Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-15

by the surprising changes. The swamp
had engulfed the stock yards and the
railroads had completely metamorphose6
the swamp and bewilder1ng network of
steel rails and railroad buildings covered
the acres and acres of puddles which nc
sane Speculation in real estate four years
ago would touch at any price. Again
reverting to the depot it cannot
be too prominently pointed out
that the visitor to the city is ushered al
once into the midst of Observation-Disclosures
which has the appearance of the solidity OF
Ward street and Lombard of the great
London and the battery excitement and
| activity of Chespside and the Strand. In
Chicago the depots discharge their great
stream of travellers upon streets of
| shanties and saloons; those of New York are
but little better while those of London and
Liverpool for the most part open upon
streets of retail shops or huge storehouses
of cotton and corn-unsightly, gloomy
prison like edifces covered with CRIME
and dust, but st. Paul shows at once
upon entering the city by the cars her mag
n1tlcent display of business palaces. This
cannot but impress the visitor most
favorably.
VIEW FROM THE DOME.
But it is not only in her wholesale houses
that st. Paul has improved, but in her
ordinary retail stores, her streets and side
walks, her private residences; and to what
an Incredible degree she has extended her
territory. To get an approximate idea
of the latter, one has only to ascend to
the dome of the new capitol and
look out to the four quarters of the COM
pass. st. Anthony hill, four years ago a
rural retreat; Dayton's bluff, the Sixth
ward, and the surrounding bluffs, all now
completely covered with buildings, while
far beyond, as far as the eye can reach, in
every direction, residences, factories, ele-
vators are scattered about profusely. Per
haps there is nothing, next to the improve
ments around the depot, Third, Sibley,
Fourth, Fifth, Jackson and Seventh streets
which strikes stranger more and shows
to what an extent St. Paul and st. Paul
interests have grown in the little space of
four years than the stock yards and trans
fer buildings beyond Midway, and the
amazing amount of business there trans
dCIcu-tHo uoLWOrh VI CallS, In0 crown OF
freight cars, and the scores of clerks bust
ly engaged at the desks.
One other, the last but not by any means
the least improvement which strikes a
stranger of four years is the marked
advance in the newspaper press.
This improvement is both mechanical and
literary, and is not confined to one paper,
but is apparent in all the dailies, the
GLOBE, of course, taking the lead, the
Pioneer Press, and even the little Dispatch,
and there is another, very handsomely
got up weekly which did not exist four
years ago-At Home And now st. Paul
can boast of a newspaper press not sur
passed, and it is doubtful if it is equaled,
by any city of twice its population. All
these things speak of a progress most
astonishing, because so rapid. They are,
however, no mushroom growth with fungus
life, but solid, permanent. Nor does it
seem that this wonderfully rapid develop
ment is a mere squirt like the growth of a
weakly child, who takes a start and runs
away to slim sickness, but it is the rapid
and sturdy development of giant, whose
stature and gerth it would be folly to
predict.
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