St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-14
FLOUR CITY CULTURE.
It is Beginning to Blossom and Grow
Like Lebanon's Cedars.
Classic Boston in Danger of Losing
Some of Her Laurels.

in the manufacture Of blue-blooded people
than is Minneapolis to-day. 1t is doing this
| by the pureSt process of evolution. It is
| taking common stock from the cities of the
East and by an elevating, refining and puri-
| flying process that must cover one genera
tion and may cover two or three is turning
| out cultured, cultivated race of men and
women-members of that new aristOcracy
so distasteful to the old, as the new nobility
of France was the rlducule of the .Old-but
a race that is not a penSioner on the dead
and that will rise on its merits. Here is the
| plan:
| 1t is only within a comparatively short
time that Minneapolis began to boast COM
| munity of wealth. Few indeed were they
who came here possessed of any considera-
BILE amount of this worlds goods, and those
who can now count six figures to their as
sets worked it out of the improvement of
real estate, out of the gigantic forests Of the
state, out of the gold mine represented by
the irresistible power of the Falls of St.
Anthony, or out of one of these turned into
| the avenue of legitimate trade. Minneapo-
| lis has been an Eldorado to thousands of adj
| venturers from the East who brought with
| them only the capital of busy brain, strong
arm and indomitable energy, and many of
| them have carved golden fortunes from the
rough block of Northwestern opportunity.
| There has been restless, rushing, throbbing
race for gold. For years it has been an
endless barter and trade, profit and loss,
dicker and bargain, until now, at last, has
come the season when the money maker,
| grown old in the struggle and with COM
| potency, is forced to rest. Gradually, in
money quarters, the generation which
0r,l MOI 10 10,
| away and give place to those who must use
| it. Here comes the exemplifcation of the
| theory of evolution. Mr.. Tressillian. for
example, sprang from good old New Eng
land stock that poverty Kept down in the
social scale. The learning he picked up at
| the winter school is This entire education.
| but he has sound body and frugal habits.
| He came to Minneapolis fifteen years ago
| and judiciOusly invested his savings in real
| estate. In five years he has cleared as many
| thousand dollars and he goes into milling.
To-day he is millionaire, with real estate
| all over the city and fine residence on
Portland avenue. His sons and daughters
grow up in different sphere. Realizing
his own want of an education. he sees that
his children do not suffer from the same
want, and they are graduated from
the first colleges of the land,
and perhaps sent to- Europe to acquire
| the finer tastes and the aesthetic ideas COM
| municated by association. They return to
Minneapolis fitted to grace any society and
adorn the princely home won by their
fathers energy and sagacity. In the New
England town the Tressillians were nobod-
| les, because poverty barred them from the
| charmed circle of society, fashion, even in
| telligence, to which bank account is the
open sesame The next generation may go
| back, fortified with their fathers wealth as
| the foundation upon which is reared the
| finer superSIucture of education and refine
ment, and be with and of the best. In the
| generation Of to-day is lost that of twenty
years ago. Association has done it's work
well. Reared in opulenoe, surrounded by
art and beauty, the new race has swallowed
up the old. Association is everything. It
is the presence of beauty that brings re-
finement. A generation of association with
the beautiful will erase the work of gen.
Grafton OF poverty and toll.
The time has scarcely come when the new
blood of Minneapolis may boast it's blue color
That time is coming, but may not be until
| the living generation knows only by ira
dition of the working habits of the dead
| generation, and may entirely overlook it in
tracing it's genealOgy back to England per-
| haps. But the time has come, at least, when
certain families, feeling they have moder-
ate sufficiency of wealth, are reaching out
| after the ccompliShments-they have the
| SubStantialS and now want the delicacies of
| life. They cultivate music and lend their
encouragement to art. They dip into litera-
| ture and tread daintily on the margin of the
| Pierean spring. But they are advancing,
slowly perhaps, but as surely as the sun
climbs above the mountains. Wealth, re-
| finement, culture, travel, music and art, all
will combine to purify their blood, and be-
fore the population of Minneapolis reaches
| 200, 900 it will become as blue as the sangre
| aZul of CASTLE.