St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-02
RED WINGS CHARMS.
The Potter and His Wheel--Lovely
Scenery---Refopm School Site.

Scenery--RefOPm School Site.
In fable, story and history the potter
and his wheel have been objects of in
teIest. He and his whirling circle in
all the changes of time since the days of
Rameses have remained unchanged.
Of all that invention has destroyed, the
potter's wheel has escaped and the hand
that mOuldS above it the vestal urn or
jar of coarSer shape, but does what
Egyptians were doing centuries ago.
This. if nothing else, made a recent
visit of the GLOBE to the largest pottery
in the United States extremely interest
ing. The works are located at Red
Wing and are controlled by the Red
Wing StOneware company.
1t is wonderful place to linger in. to
follow the clay from the ''kneading"
house to the wheel, there to see it
caught up by deXterous hands, worked
and moulded, until the shapeless mass
becomes iags, jas of every size from
twenty gallons down. urnS, pots, vases,
in fact anything that fancy or custom
suggests.
It was the happy thought of the work
ingmen OF his establishment to present
Mrs. Grover Cleveland with vase, or
antique bowl, of curious design and
made by themselves. Enclosed in a
handsome case, ii was protfered the first
lady of the land as a sample of Mime
sofa workmanship and artistic skill eX-
erclSed upon Minnesota material. She
accepted the gift in cordial letter of
thanks that is still shown to the visitor
with juStitiable pride.
The works are doing a business that
is carried far into the Pacific coast, and
turning out class OF ware superior to
anything the East now produces. 1t is
home industry, deserving of all the
success its energetic workmen strive
for.
Among the natural beauties of Red
Wing land there are hundreds of them)
the homestead of Gen. Jennison is q
garden spot, at which lays reproduc-
ton of the garden of Eden, minus the
docile Eve and weak Adam. Two hun
dred and thirty feet above the level
of the Mississippi, with a view that on
clear days ranges for twenty-eight miles,
the general can rest on the summit of
hills that are eternal and drink in scene
not duplicated in the world. His is the
place that Pope sighed for in his de-
scription of the happy man, or tina t
Horace wrote of as the hearts best sat
iSfactiOn.
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The citizens of Red Wing have had
the good sense to preserve all of the good
trees that they could from iconoclastic
axmen, and when that was not possible
have replaced the destroyed monarchs
with ornamental shade trees. The re-
suit is that the avenues of the town are
green aisles through which one catches
entertaining glympses OF shaded lawns
and neat cottages, or the flash of the
sunshine on the silver band of the Mis-
sissippi that girdles the Northwest.
When the growth of time brings paved
streets and stone walks to Red Wing she
will be one of the most beautiful cities
in the Northwest.
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The site selected for the Reform school
is one of great natural beauty. A phi
lanthropist looking it over would de-
clare that the influences of nature as
felt there would be powerful agent in
sowing good seed into the minds of re-
calcitrant youths. The river, the hills,
valleys of unrivaled picturesqueness,
forests that seem never to end, all lend
to the site for the home of these waits
of fortune a charm difficult to describe.