St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-17
ODDS AND ENDS.


matron OF the central police station, is eu-
utied to her monthly salary. In the face of
tnls, Comptroller McCardy. who is not law
yer, refuses to pay the woman her May and
June salaries, because he has motion. II al
IL is not legal to do SO. The re form mem.
pers OF the council sit idly by, and ipti-
mate that II Mrs. Cummings wants her
salary she must invoke the aid of the court to
force Mr.. McCardy's hand. There would be
no hardship about this if Mrs Cummings
were Waliowing'in wealth aud erelhus III 3
position to employ lawyer to ably set her
case before the court She Is not; on the
other hand. she is a widow with large fam
lily depending upon her. II this. is the kind
OF reform We are going to get from the
reform administration. il is welcome to all
the prestige to be obtained therefrom. re-
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Mr.; Lowry has undoubtedly given the city a
great system of street car lines, but IN the
train service furnished there are certain
small details very irritating to the public:
Take the East Seventh street cable. This
road was having q five-miuute service of
trains. and paying in the vicinity OF 1O0
PEE cent This was lot sufficient and so
the trains were limited to seven minutes. AS
result the people. who use the. cable are
thankful when they get car. and to secure
seat is an event in a lifetime. Yesterday
taftsFaoolas anumber of people waited twenty
minutes for a car!
1T
In connectionfwith the East Seventh street
caple cable. there is the Maria avenue extern
sion electric line The ostensible purpose Of
this line is to accommodate passengers on
the cable; but does it? Ask the patrons.
They will tell you that the Maria avenue car
time and time again, will arrive within few
yards of the end of Maria avenue when the
cable car going down town will pass, the
conductor being entirely .obliyious of the
electric train. The passengers thereon have
to wait until the next car-zeven fourteen or
: twenty minutes. just according as to how
they are rn1nifas If Aid. Zimmerman would
pull the city rs1fway company up on these
matters, instead of wasting time iii having
the Maria avenue line extended to the Indian
mounds. he would be doing his constituents
a service which would be of material benefit.
The extension is merely interesting to specu-
latOrs.
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E. V. Smalley is writing some very inter-
esting Recollection of a Mau of Fifty in
the pages of the Northwest Magazine, and in
the current number gives the following ex-
perience during the civil war: 81 was now
SO far recovered from my old wound that
began to feel an ambition to 90 to the field
again. The government was enlisting negroes
throughout all parts of the South conquered
from the rebellion. and a board of old regu-
lar army martinets sat in Washington to ex-
amino candidates for officers. commissions
in the new colored regiments, 1 presented
myself before this board. and was
asked great many ridiculous ques-
tons having no reference to military
matters. One was, ''Wnat is the latitude and
longitude CT the island of the MozambiQue?'
and another was, What is the distance from
the earth To the sum- 1 told the buffers in
epauiets that could not answer these ques-
tons, but that had been first sergeant in
an infantry regiment, and thought could
command a company of coiored soldiers.
They thought otherwise and rejected me- /
was disappointed and indignant at the time.
but their refusal to commission me was no
doubt stroke of good luck, for had passed
the examination the chances are that my
bones would now be crumbling in one of the
pestiient swamps before Charleston or in
some fever marsh on the Mississippi"
IL
The inadequate facilities of the free
library having been brought before the pub
lie by the Commercial club, it is to be eX-
pected that the matter Will not be allowed TO
be dropped until something definite is done.
The number of people using the library is in
creasing almost daily. and the number OF
book borrowers verge closely on 1905. The
library rooms are confined to one end of the
upper story of the court house. as if to in
dictate, So far as the city authorities are con-
cerned, that the one desire was to place it as
far ''out of sight" as possible. There is great
need for change of sentiment in regard to a
public library. and, while we hear minister
after minister haranguing on the saloon, ETC.,
never one has yet undertaken to show the
need for a more commodious and better
stocked library.
III
There are many things needed in st. Paul
to make 1t truly metropolitan city. but
there are three things i'll particular. There
is better public library, as already referred
to, and free swimming school and city am
bulance. 1t is very irritating that there
should be SO much delay in securing these.
If you propose anything with politics or adj
yertising for prominent people attached
thereto, why the thing is taken up and rushed
through, no matter what the expense may
be. Let your proposition, however, be for
humanitarian or intellectual purpose, and
all kinds of objections are raised and moth
ing can be accomplished. From the condi-
,tion of the free library. the absence of city
ambulance and swimming school, one
would imagine there were no citizens with
an overstocked purse. Who will take the
hint?
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Senator Lienau secured the passage of a
bill by the last legislature, which reads /:
1.-The common council of the city of st. Paul
is hereby authorized to appropriate and ex-
pend out of any funds in the treasury, not
otherwise appropriated, sum not exceed
ing $4,000. whenever deemed advisable, for
the purpose of erecting and maintaining
public bath houses and swimming schools in
said city" whenever deemed advisable. ~
One would think that with six boys and
young men drowned during the present sea-
son that a swimming school in St. Paul was
long since advisable Delay in this mat
ter means loss of precious lives.
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The great fault with many men who &C.
cupy pulpits is that they are sadly out of
touch. not only with the people, but with
the times. There are men who conine
themselves so closely To their studies that,
sermons which do as much good as if ad-
dressed to barn door. They are uninter-
esting to the people, and, in many cases. on
subjects entirely cut of the general run of
events, sometimes couched in language more
fit for the class room than the assembly.
Every man and woman has not been blessed
with q classical education even in America,
with all the great advantages in the reach of
citizens. 1t is delightful to see minister get
down among the people; mix with them and
make himself acquainted with their daily
fears, hopes and needs. A typical minister
is Rev. Thomas McClary, of the Bates Ave
nue. NJ. E. church. Every fiber OF the man
is devoted to meet the requirements of his
high calling. and he does not stop at any
trifiing work connected with his church.
The other evening. for instance. with other
members of the church, 1 saw the reverend
gentleman doff his ceat and proceed to dig
out the weeds which had sprung up on the
plot around the CHI urch. he handled his
spade as good as any of them.- Any church
might be proud of such pastor
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