Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-29

river, and the streets running parallel
with the Mississippi belong exclusively to
business purposes. Above these begins
the ever-growing area devoted to resi-
dences, churches and schools. The capitol,
the seat of government of the state of
Minnesota, with its dome indicates the i'm
aginary center of st. Paul, and will in
the near future be the actual center.
That the streets are straight, that
they intersect each other at right angles,
that they are Systematically named, those
parallel with the river bearing numbered
and the cross streets being the names of
distinguished men, is here only in keeping
with other cities. The frame building has
disappeared from the river portion Of the
city and with the growth of the place the
style of archi lecture has altered. Five
stories or more in height rise the business
| houses built of granite, simple but attrac-
| tive. Block follows block, but granite no
| no longer serves the purpose, and sand
stone is the material with which the newer
edifces are built. For IN st. Paul there is
universal hope and expectation of still
| further development. The city has ex-
cellent railroad connections. Upwards
of hundred and fifty trains come and go
daily. The older lines connect the city
| with the east the lakes are reached by
variety of routes, and the south also.
| The Northern Pacific railroad stretches
| from st. Paul all the way to the Pacific
ocean.
THE TRADE OF ST. PAUL.
|
poriums, New York at the head,
then Chicago, st. Louis, etc.,
is of twofold character; to
secure the supplies of groceries and in
| dustrial products required for distribution
through the extensive region dependent
upon it, and also to make itself the col
lecting point for the leading products of
the tributary country, which in this north
| ern latitude are wheat and cattle. There
is great competition in this struggle for
| predominauce, but the steady growth of
| the city's population and prosperity at
| tests to the substantial basis of its COM
mercial enterprise. ST. Paul,
| and to certain extent
also, the neighboring city of Minneapolis,
whose great significance moreover lies in
the milling and lumber interests, control
the north and the northwest to such de-
gree that Chicago and even New York can
not compete with them. These lofty, wide
| and deep storehouses which make up the
business section of st. Paul contain in rich
variety everything that man requires for
home use, for clothing or as food. AS
rule the business houses here do not con-
fine themselves to special branches of
trade. The dry goods houses for instance
carry sticks of cloth and also of ready
made clothing. The aggregate contents
of PTS stores, with 1864 employees, figure
up valuation of sixty-six and two-thirds
millions of dollars.
THE MANUFACTURERS OF ST. PAUL.
Together with trade there has grown up
in st. Paul noteworthy manufacturing
industry which gives employment to over
$4,000 persons. The leading manufactures
are those of mill machinery, wooden ware,
machine shops and many others. The
value of articles manufactured here annu-
ally is officially reported at twenty-five
million dollars. Several banks
among them one German American-as-
sist in sustaining this trade. The
opening of the Northern Pacific railroad
whose management is lodged in hand
some new building in ST. Paul, has, as al
ready been remarked, excited the most
brilliant expectations, and IN fact since
that mighty scheme has been accomplish
ed there is no ground for doubling that
such anticipations will be fully realized
Numerous branch roads, built by the
Iranscontinental company, which is also
under the Willard management, by their
connections with the Northern Pacific
render practicable the rapid development
of the soil whose products must seek
transportation over the main line, and st.
Paul hopes to control permanently all that
territory. The mercantile interest of st.
Paul is already glancIng towards the Pa
cific ocean, in the hope that not only will
portion of Americas commerce with
Eastern Asia find its way through to st.
Paul over the Northern Pacific road but
also that the United States will succeed in
sharing to some extent with England in
her enormous export trade to China,
Japan and India.
But st. Paul can boast that she is not
solely interested in the development of
material interests. Her public schools
are highly praised, eight thousand children
httebulDS inein, new 5Lato capitol IS lust
completed and new court house and city
hall, rs well as theatre, are in progress
of construction. The surroundings of the
city are lovely and will, II time, be we'll
supplied with parks and pleasure grounds.
RURAL BEAUTIES OF ST. PAUL.
The rural beauties of st. Paul lie on the
banks of its majestic river and the
streets which lead thither from the
city are lined with large number
of handsome country seats, surrounded
by we'll tended, shady gardens. Frame
buildings are more numerous in these To-
calities, though they are not the exclusive
| rule, and one learns here to abandon his
prejudices against them. By means of
double walls and careful closing of all un-
necessary apertures, these houses defy the
cold, even the bitter cold of Minnesota
winters, and likewise keep out the summer
hest, while the material of which they are
constructed is, of course, much more read
lily operated than stone. Upon the heights
the prosperous German citizens also have
their residences, which are adorned
with many remembrances of their