St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-01
DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES.
Washington. london, Paris and
st. Petersburg.

Gath in the Cincinnati Inquirer.
Nothing proceeds so crookedly and
unexpectedly as the development of
ed to have all its power through It's
shipping; whereas, at the present time
its main source OF growth and stability
is first through the manufactures and
the next accessory source of strength IS
through its social attractions.
In the same way London has grown to
be the greatest city of the modern
world, and the greatest city, indeed, or
any age; yet you may travel ten miles
in London and not SEE anything bigger
than public house where the inhabi
tants c0ngregate or toll. The intnitude
of small trades constitute an aggregate
of empire in q general capital like Paris
or London. Some obstacles exist III the
nature of territory to extensive manu-
featuring at the city of Washington,
but it is the opinion of those who have
looked at this question closest, that the
future power of Washington is not to
lie in trade. but in society.
At the same time there is nothing
al oIt Washington so artificial in in
centiVe or situation as TO leave it nigh
and dry, like st. Petersburg, for exam
pie, which was the conception of an
energetic tyrant to overawe his Eu-
ropean neighbOrs.
| found st. Petersburg last summer to
be apparently duller than Washington
city. though with much larger pOpula-
ton: vet | understand that the winter
of ST. Petersburg is the great factor
OF influence in the whole empire OF Rus
STA, with its population of 120.O00,000.
Hardly any of the real CAPT tails of Eu-
rope contained anything to indicate
their extensive growth at the outset but
the political idea. Paris was merely
far inland and island stronghold upon
which the crown of France and the par
lament thereof soon settled and held
fast. and the result has been city of
2,500,G00 of people.
Berlin was an after thought rather
than an original choice for a capital.
but the imperial tide ofevents has made
il become place of nearly one and
half million OF people. Vienna took its
prominence from having become the
favorite city of the dynastic line of
Roman German emperOrS, and it IS a
place also of a million Of people. AS
nations find their outlines and secure
their routes of communication, the path
finder in the course of time becomes the
capital finder; this has been demon
Strated time and again by the founders
of great external movements who have
come to Washington to prosecute their
equities and there have settled and died.
Long after Robert Fulton was in the
grave his grandchildren and great
grandchildren at Washington obtained
a settlement in equity for his great in
vention. Then there came John A.
Suffer, on whose place gold was discOv-
cred in California, to ask tor some com
penSatiOn which he could not obtain
from those who had profted directly by
his tolls, and he is buried in this vicin-
ity. SchOolcraft. who investigated the
Indian tribes, left his widow and family
about Washington.
We have now entered upon the sec
ond chapter of this social federalism. in
that nearly ali men OF intellectual force
find their own country TO give the
greatest promise of social employment
10 come to Washington. The large
| merchants of the West, like Mr.. Letter;
the railway powers of the Pacific coast,
like Mr.. Stanford; the manufacturers,
like those from Springfield, o.; the
chief operators on Wall street, like d.
P. Morgan and John G. Moore, look to
Washington as the place of ultimate
settlement in order that their money
may give them better sort of inter-
course than they get with their pawn
brokers and stock Opeators.