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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12

cious; the old soldiers, reluctant to ask
for a pension. have seen so many grant
ed without merit, and have been told
that they were foolish to refuse what all
were taking. that it Is little wonder that
so many thousands of soldiers have
''joined the gang and helped them rob-"
With no public sentiment opposing 1t,
with both and all political parties
cowardly yielding to the opportunities
of the pension sharks and the bounty
soldiers, it is not to be wondered at that
solGierly pride and independence broke
down under the temptation, and men
have taken pensions that either did not
need or did not deserve them.
1t Is encouraging that the demand for
reformation comes from the men for
whose benefit these charities are created.
If they speak out IN plain terms, the
timid politicians will take courage to
do what they know is right and should
be done. But, whether the old soldiers
generally take a hand in this purglng
of the rolls or not. it will be done. When
it is accomplished the GLOBE hopes
that the pension rolls will contain the
name of every soldier who has no
means of support and is unable to pro-
vide for himself. and that it will con-
tain the name of no soldier who has the
means of se%lf-support, no matter how
disabled. 1t further hopes that the roll
will contain the name OF no soldiers
widow, no matter what his rank may
have been, who is getting a larger pen
sion by special act or otherwise, tina is
the widow of any other soldier.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12
-BANANA-PEEL NUISANCE.

The banana is now in full bloom in
St.Paul, and accordingly the streets are
streWn with the delusive peel, which
can send a person spraWljng pom the
walk as much more eXpeditiously than
glary ice as lightning is quicker than
the movements of a snail. st. Paul has
an ordinance making it an offense
to throw banana peel upon the walks;
but that doesn't count" Yesterday a
policeman looked approvingly upon a
party of men who were peeling bananas
and throwing the skins upon the walks,
and later saw a woman take a severe
fall upon one of them. There was no
arrest, and it is not improbable that the
officer thought that it was a good joke
upon the woman
1t is doubtful that one-third of the
policemen know of the existence of the
ordinance. and more than likely that
most of the other two-thlrds consider
the ordinance too trifing to be worthy
of their attention. If these burly blue
coats could take good thumps upon the
sidewalks from peels, they would be
awakened to the importance of arrest
ing violators of the ordinance; but few
Of them do enough walking around to
be in danger.
About every city in America has an
ordinance like st. Paul's, and in about
every one, except st. Paul, it is strictly
enforced. This is a very important
matter, as our authorities will learn
when the city has to settle for a leg or
so broken by stepping on banana skins
something which is sure to occur soon
or late.
Our mayor, when he took charge, con-
sidered the matter of throwing paper
upon the streets, etc.. so important that
he made public mention of the necessity
of enforcing such ordinances. But
nothing practical to speak of has result
ed from his remarks.
1t is hoped that the police may be in
structed at once to arrest every one who
throws a banana peel upon a walk, and
that the municipal court will make an
example Of each person.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12
THE REACTION.

Some time since the GLOBE COM
mented on the resolutions adopted by
the Noah l.. Farnham post of the G. A.
r., in New York city, calling for a re-
vision Of the pension laws, the looping
Off Of unworthy pensioners and the re-
striction hereafter of pensions to those
disabled by wound or disease contracted
in the service. This action of that post
was afterward followed by others,
among them the George Washington
post of that city.
The action Jared the sensitive nerves
OF the veterans for revenue only, and
lurid protests and resolutions denuncia-
tory were adopted by other posts domi-
mated by this class Of eX-soldiers, and
finally the matter was taken up by the
department of New York and a demand
was made on the Farnham post to re-
tract and rescind its resolution under
pain of suspension. This the post has
refused to do. It feels that it is right,
and it proposes to stand by its colors.
Ice approval that comes to it from cid
soldiers over the country indicates that
the opinions held by il are widely
shared.
Pension Legislation since the arrears
of pensions act. and including that
measure, has been so demoralizine in
Its temptations; the activity of the
agent has been so persistent and PERM
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12
DANGEROUS BICYCLING.

