Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-04
FARGO.

Every special correspondent who visits this
city INDUCES In about the same amount of
gush ever it. To read their illusions one
would be led to believe that it was favored by
nature and esteemed by man above every
other spot on earth. While the GLOBE has
every reason in the world to be we'll pleased
with Fargo, and would lose no chance to
commend it to any live business man in search
OF location, still it doesn't propose to rapso-
disc In like manner to the rest of the pencil
pushers, but to dish up a little talk about
some Of the queer men and things up here.
In the first place you must know,
readers of the GLOBE, that Fargo
is always booming. There never occurs any
special boom which would distinguish one
season from another. People from all over
the world are coming here and locating con-
SANITY. The hotels are always crowded,
True, during the most Indictment portion of
the winter there is space of a few weeks du-
ration, when building is partially suspended,
only, however, to be resumed with double en-
ergy when the weather let's up little Every
one seems to have an idea that his building
must be rushed when once they begin, as if
life was too short to admit of moments de-
lay. The great cry is, GLOW are we to pc;
brck?" no adequate amount having heen
as yet supplied. Block after block, that
u
obtained, looms up shell-hke and nearly even
faced with brick, to furnish the material for
first class confiagration. This season the city
seems to he drifting northward, and from the
present outlook Broadway (Which runs due
north from the N. P. to the Manitoba depot
is to be the coming business street. The alb
surd idea that Fargo was SO low as to be liable
to inundation, as is West St. Paul, was ex-
pleaded by the freshet of this spring, when the
ali fha
down like an ayalanch. Only some of the
shanties, on the river bank, were seriously In
jured.
But to return to the subject matter of this
letter, 1.-The queer men and things at Fargo"
Major J. B. Chaplin, of the Continental, for
instance, is one of them. If you 90 to Fargo
and miss the chance of an hours chat with
him you can just calculate that you have lost
good thing. Whether it is all on account
of his eccentric character, or because he is one
of tne heaviest real estate owners and one of
the best posted men on Fargo and vicinity
would be hard to say, perhaps, but certain it
is every new conner steers for him. It is said
that recently having concluded a heavy real
estate transfer with some tenderfoot las
all new corners from the States are
called) upon being asked as to the
character of the water, the reply came brief
and terse, Il can't tell you anything about it.
III We UCCu HCiC lOI ccfcIdl years UuG i never
drank any of it," That is also one of the
queer things about Fargo; nobody has taste
for water and sample rooms flourish. The
grand city water works are very fine for all
purposes for which water can be used except
As a beverage; as such they are not first. class
success. The water obtained comes from Red
river and is locked upon with dsfavor by
Fargoites. There are many things here
to remind st. Paul man of home.
Going down Front street one can't help seeing
st. Paul house-C. A. Hallenburg, proprietor
staring him in the face from a large sign
over the walk, and sure enough within is the
redoubtable g. A., large as life and as genial
and pleasant as of yore. Although resident
here of only one year he is already ranked as
one OF the solid MIA OF the town. Further
down the same street the modest sign Of NJ.
Hector caught your correspondents attention.
This is not the man who made himself SO con-
spicuous before the walls of Troy few years
ago. (See history OF Greece.) About the only
exhibition of muscle our Hector ever makes is
in driving hoops or handling casks-he is in
the Wholesale liquor and importers trade, and
does large business.
Another feature liable to attract notice is the
coliseum" Messrs. McCaulley & Reynolds
proprietors. These gentlemen have shown no
little enterprise In securing first-class enter
tainment, and in raising the moral tone of
their theater above the average. They have
an excellent troupe of specially artists, who
vester, cOntortionist, is drawing immense
houses by his wonderful feats of skill. Miss
Jennie Leslie, IN operate selections, is also an
artist of more than average ability. AS it de-
serves, the Coliseum is well patronized.
People have speculative tendencies in Fargo
as we'll as elsewhere. Real estate commands
wonderful prices-andi is yet on the rise. How
much longer it will continue its upward rush
before the inevitable check comes can only be
imagined, but at present prices, city lots are
luxury. Fargo mud" upon which the
GLoLE once before pronounced an eulogy,is of
the same adhesive, plastic nature as OF yore,
but wise city government has caused the
building of good sidewalks everywhere to the
everlasting joy of the pedestrian. The specu-
lative tendencyi is also manifest in the immense
business done in horses and mules. No less
than six or eight large sale stables
well filed at the time, and some of them of
very large capacity, attest the truth of this.
Z. w. Mitchell has opened a sale stable
which holds 200 horses, with a large mule
yard attached, from which 720 head have been
sold already this season. Stephens & Sears
have also a stable (brlck), holding $50 head.
These gentlemen also do the principal livery
business of this city and have some fine and
speedy roadsters. N. L. Shattuck & Co.,
near the Sherman house, have a very
large stable. AS rule, the stock
shipped CUP here are of a SUI.
perior quality of work horses and mules, and
ind quick sale at fair prices. Capital is
steadily concentrating here, and joint stock
companies are quite common. A "Hal In
surance Co." aud a "Mutual Benefit Qife)
association, are among the institutions of the
city, and are reported to be in flourishng
condition. And that brings us to another
queer feature of this country, and that is its
hail. Nothing but wrought iron shutters are
proof against the ravages of the masses of ice
that come down on some warm
afternoon, without scarcely moments
warming, causing boom in the glass market.
Crops are of course very fine, but if there
should be failure OF the wheat crop from
any cause, everybody would be badly pinched
in this country. Some interesting items may
be expected before long in connection with
the new trotting park which is being prepared,
which will be duly reported.
At and Below Cost.
at Fischbein Bros, veucorners-