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St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03

the contest, but not so. There are. ac-
cording to Mr. Rundlett, 10 ares re-
quired in the Fourth district. and Mr..
Smith cannot maintain but 20 or 75
arc lights, and this leaves about 100
more to be provided. But they can be
furnished by the gas company. whose
bid for this district Is $3.50, some one
Will say. But again not so. for the gas
company has stipulated that In case 1t
Is not awarded the contract for light
Ing District Four with electricity 1t
VIII charge $3.50 per arc per year for
all additional arc lights II may be ask
ed 10 furnish in that district A little
arithmetic will demonstrate that 1t
would be far cheaper to award the con-
tract for the entire district to the st.
Paul Gas Light company.
To summarize. II will cost about
$4,000 more under these bids TO light
the city with electricity Instead Of gas.
One arc light is considered equivalent
to six gas lamps. and, as the price bid
per gas lamp per year Is $23. the sum
OF $l3S gives an approximate COM
parison between the two systems Of
lighting From this 1t will be seen that
1t will cost considerably more to light
the First and Third districts with cleo
tricity than it would to employ gas.
On the other hand, in District No.
2 the difference Is largely in favor of
electricity, as the gas company will
furnish the ninety arcs required In
that district at $3.50, or one-half the
cost Of gas. This being the case; 1t
need not surprise the common coun-
ell should the board of public works,
the city engineer and the corporation
attorney accompany their tabulation
Of the bids with a recommendation
that the Second district be lighted
with electricity and the contract
awarded to the lowest bidder and
that the other three districts be light
ed by gas. City Engineer ~.undlett
calculated last night that this would
reduce the total expense to $4,000 for
the year.
by the council, the whole reduction
will amount to about $4,000, as the
city is now paying the st. Paul Gas
Light company $105,000 a year for it's
street lighting. Adding to $65,000 the
sum of $3T 900, which will be expended
for gasoline lighting under the pres
ent years contract, gives a grand to-
tai of 100000 as the annual expense
of lighting the entire city
These figures exhibit a singular CO.
incidence with the reduction of the
amount included in the tax estimate
for the city lighting. AS the budget
came from Comptroller McCardy to
the conference committee the estimate
was placed at $165000. BY the time
the budget had passed the common
council the estimate was reduced to
$4,000 Under the so per cent pro-
vision Of the charter the sum of $96, 900
cash is assured, and if only per cent
of the taxes come in the 100000 is
thereby provided. AS it is, little doubt
exists that 80 per cent of the $120, 900
will be realized
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03
AT The TAEATERs.

Since 1t is only claimed that Nancy at
the French BALI is for laughing purposes, 1t
cannot be denied that the piece is a success.
With Fanny Rice Nancy, it is not sup
prising that the play, which is called a mu-
slcal comedy. Is success 1t is gotten up
in new style, with a prologue and three
acts, in which the members of the cast as
sumo variety OF characters, held together
by gauZy plot, which permits the interpola-
ton OF musical numbers ranging from negro
songs to operate arias, and a bunch of in
teresting specialties
The name of the author or composer is not
down on the bills, but whoever he is he
has seen ut to carry his characters from the
humble shop of Patch, the shoemaker, to the
luXuriouS drawing room of Barton the stock
broker thence to the boudoir of GeraIding.
a diva, and lastly to the French ball. where
real and brummagem aristocrats mingle with
the utmost savoire faire. and disastrous re-
suits. All through the prologue and three
acts Miss Rice holds the interest of her au-
dience. She is certainly clever, and carries
her part with refreshing vigor
Her experience in borrowed plumage and
finally in ballet costume at the ball. gave
her an opportunity for some exceedingly
funny business. Her speciality with several
marionettes made distinct hit. The COM
pany was in the main satisfactory. John
Conley as Erasimous gave capital imper-
sonation of the ubiquitous colored servant
while Miss Alice Vincent appeared to excel
lent advantage dramatic soprano, sing
ing several serious numbers with much ex-
preston and effect
The part of Lisette, a maid, was taken by
Miss Rena Haight, who sang dainty waltz
song, among other things, in such a man
ner as to win an enthusiastic recall. The
balance of the cast was good. The play will
be at the Metropolitan tonight tomorrow
night and matinee tomorrow.
"In Old Kentucky" delighted another very
large audience at the Grand last night.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03
THE RIGHT COURSE.

