Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23
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To the Editor of the Globe sasa afGt5 Il, y
ST.. PAUL, Feb. %, a1879.-In q forme,
letter to you, said that there was no need
| but for one public market, and that such a
market house should be built as would Blend
the necessities of trade with accommod ations
! of the most comfortable and ample kind,
and also with the attractions Of profit
mutual benefit to buyer and seller, with the
attractions also of architectural beauty, OF
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 incongruities are no.
substantial antagonisms.
/ am unlearned in figures. If ]
were not, the tremendous array !, OF
figures and nonsense piled together ID The
epistle of 3'Mack' against public market,
could only have emanated, as he confesses,
from desire to pay the sold railroad bonds, .
build ga BOOM . stmake st. Paul q railroad
centre!'' E'Mack" is a weathercock, fear,
muchly. He does not want public market,
because he wants the city to give all its sur
plus funds to railroads.. to booms, to--the
devil knows what ything 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.s So much for this
small, selfish opposition to apublic market.
In my advocacy of this great public neces-
sity, ], only said, or meant ito 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 matter. Of taste. It.would really appear
that the city of st. Paul, with all the mag
! nifcent resources at command, with the cap
! ital within the corporate limits, with the
the best people on earth of taste, intelli-
gence, education, who have come here to build
upfsociety, to perfect schemes of happiness
dreamt of in other places, end to make our
city famous, not only as grand emporium
borders, to, have, SO far as we cali, an Athens
of literature, classic art and public taste, if
not a Philadelphia of churches, could afford
to have respectable market house. a's55fH
This subject, friend Hall, would grow
upon me into great proportions I will
simply give you the idea. Z believe that if
it we're possible to place the statue Of
Appollo t@gBelvidere on the 6 b,corner
of q Wabashaw and Seventh i streets,
or to hang RaphaePs picture Of the Madonna
in some public hall, these alone would do
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 9 .sharp Of a thousand
strings. It is somewhat on this principle I
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 a sinking fund to redeem the prin-
cipal, then At looks as if opposition springs
from selfish and unworthy motives and
while do not charge il, assure you / cannot
endure too many figures. j ,..5s 4.
OscAR STEPHENSON II