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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
Loss of Sight.

A little accident, carelessness and Enor
ance in regard to the condition, strength
and power of the eye to endure, has giver
to many an early blindness. 1t may not b,
generally understood that writing on tn,
cars, steamboat, coach, or anything in mo.
ton, is intended to impair the eyesight.
The sculptor Crawford, was accustomed
all his life time to read lying down. Tc
this, very largely, the physicians attribute
the loss of his eye. Very soon a canoe,
formed in the other, which caused his
death.
The great historian, Prescott, lost his eye
sight when a student, by bit of bread
thrown in sport by fellow student at the
table. A pair of scissors or fork thrown
in sport or anger, has caused the loss of an
eye which the wealth of the world cannot re.
place. A friend who was very ambitious to
finish set of linen for her brothers, spent
almost winter in the stitching, sitting up
often late at night over the work, in which
she took great delight. The result was, the
nerve of the eye was so injured that she was
obliged wholly to give up sewing, knitting
and reading, under penalty of becoming per.
fectly blind.
A young lady, who lived but ten miles by
train from school, used to spend the time in
studying certain lesson while she was rid
ing down in the morning. The result was
severe affection of the eyes, which disabled
her from study for a long time. 1t is al.
ways hurtful to the eyes to read in the train,
though we may not see the effect 50 plainly
when it happens only occasionally. A
steady practice like this. young ladies, may
produce even worse results when the system
is in bad state
Never read by twilight, nor before eating
in the morning. The little you gain in time
will be doubly lost before LIES shutdown.
L know young clergyman who is a re-
markably well-bred man, but whose ewes
are perfect deformity. He said he ruined
them by reading at night, long and intently.
when lie was getting his education. He
seems to have no control Of the lids. which
twlch and move in most grotesque manner.
Don't fancy you can do what you please
with your eyes, and yet have them serve
you faithfully. Take good care of them as
you would of gold, for gold can never re-
place lost eyesight. When once we lose our
eyesight, we lose the greater part of the
light and joy of our life.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
SOAP, CANDLES, ETC.

The Minnesota Soap company, H. Hecb.-
man manager, employs 81 men at its fac
tory, No. &c Eagle street. This establish
ment was founded in 1862 by Beach & Co.,
and eight years ago was consolidated with a
similar establishment at Minneapolis, taking
the name above given. The members OF
the company are Il. Hechtman, II. Grethen,
F. NJ. Pleins and Jas. Beach. The manu-
features are hard and soft, CASTLE and cocoa
nut soaps, lard oil, tallow candles and pot
ash, the most of which are put up under
special brands for jobbers of st. Paul. The
company is q buyer of lard, tallow and
grease.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05

three departments, is located at No. II,
WabashawY street, and occupies the entire
three floors and basement, the building be-
ing eighty feet deep. The base
ment is occupied by the presses and
steam engine and boiler. The
first floor by the counting room, mailing
room, folding machines and paper store
room. The second floor is used by the
Newspaper Union composing room and the
stereotype foundry. The third floor is occu-
pied by the editorial and composing rooms.
The present building has become very mad
equate to the demands of the business, and
larger quarters will have to be secured OF an
early day.
The GLOBE establishment might be styled
bee hive of industry. In addition to the
work already detailed, the mechanical work
Of the Duly Hotel Reporter is here per-
formed and city weekly papers are printed
where they have their own
offices but no press facilities. With
the exception of about four hours on Sun
day forenoon, there is no moment, DAY or
night, from one years end to the other when
some portion of the establishment is not in
active operation. All of the type for the
DAILY GLOBE is set during the night. The
men fill their cases with type during the at
ternoon and commence composition at P.
M. When the work of the editors and COM
positors terminates at A. M. the work of the
press room and mailing rooms begin. The
presses and folding machines are actively at
work. Then come the carriers to secure
their papers for city delivery, and by the time
this work is completed, the day force for the
press room and Newspaper Union are on
hand for daylight labor. The counting room
is open for business, and when the day force
ceases, the night force takes up the laboring
oar, and so the work of the GLOBE goes on
incessant and unceasing. The presses are
running from eighteen to twenty hours per
day regularly, and it is not unusual for them
to be kept in motion for the twenty four
hours.
The establishment employs some eighty-fve
persons, and over two hundred are directly
supported by the business. We believe it
can be safely said that the GLOBE establish
ment is the most thoroughly occupied and
busiest of any in the city.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
Wire Workers.

