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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

At the close of fifty-one weeks OF the
fifty-two which 20 to make up the year
1888. the business men Of st. Paul need
not blush at the results Of their toll
amply set forth on the pages OF the
GLOBE this morning.
Their prudence, foresight energy
and unconquerable determination to
overcome have brought out OF twelve
months Of more than ordinary financial
depression results granGer than even
the most sanguine have expected. Inc
prognostcatOrs at the close of 1857, VINO
pretended to fOresee, after the Whlrl-
wind of success of that year, period
of panic and failure, are discounted
by the record of 1883; routed
horse. foot and dragons. The tide
of advancement may not nave
swept so strongly ahead-nO one eX-
pected it to-but il has not receded, and
The high-water mark Is several inches
higher than ever before. The rise Is
all along the line, with the exception OF
the total value of realty transfers, and
that decline has been one experienced
In common by every city i'll the country.
st. Paul is no whit more affected by TINS
than Kansas City, Omaha, Chicago and
other points which last year felt the
tremendous impulse forward in dirt
transactions.
The jObbng and wholesale trade, the
building operations, the manufacturing
products, the banking interests all show
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
THE MONEY WORLD.
JObbing, Building, Banking, Man.
ufactures and Real Estate.

The jobbers and wholesalers of st.
Paul, with their more than $100,000,000
Of capital and backing, face the new
year with an old years record of bust
ness transactions valued at Sis. 100000,
or ST, 100000 more than.in 1887. OF the
backbone of st. Paul they furnish
more than One-half; and to their untir-
ing energy, faithful conduct of business,
heroic support of their trade in dark
days, is due more than the gratitude of
the remaining interests of the city.
A body of men whose financial
and mercantile transactions take in a
territory bounded on the north by Du
luth, on the east by La Crosse, on the
south by Sioux City, and on the west by
Portland, Or, are to be treated as
princes of a business whose chief aim is
to feed and clothe the world. The agri-
cultural world and rural communities
must have a market; that market in its
turn must have the right to feed and
clothe these communities, and upon this
law has risen the commercial Suprem-
acy of st. Paul, so strong and danger
Gus that Chicago to-day is bending
every energy to cripple and injure her.
Thanks to the untiring labOrs Of men
of the capital and ability of j. j. hill,
A. Is. StlckDey, w. ID. Oedn, l.. Il.
Cakes, Charming Seabury. Maurice
Auerbach, Il. G. Burbank and half
dozen others, the possibility of this in
jury being done becomes less and less
every day. In the very teeth of the
unjust and tyrannical Chicago railroad
system the st. Paul jobbers are to-day
eating into what has been Chicago's
trade, and driving her merchants out of
a field that never belonged to them.
The Hanseatic league of st. Paul, the
Northern Pacific, the Manitoba, the
Minnesota d. Northwestern. the Duluth
and the Wisconsin Central has gained
too great wealth and strength to ever
take a secondary position on account of
Chicago. That city finds the circum-
ference of its trade narrowing every
year. st. Louis, Omaha, Kansas City,
st. Paul are building between it and
the West commercial wall that never
will be crossed. While the Chi
cag0 merchant is to-day posi-
lively fighting for the trade of
Southern Minnesota, the st. Paul
jobber is shipping his own goods to
Washington territory, with way freight
for Dakota. Montana and Idaho. At
the same time he is receiving his stock
over an independent line of road that
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
SAINT PAUL'S SCHOOLS.
The Steady Progress Being Made in
the Education
OF THE YOUNG MINDS.
What the School Board of Minnesota's
Capital City Has Done This
Year.

