St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-03
EVENING SESSION.
Addresses, Poem, Music and An.
nouncements.

Addresses, Poem, Music and An.
nouncements.
The evening session was called at p.
m. and was presided over by Capt. H.
A. Castle, who filled his position with
great deal of dignity, and -induiged in
many little piPasantries in introducing
the speakers, which called forth great
deal of applause. The chairman an
nounced that the session this morning
would be called at $50, SO that all bust
ness could be got through with i'll good
time on account of the visitors taxi
ing the trip to Mnnetonka.
MIR. Hare announced that tho Great
Northern train which will convey the
members of the association to Lake
Minnetonka will be at the depot at l p.
M, to start at 80. Two of the men,
bers of the committee of arrangements
will be at the depot to distribute tickets
to members and their friends. 1t will
also stop at Minneapolis for few min
utes to give the members over there a
chance to accompany the party.
On Friday special lnterurban cars will
leave the poStOtflce corner and % on
down TO Robert street, where they will
be switched off on to a side track and
of the members who may wish to go.
Can't. Castles Remarks.
The remarks of Postmaster Henry A.
Castle, of ST. Paul, were pithy and we'll
timed. He began by promising that
those present doubtless understood who
are the people for whom the meeting was
held, and then proceeded to speak of
them as the innermoSt and highest circle
in the postal service, that makes UP an
army of nearly quarter of a million.
Speaking of the divisions of this army,
he graduated them in a scale of post
masters. carriers. clerks and railway
mail service clerks. The pOStmaSters
were deuominated as the class that
takes the abuse of the people while the
others DO the work, and aside
from the 1,5O0 first-class pOstmasterS
all others earn their salaries.
He declared that it mattered but little
to any but themselves who the post
masters are, but 1t does make d great
difference to the public as to who the
others III the army are. Capt. Castle
said that before being connected with
the service his sympathies went out TO
the letter carriers who give their mental
ability 10 The public, and are exposed to
the weather. He has since found that
the clerks who work in damp cellars by
artificial light are entitled to more SYM
pathy. Later he found another class
having a great amount of intelligence
and undergoing greater hard
ships amidst the greatest of
dangers, and made up his
mind that they are entitled to greater
consideration. 10 them ST. Paul gave
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in their hard mental and physical la
bOrs. EulOgiZing the railway postal
clerks. he declared that they wear out
more of the brain tissues and gray mat
ter than those in the professions or
other callingS. He heartily concurred
III their right to organize and to demand
their rights from the legislative and eX-
ecutlVe departments of the government,
and wished them success.
The selections by the Tenth Division
quartette were given in very good style,
as was also an original poem by Miss
Leone Rich, of the st. Paul postoffice,
which was substituted for Gov. Nelson's
speech. The selection was i'll part as
follows:
OUR POSTAL CLERKS.
How little we know of each other
In this mad rush of life; in its din;
How little we see of its saintship,
Row little we know of its sin.
How little we know of each other.
We meet. we strike palms, and we part
Yet how much have we learned Of life strug-
giles?
How much do we know of the heart?
Let us take but this one branch of labor,
The Mail Service System, alone:
We stand back appalled, atfts greatness,
Its vastness from basement to dome
There's an army OF clerks and of carriers,
And ton on ton daily of mail.
Yet, so perfect the postal arrangements,
Nearly all finds its post without fail.
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To euumerate ali the departments
In The great postal service at large;
To classify. note ''the equipments
These uniformed men hold in charge,
Would be like attempting in detail
To portray on the disk of dime
The worlds fair in its greatness and grand
eur
In word painting symboled in rhyme.
Our boys in the Railway Mail servicel
a II our boys i'll the uniform gray,
Hold our hearts and our homes i'll their
keeping,
Are the strength of our country today
Not even our standing militia
Holds higher, hoier trust
Than the boys with the mail keys aud
pouches
That must never through idieness rust.
Our postal clerks, Heaven protect them
From danger by sed and by land
May the Angel OF Death find each waiting
With Truths golden key in his hand
Vive-la-vive. our glorious Republic.
Our brave postal clerks. Viye-la-yive.
The grand army of the (Railway) Mai
Service,
Our soldiers! our heroes, La-viyeM
1t was very much regretted that the
governor was prevented from address.
ing the meeting last evening. but late
IN the day he had been called to Mime
apollS on official business and had not
returned.
HEr. Smiths Address.
1.-The Railway Mail Service-Its Close
Relationship to the Business Interests
of the Country was the subject of an
interesting address by j. S. Smith, of St
Paul, acting superintendent of the
Tenth division railway service. Mr.
Smith said:
Companions OF the Railway Mail
Service, Ladies and Gentlemen: [ an
called upon to speak to you of the rail
way mail service and its close relation:
to the business interests of the country
Whatever defects may appear in the
address propose TO make. | can say
one thing i'll its favor at the outset. 1t
shall have the distinguished merit OF
brevity.
The railway mail service is an insti
tuition of the present generation. Organ