The herald., 1896-04-02

Mayor Robert Pratt and twenty.seven
per men from the city of Minneapolis ar
rived in Los Angeles at l 80 o'clock yester-
day afternoon, and until Saturday morn
ing the visitors from tho frozen north have
but to ask for anything they want and do
not see, and it will immediately become
theirs.
The party was yesterday met at the
Arcade depot by the mayor and the coun-
Gil and q committee of Minnesotans, who
had provided q special car on the Santa
Monica new electric line for a trip to the
sea, and they returned about 6 o'clock.
This morning the party will leave the city
for . trip around the kte-shaped track, re-
turning here tomorrow. A reception will
b. rendered to the visitors at the chamber
of commerce from 1880 to 8 p. M, after
which Spanish dinner will be served at
the restaurant of Jerry Illich.
Saturday morning at 8 o'clock the visitors
will be taken for drive around the city,
way of San Francisco and the north.
PACIFIC RAILROADS.
The party left home on March 18th, and
expects to be back at Minneapolis in about
ten days. Spokane and the larger Mon
tana towns will be visited before the end
of the journey has been reached.
It is needless to relate it, but the Minne-
sotans have been having one H. o. T. slnce
they left the Thermometer beating tattoo
at zero just few N nine leagues this side
of the north pole some three weeks ago, but
nowhere. they all say, have they met with a
more royal reception than the one ac-
corded them here and at Santa Monica
yesterday. and as precaution for what
might follow while they are IN this vicin-
ity, some wit among them has printed the
following tag, several copies of which each
one of the visitors IL cautioned to have
constantly upon or near his person:
AN OUT On A MINNEAPoLIs TINE,
When Can't stand. tie this to my Buttonhole,
Take nv Pocket Book, Wind up my
Watch, Sponge my Clothes and
SHIP ME HOME.
MY name u.s..
p.s. Keep this out of the Newspapers and
tell my wife it was an old s.omach trouble
The Minnesotans have a paving job in
prospective for their city. 1t is to be a
large job, beside which the recent $l4O,-
600 Main-street award is only teaser.
and for the purpose of learning what Is
best to be done under the circumstances,
planned. The taxpayers of Minneapolis
are not paying the piper. Oh, no! II they
were built that way St. Paul, the city or the
Apostle, either or both, would have swal-
lowed up their big village containing near
ly 100000 people long ago. Some of the
about Minneapolis are furnishing the
sinews of war for the present campaign,
and what ia left Of the bills to pay, some
of the big paving companies will liquidate
without a protest. That, at least, is the
way in which these little details are man.
aged hereabouts, and about the only differ
ence between a mayor and common coun-
ell in Los Angeles and a mayor and board
of aldermen in Minneapolis is something
like 25OO miles.
The Minneapolis contingent consists of:
Mayor, Robert Pratt; city clerk, Charles
F. Haney; aldermen. Perry A. Long,
Burke +. OBJ rien, George A. Durham,
Hugh Jennings, S. B. Loye, Sam Il. Ad-
ans, Andrew Anderson. Erick Rhode, Fred
A. Schwartz, P. W. McAllister, Jay W.
Phillips, Francis e.. Drew, Charles II.
Dickinson and G. L. Fort
City engineer, F. W. Cappelen; chief
engineer fire department, Frank L. Stet-
son; commissioner of health, DR.. H. N.
Avery; assistant city attorney, L. A. Dunn !;
registrar water works. Frank T. Moody
sealer of weights and measures, A. G.
Mosher; sergeant at arms, +. T. Gaylord; ;
reporter Tribune, l.. ]. Hillhouse; reporter
journal, Adolph Edsten; reporter Penny
Press. H. A. Luxton; DR.. A. b. Hedderly ;
caterer, John Dorner.
The party travels in private car, and
the caterer and doctor are on the trip to
act as sort of counter irritant upon the
rest of the crowd. They came west over
the Canadian Pacific.