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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21

line they wanted followed to follow
Then hung a thin stick in the line of the
lights The shadow marked the middle
of the tunnel.
A visit to the tunnel is worth your
while and while the tunnel is not what
was originally conceived as a popular
playground, the chances are that If you
can convince the manager or some one
connected with the plant that your great
grand nephew could by any possibility
some day become the possible user of
telephone, you can secure the entree to
the portals, at least Of the palatial I'M
foreground works. Ii you win you will
be taken down cellar, most naturally, as
a beginning. Then your guide will bor-
row a lantern. No, this is not all
dream about the electric lights but then
there are portions of the tunnel which
are not supplied with the electric illum-
inant yet and you may want to see
the "cave of the winds at Fifth and
Market or the overbridge at Fourth and
WabaSha. You may want to recline in
the bay window" under Tenth and Wa
basha, or stihe in the almost stagnant
atmosphere of the dead end" at Cedar
and Fourth. Equipped with the Ian
tern you will go down a flight of stairs
Were you ever in a lighthouse where
the stairs wind so close you couldn't
fall out If the wind blew the lighthouse
away while you were climbing? Well,
this stairway beats that 1t Is built
with an economy of space that Is not
equaled anywhere outside Of the hold
of a modern liner or battleship, where
the stairways are constructed for jack
tars with prehensile toes. At its bot
tom you proceed through a passage way,
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mel extends to Franklin street. On Sixth
street there is a tunnel from Cedar 10
Washington, making in all upward or
two miles and a half.
But if you have not the time or the
energy to make the entire circuit you
will probably pursue about this course:
Following Fifth street to Wabasha you
will turn to the left, toward a small white
dot at the distant end of a long tunnel,
into whose depths the one light at the
corner of Fifth street does not penetrate
far AS the lantern flashes ahead Of your
guide, you will follow in his footsteps and
listen interestedly while he points to
niche in the sand rock back of the net
work of cables, and, designating black
gaspipe or something that looks like
snake in the half darkness, and which he
informs you contains the telephone wires
to fire headquarters, Sheriff Wagner and
the rest of those high moguls of the CITY,.
including Mayor Kiefer. Suddenly you
start, as his foot CRATES on something
metallic. 1t is a grating and you peer
down before you step on the bridge, for
such 1t Is, the bridge where another sub
way crosses. You see, with the subways
on a level 1t would have been difficult for
the workmen to crawl through the cables
on the cross street. So the "cross street.
is connected with >the other by little
diagonal cutoff, and then It descends by
stairs perhaps eight feet below the main
thoroughfare, rising of course at the
other side. While you are inspecting this.
might as we'll go down Fourth street to
the Globe building. Soon you begin to
experience slight difficulty In breath
ing The heat becomes oppressive, for the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21
WHEAT RULED DULL

CHICAGO, May 2O.-Wheat ruled dull
and easy today on reports of heavy rains
throughout the wheat belt. July closed
with loss Of 1s@Acs, Corn rose Nc and
oats closed unchanged. Pork and ribs
declined 212c each and lard Proc.
A complete break of the drought in
Kansas started wheat weak, and with
the exception of a furry during the first
hour on foreign buying, the market ruled
dull throughout, with prices a shade un-
der Fridays close. Reports of a freer
movement in the Northwest from now on
in the face of poor cash demand, had a
depressing influence. July opened hDAc
lower at 7312@739sc, declined to 1885, adj
vanced to 1880 and closed at 73zs@737sc
Chicago received 46 cars three of which
graded contract. Minneapolis and Duluth
got 1888, compared with 1876 for the same
day year ago. The aggregate at West
err primary markets was 265, 900 bushels,
against 100000 last year. Atlantic port
clearances of wheat and flour equaled
2S2, Worlds shipments for the week
to Europe were placed at $500, 600.
Delayed seeding and fears of damage
owing to unreasonable weather strength
ened corn. Receipts, 14S cars. July open
ed a shade lower at S3@331sc, advanced to
3315c and closed with sellers a $3.50
Oats followed wheat Receipts, 1872 cars
July started ashade lower at Fac, sold
sparingly at 235s023a4c, advanced to 237Sc
and closed at 23A@23bc
Selling by packers weakened provisions.
July started a shade lower at 23s4c, sold
@S.25, touched $S25 and declined to $500
at the close. Lard and were eX-
tremely dull within a narrow range
Estimates for Monday: Wheat, 50; corn,
2S0; oats, 1876; hogs, 100000
The leading futures ranged as follows:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21

