Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-22

prior 10 the purchase from IL. III. Robbins
had already secured 100 feet
square just east of the Robbins lots, so
they now have 100 feet front on
Broadway and 200 feet front on Fourth,
or the north half of block 60, of Kittson's
addition, and they had prior to
purchase ten acres lying along the south
side of Fourth street, almost all of which
is already covered by tracks. After using
200 feet front on Fourth by 100 feet front
on Broadway, exclusively for their new
! passenger depot, they can extend the
building indefinitely eastward along the
south side of Fourth street as far as their
convenience permits, or the demands of
business require. The road is making
herculean efforts to place itself in condi-
ton to handle the immense traffic that is
now pouring upon it from
| all quarters of the globe, and the wise
forethought displayed by the company in
securing grounds where it has absolute and
exclusive control, and where it can sepa-
rate its business from all competing
lines, shows that master minds" are sat
the fore" in that great corporation. 1t has
been somewhat Of a blow to the inflated
vanity of the telephone robber that he was
not taken into the confidence of the North
ern Pacific company and asked to advise
as to the location of its passenger depot
before the ground was selected and pur-
chased, but newspaper men who
rely on robbing the wires of
private information must expect occasion
ally to ''get left"
Mr.. Henry Willard or Vice President
Cakes or General Manager Haupt usually
know great deal more about the plans of
this great corporation than subordinate
employees and we advise the ''thief" in
stead of purloining fragments of CONVEX
| sation from the telephone wires to send
paid message to New York and make a de-
post sufficient to cover an answer and he
may get authentic particulars about the
plans of this great corporation, equal to
the news Published exclusively by the
GLOBE.
Since the fellow ''gave himself away" by
exhibiting his ''stolen property" Dennis
Ryan and P. II. Kelly and number of
the leading business firms in the city have
declined to use the telephone until assured
! that the "Press Office WIRE has been
grounded.
THE NEW HOTEL
becomes more and more of a necessity,
day by day. The mail is full of letters of
inquiry from all parts of the world, asking
as to accommodations here, and numerous
excursions are planning ell over the coun-
try to take in the Northwest. The Ma
tienal park parties that are making up,
want to arrange for their hotel aocommo-
dations in advance, and thousands of
summer tourists lay out every days
stopping place before they leave home.
This is done on the same plan as the Euro
pean tourist companies. If st. Paul had
a magnificent hotel ready to open July 1,
it would get the bulk of all this summer
excursion business and so it would next
year, but every days delay puts the COM
pletion and opening of such hotel far
Their and farther off. If anything is
going to be done this year not an hour
should be lost.
THE TRANSFERS
of city property for the past week do
not show very marked increase over pre-
ceding weeks, but they show a strong
healthy market, free from excitement and
speculation, and of such character as to
elicit the confidence of careful, prudent
men. number of buyers from towns in
tho interior of the state have been here
operating during the week, and great
many gentlemen from the Fest. They
generally express surprise at the modera-
ton of prices when they witness the evil
dences of prosperity on every hand.
THE SUMMIT AVENUE PROJECT
is to straighten that avenue out until it in
tersects the bank of the Mississippi river
and thence follow along the bank to
Minneapolis, giving lovely view of the
river, the broken water below the Falls IF
St. Anthony and the falls themselves.
This project would not be complete with
out the avenue was extended back from
where it intersects the river down along
the bank to the end of the bridge leading
over to Fort Smelling. That would make
one of the most lovely drives
in the country. If such an avenue
was laid out, graded and surfaced, with
boulevards and shade trees skirting each
side, it would soon become more famous
than Euclid avenue in Cleveland or the
Shell road at New Orleans. It is to be
hoped that the public spirited men who
have initiated this enterprise will not give
it up till it has become an accomplished
fact.
CHANCE FOB MECHANICS.
At a meeting of the board of directors of
the st. Paul real estate syndicate the fol-
lowing resolution was passed:
RESOLVED, That the president is here
by authorized to sell lot 3, Syndicate ad-
| dition No. 8, to mechanics and others at
the schedule price adopted July %, 1882,
on the monthly payment plan, terms $40
Per month, and Interest per cent. pro-
| vided however, that each deed shall con-
tain clause requiring the purchaser to
erect a building in year from the date of
the deed.
THE SYNDICATE PROPERTY.
During the last week the Syndicate
| property has been placed Oh the market,