James j. Elwell, 81 East Seventh, employs
three to five hands in making wire mat
tresses.
j. M. Metcalf, Robert corner Of Fourth,
runs the st. Paul Wire Works, and keeps a
great variety of its products on sale. The
establishment turns out all lines of wire
goods, including cages, screens, tenders, Of
fee railing, flower stands, signs, etc., in a
great variety of designs, and executes special
designs to order. It is the only mandatory
of the kind in the Northwest, and on that ao-
count, as we'll on account of the great beauty
and variety Of its work, should be remember
ed, visited and patronized.
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.ADDENDA.
Stock Yards.


Kiefer's stock yards, near Post Siding, are
now used by Capt. Kiefer for feeding and
fattening stock, in connection with his dis
tillery. Hancke & Co. have vacated their
yards on the lower levee to give place for
railroad improvements, and are about es-
tablishing new yards, either at the Rice
street crossing of the st. P. M. & M. rail
road or on the river flat near the place
where Upham & Co. are building. Della
ney's Union stock yards, between the Fort
road and the river are occupied by city
butchers. These yards at present employ
sixteen persons.
Martin Delaney and Capt. n. j. O'Con-
nor, under the firm name of Delaney d
OConnor, have now nearly completed their
new stock yards on the river fiat near the
railroad bridge, where they have pur-
chased twenty-five acres of land for that
purpose, and will have, eleven acres
in immediate use. Their structures
will include, besides open yards, eleven
buildings for cattle, each supplied with feed
ing and watering conveniencss and capable
of accommodating Is to 100 head; an Office,
granary and weighing building, supplied
with scales intended for weighing carload
of cattle at once and registering in the Office;
stable for horses, to stall and feed 15O
head; storehouse for hay to hold 70 tons.
baled; and frost-proot water tank and
windmill. Water will be conveyed by hose
from the tank to reservoirs and drinking
troughs in all the stock buildings. A spur
track from the st. &aul d Sioux City road,
with switch, extends through their land in
front of the cattle buildings, to each one OF
which there will be an enclosed drive way
from the cars. The grounds will be graded
and leveled soon after the frost is out of the
ground, and by that time all the buildings
will be finished and the yards enclosed, -
when st. Paul will have stock yards as thor
ouahly fitted up as any in the country
Twelve persons will be required to attend to
these yards.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
PHOTOGRAPHERS.

In the mechanical work of taking snd
printing photographs twenty-s'x persons art
employed in St. Paul, in eleven establish
ments, as follows:
Ericks & Anderson, Ill East Seventh, third
story, hands.
r. W. Essery, East Seventh, corner Sibley.
Coins Lucus, 761s Wakasha, 2.
VIM. b. Illingsworth, 79 East Seventh, 8.
New York Gallery, 90 West Third, 2.
Alf. Palmquist Il Co., % East Seventh, second
story, 2.
o. @. Pasel, whitney Gallery" 70 East Third,
third story.
a. b. Pepper & Son, 10 East Third, 4.
John A. Stridborg, Ill East Seventh.
Allen Swain, II East Third, third floor.
o. A. Zimmerman, 8 West Third z.
Mr.. Illingswo<th is we'll known through
put the United States, in connection
with his landscape views of the North
vest, for the collection of which he
mas journeyed, carrying his apparatus,
Ill over our State, through Lake
superior and westward to the Yellowstone.
He keeps these views for sale at his gallery
and supplies dealers throughout the country.
MIR. Zimmerman is probably the best
known photographer of the city. He has
large line of views, taken throughout the
Northwest, of notable places, events and
scenes, and more portraits and photographs
are furnished from his establishment than
from any other in the Northwest. Mr.. Z.m-
norman has a sharp interest in sporting
Affairs and this has found vent, in his artistic
pursuits, in a long series of water color
paintings of imaginary and actual hunting
events and scenes in Minnesota, remarkable
for their approach to perfection in licensees
OF men, animals, birds and vegetation.
Nearly all those connected with the
sporting club Of 81. Paul Of which
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
WOtterstorf &. MoritS.

