St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-19

to be had. Lumber was delivered all day
and every one who could handle a saw and
hammer was pressed into the service to con
struct their temporary buildings.
Among those who have their buildings
under way on the Square are G.. H. Fair
banks, II. L. Ticknor & Co., Hammons
Bros, (attorneys), Il s. Plummer.
Weitzell & Greenwald, flour and feed deal
ers, opened business at their old stand.
They saved their sign, and mailing it to the
mast and placing their scales in the street,
they spread a tentand began business.
A. R Toby is also building temporary quar-
tiers. d. s. Grow and Olaf Norrcll, P. B.
Morse and j. NJ Baker are building near
their former places of business. w. D.
Washhurn's men were constructing tempo
rary Office near the site of the old office. DR..
Sherman and Thornton and Sparks are build
ing temporary offices on Second avenue.
The action taken by the city council in es-
tabiishing fire limit meets the hearty APP
proval of the large majority of the business
men of the city, as one would naturally sup
pose, and the determination to rebuild in
substantial and fire proof manner was heard
on every hand.
Particularly fortunate is it at this time that
about 800, GEO Anoka pressed brick are ready
for use in rebuilding the city. Some months
since company called the Anoka Pressed
Brick and Terra Gotta company was organ
iZed with a cash capital of $50, 900, and
with the following officers: j. A. Boyd,
president; Dr. d. c. Durham, Secretary :;
II. 5. Sparks, treasurer, and ?. B. Brough-
ton, manager Their capacity is 10000 per
day, and they have just burned the first kiln.
Samples of these brick look smooth and fine,
an q weigh five and one-half pounds each.
They are Of excellent quality and it is
claimed are made of a clay very nearly test
fire clay. They have the best machinery in
use and make dry pressed brick.
AS before stated the reaction has all ready
set in and the business men of Anoka are
themselves again. Every facility in the
world will be extended to them and many of
them viii be in fine new brick buildings be-
fore cold weather comes on.
The great question which seems
to affect the future of
Anoka-will Washburn rebuild the big mill!
No one seems able to answer
While it was in existence its true bearing
upon the business interests OF the city was
not fully comprehended by some at least.
Capable of manufacturing about 4, 600 bush
els per day Mr.. Washburn had adopted the
liberal and praisworthy policy of paying
Minneapolis prices at the mill. This brought
wheat from a long distance and gave to the
Anoka merchants scope Of trade which they
otherwise never could have had.
The extreme low price Of wheat the enor
nous surplus in our own country and the
prospect of a very light foreign demand
does not look very favorable for the milling
interests, and grave doubts are felt about tie
IL. &c h,
other buildings connected with the Washburn
Mill company will without doubt be rapidly
rebuilt. Should the liberal offer OF a ten
years exemption from taxation be accepted
and work begun upon its reconstruction,
there will be a wonderful amount of enthusi-
asm about this rebuilding OF city.
And now word about the origin of the fire
and the scenes during its progress. Whether
plumber or revenge was the elementary de-
sign of the miscreants who destroyed the city,
the former seems to have become the chief
end of a great many people before the day
dawned. While but little was really saved
out of the enormous mass Of goods which the
city contained owing to the lack of means of
removing it to place Of safety, much, very
much of what was saved from the devOuring
element fell into the remorseless clutches OF
IL
of humanity than is conducive to good
morals or a desirable state of society and
whose residence in Anoka will, if discovered
be made uncomfortable 1t seems to be the
settled con viction of many of the best men
in the city that desire for plumber prompted
the hellish deed which has devastated their
city.
In this connection it might be well to state
til 70,
tive of the GLOBE to discover how
much of the nicely spun revenge theory
of the irresponsible Minneapolis newspaper
printed on Minnesota street, st. Paul, ex-
listed in point of fact. Upon the arrival OF
the train at Anoka, the infamous course of
the above named concern in giving to the
public so-called scandal, which had not the
slightest existence in point of fact
was investigated. Interviews were
had with a large number of the
best and most reliable business men of
Anoka who, one and all, responded that they
first time through the columns OF
the paper alluded to or from
their interlocutor Meeting Mr.. Nice Van
de Velde he was questioned concerning the
rink trouble of last winter, and replied that
to him early in April and objected to the
presence of several women who frequented
the roller rink and who informed him that
unless they were excluded respectable
ladies mnst cease to patronize it. There
upon he instructed his manager to write
each of the Objectionable females q
polite note requesting them moi
to frequent the rink in the future This was
IL al g. al M ei,
gle individual, either male or female, was
ever at any time elected from the rink nor
had he been since then the victim of CON
slant reminder of any ones emnity He
branded the statement of the p. r. that q
certain circular derrogatory to his wife's
character had been printed and circulated as
an unqualified fasehood. He had never
seen one of them nor heard of it until
he read it in the paper alluded to art
the most careful enquiries among his friend;
failed to discover an instance to the con
trary He felt keeuly the conduct Of the ir
responsible paper that had first given it brit
and requested that his denial of the VIII olt
matter be made in the most explicit and un.
mistalable language. Mrs. Van de Felder, q
bright, viyacious little lady, and the mother
! of pretty little two year old daughter, was
called upon and found at the family resi-
! dence, some four or five block.
| from the burnt district Upo1
being presented, the conversation ther
turned upon the topic which had caused then
both far more grief than the heavy losse,
that they had sustained by reason of the fire
! She was much distressed, she said, by tht
cruel SANDER made public in such an un
warranted and malicious manner, where thu
only object apparent was the creation of
sensation. She joined with her husband il
repudiatiug the whole story, including thi
circular alluded to, as unQualifedly falst
| and untrue.
DESTROYS if possible of sitting the matte
still further, and acting upon the wish o
both the lady ana gentlemen concerned I,
interview any reputable citizen of Anoki