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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
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The railway system of the northwest, of
which St. Paul is the center, embraces Is, GIL
miles of road, Of which g, 37S are in Mime
sofa. 1t employs ca, 1913 men, 1851 Of
whom live in Minnesota, mostly in ST. Paul.
Ten trunk lines run into the city. and FIVE
more, to or from TINS place, are now build
ing, and yet five more roads are extending
their lines toward St Paul. In 1888 there
were added TO the St. Paul roads 1, 319 miles,
costing $25, $50, 50O while their local i'm
provements in 1882 cost $3.50, 600; in 1883
81, 54S, coo. Rail freights received, /, 492, $40
tons; forwarded, 79S, 597 tons. Here are
the headquarters, costing 1856, 200, exclusive
of grounds, and principal terminus Of the
Northern Pacific and most of the other roads
centering here, all of which have large shops
in this city and are eagerly grasping for more
ground for their future operations. 1t is
fairly presumed that ten years from now this
will be even a greater railroad center than
Chicago. OF the II, 900 miles added to the
railway system Of the United States in 1882,
2,4Oo belong to the St. Paul systems.
NAvIGATIoN.
The freight rates OF the roads leading to
and from st. Paul can never become oppres-
siye. The navigation of the river will al
ways act as check to high rates on railroads.
Even now it acts as great check on ates
and IS the stream is improved
and navigation increases it will prove a for
midable rival, The government is yearly
spending millions of dollars to improve the
river, and when this Is done IL will be one OF
the greatest transportation routes in the
world. Seventeen steamers made 15s trips
to and from St. Paul during the navigation
season of 1883, and carried Is, 500 tons of
freight.
WHOLESALE BUSINESS.
The wholesale business of the city has
kept pace with all other business in the
march of improvement. As st. Paul con-
tinued to grow, the wholesale business in
creased in volume until now it's sales amount
to nearly a hundred OF million dollars
q yoar Yearly sales of $1,000, 600
are now moro numerous than sales Of $780,
600 ten years ago. Merchandise, including
the product of eastern factories, can be bought
in ST. Paul as cheaply as IN Chicago, thus
saving delay and the freight from Chicago TO
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
NATHAN FORD.
Pianos and Organs.


The house Of Nsthan Ford enjoys repu-
tstion for reliability, probity and liberal
dealing well earned and well supported.
The word Of Mr.. Ford is equivalent to a
bond, and any representations made in this
house may be relied upon in every particular.
He makes tho famous ''Knabe'' pianos, his
leading instrument, and is prepared to sup
PR them in all styles, square, upright and
grand. For volume of tone, good construc-
ton, excellence of workmanship, perfection
of action and delicious quality of tone, they
are unexceHed. He also carries the popular
Hazelton, the Fischer, and the Marshall &
Wendell pianos, and the famous Clough g.
Warren reed organs for parlor or church.
Mr.. Ford's warerooms are now SO much
crowded that he Is offering special induce
ments during this month, July, to make
room for his Fall stock. Special attention is
given to filing orders by mail, and satisfac-
ton is guaranteed or the goods may be re-
turned at the expense of the house.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04

Inc people OF 81. RAUL are taxing great
interest in the subject of securing suitable
parks, and of improving those already
secured. Rice and Irvine parks have baen
greatly improved the past year, and the i'm
prOvemert of Smith park has been ordered.
Two new parks-Merrlam and Smith-have
been acquired, the former valued at S35, 600
and the latter at $50, 900. In each of these
transactions half the amount was contributed
by the surrounding property owners. A large
tract near the center Of the city is now being
fitted for park purposes 1t win be presented
to the city by the owners, and will be named
Central park. In addition to this several
streets are now being transformed into drive
ways, and project is under way to construct
a grand boulevard, connecting with Sum
nit avenue, crossing the Mississippi, and
joining the cities of st. Paul and Minue-
apolis.
EXPENSES OF LIVING.
The living expenses in st. Paul are as
cheap as in any city Of tho-sssss size in the
world. A house of ak rooms, twelve
minutes walk from tina business center, Will
rent for about SIS per month; eight rooms,
ten minutes walk, $50 per month; working
mems cottages, IS to sl2; seven and eight
rooms in best districts, $50 TO s45; rooms to
rent, SO to $25. Houses are scarce at present.
but thousands are building. Fuel (coa)
runs from 81 to $40 per ton. The neoessi
tes of life are as cheap as in any other city,
while clothing can be purchased at the same
figures as in the east.
PRICE OF REAL ESTATE.
Real estate is cheaper in st. Paul than in
any other city of the same size in the Union.
The following may be taken as the average
price: Best vacant lots at $500 front foot;
in wholesale districts, Fifth and Sixth streets,
sl75 to $500; residence lots, 5ox175 at s., 600
TO 1000; plenty of good lots, 40x1a5, where
workingmen are located at s1T5 to $500.
Good lots in medium districts 500 TO s.. 900.
Acreage property adjoining city, 5000 to
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
MUSICAL INSTRuMENTs-

