St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-09
The NAMELESS CITY.
A City Of 100000 People That
Has No Authorized
Name.
Marvellous Growth in the Past
and Greater Yet to
Come.
st. Paul and Minneapolis Must
Come Off the
Map.
These Are the Conclusions OF
One Of the Visiting
Editors.

Akron people are pleased to be proud
of their ''tip-top" city's wonderful
| growth; but what of a city more than
! ten times rs large as this. though set
tied nearly half century later; that,
| too, city as yet without official, or, in
deed, any fixed name, although some of
the greatest business bull ings in Amer
lea tower over its thronged streets, some
| of the costliest homes in all the country
adorn its boulevafds, and the greatest
railroad yards on this continent at
least. with manufactures of greater
magnitude in their line than any other
known among men. and the greatest
wheat market in all the world, and an
assessed valuation of nearly $500, 000, 900,
are among its features? A state having
more than double Ohio's area, but with
| its entire population thirty years ago
barely equaing that of a single city in
our own state, and that only twenty
years since had butlittle more than two
| Ohio cities had in 1850. now has one
! third the entire population of this entire
! state. More still. Cincinnati approach
! ing her centennial and Cleveland, nearly
as old. are substantially surpassed by a
! city in that new state which forty years
ago had less than thousand people. in
! 1860 was not as large by the census as
was Akron tweniy-one years ago, and
even in 1850 had but two-thirds of
| Akron'S present population. yet
| had multiplied its population by
four and a half during the decade toSS,-
$50, and then on top of it all built that
M in the past decade TO nearly 100000
! (29Ta04 by the United States census),
with another years addition now TO be
taken into the account Is not this
most astonishing? And yet this great
city has not even name, except one
unknown To statutes, but that its own
residents and all the world use for it,
Stranger still and without parallel in
city-building since the world began.
the center Of the city. its natural
heart and the seat of densest pop
ulation of trade and industry every
where else, is the section of sparest
populations; in fact. is only now
being brought under settlement. Ten.
years ago this assured center of denS-
est settlement of This 81 already of
well over 100000 people was "plain,
everyday farm land, but it now has
six colleges, eight public school build
ings costing S200,00O, its building per
mits i'm 1850 were $3.50, O0O and the
street, sewer and bridge improvements
cost 1892, 600 in 1850 alone. What will
be the wonderful reality when this cen
ter of the city once begins TO grow with
the marvellous speed and solidity shown
by the eXtremIties on the east and the
west? Will anything between the At
lantic and the Rocky mountains equal
il except Chicago. that Aladdin of all
the worlds greatest cities?
BY this time the reader is asking
"Where is this metropolis, magnificent
without name" Ii is upon the high
lands in the center of the continent of
North America, equidiStant from the
waters OF lludson's bay and the Gull of
Mexico from the Atlantic ocean TO the
ocean in which the sun sets" So Spake
in this Self-Same city thirty-one years
ago that farseeing statesman, William
ii. Seward. when its population was not
One-thirlieth OF the present number, and
vet IL still has no name. This city, too,
has THE greatest utilized water power
on this continent" with 1900 horse
power more than the combined power
of liolyoke and Lawrence. Mass, and
Man chester, n. H.. and it claims 10 be
1.-The only interior city west of The Mis-
slssippi that has the direct advantages
of water transportation" and this both
by the Great Lakes and by tho Father
of Waters, with dozen railroad Sys-
tens centerng there having about 20
600 miles in the aggregate, and rail
road yard handling more freight than
any other transfer yard in the United
States. II has the greatest mileage of
cable and electric street car lines %
any American city, without one horse
ear left. and by these lines reaches the
most complete and beautiful boule-
ward and park system Of any
city lin the country. There are
forty banks with over 5000. COO
capital and clearings Of $50, 0n0, 600 last
year The city's iobbing trade in 1870
was over S500,O00.000 ana its manu-
featuring output was Si50.00O, 900. Ii is
the greatest lumber-producing and
ilour-producing city in the world. and is
also the largest buyer and receiver of
wheat, the total exceeding the COM
bined receipts of Duluth. Milwaukee
and Chicago by millions of bushels
might multiply these superlativeS.
but still that does not tell the readers
Just where this city of marvelS is locat-
ed. Coming down little closer 10 de
tails, Put il at the head of navigation
on the Mississippi river and bv The Fails
of ST. Anthony. Now You begin 10
guess some ST. Paul and some Mime
apolis. Both are right, yet neither Il
quite correct. lt Is not OF either city
that all these things are entirely true,
but of both together even more might
be said. just at present the state of
mind between the people OF the
two towns is illustrated by the
actual occurrence of st. Paul
man reproving his wife for even
thinking of buying him pair
of socks in the other city simply be-
cause they were bit cheaper, and was
manifested most plainly during the rec
cnt National Editorial convention i'm st.
Paul by The pulling and hauling which
finally frustrated the attempt of Min
neapols Ia have the editors rs her guests
for only part of one day. Yet back of
all this actual uglinesS aptly cryStalliZed
in the two manufactured stories that a
Minneapolis congregation left the
church when the preacher mentioned
ST. Paul, and that the Minneapolis
clergy skip ANYTHING about st. Paul in
the New Testament, there Is an under
lying and steadily increasing tide OF
good sense and mutual interest drawing
the two towns together. AS st. Paul |
to accept William II. Seward as her !
prophet. so his phrase of manifest des,
tiny covers his case completely, and in |
writing about our vacation visit TO the |
southeastern corner of the great North |
west Ii is the fact of the greater city |
lIlal COIlplnuliDll Will SuIcl1 anu soon |
make OF this metropolis OF that vast re,
gon which strikes me as the most sig |
nihcant feature of all that we saw and |
heard. st. Paul would be q wonderful |
city anywhere in the world except |
America; and Minneapolis is moro |
wonderful, II possible, for the latter was |
born only thirty-seven years ago, hav- |
ing grown from a. people in 1854 well
on toward 2O0.C0l now. But the two |
towns together are CONGRATULATIONS |
peer
1t was ST. Paul that the visitors to the
National Editorial convention went to
see. Ii was Minneapolis that they were
kept collectively from seeing TO full adj |
vantage by combination OF plumbers |
rs well as interferences. But 1t was
greater than either or both these that |
all soon came TO realize will yet and not |
remotely be seen there. Two railroads. |
the Chicago, Milwaukee Il ST. Paul and |
Great Northern, run half-hourly trains |
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