St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-04


| West Seventh street car reaches
the corner twenty seconds before the
| Selby, the former must wait till the lat
ter passes. Again. every time Seventh
| street car approaches from the east the
| conductor is obliged to run ahead and
| look up Third and down Fourth streets
to see if the Selby car is approaching.
This causes veXatious delay, which
might be Obviated by stationing man
at the corner to beckon trains ahead or
hold them. according to their proximity
to the corner.
The changes of conductors and grip
men should be made at some other time
than the noon hour, when people are
fastening home to lunch. Where but
twenty minutes are allowed for refresh
ments, or an hour at most. it is
highly 'exasperating to be de-
layed from five to seven min
change the gossip of the day and the
compliments of the season. In my
wrath l have often felt like rising up
and shifting them both hip and thigh.
Considerable valuable time is also
wasted i'll turning the switch at Ramsey
street. There is fortune in store for
the inventive genius who can get up
some cOntrivance that will obviate the
necessity of the conductors alight-
ing from the cars to perform this
trivial but highly necessary business.
A gentleman who has just returned
from independence. To-, reports that
never in the history of the state was
such scehe witnessed as OIL last
Wednesday, when the great trotting
race took place on the famous Williams
kite track. Thirty thousand individuals,
Il
on frenzy, thrOnged the grounds, and
fairly fought one another in their eff
forts to gain point of vantage. One
can form some idea of the immense
crowd In attendance when it is stated
that our chief eXecutive--Our popular
Gov. Merrlam-had to stand upand take
his chances with the common herd.
There were thirty bOokies on hand, and
they just carried away barrels of money
owing to the favorite winning. Five
and ten-dollar bets were as uncommon
as hens teeth. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
notes were the rage, and a perfect
greenback storm of centuries pre-
vailed up to the time the pools closed.
Such crush and jam was never seen
on track. Men with the sweat stand
ing out in great, fat beads all over their
"phizes" shouted wildly to the book
makers for recognition, while at the
same time shaking big handfuls of bills
high in the air. Owing to the inability
of the bookmakers to attend to all who
wished to do business with them, large
numbers of those in attendance made
side bets with one another in amounts
varying all the way from one hundred
to ten thousand dollars. And when the
race was finally ended, and Nancy
Hanks had won, pandemonium
broke loose, and scene ensued
that battles description. The pent-up
excitement found vent in the widest
and most unheard-Of demonstrations.
Some danced tor joy; others yelled like
demons, and still others exhibited their
feelings by smashing their neighbors
plug hats and having their own demol-
ished in turn. 1t was sight the like of
which Iowa has never witnessed before,
and may never witness again.
Have you ever seen the once great
Democratic Sachem of Minnesota, P. Ii.
Kelly, open and read his mail? You
have not. Then you have missed a rare
treat. There is not morning in the
year that he does not open and digest
fifty letters, and it just takes him about
twenty minutes to do it. He opens
letter with sudden motion of the hands
that seems to fairly paralyZe the en-
velope. In an instant he has the letter
before him, and a few rapid movements
of his head from side to side, and he has
taken in enough of the contents to sat-
isfy him. In this way letter by letter is
demolished, and the pile dwindles away
like snow before the morning sun.
When he finishes he calls clerk and
directs him what to do regarding it. |
have seen him during the days when he
was affiXing his 80. K, p. III. K" to
documents, open stack Of letters big
enough to scare an ordinary mortal.
read the same and carry on an animated
conversation with several gentlemen
present, oftentimeS sandwiching in a
funny story just by way of diversion.
Oh, the sachem is a great man in his
way.
! understand that the last furry in
wheat, when that cratic cereal took
glide up to S1.13, was made the occasion
for little speculation by some venture
some Sanity City lads. They ought to
have known better, but it seems they
did not; and the consequence Is that
to-day they mourn badly depleted pock-
etb0Oks. 1t appears that when nearly
the top notch was reached. some idiot,
who claimed he had it dead straight,
gave out pointer that wheat would 90
to 81 before it ever touched a dollar
again. He advanced plausible argu-
ment, too, about the phenomenal crop
in this country and the absolute famine
on the other side of the water. Well,
the boys all bit in various amounts, aud
went to bed one evening dreaming of
corners" IDEALS" and so-forth. 1t just
took half an hour the next morning to
prove the fallacy Of indulging in
straight tips. About six jumps of the
ticker and 81. 10 went up ON the board.
This figure was below their margin
Limit and the boys were done to a turn.
They are now inquiring round if indeed
there is any balm in Gilead. There
may be, but there is nos money in wheat
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