The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-01

Minnesota club to the capitol by the fol-
lowing escort:
Mounted Police.
Band.
Gov. Lind and Mayor Kiefer in Carriage.
Governors Staff.
Battalion Veterans Spanish War
Capt. Sigsbee and President Pruden in
Carriage.
Battalion Veterans Spanish War.
Battery A.
The line Of march of the escort will be
on Fourth street to SibIey, Sibley to
Sixth, Sixth to st. Peter ST. Peter to
Exchange, Exchange to capitol. The es-
cort will disband at the entrance to the
capitol only the band and governors
staff entering the building. During the
reception, which will be held in the hall
of the house, a chorus of school children,
under the direction Of Miss Elsie Shave
will sing patriotic airs.
Wednesday night, Thursday and Fri
day Capt Sigsbee will be entertained
privately, and either Friday night or
Saturday morning he will leave st. Paul
for his home. During the days he is in
st. Paul all members of the Commercial
club will, in honor of the guest of the
club, wear white silk badges bearing the
inscription Remember the Maine" and
the club button.
There is a possibility there Will be a
delay in getting the tablet cast as the
Spanish guns on hand at present. The
law provides that the guns may be loaned
to municipalities upon the application
of G. A. r. posts, or a recommendation,
but says nothing regarding melting them
into bronZ tablets.
1t is quite likely that a special act of
congress will have to be secured before
a bronze gun can be secured. Congress
man Stevens is working on the matter,
and expects to be able to report definitely
In a few days. Congressman Stevens
will try to secure one of the guns from
the flagship of Admiral Cervera, Cristo-
bal Colon.
G'he Interest which the Commercial
club of this city has taken in the steam
ship st. Paul eliminates in the visit and
reception of Capt. Charles Dwight Sigs-
bee to this city, and the selection of de-
sign for and the preparation Of q bronze
tablet which will be placed upon that
vessel to commemorate its brilliant war
record. During the presidency of Mr.. j.
j. Corcoran, who was one of the organ
izers and the first president of the club,
he suggested that an effort be made to
have the government name one of its
cruisers (Which was then in course of
construction after our city. Senator C.
X Davis sought to accomplish that pur-
pose; but was informed by the navy de-
partment that it was not regarded de-
Strable or proper tnat q war VeSSel SnOuiQ
be given the SANITY name.
At the time that this answer was re-
ceived 1t was announced that the Inter
national Navigation company had let the
contract for the construction of two first
class steamships to be engaged with the
Paris and New York (Which vessels had
been given an American registry in the
Atlantic passenger trade. 1t occurred to
another member Of the commercial club,
e. S. Chittenden, that it would be more
| desirable for the city to have one of these
| frst-class ocean steamships named after
! the city than to give its name to war
| vessel which would be much less heard
| of and attract much less attention than
a vessel whose comings and goings across
the ocean were constantly heralded at
| home and abroad.
AS the result of this suggestion so
| made, and of the efforts of Senator Davis,
the name was given to one Of the two
magnificent steamers, then the largest
! and best upon the ocean. The sister
| ship the Saint Louis, was launched In
| 1894, Mrs. Cleveland christening her; and
| in 1895 the Saint Paul was launched, Miss
| Griscom, the daughter of the president
| of the International Steamship company,
| performing the ceremony. On the oc-