Summit avenue is a favOrlte resor
for bicyclists, and every pleasant even
ing the avenue is we'll filled with wheel
men, racing up and down the long
stretch of asphalt pavement. None OF
the wheels are provided with lights, and
people crossing the streets are obliged
to use great caution to avoid being run
down. During the past few weeks sew
| eral people have been struck bylbicycleS,
and many others have had narrow eS-
capes. We're a person to be struck.
squarely by a wheel. propelled as some
| of them are, he. would be very likely to
| receive serious, if not fatal injuries.
Very few Wheelmen would willingly
dash into d pedestrian; but there
are places On the avenue so dis
tant from street lamps that the
riders are unable to see pedestrians
until they are upon them, and the
wheels approach so nolselessly that
people crossing the street are uncon-
scious OF their peril until struck. or
their clothes are grazed. Last year an
ordinance regulating the riding of BIZ
cycles was introduced in the council.
The original draft provided that riders
must carry lights upon their wheels at
night. The bicycle clubs fought this
provision, and at length a compromise
was made whereby the wheelmen are
forbidden to ride OH the sidewalks of
paved streets or upon the walks OF GER
tain unpaved streets; when riding upon
the walks of the streets not specified
they must carry lights at night; and
wherever riding they must carry
whistles or bells with which to warn pc
destrians. 1t is easily to be seen that
this ordinance falls a long way short of
affording proper protection to people
walking upon the streets.
The members of the bicycle clubs are
respectable citizens, and why they OBJ
iect to carrying lights, when it is so
clearly apparent that serious accidents
are likely to occur from their absence,
it is difficult to see. Where the bicycles
are operated in darkness it is not only
dangerous to those walking across the
streets, but to teams. Spirited horses,
ever if not run into, become frightened
az the mysterious objects Whisklng by
them, and sometimes become unman
ageable. A number of ruuaWays have
been caused in this way. The wheel
men overlook the fact that. while many
of their number are very cautious to
avoid collisions, some of the riders of
bicycles are t%houghtless, if not abso-
lutely reckless.
The common council should proceed
with a firm hand to amend this ordi-
nance, providing that wherever upon
the streets and sidewalks in the city
limits a bicycle is ridden after dark 1t
shall be provided with a light suffi-
GENTLY strong to be seen plainly at least
a half-block away, and that warning
bells or whistles shall also be carried
o,,d ,,cn1 tL.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12

his back in scorn on those of his party
who are wearing out their clothes in the
same hunt. This lacks both candor and
the decency of truth. What can the
Pioneer Press hope to accomplish
by it? Does it expect any intelli-
gent person to believe it? What
evidence is there that Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND ever sought any Office that he has
filled? Were he a place-hunting poll
tician, would he have sent to congress
the message of 'S7? Would he have
vetoed the dependent pension bill, for
which the Pioneer Press so praised him?
Would he have written his famous sill
yer letter in '91? Has our contemporary
forgotten the eager emphasis with
which Democratic senators and repre-
sentatives and papers declared that that
letter had removed Mr.. CLEVELAND
from the lists Of presidential possibili-
ties? Isn't it, after all, just as well to be
candid
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12
NEW INDUSTRY ADDED.
Griffin Car Wheel Works Coming
to st. Paul.

~ 81 Z IA
From the present outlook, st. Paul is
to have another important manufacture
ing plant located in the city in the near
future. 1t will be a branch of the Grif-
fin Wheel and Foundry company of Chi
cago; a factory with a present capacity
of $50 wheels per day, but without the
facilities for supplying the immense
number of orders which pour in daily
from all parts of the country. w. Nj.
Green. vice president of the c0mpany,iS
in the city at present in company with
two of the directors of the company. for
the purpose of looking over the ground
and deciding on a location for the plant.
1t has practically been decided that
the works will be located in st. Paul.
Bids have been made for the locating
of the plant in Minneapolis and Du-
luth. but the representatives of the
company are looking for a site which
will be beneficial for them. They are
not looking for a bonus, and have re-
fused the offers of the other cities.
The company supplies a number of
the railroads running into st. Paul with
the product of its factory, and it is
for this reason that this city is the best
for their purpose. There is at present
a factory of the kind in st. Paul, but it
is unable to supply the demand for
wheels.
1t is expected that work will be COM
menced on the construction of the plant
in the course of a few weeks. a num-
Der of sites have been looked at, but it
is not thought that any IL has been
definitely decided on. The works will
be very extensive and will embrace a
foundry, machine shops and other build
ingS. 1t is not known what will be the
capacity OF the works.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12
THE PREsIDENT,s ORDER.

