St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-30
MEN WHO TALK.

Rev. DIR. No, am not so act
i've in church work
Berriott, now as / was, nor in
the present dizziness
St. Paul. does my real estate oc-
cupy much of my time.
/ anticipate though, that within short
! time / shall be connected with the
Christian alliance work of st. Paul.
The alliance is being reorganized, and
by the time the new board of directors
meet next Friday week. plan for act
i've work will have been formulated.
| The suburban churches-St. Paul Park,
Como, st. Anthony Park, etc.-need
constant care and attic ntiOn, and it is
the object of the alliance to watch after
them. To a certain extent our sub
urban growth has been beyond that of
the churches. New organizations and
all active collection of the necessary
funds are in demand.
~
Joseph e. l attribute the present
business depression to the
Osborne, fact that this is presidential
year, and l think that
ST. Paul. when it is over st. Paul
business and real estate
will take an upward turn. have been
a close observer Of presidential cam
paigns since 1856, and have noticed that,
with the coming of each, business &C
tivity goes down. This, to me, is
strong argument for the frightening
of the presidential term to six or eight
years. By so doing these periods of de-
| preston would be made farther apart,
and popular interest in the campaigns
become greater. The time between
campaigns is so short now that the gen
eral public, tired of incessant agitation,
| leaves their conduct to professional
politicians. | would not only make the
presidents term six or eight years, but
have the same law apply to all munich
pal and state Offices, so that each cam
paign should settle the holding of all
the offices.
In its present political conduct our
government represents in theory one OF
the best forms of government in exist
| ence; but in practice one of the poorest.
~
Col. Allen, / well remember the
presidential election
ST. Paul. of 1856, for | was then
in Minnesota and lead.
ing an exciting life on the stage road.
| The country was so thinly settled that
great political excitement over cam
paign was impossible. Then, too, we
were territory, and did not have intlu-
ence upon the final result. Although it
was the first year of the existence OF
the Republican party, apathy prevailed
| in the entire Northwest, and no interest
was taken in the outcome. We were
| in for good time in those days, and
! had no reason to bother about politics
as they do now.
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George w. The report of Expert
HILL shows that there
Hall, ST. Paul. is a decrease Of
twenty-one pounds
pressure to every 100 feet of cotton hose
| at q fire, and in rubber hose a decrease
of sixteen pounds pressure to every 100
feet. This decrease, caused by reason
of friction, would very seriously affect
/
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth streets, where
they feed from four and siX-inch mains.
| On Third and Jackson streets that dam
ger and difficulty is removed by the
hew twelye-inch mains. and the increase
in the number of hydrants. But, at
the same time, to still further protect;
the city should provide cisterns at the
intersection of each street, so that en-
| gines can be masSed at fire.
| ~
Henry ID. My first experience
with Minnesota wheat
| jackson, was in 1870, when,
owning farm of 700
Sioux Falls. acres in the western
part of the state, [
| raised twenty-five bushels to the acre,
and received from 95 cents to S1.12
bushel for it. The profit at that price
| then was not so great as now, for the
reason that the cost of sowing and
reaping was greater. Like many other
| Northwestern farmers, thought that
that sort of thing was to keep on for
ever, and l kept sowing everything to
wheat. Our winters were considered to
be too cold for cattle, the wolves would
eat our sheep, and it was not considered
profitable to handle corn or dairy prod
ucts. In three years after 1870, my 700
acres were mortgaged and foreclosed.
gave up farming and took to some
thing more profitable. To-day those
700 acres represent three well-stOcked
farms, on which not a kernel of wheat
is raised, and where the dairy and beef
products yield handsome profits every
| year.
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Lawrence 1t is not Mr.. BooTH's
| idea to ever make an
Barrett. other tour of the coun-
| try again. The fatigue
| of travel is great. and he has felt for
| some time that if we owned or con-
trolIed theater in New York city it
would he much more pleasant than our
present course. With that idea we will
probably next season give no plays out
side of the metropolis, securing there
temporarily, at least, a playhouse. Our
season next year may not last over three