The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-08-26
TWIN CITY LETTER
st. Paul Carnival-A Popular Scheme in
the Interest of the Public BathS-EX-
pert Estimates on the Coming Crop-It
is Below the Average.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE

The carnival recently held in st.
Paul for the benefit of the public
baths, with the features incident to
it, illustrates how much the public
will do and bear in apopular cause,
People in the twin cities are really
tired of carnivals, which in their
salient features are much alike, and
as the one in St. Paul followed
closely on the heels of the one in
Minneapolis the attendance would
have been light if the drawing pow
err had been confined to the merits
of the show. But the scheme was
projected wholly and solely to aid
Dr. Ohage's plan to enlarge and
beautify the grounds in the vicinity
of the public baths, and it was
known that every cent received, in
excess of expenses, would be used
for that purpose. This created an
unusual motive. Business men
closed their stores on certain occa-
sions to allow their employees to at
tend; laboring people took their
families the show was las
good as circus" at one half the
price-and societies We'd with one
another in making the largest pro-
cession as they marched through
the gates.
Not only this, but in order to
further augment the receipts a
| kangaroo court was instituted
before which people, without re-
gard to age, color or previous con
ditions, were arraigned for offenses
either real or imaginary and fined
according to circumstances, one
dollar generally being the maximum
A gang of vivacious young sports
constituted the patrolmen, and with
a patrol wagon they rounded up
and carted of to this court every
man found on the grounds who
looked, first, as if he had a dollar to
spare, and disposition to let it go.
One was arrested because he was
on the ground unaccompanied by
| ladies': another because he was old
another because he was homely; an
other because he was chewing gum;
another because no one knew him,
etc. These performances were sub
mitted to generally in the best of
spirits, simply because the cause
was popular. And as money re-
ceived through this source was
nearly all profit, the daring young
patrolmen began making raids in
the business districts down town.
The stores. business Offices, court
house and state capitol were
pulled " with frequency and occu-
pants made to contribute to DR..
Ohage's bath fund throughI.the me-
dunn of the august kangaroo" tri-
bunal. The receipts from that
source were $4,000, andssthe ex-
penses for court, teams, wagons,
etc., $500.
The receipts from the0carnival,
after expenses were paid, were
about 81, 900. This amount, in the
face of such liberal atten dance,
was disappointing to some. 1t was
generally thought that3'five or six
thousand dollars should be realized.
But the attractions were of high
order, and everyone knows these
are days of high salaries, ,and that
first class artists in all lines COM
|mand enormous wages.
The money will be used Fly DR..
Ohage to enlarge and further de-
velop his Harriet island enterprise.
He expects with this money to be
able to add enough to his park to
make about fifteenIacres. This will
make sufficient room for ball games
and all kinds of athletic sports.
When this is done and the grounds
beautifed by Park Superintendent
Nussbaumer, hitherto useless
island, overgrown with underbrush
and weeds, will have been trans
formed into an attractive park, with
play grounds, day nursery, sani
tarium and bath, which all may en-
JOY without money and without
price.