The Saint Paul globe., 1905-03-27
CROWDS FLOCK TO
THE NEW CAPITOL
Fifteen Thousand Persons In
spect Big Marble Building
During Day

According to the estimates or the cap
itol police $1,000 persons visited the
new capitol building yesterday after
noon, during the hours that it was
thrown open TO visitors. They came
and went in steady throngs, a gaily
dressed merry people. They prone
naded the corridors and rested in the
hall seats and on the balusttades. But
they were moving most of the time.
Every car coming from Minneapolis
was loaded with visitors from the Mill
city. while St. Paul cars carried their
thousands to the capitol Aside from
those there were more thousands that
more fully enjoyed the beautiful spring
day by walking too and from the build
ing so that all afternoon the two sides
OF Wabasha street from Central avenue
to Sixth street was the scene of a great
parade of Sunday costumes and Sun
day faces.
The crowd which visited the capitol
yesterday was an unusually orderly
one. An extra large force of police
was on duty to see that the more friv-
olous of the visitors did not try to
carry off the marble decorations or
the dome or the Wabasha street ap-
proach, but their duties were compara-
lively light, for while the crowd was
immense. it was satisfied with the
beauties of the building as it stood and
did not try to destroy that beauty by
removing any particular objects.
Guards Study Crowds
These capitol policemen have an ex-
cellent opportunity of studying the
passing crowd and they form some
opinions all their own regarding the
people they see. One of the guards
delivered an interesting dissertation
yesterday upon the Sunday capitol
crowds.
There are three distinct classes of
Sunday visitors here" he said. There
Is, first, the men and women who come
TO see the capitol and to admire its
architectural beauties. Then there is.
secondly. the young men and the
young women in pairs to admire each
other and to let each other admire each
other. The third class is composed
OF the young men and the young wom-
en- who come to admire themselves and
be admired by everybody else.
The first class, thank goodness, is
the most numerous. They never af-
ford us any trouble and they enjoy and
10 say OF them except that they are
mostly people employed during the
week who seize upon the Sunday after
noon as an occasion for seeing the
building of which they are proud, with
all the state
The second class. the lads and lasses
who are lovers. or think they are give
US no trouble, except that they invari
ably occupy most of the hall seats most
or the afternoon and don't give tired
persons chance to rest The theater
is their strong talking point as a gem
eral thing, although they occasionally
butt in sideword about some fellow
they see passing. They have been
numbering Parsifal today in a Way
WOnld 1rl I'll
his grave. Here listen to that pair"
ended the guard. pointing, and the fol-
lowing was heard:
Parsifal Criticised
Il didn't think that Perceyfall show
was SO many. Did you?"
Oh! did you see ParsefuI? Jack
wanted me to go but 1 said no, I'd
rather see More to Be. Pitied Than
Scorned, and SO We went there. It
was a regular pippin. Whatd you
show?" ''-
Search me about what was the mat
ter, but 1t needed fixin' bad The eli
makes wasn't very good and the com
pany didn't play them half as strong
as they should have The fellow that
played kudra was awful. I'd certainly
IKE to see Harry Clay Blaney in the
But l thought Kudra was the leadin.
woman?"
Nav, he was the hero, made love to
Perceyful-shes the leadin' woman
on, there's Name and Jack. How the
world did they happen to blow up here
Come on, they're waitin' for u.s.
The policeman grinned and tban
added: 'iieH
ihey move over to one of the en-
trances TO the rotunda proper and the
Iour OF them stand there and Jolly eacb
other until one of us go to tell them to
move We tell them and the Young
heart breakers get up on their tiignitY
ana declare that they own as much of
the statehouse as We do and they don't
intend to be insuIted. uoii
thi.s tneyre fine young lot, that