St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-11
Sights and Thoughts Result
ant Upon q Stroll on Mic
ollet Avenue.
Crisp Weather That Plants a
Rosy Standard in the
Cheeks of Girls.
Minneapolis Equipages and
Horseflesh--Men Of Wealth
Who Work.
Not Many Merchant Princes
A Class Who May Talk
Blue Blood.

Reaction from politics is slow, espe-
eially so long as the precise results are
in doubt and the loaves and fishes re-
main undiStributed. Business suffers
from an overdose of politics, and the
commercial stomach is violently endeav-
oring to unload the nauseating charge.
Though Nicollet avenue has been crowd
ed with pedestrians for the past three
weeks and the great retail artery OF
Minneapolis kept throbbing away, the
pusationS were feveriSh, not healthy,
and brought no nourisMment to the body
mercantile. But the life stream is be-
ing purihed, and yesterday afternoon it
hue wore look it has not known since
spring was here. Never is nor could
the temperament and condition of city
be more easily read than by a glance
along this characteristic thoroughfare.
The crowds on the sidewalks and the
throngS of vehicles in the street speak
a language of their own. and Saturday
afternoon, particularly, the language is
eloquent and unmistakable.
Yesterday was the day Mrs. Hemans
had no mind when she spoke of the red
mans summer as preferable to the time
when the rose first hung out its GRIM
son banner. There were 10 roses yes
terday, except the rose banners that
health and the bracing ozone of Mime
sofa had planted on the cheeks and lips
of Minneapolis girls. There were even
no rOSeS on the new fall and winter
hats, nor flowers of any kind, as their
places have been universally filled by
birds, feather tips OF little fur animals.
But there were enough bright eyes and
pink cheeks TO compensate for a wilder
ness of flowers. An Eastern mana
connoisseur of beauty Once said the
Minnesota girls were not, as a rule,
what you would call beauties.
This NAV be true technically, but it is
matter of remark that Minnesota air
gives to the daughters of the state COM
pleXions that are matchleSs in their col
oring, and eyes that for brightness cam
not be surpassed. With perfect COM
pleXion and beaming eyes, how could
the Minneapolis girls be anything else
than pretty. 1t mightb said that the
niSanthrope is hopeless who could have
strolled down Nicollet, yesterday, with
out being touched by the winning grace
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1t has doubtless been noticed that
Minneapolis, with all its wealth, is far
below other cities of its size and impor-
tance in the matter of equipages. Yes
terday, for instance, when the curbS
were lined three deep with turnouts of
every character and description, there
We're very few that would attract atten-
ton. The horses are. in many cases,
thoroughbredS and very valuable, but
there is an utter lack of style i'll the
harness, and the carriage is as old-faSh-
joined as Elder Stewards hat. There is
an occasional Victoria, very stylish and
everything, and an equally occasional
Brewster, and even Iilbury, with
handsome fair leather harness or fash
ing silver plate, but such is an
exception, not rule, with the
wealthy Minneapolitans. Liveries, too,
are scarce, and for the most part are
worn by the cOachmen rented for the
occasion. Gov. Pillsbury, for instance,
drives magnificent horsefiesh, but with
out any more style than last years
birds nest. Gov. Washburn's family
turnout is fair only to mlddling, and
Dorilus Morrison uses coupe Of only
moderate pretension. Tom Lowry's
coach is one of the best equipped in the
city, but even it would attract no spe-
cial attention. 1t is noticeable that the
really stylish, spanking equipageS are
owned by men in moderate clrcum-
stances. whose taste is ahead of their
bank accounts, but who can afford the
real luxury of a superb turnout. go.
On Nieollet avenue one seldom meets
the merchant princes of Minneapolis,
though, by the way, Minneapolis has
10 merchant princes. They are all
manufacturing marQuises or real estate
barons. There is scarcely man in
Minneapolis vino would be called
wealthy, who has made the money in
mercantile pursuits alone. Look at the
rich men, for instance. Tom Lowry
made his money, after he was married,
principally by nerve, but he sold moth
ing except stocks, real estate and de-
bilitated street car Ukraines. c. A.
Pillsbury has never sold coffee or cal
leo: his wealth, as well as that of John
S. and George A, came from milling
and pine lands. DoriluS Morrison's
came from milling, saving and pine
land, and j. 3. Bassett's did the same.
L. B. Walker dropped business to go
into pine lands and saving. ii. Il.
of real estate. and p. 3. Winston built
railroads and got affiuence. Peter VOL
ford ami Lac Stafford supplied the
needy with ready money and made their
five talents into twenty, Then there
are Sam Hill, r. B. Langdon, w. S.
King, S. G. Gale. e. NJ. Wilson, A., j.
Blethen, John Blaisdell, O. C. Merri-
man, Loren Fletcher G. NJ. Loring, w.
+. Steele, c. III. Petit, R. p. Russell,
Winthrop Young, and dozen others in
cluded in the list of rich mel, and not
one ever made money over the counter.
George X. Newell, John G. Oswald and
Anthony Kelly are the exceptions,
though each of them has done more or
less specializing in real estate on the
side.
Yet how seldom any of these men are
seen on Nicollet avenue and afOot. The
other day Tom Lowry walked up the
street. and was seen to gaze curiOusly
at the buildings, as though they were
strangers to him. The fact is these men
are all busy. Not drone among them.
They are working away SIS though they
had vet their fortunes to carve out. And
this calls to mind the fact that Mime
apols, rich as it is and opulent as are
its leading citizens, has marvelOusly
small leisure cIass-not only small in
proportion, but absolutely small. No
rich man has enough to warrant him in
retiring and enjoying it. Tom Lowry
is hustling as hard as though he had a
last years stock of goods on his
shelves and mortgage on. it
due tomorrow. The Pillsburys each
work as hard as any men in
their employ. Washburn keeps the
same hours he eXacts from his clerks.
Iangdon and Winston work for their
contracts just the same as when they
began life, and SO it goes. Even their
sons, those who have them, are re-
CURED to work as though their exist
ence depended upon it; so Minneapolis
is spared the sight of a large class of
wealthy idlers of the "Bertie Vanal-
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