The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-24

| NEW YORK, April 23-East side poor
| are feeling the clutch of the beef trust
in a serious manner. In thousands of in
| stances meat as an article of diet has
! been totally discontinued. Nearly 200
| butchers have announced their intention
| of shutting up shop.
| Some butchers say they have not sold
any meat for a week.
| In the tenement districts women gather
in knots and depIore bitterly the fact
| that they cannot have meat for their
| husbands when they return home from
WORK. 1t Is the poorer cuts of beef which
| snow the greatest increase in cost
! around the big hotels may be seen evil
dence OF the hardships caused by the adj
vance IN beef. Many waste pieces of
| meat are thrown into the scrap barrels
| and poor women always call for them
| Durlng the last two weeks the crowds
| clamor1ng for the scraps have increased
| 10 SUCH an extent that often there is al
most a fight for them.
| Cantor Against S1<yscrapers.
| President Cantor will ignore the ruling
| of Corporation Counsel George Pives.
VINO holds that the board of aldermen has
no power to pass an ordinance preventing
the erection of ''sky signs"
| AT the conference between President
Cantor and Perez M. Stewart, superin
lendent Of buildings, it was decided to
| push the adoption of the proposed ordi-
nance, President Cantor said:
| Ihls nuisance has become so great
Doth from an artistic standpoint as we'll
ds a Danger to pedestrians of this citv
oidt some radical steps must be- taken
Inc bureau of buildings is constantly
| pesleged with plans for these projected
shy signs, and some of them are of
formidable size many Of them unwieldy.
/ ana all Of them dangerous to life and
limb anu
No Police Parade This Year.
Spirits are even bluer than uniforms all
through the police department. save
, among some Of the older members who
are aVerse to long walks There is no
new scandal to cause this depression. no
ifeSh twist of the excise law. The gloom
! IS porn OF this announcement by Commits
sioner Partridge:
| spring. lis
! Accustomed to move in majesty urder
| the public limelight, to have glances of
| dunlratlon, even of reverence. cast 1Ipon
! lleIn py fa1r women along the line of
parade, the men are cut to the heart nv
TINS oack-handed thrust from their leader
NO parade! No pat-a-pat of girls
| nahds as the finest move statelilv mn
fHth avenue! But Partridge had said i
| thus 9N'Au =
| THE parade interrupts travel and husi-
ness along a busy thoroughfare. It in
| VoIVes extra drills in Preparation and
| tnuS oepr1Ves the officers of much of
lL:eH Inle or. 1t leaves the remainder
| Oh the city with insufficient protection
% ponce parade day has become only
custom of the past
President May Sail in Air.
II PRESIDENT Roosevelt fulfIIs the inten-
tlon which he has expressed of being +ba
Itsl man TO make an ascent in the air
snip OF Santos-Dumont in this country he
~i1 diso ENJOY the distinction of being
the first executive of a nation to leave
the earth In this fashion. Emperor VIII
laIn' 1t is true, made several ascen+e in
the great captive balloon of the Place d1I
| Louvre, at Paris, at the time of the ex
mbluon of 1878 But his wife. az well as
DIS constitutional advisers. have success
Iully stood in the way of his doing anv
pdloohlng since he has been on the
e y. But SO far no ruler, whether bv
cIVlhe/rlght or by popular election hos
| ever yet gone up in a balloon as sucb
ana accordingly, President Roosevelt will
ENJOY the distinction of furnishing a, nr-ec
edent and of setting the fashion in the
matter providing, Of course, that he is
not stopped by that law which prohibits
me chief magistrate from leaving tha
Ohlteu states during his term of office.
Modern NOah's Ark This.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. liner Abvs-
Slnla' "hlch touched at this port en-
route Tor Baltimore and Boston, brought
one or the largest cOnsignments of VIII
"iIiIIldls ever landed at an American mort
MOST OF the jungle travellers. Of Ubic1,
there were 3,288, are bound for the Ne1g
YORK geological park, with the exception
OF ABOUT 1000 canary birds. Others viii
leave town for spring engagements win
various circuses. VIII
There is the finest family of balloons ~,
me ApgsSlnia ever introduced to Amer
lca' Ihere are sacred balloons from
arabia and green balloons. A white
tailed gnu knew enough to ana +ta 9oo
| monkeys, some of which, especially the
| ing. Ano"-
Two snakes and five monkeys were
buried at sea. Two MONKEYS got Iooea
on the trip and tried to swarm nm tbo
bars Of the panthers' cage. AS the nan
tHerS could be nothing else but just pam
SneIS they made a swipe at the monkeys.
VINO landed on the pythons' box and es.
capped a squeeze.
FOUNDERS Day Celebrated.
FOUNDERS Day" was celebrated 4h;q
week at the New York university com
n0ii1ola tlhg the SeVenty-frst Anniversary
OF us rounding. The exercises, which were
neld IN the auditorium in the large IibrarT,
pulldlng at University Heights, were <a
versity u the uni
Astor Endows London College.
William Waldorf Astor has given con
wv t$lO0OOO) to endow those professor
ships In the University college in Ton-
don which heretofore have been withou.
endowment
since w. W. Aston expatriated hfnnsalr
ne mas given good many thousand dol
lars to British charities at different times
He has not CONSTRUCTED one cent tn anv
American charity, so far as can be ascer-
tanned, since Dec. 25, 1895, when he gave
$4,000 to the Children's Aid society as
memorial to his wife, who died Dec ~.
1894 -
Towing Companies Form Trust.
The various towing companies doing
business in New York waters are to he
merged into one company. The tugboat
owners of this port have given options
wand to May 10. The capital involved te
$0,OOO,0OO and the fleet of tugs contro1le5
will aggregate 500. Frederick p. DaIzaIi
president of the Dalzell company. in con,
hrmlng the report of the merger said.
1t was long Matching but the npgotfa
| lions have now arrived at the point whore
Il the consolidation becomes a matter NJ
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