St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-26
As City, 1t Is Coming Right to the Front With All OF the
Great improvements That Make
Metropolis

has revOlutiOniZed lake and ocean trans
portation, may also enjoy his Christmas
turkey with clear conscience. His
great "whalebacks'' that first inspired
ridicule. then curiosity, and finally adj
miratlon, have come to stay. The Wet
more. his latest production. is now
blowing the Pacific ocean, thus proving
TO the world that McD0ugalPs pigs"
can live as well in salt water as in
fresh,and can go through the mountain
Gus waves of the Atlantic and Pacific
with as much safety as they can pass up
and down the Detroit river. As a fair
sample of what the lake traffic means
for Duluth, the following statement may
be cited: The big steamer K. c. Pope
left Buffalo last Thursday, Nov. -,
loaded with coal and merchandise. Mon
day, Nov. %, she left Duluth loaded with
$4,000 bushels OF wheat. The Pope is
not Whaleback, but she is whale"
The largest "WhaleOack" on the lake is
the III" An even 100000 bushels of
wheat is small jag" for her. ami she
has been known to carry 10000 bushels.
The arrivals and departures at the port
OF Duluth this year have been about %
per cent greater than last year.
Duluth has changed wonderfully dur
ing the past year. The real estate boom
of the spring and summer of 1890 died
out year ago, but it was succeeded by
Healthy Condition
of the public pulse. Curbstone brokers
found their occupations gone and many
irresponsible parties were forced out.
But the general prosperity went on.
The numbers OF new buildings erected
since then are too great to mention.
The central high school, pronounced 10y
the best judges the handS0meSt school
building in the United States, is nearly
competed as to the outside walls. Ii
will cost over 100000. The Lyceum
thcater, probably the most artis-
tic and most beautiful in the
Northwest, cost A. NJ. Miller
the modest sum of 100000. The new
union depot cost $3.50. 900; the Handy
school at Woodland Park cost $4,000.
The dry goods building of NJ. S. Bur
rows cost $4,000. The street car syS-
TEN has been improved. ana tracks have
been extended into West Duluth. six
miles from the Spaiding hotel. The
Seventh avenue incline is enc of the
greatest undertakings Imaginable. 1t
reaches clear to the top Of the hill. a
distance of ten blocks, and next spring
an electric street railway will be built
for a mile beyond the power house at
the top. Already the population is eX-
tending out beyond the hill, The lum-
Der dealers and the architects all unite
in saying that the year 1891 has been a
busy one for them.
The excursion into the Northwest has
done great deal towards uniting the
interests of Duluth and the Red river
valley, and that, too, is a cause for self
cOngratdlatiOn and thanksgiving. In
fact, the city looks towards the future
with buoyant spirits, confident that ma
terial prosperity is in the very atmo
| sphere. Speaking of temporal things
! necessarily reminds one of spiritual
! things. This has been great year fOI
churches. The PresbyterianS have Just
finished their new edifice on East Sec
Ond street, and Will dedicate it few
days before Christmas. The English
Lutherans have Just dedicated theil
neat little church on Third street. and
the Methodist are now rearing toward
the skies the finest church building OF
all. When finished it will cOstnearfy
! 100000, and will have a seating ca
pacity of 1880. The Y. NJ. G. A. build
! ing on Superior street will cost $4,000
| Whenever one looks he sees prosperity
not the rapid, wild sort of prosperity
which too often affiicts a Western town
but prosperity of a substantial kind
which is to be found in new buildings
new enterprises, new homes. By the
way. Duluth sends greetings to Min
/ ME. "the convention city,an to paul, ,
her twin brother. GEORGE I. Cook.