St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-18
NEEDS OF The CITY.
What Business Men Think st.
Paul Should Have at
Once,
All Are Convinced That an Au-
ditorium Is Necessary for
Conventions,
While a Public Library OF I'M
posing dimensions Would
Be a Feature.
Proposition to Use the Post
office Building Site for
Public Benefit.

II. s. Fairchild-It would be very diff
fcult. indeed, to tell what one thing 81.
Paul wants more than another. There
are A great many things that she needs
vcIy much. Her circumstances are
such, she has grown so fast, that the re-
ouirements are many, and to supply
them all at once would cost an immense
sum. much more than the conservative
people of st. Paul would regard as safe
to eXpend now. We need large
library. large auditorium building,
one or two GOOD lecture and music halls
and an art building. These we must
have some time, but cannot have Them
all at once If we get library building
and an auditorium now, we Will do we'll,
quite well. 1t has always been the
habit OF st. Paul people to go slow, and
] feel confident that they will not i'll
This instance depart from their rule.
There is one thing that we need and
that is within our reach, that would be
of great advantage TO the city, and that
is more jobbing houses. We have
number of large and heavy ones that
are doing a good business. but 1t would
be a great deal better If we could have
blv would cause dividing up and seat
tering OF business: but willie it did this
il would multiply and increase business
very largely and thus benefit the city.
ID. Il. Noyes-St. Paul needs great
deal, and it is good idea to stop our
congratulations for a few minutes and
think of some of these needs. st. Paul
needs the services of its best men in its
public offices and affairs. 1t needs wise
economy without narrOwneSs in eN-
peuditures, not limiting the cjty's
growth by present meanneSS or its
future development by eXtravaganceS.
1t needs recognition by our great East
ern railroad lines as one of the terminals
of their lines and entitled to the same
consideration as the others. This we
are gradually attaining. ltwantS fine
public library well and appropriately
housed. 1t needs larger and better sup
ported private schools. 1t needs the best
and most complete Young Mems Christian
association building in the North west;
with every appliance for attraction and
work that can be desired. When 1900
Young men, by actual count, enter the
saloons Of the city'on Saturday evening
and 1900 only our churches Sunday
morning. when $50 still younger men or
boys cOngregate at single gambling
place. il is time for men Of family and
business to stop and think. We want
the city authorities to stop the selling
Of liquor to minors, the open saloons
and bar rooms Oh Sunday and the omen
and VIGOROUSLY illegal gambling rooms
so prevalent in this city. Our rich men
who have their fortunes in this city
should remember it. 1t is said
That st. Paul has thirty millionaires.
Why no asylum, hospital or art
gallery bearing the name of the public
spirited citizen who endowed it? We
need an appropriation of $1,000 an
.nually from the city for our city poor,
the same to be distributed through our
well-organized and well-managed relief
society. We need a training school for
house servants, and our wives and
daughters need some rest from the de-
mands-social, benevolent and others
which make their lives too full of do
nestle cares and social duties; and this
does not by any means exhaust the long.
catalogue of our needs.
w. Ii. DiXon-Nhat we want, and
badly. too, is lower tax levy. That is
the most important and pressing need
of the present time. We want to draw
people here, and not drive them away.
Every year we make little noise and
racket about low taxes just before the
legislature meets, but it all ends in
talk. When the legislature adiOurns
we find that several new city offices
have been created: The old officers
have had their salaries raised, their
terms extended and assistants created
to do all the work, while the principal
sits around doing nothing but smoking
cigars and talking politics and drawing
his fat salary. | hope Capt. Berkey
will not cease to agtate this matter of
economy in the city and county govern
ments and a reduced tax levy until he
brings something good out OF Nazareth
and cuts down our taxation. There is
no question that it is calculated to in
jure our reputation and to keep people
from coming here.
George a. Nash - A good public
library. in good fire-proof building,
is wanted here more than anything
else can think of. There is way we
can secure a library for comparatively
small sum of money. When the United
States government erccts new custom
house on the site of the old city hall, it
baSha street that is now used for post
Office, and this could be secured by the
city and appropriated to the purpose of
library. 1t would be an excellent
building for the purpose ard is very
conveniently located.
S. Lee Davis-We need a large hall,
capable of holding many thousand peo-
pie. This has been discussed great
deal already, so expect no credit for
the suggestion. This city naturally at
tracts all sorts of conventions. People
in the South and East desire to escape
from the heat OF the cities in those 10
calities, and come up here to enjoy the
glorious Minnesota climate, but we can
not well invite them, for we have not
the building in which to accommodate
them. We ought to have structure
that would readily and conveniently
seat from six to eight thousand people,
with ample entrances and exits, so that
we could accommodate all sorts of large
bodies like conventions. etc.
George 4. Finch-We need in st
Paul more than all else one or two
more wholesale clothing houses. The
only house we have here of that kind
is that of II. C. Burbank & Co, and
this concern would gladly welcome an
other or two more. There would be
more competition and would give deal
erS from the country better opp0r-
tunity for selecting goods, for they
would have two or three stocks of goods
to select from instead of one. Not less
than million and half dollars worth
of clothing is sold here yearly how by
samples. Men come here in the fall
with samples from foreign houses. All
these goods ought to be sold here
in st. Paul right from stocks that
they can examine and select from,
Auditoriums, libraries and public halls
will come naturally after while. Now
we want something that will bring bus.
mess here and make money for our own
citizens. Something that will enable
us to build such structures as refer to.
People come here to trade and are salts
fed with the dry goods houses, the gro
Gerry houses and the boot and shoe es