The sound money Democrats of Mis-
souri, are little late in the day. per-
haps, but they have adopted the only
right course, which is to take the bull
by the horns. If the free silver ele-
ment IN the party captures that state,
or more than half a dozen anywhere
else outside of the silver producing re-
gion, It will be due entirely to the
apathy and criminal Indifference of the
opposition. We saw last year exactly
what could be done in either direction
in the case of Illinois and Kentucky.
There is no manner of question that
the Democrats of the former state are
three to one against the free coin
age of silver. Yet when Mr. Hinrichsen
went to work to call his snap conyen-
ton, they were satisfied to make ver-
bal protest, stay at home and let the
state go by default AS a consequence
the free silver men have the organiza-
tion and are capable of making a great
deal of trouble. In Kentucky, ON the other
hand, it was an open question which
wing Of the party was numerically
greater. Had the same inaction pre-
vailed there as in Illinois, the state
today would be in the control of the
free silver element beyond possibility
of redemption.
Sound money Democrats everywhere
have been inclined to take too much
for granted. We do not wonder that
they find it hard to believe that any
considerable number OF their party
should take up the Populist platform
and go to work tearing their own or
ganization to pieces in order to make
votes for the Peoples party. That,
however, is the fact. They have had
plenty of warning, and have seen this
improbable danger changed to real
ity in many cases. Now it is time
for them to take off their coats and go
to work not only in Missouri, but in
almost every other state of the South,
as we'll as of the North. Such a cam
paign as was made in Kentucky would
result elsewhere in an equally
overwhelming declaration against
the free coinage of silver. There
are no days to be lost. The
national convention is but a few
months distant. Just as surely as the
free silver representatives obtain a
majority Of that convention, just so
surely is the Democratic party not only
deprived of it's last possibility of sue
cess in the coming election, but it is
threatened with absolute extinction
The free silver men are not working
for Democracy. In almost every state
they have declared that they will not,
in any event, abide by a decision of
the majority. If they can have their
way, they will run things. If they
are defeated, they will bolt.
This is not an event upon which
Democrats can look with idle COM
placence. The future of the party is
at stake, and it's greatest menace is
the supine Indifference with which the
advocates of sound money sit down
and do nothing, on the assumption
that the Democratic party cannot be
induced to commit so gross a blunder
as the adoption of a free silver plank
From this time forward there should
be not only in Missouri, but in every
other state, such a campaign as will
awaken the voters to a sense of their
danger and their duty.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03
THE ARMY DIVIDED.

''The decision reached by Ballington
Booth and his wife to head a religious
movement in this country will be graf
flying to all true Americans" Thus
speaks feather-headed contemporary,
apparently with the notion that every
thing American is to be commended
and encouraged without regard to its
moral quality, or to it's effect upon
the public. About the silliest exhibit
ton of the jingo spirit that we have
yet come across is the idea which
seems to have inspired this declaration.
that there is something in an Amer
lean Salvation Army which must rise
superior, essentially, to a Salvation
Army uniform in it's regulations and
discipline throughout the world, and
having at its head somebody who is
not an American.
We have no opinion to express on
the merits of the controversy to which
Ballington Booth is a party. We have
no doubt whatever that both sides be-
lieve themselves to be thoroughly in
the right; that both are acting con-
scientiously, and have proceeded to the
eXtremities which both deplore only
under the pressure of what they re-
gard as a deplorable but unavoidable
necessity. Wherever ones sympathies
lie, however, it is obviously manifest
that any such division Of forces and
effort, involving as it must a certain
amount of jealousy and antagonism
between the two, is serious detriment
to the work which the Salvation Army
has carried forward, and a misfortune
to those whose lives and conduct it
endeavors to touch. One need go no
further than the occurrence on Sunday
night, where the new commander in
the United States, a woman at that.
was Kissed vigorously at a public
meeting, because she felt herself bound
by the obligations she had taken to
stand by the central control that has
always governed the affairs of the or
ganization. This feeling must in
crease, and must impair the value and
the work of both the branches of the
Salvation Army affected by it.
Mr.. Ballington Booth is an earnest
and devoted worker in the cause. He
will succeed in constructing an organ
ization for this country on the Saliva
ton Army plan that will unquestion-
ably be influential for good. He is
acting according to his light and his
view of duty. Probably the dissension
that has arisen was unavoidable. The
system of the Salvation Army is mill
tary and autocratic. 1t is largely due
to that system that it has accomplished
SO much. and has found men and
whole lives to it's service. But every.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03
FIFTH STREET PAVING.
Assembly Committee Refuses to
Concur In the Final Order.