telephone manholes both send down their
rays of light. There Is an awful Olaf
ter ABOVE you. A reckless driver rattles
posthaste over the clanking manhole COW
er. Below you at the right yawns a
chasW, from which arises an awful
stencil. You Eecoii, A slip into that bot
tomless pit. Horrors.
Stop minute. 1t is dry now. The gut
tiers are only moist where the waste of
some sink or otheruhas been dripping
GOWN the steep descent eWithin your view
in the dim light one, Two, three, four sew
ers debouch into this ''nerve-center" or
nerve-shaker, or nerves center, while the
main drain, dipping away to your left,
pears Its way toward the secthing cur
rent or the river, to dump its reeking
mass or filth just there by the ruins of
the burned elevator 9 5st
You may go on up to Seven corners and
See the forks of Filth and Seventh streets,
or you may return and follow Wabasha
TO College, which is as far to the north
west as the tunnel system has been ex-
tended yet, for two reasons, one that the
necessity for tunnels is not so marked
beyond that locality and another that
the surface begins to violently remove
itself from the sand rock basis, which
underlies the city. ar
You may spend an afternoon following
the various qualifications of these very
important, yet very unobtrusive appur-
tenances OF metropolitan life, Investigate
Ing into the manner of making connec-
lions with the smaller cables which dart
out of the leaden wrappers and carry the
various wires for a single Office building
OF business block up through the rock to
the basement Of the building far above
you, studying the electrolytic device, q
comparatively recent addition to the I'M
foreground equipment and designed to pre-
vent the corrosion of the cable wrappers
by the electricity which Is loose in the
earth as the result of the numerous
ground" wires which exist in connection
with telegraph, telephone, lighting and
other plants, or watching the work of dis
tribut1ng the minute strands of wire
where they pour from these huge cables
into the cellar of the building, there to
be sorted out upon huge frame, where
the proper numbers are attached and the
wires are ready for running to the switch
board.
Manager B. L. Freely, of the local ex-
change, says that the tunnel system has
not yet reached its limits. ST. Peter and
other streets will ultimately have to be
equipped similarly, some of them within
short time. All the telephone tunnels
have been constructed by John Lindquist,
of this city.
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still farther above, seemingly, the Swiss
villa like supports of the Tivoli, clutching
the irregular bluff like the talons of some
huge spider. Lets go back" It's so
warm out here. If it had been last win
ter you would haze been complaining of
the cold. For the benign and equable
temperature of Honolulu is excelled by
the evenness and lnildness Of the tenn
perature in this tunnel. You can work
there without an oVercoat III winter or a
ran IN summer. 1t varies but a few de-
grees. So the door is grated and back
you go to Fifth street. Up Fifth street.
because of the tortuous passage to the
corners, as we'll as of some of the new
phases OF underground economy YOU NAV.
observe. Your eyes are getting accuston-
ca 10 the half light of the lantern now.
Near the alley end of the federal b,1ild
ing, the old one, not the new, great
streak of red darts out of the wall. arches
II and deseends on the other side. Then
announcer, and at last another, larger than
an uashes ahead as far as you can see
IN the clear surface of the arch above
You follow with the lamD. As II d.
scends appears u huge surface smooth
as glass and still of this rusty red. tho
silent witness to some convulsion of Soma
scrt when the sand rock must have heen
joined with the rest In some of the OIL
gantlc upheavais which have torn the
ieuSeS INTO Such fantastic
Shapes In many places where they are
visible on the river bluff.
Then an iron door Iopms up before YOU.
fastened WITH monStrous latch that
would Keep all the small boys in Chris
tendon out of mischief If ii guarded the
portals to the place. new and vet an
old scent greets you as it opens. Sewer
gas The subway has intersected one of
the centers of the city's sewer system
Inc iron doors, for there is another as
you proceed up the tunnel, are to keep the
gas out or the telephone subway 1t Is
almost daylight here, for far above Won
In front of the new federal building-you
are at Fifth and Market-the sewer and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21
THE STOCK MARKETS.

