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14 INNS AND INNKEEPEKS. Some of the Taverns of the Capital City and Some of the Men Who Bun Them. The New Ryan Palace in Successful and Profitable Operation—lts Proprie tors and Patrons. The Old Reliable Merchants, Known Throughout the Country—The Aliens, Father and Son. The Cheerful Windsor and Its Cheery Management—The Clarendon and Other Hotels. "Front!!" It is called more times in a year in St. Paul than any other city m Minnesota, and everytime it is called there is a hospitable looking man standing behind it ready to shake, and above the echo of the bell boy's slippers on the tile Uoor as he jumps for the gripsacks, may be heard: "Well, when did you get in? It's been a long time since you've been to see us. Been to dinner? Yes. They do run a dining-car on your train. Go right up. Show the gentleman to—." It's a warm welcome that a man gets on entering a St.Paul hotel, no matter whether or not he has been inside it before, and no matter at which one he registers, lie can't get in sight of the desk before a boy has his gripsack and from one to three clerks or proprietors have a broad smile that seems to say: "We've been expecting you for a long time and have had the fatted calf cooked especially on your account. This evening we'll cut a cheese," and immedi ately the stranger is at his ease. In the palatial Eyan the form of the owner of the inn is seldom noticed. Mr. Ryan simply built the magnificent structure and lias no object in assuming the duties of land- lord. It's enough honor to he known as "Mr.Ryanwho jwns the ho tel." Thepro prietors of this mammoth in •titu t i on, Messrs. Brugh & Truman, are n perfeel keep jig with the rest nf tiic ro -11! in la. They liave iin air of 11- ii ii <• d i' le £ance that just matches the elaborate fres- coingandmar- c m. trcmax. ble floors. Mr. Truman has charge of the supply department, and his general appearance, that would lit a ball room at any minute, is a satisfac tory guarantee of an elaborate table. It is said that his greatest sorrow is that the fcjt. Paul market doesn't give him the chance to throw himself as the Eastern markets used to. There isn't a day that some man, a drummer or somebody else that knew him East doesn't catch sight of him in his pri vate office, and then there's a stay of pro ceedings until he has exclaimed: "Well, 1 never expected to see you running a hotel hi this country," and has shaken hands and inquired how he likes it as far as he's got. He is getting as popular out here as he was down East. Mr. lirugh is general superintendent behind the desk, and there is not a man in Minnesota that can lay claim to being more of a gentleman. His appearance is faultless, and he dresses in good taste always. He is probably about 38 years old, and nature gave him a high forehead. He knows his busi ness, tii <. ug ii somet iin c s he doesn't have time to stop and tell you J- H- brugh. about it. He knows a good joke when he sees one and he has seen so many that if the average man tries to give him one the odds are that it will be a chestnut. You can tell that he appreciates a good story, as plain as day, and yet he hasn't laughed so one could hear him beyond the cigar stand since the day the Ryan opened. When he is tickled there is a sort of subdued smile that lloats across his face and Ids eyes squint a little and that is all. A recent number of the Hotel World says it is rumored, both that these proprie tors lease the hotel and are at liberty to pocket what they can make, and that they botii are content to draw large salaries, while the owner is the real proprietor. John Ford is at least the right bower of the proprietors, and it's almost a question if he isu't the joker and they the bowers. More Jonx ford. of the arrivals know him than anybody else in the house, for he got acquainted with the traveling public while the Metro politan was in its glory. He is to the Ryan about what Mr. Dodge is to the Merchants, and the travelers first salutation is, "Hello, John Ford; you're putting on more style than you used to when the Metropolitan was going." Mr. Ford is about :3S or 40 by his looks, and he never makes a noise. He writes a Spencerian hand and always fills in the date lines of the register so smoothly that you would think it was printed there, and lie never yet made a blot on any of his books. He can ap parently get more solid comfort out of or dinary hard