Between the assembly committee on
streets and the objecting property
owners, it begins to look as though
little or no paving would be done this
year. Yesterday afternoon the as
sembly committee on streets refused to
concur in the final order for paving
Fifth street from Wabasha to Wacouta
street. No reason was assigned for this
action except that a majority of the
committee present favored a brick
pavement from Wabasha to Broadway.
The final order called for a brick
pavement from Wabasha to Cedar
street, and asphalt from curb to curb
from Cedar to Wacouta street, except
for half block between Jackson and
Sibley streets, where the present
Jasper pavement was to be recut and
relaid, and at the Robert street inter-
section, where it was proposed to lay
a granite pavement. This order was
recommended by the board of public
works after it had granted numerous
hearings to the interested property
owners, and it represented the wishes
of the majority of the frontage along
the whole line of the street, as was
shown by written petitions submitted
at the final hearing.
Notwithstanding this the committee
turned the final order down, and agreed
that preliminary order for paving
the street with brick should be in
troduced at the next meeting of the
assembly. Messrs. Van Slyke and
Robb, of the committee, and Mr.. john
son, who is not of the committee, but
who was asked for his opinion, all op-
posed the recommendation of the
board of public works, because they re-
garded it as calling for a crazy, patch
quilt pavement Maj Espy, who is
also a brick man, spoke against the
final order. He was opposed to as
phalt and likewise to granite. He
added that the property owners on
Fifth street considered such a final
order an outrage, but had consented to
it for fear that in the event they re-
fused, the street would not be paved
at all this year.
The committee then took up the final
order for paving Tenth street from ST.
Peter to Wabasha street. This
block is also occupied by the street car
tracks. The order calls for asphalt
pavement from curb to curb.
A petition in favor of the improve
ment was presented by A. E. Smith, of
the state historical society, signed by
owners of 100 feet of the 400 feet of
property. 1t was said that 167 feet of
the frontage favored cedar block on
a plank foundation, but no formal pro-
test against asphalt was submitted
Yet the final order was laid over for
two weeks, in order that it might be
learned whether the pavement is really
needed this year.
Alderman Brady's ordinance declar-
ing the franchise of the National Sub
way company to be forfeited, was
again considered and again laid over.
owing to the absence of any repre-
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03

house. Their answer is to prescribe
thirty-five minutes on each side, under
the ten-minute rule, to the determina-
tion Of the issues of national life and
death. Resolutions which go further
than mere sympathy with Cuba, which
stretch beyond recognition of bellig-
erency. which contemplate and specific
ally speak of intervention, which may
disturb the relations Of two nations,
out of which may grow bloody con-
test and no one knows what secondary
consequences, were rushed through by
this irresponsible body. incapable OF
thought, of dignity, of sober RESPONSE
bility, with a maximum time allow
ance of one hour and ten minutes Of
debate, a further extension being re-
fused uproariously. Approving as we
do recognition of Cuban belligerency,
and whatever else may be necessary
to save Cuba from the fate with which
she is threatened, we have no words
strong enough to characterize or con-
denim fifty this disgraceful action of the
house, which takes from those reso-
lutions the force and meaning that they
would otherwise have in the worlds
view 1t Is Reedism in the full flower
Of perfection. 1t is Republicanism as
it appears in the art Of government
made easy. 1t is the transformation
of the house of representatives into a
shouting, passionate, reckless mob un-
representative of anything except the
passions of men and the refusal to
give reason a hearing even when she
majority.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03
MUSIC AND ITS CHARMs.
Leading. Feature of Two Happy
Gatherings Last Night.