The store kept by this firm, though not
the largest, will serve for fair example of
the best class of hardware, stove and tinware
stores in the retail trade of this city. They
are located at 125 East Seventh. Their
stock of goods is we'll arranged and in
cludes-besides full line of shelf hardware
carpenters tools, cutlery and variety OF
show case goods, house furnishing articles,
builders hardware, wire goods, tin and cop
per utensils of all kinds, and full line of
stoves and stove furniture. Among the
stoves sold by this firm are the Early Break
fast and Delavan cooking stoves of various
sizes, both handsome and combining the best
of modern improvements and conveniences.
The firm has a fine run of custom and ready
sale for the products of its shop, in which it
employs 10 men.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
Sc. Paul d Duluth Shops.

These are situated between Fourth and
Sixth streets, In the vicinity of the COM
pany's Third street depot, between Trout
brook and Phalen's creek. They consist of
five frame buildings and one 1.-THE machine
shop stone building, not including the six
stall round house and other terminal build
ings. The men employed are 1877 in num-
Der, as follows: Machine shop, %; car shop,
80; blacksmith shop. II; paint shop, 4; tin
shop, 2; boiler makers, 4; yard men, rs.
The shop machinery is operated by two
steam engines, one of 25 and the other of
50-horse power. The company makes all
its cars. boilers, etc., in it's shops here, and
buys its car wheels, castings and other sup
plies in the city. At this time the shops are
employed in building fifty box cars and in
rebuilding passenger coach. besides at
tending to general repairs.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05

St. Paul, Minneapolis te Manitoba Shops
These are located at tee Mississippi street
crossing and westwardly along the track.
The GLOBE has frequently before had ooca-
sion to show the great advantages this city
and the Northwest we're deriving from the
acquisition of the ST. Paul & Pacific prop r
ty by the st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
company. The capacity and energy of the
new management, as manifested in the COM
pletion and improvement of the roadways,
the providing of rolling stock, the under
taking to build feeders of the main lines,
the scoring of traffic connections and the
general development of the company's bust
hoss, is also shown in the great improve
ment of the machinery department. at st.
Paul. It was only eight months ago that
the present managers took possession. Then
the capacity of the machine shops was linn
tied to the care of 300 miles of roadway and
forty engines. At this time they have been
increased to capacity for taking care Of
$50 miles of road and sixtY,seven engines.
In the same time the capacity of the car
shops has been doubled. Then they were
capable of turning out fifteen freight cars and
one passenger car per month. Now they
are fitted for building thirty freight cars and
two passenger cars per month. The pres
emit dimensions of the present shop buildings
are as follows: Stationary engine room,
3Ox6O; mpchine shop, old. 60190; black
smith shop, old, II fires, 50x6o; blacksmith
shop, new, 6 fires, 35155; car shop, old,
6ox1Oo; car shop, new, 35111O; paint shop,
old, 22x22o; paint shop, new, 2516o; tin
shop, 2116O; store room, old, 301110: Office,
new, 3Ox6O. These, however, are only for
the present needs of the company. A great
er increase has been provided for and will be
made to correspond with the growth of the
company's business beginning this season.
the intention being to shortly fill up the
whole track frontage of three thousand feet
bought and reserved for shops. Nearly
three-fifths of mile will be closely built
up with shops, one hundred or two hundred
feet deep.
The extra shop work since August Is. has
included heavy repairs to IL locomotives and
the rebuilding of another, besides the re-
building of 80 fiat cars, 16 box cars, 2 way
cars and passenger coaches. The COM
pany buys its car wheels, foundry work, etc.,
from city establishments and ia large bny-
or of timbsr from North Wisconsin ard
Minnesota.
The increase of shop work under the new
company will appear palmer to most readers
from comparative statement of the num-
Der of mechanics and skilled lsborers en-
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
Vinegar FACTORY.

Sphinx d Son, 95 East Seventh street, pro-
duced last year 1900 barrels of vinegar. They
are preparing to erect this season, on Mime
sofa street, between Fifth and Sixth streets,
brick building for their factory, and will
then adopt an improved process, which will
greatly augment the product of vinegar.
They employ four hands.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETC.