One would hardly suppose that this branch
Of business has assumed the proportions and
the importance it has In st. Paul. There are
houses in this city equal to any in the east,
where can be obtained any kind of musical
instrument, from JEWS harp to Grand
piano, and at prices more favorable than in
the east. While it is true to some extent
that the early settlers Of new country have
but little time, and perhaps less inclination
to 'court the muses." yet there are many
families and persons of refinement and Gull
ture who are lovers of music, and home would
not be home for them if piano or some
other musical instrument did not adorn
their parlors or rooms. 1t would hardly be
supposed the sales Of these instruments for
the six months ending June 80 reached the
sum OF 1926, $50, but such is the fact.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04

rank OF manufacturing cities. In 1860 there
were few, If any, manufactures in the city.
In 1870 there wers eighty eight establish
ments, employing 9S5 laborers, and repre-
senting s1,611,3 capital The number in
creased to 542, during the next ten years,
and in 1850 6,029 persons found employ
ment in manufactures, and $11, SOC, 1924
was invested in the Business. There were
75S establishments in 1888; employees 49,
978; capital, S25, 1856, Al. The great region
just opened by the Northern Pacific will
create ademand for nearly all kinds of man
ufactured goods, and the business will be
greatly increased in the next few years.
PosToFErCE STATISTICS
The statistics of postofice of city is one
of the best IN measures of city's growth. The
income OF the st. Paul postofice for the
past three years is as follows: 1875, S1, 1920
1881, s12s, 1876; 1883, $3.50, cor. The money
order business for the same years is as fol.
lows: 1879, ss,517. 5s3; 1881, ss,g7o, 1916:
1883, S4,071, 3o4. The report of the post.
master general shows that the business oil
the Paul office is larger than that of any city
OF similar size In the United States. The
number Of letters, etc. mailed and delivered
in 1888, was IL, 459 PAS.
CUSTOM HOUSE.
The imports for st. Paul are now entered
here. The income from imports in 1885,
was s1e, 7Ss; 1881, $50, 800; 1882, s45, 94s
1888, 1854, DIG. Now that the Northern Pa
eific railroad has been opened it is probabl,
that this will be greatly increased, as, fol
the first three months after its opening,
$4,000 pounds of tea were received here.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04

St. Paul. The importations from Europe
md other countries are brought here in
bond, thus saving the expense of breaking
bulk at New York and Chicago. Forty-two
Arms are large importers. The wholesale
housesyin st. Paul number 1926, and the sales
for 1883 amounted to s72,o4s,771. Since
1881 the wholesale houses have increased 4S
per cent. and the sales 81 per cent. The
jobbing sales had increased eight fold from
1s70,and yet the Northern Pacific added little
to the trade, as it. was not finished
until September, 1888. Other jobbers
will find this an ever widening field.
FINANCIALLY SOUND.
The iohSing houses Of St. Paul are fnan-
cially sound Bradstreet reports that there
has been no failure among iobbers in St.
Paul for three years, and rates the estab-
ltshed kouses as exceedingly prosperous.
Dunn & Co. IS Mercantile agency reports the
capital OF $50 firms at s54,970, 900; of 1859
firms at S73.490, 900; five over 81, 900, 900;
twenty-three from $500, 900 to 81, 600, 900;
eighty four from $500, 600 to $500, 900; $3.50
from $4,000 to 100000; and 1918 from
lbs, 900 to $40, 600. They also report the bus
mess houses in 1879 at $40: now over 1000
| and a general average in
crease in their financial rate
| Ing. Bradssreet reports Fewer failures In
| ST. Paul, the last few years, than in any
| other city of its size in the United States.
The number of retail stores during the
past three years have increased 40 per cent.
ST. rAJL BANKS.
I 81 parf lie fhn financial ooptar Of tho
| northwest, as well as the business center.
In the report Of Comptroller Knox for 1888,
J it is shown that Minnesota exceeded any
! other state, except Illinois, in the increase
| of national bank capital or the increase of
s2,910,OOO in the state in 1888, 81, 500, 600 is
accredited to st. Paul. There are also four
state banks in the city with capital
of Ss50,000 and two private banks doing
| an extensive business. The following table
shows that the banks Of st. Paul com bine
more capital than all other banks in the
| state: "a
| Capital and surplus ofSt. Paul banks,
| state and national. Observation-Disclosures Sc, $50, 1872
Capital Of all other 5anks in Minnesota
combined. ...'..... ............. 6,0S5,350
| Capital Of st. Paul National banks De-
ceniber 81, 1881. 81, zoo, 900
Capital of all other National banks in
/ Minnesota combined. ....... 4, 451 900
Individual deposits in st, Paul National
banks. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .s9,47s, IDS
| Individual deposits all other Minnesota
| National banks combined. ..... 1858, aos
Capital St Paul National banks -. 81, zoe, 900
| Capital of all National banks in Wis
\ COuSIn 4,U3o,UUU
Capital st. Paul banks, 1870. .........S 900, 900
| '' - 1882. ......... $3.50, 900
f" g 1885,. 5,b50,000
Exchange sold in 1870. 1861, 5e3
Exchange sold in 1888 (hy National
| banks alone. fO2. So. O7O
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
AUKRBACH, FINCH g. VAN SLICK,
DRY Goods, Notions, Etc.
CORNER SHELLEY AND FOURTH STREETS.