THE PRESIDENTS ORDER.
President CLEVELAND says to the
seekers after place that when he wishes
to see them he will send for them, and
that until then they must be content to
file their papers and possess their souls
with what patience they may have at
their command. He is compelled to
this by the fact that the time which he
should devote to the pressing affairs of
his office affecting the general interest
is so taken up by these eager and pa
trlotic gentlemen, who are unable to see
how the administration can get along
without their assistance. that the great
er interests of the people are deferred
to the presentation OF the minor inter-
ests Of the place hunters.
1t is amusing to watch the m inner in
which this order. eminently proper and
sensible. is received by the party which
was moved by the popular vote last
year to a position of observation instead
of occupation. as shown by the COM
ments of its press. These range all the
way from the sneer of those papers
which regard it as the chief end and
aim of man to get Office and of govern
ment to dispense Offices, such as the
Milwaukee Sentinel, up to those papers
which profess to advocate the divorce
of party from patronage and are yet too
partisan to admit with candor that the
order of the president is the longest
stride yet taken in that direction by any
incumbent of that office, Of which pa
pers our own Pioneer Press is a type.
"Was there ever anything like 1t ?''
asks the Sentinel; and the GLOBE is
obliged to admit that there never was,
except the milder notice the same pres
ident gave in his first term. Certainly,
in the long line of Republican presi-
dents there is nothing like it. To the
Sentinel, enriched and embellished by
a consulate under the last administra-
ton. the order is ''provincial;" it is "as
shocking to the sense of dignity as the
spectacle of a portly bishop in a lawn
tennis blazer and cap" The Sentinel
%forecloses criticism by declaring that
any n who cannot see how grot esque
the order is ''eannot be made to under
stand it by any sort Of comment" (which
is also a grOtesque assumption of SUI
perior perspicacity in itself that is
charming.
But our W Pioneer Press cuts rather
the sorIier figure in its efforts TO main
tain its position as a defender of every
thing that will widen the space between
politics and patronage and its repulsion
to admitting that any such good thing
can come outof the Nazareth of Democ-
racy. 1t makes the convenient diScov-
cry that place-hunters. when once snugly
ensconced in Office. become ~intolerant
Of the efforts of others to get in. cal
though he may have worn his garments
threadbare in corridors and ante-r0oms,
waiting greediiy for a word of hope and
never for an instant relaxing his pur-
suit, he is filed with a fine contempt. as
he sits in the chair of Office obtained
through much travail, for those who are
still clamoring outside the DOORS"
The Pioneer Press wishes it, of
course, to be understood by this that
the president, having worn his garments
| t~hreaGbare in his hunt fer place, turns
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12
TERRIBLY INCREASING.
The Authorities of the Board of
Health Give Some Important In
formation About the Present Con-
t5tJOD of the PEOPLE.

At no time in the history Of New York CITY
have there been SO many deaths from pneu-
monia as now. The official figures show that
nearly twice as many deaths from this cause
are occurring than for the last five years.
This is something terrible.
DIR. John II. Nagle. Registrar of Vital Sta
tistics, says that this increase is due to the In
fiuence of grip. He says that grip may be
called epidemic just now, and that liz the
majority of cases grip is a vital. contributing
cause to pneumonia and all dangerous pull
monary troubles. At this time of the year
when we are changing over from winter to
spring, there is always d low order of vital.
ity; a reaction from the strains of the season.
The blood does not flow so full nor rapidly;
the strength is less. For this reason grip has
amuch better chance than at any other sea-
son.
This is a time of year when people need to
be careful. and too much Importance cannot
be placed upon keeping the blood warm and
in circulation. You must bring about n re-
action if YOU wish to avoid the pain and dan
gers of these troubles in time. There is but
one way by which a reaction can be brought
about, and that is by the use of a pure stimu-.
Is nj, preferably whiskey. But the great diff
Guilty is that there are few Whiskeys which
are pure. The only really pure and reliable
whlskey known to the medical profession or
the world is Dufy's Pure Malt. 1t possesses
qualities known only 10 itself. 1t Will bring
about a reaction and prevent cold, pneu-
monia or the grip where many so-called slim
u.ants would fail. 1t has saved more lives
and relieved more suffering than anything
of Il similar nature which WIS ever known
before to the world,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12
VISITING
To Be Received Today-Prepara-
tions for the Press League. =

