Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-22


way of building up town. Well, he waited
there three days for the arrival Of the steamer
Greek Slave to bear him to Winona. who
ever heard of that steamer before?) 1t came
and took him and his limited effects to Vino
ma. Mr.. Broughton made something of sem
satiOn up there az a business man and builder
of towns. He established the town of Troy,
which, I believe, has never attained the fame
of the ancient 7riam, but he cannot be blamed
for this, his intentions were no doubt good;
was, Also largely instrumental in building up
st. Charles, west of Winona, where he settled,
and did much for the general material interests
of Minnesota, and ought to be borne in CRATE
He had, before moving here. operated on the
Chicago Board of Trade. and came to be
one of the most extensive and successful opera
tors ON the Notwithstanding fortune of
quarter OF a million; but he has since realiz-
ed the truth of the adage:-"R Riches take to
themselves wings, &c" He moved his family
to Chicago after the ''great fire" and has since
been member of the board of trade and is
doing we'll; recovering some of that which for
eign wars, and panics, and heartless sharpers
have beaten him out of; all of which his
friends will be glad to know. He bears the
name of being honorable in all his business
transactions on the board of trade, and is in all
respects gentleman worthy to bear the name
of having resided many years in the State of
pure air and morals and MANY other virtues
He lives in one of the suburbs of Chicago; is
getting grey and looks older than he did when
he first went to Minnesota, no doubt, but is the
same agreeable gentleman that he always was,
and thinks as much OF Minnesota and Mime
sofa wheat as he ever did, and he always had
high opinion Of both. So much for one of the
pioneers of Minnesota Mr.. H. E. Broughton.
L. B. MARTIN.
The name of Capt. l.. B. Martin will be re-
membered in st. Paul, particularly, and in
many other parts of Minnesota as he was an
st. Paul a number of years. He went to Min
esota in 1856 from the State of New York.
hence is one of the old settlers; engaged in the
lumber and grain business and was successful
to oreditable degree. He was formerly pres
ident of the st. Paul lumber company and still
owns several thousand acres of pine lands in
the State; went to Milwaukee in 1873 and ope-
rated on the chamber of commerce there, but
fortune did not smile on this venture, and from
there he went to Texas, and from that State
he came here in 1875, where he has since been
operating on the Chicago board of trade, with
as great degree of success as the
majority of those who hazard their
money and ply their arts in that ALWAYS pre-.
carious and often disastrous whirlpool Il came
near writing cesspooD of exciting and desperate
speculation. He will be remem bered as gem
ial and companionable gentleman. and popular
among the stirring and enterprising business
men of the live and energetic city of St. Paul
His heart and choice rather inclines back to
that city and he may, and quite likely will,
some day return to his first love-" He thinks
there is quite as much life there as in Chicago.
and more of cordially and fraternal feelin q
which a great city like this does not possess
necessarily 50 from the nature and ciroumstan-
ces Of the situation; every man here. who is
looking out for any one at all, is paying partic-
ular attention to himself and his own interests.
Capt. Martin is well and doing we'll, and still
takes pride IN being known as Minneeotian.
c. W. NICHOLS.
have still another feather to add to the
wreath am manufacturing for the head of the
fair commonwealth of Minnesota I mean a
feather to send from Chicago-not an ostrich,
or vulture. or peacock, or rooster, but a turkey
feather. This feather has been utilized within
the past few years, and this by we'll known
Minnesotian; but more about this hereafter. l
desire to make mention of another pioneer
Minnesotian now in Chicago-one who has
been decided success here, too. l refer to
Clarence W. Nichols, who is known in Mime
sofa as Charlie Nichols-and presume he can
transformed. Well he was born in Wayne
county, N. Y, in lSA9-about fifty year. Of age.
He made a dash in Wall street as his first ven
ture in business; was subsequently heavy
operator in live stock, grain and almost every
thing negotiable, here, in Milwaukee and other
points in the Northwest: was one of the pio-
neers of Chicago and did something towards
building up this city. He brought up in
Winona in 1860, where he engaged in the
wholesale and retail grocery trade, and did an
extensive business for the time and place for a
number of years, and established a reputation
! through all the country tributary to Winona.
His name will be remembered by many
uhD t.
came to Chicago and engaged in
different kinds of business until 1874, when he
'struck oir' sure, and the flow has since been
abundant and remarkable. To be more ex.
pllcit, Mr.. Nichols, who is an inventive genius,
took out patent in 1871 for an improvement
in the method of manufacturing feather
buster, and to enable him to utilize the tail
feathers of the turkey. He has since obtained
eight or nine Improvements on the buster head
or building foundation, and the process of
treating the feather. The latter is the essential
merit of his duster. He splits the feather
that is to say, he splits the stem or trunk of
the feather-futes and rasps it, which process
enemy, all of which also makes the feather
flexible, elastic and durable; and his improve
ment in the formulation of the head has the
effect to give it the appearance of the head of
female Zulu, as pictured of late. He started
without dollar of his own, in some small
town up in Wisconsin. and manufactured the
duster, with the aid of one man, and when his
small stock of raw material was used up he
! came to Chicago and peddled them out, paid
off his one man. bought further supplies and
made more busters, came here again and dis
posed of them. Subsequently he came here
and opened business in a small way and
feather like, itspread, and he now occupies
$50 by "A feet, and employs about one
hundred men and women, and produces
fifty dozen busters of all sizes per week. He
has done what no one else ever did-utilized
the tail feathers of the turkey for the manu-
facture of busters! He found out by some
system of calculation that the annual product
of turkeys in this country is about 10, 600. 900,
and the tail feathers have been made ac-
count of heretofore; now they are worth 20,
40, 50, and IS cents per pound, and the tail Is
oft'n worth more than the body. Is he not .
public benefactor, too? He has made the tail
wag the body and taught a lesson to politicians
Well, as this is a personal notice and not an
that Mr.. Nichols is here and attributes his sue
cess to the impetus given him by the invisor-
ating and impelling power of the rare atmos-
phere" of Minnesota. 1 do not mean to in
sinuate that there is anything thin about this
business, but do mean to say that he has an
important invention and is entitled to great
credit, and the credit belongs to M1nnesotian
as he persists in calling himself one. He has
battled successfully against the great feather
duster monopolies of the East and came off
victorious in bis effort to bring the convenient
feather buster within the reach of the poorest,
by reducing its price full 60 per cent. from
what it was, and now refuses all offers to s'sell
out" He is making Torture by his own
efforts backed by his inherent force and en- ter
prise. This will all be welcome news to his
friends who have known him in adversely and
prosperity. He deserves it; he is the same
genial, affable and honorable man he always
had the reputation of being, aud can entertain
in the princely style he did in Minnesota when
he had a full sporting outfit and his friends
were glad to go and see him. So much for an
other Minnesotian who has madean impression
in Chicago.
DIR. D'UNGER.
Still another notable Minnesotian has made
mark in Chicago-indeed, has attained a
worldwide reputation. refer to Dr.. r. D Tn.
ger, whose name has become household word
in this country, and widely known in almost
all countries in the world, in connection with
his discovery of the wonderful curative prop
critics of cinchona bark for all nervous -affec-.
tions where administered according to his di-
rections and compounded from his formula.
He is native of Maryland; his ancestors for
several centuries past from Normandy. He
was we'll known in the East for his enterprise,