The board of education of st. Paul.
finds its energies more than taxed to,
keep the accommodations for pupilsl
abreast with the increase of population
Two large two-story brick school build-l
ings on Prior avenue, and one on
Thomas street, have been erected this
year, and the addition to the High school
completed. besides numerous changes
and improvements in the old schools.
The day schools of the city now carry on
their books an enrolment of II, 59S pupils
and night schools 1913, making total
of 1916. The average daily attend
ance is 9,697, and 1,074 more pupils
were admitted to the schools this fall
than at the same time last year. Plans
are under consideration for the open
ing of additional rooms in the Cleve-
lana and Schetfer schools, to accomm0-
date additional enrolment. The old
Hancock school has been sold and plans
are under way for new school build
ing at Lake Park addition.
The financial statement of the board
of education for the year shows round
expenditure of S650,000 and receipts of
S700.000. The county treasurer has paid
over to the board s422.564 for the year
from tax receipts. The high school has
now an average membership of 4S2. The
Madison school has the largest average
attendance. sos: the Neill next, 712, and
the Van Buren, next, GU. At the OPEN
ing of the fall term of the schools
the enrolment for the first thirty
days was 1858. The German course
maintains its position as one OF the
prime favoriteS of them all. The en-
rollment in that course for the term has
been $500, an increase of 345 over last
year. In many respects the schools
were never in better condition than
now. Overcrowding has not been
wholly prevented, but the financial
energies of the board of education are
being heavily strained to keep pace
with population. 1t is estimated that
at the present time the following fairly
represents the number of school chill
dren in st. Paul:
Public schools ............ .............13, 900
Catholic parish and other schools and
Colleges and private schools, tutor
courses ........'.. ...,......... 5,OUO
IotaI. .'''''''... .''''.'''' '''''''-f'ooo
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

stretched. The continued activity in
suburban residence building bears vital
proof to the come t0-stay-ativeneSs of
these strangers. They came to make a
home; they were young and vigorous:
there were openings in almost every di-
rection for their talents: they stayed.
As in the heart of the city the lofty
walls of great business blocks rose, SO
in the suburbs all spring and summer
their cottages and finer residences have
been dotting the plain, until South st:
Paul, st. Paul Park, North st. Paul
and the Midway district bear within
themselves small towns of creditable
size and wealth.
There is not the slightest indication
of check in the tide of population in
crease. The letter of the Folks pub
lished elsewhere; the record of the pres
ent year point to an attainment of the
million mark, much, much sooner than
many anticipate. In population alone
St. Paul is outstripping the grasp of the
minds Of those who would follow her
course.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23


block distant, makes it very accessible.
Entering from Fifth street, the specta-
tor finds himself in very large rOtunda,
and adjoining, on Fifth street, delight
full, spacious reading and writing room,
all with marble thing and sidebOards.
beautiful freScGed walls, solid brass
chandeliers, from which shoot
forth electric arc lights. elegant
easy chairs, ETC., with the best
of upholstering, the whole COM
bining to make the most cheerful and
inviting hotel Office to be found. This
is the first occupancy of the house, the
furniture, fixtures, carpets, linens, bed
ding, silver, table and glassware having
been ordered, supplied and fitted since
April last, in the selection of which Mr..
Baker has had the assistance of his esti-
mable wife, to whose excellent judg-
ment in selecting and arranging is due
the rich and home-like air which per-
vades every part of this beautiful hotel.
The hotel dining-room is in the rear OF
the Office, and Is light. airy, cheerful.
and fitted in the same elegant style as
the entire five stories of the house, with
private stairway for ladies leading TO
the parlors. The "Clifton Cafe" is to
the right of the entrance to the hotel
proper. This is run Oh the European
style and is the model restaurant of the
city.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
UNCLE SANS home.

