot this morning. L
woke up out beyond Minnetonka. l
looked out of the window and saw
where l was. Thank Godp | said,
we're here | tell you it felt good.
There's nothing like it," And the
colonel turned to greet another inquir-
er after his personal welfare.
Col. West has kept himself posted on
Minneapolis while away. The papers
met him at every landing point. At one
time the clerks at the hotel became a
little mixed OH the route and time.
That time 800 papers were received in
one bundle. some of them three months
old. But they were read just the same.
Anything from Minneapolis was greeted
heartily.
The private car of General Manager
Underwood. of the 500, met Col. Vests
party at Neche. n. d., just on the line.
George, the cOlOnePs personal attend
ant was with it, and one should hear
him tell of his greeting from George to
thoroughly appreciate it. There is not
a lighter heart in Minneapolis to-day
than Georges, if it is carried i'll black
skin.
OF all the places and all the people
seen IN his travels the colonel thinks
most of Japan and the Japanese.
The finest country, the finest people
in the world. after our own" is the way
the colonel put it. $50 Intelligent, so
polite, so delightful in every way. A
wonderful people," and his eyes ShOne
with the delight of his remembrance.
The travellers metRev. Clay Macauley,
formerly of Minneapolis, in Japan. He
is missionary there among the natives.
They also met other MinneapOlitans at
Yokohama.
You should have seen us there" said
the colonel. You never imagined such
a celebration as we had in Yokohama
on the Fourth of July. Talk about your
fireworks, your cannOnS, your patriot
ism! Why, we tore up several square
miles of the Pacific ocean. Lieut.. Foster
there, on the American man-Of-war, is
an old Minneapolis boy. Born and raised
here. DR.. Iitfany'S son was payDaSter
on the same vessel. Oh, I'll tell you
enough to fill a column about that
Fourth of July celebration" with a ret
respective stroke OF the head.
Col. West wouldn't submit to an in
tervew yesterday. He was too tired
and too busy. After his aSrival in the
morning and an exchange of greetings
with everybody about the hotel, he
went out for a drive, just to take
another look at the town.
"I'll tell you what I'll do" he said to
a GLOBE man; -'Pll get all you boys to-
gether in a day OF two and give you a
complete history of the trip. Pllstell you
everything, and Eve seen prettO nearly
everything. There's picture of our
party in jinrinkshis, taken in Japan.
Everything goes by man power there.
Those fellows could take you from this
house to the union depot in
three minutes. They beat electric
ears or horses. I've studied everything
l saw from the standpoint of traveller,
of hotel man. of a steamboat man, of
a railroad man, of a brakeman, of a
Pullman porter. Now, I'll get you all
together and give you full history of
everything. | can't talk tonight. I've
got to sleep about two days. Good
night and the colonel made for the
elevator, while every emplOye of the
house, from bell boy up to Manager
O'Brien, smiled more broadly with salts
faction at the prOprietOr'S return.