Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-10-02
The Pioneer Cities Of the Great
Northwest.
AN OcC,srONAI, CORRESPONDENT.

NOElAs"CSts
TBY AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 25, 1884
The Hotel West costing one and half
million dollars is 200x170 feet, eight stories
high with 400 rooms absolutely frcproof, has
few superior in this country. 1t is owned by
Mr. c. w. West, a wealthy pork dealer of
Cincinnati, Ohio, and under the direct con-
troll of his nephew John r. and Mr.. Shop
herd of Parker House, Boston.
The new opera house in the Syndicate
Block will scat 1900. 1t is decidedly well
appointed and tastciully decorated, but its
acoustics are inferior to some houses less
pretentious. The new Chamber Of Com
merce is valued at $235 600.
The Tribune building now erecting, viii!
tower 1879 feet, and will cost nearly $3.50, 900.
Stores, residences and public buildings were
built in 1888 that cost in all eleven millions,
which Chicago and New York alone sur
passed. Since the census Of 1880 buildings
have been built costing twcnty-cight mil
lions. There are about 80 churches, Nor
weigan, Danes and Swedcs in the majority
Sunday is gala day with the foreigners
Picnics, Beer, and Redhots, (weimer wurts,
or Vienna Sausage) occupy the points on
the programme. The theatres and varieties
are closed but the summer gardens are in
full blast. The court docket is full of liquor
violations. Heavy fines are imposed and the
city is rapidly enforcing respect for its laws.
The city is becoming more moral as each
year rolls around The handbook has no
estimate as to the time in which it will be
perfect, but according to our calculations the
wheel of time must make 100000 rcvolu-
tons before it comes in the same class with
Mechanicstown, and as our enumeration
ceases at ID figures, we-drop the subject.
The State University-free to all-with
146 male and - female students, agricultural
and medical departments, is situated here.
There are daily, 10 weekly and 9month-
ly journals.
A. tie main hotel $4,000 guests registered
last year The boulevards along lake and
river is 30 miles and the circumference Of
the corporated part of the city so miles All
the street car lines are owned and operated
by one individual. Mr.. Lowry the owner
and protector of the scheme was a young
lawyer here few years ago, whose only cap
ital was clear head and lots of sand. He
had some wealthy friends who trusted him
with money and in a short time he had
corner" worried up. To-day his income is
$500 600 per annum, and is sole owner OF all
the lines operating in the State. No indi-
vidual or corporation can engage in this
business in this state so long as the provis-
this condition however in his charter. That
he shall maintain and run street cars in any
town or city in the state that can prove it IA
want The gross earnings must equal the
expense of operating but need not exceed it.
This is applicable to streets in any city where
street cars are running, In proportion to
its population there is more street car travel
here than in any city we know of excepting
Peoria. Ill.
1t is a common occurrence there to see Il
passenger ride but two blocks. The motor
line running from the heart of the city to
Lake Mnnebouka, 19 miles northeast is con-
venient for persons going or coming in that
direction. The fare is one dime and few
ride less than mile on this. The motor is
a small locomotive encased, and looks like a
huge store box on wheels. The cars have
six seats extending full width and are enter
ed from either side Regular trains leave the
city hourly for lakes Harriet, Calhoun, and
Minnetonka, the tony summer resorts of the
northwest. A new corporation. The w. p.
& M. Elevated Railway Co., has just been
organized and chartered. The scheme is an
elevated double track Is feet high, plankcd
SO as to be cinder tight. 1t will run from
St. Paul to Fort Smelling, Minnehaha, West
and East Minneapolis. The local fare will
be s cts. and the through fare IS cts. The
present X. II. tickets costs Rs and 80 cts. the
round trip. Eighteen distinct r.. II. lines
enter this city over their own or other tracks.
December 81, 1883, l46 passenger ana
freight trains arrived and departed The
Northern Pacific not finished until last Sept.
would alone make this city commercial
marvel. Soon its main arm will penetrate
the heart of this city where its tracks will
terminate, proceeding thence east over the
tracks of other roads. For terminal facilities
here it has already expended over half n
million and n'the next two years will spend
at least two millions more. The Sault st,
Marie road now building will lessen the dis
lance to New York via Chicago 80 miles,
The Manitoba road has just completed
stone viaduct at Il cost of one million and the
new depot will cost the same. Come out
Bye. w. l.. F.