The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-23
TALKS WITH THE TRAVELLERS

q. z. Collins. superintendent of public
instruction i'll South Dakota, arrived in
the city yesterday. He may remain here
for several days as he has come for the
purpose Of arranging a list of books for
the libraries of the public schools Of his
own state and will confer with Supt.
| Olsen upon the subject ard inspect the
system in vogue in Minnesota. Mr.. col
Inns considers the Minnesota library sys-
tenn, as amended and rearranged by the
last legislature, inferior to that in his
| own state
George E. James and wife and daugh-
Fter, Of the Georgia Ministries company,
We're in the city yesterday, registered at
the Ryan.
Charles F. Ladner formerly mayor of
st. Cloud, was at the Clarendon yester.
| day. Mr.. Ladner was the Democratic
| nominee against Senator Brewer in the
campaign four years ago. He is one of
the leading business men of the Granite
! City, conducting large hardware store
there.
According to the version of Ray l..
! ltadley, traveller, whose business often
calls him te St Paul, the SANITY City
is one OF the eleanest cities in the United
States and yet, even st. Paul has room
for Improvement, says Mr.. Hadley.
But when you compare your city with
others of tae same or nearly the same
population. there is no word of COM
plant to be spoken against it," he add
cd. For instance. Kansas City: there
is a town of $4,000, the same population
with which the last census credits st.
Paul, and I'll venture there is more dirt
TO the square inch in Kansas City than
there Is to the half-mile square here y
But Mr., Hadley insisted that the pack
ing town has the better of this city in the
matter Of good streets. Even tine most
OF her outlying streets, he said, arc
paved with substantial asphaltum and
are in the NEST excellent condition. He
was quite surprised to discover that some
of the principal thoroughfare of St Paul
are without this Improvement He docs
not agree with the idea that the winters
here are going to be too severe for the
ordinary paving in the future, as many
hold they have been in the past
Senator George Washington somer,
vile, author OF the "Someryille law
and aspirant for congress in the second
district. came up from Sleepy Eye yester-
Gay and put up at tine Windsor The
senator is credited as being the only real
candidate against McCleary for the con,
sresstonal nomination on the Republican
ticket His close political friends how
ever. prefer to keep rather quiet about
any eh'HS coHcefillnS the senator's pOlLtt-
cal ambitions just for tho present, at
| least.
M. u. Taylor. register of the United
states land Office at st. Cloud, was at tho
Merchants yesterday. Mr. TAYLOR was
| appointed to this position through the
fundamentally Of Congressman Morris
| at the beginning of McKinley's first ad-
ministration and Will hold over until the
end of the present one. when he will re-
sign in favor of one of his Democratic
neighbors. Mr. Taylor is one of the mosl
active and prominent attorneys of the
| Northwest.
United States Senator Paris Gibson. ac-
companied by his son, Theodore Gibson
| stopped at the Ryan yesterday on his
way to Brunswick. Me-, where the sena-