The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
MEMBERS OF COMMERCIAL CLUB
ENJOY PLEASANT EVEN
ING L
SOME AFTER DINNER CREATIONS
Serious and witty Speeches Inter-
spersed With Songs and Music
Help to While the
Hours Away.

two hours and a helf in which good cheer
| and fun were compliment parts.
The supper, as its name IMPLIES had
the product Of the sturdy beef as its
principal ingredil t, and was not the FEAST
of the good things prepared by those in
! charge for the enjoyment of their guests
| The lighting of perfectos markell the
| close of the menu, and with the fra
! GRANGE of their incense came the pro-
! gramme, an imprOmptu one in point of
| brevity and the stories told, but sun-
| cient in the number OF responses to the
| call of the POSTMASTER to make it thor
oughly pleasing.
Mr. Hall marked his victims by the
score. and to his scathing ana pointed
! wit came the responses in true Bohe
J milan style. In this respect George r.
Finch. Judge Jaggard, J. E. Sk4mp ard
Al g. F4ournoy were winners.
AS a relief to the flow of soul and rea-
son participated in by ex-Attorney cen
era1 Childs DR.. Archibald, Jesse Gregg
Ross Clark, A. X Pruden, D. E. Sfringer
and Secretary Beardsley, of the Cham
Der Of Commerce, which Mr.. Hall said he
had simply brought out to show the scin-
tillating greatness of several men whom
he knew were dying. to show their ora
-torlcal powers, several vocal selections
were rendered.
Al g. F'lournoy and A N Wolf contrib
-uted in this direction, the latter doing
some fancy buck and wing dancing. J e
Skemp also added to the enjoyment of the
evening in giving a speech in the negro
dialect and reciting witty poem in
which brogue of the Celt figured.
While fun and a good time was the
WatchWord of the evening the serious side
OF life was also considered NJ" Ross
Clark, in five minutes talk taking occa-
sion to mention some Of the things which
tn the commercial body Of st. Paul snould
interest Itself in, and that was a
primary election law, the introduction of
voting machines and the securing of the
vast forests in the vicinity of Leach
lake as national5 park
Mr.. Jesse Gregg also spoke in the same
vein, but directed his remarks more mar
t1cularly to the necessity of a new and
larger union derot. This one thing. he
contended, could only be secured bv i'm
pressing upon the city the fact that to
secure 1t she must, lease or in some way =
delegate to the railroads interested the
strip of levee they have asked for The
present cramped quarters. said Mr..
Gregg, will eventually compel the erec-
tloh OF separate depots, and when this
IS done the business will be scatt<y "a
and Minneapolis will secure what we now
ENJOY. Other railroads would come to
St Paul were the trackage facilities
greater. The Northern Pacific. declared
MI Gregg, is now preparing plans for
separate Depot and will go ahead with
the work if something is NOT done .J,,st
now there is only one track through the
union depot yards for freight purposes.
and as result, stock men rather than
SGlIef delay, are not. sending their stock
10 st. Paul, though they wocId prefer m
send it to the local stock Yards Mr.
Gregg declared the addition a CONNER
ID t1ecesslty, and made plea to the
members to lend their voices in sec,,r-
ing from the reluctant officials this grant
=. 7. StrInger confined his remarks to
the school system. which, he declared
was inefficient, fnasmuch as over 9 COO
children were being deprived of what
should be rightfully theirs. There were
not sufficient buildings, and he said one
! OF the greatest things the Commercia1
clue could do would be to see this evil
| remedied e'ii
GROWTH OF STATE AND CITY.
Ex-Attorney General ChiIds recounted
eloquehtly the rapid strides of Minnesota
! and st. Paul from wilderness ard .
! hamlet fifty years ago until fbe n~aSa,+
( oate, winch marked them each. the one
SHINING star in the galaxy Of states
and the other the greatest civ in tho
northwest These conditions he said.
| were due to the sturdy energy and in,
domitable will of tthe pioneers who 1yero
last passing from public view. Another
generation was now. taking the place of
! these pioneers, and he said their one aim
III me should be to carry on the work
| so nobly begun. To make ST Pau1 tba
peer OF all others, he suggested the es-
ee'oIlsIlliieIt OF an art gallery, a national
MUSEUM oL history, the further bouIe-
Varding of Summit avenue To co95ao+
II with Como park, and the parlxino of
the beautiful strip ! OF land alono tho
mighty Mississippi from the Minneanolis
! line to the fort ea &. A9
Beng. Beardsley,of the Chamber of Com
| merce' deprecated the sIurs that had been
cast at his organization BY some of tho
newspapers, and said that harmony
should exist between the two organiza
Cohs' Inc Chamber of Commerce said
MT Beardsley, was doing good work
he advocated the, joining of the two or
edhlZduons in an effort to secure chean
po 1870 Whlch' ne declared, would be the
Paul oS 10 81.
a song by Mr.. Flournoy and number
| OF pleasantries in the shape of some -ex-
ceiieht stories concluded the pleasures
! u me evening: Those present were:
NlESsrs. n g. WoodsiGe, II. S. Wood
-, r Hall E. NJ. Wilson, Hart n. Cook
a "A. Doolittle, PeJ. Hevener. w. r
] Jameson, George w. Gliggs. j K Go.
zen A. W. Zahn, J. F.. Meyers, P.
Scnollert, Judge Edwin Jaggard. J
NoTHlan, Sam f. Fullerton, J. Harry
LT"ls' A. * Pruden, Phillip Reode n.
linus, j. w. Archibald William A
MeFIlck, II. E. Schuette., E. G.. Strinrer.
j. M smith, E. F. Beardsley, c. C. En-.
erson, w. B. Stoner. D. I.ange Julian
y. Kirby. j. e. Greenruan, Levi T. Jones.
t+eorge +; Stanchfield, Ed. G. Krahmier,
JonIl +: Kelly, j. J. Murphy, j. 8. Clark,
j: .: emerson, ]. +. Woodman. f. d,
! henoIIck, John O'Lee, George G. Lam
! pert w II. Galbraith, Charles D. Bent
! ley. 1holnas Cameron, w. C. Evand. w.
j. Frendergast, H. j. Lehr, I. c. Nolan,
John + Melady, Francis NJ Wheeler.
stephen Conday, W. ]. Bennett, Thomas
| =. BIase, Alfred Schoffer, Ben Marx. s
/ - Greer, j. a. Gregg, Oscar Hallam, w.
". Jones, A. L. Preston, G. K Shepard,
! John w. Finehout, A 6. Flournoy, Alex.
| NlcoH Jr., j. G. Robertson, J. E. Skemp.
/ c. P Slime
me supper was one of a series of en-
tertalnInents that the club has planned
Lof the entertainment of It's members
curing the winter, and will be followed
tomorrow by Prof, Eugene C. Foster, OF
temple college, who will address the
fneihneTs during gtEe noon luncheon hour
on The Possibilities of Liquid Air In
! the Commercial World
! iuesoay will be held the annual elec.
ION Tor the various offices of the CLUB.
me polls will be open from Il o'clock
noon 70 p. m. In tie evening the an
nual meeting wilTibe)Keld and the result
/ OF the election announced.
During the entertainments some excel,
lent music will be5furnished by Messrs.
Wolf and Barrett