work than about any other man in the business. If there was ever a man of dignified politeness to strangers, lie is the, sample. He has a great fondness for fooling over the register and he is a terror to the young reporter who monopo lizes it to copy all the names. His way of doing business is very methodical, and it does not make any difference whether there are fifteen arrivals on any one train, or a thousand, he is always about so busy. He laughs all over when he does laugh, and has a great way of saying "You bet your life." Before the Ryan was opened Col. Allen of the Merchants was proprietor of the COL. AIDES'. largest hotel in the city, and the travel- ing public familiar with his face is scat tered from Maine to California, and from Winnipeg to the Gulf. It was nearly eleven years ago that Col. Allen first shook hands with visitors to St. Paul in the ro tunda of the Merchants, and he has been shaking hands ever since and telling the boys to set up the best in the house for each coming guest. Col. Allen holds his age well and having arrived at that period when a man may take life easy with impunity he does not allow the manage ment of his house to drive the wrinkles any deeper. He is a full-blooded, enthusiastic Western man and his opinions are by no means narrow gauge, as some of his parlia mentary efforts that have gone on record^ show. He says with the poet, ' -Shall I not take mine ease at mine inn?" and acts ac cordingly. He is up in the morning, attends to business, chats with the old timers that come down to hold down the chairs, plays billiards with some pet boy of five or ten years, and takes a nap at inter vals as circumstances dictate. He knows everybody and everybody knows him. The colonel has registered on the list, as manager of the hotel, his son. whose name, in the statesmanlike language of Attorney Willis, "is to deponent unknown.but who is commonly and familiarly known as Ehle." KNOWN AS EULE. Few men were ever made who could make more motions in a given time than Ehle, and there's no man in St. Paul that can stand behind the hotel counter, assign more rooms, call the boys quicker, shake hands livelier, make out meal tickets faster, answer questions more rapidly, smile more sweetly at the new coiners and keep up a general running conversation without get ling phased than Ehle can for the first half hour after he goes to the book in the after noon. Nor is there any man who can wear a higher collar or lend more dignity to the house on fevery-day occasions. He has the : good fortune to be left-handed and he can read any man's name upside down, so that by the time the name is on the book he has a meal ticket filled out, and it is only a slight turn of the wrist it takes to remove the guest's hat, place the ticket inside, and with one of the McCorker waves of his hand, he says, if the guest happens to be an old acquaintance, "You people are all right: what are you going to do this evening?" It is perhaps due the others who are behind the desk to say that Ehle is not on duty absolutely all the time, for, being a sou,of the old gentlemen, he takes some liberties in the matter of showing up that wouldn't go with strangers. His general ap pearance and movements have led many to remark a resemblance between himself and the book agent in the "Parlor Match." He must be seen to be appreciated. But any mention of the Merchants that did not give Mr. John Dodge, the chief clerk, a front position would be incomplete. He is JOHN DODGE. the oldest man on the grounds, having been at the Merchants since 18(54. Since then every stone In the hotel has been changed and there's nothing left of the old "Merchants" but the name and John Dodge. He has a record such as few men in the West or anywhere else can brug of. He doesn't put on any style, and he no more resembles the hotel" clerk that the paragcaphers paint than Col. Allen does. You might take him for the presi dent of a railroad corporation. His long term of service has given him an acquaint ance with about everybody, and if he is absent when a train comes in, there will be half a dozen men inquire : "Where's John Dodge?" His general appearance is of solidity and he sets his teeth together on a cigar in about the way Gen. Grant is said to have done. There's a sort of bulldog grip about it that gives one the Impression that he knows his business. No man now living ever saw him rattled, and he never makes a break. If he