Bar silver, New York;. 81 6OA
Call money, New York. .21AQ3 21A@3
NEW YORK, May 2O-Transactions in
confined to dealings by local room trad
ers who seek a days turn in prices either
up or down. Prices in the majority of
cases are consequently little changed
from last night. The course of the f1uc-
tuations during the two hours trading
reflected considerable hesitation and I'M
element. The London ie exchange was
closed for holiday, and there were no
quotations from that quarter to give an
Indication of the tendency of prices.
Many stocks opened unchanged in quo
tations or moved only Is either way.
Stocks of corporations which enjoy fran
on the prospect of the franchise tax bill
becoming law, the prospect of material
modification not being considered likely.
The American Smelling stock was also
under pressure, and Continued rather
weak all day. Anaconda, on the other
hand, continued its show of strength, and
made an aggressive resistance to the
pressure against it, and kept above yes
terday's level after the opening decline.
There was a dull resistance to the occa-
railroad stocks, and especially those in
the South and West. Manhattan and
Third II re Avenue 41, were, were firm early but vield-
The bears were disposed to caution in
anticipation of the favorable bank state
ment, but when the market failed to re-
spond to this an attack was made on
values. So little stock was brought out
on the decline the bears covered, making
the close, firm, with small changes.
The bank statement showed a larger
Increase in cash than was expected. The
heavy contraction in loans was of course
a reflection in part of the drastic iquida-
ton of last Saturday. AS a consequence,
the increase in cash almost all went to
swell the surplus reserve of the banks.
There was a marked continuance of the
recent heavy absorption of railroad
bonds, the tape recording several indfvid-
ual transactions from 100000 to over 300,-
600. United States Is advanced "A new
IS and old As reg and the 5s Is in the
bid price.
STOCKS
Furnished by Charles H F. Smith &
Co, members of the New York stock ex-
change, Pioneer Press building, who have
special wires to Chicago and New York.
Closing prices are bid:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21

bricked at top, bottom and sides, down
into the sand rock ledge. The turn of a
button flashes the incandescent lights
along the corridor into which you come.
1t looks mile down those snow white
depths. Another turn and the light is
out. The consciousness of a gray light
impels you to turn. Behind you, per-
haps a hundred feet, the feeble daylight
struggles from a manhole above where
the gradually rising tunnel discharges its
cables into the upper or surface subways
which cover the portions of the city not
served by the sand rock conduits. Then
the lights are turned on again, and you
wander up Fifth street. If you have
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21

branch that runs by Cedar and Fourth
street is only ventilated by the occa-
sional manholes, and the circulation is
not rapid. There is nothing dangerous
about it, especially if the manhoie covers
are lifted, as is the case when work is
to be done in that quarter, but it is Just
hint of the choke-damp Of the collieries.
Pack to Wabasha and down to the riv-
err. The guide swings open the door,
which was put there, not to- keep out
thieves, but the sharp toothed rat and
the uncanny bat, who were early callers
at the telephone tunnels river end You
step out on a ledge of the river bluff.
Far below are the railroad yards and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21
CARVED AS In MARBLE
AND RESPLENDENT IN ELECTRIC
LIGHTS, ST. PAUL'S TUNNELS
OUTSHINE THE WORLD
LIGHT AS DAY BELOW GROUND

St. PauI's Telephone Tunnels, Cut in
the Underlying Sand Rock, Now
Have Electric Lights for the Ben
eft of the workers Underground
Finest System of Subway Tun-
neIs in the World.
Those who have looked on tunnels and
caves as yawning holes OF utter dark
ness, fit but for the lamentations of
witches or deeds of crime, would greet
as revelation of untold pleasure visit
to the tunnels of ST. Pauls real every
day life.
One of them, indeed. is rather like the
fairy grotto. for as the spectator stands
at the intersection of Fifth and Cedar
streets and looks up the long corridor
toward Wabasha street the long line of
electric lights is thrown back and forth
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21

all the afternoon, you may make the
entire circuit 1t is a long walk. Here
are the lines:
Fourth street. Cedar to Fort, with a
branch from Fifth and Seventh to Seven
Corners.
Wabasha, from the river to College
avenue.
These may be called the trunk lines
Then there is one feeder" which fol-
lows Fourth street to Cedar and thence
down Cedar to Second
To the westward the Fourth street tuu-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21

Cash quotations were as follows Flour
dull; winter patents, $3.6G@3.70 straights.
So. 30Q3.7O; straights, $2S6@3.1O bakers,
$4,000. 80. Wheat-No. 2 spring, 721H@74c;
No. 8, 67@73c; No. 2 red, 75@761ac. Corn
white, 30@91c; No. 8 white, 29@3Oc. Rye
No. 2, &c. Barley4No. 2, 35G41c Flax
seed-No: /, 81. 03@1 .031a. Timothy Seed
Prime, $2.75. Lard-Per.i 100 lbs, $3.50
5171z Short Rihs-Sides (loase), "a. 1904. so;
dry sailed shoulders (boxed), 4A@415c;
short clear. sides (boxed), $4.95@5, Whisky
--Distillers' finished goods, per gal, $1.26.
Corn-No. yellow, 1890. Clover-$6.1 06
625. Receipts-Flour, S,OOo bbls; wheat,
1900 bu; corn, $4,000 bu; oats, 27200O bu;
rye, 5000 bu; barley, 1900 bu. Shipments
Flour, 5000 bbls; wheat 200 bu; corn,
$4,000 bu; oats, 25O,OOO bu; rye, 5000 bu;
barley, 1000 blu. On the produce exchange
today the butter market was weak;
creameries, 12@17Rc; dairies 10Q16c. Eggs
steady; fresh, s12A@13c. Cheese steady;
creams, 9@10Ac.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21

