St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-30
INSTEAD OF ICE PALACES,
a Plan for Avertising our In
!. !, uustrial Facilities is Suggested

a Plan for Avertising our In
bn dustrial Facilities is Suggested.
90 Attorney Charles N. Bell has the fol
lowing to say in regard to the wisdom
OF advertising ice carnivals for Minue-
sofa in general and st. Paul in pa r
ticular. The communication is one
which will impress many with the
syatae or the departures advocated.
''1 Il read that resolution will be In
omoduced for consultation at your meet
ing OF Monday morning next, to the
effect That all future advertising to the
world OF winter sports and building OF
5 ice palaces in st. Paul ought not to be
encouraged, for the reason 1t has given
in the past, and will continue to give in
the future. to the outside world, a
false Impression of the qualities of our
( climate, and the character of st. PauPs
Industrial products.
re Permit me to say, | sincerely hope
such resolution will be introduced
and that it will receive q most earnest
and emphatic Endorsement by your
body. have been convinced from the
beginning Of this business that all this
sending 10 the four quarters of the globe
of pictures of ice palaces, polar bears,
tOb0ggan suits, and the coming of Rex
B0reais, was little less than suicidal,
and the use of public funds to that end
was a municipal crime. A cotton eX-
position or a picture of coin palace
may attract restless. energetic youth
from its Eastern home or from It's trans
Atlantic associations, but picture of
an ice palace must certainly repel.
cannot but feel. had we spent the
same amount of time. energy and pri-
vate and public funds in advertising
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featuring industries, the returns would
have been much more lasting and salts
factory.
Inow suggest that for the next two
years we abandon this suicidal course
and adopt new policy of this charac-
ter: -
Twill be one of forty taxpayers who,
for the next two years, shall join i'm
making fund of six thousand a year to
be expended by some competent man in
collecting and distributing to the
world our needs and oppOrtuni-
ties for industrial and manufacturing
enterprises. When this money has
been raised, let the contributors select
committee of five to engage and c0nn-
sci with some competent man, who, at a
salary of not less than $1,000 per annum,
shall devote his whole time 10 this
Noih ~. Cnouiu tlio putty UC cuCi ScliC-
ally adopted, am satisfied at the end of
the two years we will see the beginning
of plants and structures more lasting
than ice palaces, and far more inviting
and beneficial to our working people.
If it has in the past been good policy,
and if it has been legal, for the city TO
use public money to build ice pal
aces and to deck our city for
the coming of the frost king, it
certainly will be legal for the council
to use larger amounts each year to in
crease this nucleus of $1,000. If the use
of the public press and of private purse
has heretofore been freely given to adj
vertise our fleeting winter sports, surely
the same generosity and local pride can
be drawn upon to herald to, the world
opr new departure for substantial in
dnStrial growth. st. PauFS future
growth and greatness must rest on in.
dustrieS more lasting and substantial
than building ice palaces or swapping
Suburban corner lots. In these modern
days, large inland cities without fac
tories aud without Sm0keStackS never
were. and never can be, built.