Daily globe., 1883-05-13
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.

residence.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
At this season of the year it is always
expected that there will be more or less
public Improvements in a city like st.
Paul. The people of this city have occa-
sion to know that in the matter of public
improvements st. Paul takes second posi-
tion to no city in the world of her size.
Too many of her people have received
from the city treasurer invitations to call
at his Office and pay their assessments. The
popularity of an assessment is it leaves a
kind of scar behind, which always remains
as kind of unpleasant reminder of dis
agreeable episode in ones existence. It is
like boil or felon, painful and dis
agreeable while ripening, and when cured,
cured only in way to leave disfgure-
ment that is an unpleasant reminder. But
as boils and felons are natural and neces-
sary to growing human beings, so are as
sessments, TO growing, thriving city, like
st. Paul. They come like the gentle show
ers from heaven, upon the just and unjust
all over the city and they cause everybody
to squirm. Over public thoroughfares in
all parts of the city, are being torn up for
sewers, or water, or gas. The street rail
way also takes hand in the general ripp-
ing and tearing; and the street paving which
has seized hold of the minds of our people is
also causing the citizens to vince, especially
as with granite curbing it costs over $12
per front foot, or over Sc per front foot on
each side. At the present time the city
of st. Paul is engaged in an immense
amount of public improvements, all Of
which will be benefit to thecommunity.
FAIRCHILD & DAVIDSON
settled down to business in their new quar-
ters, 334 jackson street, last Monday
morning. Their Office has been hand
somely frescoed and vanished till it looks
''as neat as new pin," and their friends
and customers have given them benefit,
which lasted an entire week. They have
made more sales during the week than
they have ever made before in the same
length of time. Their off ce has presented
the appearance of an animated Chicago
board of trade meeting almost every day,
and one set of purchasers who are look
ing for property at their boards only
gives way to another, so that their Office has
become headquarters for large real estate
dealers and spectators. 1t is par excel
lence the Real Estate exchange of the
city. They have during the past week
made the following sales, viz: Lot II,
block 3, Stinson's subdivision; lots Is and
10. Weed & Willius' rearrangement of
block %, Woodland Park; lots 1, 2, and
4, block Is, Robert & Randall's addition;
lots 10, 16, II and Is, brakes rearrange-
ment of block IL, McLean's reservation;
three lots on Marshall avenue; lots 2, 3,
4, 5 and 6, block 4, Edwin Deans second
addition; lot 2, block 6, Irvine's second ad-
dition; lots Z, 8 and 8, block 2, Holcomb's
addition; and resold Immediately lot 81,
Whitaker, Brisbin & Mullen's subdivision
of Leech's outlots; lot 43, block 16,
Smiths subdivision of Stinson's
addition; lot 90, block 8, Summit Park
addition to st. Paul; sixteen lots in block
6, Edwin Deans second addition.
tI A FINE NURSERY.
DR.. Bryant is having his hands full in
supplying people all around the country
with trees and shrubs from his splendid
nursery. This celebrated nursery has
been heretofore described. The DR.. has
furnished nearly all the school buildings
of st. Paul with trees for their yards and
will supply more. One nurseryman takes
several hundred dollars worth.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The walls for the new opera house are
going up as rapidly as men can crowd the
work.
Summit aHanua ont haunnd the Wnnrn