St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-06-18
their esteemed guests and feel the grasp of
their hands without knowing how grateful we

tnelr nanQS Without knowing now grateful we
feel for the opportunity of this hour. Zap
plause. To show you one sample of the
benefit of our trip, may refer to friend of
ours, who though small in size, young in years
and green in experience, was actually taken
for Vanderbilt. But all this pleasantly aside,
we hope the people of Sioux Falls will invite
us frequently. Our appetites are good and
we shall be glad to come. [Applause.l We
have looked you over to-day with pleasure
and from the impression received, it needs
no prophetic ken to realize that if
not in our day our children may see upon
Dakota soil a population OF 20, 600, 900 honest
people. In consequence of the progress we
see already made here you are marked up
higher in our books, your credit is good in
st. Paul, and we hope you will use it un
limitedly. We shall be pleased to see you at
our homes, to have you come to our ware
houses, for we know you are men of grasp
and vigor and integrity, and the ladies OF
Sioux Falls are patterns of beauty, grace and
loveliness, whose growth in culture and
refinement keeps pace with the
numerical relation they hold to the
community and in conclusion in behalf
of 'sThe Jobbers' Union,' of st. Paul,
we thank you most heartily for the reception
given us this day, and as for US and our
house we are determined this is not the last
time we shall take you by the hand and look
into your faces. The memory of this time
will be ever present, and we shall be at all
times pleased to meet you I thank you for
your attention, Applause
JUDGE CHANDLER.
Judge Chandler was called out, and said
that when he left st. Paul this morning he
was not aware that so much greatness was to
be thrust upon him, but he supposed he must
be the only original Vanderbilt, worth two
hundred million in his own right, but if he
did not happen to have that amount by him
when he started bank, the st. Paul Jobbers
would deposit with his bank and he would get
it. But after all he WIS not jobber or
bank president, or even that necessary evil,
newspaper man, but belonged
to more useful class. He
was railroad man. (Cheers.)
He did not know what the St. Paul iobbers
wanted of him unless it be to get their freight
for nothing and free passes becouse they got
it. He said he took Greeleys advice before
Greeley ever gave it, and came west in 1851
when st. Paul had only ten or twelve hun
dred population, and there were only two or
three houses at st. Anthony, though there
was now in that neighborhood a village of
which st. Paul was quite proud He attribut-
ed the solid growth of St. Paul with its hun
dred thousand Inhabitants to the railroad.
To-day, he said was the first time he had
been beyond Mankato, and it had been
the pleasantest days journeying of his life.
To the elegant response of Mr.. Scheffer to
the welcome of the mayor of Sioux Falls he
could add nothing, but whenever it might be
his opportunity he should be happy to ad-
vance the credit of the people of this beauti-
full city at st. Paul. [Applause.
Col. j. Fl. Drake, of st. Paul, and Hon. J.
F. Meagher, of Mankato, were both called
upon, but did not respond.
W. B. DEAN.
W. B. Dean, of ST. Paul, was next called
out and said that he wanted to second what
Mr.. Scheffer had said of the welcome and
reception which they had received on the
part of the jobbers' union. The great Clue
Grass region" through which they had
passed was a splendid region. 1t was not a
new region. They had known of it for a
long time through their travelling men who
had been going up and down it for years.
The merchants and business men of this sec
ton had been known to them for years, and
they were glad to meet them now and shake
them by the hand.
| BOARD OF TRADE WELCOME.
Major E. G. Smith, president of the Sioux
Falls board of trade, in whose behalf he well
coined the visitors, recalled some reminis-
cences of his life in st. Paul in 1851
when he was resident there,
and compared its growth to city of 100, 600
people, to the wonderful growth of some of
the members of ''The Jobbers' Union,'' who
were then very small dealers. In conclu-
sion, he expected that in twenty years or
more Sioux Falls weuld be what st. Paul now
was, city of 100000 people. He would
again say welcome, thrice welcome, to the
: guests of the evening to Sioux Falls.
CAPT. HART.
Capt. R. II. Hart, of Sioux Falls, was next
called out He had come to Sioux Falls in
1881, when the town was paralyzed by a
great flood and he saw little when he left it
then to warrant a promise of it's brilliant
present. 1t was thriving, vigorous, grow
ing city, surrounded by the finest soil in the
world, having the best quarries in the world
and grand water power. Twenty years
hence it would show the same marvellous
growth that it did now.
T. W. swEssEY.
7. w. Swessey, of Sioux Falls, knew
many of the business men of st. Paul St.
Paul bore the same relation to Sioux Falls
that the mother did to the child. ST. Paul
had given them their first railroad, had
given them the Queen Bee mill. had de-
veloped tn cir quarries and had for years sup
piled them with the common necessaries of
life
OTHER SPEECHES.
He was followed by E. W. Caldwell, of the
Sioux Falls Press, who brought down the
house in a very luminous speech.
Hon. W. W. Brockens welcomed the
guests to Sioux Falls. He supposed they
came on business as well as pleasure He
would say something of the resources of
southern Dakota. 1t consisted in her won
derful soil. A potatoe raised here contained
just twice as much starch as one grown on
the Atlantic seaboard. The grass was twice
as good as those grown in moist climate.
The farmers were beginning to learn how
to farm, and were diversifying their farm
ing. She had developed her 1000 miles of
railroad without government aid while north
ern Dakota had been literally dealt with.
Remarks were further made by A. S. Tall
madge and G. II. Lienau, of st. Paul. and
A. Frezzel and E. g. Wright, of Sioux Falls
From beginning to end the meeting was a
round of rattling humor, and at its close the
guests of the city were enjoined to breakfast
early and accept the escort of the committee
of Sioux Falls merchants to visit the island.
the Queen Bee mills. the great quarry and
other points of interest.
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