The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-21
PECULIAR TALE OF TWO CITIES.
Beer City Man Wakes Up, to His Sur
prise, in Flour CITY.

prise, in Flour City.
| Cato SylYestre, a tall, dark young man
| from Milwaukee, who put up at the Hotel
Rogers. in Minneapolis, on Wednesday
night, and appeared to the clerk on the
| night desk to be in dazed condition,
came to himself yesterday with a sud
| denness that startled occupants of the
hotel out of their usual repose.
Cato IS a harnessmaker. He was in
| business with his fatherh'at Waterloo,
Iowa. until a short time ago. when he
named Blanche Anderson, and moved to
| Milwaukee TO live. The Sylvestres had
| been in Milwaukee a month when a fam
| lily disagreement arose. Mrs. Sylvestre
accused her husband of caring more for
girl whose photograph he had in his trunk
than he did for her.
As result of the disagreement. SylVes-
ire took little tour of the Rialto and
wound up with some decidedly fast COM
pany. He had over $500 in his clothes,
and he still has the greater part of the
money. but he believes that in an effort
to rob him some one gave him a knock
outdrop. At all events, he has but the
CURED after II o'clock on the night he
left home, and absolutely no knowledge
of how he reached Minneapolis.
On Thursday morning SYlvestre aston
fshed the clerk at the Rogers by asking
the way to the 'Pfster He said he was
a comparative stranger in Milwaukee ard
had not yet got used to the streets. The
clerk informed Mr. Sylvestre that he was
in Minneapolis and not in Milwaukee, but
the young man received this information
incredulously and became indignant when
the clerk insisted.
To straignten the matter out Tooze
Rogers, proprietor of the house, took
Sylvestre to half dozen disinterested
people who assured him that he was in
Minneapolis and that he had been labOring
under misrepresentation.
Sylvestre Immediately got, busy with
the telegraph Office and in due time re-
ceived a telegram from his alarmed and
penitent young wife in the beer city. beg
ging him to come home and lforeet it.
SylVeStre promptly paid his bill a the
Rogers apologfzed for having given SO
much trouble, and took the. Pioneer Lin
tier for home.
1T is the most terrifying experience I
ever had in my life" he said to rep
starting for the train. "All / can remem-
Der is drinking two or three drinks with
some men l had never met before in a
saloon 1 believe they call the TivoI. We
were telling stories and having sand
Wiches, but l did not feel very jolly on
account of having had trouble with my
wife. At the same time 1 intended to go
home about II O'Clock and square mat
ters up. 1 had not the slightest thought
or intention OF coming to Minneapolis. 1
had not been drinking during the day and
only drank four or five beers that night,
so that the affair is the more incompre-
hensible.
4 have not the slightest recollection of
taking a train for Minneapolis. I do not
recollect a single thing that occurred
on the train. l do not remember reaching
Minneapolis, and have but the vaguest
memory of my experience here. Now
that 1 have recovered the whole period
seems a blank with here and there flash
of memory about my room in the hotel
and the ringing of the call bell
This is a lesson to me. / do not know
what those people put in my beer, but
you may bet your last dollar that nobody
will ever get chance to dope me again.
Why I was not robbed is more than
can tell. 1 suppose it was because I had
my money in an inside pocket of my
shirt