St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-04

More liberal education. more elevating sur
roundings, higher home life and the bene-
fits of travel and observation are
following as natural sequences. The
effect on the middle and lower
classes is a material improvement of their
condition, owing mainly from better ap-
probation of their necessities. The school
system undergoeS a gradual but certain i'm.
pr0vement; pubic exhibitions of art are
encouraged; circulating libraries are eStab-
lished and general reading encouraged;
park systems, the gardens of the poor are
built at great public cost and to the great
public delight, and. finally, eleemOSynary
| institutions OF all kinds are established
and maintained. These are the indiSputa-
bic evidences of metropOiitaniSin. OBJ
servable in both cities. The universal
effort to provide an abundance of theatrical
and musical amusement and entertainment
is another conspicuous evidence of the at
tainlnent of that certain growth, in which a
city puts on metropolitan habillments. The
presence of nine theaterS. besides the run of
minor and transient places of amusement
and two permanent panOramaS cannot be
overlooked in this estimate of greatness.
Then there is the matter of sports.
While opinions may differ on this subject,
and without entering into the question of
utility, there is no Surer index of the adj
vanced growth of the twin Cities than is
found in the fact that they have recently
become a great center for leading sporting
events. The Northwest has in the past two
years been the arena for more leading
events than any other section of country,
and as sporting events are all dependent
upon gate receipts this fact is tribute to
greatness" an acknowledgment OF popula-
tion not to be doubted. Only great centerS
of population attract great sporting events,
and in this line the Twin Cities may claim
even more than their proportion.
A word might also be added calling atten-
tion to the fact that within the past two
years the number of national organizations
that made one or the other of the two cities
the place of their annual convent ons was
exceeded by only two cities on the conti-
nent. New York and Chicago. This is a
fact worthy of mental digestion, too.
All this is of the past and present.
The Twin Cities stand for themselves. as
they are.
What of their future?
Their growth and development have not
been erratic nor Spasm0dic nor eccentric.
but regular and steady. The law of causes
and effects is never more plainly shown.
Those causes are not only still in existence,
but have been stimulated and accelerated.
The effect produced thus far is but the be-
ginning. it the future may justly be viewed
in the light of the past. Enterprises, born
with the birth of the cities greatness. are
but now beginning to make themselves
felt in the development of the Northwest,
which means the combined growth and
prosperity of st. Paul and Minneapolis.
The era of the railway aye has just fairly
dawned. The settlement and growth of
the northwestern country are still in their
infancy. The progress of the two cities is
that of a rolling SNOWFALL. gathering and
increasing as it moves. These are con-
densed truisms. simply No one will dispute
that the growth of Minneapolis and St.
Paul is and will continue to be coincident
to the growth of the vast territory to the
northwest. of Minnesota, Dakota and Mon
tana. until at least. there shall spring up in
that direction another city. by the same
causes, when the Twin Cities shall have full
filed their present destiny.