St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-06
THE INEVITABLE CAME.
E. Lincoln Parke Chases His Name
Out of Minneapolis.

Il. Lincoln PaPke CnaSeS his Name
Out of Minneapolis.
Another gay young Minneapolitan has
vanished via the union depot, and all
because he was gay. His name is E..
Lincoln Parke-Lieut. E. Lincoln
Parke, of the Flambeau club. Mr..
Parke left town a few days ago, and it
is rumored that few ducats belonging
to other people went with him. In leav-
ing the town Parke left some debts.
The victims would be pleased if those
debit accounts could disappear as noise
leSSly as he did.
MI. Parke was a Mlnneapolitan by
adoption. He came from Chicago sew
eral wears ago He spelled his name
the sweetest little side whiskers imagin-
able. Those circumstances, taken i'll
conjunction with his winning smile, as
Sured success for him. Success came
and with it intoXication. People have
been known to become intoxicated on
success. Lieut.. Parke's was of differ
ent SORT. He was young man OF con-
siderable business ability, and for some
time has been employed as bOokkeeper
at the First National bank. When the
Flambeau club was organized he be-
came one of its pillars, rising
in time to the proud position
of second lieutenant. During the last
campaign he carried sword in that
noble band of campaigners, and i'll
other ways helped to defeat the Repub-
lican party. But success and the con-
seQuent intoxication were too much for
him. He fell. He fell several times,
although not always in the same place.
This acrobatic tendency of his became
so pronounced as to lead to his dis
charge from his position at the bank.
Instead of dlScouraging his athletic am
bition, this only served to heighten it.
He wOoed Fortune when she
was suffering from indigestion, and
in no mood to be cOddled.
He became one of the lambs who gam
BILE on the green or the red Or the black
accordingly as they receive proper
"hunch." until his pOcketbook became
afflicted with falling sickness. Then he
turned his attention to wooing siren
who smoked cigarettes in certain I'M
esthetic portion of the city where the
roar of mighty waters drives Thoughts
of home and mother" from the minds of
the respondent. His wooing in that di
rection was more successful, 50 success
full that he bought wine in his elevation
of spirits.
Tnatall occurred over month ago.
His relatives in Chicago heard that he
was travling a somewhat tortuous path,
and some of them came to Minneapolis
to straighten him up. A friend and a
Turkish bath did the Strengthening,
he met his relatives with frank, open,
draughty smile and sent them home re-
joicing. But he collapsed again. The
wine, the women, the cigarettes. the
way he wrote his name on the Flam
beau club. as to which opinion is di
vided, tripped him up again, and he fell
to rise no more. The siren named
Maude then left town for Helena and
the money to be made there. 1t is be-
lieved that Parke has also gone to that
land of chinooks, sombreros, guns,
licensed gambling houses and divided
legislatures. 1t is said that he carried
with him some $50 belonging to the
FIambeau club, and the ill will of those
who had been his friends and who had
lent him money. So closes the first
chapter.