Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-01

sIonlsts and business men that are going
to pour into the two cities from this on.
Our jobbing houses are already beginning
to realize that the lack of hotel accommo-
datlons in st. Paul is 60
ing to be serious detrimsnt
to the wholesale trade of the metropolis.
1t is of course too late to remedy the
evil for this season, but unless our capital
lists and business men wake up and do |
something and commence it at once so as |
to be ready in 1884, we will lose the cream |
of the trade for two years instead of one. |
The
LOCATION
is not so important as to get the enterprise
under way, dig out the foundation and build
the walls and put the house in ORDER"
ultimately get ready to care for the trav-
cling public. A hotel built on Wabashaw,
opposite the postoffice, could not fail to
be a success, or If built anywhere on
Jackson, even out TO Twelfth street, it
would still be easy of access. The Smith
park ground, if it could be utilized for
that purpose, would be an admirable loca-
tion, or it wonld do we'll if constructed on
any OF the vacant blocks between Broad
way and Sibley, Third and Seventh streets.
Indeed, Broadway is the main central
thorougfare of the city and bears the same
geographical relation to the natural trade
center of st. Paul that Broadway in New
York city bears to that great metropolis.
1t has easy grades, is wide at Third street,
left so purposely, runs practically from the
union depot and headquarters of the
Northern Pacific railroad company and
the other railroad headquarters, straight
out into the country, passing
by the Rice purchase, on
which the coming great union passenger
and freight depots are to be constructed
and the car and machine shops. Indeed,
within five years it is not impossible that
it will have the longest stretch of heavy
and continuous business of any one street
in the city. These are considerations that
should have some weight in determining
the location Of the new hotel and the
chamber of commerce and other
buildings of a public character.
1t is, however, not so important ochere it
is built as that it is built, and those who
furnish the capital to 60 into 80 important
an enterprise will doubtless weigh we'll the
location. st. Paul is just emerging from
infancy and the chance development that
has concentrated the heavy jobbing bust
ness between Fifth and Third streets and
between Wacouta and Jackson, and which
has thrown the retail business almost ex-
clusively on Third street west of Jackson
is not likely to continue. Indeed, Seventh
street is already mounting up into i'm
portance as the great retail
artery, and the day is not
far distant when it will take the lead and
have the preference over all other streets
as the great throbbing artery, pulsating
with vast traffic that will occupy every
foot of frontage from the Harvester works
to the Seven corners. In New York city,
within a period of fifty years, there have
been wonderful jumps of business, shifting
from one locality to another, and it has
been so, more or less, in nearly every great
commercial emporium. In st. Paul the
heavy business cannot Jump" outside the
bluffs very well, because it is circumscribed
by defined physical boundaries, but it can
easily shift from Third to Seventh or from
Jackson to Broadway. That is, the center
of greatest activity may change within
the prescribed limits. He who is sagacious
enough to see where these changes are
likely to occur and anticipate them by
! judicious investments and improvements
will reap the largest and quickest harvest
of profits. A new hotel would be a ''bo-
nanza' richer than Lake Superior silver
or copper mine, ana paying ore'' would
be struck nearer the surface, and,
in fact, at the very entrance
| of the shaft. There is
''body of ore" In sight and son the dump"
that will pay for the entire outfit, shaft
house, reduction machinery and oil, so as
to make paying stock equal in value to
Calumet and Heckla. Who is the fortu-
nate ''Mackey" that will get hold of this
enterprise son bed rock'' basis and make
his everlasting fortune? We wait (but not
PATIENTLY for an answer. Mention has
already been made of different capitalists
who are supposed to contemplate some
thing in the nature of a large hotel but we
believe no man has yet authorized the an
nouncement that he would build ''The Big
Hotel' which st. Paul wants, must haze and
aUiu hare at no distant day.
CROWDS COMING.
To demonstrate the absolute necessity
of a new hotel, it is only necessary to
state few facts. The Chicago, Milwaukee
d st. Paul railway, during one day last
week, carried 900 passengers to st. Paul.
The Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha
in one day had 800 coaches loaded with
emigrants on their tracks, scattered be-
tween Chicago and ISt. Paul, all des-
tined for the Northwest, and the season of
immigration and travel has not yet set in,
but may be said to be commencing.
THE NEW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. BUILDING
seems to progress slowly though it can be
counted upon as an assured fact. One
will be built and must be built somewhere
and it is like new hotel, it can make its
surroundings. There are many corners
that would answer we'll for such a struct-
ure. Any one of the corners of Fourth
from Sibley to Cedar would answer ad-
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