The pupils Of Miss Harriet S. Hale
gave charming little musicale at the
home of DR.. and Mrs. Ethelbert F.
Geer, 459 Laurel avenue, last evening.
Ted Simpson, the boy mandolin player,
and Miss Edith Cline Ford assisted.
The programme was we'll selected,
and the number of encores given
The song sung in the Welsh tongue
by Allen Jones was a bit out of the
ordinary. The rest of the programme
was as follows:
Piano-(a) Beim Grossvater. -. &. Foster, op. 8
(b) Inner Gallant. .Fahrbach op. 150
III Miss Helen Geer.
Armorer's Song. ........ From robin Hood"
e. j. Jones.
Scene from ''The Spanish Student
Miss Edith Cline-Ford.
'Only song .......................... .Thayer
Miss Alice Ray.
Mandolin, Movement Sonata op. 35. .. :. Chopin
Master Ted Simpson.
Vocal Duet-'Flow Gently Deva" ...... Parry
Owen Morris and E. ]. Jones.
Aunt Peggy in High Art
Miss Edith Cline-Ford
Vocal-(a) willamette. ..... .. Eva d'Aqua
(p) WlegenileD. Brahms
Miss Winnie Betz.
"Oh, That Summer Smiled for Ave-" Davis
owen Morris.
Mandolin Polish Dance. e............W .Wieniawski
Duet. Miss Hale and Owen Morris
Miss Charlotte L. Gibson proved her
self most finished pianist at the re-
cital given at Dyers last evening
Miss Gibson is a pupil of E. c..
Murdoch, and is pianist of unusual
ability and quite superior execution
She was assisted last evening by A
P. Quesnel, tenor. The programme
follows:
Sonata in c minor, Op 10, No. l. Beethoven
Allegro Adajio, Prestissimo. .........
Miss Gibson.
Song-"Come to Me" Me"................D .Denza
Mr.. Quesnel.
Aufschwung (Soaring). 80. ........ .Schumann
Rondo in e fat major. ............F Field -Bulow
Concert Study (EfenspieD. .Heymann- j Joseffy
Miss Gibson.
Song-"Nita Gitana" a".........De Koven
Mr.. Quesnel.
Novelette, in major. r................Sc .Schumann
Polonaise in G sharp minor-Berceuse. Chopin
Novelette, in e major or............ .Schumann
Miss Gibson.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03
THEIR "POLICY" DIsLIKED.
Police Think They Have Two DevO-
tees of 4-11-44.

James Liger and Thomas Schofield
were the names of two young men ar
rested by Capt Schweitzer yesterday
on the charge of gambling. The two
prisoners represent the first fruits Of
Corporation Attorney Darragh's cru
sade against the policy shops, which
it is claimed are operated in this city,
The warrants upon which the men
were arrested were issued at the in
stance of a gentleman who appeared
before the city attorney, and stated
that he would prosecute the case if the
arrests were made. Liger, who claims
to be a barber, and Schofield, who says
he is a clerk, are accused of violating
Ordinance No. 424, article 81 of the
Municipal Code, which makes it a
crime to permit 'the betting of money
and other valuable property upon a
game and device bknown as policy"
The men are said 70 haEe operated their
alleged game in fhe, prince block, on
lower Third street. n
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03
WILL NAME THEM TODAY.

AS yet Kenneth Clark, the chairman Of
the committee of so, has not acted
under the authority vested in him by
the committee to appoint a committee
committee is to select candidates for the entire
city ticket and submit the names so chosen
at the next meeting Before doing this, Mr..
Clark will first appoint the committee of four,
which is to increase the number of the COM
mittee of 80 to $50. by selecting two men from
each election district in the city. When this
has been accomplished Mr.. Clark will then
choose the nominating committee of % out Of
the entire committee of 250
When seen yesterday, Mr.. Clark said that he
would name the committee of four some tina
today. The meeting of the committee of So
which was to take place next Friday night
has been postponed until next week.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03

sum of money to the people. With
suitable legislation. permitting more
real competition by allowing contracts
to be made for a term of years that
would warrant the contractor in put
ting in a plant for this especial purpose,
we may expect to secure by another
season a larger proportion of electric
lights in the business district and a
still more gratifying progress in re-
trenchment
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
TEMPERATURES.
= BELOW zero.
DAILY MEANS

