St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-03
THE GLOBE sT.TTsrTCS.

our distinguished Minneapolis contempo-
rsry. the Pioneer Press, is pleased to carp at
the statistics of buildings and trade supplied
by the GLOBE for the city of st. Paul fer the
past year. 1t is the boast OF the Minneapo-
lis f.. p. that its st. Paul statistics were pre-
pared bya Minneapolis reporter, who was en-
ployed in order to make sure of having
impartial figures, aud they are "impar-
tial with vengence.
The GLOBE has, for seven years, prepared
annual reviews of the business of St. Paul.
They have, in every instance, been compiled
by st. Paul men especially employed for the
purpose and have been the result of weeks
| of labor. Neither this year, or any year,
have the GLOBE statistics been borrowed from
any source whatever, and the assumption
that the GLOBE would rely upon the work of
Minneapolis men upon Minneapolis paper
for its figures, is 100 self evident lie TO even
| need refutation.
The p. p. excuses its diatribe by the state
ment:
1.-The Pioneer Press would not have called at.
tention 10 This matter il on the day after its
| building statistics appeared the GLOBE had not
declared that those statistics had been compiled
with the express object of belittling st. Paul
The GLOBE, on its part, it may be freely said, is
not open TO any such accusation
The GLOBE at this time wishes to reiterate
its charge Of deliberate beittling of St. Paul
by the p. p. for fear that it would offend
Minneapolis, and, also to state that the J.
p deliberately padded aud exaggerated its
Minneapolis statistics in order to curry
favor in that city and meet
the sharp competition given it
by the new management of the Tribune
The onslaught upon the GLOBE is for the
same purpose. The GLOBE figures showed
larger amount expended for buildings in st.
Paul in 1854 than either the Minneapolis
Pioneer Press or the Minneapolis Tribune
showed for that city. Hence the P. p. must
show its loyalty to Minneapolis by declaring
that the GLOBE figures are false.
The GLOBE accepts the testimony Of its
contemporary as correct that it sis not open
That is the only truth uttered In its entire
article and testimony Of the loyalty of the
GLOBE TO St. Paul from this hostile source 10
worthy Of note.
The GLOBE will not assume that in COM
ping such an immense amount of statistics
no error has occurred, but it does as
sumo and assert, that its figures were most
laboriously secured, exclusively by its own
employees, without the slightest reference TO
those given by any other paper,
and are more nearly correct than
any others published. Take the Ryan
hotel as sample. Our Minneapolis cotem-
porary criticises the placing of the cost Of
that institution at $1,000 900. The GLOBE
not only stands by those figures but repeats
that when the hotel is opened
with a grand ball on the Fourth of July next,
Mr.. Ryan will be able to state that his ex-
penditure in that enterprise have exceeded
the figures named. Though Mr.. Ryan is not
given to boviation we hazard the prcdc-
ton that he will SO state on that public
occasion.
Without wishing to impugn any'individuals
word, the GLOBE desires to call attention to
the fact that the general tendency of property
owners is to understate their expenditures
in buildings, for reasons which will
very readily occur to the reader
The GLOBE has endeavored TO weigh all
sources OF information and has not always
accepted as gospel truth the statement Of the
owner Of the property. No better evidence
Of the tendency in this direction Of property
owners can be found than the books Of the
building inspector.
The matter in nut shell is that the GLOBE
is st. Paul paper, and 1t has given st. Paul
statistics fairly and honestly, showing the
great growth and progress OF the city.
The Pioneer Press is Minneapolis paper,
and il publishes ST. Paul statistics in such
manner as to show more favorable TO Min.
neauolis than st. Paul. Hence the criti-
cisms upon the GLOBE made for the purpose
Of bolstering up its exaggerations in behalf
Of Minneapolis and its equally false St. Paul
figures In the other direction.