an development of natural resources,
mean for the st. Paul jObbing trade
such an increase as cannot be measured
by the figures now quoted for this year.
The assured magnitude of the commerce
of the SANITY City is full of the richest
promise for the men who have borne
the brunt of battle in the last decade OF
battles.
Tie building operations of the year
are fully outlined elsewhere and aggre-
gate Sl5,0O0,0 600 The banking field
shows a material increase in exchange,
no failures. and in the interviews pub
liShed elsewhere strong current to-
ward the conservatism that creates
wealth and high credit.
With the subsidenco of the real es-
tate "bOom" to mere legitimate basis,
few manufactures felt the Quietude;
and while the year has been one of
steady work, with healthy demand for
products, the new features are not
special or striking.
A large diStillery-One OF the finest in
the United StateS-opens at South st.
Pau! this month; st. Paul Park has
gained the Phoenix Iron Works from st.
Cloud, and West St. Paul a full-tiedged
years work are to be found in another
column
On the authority of the best posted
and fairest real estate men of st. Paul,
supported by their own heavy invest
mentS, the intrinsic value of st. Paul
dirt was never so great as it is at the
present time. They look on the decline
in transactions this year as legitimate,
point to the heavy sales in the business
center: to the public improvements; the
progress in building and the steadineSs
of the financial market, and find in them
Bmple warrant for new era of activity
and sale. Obligations have been
promptly met, mortgages are decreaS-
Ing, the demand for property is healthy.
In the face of such a situation, no one
seems to have but the highest confidence
in the outlook and the permanent main
tenance of present value.
In conclusion, the city departments
show creditable state of affairs. In
health, water, police, fire and public
Improvements there is nothing but the
best to be told.
The Christmas bells can ring most
joyously over one of the faireSt and
most prosperous cities in the land. The
week of holidays that opens on Tuesday
has been nobly earned by nearly twice
hundred thousand workers of st. Paul.
To one and all the GLOBE sends a
MERRY Christmas" and the best wishes
for New Year.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
ST 1nSEpH'S

face Of failure of crops the
jobbers bear the highest testi-
mony to the payments made by coun-
try merchants and to the general evil
dence at nand that, while times are close.
honesty holds the upper card and debts
are on the wane The real estate men
come in for the highest kind of cOmpll-
ments for the prompt tude with which
they have met their obligations and
lived up to contracts of the past. The
complaint among the retail merchants
as to bad credits is no more than is
heard at any tall season. Inquiry at
the banks fails to reveal the existence
of any large amount of bad paper, and
the general tone of financial and bust
ness circles is one of rejoicing over the
manner in which debtors have faced
the music of what might be called a
hard year. 1t is TO the everlasting honor
of the City of Saints that this is so, and
that individually ard as a corporation
the credit OF her people, at home and
abroad, is as bright and strong as it
ever has been before. 1t is one of the
thousand indications that the fOunda-
ton upon which she stands is solid and
capable of enduring the shock of any
storm.
WHAT 1T MEANS.
1t seemed TO rightly herald what is TO
follow by presenting as the introduction
of this synoptical review the sum totals
of the business transactions of ST. Paul
for 1888, and the allusion to her financial
standing. 1t is now fitting 10 call TO
mind some ancient history.
Mr.. Stewards prophecy that ST. Paul
marked the place for the future seat of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

should live to realize. 1t is not well
either, to forget at this time our veneer
able friend, Mai. Newson, Who in 1886
prophesied that st. Anthony and st.
Paul would eventually become two of
the largest cities of the Western CONT
uent.
Most of these things have come to
pass; some of them are so near of full
iillment that they can be seen; others
still hide in the background. awaiting
the hour and the daY TOR their appointed
coming. 1t is not too much at the pres
ent moment to write that the present of
st. Paul. 10y a thousand signs, heraldS
the grandeur of her future.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
Fl. III. Schroeder,

Who is in Furniture and Undertaking
at l6 and is East Sixth street. has been
in the business since 1868, and is both
well and widely known thereby. He
makes a speciality of the trade
in Fine Furniture, and has been
doing large and profitable
business. He has had the usual
experience of an old business man. in
Guiding, among others, two bad fires:
bnt has survived these circumstances,
and now owns the fine property in
which he does business. His son, Louis
Schroeder, is manager of the Furniture
part of the business, as he himself gives
his undivided attention to the Under
taking part.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company

JOS. oCulitA Drew Ing COMPANY
Depot, corner Second and Sibley streets,
Phillip Sittmann manager The we'll
known Joseph Schlitz Brewing Com
pany corporation, of Milwaukee, has its
st. Paul depot at the corner of Second
and Sibley streets. 1t is a large two
story stone building, 50xl50 feet. This
concern was incorporated in Milwau-
kee in 1874, and the st. Paul branch
was established in 1884. Mr.. Phillip
Sittmann is the manager for this city.
The beer has high reputation. and the
sales in st. Paul are very large. The
sales of the st. Paul branch are re-
stricted to the city, the branch in Min
neapolis having control of all the terri
tory in the Northwest. The officers of
the company are: Mr.. Henry Uihlein,
President; Mr.. Alfred Uihlein, Super
intendent, and Mr.. August Uihlein,
Secretary, with headquarters at the
brewery, in Milwaukee. This extensive
establishment produces 100000 barre Is
of beer per annum. In connection W 18th
the above, the Joseph Schlitz Brewing
Company's Export Milwaukee Lager
Beer is bottled by John c. MOeller Il
Co. at the same place of business in st.
Paul. supplying customers, wholesale,
retail, hotels, restaurants, private fam
lilies, ETC., ETC.; and in this branch of
industry they are probably the largest
and most extensive dealers and sup
pliers in the city.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

