The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-06-24
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MINNEAPOLIS, June 18th. 1872.
To the Editor Of the Banner.-DEAR
SIR.-The air has been, for while back,
so full of Convention echoes as nearly to
drown the rounds of ordinary every day
life, but it is over and the crowd have
mostly scattered to their homes leaving
us in possession of few days of quiet
in which so prepare for the next excite
ment. Souvenirs of various sorts are
plentiful ON all hands. One jeweler,
following the lead of his fancy and
suppose, also, of his hopes, made spoons
with picture of Mr.. Blaine on the
handle and in the bowl was picture of
his birth place at Brownsville, Penn.
Another spoon which l suppose will be
of more lasting interest has picture of
the Exposition building in the bowl
and the end of the handle represents a
sack of tx X X Y Best flour surround
ed with heads of wheat. Another SOU
has fine picture of the building and the
following tips on Convention hall: at
cost S350,000, covers five acres, will seat
1850 people (They had nearly 1900
the night of the concert). 1t is fully
provided with gas is built of brick and
terra Gotta; it took 80 days to build it,;
the money was donated by Minneapoli-
tans; it will be lighted by 1000 incan-
descent lights and will have 120 arc
lights. / was all over the Building the
next day after the adjournment and
found workmen already tearing down
some things that will need changing
before the Exposition which opens
August 31st. 1t will keep them busy to
get it ready.
There were three arches across the
street, one of -four barrels near the Ex-
position building. l was there when
they were taking it down and asked
several of the men how many barrels
they supposed were used, none of them
knew, so l will have to guess that in the
arch and tower 100 feet high at the
side of it there must have been 500 or
900 barrels.
Just across the river from there was
an arch built by the lumbermen to adver-
tie their enterprise. By the West hotel
was wooden arch ornamented with
evergreen boughs and green house plants
in pots.
The Exposition building is just oppo-
site st. Anthony hall and a few rods up
the river, which runs in a Southeast
direction, is Nicallet Island across which
is the Main central bridge, taking the
square at Cne southwest emu OF Jne
bridge as the center and drawing cir
Gle with one and a half miles radius and
you include the busiest part of the town.
If you extend your radius to five and a
half miles you will just include Mime
haha Falls on the Southeast and at the
Northwest you will go little beyond
the corporation which includes should
think not far from ~ miles of the river.
The lake region is in the Southwest, a
three-mile circle would cross two of
them but it would require a fve-mile
radius to enclose the two largest.
The bridge square, which we have
taken as the center of our circle is near
the pioneer home of Col. Stevens and he
surveyed 100 acres of his farm into
building lots, naming two of the ave-
nues Nicallet and Hennepin, after French
explorers. These names they still bear
and they radiate Southeast and South
west from the square, being starting
points in numbering the streets
The average power of st. Anthony
Falls is estimsted at 50, 900 horse power
and a 100000 dam which is in con-
temptation, to be IS feet high will add
much to its utility, but already it far ex-
ceeds the combined capacity Of the four