St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-01
THE GUESTS.

III. w. Wagner, j. +. Eliel,
George A. Clark, j. b. Bushnell,
II. l.. Shute, Morris Mcdonald,
II. III. Small, III. Staples,
c. II. Fowler, Jr., Il. +. Nelson,
j. Chapman, W. j. Dean,
John Barry, j. NJ. Sawyer.
The table was laid in the ladies' Ordi
nary in the form of hollow square,
with the guests facing each other. The
table was decorated with plates of hand
some and artiStically arranged fruit,
which showed Off well against the
snowy tablecloth. DAMS orchestra was
seated Just outside the door, and during
the meal diScOurSed number Of pleas
ing selections.
A. NJ Clerihew, the president of the
association, made the address of well
come. The object of the meeting, he
said, was not to eat or drink, particular,
but it was to enjoy a good social
time, where one might forget all bust
ness cares. ''We are now gaining
strength" said he, land we are fast tax
ing OH metropolitan air. During the
past year we have made rapid strides,
doing more work than for three years
past. This was due, no doubt, to COM
bining with the merchants of st. Paul,
whom we have found to be pretty good
fellows. Our business is growing all
the time and this year we look for an
other big business"
Mayor A. A. Ames responded to the
toast, 1.-The City of Minneapolis" The
mayor said that there was nothing
which helped a city as much as its job
bling interests. 1t was the jObbers who
had really built up Minneapolis. The
broad gauge of the city has made it
what it is for the jobbers, and it will
always continue to be good place. 81
congratulate you, gentlemen, on your
enterprise in tearing from Chicago the
neapoliS. | am glad to see you meet
here, for you need thorough organiZa-
ton, and when you have it you can
successfully cope with any city in the
United States"
THE TOASTS.
J. G. Eliel responded to the toast
'sThe Advantages of Membership in Our
Association" He pleaded that he had
been suffering with the prevailing cpl
demic, and then went on and made
good speech. 1t was almost useless,
he said, to tell business men the adyan-
tage of belonging to the j0bbers' asso-
citation. Organization was the only way
to succeed In business, and every man
appreciated the fact. One thing, how
ever, must be borne in mind. In COM
mercial way, Minneapolis is not yet at
the top of the hill. She is situated in
which all have fields of their own. Min
neapoliS has not a foot of territory
which does not belong as fully to
its neighbOr, and the only way we
can win is by organizing. Sooner or
later Minneapolis or st. Paul must
give up, and it remains to see which
will win. Our competitors are wide
awake and fully organized, and there is
no use in trying to hide this fact. Our
organization has resulted in big saving
in freight bills, and opening up terri
tory which Minneapolis could never
before touch. A few men have done all
this, too. Let the men who never come
to our meetings understand this, and
has just begun, and that their services
are needed.
e. l.. Farwell, president of the St.
Paul Jobbers' association, spoke of the
''Jobbing Trade of the Northwest" He
said he did not propose to spring any
figures on the company at present, but
would confine his remarks to the COM
mercial supremacy the Northwest now
enjoys. He spoke of the growth of the
jobbing trade In the Northwest, and
showed how it would further grow.
Prof. Bradley, superintendent of the
public schools of the city, responded to
the toast, "The Relation of the Public
Schools to the Commerce of the North
west" in an able and forcible manner
No one, he said, would dispute the fact
that education was necessary to sue
ceSSful business career. Large sums
were annually spent inStructing the
children of the Minneapolis public
schools, and it would be returned a
hundred fold in few years, when the
present children were the merchants
and jobberS. Manual training was
being introduced, and in few
years parents who were ashamed
to do manual labor would be proud of
the fact that their children knew how
to earn an honest living with their
hands and brains combined. The Min
neapOliS Exposition and its Importance
to Minneapolis as business center and
its interests to the jobbing trade, was
responded to by Charles M. Palmer,
manager of the Exposition. This toast
was greeted with applause. During
last season, said Mr.. Palmer, we had
over $4,000 people here. Many of them
being manufactures, were faverably
disposed towards Minneapolis as man
ufacturing center. The Exposition
draws business men of the ma
ton and the question is,
chow shall we continue SO
as to attract attention in the future and
implOre you all, gentlemen, to aid in
making the Exposition success in
order that Minneapolis may be bene-
fitted. Look at st. Paul booming itself
during the Ice Carnival. She is doing
right, and when you come back from
there tomorrow bring back some of the
enthusiasm, and when the Exposition
opens next fall, boom your business and
your city the way it should be doomed.
The toast, ''Our General Interest" was
responded to by J. L. Wyman. The
subject, he said, was a wide one, as
wide as the field occupied by the jobbing,
trade of Minneapolis and st. Paul. The
board of trade had attended to every
subject under the sun, he continued,
and would just as soon turn its atten-
ton to the war in Congo as anything
else. He referred to the opening of the
500 road, and showed by practical illus
trations of what benefit it was to Mime
apolis and the whole Northwest. Min
neapolis' future is to be glorious, and
her present is also glorious. There is
room enough for both st. Paul and
Minneapolis and time will demon
strate this. Minneapolis will furnish
vice president Oh the Democratic
ticket next year, and should not Won
der if he would he elected in spite of us
Republicans. mayor Ames blushed
and bowed an acknowledgement, being
cheered in return.) Blanks and Bank
ing" was responded to by J. b. Forgan,
of the Northwestern bank, who made
pleasing speech, in which he paid a
high tribute to the jobbers of the two
cities. lie had been sent here by the
Bank of Nova Scotia, he said, to inspect
Minneapolis as banking field. He was
then bank inspector, and he was so
pleased with this city that he re-
NAMED as manager of the branch
of the Bank of Nova Scotia. He never
had more satisfactory banking expert