The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-07-14
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE READ
ING ROOM AND IT'S TNFIU-
ENCES.

ENCES.
Among the many distinguished persons
who have come to st. Poul this season for
their health is John w. Tompkins, ESQ.,,
Superintendent of the Phelps Mission,
New York city, and writer for the New
York Daily Globe. Entering the Cham
Der of Commerce reading room during
the first day of his visit, and seeing the
large crowd Of persons assembled, and
the large list, OF papers on file, he wrote
the publishers of the Globe that he be.
lieved a first class paper regularly fled in
this reading room, could advertise itself
and make more friends than in any other
room in America. BY return mail came
the Globe and the publishers compliments
Yesterdays mail brought letter from
the editor and proprietor of the Sioux
City 0owa Times, written to Ossian e.
Dodge, ipiwhich the writer states that he
will voluntarily and with great pleasure
add his Journal to the large list Of papers
for which the st. Paul Chamber has be.
come SO famous. And from the many
descriptions given him of this reading
room, he believes that every paper there
filed-Gf credltable to the town where
published will prove profitable in
0estnaeat to the publisher His views are
practical and financially sound. BY long
and constant exertion, Mr.. Dodge, who
for many years was editor of a leading
| literary paper in Boston, has secured
the largest collection of papers to be
found in any reading room in the United
States. Here, strangers daily gather from
all parts of the country. A few come to
read the local news in their old home pa
per,--but many more come to pass away
leisure hour, or carefully examine coun.
try advertisements to discover the strong
est inducements offered for profitable in
vestments. Among the greater number
| of papers here filed, are those in three or
four different languages, --oevoted to lit
erature, politics, masonry, education, re-
| ligion, agriculture, music, temperance,
sport, railroads and the drama and yet
not a paper is received but what is read
by somebody .,asts
I Many town in this State has received
its thousands of dollars from men who
| first learned of its existence through pa
pers regularly filed in the free rea,ling
room Of the St. Paul Chamber of Com
merce. 15a la
From a narrow, contracted and selfshly
blind standpoint, a publisher might say,
Before the Secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce gets my paper, he must pay
for it I" Lt4R bfe FsI -ta 8oH@
The shrewd, practical fnancier says,
This is unlike any other reading room
1t is not for private clique, Sect nation
atty or party, but a room where men
from all parts of America are searching
for Investments; and If paper is cre0itG-
bic to the toson aohere pu6Lished--it will
prove profitable to the publisher. to have
it regularly fled in a room enjoying such
national reputation, and where it is sure
of being seen by people from alllparts of
the civilized worldp ml8 f3n8
1t is simply two ways oflooking at the
same subject. etsfs
The first place usually visited Dy
strangers on entering ST. Paul, is the free
reading room of the Chamber of Com
merce; and the influences there received,
are often shown through investments of
many Thousand dollars. aod9
Through quiet labor there performed,
our stores sometimes change proprIetors
city lots are disposed of; farms purchased,
and stock contracted for And this is
done by the Secretary without per cent.
commission, because he has conferred all
his ambition in making This room-what
it now enjoys a NATIONAL reputation
of being,-a HOME FOR ALL STRANGERS
st. Pt1gL Dispatch