St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-05
MINNEAPOLIS.
NOTE AND COMMENT.

There was food for thought in that
little fling at the people of Minneapolis
made by the street railway company in
the harvest festival parade on the kick
ing of the people now and their salts
faction with the meager service in years
gone by. IT may be said that the city is
much larger now and needs better sery-
ice. True, but no one Will claim that
the growth of the city has kept
pace with the improvement of the
street railway facilities. An occasional
application of the goad stick is a good
thing, but incessant use of it tends to
produce insensibility to its prodS. The
street railway company has done good
deal of work for the city in an incred-
IDLY short time, and deserves modlcum
of credit at least. 1t is less than two
years since the street railway company
announced its intention of operating
all the lines in the city by electricity.
Tie entire'system has been converted
from a horse power system to an cleo
tric system, the best in the country at
that, within that time. This transfer
nation has cost an immense amount of
money and energy. The city proper
has Jared much better than st. Paul.
Yet, with all that the street railway
company has done, and it has shown
no disposition TO relax its efforts
in the future. there is large number OF
persons who are ready to denOunce Mr..
Lowry as the arch enemy OF Mlnneapo-
lis because he has not built several
lines from the Midway district, partIcu-
larly st. Anthony Park, to Minneapolis.
His company did, it is true, build lines
from st. Paul out to those districts from
st. Paul proper, but then they are in st.
Paul and the st. Paul people who'll out
there demanded them. He has given
Minneapolis more than it asked for at
the start. Give him a chance to rest
through long hard winter, and he will
probably build all the lines to the Mid
way district that he thinks will pay Tor
the investment. Street railway build
ing and philanthropy should not be eX-
pected at one and the same time.
A crowd of men were standing in the
West hotel lobby yesterday telling sto-
lies and vieing with each other in the
narrowing features of the tales, when
one of them said: You see that little
model of a ship?" pointing TO the model
OF the ocean steamship which the Cana
dian Pacific road has Oh exhibition in
the lobby.
Yes" replied one of his companions.
You notice that one of the nasts has
Dten broken Ill SOIll6
YES" replied the others.
"Plltell you how it was done. twas
over at the exposition building, when
one of the electric light wires fell from
the roof of the building onto the case
in which the model was. There is some
machinery in the model, and this is con
nected with small electric motor,
which was used for the purpose OF CIV
Ing exhibitions of the model. This motor
got in connection with the wire and the
machinery started. The screws turned
around and around and through the
sides of the model could be seen the
machinery working. The machinery
ran so fast that the model was shaken
from the stand on which it was sitting
and the mast was broken"
They had pool and the telling of the
stories was for the purpose OF deciding
who was to win it. The last story teller
won the pool without struggle.
1t is hoped that the lunch that the
Business Mems Union contemplates CIV
ing the people of Minneapolis will not
partake, in any degree, of compliance
with the Scriptural command, "Feed
my lambs"
1t is feared that Col. Charles w.
OOhliSOiA llllN III lilS thNAfSbb Va SeAA
heiress to the family of the eX-president
an excuse for writing another Interview
with himself OH the influence Of the
feminine gender in politics.
The press club is now on its feet, with
several good, solid dollars in the treas
ury and prospect of more to come. 1T
is unanimously voted good thing.
There is, however, just one danger Turk
ing i'll the circumambient atmosphere
the Single Tax league may think this
good time to shower the newspaper
workers with tracts on the money ques-
ton, and the press club has no fund for
paying the expenses of those members
who need all the comforts of all insane
asylum.
The view of the Falls of st. Anthony
shown in lyon Yonson" represents
vast flood OF water falling over the apron
of the dam. Manager Lift excuses the
error, however, on the ground that
poets and painters (Of stage scenery are
always allowed a certain amount of
license in heightening the effect.