St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-25
IN THE EXPRESS OFFICES.
A Perfect Crush of Presents Com
ing and Going.

A Perfect Crush of Presents Com
ing and Going.
The express offices of the city have
been the scenes of unusual hustle and
activity the past few days. The happy
combination of renewed business pros
perity, after more than a years I'M
pleasant suspension. and an abiding
faith in the future, or something of
this sort, has served to ac-
CELEBRATE the nObler sentiments
of people. To contribute to the pleas
ureS of dear friend, or a beloved rela-
tive, is instinctvely a sweet mission,
delicious in its Office. But the hand
that gives must not be hampered by
fear of regret-by fear that the purchase
price may soon be needed at home.
This apprehension is undoubtedly re-
dueed TO a minimum this year.
If one doubts it, it is too bad he did
not visit the express offices at almost
any business hour the past week.
A GLOBE reporter spent several
hours, most diligently, TOO, in the ex-
press offices yesterday. He is neither
an optimiSt nor its antItbeSiS, but the
amenities of life. are now pictured in
more cosy hues in his mind, and he is
deeply impressed with the better side
of human nature. Such an experience
is a perfect antidote for pessimism..
and would cure one of the idea that all
the world is miserly and selfish.
The corps OF employees in all the local
express offices were multiplied for the
holiday business, but they were made
quate to the emergencies. They were
deluged with packages and parcels, and
boxes and baSketS-all kinds of shapes
and weights and values. The offices
have been piled high with these mes
sages and greetings to dear ones. From
early morn till the hour of closing at
night the employees have been Obliged
20 strain every nerve to care for the I'm
menSe shipments, and the receipts are
Just beginning to take active rank with
the shipments. it should be observed.
Without this explanation and exposition
of the holiday gift business of a ST.
Paul express Office would do gross In
justice to the friends at a distance.
While the bounty and generosity of a
st. Paulite is his shining virtue and
proverbial excellence, he has no mo-
nOpoly on the propensity. Providence
has given 1t wide distribution, as is
evidenced by these same express re-
ceipts. They come from every section
of the country, and some even from for
eign ports.
But what we are today interested in
most particularly is how st. Paul re-
membered its friends in other climes.
1t is cosmopolitan city. A remarka-
bly, unimportant per cent of the present
citizens boast of this beauty spot as their
natal city. They hail from all quarters,
and they have left fond ones at home,
and it is when Christmas comes that
their remembrances of slowed ones
at home" are quickened, and
they send glad tidingS in gifts.
That is why the express employees are
overworked from day-break to a late
hour at night in handling the thousands
of multlform packages that have been
addressed to remembered friends in
other cities, villages, towns and country
places.
Il have been in this business sixteen
years." said one of the officers OF the
American Express company yesterday,
'but this beats my experience. Come
with me to the rear roOm," and he led
the way. Here was another force OF