St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-18
THEY'RE IN CANADA.
Mayor Winston and Several
Aldermen on a Lark Over
the Line.
Dispatch From the Globes
Special Envoy at Sault
Ste Marie.
Health Commissioner Kelley
Is Caught on a Draw
Bridge.
The Street Railway Goes Back
to the Old System Of
Transfers.

1t was extremely quiet about the city
| hall yesterday. There is generally a
motley crowd of officeseekers to see the
mayor. but the not-at-home card warned
them that the victims of their persecu-
| lions was far beyond reach. S. B. LOye,
mayor pro TEN. dropped around once or
twice to see that the elevator was kept
running along with other city ma
chinery
Along IN the afternoon the delegation
of junketing officials were heard
| fIOm. They were at Sault st. Ma
RE, and telegram Informed
Mayor" Loye, that a desperate prize
fight CThe Needham-Ryan cOnteSD was
to take place near Elder Stewards park,
and that he was expected to do his duty
and suppress it. To this Mayor" LOye
replied that tie fistc battle had been
abandoned owing to the absence of so
many patrons of sport in Canada, and
that he had appointed eX-Ald. Sterling
as dOg-catcher.
The following special from the
| GLOBES correspondent, on board the
train, gives the only authentic account
of the trip up to date:
SAULT STE. MARIE, Feb. 1.-THE
special train containing the delegation
of Minneapolis officials arrived here at
| II O'Clock in the morning. The trip was
delightful one, although the scenery
! through the Tamarack region might be
| likened TO an almost endless forest of
telegraph poles, frlnged by deep I'M
dergrOwth of scantlings and kindling
wood.
Before retiring last night special meet
ing was called and lots were drawn for
|
''pOlitics make strange bedfelloWs" was
realized. Hunt, of the Tribune, was as
signed to bunk with Aid. Ingenhutt. and
Mullaney, of the GLOBE, with Aid.
Gray; MCGOWAN was condemned to
sleep with Potter, while Parry was con-
| signed to sleep with Bradsh; "Dorey"
Farnsworth and Melvin Grimes tipped
for the upper and lower, and Grimes
came out on top; Woodward declined to
be paired with Haney because he was
too chilly. The dining car was well
| coined in the morning with vote of
thanks and a motion to table the break
fast was unanimously carried. The
cuisine of 800" dining car is excel
lent, and the aldermen ate like lot Of
hired men. Arriving at the "Soo."
the aldermen were shown through the
lookup in which ships that some
|
| fort, the Canadian $780," were also Wis
tied. The mayor of the city with a
number of officials extended hearty
welcome, and the scheme of utilizing
| the rapids of the st. Marie river so as
to produce 2.427, 1881 d horse power
which can be transmitted to Mime
| apoliS and st. Paul for running the
street railways, was fully explained.
Mayor Winston convened court and i'm
posed several fines. Aid. Bradish
was sentenced for pronouncing the
name Of the city "Salt Ste. Mary" K.
r. Odell, W. S. Conover, and James
Trip were given two hours in the bag
gage car for trying to play poker with a
euchr edeck. j. c. Haynes was repre-
manded for trying to smuggle white
wheat whisky from the Canadian side.
The visit to the Canadian 800" by
the way, was full of interest to Chief
| Runge, of the fire department. He was
much interested in the fire alarm sys-
TEN, which consists of little wooden
| boxes, set on posts on the street cor
nerS. One side of the box contains
| pane of glass. When fire occurs, the
| person who wishes to give an alarm
| breaks the glass, and, reaching into the
box through the aperture thus made,
| pulls hook which communicates with
the engine house and brings out the fire
department as soon as the people can be
aroused from their beds by violent
| ringing OF bell in the tower.
The return trip to the depot was made
over the one electric line which Sault
Ste. Marie boasts of. Here it was found
that Health Commissioner Kelley, who
had remained behind, had been going
through a tough experience. He had
wandered out on the draw of the great
Canadian Pacific bridge and somebody
moved the bridge, i. e., swung the draw
so that the doctor found himself sus
pended above the raging ST. Mary, I'M
able to reach shore again. Here he re-
| manned for two hours.
The trip was resumed without
further accident, and tomorrow at
noon Ottawa will be reached, and
Mayor Winston is in receipt of tele
gram that warm welcome awaits the
MINNEAPOLIS junketerS.