were taken out of the office it would be like taking the main mast out of a ship. When he meets an old particular friend who tells him a new joke you can hear him laugh nearly up to Bridge square. With all their booming and their advertis ing the big hoi els down town don't seem to reduce the popularity of the Windsor at the corner of Fifth and St. Peter streets. It has the assured and constant patronage of a good many hundred people who are con stantly traveling, besides being one of the favorite places in the city for a permanent boarding home, and this class of patronage is increasing weekly. The office lioor of the building has recently been improved and decorated in a unique man ner that makes one of the most attractive offices in the Northwest, while the bar room is quite a marvel of ornament. Next to the magnificent big plate-glass window looking directly down Fifth street, the most attractive features of the office, not of the bar-room, is the clerk, who is so good a fellow and has been called by his first name so commonly, that he is frequently introduced as "Mr. Howard," and large numbers of his friends don't know that he has any other name. How ard's long whiskers have graced the office of the Windsor hotel for many a year, except when he expatriated himself for a THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE. SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1885—SIXTEEN PAGES. short time to bo clerk of the Grand Pacific at Moorhead. He's a good billiard player, and many a stranger who has crossed cues with him, relying on the childlike innocence which radiates from every feature, lias re tired discomfited. Mr. Howard's associates are Will Summers, nephew of the owner of the house and a fancier in diamonds, and Sam Halliday, who is polite to the people that come in at night. In looking about the hotel for the man who would probably be the owner of it, one of the last men the stranger would pick upon would be that unostentatious and quiet, but pleasant-looking Scotchman, JOHN' SUMMERS. and yet if planning, designing, building and paying for a house gives a man a claim of ownership on it, he may be said to own it. When Mr. Summers came from Scot land, he brought a brogue, a fair education and a good knowledge of carpentry, all of Which he has yet. By assiduous attention to his trade lie at length became a con tractor and then an architect, and. having amassed considerable money, bnilt this hotel in 1877, putting in as careful workmanship and material as can be found in any public building in the country. Mr. Summers' partner, who has charge of the business, is Mr. C. J. Montfort, whose quick manners and high, not to say boyish spirits, give the lie to the story told by his hoary and somewhat bald head. lie hustles about ail over the house at once, and the popularity of the hotel with the traveling and St. Paul public is due mainly to his tireless efforts to see that everybody is well treated. Mine host at the Clarendon, Mr. F. 11. Welz, is the picture of the innkeeper, and Mr. Welz would be spotted for the landlord F. R. WELZ. in a crowd. Broad-shouldered and solid in build, lie has a lace that looks an easy one to stand off. Mr. Welz is a solid old German citizen, with plenty of dust, and he likes good living, and doesn't care who knows it. Although he keeps good track of his business, it i.s very seldom one finds him doing anything that looks much like work, and he puts in a good deal of time entertaining the many countrymen of his that drop in on him. From his broad forehead to his slippers, which he wears much of the time, he looks good natural, and there's no man in the city that comes so near the old-fashioned Boniface as Mr. Welz. Drop in on him any day and the chances are you'll find him with two or three youngsters on his knees, having a general good time with them, lie does not put on any style, and one man has as much show as another in his hotel. He delights to do most of his talking in Germau, though he can handle English like a thoroughbred when he lias to. He has a good thing in the Clarendon and lie knows it and is happy. His chief cleric is John Langton, a lively young man with clear-cut J.H. LA3TGTOH. features. He looks as if he could catch on to any business in three months, lie talks very rapidly and slings a pen in a way that would do credit to a professional. There is no clerk in St. Paul that can answer a question quicker than