CORNER SHELLEY AND FOURTH STREETS.
To pretend to undertake to write business
editorials of the leading mercantile houses of
St Paul and omit the gigantic wholesale dry
goods establishment Of Auerbach, Finch d
Van Slyck, would be as absurd as to try to
make bread without -four, or fire without
heat It may be said to be the father of them
ali, the pioneer in the line, almost back to
the first retail store. In the wholesale business
the house dates back TO 1868, and two of the
present partners, Messrs. N. Auerbach and
George z. Finch, were associates in the firm
ss long ago as 1884. Both of these gentle
men are now in the prime Of life, active and
full of energy, and Mr. Finch, the president
Of the st. Paul Jobbers' Union, is so over
flowing with animal spirits and so hearty in
his social companionship, that one might
mistake him for jolly drummer, just break
ing into the joys of the road.
The trade of the great northwest need no
reminder of the strength and capacity of
this great house, they know that its resources
are unlimited its popularity boundless, its
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
A Glance at it's Growth, Health,
Public Improvements, Build
ing Enterprise,
It's School System, Financial Re-
sources, its Business Grasp,
Banking Capital,
Railway Facilities. Wholesale Trade, Manu-
features, Retail Establishments, Living
Expenses and Social Life.

A little space is taken for a brief review Of
the city of st. Paul, which occupies as sub
stantial and proud position as any city
upon the continent, It has seen the day Of
small things, and its early history is but the
natural sequence Of the sagacious men who
are associated with its pioneer period. In
this day Of its growth and greatness these in
dissolube links of the past are the assurance
of its future, In presenting matter alto
gether statistical, pains have been taken to
use none but actual facts, certified by the
most painstaking verifcation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS.

Next TO the Grocery business this is the
heaviest in st. Paul and last year the sales
amounted to the enormous sum of nearly
$40, oo0,0 900, and from present indications
this amount will be increased fully twenty
per cent. There is no city of its size in the
world that has larger or more substantial
wholesale Dry Goods houses than st. Paul
The proprietors are without exception, live,
enterprising broad guaged men and their
business is conducted accordingly. Their
sales for the first six months of the year
reaches s5,626,000.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
Exchange sold in 1870 1861, 5e3
Exchange sold in 1888 (hy National
banks alone). 100. $50, o7o

COMPARED WITH OTHER CITIES.
st. Paul, now in her com parative infancy,
ranks as the ninth in the country, with six
national banks, whose resources are &c.,
eg5, os6, only S373,s1S less than St. Louis,
next in rank above, and $780,, 1872 more than
New Orleans, next in rank below. AS
financial center IL is developing more rapid
" than any city on the continent, and with
IN ten years will be surpassed only by New
York and Chicago. Her national banking
capital alone Is fifty per cent. greater than
that OF the whole state of California or Kan
sas. In 1853 it was increased So, 500, 900,
morethan the entire increase in any state in
the Union, excepting Illinois. Average de-
posits IN st. Paul National banks, 1870 81
All, s21; in 1888, 81, s97, SOL. Yet there is
room and need for more banking capital
Great as has been its increase, the increase
of business has been still greater.
MANUFACTURES.
St. Paul is fast taking place in the front
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
guished by levy Of 9.s per cent. OF the as
sessed valuation Of property.


