St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-11
The Commercial Club Con-
sideps Matters Of Mutual
Interest.
The Leppla Case Fails to De-
velop Into Even a Tame
Sensation.
The Last Payment by the Eng
lish Syndicate Upon Min
<neapolis Mills.
Senator Washburn Airs His
Opinions--A Merry
Burglar.

The Twin City Commercial club habits
third regular meeting and banquet at
the West hotel last evening. Covers
were laid for $50. and the tables were
filled with the leading business men of
the Twin Cities. The menu was served
in ten courses. A letter was read from
E. f. Drake, of St. Paul, in which he
excused himself on the plea of sickness,
but wrote words of encouragement to
the club in their efforts toward CONNER
cial union.
He spoke in glowing terms ofathe
Meeker island scheme and offered to be
one of 100 to contribute his share
toward the subscription of 100000
for the furtherance of the project. A
letter was also read from E. R. Gilman,
in which he favored home manufactures
and told of the amount of copper wire
he used in his business, which would
almost be enough to form an excuse for
the foundation of such a factory as
could make it in either of the Twin
cities.
J. T. Wyman, of Minneapolis, was
the first speaker on the subject for dis
cussion, The Cooperation of the Twin
Cities in Manufactures" He spoke of
the brilliant future before the cities,
and predicted a population at the end
of the present decade of a round mill
ion. He advocated as measure toward
closer commercial union, the encour-
agement of the building of railways,
so that there might be close com
petition in that line. There should
ho nffarad IN iT,,n, iurl
ton. that the adjacent country might be
built up and a market be thus made for
different lines of manufactures. He
told of what a great field there was for
linen manufactures. He said that the
farmers at the present time burned their
flax for fuel. Yet samples of it had
been sent to Belfast, and 1t proved to
be of equality that turned out linen that
compared favOrably with the best Of
Irish manufacture.
Henry A. Castle, of st. Paul, said that
the people of st. Paul had come to the
same conclusion with regard to Mime
apolis that the government had arrived
at as regards the lndians-that it was
cheaper to feed them than to fight them.
They had spent years in fighting them,
and now they wished to join with them
in the development of the great
advantages boosted of by the two
cities. He thought that it was
time that petty jealousies were laid
aside and the business men Of both
cities unite in grand effort towards
the furtherance of the interests of each.
81 don't mean to say" said he, ''that the
arms and hunt for strawberry marks.'
He said that not single article could
be used toward the building up of either
of the cities but what 1t is in
measure beneficial to the other. The
cities had the locality, and all that was
to be done was to unite in an endeavor
to induce others to come and put in
their money. and it would be returned
to them Jhousanifold. He said that
it would be benefit if each man en-
gagged in manufacturing had two or
three competitors where he now had
one in the same line of business, for it
would give confidence to outsiders
that this is the headquarters for
manufacturing to center at. Small
firms, he said, were leaving the smaller
towns of the state as soon as their bust
ness outgrow them, and were coming to
st. Paul and Minneapolis to locate. He
favored the fostering of sentiment in
favor of patrOniZing home manufact-
ures,. and, in his opinion, it would
double the home industries.
j. Newton Mind gave facts and fig
ures in the early history of Chicago,
which went to show the parallel in its
early lumber business with Minneapo-
lis. He claimed that one great reason
for the building up of that great city
was owing to its cheap lumber. That
had induced the starting OF manufact-
uring interests that used lumber. and a
mighty city was the result. He spoke
of the field open here for furniture
manufactures, and showed how Min
neapoliS and st. Paul had as good adj
vantages as Grand Rapids for the de-
velopment of that industry. He said
to the fact that this Northwest had the
first hardwood lumber that was
found when coming from the West,
and therefore had a right to eX-
pect that the future would see supply
ing that West with manufactured hard
wood articles. He said that the nucleus
had been formed, and that at the pres
ent time there were nineteen manu-
factories using hardwood in the MANN
facture of furniture in the Twin Cities.
G. E. Martin, of st. Paul, told of how
the chamber of commerce in that city
had held meeting, and had appointed
committee to confer with one from
Minneapolis and form joint committee
to form and support bureau of immi-
grafton, for the purpose of soliciting
| manufactures that may want to come
| and locate in the Twin Cities. He
thought that the two cities should join
as one in that matter, and give them
hearty welcome.
T. B. Walker poured a little cold
| water on the affair at first by speaking
of the fact that, should the idea be to
build up the interurban territory be-
tween the two cities, Minneapolis could
hardly be expected to cooperate with
| much vigor, as that part of the territory
was now chiefly in ST. Paul, although
Minneapolis had been instrumental in
| building up great part OF it. If that
| should be the only idea. st. Paul would
be the only one benefited thereby. He
believed in union, and said that If
| committee could be appointed that
would adjust the benefits evenly be-
| tween the two cities, he for one would
be willing to abide by it.
Thomas Cochran wound up the speech
| making only a humorous address that
| convulsed his audience, and the meeting
| adjourned at a late hour.
LEPPLA VS.. kRUMWEIDE.