In this line We have only one strictly
manufacturing establishment in the city, but
the business requires trained experts ard ar
tisans and these may properly be included
among the manufacturers aud mocha MICS
The shops visited by the GLOBE statistician
arc as follows:
VIM. Anderson, Isl East Seventh, hands.
e. A. Brown. rs East Third. 8.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05

NoTE.-No account is here taken of the water
power by which four Touring mills are operated.
The enumeration Of employees being taken in Febru-
airy the least number of the year is obtained. For
eight to eleven months of the year about 600 more
mechanics are employed by builders and others
whose work partly depends upon the builders. These
extra mechanics are ployed winters at avocations
not included in the above table.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
Teaats. A,rninaa. Etc.

Peter Ross, room IL, Ill East Seventh,
makes tents and awnings. j. M. Kline g.
Co., 236 East Seventh, are advertised as bal
loon makers. The making of tents and
awnings is now largely carried on by the
wholesale houses, as mentioned elsewhere,
in connection with the making of duck
overlooking.
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Kiefer's Dfstilleru.

Capt. A. Il. Kiefer has recently set in op-
Grafton his distillery, finished during the
winter and located near Post Siding. The
establishment is complete in all details, with
capacity for 100 bushels Of grain, or about
400 gallons of proof spirits, in each run of
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
Turner's,

Robert Seeger. 107 East Seventh, employ
ing two hands, turns metal, horn and ivory
articles, returns and colors billiard balls, and
repairs canes, umbrellas and fancy articles.
w. O. Gill, 9 East Sixth, does all sorts of
wood turning.
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VphoLsterers.

Cooper & Nelson, SO jackson, employ two
hands. Dietz & Walter, 1851 East Seventh,
second story, two. John A. Laabs, II East
Seventh, three.
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Mellgren e CotrItan.

Mellgrsn & Cowhan are plate printers, en-
gravers, and makers of seals, stencils aud
steel and rubber stamps. In engraving they
are largely employed by jewellers. The e.
tablishment employs four hands, is fitted
with machinery and apparatus for all their
line of work, including die and plate presses.
engraving machinery and tools, apparatus
for casting rubber stamps, forge for work
ing metals, etc., and turns out fine work.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
another Cigar Factory.

Since the list of cigar makers was made
up, Englar & Klosterman have hung out
their regulation sign and begun manufactur-
ing at No. 142 st. Peter street. This makes
the number of manufactures in the city
twenty-nine and the number of hands en-
ployed two hundred and twenty-four.
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St. Paul City Railscay 90.


This company is differed as follows: A.
II. Porter, of Brooklyn, president; VIM. H.
Philips, of New York, vice president w. G.
Dominick, of St. Paul, secretary; JAS. r.
Walsh, of st. Paul, treasurer and general
manager; and J. F. Alexander, superintend-
ent. The company has now laid four and
half miles of single track on which it has
ten cars in the daily run, the intervals be-
tween cars being ten minutes. This season the
company will lay additional track, bringing
up its lines to six and half miles of double
track, when the trips will be made more fire.
quent and fifty men, twenty cars, and about
one hundred and fifty horses will be requir-
ed. The stable and car house, the latter to
be built this season, will cover sthe lots on
st. Peter street between Fourth and Fifth
streets, 5Ox3OO feet. The number of pas
senger fares paid o. the company's cars in
1879 was 77O,s8O. The authorized capital
of the company is 100000, of which $780,
600 has been paid in. The track extensions
of this season will give employment to 8
large number of laborers and experts.
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Steam POtye3-.

The st. Paul Manufacturing company,
employing two men, furnishes 10O-horse
steam power for Blodget & Osgood, Ander-
son Il Co., 1pgam & Corlies, Minor & Co.,
and Brandhorst, Moeller & Co. John Wann
employs three men and 65-horse power en-
CINE for furnishing power to Berkey & Co.,
Granger & Hodge, and other occupants of
the Wann buildings on Fourth and Sibley
streets.
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TdDfder,niSt.

That Mr.. d. Schroeder, 12S West Third,
second story, is a skilful ta1idermist
and close student of natural
history is fact evident to all visitors to his
museum, where he exhibits all varieties of
animals and birds of the Northwest and
many rare specimens from other lands, all
finely preserved and 30 ife-like in their
mounting that the resemblance to life is in
some instsnc startling.
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The "Globe" Establishment.