The total amount to be collected by taxa
ton the coming year is estimated at $780,
no. 10 or s92, 900 less than the sum levied in
1883. When the amount of public work is
taken into consideration some idea OF the re-
narkabe increase in the valuation of prop
erty may be gathered from these figures.
rI,ho thy lnr,,r for 1 S22 ras as follows.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
Total.
ST. PAUL SCHOOLS.

There were 1854 pupils enrolled in the
schools of the city for the year ending IN
June, 1888. They were divided as follows:
high school, per cent; grammar
schools, per cent; intermediate schools,
81 per cont; primary schools, 81 per cent.
The average daily attendance was 4,67s;
number Of school buildings completed, sew
enteen; value of schools sites and buildings,
$500, 800; amount to be expended this year,
S1O0. 600; number Of school buildings to be
built this year, five; amount of salaries paid.
500, 115; number of teachers, 153. The
number Of pupils enrolled for the year 1888
81 shows an increase Of 2, 54S. In addition
to this there are twenty-three private schools
and academies in the city limits, with regn-
lar attendance equaling the enrolment Of
the public schools.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-05-08
PrusSian National
Insurance Comp v
ESTARIISHEn 1915

EaTAbHISHEU IofJ,
Capital, 5000, 900 Reichsmarks.
rINHE undersigned, having been ap
L. pointed agent of the above Company
for the Hawaiian Islands, is prepared to
accept risks, against Fire, on Buildings,
Furniture, Merchandise, Produce, Sugar
Mills etc, on the most Favorable Terms,
Losses Promptly Adjusted and Payable in
Honolulu.
ii. RIEMENSCHNEIDE
go 1y b at Wilder & Co.'S.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-05-08
chs 9ailg $nltetip.
THURSDAY. MAY s. 1884.
A PHENOMENAL MAINE GIRL.

The antagonists of modern
advanced education, if there be any,
should have heard a little lecture
that gentleman gave on the street
Wednesday morning. The question
had arisen as to the tendency of
modern advanced education to create
disgust for manual labor. The
gentleman told an anecdote. A
young lady who is very we'll known
in Lewiston and Auburn and who
has has a liberal education in Amer
lea, course of study in the German
schools and who has since taught in
some of the leading schools of this
State and others. came home to her
fathers farm this Summer. The
hours hung rather heavily. Father,
your office needs shingling," says
she, one day. The next day the
shingles were on the spot and the
young lady proposed to have some
fun and combine it, in legitimate
way, with solid work. She built
the stagings geometrically, ran the
lines after Euclid and shingled the
Office as neatly and expeditiously as
the village professor of shingling
himself could have done. She pulled
down the staging and erected it
again over the ell to the house and,
in spite of parental injunction,
singled the ell and sloping shed
attached. She practiced music for
pleasure in the meantime, however,
and read German for pastime.
Nothing" added the gentleman,
would be further from her own
inclination than notoriety. '-Le'cis-
ton (Me. Journal.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-05-08
the MAN WHO COULD CONNECT 703
STRANGE HATS WITH THEIR
OWNERS,

j. j. Allen has a widespread re-
putation, being no other than the
famous 'hat-keeper' of the Lindell
Hotel, st. Louis. For the wonder
full faculty of recognizing the proper
owners of hats as they entered and
left the dining room a medal was
presented him as being the "prem-
ium hat man in America.
II was for years the wondering
gaze of ignorant, said he in pri-
vate conversation, II never made
mistake, if had once seen the
on the mans head. | connected the
two instantly, and the picture would
not pass out of my mind, however
many such might be there. -
''Did it require no practice
Not any l could always clio it.
In fact, l could not help it. 1t made
me famous, and | have been spoken
of in Europe, Asia, and in parts of
Africa
''How many hats did you ever
have in your mind at once?"
The highest ! ever went was 703,
and | made no mistake.
;'How do you account for this
power?'
II have Il sort of second sight. |
do not like to be called fortune
teller. am not. Still. / can tell
fortunes. "-Chicugo NeacS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-03-06
City Personals.

