St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-10


of u Thousand, is situated on Sauk river, having
an excellent water power, 125 barrel Touring
mill, five elevators, capacity 100000 bushels
Melrose ls regarded as one of the best wheat
markets on the line. and the mercantile business
is also good. In the town four churches,
and fine school house, erected at a cost Of
$4,000, accommodates 400 pupils. There are
five general stores, one drug, one boot and shoe,
one hardwa.e, two harness stores, and three
hotels, brewery, with a capacity Of twenty five
barrels per day.
Freeport, where the next pause was made, sa-
luted the jobbers with several guns. 1t is viii
lage of perhaps $50 inhabitants. 1t is situated in
a rolling prairie. and there is fair amonnt of
hard wood timber on Sauk river, two miles dis
tant. There is church in the village,
school builning which cost $500, two elevators
with capacity of 10000 bushels, two general
stores and one hotel.
AT ALBANY.
At Albany Mayor Joseph Kraker made brief
speech. This town Is located in the center of q
fine wheat country; contains population Of 300.
There are two churches in the place, a school
house, fine grain warehouse, with capacity of
10000 bushels, custom Touring MILL and two
small hotels.
ST. JOSEPH,
Though youthful town, was wide awake, with
flags and booming cannon. 1t is the center of
good farming country, and an abundance Of hard
wood timber is to be found within few miles.
A small stream near the town furnishes good
water power, which is at present used to run
-four and saw mill. There is one church, a
school house which cost $1,000, one elevator,
capacity so, 900 bushels, four general stores, and
two small hotels.
was the next objective point, and multitude
met the ST. Paul Jobbers. Mayor Mcdonald SAID
few words of welcome, and introduced Capt.
j. E. West, whose remarks were in line de-
scriptive of the city, pointing as marks of inter
est the business enterprises, the churches,
schools, water power, etc. To j. j. Hill, the
president of the Manitoba road warm tribute
was paid IS the man who had one the most for
the country.
President Finch called on DR.. Day, the
''village postmaster, to respond, which the
Doctor did, his enthusiasm growing with each
sentence, u ntil he said the theme widened
and broadened that 1t reused the spirit of the
American eagle, and he must stop before the
eagle screamed. Two hours were allowed to
visit the town, and the party dispersed in car
riages and otherwise for that purpose.
The remaining stops of the day were at Clear
water Monticello and Osseo.
AT the latter place, as the train paused, j. j.
Eagan, Esq, addressed the assemblage and par
ticularly President Finch and the associated job
bers, saying that in behalf of those who occu-
pied the relation to the excursion he
did he took the opportunity to express their
thankfulness at having been the guests of kings,
for the privilege of beholding continent rich
in the industries of the people, rich in happy
homes, rich in the fertility of the soil, great in
its school houses and churches with their spires
pointing heavenward; for the opportunity of
standing at DEVILS Lake and beholding the
western horizon and viewing the open polar sea
at Winnipeg, with vista of the great continent
surrounding and beyond, and in conclusion, in
behalf of the guests of the excursion he begged
leave to present the following resolutions and
propose their adoption:
1st The unparalleled excursion of the job
bers' Union of st. Paul over the Man
itoba railway system, the unnalloyed
ioy expressed by everyone, the boundless natu-
raj wealth of the country traversed, its resources
and fertility, the hospitality Of the people, their
open hearted greetings, and above all the super
abundant iberaty OF the wholesale merchants Of
st. Paul, through the Jobbers
Union to their friends, induce and
impel the gentlemen comprising their
guests to thank the Union, individually and eel
lectively, and you Mr.. President Finch and Man
ager Tallmadge for the kindness, politeness and
generosity manifested toward US, and to say,
2 We thank you for the greatest pleasure OF
our lives for an opportunity of a more intimate
knowledge of the Union and its members and
to say finally, may you, the Union, be perpetual,
may no pent up Utica contract your powers until
the whole boundless universe is yours.
Hon. W. p. Murray said he most heartily en-
dorsed the sentiments Of the paper read by Mr..
Eagan, no expression could fully express the
facts all haye seen them during the most
memorable week the northwest has ever wit
nessed and therefore he seconded the adoption
of the resolutions
The vote was taken in the form Of three
cheers, and it is needless to say they
rousers.
Richards Gordon proposed three cheers for the
guests, whose eloquence had added so much to
the value and interest of the excursion and but
for whose presence the great journey would
have been much like play Of Hamlet, with
Hamlet left ont.
The response was as cordial as the enthusi-
asm of hundred men could produce.
This closed the excursion proper. The train
reached the Union depot at st. Paul at AS p.
m. and after tune by the Great Western band
President Finch closed the excursion finally by
proposing three cheers for the Manitoba railway
system and its management, in which all joined.
PRESENTATION.
The munificence of the Jobbers' Union and
their appreciation of the faithful service of the
skllful and experienced men who managed and
operated the train which carried them over three
thousand miles without so much as one moment.
detention or the least trife of an accident, man
| ifested itself in magnificent purse of 1856
which was raised upon the last day and distribu
| ted among the men, who, as before stated, oper
ated the train during the entire time from the
| day OF leaving until their return, as follows:
Robert West, engineer, S75.
A. Donaldson, fireman, $40.
Conductor John L. Kellog, S25.
Brakemen Chas. McLagen, P. johnson, c. S
| Pixley, SIS each.
Baggagemaster G. D. Hoerr, Sis.
Sleeping Car Porters j. c. Berry, Ruben Par
ker, j. A. Henry, David Brown, James Thomas
SIS each.
Dining Car Conductor c. H. Dresser, $50.
Walters Horace Copeland (alias Sitting Bull
Roswell Jeffery, Frank Peterson, A. E. Russell
! $40 each.
| Head cook Charles r. Betz, S15.
Second cooks Alfred Brown, Henry Brown
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