St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-18
A VISITORS TESTIMONY
About the Capital City AS Con-
yentiOu Meeting Place

ABOUT the Capital City As a Con-
vention Meeting Place.
Charles II. Mutt, of the Ladies' Home
journal, Philadelphia, is at the Windsor
"a genial good fellow, and proud of
the record made by his periodical. He
has made an extensive tour of the
Northwest the past four months, and
leaves today for Chicago, and thence he
will go to Denver, and possibly on to
the Pacific.
What have you heard in your pere-
CARNATIONS concerning st. Pauls
chances for the national convention?"-
asked GLOBE reporter.
II he solid Northwest is in favor of
the project" he exclaimed, land my
sympathieS are with this beautiful and
progressive city. 1t is an ideal conven-
ton city, and the cry that has been
started against the hotel capacity of
the Twin City is to me, who have
travelled from the Atlantic to the Pa
citic, and visited all the metropolitan
cities of the United States-to me it
seems too absurd to be considered by
anybody in serious vein. l know
something about the accommodations
that some of your rival cities can offer.
and | want to assure you that some of
them would be obliged to build a good
facilities you have here. These. are two
magnificent cities, and what seems eX-
ceedingly novel to Inc is that every street
nearly affords a hotel-and they are good
institutions of the kind. too. Here is the
Wlndsor-why, I've fallen in love with
Col. Monfort and his accommodations,
st. Paul ought to OutStrip every rival in
the race. There is romance and poet
ry that surrounds the city that ought to
weigh even with staid and matter-of-
fact politicians; and there is so much
that can be said about delightful eli
matte conditions in midsummer that
Southern city would pale in comparison.
In my opinion it depends largely upon
the personal influence of ST. Paul's rep
resentatives in Washington. An in
diyidual canvass of the national COM
mlttee must be made, and only true
facts need be laid before them. There
is no occasion for hyperbole.
Mr.. Mutt is something of raconteur
in his way. Incidentally he mentioned
the editor of the Home journal.
''Do you know, he is a young man
only twenty-nine years of age" he OBJ
600 year. The Home Journal pays
him $4,000. and he gets $1,000 from
New York syndicate. Yes. Edward W.
Box is genius, ''he pursued felicitous-
ly. A year or so ago he was in Lon
don. Oh, he is true English, although
a Hollander,a and every time he reads of
real heavy fog in fog in London he
rolls up the bottoms Of his pants.
AS said, he was in London, and he
stepped into hat store to make a pur-
chase of modish tile. While SO en-
gagged he observed distinguished and
lordly gentleman enter, and the
haberdasher hurried to learn the desire
of his noble patron. Mr.. Box recog-
niZed tho gentleman from illustrations
he had seen.
g Is that not Lord Salisbury?' he in
quired of the halter.
&" Yes, sir was the reply.
Intoduce me; Pm the editor of the
Ladies' Home journal of Philadelphia
oh, mop exclaimed the halter In
AFFECT horror. He's lord, and you're
not of his ik.'
- Then Pll introduce myself; and he
walked up to Lord Salisbury and the
little halter nearly had a fit. He was
was SO frightened he nearly tainted.
g" Il beg yeur pardon, SIR said Box.
in his urbane style; have l the honor
Of speaking to Lord Salisbury?''
You have, SIR" said his lordship,
laconically.
Il am Edward w. Box. editor of the
Ladies' Home Journan, of Philadelphia.
Forgive me for the seeming imperti-
nence, but the halter was APPALLED, when
L asked him to introduce Incidence nv
boldness.'
Very happy to meet an American
literary man. and he grasped Box
warmly by the hand.