or night. the swimming bath being the
largest, with couple of exceptions. in
the United States. Skilled attendants
are provided to serve the wants of all.
The Barber Shop of this firm, on the
ground floor of the hotel, is also one of
the finest in this section of country,
and is fitted up in elegant taste.
The whole establishment employs
twenty men. The firm is COM
posed of Herman and Paul Dee
bach, and both are active, enter
prising young gentlemen. The first has
made st. Paul his home for the past
eighteen years, and the latter for six
teen, and they each are actively con-
nected with the management and con-
Quoting of their business.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
Millions in All Branches of Trade Invested and
Realized in the Span Of the Twelve
Months Ended.
Jobbers, Bankers, Manufacturers and Builders Can
Sit Down to the Festal Board With Merry
Hearts for Joy.
The Globes Symposium Of the Wonder Work That
Has Raised the Sanity City to the
Hgh Places.

government is not yet realized, it is
true; but in the steady trend Westward
of the center of population, the rapid
progress of the West to commercial
and financial standing undoubtedly des-
tined to surpass that of the East, there
are strong hints as to what the future
may contain. If the old statesman,
standing on the steps of the
capitol of Minnesota, could foresee
what was to come out Of the wilderness
that lay before him, how much more
can the seer of to-day discern from the
products of civilization viewed within
the fifty-fve square miles of the St.
Paul of the present. Jay Cooke, more
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
HIS CHRISTMAS SLED.

/ watch him with his Christmas sled;
He bitches on behind
A passing sleigh. with glad hooray,
And whistles down the wind;
He hears the horses champ their bits,
And bells that jingle jingle
You Wooliv Cap, you Scarlet Mitts
You miniature kriss kringlei
1 almost catch your secret Joy
Your ehueklings of delight,
The while you whizz where glory is
Eternally in sight,
With you catch my breath, as swift
Your jaunty sled goes gliding
Der grassy track and shallow draft,
As behind were riding!
He winks at twinklings OF the frost,
And on his airy race
Its tngles beat to redder heat
The rapture of his face
The colder, keener is the air,
The less he cares feather.
But, there he's gone and gaze on
The winterest of weather,
All, boy. still speeding Ger the track
Where none returns again,
To sigh for you, or cry for you,
Or die for you were vain
And so, speed oni the while pray
All nipping frosts forsake YOU
Ride still ahead of grief. but may
All glad things oyertake you.
james WhitcOmb Bile,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
Clifton Hotel,

John B. Baker, Proprietor, Fifth and
Wabasha streets. The Clifton Hall"
is one of the latest candidates for public
favor in the hotel line to citizens of st.
Paul and strangers coming within its
gates. Most centrally and convene ntly
situated, within a stones throw of the
Custom House. Postoffice. new Court
House, City Hall and Grand Opera
House. The street cars pass before the
main entrance, and the cable line, only
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
FIkE FIGHTERS.
Losses Have Not Been as Heavy as
Last Year <

Losses Have Not seen as HeaVy as
Last Year. {
Chief Blacks annual report of the
operations of the fire department will
show an aggregate of losses for 1888
from fire of not quite 100000 and num-
Der of alarms nearly 400, or more than
one a day. During the year no new
engine houses have been built. nor new
companies nor apparatus put in service.
The total number of firemen in active
service is 200. There are nine fire en-
gines, nine chemicals and seven hook
and ladder trucks in service. The big
fires of the year were in the wholesale
district-FOot. Schulz q Co. and Beau
pre-, Keogh d Co.; total loss, 100000.
The department is in frst-cass condi-
ton, and we'll prepared for the confla-
grations most to be feared. The princi-
pal work of improvement at the present
time on the part of the board of fire
commissioners is the protection of the
suburban or frame districts.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
A JOBBER HAPPY.

