St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-30
AT The fESTAL BOARD
The Builders Royalty Dined
and Wined at the Hotel
Ryan.
Five Hundred Guests Place
Their Legs Meath the
Mahogany.
Eloquent ToastS That Surpass
the Ordinary Post Pran-
dial Talk.
Grand Feast Of Reason Sand
Wiched in With the Flow
Of Soul.

"Fhis Is the fourth annual banquet of
the National association that have at
tended,' remarked a New York dele
gate at the Ryan last evening, land 1
confess that it outstrips any one of the
three that preceded it."
The people of st. Paul are Ger
tainly hospitable and ever ready
to do the elegant" whenever
they have the opportunity; but the
like of the banquet extended the Ma
tional Association of Builders of the
the United States by the contractors
and builders board of trade of this city
at the Ryan last evening has seldom
been equaled in the history of the city.
Nearly every prominent citizen who
received an invitation was pres
ent, and the 404 seats provided
for in the main dining hall were insutfi-
cient to seat the crowd of jolly banquet
ers, and nearly 100 overlooked into the
cafe, returning to the main banqueting
hall to listen to the speeches they knew
We're coming. Wills and Seibert'S or
.chestras furnished about fifty pieces,
and stationed as were the players, Just
outside the main entrance of the
banqueting hall, added not, little to
the pleasure of the repast. The vast
crowd of delegates and guests began to
assemble in the corridors and parlors of
the Ryan about 7 o'clock, and at $3.50,
when the banquet began. there was
vast surging crowd everywhere in the
neighborhood of the dining room.
Promptly at $50 the grand orchestra
struck up Prof. Tilleman'S march, COM
posed especially for the occasion. and
hrnn oh %1n Il
poured into the banqueting hall. where
five long tables were laden with the
first course of one of Eugene MehP5
finest spreads. The tables were hand
somely decorated with smilax and bill
lows of rare flowers.
THE FLOW OF SOUL.
When the last course had been fin
ished, Secretary Sayward raped the
banqueters to order and introduced J.
S. Burris, of st. Paul, who delivered
the address of welcome. ION behalf of
the contractors and builders board of
trade" said Mr.. Burris, II have the
honor to extend to you hearty well
come this evening. We feel hOnored
by the presence of so many representa-
tive builders from all over this great
country OF ours, and also pleased to see
so many of our own citizens here to-
night to assist us in entertaining
you. As this will be the last night
you remain with us, tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock we will offer you
drive around the city to give you an
opportunity to see some of our promi-
nent buildings, and you, as builders,
will see that we have in st. Paul both
architects and builders worthy of their
calling. Tomorrow afternoon we shall
turn you over to the other twin sister.
Minimize" and we shall join with
you in partaking of her hos
pitality. Remember, gentlemen, you
will always find Sister 'Minnie''
at home and ready and willing to enter
tain guests. Minnie is settled on that
beautiful plain around the Falls of st.
Anthony; Paul being little more ro-
mantle, settled here in the woods and
bluffs, at the head of navigation on that
great river they call the Father of
Waters Minnie is keeping house up
at the falls. She is good housekeeper,
makes all her own bread, and, they say,
closed with pleasing reference to the
many warm friends the departing
guests had made IN st. Paul, and grace
fully introduced the postmaster of the
evening, L. A. Abbott of st. Paul.
THE TOAST.
This is the bliZzard-ridden North"
said Mr.. Abbott, ''but so many of you
people from other sections have come
here that you have changed our climate
and made it as mild as that of Georgia
or West Virginia" Mr.. Abbott, in
sprightly manner, introduced the new
president, John j. Tucker, of New York.
Mr.. Tucker is dapper little man
with lots of energy, and he threw it all
into his speech.
sin being called upon to respond to
this toast" said he, Il fully appreciate
the high honor conferred upon ME by
the National association, and to which
is accredited the selection of myself as
sponsor. The title is in two parts, the
first as guests; permit ME, on behalf of
the association and individually, to
thank you for the bonnteons hospitality
and good cheer with which we have been
overwhelmed since our arrival within
your gates. And again would thank
you for the lively interest and hearty
cooperation you have shown in the
works of the convention. Some of my
fellow members in New York expressed
a fear, that in coming to st. Paul, they
would find the temperature so severe
that it would take all the spring to get
thawed out, bnt we SHALL 90 back and
reception was so strong that the cold
air had not chance to penetrate. AT
our last convention our eX-president,
MIR. Scribner, told us that when we
came to st. Paul we must not forget
that it is young city, in state but
little more than thirty years old. He
would not be able to show us the mu-
seums, art galleries. etc.. those were
the accumulatIons of years in the older
cities. but he would promise whole
sOuled, generous welcome that would
make us feel that we were in the midst
of earnest, sincere friends, and not a
stranger in strange land, although
many miles from home.
Next year hope we shall have the
pleasure of seeing you all in New York.
and then we shall have our opportunity
to show that same hospitality and eX-i
press those same good wishes that we
have found here and at other conven-
tiOnS. For many years, in fact
for all time l might say
the builders have not received
the recognition they deserve and are en-
titled to in the affairs of the commu-
nifty. The banker, merchant and pro-
fessiOnal man were considered to be the
proper lay representatives in matters
pertaining to the state, and although
the question to be discussed and de-
cided might be directly in his line, the
builder was not considered worthy of
any notice when appointments were
made.
This condition, / am happy to say, is.
being more satisfactorily and Justly
changed, and we shall soon see the
builder consulted and appointed to
positions where the knowledge acquired
by years of industrious application will
be beneficial to the community. In
point of numbers. the people employed
in the building and associated industries
are second only to the farmers, and in
value the product is greater than that
of any single industry in the country,
amounting in 1889 to over $1,000, 000, 900.
These figures are best appreciated when
tell you that in New York city alone
last year there was expended for new
buildings and alterations the i'm
mense sum of s76,0O0,000, nearly S20,-
000.00O more than the value of the
precious metal output for the entire
country. We have already, in connec
ton with the Association of Architects,