St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-13
WORKING UP CHEERS.
krmopy Hall the Scene of the
Harvest Festival Mass
Meeting.
Speeches Were Made by All
the Prominent Citizens of
Minneapolis.
Charles Lumley Grows Tired
OF Life and Uses the Usual
Bullet.
Facts About the Press Club
observation-disclosures
Rounded Up.

The harvest home festival project for
Minneapolis is assuming proportions
which promise an eclipse of the historic
Willard blowout of seven years ago.
The manufacturers have taken, hold of
it, the retail dealers have caught the en-
thusiasm, and even the ministers are
eXerting their influence in behalf of
their plan.
The mass meeting at Armory hall last
evening was not crowded, as was eX-
pected, although the attendance was
good, but what was lacking in numbers
was made up in enthusiasm.
The meeting was called to order by
President George NJ. Bracket, who
called upon Mayor Winston to preside.
On motion of Col. NJ. w. Glenn, Col.
Charles w. johnson was chosen secre-
tary. Mayor Winston, in taking the
chair, addressed the meeting urging his
fellow-citiZens to use every eXertion to
make the harvest festival success.
G. L. Smith was then called upon, and
responded with an elaborate speech, in
which he congratulated the people of
Minnesota not only upon her great crop
of wheat, but also upon the large crop
of corn; the large droveS of hogs, and
lastly, the large crop of boys and girls
who were growing up to be men and
women ready to take their places in the
world and do their share of the work.
Bill King Says 1t Goes.
Mayor Winston then called upon
Col. w. S. King, who, standing on his
chair in the audience, said: Now, gen
tlemen, this ceremony is going to pro-
coed, Notwithstanding that Mr.. Don
nelly has forbidden the banns. And |
will cav RIGHT now that If ic trOin IN no
grand success. We hear that this one
and that one won't help us, but when
this is investigated we find that such is
not the case. Some people said that the
railroads would not help us, but the
railroads never responded more readily
than when asked to aid in this project.
tell you we're going to pull together
end make this affair a grand success.
And | can also tell you that the mayor
has said that he proposes to make this
an administration issue, and close the
door of every store in Minneapolis on
the Esd, and make its proprietor join
with us.
Rev. S. W. Sample made d hearty and
eloquent address, urging the people of
Minneapolis to take hold of the harvest
festival with aWill and unite in grand
effort to make it success.
A letter from Rev. M. D. Shutter was
received, in which that gentleman eX-
pressed regret at being called elsewhere
by the sudden death of one of his parish
toner's, but proclaimed himself as
heartily in sympathy with the project.
Scores DonneIIy.
w. H. Eustis said:
81 am glad that the Lord made ma
jority of humanity hopeful. The skunk
tribe is not very numerous, and the men
who spread the mildew of their pesse-
mistic views over all things are scarce.
Thank heaven, we only have one Don
nelly In Minnesota" He then pro-
ceeded in cauStic terms to condemn
what he termed Donnelly's magpie
manifesto, characteriZing its assertions
In regard to the crops as lies. He also
paid his respects to Mr.. Donnelly per-
sOnally, asserting that if he had been
Joseph, which wonld be hard to i'm
agine, he would have lied about the size
of Pharaoh's barns aud the amount of
wheat which they contained. and that
if he had been Moses he would have
lied about the quantity of the bread
showered down from heaven in order to
raise the price of the mama.
A. j, Blethen, on being called to the
platform from the back of the hall,
stated that he had recently returned
from trip through seven states, and
that nowhere had he found the pros
poets so promising as at home. He said
that Minneapolis needed advertising,
and advocated the harvest festival as
an excellent manner OF advertising the
city. He recalled the Willard celebra-
ton, saying that it was the first effort
Minneapolis had made, and that it had
done more to help the city than any
thing else he knew Of.
Prof. Bradley on being called out sug-
gested that the boys and girls be called
Il l,.ns,, u
the boys and girls promised their most
hearty assistance.
Secretary johnson then read list of
160 firms who had promised to come into
the parade with from one to five floats
each.
A resolution requesting the business
men and manufacturers of the city to
give their employees holiday on Sept.
Is, and requesting the mayor to issue
proclamation designating that day as
holiday, was unanimously adopted, after
which the meeting adjourned.
Col. Z. w. johnson, George A. Brack-
EFT and Col. NJ. w. Glenn also spoke
briefly but earnestly, setting forth the
necessity of work and assuring the sue
cess of the festival.
The committee of fifty met yesterday.
with almost full attendance. Presi-
dent Bracket announced the following
reception committees:
Mayor P. B. Winston, Senator W. D.
Washburn. ex-Gov. j. S. Pillsbury. ex-Goy
A. r. McGill, George A. Pillsbury, S. P Sni-
der, Loren Fletcher E. NJ Johnson A. A
Ames, r. B. Langdon. C. A. Pillsbury
George b. Kirkbride, John It. West, A j,
Sawyer, F. II. Peavey, E. G. Porter, j. H.
Bradish, s. B. Loye F. C. Barrows, j. e.
Haines, John MCGOWAN. Lars Rand, NJ. W.
Glenn, Joseph L. Kiehle, T. B. Walker.
G. G. Goodrich, Samuel Hill, Thomas
Lowry, e. S. Corser, J. c. Eliel, Cyrus
Northrup, Anthony Kelly, j. It. Wyman,
j. NJ. Bartlett, W. E. Steele. o. Morri,
son, c. NJ. Loring. j. C. Reno. Henry r.
Brown. e. c. Babb, R. D. Russell D. c. Bell,
G. Nee. Reeve, j. w. Lawrence. f. H. Board
man, Isaac Atwater, A. j. Blethen. E. R.
Barber II. B. Casey, Emerson Cole. w. II.
Eustis, S. c. Gale, N. F. Griswold, w. E.
Haskell. o. c. Merriam, A. T. Rand
j. r. Thorp, on behalf of some of the
ministers, proposed union thanksgiv-
ing meeting in the morning of the
parade, at one of the big churches. The
matter was referred to the ministers to
act upon as they might elect.
AT meeting of the leading lumber
manufacturers it was decided to make
the day of the festival half holiday in
the lumber mills, allowing the men to
quit work at II 80 a. m.
The trade will also be represented in
the parade by float,
A telegram has been received from
Jay Cooke, who is now with party in
Yellowstone Park. Mr.. Cooke replied