My business in the aggregate has
been nearly double that of last year.
Since September business has been eX-
ceedingly good, although June, July
and August were dull, for there was
nothing moving. The prospects for
next year are brighter still.
W. A. VAN SLYKE.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

ignores Chicago, and makes st. Paul
Chat much free from her one rival.
This hearty cooperation between the
home roads and the st. Paul iobbers
marks a union of gigantic strength and
energy.
The admission of Dakota as a state:
also Montana; the consequent revival
of the movement Of settlers to these
prospelol sections; the greater security
for credit provided by statehood; the
new impetus to railroad construction,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

George II. MOhr, wholesale dealer in
Wines and Liquors. at 446 Wabasha
street, in Pfeifer'S block, is successor to
Joseph Files. who had been established
about eight years before Mr.. Mohr bought
him out recently, and was q travelling
man for FL les for some time before this.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
THE COURT HOUSE.

We shall open the new court house
and city hall about next May, and in
vite the American people into one of the
finest, best constructed public buildings
in Minnesota. Before the public Off
GERS enter we want the people to see
how well their money has been eX-
pended.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

he handles full lines of Fine Wines
and LIQUORS, and has fine sand-paved
cellars under his warehouse, we'll
stocked with as excellent goods as can
be found in the town. His trade is
largely local, but he has weIl-devel-
oped country business also. Those who
have been dealing with him report him
most excellent person to have rela-
tons with. and he is building up his
trade in firStrate style.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
DEEBACH BROTHERS,
Hotel Ryan Bath Rooms and Bar
Der Shop, Hotel Ryan, Robert
Street

These Bath Rooms are the finest to
be found anywhere in the Northwest,
land compare favorably with any in the
icountry. The parlors are located in the
basement of the Ryan Hotel. They are
fitted up in the most perfect way at a
cost to the proprietors of nearly $4,000,
land every arrangement for comfort and
efficiency is supplied. Turkish, Rus
ssian, Medicated, Shampoo, Shower.
Electric, Swimming and Hot and Cold
Baths are given at all hours of the day
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
INNS RlnEk

spring. 1t is source of qualification
that the gain represents permanency,
and is not of the character of floating
population The influx has been largely
from the New England and Coast states:
partly from the South. The character
of the newcomers may be aptly de-
Scribed by the term business.
Idlers and drones have been few.
and those few unwelcome: the
energetic and enterprising have been
many, and have found hands out
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
LIGHT WIT.

A small boy on being asked who made
him replied that he'd be doggoned if he
knew, but if he ever found the Teller
he'd get even with him.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

A small boy on being asked who made
him replied that he'd be doggoned if he
knew, but if he ever found the Teller
he'd get even with him.
~
One of the best reasons for marriage
yet is that it provides means of susie
nance for a large number of helpless
men.
A woman's reason for doing anything.
and the Whitechapel murderer remain
undiscovered.
Johnny Smithkins. having read "To-
bias, the Boy King of Wall Street."
aStounded his father lately by remark
ing: THE market sagged 2 cents to-
day, pa, and I'm busted. Loan me a
nickel"
Among the disagreeable Out not
dangerous) men we meet every day is
the man who thinks he knows it all
and yet knows that everybody else
knows that he doesn't know anything
about it. The breed is possessed of the
same degree of endurance as the Rocky
Mountain goat.
The honest miners and faro bank
dealers of Montana have discovered an
original way of utilizing that offensive
specimen of the gems homo known as
q backbiter, or in camp parlance, "a
Jealous, ornery, envious, sneaking sort of
cuss." They use him for swinging
target in their shooting galleries.
-
Is marriage failure? The Mormon
elders have the floor.
-
Chicago literati are now Growing over
St. Louis because they have Robert
Allsmear employed in their Union
Packing houses.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

Minnesota has less anxiety to get rid
of Ignatius Donnelly than to know what
to do with him.