St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-09
JOYOUS JOBBERS
They Continue Their Trip
Through Mime
sofa.
Fergus Falls Welcomes them
With Open Arms,
And Other Towns Along the Route
Bid Them Hail.
FIFTH DAY.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l
THE RFCFpTIOV At NOORHEAD.

ALEAANDhlA, Alinu' aug. nv JObOSiS
slept at Moorhcad, and arose under the
brightest of Minnesota suns to begin another
day of iourneying, the terminal point being
Alexandria After we'll served breakfast at
the Grand Pacific, several Moorhead gentle
men arrived with their carriages and those
who wished were given short drives about
the town. A little before 10 O'Clock the Glee
club, with many gentlemen and ladies, as
sembled in the hotel parlors, where num-
Der of songs were rendered and instrum entail
pieces by Prof. Titcomb. Two or three hun
dred citizens assembled to bid the jobbers
adieu. Then the usual salvo Of cheers as the
train pulled out, and the mayor called for
cheers for George Il. Finch, and their re-
echoes were the jobbers' farewell at Moor
held.
Moorhead contains 5000 population, and
is surrounded by rich farming country. 1t
is located on the east bank Of the Red river,
where the st. Paul, Minneapolis d Manitoba
and Northern Pacific railways cross, and is
twenty miles west of the Park region, from
which it is provided with fuel and lumber at
low prices. The Red river is navigable from
Moorhead north TO Lake Winnipeg, three
steamers and twelve barges plying regularly
during the season between these points.
Light draught boats can ascend the river
from Moorhead to Fort Abercrombie about
100 miles. All of the prominent religious
denominations have buildings here,
some Of them being very fine
and costly. Its educational institutions are
surpassed by none. The handsome high
school house cost S15. 900 and accommodates
800 pupils, graded classes. The Bishop
Whipple Episcopal school cost $4,000, is a
large, handsome four story building and has
a capacity for 100 boys with instructors and
servants. The Catholic school under the
charge Of the Sisters Of st. Benedict has
100 pupils. The county buildings are ele
CANT and costly, and there is an ornamental
city hall and fire engine house which cost
So, 800. The Belle of Moorhead Touring
mills with the Hungarian roller system, pro-
duces $50 barrels OF the choicest -four per day,
and there are two elevators with combined
head Foundry, Car and Agricultural works,
casts and manufactures car wheels,
agricultural machinery, stoves, building col
umns and great variety of other articles.
The building is 400x150 feet, and will en-
ploy 25O hands. 1t has two cupolas, each of
which will melt 40, 900 pounds of iron at a
single heat. Moorhead has two planning
mills, wagon factory and machine shops, and
there are seventy-three places of business
besides hotels and manufactures. The hotels
are numerous, and some of them are very
fine and costly buildings. The Grand Pacinc
is a magnificent structure 155X140 feet, with
wing 35X50, all three stories. 1t cost $780,
600 and is in Queen Anne style. 1t is very
ornamental in design and is furnished as
elegantly as the best hotels in the east.
There are $40 rooms, all heated by steam
and lighted by gas, the electric light illumi-
mating the vestibules and halls. The Jay
Cooke house, an excellent and spacious brick
hotel, is adjacent. There are six smaller
hotels at lower rates. The First National
bank has a capital of $50, 0O0 and the
Merchants bank a capital of 500, 900;
deposits $4,000. There is q chamber of
commerce located here, and it Is a live insti-
tuition. The Van de Poole system of electric
lighting is IN successful operation, and there
is au admirable system of water works, an
efficient fire department and an excellent
the handsomest in the northwest.
AT GAINESVILLE.
The next town on the route was Barnes
vile, which is five years old, and contains
COO population, consisting of Americans,
Germans, Scandinavians and Irish. Sew
ernl churches are well represented here, and
there is school house which cost 50, 900.
There is an elevator with a capacity of co.
600 bushels, several general stores, drug
store, hardware store, two hotels and some
half dozen saloons. This is the junction of
the Manitoba lines.
AT RoTHsTAY
There was demonstration by the people,
and an exhibit OF vegetables and multitude
OF flowers. Rothstay is thriving young city
with a population of 1000. 1t is in the
center OF Il rolling prairie, which is very pro-
ductive, and plenty of timber can be found
within eight miles. There is school house
which cost $1,000; two elevators, capacity
10000 bushels; several general stores,
hardware store lumber yard, harness shop,
etc, aud one hotel. This is one of the best
wheat stations on the line.
At FERGUS FALLS.
Fergus Falls was reached ut 1915 and the
Jobbers were met by the committee of recep-
ton, G. T, Cowing, Il. G. Page, John Mason,
Horace Pickett, William Cowiug, George
Dodd, ii. l.. Lake, j. Austin, James Compe-
ton, c. d. Wright, Edwin Wright. J. D..
Wood. J. A. Naugle, H. S. Cole. Robert Mil
Ter. The Jobbers, thus escorted, marched TO
the Grand hotel, where the party separated
for dinner az the various hotels. The GLOBE
dincd with its old friend, Peter Glare, the
landlord of the Bells.
After dinner the visitors and citizens as
semblcd in the exchange of the Grand, when
Captain Baxter made happy address of
welcome, assuring the jobbers they would
find the people of Fergus no job lot, but all
straight goods. They were glad to welcome
the representative business men of St. Paul;
glad to have them see their homes, buildings,
mills, and understand the character of the
people their wealth and business.
President Finch, in behalf of his party,
thanked the people of Fergus for their kind
and generous reception, aud called on Gen
eral Baker to respond. He began by saving
that the iobbers had, for several DAYS. been
journeying through the alkali fields and pot
ash desert of Dakota, famished and thirsty,
but had reached the land of pure water and
could nov thoroughly irrigate their
systems, though the process might
astonish their abdominal cavities.
Many interesting and beautiful
things had been seen ON the journey, but
nothing thSt was not transcribed by the en-
crgy and enterprise of Minnesota neA and
women, fair type of which was the city of
Fergus, aud all must be proud Of its develop
meut. The general depressed to speak of
agriculture, depreeating too much devotion
-. Iof fha a.