St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-16
SOME DULUTH GOSSIP.
Miles Hastings Chats Enter
tainingly About the Rapid
Growth Of Lakeside.
He Thinks Duluth and It's
Street Railway Company
Are o K Financially
A Few Personal Pleasantpies
About People Formerly
Of st. Paul.
Manager Watkins Cries for
More Doodle to Float His
Hired Men.

AS wonderful as has been the growth
and development of the city of Duluth
during the past few years. more wonder
full still has been the growth of the en-
vironS that encompass it at its eastern
and western limits. What is now
Duluth proper will, inside of five years,
become almost depopulated, so far as
residences are concerned, and the
froWning Gibraltar-like rock will be dot
ted over with substantial business
blocks. Duluth is not pretty place to
live in. While Dame Nature has done
wonders for it in sweeping its unattract-
i've basic curve with the grand and
beautiful Superior, the old lady has al
ready placed the seal of diSpleasure on
the coming metropolis by humping into
the air this giant boulder, which frowns
down upon the liquid placidity of Su-
periOr as much as to say: YOU'RE not
in it,"
A home on 45-degree sIoping precI-
pice is not the most desirable place on
earth. and Duluthians who are begin
ming to realize this are moving away
from town as fast as they can cOnven-
Ientlv do so. The exodus has set in
principally towards the east, and all
along the line of the Duluth & Iron
Range road hamIets nave sprung up
where heretofore was naught but a
bowling wilderness of pine and beech.
The growth of these little burghS in
many instances has been phenomenal.
The town of Lakeside furnishes good
example of this tendency to sprOut like
the tabled Jacks bean stalk. Three
years ago scarce dozen houses Occu-
pied the site of this little giant by the
sea; 1000 houses would be fair eSti-
mate at the present time, and the pOpu-
lation somewhere between three and
four thousand. This is scarcely cred
ible, but it is fact easily demOnstra-
BILE by a short sojourn In the neighbOr
hood. Lakeside is as independent as
a hog on ice, to use a hOmely
Americanism. She asks no odds
of any one; and, as proof of this.
she has severed all allegiance from the
mother city of Duluth. She has her
own mayor and city officers, her own
water works and sewerage system, and
in time. no doubt. she will be using
Lakeside gas. Lakeside is within five
miles of the city, just near enough to
keep Duluth in sight, and far enough
away to escape the smoke and dust and
clamor of the noisy city. 1t is situated
on the borders of the lake, which tenn
perS the summer zephyrs with refresh
ing GOODNESS, and makes life one long
dream OF contentment and happiness.
The land on which the town is loca ted
is owned and controlled by a local syn
dictate of which W. G. Sargent is preSi-
dent. Any one DESTROYS of procuring an
enjoyable home can do so at terms
which are most reasonable. All that
is necessary to be done is to
purchase lot, paying one-half down.
The syndicate will then make you a
loan wherewith to build suitable resi-
dence, the rent Of which goes to satisfy
the mortgsge incumbrance. In this
way one with slender means can secure
for himself his own home in compare
lively short time. and it is astonishing
the humber of people who are now
property holders at Lakeside who here
tofore have been content with rented
houses in the city.