St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-17
CONRAD SCHMIDT.
Death of the Well Known Restaurateur
YESTERDAY.


After long and painful illness Mr.. Con-
rad Schmidt died yesterday morning about
the hour of O'Clock. He was, without ex-
ception the best known and most highly
esteemed caterer in the city. For nearly
twenty years he was in business on west
Third street, and during all that time he was
noted for being courteous to all, scrupulously
honest in all his transactions, and his place
was notable for the superior quality of the
viands dispensed, and came to be regarded
as the Delmonico's of st. Paul,
not from its superior fittings but for
the excellence and variety of the bill of fare
provided. He had no difficulty in securing
patronage, and it is significant fact that
there are at least half score of our old set
tiers and substantial business men who, be-
coming patrons of his establishment nearly
two decades ago, have remained so continu-
ously up to the present time.
Early in December Mr.. Schmidt was pros
trated by a severe cold, which settled on his
lungs. He found himself able to rise from
his couch on New Years day, and for few
hours give his friends a hearty welcome to
his annual spread of good things. For a week
thereafter he was more or less about his place
of business, when he was compelled to return
to his bed for the last time. An examina-
ton developed the fact that
cancer had developed in the esophagus,
and DR.. Stamm, his attending physician, at
once summoned council Of his fellow ply
sicians. The unanimous verdict was that
the case was hopeless; that medical or surgi-
cal shill were useless except to relieve the
sufferings of the patient Through the long
and painful ordeal Mr.. Schmidt has borne
his sufferings with great patience and COM
posture, and anticipated the result with de-
gree of equanimity seldom witnessed.
Mr.. Schmidt was born in Frankenberg
Germany, Dec. s, 1924. He emigrated to
America in 1S47, and came to Minnesota in
1865, after having worked at his
trade, that of brass fnisher and
locksmith, in New York, Cleveland and
Detroit. A pulmonary complaint
induced his migration to St. Paul, and the
climate agreed with him so well that up to
last December he was not afflicted with his
old disease. On arriving here he engaged
in the restaurant business, and, as stated, has
continued in it ever since. In 1853 he was
married in New York to Miss Josephine
Zahm, lady who has proved indeed help
meet for him. Besides Mrs, Schmidt, who
survives him, he leaves a brother in
Germany, and several more distant relatives
in this city and vicinity, who were intimate
by reason of association.
Mr.. Schmidt was known and recognized
by all classes in the city as straight
forward business man, punctual in
meeting every engagement; courteous
in his demeanor; liberal where iberality
was conducive to the general good; attentive
to the wants of his wife and his relatives-in
as nearly as it is given to men of the present
age to do so. He was member of the Ger
man society, by whom his remains will be
escorted to their last resting place.
Mr.. Schmidt leaves handsome property,
which is left almost entire to his widow, a
small bequest to his brother in Germany be-
ing the only one aside from the general ded-
ication of all his effects, real and personal, to
Mrs. Schmidt.