Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23
The NeeO Market -4nd VIM?
To the Editor of the Globe,

To the Editor of the Globe.
ST. PAUL, Feb. %, 1879.-In former
letter to you, said that there was no need
market house should be built as would blend
the necessities of trade with accommodations
of the most comfortable aud ample kind,
and also with the attractions of profit
mutual benefit to buyer and seller, with the
attractions also of architectural beauty, oil
taste, intelligence, and esthetic perceptions
It is difficult to harmonic the necessity OF
having to eat, and of providing food with
the esthetic part. Of the human system. Still
think such apparent incopgruities are not
substantial antagonisms.
I am unlearned in figures. If
were not, the tremendous array OF
figures and nonsense piled together in the
epistle of 'sMack" against a public market
could only have emanated, as he confesses
build ga boom,'' 'smake St. Paul a railroad
centre!'' ssMack'' is a weathercock, fear,
muchly. He does not want public market
because he wants the city to give all it's sur
plus funds to railroads, to booms, to-the
devil knows what anything that "Mack''
takes in hand. He is, as every one knows,
thoroughly practical, and, hope, thoroughly
honest; but my faith in him has been much
shaken by what very much savors of
toadyism. And of all the mean things
| in the meanness of this earth, toadyism to
money is the meanest. So much for this
small, selfish opposition to public market
| In my advocacy of this great public neces-
sity, only said, or meant to say, that the
| city of St. Paul, in vindication of the in
telligence of the people, should have some
other place for the municipal court, than
| over the stalls of butchers. Criminals and
innocent people see enough of blood. That
is a matter of taste. It would really appear
that the city of st. Paul, with all the mag
nlfcent resources at command, with the cap
ital within the corporate limits, with the
ambition of metropolis, with some OF
the best people on earth of taste, intelli-
gence, education, who have come here to build
up society, to perfect schemes of happiness
dreamt of in other places, and to make ou1
city famous, not only as grand emporium
of commerce, but also here, on the western
borders, to have, SO far as we call, an Athens
of literature, classic art and public taste il
not a Philadelphia of churches, could afford
to have respectable market house.
This subject, friend Hall, would grow
upon me into great proportions. will
simply give you the idea. I believe that il
it were possible to place the statue OF
Apollo Belvidere on the corner
of Wabashaw and Seventh streets,
or to hang Raphael's picture of the Madonna
| in some public hall, these alone would dc
more to educate public taste, refine the feel
ings, purify the sentiments of the people,
than ten thousand stereotyped sermons in
the see-saw style of a tsharp of thousand
strings" It is somewhat on this principle
advocate public market of tasteful archi-
tectural outlines, blended with comfort and
utility. Add to this, that Col. Allen has
already provided, that the public hall above
will pay the interest, and that the rents will
provide sinking fund to redeem the prin-
cipal, then it looks as if opposition springs
from selfish and unworthy motives, and
while do not charge it, assure you cannot
endure too many figures.
Oscar STEPHENSON.