Barometer. SO.56; thermometer, 1S; relative
humidity 5S; wind, northwest; weather.
cloudy; maximum thermometer, 90; mini
mum thermometer z; daily range, 90;
amount Of rainfall or melted snow in last
twenty-four hours, o.
Note-Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. p. F. Lyons Observer.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03

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sentative Of the subway company. Mr..
van Slyke remarked that he was op-
posed TO forfeting franchises in these
times.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03
Headed for Venezuela.

WASHINGTON, March Is. A. Thompson
Of Duluth, is in WSshintiton on his way TO
Venezuela fer the Beview of Reviews. A
=. i.ogers, VI Faribautt, SIS also here.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03

Address ali letters and kilograms to
THE GLOBE. st. Paul. MINI.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03

Dai- My per Month - 40
Daily Only, Six Months $2.25
Daily Only, One Year $4.OO
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Payable In Advance.

Daily and Sunday, per Month. 80
Daily and Sunday, SIX Nor 9. $2.76
Daily and Sunday, One Year $500
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03
TODAY,S WEATHER,

WASHINGTON, March Forecast for
Tuesday: For Minnesota-Fair; colder;
northeasterly winds.
For WiscOnsin-Colder; fair; northeasterly
winds.
For the Enthusiastically fair; northeast
erly winds.
For Montana-Fair; warmer in western por-
tion; easterly winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United States Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau, Washington, March 2, GAS
?. m. Local Time, p. m. 18th Meridian
Time.-Observations taken at the same mo-
ment OF time at all stations.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-03

Sunday Only, One Year. % 20
Weekly, One Year. s1.OO
The Democratic advocate., 1896-03-21
A Mechanical salute.

Commissioner of Patents Seymour last
week granted 454 patents to inventors,
and as is the rule, this budget was not
without its freak, which in this case was
''saluting device. .
James c. Boyle, an eccentric citizen of
Spokane, Wash, conceived the idea of
doing away with the polite lifting of the
hat by manual force by man when he
passes lady friend as at times much in
convenience is incurred by having to lift
the hand from the pocket to the head,
especially in very cold days and when
man s hands are engaged
The patent granted him last week,
therefore, Boyle claims, win make hat lift
ing by hand unnecessary. All man has
to do is to slightly nod his head There
is click, and Boyle's mechanism, which
is in the interior of the tile, starts. The
hat is suddenly hoisted as if by magic
foot above the head, where for moment
it poises and describing senii-cirele, set
ties back on the Uranium.
The Democratic advocate., 1896-03-21
LOCAL Law.
CHAPTER 10.

AN ACT to REQUIRE the County Commission
ers Of Carroll County to pay to the Mayor
and Common Council of Manchester, one,
half the amount of road tax levied or taxed
nnon the property within the limits OF the
town of Manchester
srcr,oN l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That it shall be the a.,
dutv of the County Commissioners OF Carrol,
county 10 nav annually to the Mayor ana
Cannon Council of Manchester, one hall Oh
The amount of taxes levied and collected an
nnallv bv said County Commissioners Tor roaa
,,,r,,oses. upon the assessable property hapie
F. taxatiou within the limits OF the town OF
Manchester. to be appropriated and usea Dy
The said Mayor and Common Council OF man
chester. for the repair, maintenance anu I'M. ~ 4.
movement of the streets and roads witnin tne
limits Of said town. r.. .h;s
my. Srs,TYoS D And be it enacted, That TINS
Act shall take effect from the date CT It's pas
sage. as 1909
Appro'eu' LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor
WILLIAM CABELL BRUCE,
President Of the Senate.
SYDNEY E. MUDD,
Speaker of the House OF Delegates
Office of the Chief Clerk of the House o.
Delegates. .e,~ooo;ng Is a true
oony Of an Act of the General Assembly ooe e
Warvland. passed at the January Sessi1Il STM i0's
Chief Clerk of the House oi De'esa''''
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