NEW YORK MONEY-New York. Nav
20.-Money on call steady at 21a@3; last
loan, 8. Prime mercantile paper, 3ihG4l5
per cent. Sterling exchange steady, with
actual business in bankers bill at S4S75s0
4.S7s4 for demand and $4.S51b64. S59l for
sixty days. Posted rates, $4.S61A6j4. $751;
Commercial bills, $4S4GD4.S5 Silver GER
tificates, 61@61%c. Bar silver 61c Mex
lean dollars 4815c.
WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT-New
York, May 20.-The weekly bank state
ment shows the following changes: Sur
plus reserve, increase, 81, 49S. 400; loans, de.
crease, S,243 800; specie, increase, Sc, 539.-
800; legal tenders, Increase, $1,145.5O0; de-
crease, $26,2OO. The banks now hold $34,-
631 ,525 in excess of the requirements of the
20 per cent rule
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21
BONDS.

U. s. Is reg. 100
do IS reg. .10Sss
do IS coup. .10S34
do new As reg130
do new 4scoup130
do old As reg .112%
do old As coup1131s
do 5s reg. .1121z
do 5s coup -. .112i4
District IS 65s. IFS
Ala. class A. Ito
do class B. ITO
do class c.. 100
do currency. 100
Atch. gen As. .1015s
do ait As. ...... S23s
Can. So. Ids. :. Ill
G. & o. As. 94i4
do 5s ........ .11S1a
G. & N. con. 7s.144
do ST. deb. 5s.122
Chi. Term. As. .102
D. e. r. G. lists. 1051s
do As ......... 1925
E. ,Va.& G.1sts1059s
Erie gen. As. =. 71A
F. w. & D.C.1sts S5A
Gen. Elec. 5s. =. 1902
G., II. & S. A. 6s114 !
do Ids .........1 11ia
H. &. T. G.. 5s. lib
do con. Is. .112115
Iowa Cent 1sts.114%
KEEP. & G.1sts 651a
La. new con. 4s.111
L. & N. uni. As. 1914
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

sheep, 203
The receipts by cars over the various
railroads were as follows:
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep. Mixed.
Chi Ct w $50. =.
c., M. & st. P. 3 :. /
M. & st. L..... :. l
C. E. & o.. :.
C.,St.P. NJ & Oh
The run of cattle was very light and as
the yards had been practically cleaned
up of everything left over, trade was dull
The offerings included q few fair butcher
cows and some good quality stock cattle
and these sold well. The general run of
the stuff was common. The hog market
opened fully steady, with a tendency to-
ward lower prices at the close. The run
was quite heavy for Saturday. The quail
ty was good. The sheep market was
fairly active, with steady prices.
Hogs-Comparitive receipts:
Total for today s!.i .............1,4 04
A week ago.............sS. ............. 7sl
A year ago.. 800. |. ...e. 729
Quotations: Butchers, So. 55@37 70; pack
ers, BE; rough, ST. 0Q2; pigs, So. Is.
Market opened steady and ruled fairly
firm during the day, There was a ten
dency toward lower prices at the close
The bulk of the butchers sold at sS.65@
3.6713, with a range Of So. 36Q3.70. Pigs and
packers sold steady. Representative
sales: fe
Hogs
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-26
New York Cotton Market.
Amusements in Manila.


