The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-11

Hearing Again Tomorrow -
Lively Session Over the Market.
The person who has got up In the
very early hours and tried to do his
own trading for green goods in the
form of vegetables in the neighborhood
of the market will appreciate what the
manufacturers have got to contend with
in getting the rest of the market house
when it is stated that a goodly crowd
of the sisters who sell pie-plant and
fish and things were in the council
chamber at the city hall yesterday at
ternoon to protect what they conceive
to be their rights.
4 1t was the first appearance of the
ladies, whose only pursuit is to drive
the boarding house keeper to despair
every morning, in legislative halls
They were rather i'll at ease, for they
were not upon their own battle ground.
but their looks indicated that they
would each and everyone of them dear
ly love to have a chance to tell j. w.
Cooper Secretary WhellamS and few
other manufacturers just what they
thought of them-and to have the op-
portunity of doing it early in the morn
ing in the rear of the market house.
The occasion of their gathering in the
city hall was the adjourned meeting
of the council committee on public
buildings, and 1t was proposed to take
some liberties with their rights, as they
conceived.
They collected in body just outside
of the railing, on one side of the cham
Der Their husbands and brothers and
sons gathered on the other side of the
room.
The ladies were got up for the occa-
sion. They were dressed very much
as they are in the early morning when
they are engaged in the hawking of
their wares, with the exception that
some of them had taken on the dignity
of bOnnets that were not just of the
pattern of today. or hats that were
worn with a hilarious disregard of
whether they were on straight or not.
They were very much given to very
large gingham aprons and their ap-
pearance as a whole made the purse
proud manufacturer TO feel that he was
somehow in the wrong. The manu-
facturers came in with suave Self-pOs-
session and proceeded to take the best
seats in the house. They wilted the
minute they saw the array Of feminine
vigor in the corner.
One of the manufacturers in speak
ing to the subject in hand, referred
to the ladies and their interests as be-
ing "paltry and petty" and instantly
there went up a sniff of disdain that
speak.
The rumor that the women repre-
senting the interests of the hucksters
were present was effectual in making
some of the members of the committee
discover that they had urgent business
elsewhere, and there were only three
members present. A couple of other
members of the council, who had been
caught prowling about the building and
were deluded into going into the meet
ing, were inclined to escape, but Aid.
Shepard would not hear of it and they
had to stay.
The direct result CT the presence of
the ladies was the securing of a fur
Their adjournment. Just before the
meeting was called to order a number
of the men interested in the market
house stalls got together and concluded
that they had better have a represen-
tative, and they induced S. c. Ohm
stead to do the talking for them.
President Johnson, of the Manufac-
turers' association, opened proceedings
by again stating the wishes of the
body he represented to secure the bal
ance of the lower floor of the market
house. The association had tempered
its views a little with regard to the
outside property, understanding that
the ladies present were particularly In
tereSted in that matter. When Mr.
Johnson said that the ass 5ciati0 IN woul 4
not insist on having the hucksters on
the outside removed, and that they
only desired to use the surrounding
streets for a couple of weeks, the ladies
looked at each other in evident dis
dain of his proposed compromise, and
there was a distinct fitting of noses.
=. K. Pruden was a little more az
eressve and less sensible of the in
fuenCeS that were against him. He
thought that there was no room for
any sort of hesitancy on the part of
the committee: THE interests we rep
resent" said he, ''are of vital i'm
portance to the city. Those that might
be fscted by meeting our wishes
are paltry, petty and comparatively in
significant"
The sniff that greeted this last state
ment was so audible and pronounced
as to jar the dignity of the assemblage
for moment, and, a moment later
when Jim Caulfield stood up and bac'l-
ed the demand of the manufacturers or
behalf CT the Commercial club, he was
blushing from the intuitive knowl-
eyebrows behind him. and that the
ladies were asking each other the un.
spoken question: who can the per.
son be?"
Then Mr.. Olmstead, on behalf of TIL
unprotected ladies, got up in their de-
Tense and he was made the object O
much commentator in pantomine
When he made point the looks CT ad