lie can, and if he wants his bill stood off and he knows the applicant is good, he says: "That's all right, sir; take your own time; let it run till it conies handy." in a lightning sort of way that is very reassuring to a dead-broke man. jHe has the desk to himself most of the time and has to hustle to keep square up to date, but in the majority of instances he is squared up when night overtakes him. He has St. Paul down line, knows all that is going on among the society people, and could furnish a column of social gossip quicker than the professional reporter that didn't make a specialty of such matters. He is one of the youngest men in the business in the city. TV _, L. *noss men who are bound Ifa P. nIJSI toriso I fIU UVlvJl Are those who fearlessly advertise. A Great Fuss by "Old Bullion." Boston Budget. Senator Tom Benton made a great fuss in the winter of 1834, declaring, in his pompous way, that Gales & Seaton had suppressed some remarks of his about the Bank of the United States in their last published volume of the "Register of De bates.' In the National Intelligencer of the next day, Mr. Gales published a calcu lation showing that the proportion of the volume, if divided among the forty-eight senators, would be between twenty-seven and twenty-eight columns to each one. The remarks of Mr. Benton. interspersed through the volume, occupied more than one hundred columns, of which more than fifty related to the Bank of the United States, the subject in regard to which the charge of suppression had been made. "Old Bullion," as Mr. Benton was called about the capital, never repeated his com plaints that his speeches were suppressed oy reporters. M Minns'^"™"' each IVI 111 lU fix) Always finding what they seek.. THE STAB. On the road: the loaely road. Under the cold, white moon; Under the ragged trees he strode; He whistled and shifted his heavy load— Whistled a foolish tune. There was a step timed with his own. A figure that stooped and bowed; A cold, white blade that gleamed and shone Like a splinter of daylight downward * thrown And the moon went behind a cloud. But the moon came out so broad and good, The barn-cock woke and crowed; . Then roughed bis feathers in drowsy mood, And the brown owl called to his mate in the wood . ■ ■ That a dead man lay on the road. —Will Wallace Harney. INIQUITY OF CHICAGO. Story of the Corrupt and Inhuman Prac tices of the Police Department in the Garden Oity. How Vice Flourishes by a Compact With the Powers Sworn to Pre , servo Law. A Ball Shark: "Who Mulcts Unfortu nate Women Out of the Price of Their Shame. Correspondence of the Globo. Chicago, Sept. 24.— Garden City is again to the front as the wickedest city on the continent. .One would infer that the local press take pride in pointing out the iniquity within our municipal borders, so frequently are exposures made. This time an evening paper has unearthed wickedness not far behind the exposures :>f the recent/ London scandal, thereby implicating the police force of the West division, and in directly the mayor and" prominent members of the municipal congress. "The finest" has long been synonymous with the ' 'po lice" in Chicago, Mayor Harrison having frequently boasted of the efficiency and honesty of his appointees in rank and file. If the charges made by the paper referred to are correct, "the worst" is not a mis nomer, and should be applied to the officers and patrolmen of the West side force. In terviews with twelve women of the town are published showing that a professional bail shark has access to all the books at the Desplaines street station. At his request arrests are made, and through him THE VXFORTUNATE GIRLS are released. Six times a week is not an unusual average of arrest for some of the girls who are good "hustlers" and make plenty of money. A patrol wagon filled with street walkers is drawn up at the sta tion; the inmates of the wagon are hurried to an upper room, not being booked as are ordinary offenders. The bail shark, Bren non by name, who owns a saloon adjoining the station, is permitted to see the women, and he makes arrangement for their liber ation next morning in court. They give him say §4, or jewelry worth that amount; in return he appears in court, pays line and costs amounting to S3, and the woman is allowed to depart. Sometimes the victims have neither money nor jewelry. If she is well known, however, and possesses a clientele that is sure to bring her