St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-19

bearing manners of. the cruel mates.
and the weary, busy crews, and the impor-
tuning reporters; and then, again, steam is
up, the boats move away, glide through the
water, and all is still! Good old days!
gone forever! and the boats are gone, and
the commanders are gone, and the crews
are gone, and most of the passengers are
gone, and in their places come the ciingly-
cangly, hurdy-gurdy, rafting, ringing.
banging, putting, wheeling, whiting cars
1t is all right enough, only | sometimes
wish | was back again in the good old days
of steamboats, and stages and the primitive
mode of living, for, somehow or other, it
seems to me as though | obtained more
real enjoyment out of life then than in the
present struggling, tugging, eternal, and
everlasting effort to get through the world
in the least possible time with the least
possible amount of comfort! Dear old days,
goodbye forever!
JOSHUA BRADLEY.
Father Bradley" as he was more gen
orally known, was kind, lovabe Christian
gentleman, the pastor at one time of the
Baptist church, and lived down under the
HILL near Charles Symonds' ice house. l
never knew any facts connected with his
history, only he was ALI estimable man. and
at the time of his death in 1855, must
have been close to so years
OF age. He was a good. Christian minister.
A BUSY PLACE.
st. Paul was now busy place. 1.-The
hotels and boarding houses were crowded,
the stage lines worked night and day, peo-
pie were even camping on the streets, stores
were doing perfect rush OF business,
livery stables coming money, saloons reap
ing brisk profits, real estate dealers fairly
ecStatic and mechanics not half able TO
keep up with the work pressing upon them.
Streets were opened and graded, trees were
cut down, brush removed, hOll0Ws filled
in, bridges constructed, small and large
houses made their appearance. while the
tepee of the Indian took up It's march
westward toward the setting sun. And ia
the midst of all this activity and hustle real
estate began to advance. Henry McKenty
had made S23. 900 on one transaction and
tthen others fell into line and common dirt
went up like a balloon, And to add to
the fever, this year the many reporters
who came out on the Rock Island railroad
excursion poured through their papers
glowing accounts of the beauty and re-
sources of the country, and this sent cap
itaI forward for investment and corner lots
and paper towns went whoOping! and the
owners almost grew wild with excitement.
This was the beginning of the real estate
craze which eliminated with disastrous ef-
fects in the year 1857.
JOHN NJ. BURCH.
A native of Prussia, he was born in 1881;
came to America in 1916 and settled in
Michigan, where he learned the trade OF
tanner and currier; located in st. Paul in
1855; enlisted III the Sixth Minnesota
in 1862. sand served until 1865,
principally. against the Indians; on
returning to st. Paul engaged in the fur
niture business for five years; bought the
st. Peter house and stock yards; in 1867
opened the Farmers home, which he ran
three years and then engaged in the grocery
and liquor business. He is stirring, active
man.
A SQUARE REPUBLICAN FIGHT.
This year also witnessed the first square
Republican fight in the territory. William
r. Marshall was the Republican candidate
for congress, brought out by the writer, and
ran on the straight Republican issue against
David Olmsted, anti-N Nebraska Demo
crat, and III. NJ. Rice, regular Democrat.
AS matter of political history, it was
agreed that in case there was no show for
Olmsted, and there certainly was none, his
supporters should go to Marshall, in which
event Marshall would have been elected,
but towards the last of the campaign Gov.
German, who made the contract with the
writer, violated it, and Marshall was de-
feated, but it was fair square Republican
fight, and the first issue of this kind made
in this section of country.
JOSEPH WAKEFIELD.
Born in Providence. r. l.. in 1881: after
thorough education young Wakefield
studied law and was admitted to practice;
came TO st. Paul in 1858 and formed a
partnership with John f. Warren, the firm
being Wakefield & Warren. He was a
young man of fine personal appearance,
genial and gentle, and as Mr.. Neill said of
him, transformations and unobtrusiye, he
was unappreciated by those who are caught
by glare Possessed of a competence, he
was not under the hard necessity of enter
ing into the scramble for public emolument,
so he was a real gentleman and to be loved.
During the first year of his residence in ST.
Paul. with the aid of few
others, he was instrumental in procuring
the delivery of a course of lectures for the
improvement of young men, and was ever
ready to cooperate i'll advancing the higher
interests of the city," He gave Mr.. Neill
$500 when he died to form the nucleus of a
church in st. Paul and no young man who
ever came here has left behind him so eX-
celent a memory as that of the young, tai
ented, amiable, genial gentleman-Joseph
Wakefield
EDWARD /. MARTIN.
Born in Indiana in 1886; moved to Iowa
with his parents in 1910; learned the print
ers' trade in the Office of tie Burlington Ga
zette; came to st. Paul in 1855; worked
on the old Pioneer in the winter of 1866;
subsequently in the offices of the Times,
MinneSOtian and Free Press: left st. Paul
in 1858; returned in 1862; left again in
1864, and did not return until 1882, when
he opened a saloon on Jackson street; ran
it about one year; left the city again but is
once more among us. Mr.. Martin is the
Youngest brother of Cole Martin. and was
early lett an orphan. In one of his peculiar
freaks he put up printing office in Gales
burg. H.. worth S400 over game of cards
and lost, but turned over the office to the
winner. He is a slender, delicate man. one
of the oldest printers in the state, and a
very pleasant gentleman.
THE PAPERS.
Of the five daily papers in the early part
OF this year two kicked the bucket" the
Democrat merging with the Pioneer. and Tie
Free Press, a personal organ of Gov. Cor
man. was discontinued the next spring.
This paper was published by Samuel }.
Albright Il Co., and edited by
A. c. SMITH.
Mr.. Smith was rabid Democrat; tall.
slender. gaunt. somewhat awkward in his
ways, with the inevitable literary Stoop IN
the shoulders. and Wore pair OF gold spec
taceS; WAS decided in his nature. and these
elements combined gave him somewhat an
impressive appearance. He was man Cf
ability and had held positions of trust be-
fore he came to the state. and after leaving
the Free DraSS receiNnl an nnnnimtnla,-t IN