St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-27
This BEASTLY SPELL.
Doubtful If Spring Is Down
on This Years Weather
Schedule.
The Abominable Specimen Of
Spring Affects Business I
Everywhere. y
1t Takes in the Courts, but
NO Injunction Has Been
Issued. g
Hotels, Theaters, Even Crime
Feels the Baleful In
fiuence.

WlULer, WHO saw IuG lHIdlIlDlC ols IlS Va
an early spring, has hidden his dimin-
ished head and gone to join his friend
who proposed the shipping railroad on
lower Fifth street. The Northwest
might as we'll make up its mind that
there will be no spring. The sleighing
may be poor for the next few weeks,
and ice palace talk may drop until after
the Fourth of July, but that is all.
Spring is easily discouraged, and, hav-
ing already made one or two unsuccesS-
full efforts to reach US, has abandoned
the task and gone to join the Bushnells
III sunny Mexico.
This weather is simply beastly, and
has damaged trade more than finan-
cial panic or witherering resolution OF
the chamber of commerce. For nearly
four mortal Weeks-or perhaps immor-
tai, as they seem TO last fOrever-there
has been nothing but snow and sleet
and Slush, and the Northwest is getting
about tired of it. If there were base
ball club in st. Paul. with home dates
at this time, this weather might be ac-
counted for; but asiit Is, it is simply
inexplicable and damnable. A story
current in police court circles that the
Pioneer Press editorial was to blame, is
dismissed without credence, as no edi-
torial utterance of that organ was ever
known to penetrate in the direction
from which the weather is popularity
supposed to come.
Speaking seriously, the continued bad
weather is having a decidedly injurious
effect upon business of every character.
In many parts of this state and the Da-
| kotas the farmers had begun blowing
and, in eases, even seeding, and the
| sleet and snow will set them back very
seriously. In the city. much OF the
spring buying has been abandoned, and
| shopping confined to the purchase of ne
| cessarieS alone. Storekeepers are eX-
| ceedingly blue, and the same shade is
reflected in the faces of dealers in all
branches. Such weather practically
means 10 spring, as experience shows
| that we will leap at once from winter TO
summer.
Knocks Theaters silly.
1t is easy to notice at the theaters dur
| ing the evening performances the
| change in the audiences since the ad-
| vent of che recent unpleasant weather.
| The audiences are smaller than before,
| and there is noticeable lack of the more
| atfiuent-appearing patrons, dressed IN
| their silks and satins and bonnets OF a
| recent design.
There is one class of patron, however,
not affected by rain and snow, and who
! seems to delight in wading through
Ial- Of l III, show
| He purchases a ticket at the smallest
price for admission and walks up the
| long flights Of stairs with the naughty
| air of a railroad owner, or Saloon
| keepar with pull on the reform admin
| istration. He places his muddy boots
! Oh the front railing OF the gallery.
| sticks his fingers III his mouth, whistles
| like steamboat whenever the hero fires
| off the pistol and Kisses like All escape
valve in working condition when the
| villain tries to cut the throat of the
| walking lady."Re doesn't care whether
| it SHOWS or rains.
There is the young man who sports
| patent feathers and light trousers at IS
| per week, and who lives Oh ham sand
witches for the purpose OF attending the
Sunday night theater. He generally
! calls it the ''theayter," and gets his
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| as we'll as out of the show. This is in
| pleasant weather, however. When it
| rains he hangs up his ''other clothes
| on the rack, and sits in his room to read
the morning papers. He cannot afford
| TO run the risk of spelling his shoes or
| trousers in the wet. AS he generally
| sits In the lower portion of the house,
| his weekly contributions are lost to the
| management.
| During the past few weeks it has
| been noticed that the theaters have
been attended in Il very lax manner, land
| those companies which have played i'll
| st. Paul have almost Invariably been
| disappointed in the results.
| Affects General Travelling.
While it is true that the travelling
| public must eat and drink at regular in
| tervalS, if they are to continue as trav-
| eIers in this world, the obstetrics of st.
| Paul have suffered to greater or lesser
| extent in consequence of the severe
| weather of the past few weeks, and bus
| mess has not been as good as could be
| expected. The guests have arrived as
usual. but they have not spent the
| length of time in st. Paul that they
| would have done had the weather been
| compatible with a Minnesota spring.
| ITS like this" said a local hotel
| manager to a reporter for the GLOBE.
''They come to the city with the eXpec
| tation of seeing their customers, l mean
| the travelling men who constitute the
| greater portion of our guests. They
| discover that the bad weather has made
| the business men feel blue and disin-
| clined to purchase, aud they do not stay
| but make for other fields where the
| weather is more pleasant. In st. Paul at
1 bt,~f In
| pressed because of the weather. Col
| iectious are dull and money is tight.
| Our guests. great many of them who
| depend on collections which they make
| en- route, are compelled to wait for
| money from 1.-THE house" before they
| can continue OH their trips. 1t is simply
| awful, and l do not know what will hap
pen il spring does not come in short
| time"
| No Injunction Yet.
| Notwithstanding the many COM
| plants registered against weather by
| officers and habitues of the courts, no
| applications have come to the attention
| of any of the judges asking inlunctions
against the rain bureau, and there are
| no late damage suits growing directiyout
of the weather. That the rains and
SHOWS of the past few days have had
some effects on the district courts may
be true, but it is not apparent further
than in the decreased attendance of
| spectators in the court rooms and the
| storm-protecting apparel that fills the
cloak rooms of the court house.
! That the judges on the bench think
! of the weather. and are more or less
affected by it will not be denied. no
more than there will be denial that
| attorneys in their pleadingS before
court and jury use weather SMILES to
| illustrate point. An illustration i'll
point is given in story related by one
| of the Judges yesterday to number of
attorneys. The incident related is CT a
court scene in Texas. A Mexican had
| been found guilty of an infamous Of
Tense. and was called up for sentence.
| The Judge on the bench asked tie pris-
| oner if he had anything to say why
| the court should not pronounce sen
| tence. A negative answer was given,