St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-20
DEALERS IN DRUGS.
st. Paul Pharmacists Ac-
knowledged to Be Wide
awake Business Men.
Sketches OF Prominent Drug
gists In and About
the City.
Some Of the Many Specialties
They Are Widely Not
ed For.
A Set Of Business Men Equal
to Those of Any Com
munity.

r. The druggists of st. Paul are wide
awake set of men. They are largely
young men. active, energetic-in a
word, hustiers. The business trans
acted by the drug stores of this city is
no mean one. and will compare favor
ABLY with results accomplished in any
other lines of trade. Each man is prop
eriy certified under the state law, which,
OF itself, is guarantee of their mental
attalnmeuts, and places the st. Paul
druggists on a high pedestal. Consider
Ing the immense interests which they
daily hold in stake, and the excellent
record which the druggists today have
attained, 1t can be readily understood
that they are men of more than ordi-
nary callber. The growth of the drug
store business. like every other business
mere, has been commensurate with the
growth of the city itself. That growth
has been stupendOus, and few people
fully conceive it. Forty years ago
frontier fort and fur-trading post; today
city of $4,000 inhabitants, the seat of
commerce, manufactures and the arts;
the home of wealth, refinement and
luxury; the metropolis of an empire.
mat Is. in brief, the history of st. Paul.
Its marvellous development from will
derness to populous mart has taken
place in half a lifetime. To follow the
history OF the drug business in st. Paul
we must follow the history of st.
Pau.. They cannot be separated.
1854. In 1855 its population had iD-
creased to 5000. Prices Of real estate
advanced very rapidly between 1855 and
1857. The latter was the year or one Of
the greatest financial panicS which the
country has ever known, and the young
city OF st. Paul felt the financial striD-
gency in common with her older sisters.
Not only did the speculative fever in
real estate receive a check. but prices
Tell so low that many holders let their
property slip from their hands rather
than to pay the taxes OH it. But the era
of depression did not stop the tide of
immigration, although it slackened it
TO very appreclable extent. The cen
sus taken in 1857, previous to. the
formation of state government,
showed population of 9,973 for the
city and 150,037 for the territory. The
census of 1860 showed the eity's inhab-
yltants to have increased to 1929, and
those of the state to 172. 033, after de-
Quoting 5000 in Dakota which had been
previously counted with the territorial
population. When, in 1858, Minnesota
was admitted to the Union as state,
st. Paul was made the permanent CAPT.
tai. The city had continued to grow,
even during the period of general de-
preston which followed the panic of
1857. Its vitality was destined to stand
other severe tests before it was again
to have an opportunity to flourish un-
hampered by adversely. The War of
the Rebellion came on, taxing the re- 4
sources of the milton to its re-
hottest corners, and none of the IoyaI
states responded more literally in
proportion to its means, both in men
and treasure, than did the young state
or Minnesota. In 1862 came the Indian
outbreak in Minnesota. which also, for
time, retarded the development of this
we'll. In the meantime the building of |
railroads began in Minnesota. The
first in the state was the portion of the
present st. Paul. Minneapolis & Mani
toba which lies between st. Paul and
Minneapolis, ten miles of which were
finished i'll 1862. Before the close of
1865 the state had 210 miles OF railway
in operation. The population of st.
Paul In that year had grown to 12.976.
In lol0 the population had increased to
10000. The development of st. Paul
from medium-siZed town to great
metropolis has taken place within
the present decade, and has
been consequent upon the vast ex-
tension of the city's railway connections
and the rapid settlement of the territory
commercially tributary to her which |
have taken place within that time. Be- |
tween 1870 and 1880 the increase of pop
ulatl0d was from 2O,030 to 41.473. As |
the state census Of 1875 gave the city |
1888 inhabitants, the percentage of in
crease was 1853 in the first half of the |
decade, and only 2.S in the latter half. |
1t is generally believed that the federal
census of 1880 was erroneous. But be
this as it may, the recent strides in pop
ulation have been so great as to make
amends for any slOwness that may have
been noticed in the past.
But enough has been said to give the
reader birds eye picture of the mar
velous growth of this city, and it is done
to indicate the increased work which
eacn year brought, not only for drug
gists but for every business man, no
matter what his calling might be.