The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-23
IMPROVEMENT AT ROCHESTER.
e. A. NOONAN AND S. w. COBB, TWO
MISSOURIANS, MEET AFTER
THREE YEARS.
G. M. LOVeIock Tells of the Scene
When the Boat Started for
Alaska.

Titus secretary Of the board Of trust
eeS of the Minnesota State Hospitals
for the Insane, came up to st. Paul
yesterday and registered at the Ryan
hotel, where this afternoon there will
be meeting of the board to open bids
for the new electric light plant at the
Rochester hospital ana the construc-
ton of two 40x60 wings at the hospital
at st. Peter The meeting will be
called at 1:30. The present gas plant
at Rochester has been found INSULT
efent, while at st. Peter the additional
accommodations have been necessary
for some time owing to the crowded
condition of the institution. The pres
ent dining roo1ns-Which are too small
by far-Will be turned into sleeping
rooms for the patients, while he addi-
ton will be used for dining rooms
DR.. Kilbourne is authority for the
statement that the state hospitals are
still overcrowded, despite the so-called
wedding out of those who are not sup
posed, owing to non-residence, to be
entitled to care and treatment. There
were, he says, fifty men patients re-
Gently sent from Rochester to Fergus
Falls, and as many from st. Peter to
Fergus Falls, in spite of which fact
there are now not less than twenty
hVe patients sleeping on the floor at
Rochester. The population of insane
patients as now distributed in the three
hospitals is: Rochester, 1,150 st. Peter
and Fergus Falls each something over
1000 patients. The members of the
board are: J. H. Block, ST. Peter; T. H.
Titus, Rochester; John Coleman, Ano-
ka; DR.. c. A. Wells, Minneapolis, and
j. w. Mason, Fergus Falls.
For the first time since they acciden-
tally met in an art exhibit in Vienna
some three years ago, Judge Edward A.
Noonan, a former mayor of St. Louis,
and Hon. Seth w. Cobb, who for six
years represented the wealthy Twelfth
congressional district in Missouri, came
together yesterday afternoon in the
Ryan hotel. Judge Noonan, who is
one of the most popular men in the
Mound City, has just come from the
West, Mr.. Cobb is just on his way
from a visit to Yellowstone park. When
they met in Vienna Mr.. Cobb was gaz-
ing IN Wrapt fashion at painting Of
Venus when his friend came up and
skillfully removed the watch from the
vest pocket of the congressman with
out the latters knowledge.
Judge NOonan did not need the watch
for when he resigned his judgeship
to become mayor his friends presented
him with a magnificent gold timepiece,
so he returned the other. and the pair
hunted UP Viennese. rickey. emporium
Yesterday the rickeys were secured at
the. Ryan and the old friends had a
good old gossip. Mr.. Cobb has a pros
porous business-like appearance and
appears to enjoy travelling very much
He will leave today with his wife and
daughter, who accompany him. He is
a. staunch Democrat.
George M. Lovelock, who registers
from Chicago, where he is connected
with a Dig wholesale house, is at the
Merchants hotel. He has just come
from the Pacific slope and was in Seat
tie when the boat came down from the
now famous Klondyke gold country,
and also when the boat started up
again. He tells some wild stories of
the scenes attendant upon the depal tn e
of the boat. The excitement was so
intense, he says, that a fellow travel
ing man begged him to bring back his
samples to Chicago so that he might
go UP to the wonderful country Men
offered as high as $3.50 for berths, which
nad all been taken on the boat and
the dock was crowded with many
disappointed ones, some of them being
with hardly enough food to last on a
trip between here and Buffalo on a
big lake liner.
had been brought down got noised
about, men lost their senses and stated
that the next boat down would easily
nave on board not less than 81. 900 900
worth of the precious yellow stuff. Mr..
LGvelock withstood the temptation and
Will remain with his Chicago emp overs.
A jolly little party of ST. Louis ladies
came up from st. Louis on the Diamond
10 steamer Sydney and are comfort
ably CHARTERED at the Windsor, where
they Will remain until Sunday when
they mean to start home on the Quincy.
In the party, which is being chaperoned
by Mrs. P. J. Cooney, are Misses Kate
and Mamie Cooney, Miss Kate Foley
and Mrs. T, B. Cooney. During their
stay here the ladies have done st. Paul
and its attractive suburbs very thor
oughly. They have visited Lake Como.
White Bear, Minnehaha Falls, Fort
Smelling and find much to admire in
the broad, clean streets they find here.
Nv, j.; ". searle, of Helena, is at the Mer-
G. S. Benson is registered at the Merchants
from st. Cloud.
Ernest E. Barker, of Van Couver, B. c..
is stopping at the Merchants
State Senator Fred A. Hodge, of Pine CITY.
is at the Merchants. ''
F. J.. Crandall, of Chicago, is at the Clar-
endon.
Among the arrivals at the Clarendon yester-
DAY was Roger DenZer, the former Saint
who has just rejoined his old team
AfI Io.5
Clarendon. ''-e
A Shakopee arrival at the Clarendon yester-
day was James McHale.
Col G. H. Graves, the we'll known Duluth
real estate man, was at the Windsor yester-
day.
j. w Parker, of St. Louis, is registered at
the Windsor.
G. S. Pease came down from Anoka yester-
day, and is guest at the Windsor.
R. E. Baxter is at the Windsor, from
Charles City.
D. A. Loose, of Helena, Mont, is at the
Ryan.
A. L. Reed of New York, is registered at
the Ryan.
C.. c. ormsby, of Waterford, N Y, is in St.
Paul, and guest at the Ryan.
Boston arrival at the Ryan last night
was. ]. ]. Hayes.
Charles w. Thompson is registered at the
Ryan from La Crosse.
F. E. Watson is here from Wells and IS
staying at the Ryan.
]. P Render and family, Park River, N. D..
are at the Metropolitan.
Annie G. Brayton, Mary Becker, William
Webster, La Crosse are at the Hotel Met
ropolitan
IN FORCE AT ONCE.
Collector GeracI,ty VIII To Ko4