St. Paul daily globe., 1891-04-29
SALTWATER NEWS.
The Hospital Committee-The Gov.
ernor at Saltwater.


ernor at Saltwater.
The council city hospital committee,
comprising Aldermen hammers and
Sutton, met the ladies CT the hospital
board in the Elliott house parlors yester-
day afternoon for the purpose of comirg
to some definite understanding relative
to the purchase by the city of the new
building erected by the board and the
hospital furniture. The ladies originally
asked 5000 for their building and S56S.50
for the furniture. By a unanimous vote
of the ladies present yesterday they de-
cided to accept 81 900 for all of the prop
erty, providing the city or county de-
SireS to purchase the hospital. The pre-
vailing opinion seems to be that the
county should erect and maintain suit
able hospital. as the bulk of the patients
cared for are county patients. The city
council does not deem 1t admissible to
the hospital. The decision of the
ladies will be handed to the
county commissioners at their meet
ing next Tuesday. The present
hospital building is entirely unsuited
for the purpose. and as soon as a more
convenient and better building can be
erected the ladies are willing to again
lend helping hand in the maintenance
of the institution. They wish it under
stood that they have by no means de-
clded to relinquiSh all connection with
such an institution. They simply gave
up managing the hospital because the
buildings were inadequate, and not as
they should be for the proper care of
patients. The ladies deserve great credit
for their untiring efforts in conducting
the institution during the past ten
years. A hospital is a necessity, and
the city and county will probably SO de-
eide.
At a meeting of the council last even
ing the hospital committee'S report was
accepted, and committee was appoint
ed to confer with the county commits
sioners next Tuesday relative to having
committee to report the result at the
next meeting. Since the hospital was
purchased the city has contributed over
$500 towards conducting it. The matter
of the city printing was taken up at a
late hour, but at the hour of writing
the contract had not been awarded.
Gov. Merriam, Public Examiner NJ.
d. Kenyon and Secretary Hart visited
the prison yesterday, and while there
made tour of the institution. Gov.
Merriam spent some time in listening to
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mutation of sentences. The party took
dinner at the prison, and returned to
st. Paul by an afternoon train.
The funeral of David Robinson, who
was killed in runaway accident Mon
day, will be held from st. MichaePs
| church at 9 o'clock this forenoon. The
remains will be inferred in the Catholic
cemetery at South Saltwater.
The running of logs on the Totogatic
is hampered by the breaking of wing
at the dam, about eighty feet wide. AL
though no drives will be hung up owing
to the break, it will be some time ere
the damage is repaired. Pat Sullivan
went up yesterday morning and will
put a crew at work repairing the dam
Immediately.
prison managers, was in the city yeSter
day.
A prominent lumberman stated yes
terday that heavy rains are needed on
some of the upper tributaries of the st.
Croix in order to successfully get out
the logs. The only water they now
| have is snow water, and there is not a
sufficient amount of it to drive the logs
satisfactorily.
Charles H. Gardner, a favorite with
| the theater-going public of this city,
will present his comedy, 'Fatherland,
at the Grand opera house Saturday
evening.
The j. K. Graves took out raft of
logs syesterday for Weyerhauser q
Denchman, Rock Island, LII.
The Saltwater Gun club will hold it's
first badge shoot of the season this
afternoon. Valuable prizes will be Of
fered and some good shooting is antici-
pated.
A welldressed man, apparently thirty
years of age, was arrested yesterday
afternoon for creating disturbance on
street car. The man refuses to give
his name and his mind is apparently un-
balanced.
A spirited horse. the property of C..
| n. Nelson, engaged III lively run on
Pile and Third streets Monday evening
At the corner of Third and Chestnut
streets the phaeton to which he was at
tached collided with telegraph pole,
throwing the driver to the ground and
smashing the phaeton. The horse re-
ceived several bad cuts.