the neces sary amount, she is given credit by Bren nan, who, as soon as he is certain his debtor has .made a few dollars again, pounces down on her. Some of the women are known to have been in Brennan's debt to the amount of §50 or more. "Brennan owns the patrol wagon," says one of the women. "He's the WEST SIDE MAYOR, and the police obey him implicitly," re marked another. Brennan has made a for tune in a very short time, and is reputed to be worth an amount that his saloon would not have brought in gross in ten years. West side saloonkeepers by the score attest the dishonesty of the police force, showing how they have been closed as 'disorderly places" when in reality they were the best conducted saloons in the neighborhood, Dago shops, all-night houses, panel houses, that contribute to the police being allowed on the West side, but a decent place that is conducted on a business basis is severely spotted and sooner or later closed. These exposures have created a stench in the pub lic nostril that the administration is finding difficulty in subduing. Mayor Harrison .sniffed contemptuously when the first of these exposure articles was published. But the second one. attacking the police, has caused more excitement at the city hall than the administration will admit. When it is known that what is known as the West side is the largest part of the city; that MOST OF THE MUKDEiiS and crimes of all kinds reported take place in that district; that with a single possible exception, the worst communities of the city are located within the jurisdiction of the West side police force, then it will be un derstood why such an exposure creates so much excitement. The chief end and aim of the average policeman seems to be to diaw pay for as little work as possible. But the Chicago policeman is not satisfied with doing nothing, he must levy a tax on un fortunates and bulldoze liquor dealers that decline to pay for police privileges. It is not an uncommon sight to see a policeman drinking with a loose woman at her ex pense. ■ There isn't a "hustler" in Chicago but that expects to be asked for a cigar or drink from some burly blue-coated rufhan that wears a star by virtue of his work in ward elections and carries a club to knock down the enemies of his alderman. THE WOP.ST ABUSES are reported from the Ninth ward, and the gentlemen who represent this district in the city parliament are hard at work preparing for an investigation that will surely come sooner or later under pressure of popular demand. The police themselves have grown reticent, and refuse to talk on the subject, while the reporters of the enterprising sheet that has made public this rotten condition, of affairs don't dare to venture out of doors after nightfall. Bail-Shark Brennan, the justices who have so long permitted these outrages, and the officers in charge at the public station, are dumfounded at the completeness of the exposure, and secretly tremble for their positions, while inwardly cursing the curiosity that led the news gatherers to select such a topic for a sensa tional article. There'll be a chopping oft' of official heads, and for a short time West Side police affairs will be conducted with some regard to decency. Chexey. /} is needed, not much money — i\PV\ "Wants" the comb that holds LfO/iOO the honey. Mad Taken All the Regress. Philadelphia Pies?. "Good gracious, Dusenberry! I didn't know until to-day that you had been married three times." '•Yes, Bromly, I have taken all the de grees. The first wife knocked all the ro mance out of me, the second taught me humility "And your present wife?" "Made a philosopher out of me. I can bear other people's troubles with a great deal of self-CQniplacency." Buckleys Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles or no pay required. It is guar anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price .25 cents per box. For sale byLarubie & Bethune and J. P. Allen. Did you Sup pose Mustang Liniment only good for horses ? It is for inflamma tion of all flesh. Assessment for Sewer on Nelson Avenue, Office of the Board of Public Works, ) City of St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 26,1885. f The Board of Public Works in and for the corporation of the City of St. Paul, Minne sota, will meet at their office in said city at 2 p. m. on the sth day of October, A. D. ISBS, to make an assessment of benefits, costs and expenses arising from the construction