The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-05

is allowable to assume that another
man of the same kind will follow the
beaten path. 1t takes experience of the
kind Mr.. Farrell has had TO determine
where the colony is located.
Miss Lou MitchelPs department at
the depot is one that is constantly in
teresting. Miss Mitchell is the matron
and takes care of the women until
trains are due, and other women take
their places. Miss Mitchell, who is
comfortable, motherly sort of person,
has been in her present position for
fourteen years. She is particularly
watchful of young girls, and those who
woulo do them harm. Miss Mitchell,
too, has developed the faculty of "siZ-
ing up" her woman to an extraordinary
degree.
Her knowledge of faces is wide and
exact and her discernment is so sharp
ened that she is able to recognize any
| person who has visited the depot and
her department three times in the
course of a month. II the person does
not patronize any of the trains and at
temptS in any way to open converSa-
ton with newly arrived girls from the
| country, Miss Mitchell cautions the
person, and if the matter is not COR
| rected instanter a full report is made
] to the police. Miss Mitchell says she
| has never made a mistake in that par
ticular.
| The ST. Paul depot is one of the few
| in America that is not clouded by the
fact that it has been the scene of a
| murder. In New York, Chicago, st.
Louis, San Francisco and nearly every
other large town the depots have been
the stages of one or more CHASTITY muir
der tragedies. Thus far the record of
! the st. Paul depot has been clean in
| this particular.
There have been a few suicides;
| notably the one where an Illinois wom-
an leaped from a window to her death
in the main train room. 1t was dis
covered after the happening that she
was deranged, as was also the man
who cut the arteries in his arm in the
immigrant room of the depot and bled
to death before the hemorrhage could
be checked.
MARY Ann the Gun" was taken with
her confederate and a great deal OF
plumber while arranging to have trunk
loads of valuable furs shipped aboard
| a Chicago train. MARY Ann" drew z
workhouse sentence and avoided pros
ecution for felony, but her arrest
stands forth as among the creates
events in police sense that have taker
| place in the depot.
This winter another feature has beer
added to the old pile. In twenty year:
the changes and improvements hav'
| been steadily augmenting. The ole
main building, which is now the traiI
room, has been increased in area, anC
toward Sibley street nearly twice al
much floor space has been added. TIL
last Of these big ground floor addition
was completed about five years ago
when the building assumed its presen
shape.
This winter an information bureau
has been placed in the corridor be
tween the train room and the street
The new department is in charge of A
V. Fabian, who was formerly an i'm
migrant agent of the Northern Pacific
and Ed Dunn, who stands the opposit
trick to that of Mr.. Fabian.
In a measured hour yesterday after
noon, when business was not above tn
average, Mr.. Dunn was asked 341 ques
tons by 209 different seekers for in
formation, which is about seven per
sons asking eleven questions every tw
minutes.
Just how he manages to answer a
many questions as he does would puz
zle most persons. For instance, wha