In Manila / visited the Filipino thea
tres: the actors. management, and audi
ence were natives An opera was in prog
ress, THE Murdered King The scenes
were clever limitations Of European scene
makers, and the costumes of the actors
might grace their betters. dash of COM
edy enlivened such parts as the death
scene and the funeral, and the comedy lead
had the house from start 20 finish. The
hundreds of natives present were hugely
entertained by the Tagal jokes and proper
ly impressed with the work of the heavy
tragedian.
The Filipino circus is another popular
resort II an enterprising American man
ager could transport the aggregation to
Madison Square Garden, standing room
only would be the order and not the ex-
ception. Not because the Filipinos could
out Barnum Barnum. but because the ma
tive talent is OF clever order and the en-
tertainment is unique. Tumblers. wrest-
lers, jugglers, contortionists and clowns
do their acts creditabiy, and saIaam oil
| the ring in real circus style. The nativ,
dancing women have specially of thcil
| own. Their movements are graceful ant
| sinuous, while their skirts. though moier,
ately abbreviated are bright and plctur-
esque.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-26
The wrong VICTIM.

tffom Dtuolt iI'nN-J
A stalwart man of seedy appearance
rang a doorbell on Grand River Avenue
and was met by the man of the house.
For the love of heaven, sir" began the
caller. buy some needles of me. I've
been going from house to house since yes
terday morning and haven't made sale.
I'm bookkeeper by profession, but lost
my Job last June and haven't been able to
get work of any kind from that time to
this. wouldn't mind SO much for myself,
but there's the wife and two children
Come in" said the man OF the house,
cheerily. Glad to meet you. Bookkeeper
and expert accountant myself. One Of the
fraternity, don't you know" and he shook
hands heartily sit down. Where did you
work last, old man? ST. Louis, hey? What
firm? Smith & Jones, hey? Heard of
them, but never knew just where they
we're. How did they figure the expense of
carriage. as part of the cost of goods or
did they dump it into the profit and loss
account? Always been interested in the
different methods employed by different
houses. Don't remember. hey? What is
your plan for detecting a transposition of
figures when you try to strike balance?
Simple, you know. Never learned that.
hey? In making your annual statement
of assets and liabilities in which relation
did YOU place the firms surpluS?
But by this time the caller felt as though
all his pot-metal needles were creeping
around Just under his skin. He was per-
spring like a Polar bear in a tropical
climate, and his eyes seemed to be search
ing for some hole to creep into. Il m
goin'," he said huskily. You've cut my
tire boss" as he backed toward the door.
u tho'rt ! had a scheme as was world
beater, but it's bloomin' fizzle. Put me
in yer " e. account Mr.. Bookkeeper,"
and the needle merchant took only enc
step in getting from the doorway TO the
| sidewalk.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-26
FAVORABLE MONEY SITUATION.
Loans and Deposits Increase and the
industrial Situation a.oOd.

New York Feb 25.-The weekly state
ment of averages of the associated banks
fulfilled in the main popular expectations.
Although the movement Of currency TO the
interior was comparatively small, it was
not offset by heavy receipts of specie from
the Pacific Coast. In consequence the
banks show a loss in lawful money of
nearly $500 600. The most significant
change is the increase of nearly $4,000 600
in the loans, the largest increase, with
one exception, since the beginning of the
year. The larger amount of the loans is
pretty accurately reflected in the deposits,
which are $13 400, 600 greater than a week
ago. As the banks lost lawful money
they were compelled to draw upon their
surplus to margin the increase in deposits,
and in consequence the surplus is reduced
over 81 000. 600. TO $50. 1874 900
II would not be surprising If today's
statement resulted in a somewhat firmer
money market, but bankers generally do
not look for genuine activity in the market
at this centre as long as rates rule as low
as they are at present at practically every
important commercial point in the country.
This view was not entertained by traders
upon the stock exchange, for they sold
stocks with a good deal of freedom after
the publication of the bank statement. The
market as whole was active and irreg-
ular. Three or four special movements af-
fected the general speculation. These in
cluded a sharp advance in Sugar Refining
on reports that managers of the company
have assured their friends that the next
dividend on the common stock would be At
the same rate as paid heretofore. Another
feature was a rally of two points in Bur
lington from the lowest point. The activ-
ity in American Steel and Wire at advanc-
ing prices continued
The most decisive movement of ALL how
ever. was in Ontario and Western, which
on sales of approximately 100000 shares
closed nearly two points higher than yes
terday. The speculation in this stock was
accompanied by rumors of an impending
change in the capitalization of the COM
pany, which were not confirmed. and by
reports. which were much more plausible.
that the control of the road is passing into
the hands of interests identified with New
York Central.
OF the less active stocks Third Avenue
Railroad was most conspicuous at net
advance of seventeen points. The trading
in 1t was unusually heavy. Reports that
the company is to be absorbed by the Met
ropolitan Street Railway Company could
not be confirmed. Other strong features
were International Silver. Great Northern
preferred, and Metropolitan Street Rail-
way. In spite of the final selling move
ment by the professional element, the tone
Rt the close was fairly firm.