The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-06


members OF the electrical family. but the
thing most dear to his heart is Como Park
-Mr. Smith Is interested in seeing that when
ST. Paul man wants to go any place there
Is street car waiting on the corner to take
MIN there, but his real aim in life Is TO
furnish the people with innocent merriment
Healthful outdoor amusement for the popu
lace is his hobby, and he is always ready
Tor ride. 1t may be that just little bust
ness Is mixed with pleasure, but the public
has always seemed willing to accept a lift
and to help Mr.. Dow in keeping his hobby
busy.
David F. PEBBLES and reporter whose mvs-
FERROUS ways once led him to make mys-
terry OF half-bEeed going down Sixth street
Where once the willy Sioux pursued his de-
vious way" had a bad time for few min
utes yesterday afternoon. Ed Schroer the
metropolitan theater man. had been accused
OF burglary and arson and few other things
by everybody he came in contact with all
morning, and he was getting even. That's
why the reporter and Mr.. PEBBLES were faring
so badly.
Mr.. PEBBLES has charge of the tickets that
have been issued for the Lee memorial bene-
fit, and Saturday night when he was figuring
up his assets he found that there was a
bunch of 100 tickets that he could not ac-
count for. He couldn't find them anywhere,
and he asked the reporter about them The
reporter didn't know, but he scented a hot
story and went and beat 1t all on a type
writer how there had been a burglary at
Mr. PEBBLES Office and that certain tickets
had been stolen, and If anybody was asked
to buy any of them would he please seize
on the person of the criminal Offering them
and scream for the police. The numbers of
hn ialY0 1rf,,
were duly set forth in the public print where
to the reporter appertans
The finish came yesterday afternoon when
Mr.. Schroer called up PEBBLES office by
phone
''Is that you, Peebles?' he inquired in a
voice that set fire to the insulation of the
telephone wire. Mr.. PEBBLES admitted that
it was after thinking it over. as a cautious
lawyer should.
Then 1 want to tell you that this is
Schroer. and that If you will stay in your Of
flee for ten minutes I'll come up and bat
your head off,"
He went, and the rest can be guessed
PEBBLES had given him those tickets and
had forgotten to charge them up.
tall woman, obviously getting along to
middle life, stood beside Postmaster Smiths
desk yesterday afternoon and acted as though
she were mad. She evidently felt the part
she acting. She advanced one rather
bony hand. shut it tight and said:
IF l could grasp all the men in the world
by the neck and shut down like that'-she
shut the fist so viciously that the nails turned
blue-''it might do some good" The good
natured postmaster lodged as though he
thought she might take notion to land on
him as one of the referred to, and the
woman turned and swept out of the room,
slamming the door behind her.
NO said Mr.. Smith when 1 asked him
about 1t. No. they are not generally so bad
as that, but they are vicious sometimes. Eli?
Oh, her husband OF course She wants his
address. She came in here and wanted to
know how she could get even with the post
master at Tacoma. 1t seems that her hus-
band left here and went to Tacoma and wrote
her once from there and she wrote him
letter that he evidently got. Then he quit
writing to her. She knows that he is in Ia
coma, and she wrote the postmaster to get
his address. The pos master replied that the
name was not in the directory. The woman
knows that her husband is receiving mail
and thinks that the postmaster could give
her the address if he wanted to that he is
in a conspiracy to shield the husband The
fact is that If the postmaster should happen
to know the address of the man and gave it
to her-providing it was not in the directory
he could be removed from Office peremp-
torily.
Didn't know that. Ell? Well it's a fact.
The regulations of the postal department
bind the postmaster to secrecy, and it would
surprise you to know the confidential rela-
ton that the postmaster holds to a very con-
siderable portion of the public. For instance.
many people have private boxes for receiv-
ing private MAIL and their privacy Is alb
solutely inviolable. I'll tell you an instance
showing the necessity for it. though In this
case the public morals might be better sub
served by giving it up.
"A man came in here the other day and
demanded to know who had box so-and-so l
told him l would not tell him. The man ex-
planned that he was from Minneapolis and
that somebody here. holding a private box.
was corresponding with his wife. He had
the address and he wanted the name l was
sorry for the fellow. but l could not give
him the name, and he went out swearing
vengeance.
I'm confess that when he went out | went
and looked the matter up. and, by Joye.
there would have been row in a certain
truly coed family If l had been obliged to
tell who the holder Of the box Isl