St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-07
Our Greatest ThorQughfare Will
Bear Favorable Comparison
With Any Metropoli-
tan Avenue in the
Country.
4 Globe Reporters Walk Among
the Business Men Upon the
Street and What Was
Ascertained.
Confident Feeling that Largely Increased
Volume of Trade viii Be Placed
On Third Street this Fall.

No city in the United States within our
knowledge possesses depot located so i'm
mediately adjacent to solid and grand bust
ness palaces as our own Union depot. The
stranger in reaching our gates is ushered at
once onto one of the finest and most impos-
ing thoroughfares in all the city-a long pro-
lection of massive buildings stretch away up
a gentle incline into the distance and in
spite of himself the observer is charmed at
once and his senses held captive. This
fine old street can be a matter OF
especial pride to all our citizens, when it is
known that here occurs the most important
transactions of the city's traffic that this is the
Rialto of trade, that here the bargains are
made which gives life and activity to our
commerce then the feeling steals over US how
mighty, how majestic are the influences of
our modern commercial world on the lives
and happiness of US all. Third street is one
of our oldest avenues; it has always been
under the city's particular care and watchful-
ness, but the last permanent improvement
in paving and tagging has left nothing fur
Their to be desired; property is held very high
here on the intrinsic merits Of its real value
in fact very little if any is on the market for
sale. 1t being very valuable retail site
rents are high also with no empty store
rooms, and very few offices unoccupied, in
reality it is a veritabe hive of business with
very little room for many others; this is
what gives it the metropolitan air
which is remarked by all. In interviews
with quite number of prominent merchants
we gather that the entire business communi-
ty on the street look forward to brisk, ac-
tive and profitable trade during the fall and
winter months in all lines of trade-one
merchant gleefully told us that from present
indications his trade would exceed any for
mer years by large majority to use his
own words. A great proportion of the en-
tire retail trade of the city is transacted on
this street, and present occupants of stores
and offices are very tenacious of their leases
and regard them as among the most valuable
items in their stock in trade. There are
millions of banking capital on the avenue.
1t is the center of real estate and insurance
interests, and at the lower end are clustered
the heaviest of our grocery jobbing houses.
Any article that ministers to necessity, COM
Tort, pleasure or luxury can be
found within its borders, and after
some years of sitting changes and removals
the gentlemen who represent her mercan
tile interests are as fine a body of affable,
honest, bright, energetic business men as
will be found in the world. In passing
along the street, during our little jaunt we
were induced to make few remarks, here
and there, concerning few of the mer-
chants and others, who are opponents or ac-
tors in their different lines of trade, believ
ing that the public and strangers especially
would then gather clear idea of the re-
sources of the thoroughfare