The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-29
IT BEATS THE HOW
old IS ANN PUZZLE
BiIlfor Baseball Park Banquet
That Offers Chance for Ex-
pert Figuring.

How many bottles Of wine and bud
weiser and how many chicken sand
witches will $685. buy?
Honestly, how long will it take ten
men, all seated at long table and facing
the customary plate and silverware with
its accompaniment of dill pickles, to
consume 1855 worth of wine, bud
weiser and chicken sandwiches?
This was the problem which has
supplanted the how old-1s-Ann puzzle
at the city hall, and the gossips there
are now cudgeling their brains over it.
1t was all due to the story that it cost
George e. Lennon, the owner of the
down town ball park, that amount for
the little social which followed the pas
sage of the ball park measures by the
board of aldermen the night of May 5.
Mr.. Lennon, so the story goes,
wanted to be good fellow and he
never even kicked when the bill came
over to the store the next day ac-
companied by the party who had fur
nished the entertainment The stub
of his check book, it is said, showed a
memorandum of 500 paid when the
first round of good things was COM
pleted, but he was in no wise embar-
dSScu WITH he IOuHu There was SO4u6
more flddling to pay for. He paid it
and made no protest.
1T is worth it. Every cent of it,"
Mr.. Lennon is said to have declared.
We certainly had a good time"
Aldermen Admit They Were There.
Members of the board of aldermen
deny that Mr.. Lennon turned himself
loose the night that they approved his
down town park measures. Not all
of them were present at the social
which followed, but those that
were say it was nothing out of
the ordinary Mr.. Lennon, they adj
nit, was present, but they say as far
as they knew he did not attempt to
make any unusual run on the bank.
There were a few bottles of wine
they admit, and few chicken sand
witches, but all finished in time to avoid
the necessity of calling an owl car.
AS far as is known, George w. Walsh
was not present, nor any of the others
that Mr.. Schumacher has been mention
ing of late in his charges of bribery
and undue street car influence in the
passage of the down town baseball
park measures.
Since the recent charges of attempts
on the part of the street car company
to influence the repeal of the owl ear
ordinance, there has been decided re-
luctance on the part of the owl car
conductors to talk regarding the patg
ronage given the new system or to
even admit that it is a failure. Strict
orders against talking have been issued
to all street car employees. Some one
has been leaking information and the
officials are out to see who is respon-
sible.
Alleged Briber Still Out of the City.
The party supposed to have been
the one whom Assemblyman Schur-
meier says tried to bride him in behalf
of the street car company is still out
of the city, but members of his family
announce that he is only away on a
visit and will return shortly. They are
aware of the talk which connects him
with the alleged deal, but deny that
there is anything to it. They say he
will go before the grand jury and rea
flute the charges
The members of the grand jury do
not appear to be in any hurry to take
up the present controversy. The jury
will not meet until Nov. 10 and the
leaders say this will be ample time
in which to begin the search for the
truth E o. CSU