The st. Paul GLOBE, Daily, Weekly ani
Sunday, was started on the 18th of January
1873. There being but one morning papel
in Minnesota when the GLOBE was issued
the field was large one, and the rapid
growth of the GLOBE and its business gives
evidence of the greatness of the country
tributary to st. Paul. The GLOBE intro
duced many novelties in Minnesota journal
ism, one of which was the publication of 6
paper every day in the year, including Sun.
days and holidays. AS consequence, nc
day has passed since Jan. 18th, 1878. with.
out revolution of the GLOBE upon its axis
Having the full associated press privileges
and making free use of the telegraph fol
specials" having an active, energetic and
able editorial and reportorial staff, the
GLOBE can challenge comparison as a news
paper, with any publication in a city OF
10000 population in the country. This
comparison it invites as the best criterion OF
its merits.
The st. Paul Newspaper Union, which has
the same proprietorship as the GLOBE, ia
practically conducted as an independent e.
Enlistment. The business of the News
paper Union is to supply ready
printed sheets to country newspapers.
That ;s, one side of paper is printed in
St. Paul, the sheets shipped by express, and
the other side is printed at the Office of pub
LEGATION. AS the st. Paul publisher obtains
advertising to be inserted in the sheets be
prints, he is enabled to supply the country
publisher with sheets, one-half printed, at q
trifiing advance above the cost of the white
paper. In fact, scarcely any advance above
the cost to the country publisher if be
should buy it from the paper dealer in
weekly allowances, as he does in purchasing
his partly printed sheets. This business was
commenced with single paper published
at Fergus Falls) in 1878, but can scarcely be
said to have been established until 1874.
There are now over one hundred papers
printed weekly at st. Paul and sent to points
in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Dakota Ter
ritory and Manitoba. Two papers are sup
piled in the Black Hills.
The business of the GLOBE and the News
paper Union became so great that
last September a stereotype foundry
was added to facilitate the work. This
foundry has proved 80 useful that even by
doubling the original working force it Is
scarcely possible to keep up with the work
necessary to be done. The foundry is run
by steam power and has all of the latest and
most improved machinery and is well
equipped with skillful workmen.
The GLOBE establishment embracing these
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Industrial EmDlovu.ents.

Industrial EmDlOynsehts.
The twenty-six barber shops in the city
run seventy-nine chairs and employ at thii
time eighty-seven persons.
The six principal laundries in the city EN-
ploy seventy seven persons. Seven of these
are Chinese. One, the Minnesota Steam
laundry, uses horse power steam and en-
ploys fifteen hands. Albertson Bros. &C. o
D. laundry employ twenty-nine bands
Briggs & Merrill Troy laundry employ
twenty-five to thirty hands.
The three express companies, American
United States and Northern Pacific, have
sixty-six men on their st. Paul pay rolls.
The clerks, statesmen, porters, ETC., en-
pIoyed in the Offices, stores and shops may
be estimated at $500.
The fifteen wood yards in the city have
employed through the winter an average OF
eighty-three men and 4O-horse steam power.
In the summer their city working force is re-
duced to about twenty-five men,.
The two ice companies employ regularly
twenty five men and thirteen teams and have
had eighty-five extra men at work during the
ice-cutting season.
There are fifty-fv hackmen and draymen
licensed by the city.
The water company employs about thirty
men.
Street graders, sewer contractors and rail
road graders employ about 300 men includ-
ing thirty to forty stone and brick masons.
The Northwestern Telegraph company has
fourteen operators, two clerks and four
messengers, and five persons are employed
by the Telephone Exchange.
There are six licensed recti6ers in the city,
to-wit: George Benz, SO West Third, P. ].
Bowlin, 10 SibIey, Haggenmiller g. Kuhle,
173 West Third, Adam Heck, 20 and %
jackson, Perkins, Lyons & Co., 96 East
Third, and Frederick Richter, 90 East
Third.
The police and fire department, and city,
county, State and United States civil and
military officials in the city number about
It's persons.
The hotel and boarding house employees
number about 80 persons.
The street railway company employs
twenty five persons.
The clergmen, lawyers, teachers, must
clans, agents, ETC., number altogether not
less than $40 persons.