St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-12
TWO EXTREMES MEET.
Junior Pioneers Entertained by
Speakers Representing Young
aud old

The Junior Pioneers were very pleasantly
entertained at their regular monthly meeting
last night After the routine business had
been disposed of able and instructive
speeches were made by gentlemen who had
been invited to address the association. The
flrstspeaker was L. G. Ingersoll, who spoke
as a junior member of the Junior Pioneers.
He spoke of the old days and school houses,
and recalled "reminiscences Of scenes
and events that provoked considera-
ble laughter and much applause. He
said that he recognized many faces among
those present whom he very seldom met ex-
cept at such gatherings as this. This, he
stated, was due to the physical changes in
our great and rapidly growing city. The
scenes of mis- childhood, where they were
wont to have pitched battles with the up
town and downtown boys, were now occu-
pied by handsome residences, busy work
shops and beautiful boulevards. He referred
to several old landmarks that are now gone,
among them being the old Jefferson school
on the hillside and the old drug store of Dr.
Miller, which. he remarked, was filled with
canaries and tobacco smoke He spoke of
some exploits Of the older members of the
association mentioning p. j. Dreis as being
able to swim the Mississippi twice without
stopping and telling an anecdOte about Tru
man s. White, while employed by the old
firm of Day & jerks. He closed with an ear
nest appeal to those present to keep up the
interest in the organization; and thought eV-
cry one should enjoy this gathering once
month where old friendships could be re-
newed and new ones formed. And when
one OF its members was taken away by death
they could lend helping hand to the wild
owed mother and orphans.
The next speaker was Maj Il. NJ. Newson,
who spoke as senior pioneer. He told how
when he started West from Connecticut he
thought that state was about all there was to
the universe; how his heart swelled and
grew stronger as he got farther west and
saw the boundlesS prairies and immense area
of country stretching out before him: how
when he reached Dubuque he thought he
had reached the end Of the world and stood
on tip-toe and tried TO look over the edge.
From there he came to ST. Paul, and
the energy and push be observed here
induced him to stay. He narrated the early
newspaper history of the city and told many
amusing incidents. He was employed by
Joe Brown, the editor of the Democrat, and
got into trouble the first editorial he wrote
1t was rather too Republican to suit the
tastes of Gov German, who came down and
swore he had ruined the party. Old Joe
Brown. however Daclfied the governor, and
after that his editorials were more in favor OF
the Bourbon party. He then recited many
incidents about people who had long since
gone to that plane from which they are
raised to another and everlasting one.
Here the speaker changed and went into eyo-
luton, and prophesied future events for the
Twin Cities. The time would come when
the combined cities would have population
of over a million. Science will have pro-
crossed so far that the New York Herald can
be transmitted to st. Paul and put on the
streets within half an hour after publication
i'll New York, and newspapers will be
condensed, and contain nothing but gos pei
truth. Then trusts were attacked and
scored numerically. The speaker said if he
were sent to the United States senate he
would have law enacted that would pre-
vent any one in the future from amassing
over one million dollars instead of twenty or
thirty as iris now. He wanted it distinctly
what any one has at present but what they
would accumulate in the future. The or
ganization by rising vote thanked both Mr..
IngerSoll and Maj. Newson for their remarks
and adjourned.