St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-11
The haunting Newspaper Peo.
pie See the Fire Suffer-
.. ers at Duluth.
ON BOARD THE NORTHWEST.
Everybody Happy and Expect
ing a Splendid Time at
Buffalo.
Special to the Globe.

route has been made unpleasant be-
cause OF the forest fires III Northern
Minnesota and Wisconsin,. We are now
at sea. and nothing seems to have been
more unfOunded than this report OF
hindered traffic. The atmosphere is
clear and cool. and no element prevails
which III the least distresses travel. The
steamer Northwest, with all Of its
palatiaf appointments, Is at the use and
behest of the editorial host. We are
enjoying the trip as only busy workers
can when they find themselves foot
loose and fancy free" With nothing
unusual Intervening. we expect to reach
Buffalo Oh Wednesday morning. The
newspaper men of that city hold them
selves in readiness to give US the fullest
improvement of our Buffalo stay.
Among other features of entertainment
will be trip to Niagara Falls. When
some Of our country editors. such as
Pease, of An0ka. see that tremendous
body Of water, they will want to start a
dairy Oh the spot.
Our jaunt IS producing every form of
good cheer and merriment. Ed A.
Paradis, of che Midway News, President
H. &. Day, Granville S. Pease, A. u.
Knox. G. p. Slime, and few other
notable jewellers are full of spirits,
physical. mental, moral and frementi.
Alta Social Session
in full sway between the hours of and
O'Clock this morning, member OF our
party drank some water by mistake.
Today he is the only invalid ON board.
L nave been a passenger on great
many steamboat lines, but with the
possible exception Of the Fall river
boats | cannot compare anything with
the commodfous apartments of the
Northwest. Every department of the
ship is designed with view to the ease
and comfort OF guests. A more ably
officered boat is not afloat, and the dis
cipiIne OF the servant corps is unusually
near perfectlofl. That our own towns-
man, j. j. Hill, should be the pater and
patron of such craft is indeed fact
worthy Of our pride.
We are directly under the gracious
espionage of T. P. Carpenter, the gen.
eral passenger agent Of the line. He
mingies with us with constant design
to properly display the features Of his
craft and the desire of his company to
comfort and interest the navigating
editors.
l all sitting in the spacious saloon as
l write. All about me. in cases of
carved cherry and heavy plate glass. l
glance al the titles of innumerable VOL
umes of the choicest literature of every
time and country. This library is in
charge of an affable librarian, who is
sues to the passenger any volume dc.
sired. This is only one OF hundred
believe you can here get anything IRON
a bath To irst-class burial. When
reached Duluth
Nellie BLY,
had Just come from Hnckley, where
she has been contributing to the history
the aggressive young newspaper
woman at the Spaulding. and together.
in the con. pany OF A. G. Bachelor, who
has charge Of the relief corps of the
Zenith City. we went the rounds of the
Bethel and other extemporized hospitals
tor the care of the refugees of Northern
Minnesota and Wisconsin.
My interest while with that young
lady huctuated between the subject Of
the stricken people from the pine dis
trict and herself. In company of two
persons she would be the last one OBJ
served. Her dress is plain and de-
signed only to adhere to her small, i'm
perturbed body. Sine has kindly eye
of minced mass color. Her face is
frank and very plain, and | have heard
many curious observer declare her to
be very homely. What she lacks in
physical attributes she makes up in
mental, for she is exceedingly jealous of
her work ana 50 Involved III 1t that she
is generally on any other subject the
most absent.minded person at large.
She lays claim to no knowledge what
ever uf the technical aims or forms. or
even the common nomenclature of
newspaperdom. With this acknowl-
edgment before me l wonder at her
success, unless it may be attributed TO
the prestige OF
The Wild Advertising
of which she is made the object. As
worker she is indefatigab bic, Her ad-
dress is sedate and the flashes of her
wit wouldn't damage tho serenity of
candle glow. She reminds me OF a hard
trained field pointer. You put him in a
field of game and he finds it, and while
so doing he is dead 10 every other form
of life. Miss BLY, takes a subject like
some medicines-Only one dose at
time. While it occupies heI she hasn't
room for anything else, not even din
ner. She carries small hand Satchel
and a robust nerve. The nerve is the
largest parcel. l like her very much,
but IN Western journalism, which is
radically more versatile than feature
writing for a New York daily. she
would come to wreck in a short time of
active general service.
The City of Duluth
is worthy of the applause Of the country
for the energetic manner in which it is
expressing its charity to the fire suffer
erS. So far about 1.20O men. women
and children have been fed. clothed and
lodged. Some of these have departed
for interior points to begin again the
hardy life Of lumbermen. The relief
corps of the Episcopal church has been
very active in minstering to these
bruised and needy people, Members of
the corps tell me it requires the greatest
tact and diplomacy to keep their charges
from leaving the mission hospitals for
their old homes. The fact is the berpft
do not yet realize their true position.
There are no lamentations except from
swaddling children, of which there
seems to he a numerous flock. Inquiry
among them generally assures me
that they are still in dazed state of
mind. They only sigh and laugh
maniacal!y, or speak listlessly of their
distress.
OF those who found their way to Du-
luts. nearly all were Swcdes and Nor
wegians. There were very few Irish,
no Germans. and small number of
Americans.
d. II. G. Watson, of Pittsburg. who
was an attendant at the. Jehnstown
flood. is a physician at the Bethel In