of a sewer on Nelson Avenue, from a point 50 feet west of Josette street to Virginia Avenue, in said city, on the property on the line of said sewer and benefited thereby amounting' in the aggregate to 82,751.85. All persons interested are hereby notified to be present at said time and place of mak ing said assessment and will be heard. JOHN F. HOYT, President pro tern. Official: K. L. Gorman, Clerk Board of Public Works. .270-271.; '.T> 1 48 and 150 n""?T|" l|""!Tf'| J ,'j maM 410 East Third ->fi|vw"T^nH^Nicollet Avenue, ST. PAUL. BBLJillllljl MINNEAPOLIS. The Largest House! The Easiest Terms! SOLEAGENTS FOR THE The World-Renowned Weber, AND THE Magnificent Behr Bros'! GET OUR TERMS ! GET OUR PRICES I Let Every one who wishes to Buy a Write or Call at Once and we will convince you that we do JUST AS WE ADVERTISE. THE CELEBRATED SHONINGER ORGANS, With the Chime of Beautiful Bells, $60, $75, $85, $100, $125 & $150. On Easy Monthly Payments. Everything ! Everything! Everything! IN THE MUSIC LINE! Instruments Rented! UNTIL PAID FOR. SI DENNIS ItTAX, HIJfRT D. SQUIRE* ! BOBT. A. JBETnr-.VB, JNO. W. BXLL. \ RYAN DRUG CO., Importing 1 and Jobbing Brujfji* I AND DRUGGISTS SUNDKYMKN, I 225, 227, 229 East Third Street, '' _ St. Paul. : T BUGGIES, ■ A CARRIAGES, PH/ETONS, A BOGGLES^ r. W^ONS, CARfIIAGES, PH/ETONS, f-4 JTMJBFP WAGONS, EARN*. / t St, Paul Wagoa & Carriaga Cx "*" "^ I Corner3lxtaandMiaaeioU3tf. I" ' CAMPBELL, WALSH * JiLSOS, ENGINES, BOILERS, Macliinery and Mill Supplies, 285 and 337 J^ST FOURTH STREET. -— _- ! GRANT & MULLEN, \ General Commission Merchants \ AND WHOLESALE DBAUSRB IN \ i GRAIN, FLOUR, FEED, FRUIT, \ BUTTER, EGGS, ETC. \ ' Wanted, 10,000 bushels choice Malting \ Barley. 1 NO. 372 ROBERT STREET. -™" ' Consignments Solicited. m GOODYEARRDBBERCO. JAMES ttJYDAM, A»«nfc 131 EAST THIRD STREET. -*— Best Quality Rubber Good*. ~T\ MIZ, GRIGGS SHOVES, DYAKZ, GRIGGS & HOWES, _J WHOLESALE GROCERS! AND IMPORTERS, 242 to 24-8 East Thtrd St. Corner Wacouta. A' Established 1860. laoofporftted 1655. Strong-Melt Hardware Co., jobbers OF HARDWARE, CtfTLERY, TINNERS' STOCK & TOOLS, GUNS, SPORTING GOODS, ETQ 213, 215, 217, 219 E. 4.th St; I" KOCH & BROOKS, Practical Horse Slioers, Fine and Fancy Work a Specialty, 150 East Fifth Street, \~J ST. PAUL, MIX.V. Lf ARE. mi McCLStt^ 407 Sibley Street, PAPER AND STATIONERY, Druggists' Sundries, | Toys and Fancy Goods. . TT H.SWIFT, Wholesale Dealer iv Foreign & Domestft PK"CTITSI Teas, Coffees, Jellies, Etc., ft 124- EAST THIRD STREET. \J Sole Agent for Lautz Bros. 4 Co'| Acme and other Soaps. CE. F. OSBORh^E, Corner Fifth sad Rosabel Streets, STEAM HEMS EMHEEH And Contractor. BJ.HJJLHLERCQIP&P Fifth and Wacoota Streets, uaguiid, Uli i iii&uij IlafiiDiW| * ■ :\C AJfD BH. P. ROGG & CO., 318 Sibley street, one block above Union Depot. Pimps andPtaifiijers' Sapplfes, " POLLO^DOKSLBSSM^DEI 48 aM SO East Third at. Importers ana Dealers in Crockery, Wm & Hassw, 1 -L- Etc., Etc. ~\T Fairbanks, Morse & Co., \ FAIRBANKS SCALES aM -fc l ECLIPSE wiram . ——< Gnoyes BROS. & ctrafa, iMPcrawaeaa akd Wholesale DraggisCa, 88 and 70 SiWey street, corner *Kth, St. Paul, Mien. Samuei Schwab & Bro., - IBOLESILE MMS, Ladles' and Gents' Furnish ing Goods. 400 and 411&ibl(v«t.. St. Paul. Mina. C ARTHUR, WARREM & iBMT, Wholesale Notions, Hosiery, Witite Goods, Etc., EtO, 100 and 103 East Third Street. "T CRAie, UHKffi & SMITH, WHOLESALE CHINA. CrocfcCy, Glassware, Etc., Etc Mo. 360 StWcy Street. S-LUFHE^FDHSiaDffIffiB, Wholesale Hats, Caps and Furs, Mfi and 188 East Fourth StrerC ■Far Coats and Bob— a Speeiaity B "~1 -Th« Lc-ndiap Dty Good* House if 1 the Northwest. J Anerbacb, Fincli .4 ¥an Sly(* 1 Wholesale Dry Goods &nd Notions i Corner Fourth aa&Saaey St». J I CA«PBT DEPARTMENT! 19 and 21 West Third-Street. ANTI-TOX. Sold •* dras e*o*w and ftnU-clasa h» pl» romps. Anti-Tox relieves, the system a owor-iadulgaaee in drink. Anti-Tox taken at bedtime per vents headache in the morhiag. Antl-Tox is the best *ppeti»e» known, purely Tegetahla. healthy, inrifrorating. Ask for H. Agencies for towns in Minnesota,' Wisconsin and lowa can be hmd of 17. E. Solomon, wholesale Wines *a 4 Xienora, 222 and 221 But Fourth St. ST. PAUL MANUFACTUBERS OP Architectural Iron WerL Founders, Machinists, Blacksmiths and Fat tern-makers. Send for cuts of columns Works on St. P., M. & M. R. R., near Coin* avenue. OSlice 118 S. Fourth street, St. Faiii, C. M. POWKR, Seo'sr and Xreas.