St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-14
A GIANT TWIN CITY.
Topeka (Kan.) Mail

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At2p p. m. carriage ride was rendered
the association by the citizens of st.
Paul, and all enjoyed the treat OF visit
ing the business portion and outskirts
of one of the most beautiful and attract
i've cities in the country. The nice
streets, massive business blocks, fine
churches and schools, elegant hotels,
electric railway system, palatial resi-
denceS, beautiful parks. etc, were the
attractions that we'll repaid the hun
dredS of guests. st. Paul has reason to
be proud of her newspapers. The Pho
neer Press and GLOBE are metropolitan
journals, hardly eXcelled by Chicago or
New York The GLOBE is a valuable
newspaper plant, and has magnificent
building. ten stories high, with lofty
tower from the top of which good view
IS obtained of the city and its surround
ings. The state capitol building will
not compare at all with the fine building
approaching completion in the great
state of Kansas. 1t is brick structure,
but answers the purpose very well,
when it is considered that new build
ing cannot be built with the feeling that
now exists between st. Paul and its
twin sister Minneapolis. There ought
TO be no jealousy nor rivalry between
the two cities. Either place is busy
city-a young Chicago in reality. Six
different trunk lines of road traverse
the country between these two cities
and the great metropolis on Lake Mich
igan. The old motto 'ln union there is
strength" could we'll be applied to the
Twin Cities. Neither of them can grow
without the other, and it would seem
that with a magnificent new capitol
building, one worthy the united cities
and such a structure as Minnesota
ought to have, erected midway between
the two cities, it would become the
olive branch that in the near fut-
ure would cause the hearts of both to
beat as one. From center to center of
each city the distance is ten miles.
The electric road carries passengers
rom the extreme limits of either place
for 10 cents, a distance of at least twenty
miles. Between the two points resi-
dences are built the entire dis
lance, and in travelling it stranger
would hardly know that there were two
towns. each under different corpora
ton. The future of st. Paul would seem
10 be very bright. Its area covers over
$4,000 acres, and its assessed valuation
in 1890 was over S130, 100000. 1t has q
banks, with a capital and surplus of
over 10000, 000 1t is at the head of
navigation on the Mississippi, surround
ed by lakes, of which there are 1000 in
the state. 1t has total of 1873 churches
and 45 public school buildings, employ
ing over $50 teachers, with $4,000 pupils.
Last year its jobbing houses did bust
ness of over 1922, 100000. Its manufact-
uring increased from S15, 900, 900 in 1881
to over SCI, 000 600 in 1890. 1t has 80
parks and public squares. Its population
in 1850 was only $50, and last year was
100 15e iC tho railroad confer of the
Northwest, there being tWenty-eight
lines radiating from there, with 800
passenger trains daily. 1t has fifteen
miles of cable and eighty-fve miles of
electric road. 1t has 1,464 miles of tele-
phone line. with 1.377 subscribers.
There are 1914 miles of water mains, the
total number of connections being TO-
ASS, with an average of 100000 of gal
Ions daily used. During the past year
its real estate transfers amounted TO
100000 We spent the most of one
day in Minneapolis. While it is a
t beautiful 6 city 6oo with 90 ooo pOp 1nsa
than st. Paul, the latter is
regarded the best business point. and
its residence portion, with its unsur-
passed commanding view and pictur-
esque scenery, is lovely beyond descrip-
ton. The two points united would
with their various adjacent additions
make giant city of about 100000 in
habitants, but there must be several
first-class funerals in either place before
they can ever hope for consolidation.
Bitter as the feeling has been between
the two places, prominent citizen as
sured us that when a great railway en-
terprise was heading toward the North
west the two places were as unit. and
pulled together i'll harmony as if bound
by the strongest ties; but all efforts so
far TO unite on name for the proposed
consolidated Twin Cities have failed.