St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-22


silk had not been delivered. Then
there was inaugurated a hunt for the
missing silk, but it couldn't be found.
It was easily ascertained that 1t had
been delivered at the wrapping coun-;
ter and had been wrapped up, so that,
the proprietor traced it down to the de-,
livery clerk and the man who drives;
the delivery wagon. 1t was believef,
of course, that the silk had been stolen
and we wanted to find the guilty par
ties. Naturally the delivery clerk and
the man in the wagon were. not in an
enviable position, but being honest men,
they were not under suspicion. Weeks
went by and it was given up. Finally,
the weather grew cold and the eng14
neer prepared to turn on steam. With
his lantern he went along the steam,
pipes under the floor to see if the pipes
were all right, and down in one cor
ner he found that nine yards of silk
which rat had used for building his
nest. In the center was found twe
small children of the rat family. EVE
| IDENTIFY the old rat had been moving
| the young rodents because of the heat
in the steam pipes. The rat had SIM
ply stolen the bundle and dragged it
through the open doorway to the place
where it was found"
~ ~ DG9t@t -
Since the. feSFets were put in that
building, the rats have deserted it and
now enjoys immunity from the ravages
of the destructive rodents. Mr.. Sauter
cares for his ferret family very ten
derly and they, of course, have come
to know him. During the day the fer
rets stow themselves away, but when
night appears they sally forth on their
mission of murder and even penetrate
the sewers in search of rats. They
roam freely about the building and woe
be unto the luckless rat that comes
within range of pair of pink eyes.
On the last trip of the Hamburg
American liner there were two burials
and one suicide at sea. I learned this
from Phil Sittman, whose return from
a European trip was noted in the
G b e Thursday. Phil is naturally
of a jovial disposition, but his face
clouded as he told of the midnight
funerals when great ship was re-
lieved of her dead. The men to be
cast into the ocean were stokers who
had succumbed to the heat down in
the boiler rooms. Not long after death
had occurred the bodies were sewed
up in canvas, with weights at the feet,
as often described in the books written
about life at sea. Instead of being slid
Off tipped-up grating, however, these
bodies were laid on boards and car!
ried to the deck when about all the pas
sengerS had retired. ''Then whispered
orders were given,'' said Mr. Sittman,
"and the sailors dumped the bodies
over the rail, feet first. The boards
were thrown after them, and that's all
there was to it-no services, no COM
ment, not the slightest stoppage of
even the routine of the Ship
Of the suicide Mr. Sittman said: He
was Scandinavian from the steerage,
who had left some small town in the
Northwest to seek relief from an in
durable disease at some of the Euro
pean medicinal springs. We encoun-
tered rough weather and seasickness
added to his misery. A lady noticed
him sitting with one leg over the rail
and cautioned him to be careful that
a lurch of the ship did not throw him
| overheard. Strangely enough, he an
| swered that there was no danger, but
| the next minute he swung the other
| leg over the rail and jumped as far
out from the ship as possible. &
Immediately the cry Of man over
| board was raised and speed was slack
ened. The big ship put about and re-
| traced five miles of her course, with q
lifeboat hanging clear, ready to
| be launched in a moment. But not a
trace of the suicide was seen. after he
jumped
Friday night the rain was falling
heavily in ST. Paul, and along about
/ midnight, the streets were% deserted
| except by policemen. Rain or shine,
| the copper must be alert, and Chief
| Clark requires the strictest kind of at
| tention to duty on nights which might
naturally be selected for illegitimate
work. 1t will be interesting to note
the roundup for Friday night, as it
happened to be the Listeners fortune
or misfortune to take it in.
/ Leaving out three drunken men, who
| were slowed away in dry cells, there
were five women and one man brought
| in at different times from IL to l
| o'clock. First came a colored woman
who had been raising disturbance
over on Seventh street, near st. Peter.
| She was half crazed with drink, and
| not only accused the officer who arr
| roster her of having rushed the growler
| at her home, but vindictively insinu-
| ated that the lieutenant in charge of
| the station had endeavored to ingrati-
ate himself into her favor. Drunk, be-
draggled, blaspheming, dissipated, she
| looked more like an old hag than a
| young woman under thirty, as she is.
A child too young to be separated from
| her was kindly cared for by the patient
matron, Mrs. Cummings, and soon
after being locked up the mother was
| snoring in a drunken stupor.
| When next the wagon went out it
| came back with two very fat and very
| notorious colored women who had en-
| ticed a green young Swede into their
rooms and were making unduly merry
| at his expense. One wench was de-
| family jovial, the other doggedly re-
signed. On her arm the latter carried
| a small infant, which she had carried
in an old wrap to protect it from the
| soaking rain. Again Matron Cum
mings had to exercise her good Of
fees to make the prisoners comfort
able.
The young man mad scarcely DeeH
taken up stairs after his ebony COM
panions before the wagon drove uI
again, with a nobly-looking little col
ored girl who said she was nineteen
Dissipation had not yet soddened the
features, which were rather attractive
She answered very glibly the questions
asked by Night Jailer Hammes, an6
tripped up stairs to the cell room as
airily as she would have gone to g
| swell cake walk.
1t was after midnight when police.
man from a nearby beat walked in
with young man and young
girl. All three were dripping
wet and the girl was crying pite-
ously. She was lightly appareled in q
white gown that was wet almost hall
of it's length, and her white straw hat
and the ornaments thereon were also