Daily globe., 1879-05-13
ST. PAUL ILLUSTRATED.

So"osof the Enccllent Features of 1Icjor
Nc,VsO,s's Publication.
To the Editor of the Globe
Major Newson deserves great credit for
the tact, energy and ability he has displayed
in getting out the April number of his
FSres5de Companion, which is, in fact, an
elaborate history of st. Paul. The details,
both in conception and execution, are ad-
mirably we'll done. He has had many diff
culties to struggle with, one especially, the
cravings we'll and expeditiously done in this
city. He has managed, Notwithstanding, to
illustrate his pages with over seventy cuts,
some of them noticeably good, such as st.
Paul in its earliest days, st. Paul as it is
now, Fort Smelling, the custom house and
postof1ice, the capitol, the Pioneer Press
building, the GLOBE block, the Baptist church,
Auerbach, Finch, Culbertson & Co.'s build
ing, the Merchants hotel, the Metropolitan,
the Leip House, White Bear, and did space
permit many more could be given. The
major takes up st. Paul, as it were, a wee,
toddling chicken, and brings him up to be q
full -hedged, atalwart shanghai, growing lusty
defiance to all rivals. The places, incidents
and scenes of the early days are described in
the EDITORS usual happy manner, and are
lively and graphic. The article by James
Davenport, "St. Paul, its past, present and
probable future,' shows the speculative, un-
substantial condition of the city twenty
years ago, as compared with the firm busi-
ness basis it has now assumed, and also
points out its prospects for the future. The
press receives o long and extended
notice from the time, in 1849, when
James M. Goodhue started the Pioneer to
now, when it has assumed such mammoth
proportions. 10 illustrate this more fully
engraving of the printing press used then
and now are given. The major, the Oldest
editor i'll the State, naturally understands
what he is writing about and treats the sub
ject we'll and interestingly. He can truly
say of the press of that day "Magna Pars
Fui.'' t
There is long and exhaustive article on
railroads which must have cost good deal
of labor. Seventeen years ago there was
not railroad in the State, now the number
of miles in operation is 2,6O9. There are
fourteen railroads centering or running
through St. Paul. Ono hundred trains 6
day come and go through the city.
One of the greatest levers for the success
of St. Paul is money, which is represented
by the banks. This important interest
is ably traced from the year 1858
when Bolup and Oaks started their small
bank until now, when the banking capital O.
the city is represented by millions.
The progress of the dry. goods trade il
fully treated of, from its humble commence
ment in the little log store on the corne
of jackson and Bench street in 1912, to it
present enormous proportions, as represent
ed Auerbach, Finch, Culbertson g. Co; D
w. Ingersoll & Co; VIM. Lee & Co.: Man
heimer, Powers, Lindike, Warner and Schu
mer. There's millions in it now.
} The wholesale grocery interest receive
its full share of attention as represente,
J by P. III. Kelly & Co; Beaupre, Allen
( Keogh and others. They too run the sale
up among the millions.
The Merchants, Metropolitan, ant
other leading hotels are representa-
by cuts with very interesting de
tails concerning their inception and presen
management.
1t is very clear that strangers, if they hav
any money, need not fear being starved
death in st. Paul.
, Noyes Bros. & Cutler are noticed as hay
ing built up an immense drug trade.
i The great and useful industry, the 81
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9 mended.
In the brief summary have given, man
firms have been unavoidably omitted whic
appear in the work itself. But suffieie1
has been said to show its value, and I tru'
the worthy editor will be sufficiently reward
ed by it's large sale to repay him for his III
# firing devotion to the interests of the city.
o The work is furnished at such modera
:. price, 25 cents, as to enable all those WI
d wish, to send to their friends East the mo-
s valuable exponent of the interests of S
d Paul that has ever been published.
It In addition to the reading matter we ha'
/ alluded to, there is a general summing up
the end of the work, showing grandly fl
: the city, aud new enterprises foreshadowil
r the future.
! think the chamber of commerce oug
& to recommend that the council take sevel
l. thousand copies of tho illustrated for gene,
distribution. AN OBSERVER.