10 BE heCelVeQ IOuay-Hrepara-
tions for the Press League. =
An interesting meeting of the Press
club was held yesterday afternoon, in
the club house of the organization, for
the purpose of discussing the plans for
the entertainment of the visiting mem
bers of the International League of
Press Clubs and the transaction of other
business. There was a good attendance
OF the members of the club.
The first portion of the meeting was
devoted to the transaction of business
OF a routine character, and then fol-
lowed the business OF creating a pro-
gramme. The one decided on was SUBJ
stantially the Il published in yester-
day mornings GLOBE. Committees
were appointed for the purpose of ar
ranging for the various forms of enter
tainment.
Judge II. w. Cory was unanimously
elected an honorary member OF the club,
and Victor Smalley was elected a mem
Der. Th6 reports of the treasurer and
financial secretary showed that the con-
dition of the treasury was not so pros
porous as could be desired, in conSe-
quence OF the recent payment of bills
and accounts OF the club.
A communication was received from
j. I. COnley, of the Milwaukee road,
stating that a party of eight journalists
would arrive this morning from Ger
many and Austria, EN- route to Chicago.
These gentlemen represent 400 Euro
Dean newspapers. A committee con-
sisting Of Messrs. Stern and Bjorkman
was appointed to meet the visitors at
their hotel and take them for a drive
around the city. The committee will
confer with Mr.. Beck, secretary Of the
business mems union.
1t is expected that the entertainment
and banquet which will be given the
visiting members of the International
league will be one of the finest and
most elaborate ever given in the city.
There will be a number of prominent
business men present at the banquet,
but it will not be an easy matter to OBJ
tain tickets for it. The disposal of the
tickets will be in the hands Of a COM
mittee, and the gathering will be a very
select one. There will not be another
formal meeting of the club before the
convention of press clubs.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12

ST. Paul; Eugene A. Merrill. Min
neapolis; Daniel D. Merrill, st. Paul;
Samuel e. Adams, Minneapolis;
Alfred s. Talmadge, st. Paul;
Elwood S. Corser, Minneapolis; Will
lam Ii. Lightner, st. Paul; William NJ.
Prindle, Duluth; Hon. Hiram F.
Stevens, st. Paul; Rev. E. P. Chitten-
den, Winona; Hon. W. D. Cornish. st.
Paul: DR.. Thomas G. Clarke, Saltwater;
Hon. n. P. Langford, st. Paul; Hon.
Calvin L. Brown, Morris; Rev. Edward
c. Mitchell, st. Paul; Gen. James Il.
Bohn, Garden City; Giles W. Merrill,
st. Paul. This leaves nine more mem
bers of the board of directors to be
selected at a future meeting.
The president was authorized to name
three delegates to the annual congress
OF the national society, which meets in
Chicago oil June 16.
The members were asked to furnish
the register additional information as to
~antecedents, etc.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12
. REVOLUTIONARY sC1oNs.
The American Order Chooses New
at Officers.

The Sons of the American Revolution
held a meeting last night i'll the Office
of A. S. Talmadge. in the Chamber of
Commerce building, at which d consid-
cradle number of members were pres
ent. Several new officers were elected.
The old ones holding over are: Presi-
dent, Hon. Albert Edgerton; vice presi-
dent. George K. Shaw. of Minneapolis;
secretary. Edwin S.. ChitLenden, and
register, William H. Grant, who was
also designated as historian to fill the
place of E. A. Sumner, who has removed
to New York. The new officers elected
are:
Active vice president, Judge S. j. R.
Mcmillan, of st. Paul; honorary vice
presidents, Hon. r. r. Nelson, St.Paul;
Henry p. Upham, st. Paul, and Daniel
K. Moves. st. Paul; treasurer, w. j.
Jewett, Of st. Paul.
There were tWenty-one members of
the board OF managers elected, namely:
Gen. John 8. Sanborn. of ST. Paul;
Maj. N. +. Warner. of Minneapolis;
Col. Henry Q. Carver. OF st. Paul; Abe
Smith, Minneapolis; Douglas Putnam,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12
One Prosperous Concern.

