St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-21
TOPICAL TALK.


estlng data respecting the increase in value
of property in this city. Commencing with
the assessment of 1860 and coming on up to
1888, one gets pretty clear idea of the
growth of the city by the corresponding
growth of values in real estate From a
tabulated statement of the assessments on
business property in st. Paul, furnished by
Auditor KAHN for publication in the forth
coming annual report of the chamber of
commerce, l find that in 1860 the northwest
corner of Third and Sibley streets was as
sessed at $50 per foot; in 1888
it was assessed at 1915 per foot
The corresponding corner of Third and
jackson streets was assessed in 1860
at 500 per foot; in 1888 at ST 900.
The assessment of corner of Sixth and Jack
son in 1860 was $50 per foot; in 1870, $500;
in 1880 $3.50, and in 1883, $780, In 1860
the northwest corner of Seventh and Cedar
streets was assessed at SIS per foot; in 1880
it is $3.50. On the West side the northwest
corner Of Ducas and Fillmore streets was
assessed i'll 1880 at 81 per foo.; last year it
was assessed at S105. Eight years ago the
assessment at corner of Ducas and Fairfield
was SIS; last year it was S195. And in his
report the assessor states that real estate in
st. Paul is not assessed for more than so per
cent of its selling price.
TTT
To lie lost in the woods is a bad enough
fate for full-grown woman. but when the
lost person happens to be a child, and that,
too, at a time when forest fires are raging, a
feeling of horror creeps over one at the very
announcement OF the calamity. Such must
have been the feeling experienced by HOPE
WELL CLARK, lana commissioner of the st.
Paul & Duluth, and his associates, when
news was brought TO their camp at Sturgeon
Lake, last Tuesday, that five-year-old child
of ANTON GITz had wandered away from
home two days before into the woods and
had not been seen or heard of since notw1th-
standing all the neighbors for miles around
had been securing the forests in search of
him. Mr.. CLARKE was in charge of a COM
pany of land examiners Or explorers at
the time he heard the news, and Immediately
organized a relief corps under the direction
of Messrs. HAYDEN ana OLDHAM, and started
them out with instructions to make thor
ough and systematic search for the child. and
not desisJ until the boy was found. Up to
that time party of thirty-eight men had
been securing the woods in every direction
without discovering a trace of the child.
When Mr.. HAYDEN had organized his relief
corps he consulted his map before starting
was creek, and it occurring to him that the
child would be more liable to go down hill
than up, he followed the downward course of
the stream. AT the junction of this creek
with another one he found the little fellow
sitting by n burning log, a relic of
the fire that had swept through the
forest several days before. There the poor
little fellow had been in all the loneliness of
forest solitude for forty-eight hours, without
a mouthful to eat and no bed but the bare
earth. oh, how his little heat must have
leaped with joy when he saw the resculng
party, and no tongue can tell the gratitude
that filled the hearts of the agonized parents
when their iong-lost darling was brought
back to them in the arms of the brave res
cuers. Little ANTON said he had not suffered
any from cold, as he had good fire all the
time, but he was very hungry.
THT
The Oklahoma excitement indicates that
the people of this country are land-hungry
l am inclined to think that it is good sign
The tendency within the last few years has
been for the population to drift away from
the farms to the cities until the latter have
been overcrowded. Unfortunately, too much
of the homestead area has already passed
into the possession of the big land syndi-
cates-unfortunate for the nation and unfor-
tunate for the syndicates; for more men have
peen losers than gamers by trading in unim-
proved lands. 1t is always a wise policy for
nation to encourage its population in secur-
ing homes for no nation ever yet came to harm
by multiplying the number of its landholders
The man VINO is the owner of his home can
not be bad citizen. He finds an unusual
incentive to patriotism by being a stockhold-
er i'll the nation. If the government could
induce the unemployed population of the
cities to take up homesteads where lands are
open to settlement. to till the soil and gain
the increased value thus impaired to their
holdings the industrial problem would be
solved and social disturbances be at an end.
HTH
The superintendent of q BROOKLYN street
car line, who is in the Bermudas for his
health, recently sent TO each of the $50 en-
ployes of the company an Easter lily plucked
from 1.-The Garden of the Lord Accompa-
nying the flower was a card with these words
on it: May this chaste symbol of purity and
beauty turn our thoughts at this season of
the year 10 the contemplation of Him who
died and rose again that our lives might be
made pure The next day the tail of every
| horse in the street car service was decorated
with lily.
The street car strike, like the ice carnival,
has improved the health of the city. Out
door exercise is the thing for health, and
there is no more wholesome form of exercise
than walking. If the street railway traffic
were suspended Il month or two the doctors
| would have to go out of business.