The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-02

Railroads to Transport the Boys
of the Thirteenth Regiment Home
State VIII Pay for the Invalided
Portion and Provide First-CIaxs
Accomm for Them.
Rapid strides are being made towards
perfecting the plan for the transporta-
uon home of the Thirteenth regiment
and the entertainment which Is being
planned by the two cities AS a result
OF conference between Gov. Lind and
the mayors of the towns Interested in
the Thirteenth the chief executive YES
terday called for bids for the transporta-
ton of the regiment hOme, and later
IN the day meeting Of representatives
OF the Twin City commercial bodies was
held in Mayor Kiefers office.
AT the latter meeting there were pres
ent A. 8. Tallmadge, of the chamber of
commerce; President Conde Hamlin. OF
the Commercial club, and Jesse A. Gregg.
OF the same organization; ex-Mayor
Pratt, of Minneapolis; Mayor Gray.
Mayor Kiefer and F. H Forbes, of the
Minneapolis board of trade.
The conference lasted over an hour
and resulted in Conde Hsmlin and Jesse
A. Gregg being appointed on the part of
the ST Paul committee to go before the
Minneapolis board of trade at its meeting
and see If some plan cannot be adopted
that will be satisfactory to the two
cities, or, rather, to outline the plan as
1t was proposed at yester days meeting.
The visit of Messrs. HamIin and Gregg
was made contingent upon,a committee
being appointed from Minneapolis to
work with the st. Paul committee and
meet with it at the mayors office this
afternoon.
The evident disposition on the part of
the Minneapolis gentlemen to "absorb''
the whole Thirteenth regiment deal al
most resulted In no conclusion being
| reached at all. The proposition as 1t
was made by the st. Paul committee was
to have the regiment disembark in ST.
Paul in the morning and givs the regi-
, ment its breakfast, much afte1 the same
| fashion as the Fourteenth, when 1t as
! sembled here to muster out The st.
Paul committee conceded all tfe big cele-
bration to Minneapolis and agreed to
have the men in Minneapolis before
noon and to assist in the big state
demonstration there with will The
Minneapolis committee did Eot like the
idea and, as Mayor Gray expressed 1t,
st. Paul wanted to elbow the foam off
the beer But it was very certain from
the plan offered by the visiting commit
teemen that if st. Paul did not get the
foam it would get no beer st all.
PLANS FOR ST. PAUL.
&. Viewed from Minneapolis point Of
! view the plan would be something like
this: st. Paul would have President Nc
Kfnley for one day before tho Thirteenth
returned and the next day the president
would go to Minneapolis, the Thirteenth
would be there and the grand celebration
take place. This would bs the only
way that ST. Paul people corld get a
glimpse of the boys.
The Minneapolis committee thought
that President Mckinley and the fact
that Minneapolis was having celebra-
ton would be enough for st. Paul.
President Hamlin, of the Commercial
club, stated in opening, that St Paul
conceded to Minneapolis the big celebra-
ton, the parade, the reviewing of the
troops by the president, if he came, and
the big state celebration that had been
SO widely talked Of but he thought, in
the spirit of fairness it was no more
than right and just that st. Paul should
have the privilege of entertaining the
boys for few hours at least No ex-
tensive decorations or public arches
were contemplated by the st. Paul COM
mittee. The entertainment in its en-
tirety would consist of a breakfast at
the Auditorium, which would be given
by the citizens and assisted by the la
dies. Mr.. Hamlin here mentioned the
fact that when the arrangements for the
reception were originally talked of, be-
1sl
would be mustered out at San Francisco
IN Minneapolis, the Minneapolis COM
mittee were willing that it should be
fixed up In that way. He gave it as his
opinion that it was satisfactory to the
Minneapolis people.
VIEWS OF MAYOR PRATT
Mayor Pratt did not think it was ac-
cepted by all the Minneapolis commit
tee, in fact, arrangements at the time
were so unesttled that he did not think
1t should have any weight at this time.
Mr. Gregg thought when a good bar
gain was made it should be executed.
Mayor Pratt raised the point as to the
length of time the regiment would stay
In either city before the boys would
want to go home. He thought that at
best they could not be kept more than
one day.
Mr.. Hamin thought that the boys
would only ne 100 glad TO come 10 81.
Paul for very short time in the morning
and go to Minneapolis for the remainder
of the day. He thought that the citizens
Of ST. Paul were entitled to this for their
labors in raising the money to bring the
four St. Paul companies home.
The speaker further stated that the
committee would guarantee that the st.
Paul companies would go to the Mime
apclis celebration In the afternoon All
this and other matters were, he said.
mere questions of detail that could be
fixed up by the committee that met the
boys on the coast
Mayor Gray said st. Paul had been the
scene of the mastering cut of the Four
teenth, and Minneapolis should have the
Thirteenth. None of the st. Paul COM
mittee disputed this and Mr. Gregg stated
that the ST. Paul people had never ques-
TONED the right of Minneapolis to have
the Thirteenth mustered out there If 1t
was to be paid off in Minnesota, and
under the present circumstances the big
celebration was all conceded to the other
twin, but the people OF st. Paul should
have chance to see tho boys pass
through the city, he thought.
Mr.. Hamin explained that II would be
an easy matter to move the Thirteenth
to Minneapolis and to march the men
from the cars to the auditorium as they