New YORK. May 1.-THE annual re-
port of the board of directors Of the
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacture
ing company to the stockholders was
given out from the cOmpany's Office
il the Equitable building this after
noon. 1t presented as a final statement
of the company for the year ended
March 81. 1898, and says: There has
been profit from manufacturing OF
81, 491. 217.l3, and from other sources Of
S112. 7GG go, making a total for the year
of Sl,604. 5e3. Is. The details are of q
highly favorable character.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12
Stole From Her stocking
Y. MISC. 4. WORK.
Discussions in the Convention on
How 1t Can BE Forwarded.

DISCUSSIONS IN the convention on
How 1t Can BE Forwarded.
INDIANAPOLIs, May 11.-About zoo
delegates attended the second days SEES
sion Of the International Y. NJ. G. A.,
when G.. NJ. Bierce, of Ohio,
the new president of the as
ISOLATION, made his first address,
following it with the appointment
of committees. Noel III. Jacks, of Port
land, Or, was appointed 0" the commit
tee on credentials; ii. b. Souther, Of
Cedar Rapids, To-, on devotional meet
ings; S. G.. McCannaughty, of Duluth,
and W. A. Magee, of Des MOines. on
business; II. ii. McGill. of Winnipeg,
and A. w. Kellogg. of Milwaukee, on
association. The presidents address
was largely on the cOngratulatory order.
l.. ii. Packard, Of New York. opened a
general discussion on the duties of an
association secretary. During the past
two years 2jO secretaries have dropped
from the ranks, and this large loss was
attributed 10 the lack of proper prepare
ton before assuming the duties of the
Office. This paper was followed by a
thorough discussion of The subject. At the
afternoon session, LIZ .Munhall conduct
ed the devotional services. Seldom ).
Spencer, Of st. Louis, read 4 paper on
Incorporation, " and was followed by j.
II. McCurdy, of New York. on "lYhat
the State Committee Can Do for the
Physical Department of the AssOcia-
ton" In the AFTERNOON the session
arguments opened on the ACCESSIBILITY
of various cities to hold the next con-
VentiOn.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12
STATE ELEVATOR AGAIN.

In a recent editorial on the decision OF
the attorney general in constituting sec
ton twelve of the state elevator bill act,
that the charge Of 80 cents a car for in
| spection laid in the act only applied to
grain inspected into the state elevator,
and did not apply to that going into the
other terminals, the GLOBE said that
when the news of this discrimination
got abroad in the country there would
be a bucolic howl Of Indignation and dis
elimination.
The howl has come, and DONNELLY
is, as usual, blowing the fog horn. In
his Representative" he roundly de-
nounce the attorney general for his
opinion; claims, of course, that he is
merely the tool Of the wheat ring, whose
fell purpose is to destroy the competi-
ton of the state elevator, and calls on
the alliances of the state to unite in a
demand on the governor for a special
session to make matters all right again.
Mr.. DoNNELLY puts himself in an
e%quiVocai position by this attack. He
was a member of the senate. This was
his one pet measure. If he did not draw
it, he scanned it closely and pro-
nounced it good. What defect there IS
in it is his fault. The construction Of
the attorney general is merely the COM
mon sense Interpretation OF ordinary
words. No II can read section twelve
and put any other construction on it. If
the fifty-cent charge vas to apply to all
glain; if all the receipts Of all inspec-
tons were to be turned into this fund, it
was not a difficult matter to make the
act express it. But it does not. 1t may
be that the wheat combine got in their
work on this act as they did on the ter
minaI bills; but if they did it was IN the
framing of the bill, and it is not to the
credit of MI. DONNELLY'S perSpicacity
that they could do this right under his
nose without his discovering it.
The construction does not defeat the
building of the elevator. 1t is not to be
built out of the fees derived from in
specting grain into it; that would be a
downright abSurdity, if the act so pro-
vided. The appropriation is made from
the revenue fund. The expenditure is
to be repaid the state out Of the inspec-
ton fees earned after the elevator is
built.
Whatever clamor DoNNELLY's vocif-
erations may raise, the governor should
not call the legislature in special ses-
sion. The state is we'll rid of that ag-
gregation of boodling and stupidity. 1t
thanked the gods when it dissolved, and
it shoulders at the thought of its coming
again. There is no need Of it. The act
is sufficient as it is. Its only defect,
aside from the Internal paternaIiSm Of
it, is that the state will see its $500. 900
back into the treasury again about the
time, as the GLOBE has said, when it is
reimbursed for its old seed grain loans.