Fish Commissioner f. NJ. Stillwell was in
town Wednesday.
Stephen R. Clark, Jr. departed for Cali
fornis, yesterday.
Stockabeson Swassin, of Oldtown was in
this city yesterday.
George B. Sawyer, Esq, a Wiscasset law
yer, was in the city yesterday.
Bank Examiner Richards is in this city,
making his annual examination of the Au-
gusta Savings Bank.
Conductor Henry Judkins was in the city
yesterday, on his return home from Florida.
His health has improved.
Rev. George Farr, recently of the Friend
church, Lewiston, is to again take charge of
the Friends church, West Gardiner.
The quarterly meeting of the Episcopal
Board of Missions which is being held in
Portland was opened Tuesday evening with
an essay by Rev Mr.. Gwynne of this city.
Prison Inspector Porter passed through
the city yesterday, on his way to attend the
quarterly meeting of the Prison Inspectors
which occurred at the State Prison, yesterday
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-03-06

Mr.. p,,r-on will give Bible Reading in
Meouim Hail this Thursday afternoon AZ
, O'Clock; also on Friday afternoon, at the
same place.
The revival meetings in Neonian Hail con-
Quoted by Mr.. and Mrs. Pierson OF Boston,
continue to be well attended, and usually
large number OF persons take part in the ex-
ercises The hours of service are at ; z.
NJ. and y evening, each evening Owing
to the engagement of the hall for the caucus
on Thursday eve, the meeting this evening
will be held in the rooms of the Y. NJ. c.
Association by special invitation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-03-06
HALLOWE ELI.

The following is a correct list of members
Of the city council:
Aforementioned l, A. NJ. Spear; ward .,
j. 5. Hamilton; ward 3. Augustine Lord
ward 4, Ariel Wall; ward ), George 5. Full
Ter.
Councilmen-Ward /, Horace Getchell,
John II. Owen ward 3. Chas w. Tilden, Ma
than l.. Niles; ward 4, E. NJ. Henderson, p.
IL. Leighton; ward ), Geo, F. Winter, Fred
Linn. All republicans.
The republicans are jubilant over the cleo
rion, as they carried it by a larger majority
than they expected.
As there was but one councilman elected in
ward 4. on Monday, the meeting was adj
Journed to Tuesday, when Mr. p. II. Leigh
ton was elected as second councilman. The
whole board @s republican. The new
city council will be organized next Monday
forenoon at 10 o'clock.
At the meeting of the City Council Monday
evening, the assessors submitted their report
in regard to their examination of the books
OF the collector and treasurer. as follows
Amount OF taxes committed for collection
s29 ,34l.2S- Amount collected at 10 per cent
disc't. S23, S5l. 40. Collection in full 81 1924
%. Discounts at 10 per cent, 81, $50. 03.
LII -
1888 supplemental tax collected, Sl79. 80
1882 supplement tax collected. Sill; 1882
tax collected since last report, $675. ~; in
rerest on 1882 tax, SIS So. The city agent $
report was presented and accepted. showing
amount of sales for February to be 1926. 2S
The reports of the Judge of Municipal Court
for January and February were presented
and accepted. Report of city solicitor pre-
sented and accepted An order was passed
TO meet again next Friday evening Alder
man Wall was appointed a committee to APP
praise the stock of liquors on hand in the
city agency. Roll of accounts No II,
amounting to SS796l was approved and or
dered to be paid. The mayor was
authorized TO draw his warrants to
pay the salaries of city officers The
returns from the several wards giving
the result of the election were opened and
examined and Hon. J. X Bodwell declared
elected mayor for the current municipal
year. and Alderman Beane was chosen as a
committee to inform Mr.. Bodwell of his
election.
Next Sunday evening Rev. J. II. Farms
worth will lecture on the Doctrine OF Poo
baton" and in the morning h. will preach
IN the school house in District No >, Chefs "a.
The comrades If John r. Hubbard Post.
g. A. Il. will 90 out TO Winthrop this even
ing to visit Albert H. Frost Post
~ the result of an election bet. & VI.
Dodge i'll haul \ X lord from tne engine
house to taliers shops ami back. next Tues
dry evening.
the examination Of the English High
School viii occur t. day.
City Marshal irue has seized ten pack
ages, OF liquor within the last month. On
Wednesday forenoon he arrested two follow :
for drunkenness and disturbing the peace.
They gave their names as John Moore and
John kennev OF South Gardiner.
The third lecture in the Methodist course
will be delivered Thursday evening bv Rev.
F. w. Brakeman of Auburn, " no is one OF
the most eloquent speakers in the State.