St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-18
CURRENT COMMENT.


Col. Tom Lowry, who came all the way
from Minneapolis to tell Us about the expo
sition they are going 10 have up there, says
that they are going 10 try to make it out
rank the Chicago exposition in point of
variety Of display. and adds. as II to estab-
lish the probability of their success in this
effort, that they have a big country up
there to draw upon. So they have. and as
for variety, there is no end OF it Almost
every county in Minnesota can furnish
something different from any other county.
There is sand in lie Sueur county and water
in Otter Tail. rocks in Yellow Medicine and
Ignatius Donnelly in Dakota; there are
rapids in Carver county and the Minneapolis
falls in Blue Earth, q chronic yearning for
the state capital in Kandiyohi and mud till
you can't rest in Crow Wing. Up IN Becker
county is a choice selection OF black bass
and wall-eyed pike. and in PipeStone county
fine lot Of red clay and mineral paint
These, OF course, are only few of the pro-
ducts of the country tributary 10 Minneap-
oils. They have wheat in Minnesota and
climate to suit the tasGe. to say nothing of
several natural springs Of bilge-water and
several varieties of half-breed Indians. Con-
sidered In the light of variety Of product
Minnesota is great state. and we doubt not
the Minneapolis exposition viii be marvel
TO behold--Chicago News
So
Among the men seen this winter at the
Fifth Avenue hotel is X. b. LangdOn, the
Minneapolis millionaire. He Is a tall.
square shouldered. handsome man Of per-
haps so, with full gray beard. covering a
large square face. on which the upper lip is
clean-shaved. and the nose large and prom
inent. He began life. / am told, as a
labOrer at 81 day. He is self-educated.
beyond what little assistance the common
school gave him in youth. He is a heavy
contractor and has been entrusted with
many important pieces of work on the
Northern Pacific and other Pacific lines. He
is the capitalist of Newell & Co., the big
wholesale grocery house OF Minneapolis,
whose business reaches So, 500, 600 annually,
and is fine type of the men who have come
10 the front in the Northwest country
New York World.
Col. Thomas Wilson, a bonanza farmer of
Hillsboro. OAK, was at the Nicollet yester-
day, en- route home from his former home
at Wheeling. The iron center in the Ohio
valley Is in a terrible way" he said.
Everybody is talking hard times and
money is frightfully scarce. The nail mills,
doing absolutely nothing, and the steel nail
situation shows no change. Cooperative
nail making is coming 10 the front and a
party of practical men talks of coming here
TO Minneapolis. Another is pointed toward
Western Illinois. Glass is only little better
and window-glass works are idle all around.
i never saw such change as this long
strike has made in Wheeling. IL looks
cheerful, tell you, to get back here"
Thomas Lowry returned yesterday from
the East but in regard TO certain structures
on the street car service declined TO be in
teryiewed. He has been East on street car
business, and intends TO improve the plant
in every way. He smiles serenely and goes
pleasantly about his business, as usual.
80
The building season for last year had no
end. Permits were issued every day, and
architects were kept busy planning houses
to 90 right up in the dead OF winter. New
work is seen on every hand, and horse
shovels break new earth each day. Visitors
from those sections where frost ends all
building, marvel to see foundations going
ON with the mercury at 800 below zero.
Exposition Etchings.
The room of the exposition directors re-
sembles the atelier of an architect, The
walls are heavy with the pictured ideas Of
five architects or the general elevation of
the building. Each architect thinks he has
the best and each has his coterie Of friends.
But Hodgson got the work. Bufington's
plans. for their brilliant and striking orig
inality, receive much praise.
Hodgson would not give Mr. Blethen his
plans, so the latter got mad and doomed
Bufington's. for spite. There. now. you
saucy thing"
George Stanley Rees, architect of the
New Orleans exposition, writes TO Col.
King that those buildings can be had cheap
and can be easily removed.
The L. A Snider Preserve company Of
Cincinnati write TO William Regain that they
will make grand exhibit If they can find
any one to take charge OF it for them.
Harrison, Harrington 81 Co. agree to do this.
The travelling committee on site have
s'donev the Milwaukee building and are