St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-24

to $1,000, selecting a site within easy
walking distance of the city hall. am
sure the same rule applies to st.
Paul, which maintains forty-two build
ing and loan societies, with an in
vested capital of $3,064,310. The stock
in these societies used to mature i'll
eight or eight and half years. but the
term has heightened to nine and half
or ten years ewing to the competition in
the loaning of money. The annual
growth of the city by the addition of
new buildings has long been kept up to
remarkable standard. For two years
-1SS8 and 1889 st. Paul was fourth In
the list OF American cities in this re-
spect. Last year QS90) the permits is
sued were for 3,l74 buildings. planned
to cost So, 500, 900. But the wonder ceases
after the relation of the Twin Cities to
The rich Northwest is understood. st.
Paul is the meeting point of twenty
eight railroads that crisscross that re-
gion. That city will contribute its full
share to the million population nine
years hence.
With uncalled-for modesty st. Paul's
leading men apologize for the absence
or royal series of great parks, and as
Sert that they have now designed and
begun work upon such a system. They
admit that they possess thirty-two little
squares for children and adult pleasure
seekers, and say that the city and its
enyirons are so park-like that the need
of great public lungs has not been OPP.
pressing. The apology should be
graciously accepted. 1t reconciles US
with what we know of ordinary human
lty In our comparatively torpid Eastern
cities to find them weak in one respect.
But st. Paul does not lack all
and
of the highest and most modern order.
In one boulevard, called Summit av-
enue, it possesses one of the nobleSt-
thoruughfares. and the nuclus of one
OF the most Impressive collections,
OF great mansions, in the coun-
try. Euclid avenue, Cleveland, has
long ceased to lead the rich residence
streets of the. nation, for Chicago has
more than one finer street of the same
character, and SO has Buffalo, and so
has New York since Riverside avenue
has begun to build up. None of these
has the beauty which the Hudson river
and its palisades lend to Riverside ave-
nue., but a good second to it is Summit
rising upon tall bluff, the panorama
of great and beautiful country side is
commanded.
LII may be necessary to say to the un-
travelled Eastern reader that the ap-
polntmentS- and tenants-of these
mansions reflect the best mod
ern attainments of civilization as
1t has been studied in the CAPT
tails of the world One. at least
among these houses has not its superior
IN New York, so far as its size, its
beauty. and the character of its sur
roundlngS are concerned. In its ap-
Will fan fnt hat fl,,A ln
gances and art triumphs of far more
than Christendom have been levied
upon to testify to taste that at no
poIut OyerStepS the limits cultivation
has established. On the walls
Number of the Masterpieces
of the Barbizon school hang side by side
with the best efforts of Munkacsy, Diaz
Tadema. Detaille, Meissonier, and many
other masters. Barge bronZeS have
their places in various rooms. and the
literature of two continents, freshened
by the constant arrival of the best pc
riodicalS, is ready at hand and we'll
marked by use. betray no Sc
cret of the Northwestern country in
saying that such is the home of James
J. Hill, the president of the Great
Northern railroad, and, despite its Or
namentS, it is maintained quite as
u.
one of several mansions in these two
far Western cities. They are as repre-
sentative as the palaces of Fifth ay-
enue, evidencing nothing of taste that
is not shared and reflected in the other
houses of those communities.
Once again we come to the heart of
any such study Of city's capacity for
growth in Importance and wealth. st.
Paul in 1881 manufactured 15.466, 600
worth of goods with which to trade
with the Northwest: in 1890 the sum
had grown to SCI, 270, 900, an increase of
800 per cent in nine years. The city is
the dairy center of the Northwest. 1t has
made great investments IN the manu-
facture of clothing, boots and shoes,
fine furniture, wagons, carriages, farm
implements, lager beer, cigars. fur
garments, portable houses for settlers,
dressed stone. boilers. bridges, and the
products of large stock yards. To a less
yet considerable extent it manufactures
crackers, candy, flour, bedding. foundry
work, sashes and blinds, harness, brass
goods, barrels, brooms and brushes. Its
banks have capital of S10,00O,0O0; its
jobbing trade amounted to S122, ZOO, 900 in
1890; it did business in cattle of every
sort to the extent of a million head in
the same year. 1t has fine hotels and
opera houses, typically elaborate
Western school system, and is in all
respects healthy, vigorous. well-gov-
erned city.