Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-07-11
New HAVEN. June 20. 1854

| NEW HAVEN. June ~, 1884.
| DEAR SIR am bound for the "West." Fo
six months or more est. Paul" has been the OBJ
ject which has bound my western vision, and tn
object OF this communication is, primarily, to asl
| you some questions in relation thereto. Havt
you good church organizations, and of what de-
nominations? Have you good schools? Have
you good hotels? Have you good stores? Have
you good water? Can a sober, industrious and
competant man get living, and little more, ir
| place; or must a man do a mixed business-tha
| is, sell crockery, hardware, groceries, boots and
shoes, and little medicine! What does board
cost? How muchdoes store rent average, &C., &c
Please answer these queries and send me the
Daily times for the time Iremain here, for which
please find $4, and much oblige,
Yours truly, J.s.J.
l. We have probably as good church organiza.
tons as any in the Northwest. The denomina.
tions are -Congregationalists, Episcopalians
Presbyterians, Methodists, Catholics, Norwegians
Baptists, Lutharians and German Methodists, and
few ''inGdels," at least so termed. All appea,
to enjoy their religious tenets with perfect free.
dom.
z. Our schools we can speak we'll of. They
will compare favorably with many schools in the
East, and for city of only five years. growth,
they are remarkable. The Baldwin School is the
most prominent, and we believe the best, but
there are other schools both in our city and terri
tory, Of which We feel Justly proud.
3. The Winslow House, just opened, will vie
with any hotel this side of Chicago. We car
safely say that it is all that the traveller need ask
for, and much better than he could expect in a
country so new as ours. It is large and airy,
excellently furnished, and superior to any hotel
in New Haven, not excepting the Tontine or Pa.
vilion. The tables abound with good things, and
the walters are gentlemanly and attentive. We
recommend our friend to the WINsLow HOUSE.
We have also other good hotels, which are con-
stantly filed, among them the American House,
Central House, &c.
4. We have some very good stores. Several
buildings now in course of erection will afford
still better.
S. Our water is excellent. No better water
can be found in the West, than bubbles up from
a thousand springs in Minnesota. The univer-
sal exclamation of strangers is, sswhat pure and
beautiful watcr," and those who visit our terrific
ry invariably return pleased with our drinkables,
except the s'brandy and tobacco" man of the n.
Y. Times, who could not procure sufficient
quantity of the critter'' to satiate his Appetite
Minnesota water would bring a premium at the
east.
6. GA sober, industrious, competent mans oan
get living at almost uny thing honorable in Min
nesota, and selling articles Of utility such as
our correspondent proposes to do, is an honorable
business, we entertain no doubt but what he would
be successful. We think the size Of the place
and its continual increase, will warrant merchants
to engage exclusively in Dry Goods, Carpets Or
any other business of which they have good
knowledge. AT present there are but few stores
where articles Of one nature only are sold. The
combination of one or two branches of business
is quite common here. For instance, Boots,
Shoes, Hats and Caps, &C., or Groceries and Dry
Goods, arc dealt in. -
I. Board at the hotels is altogether too high,
ranging from four dollars per week without lodg-
ing to six and seven dollars per week with lodg-
ing. There are but few private boarding houses
-(many more could be we'll supported if we had
them) and these charge nearly as high as the ho-
tells.
.. This is a matter upon which we are not very
we'll posted; but we should say that the average
store rent in St. Paul was not far from $780,
Some rent as high as $iOO, others as low as 1925.
9. The ninth desire of our correspondent shall
be complied with, as it is a subject quite agreca-
BILE to our feelings. We can assure him that our
answers to his queries can be relied upon and
that visit to our territory will fully convince
him of the truth of our rcmarks.-ED.